Season 6, episode 22
Partings
Stars Hollow is filled with street musicians since their town troubador warmed up for Neil Young. Logan is graduating from college, and Rory is avoiding his family. Lorelai, having realized that her marriage to Luke isn't going to happen, avoids him. Christopher gets invited to Friday night dinner. So does a woman named Carolyn. She and Christopher don't hit it off, but Lorelai figures she could use some impromptu therapy. She ends up breaking up with Luke and going to Christopher for comfort.
Maid of the week: Gerta, who is too slow, but Emily forgets to fire her.
Tropes:
- Absurd Phobia: Lorelai claims to be terrified of people who are afraid of spiders.
- Call-Back: Lorelai wants Luke and her to elope like they talked about in Martha's Vineyard.
- Captain Obvious: Lorelai claims that now is the best time because it's now.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Logan tells her she doesn't have time to grab her shoes and coat and follow him to the airport, she says she'll skip the shoes and just get her coat, but he meant that she shouldn't follow him to the airport at all.
- Continuity Nod: Lorelai tells Lynnie about her relationship with Max.
- Continuity Snarl: Lorelai claims she's not afraid of spiders. This implies she has come a long way since season two, where she trapped a spider that in her mind was the size of a Buick and considered giving it the kitchen — and all without it being any part of her character arc in-between.
- Elopement: Lorelai wants to do this with Luke, but they don't.
- Freudian Excuse: Lorelai jokes about blaming her mother for her having bad associations to marriage.
- Hating on Monday: Lorelai counters Luke's dislike of ultimatums with her own dislike of Mondays.
- Recurring Dreams: Lorelai claims to have one about a walrus sitting on her chest.
- Must Have Coffee: Downplayed with Chris and Lynnie, who think three cups are enough. Lorelai points out that not everyone is like her.
- One-Steve Limit: Subverted. Emily tries to set Chris up with a woman named Lynnie, which was also what they called Pennilyn Lott, however this one is short for Carolyn.
- Rule of Three: Lynnie has three suggestions for what Lorelai's whalrus-on-chest dream: too much stress at work, something in her life strangling her, or having read Alice in Wonderland one too many times.
- Shipper on Deck: Emily is trying to set Christopher up with a woman whose mother she knows.
- Shout-Out:
- Rory is reading a Stalin biography that Logan thinks is inspiring her to be dictatorial.
- Taylor claims his fondest memory is of his father taking him to see Pat Boone.
- The town troubadour opens for Neil Young and decides he doesn't have a Heart of Gold.
- Rory tells Lorelai "I won't be ignored, Dan!". Lorelai replies that she will hide that rabbit.
- When Rory was ten she thought she discovered U2
- Lorelai figures Chris means that Emily Dickinson wouldn't try to set him up with Lynnie.
- Chris looks like Cary Grant.
- Lynnie suggests Lorelai's dreams about a walrus sitting on her chest mean she's read Alice in Wonderland too many times.
- Lorelai wonders what Lynnie thinks about The Sopranos.
- Logan thinks Rory looks like Mary Poppins.
- Rory was going for Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love.
- Lorelai feels like reenacting key scenes from Purple Rain.
- Lorelai references The Boomtown Rats' I Don't Like Mondays.
- A street musician plays Taking Pictures by Sam Phillips.
- Spy Speak: Christopher thinks "I'm going to the bathroom" is code for "follow me so we can talk about how you can get out of this".
- Surprise Party: Rory surprises Logan with a going-away party.
- Take That!:
- You have to see Maryland eventually, is one of Lorelai's arguments that she and Luke should elope and get married in Maryland.
- Lorelai is upset that she has to skulk around having no opinion on anything like she's Clarence Thomas.
- Themed Party: Rory throws a British "bon voyage" party when her boyfriend Logan goes to work in London and they're gonna have a long-distance relationship. She's dressed up and tries to talk with a British accent. Their apartment is decorated with Union Jack flags, London sights and souvenirs. Logan jokingly calls her Mary Poppins to which she retorts she was going for Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love. She's actually some sort of a 1960s British Mod girl.
- True Blue Femininity: Lorelai and Rory wear blue dresses to Friday night dinner.
- Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Rory has one with Mitchum. Until she breaks and criticizes him for keeping Logan away from her, anyhow.
- Western Zodiac: Lynnie is a Leo.
