Gilmore Girls Season Two, Episode Seven: Like Mother, Like Daughter
At school one day, Rory is approached by a guidance counselor who says she’s concerned that Rory doesn’t socialize enough. She tells Rory she won’t get a good recommendation to Harvard unless she starts to interact more with the other students. Chilton doesn’t think it’s a good thing that Rory spends lunch alone every day, reading a book and listening to her Walkman. Lorelai goes to the school to yell at Headmaster Charleston about it, but he tells her she needs to be more involved in parent activities. Lorelai decides to join the Booster club.
The next day at lunch, Rory goes up to a table full of girls she doesn’t know and asks if she can sit down. Paris sees her there and later yells at her, asking how she got an invitation to sit with the Puffs. The girls Rory sat with are apparently part of some super secret sorority, and Paris has been sucking up to their leader, Francie, but hasn’t been Puffed yet. She begs Rory not to say anything bad about her. Rory tries to sit by herself the next day at lunch, but Francie asks her to sit with the Puffs again.
The Boosters are putting on a fashion show fundraiser and Lorelai offers the use of the Independence Inn. When she finds out she and the other moms are going to be the models, she gets crabby and volunteers Emily to model, too. One of the booster ladies, Ava, sees Luke building the runway at the inn and tells Lorelai she thinks he’s hot. After that, Lorelai tries to shoo Luke out the door because she’s the most infuriating woman on the planet. She goes back to the dressing room and finds out she and Emily are modeling a mother-daughter set. Lorelai is not pleased, but she ends up having a pretty fun time. Emily gets really into it and then acts smug about Lorelai fitting well into the world she ran away from. I didn’t realize being an involved parent was part of that world, but whatever.
Lorelai tells Rory the Puffs are kidnapping her that night. They show up and take Rory, Paris and a couple other girls to Chilton, where they break into the headmaster’s office. As part of their initiation into the sorority, the girls have to say a pledge and then ring a bell three times. Rory rings it twice, and then Charleston comes in with a couple security guards. He tells everyone they’ll be suspended and Rory is pissed. She tells the headmaster that the only reason she ever sat down at Francie’s table was because the counselor said she wouldn’t get a good recommendation if she didn’t make some friends. In the end, Charleston agrees that maybe Rory is right. The next day, one of the other potential Puffs sits down with Rory at lunch and starts reading a book.
Lorelai saw Luke talking to Ava after the fashion show, and the next day, she goes to the diner and asks him not to date her. Luke gets pretty pissed off at her nerve, then says he was only giving her directions. He smiles when Lorelai leaves in a huff.
Rory, to Paris: You’re like a pop-up book from hell.
Categories: Season 2Lorelai: I told you not to become a Soc, but you didn’t listen.
Posted on January 5, 2010
I love this episode, and I love that one of the potential puffs was the little girl from The Nanny, who grew up to be the punching girl from Californication.
Also, any time somebody startles me, I tell them that they’re like a pop-up book from hell. Thank you, Rory.
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