Rory and Paris eat Chinese food and talk about the things they’re going to do to improve the apartment. Logan comes over and tries to talk to Rory, but Paris tells him off. Then Doyle, still wearing Rory’s coat, comes over to tell Paris he wants to get back together. Rory and Logan go out into the hallway and talk. Logan makes his case and says he thought they were broken up when he slept with those other girls. It’s clear Rory is still angry, but she tells Logan she forgives him and agrees to go home with him. Then she disappears to Stars Hollow for the weekend. She tells Lorelai it was all a misunderstanding and things are fine between her and Logan.

Lane, Zack and Brian have all moved back into their apartment and band practices are going to start tomorrow. The only thing left to do is for Zack to go to Mrs. Kim to ask for Lane’s hand in marriage. He brings over letters of recommendation and bank statements. Mrs. Kim says she wants to make sure he can provide for Lane doing what he wants to do, so she asks him to bring her a demo. She says Hep Alien needs a hit if Zack is going to marry Lane. Zack spends the next twenty hours writing a song that Mrs. Kim approves of. She gives Lane her grandmother’s ring.

Emily and Richard are driving to an estate sale and decide to stop in Stars Hollow. They walk around the house criticizing the remodel. Emily is of course offended that this is the first time she’s seen the remodel at the house. Logan keeps calling during dinner, but Rory turns off her phone. Kirk comes to the inn the next day. He’s training to be a real estate agent and he tells Lorelai her parents are looking for a place in Stars Hollow.

April calls Luke to ask him to chaperone a school trip. Lorelai tells him he should go. Rory wants to go to Woodbridge to Anna Nardini’s store to check her out. Lorelai says no so Rory goes herself. She brings back a Pan Am stewardess’s bag for Lorelai. Lorelai is pretty upset that Rory went behind her back, but Rory thinks it’s crazy that Lorelai isn’t pushing to find out more about April and Anna. Me too, Rory. The Girls go to the diner later and Rory sees a bag that she saw earlier at Anna’s store. Lorelai asks him where he got it and he says Anna sent it over. Lorelai is clearly upset but she pretends she’s not.

When Rory gets home on Sunday night, Logan is really upset. He hasn’t heard from her all weekend and had no idea where she was. She’s very dismissive and says everything’s fine. She’s clearly still mad but she pretends she’s not. I hate the Gilmore Girls sometimes.

Michel, to Rory: No, Little Lorelai, it is not the cost that is the issue.

Lane is looking for a band because Hep Alien is still not talking. Zack sees her putting up an ad at the music store. He goes to the bat mitzvah where Gil and Brian are playing in their new band. He apologizes for the way things went down and says he wants to get the band back together. They say they’re in if Zack can get Lane in. Zack goes to the diner. He tells Lane he’s missed her and then gives her a ring and asks her to marry him. She says yes.

Rory is on some kind of journalism panel at Yale. Logan can’t go because he’s going to Honor’s rehearsal dinner. Christopher goes, and afterward he and Lorelai talk about GG. He needs someone to watch her on Sunday, so Lorelai volunteers. GG is the brattiest kid ever. She screams and colors on the floor. When Christopher comes home, Lorelai tactfully tries to tell him GG is spoiled and Chris should give her some more discipline. Christopher just gets pissed and takes GG home. He calls later to apologize and he says Lorelai was right.

Logan and Rory go to Honor’s wedding. Logan goes off to help the groom get ready, and Honor kidnaps Rory and makes her hang out with her and the bridesmaids. Honor goes off to have some pictures taken, and the bridesmaids start talking about Logan. It turns almost all of them hooked up with him while he and Rory were broken up over the winter. Rory misses the ceremony and Logan comes to the dressing room afterward and asks Rory what’s going on. He apologizes for not telling her about those girls but maintains he did nothing wrong.  She tells him not to be at the apartment for a few hours the next day so she can get her stuff.

Rory goes to a campus bar and gets drunk with Doyle. Paris is back on the newspaper and is being unpleasant to everyone, and Doyle has been having a really rough time with her. He tells her Paris kicked him out. Rory and Doyle stumble out the door together and Rory gives him her coat because he’s cold. He gives her a hug and tries to kiss her neck. She freaks out and tells him to go back to Paris. Then Rory realizes she has nowhere to go, so she goes to Paris and Doyle’s place to talk. Paris says Rory can move back in.

Luke, to Kirk: Stop sniffing my fiancé.

Gil, to Zack: You’re way deep in my bogus bag and it’s Ziplocked shut.

Rory: Logan had many, many blondes for Thanksgiving.

Rory meets Paul Anka for the first time, and Lorelai convinces her that if she puts sugar on her toes and lets the dog lick it off, he’ll like her. Lorelai takes Rory to Luke’s and then to the inn to show everyone that she’s back. Michel is really happy to see her, but quickly recovers and says he was just surprised.

Lane has noticed that all the songs Zack writes have girls’ names and she’s a little annoyed. He says nothing rhymes with Lane, but Brian says he thinks he can come up with something. He starts writing a song called “Lane” and Zack gets jealous and goes nuts. The band has a gig, and Zack shows up for sound check with a tambourine player and a Gwen Stefani mic. The show is a disaster because Zack is yelling at everyone and freaking out. Zack kicks Brian’s amp amp and Gil tackles him. They all get dragged offstage. Lane finds Zack outside asks him what the hell happened. He says this is why people in bands shouldn’t date.

Christopher calls and says he has news, so Lorelai goes to have lunch with him. He says his grandfather died and left him with a ton of money, and he wants to take care of Lorelai and Rory. Lorelai, of course, says she wants nothing, but Rory says she wouldn’t mind him paying for Yale so she can get out from under the grandparents. Thanksgiving Day, Rory and Lorelai go have lunch with Christopher and Rory asks him to pay for Yale.

Liz is hanging around Luke’s, using his kitchen to make her turkey, and Luke tells her about April. Liz thinks it’s a little weird that he hasn’t told Lorelai yet. Anyway, Liz’s dinner doesn’t turn out right, so the Renaissance Fair crowd has dinner with her and Luke at the Dragonfly. Lorelai tells Luke about her meeting with Christopher, and Luke says it’s fine. Then he goes to the other room and tries to call April, but nobody answers. Logan’s sister, Honor, calls Rory and says she hates that she and Logan broke up. Rory thought they were just on a break and she’s upset to hear that Logan is telling people they’re totally broken up.

Michel, to Rory: It’s kind of okay that you are here.

Christopher: You want some people-crushing money?

Rory: You don’t know what it was like to be living with them.

Lorelai: Hello! Oppressed one, class of ’85.

Lorelai is going through all her video tapes and she finds Riding the Bus with My Sister. She tells Luke it’s the kind of movie she and Rory would watch together. She comes across the tape the next day and actually calls Rory’s cell phone number, only to find it’s been disconnected.

Emily is stuck in Helsinki and isn’t going to have time to host some DAR mixer. She calls Rory and asks her to do it. She does her bangs in some horrible sidesweep and walks around socializing with everyone. I hate DAR Rory. Logan shows up looking all depressed and he’s really standoffish when Rory introduces him to the ladies. Rory takes him into the kitchen and asks him what’s wrong. He’s not talking, he just says he’s not in the mood for a party. Rory tells him to go wait for her in the pool house and she’ll be along when the party is over. When Rory gets to the pool house, Logan is hanging out with Colin, Finn and the milkmaid Colin fell in love with in Holland.

Sookie is pissed that Jackson’s mother wants the babies to be baptized and she really doesn’t want family members staying at the house. Lorelai suggests they stay at the Dragonfly. Cousin Roon has told Jackson’s brother, Beau, that Lorelai is a nymphomaniac, so he comes in all gross and flirty. He even licks his key at her. It’s really gross.

Sookie comes to Luke with a cake topper she found and asks him when he and Lorelai are getting married. He reminds her they’re not setting a date until Lorelai and Rory are talking again. Sookie’s sick of this, so she asks Lorelai to be Martha’s godmother and Rory to be Davie’s godmother.

The day of the baptism, Rory and Lorelai each wake up and have sickeningly similar conversations with Logan and Luke, each holding up two dresses and saying, “Which one goes better with a baby?” Rory gets to Stars Hollow early and goes to hang out with Lane for a while.  Lane convinces her she and Lorelai will make up soon, and then Rory goes to the church and starts walking up to Lorelai. The reverend comes by and asks if he can talk to them. Rory starts to tell him to hold on, but Lorelai says sure and walks inside. The reverend asks them about their religious affiliations, but they have no idea what to say.

In the middle of the baptism, Lorelai suddenly starts loud-whispering to Rory, asking her how Sookie got in touch with her and why she changed her number. She actually tells the reverend to hold on and takes Rory outside and starts yelling. Rory says she just lost her phone and got a new number. Before she goes home, she offers to give Lorelai her new number. Lorelai is kind of bitchy and basically says she doesn’t want it.

Rory calls Logan on her way home and he tells her he had a talk with his father. Mitchum wants Logan to graduate this year and get his act together and start getting ready to take on the family business. Logan tells Rory to meet him at the airport because he wants to get out of town for the weekend.

Also in this episode: Lane comes home from work to find the boys have used all the tour money to buy a bunch of recording equipment.

Kirk: This is the suit they buried my dad in.

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.

Lorelai picks up Rory from the police station, where she and Logan were taken after being arrested for stealing a boat. Rory tells Lorelai it was her idea, but Lorelai is convinced it was Logan’s. Rory tells Lorelai what Mitchum said about her not having what it takes to be a journalist. Lorelai is angry, but Rory defends him and says the guy knows what he’s talking about. Logan calls the next morning looking for Rory and he tells Lorelai his father is going to take care of things. Lorelai says his dad has done enough. Logan asks Rory what that’s all about, and she tells him what Mitchum told her. She goes to take her final later that day and just sits there staring out the window.

Mike Armstrong sends a gift basket to Lorelai. Luke is worried she’s going to sell the inn. He can’t believe she’s thinking about taking the offer. He goes to Taylor and says he’s changed his mind about buying the Twickham house. While all this is going on, Stars Hollow is hosting an international bike race, and Luke is annoyed because there’s a hole in front of the diner and every biker that rides by shouts, “Big hole!” Luke runs outside with a bat, and they all start shouting, “Big bat!”

Lane realizes the band is getting stale and they haven’t practiced in a long time. She calls a band meting and they all say they’ve just gotten busy with other things. Lane goes to Mrs. Kim and says she’s worried the band is breaking up and she might have to move back home. Mrs. Kim says that’s not an option. Kims do not give up. She sets up a tour for the band with Seventh Day Adventist venues all up and down the east coast.

Lorelai and Rory have lunch together and Rory says she’s not going back to Yale next year. Rory acts like a freaking idiot and is convinced that if Mitchum says she can’t do it, she can’t do it. Lorelai tells her she understands she’s upset about what Mitchum said but Rory needs to stay in school. Rory insists she can’t possibly be a journalist and she’s not going back. Lorelai goes to her parents and tells them everything and asks for their help in ganging up on Rory to convince her to go back. They agree, but then Rory comes crying to Richard and tells him she needs his help. So when Lorelai gets to dinner on Friday, Emily and Richard tell her Rory will live in the pool house while she takes time off from Yale.

Lorelai goes to the diner and tells Luke what’s going on with Rory. He starts yelling and making plans for what he and Lorelai are going to do to fix things. Lorelai is totally awed by how much Luke cares for Rory, and she asks him to marry her.

And then I sat in suspense for months to find out his answer. Damn cliffhanger finales.

Mitchum Huntzberger comes by the Yale Daily News to tell Doyle he wants Logan to write more for the paper. Rory tells Doyle she can get together with Logan and help him with an article. They hang out and Rory gives him her notes, and she’s disappointed when Logan doesn’t ask her out or act like he’s interested in anything romantic.

Michel says Toblerones are going missing from the rooms at the inn and he’s really upset about it. Lorelai runs into Jackson one night, and he says something about the late nights Sookie’s working at the inn. Lorelai is confused, so she goes to the inn and finds Sookie in one of the rooms watching television. It started out with her just wanting to watch an episode of her favorite show and not having time to get home before it started, but now she’s doing it every week because it’s nice to have some alone time.

Kyon tells Lane that Mrs. Kim expects her to come to Lunar New Year dinner. Lane says she will only come if she can bring the band. Mrs. Kim surprises her by accepting her terms. At the dinner, some little Korean kid yells at Zack, and Kyon makes eyes at Brian. Lane has been wearing contacts, and Mrs. Kim says she doesn’t like it. Zack agrees, and he and Mrs. Kim go off to look at old pictures of Lane.

Emily and Richard have their regular meeting to talk about bills and stuff, and they can’t decide which one of them should go to a particular function. They decide to go together. Richard has a meeting at work and suggests bringing Simon in on something. His colleagues say they don’t think he’d like that since the whole thing with Emily. Richard didn’t know anything about Emily’s date and now he’s pissed. He arrives behind Emily at the function that night and rear ends her car. He takes her home and yells at her about dating Simon. When they get home, Richard says he doesn’t want to go back to the pool house. Emily tells him to come home.

When the Girls come over for the next Friday night dinner, they look in the window and see the Richard and Emily kissing. They’ve reconciled and they’re going to renew their wedding vows in a week. Emily wants Lorelai to be her maid of honor, and Richard wants Rory to be his best man. Emily takes Lorelai upstairs, where Miss Celine has filled the bedroom with wedding dresses. Emily tries some on, and she catches Lorelai holding a dress up to herself in front of the mirror. She doesn’t like the looks of that, so she goes to see Christopher the next day. She tells him she doesn’t like Luke and she wants Christopher to be with Lorelai. Then she gives him an invitation to her re-wedding.

Lorelai, after seeing her parents kiss: My parents are having an affair!

Miss Celine: Do you need breasts or are yours sufficing for the moment?

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.

Asher holds a book signing for his new novel and Paris is annoyed about all the other girls who hover around him and try to flirt. Doyle shows up at the reading and mentions to Rory that Asher dates a new freshman every year. Rory wrote a paper for Asher’s class, but she doesn’t feel like it was very good. When she gets an A, she tells Asher she wants to earn her grades and not get good grades because of her friendship with Paris. Asher is offended and tells her that her paper was great and she shouldn’t question his grading tactics.

Lane sees some other Korean girl walk out of her old house with Mrs. Kim. She’s a little jealous that Mrs. Kim has a new daughter. Lane attacks the girl on the sidewalk one day and finds out she’s a foreign exchange student.

Jason goes to the country club to work on his golf game and none of the other businessmen will talk to him. He can’t get a hold of his father or Richard. He finally gets a call from Richard’s lawyer, who informs him that Richard has gone back to Floyd’s company and taken all the clients. Now Jason has no clients and no prospects and is totally ruined. Lorelai goes to Richard to yell at him for treating Jason so badly. Richard tells her there was nothing else he could do and he’s a little upset that Lorelai doesn’t care what happens to him or Emily, only what happens to Jason. Emily overhears, and she tells Richard she’s worried that if he goes after Jason like this, Lorelai will stop talking to them. Richard is unsympathetic.

Lorelai tells Rory she doesn’t plan to go to Friday night dinner because of all the mess going on, but Rory is selfish and says it’s really important to her because sometimes it’s the only time she gets to see her mom. When they get to the house early, Richard answers the door himself and is surprisingly friendly and a little scatterbrained. Emily comes in the front door and won’t tell the Girls where she was. Lorelai and Rory hide in the bushes after dinner and see Emily get in her car and drive away. Lorelai calls hotels in town until she finds the one where Emily is staying. She tells Jason all about it, and then Jason says he’s suing Richard because it’s the only thing he can do. Lorelai breaks up with him because she can’t be with someone who is suing her family.

Lane’s band has a gig and it goes great. Lane tells Zack she wants to celebrate, but he goes to the bar to flirt with some groupies (one of whom is named Shannon – ew). Lane feels sad and lonely, so she goes to her old house late that night and kisses Mrs. Kim on the forehead while she’s sleeping.

Lorelai, to the maid: I’m looking for my father. Big guy, bowtie.

Also in this episode: Luke signs his divorce papers and mails them off.

The Girls attend a funeral for some guy named Stan. I think Rory’s trying to look like a beatnik. Stan’s final wish was for the church bells to ring again. They fell into disrepair a long time ago and Stan left the money for them to be fixed. Everyone in town is delighted the first time the bells ring.

Rory and Paris join some kind of club, and Rory doesn’t like it when the guy who rejected her also joins. A couple of the girls talk about him and tell a story about a girl who came up to him out of nowhere and asked him out. Rory is sure the story is about her. She yells at him one day in the dining hall for spreading the story about her asking him out and everyone hears her. He tells her he wasn’t talking about her.

Luke tells Lorelai he and Nicole got an apartment in Litchfield three weeks ago. Lorelai is upset that he didn’t tell her. She feels like they’re not really friends if Luke can’t even tell her where he lives. Lorelai looks out her window later that day and finds Luke shoveling her walkway. She goes out to thank him and he yells at her for getting into his business.

It doesn’t take long for everyone to get sick of the bells, and Lorelai goes to Luke and asks if he wants to help her break them. She goes upstairs with him while he gets his tools, and she notices dishes and stuff that makes it obvious he’s still living there. They get to the church and it’s clear Luke knows what he’s doing. Turns out he’s the one who broke the bells before. Lorelai asks Luke why he pretended he moved. He says he did move, but sometimes it just makes sense to spend the night at his apartment. She of course has a whole lot to say about it and he gets pissed again because it’s none of her damn business. He asks why she cares so much and she finally says she doesn’t want him to move. Just then Reverend Skinner walks in. He sees Luke’s implements of destruction and says, “Oh, thank God. Carry on.”

Gil gets the band a gig at CBGB. Unfortunately, it’s at one o’clock on a Tuesday morning and the only people in the audience are Brian’s parents. The gig gets canceled. Lane shows up at Rory’s at four in the morning and says she didn’t tell her mom anything, she just left the house and now she’s afraid to go home. Rory calls Lorelai and Lorelai calls Mrs. Kim, who has what looks like a prayer vigil and firemen at the house. On her way to Yale to pick her up, Mrs. Kim stops to tell Luke that Lane won’t be in to work that day. He says he knows because Lane already called him. She’s sad that Lane called everyone except her. She turns around and goes home.

When Lane gets home, Mrs. Kim is in her room. She’s found all Lane’s secret stuff. Lane tells her she doesn’t want to keep secrets anymore. She’d be happy to go to a community college and live at home and obey a curfew, but she doesn’t want to hide who she is and she doesn’t want to go to her Seventh Day Adventist college anymore. Mrs. Kim says Lane is welcome to move out and live however she wants. Lane shows up at Rory’s with a suitcase.

Luke: I don’t remember anyone pronouncing us husband and wife and Lorelai.