Episode Report Card Pamie: A+ | 26 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Bully For You
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2002.09.31
Rory is in bed. What time is it? Hmm. She turns over and sees Lorelai, fully dressed, sitting at the foot of the bed. Lorelai admits that she's been sitting there for about an hour and a half. She's just excited because it's Rory's last First Day of School and it means that Rory is all grown up now. So, she's got Chilton, so it's got to be like six in the morning. What's with the bright sunlight? And does that mean Lorelai woke up at four in the morning? There's no way. Anyway, Lorelai gives Rory her bill. She crunched some numbers and figured out that Rory owes her quite a bit of money from over the years. I can see the crew in the reflection of the television screen over Lorelai's shoulder. Rory stands up to take a shower. Lorelai says that Rory got home too late last night for them to talk. Rory says she got home at ten, and that Lorelai was already asleep. Lorelai confesses that she was trying to watch The Legend of Bagger Vance again. Lorelai tells Rory that Kirk asked her out. "Shut up!" Rory says with a smile. Lorelai says that Kirk came to the Inn and asked her to dinner. "That's so sweet!" Rory says. "You should wear your dress with the ponies on it. I bet he likes ponies." That's my favorite line of the episode. Lorelai says she can't go out with Kirk because (pant, pant, pant), "He's Kirk!" Rory says that if Kirk loves Lorelai and makes her happy, then that's all that matters. Rory just wants her mother to be happy. Lorelai gives an example: "Hello, Headmaster Charleston, this is my stepfather, Kirk. Please don't make any sudden movements; he's a Fear Biter." Rory asks how Lorelai's going to let him down. Lorelai says that this is why she needed to talk to Rory, since Rory's the nice one. Rory tells Lorelai to tell the truth -- that she just wants to be friends. Lorelai says that's too lame. Rory says Lorelai could lie and say she has a boyfriend, but Lorelai doesn't want to tempt her Relationship Karma. Rory tells Lorelai she's on her own. "We're gonna have to move," Lorelai says. "Take off in the middle of the night. Leave everything behind. Assume different identities. I'll join a local community theater and I'll drive you to soccer." It'd be perfect, but Rory doesn't play soccer. "You do now," Lorelai says. See, I'd pick the line "Maybe Rory doesn't, but Mallarory does!"