Season 6, episode 1
New And Improved Lorelai
Lorelai has proposed to Luke after Rory dropped out of Yale and moved in with her grandparents. Logan throws Rory a party. Paris conspires with Lorelai to get Rory back to Yale.Maid of the week: Hosanna
Tropes
- Absurd Phobia: Though Rory has never been established as a sleep-walker, Paris fears that by living in the pool house she'll sleepwalk into the pool and drown.
- Brick Joke: Lorelai proposed to Luke.
- Call-Back: Emily tells Rory the code to her panic room.
- Paris borrows Rory's clothes.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Lorelai considers her parents to suffer from this disorder. That's how she can be so calm about it.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Lorelai thinks Luke changed his mind about marrying her when all he meant was that he didn't have alcohol.
- Emily stopping Richard from figuratively killing Charlie. They're in a courthouse after all.
- Compliment Backfire: Subverted. Richard says of Charlie that if Rory knew how many criminals he had gotten back on the street, she would never believe in the criminal justice system again.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Paris assumes Rory is pregnant when she tells her she's dropping out.
- Foreshadowing:
- Logan figures it won't take Rory long to end up back at Yale.
- In season 8, we learn that Logan is right. Rory doesn't do too well outside of school.
- Gossipy Hens: Babette and Miss Patty are annoyed with East Side Tilly getting all the juice on Lorelai's life first.
- Literal-Minded: Luke anticipates this for Kirk, making sure he means the rings are real diamonds, not real in the sense that they exist.
- Product Placement: Zima
- Running Joke: Paris still doesn't recognize Luke.
- Sarcasm Mode: How Michel deals with Emily.
- Shout-Out
- Lorelai wants celebrate by hittin Funky Town, a song by Lipps Inc.
- Taylor thought it was more likely that all four Beatles reunited than for Lorelai and Luke to get engaged.
- Dylan Thomas came through town and drank all the alcohol except a box of Zima.
- The town troubador sings Pre-owned Heart by Alexa Rose.
- Star Trek also has intercom, like the Gilmore house.
- Richard's lawyer handled a defamation suit involving Ellen Degeneres.
- Paris feels like Doyle's family are Oompa-loompas.
- Paris offer Rory to live with her and Doyle. Rory points out that it's very Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, minus Bob.
- The woman who used to own Lorelai's engagement ring thought she was Frida Kahlo near the end.
- Paris thinks Logan is a Christopher Atkins wannabe and the reason Rory blue lagoons it out of Yale.
- Rory is Paris's Björn Borg, and Paris feels she needs her to compete against to be at the top of her game.
- Finn went to Spain to study Miguel de Cervantes.
- One of the girls at the party stayed home for a month after she got apocalyptic highlights that made her look like a Tim Burton character.
- Michel is made to answer doors, like Benson.
- Richard comments on Lorelai feeling that she's been conned. Lorelai says it's only a Paper Moon.
- Stealth Insult: Taylor asks Lorelai if she feels the need to be drunk to be with Luke.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Luke and Paris separately come up with the same ideas for getting Rory back to Yale.
- Surrender Backfire: Rory's guilty plea backfires and her twenty hours of community service turn into 300.
- Teen Pregnancy: Lorelai argues that Rory needs to make this mistake, just as Lorelai had to go through that one.
- Themed Party: Logan and his friends throw Rory a prison-themed party.
- Threat Backfire: Discussed. Paris says she'll hold Lorelai to her promise to talk to her. Lorelai responds that it's not a threat if they're offering it to you.
- Too Much Information: Subverted with Babette's story about how Morey proposed, since she forgot to mention that they were playing Twister.
- Wacky Marriage Proposal: While the craziest thing about the proposal itself was that Lorelai proposed and Luke, while taken aback, accepted without protesting his masculinity, Lorelai insists they do something "Funkytown" to celebrate.
