Episode Report Card Pamie: A- | 19 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Rhapsody in Blue
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2002.05.14
Rory and Jess walk through "New York." You can tell because the streets are mostly empty except for the one cab. I think they even have smoke coming up from the manholes. Rory says she's feeling very urban today. Jess makes fun of her plaid. Rory brags that she's been to Manhattan before. She saw The Bangles there. Yeah, that was a night of a thousand laughs. Rory says the show was great, but I remember that Rory saw not one minute of that concert, so I don't know why she's not bragging that she was slumming at a crack house instead. What's with the calliope music in the background? More extras in blue shirts pass as Rory talks about the time they were yelled at in several different languages because Lorelai was driving poorly in Manhattan. Those crazy Manhattan drivers, with how they like to drive everywhere. Jess teases Rory for calling it "The Big Apple" as some guy in a blue ski cap carefully lowers a bag of trash near a cardboard box. Seriously, everyone's wearing a shade of blue. Even the cars are blue. The windowsills are painted blue. Rory's cast is blue. What's the deal? Rory brags about the time she gave a withering stare to a guy who cut her off. Jess says he'd love to see Rory's withering stare, but she suddenly gets all shy about it. She says it's dangerous and she could hurt him with it. Jess says he's disappointed. He asks how her arm's doing. She says it looks worse than it is. Jess compliments Rory's Emily sticker and they do a tiny Emily commercial. There's a blue light shining on Rory and you can see that her hair looks blue in the light. Suddenly there's a woman in a red shirt with red hair walking behind them. It's very distracting.
Jess has brought Rory to a hot-dog stand. Oh, how romantic! Rory says it's perfect. Jess orders one with everything on it. Rory asks to make that two. She doesn't make any move to pay for it though, I see. Jess kind of asks if Luke's okay, and Rory kind of tells him that Luke had gone fishing for a stretch. They don't really talk about fishing or Luke. Seven blue shirts walk around them. But see, even though Rory is in blue? Jess is in red. Actually, it would be red except for all the blue light, so he's really in this muted purple. I hope we all get that subtext. He's holding a blue jacket, though, as the guy in the blue shirt and blue apron hands Jess two hot dogs. Rory takes a bite and says it's really good. Rory and Jess just wander across the street, not even looking at the cabbies that are honking at them off-camera. It's such a safe place to cross the street, Manhattan. Don't even need a crosswalk. Jess asks how much time Rory has. Rory says she's got "a bit." He says he'd like to take her to a record store run by this walking encyclopedia guy. "The place is right outta High Fidelity," he says. Rory says, "Let's go." They walk toward the sign that simply reads "Subway." Rory asks why they have to take the subway. Jess says the place is fifteen blocks away. Wow, I think that's being a real pussy, isn't it? All my "New York" friends tell me they walk, like, a bazillion blocks a day. They also like to brag that they can put all of their belongings in a small shoebox, so I don't really know what to believe. Rory asks if they can take hot dogs into the subway and Jess teases her for being an out-of-towner. The song in the background sings that we're in New York City, just in case there was any confusion.