Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 2 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Bunch Of Turkeys
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.21.2005
Lorelai arrives home and says that everything went well with Christopher, "except for the Frings -- combo basket of fries and onion rings. Good in theory, but..." She tells Rory all about the dead grandfather, which Rory has little to no reaction to, never having known the man, I guess, which bugs the hell out of me. Does Christopher's family even know Rory at all? ["With the exception of this one, ill-fated meeting, all signs point to no." -- Wing Chun] Rory says that "Dad should keep the money for himself," which is big of her, and Lorelai asks if she's sure, listing off all the things that Christopher offered, up to and including a cannon from the Civil War -- "Functioning, by the way, so it's not just for show" -- and paying for Yale through a PhD. Ding! Rory says that, actually, she might consider letting her father pay for Yale, if that's not too much. "I think it was the cheapest of all the things he mentioned," Lorelai says. Rory says that the residual benefit would be getting out from under her grandparents' thumb. She doesn't want to owe them anything: "There're too many strings with these people." Lorelai's eyes widen: "Okay...I'm getting very uncomfortable with the Freaky Friday moment we've got going on here. Because it means I have to go to Yale, and you have to run the inn, and...oh, God, I don't even want to think about what it would mean for Luke." She goes on to say she hopes Rory realizes this would mean that she's basically cutting off her grandparents. "You don't know what it was like to be living there," Rory says, which is hilarious, considering she is talking to the original object of Emily and Richard's punishment: "Hello! Oppressed One, class of '85. You were only there for three months. You're not in my league. We can't swap war stories yet." Rory says that her grandparents brought in the minister to tell her not to have sex. "Five times they did that to me," Lorelai says. "The last time, they triple-teamed me with a priest, a rabbi, and a Mormon missionary. I made so many jokes that night I should have had a microphone and a brick wall behind me, AND I never got a $40,000 sex house!" Putting all that aside, Rory says she knows that having her dad pay for Yale might lead to a slippery slope, but that she's pretty sure she wants to do it. Lorelai says he'll be happy and they make plans to call him. ["And set up the inevitable Christopher fuck-up that will send the Gilmore girls crawling back to Emily and Richard, giant mooching sacks in hand." -- Wing Chun]