Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 231 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Goodbye, My Albatross
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2007.02.13
Later, Lorelai takes Michel into the music store to arrange for the memorial music. He grouches that he doesn't know why they are bothering, snarking, "Why not just turn on the radio and hope for the best? Maybe we will get lucky and some heep-hop station will be playing Snoop Doggy Dogg." They see Zach, whom Lorelai has hired to perform, and whom she has also obviously coached through his reaction to Michel. "Hello. Michel," says Zach, robotically. "I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. It totally blows." Zach has been awesome in these last two episodes. He says he was, at first, thinking about using the mandolin in the ceremony. "But then I'm like, 'Whoa, Zach, are you tripping? It's got to be acoustic guitar. Way more soulful.'" He says that he's been thinking about the selections, and is leaning toward David Bowie: "You see where I'm going? 'Diamond Dogs'?" Michel is crestfallen: "Whatever. David Bowie sounds like a hoot." Lorelai, however, is now fully committed to the funeral, and explains that they don't actually need a song that features dogs for the ceremony. "More Princess Diana," she says, "less 'Diamond Dogs.'" Zach gets a worried look: "You want Elton John?" Lorelai says that they were thinking more dignified, like Mozart or Bach... "Céline Dion," Michel interrupts. Zach's fear deepens. "Oh," he says, "don't make me do that." But, no, he's going to have to make the ultimate sacrifice. "Actually," Michel says, sniffing, "'My Heart Will Go On' was Chin Chin's favorite song." As Zach shivers, Lorelai goes through the sheet music on the wall, dropping Luke-shaped musical boulders on us all the way: "My Heart Is Crying for You," "My Heart is Waiting," "My Heart Stood Still," etc. Desperately, Zach tries to suggest something else, but in the end, Lorelai finds it.