Gilmore Girls 2.17 "Dead Uncles and Vegetables"

Gilmore Girls 2.17 "Dead Uncles and Vegetables"
Original Air Date: April 16, 2002 (Recap date: January 3, 2008)
Photos, Recap & Discussion

Discussion Questions:

• Why does Emily want to help Sookie on her wedding?
• Why does Sookie fall for Emily’s plans?
• Does Jess take off so Rory can find him and drag him back?
• Why does Jess let Rory boss him around?
• Is Emily right about why Lorelai ran to help Luke?
• Does Lorelai go the extra mile to help Luke because of what Emily said, about them being ‘made for each other’?
• If the town was behind Luke, why didn’t they go to the funeral?
• Did Jess set up the wake?
• Do you find it odd that Dean wasn’t in this episode to continue his over-protectiveness of Rory?

Gilmore Girls Episode Recap & Photos:

Emily is calling over and over to leave messages – Lorelai won’t pick up on principle. But does talk back to the machine. Emily does like to rant.

Emily comes to the Inn to test 8 soups for her DAR meeting. Taking her a long time. Emily overhears that it’s Sookie’s wedding and wants to know what’s planned. She gets an "oh" for Sookie’s choice of music for the wedding. She suggests a string quartet.

Luke calls Lorelai at the Inn to rent 9 rooms – his Uncle Louie died and he’s planning the funeral. Lorelai offers to help.

They find, later, that Luke has his hands full (literally) at the diner trying to run it and plan the funeral at the same time. Lorelai and Rory immediately pitch in. And Lorelai is the Jehovah’s coffee girl there to convert the patrons to strong coffee.

Rory goes up to drag Jess down to help in the diner. Lorelai suspects Kirk of stealing Equal so dumps a bunch in his coffee to prove her point. Luke is on hold trying to get his uncle’s body shipped from Florida. His dad asked Luke to take care of a good funeral for his brother before he died. He was a war veteran, so the town war re-enactor’s will do a formal salute. Lorelai offers to man the diner while he runs errands.

Taylor is furious to find a farmer’s market in the town square across from his market. And feels quesy to find the previous wanna-be troubadour has followed the rules to open his market.

Emily comes to meet with Sookie to go over the place setting samples sent over by a company that did Celine Dion’s wedding. Sookie’s simple plans have exploded. Lorelai cautions Sookie – she’s in Emily Land, where cost has a different meaning.

Taylor is mumbling "turnips" to himself. Lorelai is helping with Luke’s lunch rush and is taking great pleasure in the diner lingo. Farmer’s Market guy comes in to gloat about his business so Taylor can overhear – Doose’s has been dead. Lorelai brings lunch to Luke – he’s disappointed that none of his relatives are coming to the funeral. Doesn’t think there is an excuse not to pay respects to a dead family member. He wants to do it as his father wished.

Sookie has fallen into Emily’s net quite securely and Jackson is worried. His simple sweet wedding has been replaced by a huge production involving an orchestra and moving the town gazebo. Rory is dragging Jess back to the diner again.

Jess is actually at a town meeting. Rory asks why he’s there. Pretends he had nothing better to do. But stares and smiles at her. Taylor airs a grievance about the farmer’s market. Taylor says it’s the wrong permit, even though it’s a very minor issue. They adjourn the meeting – not ‘feeling good’ about it is not a town issue. Rory tells Jess to go clean the diner.

Luke runs after the re-enactors – who apparently don’t want to go to the funeral. They hated Louie. Luke says he deserves a veteran’s funeral. Luke says he may just throw things at them now – and they say he is a defensive hothead like Louie.

Sookie is wrapped up in midget angels and paper mache mushrooms. Lorelai brings up the Emily World dangers. Sookie doesn’t even know the cost. Lorelai says all these things are not Sookie and that Jackson is upset. When Lorelai asks her what she wants – she has a moment. Sookie realizes she doesn’t want any of it.

Luke calls for Lorelai’s help – the casket won’t close because of all the stuff Louie wanted to buried with. He is fed up. His uncle was a selfish jerk. He leaves. But later calms down and orders a bigger casket.

Emily comes to yell at Lorelai for interfering in Sookie’s wedding. Lorelai knows that Emily was actually planning her wedding – the one she wanted Lorelai to have. Emily says it was all for Sookie – that Lorelai’s was to be a Romanoff winter theme. Emily says she gave up on that dream and then comments that she’s probably standing in the reception room (the diner). Emily is referring to Luke – that it’s ‘obvious’. Gloats at Lorelai saying she ‘had to be there’ for Luke.

Lorelai is the only one to stand with Luke at the funeral. Luke wants assurance from Lorelai that he is not becoming Louie – the cranky old bachelor. Lorelai brings up all the amazing things Luke does: the chuppa, the coffee cake for Rory, taking in Jess. Louie gets his military send off – thanks to Lorelai. Lorelai takes Luke’s arm as the salute proceeds.

A reception / wake for Louie is being held at the diner. Lorelai didn’t set it up. Though she says people probably did it for him – people like Luke. The produce guy tells Taylor he’s done – he sold all his produce. Reminds Taylor that he put himself through all the angst.

Rory goes to say Jess did a good thing, with the wake. He says he didn’t do it – the town did. But Rory says he ‘facilitated’ and welcomes him to the town. Everyone is telling their favorite stories about Louie.

Tags: gilmore girls, gilmore girls season 2, 2.17, dead uncles and vegetables, screenshots, gilmore girls pictures, gilmore girls photos, episodes, episode recaps, recaps