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* NotGoodWithPeople: Luke regrets getting a job that involves people.

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Maid of the week: Luminista

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Maid of the week: Luminista
Luminista\\
Ballet dancers Emily hosts: Pola and Mikhail


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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Perceiving that the possibility he and Lorelai will have children gives Luke an edge in the bargaining, Kirk shoots in that he could also bring children into the Twickham house, adding that they might not be his own.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Lorelai calls Rory from the maternity ward and tells her to be careful not to get pregnant, there are babies popping out all over the place.



* Magic8Ball: Pola likes Lorelai's old 8-ball.

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* Magic8Ball: Pola likes Lorelai's old 8-ball. She keeps asking it if she'll be rich.



* NotGoodwithPeople: Luke regrets getting a job that involves people.

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* NotGoodwithPeople: NotGoodWithPeople: Luke regrets getting a job that involves people.


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* SurprisePregnancy: Lorelai warns Rory not to have any of these. Lorelai herself has only had one, and it was Rory's age plus nine months ago.

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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.
* GodwinsLaw: Deconstructed. Lorelai apologizes profusely to Mikhail, and insists there is no way she could have known that a Russian man whose entire family was slaughtered by Stalin would be reading the article in front of her.

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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.
* GodwinsLaw: Deconstructed. Lorelai apologizes profusely to Mikhail, and insists that when she cracked a joke to a journalist about her mother being more of a dictator than Stalin, there is no way she could have known that a Russian man whose entire family was slaughtered by Stalin would be reading the article in front of her.



* NotGoodwithPeople: Luke regrets getting a job that involved people.

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* NotGoodwithPeople: Luke regrets getting a job that involved involves people.



* ParentalSexualitySquick: Averted. Emily puts the picture of the sexy guy in the "maybe" pile.

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* ParentalSexualitySquick: Averted. Subverted. Emily puts the picture of the sexy guy male ballet dancer in the "maybe" pile.



** Ebay

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** EbayLuke doesn't think he looks like Ebay.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When looking at photos of dancers Emily might support, the women are quite impressed with one Gregorio's "endowment".

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When looking at photos of dancers Emily might support, 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 women are quite impressed with one Gregorio's "endowment".future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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** Kirk is a fan of Comicstrip/{{Marmaduke}} and comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace.

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** Kirk is a fan of Comicstrip/{{Marmaduke}} ''Comicstrip/{{Marmaduke}}'' and comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace.''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS''.

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* GodwinsLaw: Deconstructed. Lorelai apologizes profusely to Mikhail, and insists there is no way she could have known that a Russian man whose entire family was slaughtered by Stalin would be reading the article in front of her.



* GodwinsLaw: Zigzagged. Lorelai compares Emily to every modern dictator except Hitler.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Emily insists she did not get into a "bitch fight" with UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter. It was Rosalyn.








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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Kirk, arguing his case before the town elders, refers to Luke as "the defendant", but what they're arguing about is who gets to buy a house.


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** Kirk claims he has deep pockets, just not right now because he's wearing a towel.

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* CallBack: Emily still doesn't like feeling stalked by an elf. In this episode the elfin stalker is a Russian ballerina, but in [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E11 a previous episode]] it was a maid that didn't make a sound when she walked.



* ContinuityNod: Emily still doesn't like feeling stalked by an elf. In this episode the elfin stalker is a Russian ballerina, but in a previous episode it was a maid that didn't make a sound when she walked.

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* ContinuityNod: Emily still doesn't like feeling stalked by an elf. In this episode the elfin stalker is a Russian ballerina, but in a previous episode it Sookie mentions how she realized she was a maid that didn't make a sound pregnant [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS05E06 when she walked.yelled at Norman Mailer]].



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lorelai finds herself eating an apple and thinks she might be pregnant. When she starts eating unhealthy foods again later that day she dismisses the suspicion.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sookie comments on Lorelai finds herself eating an apple and thinks she with great surprise. Rory is also alarmed. Lorelai realizes it might be mean she's pregnant. When she starts eating unhealthy foods again later that day she dismisses the suspicion.
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** Sookie calls Lorelai Creator/PenelopeCruz.
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** Kirk comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace.

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** Kirk is a fan of Comicstrip/{{Marmaduke}} and comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace.
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: Averted. Emily puts the picture of the sexy guy in the "maybe" pile.
-->'''Rory:''' You go grandma.

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* Literature/MobyDick is so full of life advice on healthy ways to deal with your feelings.

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* ** Literature/MobyDick is so full of life advice on healthy ways to deal with your feelings.


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* WackyCravings: Lorelai recalls that the last time she had a hankering for fruit was when she was pregnant.

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!!"Blame Booze And Melville" E21

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!!"Blame '''Season 5, episode 21'''

!!Blame
Booze And Melville" E21
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* BrickJoke: Emily's talk about eating fruit gets back to Lorelai when she finds herself eating an ''apple''.



* CantTakeCriticism: Rory. When exactly one person in her life tells her she doesn't have it she reacts by committing a crime.



* ProductPlacement: Ebay

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* ProductPlacement: EbayProductPlacement:
** Ebay
** Mitchum talks about Captain Crunch.


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** The title mentions Creator/HermanMelville.


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** Sookie had a dream that Norman Mailer told someone to shut up and read Creator/JamesJoyce.
** The midwife looks like Creator/MarloThomas.


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* ThemedParty: Sookie's planned babyshower will be Easter themed because those items are on sale now.
* TheTalk: Lorelai gives Rory a talking to over the phone about birth control.

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!!"Blame Booze And Melville" E21



Maid of the week: Luminista



* LiteralMinded: Kirk does not have a quarter of a million dollars. It's $247 868. Immediately subverted as Kirk is unlikely to have had fifteen thousand jobs.

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* LiteralMinded: LiteralMinded:
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Kirk does not have a quarter of a million dollars. It's $247 868. Immediately subverted as Kirk is unlikely to have had fifteen thousand jobs.


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* NonSequitur: Lorelai shows Luke the photoshoot of the inn and he declares that he needs a new pair of pants.
* NotGoodwithPeople: Luke regrets getting a job that involved people.


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** Rory doesn't think Noam Chomsky falls for the imperialist propaganda that ou should eat fruit every day.

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* BrutalHonesty: How Mitchum feels about what he tells Rory.

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* BrutalHonesty: How Mitchum feels about what telling Rory she won't make it as a journalist. As far as Lorelai is concerned it was indeed brutal, but she thinks he tells Rory.said it in order to crush her, not because of its relationship to the truth.



* ContinuityNod: Emily still doesn't like feeling stalked by an elf.
* DoubleStandard: If Jackson had made a decision to have Sookie sterilized, every woman on the show ''and'' the audience would be at his throat.

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* ContinuityNod: Emily still doesn't like feeling stalked by an elf.
elf. In this episode the elfin stalker is a Russian ballerina, but in a previous episode it was a maid that didn't make a sound when she walked.
* DoubleStandard: If Jackson had made a decision to have Sookie sterilized, every woman on the show ''and'' the audience would be at his throat.throat, but Sookie making the decision to have Jackson sterilized right after giving birth is just accepted, even by the hospital staff.



* LiteralMinded: Kirk does not have a quarter of a million dollars. It's $247 868.
** Immediately subverted as Kirk is unlikely to have had fifteen thousand jobs.

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* LiteralMinded: Kirk does not have a quarter of a million dollars. It's $247 868.
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868. Immediately subverted as Kirk is unlikely to have had fifteen thousand jobs.



* GodwinsLaw: Zigzagged. Lorelai compares Emily to every modern dictator except that one.

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* GodwinsLaw: Zigzagged. Lorelai compares Emily to every modern dictator except that one.Hitler.



* NotGoodWithRejection: Rory.

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* NotGoodWithRejection: Rory.Rory, whose first thought on learning that Mitchum is not exactly impressed with her is to go steal a boat to be at sea like in Literature/MobyDick.



* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: You shouldn't ask Lorelai if she agrees with Kirk that a dime is a lot.

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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: You shouldn't ask Lorelai if she agrees with Kirk that a dime is a lot. Because she does. It's a 10% increase.

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Emily takes a ballet dancer home in an endowing program. Lorelai and Rory try to throw Sookie a baby shower. Rory finishes her last week of internship and Mitchum's review of her leads to an emotional breakdown. Sookie has a baby and decides two kids is a good compromise between the three she wanted and the four Jackson wanted.

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Emily takes a ballet dancer home in an endowing program. Lorelai and Rory try to throw Sookie a baby shower. Rory finishes her last week of internship and Mitchum's review of her leads to an emotional breakdown. Sookie has a baby and decides two kids is a good compromise between the three she wanted and the four Jackson wanted.
wanted. Luke challenges Kirk's claim to the Twickham house and wins it.


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* ComplimentBackfire: Mikhail's hometown doesn't sound so lovely once he informs you that people there die young.


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** Mikhail has a problem with people who get unfavorably compared to Joseph Stalin.
* GodwinsLaw: Zigzagged. Lorelai compares Emily to every modern dictator except that one.


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* Literature/MobyDick is so full of life advice on healthy ways to deal with your feelings.

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Emily takes a ballet dancer home in an endowing program. Lorelai and Rory try to throw Sookie a baby shower. Rory finishes her last week of internship. Sookie has a baby.

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Emily takes a ballet dancer home in an endowing program. Lorelai and Rory try to throw Sookie a baby shower. Rory finishes her last week of internship. internship and Mitchum's review of her leads to an emotional breakdown. Sookie has a baby.
baby and decides two kids is a good compromise between the three she wanted and the four Jackson wanted.



* BrutalHonesty: How Mitchum feels about what he tells Rory.



* ContinuityNod: Emily still doesn't like feeling stalked by an elf.



** Immediately subverted as Kirk is unlikely to have had fifteen thousand jobs.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lorelai finds herself eating an apple and thinks she might be pregnant. When she starts eating unhealthy foods again later that day she dismisses the suspicion.

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* NotGoodWithRejection: Rory.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lorelai finds herself eating an apple and thinks she might be pregnant. When she starts eating unhealthy foods again later that day she dismisses the suspicion.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: We finally meet the town council, which consists of a group of old men in a sauna. The eldest elder is the most omnicient one.



** Rory wishes she'd never heard ''Coming Round the Mountain'' and ''Drop it like it's hot''.



** Rory wishes she'd never heard ''Coming Round the Mountain'' and ''Drop it like it's hot''.

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** Rory wishes she'd never heard ''Coming Round the Mountain'' and ''Drop it Lorelai's apple looks like it's hot''.Creator/BenStiller.



* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: We finally meet the town council, which consists of a group of old men in a sauna. The eldest elder is the most omnicient one.

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Rory finishes her last week of internship. Sookie has a baby.

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Emily takes a ballet dancer home in an endowing program. Lorelai and Rory try to throw Sookie a baby shower. Rory finishes her last week of internship. Sookie has a baby.



* DoubleStandard: If Jackson had made a decision to have Sookie sterilized, every woman on the show would be at his throat.

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* DoubleStandard: If Jackson had made a decision to have Sookie sterilized, every woman on the show ''and'' the audience would be at his throat.



* LiteralMinded: Kirk does not have a quarter of a million dollars. It's $247 868.



* ProductPlacement: Ebay



** Sookie hallucinates that she sees Andy Dick.

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** Sookie hallucinates that she sees Andy Dick.



** Lorelai being insulting was just her trying to be like Creator/ChrisRock.

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** Lorelai being insulting offensive was just her trying to be like Creator/ChrisRock.Creator/ChrisRock.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: You shouldn't ask Lorelai if she agrees with Kirk that a dime is a lot.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: We finally meet the town council, which consists of a group of old men in a sauna. The eldest elder is the most omnicient one.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Brian Eno''. Lorelai would like to use her ''[[Franchise/MontyPython Spamalot]]'' tickets before Luke sends Manhattan to Europe. Rory accuses Lorelai of being ''Creator/AnneSexton''. Kirk comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace. Sookie hallucinates that she sees Andy Dick. Rory wishes she'd never heard "Coming Round the Mountain" and "Drop it like it's hot". Lorelai being insulting was just her trying to be like Creator/ChrisRock.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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To ''Brian Eno''. Lorelai would like to use her ''[[Franchise/MontyPython Spamalot]]'' tickets before Luke sends Manhattan to Europe. Europe.
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Rory accuses Lorelai of being ''Creator/AnneSexton''. ''Creator/AnneSexton''.
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Kirk comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace. DennisTheMenace.
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Sookie hallucinates that she sees Andy Dick. Dick.
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Rory wishes she'd never heard "Coming ''Coming Round the Mountain" Mountain'' and "Drop ''Drop it like it's hot". hot''.
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Lorelai being insulting was just her trying to be like Creator/ChrisRock.

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* EasilyForgiven: For once, Emily forgives Lorelai for unfavorably comparing her to [[GodwinsLaw Pol Pot]] almost immediately.



* ShoutOut: To ''Brian Eno''. Lorelai would like to use her ''[[Franchise/MontyPython Spamalot]]'' tickets before Luke sends Manhattan to Europe. Rory accuses Lorelai of being ''Creator/AnneSexton''. Kirk comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace. Sookie hallucinates that she see Andy Dick. Rory wishes she'd never heard "Coming Round the Mountain" and "Drop it like it's hot".

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* ShoutOut: To ''Brian Eno''. Lorelai would like to use her ''[[Franchise/MontyPython Spamalot]]'' tickets before Luke sends Manhattan to Europe. Rory accuses Lorelai of being ''Creator/AnneSexton''. Kirk comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace. Sookie hallucinates that she see sees Andy Dick. Rory wishes she'd never heard "Coming Round the Mountain" and "Drop it like it's hot". Lorelai being insulting was just her trying to be like Creator/ChrisRock.

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Rory finishes her last week of internship. Sookie has a baby.



* DoubleStandard: If Jackson had made a decision to have Sookie sterilized, every woman on the show would be at his throat.



* Magic8Ball: Pola likes Lorelai's old 8-ball.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lorelai finds herself eating an apple and thinks she might be pregnant. When she starts eating unhealthy foods again later that day she dismisses the suspicion.



* ShoutOut: To ''Brian Eno''. Lorelai would like to use her ''[[Franchise/MontyPython Spamalot]]'' tickets before Luke sends Manhattan to Europe. Rory accuses Lorelai of being ''Creator/AnneSexton''. Kirk comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace. Sookie hallucinates that she see Andy Dick.

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* ShoutOut: To ''Brian Eno''. Lorelai would like to use her ''[[Franchise/MontyPython Spamalot]]'' tickets before Luke sends Manhattan to Europe. Rory accuses Lorelai of being ''Creator/AnneSexton''. Kirk comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace. Sookie hallucinates that she see Andy Dick. Rory wishes she'd never heard "Coming Round the Mountain" and "Drop it like it's hot".
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!!Provides examples of:
* CaptainObvious: Lorelai helpfully informs Sookie and Jackson that Rory finds the fact that Sookie's going into labor thoroughly sickening, in case they couldn't tell from her body language and comments.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When looking at photos of dancers Emily might support, the women are quite impressed with one Gregorio's "endowment".
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Kirk and Lorelai separately deduce that an additional ten cents for a sandwich is a ten percent increase, and remark that it's a hefty increase.
* ShoutOut: To ''Brian Eno''. Lorelai would like to use her ''[[Franchise/MontyPython Spamalot]]'' tickets before Luke sends Manhattan to Europe. Rory accuses Lorelai of being ''Creator/AnneSexton''. Kirk comes up with a line for DennisTheMenace. Sookie hallucinates that she see Andy Dick.

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