We had the “Judgy WASP Mom experiences the small town!” episode, so I suppose it was inevitable that we now have the Spacey Grandpa in the small town episode. Will there be DRAMA and MISUNDERSTANDINGS and FATHER THINKS HE KNOWS BESTING?
Except there totally will.
GILMORE GIRL TIME!!! I did the math the other day and I have to review 4 episodes a week in order to finish out the series by the end of the year.
Lorelai and Rory build a snowman in the town square as part of a town snowman building contest. If this episode was written today there would be a lot of quippy dialogue about Elsa and Anna and how Frozen is really Disney’s Godfather 3.
The girls build the crankiest of snowladies (which I adore) all while sniping about Paris and the ringer brought in by an anonymous townsperson (Taylor? Has to be) to steal the competition. I think their snowman looks like a younger Judgy WASP Mom, which must be an expression of Lorelai’s subconscious.
We begin this episode with a stray ice cream maker (a wedding gift for Lorelai and Discount Braff) and Sookie and Rory begging Lorelai to keep it. There’s no return address or name on the gift, and it’s arrived so late that Sookie and Rory feel she should keep it. Lorelai thinks she should give it back. I used some of my amazing Google Fu to figure out who was right. Turns out it’s Lorelai. According to The Knot.com (which is a terrifying, terrifying panic-inducing site):
Q. Do we have to return the gifts?
A. You are supposed to return all the engagement, shower, and wedding gifts you’ve received — even presents that have been personalized (e.g., monogrammed) — to the guests who sent them. If you’ve used any of the gifts (cooking-related products, towels, etc.), it’s okay not to send them back, but everything else should go. Include a note thanking the guest again for their kindness. (Some guests may insist that you keep their gift, and if they do, you graciously should accept.) You may feel like it’s unfair that you have to give up all your presents — especially if you were not the one to call off the wedding. But look at it this way: They would only remind you of a wedding that didn’t happen, right?
Sorry girl-bros – that needs to go back to wherever it came from.
This gif has nothing to do with the above text. I just like it.
Spacey Grandpa is stranded in Akron (yeesh) so Rory and Judgy WASP Mom decide to cheer him up with an oil portrait. So now there are three kinds of people on the entire planet who still get their portraits painted – world leaders, members of royalty, and Gilmore girls. I hope they hire this guy:
We begin this episode with yet another trip to the diner and Lorelai wearing pink. frosted. lipstick. BUBBLE GUM PINK FROSTED LIPSTICK that matches her shirt.
If there is one thing I have learned from writing these reviews, it’s that there is always an appropriate Bianca Del Rio reaction gif.
Something is seriously wrong with Spacey Grandpa. We start this episode with Judgy WASP Mom and Spacey Grandpa embroiled in a fight – he’s been turning down all social engagements on their behalf, even though Judgy WASP Mom is on the committee of several of the organizations. He says it’s because he’s “too busy” to attend. Can’t Judgy WASP Mom go on her own? Or does the very idea that a woman would attend an event without her husband a clear sign of my “poor breeding?”
That is what this episode is about after all – Rory being presented to the very best of society as a lady of “good breeding.” She’s like a show pony!!
Last Ditch Effort 
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