Gilmore Girls Season Seven, Episode Thirteen: I’d Rather Be In Philadelphia
Lorelai meets Rory at the hospital. Richard has had a heart attack. Lorelai calls Christopher a bunch of times but he’s not answering his phone. Emily was at the club and she shows up wearing her tracksuit. The Girls try to tell her Richard is in the cath lab and can’t see anyone right now, but Emily starts yelling at the nurses and then bitching to the Girls about the staff at the club who took forty-five minutes to find her and tell her Richard was in the hospital. Logan shows up because he’s a great boyfriend – not like Christopher, that jackass. The doctor comes out and says Richard is going to need emergency bypass surgery.
Zack is filling in for Lane at the diner and doing a great job. Babette comes by and tells Luke about Richard’s heart attack, and he rushes over to the hospital to see if there’s anything he can do. Lorelai tells him Christopher will be there any second. Luke is understanding and says he’ll leave, but Emily wrangles him into going to Yale to get Richard’s car.
Emily is making calls and sending faxes and she makes Logan and Rory go to the house to meet “the fish man” with a check. Lorelai overhears Emily talking to her lawyer, and she gets upset that Emily is asking for Richard’s will to be faxed to the hospital. Lorelai yells at her, and Emily tells her she and Richard made a plan the last time he had heart problems and she’s following through with the plan because she doesn’t know what else to do. Lorelai feels bad when Emily starts crying.
The doctor finally comes back and says the surgery went well. Lorelai tries to call Christopher again, but still can’t get him. Luke comes back with a bunch of food from the diner. Inevitably, this is when Christopher shows up, and he makes his angry face and acts pissy because he’s an immature ass. I cannot possibly hate him more.
Richard: I have a deep aversion to cacti.
Emily: Do we like this table or is it too close to that man with the IV?
Also in this episode: Logan tells Rory about some internet thing his team is going to buy. He’ll be putting up three million dollars of his own money.
Categories: Season 7Posted on July 21, 2010
You’re back!!!! I’ve missed my daily Gilmore Girls fix! I am not sure what I am going to do when you finish the series!!! Perhaps you will review another of my most beloved series!
My favorite part of this episode: Emily in the tracksuit. It’s just sooo not Emily.
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Shannon Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 7:49 pm
I LOVE the tracksuit!
I would like to do some other shows when I’m done with this, but I’m not sure what series I want to tackle. Daria, Golden Girls, Quantum Leap…my interests are all over the place. Any suggestions?
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Ugh Christopher. That is all.
Except for, Glad to see you back.
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Ugh, I hate Christopher.. he’s an asshole. Lorelai deserves to be with Luke.
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Agreed! Christopher is one of those parents who completely checks out of his/her kid’s life for a few years, remembers said kid is out there, and pops back in to shower said kid with gifts to “remind everyone he/she is a parent, after all”, then leaves again with no warning. I’d like to smash his stupid grinning face in with a shovel.
Luke has been there for Rory through good times and bad, and everything in-between–growing pains, chicken pox, etc., and that is obviously why he is the better choice. (Not like HRH really deserved to have everything showered upon her, but still.) Obviously, Christopher has never been in a real family, hence why he told Lorelai he “checked in” when he came to see Richard in the hospital. Ass.
BUT…. Here is a question that has been bothering me for awhile now… Like the episode when Emily and Richard and Francine and Straub find out that Lorelai is pregnant… Why weren’t his parents involved in her life as she grew up? Did they think that Lorelai was trying to “trap him” or ruin his life? Did they think she should be the only one to make sacrifices while Prince Christopher went on to bigger and better things? Did they ever see her after she was born? Did they want to? Did they not acknowledge her? My sister had a boy and she gave him up, and to this day, my mom still won’t acknowledge he exists… Sorry, I’m prone to ramble on forever.
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