History Recap / GilmoreGirlsS03E15

Taylor reserves several rooms at the Independence inn for a Doose family reunion. Trix is coming to visit again. Rory waits for Jess to call an entire evening. Lane's band practices psalms on el-guitar for a gig at the Kim house.

** Taylor tries to row his way out of having accidentally admitted that he once scored a goal by having the puck riccochet off his helmet and into the goal by saying he was joking.

* CallBack: Rory realizing she does in fact enjoy several aspects of the sporting endeavor -- just not the sport itself -- calls back to [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E03 Application Anciety]], where she first claimed this.

** Subverted. Luke jokes that Taylor scored a hockey goal by having the puck hit his head and riccochet into the goal. Taylor replies that it still counts.

** Trix thinks ''Art/{{Guernica}}'' was [[Creator/PabloPicasso Picasso]] being "obsessed with the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar", which took place in his home country when he was in his fifties.

* ProductPlacement: Richard muses that maybe Trix's boyfriend was wearing a Nikes with his purple tracksuit. Lorelai has a StrangeMindsThinkAlike moment realizing that he is referring to the slogan "Just do it".

** Taylor admits that his days as a hockey player were not the plot of Film/{{Hoosiers}}.

** Dave runs over a mile to see Lane for half a minute at the hockey game, and Rory warns Lane about it turning into Theatre/{{Othello}}.

** Emily caught some of Film/LoveInTheAfternoon the other day, as a metaphor for Trix making out with a man.

* SmurfettePrinciple: Inverted, as Lane calls Young Chui "the male me", seeing as he is secretly into a Japanese girl named Karen while his parents set him up with nice Korean girls, just like she is secretly dating a white guy while her parents try to set her up with Korean future doctors.
* StylisticSuck: Zach thinks the hymn ''A Mighty Fortress Is Our God'' has too much SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to be rock'n roll.

* SelfDeprecation: Lorelai points out that she beat a dead horse with {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s about Hamburgers and Hamburg when Emily had a maid from that part of Germany.

** Lorelai suggests that people like feminist writer Susan Faludi were created by circumstances like having first boyfriends like Brian Hutchins, Lorelai's seventh grade boyfriend who avoided her between convincing her to be his girlfriend and tenth grade when he tried to sell her weed.

** Trix thinks ''Guernica'' was Picasso being "obsessed with the Spanish civil war", which took place in his home country when he was in his fifties.

* LiteralMinded:
** Kirk comments the hockey game in such a way that he narrates where the puck is at all times.
** When Rory rhetorically asks who thinks she's a snob for going to Chilton, Lane lists a few names.

* BlatantLies: Rory fakes an illness that is French and makes her limp and be unable to feed herself to get her mother out of a conversation with Taylor. Subverted since Taylor buys it and feels sorry for Rory having to run.

** Richard thinks the visual of Emily hiding in the bushes is like a play by [[Creator/Moliere Molière.]]

** Trix has friends over to look at Picasso slides.

** Richard thinks the visual of Emily hiding in the bushes is like a play by Molière.

* Neologism: Lane asks what Rory is doing at the hockey match, and Rory tells her she's hockeying. Lane says that that's not a word.

* ProductPlacement: Nike. Richard muses that maybe Trix's boyfriend was wearing a Nike purple tracksuit. Lorelai has a StrangeMindsThinkAlike moment realizing that he is referring to the slogan "Just do it".

* FeeFiFauxPas: Mocked when Rory wonders why Lindsay is so awkward around her, and Lane jokes that she really put her foot in it by asking Lindsay how she was.

** When Rory retorically asks who thinks she's a snob for going to Chilton, Lane lists a few names.

* ProductPlacement: Nike.

* BuffySpeak: Lane asks what Rory is doing at the hockey match, and Rory tells her she's hockeying.

* HypocriticalHumor: After spending a long time repeating and re-repeating his relatives' hotel room needs to her in the diner, Taylor tells Lorelai to hurry with her coffe refill as he hasn't got all day.
* LiteralMinded: Kirk comments the hockey game in such a way that he narrates where the puck is at all times.

* ProductPlacement: Nike

* SmurfettePrinciple: Inverted, as Lane calls Young Chui "the male me", seeing as he is secretly into a Japanese girl named Karen while his parents set him up with nice Korean girls.

* StylisticSuck:
** Zach thinks the hymn ''A Mighty Fortress Is Our God'' has too much SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to be rock'n roll.
** Babette is HollywoodTonedeaf singing ''Star-Spangled Banner''.

* LiteralMinded: Kirk comments the hockey game in such a way that he narrated where the puck is at all times.

Taylor reserves several rooms at the Independence inn for a Doose family reunion. Trish is coming to visit again. Rory waits for Jess to call an entire evening. Lane's band practises psalms on el-guitar for a gig at the Kim house.

Rory goes to a hockey game where Dean plays and runs into a girl named Lindsay, not yet knowing she's Dean's new girlfriend. Jess tries to visit Rory and refuses to believe she's at the hockey game. Rory learns that Dean has a new girlfriend. Emily rats Trish out about having a boyfriend.

** Trish thinks ''Guernica'' was Picasso being "obsessed with the Spanish civil war", which took place in his home country when he was in his fifties.

* SelfDeprecation: Lorelai points out that she beat a dead horse with IncrediblyLamePun|s about Hamburgers and Hamburg.

** Music/TheBeachBoys gave lurical advice that Lorelai quotes to Jess. Something about not leaving your best girl home at night.
** Trish has friends over to look at Picasso slides.
** Emily caught some of Film/LoveInTheAfternoon the other day, as a metaphor for Trish making out with a man.

Rory goes to a hockey game where Dean plays and runs into a girl named Lindsay, not yet knowing she's Dean's new girlfriend. Jess tries to visit Rory and refuses to believe she's at the hockey game.

** Trish thinks ''Guernica'' was Picasso being "obsessed with the Spanish civil war".

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Subverted. Luke jokes that Taylor scored a hockey goal by having the puck hit his head and riccochet into the goal. Taylor replies that it still counts.

** Zach thinks the hymn ''A Mighty Fortress I Our God'' has too much SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to be rock'n roll.

* ShoutOut: Trish has friends over to look at Picasso slides.

** Babette is HollywoodTonedeaf singing ''Star-Spangled Banner''.

Taylor reserves several rooms at the Dragonfly for a Doose family reunion. Trish is coming to visit again. Rory waits for Jess to call an entire evening. Lane's band practises psalms on el-guitar for a gig at the Kim house.

* PlayingSick: To get out of Taylor's need for repeated reassurance that his reservations for his relatives at the Dragonfly have in fact been registered, Rory pretends to have something French that makes her limp and be unable to feed herself.