Episode Report Card Pamie: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Rory Tries Recapping
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.10.2003
Lane asks what time it is. It's five to 4. That means it's five minutes before Dave calls Lane, so Lane says she should get home. Ya think? Lorelai asks if "we're" still mad at Dave. Lane says that we aren't mad at Dave at all. She and Dave are just perfect. Lorelai says it must be that they're mad at Jackson. Rory says they aren't. Lorelai says they must be mad at Gypsy's husband. Rory says that Gypsy isn't married. Lorelai says that this will bug her. It's Jess, Lorelai. It's Jess we're mad at. And Christopher. And even Max, a little, I guess. You're usually mad at Emily, Lor. And Taylor. And I think you were mad at Traci Lords. Lane says that Dave is great, even though he's thousands of miles away, and seems a little jealous that they've replaced him in the band. "And that's why we're mad at him!" Lorelai concludes. Rory says they aren't mad at Dave. Lane says she misses him. Rory has the line to make everybody get their hopes up falsely: "Well, he'll be home for Christmas, right?" Lane says he'd better be. She doesn't know? Why can't Lane and Dave have a real long-distance relationship? Why can't Lane be as cool as she used to be? Why isn't anyone having any kind of relationship this year -- one that makes us feel something, even if it's the hatred we used to have when Jess would mistreat Rory? At least we felt something then. Crap. This season got so blah that it makes me miss Jess! What has happened to me? I'm dying for conflict so much I'd rather watch something I hate than something that is like turning off my brain for an hour.
Lorelai has reached Sookie's, so Rory tells her to say hi to the baby for her. Yeah, Sookie had a baby and we got none of it, from Jackson finding out the sex of his child (thanks for three episodes of that pointless bullshit), to a year of Sookie getting nervous about not being a good mother (it would have been nice to see the second she stopped freaking and thought she could maybe do this), to the last-minute decision to have the baby at home, to Lorelai and her pager, to -- whatever. I don't need a very-special episode called "Davey's Home," or whatever, but if I'm not going to get one, then don't tease it like the baby will have a point. This baby's going to be less visible than Rachel's Emma, I'm sure.
Michel is waiting on Sookie's porch when Lorelai arrives, because Sookie won't let Michel in the house. He sneezed, and Sookie doesn't want Michel's germs near the baby. I'm surprised we even get to see the baby. Michel incorrectly compares himself to Rosa Parks. He says that he sneezed because there was dust up his nose, and not because he's sick. He thinks it'll be difficult for them to have a business meeting with him outside.