Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "No! Jess! What About PROM?!"
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.28.2003
Sookie's kitchen. A man is on his side under the stove. We can only see his butt. Sookie, in a too-short jacket for that pink (!) Oxford shirt underneath it, calls to Lorelai that she's in the kitchen. Lorelai pouts in and demands "love and a hug" because she just laid off Julio, the man she was professing love to only two weeks ago. Poor Julio. Still again I ask, where's the manager lady of this Inn? ["Mia." -- Wing Chun] It seems that Lorelai is having to lay off all kinds of invisible workers at the Inn while they repair the three things that got soot damage. Sookie now refers to Lorelai's job as a "we," as in: "We all love them and we'll hire them back as soon as all the repairs are done." Watch it, Sookie. With a useless kitchen due to fire damage, I'm pretty sure the most expendable lady in the place is the gourmet chef. I mean, it's wine and cheese, isn't it? Lorelai says that she still had to lay off Frank, but she couldn't do it, so Michel offered, skipping away to do the deed.
Lorelai asks how Luke's doing under the stove. Sookie confesses that she's been keeping her distance since "The Incident": earlier, she leaned in close to watch what he was doing, and after a while she noticed that she'd been holding his butt the entire time. "It's getting very Cinemax at Night in here!" Lorelai scoffs. Lorelai asks how the butt was. "Got a nice shape to it," Sookie smiles. Luke asks them to stop talking about his butt. Lorelai says they'll just talk about it after he leaves. "Which is now, 'cause I'm done," Luke says. He tells the ladies that the contractors were right, and that the gas line can't be hooked up again until the wall is fixed. No kitchen. See ya, Sookie. Don't let the baby hit you on the way out. Lorelai and Sookie talk about Luke's butt again. Lorelai asks if she'll see Luke for breakfast Saturday morning. Luke says she won't, because he and Nicole are going skiing, and they have to get up ridiculously early since Nicole has to drive in from out of town. Nicole can't stay the night at Luke's apartment because of Jess, which I guess means Nicole can't sleep in the same room as Luke without having sex with him, or maybe Nicole hates Jess as much as we do, so she refuses to even see him. Since Lorelai stayed there platonically the other night, I don't understand...it doesn't matter. Anyway, Lorelai offers to let Luke and Nicole spend the night at the Inn, since the rooms are unsellable with all the fire damage and she's been getting free work out of him while shutting down his diner for about a month now. Luke thanks her and says he'll think about it. I immediately assume that Jess will try to get Rory to spend the night at his empty diner shack. The girls go back to discussing Luke's fine ass. He leaves, and Michel enters. Michel tells Lorelai that Frank rescues Chow puppies. He feeds and rescues them until he finds owners for them. Michel holds up a picture of two Chow puppies -- Chin Chin and Pau Pau. Michel has taken them in. Meanwhile, he needs Lorelai to fire Frank for him while he goes to buy puppy chow.