TEXT: 2.21 - Lorelai's Graduation Day OPEN IN STARS HOLLOW [Lorelai and Rory are walking down the sidewalk] RORY: Where is this place? LORELAI: It's not too far. RORY: You've been saying that for miles. LORELAI: It has not been miles. RORY: My feet are sore. LORELAI: Hey, Tonto, when did you become older than me? RORY: Just tell me what this new breakfast place is and then I'll be quiet. LORELAI: It's an amazing new mystery place that I found and that's all I'm telling ya. RORY: Just tell me if it's in this town or the next. LORELAI: We don't patronize the next town. RORY: Since when? LORELAI: I don't know, didn't they feed lead to our jumping frog or something? RORY: Oh yeah, right after they stoned the woman who won the lottery. LORELAI: See, so the boycott's legit. LANE: [runs up behind them] Hey, wait, stop! LORELAI: Oh look, it's Michael Landon. LANE: Oh my God, you guys walk fast. I've been chasing you for the past two blocks. RORY: Hey, we were being followed. LORELAI: I told you I wasn't just being paranoid. Maybe next time you'll take me seriously when I tell you furniture moved itself. LANE: Where are you guys going? RORY: Mystery breakfast. LANE: Out of town? LORELAI: Does no one remember the definition of the word mystery? LANE: Sorry, I was just wondering if it's okay to practice on your pots and pans again this morning? LORELAI: It's not like they have any other use. LANE: Thanks. I've almost nailed the fill in the Ramble On. I just have to stop hitting my face with the sticks when I pull my arms back. RORY: John Bonham had that same problem. LORELAI: Key's in the turtle. LANE
SUMMARY:
Lorelai and Rory have breakfast at Sookie's in an effort to avoid Luke's, but Lorelai can't avoid an awkward encounter with him at Doose's Market, where he fails to pick up on her hints to patch things up; in an effort to help Lorelai through final exam stress, Rory gets her excited about attending her college graduation ceremony and secretly invites Richard and Emily, despite Lorelai's assertion that they'd never agree to attend; after a late night phone call from Jess, Rory impulsively cuts school the next day and visits him in Manhattan; Christopher sends Lorelai a graduation gift basket filled with fun goodies and an expensive necklace; Lorelai is shocked to see Emily, Richard and the film crew accompanying them to her graduation, and must contend with an obnoxious classmate with an attitude about the rich; Rory is furious with herself when she takes the wrong bus home and misses her mother's graduation; when Rory finally arrives home, Lorelai forgives her when she realizes that the trip to New York may indicate that her daughter has fallen in love with Jess, despite her protests to the contrary.