IAAI Town Meeting: Rory is in her Elitist Era (Season 4 E18 “Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!)

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Hi. Before we jump into this week's episode, last week, we talked about the building that was in the background of Stars Hollow, and once I saw the screenshot, I texted you and Jackie and I was like, oh my god, I used to work in that building. That is the Disney Channel building, or back in the day, it used to be the Disney Channel building around this time two thousand and four. It used to have the old Disney Channel logo at the top, the like do you remember how Disney Channel used to it used to look like a TV with ears. Yes, yes, that logo used to be on that building, on the other side of it, so facing the opposite way of what we see. And when Disney changed their logo, they took that down. But

as a kid, I always so I lived in Glendale, like, so I'd always pass it and I always thought that, like everyone films every TV show in that building because that's not any better. So, yeah, that used to be the Disney Channel building. And then when I worked at Radio Disney, i worked on the first and the seventeenth floor in that building. And now it's just they've mixed up people different departments of Disney, like Disney Plus and everything.

So that is still to this day the Disney building. Oh that's cool, which is funny because this is a Warner Brothers lot. So the fact that the Disney building from the back, it's like, oh, okay, books of interest.

But it's all it's all right there, there's a right there, like it's all next to week. Yeah.

The Disney I mean the Disney lot is literally probably like two blocks from the Warner Brothers A lot, and then up the Street is sorry, Warner Brothers in the up the Street is universal. Yeah. But let's jump into this week's recap, Season four episode eighteen, Tick Tick Tick Boom, which aired April twentieth, two thousand and four. This is a jam packed episode.

You know, this whole the whole end of season four. There's so much going on. I loved the drama in this episode.

I felt like at first with the egg situation, it was like especially like the opening scene and the diner with the baby it felt a little slow with the two pey and the baby.

Yeah.

The movie the.

Tupey was funny. The baby that was just kind of.

It was like it was like filler, a little bit mean about it.

I don't know, but yeah, hey, I thought was funny.

To pay was funny. I like that the ongoing joke with the Tupey was just throughout like it was like funny enough and not annoying where it was actually when it was it was funny.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I didn't expect though that I didn't know that Kirk could say ass in this episode. Did you catch that? I didn't, he said, hold on. I wrote it down because I was like, wait a minute. He said that you get medieval on their ass.

Oh yeah, talking about the skunks. That's right.

But I was like, could you say ass on the CW at the time. I guess you could if it was after like eight, yeah.

I guess.

So.

I had no idea times are changing.

Yeah.

I also noticed in that opening scene on the chalkboard in the diner it was advertising blueberry pancakes.

I saw that and I went back.

Because I couldn't remember if we'd ever seen blueberry pancakes there before. So I was trying to go back through previous episodes and I couldn't. I can't remember. I didn't get back far enough before it was time to record. But I went back to like episode like thirteen or fourteen, and the angle was never right to see the chalkboard.

So I found it was a new loose signer item.

I think it was a new thing. Yeah, I can't remember what was there before. I know we had the special omelet was there for a long time, but I don't remember what was after that, if anything. But yeah, the blueberry pancakes caught my eye.

Because I'm not gonna lie. Last weekend, I woke up on Sunday and I was like, I really want waffles, Like you know when you just wake up and you create something. Yeah, So I ended up making waffles with blueberries because I'm a I'm more of a waffle girl than pancakes. But when I saw a pancake, I was like, Hm, should I make some tomorrow.

I love blueberry pancakes. I just love pancakes in general. It's like one of those fond childhood memories because my mom would make pancakes and I don't I don't eat them. Very often, so when I do eat them, it just reminds me.

Didn't you and I get pancakes when we went? So? Didn't we share pancakes? And I make med up? I feel like we did. Remember we each got like an entree, and I feel like we shared. I feel like we got like a pancake on the side. Yeah, we might have done that because we both wanted like eggs and stuff, but we also want a pancakes, so I think we shared. Yeah, I think we had a couple of bits because we went to.

That little Luke's diner place for breakfast that one morning.

That was just so packed.

I know, we waited like an hour to get in worth it.

Honestly, it was great food.

Yeah, it was really good. Yeah, now I'm hungry. I haven't had lunch yet.

Oh well, I guess let's kind of just talk about the town. Should we just go there first? Since that's a little shorter than the second part. I thought it was really sweet and I knew it was coming. But when Luke went and found the rest of the eggs, yes.

You know Luke and Kirk. Luke is often annoyed by Kirk and yellows at him a lot but at the same time, then you see things like this and it's like, okay, he does kind of think of Kirk as like the annoying little brother brother. Yeah, like he's he's on your nerves all the time, but then you're protective of him also, And I just thought that was a cute moment, you know, because we're starting to see more of an emotional side from Luke and I thought that was that was a cool moment.

Well, I broke my heart when for Kirk when Taylor was like I need it. I don't remember the exact line, but he's like I need a man, and then Kirk was like I can do it, and he's like I need it like you.

Basically I have no men left.

I have no men left. And then that was you if you actually watch Scott in the back, like you can tell like it was just it. It hit him in the heart a little bit, like.

Yeah, Tamplor was so mean to Kirk. It was so mean, and I mean I get it, like he should have made the map, but at the same time, like Kirk is Kirk. I mean, don't give him an important job like that if he wanted.

Done right, God bless, this is the most important thing that's happening in that town. Like, I know, if my life were that easy, I would be yeah, oh my god, I'd be so not anxious at all times.

Right, I know. Yeah, Taylor should be happy.

Yeah, yeah, her other issues in the world. Should we talk about Rory and Dean? Sure, I think she's been a little mean to Lindsay for no reason.

You know, this is definitely Rory in her entitled era. Yeah, she's she was mean to Dean. When so when Dean comes to Yale with the bookcase and she just starts yelling at him about not going to school and how he needs to do this, it's not her say, it's not her say, it's He's not her. He doesn't belong to her anymore. And I'm putting belong in air quotes for those of you that aren't looking at me. But she doesn't get to force her opinion on people's lives, yeah, on them. And she she does that with all of her boyfriends, and you know, she does it to Logan, and she does it to Jess also, and it's just I don't know, she's just kind of arrogant about it.

It's like, you know, just because you think that's what's best for somebody doesn't mean that that's what they have to do. And I think she was partially right about about Lindsay, Like Lindsay's sitting at home all day complaining. But at the same time, it's like that's Dean's problem to figure out, it's not Rory's problem to figure out.

Yeah, I mean, I agree with you, like Lindsay's just sitting on her ass, but maybe don't say it in the middle of the grocery store where everyone can hear you, Like, come on. Yeah, by the way, Cyderbard, did you see how many boxes of pretzels were out? Like this episode was sponsored by Is it Snyder's? Is it the name of the brand?

Oh? The pretzel brand, Yeah, Snyder's and the other one is Rolled Gold.

Oh, they were both, by the way, they were both on the shelves. There were so many pretzels, And then they actually mentioned pretzel. I'm like, all right, well you got the pretzel mentioned in there.

Yeah, you have to buy all the cheap food because I have a refrigerator.

That's true. The other thing is I think it's weird that they kind of like hid that they're talking to each other when Lindsay is in the picture. Yeah, I think that's disrespectful because like I think of myself, like I have a friend who I male friend, who I had known him way before he met his wife. We're friends and then married his wife, and then I obviously became friends with her, and then if we hang out, I text the two of them together. If not, I just text his wife, Like yeah, it's more of a respect thing. But in my head, I was like, like, Rory, did you really think that she's not like they're not gonna talk about well.

It's not like the whole panel and lot thing, right, Like.

I mean, you're right, that's I guess that's the parallel.

I don't realize, Like we see how that situation plays out, you know, thirty years down the road, it's not good.

Yeah, yeah, that's true. I forgot. I mean, that is a great parallel that I never realized. I know, But Rory's still annoying with the situation, like it's not your life, let him, let him do whatever he wants. He's also, poor guy's working hard. He's not sitting on his ass, right, He's.

Doing his best. You know, he's trying to I mean, we know what happens in a couple episodes. But he's trying to make this work right now. Yeah, and you know he's he's probably feeling like nothing nothing that he does is is right because he can't satisfy her because she wants, you know, a townhouse and all this.

But so people have amazing careers in construction. Oh yeah, So I thought that was a very rude comment.

There's nothing shameful in that. No, yeah, you can make a very good living there. So Rory was being I mean, Dean called her out. He's like, you're being elitist about it, and she was. She totally was.

I mean, if you think about it, Dean has always worked this entire series. He was he was a bad boy. He has never not worked, right.

Yeah, the very first episode where we met him, he's looking for a job.

Yeah. So like this man has worked his whole life. Like let him live right, Yeah? Yeah, little Rory's By the way, I saw this TikTok the other day where this guy was like he's like I've watched Gilmore Girls growing up, but man, as an adult, you realize how much Rory sucks. He's like in my teenage years, I was like, oh, I want to be Rory. I want to go to journalism school. I want to do this, And then you grow up and you're like, man, she's annoying.

I think everybody kind of goes through that realization. Like the first couple of times you watch it, you're like, oh, they're so great, and then like the more you watch it, you're like, you know, Rory's kind of a problem.

And you don't want it. Like for the longest time, like a lot of us didn't want to admit that because she is one half of the Gilmore exactly little hazard moments.

Don't get me wrong, Yeah for sure, but yeah, definitely Rory's you know, I mean she's she had a weird upbringing, so she's gonna turn out weird. But yeah, I don't know. She just is kind of snotty, and I think that kind of stems from she wasn't snotty until Richard and Emily got her their claws into her.

And don't even get me started when she moves into the poolhouse.

Oh yeah, then it like escalates it.

Really, do we have to recap those because that's where you will you will lose me.

Yeah, she's pretty, but we'll get there.

Yeah, we'll get there. We've already done it once again. We'll find it any angle. And then I guess the Richard and Emily and Digger and his dad and his mom. There are just so many yeah.

So much going on here. We got We've got We're acquiring Bob, and then we have Jason's parents and the I don't know, the big blow up and the I It just was so much going on, Like the drama. I really enjoyed the drama of the episode.

I did, especially like, you know, it's so funny. I forgot how he like the delivery of I'm Suing you is still it still makes my jaw drop, Like it's just so like, uh right.

Because they're just making small talk and it just like comes out of nowhere. He just drops that bomb, and it's like you literally can like hear a pin drop because they're like, wait, what just happened.

Also, the fact that the wife knew and she was I was like, what a yeah, Sun.

She was kind of a mystery in this episode because she she makes that comment to Emily when they're leaving the dining room about how you know, we're never gonna let business get in the way of our friendship again. But she knew this was coming, so why would she.

Say, Well, it was weird to me. I think it was just like it was an act because then at the end, when the guys come in and like there's a like storm in, She's like it's time to go, Like she was like waiting for it to drop, but she was playing it.

Debsolutely knew about it. That's why I just I would think she just would have not said anything like she but she specifically went out of her way to say to Emily like, we won't let anything come between us again.

And when Emily was like they're not dating, I was like, oh my god. I was like, oh, it just got worse, like it was like one layer after this.

Yeah, And I loved there was There was a moment where they were standing in a triangle, so it was like Richard in the middle and then Laura Emily on the other and then Jason leaves to go after his parents and the three of them just stand silence, like four or five seconds. Just it was so awkward.

But it was actually thought my audio went out because I was like, wait, no one's talking. But it was it was so power because it's like, yeah, so much happened. It was like the hell do we yeah.

With that moment was so good and then Jason comes back in and but I don't know, just that one moment of complete silence was so.

Powerful and then the end, the very very end.

Yeah, Okay, so this always I see people debating this all the time. So Richard and Floyd discussed that they're going to get back together and get rid of Jason. So do we think that the two of them planned this whole thing from the start to get Jason out?

Like?

I don't know, people think Richard may have been involved from the beginning.

Is that the debate online?

Yeah, like was Richard? Did Richard know? Like what's involved in the whole thing from the start? Like was the whole thing is set up to get rid of Jason?

See? I actually, I guess this is just my opinion, but I actually think that he didn't know. But then I was thinking, the only way that he's not going to lose all this money in a lawsuit is to partner up with your enemy basically, and if it's a kickout what's Digger's real name or Jason, just keep calling him Digger and Jason. So then then just kick Jason out because also Jason has been hiding this that he's dating Lorelai for five months. So I think that in a way, Richard did it to basically be like, well, screw you, Jason. You were my partner for five months and you lied to me in front of my face.

Because with Lorelei, he will always forgive Loralai. It's his daughter, but a business person and also a conflict of interest, you know, Like, yeah.

I think that's the element that I think. Also, I agree that I don't think he was in on it from the beginning because of that element of dating Lorelai, like that was genuinely a surprise to him. And if he had been in cahoots with Floyd all along, that would have come out earlier, like if Floyd because Floyd obviously really did hire a private detective to follow Jason because that's how he found out about them, and so Richard would have found that out also earlier, and I it just didn't play out that way. So that's I think.

I agree that I don't think he was in on it. But there's a lot of people that like asked that question because I could see why, Yeah, they don't make it clear. It's like all of a sudden it's gonna be there's like this big lawsuit, and then all of a sudden their buddies again.

The one part that made me think that he really didn't know is when Emily walks in and she's like, are we going to be okay? Like you know, and he kind of had this like worry in his like tone and his just like his whole body, like you can tell he was like, I have no idea how it's going to play out. So then the fact that it then jumps to and we also don't know the timeline right, Like we don't know if it's like the next day, a week later, two weeks later when they go golf, it like there could have been so much between that dinner and that golf day game.

Yeah that's true.

Yeah, yeah, but I think personally, I think when he found out Jason's been dating Loural Life for five months, he was like, oh, screw you, Like I'm going to get back at you, because like Jason's dad and Richard had been friends in the past, they're not like it's not like they've never met so right, and he's a powerful man, as they had mentioned, right.

Yeah. And we found out, which I never paid attention to until I watched it this time, that Floyd went to Yale. Yes, yeah, which I never caught before. So I mean they maybe they knew each other.

Then they talk about being a bulldog or something.

Yeah, yeah, I wrote it down. Where did I put it?

It was a comment about the granddaughter, right, but then we realized that, so it was.

I wrote it down. It was the scene where they were setting up the backyard before Floyd arrived, and so Floyd. It wasn't the dinner scene where they talked about the grandson. It was before that and they were talking about Floyd, oh okay or something. They were making small talk. I wrote, everybody's all nervous small talk. Floyd went to Yale, So yeah, I didn't. So he and Richard could have known each other for decades.

Yeah yeah, tick the kid to the curb, I know, so crappy, like he just such Jason bugs me. I know I've said this before, but he just bugs me anyway. So I'm like, all right, you'd probably.

Still like to get stabbed in the back by your own father, Like, I mean, I know they weren't clothes.

I mean doesn't seem like we had a great relationship anyway.

Yeah, I I yeah, they weren't buddy buddy, but still it's just so I don't know, so impersonal.

And by the way, Emily just a sidetrack. Emily had a really funny line that I like actually laughed out out because it was so quick and witty. But it's like kind of messed up. When Rory comes into be like, oh, like you know the you know, the housekeeper said dinners in like five minutes and she goes, she make you vacuum too, And I was like, that was so quick.

It was like really funny. I'm like, it's also so messed up, Like but I had I literally laughed out loud because it was just so such a quick witted respons But yeah, I mean we're I realized as I was clicking the episode for this that we're basically done with this season.

Yeah, there's not much left that good Lorelei stuff coming, but yeah, for he really ramped up the.

Drama, especially the last Yeah, I was like, it's like a lot Like what's funny though, is like you have the egg stuff and then you have all this in the same episode. There's so much By the way, besides the pretzels, I didn't have any call outs this episode.

I you know, I had one thing, and it's it's when they have the big blow up and Emily tells Laura I that she could leave, and Laura says her car's blocked in. But Floyd and Carol left and they were the only ones that came after Laurai did, so there wouldn't have been any Boddy blocking Larelai. Jason was already there because he remembered he made some comment about how Richard and Emily had moved him around the patio, so he was there before Larela and Rory showed up and then Rory left.

She was also parked really weird. She was doing like some weird back.

Yeah, she was like trying to get out of like the two cars that she was parked between. But who would have been parked behind her, I don't know, just one of those.

There are a lot of people who work at that house who knows.

Yeah, they just needed a dramatic moment and also just just a weird little informational thing. So at the end, when Richard keeps telling Emily that it will be okay, and then this weird like fifties kind of doo woppy song starts and then it plays all the way through the scene in Jason's apartment where they're all drunk and acting stupid. I googled that song because I'm like, what is it? What is this song? Because it's somehow important?

So it shezammed it and it it's actually Robert Mitcham, the actor, and I did not know he was a singer. But if anybody's interested, the song is from nineteen fifty eight and it's called My Honey's Love and Arms. And there was a movie called thunder Road that Robert Mitchum starred in and he wrote a song for that movie, and so this song was the B side of that song from the movie thunder Road.

So it is so specific, I know.

I don't know how whoever, like put if it was Amy or Dan like that, specified what music would be used. It's so specific and so obscure. I don't know how they would have come up with that, this random song from nineteen fifty eight. That it's really random, yeah, completely unimportant, Like it was hard to even find it.

But just like I'm surprised Chazam picks it up.

I know I was too, because they started talking and you could only hear like a little bit of it, but it was it found it.

So Jamie is truly one of the most important apps on my phone.

It really is. Oh my gosh. I have used it for years.

I've been in like dressing rooms and restaurants and I hold my phone up because I'm like, what is the name of this song?

Yeah? Genius, And it gets it's gotten better. Like it used to not be able to pick up things if there were like if you were in a restaurant or whatever, people were talking. But now it can like pick up it can like hear through all that background noise.

I would use it in a minute. But man, I love my Shazam.

I know it's so helpful. But yeah, other than that, I didn't I didn't have anything else.

We were any we were besides being in the town. We didn't even go to Lorealized house. So yeah, yeah, no clown pillow.

No clown pillow. But good episode, Yeah, good one.

It was a good one. All right. Next next time, we're gonna be talking about season four, episode nineteen after Boom and we'll see you there meeting adjourny. Hey, everybody, and don't forget Follow us on Instagram at i Am All In Podcast and email us at Gilmour at iHeartRadio dot com

IAAI Town Meeting: Rory is in her Elitist Era (Season 4 E18 “Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!)

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