TEXT: OPEN AT ELDER GILMORE RESIDENCE [Lorelai, Rory, Richard, and Emily are eating dinner] RORY: More broccoli, Grandpa? RICHARD: Absolutely. Staves off the cancer. LORELAI: Staves off my appetite. EMILY: You really should eat more green things, Lorelai. LORELAI: I plan to eat a five-dollar bill later tonight. RORY: Oh, have you seen the new twenties? They have a little peach color in 'em. LORELAI: Peach, perfect. I'll eat a new twenty, I'll have my fruits and vegetables. RICHARD: I think we saw some of the new twenties in Atlantic City, didn't we, Emily? EMILY: I think. RORY: How was Atlantic City? Successful? RICHARD: Very. LORELAI: Well, Siskel's chimed in. What about you? EMILY: I'm refraining. RICHARD: It's a bit of a sore subject. LORELAI: We'll talk about something else. EMILY: The garishness, the garishness. LORELAI: Thus spake Ebert. EMILY: Why have a simple sign if it can be in bright flashing neon? And the new slot machines? They don't just make obnoxious bell sounds anymore, they yell at you. LORELAI: The slot machines were talking to you, Mom? Are you sure it wasn't just you? RICHARD: Oh, they talk, I can verify that. One of them kept yelling, "wheel...of...fortune!" EMILY: And the parking lot of the hotel that we stayed at had an area for RV's. LORELAI: Perish the thought! EMILY: And the boardwalk... RORY: Oh, I've always wanted to see the Atlantic City boardwalk. EMILY: I'll save you a trip. Tip an overflowing trash can on your front porch and walk up and down
SUMMARY:
Richard and Emily hold widely differing points of view on the success of their business trip to Atlantic City. Spurred on by her editor, Rory writes a strongly opinionated dance review that leads to a dining hall confrontation with the ballerina. Even though she continues to resist his interest in her, Lorelai can't help but be impressed by Jason's smooth moves as he manipulates a frosty Emily into inviting him for Friday night dinner so that he can woo Lorelai. Lane and Dave have a long distance argument over pottery. Michel is back on the staff of the still-under-reconstruction Dragonfly Inn, but his one sneeze has Bruce, the midwife, erecting barriers to his attending a staff meeting which includes an overly-protective new mother Sookie and baby Davey. When she learns that Nicole and Luke have put their divorce on hold and have resumed dating, Lorelai becomes so flustered that she has an argument with Luke. Richard ecstatically roams throughout the house with his laptop after he goes wireless with Jason's help, but Emily fails to be charmed by either the Internet or Mr. Stiles.