TEXT: OPEN AT STARS HOLLOW TOWN CENTER [Miss Patty is trying to get a group of children to dance around a Maypole. Kirk watches from the side of the gazebo.] MISS PATTY: No, no, boys. You go clockwise! Clockwise! Can't you tell time? CHRISSY: The other way, boys! They're not getting it, Miss Patty. MISS PATTY: Well, the wedding's tomorrow. We gotta get it. CHRISSY: It's the Banyan boys. They won't do what I tell them. KIRK: Nice maypole, Patty! Really organized! MISS PATTY: Oh, shut up, Kirk! LORELAI: Tough day, Patty? MISS PATTY: I've worked with Joan Crawford. This is worse. KIRK: I don't call that a "maypole." I'd call that a "maybe-not pole." LORELAI: What's with him? MISS PATTY: He's mad because I made Chrissy my dance captain over him. LORELAI: Kirk has forty-three jobs. MISS PATTY: Would you go talk to him, please? I got my hands full here. LORELAI: The Banyan boys? MISS PATTY: Oh! Lucifer tired of them in hell and dumped them here. LORELAI: I'll talk to Kirk. MISS PATTY: Thank you. All right, Chrissy, let's give it another go! LORELAI: Hey, Kirk, maybe you want to ease up on Patty a little. KIRK: But the maypole is an expertise of mine. I re-enacted the dwarf's maypole choreography from "The Safety Dance" video, my junior-high talent show. Chicks were falling at my feet. I'm less than impressed, Patty! LORELAI: Take a break, please. I've seen Miss Patty get violent. It's not pretty. Remember that time? KIRK: That's when she beat me up. LORELAI: Yeah. Let'
SUMMARY:
As Stars Hollow prepares for the Renaissance-themed wedding of Liz and T.J., Kirk feels slighted when Miss Patty chooses someone else as the maypole dance captain; Lorelai discovers an equine visitor in the Dragonfly Inn's lobby; Rory's suite mates depart for summer vacation; Lorelai urges Mrs. Kim to call Lane; Lorelai unsuccessfully attempts to get Emily to admit to the separation during Friday night dinner; T.J. revels in the wonders of tights, but discovers their main drawback during the ceremony; Mrs. Kim gets some good advice from Lorelai after initially fleeing in horror at the sight of Zach and Brian and Lane's shabby apartment, and eventually returns for tea armed with a game plan; Rory calls Dean to rescue her from the disastrous date Emily has arranged for her with the son of a friend; Luke and Lorelai share significant glances during a slow dance at the wedding, which prompts Luke to ask Lorelai out on a date; Jess expresses his gratitude to Luke before saying goodbye; Rory tells Jess it's over between them when he asks her to go away with him.