Episode Report Card Pamie: A- | 19 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Rhapsody in Blue
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2002.05.14
The jig is up when a woman walks in carrying a box of corsages and asks Lorelai to pick her favorite. Lorelai doesn't want to wear a corsage, but the woman insists that Lorelai pick one since Emily paid for all of them. She threatens to send Emily back there if Lorelai doesn't pick one. Lorelai picks one. Corsage Lady tells Lorelai that the cameraman said that one would look the best on film. Liza and Zack realize she's the rich girl. Lorelai says she's not rich, but her parents are. She says she takes nothing from them but the corsage and her daughter's tuition. She asks if Zack and Liza are going to stone her. Zack says he should have guessed, since Lorelai's friends are dressed like Hollywood hot shots. Liza deadpans, "So that's why you didn't want to get pizza? 'Cause it's below you?" Why do these two get so much screen time? Lorelai says that pizza is one of her four major food groups. She goes on and on trying to impress these assholes. Zack calls Lorelai "your highness." Whatever. Go back to the Daniel Palladino Toy Chest, you ass. Lorelai's pager goes off as Jackson wonders if the suit is a little too much. Sookie consoles Jackson as Lorelai reads that Rory is tied up and promises to be there as soon as she can. Lorelai notes how weird that is. Sookie says they'll sit in the back and wait for Rory. Lorelai also asks them to hold onto all of her things so that she doesn't have to leave them in dressing room. Zack teases Lorelai for not trusting her things around the poor kids. "Knock it off, Zack," Lorelai says, and that's it. We just watch her pout. Okay. Great. Waste my time.
Rory is just now learning that buses make lots of stops. She's so clueless with this that someone has to explain the concept that nobody needs to be let off on the way into New York since they're all going to one place, but this non-charter bus makes lots of little stops on the way home because everybody doesn't live in Stars Hollow. Or Hartford, or wherever Rory skipped school. Rory moans that she should have checked traffic and how buses work. She gives a "note to self," which we stopped doing back when Greg Kinnear did it on Talk Soup, and says that impulsive doesn't work for her. The guy who explains buses then spits into his dip can. Rory has never actually met a redneck before, so she's unclear on the concept of dipping, or carrying a cheap soda can to spit nasty tobacco into. Try accidentally drinking out of one of those, Rory. Welcome to my high-school life.