TEXT: OPEN AT LORELAI'S HOUSE [Rory walks out of her bedroom with some beauty products. She goes into the living room to pack them in a suitcase] RORY: I've got too much stuff. LORELAI: [calls from upstairs] What? RORY: Stuff! And it's your fault. You inculcated into me a tolerance for rampant consumerism. LORELAI: What? RORY: When did I become one of those girls with dozens of beauty products, none of which are expendable? It used to be a touch of mascara, dab of Coppertone, zip, bam, boom, out the door. LORELAI: I heard copper and boom. RORY: Never mind. And what's going on? We're late. LORELAI: I'm looking for the camera. RORY: Oy vey, she's looking for the camera. LORELAI: I heard that. RORY: That she hears. [Lorelai comes down the steps] LORELAI: It is my prerogative as your mother to record any event in my daughter's life that I so choose. It's in the mother's handbook. RORY: Does Luke know that you can't drive a stick? LORELAI: Why? RORY: Because you borrowed his truck and it's a stick. LORELAI: I can drive a stick. RORY: You can stir coffee with a stick, but you can't drive a stick. LORELAI: Okay, I am glad I did not choose to record that particular moment in my daughter's life 'cause that was just ugly. RORY: I just want you to get there in one piece. LORELAI: You look out for me. RORY: Let's hit the road. LORELAI: Oh, wait, wait, this is it! This is the precise moment that I've been looking for. This is my daughter going off to college, this is my shot! RORY: Okay, fine. LORELAI: Okay, I'm lining you up, now look candid. RORY: Okay, see, the very definition of
SUMMARY:
While Luke is willing to lend Lorelai his truck to help Rory move into her dorm, he's not too thrilled when the project turns out to take all day to accommodate Lorelai's last minute shopping trips to keep Rory's room on a par with the rest of the dorm, to say nothing of Lorelai's seeming inability to drive a stick, losing his spare tire, and saddling him with the old mattress from Rory's dorm room; Rory's roommates turn out to be a jock, a 15 year old prodigy sorely lacking in socialization skills, and none other than Miss People Person herself, Paris Geller, who arrives with a life coach in tow; Nicole's partners descend on the diner and threaten to ensnare Luke in a morass of paperwork and legal complications when he refuses to hire a lawyer or even discuss accepting a settlement; responding to Rory's attack of homesickness after just four hours, Lorelai returns to Yale and sets up a dorm-wide takeout food test to judge the quality of the local restaurants, their delivery speed, and the cuteness of their delivery boys; as a thanks for the takeout feast, the next morning some dormmates arrive with breakfast, having "Lorelai'd" a few places on campus to find the best place for coffee and muffins.