Season 7, episode 14
Farewell, My Pet
Richard does a 45-minute mile walking around the hospital wing. Chin-Chin died. Lorelai suggests a memorial. Michel enlists her to arrange it.
Chris comes by the inn to talk and justifies walking out by saying he was angry. Later he says it was his fault for pushing her into marriage. Lorelai decides the only thing she can do to save her marriage is cut Luke out of her life.
Rory admits to Logan that she has a crush on a teacher's assistant. Rory feels weird about Paris telling her she "broke" Logan in. Zach plays My Heart Will Go On on guitar at Chinchin's funeral. Lorelai breaks up with her husband.
Tropes
- Artistic Licence – Law: Played for Laughs by Lorelai, who threatens to add a clause in Rory's birth certificate that says her name changes to Hildegard when she turns 23.
- Blatant Lies: Sookie and Lorelai pretendingto have stuff planned for Chin-Chin's funeral.
- Brick Joke: After Lorelai says she can change Rory's name to Hildegard, they chat about Christopher for a bit. At the end of their phone conversation, Lorelai references it again.Lorelai: Bye, Hildy!
- Call-Back:
- Chris finally tells Lorelai about his fistfight with Luke in the town square.
- The death of a pet and subsequent funeral mirrors Cinnamon's wake from the fifth episode of the first season.
- Comically Missing the Point: Zach imagines he should play Bowie's Diamond Dogs at Chin Chin's funeral.
- Complexity Addiction: Paris's system for hiding books she plans on buying.
- Continuity Nod: Luke building Lorelai an ice skating ring.
- Continuity Snarl: Lorelai claims she never learned to program speed-dial, though she once showed Luke how to program it.
- Death Glare: Sookie pulled out her "don't mess with me" stare that she uses to get her kids to brush their teeth on her staff to make them attend the funeral.
- Gaslighting: Chris feels that Lorelai is doing this by claiming she has no feelings for Luke, since it's still the case that everyone can see it.
- Green-Eyed Monster:
- Discussed by Lorelai, who understands where Christopher is coming from regarding Luke.
- Defied by Logan, who isn't threatened by Rory's crush on her substitute teacher.
- Hypocrite: Michel thinks Sookie is this for not treating his dog's death like she would the death of one of her children, but he himself refers to her children as "stinky", so it's more of a "you only care about your own child" thing for both of them.
- Innocently Insensitive: It doesn't occur to either Sookie or Lorelai that Michel loves his dogs more than they love his dogs.
- Literal-Minded: When Lorelai says she has someone on speed-dial, she means that she can dial their number really fast.
- May–December Romance: Mrs. Santiago's boyfriend gets mistaken for her grandson. (Yet according to Emily he only looks twenty years younger than her. Lorelai says she heard thirty-eight from the night nurse.)
- Metaphorgotten: To a question about how she is feeling, Lorelai ends up on sashimi.
- Shout-Out:
- Paris advises Rory to tell Richard that Bill Clinton gave up cheese fries and pork grits, so Richard can give up his afternoon martini.
- Rory thinks Gloria Steinem would be proud of Paris observing that there's only room for a few women at the top.
- Paris thinks Rory saved Logan from the Colin Farrell freeway and the Robert Downey Jr. rest stop.
- Diana, Princess of Wales's funeral is held as the standard for Chin-Chin's.
- Gender Trouble by Judith Butler is one of the books Paris hides in the wrong shelf in the bookstore.
- Rory thinks Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is better than The House of the Spirits.
- Zach wants to play David Bowie's Diamond Dogs.
- Zach wonders if by "Princess Diana" Lorelai means Elton John.
- Michel wants Céline Dion's My Heart Will Go On.
- Zach suggests Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven and Dolly Parton's/Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You.
- Too Much Information: Hospital gowns means always knowing who has a nice butt.
