Season 6, episode 21
Driving Miss Gilmore
Emily is having Lasik surgery. Logan gets to leave the hospital and Rory enlists Paris and Doyle to make sure he stays in bed. Jackson accidentally grew marijuana on his property by telling the Templeton brothers to weed the area. Liz is pregnant and kicks T.J. out and tells people he left her.
The Lasik surgery goes badly, and as she can only think of one person she spent 14 hours in labor for, Emily demands that Lorelai come and help her. Jackson and Sookie decide to get the marijuana out of the house. Rory discovers that Mitchum has been bragging about helping her career to a newspaper. Lorelai drives Emily to her errands.
T.J. accepts his fate as Luke's punching bag and explains that he took Liz's violent tantrum personally. Luke explains that she was projecting. Liz has joined a single mom group and hates all the complaining. Emily reveals that they were looking at houses to buy Lorelai and Luke, not herself and Richard. Lorelai finally tells her the wedding isn't happening.
Tropes
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Inverted. Emily thinks men with very short hair look like convicts — or masseuses.
- Captain Obvious: Liz says she has decided to become so accepting that if a big piece of space junk falls on her, she'll just take it. Luke says that if that happens, she should step out of the way.
- Compliment Backfire: Rory concedes that Mitchum saying that she interned for him and now is the editor of the Yale Daily News is not a diss, but takes issue with the implication that the two have anything to do with each other.
- Continuity Nod: Lorelai really has always liked horses like she said in season four, as Emily comments that she wanted one as a child too.
- Distinction Without a Difference: Lorelai is feeling argumentative and informs her mother than if one does not tell good jokes but rather laughs at them, one does not have a good sense of humor so much as one can appreciate a good sense of humor.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Liz throws an ashtray at her husband, but everyone is mad at him for supposedly leaving her while she's pregnant. In the end it comes out that she kicked him out and lied about it, but that also gets swept under the rug.
- Dark Humor: Lorelai cracks a joke about human trafficking.
- Drowning My Sorrows: T.J. deals with Liz's dumping this way.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Lorelai recalls that she used to call a classmate named Moriarty "Moroniarty" because she was up to ten years older than them.
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": Emily requests that Lorelai limit her comedy set at her funeral to five minutes.
- Godwin's Law: Emily compares her eye surgeon to Dr. Mengele.
- Hidden Depths: Rory scares Logan with her knowledge of torture.
- Hypocrite: Liz doesn't like women who complain all the time. As long as we have known her she has spent most of her screen-time complaining.
- Insane Troll Logic:
- Richard thinks ugly doctors are the best doctors, but Emily thinks handsome ones can be just as competent.
- Liz worries she'll still be a lousy mother on her second try, so of course she kicks T.J. out.
- Passive Aggressive Combat: Lorelai avoids Luke instead of telling him she can't stand being kept out of a part of his life.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Emily assumes Jay-Z is some sort of entertainer.
- Shout-Out
- Lorelai and Rory argue about the hair color of who sounds like Ashlee Simpson at the dinner table.
- Emily argues that handsome doctors are just as good as ugly ones, citing Marcus Welby, M.D. and George Clooney's character on ER as examples.
- Lorelai asks if her parents will have Clemenza hide a gun in the bathroom before their "sit-down" with Christopher.
- Michel accuses someone on the phone of treating him worse than they would Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, and Scarlett Johansson, all of whom he describes tall redheads.
- Sookie thinks Michel working out in the kitchen is a bit like having a Beyoncé video on.
- Jackson's property looks like Harrison Ford' backyard.
- The Templeton brothers listened to The Allman Brothers.
- Doyle watches March of the Penguins in Logan's apartment.
- Logan wants to know if Paris and Doyle are in his apartment to reenact their favorite scenes from Misery.
- Logan promises to move slower than John Cleese.
- Jay-Z has the sort of car Emily has rented.
- Lorelai quips that Emily is doing a Mia Farrow in Broadway Danny Rose impression.
- The town troubador has been asked to warm up for Neil Young.
- Stop Being Stereotypical: What Emily really has against smalltowns is that a neighbor might pop over with a pie wanting to chat.
- Spy Speak: Sookie and Jackson codename that marihuana plants "pickles", something they can safely deny ever having grown.
- Take That!:
- Sookie doesn't think they should hire people who listen to The Allman Brothers.
- Richard thinks South Dakota is the most boring state.
- This Is Reality: Richard thinks ugly doctors make for better doctors. Emily points out that Marcus Welby and George Clooney are quite handsome. Lorelai points out that they were fake doctors, but Emily feels certain they were modelled after real doctors.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Averted with Lorelai saying she's had "the headache" for thirty-eight years, as it's around May 2006, and she ought to be 38.
- You Just Told Me: Liz prefaces her pregnancy announcement with "it's a good surprise, unless you don't like babies", then is disappointed that she spoiled her own surprise.
