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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lorelai thinks "Musso Lusini" sounds too much like "Mussolini".

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lorelai thinks "Musso Lusini" sounds too much like "Mussolini"."Mussolini."
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* AdaptedOut: The ending of R&J where Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead, kills herself and is later found by their parents is cut from the school play.

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* AdaptedOut: The ending of R&J ''Romeo & Juliet'' where Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead, kills herself and is later found by their parents is cut from the school play.



** Lorelai rents Film/TheShining and Film/BringingUpBaby.

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** Lorelai rents Film/TheShining ''Film/TheShining'' and Film/BringingUpBaby.''Film/BringingUpBaby''.



** Creator/WilliamShakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet.
** Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible at her and slut-shaming her for having a child out of wedlock.

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** Creator/WilliamShakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet.
''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible ''Literature/TheBible'' at her and slut-shaming her for having a child out of wedlock.



** Lane showed her mother Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet.

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** Lane showed her mother Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet.''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''.



** Lorelai's date hasn't seen Film/AbsolutelyFabulous. He wants life to be like the Creator/MerylStreep movie where [[Film/TheRiverWild she rafts]] with Creator/KevinBacon.

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** Lorelai's date hasn't seen Film/AbsolutelyFabulous.''Film/AbsolutelyFabulous''. He wants life to be like the Creator/MerylStreep movie where [[Film/TheRiverWild she rafts]] with Creator/KevinBacon.



** Lorelai wants to buy WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls shotglasses.

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** Lorelai wants to buy WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'' shotglasses.



* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: All Sookie remembers from Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet is "Romeo, Romeo, blahblah blah blah…"

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* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: All Sookie remembers from Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' is "Romeo, Romeo, blahblah blah blah…"



* TakeThat: Lorelai thinks Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet is ''boooring''.

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* TakeThat: Lorelai thinks Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' is ''boooring''.
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* ShowWithinAShow: The ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' school play.
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** The guy Lorelai meets in night class watches Series/TheTwilightZone.

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** The guy Lorelai meets in night class watches Series/TheTwilightZone.''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
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** Lorelai's date hasn't seen Film/AbsolutelyFabulous. He wants life to be like the Creator/MerylStreep movie where she rafts with Creator/KevinBacon.
** Louise, as friar Laurence, plays him like the priest in a Music/{{Madonna}} [[Music/LikeAPrayer video]].

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** Lorelai's date hasn't seen Film/AbsolutelyFabulous. He wants life to be like the Creator/MerylStreep movie where [[Film/TheRiverWild she rafts rafts]] with Creator/KevinBacon.
** Louise, as friar Laurence, plays him like the priest [[Music/LikeAPrayer priest]] in a Music/{{Madonna}} [[Music/LikeAPrayer video]].video.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Tristan teases telling her boyfriend about their "history" by referencing the "first kiss" while he's in the room, then turning it into ''their characters''' first kiss in the first act, which is performed by a different group from their class.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Tristan teases Rory with suggesting telling her boyfriend about their "history" by referencing the "first kiss" while he's Dean is in the room, then turning it into ''their characters''' first kiss in the first act, which is performed by a different group from their class.



* CrazyJealousGuy: Lorelai jokes that Dean learning that Rory and Tristan, who are cast as Romeo and Juliet, kissed while he and Rory were broken up would cause him to murder Tristan during the death scene. Dean himsself jokes about strangling Tristan with an apron, but finds him annoying in his own right.
* DramaticIrony: Tristan and Rory kissed. Tristan and Rory get cast as Romeo and Juliet in the same play, in act five where their most talked about kiss (in the play and out) happens.

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* CrazyJealousGuy: Lorelai jokes that Dean learning that Rory and Tristan, who are cast as Romeo and Juliet, kissed while he and Rory were broken up would cause him to murder Tristan during the death scene. Dean himsself himself jokes about strangling Tristan with an apron, but finds him annoying in his own right.
right. It doesn't seem to occur to him that Tristan is actually interested in Rory.
* DramaticIrony: Tristan and Rory kissed.kissed in a previous episode. Tristan and Rory get cast as Romeo and Juliet in the same play, in act five where their most talked about kiss (in the play and out) happens.



** Luke thinks it's too bad Series/DoogieHowserMD doesn't exist. Lorelai is annoyed with being considered a female Music/JerryLeeLewis.

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** Luke thinks it's too bad Series/DoogieHowserMD doesn't exist. exist.
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Lorelai is annoyed with being considered a female Music/JerryLeeLewis.
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* StealthInsult: Act two is framed as a caveman story, and Lorelai suggests getting Luke to translate their grunting.
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* CallBack: Tristan suggests making their stage kiss special by having Rory cry, [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E16 which is what she did when they kissed at a party after she and Dean broke up]].
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** Lane showed her mother Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet.
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** Dean is very disappointed with Music/{{U2}} touring with Music/NoDoubt.
** Lorelai's date hasn't seen Film/AbsolutelyFabulous. He wants life to be like the Creator/MerylStreep movie where she rafts with Creator/KevinBacon.


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** Lorelai wants to buy WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls shotglasses.
** Luke thinks it's too bad Series/DoogieHowserMD doesn't exist. Lorelai is annoyed with being considered a female Music/JerryLeeLewis.


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* TakeThat: Lorelai thinks Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet is ''boooring''.
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* ContinuityNod:
** Lane mentions that she [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E20 took biology last year]].
** Louise thinks Paris is still mad at Tristan for [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E18 taking her out on one date then dumping her]].

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Lorelai gets an ice cream maker for a wedding gift. Rory and Paris end up doing Romeo and Juliet together.

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'''Season 2, episode 9'''

!!Run Away, Little Boy

Lorelai gets an ice cream maker for a wedding gift. She and Sookie and Rory debate the ethics of keeping it, seeing as it has no return address, but the wedding isn't happening. Rory and Paris end up doing Romeo and Juliet together.

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together with Madeline, Lousie, and Tristan. Brad is there, too.

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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Lorelai insists that her date Paul looked older in a suit.

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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Lorelai insists that her date Paul looked older in a suit.suit.
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** Creator/Shakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet.
** Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible at her.

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** Creator/Shakespeare Creator/WilliamShakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet.
** Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible at her.her and slut-shaming her for having a child out of wedlock.
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* DramaticIrony: Tristan and Rory kissed. Tristan and Rory get cast as Romeo and Juliet in the same play, in act five where their most talked about kiss happens.

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* DramaticIrony: Tristan and Rory kissed. Tristan and Rory get cast as Romeo and Juliet in the same play, in act five where their most talked about kiss (in the play and out) happens.



* SarcasmMode: The sight of Rory chatting with a member of a "rival group" puts Paris in this.

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* SarcasmMode: The sight of Rory chatting with a member of a "rival group" from their Shakespeare class puts Paris in this.this, even though they're doing different acts of the same play.



* ThePerfectionist: Mrs. Kim thinks Lane should take every subject every year to learn all there is to know about it.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Paul looked older in a suit.

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* ThePerfectionist: Mrs. Kim thinks Lane should take every subject every year to learn all there is to know about it.
everything.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Lorelai insists that her date Paul looked older in a suit.

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* ShoutOut: Lorelai rents Film/TheShining and Film/BringingUpBaby. [[Creator/MissManners Emily Post]] and [[Characters/TheApprenticeMarthaStewart Martha Stewart]] provide moral guidance for what to do with late wedding presents. Creator/Shakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet. Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible at her. The guy Lorelai meets in night class watches Series/TheTwilightZone. Louise quotes ''The Mourning Bride'' by William Congreve. Michel refuses to swear on Music/DestinysChild. Louise, as friar Laurence, plays him like the priest in a Music/{{Madonna}} [[Music/LikeAPrayer video]].

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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Lorelai rents Film/TheShining and Film/BringingUpBaby. Film/BringingUpBaby.
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[[Creator/MissManners Emily Post]] and [[Characters/TheApprenticeMarthaStewart Martha Stewart]] provide moral guidance for what to do with late wedding presents. presents.
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Creator/Shakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet. Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet.
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Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible at her. her.
**
The guy Lorelai meets in night class watches Series/TheTwilightZone. Series/TheTwilightZone.
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Louise quotes ''The Mourning Bride'' by William Congreve. Congreve.
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Michel refuses to swear on Music/DestinysChild. Music/DestinysChild.
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Louise, as friar Laurence, plays him like the priest in a Music/{{Madonna}} [[Music/LikeAPrayer video]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: Tristan teases telling her boyfriend about their "history" by referencing the "first kiss" while he's in the room, then turning it into ''their characters'' first kiss in the first act, which is acted by a different group from their class.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Tristan teases telling her boyfriend about their "history" by referencing the "first kiss" while he's in the room, then turning it into ''their characters'' characters''' first kiss in the first act, which is acted performed by a different group from their class.

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* ObliviousToLove: Lorelai refuses to take the hint of Luke building her a chuppah, but when she dates a guy ten years her junior rather than Luke she thinks it's weird that Luke is annoyed.



* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: All Sookie remembers from RomeoAndJuliet is "Romeo, Romeo, blahblah blah blah…"

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* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: All Sookie remembers from RomeoAndJuliet Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet is "Romeo, Romeo, blahblah blah blah…"

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* AdaptedOut: The ending of R&J where Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead, kills herself and is later found by their parents is cut from the school play.
* BaitAndSwitch: Tristan teases telling her boyfriend about their "history" by referencing the "first kiss" while he's in the room, then turning it into ''their characters'' first kiss in the first act, which is acted by a different group from their class.



* DramaticIrony: Tristan and Rory kissed. Tristan and Rory get cast as Romeo and Juliet in the same play, in act five where their most talked about kiss happens.



* ShoutOut: Lorelai rents Film/TheShining and Film/BringingUpBaby. [[Creator/MissManners Emily Post]] and [[Characters/TheApprenticeMarthaStewart Martha Stewart]] provide moral guidance for what to do with late wedding presents. Creator/Shakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet. Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible at her. The guy Lorelai meets in night class watches Series/TheTwilightZone. Louise quotes ''The Mourning Bride'' by William Congreve. Michel refuses to swear on Music/DestinysChild.
* ThePerfectionist: Mrs. Kim thinks Lane should take every subject every year to learn all there is to know about it.

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* ShoutOut: Lorelai rents Film/TheShining and Film/BringingUpBaby. [[Creator/MissManners Emily Post]] and [[Characters/TheApprenticeMarthaStewart Martha Stewart]] provide moral guidance for what to do with late wedding presents. Creator/Shakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet. Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible at her. The guy Lorelai meets in night class watches Series/TheTwilightZone. Louise quotes ''The Mourning Bride'' by William Congreve. Michel refuses to swear on Music/DestinysChild.
Music/DestinysChild. Louise, as friar Laurence, plays him like the priest in a Music/{{Madonna}} [[Music/LikeAPrayer video]].
* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: All Sookie remembers from RomeoAndJuliet is "Romeo, Romeo, blahblah blah blah…"
* ThePerfectionist: Mrs. Kim thinks Lane should take every subject every year to learn all there is to know about it.it.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Paul looked older in a suit.

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Lorelai gets an ice cream maker for a wedding gift

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Lorelai gets an ice cream maker for a wedding gift
gift. Rory and Paris end up doing Romeo and Juliet together.


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* CrazyJealousGuy: Lorelai jokes that Dean learning that Rory and Tristan, who are cast as Romeo and Juliet, kissed while he and Rory were broken up would cause him to murder Tristan during the death scene. Dean himsself jokes about strangling Tristan with an apron, but finds him annoying in his own right.
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Lorelai gets an ice cream maker for a wedding gift

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lorelai thinks "Musso Lusini" sounds too much like "Mussolini".
* SarcasmMode: The sight of Rory chatting with a member of a "rival group" puts Paris in this.
* ShoutOut: Lorelai rents Film/TheShining and Film/BringingUpBaby. [[Creator/MissManners Emily Post]] and [[Characters/TheApprenticeMarthaStewart Martha Stewart]] provide moral guidance for what to do with late wedding presents. Creator/Shakespeare didn't intend for his plays to be studied in classrooms by people who don't particularly care about the fate of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, so it makes sense to have Rory's English class perform Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet. Lorelai's relative proves he didn't send her an expensive wedding gift by quoting Literature/TheBible at her. The guy Lorelai meets in night class watches Series/TheTwilightZone. Louise quotes ''The Mourning Bride'' by William Congreve. Michel refuses to swear on Music/DestinysChild.
* ThePerfectionist: Mrs. Kim thinks Lane should take every subject every year to learn all there is to know about it.

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