Season 7, episode 21
Unto The Breach
Sookie and Lorelai are planning Rory's graduation party. Rory gets all sentimental about Paris and Doyle moving. The entire town of Stars Hollow is offended that they can't be at Rory's graduation and decide to reenactment ceremony in the town square.
The grandparents throw their own graduation party at their house with all their friends. They sing a song they wrote. Logan proposes. Rory can't bring herself to say yes. Lorelai refuses to have an opinion because she has to make up her own mind.
Kirk is suspended in a box above town square. Rory spends her last night in the apartment with the cardboard boxes thinking about the proposal. The graduation ceremony goes surprisingly smoothly. Rory rejects the proposal.
The show feels like Gilmore Girls again.
Tropes
- Analogy Backfire: Logan thinks Rory should take a chance like when she jumped off a tower with him in season five, likening it to getting married to him. In the end she takes a bigger chance by not marrying him and pursuing a career in journalism instead.
- As Himself: Miss Patty insists Rory play Rory in the graduation reenactment.
- Call-Back:
- Logan compares his marriage proposal to the time in the Life and Death Brigade when they bungee jumped together.
- Like during their high school graduation, Paris and Rory are right next to each other in the line, despite apparently having one person between them alphabetically this time.
- Continuity Nod: Rory is still in the D.A.R.
- Dissimile: In their song, Richard and Emily call Rory a "bulldog through and through", which makes you wonder if they've ever met their granddaughter.
- Dramatically Missing the Point:
- Luke isn't sure it meant anything that Lorelai got drunk and serenaded him.
- Everyone who knows Rory want to come to her graduation ceremony.
- Rory calls and declares Lorelai won't believe her news. Lorelai figures Logan finally popped the question, but Milan Kundera is speaking at the graduation.
- Emily reveals that she considers parenting to be having the ability to influence someone's life decisions.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Kirk's performance art piece, Kirk in a box.
- Hollywood Tonedeaf: Emily and Richard.
- Insane Troll Logic: Subverted. Lorelai thinks Rory's college graduate logic is this when she says that working out would be less hard if they actually worked out.
- Irony: Rory points out that exercising wouldn't be so hard if they exercised. Lorelai tells her to shut up.
- Memory Palace: Sookie uses weird sentences to remember her shopping list.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Lorelai discusses whether Rory should get married, Luke discusses his and Lorelai's relationship.
- Pun: Rory tells Lorelai Milan Kundera is speaking at her graduation and takes her lack of enthusiasm as her not being a big Kundera fan, prompting Lorelai to say she's unbearably light on him.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder: Lorelai thinks asking the parent for permission to propose is a rhetorical question that you have to answer with "yes", and she is waiting for Rory to call to tell her Logan proposed, but that Emily keeps calling her to ask about the ratio of devil to eggs, which Sookie then begins to explain. (Twice as much mayonnaise as yolk.)
- Shout-Out
- Liz thinks I Will Always Love You is classic Cyndi Lauper.
- Luke corrects her that it's Whitney Houston.
- Milan Kundera is speaking at Rory's graduation.
- Lorelai makes a joke about The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
- Kirk wants to sit in a box, not unlike David Blaine.
- Christopher doesn't think Gigi is read to watch Pussycat Dolls with her babysitter.
- Lorelai thinks Milan Kundera must be the Robin Williams of the Czech Republic.
- The guy who played the Fonz.
- Henry Kissinger didn't play the Fonz. Richard thinks Kissinger would be even more boring than Kundera.
- Bill Clinton is a speaker Richard would have enjoyed despite disliking his politics.
- Emily thinks the woman before her rocks back and forth like Ray Charles.
- Take a Third Option: One halloween in third grade, Rory couldn't decide between bird and turtle costume, so went with a winged turtle.
