Writer:	Jenji Kohan
Director:	Rodman Flender
Star:	Keiko Agena (Lane Kim),  Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore),  Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore),  Melissa McCarthy (Sookie St. James),  Scott Patterson (Luke Danes)
Recurring Role:	Liz Torres (Miss Patty),  Sally Struthers (Babette Dell),  Michael Winters (Taylor Doose),  Ted Rooney (Morey Dell),  Emily Kuroda (Mrs. Kim),  Brian Berke (Joe),  Jared Padalecki (Dean Forester)
Guest Star:	Sonya Eddy (Cashier),  Caitlyn Lindsay Murphy (Susie)

Kelly Bishop (Emily) and Edward Herrmann (Richard) do not appear in this episode. (edit) First appearance of Taylor Doose (Michael Winters). (edit) Music:
- "Ballo, E Canto De Villanelli" by Antonio Vivaldi (edit) Rory's first kiss takes place. (edit)

(Lorelai runs into Luke in Doose's)
Lorelai: Aah! What are you doing here?
Luke: What are you doing here?
Lorelai: I asked first!
Luke: I ran out of cream.
Lorelai: Oh. Uh, me too! (edit) Rory:No, it was stupid! And I don't know what I'm doing here, you're sitting here in the kitchen… what kind of chaperone are you?
Lorelai: Me? I'm not trying to be a chaperone. I'm trying to be a girlfriend.
Rory: Well, switch gears, 'cause I'm freaking out here! (edit) Rory: Maybe something's wrong. Maybe something happened to him.
Lorelai: Maybe he's just late Miss German train. (edit) Lorelai: I'm going to be so cool in there, you will mistake me for Shaft. (edit) (Lorelai is sitting at a table watching Rory and Lane out the window.)
Luke: Coffee? (no answer) Aw, come on. Are you mad at me too? I mean, a man can't choose whether or not he wants a picture of a fat, stupid bird on his wall? My God, that's the reason the damn Pilgrims came here in the first place.
Lorelai: Luke, I wasn't snubbing you. I didn't hear you and now I'm concerned about you.
Luke: Sorry, just feeling a little persecuted lately. Coffee?
Lorelai: Please.
Luke: You OK?
Lorelai: Yes, I'm fine.
Luke: You don't look fine.
Lorelai: Well thank you.
Luke: I just meant you look concerned.
Lorelai: I'm preoccupied.
Luke: You look concerned.
Lorelai: Well I'm not.
Luke: Fine, you just look it.
Lorelai: Hey, you know some streamers would look so great in here.
Luke: OK, I'm done.
Lorelai: Thank you.
(Later...Luke comes back to the table)
Luke: I'm not gonna say you look concerned.
Lorelai: I'm not gonna talk about how good you'd look dressed like one of the guys from The Crucible.
Luke: Fair enough. (edit)

Dean explains that he knows a lot about Prince Charming because he has sisters. However, in later episodes we learn that Dean only has one sister, Clara.

Possible Explanation: It is never actually stated that Dean has only one sister, Clara is simply the only sister we ever see. (edit) When Rory is talking to Lorelai in the kitchen, she is talking loud enough for Dean to hear her but he doesn't seem to notice. (edit) The reason Luke was going to Doose's was to get some cream for the diner. However, he led Lorelai out of the store without buying cream first. (edit) When Luke and Lorelai are a couple in later seasons he tells her she isn't supposed to tip the owner, yet in this episode he looks shocked when she doesn't leave one. (edit) In a previous episode, Luke had a cow when Sookie walked in behind the counter and started messing with things. When Lorelai comes in behind the counter, all he says is "don't use your hands" when she gets ready to take a muffing--not very steady characteristics of Luke, even if it is Lorelai that's behind the counter.

Possible Explanation: Luke was much too busy arguing with Taylor to bother with serving the two girls. Also, as Luke points out in Concertus Interruptus, Lorelai isn't too good with the word no. (edit)

Lorelai: I am gonna be so cool in there you will mistake me for Shaft.

Shaft is the 1971 movie which initiated the blaxploitation movies of the early 70s. Costing only 1.1 million to make, it returned that many times over and thus spawned many imitators. In it, Richard Roundtree played John Shaft, a cool, suave black detective the equal of anything he came up against -- one of the first such role models for blacks in mainstream media. The title song, by Isaac Hayes, is also considered a classic. (edit) Rory: You'll never get it past Lorelai. She had a bad reaction to Magnolia. She sat there for three hours screaming "I want my life back!"....

Magnolia is a longish 1999 movie wherein the writer/director fails to grasp the difference between synchronicity and mere coincidence, and tries to suggest greater meaning in totally unrelated life events of his characters. (edit) Lorelai: No. That Lothario over there has wormed his way into my daughter's heart and mouth and for that he must die!

Lothario is a character in Nicholas Rowe's 1703 play The Fair Penitent who seduces and betrays the female lead. (edit) Visual: The movie Lorelai, Rory, and Dean are watching.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 comic movie based on Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (edit) Rory: You're like a crazy Elsa Klensch.

Elsa Klensch is a fashion/style journalist for CNN. (edit)