History Recap / GilmoreGirlsS05E18

** According to Lorelai, the only people who don't love Muzak are people who love music.

%% * 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.

** Joshua Twickham has an old letter that Taylore figures ''could'' be from UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington.

* SpitTake: Averted. Lorelai is glad she wasn't drinking coffee when the journalist said Emily was a good mother.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Inverted. Kirk and his friend find it hilarious that a mannequin has an "end", and there is no way they'll let the radar miss it.
** But Kirk also does his best not to see anyone naked.
** Lorelai claims to have found two dirty words that rhyme with "Emily".
** Gypsy says she will "liaise" with Luke as long as it doesn't involve anything dirty.
** Paris flips off several cars.

* YourCheatingHeart: Averted. Zach only wants to play banjo.

* PunnyTitle: [[CaptainObvious Merging the phrase "to live and let die" and the word "diorama"]]

** Right before he dies, Mr. Twickham mumbled something about Lori Loughlin.

** Taylor doesn't particularly like the Theory of Evolution.
* YourCheatingHeart: Subverted. Zach only wants to play banjo.

* CaptainObvious: Subverted when Taylor asks if the person Luke means to start a family with is Lorelai.

* AbsurdPhobia: Kirk is creeped out by goldfish. He finds them so golden and unblinking.

* PunnyTitle: [[CaptainObvious Merging the phrase "too live and let die" and the word "diorama"]]

** According to Lorelai, the only people who doen't love Muzak are people who love music.

!!To Live And Let Diorama E18

* NoodleIncident: The limerick.
* ProductPlacement: Maxell

** Garrison Keillor
** Literature/WarAndPeace
** Music/OtisRedding

** UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter
** UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington
** Music/GustavMahler
** ''Cooperstown''

* PunnyTitle

** Emily dialled back is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, who dialled back is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini and Pol Pot.

* TheSixties: Paris laments that all the people in a sixties movie are dead. Taylor includes a bit about that decade in the diorama.
* AbsurdPhobia: Kirk is creeped out by goldfish. They're so golden and unblinking.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Parodied. The dramatization of the history of Stars Hollow tries to leave it up to interpretation what they named the hollow, from where they could see stars.

* ARareSentence: "But ''I'' know what cleaning products he likes. Do you?"

* TakeThat: Who doesn't love Muzak? Only people who love music.

**

Old Mr. Twickham dies and leaves his house to the town to make a museum of for a couple of months. Rory and Paris both wait around for their boyfriends to call. The town meeting discusses where to put Kirk, who doesn't want to be a burden, but finds Miss Patty's studio too cold and that the Morris kids put things up his nose while he's awake.

** Superman's Fortress of Solitude was a Jamaican beach
** Emily dialled back is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, who dialled back is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.

Old Mr. Twickham dies and leaves his house to the town to make a museum of for a couple of moths.

* RealitySubtext: Lane discovers that local music store owner Sophie Bloom has the same history as her actress, Music/CaroleKing.
* ShoutOut: Right before he dies, Mr. Twickham mumbled something about [[Series/FullHouse Lori Loughlin]].

** Lane doesn't catch that Sophie's suspiciously specific criterria for having coffee with her is a rejection.
** Subverted with Taylor thinking Luke is joking when he volunteers for a community project.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Inverted. Kirk and his friend find it hilarious that a mannequin has an "end", and there is no way they'll let the radar miss it.