Episode Report Card Pamie: A | 16 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Adultery, Theft, and Lies
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2002.04.09
Nightlife. Emily and Lorelai are at a bar featuring that couple that play at the Dresden from Swingers. Couples dance. Lorelai and Emily walk in looking impressed. There's an hour-long wait. Lorelai and Emily immediately start whining that they can't wait an entire hour. "Can we bribe you?" Emily asks sweetly. They can't, unfortunately, but they can eat at the bar, where they serve the full menu. Emily is upset about eating at a bar. She wonders what people will think. "That we're loose women with questionable morals," Lorelai says. Emily and Lorelai take their stools at the corner of the bar as Emily complains about having to eat without her feet touching the floor. Welcome to my world, Emily. It's called 5'3". Lorelai orders two martinis from the bartender. Emily asks for some peanuts. She chomps them all down as Lorelai decides on steak, Caesar salad, and shrimp cocktail. That's a dream dinner, as far as I'm concerned. ["I'm still back on the mac and cheese, but I'm not fancy." -- Wing Chun] Emily's eaten all of the peanuts. "Hey! Save some for winter, there," Lorelai says. Emily says that she's never realized how wonderful peanuts are before. The martinis are served, and the bartender refills the peanuts. The girls clink glasses. Emily says she never thought she'd be inhaling peanuts at a singles' bar. Lorelai points out that this is a "Sixty-Forty" bar, meaning it's full of men in their sixties hitting on women in their forties. Emily looks around. Indeed it is. Emily spots a skanky woman at the other end of the bar and says she could do better than the man she's hitting up. "What does she see in him?" Emily asks. "Big wallet; short lifespan, usual draw," Lorelai answers. As Emily wonders whether they could have pretzels, Lorelai points out that there's a Sixty in the back mistaking Emily for a Forty: "Silver fox. Totally checking you out." Emily blushes and flirts with the back of her head as she tells Lorelai that nobody is checking her out. But he is and she knows it. She tells Lorelai to drink her martini.