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** Rory suggests Lorelai get home in time for Music/BillyJoel's appearance on Charlie Rose in case he cries.

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** Rory suggests Lorelai get home in time for Music/BillyJoel's appearance on [[Series/SixtyMinutes Charlie Rose Rose]] in case he cries.
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** 'Do not mock the "sciencificity" of the pro/con lists.' —Lorelai
** Lorelai also sarcastically calls Poe "funalicious".

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** 'Do "Do not mock the "sciencificity" 'sciencificity' of the pro/con lists.' " —Lorelai
** Lorelai also sarcastically calls Poe "funalicious"."funalicious."
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** Lorelai references ''The Tell-Tale Heart''.

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** Lorelai references ''The ''[[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe The Tell-Tale Heart''.Heart]]''.



** Two recitations of Literature/TheRaven in a row take place in the dance studio.

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** Two recitations of Literature/TheRaven ''Literature/TheRaven'' in a row take place in the dance studio.



** Lorelai calls Rory Jerry Lewis for her sockpuppet show.

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** Lorelai calls Rory Jerry Lewis for her sockpuppet sock puppet show.



** Paris seems to be watching Series/PartOfMe, the 1992 version.
** Rather than WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}, Rory watched Series/PeeweesPlayhouse as a young child.

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** Paris seems to be watching Series/PartOfMe, ''Series/PartOfMe'', the 1992 version.
** Rather than WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}, ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'', Rory watched Series/PeeweesPlayhouse ''Series/PeeweesPlayhouse'' as a young child.



** The Yale "pro" list is "the length of Literature/NicholasNickleby".

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** The Yale "pro" list is "the length of Literature/NicholasNickleby".''Literature/NicholasNickleby''."



** Then she quotes Film/EdWood at him.

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** Then she quotes Film/EdWood ''Film/EdWood'' at him.



** Lorelai figures in a paralell universe where everything is the exact opposite of here, sitcoms will be funny.

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** Lorelai figures in a paralell parallel universe where everything is the exact opposite of here, sitcoms will be funny.



** Downplayed: Lorelai informs Rory that her boyfriend snores. Rory points out that she didn't need to know that.

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** Downplayed: Lorelai informs Rory that her boyfriend snores. Rory points out that insists she didn't need to know that.

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** Lorelai feels that Music/HankWilliams would be too depressed to write a song about her night of self-exile from her own home.



** It reminds her of Film/EdWood.

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** It reminds her of Film/EdWood.Then she quotes Film/EdWood at him.
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* CallBack: Lorelai vows to build a statue of the fire marshall, 80 feet tall. This is like in season one when she and Rory were so impressed with Max's knowledge about stoves that they swore to build a statue of him several stories tall.


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* InUniverseFactoidFailure: At least one of the Poe cosplayers gets it wrong what year Poe was court-marshalled and who was president at the time.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* TheBusCameBack: Papaya the stray cat returns at the end, so we don't have to worry that she got injured in the fire.

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* TooMuchInformation: Paris avoids discussing Jamie with her mother as she only takes it as an invitation to discuss her own sex life.

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* TooMuchInformation: TooMuchInformation:
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Paris avoids discussing Jamie with her mother as she only takes it as an invitation to discuss her own sex life.life.
** Downplayed: Lorelai informs Rory that her boyfriend snores. Rory points out that she didn't need to know that.
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** Jess quotes ''Series/FamilyFeud'' on Rory's having a good answer.
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* LoveInformant: Rory informs Lane that Young Chu is in love with her.
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** When Paris accuses her of having spent her early childhood watching Gumby, Rory mentions that she was more a Peewee Herman kind of gal, whom she mentioned having been a fan of back in season one.


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** Lorelai calls Rory Jerry Lewis for her sockpuppet show.


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** Louise thinks there's a lot more air in the room without Paris.

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!!Tropes!!Tropes:
* ArtisticLicense: Poe reenactor Fred Larson is wrong about the presidency of Andrew Jackson, even though he uses it as a reference point for Poe's stint in university.


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* PlugNPlayProsthetics: Sookie and Jackson accidentally tore a leg off the spider Satchmo and tried to give him a paperclip prosthetic by jamming one end into the spider, killing him instantly.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Lane is explaining to Rory that it's unfair for her to take her innocent friendship with Young Chui with it's air of innocence and accuse it of being romantic – realizing as she says it that Young Chui acts like he's in love with her.


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* SlutShaming: Invoked, as Lorelai takes offense to Luke's asking if the twins he talked to that she was pregnant with in her dream were his.

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* BrickJoke: Instructed to entertain the kids, Rory asks Lorelai ''how'' one entertains kids. Lorelai suggests taking her socks off and doing a puppet show, to which Rory replies that clearly Lorelai has never entertained kids either. The next time we see Rory she is barefoot in her slippers and putting on a sock puppet show for a group of kids.



* {{Malaproper}}:
** 'Do not mock the "sciencificity" of the pro/con lists.' —Lorelai
** Lorelai also sarcastically calls Poe "funalicious".



* {{Neologism}}:
** 'Do not mock the "sciencificity" of the pro/con lists.' —Lorelai
** Lorelai also sarcastically calls Poe "funalicious".



** Princeton doesn't advertise how many cleaners it has, so Lorelai decides it's a filth, dirty stinkhole.
** Lorelai figures a paralell universe where everything is the exact opposite of here, sitcoms will be funny.

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** Princeton doesn't advertise how many cleaners it has, so Lorelai decides it's a filth, filthy, dirty stinkhole.
** Lorelai figures in a paralell universe where everything is the exact opposite of here, sitcoms will be funny.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Rory lends her bed to a married couple, prompting Lorelai to make a joke about hoping they are tired.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Rory lends her bed GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to a married couple, prompting Lorelai overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make a joke about hoping they are tired.sure your example fits the current definition.
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* PlotParalell: As Rory lampshades, Nicole has a bit of a Lindsay attitude.

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* PlotParalell: PlotParallel: As Rory lampshades, Nicole has a bit of a Lindsay attitude.

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'''Season 3, episode 17'''



Kirk's job:\\
• Selling t-shirts with printed slogans.\\
• He's considering a career as Edgar Allan Poe.



** Michel calls the Cheshire Cat Inn, which Lorelai and Rory stayed at in season two.
** Lorelai tells Luke about her dream in the first episode of the season.

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** Michel calls the Cheshire Cat Inn, which [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS02E04 Lorelai and Rory stayed at in season two.
at]].
** Lorelai tells Luke about her [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E01 dream in the first episode of the season.about being pregnant with his twins]].



* MustHaveCaffeine: Luke criticizes Lorelai drinking coffee in the dream where she was pregnant with his twins.

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* MustHaveCaffeine: MustHaveCaffeine:
** Nicole's coffee habits remind Luke of Lorelai's.
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Luke criticizes Lorelai drinking coffee in the dream where she was pregnant with his twins.


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** Paris seems to be watching Series/PartOfMe, the 1992 version.


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** Paris feels that you could record a Music/JustinTimberlake video over her interview tape, that's how much is sucks.


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* TakeThatMe: Rory can't understand why the kids love her sock puppet material, insisting that she put no effort into it.

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Pets:\\
• The stray cat, Papaya\\
• Satchmo the spider, named for Jackson's uncle.



** Kirk wants to know how he can have a career as a Poe, asking advice of a man who only has a hobby cosplaying as a Poe.

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** Kirk wants to know how he can have a career as a Poe, asking advice of a man who only has a hobby cosplaying as a Poe.Edgar Allan Poe. Kirk feels that the Poe cosplayer is the one missing the point.



* HandPuppet: Tasked with entertaining children, Rory takes her socks off and uses them as puppets called Mr. and Mrs. Sock Puppet. They argue about taking out the garbage a lot.

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* HandPuppet: Tasked with entertaining children, Rory takes her socks off and uses them as puppets called named Mr. and Mrs. Sock Puppet. They argue a lot, especially about taking out the garbage a lot.garbage.



* {{Malaproper}}:
** 'Do not mock the "sciencificity" of the pro/con lists.' —Lorelai
** Lorelai also sarcastically calls Poe "funalicious".



* PlotParalell: As Rory lampshades, Nicole has a bit of a Lindsay attitude.



** Lorelai references ''The Tell-Tale Heart''.



** Two recitation of Literature/TheRaven in a row.
** No rest for the Creator/MarkTwain's house field trip anecdote.
** Music/BillyJoel is on Charlie Rose.

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** Two recitation recitations of Literature/TheRaven in a row.
row take place in the dance studio.
** No rest for the Rory's Creator/MarkTwain's house field trip anecdote.
** Music/BillyJoel is Rory suggests Lorelai get home in time for Music/BillyJoel's appearance on Charlie Rose.Rose in case he cries.



* TakeThat: Princeton doesn't advertise how many cleaners it has, so Lorelai decides it's a filth, dirty stinkhole.

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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
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Princeton doesn't advertise how many cleaners it has, so Lorelai decides it's a filth, dirty stinkhole.stinkhole.
** Lorelai figures a paralell universe where everything is the exact opposite of here, sitcoms will be funny.
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!!A Tale of Poes and Fire
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* TheUnhug: Luke tries to hug Rory when he learns that she got into three Ivy League schools.

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* TheUnhug: Luke tries to hug Rory when he learns that she got into three Ivy League schools. He isn't good at it, as he lampshades.

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* ContinuityNod: Michel calls the Cheshire Cat Inn, which Lorelai and Rory stayed at in season two.

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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
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Michel calls the Cheshire Cat Inn, which Lorelai and Rory stayed at in season two.two.
** Lorelai tells Luke about her dream in the first episode of the season.



* GreenEyedMonster: Lindsay isn't quite as friendly to Rory as when she bought her a fridge magnet in the fourth grade. Nicole isn't quite as fond of Lorelai as before Luke spent half a date talking about Lorelai either.

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* GreenEyedMonster: GreenEyedMonster:
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Lindsay isn't quite as friendly to Rory as when she bought her a fridge magnet in the fourth grade. grade.
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Nicole isn't quite as fond of Lorelai as before Luke spent half a date talking about Lorelai either.



* Irony: Rory speculates that Poe's own works drove him to drink.

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* Irony: {{Irony}}: Rory speculates that Poe's own works drove him to drink.drink.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Luke criticizes Lorelai drinking coffee in the dream where she was pregnant with his twins.



* RefugeInAudacity:
** Lorelai and Sookie hijack Luke's diner so they can serve their guests breakfasts. Lip service is paid to getting his permission after they have already convinced his customers to switch to Sookie's pancakes.
** Lorelai tells the kids to annoy Luke and pretend it's a game.



** Rather than WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}, Rory watched Series/ThePeeweeHermanShow as a young child.

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** Rather than WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}, Rory watched Series/ThePeeweeHermanShow Series/PeeweesPlayhouse as a young child.child.
** The Yale "pro" list is "the length of Literature/NicholasNickleby".
** Lorelai shouts "[[Film/AStreetcarNamedDesire Stella]]" at Luke.
** It reminds her of Film/EdWood.
** Jess denies putting Music/PhilSpector up to setting the inn on fire.



* TakeThat: Princeton doesn't advertise how many cleaners it has, so Lorelai decides it's a filth, dirty place.

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* TakeThat: Princeton doesn't advertise how many cleaners it has, so Lorelai decides it's a filth, dirty place.stinkhole.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** Sookie thinks the reason the stray cat isn't eating her food and just looks at her is that it doesn't know how to eat.
** Kirk wants to know how he can have a career as a Poe, asking advice of a man who only has a hobby cosplaying as a Poe.
* ContinuityNod: Michel calls the Cheshire Cat Inn, which Lorelai and Rory stayed at in season two.



* Irony: Rory speculates that Poe's own works drove him to drink.



* ShoutOut: Fans of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe don't get into it like [[Franchise/StarTrek trekkies]]. Lorelai feels that Yale will educate the next Creator/MerylStreep. Two recitation of Literature/TheRaven in a row. No rest for the Creator/MarkTwain's house field trip anecdote. Rather than WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}, Rory watched Series/ThePeeweeHermanShow as a young child.

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* ShoutOut: OtherMeAnnoysMe: The two Poe reciters disagree about when they went to Harvard in the eighteen thirties.
* ShoutOut:
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Fans of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe don't get into it like [[Franchise/StarTrek trekkies]]. trekkies]].
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Lorelai feels that Yale will educate the next Creator/MerylStreep. Creator/MerylStreep.
**
Two recitation of Literature/TheRaven in a row. row.
**
No rest for the Creator/MarkTwain's house field trip anecdote. anecdote.
** Music/BillyJoel is on Charlie Rose.
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Rather than WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}, Rory watched Series/ThePeeweeHermanShow as a young child.child.
* SincerestFormOfFlattery: Kirk sells t-shirts with printed local gossip on them. He got the idea from a guy in another town who does the exact same thing.



* TooMuchInformation: Paris avoids discussing Jamie with her mother as it she only takes it as an invitation to discuss her own sex life.

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* TooMuchInformation: Paris avoids discussing Jamie with her mother as it she only takes it as an invitation to discuss her own sex life.life.
* TheUnhug: Luke tries to hug Rory when he learns that she got into three Ivy League schools.

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Rory and Lorelai write pro/con lists to decide what college to go to. The Poe society visits Stars Hollow to recite The Raven. Jess becomes employee of the month at Walmart. There's a fire at the Independence inn.

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Rory and Lorelai write pro/con lists to decide what college to go to. The Poe society visits Stars Hollow to recite The Raven. Jess becomes employee of the month at Walmart. There's a fire at the Independence inn.
inn. Paris stopped coming to school after she got her rejection letter from Harvard.



* BlatantLies:
** After it comes out that Jess works forty-hour weeks, Lorelai and Rory begin doubting that he is still going to school like he insists.
** Lane trying to convince her mother that Jess is only there to borrow a random brass item that happens to stand right next to her bed. Mrs. Kim is not fooled.



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Rory lends her bed to a married couple, prompting Lorelai to make a joke about hoping they are tired.



* HandPuppet: Tasked with entertaining children, Rory takes her socks off and uses them as puppets called Mr. and Mrs. Sock Puppet. They argue about taking out the garbage a lot.



* ShoutOut: Fans of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe don't get into it like [[Franchise/StarTrek trekkies]]. Lorelai feels that Yale will educate the next Creator/MerylStreep. Two recitation of Literature/TheRaven in a row. No rest for the Creator/MarkTwain's house field trip anecdote.

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* ShoutOut: Fans of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe don't get into it like [[Franchise/StarTrek trekkies]]. Lorelai feels that Yale will educate the next Creator/MerylStreep. Two recitation of Literature/TheRaven in a row. No rest for the Creator/MarkTwain's house field trip anecdote. Rather than WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}, Rory watched Series/ThePeeweeHermanShow as a young child.
* TakeThat: Princeton doesn't advertise how many cleaners it has, so Lorelai decides it's a filth, dirty place.
* TooMuchInformation: Paris avoids discussing Jamie with her mother as it she only takes it as an invitation to discuss her own sex life.

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The Poe society visits Stars Hollow to recite The Raven. There's a fire at the Independence inn.

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Rory and Lorelai write pro/con lists to decide what college to go to. The Poe society visits Stars Hollow to recite The Raven.Raven. Jess becomes employee of the month at Walmart. There's a fire at the Independence inn.

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Sookie and Jackson have become this after becoming pregnant, force-feeding stray cats and making prosthetic legs for spiders.
* GreenEyedMonster: Lindsay isn't quite as friendly to Rory as when she bought her a fridge magnet in the fourth grade. Nicole isn't quite as fond of Lorelai as before Luke spent half a date talking about Lorelai either.
* NonSequitur: The Hattlestads aren't as thrilled as you'd expect to hear that no human body parts are buried in their room.
* ShoutOut: Fans of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe don't get into it like [[Franchise/StarTrek trekkies]]. Lorelai feels that Yale will educate the next Creator/MerylStreep. Two recitation of Literature/TheRaven in a row. No rest for the Creator/MarkTwain's house field trip anecdote.
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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.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Kirk wants to deliver the mail ''his'' way.
* ExactEavesdropping: Lorelai happens to enter the house very quietly just when Rory tells Paris she never had sex.
* PregnancyMakesYouCrazy: In the case of perfectionist chef Sookie, it comes out as making food that tastes like sewage without being able to taste it herself.
* RantInducingSlight: Paris got rejected by Harvard and rants about it on C-Span
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Brad was in Theatre/IntoTheWoods because his actor was.
* SelfDeprecation: Paris thinks Harvard must really not like her on a personal level.
-->'''Paris:''' It's like they know me or something.
* 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}}''.
* StealthInsult: Paris is just full of these for the other speech writing contestants. Not that anyone who's ever gone to school with her believes any of her compliments.
* 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.
* VerbalBackspace: Sookie changes her mind about banning someone who sent her food back from the restaurant when she hears what wine he was drinking.

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Brad is back The Poe society visits Stars Hollow to recite The Raven. There's a fire 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.

!!Tropes
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Kirk wants to deliver the mail ''his'' way.
* ExactEavesdropping: Lorelai happens to enter the house very quietly just when Rory tells Paris she never had sex.
* PregnancyMakesYouCrazy: In the case of perfectionist chef Sookie, it comes out as making food that tastes like sewage without being able to taste it herself.
* RantInducingSlight: Paris got rejected by Harvard and rants about it on C-Span
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Brad was in Theatre/IntoTheWoods because his actor was.
* SelfDeprecation: Paris thinks Harvard must really not like her on a personal level.
-->'''Paris:''' It's like they know me or something.
* 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}}''.
* StealthInsult: Paris is just full of these for the other speech writing contestants. Not that anyone who's ever gone to school with her believes any of her compliments.
* 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.
* VerbalBackspace: Sookie changes her mind about banning someone who sent her food back from the restaurant when she hears what wine he was drinking.
the Independence inn.

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* TooMuchInformation: Paris's rant about not getting into Harvard is convincing enough until she tells the audience that it is punishment for losing her virginity.
* VerbalBackspace: Sookie changes her mind about being offended that someone sent her food back when she hears what wine he was drinking.

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

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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.

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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.
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.



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



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

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* RealitySubtext: RantInducingSlight: Paris got rejected by Harvard and rants about it on C-Span
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
Brad was in Theatre/IntoTheWoods because his actor was.was.
* SelfDeprecation: Paris thinks Harvard must really not like her on a personal level.
-->'''Paris:''' It's like they know me or something.



* StealthInsult: Paris is just full of these for the other speech writing contestants.

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* StealthInsult: Paris is just full of these for the other speech writing contestants. Not that anyone who's ever gone to school with her believes any of her compliments.
* TooMuchInformation: Paris's rant about not getting into Harvard is convincing enough until she tells the audience that it is punishment for losing her virginity.
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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.

!!Tropes
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Kirk wants to deliver the mail ''his'' way.
* PregnancyMakesYouCrazy: In the case of perfectionist chef Sookie, it comes out as making food that tastes like sewage without being able to taste it herself.
* RealitySubtext: Brad was in Theatre/IntoTheWoods because his actor was.
* 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}}''.
* StealthInsult: Paris is just full of these for the other speech writing contestants.
* VerbalBackspace: Sookie changes her mind about being offended that someone sent her food back when she hears what wine he was drinking.

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