Episode Report Card Pamie: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Season Fi-wha?
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.09.2001
Back at the Gilmore home, Lorelai is describing her dream to Rory. She dreamed that the house was a Kentucky Fried Chicken store. Lorelai says that she had to get dressed, but that the guy manning the giant oil vat wouldn't let her through to the back to get her clothes. Rory interrupts here to say that the words "oil vat" reminded her of a dream she had the night before about swimming in a pool of oil or honey. Rory is dunking cookies into a bottle of milk. They drink milk in bottles at Stars Hollow. Anyway, Lorelai says that Rory "totally did that thing." They then go into a bit about how people start telling a dream and that reminds the listener about another dream and then the listener starts talking about his or her dream and you never get back to the original dream. I'd like to point out that Daniel is doing it again. This has gone on longer than Amy would have had it. Lorelai goes back to her dream and says that the oil-vat guy was someone that used to live in town. Lorelai asks his name. Rory doesn't know it, but starts ganking jokes from my website coming up with names for him. Rory asks if he was Peter Stringbean. Lorelai says he was short and fat. Rory calls him Johnny McShort-and-Fat. That's the thing I say! Well, me and everyone. But I swear I was saying it first.
Lorelai walks out to the porch and asks Luke whether he remembers the man. Luke is on the roof, fixing a shingle. He asks if it was "that Stretch Cunningham guy." It's not. Lorelai says it's the "Dick Tracy guy." They go on and on about the name while we watch Rory dig through the hall closet. She finds the CuteDean box. Lorelai remembers that the guy's name was Jim Dunning, and runs in to tell Rory. Rory just stands there, holding the box. She doesn't so much look upset, but rather that she's just quietly busting Lorelai. Lorelai instantly goes into an explanation, saying she knows she was supposed to throw the box away, but that one day Rory's going to want to have that box when she's all grown up and she wants to go through the old boyfriends and their boxes. ["Which is exactly what Pamie said when Lorelai put the box away in the first place, by the way." -- Wing Chun] She says that she put it next to the Max box so that they could keep each other company and can commiserate about how they each had a Gilmore girl and lost a Gilmore girl. She apologizes. Rory leans in and gives her a kiss. She thanks her and takes the box to her room.
Rory sits on her bed and starts pulling things out of the CuteDean box. There's the pretty dress. The chicken. The box of cornstarch. Rory finds the bracelet CuteDean made for her and holds it.