Episode starts off with Richard at Lorelai's doorstep with the dollhouse...the continuation from last week. Richard wants to talk to Lorelai about Rory, and one can tell Lorelai is not pleased. What's weird is that Richard makes no mention of "Lorelai, you're right. Mr. Huntzberger's an ass..." Richard wants Rory to go back to Yale, but he wants to bribe her either with a new car or with giving her her trust fund money early (as opposed to when she's 25). Lorelai's not having it because she knows that's not the way to go. Rory likes school and she needs to get that back. Richard leaves, pissed off. Meanwhile, Luke tries in vain to move the dollhouse into the house but it's too heavy. After a few minutes Lorelai lets him know that the roof comes off.

Then comes Rory's freaky dream sequence. Enter Madeleine Albright. Remember Rory's bday from years ago and how her mom makes it tradition of getting into bed with Rory at 4am to commemorate the time she was born? Well, Rory dreams that the former Secretary of State is her mom. Madeleine Albright compares Rory's birth to squatting over pieces of dynamite. FREAKING HILARIOUS.

Lorelai runs into Babette and her man buying supplies for Halloween. They're constructing gallows in their front yard.

Rory and Logan are sucking face in the pool house and Emily interrupts them. She asks Logan if they had plans for Rory's 21st bday. Emily wants to throw Rory a party and Rory reluctantly agrees, even though she and her mom had been planning for her 21st since she was 5 years old. Their plan was to go to Atlantic City, sit at the blackjack table and start playing at 11:59pm while drinking martinis...playing 21 when she turned 21. They were going to use their winnings to buy 21 things. There was this thing that included 21 guys, which would be inappropriate now considering there's Logan and Luke. You can tell Rory's starting to feel some kind of remorse. But eh, she proceeds to continue sucking face with Logan.

Emily's busy planning every detail of the party. She remembers how her own invitations for her 21st had real pearls. Rory's will have lace. Emily keeps calling Lane "Rory's Asian friend" and Rory keeps saying "LANE". The guest list is being constructed and Emily asks if Rory wants Lorelai's name on the list. DUH, Emily. Chocolate Praline Crunch Cake will be the birthday cake.

Using Babette and Morty's sick Halloween thing as inspiration, she decides not to do the usual hanging caramel apples from the trees. Instead she wants to be a mad scientist skit in her yard, using Luke as her patient. She wants to use link sausages to represent Luke's entrails. She goes to Sookie for prime sausage selection.

Emily and Richard are freaking out that Rory's having sex and the fact that Logan's quite the experienced young man so they call in a priest. They don't want Rory having "serious relations with the boy". So the priest comes to dinner (mmmm...pot roast and mashed potatoes) and he compares her virginity to a gift. "It's a gift you can only give to one man...if you give it away to soon to the wrong man, when the right one comes along, you won't have a gift to give, you'll have to give a sweater!" Rory informs the priest that the gift has been given and that it's probably in Fiji by now. She then asks if he's already seen "The 40 Year Old Virgin".

After the g-parents find out Rory's been screwing already, they fill the poolhouse with their knickknacks and doodads so Rory will have to move back into the main house, preferably in the bedroom next to theirs.

Rory discovers that Lorelai has not RSVP'ed to the party. Lorelai hasn't RSVP'ed because she didn't know that Rory was the one who sent the invite...she thought it was Emily. Rory throws a tantrum about how she won't have a chocolate box and proceeds to call Luke's screaming. Lorelai finds out that it was Rory who sent the invite and is excited to go. Luke's trippin' because he's never heard Rory use the word 'HELL'.

The day of her birthday arrives and the clock shows the time she was born. Both mom and daughter are in separate beds.

Her birthday party is quite the affair. Emily even gets the bartender to concoct a special drink named after Rory. It's pink and it looks nice, but apparently it tastes like ass.

Lane and Logan finally meet. Lane brings Zack and Rory tells Lane that the guest soap in the bathroom has her face on it. Paris is also there with Doyle, and guess who's the new editor of the Yale Daily News? PARIS -- "Last year I was sleeping with the editor..." DOYLE -- "And this year I am"

Lorelai initiates convo with Rory with "Hey birthday girl..." You'd think that the convo would continue but Doyle and Paris can't shut up about cracking whips, and next thing you know...Rory digs out.

Meanwhile, Richard is nowhere to be found. He's in his study -- pissed off because he thinks he's failed as Rory's guardian. They just don't want Rory to get knocked up early...you know, like Lorelai.

Luke gives Rory a really pretty present -- a necklace and pearl pendant that belonged to his mother. Rory introduces Luke to some DAR chick as "my step-father to be". Luke, however...has no clue what the DAR stands for and manages to get a tee hee hee har har because he doesn't know what DAR means.

Lorelai tells Rory about Paul Anka (Rory's surprised he's still alive), the construction at the house, and how they're going to live in the house. Rory tells her mom that her community service hours are getting smaller....and that a lot has changed.

Just when you think mom and daughter's convo's going well...they bring out her birthday cake. I'm hating this shitty timing. And with that...Lorelai's ready to go home. It's okay, Lorelai. Just take baby steps.

On their way home, Luke lets her know that she can pull link sausages out of him if she wants.

Trailers for upcoming episodes show Jess' return. Jess is heard yelling at Rory: "What's going on? Living at your grandparents' place? Going out with this jerk? This isn't you!"

Announcer dude talks about Rory's fairytale life, but Jess' return makes her question all of that.

JESS IS BACK. OH YEAH.

This made me LOL for some reason.... :D :D

Deep in the bottom of your hearts...YOU KNOW JESS IS THE ONE FOR RORY!

gosh I'm such a dork.

p.s. I hate the fact that Order of Omega is at the same time as GG

At first I couldn't stand his character because he was just so sullen and bleh. But seeing Rory and her relationships in the past two seasons leads one to think that Jess is the one for her.

Rory wanted a BF. Enter Dean. Easy.

Rory decides to have sex for the first time. Enter Dean again. Easy.

Rory wants a grown up relationship and have sex all the time. Enter Logan. This one was too easy...although I did like the Life and Death Brigade storyline and the dress she wore.

Jess was the only one where she had to really work at it. This one seemed the most realistic.

TWO WEEKS IN A ROW! HELP!!! OTW, what happened last night on GG?

No need to fret! Last night's episode was a repeat of the the season premiere!

LOST and Desperate Housewives did it last week...I'm thinking all the networks are gearing up for November sweeps.

I really really really hope that Jess and her get back together. I wish he would come back to the show.

When I saw the previews for him coming back and asking her what she was doing, I was like go Jess. She needs to get her act together. I cant believe she isnt in school. I mean when she was back on campus and she saw that orientation group, I thought for sure shed miss it enough to want to go back.

It definately changed up the stories on the show this season.

I wish her and Lor were talking more though and I will be crushed if her and Luke dont get married. Im afraid they may not.

Warning: Possible SPOILER
 

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At the beginning of the season, writers were sure that Dean was out of the picture (especially since Jared Padalecki had his own series). At that time Milo Ventimiglia was in talks for his own show too, so I'm not really sure how that went out. If things are in the works, it's highly doubtful the Jess character will come back as a regular...recurring role, maybe.

I'd give it two or three more episodes before the Lorelais kiss and make up, I think.

As far as Luke and Lorelai not getting married...let's just say if they DON'T -- it won't be Rory's fault. It's gonna be a nail biter season, kids. ;)

Thoughts on tonight's episode?

I could have done without the usual Jackson/Sookie ranting...even the whole Laine and Zack thing got on my nerves...but I thought it was a good episode -- especially when Lorelai got to talk to her mother.

It's about time that Lorelai and Rory finally reconciled, and I'm wondering how the Luke and Christopher situation will turn out!

It's such a great season so far!!!

I agree, pretty good episode. Maybe things will start to be better between all the women in the Gilmore family. And YAY for Rory going back to school!!!! :D But I did think she got REALLY annoying when she was trying to get that job. Would anyone really give you a job for being such a pest?

The previews were intruiging. So, Luke has a kid, huh? Weird. Obviously he should just be honest and TELL Lorelai, but this is tv, so I wouldn't expect it to happen right away.

I think I might be the only person left out there who doesn't really care if Luke and Lorelai don't get married. They're cute and all, but I like Christopher better. Weird, I know. I hope it will be interesting when he comes back with millions of dollars.

Part of me felt that they were doing that for a reason like they were setting the scene for a Laine/Zack breakup. His behavior was just plain rude and irritating. I would have smacked the kid if I was Lorelai.

Lindz..I'm kinda with you on the Christopher thing. Obviously this Luke's kid thing will be an issue since they just had the "no secrets" conversation...

I think it's a fluke. There's NO WAY a guy as cute as Luke could have a daughter so unlike him...and so similar to Loralie, don't you think (in the mannerisms at least). I think she just wants a daddy, heard he and her mom used to do whatever, and adopted him as a surrogate.

I also know that Christopher, with all of his fabulous business skills, will invest money in some shady company and lose all of his millions.

I almost cried when Loralie and Rory ran into each others arms, dropping phones on the lawn and everything. Finally!

p.s. I would call security on anybody who pestered me that much for a job.

Haha, YEP! I almost cried too! Then, felt like a huge loser for almost crying over a tv show. Glad I'm not the only one. :D

OMG I totally hate the fact that the writers wrote in for Luke to have a child. First, he's not a main character, so he shouldn't even be messing with the flow like that. Second, I would much rather see Rory and Logan break up than Luke and Lorelai.

I'm hoping that maybe this girl's mom said something about Luke being the father b/c she wanted to have a good guy role model type, but in the end her father is the mom's one night stand or something. I really hope it's not true. :(

That was one hell of a way for Luke to find out he was a dad was at that science fair. If all kids did that, Maury Povich wouldn't have much of a show. It's like his daughter is a mini Rory of sorts. Really smart, kinda awkward.

My brother has the worst timing for wanting to chat while this show is on. How did Rory end up at the newspaper? What caused her to change her life?