Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Same Time Next Year
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.17.2003
Back at the Yale Steak House, the Gilmores are talking about how much they are enjoying their slabs of meat. Lorelai stabs hers with a fork and shows the branded "Y" on the underside of the beef. Emily demands that Lorelai hand over the Fun Flask. Everybody runs off to see the real-life non-stuffed Dan, who has made an appearance. Emily grabs Dan's Y-shaped bone and brings it to him.
Marty calls Rory over. She asks if he saw Dan. Marty says that you'll see Dan everywhere that day in one form or another. Is that a joke? Rory introduces Lorelai to Marty. Lorelai immediately calls him "Naked Guy." Then Richard and Emily walk over and discuss his moniker. Richard admits that he spent an entire month at Yale naked (Lorelai: "Welcome to tonight's episode of Things I Never Needed To Learn About My Father!") when he protested the dress code with a group of friends, so one night shouldn't be enough to earn Marty the name. Marty says he was only stopping by to invite Rory over to a nearby party. Richard and Emily tell Rory to go and have fun with people her own age. Emily hands Marty some Tupperware, and he takes off with Rory. "I like that boy," Richard says. Lorelai tells him to prove it by dropping his pants. Emily says it's time to go to the ladies' room. Since it's an hour before kick-off, the lines won't be so long. Lorelai makes a face.
Post-pee, Lorelai leans in the bathroom door and says she'll meet Emily outside. Lorelai walks past the line and over to the coffee kiosk, where she orders a coffee. No size necessary. And doesn't her tailgate restaurant have coffee in an urn? I mean, I know it does -- I saw it. Lorelai makes a face at a woman who walks into the bathroom with a small boy. Pennilyn walks over and stands in line. Lorelai walks over to her and begins chatting. Lorelai scoffs that the woman in front of her took her "forty-year-old son" into the bathroom. Why isn't that woman standing in line? Also: fuck you, Lorelai. What is this woman supposed to do? Pennilyn agrees that some people have no dignity/ standards/ blah blah blah snobbycakes. Is this woman supposed to send her son into a bathroom by himself, where other grown men are standing around holding their penises? Is this kid going to see women washing their hands and get corrupted? Women only do things in the privacy of stalls in the ladies' room. Amazing. I'm this angered by thirty seconds of dialogue. That's what happens when you're paid to know every second of all almost-eighty episodes of this show. Emily sees Pennilyn and Lorelai, and hangs by the door long enough to hear Pennilyn tell Lorelai that she heard about Lorelai's efforts to start her inn. Emily walks up and remarks that they're running into Pennilyn all over the place. After a quick round of small talk, Emily informs Pennilyn that the line is moving. Pennilyn leaves. Lorelai asks Emily if she saw the woman with the forty-year-old kid.