TEXT: (Lorelai, Rory, and Emily Gilmore are sitting around the dinner table.) LORELAI: So where'd you say Dad was? EMILY: Away on business. LORELAI: Location's top secret? EMILY: Oh, Germany. LORELAI: Germany. Is Dad's firm insuring Nazis now? EMILY: Your father doesn't know any Nazis. LORELAI: I know, Mom. I was just -- EMILY: What? RORY: Joking. She was joking. EMILY: Oh. Hard to tell. LORELAI: Yeah, well. EMILY: Oh, I'm afraid I have some bad news. Claudia died. LORELAI: Who? EMILY: Claudia. Your cousin Claudia. (Lorelai stares.) Claudia! LORELAI: I'm hearing the name, Mom. I have no idea who that is. EMILY: Claudia's your cousin, for all intents and purposes. LORELAI: Oh, now we're getting to it. EMILY: She was your father's grandmother's sister's girl. So to you, that would make her -- LORELAI: Nothing? EMILY: Regardless the funeral's on Thursday. I thought we'd all go together. LORELAI: Ooh, whoa. Two problems. Impossible to get away from the inn Thursday. Two, I've never met this woman. EMILY: You most certainly have. LORELAI: When? EMILY: Several times. LORELAI: I'll take one. EMILY: We went to her house in Groton to see the first moon landing. She'd just gotten a new Philco. LORELAI: I have no memory of this whatsoever. EMILY: Rory, correct me if I'm wrong, but men have walked on the moon regardless of whether your mother remembers it or not. RORY: That's the rumor. LORELAI: I know men have walked on the moon. I just don't know Claudia. EMILY: So you'
SUMMARY:
It's Rory's sixteenth birthday, so Emily and Lorelai each plan a party representative of their respective styles. Emily makes an effort to better understand Rory, much to Lorelai's delight. However, Emily invites all of Rory's Chilton classmates without consulting Rory. The resulting cold party atmosphere so upsets Rory that she argues with Emily. To make peace, Emily and Richard attend Lorelai's informal bash the next evening. They are caught off-guard by the colorful party guests. Emily tours the house, as she and Richard have never visited before, and learns Lorelai broke her leg three years ago and never told her parents. Emily sadly realizes she doesn't know her daughter at all. Dean gives Rory a birthday present.