Line #47 Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E18


1	'''Season 1, episode 18'''
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3	!!The Third Lorelai
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5	Richard's mother comes to visit. Emily is stressed out relocating all the gifts from her mother in law that she has hidden or gotten rid of. Rory suggests to Tristan that he get over Summer by dating smart girls, like Paris. He uses this to sabotage the truce between Rory and Paris. It comes out that Emily wants people to need her, which goes a long way to explain her control issues. Trix decides to give Rory access to her trust fund at sixteen instead of twenty-five as originally planned, but changes her mind when she sees Emily and Lorelai arguing.
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7	Maid of the week: Stella. No relation to [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E14 the chicken]].
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9	Rory's study method: rereading her notes while eating cake.
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11	!!Tropes:
12	* AcousticLicense: Paris yells at Rory in a way that blows her casual "we're totes just friends" cover for Tristan five seconds after he told her, in the same classroom as him.
13	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Tristan announces that he's swearing off girls for a while, causing Rory to giggle.
14	* ArtisticLicensePolitics: Paris feels that their school project Elizabethan government should have a King and Queen, even though in the British monarchy one of them would only be a consort.
15	* AskAStupidQuestion: Lorelai confirms that she double-clicked, and Michel asks if she did it by clicking twice.
16	* BetterAsFriends: After the date, Tristan thinks he and Paris are better as friends.
17	* BlatantLies: Subverted. Paris thinks Rory is lying about her looking good, but she isn't.
18	* BrickJoke: The cell phone reception in the tea garden. First it stops Lorelai calling Rory about the trust fund, then it stops Emily calling Richard about the trust fund.
19	* CaptainObvious:
20	** Lorelai explains that she is named for Richard's mother Lorelai.
21	** Michel explains to Lorelai that to successfully double-click you must click twice.
22	* CompanionCube: Lorelai explains to the life-sized dog figurines that Emily wouldn't call them horrifying if she wasn't so upset.
23	-->'''Emily:''' STOP TALKING TO THE DOGS!
24	* DeathGlare: Trix gets quite annoyed at Emily and Lorelai arguing.
25	* DinnerAndAShow: Paris's date with Tristan.
26	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint:
27	** Rory once again fails to pick up on Tristan's tricks.
28	** Richard thinks that when Emily is upset that "she" is never coming back, she means his mother. She means Lorelai if she gets the money in Rory's trust fund.
29	** Tristan says he can't date Paris because he likes someone else, looking directly at Rory. Rory figures he's talking about Summer.
30	** Trix assumes Emily and Lorelai don't argue regularly.
31	* FreakOut: Emily has her first one since Lorelai was twelve.
32	* FreezeFrameBonus: Rory still takes paragraph notes.
33	* GenerationXerox: Emily treats her own daughter in much that same way as her daughter's namesake, Richard's mother, treats Emily.
34	* HollywoodAtheist: Paris insists that Rory's use of the expression "I swear to God" isn't valid if she's an atheist.
35	* InformedJudaism: Paris only left her bat mitzvah dress with menorahs on the collar at home when she comes to Rory to ask what to wear for her date.
36	* IronicEcho: [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E03 After the twin wedding]], Emily accused Lorelai of bringing her "used" desert when she brings leftover blueberry shortcake from a wedding at the inn. This episode, Lorelai laughingly accuses Emily of giving her a "used" present when it turns out she gave her a hatrack Trix gave ''her'' that she didn't want.
37	* {{Irony}}:
38	** Turns out, Emily and Lorelai's relationship is much like Lorelai (Trix) and Emily's.
39	** Trix finds Lorelai's youthful indiscretions (getting pregnant and not getting married) both scandalous (which she dislikes) and independent (which she likes).
40	* SarcasmMode:
41	** As Lorelai replies to Michel's stupid question: "No, I double-clicked, but I didn't click twice."
42	** Trix makes an effort to stay in this mode when addressing Emily, going out of her way to criticize her daughter-in-law for things like dinner being slightly late.
43	--->'''Emily:''' But it's only five after, mom!\
44	'''Trix:''' Richard, in the event that I am kidnapped and ransom is demanded at a certain time I'd rather Emily not be in charge of the drop-off.
45	* ShoutOut:
46	** Lorelai quips that being related to God will make getting Music/{{Madonna}} tickets much easier.
47	** Lorelai thinks "stupid naked angel butts" sounds like a Creator/DavidMamet play.
48	** There's a school project about the [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabethan government]].
49	** The topic of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII comes up when Rory says he created his own church and Paris replies that he also cut off his wives' heads.
50	--->'''Paris:''' Is he still your role model?
51	** Rory points out that even Franchise/{{Barbie}} didn't become a Queen but a stewardess.
52	** Tristan and Rory nearly have a Creator/MarxBrothers moment.
53	** Rory thinks Tristan will need a [[Film/SilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter mask]] to stay off girls.
54	** She quotes ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' at him.
55	--->'''Rory:''' Louie, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
56	** Rory sarcastically assumes that Louise was quoting Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, but it was ''Series/DawsonsCreek''.
57	** Louise and Madeline want to turn Paris from Sandy at the start of ''Film/{{Grease}}'' into Sandy at the end.
58	** Lorelai: [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy, how many times have I told you not to butt into other people's business?]]
59	** Creator/WilliamShakespeare's advice about never lending or borrowing money makes sense to Trix.
60	** Sookie thinks they should tell Rory she's about to come into money with a song from ''Film/{{Cabaret}}''.
61	** Lorelai promises not to mind if Rory buys [[Film/TheElephantMan the Elephant Man's]] bones.
62	** An annoying Music/TheCranberries song gets stuck in Lorelai's head like her mother's advice.
63	** Lorelai refers to her mother and grandmother as "the cast of ''Film/{{Gaslight}}''".
64	** Emily doesn't care if Trix thinks she's the [[Literature/TheBible whore of Babylon]].
65	** Paris quotes a line often attributed to UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette.
66	** Trix finds Emily and Lorelai's fight reminiscent of [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Sarah Ferguson]].
67	* SpySpeak: "I need the hatrack" is Emily's way of saying she needs Lorelai to return a hatrack she gave her, whereas "the fish flies at night" is Lorelai's way of saying she doesn't know what Emily is talking about.
68	* StealthInsult:
69	** Madeline and Louise think it's this that Tristan asked Paris out on less than 24-hour notice.
70	** Trix seems to think her insults become this if she says them under her breath.
71	* SustainedMisunderstanding: Lorelai does this deliberately, insisting that her grandmother is God who lives in London and can get her Madonna tickets.
72	* TakeThat: Lorelai thinks rose tea is more a bad floral arrangement than tea.
73	* TeenPregnancy: Trix brings up Lorelai's, but not so much to criticize her for that as to criticize her for not having gotten married yet.
74	* ThisIsReality: Paris takes her class assignment very seriously, and Madeline asks Louise to remind Paris that they're creating a ''make-believe'' government for class. Louise lacks that amount of guts.
75	* TrophyWife: Paris thinks Tristan only dates trophy wife material.
76	* UnwantedGiftPlot: Lorelai walks in on Emily in a meltdown because she needs to (and cannot) find all of the gifts her mother-in-law has ever given them, which she needs to do to prevent the fight that will ensue if Trix finds out she hates them all.

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