Season 6, episode 12
Just Like Gwen And Gavin
Taylor broadcasts a town meeting from Maine to talk about the winter carnival being canceled without him. They decide that Kirk arrange it in Taylor's place. Luke spends an afternoon in a park with April. Logan sends Rory gifts, including the coffee cart, even though she wants nothing to do with him. Luke tries to avoid having April in the diner, but Anna isn't having it. The people at Yale Daily News have a secret meeting about Paris. Logan asks Lorelai for support to get Rory back. Lorelai runs into April, who cheerfully informs her that her biological father owns the diner.
Tropes
- Blatant Lies:
- A very tired Luke gives a coffee refill to a guy drinking tea. When the guy calls him on it he says it's a hybrid and very in right now.
- Kirk thinks any promise of Lorelai's is this, as she has a habit of not making good on hers.
- Both Rory and Paris is suspicious about all the senior staffers at Yale Daily News simultaneously happening to be enjoying a tipper.
- Captain Obvious: "I know my dog can't really tell fortunes, Kirk."
- Comically Missing the Point:
- The curch bells ring at 03:12 in the morning, waking Lorelai and Luke. Lorelai asks if it's in the house. Luke assures her it's the church bells, and she asks how the church bells got in the house.
- Then when Luke says it was some dead guy yelling something, Lorelai asks if it's a ghost, but Luke clarifies that it's just a guy he's gonna kill.
- No one at the town meeting understands what the big deal is with Taylor being stuck in Maine and being unable to run the winter carnival.
- Kirk is deeply offended by Lorelai shamelessly having her dog tell people's fortunes while admitting she knows he's not a real fortune teller.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Zach gets mad when Lane comes to the festival with a young-looking guy who he later finds out is her uncle.
- Godwin's Law:
- Paris gets compared unfavorably to Augusto Pinochet.
- Downplayed with Lorelai, who compares Logan to "the guy who handed out smallpox blankets".
- Grammar Nazi: Paris is no fan of split infinitives.
- Hidden Depths: April is learning morse code.
- Immediate Selfcontradiction: Luke tells April to trust no one in Stars Hollow, but also to not lock her bike. People around here could be stranglers, but they're not bike thieves.
- Literal-Minded:
- Luke compares Stars Hollowers to Pavlovian dogs who come running once you ring a bell. Lorelai tells him not to drool on the seats they're sitting on.
- Meeting April in the park, Luke says "surprise!", making her ask if the meeting was not planned like she had thought.
- Mondegreen Gag: Luke mishears "town meetings" as "clown beatings".
- Oh, No... Not Again!: When Luke relays the news of the clown beatings to Lorelai, who also didn't hear what people were shouting, she moans: "Oh no, not again!"
- One-Steve Limit: Paris has a problem with some people on the newsroom staff having the same name (two Johns and three Marthas), so invokes this trope by assigning everyone a number instead.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Taylor wears a cap and sunglasses and speaks in a foreign-sounding accent, confusing people at the Winter festival.
- The Perfectionist: Paris rewrites her own rewrites. Subverted as it makes them worse.
- Pun: Lorelai calls Kirk part of the local color, specifically purple.
- Real Dreams are Weirder: Luke had a dream that he was looking to buy a car and the guy popped open the hood and then looked up in the manual how many cubic feet the trunk was.
- The Reason You Suck: Lorelai helpfully informs Logan why she doesn't like him.
- Riddle for the Ages: What it said in the letter Lorelai sent Rory.
- Shout-Out:
- Lorelai caught the first hour of Katie Couric and Matt Lauer for the first time in her life.
- They leave you with Matthew McConaughey.
- Paris gets snippy about all the flowers Logan send to the apartment, calling Rory Algernon.
- April wants to see the The Count of Monte Cristo|s at Luke's diner.
- Taylor has a Huckleberry Finn disguise.
- Lorelai thinks he belongs on 8 Mile.
- Zach thinks Bob Dylan should write a song about how his life is right now.
- Paris thinks the staff tried to "Howell Raines" her, and she is not entirely wrong.
- Rory points out that Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale once found themselves in a similar situation to Lorelai and Luke.
- Zach compares Joe to Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
- Shipper on Deck: Mrs. Kim tells Zach she won't get between him and Lane, and that is so much better than setting her up with Korean med students.
- Stop Being Stereotypical: Inverted. Anna wants April to watch stupid tv-shows like an ordinary kid.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: When they tell her they all just came for a drink, Rory points out that it's too much of a coincidence that four senior staffers just happen to be in a bar together at the same time. Later, Rory tries to make the same excuse for them, and Paris points out the same thing.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: Zach accuses Joe, whom he believes to be dating Lane, of being really hot.
- Take That!: Rory suggests the only difference between Lorelai/Luke and Gwen/Gavin is that the former two don't sing, then corrects herself to "well, neither do Gwen and Gavin".
- Tarot Troubles: Probably averted since Paul Anka is a confirmed fraud.
- Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Subverted. Mrs. Kim seems to be challenging Zach to a fight, but she only wants to assure him that she's not going to come between him and Lane.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Played for laughs. Lorelai tells Logan it's his fault Rory didn't speak to her for five months, three weeks and sixteen days, also known as "over six months" or even "five months, five weeks and two days".
