Dead Uncles and Vegetables

Season 2, Episode 17, Aired
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Lorelai and Rory pitch in at the diner while Luke plans his Uncle Louie's funeral; Taylor is unhinged when a farmer's market opens in the town square and puts a damper on his business; Emily goes completely overboard in helping Sookie plan her wedding; Rory prods Jess into being more of a help; Luke is upset when family and friends cite Louie's unpleasant personality as a reason for not attending his funeral, but is comforted when Stars Hollow comes through for both him and his uncle in the end.moreless
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  • Luke's uncle dies, and Lorelai helps and supports Luke through the arrangements

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    By leo23dc, Jul 11, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode shows how much Lorelai cares for Luke. Luke's uncle, Louis, dies. Luke asks Lorelai to reserve nine rooms at the inn for his family coming for the funeral. This she gladly does. Michel tries to stick his nose in but Lorelai tells him it's personal. Then Lorelai (with Rory) helps out at the diner, getting seriously into "diner talk." She meets Luke at the funeral home, where he has a hard time closing the casket of his uncle because of all the "memorabilia" Louis wanted to be buried with. Then she stands with him at the graveside service. It turns out that Luke and Lorelai are the only two people there. Earlier, Luke tried to the get the Revolutionary War "re-enactors" to come to the graveside service, but they didn't want to because Louis was so mean. In the end they do come though.

    Also, Rory is on Jess's case for not helping Luke at the diner during his time of distress. She gets him to help.

    Meanwhile, Sookie gets caught up in "Emilyland" as she lets Emily help plan her wedding. Jackson, in a panic, goes to Lorelai for help, and Lorelai talks Sookie out of giant mushrooms and midgets, among other things. Emily points out to Lorelai how attached she is to Luke.moreless

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  • Luke's uncle dies and he must plan the funeral. Good episode.

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    By stewie1423, Jun 01, 2008 Report Abuse
    I liked this. It was good to have an episode that was very Luke focused. To be honest not a great deal happened here, more of a filler type episode but it had its moments. Like the wedding planning, I guess this was needed for the story. Jess and Rory seem to connect yet again, but I would have liked a bit more of this.

    Sookie and Emily planning her wedding was good. Kind of annoying though, seeing Sookie follow what Emily. At least there wasn't an argument over it. The mushroom paper things and measuring the town, very funny. I'm glad Sookie came to her senses and decided on the small wedding she and Jackson had planned.

    I thought it was great with Lorelai in the diner, shouting the diner orders, amusing. The coffin thing was to, Luke's outbursts are always entertaining. Rory making Jess do things was another entertaining part. The thing with Taylor was alright, fairly entertaining.

    Nice at the end to see the town come together for Luke's dead uncle. We did get some more Luke/Lorelai moments and Emily once again points out about there feelings for each other. Good episode.moreless

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  • Louie's Funeral

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    By karatiz, Sep 06, 2007 Report Abuse
    Luke's uncle Louie dies and Luke is trying to make the arangements to the funeral. Lorelai offers to help him in anything he needs.

    Sookie is starting organizing her wedding and Emily offers to give her some contacts, it soon turns into Emily's idea of a wedding. Even Jackson is sad..

    With all the arrangements, Luke can't work in the diner so Lorelai takes over and creats some diner talk.

    When Luke needs something, Lorelai goes to help, good friends.
    Luke invites everyone to the funeral but no one is coming, the didn't like Louie...

    The only persons at the funeral are Lorelai and Luke.

    Emily is seeing the future for Lorelai and Luke, she knows he fells something for Lorelai and she for him, something more than friendship.

    Oh and Rory puts Jess to work!

    Lets see the next onemoreless

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  • The Lorelai and Luke scenes were very good to watch but Rory was seriously lacking int oday's episode.

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    By etchedonmyskin, Jun 28, 2006 Report Abuse
    Rory constantly asking Jess to do this and that didn't seem normal especially considering her behaviour towards him in the last episode. It's also very weird that in about the space of a week Rory is working at Luke's with Jess and Dean doesn't stop by once and get angry or anything.

    Lorelai and Luke were very cute and so obviously will get together eventually but Lorelai needs to get with the programme already.

    Sookie and Jackson were also pointless why would Sookie fall for Emily's ideas and if she did how did she so suddely realise she was being stupid just cos Lorelai said Jackson was worried.

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  • lukes uncle dies and no one wants to go to the funeral and emily helps sookie plan her wedding.

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    By amfarley84, Jun 13, 2006 Report Abuse
    i thought that this episode was sad and happy at the same time. i thought that the episode had a happy feeling to it because of the fact that sookie was planning her wedding or until emily decided to stick her nose into sookies business and decide she would help plan sookie a weird wedding with midgets dancing under giant mushrooms. i thought that emily was being nice but it was not what sookie or jackson wanted. i thought that the plan that emily had for lorelai's wedding was really good i thought that it would work for her because of the fact that lorelai loves the snow and how emily had it planned it would have been in the winter so there would have been some snow. i felt really bad for luke the fact that his uncle died was really sad and i do not care that he was a jerk when someone dies it is always sad. it was really sad that no one would go to the funeral because they did not like lukes uncle and seeing the town be reacting a war and the end of the funeral was really nice and i liked that the town threw a wake type thing at the end of the episode.
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    • When Lorelai was filling in for Luke at the diner a man comes in and asks in they're still serving breakfast and Lorelai tells him that they serve it all day, however in the episode "Red Light on the Wedding" when Max is trying to decide what he wants Luke comes up to him and hands him another menu and tells him it's the lunch menu because they start serving lunch in an hour. Possible Explanation: Since Lorelai and Rory are running the diner, they could be choosing to serve breakfast all day, but when Luke is running it he may only serve breakfast for a certain amount of time. Edit
    • When Rory and Jess are talking at Luke's at the end of the episode, Rory's hair is behind her ear during the whole scene expect for the last time the camera changes to her, when her hair is straight down. Edit
    • Lorelai tells Emily that Sookie can't afford the wedding that she is planning because they are saving for a house. Why would Lorelai say this when Sookie has a house and Jackson moves in with Sookie after they are married. Edit

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    • German episode title: "Eine Hochzeit und ein Todesfall", meaning "A Wedding And A Death". French episode title: "Obsèques de l'Oncle Louis", meaning "Uncle Louis' Funeral". Edit
    • Keiko Agena (Lane Kim), Edward Herrmann (Richard Gilmore), Jared Padalecki (Dean Forester), and Liza Weil(Paris Geller) do not appear in this episode. Edit
    • Music: -"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham, sung by Grant Lee Phillips Edit

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    • Luke: Don't you have wakes for people you like? Lorelai: I think it might be for you. Luke: Am I dead? Lorelai: Face it, Luke, people like you. Luke: Shut up. Lorelai: And with charm like that, how can they resist? Edit
    • (At Louie's funeral) Luke: That ain't me, is it? Lorelai: What are you talking about? Luke: What Taylor said about me being like Louie, a loner, never being married and stuff. I mean, I am getting crankier as I get older, he's not so far off. Lorelai: You are not your uncle. I mean, would Louie ever build someone a chuppah, or help fix things around someone's house without being asked, or make a special coffee cake with balloons for a girl's sixteenth birthday? Luke: Rory told you about that? Lorelai: Yes. And would Louie have taken in his sister's kid without hesitating and without asking for anything in return? Luke: No one would've trusted Louie with their kid. He probably would've forgotten to feed him or something. Lorelai: You get my point? Luke: Yeah, I get it. Edit
    • (Luke's diner) Emily: Anyhow, it's obvious that wouldn't even be appropriate anymore being as I'm probably standing in your reception hall. Lorelai: Excuse me? Emily: Burgers and fries for the dinner? The bride walks down the aisle with a ketchup dispenser in her hand. Lorelai: Please tell me what you're talking about. Emily: I'm talking about Luke. Lorelai: Luke? Mom! Emily: Well, it's obvious, Lorelai. Lorelai: No, it's not, Mom. Emily: You're with him constantly. Lorelai: He feeds me. Emily: You bring up his name constantly. Lorelai: Once again, he feeds me. Emily: The moment he calls, you run to his side. Lorelai: He's my friend, he needed me, I had to be there. Emily: Yes, I know you did. Edit

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    • Lorelai: It's totally not Feng Shui! Feng Shui (pronounced 'feng-shway') is the oriental art of placing objects in an arrangement which is perceived as in total harmony. One is supposed to take in all measures -- balance, symmetry, "flow", "energy", function, form, etc. In this way, it was a precursor to many modern concepts of interior decoration and architectural planning and design. Edit
    • Lorelai: How's The Money Pit? Lorelai says this to Luke as she enters his apartment, which has been under renovation for a number of weeks. The Money Pit is 1986 a movie starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long about a couple who struggle to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house. The whole movie revolves around this house which is constantly under renovation. The term predates the movie, of course, and refers to any house which needs either constant repairs or an older one which one presumed had a certain number of problems but every new step opens up another can of expensive difficulties far beyond original expectations. Edit
    • (Lorelai is making coffee) Luke: Not everybody likes it that strong. Lorelai: Well, then I shall convert them. I am the Jehovah's coffee girl. Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a religious sect who go around knocking on doors and proselytizing. Edit

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