History Recap / GilmoreGirlsS01E17

** Rory insists it was Dean who didn't want to be her boyfriend, giving the impression that it was he who did the breaking up.

** Dean takes the blame for town darling Rory getting her feelings hurt for the first time, although the worst thing he did was get disappointed that she wouldn't say she loved him back.

* BigFancyHouse: Madeline's house is one of these. When Lane asks if Rory's grandparent's house is the same size she disagrees that it's not as "Hearst castle".

* BreakTheHaughty: Tristan's girlfriend Summer rudely breaks up with him very loudly and publically at Madeline's party; this leads to him sitting in a room alone and acting noticeably sad and unlike the obnoxious jerk we usually see.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Madline informs Rory that it's her stepfather's house, just as Louise asks Rory where "he" is, meaning Dean. Madeline replies that he's in Japan.
* ContinuityNod: Rory mentions Dean seeing her room for the first time and picking up Colonel Clucker, which happened in episode 7.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Jackson yells at Sookie that she's missing the point of him cooking dinner for them as she keeps trying to take over, thinking ''he's'' doing this trope by using the wrong ladle.

* {{Pun}}: When Lane introduces herself, Louise asks if it's as in "walk down a".

** Lorelai has read every Literature/NancyDrew mystery ever written.
** Film/LoveStory, Film/TheChamp, Film/AnAffairToRemember, and Film/{{Ishtar}} are all good post-breakup wallow movies according to Lorelai.
** She wonders if they should include Film/OldYeller, although she admits that might be just a guy's crying movie.
** Upon learning that she might not get coffee that morning, Lorelai quotes Creator/KevinBacon's character's reaction to Creator/ChrisPenn's character's revelation of the no dancing rule in Film/{{Footloose}}.

** Climbing through the back alley makes Lorelai feel like Film/GIJane except she gets to keep her hair.

** Summer would rather dance to Music/{{Outkast}}'s ''Miss Jackson'' than talk to Tristan.
** Paris doesn't think Madame Curie was voted most likely to dress like Creator/JenniferLopez.

* IncrediblyLamePun: When Lane introduces herself, Louise asks if it's as in "walk down a".

* ContinuityNod: Rory mentions Dean coming seeing her room for the first time and picking up Colonel Clucker, which happened in episode 7.

* Catch22Dilemma: You have to get to Luke's, but you'd have to go past either the store where Dean works or the school where he plays basketball when he does not work. You don't know whether he works today or not.

** Lorelai quotes Creator/KevinBacon's character's reaction to Creator/ChrisPenn's character's revelation of the no dancing rule in Film/{{Footloose}}.

* TakeAThirdOption: As it turns out, you don't have to go by the school ''or'' the store, you can climb a high fence and wade through an alley full of garbage cans.

* ContinuitySnarl: Paris claims to have gone to Chilton for nine years, though it's supposed to be a high school and those last a maximum of six years and Chilton only seems to be four years, with Paris in ssophomore year.

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!!This episode contains examples of:

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Madline informs Rory that it's her stepfather's house, Louise asks Rory where "he" is, meaning Dean. Madeline replies that he's in Japan.

* TheScapegoat: Dean takes the blame for town darling Rory getting her feelings hurt for the first time, although the worst thing he did was get disappointed that she wouldn't say she loved him back.

** Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf
** Film/AnAffairToRemember
** Film/{{Ishtar}}
** Film/OldYeller
** Film/{{Footloose}}
** Literature/TheBellJar

* TakeAThirdOption: Actually, you don't have to go by the school ''or'' the store, you can climb a high fence and wade through an alley full of garbage cans.

Rory is mourning her breakup by avoiding thinking about it, letting everyone think Dean dumped ''her''. She decides to go to a Chilton party with Lane to get her mind off him. Paris is there because her mother forced her to go.

Rory is mourning her breakup by avoiding thinking about it, letting everyone think Dean dumped ''her''.

* CatchTwentyTwoDilemma: You have to get to Luke's, but you'd have to go past either the store where Dean works or the school where he plays basketball when he does not work. You don't know whether he works today or not.

* SexWithTheEx: When Rory asks Lorelai how long it took her to get over Max, she can't give an answer. This leads her to thinking about Max which leads her to go Max's which leads her and him to...well.

* FlippingTheTable: Played with. Max places a table between himself and Lorelai as a way of keeping their hands off each other. Max quickly flips the table away from them and they get back at it.

* FirstKiss: This episode includes Rory and Tristan's first, and only, kiss of the series.

* FirstKiss: This episode includes Rory and Tristan's first, and only kiss of the series.
* BreakTheHaughty: Tristan's girlfriend Summer rudely breaks up with him very loudly and publically at Madeline's party; this leads to him sitting in a room alone and acting noticeably sad and unlike the obnoxious jerk we usually see.