Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Know When to Hold 'Em
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.04.2004
Luke's. Lorelai and Rory wear good clothes and discuss why we even have the word "potty." It gives Lorelai the creeps. Rory, apparently, always said "bathroom," even when she was a little girl. Rory explains that "going potty" is an action, whereas "go to the bathroom" is only a location. Hey, who's the new busboy? Rory! Pay attention! Luke walks up to take their order. Lorelai flirts an early morning "Hi." Luke grumps that he's working. Lorelai says this is the beginning of their relationship, so they're supposed to act stupid. Luke deadpans, "I'll do the chicken dance on my lunch break." Luke tells Rory that her breakfast is on the house, to celebrate her first day back at school. Lorelai is upset that Luke won't flirt with her in front of her daughter. No, that's why Luke is good, and you can't keep a man. What? I said it. Lorelai tries to get her breakfast for free as well, but Luke says she'll get her own tab. Lorelai: "Oh! Thank God you don't have a Latin accent or you'd be completely irresistible."
Luke leaves to place the order and Lorelai follows him. I swear, as she was walking up I was thinking, "What are those jeans -- Seven? They're awesome." Luke immediately tells Lorelai that those jeans are working for her. "Yeah?" Lorelai asks. "They're working for me, too," he adds. Lorelai leans against the counter and tells him he's flirting with her. Yeah, away from the daughter it's not so creepy, Lorelai. Buy a boundary. Use it. Lorelai tells Luke to flirt with her some more. Luke never looks up from his work as he flirts. "Your shoes work well with that shirt." Lorelai: "Gee, Carson, thanks." Hee. Luke says he'll have to do the rest of his flirting tonight. Lorelai: "What are we gonna do?" Luke: "I have some thoughts." Lorelai asks him to not take her to an art museum, and then the Hollywood Bowl, where he gives her diamond earrings that he bought with his college money, only to realize he's in love with his drummer best friend who was his driver for the night and delivers the excellent line, "Break his heart and I break your face." (I did that from my own movie memory, so Lorelai might have said it a little differently.) It's interesting that Lorelai identifies with the Lea Thompson role in that movie, since I always was the Mary Stuart Masterson in someone's life. Man, I watched the shit out of Some Kind of Wonderful. It is a very good soundtrack that I wish I had on CD. Now I just want to go watch Some Kind of Wonderful. Alas, I have no copy. Anyway, Luke soaks up the longest joke in this show's history and concludes, "Okay, I'll think of something else." And I have to wonder how many of their viewers got that joke, since this show seems to be leaning younger and younger with every season. But I'm glad it's there, since it's a wink to those of us who have been watching since before some of you were in high school. This show has been on so long some of you graduated high school.