Lorelai provides breakfast for all the construction guys, which annoys Luke. Lorelai is letting TJ think he’s the contractor, and Tom goes around behind him telling everyone not to listen to him. Luke wants to tell him the truth but Lorelai insists. TJ finally figures it out after talking to a contractor friend of his. He gets mad and quits.

Rory is doing well on her community service and she’s pretty much taken over as supervisor. She’s also kicking ass at the DAR. Logan comes back from a trip to Europe and takes Rory out to dinner. He seems bored with her stories about the world of community service, but assures her he’s not. Rory meets Logan at Yale the next morning and kind of smiles when she sees the new freshmen on their tour. Then she goes to her DAR induction thing and looks all depressed.

Sookie asks Lorelai when she and Luke are going to get married and she’s upset that they haven’t set a date yet. Lorelai tells Luke she doesn’t want to set a wedding date until things are right with Rory. How she plans to make things right when she won’t even talk to her is beyond me.

Paris is driving Lorelai crazy. She’s coming to the Dragonfly twice a week to chat, and Sookie and Michel hate her. They convince Lorelai to cut Paris off. Paris calls Rory, acting like Rory is still going to move into the off campus apartment she and Doyle are renting. The next time she goes to lunch at the Dragonfly, she mentions calling Rory at her office. Lorelai freaks out about Rory having an office, and Paris gets it into her head that Lorelai only wants to have lunch with her to get information about Rory. Lorelai assures her that’s not true and insists she loves their lunches.

Hep Alien has been on their Seventh Day Adventist tour and they’re now heading home. They’ve been starving themselves the whole time due to lack of funds. They’re all exhausted. On the ride home, Lane tells them she’s been saving money this whole time and they’ve come out of the tour with nine thousand dollars. The guys are pissed that they’ve been starving for two months, but they’re excited about the prospect of recording.

A group is coming into the Dragonfly in the middle of the night, so Lorelai asks Luke to watch Paul Anka while she’s at the inn. The dog gets into the trash and eats some chocolate, and Luke freaks out and takes him to the vet’s house.

Gil: If that pretentious little snot from Coldplay can walk around comparing himself to Bono, we can compare ourselves to the Foo Fighters.

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?

Taylor: Who doesn’t love Muzak?

Sookie: Oh! Music lovers?

One Friday night, Emily comes running out to the pool house hollering about Richard serving appetizers to the Girls so they won’t be hungry when they get to the main house for dinner. Rory’s cell phone rings during dinner and she tells Emily it’s Dean and they’re back together. When they’re leaving, Lorelai actually pinches Rory because, “Why’d you tell my mother about Dean? I was totally covering for you.” Oh, grow up. After hearing the news, Emily goes to Richard and says they need to talk. They call Rory a few days later and tell her to come early for dinner on Friday because they’re throwing an alumni party and they want her to be there.

Dean and Rory haven’t had much luck lately finding time together, so they have lunch in the store room at Doose’s on Dean’s lunch break on Friday. He says he read her story about the Life and Death Brigade. She asks him what he thought and he says it was good but offers no more specific criticism. Rory tells Dean she’ll meet him outside her grandparents’ house at eight-thirty that night.

When Rory gets to the Gilmore house for the party, Emily sends her upstairs where her hairdresser is waiting to do her hair. She has her set up with an updo, a diamond necklace, earrings and a tiara. Rory feels a little silly, but she goes down to the party. All the guests are couples with sons Rory’s age. It takes Rory about two seconds to figure out what’s up. She asks her grandparents if any of their friends have daughters. They pretend not to know what she’s talking about.

Rory tries to have a good time, but she gets stuck with a bunch of guys talking about cars. Then some annoying guy starts flirting with Rory, and Logan comes up and saves her by pretending to be her boyfriend. Logan has met the Gilmores before and they like him quite a bit. He and Finn grab a couple of bottles and move the party out to the pool house. Rory has a good time with Logan and his friends. After a while, Logan says she needs to choose a man from among them. She says she has a boyfriend and then realizes she’s late meeting him. She goes out front to meet him and he sees all the guys following her out. He realizes he doesn’t belong in her world anymore and once again breaks up with her in front of a bunch of people. She starts crying and Logan tells her it’s going to be okay. He and his friends take her back to the pool house to cheer her up.

Liz and TJ are looking for houses in Stars Hollow. TJ comes into the diner a few days later all excited because he’s in escrow. Lorelai goes to Luke’s on Friday night because he’s going to make her a spectacular dinner. TJ comes and interrupts things because he and Liz had a fight. He begs Luke to let him hang out, and then he sits on Jess’ bed and cries. The dinner is further interrupted when Rory calls to tell Lorelai about the party, and even more when Liz comes over to yell at TJ some more. Liz runs into the bathroom and TJ follows.

Lorelai calls her parents later that night and yells at them for their weird mating ritual. Then she looks out the window and sees Rory getting out of a limousine full of guys. Rory looks happy, which makes Lorelai look mad.

Mrs. Kim’s foreign exchange student, Kyon, comes to the diner and tells Lane she’s hungry because Mrs. Kim is feeding her nothing but wheat or something. Lane feels sorry for her and gives her some fries and a soda. Mrs. Kim comes up to Zack in the street and starts yelling at him and telling him he’s going to hell. Kyon saw him hugging Lane at the diner and she told Mrs. Kim and now Mrs. Kim thinks he’s a horrible pig. Lane talks to Kyon and asks why she’d tell on her. Kyon says she had to tell her because Mrs. Kim is magic and would know if she was keeping things from her. Lane has a talk with her and tells her Mrs. Kim is not magic.

Kyon: Mrs. Kim says the fries are the devil’s starchy fingers.

Dean is still doing some work at the Dragonfly, but he’s kind of avoiding Lorelai. They run into each other in front of Luke’s later and it’s very awkward. Lorelai tells Rory she wants to hang out with her and Dean like they used to, but Rory thinks it’s going to be weird. Lorelai insists on her and Luke double dating with Dean and Rory the next night. Luke isn’t all that pleased with the notion.

Rory goes to Dean’s new place. He’s crashing with Kyle, he of the kegger. Kyle is back from the Navy and has a hook hand. Dean’s not sure about the double date thing, either, but Rory talks him into it. The date starts off kind of similar to the Girls’ last double date, with Dean explaining how to do date night to Luke. While Dean and Rory get popcorn at the movie theater, Luke complains to Lorelai about Dean. Also, Luke doesn’t really get Pippi, which is pretty much the only movie Kirk has available to show them.

By the time the date gets back to the Gilmore house, Luke is snapping at Dean like crazy. Rory tries to remind them of the time they were on a softball team together. It doesn’t make anything better, so Lorelai pulls out the Bop-It, which is apparently the emergency social situation saver. The boys end up getting really competitive about the Bop-It when they play. Luke wins and starts yelling about Dean being the loser. Dean gets kind of disgusted and leaves, and Rory yells at Luke. After she leaves, Luke apologizes and tells Lorelai he doesn’t think Dean is good enough for Rory.

Richard comes to Yale to have lunch with Rory and he asks her if Emily has mentioned her car lately because it’s due for service. Rory tries to talk to him about his and Emily’s situation, but he changes the subject.

Emily’s gotten a panic room because she lives alone now. The code is 11111 and Emily makes Lorelai write it down. The girls go over for Friday night dinner, but there’s no gin in the house. Richard is out of town, so Emily takes the Girls to the pool house, ostensibly to get some gin, but really just to snoop. Emily goes into the closet and comes out with a sequined vest. She is horrified and wants to know where he would wear such a thing. Lorelai goes to see Richard one day and Richard tells her he joined a barbershop quartet. So that explains the vest. Richard goes to the main house that night and tells Emily about the barbershop quartet.

Lane is a little miffed that Zack hasn’t commented since she told him she likes him. He’s had no reaction at all. Lane gets sick of it and tells him she’s changed her mind and doesn’t like him anymore. He comes to the diner later and says he’s a little slow and he was just processing. He likes her, too, but he’s going to need some time.

Emily: Lorelai, please don’t joke with the maids. It’s not what they do.

Emily: How dare he have a vest like that?

Luke, about Pippi: What happened to her hair?

Other notes: I hate Dean’s hair. He was really cute when he was younger and he looks good now on Supernatural, but this whole phase when he’s sleeping with Rory he’s just not doing it for me.

Lorelai is trying to get a permit for two extra parking spaces for the inn, but Taylor keeps rejecting her applications. Taylor is also going after Jackson for the greenhouse he recently had built because it’s too close to the edge of his property. Jackson goes crazy and decides he’s going to run against Taylor in the upcoming election for town selectman. It’s kind of a weird thing because nobody ever runs against Taylor. Lorelai and Sookie set up their campaign table at Luke’s.

Dean and Rory are supposed to hang out, but he calls and says Lindsay has the car and he can’t get there. Rory drives to Stars Hollow to hang out at his house. It’s nice to see his sister, Clara, again, but Dean’s mom is kind of bitchy and disapproving. She makes Dean leave the door open while he and Rory are in his room and oh man do I not miss hanging out with my high school boyfriends in their rooms at their parents’ houses. The next time they get together, they make out in Rory’s car, which is problematic for Dean since he’s about ten feet tall. Rory asks Dean to go to Jackson’s rally with her, but he yells at her for even suggesting such a thing because he doesn’t want to flaunt the relationship all over town and rub Lindsay’s nose in it.

Lorelai asks Lane’s band to play at a rally for Jackson, and now I’m quite sure the writers of this show have never known anyone in a band. The voting starts, and Lane’s band is just then given a tape of the song Jackson wants them to play. They’ve never heard it before, but they’re going to go on and play it in like five minutes. Kirk has been polling, and he says everyone in town plans to vote for Jackson. Lorelai is happy, but then she looks through the window in the diner and sees Taylor sitting by himself in the dark in his soda shoppe. She thinks it’s sad.

Jackson gets on stage and says he has no idea why he’s running for selectman. He already has a job and not a lot of time and he doesn’t want to be selectman. The crowd just loves him more for being an honest man and of course he wins. Only ten people vote for Taylor, most of them because Lorelai asked them to.

After the rally, Zack brings a couple of tramps back to the apartment. Lane hasn’t told Zack she likes him because she’s worried it will break up the band, but she just can’t stand to see him with these girls so she tells him she likes him and then goes to her room. Zack goes outside to think about things.

Dean comes up to Rory at the rally and apologizes for yelling the other night. He says he worked things out with his car and talked to his mom so things are going to be better. Rory asks if Dean would have left Lindsay if she hadn’t found her letter. Dean kind of does that weird grin of his and says yes, of course he would have left her.

Rory: You do not harass the voters. This is not Florida.

Lorelai: Kirk, sit down.

Kirk: Can’t. These aren’t my pants.

Also in this episode, Asher has left Paris a printing press and she puts it in the common room.

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.

Luke is still in New York helping out but he’s decided to go home because TJ is being obnoxious. He looks for a necklace to go with the earrings Liz gave him a while back, and Liz is really happy for him for getting together with Lorelai.

Lorelai is running around all the time like a crazy person. She’s always at the inn, making beds because the maids aren’t doing it right and rearranging things. Sookie tells her she’s working too hard and acting like Emily and she needs to take a break.

Emily and Rory arrive at their hotel room in Rome and Rory goes off by herself while Emily takes her afternoon nap. Emily calls Lorelai to say hello and makes Rory talk to her. Rory is bitchy and nonresponsive. Then one day she and Emily are at some café and it reminds Rory about when she was there with Lorelai. She calls and apologizes and also says she knows she screwed up with Dean. She says she wrote a letter and she wants to send it to Lorelai to give to him.

Zack brings a couple of trampy girls to the diner. Lane acts territorial and bitchy, so Zack takes his girls and leaves. One of the girls comes back in and says she’s sorry, she didn’t know Lane liked Zack. Lane didn’t really know it either until this moment.

Lorelai goes to the market to deliver the letter. Dean has cut his hair and I hate it. He kind of freaks out on Lorelai, asking where Rory is and what’s going on. Lorelai says she’s just a messenger. Later, Sookie and Lorelai are walking by Dean and Lindsay’s apartment. Lindsay is throwing all Dean’s stuff out the window and yelling at the top of her lungs. I guess Dean let her find the letter. Rory comes home later that day. She and Lorelai take a walk through town and they run into Lindsay and her mother. Lindsay’s mom tells Rory to go to hell and then walks away. Lorelai asks what was in the letter, and Rory says she was telling him she was taking herself out of the mix so he wouldn’t have to choose between her and Lindsay.

Rory and Lorelai go to the diner to recover, and Luke is finally home from the renaissance fair. Luke gets all weird and leaves to go run an errand. Lorelai follows him. He’s outside kind of waiting for her. He gives her the necklace and then starts to kiss her, but then a parade comes through and interrupts them. She says she loves the necklace and she’ll hook up with him later.

Rory goes to Dean’s parents’ house to see him. He’s not really happy to see her and he acts like kind of an ass. He says he was married and he threw it all away for someone who dumped him two years ago. Then he goes inside. Yeah, Rory didn’t force you to cheat on your wife, jackass.

Lorelai: Will you be mad if it’s Showgirls again? I got the deluxe edition with shot glasses and a drinking game.

This episode starts out with Rory and Dean in Rory’s bed. They’re whispering sweet nothings to each other when they hear Lorelai come home. We get to see the awkward “just caught having sex” scene from Dean’s perspective as he stands on the porch and listens to Rory tell Lorelai how much Dean loves her. He gets a little freaked out and runs home. Lindsay is waiting up for him. She says she answered his phone earlier but nobody was there. Dean decides to pick a fight. Poor Lindsay has no idea what’s going on.

Emily and Richard get home from the Dragonfly and fight all the way through the house and downstairs into the basement. Emily decides she’s going to Europe and she’s looking for her European luggage. Richard goes upstairs and slams the door and Emily gets locked in the basement. She crawls out a window, but her skirt gets caught so she just rips it off and keeps crawling. Richard meets her outside just as some security guys show up because the neighbors complained about their fighting.

Lorelai goes back to the Dragonfly and finds that Luke has taken care of Kirk and laid him down on the couch. He landed in a rosebush and now he’s got thorn scratches on his butt. Sookie comes downstairs and Kirk says something about seeing Luke and Lorelai kissing. Sookie takes Luke into the other room and hugs him because this is so exciting. Luke asks her to keep it quiet for now because he doesn’t know if Lorelai wants people to know yet.

The next morning, Taylor tells Michel and Lorelai that one of his shoes is missing and the other has been chewed. He’s yelling about it when Luke comes downstairs and says he’s leaving, then he looks all upset when Lorelai quickly says goodbye and then goes back to Taylor.

Sookie wants to gossip with Lorelai about Luke. Lorelai’s a little standoffish at first, but she says she’s just processing and she hopes Luke knows she’s happy about the kiss. As soon as she finds a minute, she calls him at the diner. Luke is relieved when Lorelai says it was a great kiss and she’d like to do it again sometime.

Rory comes by for breakfast. Lorelai tries to be friendly and talk about things with her, but Rory is bratty and leaves in a huff. She calls Dean from a pay phone and asks him to meet her at Miss Patty’s to talk. She’s planning to end things with him, but they end up having sex again. Then she goes to Lane’s and tells her everything. Lane thinks maybe she should talk to Lorelai, but Rory says that’s not an option.

Emily comes to the Dragonfly for a lunch Lorelai promised her, not understanding that when she and Richard left the night before, Rory and Lorelai thought lunch was off. Lorelai calls Rory and asks her to come back to the inn. On her way, Rory passes Lindsay talking to a guy at the butcher shop. Lindsay is panicking because she wants to make a roast beef for Dean and wants it to be perfect because it’s his favorite.

Lunch with Emily is awkward and uncomfortable because Rory is a brat. Then Emily announces that she and Richard are separated. Lorelai thinks it’s ridiculous that Richard is living in the pool house. Emily says she’s going to Europe for the summer and wants Rory to go with her. Lorelai manipulates the conversation so that Rory has no choice but to say yes. So now Rory feels like she’s being shipped off to Europe because she acted up.

That night, Lindsay jumps up and down when the roast turns out okay. Lorelai goes to the airport to see Rory and Emily off. Rory is as cold as can be when she says goodbye. Lorelai goes home and gets a message from Luke. He says Liz and TJ got in an accident. They’ve both broken some bones and he’s on his way to help them out at the renaissance fair for a week.

Richard: Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine at lunch.

Lorelai, to Emily: You’re separated by the pool.

Rory goes to Lane’s and they play video games for a minute to see what all the fuss is about. Rory tells Lane all about Jess and his proposal to take her away. The conversation turns to Dean, and Rory says she always knew she could count on him and she regrets screwing things up with him so badly.

Lorelai tells Rory she thinks she’s dating Luke and asks what Rory thinks about that. Rory says they should go inside the diner and see what happens. That’s what they do, and when Luke says hi to her, Lorelai falls into a table and knocks things over.

Lorelai, Sookie and Michel have invited all their friends to the Dragonfly for a trial run before the official opening. As part of a ploy to get her parents to either make up or admit they’re having problems, Lorelai invites them, too.

Rory sees Dean walking down the street. She smiles and waves at him, but he frowns and walks away. She runs into him later at the Dragonfly and asks him what his problem is. He says he was worried that Rory and Jess were back together. She asks him why that would bother him so much and he says it’s because Jess doesn’t treat her right. He leans in for a kiss, but right then Tom the contractor walks in and interrupts. DEAN, YOU ARE MARRIED. STEP AWAY FROM RORY.

Kirk comes to Luke and says he’s worried about spending the night with Lulu at the Dragonfly. He has night terrors and usually ends up running around naked and he doesn’t want Lulu to see him like that. He says he requested the room next to Luke’s so Luke can keep an eye on him.

Guests start arriving at the Dragonfly for the trial run. Kirk asks Michel to take all the bookends and light bulbs out of his room. Emily and Richard show up and Lorelai puts them in the private bungalow. Luke brings Lorelai flowers and she runs into a door. Then Jason shows up. She tells him she can’t talk to him now, but he says he’s not leaving until she agrees to hear him out. He sits in the lobby all night. Luke asks Babette who Jason is, and she says he was Lorelai’s boyfriend for the last six months.

Emily comes in and yells at Lorelai for putting her and Richard in the bungalow when she knows they’re fighting. Then Richard comes in to do some yelling as well. They see Jason in the lobby and decide it’s time to leave. Later, Luke introduces himself to Jason and asks him who he is. Jason says he and Lorelai are dating because I guess he’s in denial or something. Luke goes to Lorelai and says she had to have known what he was doing with the movie invites and stuff and now he finds out she has a boyfriend. She tells him Jason is not her boyfriend. He yells for a minute and then they kiss. FINALLY! Then Kirk comes running down the stairs screaming.

Rory goes home to get some CDs to bring back to the Dragonfly. Dean follows her and they start talking about how they almost kissed earlier. Dean tells Rory that things aren’t working with Lindsay and they’re not happy. He and Rory start making out and then Rory loses her virginity. Lorelai comes home to tell Rory what happened at the inn and she sees Rory and Dean come out of Rory’s room with their clothes all rumpled. Dean leaves and Rory acts like the whole thing is no big deal. Lorelai tries to get her to see that this isn’t good and she can’t be sleeping with a married man, but Rory doesn’t really get it until she goes outside to call Dean and Lindsay answers the phone.

Luke: I’m not a mysterious man, am I?

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.

Liz: I don’t want to screw up this marriage even more than I want some pot.