Season 6, episode 17
I'm OK, You're OK
Rory considers moving back into Paris's apartment after she kicked Doyle out, but both girls end up making up with their exes the same night. April's math team made it into some national contest, so they ask Luke to chaperone. Lorelai keeps running into bugs that scare her. Rory comes home to avoid her new/old boyfriend. Emily and Richard have gotten GPS in their car. Zach tells Mrs. Kim he wants to marry Lane, and she takes it as him asking her permission, and he goes with that and ends up writing a song with her. Rory disagrees with Luke's policy on not introducing his daughter to his fiance, so she goes to meet Anna in her store in Woodbridge. Lorelai's parents are looking for a house in Stars Hollow.
Tropes
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Lorelai fears that the sight of Lindsay Lohan on the cover of Vanity Fair would only inspire her parents to make comments about skin cancer, drug use, anorexia, and purchasing a bra.
- Big Eater: Sookie doesn't question it when Lorelai asks her to bring over lots of food.
- Blatant Lies:
- Lorelai hadn't told her parents that she got a dog, so when Emily comes over and sees him she claims that she got him yesterday.
- Rory's cell rings repeatedly while she's in Stars Hollow. When she comes home she tells Logan her cell died.
- Zach pretends to want to buy an antique door knob when Mrs. Kim catches him in her house after he goes there to talk to her about marrying Lane.
- Brick Joke:
- Lorelai and Rory go see Final Destination 3 and Lorelai thinks it's lame, so naturally they go to the same movie again later that day. Lorelai still thinks it's lame, so she wants to rent Final Destination 1 & 2.
- Zach's fib about the doorknob comes back at the end of their conversation, when he bails on it.
- Call-Back: Zach makes his case to Mrs. Kim to convince her to be okay with him marrying Lane in much the same way Dave made his case to convince Mrs. Kim to let him take Lane to prom in season three.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Mrs. Kim okays Zach's marriage proposal to Lane he thinks she says to tell her about the song they just wrote.
- Continuity Nod: Rory still uses pro/con-lists to make decisions.Rory: Do not mock the pro/con-lists!
- Distinction Without a Difference: Lorelai doesn't think her parents are as exhausting as Rory's grandparents.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Zach thinks Lane wants them to get their own place after they're married means she doesn't like Brian.
- Friend to All Living Things: Though Lorelai is scared of spiders and insects, she doesn't want to see them hurt. That's why when she traps a cricket under a paper cup she makes holes so it gets air, tapes the cup to the floor and puts books on top of it.
- Funny Background Event: Subverted. There's a guitarist in the background when Lorelai complains to Rory about the end of Final Destination III. When they leave, he seems to get mad about the spoiler.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Zach tells Mrs. Kim that he cares a buttland.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Lorelai gets slightly jealous when Anna gives Luke a duffel bag.
- Hidden Depths: Mrs. Kim knows how to evaluate rock music.
- Innocently Insensitive: Rory innocently messes up Michel's post-it system.
- Mistaken for Pregnant: Sookie only hears "I'm expecting" and something about "parents" and "being due soon" (she can's hear anything over that damn cuisinart and those gossiping bus boys) and thinks Lorelai means she's having a baby, not that her parents coming over.
- Plot Parallel: Paris and Doyle get back together just as Rory and Logan get back together.
- Product Placement: Tumi Inc. Some German car.
- Pun: Lorelai quips that when you use a fake professional in lieu of a real professional, your can pay him in Monopoly money.
- The Reason You Suck: Paris tells Logan in no uncertain terms how much he sucks and why.
- Rule of Three:
- Luke stabs himself for the third time mending his duffle bag.
- Lorelai has to deny being pregnant to Sookie three times before it takes.
- The third minor chord is the right one to end Zach's new song on.
- Shout-Out
- The episode title is a reference to a book about self- and other-acceptance.
- Lorelai screams like Janet Leigh in Psycho when she sees a spider in the shower.
- It was spinning Charlotte's Web. Lorelai suggests Luke leave it near a talking pig.
- Lindsay Lohan on the cover of Vanity Fair is too much of a talking point to leave out when Emily and Richard visit.
- Lorelai mentions Britney Spears.
- Mrs. Kim tells Zach "don't try, do".
- Lorelai tells Rory that Miss Patty thinks Anna Nardini was Mata Hari in a former life.
- Rory decides to catch the first half of Nanny McPhee and the last half of Final Destination 3.
- Rory wonders what happened to Florrie Dugger.
- Zach thinks his new song is very Ray Davies. Mrs. Kim thinks it's more The Dave Clark Five.
- Later he tells Lane the song is very "early Kinks meets The Jam meets The Futureheads".
- Lorelai can't believe the villain isn't Freddy Krueger or Jason.
- She wants to rent Final Destination 1 & 2.
- Staring Contest: Rory and Michel have one over her use of his post-its. Lorelai breaks it up.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Emily can pull these, as shown when she disappears up the stairs without a sound in two seconds flat.
- Stealth Insult:
- Emily thinks it must be nice for Lorelai to get to paint her house without worrying about a Homeowners' Association.
- She says she could have saved the wainscotting by having her suggest a real prefessional.
- Tastes Like Purple: Lorelai describes her bad-smelling perfume as smelling a bit like Curious by Britney Spears.
- Third-Person Person: Kirk's realtor gimmick.
- Verbal Backspace: Lorelai accidentally lets slip to her parents that Rory is with her, accidentally says "damn" out loud, and changes it to "damn straight" before Emily can get too upset.
- Writers Cannot Do Math:
- If more guests have checked in than have checked out that just means you currently have guests staying in your hotel. It shouldn't be as weird as Michel tries to make it sound.
- Lorelai claims to have lived in Stars Hollow for 21 years, but it is previously established that she moved there when Rory was one or two, and Rory is currently twenty-one.
- Yes, Except No: Rory promises to reimburse Michel for the seven pink post-it notes she took — provided he can give her change on a cent.
