Season 5, episode 3
Written In The Stars
Richard lives in the pool house and has drinks with the girls while Emily lives in the main house and has dinner with them. Luke is not skilled at public flirting, to Lorelai's amusement. Rory is starting a new year at Yale. Asher Fleming died in England while doing Puck. We meet Logan Huntzberger for the first time. Richard drives off in the middle of the night (at seven thirty in the evening). Not to be outdone, Emily goes to a college party that's actually a wake.
Maid of the week: Madonna Louise
Owners of Luke's Luke's: Bertram "Buddy" Linds and his wife Maisey Fortner
Tropes
- The Bet: Marty's biggest regret about Asher's death was that he didn't die in bed as he had bet money on.
- Brick Joke: When she learns that Asher died while in England with Paris, Rory tentatively asks if it was during sex. Paris says no. When Rory hangs up and tells Marty that Asher is dead, Marty asks if he died in bed.
- Comically Missing the Point: Emily thinks Paris grieves Asher so hard because he was a great professor. Although, Emily isn't supposed to know why Paris takes Asher's death so much harder than everyone else.
- Downer Ending: The story at the back of the menu at the restaurant Luke takes Lorelai to.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Lorelai tells her mother on the phone she can't speak to her right now, since there's a town meeting and Rory is off at school so she can't talk to her either… she hangs up and finishes the town meeting, and suddenly realizes she inadvertently advised her mother to go visit Rory at Yale.
- Fee Fi Faux Pas: Lorelai goes downstairs wearing nothing but Luke's shirt to get coffee in the diner, naively thinking the diner can't open without Luke. Cesar opened it that day.
- Foreshadowing: The town meeting about what happens if Luke and Lorelai break up.
- Gossipy Hens: Babette and the others are discussing how Jerry dumped his wife for a younger woman who turned out to be a year older than his wife and Marilyn Horne is actually a man to no one's surprise. The Sappingers are back together, but they are deliberately ignoring that Lorelai and Luke are sleeping together.
- Greed: Asher's granddaughter Sarah wants everything he has.
- Hidden Depths: Lorelai discovers that Luke has a Luke's, called Sniffy's Tavern.
- Hypocritical Humor: Taylor has a problem with Luke and Lorelai dating because when they inevitably break up, the town will split in half being on one side or the other. Then he criticizes Kirk for being unable to make up his mind, picking neither side.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: The lady at Sniffy's Tavern pulls Luke up from his seat then tells him to sit down.
- Irony: Jerry Cutler thought his new wife Annabelle was eleven years younger than the wife he left for her, but she turned out to be a year older than her.
- Mondegreen Gag: Lorelai claims to have misheard "town meetings" as "clown bleedings".
- Nice to the Waiter: Subverted. Luke is himself to Buddy and Maisy.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- Emily is suddenly very friendly to her maid now that she lives alone.
- Emily discovers that Richard drives off late at night (at least after seven pm), and it is so unlike him that it makes her anxious.
- Punny Name: Art Brush.
- The Scapegoat: Lorelai considers this to be one of the functions of a boyfriend.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: Lorelai finds the word "potty" lame and discusses it with Rory.
- Service Sector Stereotypes: Luke tells Lorelai that whatever she orders at Sniffy's Tavern, they'll just bring her something else.
- Shout-Out
- Lorelai thought all butlers were named Jeeves.
- Lorelai finds Mariah Carey's phone messages charmingly imaginative.
- Coasters are with Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer motif.
- Emily and Richard know the same Robert Frost references.
- Some Molly Ringwald movie probably.
- Lorelai vows to wear glass slippers to her date.
- Marty met Nicole Richie.
- Asher died lecturing about A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Asher's relatives argue about who gets the first-edition Faulkners.
- The Mountain Girl Trials
- Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't edit.
- Lorelai is Luke's Ava Gardner.
- Gotta have Bono, Blondie, Sparks, David Bowie.
- Asher Fleming is a good sustitute for Orlando Bloom.
- Logan speaks to people like Judi Dench.
- Master and Commander is what Logan wants Rory to call him.
- The maid of the week is named Madonna Louise, no word on whether her last name is Ciccone.
- Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton couldn't go outside without people noticing.
- Gypsy compares Andrew to Lizzie Grubman.
- Asher is Paris's Mike Todd.
- Sometimes, the people of Stars Hollow can still hear someone, possibly Art Brush, singing Delta Dawn.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Lorelai tells Luke he better not be planning a date in an art museum after hours and then take her to an empty Hollywood bowl where he gives her a pair of diamond ear rings that he bought with his college money when he really was in love with his driver the whole time.Luke: (Beat) Okay, I'll think of something else.
- Take That!: Marty met Nicole Richie over the summer. Then he spent the next six weeks showering.
- Themed Party: Invoked. Nearly everyone at Asher's wake think it's some bizarrely themed party.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Luke invokes this, suggesting that no one noticed Lorelai walking into the diner in his plaid shirt and nothing else because they're used to seeing her in crazy outfits.
- Western Zodiac: During their first meeting, Luke admitted to being a Scorpio and kept the personal horoscope Lorelai gave him. It allegedly read: "You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she will go away."
- Who's Your Daddy?: Marty has discovered that his uncle Jerry is his real biological father.
