Season 5, episode 17
Pulp Friction
Kirk is collecting the ribbons. Michel comes home from California where he went on a gameshow and won a trailer. Kirk has found that his mother is allergic to Lulu, so Luke suggests he move out, but forgets to remind him to make sure he has somewhere to move in first. Finn celebrates his birthday with a Themed Party. Rory makes use of being in an open relationship by dating Logan's friend Robert Grimaldi. Lorelai misses her mom-card. Emily tries to use hers, but since her daughter is thirty-seven it doesn't work.Maid of the week: Olympia, who Emily fires to save face.
Provides examples of:
- Big Eater: Luke hangs a lampshade on Lorelai not weighing 250 lbs despite eating all the time. Lorelai claims scientists call it the Lorelai Paradox.
- Brick Joke:
- Lorelai is saddened that the "Lorelai look" is out and wants to follow a woman who dresses similarly to learn where she shops. Rory and Lorelai are distracted by the sight of Logan on a date with an unknown girl. To distract her mother from "keeping it cash" confusion, Rory points and says: "oh, the Lorelai look is back, look!"
- Luke thinks there is a raccoon in Lorelai's garage. They go in and find Kirk sleeping. He also thinks there's a raccoon in there.
- Can't Take Criticism: Sookie discusses how Michel can only dish it out.
- Captain Obvious: Luke explains he's out of boysenberry pie. Lorelai asks why. He clarifies that someone ate the last piece.
- Chekhov's Gun: Lorelai puts her number on speed dial on Luke's phone, and it comes in handy later.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Rory regrets her agreement with Logan to date other people when she spots him out with another girl.
- Comically Missing the Point: Collin's date figures Tarantino's ex-girlfriend Mira Sorvino is sufficiently Tarantino-themed to dress up as.
- Continuity Nod: Kirk still sleepwalks.
- Dreadlock Rasta: Luke bought a reggae CD at a gas station.
- Genius Bookclub: Rory reads Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World when Robert asks her out on a date.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Logan gets jealous when Rory dates other men.
- Hypocrite: Logan doesn't want to see Rory dating other guys, although he wants the freedom to date other girls.
- Malaproper: As Lorelai puts it: "Cluelessness is the mother of invention."
- Metaphorgotten: Kirk wonders if Luke means that he gave him the abstract logs to build his own real cabin.
- Naked People Are Funny: Kirk sleeping naked in Luke's boat. And in Rory's room. And in Michel's trailer.
- Operation: Jealousy: Rory decides to go to the Themed Party with a guy she barely knows, to make Logan jealous. It works.
- Punny Title: "Pulp Friction" refers to both the Pulp Fiction-themed party and the friction between Logan and Rory as she finds she is not that into polyamory.
- Rudely Hanging Up: Rory says something rude to Lorelai on the phone and Lorelai responds in her usual mature fashion by making crackling sounds and claiming the house is going through a tunnel before hanging up.
- Running Gag: Walking into a room and finding Kirk sleeping there.
- Shout-Out:
- The title is a reference to Pulp Fiction.
- At least Lorelai didn't ask Luke for a favor on this, the day of his daughter's wedding.
- Logan knows who Tony Kushner is, not because he's seen Caroline, or Change or Angels in America, but because his mother plays castana with him.
- But she does not play majong with Mamet.
- The inn had books by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift and Edith Wharton before guests started stealing them.
- Michel denies getting his boobs done by the same guy who did Pamela Anderson's.
- Michel is perfectly ready to disappoint Nick Lachey's teeth guy.
- Renée Zellweger is gaining a ton of weight to play a peasant in the Film of the Book of Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World.
- Rory goes to a Quentin Tarantino-Themed Party dressed as Gogo Yubari. Robert goes as "dead extra number two". Logan's date Whitney is dressed very similarly, but in a blood-splattered wedding dress instead of a t-shirt, making her an incarnation of The Bride. Logan goes as Butch Coolidge.
- Most of the guests go as someone from Kill Bill or Pulp Fiction.
- Kirk owns a Beach Boys album.
- Themed Party: the Quentin Tarantino themed one.
- Verbal Backspace: Lorelai listens to how well Rory's Operation: Jealousy went and comments that "all the balls are in your court… well you know what I mean."
- Womanchild: Lulu is very attached to her ribbon.Kirk: This is bigger than your love of pink!Lulu: Nooooo!
