3.03 - Application Anxiety
OPEN AT LORELAI'S HOUSE
[Lorelai and Rory are on the sofa watching "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour"]
RORY: This is sublime. RORY: My application to Harvard. DEAN: Which is? [Luke looks out the window and sees Taylor taking photographs of the store next to the diner]
CUT TO CHILTON HALLWAY
[Rory is waiting outside the auditorium while Paris argues with a teacher]
PARIS: Everyone always says that! PARIS: His style. EMILY: In the world. Rory's special. LORELAI: He suggested setting up a meeting with a Harvard graduate, like a dinner or something. LORELAI: And alumnus is a man. CAROL: The music. We have our soda shop everybody! [they walk away]
RORY: I think a love song's in their future. RORY: About what? RORY: Christiane Amanpour spends half of her life standing in foxholes in third world countries, and she has a husband and a kid. LANE: Sure. Rory, you are tailor-made for Harvard.
Plan: A: a frenzy; Q: What does Rory's application for Harvard send Emily, Lorelai and Rory into? A: Rory's anxiety; Q: What does the Chilton seminar on college applications add to? A: Paris; Q: Who is thrown into a tizzy by Rory's anxiety? A: Taylor steamrollers Luke; Q: Who bullies Luke into opening a soda shop next to the diner? A: a musical soul mate; Q: What does Lane find when he places an ad in the paper for a band? A: dinner; Q: What do Lorelai and Rory have with a Harvard alumnus and his family? A: Dean; Q: Who has a talk with Rory about their future after she goes to Harvard? Summary: Rory's application for Harvard arrives, plunging Rory, Lorelai and Emily into a frenzy. A Chilton seminar on college applications only adds to Rory's anxiety and sends Paris into a tizzy. Taylor steamrollers Luke into opening a soda shop next to the diner. Lane places an ad in the paper for a band and finds a musical soul mate. Lorelai and Rory have dinner with a Harvard alumnus and his family which may assure her chances of acceptance. Dean has a talk with Rory about their future after she goes to Harvard.