Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | 2 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Fight For Your Right To Be Laaaaaazay!
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.19.2005
At Luke's, the happy couple is, guess what?, arguing quirkily about Star Wars. Luke is trying to understand the ways of the Jedi. He doesn't get how they have all these crazy powers but the thing that gives one Jedi the advantage over the other is that one can stand "on a mound of dirt and declare 'you can't win, I've got the high ground.'" Lorelai sighs and tells him, "Dude, if he said it, that's the way it is -- it's a fictional world." Luke's not buying that, though. He prefers the recapper's method of living, which is to question the inconsistencies and suckitude of all fictional worlds until fiction is once again worth experiencing! "This has been bugging me," Luke says. Obviously. Lorelai can't believe he won't let it go, since they saw the movie months ago. "I can't," he says, incredulous. "All the other guy has to do is scurry onto land, run up a hill a bit, and then he has the high ground. They can fly jet pods, but they can't scurry?!" So, so awesome. But, wait, there's more. "Go on a website, or something," Lorelai suggests, squinting at him a little. "There are thousands -- no, millions of your kind out there debating all the minutiae of, not just this Star Wars movie, but every Star Wars movie." Go on a website? To debate entertainment minutiae? Who would do such a thing? She may be making fun of Luke for the Jedi thing (and she may be making fun of us for the website thing), but the shoe is on the other foot when Luke brings up the recent film version of Bewitched. Lorelai very rightly explains that complaining about that movie is justified. "I mean, Nicole Kidman, good choice," she says, "but that concept?" I heartily agree. She ticks off her issues with it: No Larry Tate, no Dr. Bombay, and again, no Larry Tate! Luke suggests that Lorelai go on a website, and she takes her coffee and leaves. Every single complaint my husband has from now on, I'm going to tell him to "go on a website." Why did I never think of it before? Our whole life is a website!
In the corner at Luke's, the insufferable T.J. is polishing some insufferable shelving he has allegedly just installed. He fondles the shelves until Luke admits that, yes, "they're very shelf-y." T.J. accuses him of not being very excited about these shelves, and Luke admits that he is, in fact, not. "I hate that you've lost the little boy in you," T.J. says. He then goes on to talk about how great it is that Lorelai will be joining their family, since it will increase the "hot girl" quotient. "You gotta admit," he says to Luke, "our wives are hot," and gives the International Symbol for "va-va-va-voom." Luke's a little grossed out that he's being asked to contemplate his sister as a hot girl, and blessedly gets rid of T.J.