History Recap / GilmoreGirlsS01E03

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** Rory wants to read ''[[Creator /HLMencken Mencken's Chrestomathy]]'' and Richard offers to lend her his copy. He finds a first edition of his memoirs as well.

** Jessica wants Music/ShaniaTwain's ''I Feel Like A Woman''.
** Rory wants to read ''Mencken's Chrestomathy'' and Richard offers to lend her his copy. He finds a first edition of his memoirs as well.

* CompensatingForSomething: Mocked through inversion and gender-reversal when Lorelai and Rory both claim the other's boobs are bigger.

** Emily points out that Lorelai seems a bit controling trying to get Rory out of going to the club with Richard.

* NotSoDifferent: Emily points out that perhaps Lorelai is as manipulative and controlling as she accuses Emily of being.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** …But all they ''really'' argue about is ''bra''-size.
** Lorelai telling her fifteen-year-old what to do with those skirts.

Maid of the week: Sarah, not Mira.

Masseur who bears remarmabke resemblance to Creator/AntonioBanderas: Maury.\\

* CaptainObvious: Lorelai calls Richard and says "Hi Dad", then follows it up with "Yes, Dad, it's Lorelai. Who else calls you Dad?"

* ExpositoryHairstyles: Rory mentions wanting to change her hair, but it's Lorelai who ties her hair up in a bun when she is getting stricter with Rory, but comes to her "cool mom" senses with her hair down.

Masseur who bears remarmabke resemblance to Creator/AntonioBanderas: Maury.

Before that: Heidi with the closing-things problem, Trina, Sophia who sang, and Anton, who was a man and yet indistinguishable from Sophia.

** Michel hears Lorelai like the teacher in [[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} the Charlie Brown cartoon]].
** Rory's hat makes her look like Tiger Woods, [[CaptainObvious an African-American man]].

** Music/NSync swans bit Michel as a child.
** ''Literature/PeytonPlace''
** Samuel Barber, Music/JohnCage, Music/PhilipGlass.
** Music/ShaniaTwain
** Music/{{Madonna}} and Creator/SeanPenn should get back together.
** Rory wants to read ''Mencken's Chrestomathy''.
* SpoiledBrat: The mother of the brides considers her daughters this trope.

* YouLookFamiliar: The guy who set up DSL in episode one brings swans to the wedding.

* CaptainObvious: Yes, "Dad, it's Lorelai. Who else calls you Dad?"

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lorelai is upset about Emily hijacking Rory into spending the day with Richard and tells Sookie to cheer her up, but Sookie is too upset that she can't make strawberry shortcake with blueberries.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Ed and Ed.

* CaptainObvious: Yes, Dad, it's Lorelai. Who else calls you "Dad"?

* ExpositoryHairstyles: Rory mentions wanting to change her hair, but it's Lorelai who ties her hair up in a bun when she is getting stricter with Rory, but comes to her CoolMom senses with her hair down.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Rory tells Richard about her and Lorelai's plans to backpack through Europe after graduation.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: …But all they ''really'' argue about is ''bra''-size.

** A masseuse at the inn looks like Creator/AntonioBanderas.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lorelai is upset about Emily hijacking Rory into spending the day with Richard and tells Sookie to cheer her up, but Sookie is upset that she can't make strawberry shortcake with blueberries.

Rory has to pick a sport or athletic endeavor for school. Emily suggests golf. Lorelai arranges a wedding at the inn.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Drella's talk about how the music drives her and she'll play what she feels goes away when offered $100 to be a jukebox. Might just be clever bargaining.

* ShoutOut: A masseuse at the inn looks like Creator/AntonioBanderas. Michel hears Lorelai like the teacher in [[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} the Charlie Brown cartoon]]. Rory's knowledge about gold can be summarized by a quote often attributed to Creator/MarkTwain: it's a good walk spoiled. Music/{{Madonna}} and Creator/SeanPenn should get back together. Rory wants to read ''Mencken's Chrestomathy''.
* SpoiledBrat: The mother of the brides considers her daughters this trope.

Rory has to pick a sport or athletic endeavor for school. Emily suggests golf.

* Early InstallmentWeirdness: Mick is not nearly as odd as Kirk.

* ShoutOut: A masseuse at the inn looks like Creator/AntonioBanderas. Michel hears Lorelai like the teacher in [[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} the Charlie Brown cartoon]]. Rory's knowledge about gold can be summarized by a quote often attributed to Creator/MarkTwain: it's a good walk spoiled.