Episode Report Card Kim: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Happy Birthday, Baby!
By Kim | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on April 21, 2003
Lorelai and Richard have their meeting. Lorelai gives him some more crap about the secretary thing. Richard says he has something for her, and places an envelope on the table. Lorelai starts to guess what it is, but Richard wisely ignores her and explains that when she was born, he celebrated by making a real estate investment in her name. Recently he found out that the government is building a road through the land, so it was sold and all of the investors will get a check. Lorelai realizes that she gets a check, so she picks up the envelope and rips it open. She's shocked to see that the check is for $75,000. She asks Richard for a pen, and figures out that she could buy one hundred fifty pairs of Jimmy Choo shoes. Richard is shocked that the shoes are that expensive, and tells her to shop around first. Lorelai asks if the money is "some kind of gift," because she would have to refuse it. Richard says that he made the investment in her name, and that he's legally obligated to give her the money. Lorelai is psyched. As anyone would be. I don't really get why Lorelai, who has always been so loath to take money from her parents, wouldn't at least insist that her dad take out his own initial investment, but whatever.
Rory and Lorelai sit at home, wearing party hats, eating a giant bowl of something, and discussing how to spend the money. Lorelai thinks they should buy a boat, because that's something rich people have. Rory says they could park it in the front yard, and Lorelai says that would make them rich white trash. Or they could pay off their mortgage. That was my idea, not theirs. I'm so boring. Rory and Lorelai discuss how they won't have to scrimp and save anymore. They won't? It's not that much money. Especially after taxes. Lorelai says she feels rich, and is suddenly in complete agreement with everything Bush has to say. The phone rings, and Lorelai is sure that the call has to do with Rory's secret birthday plans. Rory says, "Not everything is about you." Is this her first episode? Lorelai insists that it is about her. Rory takes the call in her room. Jon Polito says they did a trial run on the pizza and that Kirk "built a pizza rack on top of his car." But then the pizza collapsed and "Kirk has got some severe cheese burns." Rory asks if Kirk's okay, and the shot of Jon Polito widens to reveal Kirk, on a gurney, with his arms and legs being bandaged by EMTs. Jon Polito says that the point is that the pizza might need to be both cheeseless and sauceless. Rory is unhappy and points out that the problem might be Kirk, and not the pizza. Rory insists on both cheese and sauce. Jon Polito says she'll need to provide the transportation herself, and Rory agrees and hangs up. Lorelai pops her head in and Rory lies that she was talking to a classmate we've never heard of.