Season 1, episode 10
Forgiveness and Stuff
Christmas episode. Lorelai is still mad at Rory. Emily is still mad at Lorelai. Stars Hollow is doing a Nativity play.
Emily uninvites Lorelai to Christmas dinner. Dean and Lorelai talk. She compares him to Osama bin Laden but is won over eventually.
Richard has a heart attack. Luke drives Lorelai to the hospital. Emily finds the hospital staff overly secretive, while refusing to fill out the forms. Luke is not a fan of hospitals, as injured people make him feel sick.
Lorelai gives Luke a new hat.
Tropes:
- Anguished Declaration of Love: A variant. Emily tells Richard he is not allowed to die before her.
- Blatant Lies: Emily contradicts herself, first telling guests Lorelai couldn't come to Christmas dinner because she had to work, then later saying it is because she caught the flu. Technically the "had to work" one is correct, except that she could have gotten off work for dinner, just not for cocktails.
- Brick Joke: Rory can't find the baby Jesus doll's arm, and Taylor demands that she keeps looking. After she fails repeatedly and leaves, a dog shows up carrying the arm, but no one notices.
- Christmas Episode: The episode has Stars Hollow preparing to put on the Nativity play, and the Gilmore Christmas dinner is a plot point. Even so, the episode itself is explicitly stated to take place around December 10, subverting the trope.
- Cry into Chest: Lorelai cries Tears of Joy into Luke's chest when she realizes her father's going to be okay.
- Embarrassing Nickname: After falling asleep in the dance studio in the last episode, Dean is known as Narcolepsy Boy.
- Godwin's Law: Subverted by Lorelai when she compares Dean favorably to Osama bin Laden.
- Metaphorgotten: When Rory wants to give Dean a book for his birthday, Lane points out that it would have been as though he gave Rory a football. She ends up referring to ''Metamorphosis'' as a Czechoslovakian football.
- Method Acting: In-universe, they only cast pregnant women to play Mary. Luckily baby Jesus is played by a doll.
- Off with His Head!: Discussed - Lorelai admits to Dean she thought about trying to cut his head off with hedge clippers. Really dull ones.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Luke picks up on something being up with Lorelai when she asks for the menu.
- Self-Deprecation: Rory accuses Lorelai of acting immature. Lorelai assures her it's not acting.
- Shout-Out:
- Rory says it's still very The Miracle Worker around her house.
- Rory wants to give Dean The Metamorphosis.
- A guest at Emily's party is named Gigi
- Richard never bought Lorelai a Barbie.
- Lorelai is dead certain that she will never be able to understand what Charo
is saying.
- Think Happy Thoughts: Luke's advice for handling your Dad being in the hospital. Lorelai gets freaked out about this, because Luke has never talked like this before.
- This Is the Part Where...: When Luke is driving Lorelai to the hospital, Lorelai says she feels like this is the part where she's supposed to talk about what a wonderful person her father was, and how he always bought stuff for her and spent time with her, except it didn't happen that way (though she takes pains to point out her father worked hard and provided for his family).
