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** Rory, Dean and Jess - the classic [[TriangRelations type 7]] variation. While still with Dean, Rory develops feelings for Jess, who is also interested in her. She and Dean break up, and she hooks up with Jess.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Exploited by Lucy and Olivia in season seven. They call everyone by a moniker and it eventually gets on Rory's nerves that they never call anyone by name.
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* BareYourMidriff: Meticulously averted. The show's costume designer, Valerie Campbell, [[http://hellogiggles.com/one-rule-gilmore-girls/ stated]] that Amy Sherman-Palladino strictly enforced a "no bare midriffs" rule for the female characters, to the point where it was responsible for Lorelai and Rory's shared character tic of constantly pulling at the bottom of their shirts (Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham did that to avoid exposing skin). This was done partly for authenticity's sake (the show averted ItsAlwaysSpring, and Connecticut winters are very cold), and partly as a backlash against fashion trends in the early '00s, a time when crop tops and low-waisted pants for women were in fashion.
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* BareYourMidriff: Meticulously BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Despite being a show starring young women, this trope was meticulously averted. The show's costume designer, Valerie Campbell, [[http://hellogiggles.com/one-rule-gilmore-girls/ stated]] that Amy Sherman-Palladino strictly enforced a "no bare midriffs" rule for the female characters, to the point where it was responsible for Lorelai and Rory's shared character tic of constantly pulling at the bottom of their shirts (Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham did that to avoid exposing skin). This was done partly for authenticity's sake (the show averted ItsAlwaysSpring, and Connecticut winters are very cold), and partly as a backlash against fashion trends in the early '00s, a time when crop tops and low-waisted pants for women were in fashion.
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* AsYouKnow: Subverted. The show banks on the arrogance of Emily and Richard ro make them ask about stuff they already know, but just can't be bothered to remember.
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* BadButt: The show's attempts to depict Jess as a bad boy from New York is to have him pull childish pranks like stealing a lawn gnome and drawing chalk outlines on sidewalks.
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* ArtisticLicenseEducation: Rory gets rejected for financial aid at Yale because Lorelai recently got a big check from her dad that made her ineligible. Financial aid would have been set by that point and there’s no way Yale would have known about the check unless Lorelai put it in her taxes which would affect financial aid the following year, not the current year.
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* HollywoodBoardGames:
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS02E10 "The Bracebridge Dinner"]]: Paris, a LonelyRichKid and an AcademicAlphaBitch, mentions that she beats her nanny at ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' every time. Left hanging in the air is that, other than complimenting her own intelligence, she doesn't play board games with her parents because they are not interested in spending time with her.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E05 "Eight O'Clock at the Oasis"]]: Lorelai and Rory's new neighbor, Dwight, is a man who engages in a lot of introverted pastimes and his house and lawn show it. According to Lorelai, he "took the lounge craze very seriously". When they open a closet, they find a vast collection of board games, which prompts Rory to comment that he owns ''Monopoly'' boards from "every country in the world". This is {{justified}} in that he's just gotten out of a toxic marriage and abusers often isolate their victims from friends and any kind of social interaction. Add to it that his former neighbors weren't very kind to him. Dwight's ex-wife claims that the board-game collection belongs, in fact, to her, especially the ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' sets. It's ambiguous how true this statement is but it wouldn't be out of character for an abuser to try and appropriate their victim's sources of comfort.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS05E02 "A Messenger, Nothing More"]]: Neither Lorelai nor Michel are fans of kids. Unfortunately for them, the Krumholtz family is staying in the Dragonfly Inn's most expensive room. The parents want to go out for a tour but the children want to stay. Lorelai convinces Michel, who is OnlyInItForTheMoney, to be friendly to the kids. His reluctance shows when he offers the kids to "play some insipid boardgames with [him]". Obliviously, they enthusiastically agree and ask for Chinese TabletopGame/{{checkers}}.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS06E16 "Bridesmaids Revisited"]]:
*** April and Lane have built a friendly rapport despite April's BrutalHonesty since both frequent Luke's diner. April has SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, so it makes sense she'd kick everyone's butt at ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'', even when she plays against other smart people who are older than her, such as Lane. On the other hand, April is still a kid, so she doesn't quite grasp the necessary Economy concepts to play ''Monopoly'' well.
*** Rory and Lorelai used to play ''TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}'' a lot when the former was younger. Their WackyParentSeriousChild dynamic also shines there -- Lorelai sees nothing wrong with cheating, while Rory gets very upset when she realizes what her mother is doing. Furthermore, that Lorelai needs to bend the rules to beat her daughter highlights said daughter's intelligence and cunning. Both are TheAce, but Rory's maturity gives her an edge -- that, and the fact Rory is [[HotBlooded competitive as hell]]. When she recounts this to Lane, she answers that April reads the game's manual out loud before starting a game, making it impossible to cheat. Later in the episode, Lorelai gets the idea to create a wacky, hybrid board game, which also goes to show how she's more childish than her own daughter.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS07E06 "Go, Bulldogs!"]]: Lane knows that she sucks at TabletopGame/{{chess}}, so she harasses April with seven-letter rare words until the latter agrees to play ''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.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS02E10 "The Bracebridge Dinner"]]: Paris, a LonelyRichKid and an AcademicAlphaBitch, mentions that she beats her nanny at ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' every time. Left hanging in the air is that, other than complimenting her own intelligence, she doesn't play board games with her parents because they are not interested in spending time with her.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E05 "Eight O'Clock at the Oasis"]]: Lorelai and Rory's new neighbor, Dwight, is a man who engages in a lot of introverted pastimes and his house and lawn show it. According to Lorelai, he "took the lounge craze very seriously". When they open a closet, they find a vast collection of board games, which prompts Rory to comment that he owns ''Monopoly'' boards from "every country in the world". This is {{justified}} in that he's just gotten out of a toxic marriage and abusers often isolate their victims from friends and any kind of social interaction. Add to it that his former neighbors weren't very kind to him. Dwight's ex-wife claims that the board-game collection belongs, in fact, to her, especially the ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' sets. It's ambiguous how true this statement is but it wouldn't be out of character for an abuser to try and appropriate their victim's sources of comfort.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS05E02 "A Messenger, Nothing More"]]: Neither Lorelai nor Michel are fans of kids. Unfortunately for them, the Krumholtz family is staying in the Dragonfly Inn's most expensive room. The parents want to go out for a tour but the children want to stay. Lorelai convinces Michel, who is OnlyInItForTheMoney, to be friendly to the kids. His reluctance shows when he offers the kids to "play some insipid boardgames with [him]". Obliviously, they enthusiastically agree and ask for Chinese TabletopGame/{{checkers}}.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS06E16 "Bridesmaids Revisited"]]:
*** April and Lane have built a friendly rapport despite April's BrutalHonesty since both frequent Luke's diner. April has SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, so it makes sense she'd kick everyone's butt at ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'', even when she plays against other smart people who are older than her, such as Lane. On the other hand, April is still a kid, so she doesn't quite grasp the necessary Economy concepts to play ''Monopoly'' well.
*** Rory and Lorelai used to play ''TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}'' a lot when the former was younger. Their WackyParentSeriousChild dynamic also shines there -- Lorelai sees nothing wrong with cheating, while Rory gets very upset when she realizes what her mother is doing. Furthermore, that Lorelai needs to bend the rules to beat her daughter highlights said daughter's intelligence and cunning. Both are TheAce, but Rory's maturity gives her an edge -- that, and the fact Rory is [[HotBlooded competitive as hell]]. When she recounts this to Lane, she answers that April reads the game's manual out loud before starting a game, making it impossible to cheat. Later in the episode, Lorelai gets the idea to create a wacky, hybrid board game, which also goes to show how she's more childish than her own daughter.
** [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS07E06 "Go, Bulldogs!"]]: Lane knows that she sucks at TabletopGame/{{chess}}, so she harasses April with seven-letter rare words until the latter agrees to play ''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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** Sookie and Jackson. Jackson is originally the Indepedence Inn's vegetable supplier and starts dating Sookie after that.
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* AlphaBitch: Francine "Francie" Jarvis, leader of the Puffs, Chilton's "secret" sorority; recruits Rory (and in turn, Paris) for the club. In season 3, she's the senior class president, often clashing with both Paris and Rory.
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** Jess. Reasonably Intelligent But Arrogant.
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**Logan.Logan is apparently an excellent writer for the Yale Daily News when he wants to be, and is fairly successful in Season 7, but spends a lot of time drinking and partying instead of working.
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* ChildHater: Played with. Michel insists he does not ''hate'' babies, but he is clearly not a fan.
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* CousinOliver: April. A young, precocious character added in during a rather unpopular stretch of the show.
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* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: First Chilton and then Yale.
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* PermaStubble: Luke is constantly on the brink of a beard, but manages to always look like he hasn't shaved in a couple of days. When he shaves to go on a date, Lorelai barely recognizes him.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Paris Gellar and Rory Gilmore.Gilmore: Paris is very intense and a bit abrasive, whereas Rory generally comes across as much calmer and comparatively more laid-back.
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** Paris and Doyle.
** Sookie and Jackson.
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** Luke and Lorelai.
Lorelai are friends for many years and eventually begin a relationship after much UnresolvedSexualTension in the first few seasons.
** Rory andJess.
Jess are friends for a little while before they begin dating.
** Lane andZach.
Zach are in the band for quite a while before they get together.
** Paris andDoyle.
Doyle work on the paper together for a while and then meet at a speed-dating event.
** Sookie and Jackson. Jackson is originally the Indepedence Inn's vegetable supplier and starts dating Sookie after that.
** Rory and
** Lane and
** Paris and
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** Paris displays a few symptoms of "high-functioning" autism. She is very focused and rule-oriented, tends to take things literally, and is by her own admission not good with people. She is however not averse to being touched, and has broad interests, thus averting HollywoodAutism.
** Jason Stiles has a few symptoms, too. He is a picky eater, doesn't like eating around people, and can't sleep in a bed with someone else.
** Paris displays a few symptoms of "high-functioning" autism. She is very focused and rule-oriented, tends to take things literally, and is by her own admission not good with people. She is however not averse to being touched, and has broad interests, thus averting HollywoodAutism.
** Jason Stiles has a few symptoms, too. He is a picky eater, doesn't like eating around people, and can't sleep in a bed with someone else.
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* MeddlingParents:
** Mostly Lorelai's parents.
** Richard Gilmore's mother, also named Lorelai.
** Mrs. Kim, the strict Korean mother to Rory's best friend.
** Logan's parents.
** Floyd Stiles (Jason's father).
** Chris's parents.
** Mostly Lorelai's parents.
** Richard Gilmore's mother, also named Lorelai.
** Mrs. Kim, the strict Korean mother to Rory's best friend.
** Logan's parents.
** Floyd Stiles (Jason's father).
** Chris's parents.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: The entire special could be called "The Deconstruction of the Gilmore Girls." Many of the tropes the show operates on and the "quirky personalities" of the characters are given a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome. Such examples include:
** Lorelai's MotorMouth tendencies bite her ''hard'' in the ass when she can't come up with ONE nice thing to say about her father after the funeral despite having plenty of time to come up with something. Instead, she rambles on and on about he was never there for her. This despite the multiple nice things he did for her in the series, starting right with the first episode when he and Emily financed Rory's education at Chilton and giving lots of money so the mother/daughter pair could go to Europe. Emily [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on it]], with Lorelai only able to feebly protest she was tired and had a few drinks.
** Rory, having been coddled her whole life by her mother and grandparents, finds the real world a lot more difficult to deal with where no one is going to pat her on the ass and praise her for just coasting along as she always has. This has led to her being in a dead-end job with no prospects, a far cry from the intrepid reporter who had a promising future in the last season. Logan's father seems to be proven right in saying she didn't have what it takes.
** The WillTheyOrWontThey tension that ruled the two Gilmores lives is still present. Only now it's keeping Rory even MORE mired in the past because she can't break up with Logan despite the fact their relationship is going nowhere. For Lorelai's part, the fact she and Luke took so long getting together means her desire to have a second child with him is unlikely to happen seeing as how she's pushing almost fifty.
** Lorelai's MotorMouth tendencies bite her ''hard'' in the ass when she can't come up with ONE nice thing to say about her father after the funeral despite having plenty of time to come up with something. Instead, she rambles on and on about he was never there for her. This despite the multiple nice things he did for her in the series, starting right with the first episode when he and Emily financed Rory's education at Chilton and giving lots of money so the mother/daughter pair could go to Europe. Emily [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on it]], with Lorelai only able to feebly protest she was tired and had a few drinks.
** Rory, having been coddled her whole life by her mother and grandparents, finds the real world a lot more difficult to deal with where no one is going to pat her on the ass and praise her for just coasting along as she always has. This has led to her being in a dead-end job with no prospects, a far cry from the intrepid reporter who had a promising future in the last season. Logan's father seems to be proven right in saying she didn't have what it takes.
** The WillTheyOrWontThey tension that ruled the two Gilmores lives is still present. Only now it's keeping Rory even MORE mired in the past because she can't break up with Logan despite the fact their relationship is going nowhere. For Lorelai's part, the fact she and Luke took so long getting together means her desire to have a second child with him is unlikely to happen seeing as how she's pushing almost fifty.
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* CatchPhrase: Emily and Richard are fond of telling Rory she's "a Gilmore through and through". When she makes it into the top 3% of her school year, when she graduates from college…
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* CatchPhrase: CatchPhrase:
** Someone delivers unexpected news, gets an unexpected question in return, asks "what?", and the person says: "I don't know, I don't know what to ask when [weird news happens]".
** Emily and Richard are fond of telling Rory she's "a Gilmore through and through". When she makes it into the top 3% of her school year, when she graduates from college…
** Someone delivers unexpected news, gets an unexpected question in return, asks "what?", and the person says: "I don't know, I don't know what to ask when [weird news happens]".
** Emily and Richard are fond of telling Rory she's "a Gilmore through and through". When she makes it into the top 3% of her school year, when she graduates from college…
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* TheGhost: Mr. Kim (Lane's dad), Al from Al's Pancake World, and Kirk's mother. [[spoiler: Mr. Kim finally appears in person in the 2016 revival miniseries.]]
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* TheGhost: TheGhost:
** Mr. Kim (Lane'sdad), dad) is never seen or mentioned directly during the seven seasons, although Mrs. Kim has little sympathy for single mothers so it's unlikely she is one.
** Al from Al's PancakeWorld, and World.
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** Subverted. Lane's dadMr. Kim finally makes a cameo. one second cameo.
** Michel's husband is never seen but often mentioned.
** Subverted. Lane's dad
** Michel's husband is never seen but often mentioned.
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** Every time Rory's hometown comes up, Paris makes some sort of comment that makes it sound like she thinks it's way more rural than it is.
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* IvyLeagueForEveryone: A rare justified example as the writers emphasize exactly how hard it is to get accepted into Harvard and Yale, with Paris participating in numerous extra-curriculars and charities to add to her application and Rory actually moving schools to improve her grades. Those who just don't work as hard don't go there--like Madeline and Louise. It's also acknowledged that kids at state schools like Stars Hollow High (Lane, Dean, Jess) don't have a fraction of the chance as students at schools like the wealthy, prestigious Chilton.
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* IvyLeagueForEveryone: A rare justified example as the writers emphasize exactly how hard it is to get accepted into Harvard and Yale, with Paris participating in numerous extra-curriculars and charities to add to her application and Rory actually moving schools to improve her grades. Those who just don't work as hard don't go there--like Madeline and Louise. It's also acknowledged that kids at state schools like Stars Hollow High (Lane, Dean, Jess) don't have a fraction of the chance as students at schools like the wealthy, prestigious Chilton.Chilton; in fact, the edge that Chilton would give Rory in applying to Harvard was Lorelai's entire reason for sending her there.
** Adjacent to this trope is the show's avoidance of EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain. Paris and Rory are intelligent, but not prodigies; their time at Chilton and Yale are marked more by their struggles with their work than their successes--particularly Rory, who has a difficult time when confronted with the higher expectations of both institutions. Paris goes on to have a successful career, but in the revival, Rory is unemployed and unable to establish herself in her career. Jess is intellectually on-par with Rory and Paris, but dropped out of high school and becomes a SelfMadeMan working in publishing. In contrast, Logan attends Yale only because of his father's name and money.
** Adjacent to this trope is the show's avoidance of EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain. Paris and Rory are intelligent, but not prodigies; their time at Chilton and Yale are marked more by their struggles with their work than their successes--particularly Rory, who has a difficult time when confronted with the higher expectations of both institutions. Paris goes on to have a successful career, but in the revival, Rory is unemployed and unable to establish herself in her career. Jess is intellectually on-par with Rory and Paris, but dropped out of high school and becomes a SelfMadeMan working in publishing. In contrast, Logan attends Yale only because of his father's name and money.
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* CatchPhrase: Emily and Richard are fond of telling Rory she's "a Gilmore through and through". When she makes it into the top 3% of her school year, when she graduates from college…
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** In a season 6 episode, Lorelai references ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' by accusing Luke of being as dramatic as someone from Wisteria Lane. This is also ironic as Brenda Strong, who plays Mary Alice on said show, showed up in the season 2 episode "Like mother, like daughter", and Emily Bergl, who played Francine, shows up in Season 7 of ''Desperate Housewives'' as Beth Young.
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** In a season 6 episode, Lorelai references ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' by accusing Luke of being as dramatic as someone from Wisteria Lane. This is also ironic as Brenda Strong, Lane and referencing an episode with Susan. At least three actors who plays Mary Alice on said show, showed up in the season 2 episode "Like mother, like daughter", and Emily Bergl, who played Francine, shows up in Season 7 of ''Desperate Housewives'' as Beth Young.have also shown up in ''Gilmore Girls'', those being Brenda Strong (Mary Alice), Emily Bergl (Beth Young), and Kathryn Josteen (Karen [=McClusky=]).
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* CollapsedMidSpeech: Rory's grandfather has a heart attack and goes down in the middle of a lecture, but he makes it. This also happens off-screen to Asher Fleming during a Shakespeare class at Oxford ("He was doing [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Puck]], and then suddenly he wasn't"). This one sticks.
* ContraceptionDeception: When Sookie is in the hospital giving birth to their second child, she demands that Jackson has a vasectomy done on the spot. Though he seems to go through with it, later in the series it turns out he lied about getting the vasectomy, and Sookie ends up pregnant again. This was a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as Sookie's actress had become pregnant and the producers didn't want to engage in any pregnancy-hiding antics.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion:
** In season 1, Lorelai angrily confronted Dean for breaking up with Rory, and Dean got angry as well, saying that it wasn't fair that everyone in town was mean to him without hearing his side of the story. Rory told her mother about the break-up, but didn't explain why it happened.
** Jess, who is summarily convicted for getting in a car accident and Rory's wrist being broken, despite the fact that anyone could have had an animal run out in front of them and swerved.
* CoordinatedClothes: In "Application Anxiety", Lorelai suggests to Rory that the siblings they just met are acting like they're together too much to just be brother and sister. Once they come back having changed their clothes, Lorelai notes to Rory that they're color-coordinated as further proof.
* CousinOliver: April. A young, precocious character added in during a rather unpopular stretch of the show.
* ContraceptionDeception: When Sookie is in the hospital giving birth to their second child, she demands that Jackson has a vasectomy done on the spot. Though he seems to go through with it, later in the series it turns out he lied about getting the vasectomy, and Sookie ends up pregnant again. This was a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as Sookie's actress had become pregnant and the producers didn't want to engage in any pregnancy-hiding antics.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion:
** In season 1, Lorelai angrily confronted Dean for breaking up with Rory, and Dean got angry as well, saying that it wasn't fair that everyone in town was mean to him without hearing his side of the story. Rory told her mother about the break-up, but didn't explain why it happened.
** Jess, who is summarily convicted for getting in a car accident and Rory's wrist being broken, despite the fact that anyone could have had an animal run out in front of them and swerved.
* CoordinatedClothes: In "Application Anxiety", Lorelai suggests to Rory that the siblings they just met are acting like they're together too much to just be brother and sister. Once they come back having changed their clothes, Lorelai notes to Rory that they're color-coordinated as further proof.
* CousinOliver: April. A young, precocious character added in during a rather unpopular stretch of the show.
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* CollapsedMidSpeech: Rory's grandfather has a heart attack and goes down in the middle of a lecture, but he makes it. This also happens off-screen to Asher Fleming during a Shakespeare class at Oxford ("He was doing [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Puck]], and then suddenly he wasn't"). This one sticks.
* ContraceptionDeception: When Sookie is in the hospital giving birth to their second child, she demands that Jackson has a vasectomy done on the spot. Though he seems to go through with it, later in the series it turns out he lied about getting the vasectomy, and Sookie ends up pregnant again. This was a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as Sookie's actress had become pregnant and the producers didn't want to engage in any pregnancy-hiding antics.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion:
** In season 1, Lorelai angrily confronted Dean for breaking up with Rory, and Dean got angry as well, saying that it wasn't fair that everyone in town was mean to him without hearing his side of the story. Rory told her mother about the break-up, but didn't explain why it happened.
** Jess, who is summarily convicted for getting in a car accident and Rory's wrist being broken, despite the fact that anyone could have had an animal run out in front of them and swerved.
* CoordinatedClothes: In "Application Anxiety", Lorelai suggests to Rory that the siblings they just met are acting like they're together too much to just be brother and sister. Once they come back having changed their clothes, Lorelai notes to Rory that they're color-coordinated as further proof.
* CousinOliver: April. A young, precocious character added in during a rather unpopular stretch of the show.
* ContraceptionDeception: When Sookie is in the hospital giving birth to their second child, she demands that Jackson has a vasectomy done on the spot. Though he seems to go through with it, later in the series it turns out he lied about getting the vasectomy, and Sookie ends up pregnant again. This was a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as Sookie's actress had become pregnant and the producers didn't want to engage in any pregnancy-hiding antics.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion:
** In season 1, Lorelai angrily confronted Dean for breaking up with Rory, and Dean got angry as well, saying that it wasn't fair that everyone in town was mean to him without hearing his side of the story. Rory told her mother about the break-up, but didn't explain why it happened.
** Jess, who is summarily convicted for getting in a car accident and Rory's wrist being broken, despite the fact that anyone could have had an animal run out in front of them and swerved.
* CoordinatedClothes: In "Application Anxiety", Lorelai suggests to Rory that the siblings they just met are acting like they're together too much to just be brother and sister. Once they come back having changed their clothes, Lorelai notes to Rory that they're color-coordinated as further proof.
* CousinOliver: April. A young, precocious character added in during a rather unpopular stretch of the show.
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nerd is now a redirect to Indexed And Nerdy and is no longer a trope
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* GirlPosse: Unusual, in that their leader, [[{{Nerd}} Paris]], is an AcademicAlphaBitch.
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* GirlPosse: Unusual, in that their leader, [[{{Nerd}} Paris]], Paris, is an AcademicAlphaBitch.
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* Rory in the early seasons is very awkward around other people. So much so that the school decides she needs to socialize more, or they won't recommend her for Harvard. She takes it very literally and [[HilarityEnsues once again]]...
** Paris's first relationship was also pretty awkward and seemed to be based on her boyfriend finding it cute that she rarely had a clue what to do in social situations.
** Dave Rygalski. Awkward, as obsessed with music as Lane, and is totally into managing the logistics of a relationship he has to keep his girlfriend's strict mother from finding out about.
* Rory in the early seasons is very awkward around other people. So much so that the school decides she needs to socialize more, or they won't recommend her for Harvard. She takes it very literally and [[HilarityEnsues once again]]...
** Paris's first relationship was also pretty awkward and seemed to be based on her boyfriend finding it cute that she rarely had a clue what to do in social situations.
** Dave Rygalski. Awkward, as obsessed with music as Lane, and is totally into managing the logistics of a relationship he has to keep his girlfriend's strict mother from finding out about.
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* NoSocialSkills:
* Rory in the early seasons is very awkward around other people. So much so that the school decides she needs to socialize more, or they won't recommend her for Harvard. She takes it very literally and [[HilarityEnsues once again]]...
** Paris's first relationship was also pretty awkward and seemed to be based on her boyfriend finding it cute that she rarely had a clue what to do in social situations.
* Rory in the early seasons is very awkward around other people. So much so that the school decides she needs to socialize more, or they won't recommend her for Harvard. She takes it very literally and [[HilarityEnsues once again]]...
** Paris's first relationship was also pretty awkward and seemed to be based on her boyfriend finding it cute that she rarely had a clue what to do in social situations.
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** Yet ''another'' case of Writers Cannot Check Calendars, this one from season one: in "The Deer Hunters," Lorelai insists Rory drive the Jeep to school so she isn't late for her big exam. This is treated like a totally normal thing to do, except despite Lorelai constantly rounding up her age, Rory is 15 in that episode as her birthday isn't unti a few weeks later...meaning she isn't old enough for a driver's license and isn't legally allowed to drive the Jeep to school.
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* CelebrityParadox: A season 2 episode has Lorelai quote the famous "Nobody puts baby in a corner" line from ''Film/DirtyDancing'', suggesting that movie exists in this universe, which is funny when Kelly Bishop plays the main character's mother in that movie as well.
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* CelebrityParadox: CelebrityParadox:
** A season 2 episode has Lorelai quote the famous "Nobody puts baby in a corner" line from ''Film/DirtyDancing'', suggesting that movie exists in this universe, which is funny when Kelly Bishop plays the main character's mother in that movie aswell.well.
** In a season 6 episode, Lorelai references ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' by accusing Luke of being as dramatic as someone from Wisteria Lane. This is also ironic as Brenda Strong, who plays Mary Alice on said show, showed up in the season 2 episode "Like mother, like daughter", and Emily Bergl, who played Francine, shows up in Season 7 of ''Desperate Housewives'' as Beth Young.
** A season 2 episode has Lorelai quote the famous "Nobody puts baby in a corner" line from ''Film/DirtyDancing'', suggesting that movie exists in this universe, which is funny when Kelly Bishop plays the main character's mother in that movie as
** In a season 6 episode, Lorelai references ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' by accusing Luke of being as dramatic as someone from Wisteria Lane. This is also ironic as Brenda Strong, who plays Mary Alice on said show, showed up in the season 2 episode "Like mother, like daughter", and Emily Bergl, who played Francine, shows up in Season 7 of ''Desperate Housewives'' as Beth Young.
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* RealWomenDontWearDresses: A DiscussedTrope throughout "That Damn Donna Reed"
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* RealWomenDontWearDresses: A DiscussedTrope throughout "That Damn Donna Reed"Reed".
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: In season 3, episode 2, Jess gives Rory one when she's put out that Jess started dating Shane over the summer. Jess points out that Rory kissed him and then told him not to tell anyone, disappeared for the entire summer, never contacted him, and is still dating her boyfriend.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: In season 3, episode 2, Jess gives Rory one when she's put out that Jess started dating Shane over the summer. Jess points out that Rory kissed him and then told him not to tell anyone, disappeared for the entire summer, never contacted him, and is still dating her boyfriend.
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** Emily sees Rory as a new and improved Lorelai, and Lorelai repeatedly calls Emily on it, as early as the ''second'' episode. It's most obvious when Rory moves in with her grandparents. When Rory starts "rebelling" by getting her life back on track, Emily throw a verbatim "WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome" her way (referring to Rory's ''grand''father)
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** Emily sees Rory as a new and improved Lorelai, and Lorelai repeatedly calls Emily on it, as early as the ''second'' episode. It's most obvious when Rory moves in with her grandparents. When Rory starts "rebelling" by getting her life back on track, Emily throw throws a verbatim "WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome" her way (referring to Rory's ''grand''father)way, and Rory snaps back that she must mean her ''grand''father.
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** Rory, Jess, Sookie and seemingly the whole of Stars Hollow for Luke/Lorelai.
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** Rory, Jess, Sookie Sookie, and seemingly the whole of Stars Hollow for Luke/Lorelai.
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** Amazingly, Emily, Richard and Lorelai ''all'' like Rory/Marty.
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** Amazingly, Emily, Richard Richard, and Lorelai ''all'' like Rory/Marty.
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* CelebrityParadox: A season 2 episode has Lorelai quote the famous "Nobody puts baby in a corner" line from ''Film/DirtyDancing'', suggesting that movie exists in this universe, which is funny when Kelly Bishop plays the main character's mother in that movie as well.
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As much as I'd like this to be true, I can't find proof of this anywhere when searching for it. If anyone does have a link/proof, they may add the example back.
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** Rory and Jess. Jess smoked (when he was a teenager), was sarcastic, and generally caused mischief in Stars Hollow, and encouraged Rory to take more risks. The trope is played with though, as Jess's intelligence, love of reading and wit was the main thing that attracted her, while his bad boy lack of dependability and poor communication led to them breaking up. They also had a hard time to get over themselves especially Jess, he loses his bad boy aspects later on and the creators revealed that if the series had continued for one more season, Rory would have ended up back together with him, seeing as he was ultimately the one who complemented her the best.
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** Rory and Jess. Jess smoked (when he was a teenager), was sarcastic, and generally caused mischief in Stars Hollow, and encouraged Rory to take more risks. The trope is played with though, as Jess's intelligence, love of reading and wit was the main thing that attracted her, while his bad boy lack of dependability and poor communication led to them breaking up. They also had a hard time to get over themselves especially Jess, he loses his bad boy aspects later on and the creators revealed that if the series had continued for one more season, Rory would have ended up back together with him, seeing as he was ultimately the one who complemented her the best.
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As discussed in headscratchers, it's ambiguous whether Lorelai dropped out, finished high school THEN ran away, or even attended any sort of school after high school.
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The titular Gilmore girls are, more or less, two sides of the same coin. Mother Lorelai (Creator/LaurenGraham) was born to privilege, but saw her education cut short by a TeenPregnancy. Despite pressure from her parents Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (Creator/EdwardHerrmann), and a proposal from the father Christopher (David Sutcliffe), the 16-year-old Lorelai chose to strike out on her own, moving to Stars Hollow, Connecticut as a GlamorousSingleMother. Daughter Rory (Creator/AlexisBledel), despite having been born in comparative poverty, is a gifted student. Both women are intelligent, witty, cynical, cute, and comically dysfunctional when it comes to men.
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The titular Gilmore girls are, more or less, two sides of the same coin. Mother Lorelai (Creator/LaurenGraham) was born to privilege, but saw her education cut short get messed up by a TeenPregnancy. Despite pressure from her parents Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (Creator/EdwardHerrmann), and a proposal from the father Christopher (David Sutcliffe), the 16-year-old Lorelai chose to strike out on her own, moving to Stars Hollow, Connecticut as a GlamorousSingleMother. Daughter Rory (Creator/AlexisBledel), despite having been born in comparative poverty, is a gifted student. Both women are intelligent, witty, cynical, cute, and comically dysfunctional when it comes to men.
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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** Taken UpToEleven in one episode, where Emily is about to buy a ''private plane'', before Lorelai stops her.
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** Taken UpToEleven in In one episode, where Emily is about to buy a ''private plane'', before Lorelai stops her.
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* {{Flanderization}}: The overly quirky characterizations of the townspeople are taken UpToEleven.
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* {{Flanderization}}: The overly quirky characterizations of the townspeople are taken UpToEleven.exaggerated.
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** People expecting Rory to be in the thirty-something gang.
