Gilmore Girls Season Five, Episode Six: Norman Mailer, I’m Pregnant!
Posted By Shannon on April 8, 2010
Everyone at the Yale Daily News is talking about what they did all summer with internships and stuff, and of course Rory freaks out about how she hasn’t done enough for her career. Doyle, the editor, gives everyone their assignments for the year and Rory is happy to get the features beat. Logan shows up and Doyle kisses his ass and tells Rory it’s because Logan is the son of Mitchum Huntzberger, the newspaper magnate.
Rory (who is supposed to be some kind of genius, right?) decides the best article idea she can come up with is about illegal music downloading. While interviewing this weird guy who I guess downloads a ton of music, she realizes it’s a dead end. She takes a break and goes into a bathroom. Some girl walks in wearing a gorilla mask and a ball gown. Rory follows her outside, where the girl says something in Latin and then gets in a black SUV. Rory does some research and finds out the Latin phrase is the motto for a secret society at Yale. It’s called the Life and Death Brigade and nobody is really sure if it actually exists. During the course of her research, Rory finds out Logan’s grandfather was in the society. She finds him one day and asks him about it. He denies any knowledge, but she says she has proof his grandfather was in it, which should mean he’s in it. He still denies it, but the next day, he sends her an instant message telling her he’ll let her in on the scoop.
Christopher calls Lorelai and says GG won’t stop crying and Sherry isn’t home and he doesn’t know what to do. Lorelai races all the way to Boston to help out. She puts the kid in her crib and then turns it around to face the wall so GG can’t see them. GG calms down and Chris says Sherry has left him and gone to Paris. He thinks he can’t raise GG alone, but Lorelai says he can and he will because he has to.
Norman Mailer is at the Dragonfly. Someone is interviewing him, and he and his interviewer sit in the dining room for hours ordering nothing but iced tea, which annoys Sookie to no end. Sookie is really irritated when the Dragonfly’s financial adviser says Sookie should drop lunch temporarily because it’s not making any money. Lorelai asks what her problem is, but Sookie is just crabby.
The Gilmore Girls show up for Friday night dinner and the maid says Richard and Emily aren’t there. Emily is at some function and Richard is out of town. Lorelai decides they should order pizza and eat it on the floor in the living room. Lorelai tells Rory about Christopher and says she plans to go back and help him on Monday. Rory goes to Christopher’s a few days later and tells him she doesn’t want him to call Lorelai anymore because she’s in a relationship now and she doesn’t want him to mess it up.
Luke calls Lorelai and says Kirk is dressed as a hot dog and he’s standing in front of the diner handing out flyers for lunch at the Dragonfly. It’s all Sookie’s doing. Lorelai goes back to the inn and tells Sookie there’s no more lunch. Sookie goes into the dining room and yells at Norman Mailer, telling him it’s all his fault. Lorelai drags her away and Sookie says she doesn’t know why she’s freaking out. Suddenly, she realizes she’s pregnant. She runs back out to the dining room and tells Norman Mailer.
Lorelai goes to Luke’s later and he’s crabby because a couple of guys are sitting around ordering nothing but iced tea.
Lorelai, to Rory: You were behind at Chilton. Remember? And then you hit a deer and everything was fine.
