Episode Report Card Sara M: C- | 2 USERS: F YOU GRADE IT Goodbye Twickham 2005
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.18.2005
Luke drives back from Msytic, the cannonball rolling around nosily in the bed of the truck and Taylor bitching at Luke nosily from the passenger seat. Taylor tells Luke he should have some type of rope and netting to tie the cannonball down. Luke says he took his cannonball-securing tools out of the truck yesterday. That's like having ten thousand spoons when all you need if a knife. It's a free ride when you're already there. It's the good advice that you just can't take. And who would have thought? It figures. Also, why couldn't they just put the cannonball on the floor of the passenger seat? Taylor doesn't think he and Luke can carry the heavy ball into the museum themselves, so he asks a nearby Dean for assistance. Dean helps Luke to carry the prop cannonball, which is more the size of a bowling ball than a cannonball, but maybe it went in one of those huge-mouth cannons that they use to shoot people out of at the circus. Also, Dean is still sulky.
Lane's arms are full of cleaning supplies. Too full, as it turns out, as she drops them all. Picking them up, she notices Zack and Sophie in front of Sophie's Music. And Sophie is actually smiling at Zack. Lane is pissed. Seeing post-menopausal woman with my boyfriend wouldn't exactly fan the flames of jealousy in me, but I'm also not on a TV show that sets up bizarre and forced situations in order to squeeze out a few drops of humor.
Lorelai calls everyone down for a breakfast of "Toasty Oats" cereal. Mmm. Paris enters, wearing a dress identical to the one I saw a chimneysweep wearing when I went to 1880s London in my time machine. She tells Lorelai that Rory is on the phone. Rory walks in, denying that she was on the phone. Because she is NOT UPSET about Logan! She is ABOVE THAT, people! When asked, Paris says she didn't sleep well because Kirk deals blackjack in his sleep. Wow, they made Paris sleep on the living-room floor? Rory couldn't even be arsed to share her bed? I mean, I know Paris arrived all last-minute and everything, but damn. Sure, Rory's bed is pretty small, but she's also the width of a toothpick, so I think they could've worked it out. ["Seems to me that someone could have slept at THE INN LORELAI OWNS." -- Wing Chun] Lorelai yells at Kirk to stop watching cartoons and come to breakfast, and he wanders in. Lorelai leaves the kitchen to turn off the TV Kirk left on, giving Rory and Paris a chance to fight over whether or not Rory was trying to call Logan just now. Kirk tries to get in on the conversation, but neither girl wants to discuss these matter with him, so he goes "fine!" and starts stacking the cereal boxes into a wall away from Rory and Paris. Which is funny, but again...Kirk's got some mental maturity issues to work out. Lorelai returns to the room and tells Kirk that no cereal-box forts are allowed in the kitchen, then tells Rory and Paris that today is the grand opening of the Stars Hollow Museum! Wow, they built that in like, three minutes! Okay, it's more like two weeks, although that's still impressive, especially considering the diorama they set up (spoiler!). Everyone wants to go to the museum, and Lorelai tells them to get their jackets. This sets up a standoff between Lorelai and Kirk over whether or not Kirk will wear a jacket, which Kirk loses when Lorelai says he can't go to the museum unless he wears a jacket. Kirk sulks off to get it, but Lorelai tells him to eat his breakfast first. Then we hear the cartoons come back on in the other room, and Lorelai walks off to yell at Kirk. That was ridiculous, and not in a good way.