Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B | 149 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Lost And Found
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2007.04.17
Later, no doubt hopped up on sugar, Logan awakens (in Rory's bed while she takes the trundle! WRONG) to find Rory making the classic Rory Gilmore Pro/Con List. "There are so many factors," she says, including all the other papers that have her resume on file, and the issue that print may be a dying medium -- which could be both a pro and a con. Logan takes the list to review. Pro/Con: Air quality in Providence vs. Manhattan. Pro/Con: Chinese food quality in Manhattan vs. Providence. You can see her dilemmas. Logan, however, finds her crazy and insists that she go to sleep. He gets up to get some water, and Rory wonders why he has to get fully dressed to do it. "You need to put a shirt on to get water?" she asks. "Yeah, what if your mom's out there?" he insists. "I don't want her to think I'm David Hasselhoff or something." AWESOME. Of course, The Hoff could and would comfortably stroll anywhere shirtless, and Logan does run into Lorelai in the kitchen, so his fears are perfectly grounded. They share an awkward moment before he breaks down and tells her that he's not a gambler. He says he knows that Rory tells her stuff, so she knows he ran off to Vegas and all that, "but I want you to know that's not who I am -- I don't want you to be worried." Lorelai: "Well, I am worried. I'm a mom, that's what we do." She says she's worried about his whole surfing-the-waves attitude. "I mean, you just lost millions of dollars," she says. He says yeah, he knows, and inside he's not feeling too surfer-y. He knows. "But I don't want to act that way in front of you," he says. "I mean, for one thing, the whole self-flagellation thing is kind of embarrassing, and I want you to think well of me." You know, he has a point -- why should he have to apologize for his business loss to Lorelai? I get where she's coming from, too, though -- okay, JoLowe? I GET IT. MOTHERS WORRY.
Lorelai says that hearing this from him is good for her. It's just that she thinks 401(k)s are important along with being responsible and paying bills and all that. "Yeah, I'm starting to learn a little more about reality," he says. "I grew up with a lot of privilege." Lorelai: "I know. You had the whole 'silver spoon in the mouth' thing, and that's not how I raised Rory. This was not a silver-spoon household. This was spork city, all the way." Logan is humble enough to say that he realizes that. Why have they been making me like and respect Logan? It messes with my whole worldview. He says he totally gets what she's saying, "because [he] just spat out a whole place setting of sterling silver Royal Danish." He says he left his dad's company and that whole world because he has his own values. Lorelai says that she can understand that. "I thought you would," Logan says, "because that's what you did. You left a world of privilege to do things your way. Plus, you did it when you were younger, and you had a baby to take care of. That's impressive." Lorelai says that she never thought of it that way, but that anyway, she doesn't need him to be impressed with her -- she knows she worked hard to get everything she got. With gravity, he says that he wants to work, he's ready to work, and he wants to work hard. Lorelai smiles. "All right then," she says, giving him a break. They seal the deal with pie.