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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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** Emily tells Richard things, and he replies in mono-syllables while reading the paper. To check, she adds that she's planning to run off with the golf instructor, to which he absently says "that's fine". The door bell rings, and Richard suggests it's the golf instructor, who couldn't wait until their meeting to see Emily.

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** Emily tells Richard things, and he replies in mono-syllables monosyllables while reading the paper. To check, check if he's paying attention, she adds that she's planning to run off with the golf instructor, to which he absently says "that's fine". The door bell rings, and Richard suggests it's the golf instructor, who couldn't wait until their meeting to see Emily.



* WorryingFoeTheWrongReason: Lorelai worries that the prison guard will think Rory is a snob because Lorelai hoped she had the cell to herself.

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* WorryingFoeTheWrongReason: WorryingForTheWrongReason: Lorelai worries that the prison guard will think Rory is a snob because Lorelai hoped she had the cell to herself.

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Maid of the week: Davida.

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Maid of the week: Davida.
Davida, who is terrified of her employers.



* BaitAndSwitch: Subverted. At a band meeting, Lane asks if they're breaking up. Zach seems worried for a moment, until he realizes to his relief that she means the band.

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* BaitAndSwitch: BaitAndSwitch:
** Emily tells Richard things, and he replies in mono-syllables while reading the paper. To check, she adds that she's planning to run off with the golf instructor, to which he absently says "that's fine". The door bell rings, and Richard suggests it's the golf instructor, who couldn't wait until their meeting to see Emily.
** Discussed. Emily doesn't believe Lorelai's news about Rory dropping out of Yale, saying she expects it to be this trope and Lorelai will reveal that the real news is that she's changing her biological sex.
--->'''Lorelai:''' Mom, Dad, I'm not having a sex change operation.
* BaitAndSwitchSentiment:
Subverted. At a band meeting, Lane asks if they're breaking up. Zach seems worried for a moment, until he realizes to his relief that she means the band.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Subverted. At a band meeting, Lane asks if they're breaking up. Zach seems worried for a moment, until he realizes to his relief that she means the band.
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* WorryingFoeTheWrongReason: Lorelai worries that the prison guard will think Rory is a snob because Lorelai hoped she had the cell to herself.
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* NotSoDifferent: Lorelai and Mrs. Kim have very similar reactions to their daughters wanting to quit college and the band.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lorelai's reference to the penal system, but defied with Gil's salami.
-->'''Lorelai:''' The penal system is not something we enjoy, it's something with a name that makes us giggle.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lorelai's reference 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 penal system, but defied with Gil's salami.
-->'''Lorelai:''' The penal system is not something we enjoy, it's something with a name that makes us giggle.
future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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Maid of the week: Davida

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Maid of the week: Davida
Davida.


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* LiteralMinded: Mrs. Kim shows the band their tour route, and Zach asks if anyone else is noticing a pattern, meaning that all the locations are churches. Gil replies that the route is kind of horseshoe-shaped.

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* ContinuitySnarl: Lorelai claims Rory never even shoplifted, something she did by accident in season one, and we know Lorelai knows about it because Rory kept the box of corn starch and they discussed it when she and Dean broke up and she was getting rid of all the things that reminded her of him.

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* ContinuitySnarl: Lorelai claims Rory never even shoplifted, [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E07 something she did by accident in season one, one]], and we know Lorelai knows about it because Rory kept the box of corn starch and they discussed it when she and Dean broke up and she was getting rid of all the things that reminded her of him.



** Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue.
** Series/GetSmart
** Music/SherylCrow

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** Lorelai doesn't want Rory's first time in a cell to be like Film/CagedHeat or Switchblade Sister.
** Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue.
** Series/GetSmart
** Music/SherylCrow
Series/NYPDBlue, using Andy Sipowicz from that show as a reference.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Zach momentarily thinks Lane is asking if ''they're'' breaking up, not the band.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** Lorelai's rant about how Rory is not too snobbish to share a prison cell.
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Zach momentarily thinks Lane is asking if ''they're'' breaking up, not the band.



** Anna Nicole Smith

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** Lane plans on buying Film/PeterPan collared shirts to resume her sales training.
** The Huntzbergers see Rory as
Anna Nicole SmithSmith.



** Zach considers himself [[Literature/TheWizardOfOz the cowardly lion]].

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** Zach considers himself [[Literature/TheWizardOfOz the cowardly lion]].scarecrow]], Lane being the obvious Dorothy, Brian the Tinman and Gil the lion.

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'''Season 5, episode 22'''

!!A House Is Not A Home



Maid of the week: Davida



* BlueScreenOfDeath: Rory doesn't function during her final exam because recent events sich as stealing a boat deal with feelings of disappointment have shocked her.

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* BlueScreenOfDeath: Rory doesn't function during her final exam because recent events sich such as stealing a boat to deal with feelings of disappointment have shocked her.



* MinorInsultMeltdown: Rory's overreaction to Mitchum's criticism has Lorelai point out that ''she'' would have eaten poundcake.



** Lorelai feels that only Louis B. Mayer has a right to say whether someone has "it".



** Music/ThreeDoorsDown
** Creator/DakotaFanning

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** Music/ThreeDoorsDown
Gil gets T-boned by a Music/ThreeDoorsDown fan.
** Creator/DakotaFanningSome product supposedly turns you into Creator/DakotaFanning.

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* BlueScreenOfDeath: Rory doesn't function during her final exam.
* BrokenTears: Rory doesn't know what to do, her plans are falling apart… so she starts crying, making her grandfather uncomfortable.

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* BlueScreenOfDeath: Rory doesn't function during her final exam.
exam because recent events sich as stealing a boat deal with feelings of disappointment have shocked her.
* BrokenTears: Rory goes to Richard's and tells him she doesn't know what to do, her plans are falling apart… so she starts crying, making her grandfather uncomfortable.



* CaptainObvious: Yes, Lorelai, they put Rory in a cell because that's where you put people in a precinct.
* CassandraTruth

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* CaptainObvious: Yes, Lorelai, they Lorelai wonders if the police put Rory in a cell because and is told that that's where you put people in a precinct.
* CassandraTruthCassandraTruth: Lorelai tells her parents about how awful the Huntzberger's have been to Rory, but Emily and Richard refuse to believe such a thing.



* ContinuitySnarl: Lorelai claims Rory never even shoplifted.

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* ContinuitySnarl: Lorelai claims Rory never even shoplifted.shoplifted, something she did by accident in season one, and we know Lorelai knows about it because Rory kept the box of corn starch and they discussed it when she and Dean broke up and she was getting rid of all the things that reminded her of him.



* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: No alarm bells rang in Logan's head when Rory asked him to commit a felony with her.
** Luke fails to realize he has to discuss having kids with Lorelai, with Lorelai.

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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: DramaticallyMissingThePoint:
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No alarm bells rang in Logan's head when Rory asked him to commit a felony with her.
** Luke fails to realize he has to discuss having kids with Lorelai, with Lorelai.''with Lorelai''.



* YouAreWorthHell: Lane's commitment to the band.

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* YouAreWorthHell: Lane's commitment to the band.band, she claims, is so strong that she is risking eternal damnation because rock'n roll is against her family's religion.
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* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Emily tells Richard she is having an affair to check if he's listening to her while he reads the newspaper.

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* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Emily tells Richard she is having an affair to check if he's listening to her while he reads the newspaper. He is.



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* CassandraTruth



* {{Hypocrite}}: Emily and Richard refuse to believe that ''their'' friends the Huntzbergers could ever be as manipulative to Rory as they are to Lorelai.




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** Zach considers himself [[Literature/TheWizardOfOz the cowardly lion]].

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Rory has to be picked up from jail after her grand theft boating adventure. The fifth annual Connecticut bike race passes through Stars Hollow. Lane worries that Hep Alien is breaking up.

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Rory has to be picked up from jail after her grand theft boating adventure. The fifth annual Connecticut bike race passes through Stars Hollow. Lane worries that Hep Alien is breaking up.
up. Mrs. Kim does not want to have a daughter who gives up, so books them a tour. Lorelai enlists her parents to convince Rory to stay in Yale, or tries.



** Luke fails to realize he has to discuss having kids with Lorelai, with Lorelai.



* NotSoDifferent: Lorelai and Mrs. Kim have very similar reactions to their daughters wanting to quit college and the band.



* NervousWreck: Davida, the maid of the week.
* NotSoDifferent: Lorelai and Mrs. Kim have very similar reactions to their daughters wanting to quit college and the band.
* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Emily tells Richard she is having an affair to check if he's listening to her while he reads the newspaper.




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** Creator/DakotaFanning
** Anna Nicole Smith



** Taylor is unimpressed with the whiny six-year-olds if the modern day; if this had been Creator/CharlesDickens' day they would have been sold off to a cobbler.

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** Taylor is unimpressed with the whiny six-year-olds if of the modern day; if this had been Creator/CharlesDickens' day they would have been sold off to a cobbler.

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Rory has to be picked up from jail. The fifth annual Connecticut bike race passes through Stars Hollow. Lane worries that Hep Alien is breaking up.

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Rory has to be picked up from jail.jail after her grand theft boating adventure. The fifth annual Connecticut bike race passes through Stars Hollow. Lane worries that Hep Alien is breaking up.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Zach momentarily thinks Lane is asking if ''they're'' breaking up, not the band.
* ContinuitySnarl: Lorelai claims Rory never even shoplifted.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: Rory doesn't like hearing that she'd be a wonderful assistant.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: No alarm bells rang in Logan's head when Rory asked him to commit a felony with her.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rory suddenly realizes that she got arrested after her mother got her out and drove her home.



** Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought.

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** Series/GetSmart
** Music/SherylCrow
** Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought.wrought.



** Music/ThreeDoorsDown



* YouAreWorthHell: Lane's commitment to the band.

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* YouAreWorthHell: Lane's commitment to the band.band.
* VerbalBackspace: Lorelai's entire rant about what happens when you steal a boat.
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* ShoutOut: Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue. Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought. Rory's only crime prior to this was returning Literature/TheIliad too late. Lorelai thinks she should call Creator/HarryHoudini to get Rory out of her legal tangle. Music/{{Prince}} made an impression on Mrs. Kim by not swearing in his lyrics. Taylor is unimpressed with the whiny six-year-olds if the modern day; if this had been Creator/CharlesDickens' day they would have been sold off to a cobbler.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue. Series/NYPDBlue.
**
Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought. brought.
**
Rory's only crime prior to this was returning Literature/TheIliad too late. late.
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Lorelai thinks she should call Creator/HarryHoudini to get Rory out of her legal tangle. tangle.
**
Music/{{Prince}} made an impression on Mrs. Kim by not swearing in his lyrics. lyrics.
**
Taylor is unimpressed with the whiny six-year-olds if the modern day; if this had been Creator/CharlesDickens' day they would have been sold off to a cobbler.

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* BrokenTears: Rory doesn't know what to do, her plans are falling apart… so she starts crying, making her grandfather uncomfortable.



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lorelai's reference to the penal system, but defied with Gil's salami.



* ShoutOut: Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue. Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought. Rory's only crime prior to this was returning Literature/TheIliad too late. Lorelai thinks she should call Creator/HarryHoudini to get Rory out of her legal tangle.

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* ShoutOut: Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue. Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought. Rory's only crime prior to this was returning Literature/TheIliad too late. Lorelai thinks she should call Creator/HarryHoudini to get Rory out of her legal tangle. Music/{{Prince}} made an impression on Mrs. Kim by not swearing in his lyrics. Taylor is unimpressed with the whiny six-year-olds if the modern day; if this had been Creator/CharlesDickens' day they would have been sold off to a cobbler.

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* BlueScreenOfDeath:

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* BlueScreenOfDeath: Rory doesn't function during her final exam.



* ShoutOut: Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue. Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought. Rory's only crime prior to this was returning Literature/TheIliad too late. Lorelai thinks she should call Creator/HarryHoudini to get Rory out of her legal tangle.

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* NotSoDifferent: Lorelai and Mrs. Kim have very similar reactions to their daughters wanting to quit college and the band.
* ShoutOut: Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue. Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought. Rory's only crime prior to this was returning Literature/TheIliad too late. Lorelai thinks she should call Creator/HarryHoudini to get Rory out of her legal tangle.tangle.
* YouAreWorthHell: Lane's commitment to the band.
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Rory has to be picked up from jail. The fifth annual Connecticut bike race passes through Stars Hollow. Lane worries that Hep Alien is breaking up.

!!Provides examples of:
* BlueScreenOfDeath:
* BrutalHonesty: Logan criticizes his father for saying what he thinks without concern for whose feelings get hurt, but never says he doesn't think he really meant what he said to Rory.
* CaptainObvious: Yes, Lorelai, they put Rory in a cell because that's where you put people in a precinct.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
-->'''Lorelai:''' The penal system is not something we enjoy, it's something with a name that makes us giggle.
* ShoutOut: Lorelai gets most of her knowledge about the prison system from Series/NYPDBlue. Taylor laments about what Creator/JaneFonda has brought. Rory's only crime prior to this was returning Literature/TheIliad too late. Lorelai thinks she should call Creator/HarryHoudini to get Rory out of her legal tangle.

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