Gilmore Girls Season Five, Episode Eighteen: To Live and Let Diorama
Old man Twickham, a Stars Hollow resident, is dying for about the twentieth time and the whole town goes to say goodbye. They wait in a line outside the house and Kirk comes by with Twickham souvenirs.
The man actually dies, and Luke wants to find out what’s going to happen to his house. He and Lorelai go to a town meeting where everyone is trying to find someplace for Kirk to stay. Turns out Mr. Twickham left the house to the Stars Hollow historical society so it could be turned into a museum for two months, and then he wanted it turned over to the head of the historical society, who is Taylor, to be disposed of as he sees fit. Luke volunteers to help with the museum stuff. He tells Lorelai it’s because he was close to old man Twickham, and he tells Taylor he’s volunteering because Lorelai wanted him to.
Rory is depressed that Logan hasn’t called, and Paris is depressed because Doyle hasn’t called. Rory tells Paris to go out and do something fun, and then she’s surprised when she goes home to Stars Hollow after Friday night dinner and finds Paris hanging out with Lorelai. Lane thinks Zack is having an affair with Sophie, the music store owner. Lane meets Paris and Rory at the grand opening of the Twickham museum on Saturday, and they all get drunk on Miss Patty’s Founder’s Day punch. Lane leaves to go confront Sophie, and Paris walks off in her bare feet to find a pay phone to call Doyle.
Lane goes to the music store, and Sophie takes her to the back where Zack is jamming with a banjo in a bluegrass band. He was embarrassed because it’s not rock and roll. Paris is yelling at people in the street, demanding change for the pay phone. Rory is the only one back at the museum, and she calls Logan and gets his voicemail.
The travel magazine from last week liked the inn so much that they’re going to interview Lorelai. The interview goes really well, but she ends up talking an awful lot about her mother. When she mentions this to Rory, Rory is horrified and tells her that unless Lorelai said it was off the record, it’s all fair game. Lorelai tries to get the reporter to cut the Emily stuff out, but she says she’d have to pull the whole article.
None of old man Twickham’s historical stuff is actually historical and the diorama Taylor sets up is totally creepy. Taylor says he wants to keep the house as a museum permanently, but Luke tells him it’s a bad idea. He wants to buy the house. Dean’s been working on the museum, too, and he’s been giving Luke the cold shoulder. Luke finally asks him what his problem is, and Dean tells him Lorelai is going to get bored with him eventually. Why this makes him so pissy at Luke is beyond me. And besides, Dean and Rory broke up three different times, and each time it was Dean who did the dumping, not Rory.
Rory gets totally trashed on Miss Patty’s punch, and Lorelai takes her home. Rory cries in her lap on the bathroom floor, wondering why Logan doesn’t like her.
Sophie, to Lane: Oh my god, Garrison Keillor, what is your point?
Categories: Season 5Taylor: Who doesn’t love Muzak?
Sookie: Oh! Music lovers?
Posted on April 26, 2010
Ugh, I think this is, up to this point, the worst episode in the series and one of the worst altogether. Your recap was way better than the episode!
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The only good thing about this episode was the hilariously awful diorama. Dean paying out Luke for absolutely no real reason was stupid, and Paris was like a caricature of herself in this ep.
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Dean can be such a whiny bitch sometimes. He annoys me most of the time.
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I… *whispers* actually really kind of likethisepisode don’ttellanyone…
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