[MaryKris]

Assumed Episode 6.15 – A Vineyard Valentine
Air Date: Estimated February 2006

Info taken from the Casting Sides Information in the Writer’s Draft Script dated 20 January 2006 and Shooting Script dated 23 Jan 2006.

The information summarized below is taken from 3 Sides for: Fred, BooZoo, and Weightlifting Guy

The 23 Jan Shooting Script amended the Casting Sides for Fred and provided the episode title.

I will include context and stage direction descriptions where appropriate.

• Characters:
  Fred – One of Sookie’s chefs.
  BooZoo – Middle-aged guy playing the accordion in a Zydeco band
  Weightlifter Guy – Guy working out at a gym that Lorelai and Rory are visiting

Editor Note: The Casting Sides start with Scene 1 of the Show staring with the Teaser – as we FADE IN:

Interior – Dragonfly Inn - Kitchen – 11 A.M. (Day 1) - Scene 1 -

Stage Direction: Lorelai enters. A half dozen kitchen staff are standing around.

Lorelai greets everyone – “Morning, everyone.”

Stage Direction: They all mutter ‘hellos.’.

Lorelai going off their mood – “What’s wrong?”

Stage Direction: A chef, Fred, nods toward the stove. Lorelai sees Sookie sitting with her back to everyone, looking very forlorn.

Lorelai now on guard – “Oh-oh. Food funk?”

Fred just looks at her – “Major.”

Lorelai inquires – “Are we talking Swiss chard a la polonaise-level funk from last May? The pannekochen experiments of aught-five?”

Fred tells her – “Two thousand one pigeons a la Nicoise.”

Lorelai cringes at the bad news – “Pigeons a la Nicoise? Oh boy…She approaches Sookie Sookie?”

Sookie yelling – “You mean, Sucky”

Lorelai tries to defuse things – “What’s up?”

Sookie continues ranting – “I’ll tell you what’s up. You know what this is?”

Stage Direction: She holds something up to Lorelai.

Lorelai innocently – “An oyster.”

Editor Note: Scene 1 continues for some length.

End of Casting Sides for Fred.


Interior – Dragonfly Inn – Dining Room – Continuous – Day (Day 1) – Scene 2 –

Stage Direction: Lorelai and Sookie enter and discover a five-piece Cajun Zydeco band (accordion, guitar, bass, drums, rub board) set up and ready to go. An enthusiastic, middle-aged guy named BooZoo is on accordion. It’s between meals, so there are customers in the library and living room, but not here.

Lorelai cheerfully – “Hi. I’m Lorelai Gilmore. Can I help you guys?”

BooZoo holds out his hand – “I’m BooZoo.”

Lorelai thrown off – “BooZoo? Your name’s BooZoo?”

BooZoo confirms things – “BooZoo Barns.”

Lorelai blankly repeats – “BooZoo Barns.”

BooZoo trying to help – “And the Cajun Stompers.”

Lorelai finally admits – “I’m about a thousand miles behind here.”

BooZoo now is puzzled – “We set this up awhile ago? The audition? BooZoo?”

Lorelai remember light comes on – “BooZoo! That BooZoo!

Sookie ever helpful – “You know more than one BooZoo?”

Lorelai explains to her – “No, I set this up myself. It was for the wedding. The audition.”

BooZoo light up – “The audition!”

Sookie glumly – “Oh, the wedding.”

BooZoo asks Lorelai – “What do you want to hear?”

Lorelai tries to explain – “Well, BooZoo, it’s like this…I kind of don’t need you to play because—“

BooZoo cuts Lorelai off and is adamant – “No, Miss Gilmore, no, it’s like this: when Cajuns are at their instruments, they must play.”

Lorelai – “But—“

Stage Direction: Too late. BooZoo has turned to the band.

BooZoo starts up – “’Zydeco Boogaloo,’ boys. One, two three, four.”

Stage Direction: They launch into a rousing instrumental. The girls now have to talk loudly to be heard over the band. Some of the customers wander in, wondering what’s up.

Lorelai loudly to Sookie – “And, they’re off. God, I totally forgot to cancel this.”

Sookie trying to be heard – “June third’s coming up pretty quick too, hon.”

Lorelai confesses – “I know,. Super quick.”

Stage Direction: BooZoo stops the band, having noticed Lorelai’s less-than-happy expression.

BooZoo asks her – “You don’t like the song?”

Lorelai resignedly – “No, BooZoo, I love the song.”

BooZoo astutely – “Lips say yes, face say no. To the band ‘Why You Wanna Make Me Cry,’ boys. One, two, three, four.”

Stage Direction: BooZoo and the boys plow into another song. Lorelai still looks concerned, preoccupied.

Sookie prompts Lorelai – “Smile. Or BooZoo may never go away.”

Stage Direction: Lorelai puts on her best smile, and nods to BooZoo to indicate that she is really enjoying the music. She and Sookie continue enjoying it, as we: FADE OUT.

End of Casting Sides for BooZoo

End of Scene 2 and The Teaser


Editor Note: The Casting Sides pick back up well into the episode with Scene 16 already in progress. The scene is the interior of a Spa or Gym area. Rory and Lorelai are together bantering back and forth.

Interior – A Spa or Gym Workout Area – Time Unknown – Day – Scene 16 –

Editor Note: Scene 16 is already in progress.

Lorelai is telling Rory – It was a good twenty yards. Plus the three steps we walked up to get in the building.”

Rory agrees – “That was some gnarly cardio.”

Lorelai a bit puzzled – “What is it about cucumber water that is so much more refreshing than non-cucumber water?”

Rory assures her - "I think it's the cucumbers."

Lorelai eager - "So shall we resume our workout?"

Rory agrees - "Let's do it."

Stage Direction: Lorelai and Rory start slowly strolling through the facility.

Lorelai observes - "It's a nice facility."

Rory tells Lorelai - "I like that you can get day passes, that you don't have to pay for a whole--"

Stage Direction: They are suddenly startled by a Man groaning and simultaneously dropping the handles of a machine with a cacophonous bang.

The Weightlifting Guy grimaces - "Aaarrrgh!"

Lorelai and Rory together - "Oh! - Geez! - What was that?!"

Stage Direction: They see the guy and figure it our.

Lorelai complains - "Oh, lord. That was loud."

Rory puts in - "I think a little warning was in order."

Lorelai pronounces - "No one remembers gym etiquette?"

Stage Direction: They continue on, stopping at a machine.

Lorelai trying to puzzle things out - "You have any idea what part of the body this exercises?"

Rory not being really helpful - "No. Do you lift it or pull it."

Lorelai adds - "Ot push it or climb it?"

Stage Direction: Lorelai sits on the seat of one of the machines.

Lorelai faking being tired - "So the walk from the cucumber water to here, that was, what... Another twenty calories?

Rory trying for everything - "Let's call it forty."

Stage Direction: Rory grabs the handles of a shoulder pull down machine and leans into it, swinging back and forth a little.

Rory continues on - "So, is Luke okay? He seems a little distracted."

Lorelai reassures Rory - "He's fine. he's not much of a traveler, so this is all kinds of foreign to him."

Rory emphasizes - "'Cause I want him to have a good time."

Lorelai agrees - "Me, too."

Stage Direction: During the preceding, the weightlifting guy has come up and hovered, eyes on Lorelai. Lorelai finally notices.

Lorelai to the guy - "Yeah?"

The weightlifting guy asks - "Okay if I work in?"

Lorelai quizzically - "Work in what? Then realizing Oh, this. You want to work in."

Editor Note: Scene 16 continues for some length.

End of Casting Sides for Weightlifter Guy

End of all Casting Sides for Episode 6.15 - A Vineyard Valentine.

Source: Fanforum