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By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.07.2001
Lorelai and Luke are still staring at Rachel, and the diner is awkwardly quiet. Luke stammers that he thought Rachel was in "Philadelphia, or the Congo or something." Rachel says she was in a place similar to both Philadelphia and the Congo: she was in the Middle East. Luke says her postcard must have gotten lost. Rachel sits down and says things were pretty crazy over there, so she didn't have much time to write. She says she was walking through O'Hare and she looked up and saw there was a flight leaving for Hartford in a few minutes and the next thing she knew she was on it. "Nice story," Luke says bitterly. Rachel says she should have called. Luke says it's fine. Lorelai is just watching. Rachel says Luke looks good. Luke stammers about how she looks until Lorelai tells her that he thinks she looks good too. Lorelai introduces herself. Luke is no help here, just stammering along about how Lorelai works at the inn. Lorelai says that she, in fact, runs the inn. Rachel says she loves that place and that Lorelai must have a big job. Lorelai runs at the mouth forever about how they just installed coffee makers and only half of them work so her job is really crazy. She stops herself to ask why Rachel was in the Mid East. Rachel says she was doing a photo story about the families affected by the violence in that area. Lorelai says that Rachel must understand job pressure, then. She then excuses her blushing ass. Rachel says hello to Luke again. He says hello back.
Lorelai is brushing Rory's hair, beating herself up for looking like a fool in front of Rachel. Rory is complaining about the pain. She says that Rachel is only Luke's ex-girlfriend and she shouldn't get so worked up about it. Lorelai bitches that Rachel had just gotten off a plane and was still beautiful and didn't even have "plane hair." Rory asks what plane hair would look like. Lorelai explains that it's puffy and big and ugly. She says that Luke was looking at Rachel like she's "Miss September" and she's looking at him like he's "Johnny Depp," and Lorelai was standing there like a moron. Rory can't take the pain anymore and pulls Lorelai off hair duty. Lorelai apologizes. Rory asks what's wrong with her. Lorelai says all of the love in the air is making her miss Max. Rory says she knows. Lorelai says she had a dream about him the other night. Rory asks if it was a dirty dream. Lorelai says it wasn't, but if Rory asks again when she's twenty-one she'll get the truth. Lorelai says she'd rather focus on Rory right now, and asks what she's going to wear with her hot pink dress. Rory pulls out two sweaters. One is the same shade of hot pink, and the other is hot pink with stripes. Yikes. Lorelai asks where they're going to dinner. Rory says some Italian name. Lorelai is impressed with how fancy and romantic that place is. She says that it'll be just like Lady and the Tramp and that they'll share a plate of spaghetti but it'll just be one long strand, and then CuteDean will roll a meatball over with his nose and Rory will roll it back with her nose and then she will bring that meatball home with her and save it years. Rory interrupts her to ask about the sweaters again. Lorelai tells her wisely to ditch the sweaters and just wear her coat. Lorelai stands up to fix Rory's flower. Lane calls from downstairs. Lorelai stares at herself in the mirror as Lane starts gushing at Rory downstairs.