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** Lorelai's pregnancy box contains debate about whether Creator/AndrewMcCarthy was hotter than Creator/EmilioEstevez, as well as articles on Music/{{REM}} and a Music/{{Bananarama}} jumper. It also contains a walkman with a cassette with [[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]], some Music/{{REM}} and some Thompson Twins still in it.
** The festival includes art by UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Parmigianio, and Gustave Bohman.

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** Lorelai's pregnancy box contains debate about whether Creator/AndrewMcCarthy was hotter than Creator/EmilioEstevez, as well as articles on Music/{{REM}} and a Music/{{Bananarama}} jumper. It also contains a walkman with a cassette with [[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]], some Music/{{REM}} Music/{{REM}}, and some Thompson Twins still in it.
** The festival includes art by UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Parmigianio, and Gustave Bohman.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't get to see the performance of Picasso's ''Guernica''.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't get to see the performance of Picasso's ''Guernica''.Creator/PabloPicasso's ''Art/{{Guernica}}''.



** Creator/PabloPicasso's ''Guernica'' is too gory to show on-screen.

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** Creator/PabloPicasso's ''Guernica'' ''Art/{{Guernica}}'' is too gory to show on-screen.
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** Kirk eats lentils with his hands to get into character as Jesus. Lorelai asks if it's because they didn't have utensils back then. Kirk replies that yes, they did have utensils back then and keeps eating with his hands.


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* {{Dissimile}}: Kirk compares Taylor's willingness to fold due simply to hardship to following blind guides who strain at a gnat yet swallow a camel.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Babette calls dibs on the "new hunk" Gil.


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* NoExceptYes: Luke swears he won't help fix the table for The Last Supper no matter how much they nag him to, but he later admits to Nicole that he did.


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* PillowPregnancy: Lorelai thinks it's as likely as not that Bruce took the baby and stuffed a pillow under Sookie's shirt to cover it up.
* PregnancyMakesYouCrazy: Sookie freaks out about the duration of the pregnancy. She thinks she may have caught some elephant-gestation-ness from an elephant at the zoo. Lorelai tells her hopscotching around town won't help the baby out.


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* WhenIWasYourAge: Two boys are rude to Rory, and Rory comments that when she was young they respected their elders.
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** Sookie's baby pager plays Scott Joplin.

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** Sookie's baby pager plays Scott Joplin.Creator/ScottJoplin.

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--->'''Gil''' I'm here for the audition.
--->'''Lane''' ''(confused)'' What audition?

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--->'''Gil''' --->'''Gil:''' I'm here for the audition.
--->'''Lane''' --->'''Lane:''' ''(confused)'' What audition?



--->'''Bruce:''' We are all here to serve the baby!



* IntergenerationalFriendship: Lane's band accepts a member who is speculated to be twice their age based on how likeable they find him.

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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Lane's band accepts a member who (who is speculated to be twice their age age) based on how likeable they find him.



* MethodActing: Inverted in-universe. Being dressed as Christ makes Kirk into an inspirational impromptu speaker. The role plays him. Although he is markedly less friendly to Judas than Jesus was.

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* MethodActing: Inverted in-universe. Being dressed as Christ makes Kirk into an impromptu inspirational impromptu speaker. The role plays him. Although he is markedly less friendly to Judas than Jesus was.



* OlderThanTheyLook: Gil. Not to a shocking degree, unless you're a teenager, then he's ancient. Brian starts listing things Gil must have been alive for, like the moonlanding and the bicentennial.
-->'''Brian:''' He was ''our'' age when we were ''born''.
* ProductPlacement: Played with. The way they talk abour Dreamfresh laundry powder sounds like a commercial, but it doesn't seem to exist. There is a make-up product of the same name, though.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Gil. Not to a shocking degree, unless you're a teenager, then he's ancient. Brian starts listing things Gil must have been alive for, like the moonlanding moon landing and the bicentennial.
-->'''Brian:''' He was ''our'' age when we were ''born''.
''born''!
* ProductPlacement: Played with. The way they talk abour Dreamfresh laundry powder [[PlayedForLaughs sounds like a commercial, commercial]], but it [[SubvertedTrope doesn't seem to exist. exist]]. There is a [[DoubleSubvertedTrope make-up product of the same name, name]], though.
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Rory comes home to do laundry. Jackson's brother Bo is visiting. Sookie tells Lorelai that she's planning on a home birth. Stars Hollow hosts the festival of living pictures this year. Rory plays Antea, Kirk plays Christ in ''The Last Supper'', and Lorelai is the Renoir girl again, Andrew is the statue The Reaper. Gil auditions for Hep Alien and is played by [[Music/SkidRow Sebastian Bach]]. Sookie goes into labor and is driven to the hospital.

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Rory comes home to do laundry. Jackson's brother Bo is visiting. Sookie tells Lorelai that she's planning on a home birth. Stars Hollow hosts the festival of living pictures this year. Rory plays Antea, Kirk plays Christ in ''The Last Supper'', and Lorelai is the Renoir girl again, and Andrew is the statue The Reaper. Gil auditions for Hep Alien and is played by [[Music/SkidRow Sebastian Bach]]. Sookie goes into labor and is driven to in the hospital.
middle of the display of ''Dance at Bougival'', the painting Lorelai is in.



** Lorelai's pregnancy box contains debate about whether Creator/AndrewMcCarthy was hotter than Creator/EmilioEstevez, as well as articles on Music/{{REM}} and a Music/{{Bananarama}} jumper. It also contains a walkman [[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]], some Music/{{REM}} and some Thompson Twins.

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** Lorelai's pregnancy box contains debate about whether Creator/AndrewMcCarthy was hotter than Creator/EmilioEstevez, as well as articles on Music/{{REM}} and a Music/{{Bananarama}} jumper. It also contains a walkman with a cassette with [[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]], some Music/{{REM}} and some Thompson Twins.Twins still in it.

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* MethodActing: Inverted in-universe. Being dressed as Christ makes Kirk into an inspirational impromptu speaker. The role plays him.
** Although he is markedly less friendly to Judas than Jesus was.

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* MethodActing: Inverted in-universe. Being dressed as Christ makes Kirk into an inspirational impromptu speaker. The role plays him.
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him. Although he is markedly less friendly to Judas than Jesus was.

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--->'''Sookie:''' It doesn't know it's butt from a hole in the ground!

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--->'''Sookie:''' It doesn't know it's its butt from a hole in the ground!



** Lorelai's pregnancy box contains debate about whether Creator/AndrewMcCarthy was hotter than Creator/EmilioEstevez, as well as articles on Music/{{REM}} and a Music/{{Bananarama}} jumper.
** It also contains a walkman [[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]], some Music/{{REM}} and some Thompson Twins.

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** Lorelai's pregnancy box contains debate about whether Creator/AndrewMcCarthy was hotter than Creator/EmilioEstevez, as well as articles on Music/{{REM}} and a Music/{{Bananarama}} jumper.
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jumper. It also contains a walkman [[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]], some Music/{{REM}} and some Thompson Twins.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: When Nicole suggests to postpone their divorce, Luke asks if they can do that, but as a divorce lawyer Nicole knows her stuff.


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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Kirk calls the guy playing Judas a blasphemer, a traitor, and unattractive.


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** Gil's old band was supposed to tour with Music/QuietRiot.


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** Lorelai claims Music/StevieWonder could have seen her flinch seven years ago.
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--->'''Sookie:''' It doesn't know it's butt from a hole in the ground!


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** Gil says Hep Alien is gonna be as big as Music/PinkFloyd.


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** When Lorelai says she has a box of stuff from 1984, Sookie asks if she means [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour the book]].


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** It also contains a walkman [[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]], some Music/{{REM}} and some Thompson Twins.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Sookie thinks her baby is too stupid to know it's not an elephant.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** Hep Alien needs it spelled out to them that the grown man in the garage is the guitarist they've been talking to.
--->'''Gil''' I'm here for the audition.
--->'''Lane''' ''(confused)'' What audition?
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Sookie thinks her baby is too stupid to know it's not an elephant.



-->'''Brian:''' He was our age when we were born.

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-->'''Brian:''' He was our ''our'' age when we were born.''born''.


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** Andrew is excited about getting to be painted all white for his role as ''The Reaper''.
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** Sookie's baby pager plays Scott Joplin.
** Lorelai finds Lane's idea for a spin cover to be very Creator/NormanRockwell.
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* ProductPlacement: Played with. The way they talk abour Dreamfresh laundry powder sounds like a commercial, but it doesn't seem to exist.

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* ProductPlacement: Played with. The way they talk abour Dreamfresh laundry powder sounds like a commercial, but it doesn't seem to exist. There is a make-up product of the same name, though.



** Lorelai quotes ''Hey Batter Batter'' by TrentTomlinson

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** Lorelai quotes ''Hey Batter Batter'' by TrentTomlinsonTrent Tomlinson
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* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't get to see the performance of Picasso's ''Guernica''.


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** Lorelai quotes ''Hey Batter Batter'' by TrentTomlinson
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** Lane suggests dressing Gil as Angus Young in Music/ACDC.

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** Lane suggests dressing Gil as Angus Young in Music/ACDC.Music/{{ACDC}}.
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!!The Festival of Living Art
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Miss Patty swears by saying "oy to the vey".
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* ChildHater: The guy who sits next to Rory in make-up before the living art performance claims to be this.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Sookie thinks her baby is too stupid to know it's not an elephant.


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* HolierThanThou: Kirk's attitude after he is cast as Christ. Judas gets fed up with it.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Lane's band accepts a member who is speculated to be twice their age based on how likeable they find him.
* {{Irony}}: Nicole finds it ironic that getting married is what broke Luke and her up.


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** Sookie freaks out about exploding like one of those things on Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife that explode and cover everything in slime.
** Lorelai's pregnancy box contains debate about whether Creator/AndrewMcCarthy was hotter than Creator/EmilioEstevez, as well as articles on Music/{{REM}} and a Music/{{Bananarama}} jumper.


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** Rory calls Lorelai [[Film/SunsetBoulevard "Miss Desmond"]].

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* BlatantLies: Lorelai tries to convince Bruce she doesn't hate births or midwives, but Bruce isn't buying it.
* CaptainObvious: Andrew informs Sookie that she hasn't given birth yet.
* GenderBlenderName: Bruce the midwife.

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* BlatantLies: BlatantLies:
** Lorelai claims she won't clip the coupons. Rory claims she doesn't see the problem with taking them away in that case.
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Lorelai tries to convince Bruce she doesn't hate births or midwives, but Bruce isn't buying it.
* CaptainObvious: Andrew informs Sookie that she hasn't given birth yet.
yet, while staring at her huge ninth-month belly.
* GenderBlenderName: GenderBlenderName:
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Bruce the midwife.midwife. She is strict enough to make OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby look downplayed.
** Buff Otis. Lorelai thinks Rory is her type.



* OlderThanTheyLook: Gil. Not to a shocking degree, unless you're a teenager, then he's ancient. Brian starts listing things Gil must have been alive for, like the moonlanding and the bicentennial.
-->'''Brian:''' He was our age when we were born.
* ProductPlacement: Played with. The way they talk abour Dreamfresh laundry powder sounds like a commercial, but it doesn't seem to exist.



** Sookie and Lorelai refer to Bo as Creator/OscarWilde.
** Lane suggests dressing Gil as Angus Young in Music/ACDC.



** Taylor gloats about how the whimps in Woodbury can't handle a little flooding.

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** Taylor gloats about how the whimps in Woodbury can't handle a little flooding.flooding, thus forfeiting the festival of living art.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: At least over age.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: At least over age.age, as in-universe, the ability to hold still while pretending to be a painting takes priority over looking exactly like the person in the original painting.
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Rory comes home to do laundry. Jackson's brother Bo is visiting. Sookie tells Lorelai that she's planning on a home birth. Stars Hollow hosts the festival of living pictures this year. Rory plays Antea, Kirk plays Christ in ''The Last Supper'', and Lorelai is the Renoir girl again, Andrew is the statue The Reaper. Gil auditions for Hep Alien and is played by [[Music/SkidRow Sebastian Bach]]. Sookie goes into labor.

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Rory comes home to do laundry. Jackson's brother Bo is visiting. Sookie tells Lorelai that she's planning on a home birth. Stars Hollow hosts the festival of living pictures this year. Rory plays Antea, Kirk plays Christ in ''The Last Supper'', and Lorelai is the Renoir girl again, Andrew is the statue The Reaper. Gil auditions for Hep Alien and is played by [[Music/SkidRow Sebastian Bach]]. Sookie goes into labor.
labor and is driven to the hospital.



* NotSoStoic: Sookie acts cool about the being nine months pregnant until she looks up how long an elephant is pregnant and becomes afraid it'll never come out.

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* NotSoStoic: Sookie acts cool about the being nine months pregnant until she looks up how long an elephant is pregnant and becomes afraid it'll she'll never come out.give birth but just be pregnant forever.



** Rory advices Lorelai to "close her eyes and think of England", quoting Queen Victoria's alleged advice to one of her daughters.

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** Rory advices Lorelai to "close her eyes and think of England", quoting Queen Victoria's alleged advice to one of her daughters.daughters regarding sex with a disagreeable husband.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: At least over age.



** Christ and the Apostles watched Film/TheMatrix and Film/TheMatrixReloaded without Judas.
** Creator/PabloPicasso's ''Guernica'' is too gory to show on-screen.
** Rory advices Lorelai to "close her eyes and think of England", quoting Queen Victoria's alleged advice to one of her daughters.



-->'''Rory:''' Do you hear that? No music.
-->'''Lorelai:''' And the band stopped playing too.

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-->'''Rory:''' ** Hep Alien doesn't sound that good before Gil joins.
--->'''Rory:'''
Do you hear that? No music.
-->'''Lorelai:''' --->'''Lorelai:''' And the band stopped playing too.too.
** Taylor gloats about how the whimps in Woodbury can't handle a little flooding.

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Rory comes home to do laundry. Jackson's brother Bo is visiting. Sookie tells Lorelai that she's planning on a home birth. Stars Hollow hosts the festival of living pictures this year. Rory plays Anthea, Kirk plays Christ in ''The Last Supper'', and Lorelai is the Reoir girl again, Andrew is the statue The Reaper

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Rory comes home to do laundry. Jackson's brother Bo is visiting. Sookie tells Lorelai that she's planning on a home birth. Stars Hollow hosts the festival of living pictures this year. Rory plays Anthea, Antea, Kirk plays Christ in ''The Last Supper'', and Lorelai is the Reoir Renoir girl again, Andrew is the statue The Reaper
Reaper. Gil auditions for Hep Alien and is played by [[Music/SkidRow Sebastian Bach]]. Sookie goes into labor.



* BlatantLies: Lorelai tries to convince Bruce she doesn't hate births or midwives, but Bruce isn't buying it.
* CaptainObvious: Andrew informs Sookie that she hasn't given birth yet.
* GenderBlenderName: Bruce the midwife.
* MethodActing: Inverted in-universe. Being dressed as Christ makes Kirk into an inspirational impromptu speaker. The role plays him.
** Although he is markedly less friendly to Judas than Jesus was.
* NotSoStoic: Sookie acts cool about the being nine months pregnant until she looks up how long an elephant is pregnant and becomes afraid it'll never come out.



** The festival includes art by UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, Parmigianio, Renoir,

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** The festival includes art by UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Parmigianio, Renoir, and Gustave Bohman.



-->'''Lorelai:''' Ande the band stopped playing too.

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-->'''Lorelai:''' Ande And the band stopped playing too.too.
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Rory comes home to do laundry. Jackson's brother Bo is visiting. Sookie tells Lorelai that she's planning on a home birth. Stars Hollow hosts the festival of living pictures this year. Rory plays Anthea, Kirk plays Christ in ''The Last Supper'', and Lorelai is the Reoir girl again, Andrew is the statue The Reaper

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* ShoutOut:
** The festival includes art by UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, Parmigianio, Renoir,
** Kirk reads Literature/TheBible in preparation for his role.
* TakeThat:
-->'''Rory:''' Do you hear that? No music.
-->'''Lorelai:''' Ande the band stopped playing too.

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