Gilmore Girls Season Three, Episode One: Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days
Lorelai is living with Luke and is pregnant with his twins. The she wakes up from this crazy dream. It’s the middle of the night, but she calls Rory in Washington. Rory tells her the dream means she’s in love with Luke. Lorelai rejects that interpretation, of course, and asks for another. After hanging up, Rory goes to her desk where she pushes aside all the letters she’s gotten from Dean and starts to write a letter to Jess.
Another student on the trip, Jamie, asks Paris to go to dinner with him. Paris says yes, but she’s so inexperienced that Rory needs to explain to her that he was asking her on a date. Now she’s all worked up and worried that she won’t know what to do. When Jamie knocks on the door that night, Paris makes Rory hide in the closet because she’s convinced if he sees Rory, he won’t want to go out with Paris anymore.
Lorelai and Rory have a clumsy reunion at the airport. When they get home, Lorelai is surprised that Rory wants to change into a nice dress and go to the end of summer festival in the town square. Rory is disgusted to see Jess making out with some chick and starts ranting about it. Lorelai doesn’t get why she’s so worked up. Rory tells her she kissed Jess at Sookie’s wedding, and Lorelai yells at her for treating Dean like dirt. She’s really an excellent mother.
Emily and Richard have been out of town all summer, so Lorelai hasn’t had a chance to tell them that she and Christopher are no longer together. She finally does at her first Friday night dinner after they return. Emily is pissed, but when Lorelai explains about Sherry, she understands. Richard, however, acts like a jerk and starts preaching about how Lorelai should have married him when she had the chance when she was sixteen. Lorelai walks out and goes to Luke’s. He’s still mad at her, but he lets her sit and have some coffee and tell him all about her woes with Christopher. He finally warms up and lets her have a donut.
Lorelai goes home and apologizes to Rory for yelling at her about Jess. Rory says Lorelai was right and that the thing with Jess was crazy. She’s decided to devote all her energy to making things good with Dean.
Paris: I can’t date. I’m not genetically set up for it.
Other notes: In this episode, Paris terrorizes two actual politicians in Washington, Senator Barbara Boxer and Congressman Doug Ose. Neither of them wants to talk to Paris.
Posted on January 28, 2010
Why is Rory meant to be the be-all and end-all of womanhood on this show? EVERY guy who sees her must have her? Oh, poor deluded Paris for thinking that.
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Shannon Reply:
January 28th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I think that’s the writers trying to show us how insecure Paris is rather than how hot Rory is. I hope.
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I love Paris terrorizing the Senators
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Shannon Reply:
January 29th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Me too!
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The best part of this ep is the neverending Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer song that still manages to get in my head whenever I see the title of this episode.
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Shannon Reply:
January 29th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Ugh, it’s in my head, too. It just goes on and on and on and on.
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