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* {{Dissimile}}: Dean insists that his surprise for Rory at the junkyard is nothing like ''Christine''.

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* BalconyEscape: Lorelai leaves the set-up through her bedroom window balcony.



* ContinuityNod: Sookie mentions the time she zinged off her eyebrows earlier in the season.

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* ContinuityNod: Sookie mentions the time she zinged singed off her eyebrows earlier in the season.


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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Chase's childhood dobermans were named [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NamesToRunAwayFrom/NotoriousKillers Leopold and Loeb]].
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** Lorelai expects Rory and Dean to reenact the spaggetti scene from ''Film/LadyAndTheTramp''.

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** Lorelai expects Rory and Dean to reenact the spaggetti scene from ''Film/LadyAndTheTramp''.''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''.
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Dean reads Literature/AnnaKarenina at Rory's request. He thinks it's over his head, but Rory insists that Creator/LeoTolstoy wrote for the masses. Dean invites her on a date for their three-month anniversary. Lorelai doesn't think she'll get out of Friday night dinner just to go on her three-month anniversary date, but to everyone's surprise Emily is fine with it.

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Dean reads Literature/AnnaKarenina ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' at Rory's request. He thinks it's over his head, but Rory insists that Creator/LeoTolstoy wrote for the masses. Dean invites her on a date for their three-month anniversary. Lorelai doesn't think she'll get out of Friday night dinner just to go on her three-month anniversary date, but to everyone's surprise Emily is fine with it.



** Literature/AnnaKarenina is too gruesome for Dean.

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** Literature/AnnaKarenina ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' is too gruesome for Dean.



** Lorelai expects Rory and Dean to reenact the spaggetti scene from Film/LadyAndTheTramp.
** Lorelai comments that Emily went a little Creator/KathyBates in Film/{{Misery}} with the figurines.
** Lorelai claims she and Richard get on like they're on Series/{{Maury}}.

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** Lorelai expects Rory and Dean to reenact the spaggetti scene from Film/LadyAndTheTramp.
''Film/LadyAndTheTramp''.
** Lorelai comments that Emily went a little Creator/KathyBates in Film/{{Misery}} ''Film/{{Misery}}'' with the figurines.
** Lorelai claims she and Richard get on like they're on Series/{{Maury}}.''Series/{{Maury}}''.



** Dean says his surprise for Rory is nothing like Film/{{Christine}}.
* TeenPregnancy: Discussed in a roundabout way. Dean insists you don't get pregnant saying "I love you".
* WalkInChimeIn: Lorelai suggests to Luke they both make fun of the next person who walks into the diner and asks, "Hey, how's it going?", to which Luke readily agrees. That's Rachel's cue to come in and asks, "Hey, how's it going?"

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** Dean says his surprise for Rory is nothing like Film/{{Christine}}.
''Film/{{Christine}}''.
* TeenPregnancy: Discussed in a roundabout way. Dean insists you don't get pregnant saying "I love you".
you."
* WalkInChimeIn: Lorelai suggests to Luke they both make fun of the next person who walks into the diner and asks, "Hey, how's it going?", going?," to which Luke readily agrees. That's Rachel's cue to come in and asks, "Hey, how's it going?"
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Lorelai makes a pun on D.A.R. by adding an N. Chase doesn't get it.

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* IncrediblyLamePun: LamePunReaction: Lorelai makes a pun on D.A.R. by adding an N. Chase doesn't get it.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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Finally read the dating index.

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* TheILoveYouStigma: Dean tells Rory he loves her. She can't bring herself to say it back.


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* OffScreenBreakUp: While we get to see how it builds, we don't get to see the actual break-up, so we can't know for sure who broke up with who.
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** Miss Patty once danced in a cage for Music/TitoPuente.
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* LiteralMinded: After Lorelai has a couple of mood swings in the diner, Luke calls her bipolar. Taylor and Miss Patty treat it like he's announcing news about Lorelai's medical state.
-->'''Miss Patty:''' But you're so young!
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-->'''Lorelai''': Thanks, daddy.

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-->'''Lorelai''': Thanks, Thank you, daddy.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Tristan's new girlfriend Summer looks a lot like Rory.
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* WalkInChimeIn: Lorelai suggests to Luke they both make fun of the next person who walks into the diner and asks, "Hey, how's it going?", to which Luke readily agrees. That's Rachel's cue to come in and asks, "Hey, how's it going?"
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Turns out Emily is fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy. The guy turns out to be Chase Bradford, a thoroughly boring man who seems to think teenagers are small children and makes smalltalk about his job in the actuarial business. He calculates when people are going to die one a computer. It ends with Lorelai escaping out her second-story bedroom window, and Richard sympathizing enough to cover for her.

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Turns out Emily is fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy. The guy turns out to be Chase Bradford, a thoroughly boring man who seems to think teenagers are small children and makes smalltalk about his job in the actuarial business. He calculates when people are going to die one on a computer.computer for a living. It ends with Lorelai escaping out her second-story bedroom window, and Richard sympathizing enough to cover for her.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tristan and Summer engage in this trope in-universe.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tristan GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and Summer engage in persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope in-universe.page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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Everyone's preparing a festival. Luke's ex Rachel shows up at the diner. Lorelai tells Rory to bring home a meatball from the anniversary dinner, in reference to ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''.

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Everyone's preparing a festival.festival on Founder's Day. Luke's ex Rachel shows up at the diner. Lorelai tells Rory to bring home a meatball from the anniversary dinner, in reference to ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''.



Rachel and Luke discuss their relationship and Lorelai. Rory and Dean break up.



• Roast\\

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Roast\\
Roast


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* CannotSpitItOut: Becomes a plot point when Dean tells Rory he loves her and she can't bring herself to say she loves him.

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Turns out Emily is fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy.

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Turns out Emily is fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy.
guy. The guy turns out to be Chase Bradford, a thoroughly boring man who seems to think teenagers are small children and makes smalltalk about his job in the actuarial business. He calculates when people are going to die one a computer. It ends with Lorelai escaping out her second-story bedroom window, and Richard sympathizing enough to cover for her.

Maid of the week: Lee

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• Three kinds of pasta\\
• Tiramisu\\
• Roast\\


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* GeniusBookclub: Rory once wished for a full set of illustrated encyclopedias for Christmas.


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** Lorelai comments that Emily went a little Creator/KathyBates in Film/{{Misery}} with the figurines.
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'''Season 1, episode 16 '''

!!Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers



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* {{Bookworm}}:
** Rory fondly remembers the Christmas she got a full set of illustrated encyclopedias.
** She brings the fiction issue of ''The New Yorker'' to the anniversary date.



* ComplimentBackfire: "You said 'I love you' really well!" was not the response Dean wanted.
* ContinuityNod: Sookie mentions the time she zinged off her eyebrows earlier in the season.



* PetTheDog: Richard catches Lorelai trying to sneak out of the house to avoid the boring guy Emily set up for her without her knowing. Lorelai apologises for the bad memories of her childhood seeing her like that probably brings up for him and for the fight the two had the previous week. She then begs Richard not to make her go back down to the table. After a moment, Richard shouts back down to Emily that he can't find Lorelai.

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* IncrediblyLamePun: Lorelai makes a pun on D.A.R. by adding an N. Chase doesn't get it.
* PetTheDog: Richard catches Lorelai trying to sneak out of the house to avoid the boring guy Emily set up for her without her knowing.up with. Lorelai apologises for the bad memories of her childhood seeing her like that probably brings up for him and for the fight the two had the previous week. She then begs Richard not to make her go back down to the table. After a moment, Richard shouts back down to Emily that he can't find Lorelai.



* RuleOfSymbolism: In one scene, Luke and Rachel are sitting on a park bench. Rachel leaves, and Lorelai takes her place.



** Creator/LeoTolstoy
** Elizabeth Barrett Browning
** Creator/JohnnyDepp
** Film/LadyAndTheTramp

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** Creator/LeoTolstoy
Rory claims Creator/LeoTolstoy wrote for the masses.
** Paris thinks Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Browning would put her head through a wall if she witnessed Tristan and Summer's make-out session.
** Creator/JohnnyDepp
Rachel looks at Luke like he's Creator/JohnnyDepp according to Lorelai.
** Film/LadyAndTheTrampLorelai expects Rory and Dean to reenact the spaggetti scene from Film/LadyAndTheTramp.
** Lorelai claims she and Richard get on like they're on Series/{{Maury}}.



** WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}
** Film/{{Christine}}

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** WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}
Rory claims WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} is the only person who can ever eat cute.
** Film/{{Christine}}Dean says his surprise for Rory is nothing like Film/{{Christine}}.



* WritersCannotDoMath: Hey, what do you know, they can! Founder's Day in the States is on January 14, and since Rory's birthday party where she got together with Dean was the day after her actual birthday, that means she was born on October 13, which was totally on a Friday in real-life 2000.

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* WritersCannotDoMath: Hey, what do you know, they can! Averted. Founder's Day in the States is on January 14, and since Rory's birthday party where she got together with Dean was the day after her actual birthday, that means she was born on October 13, which was totally on a Friday in real-life 2000.
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* AlphaBitch: Summer gives Paris a run for her money by being the less aCademic kind.

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* AlphaBitch: Summer gives Paris a run for her money by being the less aCademic academic kind.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Hey, what do you know, they can! Founder's Day in the States is on January 14, and since Rory's birthday party where she got together with Dean was the day after her actual birthday, that means she was born on October 13, which was totally on a Friday in real-life 2000.

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* FestivalEpisode: The first Founder's Day festival on the show.



* TeenPregnancy: Discussed in a roundabout way. Dean insists you don't get pregnant

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* TeenPregnancy: Discussed in a roundabout way. Dean insists you don't get pregnantpregnant saying "I love you".

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* AnalogyBackfire: Rory finds the three-month anniversary to be like the Christmas when she got a full set of illustrated encyclopedias. Dean worries if that means the date sucks.



* TheBore: Chase, enough so for Lorelai to risk her life climbing out her second-floor bedroom window to get away from him.



* PlotParallel: Both Lorelai and Lane are getting set up with a guy by their mothers in this one. At the same time Rory is on a date with her boyfriend and breaks up with him, so inverted there.



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** WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}
** Film/{{Christine}}
* TeenPregnancy: Discussed in a roundabout way. Dean insists you don't get pregnant
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* AlphaBitch: Summer gives Paris a run for her money by being the less aCademic kind.
* BlatantLies: Lorelai denies that her dream about Max was dirty, then says she'll tell Rory the truth when she's twenty-one.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Lorelai suddenly wants to be the iron chef.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tristan and Summer engage in this trope in-universe.



-->'''Lorelai''': Thanks, daddy.

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-->'''Lorelai''': Thanks, daddy.daddy.
* ARareSentence: "I was almost crushed by a papermaché star!"
* SarcasmMode: Lorelai doing her impression of her mother in this mode, is this mode.
* ShoutOut:
** Literature/AnnaKarenina is too gruesome for Dean.
** Creator/LeoTolstoy
** Elizabeth Barrett Browning
** Creator/JohnnyDepp
** Film/LadyAndTheTramp
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Everyone's preparing a festival. Luke's ex Rachel shows up at the diner. Lorelai tells Rory to bring home a meatball from the anniversary dinner, in reference to ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp''.

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Everyone's preparing a festival. Luke's ex Rachel shows up at the diner. Lorelai tells Rory to bring home a meatball from the anniversary dinner, in reference to ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp''.
''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: Summer suggests Paris get bangs because they would "hide her long forehead". Summer and Paris have same-sized foreheads. Summer does not have bangs.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: Summer suggests Paris get bangs because they would "hide her long forehead". Summer and Paris have same-sized foreheads. Summer does not have bangs.bangs.
* PetTheDog: Richard catches Lorelai trying to sneak out of the house to avoid the boring guy Emily set up for her without her knowing. Lorelai apologises for the bad memories of her childhood seeing her like that probably brings up for him and for the fight the two had the previous week. She then begs Richard not to make her go back down to the table. After a moment, Richard shouts back down to Emily that he can't find Lorelai.
-->'''Lorelai''': Thanks, daddy.
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Everyone's preparing a festival. Luke's ex Rachel shows up at the diner. Lorelai tells Rory to bring home a meatball from the anniversary dinner, in reference to Film/LadyAndTheTramp.

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Everyone's preparing a festival. Luke's ex Rachel shows up at the diner. Lorelai tells Rory to bring home a meatball from the anniversary dinner, in reference to Film/LadyAndTheTramp.
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Turns out she's fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy.

* HypocriticalHumor: Summer suggests Paris get bangs because they would "hide her long forehead". Summer and Paris have same-sized foreheads. Summer does not have bangs.

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Everyone's preparing a festival. Luke's ex Rachel shows up at the diner. Lorelai tells Rory to bring home a meatball from the anniversary dinner, in reference to Film/LadyAndTheTramp.

Turns out she's Emily is fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy.

* HypocriticalHumor: {{Hypocrite}}: Summer suggests Paris get bangs because they would "hide her long forehead". Summer and Paris have same-sized foreheads. Summer does not have bangs.
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Turns out she's fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy.

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Turns out she's fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy.guy.

* HypocriticalHumor: Summer suggests Paris get bangs because they would "hide her long forehead". Summer and Paris have same-sized foreheads. Summer does not have bangs.
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Dean reads Literature/AnnaKarenina at Rory's request. He thinks it's over his head, but Rory insists that Creator/LeoTolstoy wrote for the masses. Dean invites her on a date for their three-month anniversary. Lorelai doesn't think she'll get out of Friday night dinner just to go on her three-month anniversary date, but to everyone's surprise Emily is fine with it.

Turns out she's fine with it because she wants to set Lorelai up with a guy.

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