Gilmore Girls Season Four, Episode Seven: The Festival of Living Art
Lane’s band is looking for a new guitarist and it’s not going well because everyone who shows up sucks. A guy named Gil comes to audition and he’s totally awesome, but Zack and Brian aren’t sure about him because he’s old. Lane goes to tell him he’s not in the band, but he seems so disappointed that she tells him he’s in.
Sookie and Jackson have decided to have the baby at home and they give Lorelai a baby pager so she can be there for the birth. Jackson’s brother Beau is in town for the baby’s arrival, but the baby is late and Beau gets annoyed that he has to keep changing his flight home. Sookie and Jackson have hired a midwife who is really scary and intimidating. She doesn’t like Lorelai because she thinks she’s anti-midwife.
The Festival of Living Pictures is coming to Stars Hollow and everyone is excited. Kirk is so happy to be assigned as Christ, but he takes it a little too seriously and acts like the troubadour is his mortal enemy because he’s going to be Judas. Lorelai is upset when she’s not the Renoir girl, but Taylor says it’s because she flinched last time. He wants Rory to be in one of the paintings, and she says she’ll only do it if Lorelai can be Renoir girl.
Half of the table for the Last Supper is missing and Taylor gets discouraged and wants to cancel the festival. Kirk, dressed as Jesus to help get him into character, starts preaching and convinces everyone to go ahead with the festival.
Sookie comes over to Lorelai’s at one in the morning. She’s totally freaking out because the baby is so late. Lorelai calms her down by showing her a box full of stuff from the night Rory was born.
Lorelai manages not to flinch during the festival, but her baby pager goes off while she’s on stage. She keeps it together until the curtain closes, and then she runs off to Sookie’s.
Nicole comes to the diner and tells Luke she wants to postpone the divorce and date for a while.
Miss Patty: Have a cigarette.
Taylor: I don’t smoke.
Miss Patty: Could you start?
Other notes: The Festival of Living Pictures is based on The Pageant of the Masters. Here are some pictures of the Gilmore Girls’ version of it. It seems like a really cool thing to see:
Posted on March 9, 2010
The Pageant of the Maters IS awesome, Shannon – I’ve had the experience of seeing it live twice. It’s really cool to watch – they usually do a couple of scenes where they show the people getting into the painting poses and show the change of going from regular lights to the special stage lighting for the painting. It’s freaking crazy to watch. They also do statues, which are also really spectacular.
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Shannon Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
I’m so jealous! I’d love to see it sometime. In this episode, they show some of the characters in the dressing room getting made up, and it just looks really amazing.
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