Episode synopsis
S2 EP2 – Hammer and Veils: Lorelai hesitates to tell her parents about her engagement to Max, despite Rory’s urging. Rory and Dean have a spat over Rory’s plans for extracurricular activities.
Cast
Lauren Graham…Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel…Rory Gilmore
Melissa McCarthy…Sookie St. James
Keiko Agena…Lane Kim
Yanic Truesdale…Michel Gerard
Scott Patterson…Luke Danes
Liza Weil…Paris Geller
Jared Padalecki…Dean Forester
Kelly Bishop…Emily Gilmore
Edward Herrmann…Richard Gilmore
Liz Torres…Miss Patty
Jackson Douglas…Jackson Belleville
Sean Gunn…Kirk Gleason
Best character
Everyone’s a bit whiney in this episode so I don’t really have much choice for best character. I do always like it when Lane shows up though, they haven’t ruined her character just yet.
Favourite scene
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Best quotes and one liners
LORELAI: Mom, tomorrow I’m going to build a house.
RORY: Help build a house.
LORELAI: Did you tell them that there’s a light bulb in your closet that burned out in ’97 that you still haven’t changed?
RORY: It’s for charity.
LORELAI: Wow, don’t those people have enough problems without having you as a contractor?
RORY: I’m sure there will be real construction workers there. I will be assisting, I will be helping out those less fortunate than myself, I will be getting college credit and this is the end of this particular conversation.
LORELAI: You’re right. It’s a good thing. Nice, keeps your halo shiny.
RORY: Are you okay?
LORELAI: I’m perfect.
RORY: Really?
LORELAI: I have hit a level of perfection that has rarely been seen outside the Victoria’s Secret catalogue.
RORY: What is that?
LORELAI: A hammer.
RORY: It has feathers on it.
LORELAI: Yes.
RORY: Why?
LORELAI: So the rhinestones and bows won’t feel lonely.
RORY: What do you want me to do it?
LORELAI: Build a really pretty house.
RORY: How long is it gonna take me to talk you out of giving that to me?
LORELAI: Forty minutes, an hour, tops.
RORY: Hand it over.
RORY: Hey, Henry?
LANE: Called him.
RORY: And?
LANE: He likes me. He’s perfect. I’ll never see him again. You’ll read about it in my novel, A Connecticut Yankee in Pusan.
CONSTRUCTION WORKER: That’s a hammer?
RORY: Well, it’s just dressed up a little. CONSTRUCTION WORKER: You dressed up a hammer?
RORY: No, my mother did. She does that. She, um, she takes thinks that aren’t pretty and makes them pretty, like a hammer, you know. One time she made individual outfits for my liquid paper bottles. A clown, a cowboy, a newscaster. She’s not insane, she just sounds it.
PARIS: Rebuilding Together is an extremely prestigious and respected organization. I’ve been volunteering for them for years.
RORY: Really? You just love the overalls?
PARIS: I don’t. Harvard does.
RORY: What does that mean?
PARIS: When you apply to an ivy league school, you need more than good grades and test scores to get you in. Every person who applies to Harvard has a perfect GPA and great test scores. It’s the extras that put you over the top. The clubs, charities, volunteering. You know.
RORY: Oh yeah, I know.
PARIS: I started volunteering in fourth grade. I handed out cookies at the local children’s hospital. By ten, I was leading my first study group. The youngest person in the group was twelve.
RORY: Wow.
PARIS: I’ve been a camp counsellor. I organized a senior illiteracy program, I worked a suicide hotline, I manned a runaway centre. I’ve adopted dolphins, taught sign language, trained seeing eye dogs.
RORY: Paris has been accumulating these things since she could walk. I mean, she has a list of good deeds that could bump Mother Teresa off the Harvard list.
MAX: I don’t know if you’ve realized, but every gift so far has been for you.
LORELAI: Yes, well, in this town, I am the queen. You are simply my jester.
RORY: The only way you could be more important to me is if you had a Kit Kat bar growing out of your head.
DEAN: Well, I can’t make any promises, but I’ll give it a try.
Final thoughts and fun facts
The construction foreman in Hartford is the same actor who portrays Tom later in the series in Stars Hollow. As Tom, he consistently has a full beard whereas here he did not.
I can’t believe this episode uses the ‘R’ word. I’m not going to type it as I hate it and have never said it in my life, but my god were the early 2000s a different time.
I’m (impatiently) awaiting the arrival of Jess, I’ll talk about it more in his first episode, but the moment he stepped off the bus, I screamed. I love him so much.
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