Episode Report Card Pamie: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Papa Don't Preach
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2002.01.29
Rory moans that Richard's going to keep CuteDean and the car away forever. Lorelai says that Richard probably is making CuteDean take the car completely apart and put it back together in front of him. Richard walks in and says the car was thoroughly checked and aside from some windshield wiper problem that Dean's taking care of right now, there's no reason Rory can't have the car. Rory thanks him and hugs him tightly. Lorelai hands Rory some money and tells her to go pick up the Chinese food. Rory leaves. Richard asks why Lorelai wouldn't let him pay for dinner. Lorelai says it wouldn't be appropriate since she's about to get very angry with him. She says that this is her house and her town where she lives her life. "Well, thank you for the geography lesson," Richard says. Lorelai says she's never gone to Richard's office and criticized him. Richard says that Lorelai never came to his office at all. Lorelai says she doesn't want his opinions and criticisms in front of her friends and employees, and that he's not allowed to come into her house and overrule her. She says she makes the rules for Rory, and that's the final word. She says if Rory comes home and says she wants to spend the day with Patricia Krenwinkle and Lorelai says, "Fine. Grab a sweater," then that's fine. Richard and I both ask who Patricia Krenwinkle is. Lorelai doesn't answer either of us. ["She was in the Manson family." -- Wing Chun] Lorelai says that if she said the car is okay, then the car is okay. She asks why he won't hear her. She says he came as the judgment police and stayed in uniform all day. Richard tells her to lower her voice. Lorelai says she won't be treated this way in her own house, and if he doesn't stop, she won't invite him there again. Richard stops her to say he knows that he wasn't invited over to the house. Emily begged and pleaded to have him off of her hands for one day. Lorelai has never invited Richard into her home. He says he never thought about what he'd do once he retired. He used to be a productive member of the human race. Now he's suddenly sitting at the country club at three on a Wednesday drinking brandy and playing cards. ["Sounds pretty good to me." -- Wing Chun] He's an annoyance to his wife and a burden for his daughter. He says that he finally knows what it's like to be obsolete. Lorelai pouts as Richard says he hopes she never has to feel that. Richard says he's not hungry anymore, and leaves the house.