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** Doyle reviews WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 and insists that Creator/MichaelBay likes adjectives.

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** Doyle reviews WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Film/TheJungleBook2016 and insists that Creator/MichaelBay likes adjectives.
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** Doyle reviews Film/TheJungleBook and insists that Creator/MichaelBay likes adjectives.

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** Doyle reviews Film/TheJungleBook WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 and insists that Creator/MichaelBay likes adjectives.
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** According to Babette, both [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Simba]] and [[Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof Tevje]] have been dethroned as kings of musicals by Taylor's masterpiece, the Stars Hollow Musical.

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** According to Babette, both [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing [[Theatre/TheLionKing Simba]] and [[Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof Tevje]] have been dethroned as kings of musicals by Taylor's masterpiece, the Stars Hollow Musical.
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The Stars Hollow musical is shown for the first time to the comittee that Lorelai is part of. It resembles ''Theatre/{{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, [[Music/CaroleKing Sophie Bloom]] suggests playing ''I Feel The Earth Move'', but it is voted down as not catchy at all.

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The Stars Hollow musical is shown for the first time to the comittee committee that Lorelai is part of. It resembles ''Theatre/{{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 referring to herself as Nostradamus. At the meeting after, [[Music/CaroleKing Sophie Bloom]] suggests playing ''I Feel The Earth Move'', but it is voted down as not catchy at all.



Lorelai is introduced to Emily's new boyfriend, Jack Smith. They go to visit Richard's grave at the cemetary, where they meet Rory, who tells her mother that she's writing a memoir. Lorelai decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail after listening to a song with an ambiguous message about living life to the full.

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Lorelai is introduced to Emily's new boyfriend, Jack Smith. They go to visit Richard's grave at the cemetary, cemetery, where they meet Rory, who tells her mother that she's writing a memoir. Lorelai decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail after listening to a song with an ambiguous message about living life to the full.



** When Luke asks if she smokes pot, April gives a very unconvincing "No". A little later she just s unconvincingly claims she totally smokes pot. Eventually she admits that she only smoked it once.

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** When Luke asks if she smokes pot, April gives a very unconvincing "No". A little later she just s as unconvincingly claims she totally smokes pot. Eventually Eventually, she admits that she only smoked it once.



* RepeatAfterMe: Taylor makes the whole comittee take an oath to not divulge the content of the musical to anyone. They swear by "god or Allah or whatever you pray to" and keep repeating what he says after the oath is obviously over.

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* RepeatAfterMe: Taylor makes the whole comittee committee take an oath to not divulge the content of the musical to anyone. They swear by "god or Allah or whatever you pray to" and keep repeating what he says after the oath is obviously over.

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* ActingForTwo: InUniverse, Violet plays all the female characters in the musical.



* ActingForTwo: InUniverse, Violet plays all the female characters in the musical.
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* ActingForTwo: InUniverse, Violet plays all the female characters in the musical.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the musical, the rap number comes out of nowhere and has no bearing on the plot.
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* BallsGag: In the Stars Hollow musical, a soldier comes in from standing outside in the cold and hands his musket and musket balls to his wife, who remarks that his balls are frozen.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the musical, the rap number comes out of nowhere and has no bearing on the plot.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Rory mentions that maybe she could get a job as one of Paris's surrogates. This foreshadows a certain reveal in the following episode.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Petal running around.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Taylor brings up the closing of the ''Stars Hollow Gazette'', a couple of people say they're gonna miss the seasonal poem. Rory mentions that maybe she could get a job as one of Paris's surrogates. This foreshadows a certain reveal in takes over and removes the following episode.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Petal running around.
poem, causing a lot of readers to complain.
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** When Luke asks if she smokes pot, April gives a very unconvincing "No".

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** When Luke asks if she smokes pot, April gives a very unconvincing "No". A little later she just s unconvincingly claims she totally smokes pot. Eventually she admits that she only smoked it once.
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* ViewersAreGoldfish: In-universe, Luke tends to forget important things about shows he and Lorelai watch, like that some of the characters are zombies.

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* BlatantLies: Rory claiming she was thoroughly vetted before she got the editor job at the ''Gazette''.

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* BlatantLies: BlatantLies:
** When Luke asks if she smokes pot, April gives a very unconvincing "No".
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Rory claiming she was thoroughly vetted before she got the editor job at the ''Gazette''.
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** Jess walking into the ''Gazette'' and getting Rory's attention is filmed similarly to their first meeting in season 2.
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** When they deliver newspapers, Nancy Sinatra's ''These Boots Are Made For Walking'' plays.
** The thirty-something gang love Film/ThereWillBeBlood, and everything by Paul Anderson.

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** When they deliver newspapers, Nancy Sinatra's ''These Music/NancySinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking'' Walkin" plays.
** The thirty-something gang love Film/ThereWillBeBlood, ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'', and everything by Paul Anderson.Creator/PaulThomasAnderson.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: While the air conditioner in the ballet studio goes, everyone does this. Rory shouts to Lorelai that Luke asked if she has the time, and Lorelai replies that she gave it to him.

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* {{Mondegreen}}: MondegreenGag: While the air conditioner in the ballet studio goes, everyone does this. Rory shouts to Lorelai that Luke asked if she has the time, and Lorelai replies that she gave it to him.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lorelai accuses Rory of hooking Emily up with a guy when she admits sending her to the club. Rory claims she though Emily would only play backgammon.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lorelai accuses Rory of hooking Emily up with a guy when she admits sending her to the club. Rory claims she though thought Emily would only play backgammon.
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* LyricalDissonance:
** ZigZagged in the musical. There is some quite upbeat music on the songs about how much things sucked in previous centuries, but the melody gets more ominous as we move closer to modern day.
** The cut song has a sad melody and mostly broken lyrics, but also some determined and hopeful lyrics.

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Lorelai is introduced to Emily's new boyfriend, Jack Smith. They go to visit Richard's grave at the cemetary, where they meet Rory, who tells her mother that she's writing a memoir. Lorelai decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail after listening to a song with an ambiguous message about living life to the full.



** Rory told Emily to go to the club, where she meets a man she wants to date, and Lorelai gets mad at Rory for it. That's a role-reversal from "[[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS05E09 Emily Says Hello]]".



* ContinuitySnarl: Subverted or ZigZagged depending on which version you go with. Lorelai claims Emily called Rory Susan until she was two, but Emily calls her Rory in a [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E13 flashback in season three]] taking place on the day Lorelai ran away to Stars Hollow, which according to some characters was when Lorelai was seventeen, but according to Mia was when Rory was two.

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* ContinuitySnarl: Subverted or ZigZagged depending on which version you go with. Lorelai claims Emily called Rory Susan until she was two, but Emily calls her Rory in a [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E13 flashback in season three]] taking place on the day Lorelai ran away to Stars Hollow, which according to some characters was when Lorelai was seventeen, sixteen, but according to Mia was when Rory was two.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Defied. Lorelai tells Rory she doesn't want people knowing about her life.



* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Lorelai tries it on Rory, but Rory isn't having it, as that is how Lorelai and Emily's relationship works, not hers and Lorelai's.

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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Defied. Lorelai tries it on Rory, but Rory isn't having it, as that is how Lorelai and Emily's relationship works, not hers and Lorelai's.
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The Stars Hollow musical is shown for the first time to the comittee that Lorelai is part of. It resembles ''Theatre/{{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.

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The Stars Hollow musical is shown for the first time to the comittee that Lorelai is part of. It resembles ''Theatre/{{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 [[Music/CaroleKing Sophie Bloom]] suggests playing ''I Feel The Earth Move'', but it is voted down as not catchy at all.

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** Taylor wrote a play in college and gave it to Edward Albee and asked him to call him with criticisms, ''and he never called''.

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** Taylor wrote a play in college and gave it to Edward Albee and asked him to call him with if he had any criticisms, ''and he and ''he never called''.



* MistakenForRacist: Lorelai objecting to the rap number.

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* MaliciousMisnaming: A musical version. The musical complains about "poo-poo-Putin".
* MistakenForRacist: Lorelai objecting to the rap number.number gets misconstrued by the other board members as "racial".



** Taylor thinks you better tell [[Music/WuTangClan RZA]] and Music/BustaRhymes they can't rap since Theatre/{{Hamilton}} did it.

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** Taylor thinks you Lorelai better tell [[Music/WuTangClan RZA]] and Music/BustaRhymes they can't rap since Theatre/{{Hamilton}} did it.


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* TakeThat: Taylor tells Lorelai she'll have to pry the revolving stage number from Nat's cold dead hands. Lorelai wonders aloud if there is any other way to pry something from Nat.

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