History Recap / GilmoreGirlsS03E22

* AmbiguousDisorder: InUniverse. Kirk's tells how [=McMahon's=] dog suffered memory loss after a mold infestation and forgot how to sit.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Lorelai is convinced that Richard and Emily are only paying Rory's Yale InUniverse, tuition to manipulate ''her''.
* NeverLiveItDown: Luke realizes that he will never live down having cried during Rory's speech.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Lorelai is convinced that Richard and Emily are only paying Rory's Yale tuition to manipulate ''her''.

* BlatantLies: Paris claims she is not jealous of Rory making valedictorian instead of her. In fact, she googled it and found that valedictorians often don't make it in life, and several have died in car crashes.

* {{Bookworm}}: Rory's Valedictorian speech has her reference her favorite books, and they are many.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Kirk's tells how [=McMahon's=] dog suffered memory loss after a mold infestation and forgot how to sit.

* TakeThat: A sympathetic example. Rory helpfully suggests sending the Yale people a picture of Lorelai's couch to convince them they have no money.

* RealityEnsues: Walking from their house to Luke's carrying backpacks makes the girls get (more) real about backpacking through Europe, as they hadn't expected carrying their belongings around in backpacks to be so tiring.

->I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatampha county, hunted the White Whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, salied a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann's way.

Rory's graduation is coming up. The Independence B&B is closing down. Luke is taking his girlfriend on a cruise in the summer while Lorelai and Rory go backpacking through Europe.

* BlatantLies: Paris claims she is not jealous of Rory making valedictorian instead of her. In fact, she googled it and found that valedictorians often don't make it in life, and several die in car crashes.

* CharacterShilling: Richard compliments Rory on her dealmaking skills, despite her reluctance to take his offer of an interest-free loan.

* RunningGag: Sookie pressing through an increasingly fuller row of seats at the graduation.

** Rory's role models were Creator/JaneAusten, Eudora Welty, and Music/PattiSmith.

* TitleDrop: Lorelai switches the words a bit, but when Rory tells her about her agreement with her grandparents, Lorelai points out: "Um, Pinocchio, those are strings."

Rory's graduation is coming up. The Independence inn is closing down. Luke is taking his girlfriend on a cruise in the summer while Lorelai and Rory go backpacking through Europe.

* BlatantLies: Paris claims she is not jealous of Rory making valedictorian instead of her. In fact, she googled it and found that valedictorians often don't make it in life, and several died in car crashes.

** Lorelai points out the irony in the money she got from Richard taking them out of the running for financial aid for Yale.

* RealityEnsues: Walking from their house to Luke's carrying backpacks makes the girls get (more) real about backpacking through Europe.

* ThisIsTheRealWorld: Rory claims in her speech that her family and friends are less eccentric than the fictional characters she reads about.
* TryingNotToCry: Sookie and Lorelai promise each other not to cry during Rory's speech. Luke thinks they're freaks. Turns out they all, Luke included, are moved by Rory's speech and they hold back tears.

* Bookworm: Rory's Valedictorian speech

* RealityEnsues: Walking from their house to Luke's carrying backpacks makes the girls get real about backpacking through Europe.

** Lorelai suggests Rory be Tom Brokaw's toupé-comber-outer.

* HiredHelpAsFamily: Paris's nanny is very proud of her and attends her high school graduation unlike her rich jerk parents. Paris who is often mean and way too harsh is shown to be happy to have the nanny there and acting nice to her nanny and the nanny's grandchildren.

** Brad sings ''Cherish'' by Association during his graduation speech.

* BlatantLies: Paris is not jealous of Rory making valedictorian instead of her. Not at all. In fact, she googled it and found that valedictorians often don't make it in life, and at least one died in a car crash.

%% * PassiveAggressiveKombat: Emily is aware that they're family she just wasn't sure Lorelai was aware of that.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Kirk thinks they should let wolves deal with Taylor's deer problem. Then subverted as he can't think of a way to deal with the wolf problem.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Emily is aware that they're family she just wasn't sure Lorelai was aware of that.
* ThePollyanna: Lorelai does her best to be this in the face of the Independence closing down and being unable to front her share of the money for the Dragonfly.

* TryingNotToCry: Sookie and Lorelai promise each other not to cry during Rory's speech. Luke thinks they're freaks.

* TheCastShowoff: Brad starts singing during his speech.

** In her speech, Rory mentions Creator/WilliamFaulkner, Literature/MobyDick, Literature/HuckleberryFinn, Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces, Literature/AnnaKarenina and [[Creator/MarcelProust Swann's Way]].

** Lorelai can't scratch anything in Chilton, because it was all either walked on by Harriet Beecher Stowe, donated by Creator/RobertFrost, lit for the first time by UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison.

** Lorelai points out that Rory's stringless loan from Emily and Richard does in fact have conditions, calling her Literature/{{Pinocchio}}.

Rory's graduation is coming up.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Rory says she got a loan with no strings attached, immediately follows it up with "I just have to pay it back after I graduate and come to Friday night dinner".

Rory and Lorelai are planning to backpack through Europe for the summer. Luke tells them he and Nicole are going on a cruise. Lorelai suggests that he propose during the trip.

During a town meeting Taylor thinks they should kill all the roaming deer in the area because they invade his garden. Everone else thinks it sounds barbaric to kill the little Bambis. After the meeting Rory talks to Dean and tells him to get the photographer at his wedding to take candid photos so that not all their memories of the day are stiff and posed. He thanks her for the advice and she gives him a catalogue and tells him to pick out a wedding present for him and his future wife that Rory can give them. Dean says she didn't have to do this and Rory replies that that's why it's fun.

The Independence inn isn't going so well after the fire. They only have one guest. The owner ends up shutting it down and Lorelai heads over to Sookie and Jackson to announce that they have no jobs, that she can't pay her share in the Dragonfly inn because Rory didn't get any scholarships so now she has to put up the money for her, and concludes that life is now open. When Rory learns of this she goes behind her mother's back to ask her grandparents to pay for Yale, which they agree to in exchange for more Friday night dinners with Rory.

When Rory tells Lorelai this on graduation day she calls it "no strings attached" except that she has to pay them back in installments after she graduates Yale and come to dinner every Friday. Lorelai points out that those are strings, but informs Sookie that she now has the money so they can bid on the Dragonfly.

At the graduation Brad sings a song to express his fondness for his fellow students. Rory gives the Valedictorian speech in which she says that for all the admirable women she had been influenced by, the person she wished to resemble the most was always her own mother. Lorelai and Sookie cry at this, but Jackson and Luke cry even harder. After the graduation Emily and Richard give Rory a car. Jess calls Rory and hangs up, then calls her again and listens to her say that she may have loved him, but that she is moving on.

Lorelai suggests they carve their names somewhere inside the school building. Rory objects to the vandalism, but suggests they carve their initials reversed in tiny letters on the bottom of a wall. Lorelai gives up on the idea, but points out that the building isn't so scary anymore.

Luke has a dream that Lorelai tells him not to ask Nicole to marry him.

The Independence inn isn't going so well after the fire. They only have one guest. The owner ends up shutting it down and Lorelai heads over to Sookie and Jackson to announce that they have no jobs, thatshe can't pay her share in the Dragonfly inn because Rory didn't get any scholarships so now she has to put up the money for her, and conxludes that life is now open. When Rory learns of this she goes behind her mother's back to ask her grandparents to pay for Yale, which they agree to in exchange for more Friday night dinners with Rory.