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
Dinner. Lorelai tells Emily that the food is fantastic. Rory agrees, and asks what it is they are eating. Lorelai asks Emily not to tell them. She says that every time in her life she was enjoying food, she'd later find out that it was something gross that she never would have put in her mouth in the first place. Rory asks for an example. "Snails," Lorelai supplies. Rory agrees that snails are gross. ["No way! Escargot is awesome." -- Wing Chun] Lorelai tells her, "Eat in ignorance and enjoy, my friend." Lorelai asks Richard how retired life is treating him. Emily gives a bit of a sigh mixed with an eye-roll as Richard beams about how great it is, and how fascinating life is now that he's retired. He sees things now that he never noticed before, no matter how everyday they seem. He used to just walk past them, and now he notes them and finds them incredibly interesting. He says the other day, Emily moved the vase in the hallway. Emily's nose twitches, and she puts down her drink to stop herself from snitting. "And she didn't do it in front of me," Richard continues. Lorelai comments that nice girls don't move vases in front of boys. Richard says that Emily only moved the vase a little, but that he noticed it. He says that, every day, he notices something new. Emily changed her hair, or she wore shoes that didn't match her dress. He also noticed a first-edition Flaubert that Rory would love, behind his Churchill biographies. Rory beams as she and Richard leave the table to go look at the pretty book. Lorelai asks Richard to check to see if there's a pair of the new Chanel patent leather pirate boots stuck behind the Churchills as well. Richard makes a "mnmn" noise, and leaves the table.