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I hate karate chopped pillows! HATE THEM! And my sister has started to do it in her own house. Makes me crazy. (And feel like no one is really intended to sit on the furniture.)

So the ghost woman trope weirdness was... fine (and really, in keeping with Lena's past weird experiences in hospitals), but what was with the ghost/angel telling Lena that her other daughter was a "monster"? Also: this show does not need a pregnancy scare. Though I would believe that Mariana is dumb enough to believe that she could take a pregnancy test less than 24 hours after sex and have a reliable result. Emma seems like she's too informed for that (even if still a teenager and still prone to pregnancy scares).

Amazing reference. A+. Also, with respect to the bar exam, even if you've had something expunged, you are still supposed to disclose it to the bar examiners. If you don't, you run the risk of them finding out about it (or one of your references referring to it) and then, as with so many things, the real issue becomes not the issue itself, but the cover-up and the lie about the issue itself. A very good friend of mine had an incident during his younger years and it triggered a tremendous amount of scrutiny. That said, I am willing to hand wave all of that, because I don't expect hyper-realism in my tv shows... especially one where people routinely break into song.

I feel like so much happened this episode that I need to rewatch it. Actually, I'd like to rewatch the whole season and see how it was put together from the beginning now that I know the end. Anyone know how long it will be before it shows up on Netflix?

Oh my GOD, you guys! Well, this show knows how to get you excited for the next season, that's for damn sure.

WHAT?! I never heard that! Holy smokes, talk about making buying a house way more of an undertaking and ordeal than it is to begin with!

This episode was kind of dragging for me UNTIL the package was playing the piano and from that moment on, I was all in. I teared up at Paula's machinations with the delivery guy AND THEN to have gotten Naomi to get her act together... which was followed by Nathaniel and Darryl teaming up to solve Rebecca's daddy issues. (Momentarily.) Also loved Paula's very sincere offer to help Nathaniel - to me, it was a nice callback to last season when Rebecca had the UTI and peed herself while she and Paul were robbing the bakery. ("I have two kids, I know that look!")

While I enjoy Mrs. Hernandez's hostility toward Rebecca, to me it seems unearned - we didn't see much of Mrs. Hernandez in the back half of season 1 and really haven't seen that much of her here in Season 2, except to be mean to Rebecca. I just think the evolution hasn't been shown enough, and frankly, now that they've done away with the 'not speaking' thing, she's not as much fun to me either - if someone is going to be Rebecca's get a grip friend, I'd like it to be Valencia.

Yikes. I had not considered it in that light (because I am Team Darryl), but now that you point it out, I see your point. It seems like maybe we're not supposed to think that, exactly, because it's not a romantic or sexual relationship, but the undertones are still there. Yuck.

On a totally shallow note (that's not about Jack's behind!) Baby Randall was absolutely adorable. I don't know where they found that baby, but man, I just wanted to squeeze him!

Macrame is in fact back, at least if the magazines and home design blogs are any indication. Because we all need more things that collect tremendous amounts of dust and spiders in our lives.

I admit it: not so much the dialogue or the speaking out loud to the lost spouse, but just the shots of the house, where Dr. K is clearly living alone, amidst all his wife's things, hit me pretty hard. It was like walking into my grandfather's house after my grandmother passed away. Other than that, this episode really highlights how well the show runners have been doing integrating the present day and the flashback storylines - without mixing them, all the dramatic tension has fallen out of the show. (Especially because, as pointed out above, we already knew what was going to happen at the end of this particular day - at least all of the things of any importance to the ongoing story.)

Service Merchandise! Oh man, that was the catalog I used to make my Christmas list for Santa every year (no Toys R Us near me until I was in middle school!)

Ok, while I agree that Rory's elaborate setup absolutely led Marty on, I have to object to the inclusion of "throwing her legs over him". When I was in college, all of us were all over each other, physically, all the time. Now, in part, that was a function of the fact that we did not have giant enormous suites like Rory et al have, but instead rooms that were teeny tiny, but in my experience, college students are way more physically affectionate with each other without it being at all romantic or sexual than most adults are. In the context, Marty might have been hoping that it meant more (and the worse example of this is when Rory fell asleep in his bed), but putting your legs and feet on someone (or having someone do the same to me), in college, to me, was very normal behavior.

Does anyone know how many episodes this season will be? If it's only 13, there's a LOT of plot to fit in the next three episodes... Do we think they will try and squeeze in a wedding for the season finale?

Can we talk for a moment about Darryl becoming Nathaniel's surrogate dad? For all the cynicism this show has toward Rebecca and her parents (see also: Heather and her parents and Josh and his dad), it's really smart about showing Darryl as a good parent - he loves his daughter (not in a creepy way!) and supports her snail obsession in a 100% real and unironic way and now he's being supportive to Nathaniel notwithstanding the fact that Nathaniel immediately tried to screw him over. I love Darryl. I am Team Darryl. "You're a good kid." Aw - that's just what Nathaniel needs to hear!

I'd imagine that most family doctors today wouldn't want to do obstetrics, if only because their malpractice premiums would skyrocket - I believe that's the most expensive type of practice (malpractice insurance-wise). Around here, there are only a handful of gynecology practices that will even still see pregnant women after their first trimester for that reason.

I think that makes sense - the steel industry was still going strong at that point and the tech industry was still in its infancy. The "Rust Belt" wasn't quite the Rust Belt yet in the late 70's/early 80's.

Purely speculation on my part, but for liability protection reasons, it wouldn't surprise me if they structured their business and personal assets to insulate one or the other from liability and everything is in her name. (Kind of like how doctors and lawyers who own their own practices almost always keep their personal residences in their spouse's name alone in case they get sued for malpractice.)

I think Greg was one of the only characters on the show that really wanted to get OUT of West Covina - everyone else is basically content to live there, which gave him a very different voice than the rest of the characters. It also makes structural sense why he had to leave, but the show is really lacking that. If Nathaniel provides that, "This town is terrible and meaningless" perspective as an outsider from LA (albeit from a different perspective), maybe he'll work. He'll be like the Anti-Rebecca - a transplant that hates it there.

I wonder if the show isn't doing a lot better on Netflix and the revenue from that is how they can justify renewal. I hope so, because I am evangelizing HARD for my friends to watch Season 1 to catch up (and all of them have loved it). I missed it in the original season myself.

But Lorelai still hasn't gotten over things that happened when SHE was a teenager. I think (for me) all of her worst qualities are the ones she has in common with teenagers because she never really progressed emotionally from that point in a lot of ways.

I do kind of enjoy the prospect that Rebecca picked up on his Daddy issues so quickly - that could be an interesting plot line... as long as we don't have to watch another love triangle.

I think this is one of the things that this show does best - the things they speed past are things that other shows would drag out forever.

This episode was ok, except that every time Josh gets a song (where it's Josh and not Rebecca's fantasy Josh), it just highlights the loss of Greg. Angry Mad and now this (... what are we calling it? "Duh"?) just make Josh seem EVEN DUMBER than the normal dialogue and his behavior in the show. I continue, however, to love WhiteJosh. His look of dawning horror about the impending mall modeling was brilliant.