Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 186 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Will You Be My Well-Meaning Buttinski?
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2007.02.27
Mrs. Kim is wrangling with a customer at the antique store when Lorelai comes in. The customer wants to take some cabinets out "on memo," meaning that she'll take them to her house to see how they look, and if she likes them will come back and pay for them. Oh, she has clearly never shopped at Mrs. Kim's. "No!" snaps Mrs. Kim. "I do not work with memos, I work with money!" Having run the customer away, she hands over the Lane photos to Lorelai, but not before lecturing her about how her demands that they be returned in the condition in which they were received. Lorelai is about to make her escape before an innocent comment -- "See you at the shower" -- reveals that Mrs. Kim will not be attending. Lorelai is upset. She knows, she says, that Lane will really want her to be there, and asks Mrs. Kim why she's not coming. "Lane knows why," says Mrs. Kim. Lorelai deduces that there must be a problem between mother and daughter, and asks, "Do you think you could put it aside for one day?" Mrs. Kim says no. Lorelai wonders if there's anything Lane can say or do to make her mom change her mind. Mrs. Kim says yes. "Does she know what it is?" Lorelai asks, rolling her eyes at this game of Twenty Questions. Mrs. Kim says yes, pronounces that she will not be there, waves her duster, and storms away in time to take a parting shot at the memo customer who has returned to once again sniff around the merchandise. Lorelai sighs.