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* HandshakeRefusal: Mrs. Kim refuses to shake hands with Gil.



* ReversePsychology: Mrs. Kim uses this to convince Lane to come to dinner.

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* ReversePsychology: Mrs. Kim uses this to convince Lane to come to dinner. And bring her band.
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* CaptainObvious: Kyon informs Lane that the ancestors do ''not'' appreciate being spat on.


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* HatesBeingTouched: Lorelai summarizes the sexual harassment seminar as "no one touch Michel".

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* CallBack: Rory helping Logan do his journalism piece is reminiscent of when she tried to help Jess do his homework in season two.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
** Zach wants to use a photo where Brian looks bad and the rest of the band looks good, arguing the good of the many. Paris did the exact same thing with a class photo for the yearbook in season three, using one where Rory was sneezing but the rest of the senior class looked okay.
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Rory helping Logan do his journalism piece is reminiscent of when she tried to help Jess do his homework in season two.two.
* CircularReasoning: Zach wonders why Lane isn't wearing her glasses since she can't see without them. Lane replies that she's wearing contacts. Zach then wonders why she would wear contacts. Lane says it's so she won't have to wear glasses.



* ProductPlacement: Toblerone

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* {{Metaphorgotten}}: In inviting Lane to Lunar New Year's Dinner, Kyon says that not attending is spitting on the ancestors, and adds that ancestors don't like spit.
* {{Neologism}}: Lorelai's new favorite literary genre is kitch lit.
* ProductPlacement: TobleroneToblerone.


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* TooMuchInformation: Zach figures he could do without Gil's theory about slimy food just sliding through you.
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'''Season 5, episode 12'''

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Moved parenthesis to trivia tab.


Mitchum Huntzberger drops by and gives Doyle an anxiety attack. Mrs. Kim invites Lane to Lunar New Year, which fell on February 9 that year. Lane demands that her band mates be invited as well. Richard and Emily try to coordinate their schedules in such a way that they don't run into each other. Rory has three piles of notes to help Logan write his piece. Kyon finds she likes Brian.

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Mitchum Huntzberger drops by and gives Doyle an anxiety attack. Richard and Emily try to coordinate their schedules in such a way that they don't run into each other. Rory has three piles of notes (one is interviews, one research, the last statistics) to help Logan write his piece, admitting she is kind of a note freak. Lorelai decides she's into "kitch lit", the genre of literature that covers manuals for kitchen appliances. Cletus finds his way out of the stable and into Mrs. Berg's wading pool.

Mrs. Kim invites Lane to Lunar New Year, which fell on February 9 that year. Lane demands that her band mates be invited as well. Richard and Emily try to coordinate their schedules in such a way that they don't run into each other. Rory has three piles of notes to help Logan write his piece. Kyon finds she likes Brian.



* BlatantLies: Mrs. Kim claims not to have enough chairs to invite Lane's band. Lane calls her on it, pointing out that she ''sells'' chairs.



** Charlie Rose

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** Lorelai wants Luke to get a tv so she can watch Charlie RoseRose in bed, but Luke thinks he doesn't have Creator/MelBrooks on enough and whenever he does you just dream about Nazis who look like Creator/NathanLane.



** Creator/MelBrooks
** Creator/NathanLane
** Creator/PatrickSwayze
** Series/TheOfficeUK is best on the fourth watch. (Interestingly, this episode aired just a month before the American version of the show premiered.)
** Series/DarkShadows

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** Creator/MelBrooks
Michel thinks someone is "stealing" their rooms (and toblerone). Lorelai suggests it's either a ghost or Creator/PatrickSwayze in search of his lost career.
** Creator/NathanLane
** Creator/PatrickSwayze
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Rory tells Logan Series/TheOfficeUK is best on the fourth watch. (Interestingly, this episode aired just a month before watch.
** Sookie watches Series/DarkShadows in an empty room at
the American version of the show premiered.)
** Series/DarkShadows
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"Come Home"

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"Come Home"
!!Come Home

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"Come Home"



* BaitAndSwitch: Emily says to Simon that she's waiting for a man "with an exotic accent and a red coat", then let's on that she means a valet.



** Zach confirms that Hep Alien is not Music/Maroon5

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** Zach confirms that Hep Alien is not Music/Maroon5Music/Maroon5.



** …Creator/MarilynMonroe, Creator/ArthurMiller, whose marriage failed because she wore the wrong hat to the wedding.

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** …Creator/MarilynMonroe, …And Creator/MarilynMonroe, Creator/ArthurMiller, whose marriage failed because she wore the wrong hat to the wedding.wedding.
** Emily can't look like Mary Martin for her re-wedding.


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** Chris and Gigi watch Teletubbies.
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* BrickJoke: The sexual harassment seminar turns out to be about Michel's discomfort around people, and the meeting ends with Lorelai saying [[ItMakesSenseInContext everyone should drop their pants for Michel]].


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** Kyon returns Lane's Music/{{Madonna}} t-shirt.
** Zach confirms that Hep Alien is not Music/Maroon5
** Rory read about the My Lai massacre when she was twelve, polishing off Literature/NancyDrew at some point too.
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Some of these will just have to wait until I come back around.


* BerserkButton: A relative of Lane's enforces Mrs. Kim's rules this way.
* BrilliantButLazy: Logan

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* BerserkButton: A relative of Lane's enforces Mrs. Kim's rules this way.
by angrily shouting at Zach.
* BrilliantButLazy: LoganLogan writes well when he writes at all, according to Doyle.



* GreenEyedMonster: Richard learns about Simon.

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* GreenEyedMonster: Richard learns about Simon.Simon, an associate who briefly dated Emily while they were separated.



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* TitleDropTitleDrop: Emily asks Richard to "come home".
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** Series/TheOffice is best on the fourth watch.

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** Series/TheOffice Series/TheOfficeUK is best on the fourth watch.watch. (Interestingly, this episode aired just a month before the American version of the show premiered.)
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-->'''Lorelai:''' Oh my god! My parents are having an affair!

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-->'''Lorelai:''' --->'''Lorelai:''' Oh my god! My parents are having an affair!



** Celine is back and talking about her friendship with Creator/ClarkGable, calling Lorelai Creator/NatalieWood, mocking Creator/MarleneDietrich a trans man…

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** Celine is back and talking about her friendship with Creator/ClarkGable, calling Lorelai Creator/NatalieWood, mocking Creator/MarleneDietrich as a trans man…

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Sookie tells Jackson that she has to work overtime when all she does is eat Toblerone and watch ''Dark Shadows''. Richard hits Emily's car with his car. Gil really gets into the whole Korean cultural experience. Mrs. Kim accuses Lane of grooving to the gayageum. Emily asks Richard to move back to the main house. They decide to spend their

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Sookie tells Jackson that she has to work overtime when all she does is eat Toblerone and watch ''Dark Shadows''. Richard hits Emily's car with his car. Gil really gets into the whole Korean cultural experience. Mrs. Kim accuses Lane of grooving to the gayageum. Emily asks Richard to move back to the main house. They decide to spend their
their ruby anniversary renewing their vows. Emily makes use of the situation to set up Christopher and Lorelai once again.


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** Celine is back and talking about her friendship with Creator/ClarkGable, calling Lorelai Creator/NatalieWood, mocking Creator/MarleneDietrich a trans man…
** …Creator/MarilynMonroe, Creator/ArthurMiller, whose marriage failed because she wore the wrong hat to the wedding.
** Luke mixes up Creator/PatrickStewart with John Stewart.

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Mitchum Huntzberger drops by and gives Doyle an anxiety attack. Mrs. Kim invites Lane to Lunar New Year, which fell on February 9 that year. Lane demands that her band mates be invited as well. Richard and Emily try to coordinate their schedules in such a way that they don't run into each other. Rory has three piles of notes to help Logan write his piece.

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Mitchum Huntzberger drops by and gives Doyle an anxiety attack. Mrs. Kim invites Lane to Lunar New Year, which fell on February 9 that year. Lane demands that her band mates be invited as well. Richard and Emily try to coordinate their schedules in such a way that they don't run into each other. Rory has three piles of notes to help Logan write his piece.
piece. Kyon finds she likes Brian.

Sookie tells Jackson that she has to work overtime when all she does is eat Toblerone and watch ''Dark Shadows''. Richard hits Emily's car with his car. Gil really gets into the whole Korean cultural experience. Mrs. Kim accuses Lane of grooving to the gayageum. Emily asks Richard to move back to the main house. They decide to spend their



* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Lorelai memorized the oven manual and now can instruct people how to make it work. Not long ago she didn't know what a broiler was.


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* GreenEyedMonster: Richard learns about Simon.
* ProductPlacement: Toblerone


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* RunningGag: Kirk wants experience in the hotel business and hires himself in several positions at the Dragonfly.


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** Series/TheOffice is best on the fourth watch.
** Series/DarkShadows


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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Mrs. Kim and Lane's band. First she and Brian separately observe that Zach's E-string is a bit flat. Second she and Zach bond over thinking Lane should start wearing glasses again.
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Mitchum Huntzberger drops by and gives Doyle an anxiety attack. Mrs. Kim invites Lane to Lunar New Year, which fell on February 9 that year. Lane demands that her band mates be invited as well. Richard and Emily try to coordinate their schedules in such a way that they don't run into each other. Rory has three piles of notes to help Logan write his piece.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lorelai and Rory come to Friday night dinner and see the divorced grandparents through the window, seemingly in a heated argument. Then they kiss.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Lorelai memorized the oven manual and now can instruct people how to make it work. Not long ago she didn't know what a broiler was.
* BrilliantButLazy: Logan
* CallBack: Rory helping Logan do his journalism piece is reminiscent of when she tried to help Jess do his homework in season two.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** Kirk crashes a staff meeting to learn staff meeting rules, such as "outsiders may not crash staff meetings".
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Lorelai and Rory come to Friday night dinner and see the divorced grandparents through the window, seemingly in a heated argument. Then they kiss.



* ReversePsychology: Mrs. Kim uses this to convince Lane to come to dinner.

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* ReversePsychology: Mrs. Kim uses this to convince Lane to come to dinner.dinner.
* ShoutOut:
** Charlie Rose
** Creator/MelBrooks
** Creator/NathanLane
** Creator/PatrickSwayze
* StopBeingStereotypical: Inverted. Zach wants Lane to start being steretypical again and wear glasses so she looks like the smart girl she is.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lorelai and Rory come to Friday night dinner and see the divorced grandparents through the window, seemingly in a heated argument. Then they kiss.
-->'''Lorelai:''' Oh my god! My parents are having an affair!
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* BerserkButton: A relative of Lane's enforces Mrs. Kim's rules this way.
* ReversePsychology: Mrs. Kim uses this to convince Lane to come to dinner.

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