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
Chilton...in the middle of the night, it seems. The Booster Club is meeting, and Lorelai's trying not to sleep through the notes. Are these the same Boosters from before? Lorelai isn't alone: a man named Doug has also joined the club. He got the same threatening letter Lorelai did. The ladies discuss the upcoming grad night. One woman comments that she can't believe her Farrah is eighteen. Doug mumbles that his daughter was eighteen when she was twelve. "Men," the lady hisses back at him. Lorelai tells Doug to be careful. The Booster head informs Lorelai that this year's grad night will be on a yacht. The party will start at the dock, and then the boat will sail for three hours, and then there will be fireworks. The Booster head lady then hands Lorelai the cash box. This is something that really makes no sense in this episode. I'm not sure if it'll be used later for something important, but it really goes nowhere in this one, so I'm not going to dwell on it for too long. For the next couple of days, Lorelai is in charge of watching a box of cash. How the Chilton Booster Club wouldn't have a bank account is beyond me. Wait. Not dwelling. Anyway, they took a vote and Lorelai's in charge, even though Lorelai explains that she's bad with money. Lorelai's the grad night treasurer, and Doug is head chaperon. Enter Max, wearing a blue sweater vest. Lorelai's tongue falls out of her mouth and rolls onto the floor as Max makes casual talk with the group. He empathizes with Doug's male position and fails to mention that he was once engaged to Lorelai. As the head Booster lady goes on about caterers for grad night, Lorelai stares at Max like, "Tell them we kissed last week! Tell them you loved me! Tell them!"
Cut to ugliest shot in this show's history: Lorelai dressed as J.Lo and Sookie dressed as Fraggle Rock's Trash Heap. Lorelai's in a pink hoodie, paisley blouse, and gray Kangol. Sookie's wearing a busy pink bandanna top and a green and brown cardigan buttoned at her boobs. Yikes. These two are a couple of Don't's, strolling through Stars Hollow. Lorelai is complaining that Max didn't make a big scene in front of everyone, crying about how much he misses her and yearns to kiss her again. Lorelai tangents long enough to make fun of each and every woman at the table. Both women agree that they hate people who jiggle their legs. Lorelai says she wanted to "hook up" to talk to Max after the meeting, but he excused himself five minutes early. Hi, stalk much, Lorelai? She complains that she couldn't follow him because, as treasurer, it would look fishy for her to do so (whatever). She complains about him having some kind of appointment, and complains that they didn't make proper eye contact: "It was very lacking in meaning." Sookie suggests that Max and Lorelai might both have been trying to be cool, James Dean-ing it until they were both practically ignoring each other. Lorelai says she was the only one playing at it, and that Max was actually cool. Sookie suggests that maybe Lorelai never kissed Max and it was all in her head. Sookie says that, when she was a kid, she fantasized about kissing Leif Garrett for so long that she convinced herself that it had happened, and can still feel his lips on hers. Lorelai gloats that she and Max totally kissed for real in real life, and now Max is ignoring her in public. What does this girl want from him, anyway? Maybe she should have tried to see him over the past month or so instead of hoping he'll break down in front of the Boosters.