Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | 153 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT You Can Dance If You Want To
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2006.10.10
Michel escorts Lorelai and her gorgeous orchid corsage into the cotillion, complaining that she did not provide him with a boutonnière. Lorelai is inappropriately wearing a summer white dress, complete with a daisy design, and though she is stunning, as usual, I can't get behind it. Michel and Lorelai see her doppelganger, Caroline, in her pretty party dress, complete with some tiger-print Chucks. Lorelai looks at her wistfully as Michel blathers on about the children and how one of them could be a future President. "You're very odd," Lorelai tells him as Emily walks up. Michel gushes about the perfection of the cotillion, and Emily beams. Charlotte runs over and introduces her grandparents to Lorelai. "Charlotte told us you were a card," the g-daddy says. "She also told us you were a delightful dining companion," says the grandmother. "Like Noel Coward and Slim Keith rolled into one." Lorelai tries to return the compliment, saying that Charlotte is "like Shirley Temple and Mother Teresa and someone with very good table manners rolled into one." When her grandparents walk away, Charlotte confides that she and Caroline will be doing a hip-hop dance later, ending with a somersault. I am sure Emily will love that. Charlotte goes off to dance with a little boy, and Lorelai sees Caroline, waltzing around with her own dance partner. She happily shares a wave with Lorelai as Michel comes over to comment that everyone seems to be enjoying the cotillion. "Yeah," Lorelai says, clearly surprised, "they really do, don't they?" Michel insists that she dance with him, citing the favor she owes, and with much reluctance, Lorelai joins him on the dance floor. Much to her surprise, Lorelai has a lot of fun. "I see you're having a terrible time," Emily says, wandering by. Lorelai laughs: "The worst."