Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A+ | 236 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Sing It
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2007.04.31
Driving a humongous vehicle that I have learned from investigation belongs to the Dragonfly, Lorelai arrives home to see that Rory is also there. Lorelai finds her in her room, hiding under the covers of depression. "I tanked it," Rory says. "My final." Lorelai tries to talk her down, but Rory is pretty sure she did, in fact, tank it. "Why?" Lorelai asks. "'Cause," Rory moans, pulling a blue book from the sheets, "I didn't even turn all of it in." She's totally chagrined. Halfway through her third blue book, she says, she just started wondering "what's the point?" about all of this school stuff, since she's never going to get a job anyway. Lorelai listens as Rory describes the Cringe Hall Of Fame moment of calling back the ProJo and begging for that chance again. "They already gave it to someone else," she says. "Some non-idiot who didn't think they were too good and turn it down." Lorelai insists that Rory's not an idiot. "I am," Rory says. "I can probably never show my face in Providence again." Heee. Lorelai thinks she probably can, and brooks no further bullshit. "Honey, you had a setback," she says, "and that is really hard and terrible, but there is some paper out there that is going to hire you as their future superstar; that's just a fact." She says it's obvious that Rory's just having a meltdown, which is fine -- after all, everyone needs to have a meltdown every once in a while. You know, Lorelai was far less chipper about Rory's last meltdown, but whatever. In any case, she's right, but Rory's not having it. "Do you know what the worst part of this is?" Rory says. "I thought I was so in at the Times. I was just saying that I wasn't going to get it, because I was trying to be humble, but I was so not humble. I was so cocky. I was already picturing myself working there!" She describes her fantasy lunches with Maureen Dowd and fantasy chats with Bill Keller and cringes anew as she remembers that she'd already picked out her outfit for her official ID photo. "The new suit with the red Theory shirt," Lorelai says automatically. Rory: "Yeah." She says that the idea of telling everyone that she didn't get it is humiliating and it sucks to disappoint everyone. "Honey," Lorelai assures her. "You could never disappoint me. Ever. Ever, ever. Ever." Except...when you slept with a married dude and later stole a boat. But who's counting those? Certainly not me. I love Rory again.