Episode Report Card Pamie: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Speak Now and Forever, Forget the Peace
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.20.2002
When is a commercial? When? My fingers are killing me. Rory can't just get her cast buzzed off anywhere, she has to go to the Medical Office of Dr. Ronald Sue of Orthopedic Medicine. Lorelai asks Rory if she's sad at all that the cast is coming off. Rory isn't, even though Lorelai has named it Casty. Rory says that Lorelai has to stop getting so attached to inanimate objects. Lorelai almost shoves Casty into her mouth to talk to it. Ew, that thing would totally stink. The doctor enters, and Rory is very happy to see at least one sane person around. As the doctor goes to get his saw, we hear some guy yelling in the hallway looking for Rory's room. It's Christopher, once again really just a bit too late, pretending to be a responsible father. He announces that he's "The Dad," as if that's a name he's been earning all this time. Like they should have been waiting for him. The girls, predictably, are all a-swoon at Christopher not letting them down at the last moment for once. Here's what bothers me about Christopher. I've figured it out. He looks like Joey Lawrence. Have I mentioned that before? Because he does. I keep waiting for the "Whoa!" Lorelai can't believe Christopher showed up, since he was just there (weeks ago). Christopher asks Lorelai if she's getting sick of him. "Frankly, yes," she says. Christopher makes a really lame joke about keeping the arm, and Lorelai just melts into the floor all smitten. Well, choosing a man is much easier when you alienate all the other options, isn't it, Lorelai? Oh, hey! Commercial! Woohoo!
Post-cast, Christopher asks what they're going to do next. Rory says she has to go home and work on her campaign platform. Lorelai boasts that their "little Hillary Clinton" is running for student office. Rory repeats that the elections are on Friday, and that she's torn on which way she wants to votes to go. Lorelai says she spent four hours working on campaign buttons, so she wants Rory to win. When did that happen? Rory moans that if she wins, she has to be vice-president next year. Also she'll have to go to Washington, D.C. for the summer on a leadership program. Then she says it'll be six weeks in a dorm room with Paris. Six weeks is not a summer. ["I thought she meant she'd be spending her 'whole summer' in Washington in the sense of spending the bulk of the summer there." -- Wing Chun] Christopher offers to come back Thursday night, take them out to dinner, and then break into Chilton to tamper with the votes. Rory and Lorelai say they can't, since Thursday is Sookie's rehearsal dinner. When was Sookie's bachelorette party? Bridal shower? Sookie's getting screwed. So, is the wedding on a Friday or a Sunday? They said Sunday, but why is the rehearsal dinner on a Thursday? For real, when will this show ever get a day right? I think they do it just to screw with us. It's getting more and more blatant. "If you're gonna be in the area Thursday night, you could come with us to dinner," Lorelai says, trying to sound casual. Be in the area? When does Boston become "in the area"? Christopher offered to drive down just for dinner. Well, whatever, he's muscled his way into the rehearsal dinner. Lorelai says that Christopher would love it and that Sookie's cooking for a thousand. Poor Sookie's doing this entire wedding all by herself. The rehearsal dinner is supposed to be done by the groom's family. Rory adds that she's "bringing Dean," as if that makes it okay for Christopher to crash the party. Christopher says he'll go. Lorelai says it's great and that she'll tell Sookie.