Episode Report Card Pamie: A- | 97 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT How To Lose A Mom In Ten Days
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2005.03.08
It's Golden Time, people! Let the man take his picture! Sookie brings out a roasted chicken and places it on the porch's rail, just in case the photographer doesn't get a chance to come inside and shoot the food. Why does Lorelai look like she's wearing an embroidered baby-burping towel over her shoulder? Michel runs out, yelling into that annoying Nokia remote-control-phone, complaining about how useless Ned the Bellman is. In comes Michel's brand-new Winnebago, with Bellman Ned running alongside, trying to stop the monster machine from approaching the pristine doors of The Dragonfly. I've seen some of the guests of the Dragonfly. I'm positive this isn't the first Winnie to make it over to Cletus's front stoop. Michel tells us that the Winnie is his present, along with many, many boxes of some kind of rice dish that should be inside the vehicle. The driver steps out and tells Michel he's pleased to present this motor home and would love to give Michel a grand tour of his newest second home. I wonder what the taxes are on that kind of thing. Michel is upset. See, he told The Price Is Right that he didn't want that "monstrosity"; he wanted the cash. Totally with you on that one, Michel. Michel whines that the producers would only give him half what the Winnie was worth. Sookie says the same thing happened to Jackson's cousin on the $25,000 Pyramid when he won a washer/dryer, but preferred picking up women at the laundromat. Michel reiterates he wants the cash, but the driver thinks it's best if he explains the leveling jacks to Michel before he leaves this prize. How's the driver going to get home, exactly, now that he's dropped off the Winnie? He hands the keys to Michel, telling him to enjoy his day. "Drop dead and we'll discuss it," Michel says. Ooh, did you kiss Bob Barker with that mouth, Monsieur Gerard?
Michel explains to Lorelai that he thought he had a week before it was to be delivered -- he even had a Craigslist ad and everything -- but that they delivered it days ahead of schedule. This is infuriating to all of y'all who are still waiting on your Honda Hybrid cars to be delivered, months after you've ordered/paid for them. Lorelai asks the driver if she can pay him to remove the vehicle for an hour. The driver says he can't. The photographer's ready to pack it in because the dust kicked up by the vehicle has ruined the day. Lorelai promises that she can fix everything before they lose the light. Sookie waddles down the steps to ask about the roast. Michel complains that he doesn't know how to work his Space-Shuttle-like motor home. The photographer says it's too late for the shot (perhaps he should have arrived sooner than 4?), but adds that he'll take some interiors "for the hell of it." Annie Leibovitz, look out. Sookie's more than happy to take the photographer inside, where it doesn't look quite so podunk.