"There's The Rub" is the sixteenth episode of the second season of the television series Gilmore Girls. It originally aired on April 9, 2002.
Rory is left at home alone for the night when Emily invites Lorelai out for a weekend at a spa. Rory's idea of a fun night alone is doing her own laundry and ordering Indian food, but both Lorelai and Dean have trouble understanding why she would rather spend the night alone than with him.
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"There's The Rub" is the sixteenth episode of the second season of the television series Gilmore Girls. It originally aired on April 9, 2002.
Rory is left at home alone for the night when Emily invites Lorelai out for a weekend at a spa. Rory's idea of a fun night alone is doing her own laundry and ordering Indian food, but both Lorelai and Dean have trouble understanding why she would rather spend the night alone than with him.
At the spa, Emily has made sure that all of their planned activities coincide with each other's, and it takes Lorelai some time to finally realize that all Emily wants is some mother-daughter together time. They leave the spa for dinner, but wind up at a bar drinking martinis, and when Emily dances with another man she blames Lorelai and they decide to leave the spa early after discussing their mother-daughter relationship in comparison to Lorelai and Rory's.
At home, Rory's quiet laundry night is interrupted when Paris arrives and insists on studying,...
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