History Recap / GilmoreGirlsS03E16

** Lorelai calls the contest a way for Rory to practice her "speeching skills".
** Lorelai calls the televised House vote "that show of the big empty chamber with white men with numbers on them walking around".

* CallBack: When Sookie tells her about Jackson's reaction to the pregnancy news, Lorelai mentions that he said he wanted four kids in four years at the dance marathon.

* {{Neologism}}: Richard names the group of Emily's friends that have had strokes this week "stroke-ladies".

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Brad was in Theatre/IntoTheWoods because his actor was.

** Brad Langford has done Theatre/IntoTheWoods on Broadway.

** Paris mocks Brad for being in Theatre/IntoTheWoods.

* SongParody: Downplayed with Paris's rendition of "Into the Woods", which contains some new lines about Jack's obsession wih beans, albeit in not in Jack's part of the song:

-->Who's got the beans
-->We need some beans
-->I love the beans!

** Paris calls Brad Larry Martin, Chita Revera, and Jerome Robbins, causing him to comment that she is really up on her Broadway references.

* LiteralMinded: Madeline asks Brad how he leaves the house every day without having a piano fall on his head. He begins to explain how.

* RantInducingSlight: Paris got rejected by Harvard and rants about it on C-Span

* SlutShaming: Inverted with Lorelai, who wants to reward her daughter for not having had sex yet with new shoes. Paris slutshames herself after not getting into Harvard.

* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Madeline nis so exasperated that Brad didn't think to ask if he could take his Broadway make-up home that she asks how he leaves his house in the morning without having a piano fall on his head. Brad starts to explain that he takes a left on Federal before Rory tells him he's doing this trope.

* SarcasmMode: The girl who takes coats at the Chilton bicentennial does not try to talk Lorelai out of her pretend suicidal tendencies.

* SongParody: Downplayed with Paris's rendition of "Into the Woods", which contains some new lines about Jack's obsession wih beans, albeit in Ridinghood's part of the song:

-->I love the beans

* NapInducingSpeech: Richard apparently finds Paris's rant extremely boring, because he falls asleep.

* TastesLikeFeet: Lorelai can't decide whether Sookie's failed food tastes like strychnine or manure.

* ExactEavesdropping: Lorelai happens to enter the house very quietly just when Rory tells Paris she never had sex.

Brad is back at Chilton after playing Jack in ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''. Paris bullies him about being in a musical, and taunts Rory into entering a speech contes for the Chilton bicentennial. Sookie's first clue that she is pregnant is that her sense of taste is off. Jackson takes it very seriously. Paris and Rory both win the speech contest and have to coordinate their speeches, and Paris tells her she slept with Jamie. Lorelai runs into Max.

* BuffySpeak: Lorelai calls the contest a way to practice your "speeching skills".

** A little later, Paris comments that Brad has only spoken to a cow for months. He angrily explains that there was a person inside that cow-costume.

** Paris's rant about not getting into Harvard is convincing enough as a speech about education, albeit not one that could plausibly win a contest, until she tells the audience that it is punishment for losing her virginity.

** Paris calls Brad "Jerome Robbins", causing him to comment that she is really up on her Broadway references.

** Paris calls Brad "Jerome Robbins".

* CallBack: When Sookie tells her about Jackson's reactionto the pregnancy news, Lorelai mentions that he said he wanted four kids in four years at the dance marathon.

** Paris's rant about not getting into Harvard is convincing enough as a speech about education until she tells the audience that it is punishment for losing her virginity.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Kirk wants to deliver the mail ''his'' way.

* TooMuchInformation: Paris's rant about not getting into Harvard is convincing enough as a speech about education until she tells the audience that it is punishment for losing her virginity.

* ShoutOut: Madeline and Louise think it would be fun to keep Broadway costumes, as long as it's not from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' or ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.

* VerbalBackspace: Sookie changes her mind about banning someone who sent her food back from the restaurant when she hears what wine he was drinking.

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.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Dave is a sane version, but Rory warns about it turning into Theatre/{{Othello}}.
* 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.
* ShoutOut: 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.
* StylisticSuck:
** Zach thinks the hymn ''A Mighty Fortress I Our God'' has too much SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to be rock'n roll.
** Babette is HollywoodTonedeaf singing ''Star-Spangled Banner''.

* 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.