Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | 80 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Punch it Out
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2006.12.05
Back at Emily's, Lorelai is biting her cheeks as Randall gushes over his ideas to plan the party thematically around La Bohéme. A party at which everyone is poor and starving and pretends to have tuberculosis? Why would that be fun? As an alternative, Lorelai suggests that they use the theme from Rent. Same story, different disease. Randall, naturally, blanches at such a suggestion, and Lorelai is saved by a call from Rory, who's just checking in to see how things are going. "What?!" Lorelai cries. "What happened? Is he okay?! Oh my God! What can I do? What do you need?" Nice try, Rory says, but she's not going to help Lorelai to get out of the planning. Emily, too, is on to the game -- "I can hear Rory on the phone. You're not as clever as you think" -- and Lorelai's escape is foiled. To torture Lorelai further, Emily makes her look at invitations. Lorelai fruitlessly asks if they can just send an E-vite. Look, I know Emily is about as irritating as they come, but if someone is going to throw you a party that costs more than my house, please...just shut up for a second and act right.
Back in Stars Hollow, Lorelai is ranting her way through Doose's, complaining to Christopher about having to spend hours picking out party invitations. She contemplates suicide over the whole debacle, especially when Christopher denies her the sweet, soothing peanut buttery chemicals of Cap'n Crunch. She says that the nine days of planning she has left to do with Randall and Emily are nine more days than she can take. Tomorrow, she has to go to a food and wine tasting. "Well," says Christopher, "at least you get to drink your way through it." Lorelai says that fancy people spit out the wine at tastings: "But not me. I'm gonna drink them under the ballroom." Christopher says that he will be happy to meet her at the tasting so that she won't have to tough it out on her own. She is thrilled, and promises him that if he shows up, she will never eat Cap'n Crunch again, a promise she immediately retracts. "Together," she smiles, "we can defeat them!" Her happiness is deflated when, as they are about to check out, Lorelai notices that Taylor's niece Bonnie is working the register today: "She couldn't be slower or care less about the job." Christopher says he thought life in a small town was supposed to be leisurely. Lorelai: "There's leisurely, and then there's Bonnie." Like a prince, Chris offers to stand in the line while Lorelai waits outside. How does this woman get these men to do everything she wants? Is it her hair? Is it her eyes? TELL ME. Because I am about as spoiled as they come, but my husband would make me stand in the Bonnie line, for sure.