Episode Report Card Pamie: B+ | 45 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Who Wrote the Book of Love?
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2004.05.04
Rory comes home to find Lorelai with pizza, Chinese food, and chips. Rory has provided the Nutter Butters. If you added together the cost of take-out on that table, combined with the price of Lorelai's shirt and designer jeans, plus Rory's outfit, this moment of Gilmore must have cost about $600. Wait. I just saw Rory's leather bag. $1000. Shit. There are Sloppy Joes on that table, too. $1008. The girls discuss how Emily cancelled this Friday-night dinner. I love how the girls are celebrating Richard and Emily's separation by pigging out and ignoring the destruction of their family and financial umbrella. Also: didn't Gran have some kind of billions of dollars that should be raining Benjamins down on the girls by now? Lorelai thinks that Richard and Emily would be humiliated if they knew that the girls knew that they weren't living together, so they're not going to say anything for now. Yeah, that plan worked out swell with Digger. Rory asks how many tapes they're watching tonight. Lorelai explains that every time she started watching something that she thought Rory would like, she stopped watching it. Therefore she's watched ten minutes each of twelve movies. First they're watching Fatso, written and directed by Anne Bancroft. Now I kind of want to see it. If it's anything like the glory of Grey Gardens, it won't disappoint for a second. Lorelai puts in the movie as Rory asks how the inn is coming along. Lorelai says that everybody's got a million things going on but quickly moves on to the juicy gossip of CuteDean and Lindsay headed the way of the Bennifer. Rory and Lorelai have the same attitude toward CuteDean and Lindsay as they have for Richard and Emily, which is to say: forget about them and hit "play."
Luke finds the hovel Jess has been staying in. When Jess answers the door, Luke delivers a great line: "Hey, neighbor! The guys next door just ran out of crack to sell, so they sent me over to borrow a cup." This may be the first or second time we've seen Jess out of that ridiculous leather jacket, and I have to say: much better. Kinda cute. Good arms. Hair looks better when it's not trying so hard to be fake punk. Why do they dumb him up with that jacket? Anyway, Jess lives in a hole, but so does any other guy his age who loves Bukowski and breaking hearts. Jess tells Luke he's doing great and that his place is fine. Luke asks which filthy mattress is Jess's. Luke tells Jess he has to go to his mother's wedding. Jess says he'll just catch the next one. As Luke goes on about how Liz really appears to like T.J., Jess pouts and heads to the fridge. Luke says they have to give this thing a chance. Luke tells Jess that he'll regret this if he ever manages to grow up and drop his self-destructive behavior: "You are gonna feel like a big, steaming mound of crap that you missed this." I hate when people refer to poo as steamy. It's so nasty. Like "moist." Bleagh. "Moist" and "steamy" aren't good words, people. Has anyone ever seen poo steam? Do you have to live in cold weather to see that, and more importantly, how close do you have to be to the poo in order to see the steam? Also: don't answer that. Jess's pager goes off. Luke asks if he's a drug dealer now. Jess says he's a messenger and has to leave. Jess wakes up one of his roommates, who has been sleeping under a blanket all of this time. "It's 4," he says to the lump on the floor. Luke tells Jess that he owes Luke for all the crap Jess put him through last season. Luke and Jess stomp out of the apartment.