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By Ragdoll | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.01.2000
Cut to the backyard, where Rory is sitting surrounded by gnomes. Again, CuteDean walks up, startles her, and she jumps. He apologizes for bugging her lately. He thought maybe she liked him, but "it's obvious that [she's] not interested, and [he] just wanted to say that [he] get[s] it and [he's] not going to bother [her] anymore." Rory looks like she's going to cry. I know I'd be crying. You know, it's that feeling you get when you're sure you're being totally obvious about how much you like a boy, but he has absolutely no clue. My entire high school life was filled with that very feeling. I was painfully, painfully shy. Oh wait, this isn't about me -- I keep forgetting that when I'm watching this show. Right, Rory still looks like she's about to cry as CuteDean starts to walk away. She jumps up and asks him to wait: "I am interested." He smiles, "You are." She still looks like she's going to cry. "Yes." He's still smiling. "I gotta go," she says and runs.
Right to the front door where Lorelai is just coming out to look for her. Lorelai explains that the man on the front porch was Rory's teacher. Rory quips, "Mom, I'm a little behind in school but not so behind that I don't know who the teacher is." Ah, she's back. Now it's Lorelai who is uncomfortable and looks like she might cry. Rory's a little mad. They argue over when Lorelai was planning on telling Rory about dating Max. "On your wedding day?" Rory wants to know. They argue some more. Rory's really upset that her mother didn't tell her. Lorelai apologizes. They decide the situation is very weird. Lorelai says she won't do anything without telling her daughter again, including getting dressed in the morning. Then they smile at one another, and Rory tells her mother that she needs some serious help.
Morey and Babette say goodnight to the Gilmores as they head for home. Morey and Babette decide to sit outside a while and look for the Big Dipper. They cuddle and look up to the sky. Okay, I'm beginning to find the music just a little bit annoying. Just a little bit though -- don't worry, I'm still in the parallel universe.
As Lorelai and Rory enter their front door, the phone is ringing. It's Emily. She starts right in on the whole "I've been trying to get you all day, where have you been, you are impossible to reach" line of badgering. Lorelai wonders why there are no messages on her answering machine. Emily: "I don't leave messages. If I wanted to talk to a machine I'd talk to my VCR." Heh. Emily wants to know where Lorelai has been all day. "At a wake." Rory is gesturing frantically for Lorelai to stop talking. "For the neighbours' cat." More gesturing. A second and then another second passes. "Hold on," Emily says. "I'm looking up 'aneurysm' in our medical dictionary to see if I just had one." They bicker for a minute over Lorelai attending a cat's funeral but being unable to go the funeral of her own cousin. Lorelai tries to get off the phone; she has a big day tomorrow. "What?" Emily snaps. "You're going to a raccoon's wedding?" Goodnight, Mother. Rory and Lorelai continue their Max discussion. Rory finally lets Lorelai off the hook. There are big smiles everywhere. It's all so wholesome and healthy. I love this show -- thank you Pamie for letting me fill in these past two weeks. It's been a lovely experience.