Gilmore Girls Season Four, Episode Two: The Lorelais’ First Day at Yale
Lorelai borrows Luke’s truck to take Rory’s stuff to Yale, but she doesn’t know how to drive a stick. She ends up backing up all the way to the diner to tell him his truck is broken because she can’t get it out of reverse. He draws her a diagram for the gearshift instead of taking away the keys like any sane person would do.
Rory takes notes during her tour of the campus and a couple of snotty bitches make fun of her. One of her suitemates, Tana, is super awkward and weird. She doesn’t know how to make small talk, so the first thing she says to Rory is that she’s adopted. Lorelai goes to leave, but then she sees some of the stuff other kids are bringing into their dorm rooms. She decides Rory needs more cool dorm things so she goes shopping.
Paris shows up at the dorm. She’s decided to go to Yale. Terrence, her life coach, felt that Rory and Paris still had a ways to go on their life journey together, so Paris had her father arrange for them to be roommates. Paris now has a craft table and she can’t stand Tana.
Luke gets his divorce papers and Nicole’s lawyers don’t believe he doesn’t want anything from her. After arguing with them for a while, he gets Lorelai to tell them he doesn’t want anything. It doesn’t help. Luke and Lorelai go back to Yale with more stuff, and there’s a whole bit with the Yale mattress that is kind of exhausting. They get Rory all set up and then leave. They get all the way back to Stars Hollow, and then Lorelai gets a text from Rory that says, “Come back.” So Lorelai takes the truck again so she doesn’t have to go home for the Jeep. She hangs out in the dorm all night, orders a ton of food to find out which places are the best and invites all the other girls from the dorm to hang out in Rory’s suite. Everyone has a blast and the snotty bitches who made fun of Rory earlier tell her they’re having a great time.
Lorelai spends the night at the dorm, and finally goes home the next morning to her sad and empty house. Meanwhile, the snotty bitches come by the suite to tell Rory they “Lorelaied” some places and found some really good coffee.
I’m not even going to tell you how sickened I am about Lorelai spending the night at the dorm.
Categories: Season 4Paris: My glue gun leaked on my macaroni!
Posted on March 2, 2010
Eh, it doesn’t bother me that much… I’m staying at home while I do the college thing, but I’d probably send a text like Rory’s on my first night living away from home… Of course, by night time I’d be fine and want my mother to go back home
I’m surprised how little the SurpriseParis thing doesn’t bother me… It’s such an obvious ploy to keep a popular character and it’s completely unrealistic… but I like Paris so much I’m willing to look the other way
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Shannon Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Yeah, the spending the night is the part I have trouble with.
I know what you mean about Paris. It IS ridiculous, but if it keeps Paris on the show it’s all good!
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I think this episode is completely ridiculous. Everything from Rory not knowing Paris is her roommate to Yale assigning them as roommates without asking Rory to Lorelai spending the night. But then again, this show doesn’t always do college particularly well.
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Shannon Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:47 pm
I agree. A lot of the college stuff is pretty silly.
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Where did Lorelai get the money for all that food?
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Michelle Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:17 am
Lol, how true. Weren’t they broke in the last episode? So… you can’t afford the inn, but you can afford a trip to Europe and enough snacks to feed twenty or so college freshmen?
Though I do give the Europe thing *some* credit… they’d planned it for years, and they were doing the backpacking/hostel thing, so it couldn’t have been too expensive… but still.
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Shannon Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Yeah, she ordered like ten pizzas, plus a bunch of Chinese and other stuff. Not to mention the fact that they never eat at home and eat out all the time. No wonder they’re broke.
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Yep, college is where this show definitely started to slide…
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Shannon Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:18 pm
I agree. The whole dynamic changes when the Girls are no longer living together and it’s just not the same anymore. I still loved it, and I think it got better as time went on, but this is probably my least favorite season. Well, except for season 7. That’s the worst.
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Aside from all the silly college stuff, PARIS AND HER CRAFTS! I remember that shiz was hilarious.
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Shannon Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Ha, I know! She is so ridiculous and awesome.
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