Episode Report Card Pamie: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Control Your Woman
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.31.2005
Emily and Richard walk through the front door. Richard says he'll make arrangements to get Emily's car tomorrow. "Thank you," she says. Richard says she might want to re-think that lease. See? Waste of money. Richard says he doesn't want to go back to the poolhouse. "Come home," Emily says. They stare at each other.
Rory and Lorelai meet by the poolhouse for Friday-night dinner. Lorelai is surprised to see Rory. Rory says the thing wasn't for sure and now it's a nothing. She says she doesn't want to talk about it. Lorelai tells Rory that the poolhouse is empty. They walk to the front and see Emily and Richard together. At first it appears as though they are arguing, but Emily is laughing. Lorelai's unsure if it's an evil, laughing-at-your-pain laugh. The girls watch until Richard and Emily are kissing. Lorelai has a "Chandler and Monica! Chandler and Monica! My eyes! My eyes!" moment. Richard and Emily see them and open the door, inviting them in. They announce their reconciliation. Rory is super-happy. Lorelai asks when it happened. Emily: "Yesterday." Richard: "And last night. And this morning!" Lorelai: "Don't ask questions. Don't ask questions. Don't ask questions." Next week they're going to renew their wedding vows. A week from tomorrow, on their fortieth wedding anniversary. Gosh, they waited a while before having Lorelai. Also: this show should know better than to repeat a timeframe to us over and over again. Next week we'll be counting the hours, trying to figure it all out. Emily tells Lorelai she's going to be Emily's Maid of Honor. Richard's valet informs him that he has a phone call. Richard tells Emily he's going to fire the valet next week. Everybody loves a good firing. The phone call is about the ceremony, and after all the wedding planning I've been doing for the past six months, I cannot handle even listening to someone else's wedding plans. Particularly in this instance, when they want some Rose Room so badly, they're going to pay the other party who reserved the room to change their date. Emily steals Lorelai away to go upstairs. Richard tells us that Rory is going to be his Best Man. Lorelai is terrified of what's going to happen upstairs.
Lorelai was right to be terrified, because it's a room filled with wedding dresses, and Alex Borstein in some makeup that makes me sad. Alex plays that creepy Miss Celine again, and it's a conflict, because I love Alex and I think she's immensely talented, but it's always weird to have someone in "character" suddenly in this world full of people playing who they are. It's like, is she actually a young person who pretends to be old and everybody just goes along with it because that's what her mother has asked the town to do? Or does nobody know she's actually my age? Or...I know I'm ruining the wonder and fun, but it's weird, right? Why does she have to be so old? She could talk and behave exactly the same way, but be her own age, and it'd be hilarious. Anyway. Old movie talk. Miss Celine calls Lorelai "Natalie Wood" again. As Miss Celine goes on, Emily tries on some dresses. Miss Celine asks Lorelai if she's married yet. Lorelai says she isn't. Emily brags that Lorelai has opened her own inn, which she runs. This rare moment of parental pride doesn't go unnoticed by Lorelai. Miss Celine asks Emily if she's going to need breasts. Emily says she's fine. Emily puts on an ugly dress. Lorelai hands her a new one. Miss Celine says she told Marilyn to wear a flat hat for her wedding to Arthur Miller, since it would remind him of a book: "She didn't, and we all saw how that turned out." Emily puts on another dress. Everybody likes it. Lorelai's busy holding a dress up to herself. Emily goes to try on the Dior, just for giggles.