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Ok, as promised, here is this week's recap. I don't know if I can do it the justice that Sandy did, but I promise to give it my best.

The episode starts out with Lorelei in the kitchen waiting for Rory to wake up. When Rory comes out, Lorelei tells her that she made her special homemade waffles for breakfast "ie from the freezer" and they start talking about the love rocket again. Rory says that the novelty of it wore off because she can't go see Logan until December so now the Asia trip that they were planning is definitely cancelled. She brings out all of the books to show Lorelei and tells her that she wasted a lot of highlighters and post it notes marking stuff up. Lorelei asks her if she was planning to visit Asia or invade it.

Lorelei goes to the inn, where Sookie is busy preparing sushi. She starts yapping about sushi and Lorelei tries to tell her that it's over between her and Luke. Sookie does her usual thing and yaps away some more until Lorelei says that she told Luke she slept with Christopher. Eventually, they go back to experimenting with sushi, ie wrapping random food in rice and seaweed. Meanwhile, Luke goes to Christopher's apartment and rings the doorbell. When Christopher opens the door, Luke punches him in the face and then leaves.

Luke starts working to fix the wall in the diner that got destroyed thanks to Kirk. He gets TJ to help him, and TJ tries to talk about Lorelei and Luke keeps on changing the subject. TJ keeps on talking about how horny Liz is because of the pregnancy, and Luke tries to get him to shut up. TJ tells him that he bought 4 tickets for all of them to go see the Hockettes when they're in town. (Everything that the Rockettes do, they can do, but on ice skates.) Eventually, Luke tells him that him and Lorelei broke up. TJ gives him a massive bear hug which makes Luke cringe, and tells him that he has to come over for dinner for a home-cooked meal. Luke looks across the street at the town square, and sees that Kirk made a makeshift diner outside called Kirk's with imitation signs and everything from Luke's. Kirk is even wearing a flannel shirt and backwards baseball cap. Luke starts yelling at him and Kirk says that he saw a need in the town and filled it, and Luke says that there wouldn't be a need had Kirk not driven Taylor's car into his diner. To make it up to him, Kirk gives Luke a job application, which Luke crumples in his face. As he's leaving, Kirk yells out after him "you did not just litter on restaurant property!"

To cheer Rory up, Lorelei decides to do the whole house in an Asian theme. She goes shopping for decorations and in the middle of the street, runs into Luke who had to go buy primer. They start arguing and it basically turns into a bickering match of who got over it first. Luke tells Lorelei that he's fine and it wasn't as big of a deal to him since she was the one who proposed.

Meanwhile, Rory goes to visit Zack and Lane who just got back from their honeymoon. She runs into Zack first, who tells her that it was bad. Apparently "Pedro's Paradise" was a room in some guy Pedro's apartment. It was 23 miles from the beach, and instead of having an ocean view, they had a view of a billboard. The only thing they had to eat was saltines and they both got sick because no one ever told Zack that you're not supposed to drink the water in Mexico. Then Rory goes inside to see Lane who is still sick from Mexico. She says that she's going to go to the doctor tomorrow and she needs to talk to Rory about the honeymoon but she can't do it in the apartment because the walls have ears so they decide to take a walk. She says that if she throws up, it will just look like they've been partying too hard, which, Rory says, will raise her cool factor. Lane tells her that the sex was horrible. When her mother told her that sex is bad for women, apparently she is the only person who ever told her the truth, and she blames the media for glorifying sex to women and making it seem sexy. Rory asks her to tell her what happened (minus the details) so she can see where they went wrong. Zack and Lane wanted their first time to be special, so they wanted to do it on the beach to recreate a scene from some movie (I forget which). The sand was dirty, some guy came and took pictures of them, and crabs came out of the water and ended up all over them. After that, they didn't have sex again on the honeymoon. She tells Rory that she is completely fine with the idea of a sexless marriage because most couples will eventually end up that way, her and Zack will just get to that point faster. Rory tells her to have sex inside, in a bed first before she completely writes sex off for good.

Rory gets home and Lorelei went to town decorating the house. She's wearing a kimono-like robe and tells Rory to put one on. She gives her a tour of Asia, ie their living room, and Rory says that Asia is much smaller than they imagined. Lorelei has an evening of activities planned including sushi making, origami, a kabuki play that she wrote, and watching movies. Rory asks her if it's a good idea for the two of them to be doing anything involving raw fish, and Lorelei lets her in on a secret, the fish is actually fried chicken. Fast forward to them watching the movie and eating dessert sushi made out of candy. They start talking about how Red Hots act as wasabi for the dessert sushi and that is how they plan to make their first million. Lorelei is stuffed and says that she is a legless cat (perhaps a reference to the million Hello Kitties that are strewn around everywhere, because Japan is The Land of the Rising Sun and Hello Kitty, naturally) and the phone rings. Lorelei again says that she is a legless cat, and it goes to the answering machine. It's Christopher calling to ask Lorelei for a second chance and how he wants to go to dinner and make things work. Rory starts yelling at Lorelei saying how Lorelei is selfish because she didn't really want to cheer Rory up, she wanted to feel better about Luke and Christopher. She says that things were finally good between her and her father, and this jeopardizes it. She says that when Lorelei gets into a fight with Luke, she's supposed to cry and eat ice cream and watch "An Affair to Remember" like normal people. Lorelei says that she is not the first person to ever make a mistake, Gwyneth Paltrow died her hair brown and it was really unflattering. Rory says that sleeping with Christopher is not the same thing at all as dyeing your hair. She takes her robe off and storms out.

Luke goes home with TJ for dinner. Liz greets them and makes them cocktails. TJ says how classy they are that they're doing cocktail hour and are all drinking White Russians. Pregnant Liz is drinking a virgin, so basically, just cream. They start talking about Luke and Lorelei, and Liz asks if Anna and Luke's daughter had anything to do with it. He says no and that the two of them were never in synch and it wasn't going to work. Liz starts feeding them a homecooked meal. The appetizer course is jello cups. Then the main course comes out of the oven. The oven is broken, and basically, the thing was more alive coming out of the oven than it was going into it. Luke says that he's going to go to the store to get something to make for dinner. Liz feels bad because she wanted him to have a nice home cooked meal. At the store, Luke is buying frozen vegetables and runs into Lorelei who is buying ice cream. She says "I guess both of us avoiding Dose's didn't work" and Luke says that he's not avoiding, this store is just closer to his sister's house. They get to talking and Luke apologizes and says that the two of them just weren't meant to be and that she needs to be with someone less like him and more like Christopher.

Angry Rory goes to visit her sick married friend Lane. (Did anyone notice how a lot of people on the show have names that start with the letter L?) Lane is sitting by the foot of her bed looking miserable. She just came back from the doctor, and Rory asks her if she has a parasite. Lane says "in a matter of speaking, yes" and says that she's pregnant. Rory asks if she told Zack yet, and Lane says that she's been upset and hasn't left the room since. They only had sex once and used a cheap Mexican condom. Then she says "and that's what you get for making whoopee folks" (the title of the episode). She says that she doesn't think she's ready to be a mother because she pictured that when she's going to be a mother she'd wear high heels, have her hair up, and push her baby in one of those fancy British baby carriages. Rory says that you don't have to have a pram to be a good mother, to which Lane says that she didn't even know that word and Rory says that lots of mothers don't know the word pram. Lane starts talking about how she doesn't know how to change a diaper or how to test milk on her wrists and Rory tells her that she has 9 months to learn everything. Then she points out how Lane would make a better mother than some people. Like Britney Spears who can't tell which side is up, or Courtney Love. Lane says that she would make a better mother than Courtney Love, to which Rory replies "my sock drawer would make a better mother than Courtney Love, but you definitely would be a better mother." Lane calms down a bit and the two of them talk about celebrities' kids with weird names (Blanket, Pillow, Apple, Banjo, etc.) After Rory's heartfelt talk on motherhood and how no mother is perfect, she realizes that neither is hers. She goes home where Lorelei is watching a movie on the couch, crying, and hugs her.

End of episode.

Whew that was long, I think I got most of it.