Gilmore Girls

Lorelai and Rory are walking through the town center, which is decorated for the fall festival. Lorelai is bemoaning the fact that they are going to have to get some laundry done soon because she ran out of underwear three days ago. Rory is shocked to hear that her mother is not wearing underwear and questions her position as her role model. Lorelai asks why Rory hasn't run out and finds out that Rory had done a load of laundry without including any of her items. Rory offers to do her laundry but Lorelai decides to do it herself although buying new underwear seems to be a preferable option. They walk past Miss Patty's studio as she prepares her dancers for the fall celebrations.


They enter the diner to find Luke and Taylor battling over Luke's refusal to decorate his diner with fall decorations. Lorelai and Rory sit down and ask for muffins and coffee but Luke is too distracted to serve them. Jokingly, Rory tells Luke that her mom wasn't wearing any underwear, trying to get his attention. Finally, Lorelai goes behind the counter to get the coffee and muffins.


After school, Rory goes to Doose's. Taylor and Dean are discussing a display of canned goods. Rory moves to a shelf and pretends to be interested in cornstarch. Dean joins her and teases her about her cornstarch needs. They continue to banter back and forth, he about her uniform and she about his apron, until Dean offers Rory a soda. Dean chooses a can of soda and puts it behind his back. He asks her to pick a hand. As she leans in to choose a hand, Dean leans in and gives Rory her first kiss. Stunned, Rory thanks him and runs off with the box of cornstarch in her hand.


Rory runs over to Lane's house to tell her the exciting news. As the girls excitedly discuss Rory's romantic encounter in aisle three by the pest spray, Mrs. Kim approaches the girls and sternly asks who kissed Rory. Lane thinks quickly and tells her mother that the Lord kissed her. This seems to appease her and she leaves the girls to their celebration. Lane asks for every detail, reveling in Rory's good fortune. Finally Rory declares she has to go tell her mother but stops short. She is worried that Lorelai will react the same way she did when Rory first met Dean. Lane reminds her that the situation was totally different then because she was refusing to go to Chilton. Rory concedes the point and leaves for home. She arrives home to find Lorelai deep in a very frustrating telephone conversation with a refrigerator repairman trying to describe the strange sounds her fridge is making. Rory decides her mother is probably too crabby to hear her exciting news so she goes into her room and puts her stolen cornstarch on her dresser.


The next day, Lorelai goes into Kim's to pick up a rocking chair she had purchased a couple of weeks earlier. Mrs. Kim minces no words, letting Lorelai know she has been delinquent in picking up the chair. She complains that Kim's Antiques isn't a storage facility. To appease her, Lorelai offers to pay extra for storage but Mrs. Kim tells her she doesn't want more money. She would rather have her just take the chair in good time. Lorelai apologizes and explains that she has been so busy. Mrs. Kim begins to lecture her as to how she shouldn't be so busy. That way she could pick up her chair in good time and keep her daughter from kissing boys. Lorelai is at first surprised and then saddened by this news. Initially she denies that Rory was kissing boys but soon remembers Rory's crush on Dean. She leaves the store quickly, leaving her chair behind.


In the town center, Rory and Lane are dressed as pilgrims, manning a table for the canned food drive. They are giggling and gossiping about Dean. While sitting at a table in Luke's, Lorelai is watching the girls and brooding because Rory hadn't told her about her first kiss. When Luke approaches Lorelai's table to see if she wants more coffee she is too preoccupied with her thoughts to notice him. Luke mistakenly believes she is mad at him because he won't decorate with the fall decorations that Taylor is demanding.


Luke: Coffee? (Lorelai is distracted and doesn't respond) 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.


Luke leaves as Rory rushes in, apologizing for being late. She tells Lorelai that she can't stay for lunch as planned because the town's folk are in a very giving mood and she has to get back. Lorelai unsuccessfully tries to elicit Rory's 'special news' from her. She takes another sip of coffee and runs off.

Lorlelai decides to go to Doose's to check out her daughter's love interest. As she sneaks around the aisles, Luke, who has stopped in to pick up a few things, startles her. He asks her why she is acting so strange. She finally tells him that Rory had her first kiss and Dean was the lothario who did it. She spews a little venom towards Dean and Luke drags her out of the store. Lorelai bemoans the fact that Rory didn't tell her. She explains that she had to be secretive with her parents but she didn't want Rory to be that way. Luke provides a sounding board for Lorelai and seems to bring a little reason to the situation.


A little later, Rory finally gets home and Lorelai comes right out and asks her if she has kissed any boys lately. Rory finds out that her mom heard it from Mrs. Kim. Rory expresses concern that she was going to be in trouble.


Rory: No? No lecture about kissing a boy?
Lorelai: Why? Did you do it wrong?
Rory: No...I don't think.
strong>Lorelai: I didn't love the way I found out, but you're getting older. These things are bound to happen occasionally. Actually I think it's great.
Rory: No you don't.
strong>Lorelai: Yes I do. I'm thrilled.
Rory: Thrilled?
strong>Lorelai: Yeah.
Rory: You're completely weirded out by this aren't you?
strong>Lorelai: No. You're crazy. I'm perfectly fine with it.
Rory: You don't seem fine. You seem the complete opposite of fine.
strong>Lorelai: Well you're projecting that on me because you don't want to think that I'm fine when I am, as I have said, fine.
Rory: OK.

Later that evening, while Lorelai and Rory are picking up supplies for a night of junk food and Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, they run into Dean at the Doose's where Lorelai does a very good job of not embarrassing Rory. She meets him and to Rory's great relief makes polite conversation. Outside the store, Lorelai decides she needs coffee so Rory runs to the video store to get the movie. As Lorelai moves towards Luke's to get coffee, Dean runs out with their forgotten Red Vines. Lorelai decides to invite him over for movie night and he accepts. Lorelai is pretty pleased with herself and is surprised that Rory is so upset about the invitation. Rory complains that she and Dean haven't even been out on a date yet. She bemoans the fact that her first date with Dean will be with her mother. Lorelai apologizes, telling her that it was not her intention to humiliate her. They finally decide that they will just have to make the best of an awkward situation.


A little later, Rory is anguishing over what to wear that evening. She confides in her mother that although she finds trigonometry easy, boys and dating are a mystery to her. Lorelai tells her it will all come with practice. She helps her pick out an outfit and they set up for the evening. A little later, all the junk food is set out and seven o'clock has come and gone without an appearance from Dean. Lorelai decides to look out the window to see if he is on his way and sees that Babette has Dean cornered and is talking his ear off. She runs out to rescue him and movie night begins. Once inside their house, Dean apologizes for being late. He explains that he was here a half hour earlier. After an awkward silence, Lorelai takes the lead and gives Dean a tour of the house. While Rory shows him her bedroom, Lorelai answers the door expecting the pizza man. Instead Sookie hands her a container with dessert. While Lorelai tries to get Sookie to leave, Joe brings the pizza. Hoping to avoid any more awkwardness and embarrassment for Rory, Lorelai rushes her out the door. Unfortunately, Sookie is holding the pizza when she leaves. Rory and Dean come out of her bedroom to find Lorelai without the pizza. Sookie re-enters the house with the pizza in hand, subjecting Dean to further scrutiny and Rory to further embarrassment. Lorelai rushes Sookie out and movie night begins.

A while later, the last couple of pieces of pizza sit in the box and a significant dent is made on the supply of junk food. They discuss their favorite movies and the choice for the next movie night. Lorelai decides to get some popcorn and heads into the kitchen. Rory seems to be more at ease with Dean as they sit alone, watching the movie and chatting. When Lorelai brings the popcorn, she notices that Rory is more comfortable and decides to stay in the kitchen and give the kids a bit of alone time. All is well until Rory notices her mother is gone. Rory excuses herself and goes into the kitchen to find her mother eating popcorn and looking at a magazine. Rory questions what she is doing and insists she return to the living room.


Rory: Well get back in there!
Lorelai: Why? What happened? Did the bag boy try something?
Rory: He's sitting in there and he's watching the movie and he's perfect and he smells really good.
Lorelai: What?
Rory: He smells really good and he looks amazing and I am stupid. I said 'thank you.'
Lorelai: Whoa, whoa, whoa. You said 'thank you?'
Rory: When he kissed me.
Lorelai: He kissed you again? What is he just out of prison or something?
Rory: No, not now. Yesterday. At the store.
Lorelai: Oh, all right. Strike the prison comment. He kissed you and you said 'thank you?'
Rory: Yes.
Lorelai: Well that was very polite.


Lorelai explains that she wasn't trying to be a chaperone; she was trying to be a girlfriend. Rory insists that she return because she is 'freaking out'. Lorelai calms her and gets up to join them. Rory decides to go wash her face while Lorelai takes the popcorn into the living room. She sits down and tells Dean that Rory was washing her face. They sit watching the movie for a moment until Lorelai mutes the TV. She looks over and Dean and gives him 'the talk'.


Lorelai: Dean. I don't know exactly how to say this, but, um, this is a very different kind of household you walked into tonight.
Dean: Yeah, I know.
Lorelai: See...Rory is my daughter.
Dean: ( He rolls his eyes) Ah...here comes the talk.
Lorelai: How about I talk, you listen? Rory is a smart kid. She's never been much for guys so the fact that she likes you means a lot. I don't believe she'd waste her time with some loser.
Dean: But you're watching me.
Lorelai: Sweetheart, the whole town is watching you. That girl in there is beloved around here. You hurt her, there's not a safe place within a hundred miles for you to hide. This is a very small, weird place you've moved to.
Dean: I've noticed.
Lorelai: So just know all eyes are on you.
Dean: Anything else?
Lorelai: She's not going on your motorcycle.
Dean: I don't have a motorcycle.
Lorelai: She's not going on your motorcycle.
Dean: Fine, she won't go on my motorcycle.
Lorelai: Curfew will be enforced. You will not detract from her schoolwork, and you're going to start handling those lemons better.
Dean: What?
Lorelai: Don't interrupt me when I'm speaking. I reserve the right to change, alter, tweak, or add to this list of rules at any given time without any written notice. Am I clear?
Dean: You're clear.


Once Lorelai finishes, Dean states his position. He tells Lorelai that he's not going anywhere but unless she approves of him he doesn't have a chance with Rory. Lorelai tells him that she wants to like him but makes it clear he had better not hurt Rory.


As the two teens say good night on the porch, they kiss once again. This time Dean thanks Rory. After Dean leaves, Rory goes into Lorelai's room to say good night. She notices that her mother seems a little down. When asked why, Lorelai tells her that she just wished she had told her about the kiss. Rory apologizes and starts to leave but turns back. Lorelai sits up excitedly and the two Gilmore girls chat excitedly about the new milestone in Rory's life.