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Incredibly Lame Pun is a redirect and not a trope by itself.


* IncrediblyLamePun: T.J. considers nicknaming Jess "Reads" because he reads so much.


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* {{Pun}}: T.J. considers nicknaming Jess "Reads" because he reads so much.

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* AgeGapRelationship: Nineteen-year-old Paris is finally realizing that Asher Fleming is old.

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* AgeGapRelationship: AgeGapRomance: Nineteen-year-old Paris is finally realizing that Asher Fleming is old.



* BoyfriendBluff: Sookie tries to set Lorelai up with Shel, the poultry guy, which Lorelai gets out of by pretending Luke is her boyfriend.



* BigStupidDooDooHead: The last time Luke was in a fight was in sixth grade. Vince Williams called him a doodyhead. He took it personally.
* BoyfriendBluff: Sookie tries to set Lorelai up with Shel, the poultry guy, which Lorelai gets out of by pretending Luke is her boyfriend.



* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Luke is aghast that Jess didn't stick around to hear what Rory had to say after his LoveConfession. When he asks Jess if he "just dropped the bomb and ran," Jess clarifies that he ''drove.''

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* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Luke is aghast that Jess didn't stick around to hear what Rory had to say after his LoveConfession. When he asks Jess if he "just dropped the bomb and ran," Jess clarifies that he ''drove.''got in his car and ''drove'' away.

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* AgeGapRelationship: Nineteen-year-old Paris is finally realizing that Asher Fleming is old.



* TheBeard: Rory tells Paris she doesn't want to be her beard anymore, since Paris is using her as an excuse to go by Asher's classroom.

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* TheBeard: Discussed and gender-reversed. Rory tells Paris she doesn't want to be her beard anymore, since Paris is using her as an excuse to go by Asher's classroom.



** Subverted. When Lorelai can't wrap her head around Jackson sleeping with the zucchini, Sookie reminds her that she told him to do whatever it takes to get her good zucchinis. Lorelai insists that she meant within reason, which Sookie doesn't think was obvious at all.
--->'''Sookie:''' Oh, ''now'' you add that.



* IronicEcho: While ranting about getting sucked into Liz's wedding preparations, Luke rhetorically asks Lorelai if she knows where he can find myrtle. She tells him not to add items from his to-do list to her to-do list. Then she learns he was just in New York, and complains that she had stuff she needed from New York. He tells her not to add stuff from her to-do list to his to-do list.



** Liz thinks her wedding dress makes her look like Creator/VanessaRedgrave in Film/{{Camelot}}.

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** Liz thinks her Liz's wedding dress makes her look feel like Creator/VanessaRedgrave in Film/{{Camelot}}.

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Lorelai has broken up with Jason. Luke tries to buy relationship books without showing Andrew the titles. Liz and T.J. are getting married. Asher Flemming has angina and Paris yells at hospital staff.

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Lorelai has broken up with Jason.Jason and is being approached by stray cats. Luke tries to buy relationship books without showing Andrew the titles. Liz and T.J. are getting married. Asher Flemming has angina and Paris yells at hospital staff.


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* TheBeard: Rory tells Paris she doesn't want to be her beard anymore, since Paris is using her as an excuse to go by Asher's classroom.


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* PregnancyScare: Discussed by Rory when Lorelai tells her cats have started stalking her after she broke up with Jason. Rory thinks a cat on the porch beats a bun in the oven.
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* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Luke is aghast that Jess didn't stick around to hear what Rory had to say after his LoveConfession. When he asks Jess if he "just dropped the bomb and ran," Jess clarifies that he ''drove.''

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* CaptainObvious: Lindsay informs Dean that they are married.

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* CaptainObvious: CaptainObvious:
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Lindsay informs Dean that they are married.



* HypocriticalHumor: Lorelai instructs Luke to not add stuff from his to-do list to her to-do list, then gets upset when he went to New York without telling her because she needed stuff picked up from New York.

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* HypocriticalHumor: HypocriticalHumor:
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Lorelai instructs Luke to not add stuff from his to-do list to her to-do list, then gets upset when he went to New York without telling her because she needed stuff picked up from New York.



* {{Koan}}: Where does a lap go when you stand up?

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* {{Koan}}: TJ is inspired to ask himself: Where does a lap go when you stand up?



* ARareSentence: "He's sleeping with the zucchini."

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* ARareSentence: "He's sleeping with the zucchini."zucchini" is a hard one for Lorelai to process.



** Lorelai wants to watch Film/{{Fatso}} with Rory.

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** Lorelai wants to watch Film/{{Fatso}} with Rory. It's directed by Creator/AnneBancroft.


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** Paris complains about being told to sit down. It's happened to her, [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary]], [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington Martha]]…
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* ThisIsMyChair: Lorelai goes to Luke's early in the morning and unintentionally takes Kirk's chair. He demands it back. When she complies, he kind of wants the chair she moved to instead.
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** Jess tells Luke about his LoveConfession to Rory months ago. He insists Rory could have reached out at any time between then and now to return his feelings, but she didn't. Luke points out that Jess changes his phone number weekly.
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'''Season 4, episode 20'''


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* ReversePsychology: Luke does this to Jess twice, both times accomplishing Jess being more willing to go to Liz's wedding.

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* AgreeToDisagree: Subverted. Disagreeing about whether Jess should walk Liz down the aisle, Jess thinks he and TJ are at a stalemate. TJ disagrees about that.



** Paris is unimpressed with a doctor telling her the procedures are the procedures, informing him that she thought the procedures were a hat.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lorelai predicts Dr. Phil books in her and Luke's future. By the end of the episode Luke is listening to self-help relationship tapes.



* IncrediblyLamePun: T.J. considers nicknaming Jess "Read" because he reads so much.

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* IncrediblyLamePun: T.J. considers nicknaming Jess "Read" "Reads" because he reads so much.much.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Andrew wonders if the reason Luke is refusing to show him the books he's trying to buy is that they're porn, despite denying selling porn, meaning he's accusing Luke of bringing porn to the bookstore to secretively bring them to the cash register trying to buy them.
* {{Koan}}: Where does a lap go when you stand up?


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** Rory calls Lorelai "Anne Sullivan".


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** Jess surmises Luke has a lot of Music/JethroTull records.
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!!Luke Can See Her Face

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* TheCynic: Jess is not buying that Liz has found the one.
-->'''Jess:''' I'll just catch the next one.



* IncrediblyLamePun: T.J. considers nicknaming Jess "Read" because he reads so much.



* SeinfeldianConversation: Luke's awkwardness around strippers makes T.J. reflect on how you "make a lap" by sitting down.



* StagParty: T.J.'s
* TheCynic: Jess is not buying that Liz has found the one.
-->'''Jess:''' I'll just catch the next one.

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* StagParty: T.J.'s
* TheCynic:
's. Jess is nineteen or twenty, but invited to the strip bar and mud wrestling, and spends his time there reading.
* StalkerWithACrush: Glenn calls a girl on her lame excuse
not buying that Liz has found the one.
-->'''Jess:''' I'll just catch the next one.
to go out with him, because he knows her routine and purposely picked a time he knows she does nothing.

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* CaptainObvious: "Hello, we're married here!" —Lindsay

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* BoyfriendBluff: Sookie tries to set Lorelai up with Shel, the poultry guy, which Lorelai gets out of by pretending Luke is her boyfriend.
* CaptainObvious: "Hello, we're married here!" —LindsayLindsay informs Dean that they are married.



* HypocriticalHumor: Lorelai instructs Luke to not add stuff from his to-do list to her to-do list, then gets upset when he went to New York without telling her because she needed stuff picked up from New York.



** Liz thinks her wedding dress makes her look like Creator/VanessaRedgrave in Film/{{Camelot}}.



** Luke spouts inspirational crap like a Creator/BetteMidler movie.

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** Luke spouts inspirational crap like a Creator/BetteMidler movie.movie according to Jess.
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* GrammarNazi: All three leaders of the Dragonfly, but they all have their own opinion on how to spell "laundry".

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* GrammarNazi: All The three leaders of the Dragonfly, but they Dragonfly all have their own opinion on how to spell "laundry".



* ThemedParty: Liz wants a renessaince wedding.

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* ThemedParty: ThemedWedding: Liz wants a renessaince wedding.
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** Lorelai sees Dr. Phil book in her future.

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** Lorelai sees Dr. Phil book books in her future.

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Lorelai has broken up with Jason. Luke tries to buy relationship books without showing Andrew the titles. Liz and T.J. are getting married.

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Lorelai has broken up with Jason. Luke tries to buy relationship books without showing Andrew the titles. Liz and T.J. are getting married. \n Asher Flemming has angina and Paris yells at hospital staff.



* GrammarNazi: All three leaders of the Dragonfly, but they all have their own opinion on how to spell "laundry".



* ARareSentence: "He's sleeping with the zucchini."



** Luke spouts inspirational crap like a Creator/BetteMidler movie.
* StagParty: T.J.'s



* ThemedParty: Liz wants a renesaince wedding,

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* ThemedParty: Liz wants a renesaince wedding,renessaince wedding.
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** Lorelai wants to watch Film/{{Fatso}} with Rory.
** Lorelai recalls [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Toto]] running through fields of wheat.
* TheCynic: Jess is not buying that Liz has found the one.
-->'''Jess:''' I'll just catch the next one.
* ThemedParty: Liz wants a renesaince wedding,
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Lorelai has broken up with Jason. Luke tries to buy relationship books without showing Andrew the titles. Liz and T.J. are getting married.

!!Tropes
* CaptainObvious: "Hello, we're married here!" —Lindsay
* CrazyCatLady: Lorelai is not a cat lady, but she is convinced that the local cats think it's time for her to become one. Lorelai firmly tells them that she still has a chance to find a boyfriend before she hits menopause.
* MustHaveCoffee: Lorelai couldn't sleep, so she drank all the coffee in her house and goes to Luke's at five in the morning and explains to him that she's out of coffee.
* ShoutOut
** Lorelai sees Dr. Phil book in her future.
** Luke informs his inspirational tape that he hasn't been hit with the Oprah stick yet.
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