Line #47 Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E14


1	!!Swan Song
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3	Emily sussed out that Rory and Dean are broken up and Jess is her new boyfriend. Rory gets shanghaied into Miss Patty's one-woman show trial and ends up next to Dean in the audience. Lorelai and Alex go to a play on the night Jess comes to Friday night dinner.
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5	!!Tropes
6	* AmusingInjuries: PlayedWith: Luke thinks Jess getting "beaked" in the eye by a swan is kind of funny.
7	* BigEater: Emily talks about how Rory will eat anything, like her mother, without getting fatter.
8	* BlatantLies: Subverted with Jess's black eye. Rory is convinced he fought with Dean, but in fact he got beaked by an evil swan. He ends up lying about how he got it anyway, saying he was throwing a football with a buddy.
9	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Zach and Brian are unfazed by Mrs. Kim's theory that Lane has a crush on Dave, but do take seriously the news that he's a Christian. Although, they don't take issue with him claiming they are Christians as well.
10	* ComplexityAddiction: Lane and Dave find this the easiest way to evade Mrs. Kim.
11	-->'''Lane:''' At 3:40 my mom will be on her way to the yarn store for her bimonthly sew-a-thon with Lacy Schwartz and Rick Ho. On Plum Street. there's a back road that circles around it, but it's gonna be muddy from the rain.
12	-->'''Dave:''' That cuts us off from the usual route to the interstate. I'll have the guys take the usual route; I'll go by foot to Peach Street, down the alley, over the fence, and they can pick me up half a mile down the road by the Shell station.
13	-->'''Lane:''' ''(sees Lorelai stare)'' What? That's not complicated.
14	* ContinuityNod: Jess sees [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS02E08 the painting of Rory]].
15	* DisproportionateRetribution: Emily thinks Jess deserves to be in jail for being rude and apparently getting in a fight before he came to dinner.
16	* ImprovisedWeapon: To fight the swan that beaked him, Jess grabs...a ladle. Luke recommends a baster instead.
17	* InsecureLoveInterest: When Luke gives Jess advice about his relationship with Rory, Jess reveals that he is this to her.
18	* {{Irony}}: Jess is "out" every time Rory calls, but claims to have been about to call her right before he runs into her, but she would have been out. Rory comments that it would have been ironic.
19	* LampshadeHanging: Lampshades are hung on Rory always wearing her school uniform out of school (it makes her feel stupid) and how Rory and Lorelai eat so much without getting fat.
20	* LoveInformant: Mrs. Kim thinks she's the first one to notice that Lane has a crush on Dave, and she tells Dave in front of his bandmates.
21	* MondegreenGag: Rory tells Lorelai that Jess showed up with a black eye, but Lorelai hears it as "black guy."
22	* PickyEater: Averted with Jess, who just wants his food to be cooked.
23	* ProductPlacement: Lorelai tells Rory to come to her aid "tout de suite" (right away) and she doesn't mean the candy (Toot sweets).
24	* {{Pun}}: Miss Patty's fliers claim the mailman said: "Even without postage this show delivers."
25	* ShoutOut:
26	** Rory never got Creator/DeanMartin jokes.
27	** Lorelai thinks Emily is as manipulative as president UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.
28	** They watch ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' instead of the supplementary material on ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''.
29	** Rory shows Jess ''The Holy Barbarians'' and trades him it for coming to Friday night dinner.
30	** Creator/AndyWarhol apparently got lookalikes to go to things in his stead. Jess suggests Rory take inspiration and take someone who resembles him to meet her grandmother.
31	** Miss Patty wants her show to be very Creator/ElaineStritch, but without the bitterness.
32	** Miss Patty once met Creator/BetteDavis.
33	** Zach makes a crunching sound with his cereal that he thinks sounds like the drum fill in "[[Music/TheWho Baba O'Riley]]."
34	** Luke saw ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'' with Nicole.
35	** Luke liked ''Theatre/TheProducers'' better.
36	** Lorelai walks in on Rory and Jess looking for what Jess guesses is ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' but actually is ''Walking in New York''.
37	** Lorelai didn't expect to walk in on [[Creator/BenAffleck Ben]] and [[Creator/JenniferLopez J-Lo]].
38	** Lorelai calls Rory quoting ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''.
39	--->'''Lorelai:''' Tout de suite, and I don't mean the candy!
40	** Lorelai has a Music/SpiceGirls necklace.
41	** Lorelai warns Rory that if she gets stuck on the highway she might get attacked by [[Franchise/LordOfTheRings orcs]].
42	** Alex thinks the musical they watch is worse than ''Moose Murders''.
43	** New Yorkers don't hate Music/DeanMartin as much as they hate Music/TheBeeGees.
44	** Emily refers to Jess as Literature/LordJim.
45	** Luke calls Jess [[Film/TheLittleRascals Petey the dog]].
46	** Luke asks if the swan is sneaky like the rabbit in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.
47	** Zach doesn't want to play Music/{{Creed\|band}} or Music/AmyGrant.
48	** Lorelai cries out "Is that you, [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Rhett]]?" when Rory comes home with food.
49	* ShowDontTell: The musical Lorelai's group goes to apparently violated this rule.
50	* ShowWithinAShow: "Buckle Up, I'm Patty."
51	* SillySong: Sookie and Lorelai make one up based on the musical they went to, with Jackson contributing a line.
52	-->I'm mad, I'm sad\
53	I'm mad, I'm sad\
54	We'll grab a cab
55	* SubvertedTrope: Kirk tries to subvert expectations by doing disco lights to Patty's ballad where the more traditional lighting trope would be a single spotlight.
56	* TheTalk: Rory promises to let Lorelai have this with her if she ever finds the time to think about the subject herself.
57	* VerbalBackspace:
58	** Rory is reluctant to take Jess to Friday night dinner, but changes her mind when Emily threatens to meet him at Rory's graduation.
59	** Lorelai accidentally outs Lane and Dave as a couple in front of the rest of the band, but successfully convinces them that she just meant that their combined names are an anagram for "love" if you ditch the D and the N and trade the A for an O.

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