Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All Dressed In...Blush?
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.09.2006
Luke comes over to ask if Lorelai is going to eat the untouched piece of cake at her elbow. "Why?" she wonders. "You want it?" He says no; it just seems like she's not going to eat it and...she gasps. Luke's trying to get them to leave so he can use the table. He says they're swamped and he needs it. Lorelai insists that being his fiancé gives her extra table time. "You've been sitting there for two hours," he says, and yeah, he's got a point. Don't Lorelai and Sookie have an inn full of tables they could sit at to do this? Lorelai's mad, though, and Luke suggests the alternative of doing their planning at the counter. "You want a counter-planned wedding?" she scoffs. "Seriously?" Hee. Luke's beaten and tells her to forget he said anything. Sookie interrupts to show Lorelai a picture of a dress, saying it's a pretty one. "Hmm. Maybe," Lorelai shrugs. "It's very white." Sookie asks if she's going to wear white, and Lorelai says she's not sure. Luke has to jump back in now: "Of course you're gonna wear white," he says. "Brides wear white. That's the rule." Luke must have been flipping through Liz's old Martha Stewart magazines. He says that his mother and grandmother wore white, so Lorelai has to. Sookie can take no more. "Luke, Luke, Luke," she says. "Do you know who I am?" Luke responds that of course he does, but she corrects him. "No, Luke," she says. "I'm not 'Sookie.' I'm 'Sookie: BFOTB'!" He is not following, so she translates. "Best Friend of the Bride." Thus, she explains, it is her responsibility to take care of the bride during all her decisionmaking processes: helping choose the dress, tasting the cake, etc., relieving Luke of having to "pretend to be interested in things that he has no interest in." Luke tries to insist that he does indeed have an interest, but she shuts him down by shouting "BFOTBEEEEE!" in rather a horrifying way.
A FEW things about this scene: 1) Why would Sookie, a professional caterer, who has been going on and on about catering Lorelai's wedding for many episodes, even going so far as to create the most insanely stunning cake and implying that it was a practice cake for Lorelai's wedding, not be catering and/or making the cake for Lorelai's wedding? 2) Why do they have to write Sookie so wacky/strident? 3) That whole notion of the groom not being interested in his wedding planning is dumb and I hate it.
In any case, Lane comes by to refill coffee, and tells Luke that his turkey melt is up, effectively breaking up what was about to become a throwdown between Sookie and Luke. Lane gloomily asks what they're working on, and when they tell her it's wedding planning, she flatly responds: "I guess there'll be cake." Lorelai says it's nice to know that her own outlook on life is sunnier than a twenty-one-year-old's, but Sookie can't stop with the wedding. She tries to nail down a potential date for the wedding, running through the list of town goofs that can't be there due to conflicts. Michel, for example, is busy every Saturday until February, having signed up for Booty Boot Camp. There are a few other townie conflicts, but what Luke hears and becomes enraged about is that Lulu, Kirk's girlfriend, may already have plans for late May. Luke tries to insert that he won't be moving wedding plans around for people he hardly knows, and Sookie shoots him down yet again. I have never been so happy for a scene to be over.