Episode Report Card Pamie: A | 47 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Safety Dance
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2004.09.21
Lorelai walks back into the lobby and tries to make small talk with her daughter, who is being evasive. She was going to write Lorelai a note. Like Lorelai reads. Can someone buy me Lorelai's shirt? Thanks. Lorelai makes a joke about Miss Patty never letting go of Davey. She tries to get her daughter to talk about "this," but Rory says her mom said everything she wanted to last night. Lorelai goes, "You know what? Fine. I give. It's your life; do what you want." Rory is happy someone finally noticed she's semi-legal. Lorelai says she wasn't thinking they had to talk like "mom and kid," but more like two friends discussing...her daughter's sex life? Yeah, I think not. Lorelai can't help once again mentioning Dean's married status -- "as a friend." Rory tells her mother she's already mentioned that twice now. Lorelai says she was hoping to help Rory figure this out, as a friend, since Lorelai is the person Rory usually turns to with problems. They decide not to talk about it anymore. Lorelai says she's really busy, so even if Rory changed her mind, she can't help: "Taylor lost his shoe. So, get in line." Rory asks if there's any end to this speech in sight, and I'm glad we're finally seeing a real fight between these two. There should have been many more of them over the years. Two smart, sassy women fighting over boys, clothes and independence: this should be the like, seventeenth huge fight we've seen in two years. Rory storms out of the inn. Lorelai bends over and we can see her bra. Taylor rushes down the stairs and shows Lorelai a piece of paper from his room. Lorelai calls Michel into the lobby to point out the list of services including facials, wraps, peels, and shoe shines. These are all services they don't provide at the Dragonfly. Michel pouts that Sookie gets to serve whatever quiche her heart desires that day, but he requests one facial peel and gets the smackdown. Lorelai apologizes to Taylor and promises to replace his shoes. Taylor, for those of you still making the Gilmore Girls Home Game, wears a size six and a half shoe, narrow. Lorelai tells Michel she can't believe he did this. Michel: "Oh, you can, too." Lorelai demands Michel find a replacement pair of shoes this afternoon, and that his dogs have to get off the premises immediately. Michel argues that his chows had nothing to do with the destruction of the shoes. Lorelai isn't hearing it, and threatens Michel with one of Taylor's shoes. Michel promises to take the dogs home as soon as he finds Paw-Paw, who went for a walk and hasn't returned: "He's just testing his boundaries." "Apparently, so are you," Lorelai says. Lorelai makes a cell-phone call.