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* CallBack: In season four Rory had an awkward date with a guy who wanted to sit next to her at the restaurant. This episode Luke tries to date April's swim coahc Susan Bennet, who demands that Luke sit next to her at the restaurant.

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* CallBack: In season four Rory had an awkward date with a guy who wanted to sit next to her at the restaurant. This episode Luke tries to date April's swim coahc coach Susan Bennet, who demands that Luke sit next to her at the restaurant.



** Music/BonJovi's ''Living on a Prayer'' doesn't sound as great in a capella, at least not the group Rory passes on her way home from the restaurant.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: April insists on playing chess with Lane.

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** Lorelai says Chris doesn't have to be superdad, he can just be Clark Kent dad.
** Music/BonJovi's ''Living on a Prayer'' doesn't sound as great in a capella, at least not the group Rory passes Lorelai and Chris pass on her their way home back from the restaurant.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: April insists on playing chess with Lane. When told a fianchetto will lose her the match, Lane says she doesn't care and does it anyway.
* SesquipedalianLoquaiciousness: Lane has been pracitising seven-letter words in anticipation of Boggle with April. She invites her to discuss zynurgy instead of playing chess.
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* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Chris asks his daughter if she literally couldn't give two figs about them getting to her. Rory replies that one and a half fig is her cap.
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* HollywoodBoardGames: Lane prepared for ''TabletopGame/{{Boggle}}'' to babysit April, who wants to play ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}''.

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* HollywoodBoardGames: Lane prepared for ''TabletopGame/{{Boggle}}'' to babysit April, who wants knows that she sucks at TabletopGame/{{chess}}, so she harasses April with seven-letter rare words until the latter agrees to play ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}''.''TabletopGame/{{Boggle}}'', which is the game Lane was told they were going to play. Understandable, since April has been roasting Lane's every chess move up until now.

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* BoardGames: Lane prepared for Boggle to babysit April, who wants to play Scrabble.


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* HollywoodBoardGames: Lane prepared for ''TabletopGame/{{Boggle}}'' to babysit April, who wants to play ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}''.
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** A lecturer claimsAlbert Einstein was pretty smart.

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** A lecturer claimsAlbert claims Albert Einstein was pretty smart.
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** Film/{{Pleasantville}}

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** Film/{{Pleasantville}}Chris thinks Lorelai lives in Film/{{Pleasantville}}.
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** Lorelai wants her and Chris to be Film/LaverneAndShirley on their name tags. When he rejects this proposal, she suggests Film/AnthonyAndCleopatra, [[Creator/FScottFitzgerald F.Scott and Zelda]], and [[{{Pun}} Zinf and Del]].

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** Lorelai wants her and Chris to be Film/LaverneAndShirley Series/LaverneAndShirley on their name tags. When he rejects this proposal, she suggests Film/AnthonyAndCleopatra, Anthony and Cleopatra, [[Creator/FScottFitzgerald F.Scott and Zelda]], and [[{{Pun}} Zinf and Del]].



** A lecturer claims Creator/AlbertEinstein was pretty smart.

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** A lecturer claims Creator/AlbertEinstein claimsAlbert Einstein was pretty smart.

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'''Season 7, episode 6'''

!!Go, Bulldogs!



* BilingualBonus: Lorelai listens to a French language tape.

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* AbsurdPhobia: Chris and Lorelai are afraid of a capella.
* BilingualBonus: Lorelai listens to a French language tape. She later goes to a French restaurant where the waiter asks, in French, whether she prefers to speak French or English, but she doesn't understand a word.
* BlatantLies: Lorelai learns the French accent instead of the French language, and plans on telling the French that she was born in Marseille and adopted by Americans, but never forgot the accent of her mother country.



* CallBack: In season four Rory had an awkward date with a guy who wanted to sit next to her at the restaurant. This episode Luke tries to date April's swim coahc Susan Bennet, who demands that Luke sit next to her at the restaurant.



* ComplimentBackfire: Kirk is genuinely impressed with how little people care about Luke.

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* ComplimentBackfire: ComplimentBackfire:
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Kirk is genuinely impressed with how little people care about Luke.Luke.
** Sookie is disappointed that her staff thinks the ratatoille she made with a new vegetable guy's vegetables is her best one yet.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Chris invites all of Rory's Yale newspaper coworkers for dinner at a restaurant. Rory and Lorelai both feel weird about it, since it was supposed to be a family thing.



* {{Malaproper}}: Lorelai claims to have thought café au lait was in fact café olé, which according to her means "coffee, all right!" in Spanish.



** Zinf.
** Subverted with Chez Zinjustin's.

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** Zinf.
** Subverted with Chez Zinjustin's.Zinjustin's, which is mentioned over and over but seems to be fictional.
* {{Pun}}: Lorelai wants her and Chris to go by the pseudonyms Zinf and Del. Zinfandel is a Californian wine grape.



** Creator/LeoTolstoy

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** Creator/LeoTolstoyYale allegedly plants kids reading Creator/LeoTolstoy under trees.
** Lorelai thinks her dog is more of a Reed or an Oberlin than an Ivy League dog.
** Kirk watches Series/AntiquesRoadshow.
** Lorelai wants her and Chris to be Film/LaverneAndShirley on their name tags. When he rejects this proposal, she suggests Film/AnthonyAndCleopatra, [[Creator/FScottFitzgerald F.Scott and Zelda]], and [[{{Pun}} Zinf and Del]].



** Comicbook/{{Superman}}
** Creator/MarleneDietrich

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** Comicbook/{{Superman}}
Comicbook/{{Superman}} wears his "name tag" in the middle of his chest.
** Creator/MarleneDietrichLorelai calls Emily [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Riddler]] when she claims that a grandparent is a kind of parent, just like a grand piano is a kind of piano.
** A lecturer claims Creator/AlbertEinstein was pretty smart.
** Coach Bennet wants Creator/MarleneDietrich to play her in a movie.



* SmartPeoplePlayChess: April and Lane.

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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: April and Lane.insists on playing chess with Lane.
* SustainedMisunderstanding: Lorelai refuses to explain to her parents why her nametag says "Zinf", so lets them think it's a Herbew word that's part of a Yale tradition.
* TitleDrop: The girl who hands out nametags on Yale's parents' day shouts this at everyone instead of "bye".
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* BoardGames: Lane prepared for Boggle.

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* BoardGames: Lane prepared for Boggle.Boggle to babysit April, who wants to play Scrabble.



** A grandparent is a kind of parent.

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** A grandparent is a kind of parent.parent, as Emily argues when she runs into Lorelai on parents' day.



** Music/BonJovi doesn't sound great in a capella.

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** Music/BonJovi Music/BonJovi's ''Living on a Prayer'' doesn't sound as great in a capella.capella, at least not the group Rory passes on her way home from the restaurant.
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* Zinf.

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* ** Zinf.

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Sookie feels guilty about accepting the vegetables. Christopher takes all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' to a restaurant.

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Sookie feels guilty about accepting the vegetables. Christopher takes all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' to a restaurant.
restaurant. Luke goes out with coach Bennet. She turns out to be a little psycho.



* BoardGames: Lane prepared for Boggle.



* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Susan tries to be this to Luke, but you can only be nuts at Luke if he has known you for several years.



* ProductPlacement: Deli. Zinf.

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* ProductPlacement: Deli. Zinf.ProductPlacement:
** Deli.
* Zinf.
** Subverted with Chez Zinjustin's.


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** Creator/MarleneDietrich
** Music/BonJovi doesn't sound great in a capella.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: April and Lane.

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Luke meets April's swimming teacher. Lorelai and Christopher go to parents' weekend at Yale.

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Sookie gets a gift basket of vegetables from a vegetable guy who isn't Jackson. Luke meets April's swimming teacher. Lorelai and Christopher go to parents' weekend at Yale.
Yale. So do Emily and Richard.

Sookie feels guilty about accepting the vegetables. Christopher takes all the senior staffers at ''Yale Daily News'' to a restaurant.



* ProductPlacement: Deli

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** A grandparent is a kind of parent.
* ComplimentBackfire: Kirk is genuinely impressed with how little people care about Luke.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Despite not being related to or even friends with Lulu, Luke promises to break every bone in Kirk's body if he ever says an unkind word to her.
* MistakenForCouple: Subverted. Lorelai thinks a Yale father assumes she and Chris are married, but he actually thought [[MayDecemberRomance Emily and Christopher were married]]. It's probably rarer for kids to have their mother's last name in his circles.
* ProductPlacement: DeliDeli. Zinf.
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Luke meets April's swimming teacher. Lorelai and Christopher go to parents' weekend at Yale.

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* BilingualBonus: Lorelai listens to a French language tape.
* CaptainObvious:
** Kirk observes that whenever he's on a date with Lulu, she's there.
** As coach Bennet says, Luke really should know how to swim, not just in case he takes April somewhere with water, but his hobby is fishing.
* ProductPlacement: Deli
* ShoutOut
** Creator/LeoTolstoy
** Film/{{Pleasantville}}
** Comicbook/{{Superman}}
* VoicemailConfusion: Subverted. Lorelai calls Emily and she answers the phone, and Lorelai treats her like an answering machine.
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