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* FictionalBoardGames: Rory wanted to play ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' as a child, but Lorelai insisted on making up their own games, such as ''Mimic your favorite hedgehog''.

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Board Games is not a trope but a type of media.


* BoardGames: Rory wanted to play Monopoly as a child, but Lorelai insisted on making up their own games, such as ''Mimic your favorite hedgehog''.


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* FictionalBoardGames: Rory wanted to play ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' as a child, but Lorelai insisted on making up their own games, such as ''Mimic your favorite hedgehog''.

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Maid of the week: an unnamed blonde woman.



* GoshDangItToHeck: Sookie says "oh, shoot" when Lorelai thinks "the real word" would be more fitting.

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* GoshDangItToHeck: Sookie says "oh, shoot" shoot, oh, shoot, oh, Sugarfoot" when Lorelai thinks "the real word" would be more fitting.


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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Jason walks into Richard's office, walks over to the globe and talks about how every really important character in a movie has a globe in their office.


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** Lorelai calls Sookie [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} "Spiffy"]].
** Lorelai thinks the sink guy sounds like a Series/KidsInTheHall character.


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** Trix thinks Richard looks like Adolphe Menjou.
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* PlotParalel: Lorelai and Rory's separate plotlines are both about them feeling overwhelmed, in part because they are apart, and they even miss each other when they're both in Stars Hollow, telling a male friend about their troubles.

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* PlotParalel: PlotParallel: Lorelai and Rory's separate plotlines are both about them feeling overwhelmed, in part because they are apart, and they even miss each other when they're both in Stars Hollow, telling a male friend about their troubles.
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* PlotParalel: Lorelai and Rory's separate plotlines are both about them feeling overwhelmed, in part because they are apart, and they even miss each other when they're both in Stars Hollow, telling a male friend about their troubles.

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* BoardGames: Rory wanted to play Monopoly as a child.
* CalvinBall: But Lorelai insisted on making up their own games.

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* BlankStare: Lorelai asks her hairdresser Leanne what she can do for her hair in two minutes and gets this reply.
* BlatantLies: Rory plans to lie about being unable to read her own writing, as she tells Lorelai's answering machine. Ends up the professor she's lying to doesn't care either way.
* BoardGames: Rory wanted to play Monopoly as a child.
* CalvinBall: But
child, but Lorelai insisted on making up their own games.games, such as ''Mimic your favorite hedgehog''.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: Sookie thinks Michel is one for not doing her job for her when he always wants to be included the rest of the time. Which makes ''her'' one.
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I think I do this every time I rewatch this episode.


The Dragonfly gets its horses and a lot of renovation. Rory and Lorelai are both busy and keep missing each other's calls. Dean asks Rory if she's okay with him working for Tom at Lorelai's inn. Jason and Lorelai spend time together, but they spend it talking to their jobs on the phone. Trix aka "the third Lorelai" aka Lorelai the first comes to visit her son and daughter-in-law. Lane has to leave Yale on grounds of not being enrolled. Rory is taking too many classes, and finding out makes her so upset that when she can't find her mother, she runs into her now-married ex and sleeps with him.

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The Dragonfly gets its horses and a lot of renovation. Rory and Lorelai are both busy and keep missing each other's calls. Dean asks Rory if she's okay with him working for Tom at Lorelai's inn. Jason and Lorelai spend time together, but they spend it talking to their jobs on the phone. Trix aka "the third Lorelai" aka Lorelai the first comes to visit her son and daughter-in-law. Lane has to leave Yale on grounds of not being enrolled. Rory is taking too many classes, and finding out makes her so upset that when she can't find her mother, she runs into her now-married ex and sleeps with him.
confides in him instead.
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** Jason thinks Trix is scarier that Crator/NickNolte's mugshot.

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** Jason thinks Trix is scarier that Crator/NickNolte's Creator/NickNolte's mugshot.

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The Dragonfly gets its horses and a lot of renovation. Rory and Lorelai are both busy and keep missing each other's calls. Dean asks Rory if she's okay with him working for Tom at Lorelai's inn. Jason and Lorelai spend time together, but they spend it talking to their jobs on the phone. Trix aka "the third Lorelai" aka Lorelai the first comes to visit her son and daughter-in-law. Lane has to leave Yale on grounds of not being enrolled. Rory is taking too many classes.

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The Dragonfly gets its horses and a lot of renovation. Rory and Lorelai are both busy and keep missing each other's calls. Dean asks Rory if she's okay with him working for Tom at Lorelai's inn. Jason and Lorelai spend time together, but they spend it talking to their jobs on the phone. Trix aka "the third Lorelai" aka Lorelai the first comes to visit her son and daughter-in-law. Lane has to leave Yale on grounds of not being enrolled. Rory is taking too many classes.
classes, and finding out makes her so upset that when she can't find her mother, she runs into her now-married ex and sleeps with him.


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** Jason thinks Trix is scarier that Crator/NickNolte's mugshot.

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** Paris accuses Rory and Lane of skipping through meadows singing Music/{{Carpenters}} songs.



** Who chooses which horse to lose, [[Literature/SophiesChoice Sophie]]?

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** Sookie: Who chooses which horse to lose, [[Literature/SophiesChoice Sophie]]?
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* TeamMom: Lane plays this role for Rory's dorm, but focuses most of it on Rory.
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* PunnyTitle: On ''Film/TheIncredivleShrinkingMan''.

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* PunnyTitle: On ''Film/TheIncredivleShrinkingMan''.''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan''.
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!!The Incredible Sinking Lorelais


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* PunnyTitle: On ''Film/TheIncredivleShrinkingMan''.


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** The episode title is a pun on Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Subverted. Lorelai tearfully informs Luke that she was going to ask for a thirty grand loan, he starts answering the loan request.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: Sookie doesn't understand why the delivery guys would send the sink back to Canada. Lorelai says that's where its mother is.


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** Emily sarcastically considers inviting Music/{{Eminem}} to a party.


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** Lorelai has to get her bathrobe on before talking to her mother on the phone because "[[Film/TheSixthSense she can hear naked people]]".
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** Lorelai feels she's [[Music/JonBonJovi "living on a prayer"]] improvising her hairstyle.

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** Lorelai feels she's [[Music/JonBonJovi [[Music/BonJovi "living on a prayer"]] improvising her hairstyle.



* YourCheatingHeart: Rory is single now, but Dean is married, and her emotional breakdown in front of him ends with them having sex.

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The Dragonfly gets its horses and a lot of renovation. Rory and Lorelai are both busy and keep missing each other's calls. Dean asks Rory if she's okay with him working for Tom at Lorelai's inn. Jason and Lorelai spend time together, but they spend it talking to their jobs on the phone. Trish aka "the third Lorelai" aka Lorelai the first comes to visit her son and daughter-in-law.

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The Dragonfly gets its horses and a lot of renovation. Rory and Lorelai are both busy and keep missing each other's calls. Dean asks Rory if she's okay with him working for Tom at Lorelai's inn. Jason and Lorelai spend time together, but they spend it talking to their jobs on the phone. Trish Trix aka "the third Lorelai" aka Lorelai the first comes to visit her son and daughter-in-law.
daughter-in-law. Lane has to leave Yale on grounds of not being enrolled. Rory is taking too many classes.


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* BigEater: Luke thinks his customers eat so much it's disgusting.
* BoardGames: Rory wanted to play Monopoly as a child.
* CalvinBall: But Lorelai insisted on making up their own games.


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* FunnyAnsweringMachine: Sookie and Jackson's answering machine has them trying to get the baby to say something.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Sookie says "oh, shoot" when Lorelai thinks "the real word" would be more fitting.


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** Music/CelineDion is at Michel's other job so he can't come to the Dragonfly.
** Lorelai feels she's [[Music/JonBonJovi "living on a prayer"]] improvising her hairstyle.
** Rory thinks Creator/CharlizeTheron would have played her in a movie.
* TemptingFate: Telling Lorelai to fix her hair before meeting Trix was bound to backfire.
* YourCheatingHeart: Rory is single now, but Dean is married, and her emotional breakdown in front of him ends with them having sex.
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The Dragonfly gets its horses and a lot of renovation. Rory and Lorelai are both busy and keep missing each other's calls. Dean asks Rory if she's okay with him working for Tom at Lorelai's inn. Jason and Lorelai spend time together, but they spend it talking to their jobs on the phone. Trish aka "the third Lorelai" aka Lorelai the first comes to visit her son and daughter-in-law.

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* BerserkButton: Much like senior year at Chilton, Rory "blabbing" about Paris's secret boyfriend is not something she takes kindly to.
* CaptainObvious: Tom thinks that if he doesn't pay his guys they'll stop showing up.
* ShoutOut:
** The horses are named [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Desdemona]] and [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Cletus]].
** Janet's boyfriend's football shirt reminds Paris of Creator/CirqueDuSoleil.
** Glenn won't stop watching Film/TaxiDriver.
** Jason argues on the phone about William Safire.
** Lorelai's hair looked like the bird lady from Film/MaryPoppins the last time Emily saw her.
** Who chooses which horse to lose, [[Literature/SophiesChoice Sophie]]?
** Paris accuses Klebold of leaving a crater in her couch that [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf the Grey is still falling down]].
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