Episode Report Card Pamie: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sniffles, Part Two
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.20.2000
Rory follows Emily and apologizes for the other night. Emily doesn't really want to talk about it. Rory says that she "messed up," and that it wasn't Lorelai's fault. Emily says that this isn't the time or the place to discuss this: "Your mother should have taught you that." Emily says that she isn't mad at anyone, and that Rory should go back in and enjoy the party.
Lorelai is on the phone with the pizza man. She's been waiting quite some time for her pizza. "Quite." That's a Gilmore Girls word. I've also found myself quickly firing off reasons for things in a monotone voice. Like: "Hey, Pamie, why did you use my towel?" Me: "Well, I thought if I dried my face on the cat you'd ask me questions. Who knew you were going to ask me no matter what I dried my face with?" It's not making the people in my house happy. Apparently their delivery van broke down and it will take some time for the pizza shop owner's brother to arrive with his Razor scooter to finish the deliveries. Lorelai asks him to call her when his brother gets there, and hangs up. Lorelai pouts over to the refrigerator, grabs a bag of salad and some dressing and shuts the door. She opens the bag of salad, pours the dressing in, shakes the bag, gets a fork and sits down to eat her pouty, lame salad. She hears a knocking from somewhere inside the house. She walks over to Rory's room and turns on the light. It's CuteDean, knocking on Rory's window. Lorelai raises the shade and opens the window. She says hello to CuteDean and asks how he's doing. He's fine. "Shouldn't you have a squeegee on you, or something?" she asks him. CuteDean asks if Rory's there. Lorelai says that she's not, but that she'll tell her he tapped. She starts to shut the window but sees that CuteDean's not moving, so she leans back down to ask if he's got something else to say. He apologizes for the other night and asserts that nothing happened, telling her they fell asleep reading a book. "Pick a more interesting book next time," Lorelai says with a very sincere warning in her voice. CuteDean asks if he's "Public Enemy #1" with her. Lorelai says there's quite a line for that right now, so he's a little lower on her list, though still in the top five. CuteDean asks where he stands. Lorelai doesn't know. CuteDean says, "Look, you can hate me but you have to believe me -- I would not let anything happen to her." "You happened to her," Lorelai says. "I won't hurt her," CuteDean promises. Lorelai reminds CuteDean that Rory wants to go to Harvard. CuteDean says that Rory will go to Harvard, and that if she doesn't, it won't be because of anything he did. He starts to leave and Lorelai tells him that she doesn't hate him. She says she imagined "twenty different ways" to remove his head from his body. He asks, "Uh, which one was the best?" Lordy, that boy is cute. "Hedge clippers. Dull ones," Lorelai tells him. CuteDean understands. He starts to leave again, but Lorelai stops him to say that they have a really nice front door and he might want to use it in the future. "Got it," he says cutely.