Richard: [on the phone] Lorelai, it's your father. I'm unconscionably late with this call. Blame South Dakota.
Lorelai: Dad, what is going on here?
Richard: Your mother's eye surgery went badly. She's all right, but she can't see a thing.
Lorelai: Well, that doesn't sound all right to me.
Richard: It's only temporary. She's on painkillers. I would have been there myself, but I was called out of town. Have you ever been to South Dakota? It's the most boring state in the nation. As I was flying in, I swear I saw one of the heads on Mount Rushmore yawn.