Season 7, episode 2
That's What You Get, Folks, For Makin' Whoopie
Luke drives to Christopher and punches him in the face. Lane returns from her honeymoon, which sucked. T.J. wants to turn Luke's diner's aesthetic into a medieval church. Lorelai turns her house into "Asia 2.0" so Rory won't feel like she completely missed out. Lane learns that she is pregnant.
Tropes
- Blatant Lies: Invoked. Lane accuses Rory of lying about liking sex, like she wasn't gonna find out it's awful.
- Bookworm: Rory has read a lot of Asia travel books. With highlighters and page flags.
- Call-Back:
- For all the times Luke has given Kirk practical advice, Kirk tells Luke he can only give him a job because he's more of a "teach a man to fish" kind of guy.
- Lane says her mother was right to say that sex sucks, and admires her for being the only woman brave enough to admit it.
- Captain Obvious: Luke explains to T.J. that he's about to fix the giant hole in his wall.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Kirk thinks Chuck E. Cheese is a real person, but not that a giant mouse could open a chain of restaurants by itself.
- Sookie had hoped that instead of telling Luke she slept with Christopher, Lorelai told Kirk the difference between antiperspirant and deodorant.
- Conspiracy Theory: Lane figures the narrative about sex being pleasant is just really good advertising.
- Continuity Nod:
- Lorelai asks herself W.W.T.B.F.C.D? — what would the barefoot contessa do? In season three, she claimed that the Barefoot Contessa talked to her through the screen once.
- Luke claims he doesn't care that they're broken up, since Lorelai's the one who proposed anyway. Which she did, in the fifth season finale, and he caught a lot of disappointed "oh"s for it in the sixth season premier.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Lorelai nicknames Rory "loin fruit" for the morning.
- Feminine Women Can Cook:
- Suddenly Lorelai can make waffles.
- Averted as usual with Liz, who can't tell her oven is broken and not cooking the tunaloaf she put in it for hours.
- Grammar Nazi: You can't shorten "what would the barefoot contessa do?" to "W.W.T.B.F.C.D?", because as Rory points out, "barefoot" is one word.
- Hidden Depths: Liz and T.J. know a lot about quantum physics.
- Hypocritical Humor: Lane tells Rory that she and Zach had sex on the beach "until some pervert in a diving mask showed up".
- Malaproper: Liz claims that invention is the mother of necessity.
- No True Scotsman: Lorelai claims that real grown-ups don't call themselves grown-ups; they call themselves adults, and they pronounce it ah-dults.
- Product Placement: Chuck E. Cheese. Pedro's Paradise.
- Self-Deprecation: Zach tells Rory that he learned something about himself on his honeymoon in Mexico: namely, that he is not moreally opposed to murder, he's just too cowardly to do it.
- Shout-Out:
- Lorelai asks herself what The Barefoot Contessa would do.
- Lane and Zach tried to recreate the sex scene in From Here to Eternity.
- Lorelai's recreation of Asia includes a Sandra Oh poster.
- Hello Kitty rules Japan, Lorelai announces during the tour.
- The movie marathon includes The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Joy Luck Club, The Karate Kid, Shanghai Surprise, Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, Tom Selleck classic Mr Baseball, and Breakfast at Tiffany's with Mickey Rooney.
- Renting an An Affair to Remember is an acceptable way to deal with a breakup as far as Rory is concerned.
- Lorelai argues that Gwyneth Paltrow is imperfect as she did Shallow Hal.
- Rory claims Britney Spears doesn't know which side is which on a baby.
- Lane concedes that she'll be a better mom than Courtney Love, like Rory's sock drawer.
- And she won't name her kid for an inanimate object like Michael Jackson.
- Lane figures Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes named their kid Pillow.
- Rachel Griffiths apparently named hers Banjo.
- And Mia Farrow named hers Satchel.
- T.J. watches Battlestar Galactica.
- Liz thinks Luke and Lorelai are like Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in The Lake House, but T.J. thinks they're more like Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed.
- Sincerest Form of Flattery: Kirk opens his own diner, names it Kirk's, wears a backward baseball cap and serves pancakes.
- Spy Speak: Spanish, if you're Zach.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Liz feels that Luke and Lorelai were this.
- Take That!:
- Lorelai references Mickey Rooney's "tour de force" racist performance as Holly Golightly's Japanese landlord.
- Rory points out that even her sock drawer would make a better mom than Courtney Love. Notwithstanding that she has a close relationship with her sock drawer.
- Title Drop: Lane drops the episode title when she finds out she's pregnant.
- Too Much Information:
- T.J. is in this episode.
- Subverted with Lane, who realized during sex that they had crabs, which is a thing that might happen when you have sex on a beach, referring to the crustaceans.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Rory finds out Lorelai slept with Christopher, and figures it had to be sometime in the three days since she and Luke broke up. It pisses her off.
