Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Poolhouse Is Rory's New Home
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.16.2005
Some time later, Richard asks the newest Maid Victim if one of his shoes seems more faded than the other. Maid responds by shaking and looking terrified. She's like the human version of a bunny rabbit. Richard can't deal with all this womanly emotion, and tells her to go work or something. Off she scampers. Sadly for him, Richard's encounters with fragile female feelings are not over, as Rory comes to the house, arms folded under her chest and shoulders hunched in sadness, and says she needs to talk to him. He tries to avoid all of this and asks if it can wait until dinner, when there will be two other women/buffer zones around. ["I thought his hesitancy was also because he thought he'd be helpless to resist Rory's persuasive powers on his own." -- Wing Chun] Then Rory breaks out into non-tears. The look of horror on Richard's face at this blatant display of emotion is hilarious. Rory says that she messed everything up and that her life is falling apart. Richard says that Emily will be back soon and couldn't Rory hold her tears until then? Yeah, like Emily will be able to handle this any better. Rory cries tearlessly. Richard offers to make tea. Rory initiates human contact with him, and he has no choice but to hug her back and say that everything will be all right.
The band, sans Lane, paces around the apartment as they wait for Lane to show up to the emergency band meeting she called. Gil is annoyed at the delay because he has a "ten-pound salami" sitting in his delivery van. Zach and Brian giggle. Suddenly, the door is kicked open by one Mrs. Kim, scaring the crap out of everyone. Lane enters behind her and happily says that the band is going on tour. Mrs. Kim tells them to gather around her for the details. The three guys look at each other until Mrs. Kim tells them to stop standing around looking stupid. She's awesome. Mrs. Kim tells everyone about their upcoming tour locations, all of which are churches -- the churches on the Seventh-Day Adventist East Coast entertainment circuit, to be exact, which Mrs. Kim has been familiar with since her days in an "all-girl Christian tambourine band." All girls, all Christian, all tambourines, and no Friday night shows. Must have been a thrill. Mrs. Kim adds that the band will be put up in various church members' houses during their tour. Gil says that this seems "a little weird." Mrs. Kim: "'Weird'? What weird? You need to play, here's places to play. Nice places, clean places. Don't wear that outfit on stage," she adds, referring to Gil's delivery uniform. She asks for a copy of all the bands' songs so that she can make sure the lyrics are clean, and Zach balks. "Oh please!" says Mrs. Kim. She rattles off the latest Prince tour statistics to prove that money can be made even if a performer "doesn't swear" and mentions God. I don't know that Prince of the butt-cheek exposing one-piece is the best example here, but I'll take it, and so will Zach. Mrs. Kim asks what the band can use for transportation. Brian suggests Gil's delivery van, which is currently filled with salami. Snicker, snicker.