The Girls go to Friday night dinner, where they have drinks in the pool house with Richard and then go to the main house for the rest of the night. Emily hates the arrangement because the girls talk about everything with Richard and then they’re out of things to talk about with her.

Luke and Lorelai are being really cute and flirting with each other at the diner. They make plans for their first official date and really, they’re just so cute and it makes me happy. Luke takes Lorelai to a restaurant where they’re greeted by Mrs. Landingham from West Wing. Luke goes there all the time and knows the owners really well. They helped him out a lot when he opened the diner. Lorelai asks Luke if he remembers the first time they met because she doesn’t. He says it was at the diner eight years ago. She wrote a horoscope for him that said, “You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she’ll go away.” After telling the story, he opens his wallet and takes out the horoscope. He’s kept it this whole time. The date ends in Luke’s bed.

Early the next morning, Lorelai gets up and goes down to the diner in one of Luke’s flannel shirts to get coffee. She doesn’t know the diner’s open. She expects to hear some gossip about her and Luke that day and thinks it’s a little weird when Patty and Babette don’t say anything to her about it. That night, Luke and Lorelai go to a town meeting together. Taylor brings up their relationship as a serious town matter. Everyone is worried about what’s going to happen when Luke and Lorelai break up. Taylor is convinced the town will be split between the Lukes and the Lorelais. Luke yells at everyone and tells them it’s none of their business.

Rory goes back to Yale and moves into her new dorm. She’s worried about Paris because she thought she’d be there already. She calls her and Paris says Asher died in Oxford. When Paris gets to Yale, she says she wants to have a wake in the suite.

Rory and Marty walk around campus together and run into some spoiled rich kids who act snotty to them. One of them recognizes Marty because he bartended for one of his parties. Later, Rory is hanging up flyers for the wake when the spoiled rich kids come in looking for some girl. The blond guy, Logan, makes fun of her flyer and then defends himself when Rory says he shouldn’t have been so snotty to Marty.

Emily and Richard make an appointment to talk to each other about functions and bills. One night, Emily sees Richard drive off and she calls Lorelai. She’s freaking out and wants to know where he’s going so late at night. She doesn’t want him to be the only one going out, so she gets in her car and drives away, calling Lorelai again from the road. Lorelai says she can’t talk, so Emily goes to Rory’s dorm. She gets there while the wake is going on and she unloads all her stuff about Richard on Paris. Marty asks Rory if she has a boyfriend. She says she doesn’t know and then drives to Dean’s house to find out.

Richard, to Emily: You’ve never been stark naked. We went skinny dipping one night and you wore an overcoat.

Marty: I met Nicole Ritchie and then spent the next six weeks showering.

Rory, about Asher’s death: It wasn’t during, you know…?

Paris: No, Rory. This great man was not brought down by my vagina.

• Original Air Date: October 5, 2004

Categories: Season 5
Tags: Dean, Emily, Luke-Lorelai, Marty, Paris-Asher, Richard-Emily problems, Taylor

Posted on April 5, 2010