Episode Report Card Pamie: C- | 1 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Dangers of Danielworld
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.15.2002
The funeral. Luke and Lorelai are dressed up. I guess maybe Cesar's vacation is over, or Rory's now just quit Chilton and is in charge of the restaurant now. Luke and Lorelai are the only ones in attendance, and as the minister tries to deliver the eulogy, Luke heckles every word about how shitty his uncle was. Lorelai tells Luke to stop, and apologizes to the minister, calling him "Father." The casket is lowered to the ground (not a very large casket). Lorelai says the service was "intimate." Luke says that everybody deserves something in the end. He thanks her for coming. She says she wouldn't have missed it. Luke asks if that's him in there -- if he's just like Louie. He says he knows he's getting crankier. Lorelai says that Louie wouldn't build someone a Chupah or fix things around the house without being asked. Louie wouldn't raise his sister's kid. Lorelai says that Luke's different. There's the sound of approaching drums. Luke and Lorelai look up and see the war re-enactors march up in full gear to give Louie his proper war send-off. Lorelai is all tears as Luke thanks her. She says it was what his dad wanted. Luke watches and shakes his head. He says that Louie would have hated this. "It's just a fringe benefit," Lorelai says. The bugle player plays the worst bugle ever. That's not me being snarky; it really is just some bad bugle playing. Is it even a bugle? I don't know. Luke recoils in horror as Lorelai watches stoically.
Lorelai and Luke walk back to the diner. Lorelai asks Luke if he thinks Louie's in Heaven. Luke says he hopes so, if only so that his father can kick Louie around. Lorelai wonders if you can still kick when you're in Heaven, since you should be ghost-like and see-thru.
The diner has turned into a wake. Rory tells Lorelai she thought that she set it up. Lorelai says she didn't. Rory's all dressed for a wake, so I'm wondering why she didn't go to the funeral. She says people came by and set it up. Lorelai tells Luke that it's really a wake for Luke's benefit and not Louie's. She tells Luke that people like him. Luke tells her to shut up. Lorelai says she doesn't know how people could resist liking him, with charm like that. Naked Trucker compliments Cardigan Man on his war outfit. "Very 'One If By Land'," he says. Cardigan Man isn't happy and gets even grumpier when he finds out he's helping himself to some of Naked Trucker's veggies. He dumps them and tells Naked Trucker to tend to his stand. Naked Trucker says the stand is all packed up and he's done. He just grows the veggies in his back yard, and when he's sold out he's done. He plans on doing some traveling, going down to Israel, and planting some peace. Cardigan Man tells him to shut up. He asks why he went thought all that "hoo-ha" for nothing. Naked Trucker tells Cardigan Man twice that Cardigan Man put himself through it.