Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "My Boyfriend's a Kleptomaniac! Cute!"
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2005
Lorelai hangs up. Luke says he's glad that the article went to press, and doubts that things could get worse between Lorelai and Emily. Lorelai tells Luke about the possible job offer, and he says that would be "crazy." Lorelai just bought the inn, after all. Lorelai agrees: "I'm happy with what I've got." Luke thinks for a minute, possibly about what Dean told him a few episodes back, and then says that Lorelai should meet with the client. At the very least, she'll get a contact in the INN-dustry. Oh, I'm good.
Emily says she noticed that Beatrice, our newest maid, put fragrant lilies on the dining-room table. "Would you like to eat dinner with fragrant lilies in the room?" she asks in a fakely sweet tone. "Yes!" says Beatrice, smiling. "Well then, you're INSANE!" Emily snaps. Beatrice is crestfallen. Here is where I went from really looking forward to seeing Emily in action for the first time to really not liking her. I thought she'd be this lovably snarky matriarch figure -- cold on the outside but secretly very caring and warm -- but it turns out that she's just a hateful bitch. Emily orders Beatrice to put the fragrant lilies in the living room and bring the peonies into the dining room. "Yes ma'am," says Beatrice, sounding so sad and lost. Richard enters and says that the room looks lovely. Emily says they're having roast beef for dinner tonight, then gets all worried that Richie might be a vegetarian. "His grandfather owned ten thousand head of cattle," says Richard, who has apparently been doing some Toogle searches of his own. "I sincerely doubt it." says Richard I don't get the reasoning there; my grandmother used to own a dog, and I have a fairly strict personal policy of not eating dogs.
Richard brings up the fact that the Rich family owns property on Martha's Vineyard. He thinks it's about time the Gilmores acquired their own family compound. "A place on Cape Cod!" Emily says, adding that Cape Cod has sandier beaches than the Vineyard, and children just love to run and play on sandy beaches. How would she know that? I don't think Emily was ever a child. Cape Cod -- a.k.a the flexed arm of Massachusetts -- is THE summer vacation destination for all of New England, although I don't think it's as popular outside of there, so I'm impressed that the writers knew enough to give it a mention. It would be really funny if Richard and Emily built their compound in Provincetown. The doorbell rings. Before she answers it, Emily tells Richard to "imagine [Richie's] blond hair and [Rory's] blue eyes on a little baby." "Incomparable!" Richard shouts, positively filled with delight at the thought of a little Aryan baby. Good to see that the elder Gilmores are going into this dinner with some realistic expectations and healthy hopes, though.