Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT CuteDean's Not A Virgin Anymore
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.13.2003
Luke's. That Lorelai can travel space and time like no other. Lorelai can't believe that Dean invited her and Rory to his wedding. "Then we're having beef," she says. Lorelai asks Rory how Dean's body language was. Rory sort of waves her hands above her face and distantly says, "Tall." Best line of the episode. Lorelai asks if he squirmed or backed away, or if he was "darty-eyed." Rory notes a little darting around the eyes. She says they were both nervous, and that he invited Rory and Lorelai because he wanted to be nice. "That does sound like Dean," Lorelai says. Rory asks if they should go. Lorelai says that this isn't her decision, since Dean is Rory's ex-boyfriend. Rory thinks it'd be weird to go, but that if they don't go, it might look like they're making some kind of statement. She wishes she had stayed at Lane's for two more minutes. "Yeah," Lorelai says. "Fate!" she curses. Rory asks if they should ignore fate -- a line that they grossly distorted in the promos to make us think that this episode would actually be about Rory and Dean and not Taylor and the Dragonfly.
Luke comes over to refill the girls' coffees, and declares fate a fake. Lorelai scoffs. Luke: "There is no fate, there is no destiny, there is no luck. Astrology is ridiculous. Tarot cards tell you nothing. You cannot read a palm. Tea leaves make tea and nothing else. Jim Morrison is not hanging out with Elvis, and the Kennedys did not kill Marilyn." Luke's definition of fate is nearing Alanis territory. Lorelai says she knew Luke was going to say that, and that she read his mind. Luke says it's his own fault for coming over there. He leaves. Rory says that Dean is going to expect her and Lorelai to go, and that it's his day and she doesn't want him to feel like she doesn't care about him: "I just want him to be happy." Lorelai says they'll get him a salad spinner first thing tomorrow morning. Even though Rory already bought them a wedding present.
Miss Patty enters, breathless, looking quite uncomfortable. She brought Lorelai her mail because one of the letters is marked "Urgent." Miss Patty complains about how exhausted she is. She then pants and moans that she has to leave now. She threatens to kill the mail carrier: "I don't care if he doesn't have a tongue." Miss Patty leaves, and Rory asks if the mail carrier really doesn't have a tongue. But Lorelai is busy reading her Urgent letter. It's from the Stars Hollow Historical Preservation Society, a.k.a. Taylor. It's a cease and desist order on the Dragonfly, since Lorelai didn't get the proper permits or approvals on the renovations or whatever from the...oh, man. It so doesn't matter. It just got everybody riled up anyway. It's best if we gloss over this Taylor subplot, since it's the same subplot they keep pulling this season: Taylor is making trouble. (Although "Thank you and have a historical day" is quite funny.) Lorelai says she's going to talk to Taylor. "Cool," Rory smiles. Lorelai promises that it'll be very pleasant. She says she owns her own business now and will have to deal with people like Taylor all the time, so she might as well practice her cool business skills now: "You can't go around yelling at people, no matter how historical they might be." Now, strangely, what doesn't happen here, is that Lorelai doesn't run right over to that window that separates Luke's from Taylor's shoppe, and bang on the glass, screaming and yelling until it breaks. Or even slapping the paper up against the glass, shouting, "Are you kidding me, you freak?" Instead, she leaves the diner. Rory follows.