Episode Report Card Pamie: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT A Christmas Rory
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2000.12.20
Welcome to part one of the special Christmas Gilmore Girls two-part event. See? Santa reads all of your letters.
We open to another Friday dinner. Emily tells Rory that Grampa is bringing Rory something special back from Prague. Rory goes on about how wonderful Prague must be. Lorelai is moving her food around her plate. Emily asks what she's doing. Lorelai is getting rid of the avocado from her salad. Emily asks when Lorelai started hating avocado. "Since the day I said, 'Gross, what is this?' And you said, 'Avocado.'" "I'm focusing on you, now," Emily says to Rory. Hee. Emily asks Rory about the Chilton Formal next week. Lorelai hasn't heard about any formal. Rory asks how Emily knew about it. Emily reads the Chilton newsletter. Lorelai asks, "Since when did you start getting the Chilton newsletter?" Emily figures since she's a major contributor to Rory's education, someone should be interested in the school. Lorelai says she also reads the newsletter. Emily quizzes Lorelai on the cover photo. Lorelai mumbles something about a happy privileged kid in plaid. Emily holds up the newsletter and shows the picture of an owl. "In plaid," Lorelai finishes. Emily says that the owl is endangered and Chilton is raising funds. She tells Rory that she gave a nice donation in her name for her. Lorelai says that she can handle the donations in Rory's name. Emily points out that Lorelai couldn't possibly handle the donations since she doesn't read the newsletter and therefore cannot know when the school is taking donations. "It's a private school. They're always taking donations." Good point, Lorelai. Lorelai changes the subject back to the formal. Rory looks down and says she wasn't planning on going. "Nonsense. Of course you're going," says Emily. Lorelai says that Rory doesn't have to go to a formal if she doesn't want to. "Well, I don't understand why she wouldn't want to go," Emily says. Lorelai: "I know you don't." Rory grabs her full glass and says, "I'm gonna go get another Coke." As soon as Rory's gone, Emily turns to Lorelai and says, "What did you say to her?" She says that if Rory doesn't want to go to a dance then it must be because of something Lorelai said. Lorelai promises that she never said anything about dances to Rory and that she'd just like to drop it. Lorelai goes back to her plate and moves a tomato for "fraternizing with the enemy."
In the car on the way home, Lorelai asks Rory why she didn't mention the dance. "'Cause I'm not going," Rory says. "Oh," says Lorelai, and asks why she's not going. "Because I hate dances," Rory says.