'I pledge myself to the Puffs, loyal I'll always be, a P to start, 2 F's at the end, and a U sitting in between.' Actually, he hit me. After a few models, Emily and Lorelai walk down the runway together wearing similar red outfits. And he looks strong, is he strong? At lunch, you're always by yourself. CUT TO INDEPENDENCE INN
[The day of the fashion show, Lorelai walks through the lobby over to Michel at the front desk.] CUT TO LUKE'S DINER
[Lorelai walks in and sits at the counter.] EMILY: And the matching sweatshirts they wear are just darling. EMILY: They do very good work for the school. Everybody knows that Luke. Everyone goes inside except for Rory, Paris and another girl.] FRANCIE: Okay, just a little further. FRANCIE: She asked you to talk her up, didn't she? HEADMASTER: On the contrary, a thin file for a parent indicates lack of participation. I told him that he was completely out of line with this treatment of you, that you are not a loner freak, you have plenty of friends, and you don't own a long black leather Matrix coat, and they should fall down on their kneesocks everyday that you deign to show up at that loser school. I was giving her directions for the quickest way back to Hartford. I'm sure he didn't give them to her. LADY: I want to welcome you here to the Chilton Booster Club's Annual Fall Festival Fundrasier, where all the proceeds from the evening go directly into the refurbishing of the Chilton auditorium. LADY: You're the mother-daughter team. LORELAI: And these fanatics that run your school, they're the ones that write the letters to the fancy colleges saying things like, 'Hey she's keen, look at her' or 'Have you seen the L tattooed on her forehead, 'cause it sure is a big one.' LORELAI: I'm gonna join the Booster Club, mmkay? LORELAI: I'm not telling you who to date, I'm telling you who not to date. LORELAI: Seemed to be. LORELAI: The Independence Inn, it's in Stars Hollow. LORELAI: Yes, and since I know how concerned you are about how Rory's perceived at Chilton, I knew you'd want to be involved somehow, so you're gonna be one of the models. LORELAI: Yes, she said that she and her friends were gonna come in while you're sleeping, wake you up, kidnap you and take you out to breakfast in your pajamas. LUKE: Yeah, I know who she is. Look, I know I have no right to say anything to you, but it's just, um, if you did date her, well, I'm in the Booster Club with her, which means that I'll hear things, and I don't know, it's just, I'd like to keep that Chilton life separate from my Stars Hollow life, so if there's any way that you could not date her, that would be really great. PARIS: The Puffs, the Chilton Puffs. PARIS: Will you please be quiet. PARIS: You call her Francie? RORY: And? RORY: I can't believe that you are going to let a group of strange girls come traipsing in here and take away your only child, your precious baby girl, and off to God knows where in the middle of the night. RORY: This is the headmaster's office. Rory Gilmore? You deserve to go to Harvard. [Everyone stands up and walks away. [leaves]
[Lorelai looks around and gives a slightly sad look as she sees Luke talking to Ava]
CUT TO LORELAI'S HOUSE
[Rory is on the couch reading as Lorelai comes home from the fashion show.] [they walk to the man fixing the runway.]
Plan: A: Headmaster Charleston; Q: Who decrees that both Gilmore girls need to improve their socialization skills at Chilton? A: their socialization skills; Q: What does Rory need to improve in order for Headmaster Charleston to write a glowing recommendation for Rory's Harvard application? A: Rory; Q: Who stands up to Headmaster Charleston? A: Harvard; Q: Where does Rory want to go to college? A: lunch; Q: When did Rory ask a group of girls if she could join them? A: Paris; Q: Who is jealous of Rory's success in socializing? A: Chilton's famed secret sorority; Q: What is the Puffs? A: pledges; Q: What are Rory and Paris accepted as? A: their parents; Q: Who does Charleston threaten to call to threaten their college careers? A: their college careers; Q: What does Charleston threaten to ruin when the Gilmore girls are discovered by him? A: a good student; Q: What does Charleston say Rory is? A: Emily; Q: Who does Lorelai sign up to model with for the fashion show? A: participation; Q: What does Emily chide Lorelai for lacking in the Booster Club? A: a fundraising fashion show; Q: What does Lorelai host at the Inn? A: the Inn; Q: Where does Lorelai host a fashion show for the Booster Club? A: the models; Q: Who are the Booster Club mothers? A: Luke; Q: Who does Lorelai ask to not date Eva? A: the runway; Q: What does Luke fix for Lorelai on the day of the fashion show? A: the eye; Q: What does Luke catch of Eva? A: Eva; Q: Who is the president of the Booster Club? A: The day; Q: What goes downhill when Lorelai discovers that she and Emily will be modeling matching mother-daughter outfits? A: a tremendous success; Q: How did the fashion show turn out? A: the pathetic reason; Q: What does Lorelai give to Luke to keep her Stars Hollow life and her Chilton life separate? A: Luke's dating Eva; Q: What does Lorelai fear will combine her Stars Hollow and Chilton lives? A: her directions; Q: What does Luke tell Lorelai he was only giving her? A: Hartford; Q: Where does Luke tell Lorelai he wants to take Eva to? A: a fool; Q: What does Lorelai think she's made of herself when she's told that Luke isn't interested in Eva? A: Luke's amusement; Q: What does Luke think of Lorelai's hurried exit from the diner? Summary: Headmaster Charleston decrees that both Gilmore girls need to improve their socialization skills at Chilton if they want him to write a glowing recommendation for Rory's Harvard application. Rory's first attempt to socialize leads her to ask a group of girls at lunch if she could join them. They agree and hit it off famously. After lunch, an insanely jealous Paris accosts Rory and tells her the group that she innocently stumbled into is "The Puffs", Chilton's famed secret sorority. Paris would do anything to join, and she begs Rory not to bad-mouth her to the group. At the next opportunity, Rory talks Paris up to the group and they are both accepted as pledges. The Puffs "kidnap" Rory, Paris and the other pledges very early one morning under the guise of taking them to breakfast, but instead take them to Headmaster Charleston's office to be initiated into the group. In the middle of the ceremony, they are discovered by Charleston and the security guards. He calls their parents and threatens their college careers, until Rory stands up to him and says that if he hadn't forced her to socialize, she wouldn't be there at all. He agrees and reconsiders, saying that she is a good student who deserves to go to Harvard. After being chided by Emily for her lack of participation, Lorelai joins the Booster Club and offers to host a fundraising fashion show at the Inn. To her dismay, she discovers that the Booster Club mothers are the models; not wanting to be mortified by herself, and to exact a little payback for being chided, she signs Emily up to model as well. On the day of the show, Lorelai calls Luke to fix the runway, and he catches the eye of Eva, the Booster Club president, who's quite taken with him. Lorelai becomes uncomfortable when she sees them huddled together talking. The day goes even further downhill when Lorelai discovers that she and Emily will be modeling matching mother-daughter outfits. They end up looking terrific and having a ball struting their stuff on the runway, and the show is a tremendous success. Back in Stars Hollow, Lorelai visits Luke at the diner and asks him not to go out with Eva. She offers the pathetic reason that she wants to keep her Stars Hollow life and her Chilton life separate, and that Luke's dating Eva will combine the two. Luke sees right through her, and after letting her know that he'll date whoever he pleases, tells her that he's not interested in Eva and was only giving her directions back to Hartford. Lorelai, secretly happy but realizing she's made a fool of herself, hurries out of the diner, to Luke's amusement.