THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING GILMORE GIRLS: SEASON 3, EPISODE 2: HAUNTED LEG-TUMBLR IS HUNGIE AND KEEPS EATING MY POSTS
The Netflix synopses (synopseses? Synposi? Where are you, Jess Mariano? You're my only hope) made this episode seem like it was going to be heavily En-Crusty'd (Christopher focused) but then the lovely @frazzledsoul told me that in this episode Rory takes Christopher to school (metaphorically) and this is also the episode where Jess takes RORY down a peg in a GLORIOUS confrontation at Doose's Market. If there's one thing I love seeing in Gilmore GIrls it's a good peg lowering. In fact, it gives me such immense satisfaction to see Rory in particular get taken down a peg that the three times Dean does it to her are the only times I actually side with Dean.
Let the Notch-Taking-Down Party commence.
But first....Happy 18th birthday, Jess! You're legal, mister! I am solidly and forever in the Late August/ Early September Birthday Camp (I have my reasons) and we're already there on the show! It's been almost a year since he arrived in Stars Hollow as a 17 year old! I'm gonna make it easy and say it was September 1st.
Now you can visit the strip club, and buy porn and cigarettes legally! You're a man now! (well, at least you could buy cigarettes at 18 years old 20 years ago. It's 21 now).
Episode begins with Emily still being predictably salty about last week's FND, where Lorelai snuck out of the house while her parents were fighting over her breakup with Crusty.
Don't listen to her. You do can do whatever you want, even while you're on the clock. My little shmushkins. My apple dumpling. My peach tart. My banana muffin. My jelly donut. You're gonna make a bazillion dollars with your books some day and show em all. *pinches his cheeks*
Lorelai is coming down with an illness which I shall diagnose as mononucleosis (aka the kissing disease) that she contracted from making out with Dean Forrester.
Lorelai has no qualms about leaving the house to eat out every single day in a crowded diner and spread her germs all over town, instead of keeping her ass in bed, I guess. She's also incapable of purchasing and opening a can of soup and dumping it in a pot on the stove (or hell, even sticking it in the microwave) so she wakes up each day and chooses to be a Disease Vector. If she wasn't (presumably) still married to Luke in 2020 to cook her meals for her at home I don't know how she survived the pandemic.
Luke: You know what helps a cold? A healthy immune system. You know how to get a healthy system? By not eating crap and blowing out your brain cells with coffee. Eat a vegetable now and then or some high fiber cereal. At least eat the carrots in the soup?
Three minutes in and he's already Insulting Lorelai (while, uh, also insulting himself at the same time?) Whee, I'm loving this episode already! More Peg-Lowering, please! Several people on this show are going to be HUMBLED and I am HERE for it.
But why is Luke always downselling food that he puts on his own menu? I know Lorelai and Rory don't ever pay him anyway, but doesn't he want to attempt to make some money? "My food will make you fat and sick and kill your brain cells. Don't eat it. Go eat somewhere else." Or is it that he's a-okay with poisoning the rest of Stars Hollow with copious amounts of junk food but wants to spare Lorelai and Rory the same fate? One would also suppose he doesn't actually have said vegetables or fiber rich cereal on his menu in the first place (it's a fucking diner) and that would mean Lorelai would have to pour herself her own cereal at home. Perish the thought.
Is Luke secretly some kind of California Hipster in denial? Would he be more at home opening some kind of vegan cafe where he serves wheat grass shots and kombucha and avacado toast, you know, all the stuff Milo Ventimiglia eats. (But Milo’s a big junk food junky too, he's a bit of a paradox, that man). What does he feed Jess, by the way? In his first appearance he was planning to stuff his already neglected and malnourished nephew full of Corn Flakes and Pop Tarts.
Grandpa here is going to live to be 115 probably, but only if you shut up, you're already sending him to an early grave.
EVERYONE STOP EATING AND TALKING. THE QUEEN HAS ARRIVED!
Anyone else think its funny that Lorelai and Rory and Luke are ilke the mayors of Stars Hollow who know everything down to when the mailman's dog farts but nobody knows who Shane is, where she came from, who her family is, when she moved in, where she lives, how she ended up with Jess...ANYTHING? Nobody even seems to know her name? Silence from Miss Patty and Babette?
Lane and Dean never informed Rory that Jess was never in school, that he supposedly pulled the fire alarm, stole 500 baseballs, etc etc. again, shouldn't Lane be absolutely losing her mind to spill this piping hot tea that Jess has been hooking up with some mysterious blond skankbag all summer? And Dean too, shouldn't he always be dying to tell Rory anything that would cast Jess in an unfavorable light and make her think less of him? What is with this town where they'll hold an emergency meeting because he drew on a sidewalk with some chalk but when he actually does something worth talking about, nobody wants to narc on him? They fear him, that's what it is.
What is Shane's last name by the way? I made up a poll and asked you to decide on her last name and I'm currently awaiting the results, which I will use going forward.
Jess and Shane continue to give Rory Gilmore a sexual awakening so immense it could knock our fucking solar system out of alignment. That boom you just heard was Jupiter and Saturn crashing into one another from the sheer force of Rory Gilmore's quivering loins.
Tomatos Sign.
I wonder how much money Jessica Kiper was paid to stick her tongue in Milo's mouth and say "Hey" and "Jess". Did she have to audition? I would do the job for free. I would keep screwing up just so the director could yell "Cut" and I could do as many takes as possible. Warner Brothers could own me for the rest of my life just for that opportunity.
Meow! All she did was say his name, lol. Someone's cranky. You know what would cure that bad mood? A good handjob from Shane (last name soon to be announced).
This whole "no strings attached sexual gratification" deal that was seemingly dropped in his lap? Meh, whatever. He'll do it, but he'll be reading the entire time.
Meanwhile, this is Dean waiting 5 years for Rory to put out:
(By the way, Mr. Mariano, don't ever tell a woman to "relax")
Jess sighs and leaves in the middle of his shift (Lorelai should be proud), leaving his customers wondering where their pancakes are, to go have sex with Shane somewhere public and indecent, leaving Rory in their horny wake. Perhaps Jess has the intuition that the cold, clammy, looming hand of Celibacy (aka his own hand and a jumbo size bottle of lotion) will soon be upon him so he better seize these opportunities.
Love it when she says shit like this as if her boyfriend Dean Forrester is some fucking chatterbox (he'll grunt a few words as he's also a typical teenage boy like Jess and she'll go "That's So INTERESTING Dean! Do go on. I love you, little buttered croissant"), and also like she should actually expect Jess to talk around her when he knows she's going to pick on him even worse if he does have something to say.
Too late.
That's hilarious- I forgot that Dean was about to show up just now and prove my point.
She's still wearing that stupid quarter on a string on her wrist. I will give this show credit for being very consistent with some of the small details like this. Every day for 2+ years straight, Alexis Bledel shows up at Wardrobe and they slap that thing on her wrist.
That cup is HUGE.
Yeah. What?
I could teach a comatose goldfish to say "I already ate breakfast." The hell is your point?
Oh god. It's that episode where Kirk and Lorelai go on a "Date". I do not remember how it goes but I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and predict that it was sufficiently awkward.
Honestly...Lorelai has done MUCH worse before and will continue to do much worse than Kirk. Mommy issues aside, Kirk has more redeeming qualities than Max or Crusty. Like, at least Kirk is ambitious. Lorelai is still only a few months removed from banging Crusty who wouldn't know the meaning of hard work if it bit him in the ass. I hope something bites Crusty in the ass. Like a rabid possum.
Kirk...."Let's go out...In two weeks. I heard you have a cold. It takes two weeks for a virus to leave the immune system."
He's also smart and would survive the pandemic.
"You might be the prettiest girl I've ever seen. Outside of a filthy magazine."
It's the first day of senior year for Rory and our other Stars Hollow teens.
It's all downhill for Rory after high school.
Nobody tell her.
L: I cannot go out with Kirk!
R: Why not?
L: He's Kirk!
Poor Neurodivergent Kirk.
Fixed it.
i was about to say "What the what! Lorelai is actually pouring her own cereal?" but it's Rory wno's making her own breakfast and Lorelai is just pouring marshmallows into the bowl (who does that? That's not a thing. Here in The United States of America, there are already cereals that come with marshmallows). I mean, at least she's eating at home and "helping". Good for you for helping to feed to your chiild, Lorelai. Even if she's eschewing the (marginally) more healthy Raisin Bran in favor of Rice Krispies.
I'm going to add a new feature to the ends of these posts: I call it:
Things Googled While Watching GIlmore GIrls.
Birthday Party Icons, How Old To Buy CIgarettes in Connecticut, Definition of Proclivities, How Many Words Can A Parrot Learn
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Shane approached Kyleigh with a small wrapped box. The wrapping was sloppy, but it was better than the other two times he had tried to wrap it. Before he had always let the professionals wrap the gifts that he'd purchased. That luxury didn't exist anymore so he did his best. He offers her the box. "Ignore the pink and blue baby feet all over the paper. It's all I could find." As she took it, he offered softly, "Happy Birthday."
Getting the scissors she found to glide through the denim material of the pants she was making shorter so she wouldn't trip on them when she put them on, Kyleigh never thought such a simple thing would make her so happy. Most of the time she was forced to use her knife to crudely cut inches off of jeans, but since she and Shane had decided to stay in their current house she found a lot of things were coming easier to her. Which she still hadn't decided if that was a good thing or not. Easy to her was a foreign concept, but so was worrying about another being, much less a human. Speaking of, where the hell was Shane? He had disappeared earlier that morning and when he returned he was being all weird. Telling her to stay downstairs for a few minutes and busy herself. Whatever that meant.
Shaking her head she snipped a stray piece of cloth from the bottom of the pants, then stood up to make sure they were the proper length now. Just enough to cover her ankles, but not too long to trip her up when she ventured outside. That was when she noticed Shane standing there with a small box in his hands, wrapped in some strange paper. "And here I thought you were trying to tell me you were expecting!" She teased, setting down the jeans so that she could take the gift. Every fiber in her being wanted to tell him that he didn't have to do this, go out there and risk his life to get her something for a day that didn't even mean anything now. But it was such a nice gesture that she couldn't bring herself to toss any sass his way, her eyes coming very close to flooding over with tears.
"I uh.. I can't believe you even remembered. Thank you." Kyleigh couldn't even look up right then, busying herself with carefully tearing the paper away. When she opened the box a stunned expression came over her face, and if he was paying close attention, a slight shake in her fingers as she picked up the necklace. It suited her perfectly and other than the necklace she had from her mother she had never been given such a nice gift. "Could you…could you put it on for me?" Quickly she glanced up at him before she turned around, happy to have an excuse for him to not see the emotions in her eyes. It might have just been a simple piece of jewelry, but to Kyleigh it meant so much more and nothing was ever going to take that from her.
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