Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
Liz's wedding is coming together. Rory is sick of all the joy among students whose exams are over. Mrs. Kim learns that Lane lives with boys. Jess hides relationship books in punk mags, but that doesn't stop Lorelai from seeing them in his backpack. Emily sets Rory up with a guy she saw in diapers, which ends with Rory calling Dean to come rescue her, and that ends with Jess coming to Yale to see if he still has a chance with her.
Tropes
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Jess tells Rory he loves her and begs her to come away with him.
- Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: Mrs. Kim summarizes Lane's apartment as containing boys, dirt, boys, guitars, a tiny fridge, and boys.
- The Casanova: When she hears that Jess used to date Rory, Liz immediately assumes he broke her heart.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Lorelai declares that she was born 400 years too late, since the food at Liz's Renaissance wedding is amazing.
- Rory wants to end the pub crawl because the designated driver, Jonah, is drunk. Her date offers to drive her home.
- Double Entendre:
- Lorelai jokes to Mrs. Kim that lots of Founding fathers probably had big knockers.
- Mrs. Kim lampshades it by pointing out that she has lived in the country for twenty years, she gets things.
- Crazy Carrie likes these, but is even less artful about it.
- Lorelai jokes to Mrs. Kim that lots of Founding fathers probably had big knockers.
- Drunk Driver: Rory's date's friend is "one of the best drunk drivers in Connecticut". ("Top 50, easily.")
- Eye Contact as Proof: A variant. Rory can't look at Jess while he makes his Anguished Declaration of Love, just repeating "no" while he tries to convince her to run away with him. He tells her to only say "no" if she really doesn't want to be with him, at which point she gets the courage to look him in the eyes and tell him "no," which convinces him she's serious.
- Foreshadowing: Liz tells Lorelai she'll makes some lucky girl a great sister-in-law someday.
- Hypocrite: T.J. makes inappropriate remarks to Luke and Jess all the time, but if Luke says Liz is "smoking" he has a problem with that.
- Innocently Insensitive:
- Tana inadvertently rubs Rory's nose in her singlehood by pondering aloud about her being alone in all the photos.
- Lorelai makes fun of people who read self-help books without knowing they were Luke's.
- Insert Song: Luke and Lorelai dance to "Reflecting Light" by Sam Phillips.
- Love at First Sight: Jess to Rory.
- The Matchmaker: Emily sets Rory up with a guy. Rory likes him before she finds out how boring he is.
- Maneater:
- Carrie, who is married but hits on Luke and reminds him that they made out in high school twenty years ago.
- Liz has been married at least three times before, not counting several boyfriends. She is supposed to be slightly older than Lorelai.
- Shout-Out
- Patty thinks Kirk is worse than Joan Crawford.
- Rory is sick of Jesus and Mel Gibson.
- Sookie isn't sure if Jack LaLanne is still alive.
- Chester starts to quote The Shining, but Paris's stare stops him.
- James Madison used to own a knocker that now costs ninety dollars. $140 with wrapping if you don't deliver Lane's mail.
- Emily listens to Blossom Dearie.
- Lorelai thinks Emily uses Sun Tzu tactics to avoid fessing up to the separation.
- What's wrong with Luke's shoe polish is that Pontius Pilate was alive when he bought it.
- Queer Eye For The Straight Guy is against old polish.
- Lorelai wonders aloud if the minstrel band at Liz's wedding plays Zeppelin.
- One of the flower girls reminds Lorelai of serial killer Leslie van Houten.
- Rory won't have to think about Franz Kafka, Geoffrey Chaucer, Euclid or Niccolò Machiavelli ever again. She probably will, but she doesn't have to.
- Pet the Dog: When Liz finds out Lorelai knows Jess because he dated Rory, Liz jumps to the conclusion that he broke Rory's heart. Lorelai assures Liz it "just didn't work out," even though he absolutely did.
- Stag Party: Liz's. It involves a male stripper.
- Themed Wedding: Liz's renaissance wedding.
- Turn Out Like His Father: Liz mentions she hopes Jess does not turn out like Jimmy.
- The Unhug: How Rory hides her alcohol breath from Emily.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Lorelai is almost more shocked that Michel and Sookie act so cavalier about Cletus being in the dining room than she is about Cletus being in the dining room.
- Verbal Backspace: Lorelai assumes Mrs. Kim doesn't understand her abovementioned Double Entendre. Mrs. Kim retorts that she has lived in the States for twenty years, she knows what a double-entendre is, causing Lorelai to get flustered and verbally backspace.
- Wedding Episode: This episode centers around Liz and TJ's wedding.
