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* AmbiguousDisorder: Emily doesn't know why Rory sleeps so much nowadays, but figures it's some "young woman's melancholia".

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* AmbiguousDisorder: DiagnosedByTheAudience: InUniverse. Emily doesn't know why Rory sleeps so much nowadays, but figures it's some "young woman's melancholia".



* CaptainObvious: Taylor acts like he doesn't recognize Kirk and Andrew in their reenactment costumes, so Gypsy tries telling him that they're Kirk and Andrew.

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* CaptainObvious: Taylor acts like he doesn't recognize Kirk and Andrew in their reenactment costumes, renamed tropecostumes, so Gypsy tries telling him that they're Kirk and Andrew.
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* ImmediateSelfcontradiction: Taylor claims to want to increase tourism revenue, but refuses to make the only inn in town marketable.

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* ImmediateSelfcontradiction: ImmediateSelfContradiction: Taylor claims to want to increase tourism revenue, but refuses to make the only inn in town marketable.
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* RiddleForTheAges: What did teenage Lorelai hide under those tootsie rolls?
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* BrickJoke: Luke's Zen-policy regarding Taylor, mentioned early in the episode, falls apart later when Taylor changes the street name and Luke has to update his address with all his contacts.

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* BrickJoke: Luke's Zen-policy Zen policy regarding Taylor, mentioned early in the episode, falls apart later when Taylor changes the street name and Luke has to update his address with all his contacts.



** Michel asks if Lorelai saw Creator/JoanRivers or Suzanne Somers holding the figurine she's seen before.

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** Michel asks if Lorelai saw Creator/JoanRivers or Suzanne Somers Creator/SuzanneSomers holding the figurine she's seen before.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Discussed and deconstructed. Kirk explains that there used to be several streets named Constabulary Road in Stars Hollow, with dire consequences. Mail was misdelivered, soldiers lost their way, old people got disoriented. There was rioting, chaos, death, everyone hated it.
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* DeadlyScratch: Taylor regales Lorelai with the history of Sores and Boils Alley, informing her that sores and boils were a huge health issue back in the day.


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* {{Malaproper}}: Sookie discusses exploiting this trope by renaming their street "Bunions", which sounds like a {{portmanteau}} of "buns" and "onions" if you don't think too hard.


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* NoYou: Michel calls Sookie silly. Sookie retorts that no, ''Michel'' is silly.
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* CaptainObvious: Taylor acts like he doesn't recognize Kirk and Andrew in their reenactment costumes, so Gypsy tries telling him that they're Kirk and Andrew.


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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Kirk plays a cobbler, but doesn't seem to know what a cobbler is. Lorelai hangs a lampshade on it. Keep in mind that this is a character he's played yearly for most of his adult life.

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* RunningJoke: Luke's zen thing.

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* RunningJoke: RunningJoke:
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Luke's zen thing.new Zen thing.
** The urn Emily sent to Luke's and kids playing on it.

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To launch his old street names idea, Taylor has two men dress up in their reenactment uniforms and act confused about the streets in town. Richard and Emily begin to realize that they should make sure Rory and Logan don't have sex before marriage. Emily sends Lorelai a bunch of old stuff. Richard finally caves and asks Lorelai to help him deal with Rory.

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To launch his old street names idea, Taylor has two men Andrew and Kirk dress up in their reenactment uniforms and act confused about the streets in town. Richard and Emily begin to realize that they should make sure Rory and Logan don't have sex before marriage. Emily sends Lorelai a bunch of old stuff. Richard finally caves and asks Lorelai to help him deal with Rory.
Rory.

Maid of the week: Consuela.



* BrickJoke: Luke Zen-policy regarding Taylor, mentioned early in the episode, falls apart later when Taylor changes the street name and Luke has to update his address with all his contacts.

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* BrickJoke: Luke Luke's Zen-policy regarding Taylor, mentioned early in the episode, falls apart later when Taylor changes the street name and Luke has to update his address with all his contacts.



* RunningJoke: Luke's zen thing.



** Katie Couric
** Alfredo Garcia
** Charlie Rose
** Creator/JohnLeCarre
** Film/NormaRae
** Creator/MollyRingwald giving her pants to Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall in Film/SixteenCandles.

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** Rory doesn't care whether she misses Katie Couric
Couric as she doesn't watch her.
** Rory thinks Logan brought her the head of Alfredo Garcia
Garcia.
** Richard doesn't want to miss Charlie Rose
Rose.
** Creator/JohnLeCarre
Michel asks if Lorelai saw Creator/JoanRivers or Suzanne Somers holding the figurine she's seen before.
** Film/NormaRae
Richard mentions that it's usually at the point in Creator/JohnLeCarre novels where they go snooping that things start to go wrong.
** Kirk knows the saying "[[Film/TheGodfather cross the Don in the morning, sleep with the fishes in the afternoon]]".
** Lorelai stands up like Film/NormaRae to protest the street name change.
** Lorelai compares Taylor's street name change to
Creator/MollyRingwald giving her pants to Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall in Film/SixteenCandles.Film/SixteenCandles and Anthony showing it to other guys for one dollar each.
** Logan suggests Rory [[Literature/{{Rapunzel}} let down her hair]] so he can climb in her window.
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* BrickJoke: Luke Zen-policy regarding Taylor, mentioned early in the episode, falls apart later when Taylor changes the street name and Luke has to update his address with all his contacts.


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* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Lorelai claims she is afraid of sticking her head out to tell Emily to stop sending her stuff, because Emily will blow her head off and then she'll have no head. She figures Emily will carpet bomb her with actual carpets.


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* PassiveAggressiveCombat: Lorelai swears her mother is a tenth degree black belt in this, and that's why she won't fall for the bait and talk to her about sending her stuff.
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'''Season 6, episode 6'''

!!Welcome To The Dollhouse


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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Michel thinks the reason packages of odd things keep getting delivered to the inn in Lorelai's name is a sign she has an alternate personality who has a shopping addiction.
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I'm guessing at Sixteen Candles.


** Emily can't understand why a teenaged Lorelai would need a drawer full of tootsie rolls.

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** Emily can't understand why a teenaged Lorelai would need a drawer full of tootsie rolls. When the girl is thirty-seven, Richard suggests it might have been to hide something under them.



* MeaningfulRename: Third street gets renamed Sores and Boils Alley.

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* MeaningfulRename: Third street gets renamed Sores and Boils Alley. Kirk suggests a re-rename that he thinks is Native American for either "you fish on your side of the river, I fish on my side, no one fishes in the middle" or "buffalo".



** Creator/MollyRingwald giving her pants to Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall.

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** Creator/MollyRingwald giving her pants to Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall.Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall in Film/SixteenCandles.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: What ''does'' it mean when your boyfriend gives you a ridiculously expensive purse?

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint:
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What ''does'' it mean when your boyfriend gives you a ridiculously expensive purse?



* ImmediateSelfcontradiction: Raylor claims to want to increase tourism revenue, but refuses to make the only inn in town marketable.

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* ImmediateSelfcontradiction: Raylor Taylor claims to want to increase tourism revenue, but refuses to make the only inn in town marketable.



* RegalRinglets: Rory has them noe that she lives in the upper class.

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* RegalRinglets: Rory has them noe now that she lives in the upper class.

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To launch his old street names idea, Taylor has two men dress up in their reenactment uniforms and act confused about the streets in town. Richard and Emily begin to realize that they should make sure Rory and Logan don't have sex before marriage. Emily sends Lorelai a bunch of old stuff.

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To launch his old street names idea, Taylor has two men dress up in their reenactment uniforms and act confused about the streets in town. Richard and Emily begin to realize that they should make sure Rory and Logan don't have sex before marriage. Emily sends Lorelai a bunch of old stuff.
stuff. Richard finally caves and asks Lorelai to help him deal with Rory.


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* CallBack: Rory tells Logan she loves him, and assures him that she doesn't want him to feel the way she felt the first time Dean told her that he loved her.


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* RevengeBeforeReason: The other theme of the episode.


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** Creator/MollyRingwald giving her pants to Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall.

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To launch his old street names idea, Taylor has two men dress up in their reenactment uniforms and act confused about the streets in town. Richard and Emily begin to realize that Logan is serious about Rory

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To launch his old street names idea, Taylor has two men dress up in their reenactment uniforms and act confused about the streets in town. Richard and Emily begin to realize that they should make sure Rory and Logan is serious about Rory
don't have sex before marriage. Emily sends Lorelai a bunch of old stuff.



* CentralTheme: Some type of handbag.



* MeaningfulRename: Third street gets renamed Sores and Boils Alley.

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* MeaningfulRename: Third street gets renamed Sores and Boils Alley.** Emily can't understand why a teenaged Lorelai would need a drawer full of tootsie rolls.


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* ImmediateSelfcontradiction: Raylor claims to want to increase tourism revenue, but refuses to make the only inn in town marketable.
* MeaningfulRename: Third street gets renamed Sores and Boils Alley.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lorelai is so mad she is beyond coffee.


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* RegalRinglets: Rory has them noe that she lives in the upper class.


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** Charlie Rose
** Creator/JohnLeCarre
** Film/NormaRae
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To launch his old street names idea, Taylor has two men dress up in their reenactment uniforms and act confused about the streets in town. Richard and Emily begin to realize that Logan is serious about Rory

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Emily doesn't know why Rory sleeps so much nowadays, but figures it's some "young woman's melancholia".
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: What ''does'' it mean when your boyfriend gives you a ridiculously expensive purse?
** Taylor can't understand why Lorelai would have a problem with her inn being on Sores and Boils Alley.
* MeaningfulRename: Third street gets renamed Sores and Boils Alley.
* GoodNewsBadNews: Lorelai is sick of depressing newspapers, so considers starting her own which only reports good news, such as "No Civil War in Canada" and a feature called "Puppies: how cute are ''they''?"
* ProductPlacement: Birkin bags.
* ShoutOut
** Katie Couric
** Alfredo Garcia
* TimeTravel: Kirk and Andrew pretend to be from 1779.
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