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That Lorelai (Lauren Graham) on "Gilmore Girls" (7 p.m., CW) is usually a pretty smart cookie.

Except for when she cheated on Luke (Scott Patterson) and then married her baby's daddy on a whim.

Those were some doozies in the dumb department.

Tonight, her stupidity has to do with Rory's (Alexis Bledel) smarmy boyfriend Logan (Matt Czuchry).

Apparently, even though her daughter has been seeing that idiot for at least 2.5 seasons, only now is Lorelai realizing that it's serious and that she ain't so happy about it.

Her "duh!" moment occurs when Rory finally brings Logan back to Stars Hollow so he can see the rockin' town where she grew up.

In addition to the new tension between her mom and Logan, Rory is on pins and needles waiting to hear news after a job interview with the Providence Journal-Bulletin.

Meanwhile, April (Vanessa Marano) visits Luke, and he adjusts to the changes that come with having a teenage daughter.

And those quirky Stars Hollow residents have the rage when ever-annoying Taylor (Michael Winters) uses the entire spring festival budget to build a hay-bale maze.

Sounds like sound financial planning to me.

"Big Ideas for a Small Planet" (7, 9 p.m. Sundance) is less with the financial planning and more with the environmental planning.

It's a series of documentary films focusing on timely and pressing environmental issues of the day.

Tonight, the focus is on alternative automobile fuel.

I used to feel all superior that I drive a Metro and get 39 mpg on a bad day, and I carpool.

That feeling is gone now because instead of the pride, I feel the guilt.

Every gallon of gas I use puts 19 pounds of CO2 in the air, according to some smarty pants expert on the show.

Sheesh.

I should be doing more, like using Crisco to make the Metro go places where I can buy goods that a Sri Lankan child got paid a penny to make.

There are lots of interviews with energy specialists, but much more interesting are the forward-thinking people who actually run their vehicles on this stuff.

Make way for my vegetable oil-mobile!