Season 5, episode 14
Say Something
Lorelai is looking for Luke after he stormed out of the wedding. Word gets out that they have split, ribbons are distributed, Lorelai freaks out and oversteps some boundaries, leading Luke to break up with her. Rory tries hanging out with Logan, but has to go to Stars Hollow to comfort her mother.The inn hosts some tea party for little girls and dolls. Michel is against it, but comes through in the end. Lorelai calls Luke and leaves a desperate message on his answering machine, immediately regrets it and when she runs into him on the way home from stealing his answering machine tape she seals the break-up from her side.
Tropes
- Blatant Lies: Sookie assuring Lorelai that people who break up over one of them lying get back together all the time.
- Boggle: Paris demands that Rory make up for waking her with a round of this.
- Brick Joke: People who see Lorelai and Luke not being together comment that Taylor would lose it if they broke up.
- Call-Back:
- Paris complains about how Chilton didn't give them social skills.
- Lorelai dreams that she and Luke are watching a film of the scene where she decided not to tell Luke about Christopher.
- Captain Obvious: Luke's surprise at seeing her in one prompts Rory to say she isn't usually in a limo.
- Child Hater: Michel is annoyed that he has to deal with little girls and their tea party with their dolls.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Pink ribbon means you support Lorelai, blue ribbon means you support Luke. But sometimes pink ribbon just means you like pink.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- When Michel complains that "they don't have opposable thumbs", Sookie thinks he means that the girls are disabled, but he just means that the dolls are too stupid to appreciate a tea party so why throw them one.
- A girl demands that Michel kiss her hurt doll's "boo-boo". Michel doesn't understand American slang well enough to know which part of the doll is the "boo-boo".
- Continuity Nod: Taylor tells people Lorelai should have married "that Max guy" when she had the chance.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Rory annoys Paris to the extent that she forces her to play Boggle with her to pay for it.
- Freak Out: Lorelai has one about "taking some time" with Luke.
- Irony: Lorelai and Luke might not have broken up if Taylor, who ships them out of economic pragmatism, hadn't decided they had already broken up.
- "Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal: To mock Rory's blind faith in manuals, Lorelai asks: if it said in the car manual to drive it off a cliff, would you? Rory says she would.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Lorelai's verbatim reaction when she hangs up after begging Luke to come over and comfort her.
- Nice to the Waiter: Rory treats Logan's driver Frank like a friend. She even shares food with him, which is the biggest friendhsip gesture in this universe.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Luke still considers Rory the little girl who invited people to a caterpillar's funeral.
- Poker: Logan is playing poker with his friends when Rory comes over.
- Product Placement: Cereal gets a lot of hype. Lane buys Toll cookie dough.
- Sarcasm Mode: Paris is in this mode even when half asleep.
- Shout-Out:
- Paris thinks Rory could have deduced that she was asleep, like Sherlock Holmes.
- Paris thinks Rory's best man attire is her dressing like kd lang.
- The movie playing in the theatre is The Philadelphia Story.
- Michel thinks dolls are too Bride of Chucky.
- Lorelai guesses that Sookie got her dark story about a couple getting back together as senior citizens from Katie Kouric. She is right.
- Nietzsche and Wittgenstein went "ape guano" over cornflakes according to Paris.
- It annoys Paris that Logan has hair and a chin like a fourth Bee Gee.
- Paris says to Rory that they're daughters of Emma Goldman and Hillary Clinton.
- Paris claims Althea and Janet know more about boys than did the Brontes.
- Rory tells Logan she learned all she knows about poker from The Odd Couple.
- Michel sang a medeley from Annie.
- Lorelai leaves a message on Luke's machine referencing The Way We Were.
- Rory didn't want to be Fanny Brice to Logan's Nicky Arnstein.
- Stealth Insult: Gypsy tells Lorelai that she is on her side because Luke fixes his own truck whereas Lorelai doesn't know can't tell a piston from a pepperoni.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Logan and Lorelai observe separately that car dealers are such rip-offs.
- Title Drop: When Lorelai tells her cinema self to "say something" in her dream.
