TEXT: 3.18 - Happy Birthday, Baby OPEN AT ELDER GILMORE RESIDENCE [Lorelai, Rory, and Emily are sitting at the dining room table] EMILY: Richard, please, we are starving! RICHARD: [calls from kitchen] I will be right there, Emily. EMILY: This is ridiculous. LORELAI: Mom, relax. EMILY: He woke up this morning and suddenly just had to have this dish that his grandmother would make him. LORELAI: Yeah, we all understand the cravings. RICHARD: [calls] It's a family secret. EMILY: Well, last time I checked, I was family. RORY: He's having fun, Grandma. EMILY: I saw an open can of cream of mushroom soup. Nothing good can come of that. [Richard walks in carrying a casserole dish] RICHARD: Here we are, a treat for the masses. RORY: Smells good. RICHARD: Oh, this is my favorite thing to eat as a boy. My gran used to make this for me whenever I was feeling a little sad. You know, if my cricket team lost or a girl I fancied turned up her nose at me. LORELAI: Well, then load me up because there was this really cute chick at the pharmacy today. I used my best material on her and nothing. EMILY: Richard, at least let Pina serve it. LORELAI: No comment on my lesbian hilarity. My, how far we've come. RICHARD: Pina will serve tiny, proper servings. Johnny Machete needs to be presented in a heap. RORY: Johnny Machete? EMILY: That's the name of this vile concoction. RORY: It's delicious. LORELAI: It's not bad. EMILY: It's twelve different colors. LORELAI: Come on, Mom, eat it. EMILY: It looks like someone already did. RICHARD: Emily. EMILY: I'm sorry. I'm happy you're happy, and to prove it,
SUMMARY:
Emily and Richard rejoice when Rory announces her decision to attend Yale; Kirk sustains baking-related injuries when Rory secretly enlists the help of her fellow Stars Hollows citizens to bake the world's largest pizza for her mother's birthday party; Michel and Tobin compete over giving Lorelai the best present, but Richard wins the contest hands-down with a check for $75,000 that's actually the proceeds from an investment he made in Lorelai's name at her birth; Luke confronts Jess about skipping school to work at Wal-Mart, but is blown off as usual; when Lorelai decides to use the money to pay back her parents for Rory's Chilton tuition, Emily becomes furious with Richard for giving Lorelai the money, fearing that the repayment of their loan is a sign that she'll never see either Lorelai or Rory again; Luke makes a bad impression on Nicole's parents, scaring them off with a rant on the horrors of parenting Jess.