Gilmore Girls Season Four, Episode Twenty-One: Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
Lorelai sees Jess reading a magazine in the town square and averts her eyes. Then the camera swings around and we see he’s really reading one of Luke’s self help books.
Tana introduces Rory to her boyfriend, Chester. He lost a bet and can only speak in clichés for the whole day. Tana shows Rory a collage she made of all the pictures she’s taken this year. Everyone else in the collage is couples, so Rory feels insecure about the fact that she hasn’t had a boyfriend all year.
Lorelai goes to Mrs. Kim’s to get a door knocker for the inn, and Mrs. Kim gives her some mail to give to Lane. Lorelai says she thinks Mrs. Kim should talk to Lane herself and resigns as her mail carrier. Lane’s Aunt June comes to Lane’s apartment and says Mrs. Kim would like to visit. When Mrs. Kim comes for dinner, Zack and Brian are wearing ties and they try to serve her tea. Mrs. Kim didn’t know Lane was living with boys and it’s a little too much. She runs away and tells Lorelai there were boys at Lane’s house. Lorelai tells her to think of them as girls because they’re harmless.
At Friday night dinner, Lorelai interrogates Emily all night about where Richard is. Emily evades her questions and then she interrogates Rory to make sure she doesn’t have a boyfriend. Rory is packing up her room after her final the next day when Emily comes by to set her up with the son of one of her friends. The guy says a group is going out later to celebrate the end of the year and Rory is welcome to come along.
Lorelai meets Luke at the diner to go to the wedding. He tells her she looks beautiful. Liz’s friend, Crazy Carrie, flirts with Luke at the wedding until Lorelai makes her presence known. Carrie says Liz ripped her dress, so Lorelai goes to Miss Patty’s, where she’s getting ready, to help out. Liz tells Lorelai she’s going to make a great sister-in-law for someone one day. Before she leaves Miss Patty’s, Lorelai notices some self help books in Jess’ bag.
The wedding is really kind of cool, if strange. Everyone is wearing costumes and the second troubadour is the minister. TJ walks up the aisle talking about how much he likes wearing tights. Luke, Lorelai and Jess spend the whole time trying not to laugh. Lorelai tells Luke about the books in Jess’ bag and mocks him a little. Luke gets defensive and tells her Jess is trying to be a better person and she shouldn’t be so judgmental. They both apologize later and then dance together. Luke walks Lorelai home, and before she goes inside he says they should have dinner together next week.
Rory decides to go out with Emily’s friend’s son and she has a terrible time. It’s like eight guys all getting drunk, so she sits at a table by herself. The guys decide to leave, but the guy driving is totally smashed so Rory decides to stay at the bar and take a cab. Then she realizes she doesn’t have any cash so she calls her married ex-boyfriend to come pick her up. She and Dean end up having dinner together.
Jess is very calm and very polite in this episode. He waits around after the wedding until Luke comes home, and then tells him he appreciates everything Luke did for him. Then he leaves and goes to Yale to try to get Rory back. Dean is just walking Rory to her door when Jess show up. Dean gets snippy, but Rory tells him to go. Jess tells Rory he wants her to come to New York and be with him. He tells her she can count on him now. She tells him no, and he leaves, dejected.
Rory: Oh, no. Not Jesus. I’m sick of him and Mel Gibson.
Categories: Season 4Liz: I don’t want to screw up this marriage even more than I want some pot.
Posted on March 29, 2010
how could rory NOT wanna b with jess?!?!?!?!?
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Amber Reply:
January 15th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
How COULD Rory wanna be with Jess?? Dean is much better.
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I have to disagree. There’s a fake trailer for Season 8 on YouTube, and after watching that, it is clear that Jess is the better choice. He gets his act together and cleans up very nicely. I’ve never liked Dean because of his short temper and his control issues. Apparently, that never changes as the seasons continue. Ugh.
This is my favorite episode of the entire series. I love the song that Lorelai and Luke dance to, I love her dress, I love how they get closer and closer as they dance and how she ends up face-to-face with him and she realizes, “Oh, crap.” Then she smiles, like she’s thinking, “Oooh, he likes me!” Eeeee.
Another one of my favorite parts is when Jess and Dean are fighting over Rory at Yale, and she tells Dean to go. His immature snort at Jess never fails to crack a smile. What a dipstick. Why don’t you just lift your leg and piss on her, Dean? That way everyone knows she’s yours. (Wonder what Lindsay would think of that?)
Favorite. Episode.
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