Max Medina gives Rory the first "D" of her life on an English paper. Lorelai spends the week helping Rory study, but things don't go as planned, ending in Rory having a meltdown, finally giving Paris and Tristan the chewing out they so richly deserve... (more).

Alex Borstein, Chad Michael Murray, Daniel Graves, Jayne Amelia Larson, Jennifer Williams, Jim Jenkins, Jon Bruno, Richard Topol, Sarah Brooke, Scott Cohen