TEXT: 3.16 - The Big One OPEN AT LORELAI'S HOUSE [Lorelai and Rory are both reading in the living room. Lorelai glances out the window] LORELAI: Mail! RORY: Mail! LORELAI: Hurry up! Where are your shoes? RORY: I'll get them later. LORELAI: No, get them now. RORY: Why? LORELAI: Why? Because if your Harvard acceptance letter is in that batch of mail and you do not have shoes on, we can't run off immediately and celebrate. All of our happiness will be on hold until you come back inside and put on your shoes. Is that what you want to put a hold on happiness? RORY: What's the difference if we wait then or we wait now? LORELAI: Because we are not happy now. RORY: Right, okay. [runs to her bedroom] LORELAI: No laces, just get them on your feet. RORY: [runs back with shoes on] Let's go! [they run outside to the mailbox. Kirk is going through his mailbag] LORELAI: Kirk! RORY: Kirk! KIRK: Good morning, ladies. LORELAI: Is there an envelope in there? RORY: A big envelope, not a little envelope. LORELAI: Yeah, a big envelope means she's in, a little envelope means she needs to marry rich. KIRK: Just one second, please. RORY: Aren't you supposed to go through the mail before you get here? KIRK: Some work that way. Personally, I think it takes the spontaneity out of the job. LORELAI: Need some help? KIRK: Sorry, federal law prohibits it. RORY: Any chance you could go faster? LORELAI: Yeah, you got a girl's future in that sack of yours, Santa. RORY: Thank you for adding the Santa. LORELAI: Any time. KIRK: You know what I've noticed? LORELAI: It wouldn't be any mail in there with our names on it, would it? KIRK
SUMMARY:
Rory and Paris compete for the honor of speaking at Chilton's Bicentennial; Sookie and Jackson get some very good life (and diaper) changing news; Paris and Rory reconcile; Lorelai runs into Max and it's apparent that they're not quite over each other yet; Paris sleeps with Jamie and then has a meltdown on national television when she fails to get into Harvard, thinking her sleeping with Jamie is the cause; Rory's college acceptance letters finally arrive; Paris isn't sure what to think about the latest development in her relationship with Jamie.