Episode Report Card Pamie: B | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Bells And Whistles
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.26.2004
Lane is meeting with her church group. They have to interview someone. The group wants to interview Pastor Cho, or Assistant Pastor Eric. The clothes on the people in this youth group crack me up. Where are these kids from? Are they supposed to be Stars Hollow kids? In any event, Lane would love to shake things up and interview Bill Clinton, but every year Pastor Cho is interviewed, or Assistant Pastor Eric, so one of them, or both of them, are waiting on their calls right now. I'm going to back this episode up and do a quick Scarf Count up to now, because there is an amazing scarf budget on this show. Let me count, hold on. There were no scarves in the funeral or the band scene. But in just the last scene alone, there were eighteen scarves. And also I think I see CuteDean looking up at the bells in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. I may just be doing some wishing, though. Okay, back to the youth group. The kids aren't too excited about Lane's radical suggestion to write a letter to President Clinton. Rory shows up to "return a book and get a new one." Lane just walks away from her youth group and ditches them for quite some time.
Up in Lane's room, Rory opens the book she's holding. It's a hollow book and holds a CD she borrowed from Lane. She tells Lane she loved it, and burned a copy for Lorelai. Lane says it's people like Rory who are destroying the music industry. Rory says that Britney must shoulder some of the blame for that. Lane holds up the CD, and I'm almost positive that it's Lemon Jelly's Lost Horizons. Then I get my own Lemon Jelly CD and see that it's not. This causes me to spend fifteen minutes going through my CD collection, holding up CDs to the frozen TiVoed screen to match my CD with the one in Lane's hand. Whatever it is, I don't own it, but I was sure that I did. Dammit. Lane gives Rory her New Pornographers CD. I do enjoy that the fake book Rory's holding says it's about martyrdom. Lane puts the CD back in her fake floorboard and tells Rory that she's so excited about the upcoming gig at CBGB's. Rory asks how she's going to get there. Lane says she's working on the perfect alibi as they speak. So far she's got "Mama, may I run something past you?" It used to be "can I," but she thought the "may I" added a certain level of respect. Rory tells Lane to say she's sleeping at Rory's dorm at Yale. Lane: "She knows they're co-ed. By the way, she's praying for you." Rory tells Lane to say she's on an Astronomy class field trip. Lane says there are no Astronomy classes at Adventist college, because that would imply that the universe is old. They quickly slip a new cover on Rory's book just as MamaLane bursts into the room. Rory starts to leave, but MamaLane grabs the book and reads the title: Jane. One Woman's Harrowing Journey to God. She compliments Rory on her selection and lets her go.