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** Dream!Luke calls Dream!Lorelai's twins "[[Music/SidVicious Sid]] and Nancy."

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** Dream!Luke calls Dream!Lorelai's twins "[[Music/SidVicious Sid]] and Nancy."" She renames them [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb Leopold and Loeb.]]

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Lorelai meets Rory at the airport, having bought her several Hartfort, Connecticut souvenirs to pass time, and discovered that the government frowns on people feeding the bomb dogs. Rory discovers that Jess has found a girlfriend. Lorelai tells her parents that she and Chris have broken up because Sherrie is pregnant. Lorelai and Luke make up by not making up, but just by Lorelai needing his particular coffee.

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Lorelai meets Rory at the airport, having bought her several Hartfort, Hartford, Connecticut souvenirs to pass time, and discovered that the government frowns on people feeding the bomb dogs. Rory discovers that Jess has found a girlfriend. Lorelai tells her parents that she and Chris have broken up because Sherrie Sherry is pregnant. Lorelai and Luke make up by not making up, but just by Lorelai needing his particular coffee.



* BrickJoke: Paris worries that Jamie is too cheap to buy a zagat. When he knocks on the door, he tells her they're going to a good Italian restaurant – at least according to the zagat guide.

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* BrickJoke: Paris worries that Jamie is too cheap to buy a zagat. Zagat guide. When he knocks on the door, he tells her they're going to a good Italian restaurant – at least according to the zagat guide.Zagat.



** Then she subverts it by reinterpeting it as Lorelai being jealous of Sherry having Chris's second child.

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** Then she subverts it by reinterpeting re-interpreting it as Lorelai being jealous of Sherry having Chris's second child.



* HistoryRepeats: Chris accidentally knocked someone up again and Richard claims he is going to marry Sherry like he tried to with Lorelai when they were sixteen.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Dream!Luke says he gives up on getting Lorelai to tone down her coffee addiction, then instantly begs her to stop drinking so much coffee.

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* HistoryRepeats: Chris accidentally knocked someone up again and Richard claims he is going to marry Sherry like he tried to with Lorelai when they were sixteen.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Dream!Luke In Lorelai's dream, Luke says he gives up on getting Lorelai to tone down her coffee addiction, then instantly begs her to stop drinking so much coffee.



** In her dream, Lorelai wanted to name her twins Sid and Nancy, but changes her mind and wants to name them Leopold and Loeb instead.

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** In her dream, Lorelai wanted to name her twins Sid and Nancy, but changes her mind and wants to name them [[BlackComedy Leopold and Loeb Loeb]] instead.



** Kirk's hay-based line of skincare products, "hay there". He claims he averted this trope by not naming it "grass there".

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** Kirk's hay-based line of skincare products, "hay there". there." He claims he averted this trope by not naming it "grass there".there."



** Dream!Luke calls Dream!Lorelai's twins "[[Music/SidVicious Sid]] and Nancy".

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** Dream!Luke calls Dream!Lorelai's twins "[[Music/SidVicious Sid]] and Nancy".Nancy."



** Paris thinks it's bad for the US international image that the Secretary of Treasury travels around with [[Music/{{U2}} Bono]].
** She says you might as well have Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr hook up with Colin Powell.

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** Paris thinks it's bad for the US international image that the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem Secretary of Treasury the Treasury]] travels around with [[Music/{{U2}} Bono]].
** She says you might as well have Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr hook up with Colin Powell.UsefulNotes/ColinPowell.



** Paris worries that Jamie won't take her to a restaurant recommended by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagat Zagat.]]



** Quite literally, to the [[Literature/DivineSecretsOfTheYaYaSisterhood ya-ya sisters]].

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** Quite literally, to the [[Literature/DivineSecretsOfTheYaYaSisterhood ya-ya Ya-Ya sisters]].



** Lorelai thinks you can get the ''Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer'' song out of your head by replacing it with the Ride/ItsASmallWorld song.

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** Lorelai thinks you can get the ''Lazy [[Music/NatKingCole "Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer'' Summer"]] song out of your head by replacing it with the Ride/ItsASmallWorld "Ride/ItsASmallWorld" song.

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* IncrediblyLamePun: Kirk's hay-based line of skincare products, "hay there". He claims he averted this trope by not naming it "grass there".



** Kirk's hay-based line of skincare products, "hay there". He claims he averted this trope by not naming it "grass there".



* {{Slapstick}}: Off-screen, Taylor slipped on banana peel and broke his leg.

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* {{Slapstick}}: Off-screen, Taylor slipped on a banana peel and broke his leg.

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** Paris greatest fear is winding up in a coma while single and being unable to stop Creator/GlennClose from playing her in a movie.

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** Paris Paris's greatest fear is winding up in a coma while single and being unable to stop Creator/GlennClose from playing her in a movie.


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* TitleDrop: The quartet sings "Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" at the festival of the same name. Lorelai drops the title a few times in the process of complaining that it's [[{{Earworm}} stuck in her brain]].

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* MeaningfulRename: Lorelai renames herself Mimi and talks about herself.

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* MeaningfulRename: MeaningfulRename:
** In her dream, Lorelai wanted to name her twins Sid and Nancy, but changes her mind and wants to name them Leopold and Loeb instead.
** Trying to get back into real Luke's good graces,
Lorelai renames herself Mimi and talks about herself.
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** Lorelai tells Emily that Rory comes back a day later than she does, which she almost gets caught for, but when she tells Rory about it she claims that she hates lying to her own parents, which no one buys.

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** Subverted when Lorelai tells Emily that Rory comes back a day later than she does, which she almost gets caught for, but played straight when she tells Rory about it she claims that she hates lying to her own parents, which no one buys.



* TheFatalist: Paris assumes Jamie is taking her to an unrated restaurant and from there figures the restaurant is probably just a front for a cocaine laundering ring, and that in any case he's probably only taking her on a date because he made a bet with Terry Lott. And then Jamie knocks on the door.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Averted. Emily tries to give Lorelai a premade scone mix to bake, but Lorelai insists she can't.

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* TheFatalist: Paris assumes Jamie is taking her to an unrated restaurant and from there figures the restaurant is probably just a front for a cocaine laundering ring, and that in any case he's probably only taking her on a date because he made a bet with Terry Lott. And then Jamie knocks on the door.
Lott.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Averted. Subverted. Emily tries to give Lorelai a premade pre-made scone mix to bake, but Lorelai insists she can't.can't even cook something that just requires adding water and putting it in the oven.

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris, who has a nightmare that she's getting impeached. Jamie asks Paris out on a date. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Kirk somehow created a weapon of mass destruction when he tried to put together a skincare product.

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris, who has a nightmare that she's getting impeached.impeached over a sex scandal. Jamie asks Paris out on a date. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Kirk somehow created a weapon of mass destruction when he tried to put together a skincare product.



* NoYou: When Lorelai claims that Rory can't change clothes in a minute, Rory tells her not to project.
-->'''Rory:''' Do not judge ''me'' by your own standards.



* RealMenWearPink: Zigzagged. Subverted with Sookie messing up the aesthetic of her house to make it look more masculine, expecting Jackson to prefer it to the more feminine look it had previously. Inverted by her claiming to like the masculine look. Played straight with Jackson prefering the old look.
* RunningGag: Sookie deciding various things are masculine.

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* RealMenWearPink: Zigzagged. Subverted with Defied by Sookie messing up with the aesthetic aesthetics of her house to make it look more masculine, expecting Jackson to prefer it to the more feminine look it had previously. Inverted by her claiming to like the masculine look. Played straight with Jackson prefering preferring the old look.
* RunningGag: Sookie deciding trying to determine whether various things are masculine.
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** Sookie asks Lorelai's opinion on the masculinity of a figurine. Lorelai thinks it's an Creator/OscarWilde sort of macho.
** Mrs. Kim claims some of her antiques belonged to [[UsefulNotes/WilliamTecumsehSherman General Sherman]], a man famous for burning down Atlanta.
** Sookie wants to buy a stuffed trout, which Lorelai names [[UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky Leon Troutsky]].

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** Luke subverts this trope by saying "I'll alert the media" without the accent from ''Albert'', as Lorelai lampshades.

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** Luke Dream!Luke subverts this trope by saying "I'll alert the media" without the accent from ''Albert'', as Lorelai lampshades.Dream!Lorelai lampshades.
** Dream!Luke calls Dream!Lorelai's twins "[[Music/SidVicious Sid]] and Nancy".

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* BrickJoke: Paris worries that Jamie is too cheap to buy a zagat. When he knocks on the door, he tells her they're going to a good Italian restaurant – at least according to the zagat guide.



* CompanionCube: Rory comes home and tells the things in her house she missed them. Lorelai comments that the ottoman is too much of a snob to miss her back, seeing as he only likes the magazine rack.
* DearJohnLetter: Rory tries to write Jess one, but is unable to.



* TheFatalist: Paris assumes Jamie is taking her to an unrated restaurant and from there figures the restaurant is probably just a front for a cocaine laundering ring, and that in any case he's probably only taking her on a date because he made a bet with Terry Lott. And then Jamie knocks on the door.



* HiddenDepths: Kirk, who usually does "blue collar" work, also has enough knowledge of chemistry to make skincare products. Not very good ones, as he later warns Lorelai, but still something that passes for lotion.



* MeaningfulRename: Lorelai renames herself Mimi and talks about herself.



* {{Pun}}: Rory claims Lorelai's calling her on being interested in Jess while dating Dean is not fair, but Lorelai retorts that it is the fairest, in fact, the Snow White of fair.

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* {{Pun}}: {{Pun}}:
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Rory claims Lorelai's calling her on being interested in Jess while dating Dean is not fair, but Lorelai retorts that it is the fairest, in fact, the Snow White of fair.fair.
** Sookie wants to buy an antique stuffed trout which Lorelai names Troutski.



* RunningGag: Sookie deciding various things are masculine.



** Lorelai insists her criticism of Rory's treatment of Dean "the Literature/SnowWhite of fair".

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** Lorelai insists her criticism of Rory's treatment of Dean is "the Literature/SnowWhite of fair".fair".
** Lorelai fancies herself Comicbook/WonderWoman.
** Lorelai thinks you can get the ''Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer'' song out of your head by replacing it with the Ride/ItsASmallWorld song.
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* {{Slapstick}}: Off-screen, Taylor slipped on banana peel and broke his leg.
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** Creator/OscarWilde

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris, who has a nightmare that she's getting impeached. Jamie asks Paris out on a date. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Kirk somehow created a weapon of mass destruction when he tried to put together a skincare product. Jess has found a girlfriend.

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris, who has a nightmare that she's getting impeached. Jamie asks Paris out on a date. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Kirk somehow created a weapon of mass destruction when he tried to put together a skincare product. product.

Lorelai meets Rory at the airport, having bought her several Hartfort, Connecticut souvenirs to pass time, and discovered that the government frowns on people feeding the bomb dogs. Rory discovers that
Jess has found a girlfriend.
girlfriend. Lorelai tells her parents that she and Chris have broken up because Sherrie is pregnant. Lorelai and Luke make up by not making up, but just by Lorelai needing his particular coffee.



* BlatantLies: Lorelai tells Emily that Rory comes back a day later than she does, which she almost gets caught for, but when she tells Rory about it she claims that she hates lying to her own parents, which no one buys.

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* BlatantLies: BlatantLies:
**
Lorelai tells Emily that Rory comes back a day later than she does, which she almost gets caught for, but when she tells Rory about it she claims that she hates lying to her own parents, which no one buys.buys.
** Lorelai claims she didn't take Rory's pillow (or comforter) when Rory discovers that they're not in her room.



* CrazyCatLady: Rory suggests this contingency for Paris in case she never finds a man.



* FeminineWomenCanCook: Averted. Emily tries to give Lorelai a premade scone mix to bake, but Lorelai insists she can't.



* IncrediblyLamePun: Kirk's hay-based line of skincare products, "hay there".

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* IncrediblyLamePun: Kirk's hay-based line of skincare products, "hay there". He claims he averted this trope by not naming it "grass there".



** Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr
** Creator/GlennClose

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** Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr
Luke subverts this trope by saying "I'll alert the media" without the accent from ''Albert'', as Lorelai lampshades.
** Creator/GlennCloseParis quotes UsefulNotes/BillClinton in her sleep, proving that she can quote Bill Clinton in her sleep.
** Paris thinks it's bad for the US international image that the Secretary of Treasury travels around with [[Music/{{U2}} Bono]].
** She says you might as well have Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr hook up with Colin Powell.
** Paris greatest fear is winding up in a coma while single and being unable to stop Creator/GlennClose from playing her in a movie.



** Snow White
* StopBeingStereotypical: Subverted, as Sookie feels that her house is too pink and not "butch" enough ''for Jackson'', whereas Jackson thinks it's nice just as it is.

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--->'''Rory:''' Solidarity, sister.
--->'''Lorelai:''' Ya ya!
** Snow White
Lorelai insists her criticism of Rory's treatment of Dean "the Literature/SnowWhite of fair".
* StopBeingStereotypical: Subverted, as Sookie feels that her house is too pink and not "butch" enough ''for Jackson'', whereas Jackson thinks it's nice just as it is. She wants to macho the place up by painting the living room mahogany and the bedroom midnight blue.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Paris thinks it's a sad coincidence that she just happens to catch all the most interesting politicians right before they need to use the bathroom.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Paris thinks it's a sad coincidence that she just happens to catch all the most interesting politicians right before they need to use the bathroom.



* Pun: Rory claims Lorelai's calling her on being interested in Jess while dating Dean is not fair, but Lorelai retorts that it is the fairest, in fact, the Snow White of fair.

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* Pun: {{Pun}}: Rory claims Lorelai's calling her on being interested in Jess while dating Dean is not fair, but Lorelai retorts that it is the fairest, in fact, the Snow White of fair.

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!!Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days



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** The title is a reference to the song and album by Music/NatKingCole.

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* NoSocialSkills: Paris

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* NoSocialSkills: ParisParis, who gets asked out on a date and accepts without noticing, all while avoiding eye contact and eating.
* Pun: Rory claims Lorelai's calling her on being interested in Jess while dating Dean is not fair, but Lorelai retorts that it is the fairest, in fact, the Snow White of fair.



**

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris, who has a nightmare that she's getting impeached. Jamie asks Paris out on a date. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Jess has found a girlfriend.

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris, who has a nightmare that she's getting impeached. Jamie asks Paris out on a date. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Kirk somehow created a weapon of mass destruction when he tried to put together a skincare product. Jess has found a girlfriend.



* BlatantLies: Lorelai tells Emily that Rory comes back a day later than she does

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* BlatantLies: Lorelai tells Emily that Rory comes back a day later than she doesdoes, which she almost gets caught for, but when she tells Rory about it she claims that she hates lying to her own parents, which no one buys.
* CaptainObvious: Emily points out that Lorelai and Christopher aren't in high school anymore.



* HistoryRepeats: Chris accidentally knocked someone up again and Richard claims he is going to marry Sherry like he tried to with Lorelai when they were sixteen.



* NoSocialSkills: Paris.

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* NoSocialSkills: Paris.Paris
* RealMenWearPink: Zigzagged. Subverted with Sookie messing up the aesthetic of her house to make it look more masculine, expecting Jackson to prefer it to the more feminine look it had previously. Inverted by her claiming to like the masculine look. Played straight with Jackson prefering the old look.


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** Snow White
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Rory is in D.C. with Paris. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Jess has found a girlfriend.

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris.Paris, who has a nightmare that she's getting impeached. Jamie asks Paris out on a date. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Jess has found a girlfriend.



* BlatantLies: Lorelai tells Emily that Rory comes back a day later than she does



* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Rory initially thinks Lorelai's dream about being married to Luke and having his twins means that she wants to be married to Luke and have his twins.
** Then she subverts it by reinterpeting it as Lorelai being jealous of Sherry having Chris's second child.



* InformedJudaism: Sookie serves delicious kosher bacon, prompting Lorelai to declare she is ''so'' Jewish.
* MundaneSolution: Kirk figures the reason cows don't get wrinkled is that they eat hay.



* ShoutOut: Quite literally, to the [[Literature/DivineSecretsOfTheYaYaSisterhood ya-ya sisters]].

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr
** Creator/GlennClose
** Creator/OscarWilde
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Quite literally, to the [[Literature/DivineSecretsOfTheYaYaSisterhood ya-ya sisters]].



* WhatTheHellHero: Lorelai calls Rory out for holding on to Dean when she's clearly interested in Jess.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Lorelai calls Rory out for holding on to Dean when she's clearly interested in Jess.Jess.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: Subverted, as Sookie feels that he house is too pink and not "butch" enough ''for Jackson'', whereas Jackson thinks it's nice just as it is.

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* StopBeingStereotypical: Subverted, as Sookie feels that he her house is too pink and not "butch" enough ''for Jackson'', whereas Jackson thinks it's nice just as it is.

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy.

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Rory is in D.C. with Paris. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. \n Jess has found a girlfriend.



* StopBeingStereotypical: Subverted, as Sookie feels that he house is too pink and not "butch" enough ''for Jackson'', whereas Jackson thinks it's nice just as it is.

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* NoSocialSkills: Paris.
* SarcasmMode: Lorelai spends so much time in this mode that Taylor refuses to accept her genuine praise.
* ShoutOut: Quite literally, to the [[Literature/DivineSecretsOfTheYaYaSisterhood ya-ya sisters]].
* StopBeingStereotypical: Subverted, as Sookie feels that he house is too pink and not "butch" enough ''for Jackson'', whereas Jackson thinks it's nice just as it is.is.
* WhatTheHellHero: Lorelai calls Rory out for holding on to Dean when she's clearly interested in Jess.
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Rory is in D.C. with Paris. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy.

!!Provides examples of:
* AllJustADream: Lorelai living with Luke and being pregnant with his twins.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Paris thinks it's a sad coincidence that she just happens to catch all the most interesting politicians right before they need to use the bathroom.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Dream!Luke says he gives up on getting Lorelai to tone down her coffee addiction, then instantly begs her to stop drinking so much coffee.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Kirk's hay-based line of skincare products, "hay there".
* MustHaveCoffee: Even in her dreams, Lorelai has caffeine cravings.
* StopBeingStereotypical: Subverted, as Sookie feels that he house is too pink and not "butch" enough ''for Jackson'', whereas Jackson thinks it's nice just as it is.

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