Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Stars Hollow's First Annual Skank-Off
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.24.2005
Lorelai figures her best, jolly friend Sookie will giggle and squeal about how snowsome snow is. But Sookie's grumpy because her car wouldn't start, and it's so cold that the baby's going to freeze inside her belly. Lorelai hears about the car and is all, "Drag." Way to help a friend in need, lady. Sookie tells Lorelai that they're out of coffee. Out, as in, there's no more at the inn. Now Lorelai's moved to care. Screw Sookie's carburetor. There's no COFFEE? How will Lorelai continue to be perky? How can they be out of cute juice? She totally wants to send Sookie out in the snow without a car to find coffee and mats. Lorelai tells a Beverly Hills Cop joke that goes over all of our heads like an ice-filled snowball. Sookie reminds Lorelai that her car wouldn't start. Lorelai says that's no excuse for Sookie to lose her sense of humor. Gah, Lorelai! Sookie then reminds Lorelai that they're out of coffee because Lorelai wanted them to switch suppliers. Lorelai tells Sookie to send out for more coffee immediately. Michel tells her that it's not possible, since one of the magical snowplows of snawesome snow just pushed fifteen feet of the sweet stuff in their driveway. Nobody can get in or out of the inn. "Unbelievable!" Lorelai pouts. Michel says it doesn't matter anyway, since everybody cancelled and nobody's coming to the inn today. Lorelai says they all have to get out eventually to go home, and that they need coffee right now. She tells Michel to "start the guys digging." Michel says there's only one guy who didn't call in sick today because of the snow. Has Lorelai even looked at her desk yet today? Why doesn't she know anything that's going on? She tells Michel to get the one guy to start digging. Sookie won't let Lorelai have the last of the coffee, since there are actual guests who pay money to pay for that coffee. This is confusing to Lorelai, who always gets what she wants faster than Veruca Salt can say "Now."
Yale. Rory finds Paris in the common room on hold with C-SPAN. You'd think Paris would stay far away from C-SPAN, but that girl will not be discouraged. I love Paris's Noam Chomsky poster. Paris complains that they'll put anybody else on C-SPAN, even the guys who shout "Ba-Ba-Booey." But not her.
Rory opens the door to find Christopher standing there. He knows where she goes to school? That's surprising. Even more surprising, he's not handing Gigi off to her, asking her to babysit last-minute. "Did you bring the baby?" Rory asks. Where would the baby be, Rory? Behind his back? Waiting in the car? He says the baby's off getting spoiled by her grandmother. Rory says she has class, so she can't just "hang out." Chris says he's seen Oxford Blues, so he should know what classes are. Paris tells C-SPAN she has some ideas on how to get them out of the ratings basement: "And putting me on hold is not one of them." Rory asks Christopher if he was just passing through. Christopher says he was near in the area and thought they could get breakfast, since it's the most important meal of the day. Rory's terribly condescending as she tells her father that people at Yale have to skip breakfast because they're so busy being smart that they can't possibly stop to eat, even though we see Rory eating more than we've ever seen her read. I miss fun Rory. Remember fun Rory, who loved everything and had a passion for life? This cheating, mopey, solemn Rory is always busy or complaining or whining. Remember when Rory could just read a good book and she'd be in a happy mood for days? I understand that teenagers get the mopes, but this is ridiculous. Christopher invites Paris to join in for breakfast. Paris: "I am kind of hungry, and C-SPAN can kiss my ass." Rory practically screams that she will not go eat with Christopher because her grandparents are spending a lot of money to send her to this fancy school. Some of that sentence may not have been said by Rory, and was mostly my own interpretation of the events. Rory stomps past her father and leaves. I'm not going to do a scarf count because I want to finish this recap before 2006, but know that everybody's wearing a scarf.