Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | 173 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Valentine, The Destroyer
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2006.02.14
On the basketball court, Logan and Luke are playing a little one-on-one, and it is not going well for the old man. Logan says that it's probably because the shoes Luke had to buy at the gym gift shop are too small, hampering his game. Luke's ego gets the best of him, though, and instead of just having a good time, he has to challenge Logan, who is already beating him, to play all-out. Yeah, good strategy. "You're overestimating my skills," Logan says, "if you don't think I'm playing all-out." He scores on Luke again and, perhaps being overly polite, says that he charged and fouled Luke and shouldn't get the point. Luke insists that he didn't, and they keep playing.
Later, Luke and Logan find the ladies downstairs in the gym receiving shoulder massages from Ron and Jerry. Logan says he didn't know the gym had masseurs. "Ron and Jerry work for the laundry service," Lorelai says, "but they missed their calling." Luke is amazed that they got the laundry guys to give them massages. "Never underestimate the persuasive powers of Lorelai Gilmore," Rory says, and asks if the guys had fun "throwing the old hoop around." Logan laughs, saying it was something like that. Luke starts to bitch about the shoes, but Logan interrupts, saying that they had fun, and that nobody won. Lorelai jokes that Luke looks like a billboard for the Martha's Vineyard chamber of commerce, and he cringes, saying that the sweats were all they had. The guys hit the showers together (not like that!) and, to fill their spare time, Lorelai calls Ron and Jerry back over for more massaging.
Back at the house, in his and Lorelai's room, Luke is keeping up the ass behavior. He's complaining about the cold, complaining about their dinner plans, complaining about the fog, complaining about the house, and complaining that the sweatpants he bought at the gym have already ripped. He blames it on Logan, who he claims was playing rough, charging, fouling, and cheating on the score. Lorelai is trying her best to fend off all this negativity, but finally can take it no more. She says that Logan seemed nice when they came back from playing, and that they said they had just been playing for fun. "It wasn't fun," Luke drones. "Believe me." Lorelai has had it. "Maybe you shouldn't have come with us to the gym," she snaps. "Nobody forced you to go." Luke is surprised by her reaction and her frustration. She goes on, saying that it's Valentine's weekend, and that maybe Luke should shut up about all this stuff that he finds so frustrating. "Sure," he says. "Okay...fine," like she's the one being unreasonable, and I feel my blood boil.