Episode synopsis
S2 EP20: Help Wanted – Lorelai helps Richard open his new office. Rory tries to salvage Jess’s reputation after the accident. Lane discovers her new love.
Cast
Lauren Graham…Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel…Rory Gilmore
Keiko Agena…Lane Kim
Yanic Truesdale…Michel Gerard
Scott Patterson…Luke Danes
Jared Padalecki…Dean Forester
Kelly Bishop…Emily Gilmore
Edward Herrmann…Richard Gilmore
Carole King…Sophie Bloom
Michael Winters…Taylor Doose
Sally Struthers…Babette Dell
Sean Gunn…Kirk Gleason
Emily Kuroda…Mrs. Kim
Best character
I love Babette. She isn’t in the show too often but when she is it’s always hilarious.
Also, Lane discovering her love for drumming is very cute.
Favourite scene
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Best quotes and one liners
LORELAI: Why are we standing here?
RORY: Because the sign says wait to be seated’.
LORELAI: Yeah, but we’re not automatons, we are rule breakers, and there are like fifty open tables.
RORY: You’re exaggerating.
LORELAI: One, two, three, four, fifty. No I’m not.
RORY: I’m sure someone will help us soon.
LORELAI: We should be eating, I’m hungry, this is crazy. Don’t they want us eating? Isn’t that what the point of The Hungry Diner is to feed the hungry diner? Or is the point of The Hungry Diner to keep the hungry diner hungry, in which case they should call it The Eternally Hungry Diner cause you’re not gonna get any food here, loser.
RORY: That would be quite a sign.
LORELAI: Never mind. Listen, we are very sleepy this morning, so would you happen to have something in a larger size, say a mug, a tureen, a small bowl of some kind?
WAITRESS: A coffee bowl?
LORELAI: Yes, a coffee bowl.
RORY: Bring two, please.
WAITRESS: We don’t have coffee bowls, I’m sorry.
LORELAI: Okay, well, then would you mind bringing. . .what do you think two, three?
RORY: Three’s good.
LORELAI: Yeah, three of these cute little cuppy things? Oh, and could you leave the pot in the meantime? [waitress walks away] Well, looks like coffee, smells like coffee. . .
RORY: [takes a sip and makes a face] The comparison stops there!
LORELAI: This sucks.
RORY: Just put a lot of stuff in there so you can’t taste it.
LORELAI: How am I gonna fit my three sugars into Barbie’s Malibu dream cup here? It’ll be all sugar and no coffee.
RORY: You may prefer it that way.
RICHARD: My goodness, look at all the Post-Its. I had no idea they came in so many shapes and colours. I’m gonna get a twelve pack for myself in various hues.
LORELAI: Wise move.
RICHARD: And one for Emily. I have seen her post notes on her vanity mirror to remind her of various activities.
LORELAI: Ah, she’ll think it’s Christmas.
LANE: Hey, look! They finally took the boards off the windows.
RORY: Oh, I wonder what it’s going to be.
LANE: I don’t know. [they look through a window]
RORY: What’s that in the corner?
LANE: I think it’s. . .a bass. It’s a bass! And look, there are guitars on the wall! Oh my God, it’s a music shop!
RORY: Wow, that is much better than the ceramic circus store we thought was going in there.
TAYLOR: Oh no, just look at that arm!
RORY: It’s fine, really.
TAYLOR: Does it hurt?
RORY: No, not much.
TAYLOR: Well, I hope you’re not getting addicted to painkillers like those Hollywood people do.
RORY: Um, I’m not, don’t worry.
TAYLOR: Good, because pain is your body’s way of saying ‘I’m not okay now, but I will be soon.’
RORY: I will remember that.
TAYLOR: You don’t wanna shut your body up too soon. That’s called death.
EMILY: You’re crude and unprofessional.
LORELAI: Well, I’d like that on my tombstone, please.
BABETTE: Aw, look at ya, being brave like that after all you’ve been through. Geez, it’s so hard being a woman, isn’t it?
RORY: I guess.
BABETTE: I mean, you’ve got your morals and your standards and your good common sense and then bam! You meet some guy and all that goes right out the window.
RORY: But
BABETTE: For every good woman there’s a dirty little wolf just ready to lead her astray. You can’t help it, he’s got the eyes, the chin, the chest hair you could carpet your dining room with. . .I mean, what’s a woman to do? We’re not made of steel for God’s sake.
RORY: Babette
BABETTE: I was in a cult once, did I tell you that?
RORY: No.
BABETTE: I met this guy once; gorgeous, tan, looked just like Mickey Holiday. We had coffee, he gave me a pamphlet. Next thing you know, I’m wearing a muumuu, playing a tambourine, jumping up and down at the airport.
RORY: Okay, I really have to get inside.
BABETTE: Oh, sure, honey, sure, you go take good care of yourself. And don’t be embarrassed tutz, this has happened to all of us.
RORY: You know, there will be food there.
LORELAI: Finger food, aka snooty little balls of attitude.
Final thoughts and fun facts
Music store owner, Sophie Bloom, is played by Carole King who also wrote and sang the show’s theme song.
When Lorelai lies about Rory missing Friday night dinner, saying Rory has the flu, Emily says, “Horrible strain; Bunny Carlington Munchausen has been bedridden for two straight weeks.” Munchausen Syndrome is a mental disorder in which the patient continuously feigns illness.
In a previous episode, Emily said that Richard’s secretary was incompetent, and Emily felt the need to confirm things with her multiple times. Now, Richard and Emily can’t conceive of Richard going into business by himself without Margie, who is suddenly the best secretary there ever was.
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