Episode Report Card Pamie: D | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Pilot
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2000.10.05
Cable's back. Rory is walking to school with her friend. I don't know what they just discussed. Sorry. Call Time Warner Cable in Austin if you've got a complaint. From what I can gather, Rory's friend has to go on a date (at a hay-ride) with a sixteen-year old future doctor and his older brother because her parents want her to date him. Rory says she doesn't understand the appeal of hay-rides, since you have a "bundle of sticks up your butt." Rory and friend pass a boy with hair in his eyes and he watches Rory walk up the stairs.
See? This school has classes. This is the opposite of every show I've ever recapped. The teacher is telling the students they can either read the end of Huckleberry Finn or start on the essay. The girls in the back rows are passing around a bottle of nail polish and each just painting one stripe on one finger. They snicker in Rory's direction and ponder whether she's working on a love letter, a diary, a slam book, or something juicier. One girl leans in and expresses her disappointment that Rory's working on the assignment. They all get grumpy and face forward. Rory gets a self-satisfactory grin and goes back to her writing. I guess from that we're supposed to guess she's not popular, but really if she weren't popular, they would have totally ignored her while they each painted a nail.
Alex is playing the harp. A guest tells her that it's beautiful. Alex picks up a coffee can and tells the guest to tell it to the tip jar.
As Lorelai is telling the bellman how to prepare a room for a special guest she hears a loud crash from the kitchen. She walks in and finds the cook, Sookie (Another name to add to the computer's dictionary), on the floor, covered in pots and pans. She says she's okay. Lorelai yells at one of the chefs for not watching her. She tells Sookie to be more careful. Sookie says she fixed the peach sauce. She's one of those happy, chubby cooks who's all clumsy and happy and doesn't care that she's bleeding, which she currently is. She dismisses it as one of her stitches opening and says that she was using too much maple syrup in the sauce. Sookie hands Lorelai the pot and tells her to try the sauce. They both taste from the spoon and put the spoon back into the pot as Sooki declares she's going to use that sauce the next day. Um, hi. You both just put your mouths on the spoon and then put it back in the sauce. Lorelai declares the sauce to be delicious and says that someday, when they open their own inn, "diabetics will line up" to eat it. She tells Sookie she has to live long enough to see their own inn, and starts to pick Sookie up to take her to the doctor. Sookie steps on her own thumb, and then gets up.