Emily Says Hello

Season 5, Episode 9, Aired
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Jackson is the soul of patience as Sookie suffers from mood swings and pregnancy food cravings; Paris' decision to fast for Ramadan to bring authenticity to her writing takes its toll on Rory and Marty; against Lorelai's advice, Michel persists with his plan to foil the bathrobe bandits and nearly gets arrested; Emily decides to start dating again, and calls on a reluctant Lorelai for advice; Jackson is so overwhelmed by his duties as Selectman that Miss Patty is forced to resort to a ruse to get him to preside over the town meeting; Lorelai invites Christopher to lunch at the Inn and decides to surprise Rory by inviting her as well, but it's Lorelai who's surprised by the tension between father and daughter, which erupts into a heated argument out of Lorelai's earshot; Lorelai feels guilty for lying to Rory when her daughter asks about Luke's reaction to the lunch date with Christopher; Luke helps T.J. with some plumbing problems at the new house; Emily appears to have a wonderful time on her date, but bursts into tears when she looks around her empty home at the end of the date; Luke feigns indifference when Lorelai finally tells him about lunch with Christopher, but hints at some ambivalence during a later conversation with T.J.; Marty's timing is off by mere seconds when he attempts to ask Rory out on a date.moreless
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  • Emily starts to date, Christopher goes to lunch with Lorelai which causes more tension between him and Rory. Something about this episode really stood out, I loved it.

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    By stewie1423, Jul 19, 2008 Report Abuse
    I think I'll start with Emily starting to date. It was a shock but a great idea for some entertainment. Rory's idea to both have dinner with either Emily or Richard separately was doubtful to work but I liked Lorelai's reaction over the phone, hoping Rory wanted to cancel the dinners in general. Also her shock at Emily wanting to date was amusing.

    Emily's panic about what to wear on the date was good and it was nice to see Lorelai try and help her. Strangely the date goes very well and Emily seems to enjoy it vastly. But there is a touch of sadness when she bursts into tears when she gets home. I just hope her and Richard come to there senses soon.

    Onto Christopher, he's back on the scene again here. Lorelai calls him wondering why he hasn't called her since her visits to his messy home. Obviously this is due to Rory wanting him to stay away from her mother. The lunch scene at the inn was great, with Rory and Christopher arguing and Lorelai having no idea what was up with them.

    It is good to see Rory so protective and I agree with her, things are always ruined when he comes into the picture. I'm interested to see if Rory and Chris sort out there differences. This all leads to Lorelai telling Luke about the lunch and he confides in TJ to see if he should be jealous. After a date, Luke and Lorelai have a passionate kiss showing us there relationship is going extremely well.

    He then tells her that the lunch was fine. Lorelai later ignores Chris's call, either taking Rory's advice or staying true to Luke. On the Yale side of things, Rory is spending time with Marty and Paris goes on a fast. Paris was very funny as always, great one liners. Marty looks like he's going to ask Rory out but she has fallen asleep, let's wait and see if he'll go through with it on a later date.

    So yeah, this episode could be one of my favourites so far in the season. It's not really an episode you'd think would be a favourite but for me it stood out!moreless

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  • Christopher is back, and Emily goes on a date

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    By leo23dc, Mar 29, 2008 Report Abuse
    Jackson tries hiding from the town, he doesn't want anybody asking him for more favors as town selectman. Rory has the idea of "divide and conquer" with Lorelei and her splitting up for Frida night dinner. Rory takes Richard, and Lorelei takes Emily. Rory makes allusions to furniture being comforable "after 40 years" and Richard says she's a lovely girl. On the other hand, when Lorelei attempts to confront Emily, Emily says she wants to date other men and asks Lorelei how to go about it. The way she panicked about what to wear on her date was really funny, she has to have Lorelei to help. Also, Lorelei realizes she hasn't heard from Christopher in a while and calls and invites him to lunch. He agrees, after hesitating at first because Rory asked him not to have contact with her mother. When Rory comes to the Inn and sees Christopher, she gets quite angry. But Christopher tells her that it was Lorelei's idea, and she should just deal with it. Later, after Emily goes on a date, she comes back home and bursts into tears.moreless

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  • Chris is back, Emily goes on a date and Lorelai helps her

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    By karatiz, Jan 01, 2008 Report Abuse
    Poor Jackson, he is hiding from everyone in town lol
    Sookie is pregnant and now come the hard part, the hormones, the cravings...

    And she had hope but it got token away lol Lorelai and Rory talking about Friday night dinners...
    TJ shouldn't be allow to do any handy work lol

    Chris is back in the picture, Lorelai noticed that he hadn't called and she called him and invited him to lunch.

    The idea of having separated Friday night dinners backfired. At Rory's end it went well but Lorelai's... Emily wants to date other man!!! When Rory showed up for lunch that was weird. As you remember Rory asked her father not to call Lorelai so him being there was bad. And all this because she loves her, Rory knows how Lorelai is with Chris, all the history they have...

    Jackson flipped! No town meetings! Well no luck, the town tricked him lol

    And Emily!!! She is going on a date, killer cloths flying around the room, she was hysteric, panicking! The dinner went well but her reaction at the end, that reveal how ready she was about dating, she hated it, she felt guilty.moreless

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  • Luke is not a jealous man.

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    By SMGslayer97, May 12, 2007 Report Abuse
    After Lorelai realizes that she hasn't heard from Christopher since that manic night when she aided him in caring for Gigi she calls him, not aware of the fact that he stayed away from Lorelai at Rory's somewhat heated request. Making lunch plans Lorelai inadvertantly causes a rift between Rory and Chris, who get into a fight about the whole situation when she is out of earshot. Chris leaves and Rory calls her mother on the situation, claiming that Lorelai can't just break free of him and he'll mess things up between her and Luke. Lorelai rebuffs claiming all is good but we later find out she never even told him about the lunch date with Christopher, thinking that it meant nothing at the time but now it seems odd that she kept it from him. But when she comes clean at the diner Luke seems totally passive about the situation. Later, at Tj and Liz's he expresses some concern about the situation and asks Tj's advice who proves to be little help (though quite comical). Rory doesn't even seem to wante Christopher around expressing to Marty that she spent so many years just wanting him to come around period and now it's all just so complicated. Luke later tells Lorelai that it is totally fine with him that she had lunch with Christopher, just very nonchalantly. He really doesn't actually seem to care all that much and seems to realize getting jealous over it would really just make the both of them crazy. And hey bonus, when Chris calls later that night Lorelai goes to pick up the phone but then recoils and goes to bed. Looks like she can finally break free of Chris after all. I really liked the fact that Luke seemed to, at least at the time, understand how complicated it was with Christopher and that as much as he had every right to be jealous and even angry that she kept something like that from him that it was just unnecessary and pointless. It's another like fact that really let you know that Luke Danes was the one for Lorelai. Probably one of the few men that Lorelai dated, actually one of the few men of the planet, who wouldn't get totally paniced at the name Christopher Hayden.moreless

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  • Emily needs help getting ready for a date.

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    By amfarley84, Nov 16, 2006 Report Abuse
    I thought that this episode was really great i liked the whole Emily dating idea i thought that it was funny. I really liked that Lorelai seemed upset that her mother wanted to date again it was nice of Lorelai helping her mother get ready for her date. I thought that Paris was really funny durning her fasting experance for her news story but i felt at times she took it a little overboard. i want to know when Rory is going to start dating Marty i think that they would make a cute couple. I was happy to see that Emily looked upset after her date.moreless

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    • How is it that the Inn was even set up for Chris to have lunch? The restaurant had no kitchen staff working because several weeks earlier the lunches were discontinued due to it's not making any money! Edit
    • When Lorelai sits in the living room with Emily for Friday night dinner, Emily joins her on the same couch. Then Lorelai remarks how odd it is that she is so close. However, there have been several times in the past that Emily has sat next to Lorelai on the couch. Edit
    • Rory tells Marty that she broke up with her boyfriend this week. Dean broke up with Rory on a Friday night. The next Friday Lorelai and Rory split Friday night dinner and Christopher came for lunch on Saturday. When Rory is with Marty it is almost the end of the week so it would have been 2 weeks that Rory was broken up with Dean. Edit

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    • German episode title: "Auf Männerfang", meaning "Hunting for Men". French episode title: "Emily Sort!", meaning "Emily Goes Out". Edit
    • Music: - "Starcrossed" by Ash Edit

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    • Emily: I have no idea what to put on. I'm in a blind panic and it's all your fault. Lorelai: How is it my fault? Emily:Because I used your line and it worked! Lorelai: What line? Emily: Hello! Lorelai: Hello is not my line. Hello is not a line. Hello is hello. Emily: Well all I know is I helloed him today and now he's taking me to dinner. Edit
    • Lorelai: This is the second time I've told it. Both times, crickets. (sips her coffee) I mean, Rory and Christopher looked at me like I was Pauly Shore. Luke: Christopher? Lorelai: Rory's Dad. He came for lunch today. I had lunch with him today. And Rory. Had lunch with Rory and Christopher. And Gigi, his daughter with Sherry, he brought her 'cause Sherry moved to France and he's a full time dad now and we all had lunch. All of us, together, today. And when I told the Bathrobe Bandit story they all acted like that. (Laughs nervously)Except Gigi, who spit up, 'cause she's a baby. That's what they do. Edit
    • Lorelai: I lied to my kid, Sookie. I hate that I lied to her. But I didn't want her to think there was any weird reason why I didn't tell Luke. Sookie: Was there any weird reason that you didn't tell Luke? Lorelai: Sookie, come on. Sookie: I don't know. Maybe you were afraid that he would get jealous. I'd be afraid that Jackson would get jealous. Lorelai: I was not afraid that he'd get jealous. Sookie: He did beat up a car. Lorelai: One time. Sookie: That we know of. Lorelai: No, I didn't tell him because it was no big deal! (She sighs) I thought it was no big deal. I should have told him, right? Sookie: Well - Lorelai: Yeah. I should have told him. Now he's going to think I'm hiding something from him and I'm not. Damn it. He's going to beat up my car. Sookie: It's American, it can take it. Edit

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    • (Jackson is holding giant scissors that were left at his front door) Jackson: This is a threat! Lorelai: Yeah, those people at Butterick patterns are a real threat. Butterick patterns are used for fashion and home sewing projects. Edit
    • Rory: Apparently that wasn't enough Peyton Place for me. Peyton Place was a novel, then movie, then TV series, about scandalous lives in a small New England town. Edit
    • Emily: (about Richard) The facts are he's moved on, and therefore I should move on also. Lorelai: Absolutely. Move On dot org. Lorelai is alluding to the liberal political action group and website, something that would appall Emily if she caught the allusion. Edit

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