Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days
Rory is in D.C. with Paris, who has a nightmare that she's getting impeached over a sex scandal. Jamie asks Paris out on a date. Lorelai is still getting over her brief fling with her baby daddy. Kirk somehow created a weapon of mass destruction when he tried to put together a skincare product.
Lorelai meets Rory at the airport, having bought her several Hartford, Connecticut souvenirs to pass time, and discovered that the government frowns on people feeding the bomb dogs. Rory discovers that Jess has found a girlfriend. Lorelai tells her parents that she and Chris have broken up because Sherry is pregnant. Lorelai and Luke make up by not making up, but just by Lorelai needing his particular coffee.
Tropes:
- All Just a Dream: Lorelai living with Luke and being pregnant with his twins.
- Blatant Lies:
- Subverted when Lorelai tells Emily that Rory comes back a day later than she does, which she almost gets caught for, but played straight when she tells Rory about it she claims that she hates lying to her own parents, which no one buys.
- Lorelai claims she didn't take Rory's pillow (or comforter) when Rory discovers that they're not in her room.
- Brick Joke: Paris worries that Jamie is too cheap to buy a Zagat guide. When he knocks on the door, he tells her they're going to a good Italian restaurant – at least according to the Zagat.
- Captain Obvious: Emily points out that Lorelai and Christopher aren't in high school anymore.
- Crazy Cat Lady: Rory suggests this contingency for Paris in case she never finds a man.
- Companion Cube: Rory comes home and tells the things in her house she missed them. Lorelai comments that the ottoman is too much of a snob to miss her back, seeing as he only likes the magazine rack.
- "Dear John" Letter: Rory tries to write Jess one, but is unable to.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Paris thinks it's a sad coincidence that she just happens to catch all the most interesting politicians right before they need to use the bathroom.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Rory initially thinks Lorelai's dream about being married to Luke and having his twins means that she wants to be married to Luke and have his twins.
- Then she subverts it by re-interpreting it as Lorelai being jealous of Sherry having Chris's second child.
- The Fatalist: Paris assumes Jamie is taking her to an unrated restaurant and from there figures the restaurant is probably just a front for a cocaine laundering ring, and that in any case he's probably only taking her on a date because he made a bet with Terry Lott.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: Subverted. Emily tries to give Lorelai a pre-made scone mix to bake, but Lorelai insists she can't even cook something that just requires adding water and putting it in the oven.
- Hidden Depths: Kirk, who usually does "blue collar" work, also has enough knowledge of chemistry to make skincare products. Not very good ones, as he later warns Lorelai, but still something that passes for lotion.
- History Repeats: Chris accidentally knocked someone up again and Richard claims he is going to marry Sherry like he tried to with Lorelai when they were 16.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: In Lorelai's dream, Luke says he gives up on getting Lorelai to tone down her coffee addiction, then instantly begs her to stop drinking so much coffee.
- Informed Judaism: Sookie serves delicious kosher bacon, prompting Lorelai to declare she is so Jewish.
- Meaningful Rename:
- In her dream, Lorelai wanted to name her twins Sid and Nancy, but changes her mind and wants to name them Leopold and Loeb instead.
- Trying to get back into real Luke's good graces, Lorelai renames herself Mimi and talks about herself.
- Mundane Solution: Kirk figures the reason cows don't get wrinkled is that they eat hay.
- Must Have Coffee: Even in her dreams, Lorelai has caffeine cravings.
- No Social Skills: Paris, who gets asked out on a date and accepts without noticing, all while avoiding eye contact and eating.
- No, You: When Lorelai claims that Rory can't change clothes in a minute, Rory tells her not to project.Rory: Do not judge me by your own standards.
- Pun:
- Rory claims Lorelai's calling her on being interested in Jess while dating Dean is not fair, but Lorelai retorts that it is the fairest, in fact, the Snow White of fair.
- Sookie wants to buy an antique stuffed trout which Lorelai names Troutski.
- Kirk's hay-based line of skincare products, "hay there." He claims he averted this trope by not naming it "grass there."
- Real Men Wear Pink: Zigzagged. Defied by Sookie messing with the aesthetics of her house to make it look more masculine, expecting Jackson to prefer it to the more feminine look it had previously. Inverted by her claiming to like the masculine look. Played straight with Jackson preferring the old look.
- Running Gag: Sookie trying to determine whether various things are masculine.
- Sarcasm Mode: Lorelai spends so much time in this mode that Taylor refuses to accept her genuine praise.
- Shout-Out:
- The title is a reference to the song and album by Nat King Cole.
- Dream!Luke subverts this trope by saying "I'll alert the media" without the accent from Albert, as Dream!Lorelai lampshades.
- Dream!Luke calls Dream!Lorelai's twins "Sid and Nancy." She renames them Leopold and Loeb.
- Paris quotes Bill Clinton in her sleep, proving that she can quote Bill Clinton in her sleep.
- Paris thinks it's bad for the US international image that the Secretary of the Treasury travels around with Bono.
- She says you might as well have Freddie Prinze Jr. hook up with Colin Powell.
- Paris's greatest fear is winding up in a coma while single and being unable to stop Glenn Close from playing her in a movie.
- Paris worries that Jamie won't take her to a restaurant recommended by the Zagat.
- Sookie asks Lorelai's opinion on the masculinity of a figurine. Lorelai thinks it's an Oscar Wilde sort of macho.
- Mrs. Kim claims some of her antiques belonged to General Sherman, a man famous for burning down Atlanta.
- Sookie wants to buy a stuffed trout, which Lorelai names Leon Troutsky.
- Quite literally, to the Ya-Ya sisters.Rory: Solidarity, sister.Lorelai: Ya ya!
- Lorelai insists her criticism of Rory's treatment of Dean is "the Snow White of fair".
- Lorelai fancies herself Wonder Woman.
- Lorelai thinks you can get the "Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer" song out of your head by replacing it with the ""it's a small world"" song.
- Slapstick: Off-screen, Taylor slipped on a banana peel and broke his leg.
- Stop Being Stereotypical: Subverted, as Sookie feels that her house is too pink and not "butch" enough for Jackson, whereas Jackson thinks it's nice just as it is. She wants to macho the place up by painting the living room mahogany and the bedroom midnight blue.
- Title Drop: The quartet sings "Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" at the festival of the same name. Lorelai drops the title a few times in the process of complaining that it's stuck in her brain.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Lorelai calls Rory out for holding on to Dean when she's clearly interested in Jess.
