Episode Report Card Pamie: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Season Fi-wha?
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.09.2001
Lane and Rory walk down the street in Stars Hollow. They are eating fries and drinking Cokes. Lane is saying that she wanted to tell some girl off, but that she didn't, and that the girl then told her that she had great cheerleading potential, which just pissed Lane off even more. She says she should have gone "full Matrix" on her. She asks whether Rory's listening to her. Rory admits that she's not. Lane pouts and says that she's a great conversationalist. Rory announces that she's going into the market. Lane says that Rory can't, because CuteDean is in there. Rory says that she knows, and that she's going in. Lane starts to bounce and scream and celebrate Rory's getting back together with CuteDean. Rory admits that she doesn't know what she's doing, and that she doesn't even know what CuteDean is thinking or wants, but that if Lane keeps bouncing and shrieking like that, she's going to videotape it and submit it as Lane's cheerleading audition. Lane says that she encourages this, adding that she loves Rory, but that Rory's been "mopey, dopey, and about twelve other melancholy dwarves." Rory says that she wants to be the old Rory again, too. She says that the old Rory is staging a comeback. Lane says she hopes it's more successful than Peter Frampton's. Rory asks Lane to wish her luck, and goes into the store.
Inside the store, Rory motions for Lane to stop staring at her through the window. She slowly wanders through the aisles, searching for CuteDean until she runs into Cardigan Man. He asks her what she's doing wandering around like a shoplifter. Rory says that she's not shoplifting. Cardigan Man says that she's exhibiting four of the eight signs of shoplifting. She's wandering aimlessly, alone, looking nervous, and wearing a big coat. Rory says that she tends to run cold. Cardigan Man asks why she's there. Rory says that she's looking for his checkout boy; she has a question and didn't want to bother Cardigan Man. He calls over the checkout boy. It's not CuteDean. Rory stares at this NonCuteNonDean for a bit and then stumbles out a question about whether likes being a checkout boy. He admits that he doesn't. She says she'll cross it off her list. By the way, that scene was brought to you by Iams.
Rory storms out of the market and tells Lane that she doesn't know what she was thinking. She says that CuteDean must be taking Thursday afternoons off now, and that he's got himself a "Thursday Afternoon Girl" -- the kind of slutty girl who makes you change your schedule and get Thursday afternoons off so that you and she can do slutty things on Thursday afternoons. Oh, I know those girls so well. Their parents always work on those afternoons and they lull your sweet, innocent boys over there and show them all sorts of things that can happen when you own a hot tub or a pool or a big shower and he's got all sorts of stories and blushes when you mention her and his grades slip and he suddenly can't be in the school play with you anymore and he totally doesn't care because he's getting laid by Thursday Afternoon Girl and I know that this isn't about me but it's my recap so you have to read about my pain. I hate the Thursday Afternoon Girl. Sing it, Rory. She says that she shouldn't have gone in, and that now Cardigan Man thinks she was casing the place: "Like I'd ever shoplift there." Lane points out that Rory has, in fact, shoplifted there. Rory stops Lane and asks her to be completely honest with her: has Lane ever seen CuteDean with another girl? Lane says that she hasn't. She promises on the soul of Nico. Rory asks whether Lane would tell her if she did. Lane admits that she wouldn't because she wouldn't want to hurt Rory, but insists that she really hasn't seen CuteDean with another girl. This seems to make Rory feel better, so Lane continues by saying that CuteDean has been miserable and suicidal. Rory says that he should be. Lane adds that CuteDean is "in desperate need of haircut." Rory thanks her. Rory and Lane walk by Grant Lee Hooker, doing his troubadour thing. He's sitting on some stairs, playing the guitar, saying something about not thinking for too long. Fade to commercial.