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* BrutalHonesty: Richard confronts Mitchum about Rory, and Mitchum doesn't try very hard to spare his feelings.


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* MamaBear: Emily gets her grandmama bear on when she learns that Rory wasn't welcomed into Logan's family like she thought. She goes from worrying about Shira sitting at the wrong table to giving her a dressing-down that rivals the ones she usually reserves for her employees.


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* ReallyGetsAround: Emily points out to Shira that both Logan and Mitchum do this.

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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: The kids in Miss Patty's show throw glitter at the audience. Inverted since they don't exactly appreciate it.

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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: The kids in Miss Patty's show throw glitter at the audience. Inverted since they the adults in the audience don't exactly appreciate it.


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** Richard's father loved Benny Goodman and hated Music/GlennMiller.


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** There's talk of giving Rory the [[UsefulNotes/JohnAdams Abigail Adams]] award for stellar party-throwing.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Sookie assures everyone she is fine without an oven, lists a number of salads and carpaccios they can make without it, before she begs Lorelai to get her another oven.


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** Lorelai thinks Luke should go be [[Series/TheLifeAndTimesOfGrizzlyAdams Grizzly Adams]].
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* RunningJoke: TV shows were forensic scientists solve crime by poking dead people's organs.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Mitchum has a lot of affairs according to Emily.

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* CaptainObvious: Paris doesn't see the obvious solution to being broke. Rory explains it to her. (It's getting a job.)

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* CaptainObvious: CaptainOblivious: Paris doesn't see the obvious solution to being broke. Rory explains it to her. (It's getting a job.)



** Luke let Nicole talk on her phone in the diner in season four, but won't let Lorelai use it now that they're dating.

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** Luke let Nicole talk on her phone in the diner in season four, but won't let Lorelai use it now that they're dating.



** Paris learned to socialize with workers from Film/WorkingGirl and Series/JustShootMe.

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** Paris learned to socialize with workers from Film/WorkingGirl and Series/JustShootMe.Series/JustShootMe and has already quoted Wendy Malick a few times.
** Sookie is amazed that Theatre/SwanLake is a thing Miss Patty's ballet dancers do.



** Paris thinks Creator/TSEliot was right about criticism.



* TitleDrop: The opening and outro song of Miss Patty's show contains the lyric "we've got magic to do".

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* TitleDrop: The opening intro and outro song of Miss Patty's show contains the lyric "we've got magic to do".

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!!Tropes

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!!Tropes!!Tropes:
* CallBack: Back in season five, Lorelai changed insurance company to her father's. This episode, Lorelai has to contact him for a claim related to the oven fire.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Dora complains that her punch is a very weak drink.

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Rory's assistant: Lacey Boscombe.



* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira Huntzberger, whose only difference from Rory in terms of being qualified to be a Huntzberger is that she doesn't want a career.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira {{Hypocrite}}:
** Shira
Huntzberger, whose only difference from Rory in terms of being qualified to be a Huntzberger is that she doesn't want a career.career.
** Luke let Nicole talk on her phone in the diner in season four, but won't let Lorelai use it now that they're dating.



* RichBitch: Shira Huntzberger
* ShoutOut

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* RichBitch: Shira Huntzberger
Huntzberger.
* ShoutOutRunningJoke: TV shows were forensic scientists solve crime by poking dead people's organs.
* ShoutOut:
** Lorelai yells "Film/GungaDin" because she needs water.



** Film/GungaDin
** Film/GoneWithTheWind
** Creator/BabeRuth
** Richard reads Creator/SamuelBeckett.
** Arthur Schopenhauer
** Mortimer Adler
** Euclid's ''Geometry''
** Paris learned to socialize with workers from Film/WorkingGirl and Series/JustShootMe
** Creator/TSEliot
** Music/TheAndrewsSisters

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** Film/GungaDin
** Film/GoneWithTheWind
** Creator/BabeRuth
Nora declares that Rory is the Creator/BabeRuth of the DAR.
** Richard reads Creator/SamuelBeckett.
Creator/SamuelBeckett and finds him hard to emerge from.
** Richard claims Rory could discuss Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer's influence on Creator/FriedrichNietzsche when she was ten.
** Richard discusses Mortimer Adler
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Adler's advice that one should read each Classic a minimum of three times. He wonders if Adler himself read Euclid's ''Geometry''
''Geometry'' three times, seeing as it's a Classic he recommended everyone read.
** Paris learned to socialize with workers from Film/WorkingGirl and Series/JustShootMe
Series/JustShootMe.
** Creator/TSEliot
** Music/TheAndrewsSisters
The DAR function has a band imitating Music/TheAndrewsSisters.



** Paris also thinks the Romanovs had it coming.
** Creator/LucilleBall
** Ben Bradley

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** Paris [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS02E17 also thinks the Romanovs had it coming.
coming]].
** Creator/LucilleBall
** Ben Bradley
Kirk's pantomime of birth makes Lorelai think of Creator/LucilleBall.


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** Rory calls Lacey her "[[Film/HisGirlFriday girl Friday]]".

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'''Season 6, episode 5'''

!!We've Got Magic To Do



* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: The kids in Miss Patty's show throw glitter at the audience. Inverted since they don't exactly appreciate it.



* GoldDigger: Shira Huntzberger, who used to be a cocktail waitres.
* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira Huntzberger, whose only difference from Rory in terms of being qualified to be a Huntzberger is that she doesn't want to have a career.

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* GoldDigger: Shira Huntzberger, who used to be a cocktail waitres.
waitress.
* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira Huntzberger, whose only difference from Rory in terms of being qualified to be a Huntzberger is that she doesn't want to have a career.



** Series/JustShootMe

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** Paris learned to socialize with workers from Film/WorkingGirl and Series/JustShootMe



** UsefulNotes/DesmondTutu
** The Romanovs had it coming.

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** UsefulNotes/DesmondTutu
Creator/KarlMarx comes alive to Paris when she has to get a job for one evening.
** The Paris thinks Rory is too much like UsefulNotes/DesmondTutu.
** Paris also thinks the
Romanovs had it coming.



** Music/TheBeatles
* ShowWithinAShow: Miss Patty's

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** Music/TheBeatles
Shira loves Music/TheBeatles. She saw Music/PaulMccartney and she ''almost died''.
* ShowWithinAShow: Miss Patty'sPatty's.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, Lorelai and Sookie are grossed out by Kirk's miming being born.
* TitleDrop: The opening and outro song of Miss Patty's show contains the lyric "we've got magic to do".

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* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira Huntzberger, whose only difference from Rory in the department of being uniquely qualified to be a Huntzberger is that she doesn't want to have a career.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira Huntzberger, whose only difference from Rory in the department terms of being uniquely qualified to be a Huntzberger is that she doesn't want to have a career.



** Sookie's only reget in life is that she saw ''Mummenschanz''.



** Creator/SamuelBeckett

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** Creator/SamuelBeckettRichard reads Creator/SamuelBeckett.


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** Mortimer Adler

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Sookie's stove caught fire. Lorelai starts to think it's some karmic thing about ''her''. The women at the D.A.R. are having trouble filling tables for a function. Lorelai goes to some musical show where Miss Patty has trained kids to toss glitter at the audience and Luke ends up going camping instead because Lorelai doesn't think he'd enjoy it. Shira and Mitchum Huntsberger and her friends crash Rory's party.

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Sookie's stove caught fire. Lorelai starts to think it's some karmic thing about ''her''. The women at the D.A.R. are having trouble filling tables for a function. They let Rory come up with ideas. Lorelai goes to some musical show where Miss Patty has trained kids to toss glitter at the audience and Luke ends up going camping instead because Lorelai doesn't think he'd enjoy it. Shira and Mitchum Huntsberger and her friends crash Rory's party.



* CaptainObvious: Paris doesn't see the obvious solution to being broke. Rory explains it to her.
* Catch22Dilemma: Richard has to either believe that his friends were assholes to his granddaughter or that his granddaughter is lying.

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* CaptainObvious: Paris doesn't see the obvious solution to being broke. Rory explains it to her.
her. (It's getting a job.)
* Catch22Dilemma: Richard has to either believe that his friends were assholes to his granddaughter or that his daughter is lying and his granddaughter is lying.depressed for no reason.



* GoldDigger: Shira Huntzberger
* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira Huntzberger

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* GoldDigger: Shira Huntzberger
Huntzberger, who used to be a cocktail waitres.
* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira HuntzbergerHuntzberger, whose only difference from Rory in the department of being uniquely qualified to be a Huntzberger is that she doesn't want to have a career.



* ProductPlacement: Anxiety pills.

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* ProductPlacement: Anxiety pills. Paris's supposed anxiety disorder is never mentioned again.


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* YourCheatingHeart: Mitchum has a lot of affairs according to Emily.
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* Catch22Dilemma: Richard has to either believe that his friends were assholes to his grand-daughter or that his grand-daughter is lying.

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* Catch22Dilemma: Richard has to either believe that his friends were assholes to his grand-daughter granddaughter or that his grand-daughter granddaughter is lying.



* NaiveNewcomer: Rory to the D.A.R., otherwise she'd know you can do ''anything'' in just a week.

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* NaiveNewcomer: Rory to the D.A.R., otherwise she'd know you can can't do ''anything'' in just a week.
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* GoldDigger: Shira Huntzberger
* {{Hypocrite}}: …Shira Huntzberger
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Richard's expression after he finds out why Rory dropped out of Yale.


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* RichBitch: Shira Huntzberger


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** Music/TheBeatles

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Sookie's stove caught fire. Lorelai starts to think it's some karmic thing about ''her''. The women at the D.A.R. are having trouble filling tables for a function.

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Sookie's stove caught fire. Lorelai starts to think it's some karmic thing about ''her''. The women at the D.A.R. are having trouble filling tables for a function.
function. Lorelai goes to some musical show where Miss Patty has trained kids to toss glitter at the audience and Luke ends up going camping instead because Lorelai doesn't think he'd enjoy it. Shira and Mitchum Huntsberger and her friends crash Rory's party.



* CaptainObvious: Paris doesn't see the obvious solution to being broke.

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* CaptainObvious: Paris doesn't see the obvious solution to being broke. Rory explains it to her.



* FeeFiFauxPas: You can't seat a Huntzberger at the loser table even if they crash the party.



* ProductPlacement: Anxiety pills.



* ThemedParty: The D.A.R. is throwing one.

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** Creator/TSEliot
** Music/TheAndrewsSisters
** UsefulNotes/DesmondTutu
** The Romanovs had it coming.
** Creator/LucilleBall
** Ben Bradley
* ShowWithinAShow: Miss Patty's
* ThemedParty: The D.A.R. is throwing one.one with the theme of ''Hollywood Canteen''.
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Sookie's stove caught fire. Lorelai starts to think it's some karmic thing about ''her''. The women at the D.A.R. are having trouble filling tables for a function.

!!Tropes
* CaptainObvious: Paris doesn't see the obvious solution to being broke.
* Catch22Dilemma: Richard has to either believe that his friends were assholes to his grand-daughter or that his grand-daughter is lying.
* NaiveNewcomer: Rory to the D.A.R., otherwise she'd know you can do ''anything'' in just a week.
* ShoutOut
** Film/GungaDin
** Film/GoneWithTheWind
** Creator/BabeRuth
** Creator/SamuelBeckett
** Arthur Schopenhauer
** Euclid's ''Geometry''
** Series/JustShootMe
* ThemedParty: The D.A.R. is throwing one.
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