Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | 207 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Thanks, But No Thanks
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2002.11.26
CuteDean's standing at the end of the street, fronting Jess, and trying to incite a fight out of him. He's all arms out, going, "What's the matter, Jess? Why you walkin' away?" Jess says the whole thing's a little too West Side Story for him, and he's not that good of a dancer. CuteDean won't stop with the eagle arms, asking Jess to mock his apron, or to call him a Boy Scout again. CuteDean wants Jess to fight, but Jess doesn't want to, because then Rory will think he started it. CuteDean gets three seasons' worth of lines here, but sadly, all of them are so stupid. Clichéd. Bad. Badly written lines. Here they are, in all their stinky glory: "So, Rory's got a nice little hold on you, now, huh? How does it feel?" Jess: "Feels like I'm with Rory and you're not." CuteDean: "You know, when all this happened with you and me and Rory, I figured I'd just stay out of everyone's way. That that would be easiest. But now, I'm lookin' atchoo and I'm thinkin', 'I'm gonna run from him? The Glad Man?'" Wow, that's worse than when he called Phillipppe "Dristan," you guys. Why can't they give Dean real lines that boys say? Why is he such a moron when he talks? "This is my town. I'm not hiding. And I don't have to be remotely calm around you anymore, and I like that feeling. I like it a lot." LAME. ["Plus, Stars Hollow is 'his town'? He's lived there like twenty minutes longer than Jess has." -- Wing Chun] CuteDean walks away, wishing Jess a Happy Thanksgiving. Jess tosses his trash bag away.
Luke asks how the four dinners worked out. Lorelai says they aren't more stuffed than they were after the great Six Flags Hot Dog consumption of '99. Rory notes that their taffy binge of '97 was worse, as well. Lorelai says they didn't eat at her parents', so they only had three dinners and not four. Rory says this means they didn't have to skip the rolls. Lorelai asks Luke if he has any rolls. He just happens to have a Ziploc bag of rolls, and only one Ziploc bag and only rolls, sitting right behind him. He hands it over, amazed at their appetites. The girls leave.
Walking through Stars Hollow, Lorelai says for no real reason at all, "This has been a nice Thanksgiving." Rory agrees. Lorelai says it was nicer for some than others, though. The girls say goodnight to HumanKirk, who's sleeping in the gazebo.