When Rory goes to sign up for summer classes at Chilton, Madeline starts talking to her about her plans for the summer. She’s forgotten she’s supposed to be mad at her because of the Paris/Tristin/PJ Harvey thing. Before Paris and Louise can shut her up, she tells Rory about an extracurricular called Rebuilding Together. It’ll look good to Harvard and she can help build a house. Rory decides to do it, despite Paris telling her she won’t like it.

At the next Friday night dinner, Richard takes Rory aside to apologize again for being so horrible to Dean. It’s really kind of cute how worried he is that Rory might still be mad at him. Back at the table, Emily is giving Lorelai the cold shoulder. Lorelai, never one for good timing, decides now is the perfect time to tell Emily about Max’s proposal. Emily tells her that’s nice and acts like she doesn’t care.

Lorelai decorates a hammer with pink feathers and rhinestones. She gives it to Rory to take to the job site of the house she’ll be helping build. Dean tries to get Rory to blow off the whole thing because he wants to hang out, but she tells him she can’t. When she get to the job site, Paris tells Rory about all the extracurriculars she’s done over the years. Rory freaks out because she’s not prepared for Harvard. When she gets home, she tells Dean she can’t hang out that night because she has to find someplace where she can volunteer or something. Dean gets pissy and they have a big fight.

Lorelai goes out to dinner with Max and he tells her his parents are thrilled about the wedding. It makes Lorelai crabby and she makes Max drive her to Emily’s house. Lorelai goes in and starts yelling, asking why Emily has never been happy for her. Emily says someone told her about the wedding a whole week before Lorelai could be bothered to share the news with her. Lorelai has the good grace to look sheepish as she leaves.

The wedding shower is thrown in the Stars Hollow town square and it’s a really big deal. Lorelai goes to the diner to try to get Luke to come join in the fun. He finally does.

Jackson freaks out because Sookie won’t stop talking about the wedding. He says he’s not ready to get married but he does want to move in with her. Sookie thinks he’s kidding. Dean tells Rory he shouldn’t have gotten so upset about something that’s going to help her get into Harvard. Rory apologizes for getting so obsessive.

The next day, Lorelai goes to Emily’s to apologize and to try to involve her in some wedding planning. Emily is cold at first, but finally relents, telling Lorelai her head is much too big for a veil and that she should wear a tiara like Emily herself did.

Lorelai, to Rory: Don’t those people have enough problems without having you as a contractor?

• Original Air Date: October 9, 2001

Categories: Season 2
Tags: Dean, Lorelai acts like a brat, Lorelai-Emily fight, Paris

Posted on December 29, 2009