Episode Report Card Pamie: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT She Bop, He Bop a-We Bop
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.18.2004
Lorelai leaves to get the Bop It. Rory is very happy to hear it's time for Bop It. Lorelai and Rory ask who wants to play. Dean says he's played the game here before. Lorelai decides Luke and Dean should play Bop It. Rory and Lorelai play a practice game to explain the rules. I've never seen a Bop It before, and it should be renamed Obnoxious It. It's just a crackhead Simon. Dean and Luke begrudgingly play an increasingly aggressive round of Bop It. Lorelai warns them not to hurt the toy, since it has feelings, too. The hitting and smacking and flicking continue as Dean focuses on the game and Luke stares Dean down. Lorelai and Rory try to get them to stop playing, but it's too late. Luke wins. He screams, "In your face!" twice to Dean. "I hammered you, buddy!" Dean: "It's just a stupid game." Luke: "Says the loser!" Dean, understandably, decides to leave. He kisses Rory goodbye and says he'll call her later. "Thanks a lot," Rory says to Luke. And then Lorelai gives Rory a "Rory," like she has no place complaining about Luke's chasing away her boyfriend. Rory says that they shouldn't have gone out, and that this whole thing was a huge mistake. Unfortunately, she's not talking about the episode. Luke says that Dean had a chip on his shoulder. Rory tells Luke he's the reason they had to pull out the Bop It, a toy that only makes appearances at awkward gatherings. Holy shit, did anyone notice the scary clown cushion in Lorelai's living room? It's hideous and I'll never sleep again. Rory leaves to go back to Yale.
Luke says he feels awful. Lorelai says that this is all her fault, since she forced this gathering. Well, that's sort of true, but only because nobody has talked to Rory and Dean about what their relationship means or what they want from everyone else. Luke says that he can't be around Dean: "I knew that and I said yes anyway." Luke says that Dean's not good for Rory: "He's not right for her." Lorelai says Luke has to let the past go, and that he probably doesn't even remember why he's mad at Dean. Luke: "He's a punk. That's what I remember. Just look at his history. He broke her heart before." Well, actually, Rory dumped Dean. Lorelai tells Luke that he doesn't know the whole story. Luke complains that Dean got married and bailed out before the honeymoon was even over. I love how these two are actually having a discussion about what marriage is and isn't supposed to be. Do you wipe your angelic brow with your divorce papers or Lorelai's failed engagement? Luke: "He was pining for Rory and he got married. That's unstable." No, that's YOU. Why does it look like Luke's wearing lipstick? He says that Dean never knows what he wants, so he can't be trusted now. Lorelai says that matters of the heart aren't science, and are never sure things. Luke says that Dean's not good enough for Rory. Lorelai asks, "Well, who is? Jess?" Luke says not Jess, but a prince. A real prince who will one day be king. Not a prince who's waiting for a brother to die, nor a prince who, say, sometimes pays for a woman named Nikki to give him a grind. Luke explains that Rory is like Pippi: "She can have adventures, and be free. She's smart. The whole world's waiting for her. Pippi is strong and independent. She can lift a horse above her head. And beat up bullies and build a hot air balloon. She's unique. Like Rory." Luke says that if Pippi had met Dean, she wouldn't have had any adventures, Dean would have brought her down to his level and spent all her gold coins. Right. That already happened to Rory. It's what happened when she dated Jess. He crashed her car!