Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Why Moms Are Weird
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.24.2006
Rory finds Logan's room, and is alarmed to see his battered and swollen condition. A doctor comes in (which is really unbelievable, since waiting for a doctor to show up is normally one's primary activity in a hospital), and checks Logan out, while Rory asks nervous questions about Logan's surgery and his condition. The doctor blows her off, refusing to tell her anything and leaving her standing there. Rory doesn't even touch Logan, which is weird to me, but hell, I wouldn't touch Logan, either. ["That girl has a touching problem. She's the worst kisser on TV. She can't even hug!" -- Wing Chun]
In the Stars Hollow town square, the Troubadour is back, singing a sweet song about being with someone for forty years. I've missed him.
Meanwhile, at the diner, Luke is getting on to Cesar, who continues to put bananas in the fridge, despite Luke's command to the contrary. Cesar: "It's just that, while I was running the place, that was one of my innovations: cold bananas. People seemed to really love 'em." Luke says he highly doubts that, and snaps at Cesar to get rid of them, as well as the scones he put out. Luke's being a an ass, acting like Cesar has killed someone, instead of just putting some bananas in the fridge ["Luke is being a rag, but don't put bananas in the fridge, people! It makes them turn brown faster!" -- Wing Chun], and Cesar reminds him that people also respond well to a sunny demeanor, rather than Luke's buttholism, which is running high: "Service with a smile. It's a cliché for a reason." Luke, not surprisingly, is not interested in improving his customer-service skills: "I just want you to keep my damn bananas out of the damn fridge. And I want you to keep my damn donuts in the damn donut case." Rebuffed, Cesar walks off, grumbling that customers also don't appreciate gratuitous swearing. Luke, you DO need to get your banana out of the fridge, if you know what I mean, because...damn. Shut up.
Lorelai walks in, and, for once, Luke seems glad to see her. They even share a somewhat convincing kiss, which at one time would have made me so excited, but now just revolts me, because Luke is a jerk, and Lorelai's dumb and will not kick him in the nuts as he so richly deserves. She tells him that he looks older and wiser after his trip with the schoolkids, and he says that must be due to all the time he spent squinting at historical documents. "That's what it is," Lorelai says. "Constitution face." She says hello to Patty, who tells Luke that she's still waiting on her cold banana. Keep on waiting, Patty. Luke tells Lorelai that after spending ten days with his secret daughter, he's throwing her a birthday party at the diner the next day. Lorelai is surprised to hear about this: "Look at you, diving into fatherhood." She tells Luke that if he needs a consultant on party-throwing, she's available: "I've thrown some rockin' pre-teen parties in my time." Luke tells her that he's sure he'll do fine. He's ordered some balloons and a cake. "All good," Lorelai says. "I'm just saying that Rory's birthday scavenger hunt of 1998 is still talked about in hushed, reverent tones." Luke asks whether that's the one where all the kids ended up raiding Taylor's kitchen in the middle of the night. Heee. I would have liked to have seen what they found. Probably a pink apron and fourteen bottles of hand sanitizer.