Episode Report Card 118 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Thank You
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2000.11.16
Time passes. CuteDean hands Rory a pillow to make her more comfortable on the floor. She watches him watch the television. Ooh, I know that stare. She's just sitting there staring, watching his face. Watching him watch television. Burning the image of his forehead, nose, and chin into her brain so later on she can replay this scene but change the ending so that he turns to her and declares his love. Or turns to her and asks her to run away with him. Or turns to her and tells her she's beautiful. Or turns to her and says she's much prettier than Beth. Or turns to her and says that he can't imagine life before he met her. Or turns to her and hands her his mother's ring, the one he's been wanting to give to someone, but he hadn't met the right woman until now. I know that stare well. ["Uh, guilty as well." --niki] She stares until he begins to turn towards her. Then she looks back at the television. CuteDean watches Rory watching television. "Hey," he says. He could say anything right now. He's staring at her, smiling. One knee is up and wiggling back and forth. He's looking at her. His hair is over one eye. He's looking at her. "Hey," he said, starting a world of possibilities. "I'll be right back," Rory and I say and run from the room before HeyBoy gets a chance to ruin the perfect evening. Just in case he was going to finish "Hey" with, "You've still got some pizza cheese on your chin."
Rory finds Lorelai and asks why she's not back in the living room. Lorelai asks why she has to go back in there. "Did the bad boy try something?" Rory huffs, "He's sitting there and he's watching the movie and he's perfect and he smells really good!" Lorelai stares. "What?" "He smells really good and he looks amazing. And I am stupid! I said 'Thank you!'" Lorelai: "Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. You said, 'Thank you?'" Rory: "When he kissed me." Lorelai is disgusted that he kissed her again already, in the house, so soon. Rory says she was referring to the first time they kissed -- the only time they kissed. Lorelai: "So, wait. He kissed you? And you said, 'Thank you?'" Rory spits out an embarrassed, "Yes." "Well, that was very polite." Hee. I love this show. Rory says it was stupid and she doesn't know what she's doing and now she's all alone with him and Lorelai isn't being a very good chaperone. Lorelai says she wasn't trying to be a chaperone but was trying just to be a good friend. "Well, switch gears, because I'm freaking out here!" Rory shouts. Lorelai smiles, feeling good to be needed as a mom. "You really like him, don't you?" she asks. Rory says she does and she doesn't want to do or say anything moronic. Lorelai says she probably can't help her with that if Rory's got her heart in it. They make an elaborate plan for Lorelai to go into the living room first and say that Rory's in the bathroom because she had to wash her face because of all the sugar. Somehow that sounds okay to the two of them. I guess it's better than saying, "Rory's gotta poo," which would immediately send Rory into the Bedroom of Shame for at least six months.