History Recap / GilmoreGirlsS03E18

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: How legal is it for Richard to keep it from his daughter that she owns stocks he bought in her name when she was born until she is 35? He should have told her that when she turned eighteen.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: How legal is it for Richard to keep it from his daughter that she owns stocks he bought in her name when she was born until she is thirty-five? He should have told her that when she turned eighteen.

** Part of why she doesn't want to run a B&B is that she doesn't want to force people to mingle, like she and Rory were forced to in [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS02E04 Roadtrip to Harvard]].

** The title is a reference to the song ''Happy Happy Birthday Baby'', originally by The Tune Weavers, but knowing Lorelai it's probably more to do with the Music/DollyParton cover.

* GuinnessEpisode: Subverted. Rory initially wants to make the biggest pizza in the world for Lorelai's big 35, but after finding out how big the current record holder was, changes it to the biggest pizza in Connecticut. Then she relents on that, going down to the tri-county area. In the end it's down to "probably bigger than the record-holder in Woodbridge", but the Guinness people apparently didn't care to chronicle that.

Rory tells the grandparents that she decided to go to Yale. The Independence inn is charred from the fire. Lorelai's 35th birthday is coming up. Luke traditionally gives Lorelai a few hours of handyman work for her birthday, which she plans to milk for all it's worth. Richard wants to meet Lorelai so he can give her the money from the stocks he bought in her name whose company just happened to dissolve right before her thirty-fifth birthday. Nicole wants Luke to meet her parents. Paris gets her nose pierced.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Michel pronounces "I have, too!" as "I have to".
* AffectionateNickname: Pete the pizza guy calls Rory "Rorino".

* AskAStupidQuestion: Luke can't understand why Lorelai would ruin Rory's happy birthday-message spelled out in cookies and repair it with a cookie from the box when she could just have gotten a cookie from the box without ruining Rory's message. Lorelai tries to explain that then she would have had to reach for cookie box on top of the cupboards, which just didn't make sense since the kitchen table was covered in cookies already.

* MadeOfIron: Kirk survives getting gallons of melted cheese poured on him. He gets severe cheese burns, but all he can say is "ow".

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: When Rory compares their pizza transportation solutions to a cheap remake of "Gangs of New York", Joe's takeaway is that Cameron Diaz is hot. Kirk's is that he can imagine Meryl Streep with Leonardo [=DiCaprio=].

** The world's largest pizza was too big to compete with, so Rory has to settle for the biggest pizza in this area of smalltown Conncticut.

** Jimmy Choo shoes. Lorelai figures she can buy one-hundred-fifty pairs with the money her father gives her.
** Tobin consults the Time Life series.

** Paris's mother's plastic surgery reminds Rory of Film/{{Brazil}}.

** According to Lane, ''Macarena'' looks inspired compared to the entire year 1974.

** Rory insists that Lorelai's birthday party is not to be half-assed like Film/GangsOfNewYork with Creator/CameronDiaz, but for real like the original one with Creator/MerylStreep.

** Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s Polonius would support Lorelai's decision to pay back the money she owed at the earliest opportunity.

** The remake of Film/GangsOfNewYork with Creator/CameronDiaz gets it.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Lane describes Jess and Rory as a "really sweet old agoraphobic couple."

** Jimmy Choo's shoes. Lorelai figures she can buy one-hundred-fifty pairs.

** Lorelai feels like if Creator/DickVanDyke can [[Film/MaryPoppins sweep a chimney]] so can Luke.

* TakeThat: The music year 1974 makes the year of Macarena look inspired, according to Lane.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Richard's new secretary doesn't understand that Lorelai is joking when she denies having ever heard of a Richard Gilmore.

* CallBack: Part of why she doesn't want to run a B&B is that she doesn't want to force people to mingle, like she and Rory were forced to in [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS02E04 Roadtrip to Harvard]].

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: When Rory compares their pizza transportation solutions to a cheap remake of "Gangs of New York", Joe's takeaway is that Cameron Diaz is hot.

** Jess specifically uses the Yahoo search engine. He reveals it using their late 90's/early 00's slogan ("Do you Yahoo?"), which is a reference so dated it probably flies right over the head of anyone under the age of 25.