History Recap / GilmoreGirlsS08E01

** Gypsy is waiting for a car part from a [[Film/BackToTheFuture Delorean from 1983]] for Lorelai's car.

%% * 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.

** The situation with Paul's forgetability is reminiscent of how Lorelai had [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E04 trouble remembering Debbie and other Stars Hollow moms after Rory transfers to Chilton]]

** Rory's boyfriend being so forgetable she barely remembers his name is Paul, same as her dog.

** Paul is as forgetable to Lorelai as [[TakeThat every]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel movie]] ever.

** Lorelai's recurring dream is the steamroom scene in Film/EasternPromises, except the blood is… not blood.

** Lorelai points out, in her usual blunt way, that the paining of Richard was [[Film/SpinalTap taken up to eleven]].

** The town troubador sings "Winter Valley".

** Lorelai finds Marvel movies forgetable.

** Emily read Marie Kondo's ''The Life-Changing Magic of TidyingUp'' and decided to get rid of all her stuff.

* CaptainObvious: When Paris comments that a small town boy like Luke gets his milk from a cow, Luke points out that everyone gets their milk from a cow.

** Emily has read Marie Kondo and decided to get rid of all her stuff.

** Lorelai's recurring dream is Film/EasternPromises, except the blood is… not blood.

** Rory claims to be no John McPhee.

* AskAStupidQuestion: Paris replies to an unheard question on the phone that she has no return policy.
* AsYouKnow: Lorelai retells her dream to Luke.

* CloudCuckoolander: Naomi Shropshire steals restaurant food from waiters and walks like she has shoes on without shoes on.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Any dress you wear without your underwear is gonna be your lucky dress."
** Taylor's attempts to talk people into changing the town's sewer system are literally this.
** Lorelai's story about how her father walked in on her and a boy once.

** Lorelai claims the painting of Richard is so big, Creator/PeterJackson could hang it at the Argonath. That's the river pass wih the humongous statues in Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing.

** Emily compares Rory's living sotuation to Film/InsideLlewynDavis.

* ContinuityNod: Rory talks fast for the first time in a while, since she speaks at a normal pace in London and New York. She gets winded.

* SesquipedalianLoquaiciousness: Luke needs to read books explaining advanced philosophy to decipher the letters April sends him.

** :Lorelai doesn't think Dean Martin would go on without Jerry Lewis. Rory thinks Jerry would go on without Dean.

* TheUnhug: Luke gives Emily one.

* ChildHater: Michel, and formerly his husband.

** Kirk's Ooober service comes with any Music/{{Carpenters}} song of your choice, sung by himself.

Lorelai can't sleep because she's afraid of a recurring dream of Cronenberg-inspired grossness. Rory tap-dances to relieve stress. She once lunged at Gail Collins, which Gail misread as someone she didn't know lunging at her. Lorelai feels old because she wanted to go on a cruise.

* HypocriticalHumor: Lorelai accuses Luke of body shaming her for her BigEater tendencies, practically foreshadowing a lot of the humor in the rest of this season.

** Rory's boyfriend being so forgetable she barely remembers his name is Paul.

** A plot point in late season seven was about Lorelai's car singing on the last verse until it got an engine transplant. Now, about eight years later, it is in the same kind of trouble.
** While trying to put off having to tell a story about her father, Lorelai uses the "there's a draft" excuse from season four to get a guy to switch places with her, despite the whole thing taking place outside.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Lorelai agrees to meet Emily's new therapist while Luke is there, and he thinks she's insane for agreeing to go to therapy with her mother. Lorelai tries to explain that wasn't agreeing to ''go to'' therapy with her mother, and suddenly realizes that's exactly what she agreed to.

* IronicEcho: When Kirk tells Lorelai about his Ooober service, she asks him to stop making that noise. When she asks how the Ooober service is going after he has receiver a cease-and-desist from Uber's lawyers, he asks her to stop making that noise.

** Michel asserts that Creator/JohnnyDepp's famous tattoo change from "Winona forever" to "Wino forever" was cleverer than "Kogi".

** Hap Alien play ''I'm the Man'' by Music/JoeJackson.

** Emily has read Creator/MarieKondo and decided to egt rid of all her stuff.

** Paris suspects Lorelai is going to "Film/Gone Girl" Luke.

* ChildHater:

* RunningGag: Rory's boyfriend being so forgetable she barely remembers his name is Paul.

** Michel asserts that Creator/JohnnyDepp's famous tattoo change from "Winona forever" to "Wino forever" was cleverer than "Kogi".

!!Tropes:

The Stars Hollow musical is shown for the first time to the comittee that Lorelai is part of. It resembles Play/{{Hamilton}}, references Comicbook/{{Magneto}}, and has nine Music/{{ABBA}} songs at the end. Lorelai doesn't know how to feel about the fact that she can predict its cancan number, refering to herself as Nostradamus. At the meeting after, someone suggests playing ''I Feel The Earth Move'', but it is voted down as not catchy at all.

Jess visits Rory at her job at the Stars Hollow Gazette. She tells him she is too broke to buy new underwear, can't find the box with her underwear, and that she's probably too old to be one of Paris' surrogates. He tells her she's a writer and should write about herself and her mom.

The Stars Hollow musical is shown for the first time to the comittee that Lorelai is part of. It resembles Play/Hamilton, references Comicbook/Magneto, and has nine Music/ABBA songs at the end. Lorelai doesn't know hoe to feel about the fact that she can predict its cancan number, refering to herself as Nostradamus. At the meeting after, someone suggests playing ''I Feel The Earth Move'', but it is voted down as not catchy at all.