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** Series/AllInTheFamily had a RunningGag of Archie pretending to hang himself, and Lorelai can sympathize.

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** Series/AllInTheFamily ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' had a RunningGag of Archie pretending to hang himself, and Lorelai can sympathize.



** Michel wants to live forever, like on Film/{{Fame}}.

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** Michel wants to live forever, like on Film/{{Fame}}.''Film/{{Fame}}''.



** Max refers to Lorelai as Film/{{Cujo}} after she barks in excitement at the 1920's wedding ring.

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** Max refers to Lorelai as Film/{{Cujo}} ''Film/{{Cujo}}'' after she barks in excitement at the 1920's wedding ring.



** Richard loans Rory ''Mencken's Chrestomathy'' by Alan Mencken.

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** Richard loans Rory ''Mencken's Chrestomathy'' by Alan Mencken.Creator/HLMencken.



** Since Richard was ten he wanted to watch Theatre/LaTraviata at the La Scala opera house.

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** Since Richard was ten he wanted to watch Theatre/LaTraviata ''Theatre/LaTraviata'' at the La Scala opera house.
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* TheUnfavorite: Lorelai points out that she's her parents' least favorite daughter. She's their only daughter, unless you consider granddaighter a kind of daughter. Lorelai even explains her parents behavior by calling Rory "the daughter they didn't have".
* WesternZodiac: The kiosk stand guy tells Lorelai that it's a bad month for Leos.

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* TheUnfavorite: Lorelai points out that she's her parents' least favorite daughter. She's their only daughter, unless you consider granddaighter granddaughter a kind of daughter. Lorelai even explains her parents parents' behavior by calling Rory "the daughter they didn't have".
* WesternZodiac: The Bootsy, the kiosk stand guy guy, tells Lorelai that it's a bad month for Leos.
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* HandshakeRefusal: Richard refuses ro shake Dean's hand.

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* HandshakeRefusal: Richard refuses ro to shake Dean's hand.
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Maid of the week: Antonia, who actually works there for two Friday noght dinners.

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Maid of the week: Antonia, who actually works there for two Friday noght night dinners.
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• beefaroni

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beefaroni
beefaroni (made with not-really-beef)
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Maid of the week: Antonia, who actually works there for two dinners.

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Maid of the week: Antonia, who actually works there for two Friday noght dinners.
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-->'''Lorelai:''' Do I look like a timer? Silly rabbit…\\
'''Rory:''' …timers are for kids.
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* JustAFleshWound: A lobster proves its freshness to Sookie by pinching her hand so hard she bleeds. People rush to her aid, but she assures them she's an excellent clotter so they don't have to worry.


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* NotAgain: Jackson sees Sookie's bandage and asks if she's been making cutlets again.
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** Bootsy informs Lorelai that Ivana Trump gets a gland from a pig's head injected into her butt twice a year to keep her young. Lorelai hopes she's not kosher.
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* LiteralMinded: Rory wants Lorelai to walk down the aisle carrying a bouquet of something that smells really good. Lorelai suggests pot roast.
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* HistoryRepeats: Discussed; when Lorelai is trying to comfort Rory after she and Richard got into an argument over Dean, she points out when Richard saw Dean, he was afraid Rory was making the same mistake Lorelai had made before, and lashed out at Rory because of this.
* NotSoAboveItAll: When Emily is taking drink orders, Lorelai asks her to get a beer for Dean, which he's horrified by, and Rory also asks for a beer. Lorelai and Rory both admit they were having some fun with Dean, and Emily admits she was laughing at Dean about it as well.
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He only cut his calories.


* HumanPopsicle: Michel has signed up to be buried in liquid nitrogen.

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Foods:\\
• roquefort canapés\\
• live lobsters\\
• brussel sprouts in garlic oil\\
• beefaroni



* CaptainObvious: Emily heard through the grapevine that Rory finished in the top three percent of her class, and can't figure out how Lorelai could already know that.
-->'''Emily:''' Who do you know at Chilton?
-->'''Lorelai:''' (pointing) Rory.
*** Sookie checks that it is Max she's getting married to when Lorelai shares the news with her.

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* CaptainObvious: CaptainObvious:
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Emily heard through the grapevine that Rory finished in the top three percent of her class, and can't figure out how Lorelai could already know that.
-->'''Emily:''' --->'''Emily:''' Who do you know at Chilton?
-->'''Lorelai:''' (pointing) --->'''Lorelai:''' ''(pointing)'' Rory.
*** ** Sookie checks that it is Max she's getting married to when Lorelai shares the news with her.her.
* ContinuityNod: Dean mentions that the first time he met Emily was [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E09 on the night of the dance]].
* EmbarrassingFirstName:
** Subverted with Jackson's cousin Bonbon, as that's his real name.
** Subverted and downplayed with Lane's Korean name, Hyun Yung.



** ''The [[Creator/JoanRivers Joan]] and Melissa Rivers Story''

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** Lorelai's wedding ring was supposedly ripped off [[Creator/FScottFitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald's]] cold dead hand.
** They watch
''The [[Creator/JoanRivers Joan]] and Melissa Rivers Story''Story'' on Dean's first movie night back.

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** Lorelai begs Rory to talk about "[[Series/{{Jeopardy}} something other than the marriage proposal for 200, Alex]]".



** Max refers to Lorelai as Film/{{Cujo}} after she barks in excitement at the 20's wedding ring.

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** Max refers to Lorelai as Film/{{Cujo}} after she barks in excitement at the 20's 1920's wedding ring.

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Max har proposed to Lorelai with a thousand yellow daisies. Lane fears she's getting shipped off to Korea permanently instead of just for the summer. Rory brings Dean to a Friday night dinner. Lorelai hesitates to tell her parents about her wedding.

Maide of the week: Antonia

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'''Season 2, episode 1'''

!!Sadie Sadie

Max har has proposed to Lorelai with a thousand yellow daisies. Lane fears she's getting shipped off to Korea permanently instead of just for the summer. We learn that Lane's Korean name is Hyung Yung. Rory brings Dean to a Friday night dinner. Lorelai hesitates to tell her parents about her wedding.

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wedding, but Sookie, being Sookie, forgets to ask and calls Emily to ask her to clear her schedule for Lorelai and Max's surprise birthday shower. Upset and saddened, Emily instructs Richard to call Rory and apologize, lest when she decides to get married she won't tell them either.

Maid
of the week: Antonia
Antonia, who actually works there for two dinners.



* AnnoyingBackgroundEvent: The entire town gradually gathers behind Lorelai and Rory as they walk to the diner, and then they press their faces against the window to see her tell Luke about Max's proposal.



* HandshakeRefusal: Richard refuses ro shake Dean's hand.



* SarcasmMode: The mode Emily enters when someone comments on the hugeness of her house.



** J. Edgar Hoover
** Mmichel wants to live forever, like on Film/{{Fame}}.

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** J. Lane feels her predicament is like the Creator/SallyField movie ''Not Without My Daughter''.
** Lorelai thinks Luke can't be interested in her as when she called him [[Film/GrizzlyPark Ranger Bob]] he didn't find it amusing.
** Lorelai calls Emily "J.
Edgar Hoover
Hoover".
** Mmichel Michel wants to live forever, like on Film/{{Fame}}.



** Zelda Fitzgerald

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** Zelda FitzgeraldMax refers to Lorelai as Film/{{Cujo}} after she barks in excitement at the 20's wedding ring.
** Rory figures Music/{{Cher}} and [[Music/TheAllmanBrothers Gregg Allman]] are in favor of breakups.



** Lorelai figures Creator/StephenHawking isn't bad at math.



* TitleDrop: Sookie points out that Lorelai will be a "Sadie, Sadie, married lady".
* TheUnfavorite: Lorelai points out that she's her parents' least favorite daughter.

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* TitleDrop: TitleDrop:
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Sookie points out that Lorelai will be a "Sadie, Sadie, married lady".
** Lorelai tells Dean that by being verbally abused by Richard, he's officially become a Gilmore Girl.
* TheUnfavorite: Lorelai points out that she's her parents' least favorite daughter. She's their only daughter, unless you consider granddaighter a kind of daughter. Lorelai even explains her parents behavior by calling Rory "the daughter they didn't have".
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** Film/{{Fame}}

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** Film/{{Fame}}Mmichel wants to live forever, like on Film/{{Fame}}.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Lane is worried about being sent to Korea permanently, even though she's seventeen.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Lane is worried about being sent to Korea permanently, even though she's seventeen. Granted, the age of majority in South Korea is nineteen, but being an American she could probably convince the US to let her come back when she turned eighteen.



** Sookie confirms that it is Max she's getting married to when Lorelai shares the news with her.

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** *** Sookie confirms checks that it is Max she's getting married to when Lorelai shares the news with her.



** Series/AllInTheFamily had a RunningGag of Archie pretending to hang himself, and Lorelai can sympathize all of a sudden.

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** Series/AllInTheFamily had a RunningGag of Archie pretending to hang himself, and Lorelai can sympathize all of a sudden.sympathize.

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* HumanPopsickle: Michel has signed up to be buried in liquid nitrogen.

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* HumanPopsickle: HumanPopsicle: Michel has signed up to be buried in liquid nitrogen.


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* TheUnfavorite: Lorelai points out that she's her parents' least favorite daughter.
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Maide of the week: Antonia


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* BlatantLies: Rory claims the sound of her mother yapping is just a Connecticut jackal that comes into the house sometimes.


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* HumanPopsickle: Michel has signed up to be buried in liquid nitrogen.


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** Lorelai wants the dress Stephanie Seymour wore in the Music/GunsNRoses video.
** Zelda Fitzgerald
** ''The [[Creator/JoanRivers Joan]] and Melissa Rivers Story''


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** Since Richard was ten he wanted to watch Theatre/LaTraviata at the La Scala opera house.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Directly referenced by Lorelai when Rory imagines she knows when dinner's ready.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Lane is worried about being sent to Korea permanently, but it's the year she turns seventeen.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Lane is worried about being sent to Korea permanently, but it's even though she's seventeen.
* BilingualBonus: Sookie has a lot of Spanish-speaking staff at
the year she turns seventeen.inn.



* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Rory points out that everyone knows Luke has a thing for Lorelai. Everyone except Lorelai, at least.



* ProductPlacement: Twinkies.

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* ProductPlacement: Twinkies.Twinkies



* ShoutOut: Richard loans Rory ''Mencken's Chrestomathy'' by Alan Mencken.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Rory wants Lorelai to walk down the aisle to Music/FrankSinatra.
** Series/AllInTheFamily had a RunningGag of Archie pretending to hang himself, and Lorelai can sympathize all of a sudden.
** J. Edgar Hoover
** Film/{{Fame}}
**
Richard loans Rory ''Mencken's Chrestomathy'' by Alan Mencken.



* WesternZodiac: The kiosk stand guy tells Lorelai that it's a bad month for Leos.

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* WesternZodiac: The kiosk stand guy tells Lorelai that it's a bad month for Leos.Leos.
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* RuleOfThree: Max narrows it down to three rings.
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* HeelRealization: When Sookie accidentally spills the beans about the wedding, Emily realizes they might end up alienating Rory, too, by not being accepting of her boyfriend.

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Max har proposed to Lorelai with a thousand yellow daisies. Lane fears she's getting shipped off to Korea permanently instead of just for the summer.

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Max har proposed to Lorelai with a thousand yellow daisies. Lane fears she's getting shipped off to Korea permanently instead of just for the summer.
summer. Rory brings Dean to a Friday night dinner. Lorelai hesitates to tell her parents about her wedding.



* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Lane is worried about being sent to Korea permanently, but it's the year she turns seventeen.



** Sookie confirms that it is Max she's getting married to when Lorelai shares the news with her.
* ProductPlacement: Twinkies.



* TitleDrop: Sookie points out that Lorelai will be a "Sadie, Sadie, married lady".

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* ShoutOut: Richard loans Rory ''Mencken's Chrestomathy'' by Alan Mencken.
* TitleDrop: Sookie points out that Lorelai will be a "Sadie, Sadie, married lady".lady".
* WesternZodiac: The kiosk stand guy tells Lorelai that it's a bad month for Leos.
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Max har proposed to Lorelai with a thousand yellow daisies. Lane fears she's getting shipped off to Korea permanently instead of just for the summer.

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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Max ordered a thousand yellow daisies. A ''thousand''. Take whatever's the price for a yellow daisy. That's how many thousand dollars Max, a high school teacher, spent on a proposal.
* CaptainObvious: Emily heard through the grapevine that Rory finished in the top three percent of her class, and can't figure out how Lorelai could already know that.
-->'''Emily:''' Who do you know at Chilton?
-->'''Lorelai:''' (pointing) Rory.
* QuittingToGetMarried: Lorelai is offended when Luke suggests she's going to do this, [[SarcasmMode but mentions that she'll ask her dad how many goats she's worth]].
* ShipperOnDeck: Everyone in town who's been shipping Luke and Lorelai wants to see her tell him that Max proposed.
* TitleDrop: Sookie points out that Lorelai will be a "Sadie, Sadie, married lady".

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