Ladies' Night
Updated 2007-03-11 17:00:00
Logan is still also acting a slack-ass punk since his website sale fell through, so Rory decides to road-trip with Lorelai to Charlotte for the wedding of their beloved Mia, former owner of the Independence Inn (now suddenly played by Kathy Baker). And since Richard is still acting a slack-ass punk since his heart surgery (the latest offense? Velour track suit!), Emily crashes the road trip, intending to spa. But when Mia hears that Emily's joined the younger Gilmore girls, she insists that Emily attend the wedding too. This proves tortuous for Emily, who is intensely jealous of Mia's surrogate motherhood to Lorelai and grandmotherhood to Rory during their estrangement from Lorelai's parents. Emily is too well-bred to refuse the wedding invitation, but ill-bred enough to be rude to Mia's wedding guests, and new husband. However, when Mia catches Emily spying on wedding-crasher Logan (he just showed up to tell Rory she was right about his punkitude -- even that she was right to agree with his father about it!), the ladies share a nice moment of pride over how nicely Rory grew up. Even Lorelai manages to include Emily in typical Gilmore bonding over vending-machine food and terrible Will Smith pay-per-view movies. Back in Stars Hollow, Lane and Zach ask Luke to be godfather to their babies; he very reluctantly agrees, not realizing that Zach intends to adopt Luke as a surrogate father (his own having ditched Zach's family years ago). Zach has questions about circumcision and how to treat accidental head-gashes, but before Luke has had much of a chance to convince Zach that his dad instincts will kick in eventually, he gets a call that Lane's water breaks...and then she delivers, offscreen, apparently in about the time it took the Gilmore girls to get from the wedding to their hotel room. Okay. Perhaps Al Lowe will have an explanation in the recap.