RICHARD: It’s chaos here. The second maid called in sick, the first is busy with dinner, and your poor mother is at the hospital. Her DAR group suffered a surfeit of strokes this week.
Richard and Emily started out with a cook and a maid, then the maid seemed to do the cooking as well … now they have two maids. Perhaps one of the maids does all the cooking, and nothing has changed.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 