Season 2, episode 3
Red Light on the Wedding Night
Wedding preparations, but also living-together preparations, are going on. Lorelai and Rory take Max and Dean on a double date, giving the guys a chance to discuss their Gilmore girls' eating habits and other idiosyncrasies. Max has trouble taking Lorelai's laid-back attitude to parenting seriously.
Taylor has a traffic light built and holds an opening for it. It comes with a big plaque with instructions for how to cross the street with its help, prompting Morey to say that he hates being infantilized.
Lorelai's bachelorette party happens. Miss Patty reveals that her fourth husband was also her first husband. Emily talks about how she tried on her wedding dress every night before her own wedding. Lorelai sneaks out and calls Christopher from the nightclub to tell him she is getting married. After that she gets cold feet and runs away on a roadtrip with Rory.
Tropes
- Ambiguously Jewish: Luke makes Lorelai a chuppah. Lorelai asks if it's offensive to God if she and Max aren't Jewish.
- Big Eater: Rory and Lorelai's tendency toward this baffles Max.
- Blatant Lies:
- Kirk claims he's wearing flesh-colored speedos in his nude photos. He's not.
- Rory claims to be eighteen to get into a night club. And being an international supermodel. Very big in Germany.
- Sookie makes one up as an excuse for breaking her own rule not to call your boyfriend at the bachelorette party.
- Call-Back: Lorelai tells Sookie she is not going to wear a veil at the wedding, so she can't wear one at the bachelorette party.
- Captain Obvious:
- Lorelai threatens to punch Christopher, who responds by pointing out that they're on the phone.
- Lorelai comments that no one has made her a chuppah before, and Luke points out that that's because she's never gotten married before.
- Emily points out that if you invite someone to a place at eight o' clock, you should also be there at eight o' clock.
- Casting Gag: The lie about Rory being a model is not completely implausible, as Alexis was one before becoming an actress.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Fran takes Lorelai's joke that she doesn't look a day over 106 seriously.
- Sookie wants to cook for the bachelorette party. Lorelai explains that you only drink at a bachelorette party.
- Cult: Lorelai suggests forming one around Max after he demonstrates sacred knowledge about the broiler.
- The Cynic: Luke is not fond of weddings. Or the concept of marriage.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Rory says she'll call her mother Funny Bottoms.
- Godwin's Law: Luke thinks Stars Hollow is like Hitler's Germany, in that Taylor tells them they want a street light button and gives them one and expects them to be thankful.
- It's All About Me: Max accidentally let's it slip that he has noticed that Lorelai is this trope.
- Manchild: Lorelai has never been terribly mature, but in this one she really lets her inner child out.
- No Longer with Us: Max calls and says he's in the hospital because his brother tried to jump over a parking meter. He didn't make it. He claims parking meters are shorter where he lives.
- Rule of Three: Rory only has three quotes to pick from for the Franklin.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness:
- Rory has a lot of ways to describe how Lorelai has avoided talking about something.
- Lorelai observes that people who drank copiously the night before do not use words like "copiously".
- Shout-Out:
- Rory asks Lorelai for help in deciding whose quote to use in the Franklin: Sinclair Lewis, Lord Byron, or Benito Mussolini.
- They watch Billy Jack.
- Dean and Rory agree to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Life of Brian since there are no good movies in the theatre.
- Lorelai feels their lives are gonna mutate like the giant ants in Them!.
- Lorelai feels Rory is kind of like the robot kid in A.I., but less mom obsessed.
- The server at the nightclub dresses like Mae West.
- Miss Patty tells the girls how her first and fourth husband, Sinjin, was her Richard Burton and she was his Elizabeth Taylor.
- Christopher guesses that since Lorelai doesn't want to talk about Max's music collection it's probably stuff like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Alanis Morissette, Matthew Lewis, Buena Vista Social Club and Enya.
- The only people who could be worthy of Lorelai are Bono, Bryan Ferry, and Tom Waits.
- Michel ended up on a table with guys dressed as Céline Dion and Janet Jackson.
- Hungover Sookie and Lorelai aren't sure if it's Yogi Bear or Yogi Berra.
- Rory has lost Lorelai's place in the Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette biography she borrowed.
- Take That!: Dean thinks it'd be weird to go on a double date with adults, but Rory reassures him that it's not adults it's Lorelai and Max.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Rory and Dean claim they got together the first time on the 24th (of October), despite the fact that Dean made it clear on the three-month anniversary that it was on Founder's day, which is on the 14th of January, which is easy to check since it's an actual American Revolution holiday.
