Gilmore Girls Season Three, Episode Twenty-Two: Those Are Strings, Pinocchio
The Independence Inn has only one guest. The owner’s son is walking around with some official looking people to see about renovations, but he says they’re probably going to sell. Lorelai goes to Sookie’s that night to tell Sookie and Jackson that the inn is closing and she can’t swing her share for the Dragonfly because the money she thought she had is going to have to go toward Yale. She tells Rory the same thing, and in the scene directly after that, the girls are packing for their trip to Europe. Hey, if you’re having money problems, maybe now’s not the best time to spend a month in Europe.
Rory runs into Dean and he acts like a jackass until she starts offering wedding-planning tips. Luke and Nicole are going on a cruise and Lorelai teases him about how cruises make people get engaged. Luke later has a dream that Lorelai asks him not to get engaged.
On graduation day, Rory goes to Emily and Richard and tells them she needs money for Yale. She offers herself up for Friday night dinners and she and Richard come up with a payment plan. Everyone is happy. Before the ceremony, Rory tells Lorelai to put a bid in on the Dragonfly because Yale is covered. She explains what she did, and even though the whole thing was Rory’s idea, Lorelai cries manipulation. But she puts a bid on the Dragonfly and gets it.
Graduation is boring. Rory’s speech is kind of silly, Luke cries, Brad sings a song and the grandparents give Rory a car. Rory has been getting phone calls all day and the other person doesn’t say anything. She thinks it’s Jess, so when he calls after the ceremony, she tells him he was an ass for leaving the way he did and she loved him, but she needs to move on. After she says goodbye, we see Jess hanging up a pay phone in California.
Paris, to Headmaster Charleston when she gets her diploma: No hard feelings.
Categories: Season 3Luke, to Lorelai: You have got to stop assuming I take pens with me everywhere I go.
Posted on February 26, 2010
Yeah, really, if you’re always worried about money a trip to Europe is waaay superfluous. As a matter of fact, it’s not at all fair that Rory is even able to plan trips to Europe AND go to Yale. I kind of don’t like Rory.
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Thanks to this episode, whenever I hear someone use the phrase ‘no strings attached,’ I think “Those are strings, Pinocchio.”
I am gonna defend Rory and Lorelai going to Europe. It was a vacay they’d been saving for for years. And the way they did it, hostels and whatnot, probably didn’t cost so much that the money would have made a huge dent in tuition at Yale.
But c’mon. Lorelai is a single mom who runs a hotel. I’m pretty sure Rory qualified for whatever student loan she could get.
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Words cannot express how much I despise Rory’s graduation speech. Besides her flat delivery, I hate that, after a token mention of her school and classmates, it devolves into one big shout-out to her family. Based on that speech alone, I think Paris should have keyed Rory’s new car.
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Luke crying at Rory’s graduation makes me want to jump his fictional bones. And also, best episode title EVER.
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Cordee Reply:
February 28th, 2010 at 11:29 am
I know! Luke was always there for her – a way better father-figure than Christopher ever was. I thought it was sweet.
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