Gilmore Girls 6.20 "Super Cool Party People"

The girls are all glammed up with hair and makeup. Lorelai keeps everything flowing smoothly. The two girls from the beauty store are helping with the makeovers. April shows off her makeover to Lorelai and asks for a purple sparkly heart on her cheek, like the one Lorelai has on her own. April compliments Lorelai, saying she’d be wasted on a son. Lorelai reminds April of her mom. She thinks Lorelai would like Anna.

April is opening her presents and really enjoying them. When it comes time to open Luke’s present, he hesitates and suggests she open it later. He bites his finger as she opens her gift. It’s a new book, The Way Things Work. She wanted to get that! Inside, a gift certificate to the Discovery store. She loves it! April comes to give Luke a big hug. Luke thanks Lorelai.

Lorelai suggests they make the party into a sleepover. The girls all have cell phones, so call to ask their parents if it’s ok. Lorelai says she’s going to go, but Luke asks her to stay. She’s the slumber-party expert. She can sleep upstairs with the girls, he’ll figure something out. April would want her to stay. Kirk sets up the projector for a movie, Pretty in Pink.

Luke turns out the light, lying on the cot. You can hear the girls giggling overhead. Then chanting "light as a feather, stiff as a board."

The next day at the Dragonfly, Lorelai is glowing about how much fun she had putting on make-up with the girls. She calls the night a major breakthrough and thinks April is awesome. She thinks April liked her, that they bonded. Lorelai hopes this means she won’t have to hide anymore. Lorelai says, in hindsight, she’s glad she let Luke have his space. She was patient, yet impatient. Lorelai hands some Bonne Bell Lip Smackers to Sookie and they giggle like teenagers.

One of the customers at the diner has glitter in his pancakes – he also asks for a cold banana. Anna comes into the diner to speak privately with Luke. Anna is very angry that Lorelai was at the party. She agreed only that Luke could throw the party. Not a girlfriend she doesn’t know and hasn’t met. Lorelai, alone with the girls all night. Anna is worried about trying to explain that to other parents – leaving their kids with a woman she hasn’t met.

"If I can’t trust you, Luke, this arrangement is not gonna work. April is not a sweater that you’re borrowing. She’s my kid. I have to know where she is and who she’s with always."

Luke apologizes, says that Anna can trust him. Anna is too angry to look at Luke. She storms out.

Rory is at the vending machine when Mitchum walks into the hospital. Rory looks at him with scorn and disapproval, then points out Logan’s room. He hangs his head and goes in.

Luke comes over to Lorelai’s – she has Chinese food ready. He agrees, out of character, to eat them out of the containers. Lorelai sees Luke is off and asks if he’s ok. Luke tells Lorelai that Anna feels betrayed that Lorelai was at the party. Lorelai looks sad. Luke says it’s not Lorelai’s fault, just that he didn’t think it through. Lorelai doesn’t seem hungry any longer.

Rory walks into Logan’s room after Mitchum has left. Logan is surprised that Mitchum came, and that his behavior was only moderately hostile, slightly condescending, and no more self-centered than usual. Rory says it’s good that he came. Logan feels a little better. Rory seems sad.

Logan asks what’s wrong. Rory apologizes for letting him go on the trip. She should have stopped him, but felt angry and was unintentionally trying to punish him. Logan says nobody could have stopped him, that it was his fault. Rory regrets being so cold when Logan left, since she could have lost him. Logan says he’s the one screwing things up, not her. Logan says he doesn’t know what’s wrong with him, but that he’ll get better in time. That things will calm down, if she bears with him. Rory says ok and caresses his hair.

Lorelai shows up at Anna’s store. After a lot of hesitation, Lorelai introduces herself as Luke’s fiancee. Lorelai apologizes and takes blame for the party, that it wasn’t Luke’s idea. Luke was having trouble with the party and she fears she threw herself into it too much. Lorelai wanted to introduce herself, so that Anna would have nothing to worry about in regards to her.

Anna says she can’t take the chance that April will bond with Lorelai and one day Lorelai won’t be there. April doesn’t meet any of the men that Anna dates. And won’t, until she’s ready to marry again. When it comes to Lorelai, Anna says engaged does not mean married. Lorelai says it’s been a long time coming, her and Luke, that it’s real. Anna says it doesn’t change anything. Luke is new in April’s life and April is getting attached – she needs to know Luke is sticking around first. Anna says they’ll deal with Lorelai after she and Luke are married. As a single mom, Lorelai does understand. Lorelai leaves, very sad.

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