Jencyclopedia

A comedienne hangs out in a quaint little town (Stars Hollow) with Dennis Cole and his mute son.
Two guys wanna be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Okay, this is weird, because the thumbnail looks like the guy from the pilot episode, and Sandra Dee and Carol Lynley are in this… and this is an hour and a half long. This is the pilot. I guess CTV mixed up the files or something, so I’m watching this on YouTube, but the quality is crappy, and so I can’t make any GIFs. :(

Aww, it’s too bad I didn’t watch this episode on my birthday.

Tattoo is so dumb. Roarke’s like “no presents this year, let’s just have a quiet dinner together”, but obviously, he’s planning a surprise parrr — oh, haha, Tattoo just realized:

Tattoo: No presents? Chess? Sherry? He must be kidding! … That’s it! He is kidding. Uh, I hope he’s kidding.

Hey, she didn’t take a lei!

I’m glad I’ve seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid so I know a bit about what’s going on. I wonder if they’re filming at the same lot; that would be cool.

So this woman just shows up in Stars Hollow, gets a room, and then walks in a building and gets a job. This is the most unrealistic thing I’ve ever seen on this show.

I feel like it’s cutting between the two fantasies a lot more often than normal, but I have no evidence to support this.

What? The rando guy’s fantasy is two weeks in the jungle? How much is he paying for two weeks?!

Tattoo: Boss, I hate to tell you this, but two weeks in the jungle with an elephant… this has to be the dumbest fantasy I’ve ever heard of.

So Dennis Cole invites the main chick to dinner at his house, and she asks him “what about your wife” (she’s dead), but it didn’t sound like he was necessarily asking her out on a date; he could have just been him inviting his new co-worker to supper with him and his family.

What a jerk, she took this kids’ book out of his hands, and then she gets upset when he runs away from her.

Butch Cassidy: We want our fantasy terminated right here and right now.
Roarke: Oh, Mr, Cassidy, I’m afraid I can’t do that either. I tried to warn you the consequences of your fantasy before you started, didn’t I?

I think this is the closest we’ve got to a “once your fantasy has begun, I am powerless to stop it” so far.

Ohhhh godddd, that’s Roarke… ah, wtffff. I’m not afraid of clowns, but Clown Roarke is scary.

Hm, that’s weird. She looked away, and Clown Roarke was gone, of course, but he was replaced with Clown Tattoo. Tattoo isn’t usually involved in the disappearing/appearing act, so hm… how does that work. I guess they must have planned it, and Roarke just ran off and hid and told Tattoo to show up just to mess with her.

Are you kidding me?! Okay, I’m done with this show. They killed the dog. Oh, right, he’s a veterinarian, so he can just put some nanites in the dog and revive it.

Oh my god, now the little kid is crying and telling his dog not to die. Why are you doing this.

Now the woman is leaving them after he asked her to stay with them. That doesn’t usually happen, that people willingly leave their fantasies when they’re going well.

So this Wyatt Earp guy is also a guest with a fantasy, so like… who can win this showdown? They can’t blow him up. He can’t shoot them. Oh, okay, they’re just gonna talk it out. That’s… nice?

Okay, wait, so they don’t even give leis? They just give flowers? I never noticed that.

It would have been nice to have the Wyatt Earp guy show up at the end and go off on the plane with the other guys, but instead, we don’t really find out what happened to him.

I think I previously saw just the very end of this episode with the bit about Tattoo’s birthday, but nothing else in this episode felt familiar.

I wonder if they do a Tattoo birthday episode every year? Because didn’t Roarke grant Tattoo a fantasy for his birthday in another season? I don’t remember any Roarke birthday episodes though, hmm.