Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Same Time Next Year
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.17.2003
Back at home, Lorelai checks her messages. It's Digger, saying that a better, smarter, stronger man would have grown a pair by now and moved on, realizing that Lorelai isn't interested. But he's not a better man, so he asks her out on a date one more time, threatening that he's nearing his pathetic threshold and will stop trying. Lorelai picks up the phone. She has memorized Digger's number. Digger can't believe Lorelai has called him back, and asks someone to document this moment. Lorelai tells him not to give her a hard time. Lauren Graham is so pretty. Digger knows that Lorelai has called to turn him down, so he mentions that he got them reservations at The China Garden, some fancy-schmancy place that's a hot scene. Lorelai says she's tempted, but since Digger works with Richard and is hated by Emily, and comes from Lorelai's world, she almost finds him repulsive. Digger says he's going to keep the reservation and go by himself to see what all the fuss is about, and that Lorelai is welcome to join him, if she changes her mind and feels like wearing her killer little black dress. Lorelai apologizes, and confirms Digger's suspicions that she does look good in a little black dress.
Friday-night dinner at Emily's. Richard and Emily are angry with their neighbors, who are trying to make a Christmas display that is against the code or charter or whatever it is fancy homeowners get all fussy about when people try to live their own lives. Lorelai asks them to take a step back, examine the discussion they're having, and then spend some time apart. Rory asks for more beef. Lorelai compliments the food, and Emily thanks her, as if Emily had anything to do with the purchasing, preparation, cooking, or serving of the dinner. Richard tells Rory that they'll pick her up at the dorm the next morning at 9. Lorelai can't believe that the Earth might have rotated a few degrees without her being involved, and demands to know what everybody's doing tomorrow. Lorelai's codependency kicks in, and she begs to be included in The Game, including at the expense of someone else, a person who may or may not have just had his colon removed, who was planning on going to the big game tomorrow, and now because Lorelai threw a tantrum, will be sitting at home, nursing his missing colon, maybe catching the game on television. Emily looks like she's faking this interest in The Game about as much as Rory is. It's as if Emily has all these things she has to do because she's Richard's wife, like assembling launch parties, throwing cocktail parties, going to The Game, making small talk about business partners, sending off Christmas cards. I wonder what Emily actually enjoys. Does she read? Does she do anything that doesn't involve a committee or a yearly tradition? Who did Emily want to be when she was younger? When Emily reminds Lorelai that she doesn't like football, Lorelai says, "Well, no, I'm not the die-hard fan that say...you are, Mom." Hee. Richard and Emily leave to make the appropriate phone calls to free up a ticket for Lorelai. Lorelai can't believe Rory didn't invite her along for this time away from classes, and Rory can't believe Lorelai just got herself into a football game. Lorelai assumes that the thing will only go on for about an hour and a half. Rory just stares. And when Lorelai finds out that it goes on for much longer, she scoffs in pain. You still have a colon, honey. "Maybe he has a semi-colon," my boyfriend says. I leave the room.