Episode 79 of "Gilmore girls"
s04e14 The Incredible Shrinking Lorelais
Title: The Incredible Shrinking Lorelais
Original Air Date: 02/17/2004 on WB
Director: Stephen Clancy
Writer: Daniel Palladino, Amy Sherman-Palladino
Guest Stars: Marion Ross (Trix Gilmore), Sarah Zinsser (Delia), Aaron Hill (Kleebold), Patty Malcolm (Leanne), Mike Henry (IX) (Ed)
Plot Outline:
When Trix returns to town and berates Lorelai and Richard for being financial failures, Richard angrily sets his mother straight, to Emily's delight... Lorelai and Sookie explore ways to ease their financial crunch and raise money to pay their construction crew, one of whom is now Dean... Janet and Paris go head-to-head over the constant presence of Janet's boyfriend in the suite... Lorelai and Rory play an increasingly frustrating game of telephone tag... after Paris, Tanna, and Janet complain about close quarters in the suite, Lane moves out of the dorm and in with Lorelai, and gets her job back at Luke's... Lorelai and Sookie have a heated discussion about sharing the responsibilities of opening their inn... Rory is distraught when one of her professors tells her to drop a class because she can't handle her course load... Lane runs into her mother and receives a frosty reception... at the end of a very long, hard day, Lorelai and Rory still can't manage to connect, and end up taking solace in the arms of the married men in their lives.