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* {{Mondegreen}}: Luke mishears "town meetings" as "clown beatings".
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* {{Mondegreen}}: MondegreenGag: Luke mishears "town meetings" as "clown beatings".
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* TakeThat: Rory suggests the only difference between Lorelai/Luke and Gwen/Gavin is that the former two don't sing, then corrects herself to "well, neither do Gwen and Gavin".
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Played for laughs. Lorelai tells Logan it's his fault Rory didn't speak to her for five months, three weeks and sixteen days, also known as "over six months" or even "five months, five weeks and two days".
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** Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' simultaneously happening to be enjoying a tipper.
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** Both Rory and Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' simultaneously happening to be enjoying a tipper.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When they tell her they all just came for a drink, Rory points out that it's too much of a coincidence that four senior staffers just happen to be in a bar together at the same time. Later, Rory tries to make the same excuse for them, and Paris points out the same thing.
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* {{Pun}}: Lorelai calls Kirk part of the local color, specifically purple.
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misuse; this is too general for this trope (there has to be a specific motif chosen to qualify)
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* ThemedParty: The Winter festival is winter themed.
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** Kirk is deeply offended by Lorelai shamelessly having her dog tell people's fortunes while admitting she knows he's not a qualified fortune teller.
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** Kirk is deeply offended by Lorelai shamelessly having her dog tell people's fortunes while admitting she knows he's not a qualified real fortune teller.
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* MondeGreen: Luke mishears "town meeting" as "clown beating".
-->'''Lorelai:''' Oh no, not again.
-->'''Lorelai:''' Oh no, not again.
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* MondeGreen: {{Mondegreen}}: Luke mishears "town meeting" meetings" as "clown beating".
-->'''Lorelai:''' Ohbeatings".
* OhNoNotAgain: When Luke relays the news of the clown beatings to Lorelai, who also didn't hear what people were shouting, she moans: "Oh no, notagain.again!"
-->'''Lorelai:''' Oh
* OhNoNotAgain: When Luke relays the news of the clown beatings to Lorelai, who also didn't hear what people were shouting, she moans: "Oh no, not
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** No one at the town meeting understands what the big deal is with Taylor being stuck in Maine.
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** No one at the town meeting understands what the big deal is with Taylor being stuck in Maine.Maine and being unable to run the winter carnival.
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* LiteralMinded: Luke compares Stars Hollowers to Pavlovian dogs who come running once you ring a bell. Lorelai tells him not to drool on the seats they're sitting on.
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* LiteralMinded: LiteralMinded:
** Luke compares Stars Hollowers to Pavlovian dogs who come running once you ring a bell. Lorelai tells him not to drool on the seats they're sitting on.
** Luke compares Stars Hollowers to Pavlovian dogs who come running once you ring a bell. Lorelai tells him not to drool on the seats they're sitting on.
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* MondeGreen: Luke mishears "town meeting" as "clown beating".
-->'''Lorelai:''' Oh no, not again.
-->'''Lorelai:''' Oh no, not again.
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** Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' simultaneously happening to be enjoying a tipper.
** Kirk thinks any promise of Lorelai's is this, as she has a habit of not making good on hers.
** Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' simultaneously happening to be enjoying a tipper.
** Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' simultaneously happening to be enjoying a tipper.
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** Katie Couric and Matt Lauer
** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey
** Literature/FlowersForAlgernon
** Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo
** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey
** Literature/FlowersForAlgernon
** Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo
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** Lorelai caught the first hour of Katie Couric and Matt Lauer
Lauer for the first time in her life.
**Creator/MatthewMcConaughey
They leave you with Creator/MatthewMcConaughey.
**Literature/FlowersForAlgernon
Paris gets snippy about all the flowers Logan send to the apartment, calling Rory [[Literature/FlowersForAlgernon Algernon]].
**Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristoApril wants to see the Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo|s at Luke's diner.
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** Music/GwenStefani and Gavin Rossdale once found themselves in a similar situation to Lorelai and Luke.
** Creator/BradPitt and Creator/GeorgeClooney.
** Music/GwenStefani and Gavin Rossdale once found themselves in a similar situation to Lorelai and Luke.
** Creator/BradPitt and Creator/GeorgeClooney.
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** Howell Raines
Zach thinks Music/BobDylan should write a song about how his life is right now.
** Paris thinks the staff tried to "Howell Raines" her, and she is not entirely wrong.
** Rory points out that Music/GwenStefani and Gavin Rossdale once found themselves in a similar situation to Lorelai and Luke.
** Zach compares Joe to Creator/BradPitt and Creator/GeorgeClooney.
** Paris thinks the staff tried to "Howell Raines" her, and she is not entirely wrong.
** Rory points out that Music/GwenStefani and Gavin Rossdale once found themselves in a similar situation to Lorelai and Luke.
** Zach compares Joe to Creator/BradPitt and Creator/GeorgeClooney.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Taylor wears a cap and sunglasses and speaks in a foreign-sounding accent.
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* OneSteveLimit: Paris has a problem with some people on the newsroom staff having the same name (two Johns and three Marthas), so invokes this trope by assigning everyone a number instead.
* PaperThinDisguise: Taylor wears a cap and sunglasses and speaks in a foreign-soundingaccent.accent, confusing people at the Winter festival.
* PaperThinDisguise: Taylor wears a cap and sunglasses and speaks in a foreign-sounding
* RiddleForTheAges: What it said in the letter Lorelai sent Rory.
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** Music/GwenStefani and Gavin Rossdale
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** Music/GwenStefani and Gavin RossdaleRossdale once found themselves in a similar situation to Lorelai and Luke.
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* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Subverted. Mrs. Kim seems to be challenging Zach to a fight, but she only wants to assure him that she's not going to come between him and Lane.
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* BlatantLies: Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' simultaneously happening to be enjoying a tipper.
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* BlatantLies: BlatantLies:
** Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' simultaneously happening to be enjoying atipper.tipper.
** A very tired Luke gives a coffee refill to a guy drinking tea. When the guy calls him on it he says it's a hybrid and very in right now.
** Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' simultaneously happening to be enjoying a
** A very tired Luke gives a coffee refill to a guy drinking tea. When the guy calls him on it he says it's a hybrid and very in right now.
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** No one at the town meeting understands what the big deal is with Taylor being stuck in Maine.
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* GodwinsLaw:
** Paris gets compared unfavorably to Augusto Pinochet.
** Downplayed with Lorelai, who compares Logan to "the guy who handed out smallpox blankets".
** Paris gets compared unfavorably to Augusto Pinochet.
** Downplayed with Lorelai, who compares Logan to "the guy who handed out smallpox blankets".
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* LiteralMinded: Luke compares Stars Hollowers to Pavlovian dogs who come running once you ring a bell. Lorelai tells him not to drool on the seats they're sitting on.
** Meeting April in the park, Luke says "surprise!", making her ask if the meeting was not planned like she had thought.
** Meeting April in the park, Luke says "surprise!", making her ask if the meeting was not planned like she had thought.
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** Taylor has a Literature/HuckleberryFinn disguise.
** Lorelai thinks he belongs on Film/EightMile.
** Lorelai thinks he belongs on Film/EightMile.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: Inverted. Anna wants April to watch stupid tv-shows like an ordinary kid.
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'''Season 6, episode 12'''
!!Just Like Gwen And Gavin
!!Just Like Gwen And Gavin
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** Then when Luke says it was some dead guy yelling something, Lorelai asks if it's a ghost, but Luke clarifies that it's just a guy he's gonna kill.
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* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Played straight with Luke, who dreams that he's taking his car to the shop.
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* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Played straight with Luke, who dreams Luke had a dream that he's taking his he was looking to buy a car to and the shop.guy popped open the hood and then looked up in the manual how many cubic feet the trunk was.
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* BlatantLies: So all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' are simultaneously enjoying a tipper?
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* BlatantLies: So Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' are simultaneously happening to be enjoying a tipper?tipper.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The curch bells ring at 03:12 in the morning, waking Lorelai and Luke. Lorelai asks if it's in the house, Luke assures her it's the church bells, and she asks how the church bells got in the house.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** The curch bells ring at 03:12 in the morning, waking Lorelai and Luke. Lorelai asks if it's in thehouse, house. Luke assures her it's the church bells, and she asks how the church bells got in the house.
** The curch bells ring at 03:12 in the morning, waking Lorelai and Luke. Lorelai asks if it's in the
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* ImmediateSelfcontradiction: Luke tells April to trust no one in Stars Hollow, but also to not lock her bike. People could be stranglers, but not bike thieves.
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* ImmediateSelfcontradiction: Luke tells April to trust no one in Stars Hollow, but also to not lock her bike. People around here could be stranglers, but they're not bike thieves.
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* ThePerfectionist: Paris rewrites her own rewrites.
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* ThePerfectionist: Paris rewrites her own rewrites. Subverted as it makes them worse.
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** Creator/BradPitt and Creator/GeorgeClooney.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Zach gets mad when Lane comes ro the festival with a young-looking guy who he later finds out is her uncle.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Zach gets mad when Lane comes ro to the festival with a young-looking guy who he later finds out is her uncle.
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** Music/GwenStefani and Music/GavinRossdaleGavin Rossdale
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* StupidSexyFlanders: Zach accuses Joe, whom he believes ro be dating Lane, of being really hot.
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* StupidSexyFlanders: Zach accuses Joe, whom he believes ro to be dating Lane, of being really hot.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Zach gets mad when Lane comes ro the festival with a young-looking guy who he later finds out is her uncle.
* PaperThinDisguise: Taylor wears a cap and sunglasses and speaks in a foreign-sounding accent.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Mrs. Kim tells Zach she won't get between him and Lane, and that is so much better than setting her up with Korean med students.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Zach accuses Joe, whom he believes ro be dating Lane, of being really hot.
* TarotTroubles: Probably averted since Paul Anka is a confirmed fraud.
* ThemedParty: The Winter festival is winter themed.
* ShipperOnDeck: Mrs. Kim tells Zach she won't get between him and Lane, and that is so much better than setting her up with Korean med students.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Zach accuses Joe, whom he believes ro be dating Lane, of being really hot.
* TarotTroubles: Probably averted since Paul Anka is a confirmed fraud.
* ThemedParty: The Winter festival is winter themed.
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Taylor broadcasts a town meeting from Maine to talk about the winter carnival being canceled without him. They decide that Kirk arrange it in Taylor's place. Luke spends an afternoon in a park with April. Logan sends Rory gifts, including the coffee cart, even though she wants nothing to do with him. Luke tries to avoid having April in the diner, but Anna isn't having it. The people at ''Yale Daily News'' have a secret meeting about Paris.
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Taylor broadcasts a town meeting from Maine to talk about the winter carnival being canceled without him. They decide that Kirk arrange it in Taylor's place. Luke spends an afternoon in a park with April. Logan sends Rory gifts, including the coffee cart, even though she wants nothing to do with him. Luke tries to avoid having April in the diner, but Anna isn't having it. The people at ''Yale Daily News'' have a secret meeting about Paris.
Paris. Logan asks Lorelai for support to get Rory back. Lorelai runs into April, who cheerfully informs her that her biological father owns the diner.
* BlatantLies: So all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' are simultaneously enjoying a tipper?
* CaptainObvious: "I know my dog can't really tell fortunes, Kirk."
* CaptainObvious: "I know my dog can't really tell fortunes, Kirk."
** Kirk is deeply offended by Lorelai shamelessly having her dog tell people's fortunes while admitting she knows he's not a qualified fortune teller.
* ImmediateSelfcontradiction: Luke tells April to trust no one in Stars Hollow, but also to not lock her bike. People could be stranglers, but not bike thieves.
* ThePerfectionist: Paris rewrites her own rewrites.
* ThePerfectionist: Paris rewrites her own rewrites.
* TheReasonYouSuck: Lorelai helpfully informs Logan ''why'' she doesn't like him.
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** Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristoLiterature/TheCountOfMonteCristo
** Howell Raines
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Taylor broadcasts a town meeting from Maine to talk about the winter carnival being canceled without him. They decide that Kirk arrange it in Taylor's place. Luke spends an afternoon in a park with April. Logan sends Rory gifts, including the coffee cart, even though she wants nothing to do with him. Luke tries to avoid having April in the diner, but Anna isn't having it. The people at ''Yale Daily News'' have a secret meeting about Paris.
!!Tropes
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The curch bells ring at 03:12 in the morning, waking Lorelai and Luke. Lorelai asks if it's in the house, Luke assures her it's the church bells, and she asks how the church bells got in the house.
* GrammarNazi: Paris is no fan of split infinitives.
* HiddenDepths: April is learning morse code.
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Played straight with Luke, who dreams that he's taking his car to the shop.
* ShoutOut:
** Katie Couric and Matt Lauer
** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey
** Literature/FlowersForAlgernon
** Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo
!!Tropes
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The curch bells ring at 03:12 in the morning, waking Lorelai and Luke. Lorelai asks if it's in the house, Luke assures her it's the church bells, and she asks how the church bells got in the house.
* GrammarNazi: Paris is no fan of split infinitives.
* HiddenDepths: April is learning morse code.
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Played straight with Luke, who dreams that he's taking his car to the shop.
* ShoutOut:
** Katie Couric and Matt Lauer
** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey
** Literature/FlowersForAlgernon
** Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo
