Rory and Paris are both hungover so Lorelai brings them hangover food. Lorelai tries to talk to Rory about all the stuff she was saying about Logan, but Rory totally blows her off and won’t talk about it. Rory goes straight to Logan’s and says she can’t do the casual dating thing. He gets angry because he thinks she’s giving him an ultimatum. She says that’s not what she’s doing, but he agrees to it anyway. He assures her he can be a boyfriend guy, he’s sure of it. They go out for a while and when they get back to Logan’s, his sister Honor is there to tell him she’s gotten engaged. She wants Logan to be there when she tells their parents, and she likes Rory and wants her to come, too. Rory goes home and tells Lorelai she has news and doesn’t want to hear any backtalk. She says she and Logan are now a couple and she’s meeting his parents tonight. Lorelai has to stuff a pillow in her mouth to keep from saying anything.

When Paris gets back to the dorm, Doyle is in her bed, surrounded by tissues. He’s sick and wants Paris to take care of him, but she’s totally freaked out by his germs. She calls Nanny to take care of him. After Rory tells Paris that she and Logan are together, Paris decides she needs to talk to Doyle about their relationship. They decide to commit and call themselves boyfriend and girlfriend.

Sookie’s doctor puts her on bedrest and Lorelai is freaking out about getting dinner out at the inn. She calls Luke to come help her. Sookie keeps calling Luke to ask him what he’s doing with dinner, and she actually has kitchen workers bringing her food. Luke finds out and says no more food can leave the premises. After a while, Luke notices one of the guys bringing food upstairs. Sookie is in one of the rooms testing all the food. After Jackson comes in and yells at Luke, Lorelai goes outside and finds Jackson taking Sookie home in one of the Dragonfly tram things. Sookie says she’ll calm down and let one of her guys, Manny, take over.

Logan is nervous about dinner with his parents, but Rory says she’ll be fine because of her experiences with Emily. Logan’s mother is distantly polite and his grandfather is cold and unfriendly. A maid comes into the parlor with a note on a silver platter that says Mitchum is still at the office, so Logan’s mom, Shira, takes everyone into the dining room to start dinner. Grandpa Huntzberger is horrible during dinner and starts hollering about how marrying into the family is a serious matter. Logan starts defending Honor, but it turns out Rory is the problem. Shira doesn’t think Logan should marry a girl who wants to work for a living because being a Huntzberger wife is a full time job. Gramps thinks that since Logan is going to take over the family company, he needs to marry a girl who can handle it. Mitchum meets Logan and Rory in the foyer as they’re leaving and he’s perfectly nice to Rory. Logan acts really depressed when he takes Rory home and he kind of blows her off when he drops her at her dorm.

Rory calls her mom and tells her everything. Lorelai tries to convince her that maybe Logan isn’t the best guy for her and she shouldn’t try to change him, and then Logan knocks on the door and apologizes for taking off. A couple days later, Mitchum Huntzberger comes to the Yale Daily News office and apologizes to Rory and asks her to intern for him at a new paper he just acquired. She turns him down because she doesn’t want to have anything handed to her just because he feels guilty. He tells her it’s a good opportunity and she should just take what’s being handed to her.

Paris: Sick people freak me out.

Rory: You’re pre-med!

Paris: I’m really sick of people throwing that in my face.

• Original Air Date: April 26, 2005

Categories: Season 5
Tags: Dragonfly, Logan, Luke-Sookie cooking feud, Mitchum, Mother-Daughter Miscommunication, Paris-Doyle, Sookie

Posted on April 27, 2010