Latest / I Am All In with Scott Patterson / I Am All In…Again: It’s Always Been There Luke!! (Season 4 E20 “Luke Can See Her Face”)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I am all in.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Again!
- 0:04Speaker 1: More, more, more. I want to kiss you more. More, more, more.
- 0:09Speaker 1: I want to kiss you more. I Am All In, again,
- 0:18Speaker 1: with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey, everybody. Scott Patterson,
- 0:24Speaker 1: iAmAllIn Podcast, 111 Productions, iHeartRadio Media. iHeartPodcast.com. We have a
- 0:31Speaker 1: very special recap of Season 4, Episode 20. We have
- 0:35Speaker 1: a very special recap here for Season 4, Episode 20.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Luke can see her face with a very special guest.
- 0:43Speaker 1: She needs no introduction. I've been trying to get to
- 0:45Speaker 1: her for years. I understand she works with Scott Patterson.
- 0:49Speaker 1: I know Scott, and I wanted to get to Suzanne.
- 0:52Speaker 1: It's like a dream come true. I can't believe it.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Suzanne French is here once again.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Hello.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Hello. And hello, Suzanne. Thank you again. I know how
- 1:01Speaker 1: busy you are with your podcasting schedule and, and your,
- 1:06Speaker 1: your new responsibilities at Scotty pieces, big, big mug coffee.
- 1:09Speaker 1: You're the new, uh, newly crowned COO. Only took you
- 1:13Speaker 1: 10 years to get there, but man, you've arrived. You've
- 1:16Speaker 1: really arrived. So thank you again for taking the time. Absolutely.
- 1:21Speaker 1: This is a transformative episode for Luke Danes after he, uh,
- 1:26Speaker 1: listens and reads the self-help tapes. Liv reveals she's getting
- 1:32Speaker 1: married in a week to TJ, so Jess comes back
- 1:34Speaker 1: to town after Luke convinces them to attend the wedding.
- 1:38Speaker 1: The dragonfly inn is almost ready to open, and Lorelai
- 1:42Speaker 1: is stressing out. Meanwhile, marriage troubles brewing between Lindsay and Dean,
- 1:48Speaker 1: directed by Matthew Diamond, written by Amy Sherman Palladino and
- 1:51Speaker 1: Dan Palladino. We're getting tag-teamed here by the two greats. Overall,
- 1:56Speaker 1: what'd you think, Suzanne?
- 1:58Speaker 2: This is absolutely one of my favorite episodes. And so
- 2:01Speaker 2: I am so excited to get to discuss it with
- 2:04Speaker 2: you because it, as you just said, it is such
- 2:07Speaker 2: a transformative episode for Luke. Like this is so important
- 2:10Speaker 2: in his arc. And I, you know, Amy and Dan
- 2:14Speaker 2: were firing on all cylinders when they put this one together.
- 2:18Speaker 2: And it's a great episode. So I'm looking forward to
- 2:22Speaker 2: digging into it.
- 2:23Speaker 1: All right. Well, we start out with Lorelei's stress about
- 2:27Speaker 1: breaking up with Jason. There's a cat, a lone cat
- 2:31Speaker 1: sitting on Lorelei's porch, just staring at her. And again,
- 2:36Speaker 1: this is the quality of a film by Kirk almost.
- 2:39Speaker 1: It's this sort of abstract, very artistic sensibility, you know,
- 2:44Speaker 1: sort of calling back great moments from old films. And
- 2:47Speaker 1: there's just some weird cat. And somehow the paladinos know
- 2:51Speaker 1: what's funny and that's funny. Yes.
- 2:54Speaker 2: And it was a good camera angle, like almost from
- 2:56Speaker 2: the cat's point of view, like the camera was behind
- 2:59Speaker 2: the cat. It was, yeah, it was great.
- 3:02Speaker 1: So that, that was a great, that was one of
- 3:04Speaker 1: the better opening bits that they've, they've ever shot. And,
- 3:09Speaker 1: and Lorelai keeps waking up in the middle of the
- 3:10Speaker 1: night and leaving messages. She, she shows up to Luke's
- 3:13Speaker 1: early because she drank all the coffee in the house
- 3:15Speaker 1: and invites him. to tour the Inn at 5 AM.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Kirk hilariously walks in and asks for the table that
- 3:22Speaker 1: she is resting her head on. Another bizarre scenario involving
- 3:29Speaker 1: Kirk and just the quirky, constant, rapid fire humor that
- 3:36Speaker 1: comes from this show. And I had an experience yesterday, Suzanne.
- 3:42Speaker 1: It's my son's orientation yesterday in middle school. I dropped
- 3:45Speaker 1: them off and then when I went to pick them
- 3:47Speaker 1: up at 12, you know, the eighth grade girls that
- 3:50Speaker 1: were tasked to sort of run this whole thing and
- 3:53Speaker 1: show everybody their lockers and show everybody the campus and
- 3:56Speaker 1: tell everybody what life was like at that particular middle school.
- 4:00Speaker 1: One of them recognized me and then the word spread.
- 4:04Speaker 1: And so it basically turned into a mini con. It's
- 4:09Speaker 1: like selfie city. And they were delightful. And I came
- 4:14Speaker 1: home and I said, you're not going to believe what
- 4:15Speaker 1: just happened. I don't know why I believe it, but
- 4:18Speaker 1: because it happens a lot, but middle school girls are
- 4:22Speaker 1: obsessed with this show.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Yes.
- 4:25Speaker 1: 12, 13, 14 year old girls are obsessed with this
- 4:28Speaker 1: show because there, there doesn't seem to be anything on
- 4:31Speaker 1: that they can relate to, or is this smart? And it,
- 4:34Speaker 1: and it, and it is the, this show demands your attention.
- 4:39Speaker 1: It grabs you with the humor and, And it won't
- 4:42Speaker 1: let go. Because we're discussing it at dinner. It's like,
- 4:47Speaker 1: why are these girls at this age? And my wife
- 4:49Speaker 1: was saying that it's because there's not a lot out
- 4:53Speaker 1: there for them. So they go back and they hear
- 4:56Speaker 1: about this show and it's just like, you know, the
- 4:59Speaker 1: word spreads like wildfire and everybody's watching it.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Yeah. And these girls probably have been watching it since
- 5:05Speaker 2: they were infants because their moms watched it. Right, right.
- 5:09Speaker 2: They have, you know, grown up with Luke and Lorelei,
- 5:14Speaker 2: you know, like my generation grew up with the Cunningham family.
- 5:18Speaker 2: You know, like it's just been ingrained in their childhood
- 5:21Speaker 2: since the beginning, I'm sure.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Now, another hilarious scene. Suki introduces Shell,
- 5:28Speaker 1: the poultry supplier, to Lorelei, trying to set them up.
- 5:31Speaker 1: He's a little irritated that Luke's there because, you know,
- 5:33Speaker 1: he's just going to gum up the works and sabotage
- 5:37Speaker 1: her plan somehow just by being there. So Lorelai pretends,
- 5:41Speaker 1: because she's not interested in Chell, that Luke is her
- 5:44Speaker 1: special friend, quote unquote, and puts his arm around her
- 5:49Speaker 1: waist to get rid of this guy. Another hilarious moment.
- 5:57Speaker 1: This is when we really love this couple. This is
- 5:59Speaker 1: when we see them as a couple. And so we
- 6:01Speaker 1: get a glimpse into what their hilarious home life would
- 6:05Speaker 1: be like. Yes. Anyway, Luke and Lorelei confide in each
- 6:09Speaker 1: other about their failed relationships. And she mentioned she'll have
- 6:13Speaker 1: to get some Dr. Phil books to recover from it.
- 6:16Speaker 1: And this prompts Luke to do what? Go get some,
- 6:20Speaker 1: go get some books. He doesn't, he doesn't want to
- 6:24Speaker 1: show Andrew the covers. He'll just give him a hundred.
- 6:31Speaker 1: He's smart to do that. It's a small town. Everybody
- 6:33Speaker 1: would know, right? Yes. Yes. So Lindsay and Dean are,
- 6:37Speaker 1: are fighting at the end. That was a pretty, that
- 6:40Speaker 1: was a pretty brutal fight, wasn't it?
- 6:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, you know, it was a public place
- 6:47Speaker 2: and they knew they could be overheard, but you know,
- 6:50Speaker 2: I don't know. They're still so young. They probably weren't,
- 6:52Speaker 2: you know, thinking about decorum or anything like that.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Did she, did she say that she was going to
- 6:58Speaker 1: go out with another guy that night?
- 7:00Speaker 2: She was going out with another couple. So it was
- 7:03Speaker 2: supposed to be like a double date, I guess, like,
- 7:06Speaker 2: their other paired up friends. And so it was going
- 7:08Speaker 2: to be the four of them. And she decided to
- 7:10Speaker 2: go out with them without Dean. So it would be
- 7:13Speaker 2: the three of them. So she wasn't going with a
- 7:16Speaker 2: guy like on a date, but it was, you know,
- 7:18Speaker 2: a guy that was dating her other friend.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, let's dive into this Luke and Lorelai stuff
- 7:25Speaker 1: a little bit. Lorelai's stressing about the end, but Luke
- 7:27Speaker 1: keeps reassuring her she can do it. And it's just
- 7:29Speaker 1: what she needs to hear. Was, was Lorelai being too
- 7:32Speaker 1: nitpicky with Suki and Michelle? about the opening?
- 7:37Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think it's... They're so close
- 7:42Speaker 2: to the finish line, and they want everything to be perfect,
- 7:46Speaker 2: and Suki and Michelle, well, especially Suki, are really in
- 7:52Speaker 2: with Lorelai on this whole thing. They're sharing the dream,
- 7:55Speaker 2: and so they understand the importance of you want everything
- 7:57Speaker 2: to be as perfect as possible. I think Lorelai was
- 8:00Speaker 2: kind of... you know, maybe overly obsessed with the tiny
- 8:04Speaker 2: little details of everything. And she needed to like step
- 8:07Speaker 2: back and look at the big picture. But I think
- 8:09Speaker 2: in that moment, it makes sense because you're just, it's,
- 8:12Speaker 2: you know, the 11th hour and you're trying to get
- 8:14Speaker 2: everything done, you know, before all your guests are going
- 8:18Speaker 2: to come in. So, you know, I, I, I think
- 8:21Speaker 2: she was right to kind of step back when it
- 8:23Speaker 2: was pointed out to her, but you know, I think
- 8:25Speaker 2: it was just natural for her to, to be nitpicky
- 8:29Speaker 2: at that time, trying to get it right.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Right. Right. Now we get into the sleeping with the
- 8:33Speaker 1: zucchini stuff, which was another hilarious scene, right? When Suki
- 8:38Speaker 1: described it to Lorelai and she says, wait a minute,
- 8:40Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what did you really, you know, she just kept,
- 8:44Speaker 1: she goes, good stuff, great writing, great acting. Suki and
- 8:49Speaker 1: Michelle getting ready for the opening. Suki tells Lorelai, Jackson's
- 8:52Speaker 1: sleeping with the zucchini. So they head to the patch.
- 8:55Speaker 1: At the patch, Lorelai apologizes for being nutty about the
- 8:58Speaker 1: opening and asks everyone to drop something off. their to-do list.
- 9:03Speaker 1: And they all stay the night with the zucchini. And
- 9:09Speaker 1: the next morning, what happens? Luke shows up and asks
- 9:12Speaker 1: Lorelai to Liz's wedding. And she says, yes. And you know,
- 9:17Speaker 1: the smile, that smile that Lorelai gave At the very
- 9:24Speaker 1: end of that scene, when she looked back, it's the
- 9:27Speaker 1: first time she tipped her mitt about how she felt
- 9:31Speaker 1: because she really played that beautifully throughout that whole scene. Like, yeah, sure.
- 9:35Speaker 1: No big deal. We're just friends. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. And
- 9:38Speaker 1: she knew what was going on. Do you think she
- 9:40Speaker 1: knew what was going on?
- 9:42Speaker 2: I think she, she, I don't think she fully realized it.
- 9:46Speaker 2: I think that she knows in the back of her
- 9:48Speaker 2: mind that there's something that going on and now she's
- 9:53Speaker 2: single and he's single and maybe it's like starting to
- 9:57Speaker 2: bubble to the surface a little bit I don't think
- 9:59Speaker 2: she has fully realized yet you know the potential that's
- 10:05Speaker 2: here I think initially she was thinking yeah it would
- 10:09Speaker 2: be good to take a break from all of this
- 10:11Speaker 2: insanity because you know we all just had the conversation
- 10:14Speaker 2: in the zucchini that we're all gonna take it easy
- 10:16Speaker 2: for a little bit So I think at first she
- 10:19Speaker 2: is thinking that, that we're just going to go relax
- 10:23Speaker 2: for a couple hours as friends and, you know, have
- 10:25Speaker 2: fun at this, at this party. But, but as he's
- 10:28Speaker 2: walking away and she's like, Hmm, you know, she is
- 10:31Speaker 2: starting to like, the wheels are starting to turn. Like
- 10:34Speaker 2: she is starting to give it some more thought.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Yeah. She caught how uncomfortable and awkward he was. Yeah.
- 10:44Speaker 1: All that stuff. The all shucks things. Yeah.
- 10:49Speaker 2: That was cute. Now, I don't know if you remember
- 10:52Speaker 2: shooting that scene, but it looked accidental that you bumped
- 10:56Speaker 2: into the truck. Was that intentional or was that an accident?
- 10:59Speaker 1: No, that was intentional. Yeah.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Okay.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
- 11:02Speaker 2: You did a very good job of making it look accidental.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Thank you. I try. So anyway, great, great, great scene. Yeah.
- 11:13Speaker 1: I think it's a scene the fans have been waiting
- 11:14Speaker 1: for for a long time. Like finally it's coming and
- 11:18Speaker 1: how appropriate it was to, and how tidy it is
- 11:22Speaker 1: that it's his sister's wedding and that it's a wedding. Right. Right.
- 11:26Speaker 2: It's romantic.
- 11:27Speaker 1: Right. Right. Their first official date.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Yes.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Sort of still friends, but kind of a date sort
- 11:34Speaker 1: of thing is to a wedding.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Right, right. And as a fan, like, you're starting to
- 11:39Speaker 2: get excited about it because now all the obstacles are clear, right?
- 11:43Speaker 2: We got Jason out of the picture. We got Nicole
- 11:45Speaker 2: out of the picture. There's nothing stopping these two now,
- 11:49Speaker 2: and they're going to have this romantic togetherness happening. And so, like,
- 11:54Speaker 2: as a fan, you're like, okay, like, it's really getting
- 11:57Speaker 2: going now.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Right. But as we know, the Palladinos... Are going to
- 12:01Speaker 1: throw obstacles at us. Oh, yeah.
- 12:03Speaker 2: They take you right to the edge and then yank
- 12:06Speaker 2: you back again.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's get into a little Rory and Paris. Rory's
- 12:12Speaker 1: getting out of class. Paris walks in to talk to Asher.
- 12:16Speaker 1: And she tells her Asher asked her to go to
- 12:20Speaker 1: Oxford with him for the summer. That's a big deal.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Rory gets panicked. Phone call from Paris at the hospital.
- 12:26Speaker 1: She meets up with her and she's freaking out. Asher.
- 12:29Speaker 1: had angina. And I think one of the funniest lines
- 12:31Speaker 1: to ever come out of Paris's mouth is how skeeved
- 12:35Speaker 1: out she was that this older guy just sort of like,
- 12:39Speaker 1: he just, he just went limp and as he was like,
- 12:42Speaker 1: his body just leaned on me. You could just see that. Yeah.
- 12:57Speaker 2: And when she described him laying in the hospital bed
- 13:00Speaker 2: and she says, it's like he was looking at God.
- 13:02Speaker 1: The visual of him just leaning on her like he
- 13:09Speaker 1: was passing out. Like, what is this? Why does a
- 13:13Speaker 1: 19-year-old girl have to deal with that? Right. Just funny stuff.
- 13:19Speaker 1: He's going to be fine, but she realizes how old
- 13:22Speaker 1: he is and that he's ready to have the talk
- 13:24Speaker 1: about it. Okay. That was some hilarious stuff. Yeah. Her
- 13:33Speaker 1: eyes opening up, realizing what the hell she is. As,
- 13:38Speaker 1: as Asher's getting ready to leave the hospital, he tells
- 13:40Speaker 1: Paris if she wants to, and you know, he's no dummy.
- 13:43Speaker 1: He can, he can vibe out the situation. He intuitively
- 13:48Speaker 1: knows that, you know, that wasn't a good look for him.
- 13:51Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
- 13:54Speaker 1: And so he, he, I wonder if this happens every
- 13:58Speaker 1: year with each co-ed.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Yeah, he has some health crisis and they're like, oh
- 14:03Speaker 2: my gosh, he's old.
- 14:04Speaker 1: He tuckers his body out from all the extracurricular activity
- 14:10Speaker 1: with the co-eds. And he just leans into them every year.
- 14:20Speaker 1: And when the daughter showed up, it didn't seem like
- 14:22Speaker 1: she was all that surprised, like she'd done it before. Yeah.
- 14:26Speaker 1: She didn't seem too concerned. It was like, oh, you know,
- 14:29Speaker 1: dad is up to his old tricks with another girl. Yeah.
- 14:33Speaker 1: And now she sees two girls in the waiting room. Right. Exactly. Yeah.
- 14:37Speaker 2: So that, yeah, that was his granddaughter.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Her granddaughter.
- 14:41Speaker 2: And it was, it was kind of an awkward scene
- 14:43Speaker 2: because Rory thought it was like another old girlfriend showing up.
- 14:49Speaker 1: And the old girlfriend thought Rory was a current girlfriend.
- 14:53Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
- 14:54Speaker 1: So she's like, now he's got two girls. Like you
- 14:58Speaker 1: two girls put my grandfather in the hospital.
- 15:02Speaker 2: We're all the same age.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Like, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.
- 15:06Speaker 2: The way she was just kind of looking at them
- 15:08Speaker 2: like it was just a normal thing was funny.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Oh, God. Anyway, Asher wants to reassess the relationship. And
- 15:16Speaker 1: then Paris changes her tune.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 15:20Speaker 1: Because she got dumped. He was trying to dump her. And,
- 15:25Speaker 1: you know, I guess that triggered her.
- 15:29Speaker 2: That was kind of a weird thing because... The way
- 15:34Speaker 2: that they phrased it, he was telling... It was almost
- 15:38Speaker 2: like he was trying to give her an out.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely.
- 15:43Speaker 2: To reassess this, I would understand that. But it also
- 15:47Speaker 2: could be read as like he was trying to cut
- 15:51Speaker 2: her loose and make it seem like it was her idea.
- 15:55Speaker 1: The top ten... Things to turn on your lady. I
- 16:06Speaker 1: bet you one of them isn't, you know, go limp
- 16:10Speaker 1: and then just sort of lean on.
- 16:12Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably not on the list of articles or
- 16:16Speaker 2: on the list of the bullet points.
- 16:18Speaker 1: In the GQ article. All right. Fun fact here. All right.
- 16:23Speaker 1: Michael York actually did attend Oxford where he studied English
- 16:28Speaker 1: literature and graduated in 1964.
- 16:30Speaker 2: Wow.
- 16:30Speaker 1: That's very cool. Yeah. Isn't that great? Paris has been
- 16:35Speaker 1: so confident. Professor Fleming until he went limp, but ultimately
- 16:42Speaker 1: decides to stay with him. So Suzanne, why do you
- 16:47Speaker 1: think she changed her mind so quickly after a chat
- 16:49Speaker 1: with Rory?
- 16:50Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I think when you see somebody
- 16:54Speaker 2: in the hospital, they look and they look frail. Like,
- 17:00Speaker 2: I don't know. It, having worked in hospitals for a
- 17:02Speaker 2: long time, people look different when you put them in
- 17:05Speaker 2: a hospital gown. And I think that she was, she
- 17:09Speaker 2: kind of articulated her thought very well. Like she's like,
- 17:12Speaker 2: what am I doing here? I should be out partying
- 17:14Speaker 2: with my friends, but I'm hanging out with this old guy.
- 17:17Speaker 2: So I think she started to get in her own
- 17:18Speaker 2: head about it. But then once he was, you know,
- 17:22Speaker 2: he's up out of bed and he's dressed and he's
- 17:24Speaker 2: ready to leave and he's like, hey, everything's fine. Then
- 17:26Speaker 2: all of a sudden everything went back to the way
- 17:28Speaker 2: it was. And she's like, okay, maybe I was just
- 17:32Speaker 2: being silly. Like, why was I worried about that? He
- 17:34Speaker 2: does want to be with me. I want to be
- 17:36Speaker 2: with him. I think it just, everything kind of just
- 17:38Speaker 2: snapped back into its normal mode when she realized, you know, okay,
- 17:44Speaker 2: he's not really like, he's not that ill.
- 17:46Speaker 1: Right. Kara said, I'm 19. I should be rollicking with people.
- 17:50Speaker 1: And then Rory says, yeah, you can't rollick with him.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Plus he's British or something.
- 17:57Speaker 2: I don't think he ever rollicked.
- 17:59Speaker 1: I don't think he ever rollicked. He's British.
- 18:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:03Speaker 1: Paladinos. Boom. Okay. Just so great. Just such. You're right.
- 18:09Speaker 1: This is a really.
- 18:10Speaker 2: It was great in that scene.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's do the self-help. Um, But wait a minute,
- 18:25Speaker 1: wait a minute. You know, Alexis was superb. Her exit
- 18:34Speaker 1: from that scene was fantastically funny. Yeah. She handled that
- 18:40Speaker 1: so gracefully and so beautifully. And with her comedy chops
- 18:44Speaker 1: really developed over time. I mean, really, really, that's hard
- 18:47Speaker 1: to pull off. Yeah. Yeah.
- 18:49Speaker 2: The timing was great in that scene.
- 18:51Speaker 1: Just fantastic. All right. Luke doing self-help. Luke- Luke's at
- 18:55Speaker 1: the bookstore. He doesn't want Andrew to see we talked
- 18:58Speaker 1: about this. And he goes home and starts playing the tapes.
- 19:03Speaker 1: And it's about love. The tapes read aloud. If I
- 19:05Speaker 1: crave love, I deserve love. So Luke is, you know,
- 19:08Speaker 1: take us through this scene. Why do you think this
- 19:11Speaker 1: was so special for the fans? You know, so I.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Was so proud of Luke in this moment because Luke
- 19:20Speaker 2: is very stoic. He's very, like, I've said this about
- 19:26Speaker 2: him before, he's the train on the track. There's only
- 19:28Speaker 2: going to be one direction he can go, and he's
- 19:31Speaker 2: just going to, you know, just keep moving along. But
- 19:35Speaker 2: now he's at a point in his life where, you know,
- 19:39Speaker 2: he had this failed relationship, I have to put it
- 19:41Speaker 2: in air quotes, with Nicole. And he's realizing that he
- 19:47Speaker 2: may have played a role in that. which I think
- 19:51Speaker 2: was huge for him. He's not blaming anybody else. He's
- 19:55Speaker 2: not blaming, you know, Nicole, even though, you know, she
- 19:58Speaker 2: cheated on him or whatever. He is realizing that maybe
- 20:02Speaker 2: he has some own internal issues. work to do and
- 20:06Speaker 2: so for him to do something like buying a self-help
- 20:13Speaker 2: book is huge like that isn't something that he would
- 20:17Speaker 2: have done earlier in the show and so he's now
- 20:21Speaker 2: had this realization that you know if he wants to
- 20:25Speaker 2: have a relationship like a meaningful relationship that will be
- 20:30Speaker 2: stable and enduring he he needs to work on himself first.
- 20:34Speaker 2: And this was the first step in that. So I
- 20:36Speaker 2: was super proud of him for doing that because it's
- 20:39Speaker 2: very unlike what we've seen from Luke so far. And
- 20:43Speaker 2: it was a huge moment in his, in his character development.
- 20:47Speaker 2: So we're seeing that soft underbelly side.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Who suggested Luke do this? Was it a sister? Do
- 20:56Speaker 1: you have a feeling that somebody told him to do this?
- 20:58Speaker 1: Recommended he do this? Or did he just do it
- 21:00Speaker 1: of his own volition?
- 21:01Speaker 2: I think he came to the realization on his own. Yeah,
- 21:05Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it was like I was
- 21:07Speaker 2: saying earlier about how the obstacles have been cleared. And
- 21:10Speaker 2: I think he's thinking in the back of his mind
- 21:13Speaker 2: that he wants love. And probably subconsciously he knows it's Lorelai,
- 21:18Speaker 2: but he doesn't consciously know it yet. So I think
- 21:22Speaker 2: he came to that on his own.
- 21:24Speaker 1: You know what's so great about that? The audience knows it.
- 21:27Speaker 1: They're screaming at the TV screen. But these two knuckleheads
- 21:31Speaker 1: just wake up and realize it. Yes. Because it's obvious
- 21:34Speaker 1: to us, right? It's not obvious to them. Yes. Because
- 21:40Speaker 1: they're just living their lives in their little town. They
- 21:41Speaker 1: don't want to muck up the friendship and all that.
- 21:46Speaker 1: But it really is quite obvious, isn't it? No matter
- 21:48Speaker 1: what she does or who she dates or who he marries,
- 21:51Speaker 1: who he dates, whatever, it's obvious. to everyone that they
- 21:55Speaker 1: need to be together. What a difficult balancing act for
- 22:00Speaker 1: Amy and Dan, right? To keep that momentum going in
- 22:05Speaker 1: every single episode, yet still throw all of these, still
- 22:10Speaker 1: throw life at both of them. And I think that's
- 22:12Speaker 1: really how they solve it. Just throw life at both
- 22:15Speaker 1: of them. Let them be on their, they're on separate paths.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Life is going to come at them, men, women, They're
- 22:21Speaker 1: going to date them. They're going to marry them. Whatever
- 22:23Speaker 1: they're going to do. But that momentum, those key scenes,
- 22:29Speaker 1: that's why the chemistry had to be so strong. Without that,
- 22:37Speaker 1: you can't tell the story. Right.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Because they've been hinting at it since the pilot. Like
- 22:44Speaker 2: in the very first episode, there's that time when Lorelai
- 22:47Speaker 2: pauses outside the diner and looks at Luke in a
- 22:52Speaker 2: meaningful way. And then she turns to Rory and says,
- 22:55Speaker 2: what do you think of Luke? And Rory immediately is like, no,
- 22:58Speaker 2: you can't date Luke. And so they started that. That
- 23:03Speaker 2: was the very first episode. And so they've been, they
- 23:07Speaker 2: started the momentum then and then they've been maintaining it.
- 23:10Speaker 2: But you're right. They have to throw in obstacles like
- 23:14Speaker 2: Jess coming to town and, you know, Christopher and all
- 23:17Speaker 2: these other, all these other things to prevent them from
- 23:20Speaker 2: getting together too soon. But then you still have to
- 23:23Speaker 2: maintain the visit, the, the visitor, the viewer's interest in,
- 23:28Speaker 2: in the series.
- 23:29Speaker 1: The visitor would be the alien viewers, right? From outer
- 23:32Speaker 1: space that get hooked on the show. So that's going
- 23:35Speaker 1: to be, that's going to be the next level of,
- 23:37Speaker 1: you know, fandom. I'm going to get taken in the
- 23:39Speaker 1: middle of the night by little blue man. I'll be
- 23:40Speaker 1: on a spaceship. Yeah. Dallas about Gilmore Girls. Did you,
- 23:47Speaker 1: you know, you ever think of Gilmore Girls as like
- 23:52Speaker 1: 154 self-help books? You know what I'm saying? You know,
- 23:58Speaker 1: the entire show. It is. Because it's so therapeutic in
- 24:02Speaker 1: a lot of ways, even medicinal. And people watch the
- 24:05Speaker 1: show obsessively all day. They need to have it on. Yeah.
- 24:10Speaker 1: So it really is like, It's super comfort and super.
- 24:15Speaker 2: It totally is. It's free therapy.
- 24:17Speaker 1: This is a tome of self-help chapters. 154 of them
- 24:21Speaker 1: plus four more. I don't know how self-healthy those were,
- 24:25Speaker 1: but they were pretty good. Anyway, interesting way to look
- 24:28Speaker 1: at it.
- 24:29Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. And it gives you hope. Like when
- 24:32Speaker 2: you're kind of down in the dumps about whatever is
- 24:35Speaker 2: bothering you in your life, it's like the small town
- 24:38Speaker 2: charm and it just gives you hope that, okay, maybe...
- 24:42Speaker 2: Maybe it's not all futile. Maybe there is something good
- 24:46Speaker 2: going on.
- 24:46Speaker 1: All right. So now Liz and TJ run over to Luke,
- 24:51Speaker 1: tell him they're engaged. This is a great scene. So
- 24:55Speaker 1: many great scenes. Anything with TJ in it, right? Yeah.
- 24:59Speaker 1: You know it's going to be fun. And says they're
- 25:02Speaker 1: getting married next week. And TJ asks Luke if he
- 25:05Speaker 1: wants to be the best man and go to the
- 25:06Speaker 1: bachelor party. He says yes, yes. I love the fact
- 25:09Speaker 1: that TJ said to him, I know you don't, you
- 25:13Speaker 1: don't like me. Yeah. I don't care because I'm going
- 25:18Speaker 1: to make you like me because we're going to be related.
- 25:22Speaker 1: And I'm a positive guy and I know what I am,
- 25:28Speaker 1: but I also know who I am. So even you
- 25:31Speaker 1: Luke Danes are not going to stay in your, you know,
- 25:39Speaker 1: you're anti TJ mode for long. Right. I like that attitude. Anyway.
- 25:45Speaker 1: And then Liz mentions Jess isn't coming to the wedding.
- 25:49Speaker 1: That pisses Luke off. So he goes to do his
- 25:52Speaker 1: dumpy apartment. I guess he's living in New York or something. Right. Yeah.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Who is Luke drive down or hop on a bus?
- 25:59Speaker 1: What did he do? He drive his pickup truck down.
- 26:01Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 26:02Speaker 2: He probably drove.
- 26:02Speaker 1: Yeah. Goes to his little dumpy apartment and, Doesn't really
- 26:07Speaker 1: ask him to go to the wedding. He demands that
- 26:09Speaker 1: he goes to the wedding and tells him that if
- 26:13Speaker 1: he doesn't, he's going to regret it. And then he
- 26:15Speaker 1: pulls the you owe me card. So he's look what
- 26:19Speaker 1: he's doing for his sister. Look what he's doing for
- 26:21Speaker 1: the family.
- 26:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Takes time off of work to do this. So he
- 26:29Speaker 1: doesn't really reluctantly agree at all. Not in the scene.
- 26:32Speaker 1: He just shows up in the diner. Mm hmm. And
- 26:36Speaker 1: then tell us your thoughts about the level of loyalty
- 26:44Speaker 1: that it takes for a brother to do that. Something
- 26:47Speaker 1: like that. To a nephew. Yeah.
- 26:51Speaker 2: So we know, we've established in all four seasons that
- 26:54Speaker 2: Luke is... for as, as gruff and cranky as he is.
- 26:59Speaker 2: And as much as he rails about families, he is
- 27:01Speaker 2: very committed to the idea of family and the, the
- 27:05Speaker 2: responsibility that comes with that.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Like, this is all I got. It ain't perfect, but
- 27:10Speaker 1: this is what I got.
- 27:12Speaker 2: And you do for family, no matter what.
- 27:14Speaker 1: Right. Right.
- 27:15Speaker 2: And this is where we realize that Jess feels the
- 27:19Speaker 2: same way. And, you know, Luke and Jess are, as
- 27:24Speaker 2: a family pair, have had a lot of obstacles and
- 27:28Speaker 2: a lot of road bumps, and there was, you know,
- 27:30Speaker 2: arguments and fights, and... But this is... The fact that
- 27:35Speaker 2: Jess came to the wedding because Luke asked him to,
- 27:40Speaker 2: not because his mom asked him to, I think that
- 27:45Speaker 2: was super meaningful, and we, you know... Jess a lot
- 27:49Speaker 2: of times is not that nice of a person, but
- 27:51Speaker 2: this really redeems him a lot for me because he
- 27:55Speaker 2: does get that sense of family commitment and he knows
- 27:58Speaker 2: that Luke sacrificed a lot for him. And so he is,
- 28:02Speaker 2: you know, willing to return that favor basically.
- 28:05Speaker 1: Right. Right. Yeah. Those, those were nice warm moments between
- 28:08Speaker 1: those two. Yeah. And now we get to the part
- 28:20Speaker 1: where Jess almost discovers the self-help books. Yes. Luke successfully
- 28:28Speaker 1: hides them. Jess leaves. And this is when we get
- 28:31Speaker 1: to this moment where he's washing his bowl in the
- 28:37Speaker 1: sink and he's drying his hands. And then the audio asks,
- 28:42Speaker 1: do you see her face? Do you see her face?
- 28:47Speaker 1: And he's staring off in the distance and replies, whoa.
- 28:53Speaker 1: And I think we all know who he sees, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
- 28:59Speaker 1: Does he see a Tyrannosaurus Rex, A? Does he see
- 29:02Speaker 1: an alligator, C? Or does he see Lorelei? Yeah. All right.
- 29:10Speaker 1: So quite a moment. It is.
- 29:12Speaker 2: It's yeah. Cause it's part of you is like, how
- 29:15Speaker 2: could you, how could you be so surprised by it, Luke?
- 29:18Speaker 2: I mean, like it's always been there. It shouldn't have
- 29:21Speaker 2: been a surprise to him. And yet it never was
- 29:24Speaker 2: in his conscious mind until that moment. So it was,
- 29:27Speaker 2: it was fun to like see that kind of realization break.
- 29:30Speaker 1: Yeah. He's been through the whole, uh, uh, um, God,
- 29:35Speaker 1: I forget her name. Uh, he's been through the marriage
- 29:37Speaker 1: and the divorce. Nicole, Nicole. yeah so he's been distracted
- 29:42Speaker 1: mightily distracted by that so there's there's there's an excuse
- 29:46Speaker 1: all right now let's go to the most unlikely place
- 29:50Speaker 1: you're ever going to find luke or jess in a
- 29:54Speaker 1: strip club yes for tj's bachelor party and luke is
- 29:59Speaker 1: And the lap conversation, it doesn't exist. It's an illusion. What?
- 30:10Speaker 1: Luke is clearly uncomfortable.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Yes.
- 30:12Speaker 1: And a stripper tries to give him a lap dance
- 30:15Speaker 1: and he stands up and says, now, now there's no lap.
- 30:17Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit down. I can't create a lap.
- 30:19Speaker 1: And that starts the philosophical discussion between TJ and his brother,
- 30:23Speaker 1: That's David DeLuise and Michael DeLuise. Yes. And we've had
- 30:28Speaker 1: David on the show a couple of times and he's
- 30:30Speaker 1: just fantastic. Yeah. And then they get into their philosophical side,
- 30:36Speaker 1: talking about the existence or non-existence of laps. Yes. And
- 30:43Speaker 1: it ends up in a fight.
- 30:44Speaker 2: And Luke's awkwardness with the stripper was so funny, how
- 30:50Speaker 2: he kept saying, thank you. Thanks.
- 30:52Speaker 1: No, thanks.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. No, no, no, thank you. So funny.
- 31:04Speaker 1: How did the, how did the Palladinos know to put
- 31:07Speaker 1: in that many thank yous? They just know, right? They
- 31:11Speaker 1: just know.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Yeah, it was perfectly timed.
- 31:13Speaker 1: It was script.
- 31:14Speaker 2: Yeah, it was perfect.
- 31:16Speaker 1: And, you know, I remember taking real time to work
- 31:20Speaker 1: that out because it had to be, you know, just
- 31:23Speaker 1: all those thank yous and thankses. Yeah. They had to
- 31:27Speaker 1: be perfectly timed. Yes. You know, and then, you know,
- 31:32Speaker 1: what were there, seven or eight of them? Yeah. And
- 31:35Speaker 1: that's on a page and you're looking at it and
- 31:36Speaker 1: you go, okay, how am I going to do this?
- 31:39Speaker 1: But there's the music in it. There's the rhythm that
- 31:42Speaker 1: people talk about. Yeah, there's a cadence to it. It is.
- 31:46Speaker 1: And you find it. And it doesn't take long to find.
- 31:50Speaker 1: And Luke sees Jess steal a guy's beer and takes it.
- 31:58Speaker 1: Typical Jess.
- 32:00Speaker 2: I love that he brought a book.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Brings a book, steals a beer. It's like, I'm here,
- 32:07Speaker 1: but I'm still me. Right. Exactly.
- 32:09Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it.
- 32:10Speaker 1: Yeah. And the concern on, on Luke's face, the utter,
- 32:16Speaker 1: utter fear and disappointment on his face that he stole
- 32:21Speaker 1: and he's drinking, you know? So anyway, and then, you know, TJ,
- 32:28Speaker 1: who is not to be messed with because, you know,
- 32:33Speaker 1: You don't want to disappoint. He's going to, yeah. You're
- 32:36Speaker 1: going to say yes. Cause I don't want to say,
- 32:38Speaker 1: tell her that you're not coming. I want, I'm trying
- 32:41Speaker 1: to make her happy and you're going to say yes.
- 32:43Speaker 1: And I just, I love this attitude. Right. Yeah. And
- 32:46Speaker 1: you just got to love a guy like that. And
- 32:48Speaker 1: then he knocks the book out of his hand. You know, Jess,
- 32:54Speaker 1: why is this off to him? But she didn't have,
- 32:56Speaker 1: that's the wrong guy to pop off to.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 32:59Speaker 1: And then the fight begins. Luke intervenes. grabs jess hard
- 33:03Speaker 1: and says knock it off knock it off you know
- 33:06Speaker 1: it's attitude and i think it's a lot of fear
- 33:10Speaker 1: because it's not just this incident it's just how he's
- 33:12Speaker 1: going through life and if this is how he is
- 33:14Speaker 1: with people that he knows somewhat how is he with
- 33:17Speaker 1: strangers he's gonna get killed yeah this is the kind
- 33:20Speaker 1: of attitude that gets you put in the hospital or
- 33:23Speaker 1: in the graveyard and it terrifies luke it terrifies him
- 33:27Speaker 1: so that's why i think he you know he really
- 33:29Speaker 1: jumped in there and and screamed at And then Luke
- 33:32Speaker 1: has an epiphany as all people do when they sort
- 33:36Speaker 1: of get into situations like this for people realizing that
- 33:42Speaker 1: maybe you're approaching it the wrong way. Maybe you care
- 33:46Speaker 1: too much. They are what they are. And that's what
- 33:49Speaker 1: Luke realized. So can't change them. And then the diner,
- 33:54Speaker 1: he just apologized to him about dragging him into Star's Hollow.
- 33:56Speaker 1: A little reversal. And I don't think it was reverse psychology.
- 34:00Speaker 1: I just think it was an epiphany.
- 34:03Speaker 2: I agree.
- 34:04Speaker 1: It's like, you are who you are. You don't have
- 34:07Speaker 1: to go. It's like, whatever. I'm not going to change you.
- 34:11Speaker 1: And that's also a big moment of growth for Luke's character.
- 34:16Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 34:18Speaker 1: That's a huge revelation.
- 34:19Speaker 2: Yeah, because Luke is always the fixer. He is the
- 34:23Speaker 2: one that picks up Liz's pieces when she comes apart.
- 34:27Speaker 2: And he comes and fixes Lorelai's window. He's always the
- 34:32Speaker 2: one that takes care of everything. And he's now had
- 34:34Speaker 2: this realization that he can't fix other people. He can
- 34:37Speaker 2: fix a window, but he can't fix a person. They
- 34:41Speaker 2: just are going to have to be who they are.
- 34:43Speaker 2: And he has to just accept that.
- 34:46Speaker 1: And that's two people now. that don't care if he comes.
- 34:50Speaker 1: His mother and now Luke, which shows the power of
- 34:54Speaker 1: their bond and the humanity that is growing inside of
- 35:00Speaker 1: Jess as a result of Luke's caring. And also his mother, indirectly, right? Yeah. Because,
- 35:08Speaker 1: you know, it is an act of love when you
- 35:10Speaker 1: realize you can't take care of somebody and you sort
- 35:15Speaker 1: of push them off to somebody who you feel can.
- 35:18Speaker 1: So that's a family, you know, it's dysfunctional, but it's
- 35:21Speaker 1: functioning in a way that gets a result. And here
- 35:25Speaker 1: we are. We're seeing the green shoots of this dysfunctional family.
- 35:30Speaker 1: You know, Luke's effort, her effort. And now this kid,
- 35:34Speaker 1: and we think as an audience, maybe he's got a chance. Right.
- 35:37Speaker 1: You know, we're seeing some human qualities, some caring. That's
- 35:43Speaker 1: very nice to see. Yeah, yeah.
- 35:45Speaker 2: It's good. And he's also, you know, he's a couple
- 35:47Speaker 2: of years older than when we first met him. And
- 35:50Speaker 2: so he's just naturally maturing and it's, it's good to
- 35:54Speaker 2: see him, you know, turning into a thoughtful, reasonably decent adult.
- 36:02Speaker 1: So there's a series of thought starters here. And one
- 36:05Speaker 1: of them is asking me what I remember about filming
- 36:09Speaker 1: this episode and seeing the script. And I just imparted,
- 36:13Speaker 1: I do remember saying, thank you, stripper, all of that.
- 36:18Speaker 1: But I got to tell you, I remember nothing about this.
- 36:24Speaker 1: I do remember the scenes with Jess in the diner.
- 36:29Speaker 1: I do remember going to his apartment in New York
- 36:32Speaker 1: City and doing that rant. It was a pretty full
- 36:36Speaker 1: episode for me. Oh, yeah. It was a lot of work.
- 36:40Speaker 1: I have nothing but fond memories of this. Yeah.
- 36:43Speaker 2: It was so well done. And you did a really
- 36:46Speaker 2: good job of embodying that change that Luke was going
- 36:51Speaker 2: through internally, like you could see it in his thoughts
- 36:55Speaker 2: and his actions and his words. So you were great
- 36:58Speaker 2: in this episode.
- 36:59Speaker 1: Oh, thank you.
- 37:00Speaker 2: Kudos to you.
- 37:01Speaker 1: So, Suzanne, after watching this, can you remember a time
- 37:05Speaker 1: when you were cheering on a friend or a best
- 37:08Speaker 1: friend to finally go for his or her longtime crush? Yeah.
- 37:12Speaker 2: You know, when you're standing, when you're on the outside
- 37:16Speaker 2: looking in at somebody else's relationship, it's really easy to
- 37:19Speaker 2: see what they should be doing, right? Like it's, it's
- 37:22Speaker 2: always easy to have an opinion on what other people
- 37:25Speaker 2: should be doing. And it's more difficult when you're the
- 37:27Speaker 2: one in that situation. Um, and so I think as
- 37:31Speaker 2: a viewer who's been watching this develop, you know, we're
- 37:35Speaker 2: at the end of the fourth season now, um, We
- 37:39Speaker 2: are cheering on both Luke and Lorelai because they both
- 37:43Speaker 2: deserve to get what they want. They're both good people.
- 37:47Speaker 2: They both work hard. They both deserve to be in
- 37:51Speaker 2: a relationship that is stable and not crazy and not
- 37:57Speaker 2: based on superficial things. And so I think that's a
- 38:01Speaker 2: good way to put it is like you're cheering on
- 38:04Speaker 2: your two best friends that you know they're meant to
- 38:07Speaker 2: be together and you finally see that happening. And it's
- 38:11Speaker 2: a great moment for sure.
- 38:12Speaker 1: Yeah, terrific episode. And boy, funny, full of feeling. You know,
- 38:24Speaker 1: a lot of loose ends getting tied up here. Mm-hmm.
- 38:27Speaker 1: And propelling us into a new world here, perhaps, a
- 38:30Speaker 1: new reality. Really exciting time for the show. Anyway, Suzanne,
- 38:36Speaker 1: we ran out of time. We know you're busy. And really,
- 38:40Speaker 1: the reality is we can't afford you any longer. We
- 38:44Speaker 1: have to let you go today. You know, I'm very
- 38:47Speaker 1: happy for you, but how the hell did you get
- 38:49Speaker 1: so expensive? It's unbelievable. And I hope you get more
- 38:53Speaker 1: and more expensive. Anyway, thanks for coming on again. Hope
- 38:55Speaker 1: to see you soon.
- 38:56Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. Always fun.
- 38:58Speaker 1: And congratulations on the new gig. Thank you. And remember, everybody,
- 39:04Speaker 1: be the best fans on the planet. Keep the cards
- 39:06Speaker 1: and letters coming. We read every single one of them,
- 39:10Speaker 1: don't we, Suzanne? Yes, we do. And remember, where you lead,
- 39:14Speaker 1: we will follow. Stay safe, everyone. Hey, everybody, don't forget,
- 39:46Speaker 1: follow us on Instagram at I Am All In Podcast
- 39:50Speaker 1: and email us at gilmore at iheartradio.com.