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* SecretRelationship: Lindsay discovers Dean's affair when she finds Rory's DearJohnLetter to him.
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* HollywoodBoardGames: Michel asks if the Krumholtz kids want to play some insipid boardgames with him. They do.

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* HollywoodBoardGames: Neither Lorelai nor Michel asks if are fans of kids. Unfortunately for them, the Krumholtz kids family is staying in the Dragonfly Inn's most expensive room. The parents want to play go out for a tour but the children want to stay. Lorelai convinces Michel, who is OnlyInItForTheMoney, to be friendly to the kids. His reluctance shows when he offers the kids to "play some insipid boardgames with him. They do.[him]". Obliviously, they enthusiastically agree and ask for Chinese TabletopGame/{{Checkers}}.

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* BoardGames: Michel asks if the Krumholtz kids want to play some insipid boardgames with him. They do.


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* HollywoodBoardGames: Michel asks if the Krumholtz kids want to play some insipid boardgames with him. They do.
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* AffairLetter: Rory's break-up letter to Dean is the thing that cues Lindsay in that they had an affair.

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* AffairLetter: AffairLetters: Rory's break-up letter to Dean is the thing that cues Lindsay in that they had an affair.
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* AffairLetter: Rory's break-up letter to Dean is the thing that cues Lindsay in that they had an affair.

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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.


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* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Luke and Lorelai.
-->'''Luke:''' I have an errand at the pharmacy.\\
'''Lorelai:''' ''(20 seconds later)'' I have to get something at Doose's.


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I don't know that much about the Peanuts comic. It's Charlie, right?


* BlatantLies: Lorelai has stopped believing Luke when he says he's coming home.



** Lorelai calls Luke [[Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}} Lucy]] because he keeps saying he'll come home then doesn't.

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** Lorelai calls thinks Luke [[Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}} Lucy]] because he keeps saying he'll come home then doesn't.doesn't is like [[Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}} Lucy giving Charlie another football to kick]].


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* StopBeingStereotypical: Rory refuses to be a stereotypical American tourist in Europe, so when the waiter gets her order wrong she doesn't say anything, she just eats it.
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* CrapsackOnlyByComparison: Subverted. Luke tells Lane the Renessaince fair is like the Vietnam war, but without all the fun shooting.

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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: To comfort Rory, Lorelai offers to buy whatever she wants from Luke's: pie, cake, pancake, pan pie, cake pan, and panacockin.



* FeeFiFauxPas: Invoked by Rory, who says Lorelai would have been shot in Italy for eating pizza with steak sauce.



* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: To comfort Rory, Lorelai offers to buy whatever she wants from Luke's: pie, cake, pancake, pan pie, cake pan, and panacockin.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: To comfort Rory, Lorelai offers to buy whatever she wants from Luke's: pie, cake, pancake, pan pie, cake pan, and panacockin.


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* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Luke thinks Rory looks a bit pale, and Lorelai comments that pale is the new tan.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Sookie and Lorelai witness the fight between Lindsay and Dean after she finds the letter from Rory. Lorelai knows why they're fighting, but Sookie guesses it's due to getting married young, and Lorelai is quick to agree.
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* ConspiracyTheory: The one against Mary Magdalene. Brian tells Zach about it, Zach tells his groupies about it. One of them thinks it's confusing that everyone's named Mary.
* DearJohnLetter: Rory writes Dean a letter to let him know she can't be with him while he's married.

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* ConspiracyTheory: The one against Mary Magdalene. Brian tells Zach about it, Zach tells his groupies about it. One of them thinks Trine finds it's confusing that everyone's named Mary.
* DearJohnLetter: Rory writes Dean a letter to let him know she can't be with him while he's married. The letter itself solves the conundrum by being discovered by Dean's wife.



* ProductPlacement: Cider Mill

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* ProductPlacement: Cider MillMill.
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* TalkAboutTheWeather: Emily demands that Rory speak to her mother on the phone from Italy, which Rory is rather reluctant to do. So Lorelai asks about the weather, and Rory gives her the non-answer of "it's hot in the day, cooler at night". Lorelai replies that that's similar to what they have in Connecticut.
* {{Workaholic}}: Sookie calls Lorelai on her doing everyone else's job, like changing sheets (the maid's job) and brushing the horses (stable boy's job). She even rearranged Sookie's fridge.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Michel swears in front of children who think it's hilarious. Lorelai clarifies that a "damn" is where you store water to power an electrical facility.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Michel swears in front of children who think it's hilarious. Lorelai clarifies that a "damn" GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is where on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you store water are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to power an electrical facility.make sure your example fits the current definition.

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* BoardGames: Michel asks if the Krumholtz kids want to play some insipid boardgames with him. They do.



** Film/CitizenKane
** Film/{{Showgirls}}
** Film/ARoomWithAView

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** Film/CitizenKane
Lorelai wants to watch Film/{{Showgirls}} again.
** Film/{{Showgirls}}
** Film/ARoomWithAView
Rory claims to have home video from the trip and puts on Film/ARoomWithAView.

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* CallBack: Luke and Lorelai sneak out with the same sort of IHaveToGoIronMyDog excuses Rory and Jess used in season three.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
** Rory visits the same places she and Lorelai visited on their Europe trip between seasons three and four.
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Luke and Lorelai sneak out with the same sort of IHaveToGoIronMyDog excuses Rory and Jess used in season three.three.
* CaptainObvious: Rory thinks the Italian ruins are where they have been for the last two thousand year.



** All the bands Hep Alien covered.

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** There is a Creator/{{Shakespeare}} booth at the renessaince fair.
** Liz has a Deepak Chopra audiobook.
** All the bands Hep Alien covered.covered: ''Fell in Love with a Girl'' by Music/TheWhiteStripes, ''Suffragette City'' by Music/DavidBowie, ''Lithium'' by Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Radiohead}}, Music/ThePixies, Music/TheDandyWarhols, and Music/VelvetUnderground. That's their good cover songs that would overshadow their originals.
*** The crappy ones they are willing to play are by: Music/MenAtWork, Music/{{Chicago}}, Music/{{Wings}}, Music/{{Styx}}, Music/CultureClub, and Quarterflash.
** Lorelai calls Luke [[Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}} Lucy]] because he keeps saying he'll come home then doesn't.
** One of Zach's groupies thinks Literature/TheBible's aversion of OneSteveLimit (they're all named Mary!) makes it hard to remember.
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* CallBack: Luke and Lorelai sneak out with the same sort of IHaveGoIronMyDog excuses Rory and Jess used in season three.

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* CallBack: Luke and Lorelai sneak out with the same sort of IHaveGoIronMyDog IHaveToGoIronMyDog excuses Rory and Jess used in season three.

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!!A Messenger, Nothing More



* CallBack: Luke and Lorelai sneak out with the same sort of IGottaGoIronMyDog excuses Rory and Jess used in season three.

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* CallBack: Luke and Lorelai sneak out with the same sort of IGottaGoIronMyDog IHaveGoIronMyDog excuses Rory and Jess used in season three.

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* CallBack: Luke and Lorelai sneak out with the same sort of IGottaGoIronMyDog excuses Rory and Jess used in season three.



* ConspiracyTheory: The one against Mary Magdalene.

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* ConspiracyTheory: The one against Mary Magdalene. Brian tells Zach about it, Zach tells his groupies about it. One of them thinks it's confusing that everyone's named Mary.
* DearJohnLetter: Rory writes Dean a letter to let him know she can't be with him while he's married.


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lindsay's mother gives Rory one.
* RunningGag: Michel grudgingly doing stuff with the Krumholtz kids. They even show up at the parade.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Michel knows how to do this. Lorelai clarifies that a "damn" is where you store water to power an electrical facility.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Michel knows how to do this.swears in front of children who think it's hilarious. Lorelai clarifies that a "damn" is where you store water to power an electrical facility.



* GreenEyedMonster: Lane is annoyed with Zach's groupies, but has yet to realize it's because she wants to be with him.

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* GreenEyedMonster: Lane is annoyed with Zach's groupies, but has yet to realize it's because she wants to be is in love with him.



* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Business is going through the roof, but not the restaurant's roof, that's solid as rock.
* NeverMyFault: Guess it's Lorelai's fault that Rory feels bad about having an affair with a married man.

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* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Business Sookie claims business is going through the roof, but not the restaurant's roof, that's solid as rock.
* NeverMyFault: Guess Rory seems to think it's Lorelai's fault that Rory she feels bad about having an affair with a married man.



* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Unless Rory mispronounced "panna" as "fromaggio", that waiter was putting her in her place.

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* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Unless Rory mispronounced "panna" as "fromaggio", that waiter was putting her in her place.place by giving her cheese when she asked for cream.
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** Film/ARoomWithAView

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Rory is in Rome with Emily. Lorelai becomes a workaholic to forget about her fight with Rory.

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Rory is in Rome with Emily. Lorelai becomes a workaholic to forget about her fight with Rory.
Rory. Lane is falling in love with Zach.



* ChildHater: It backfires on Michel, as the Krumholtz kids think he's funny. Lorelai claims to hate children, but probably only means ones that aren,t hers.
* ConspiracyTheory

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* ChildHater: It backfires on Michel, as the Krumholtz kids think he's funny. Lorelai claims to hate children, but probably only means ones that aren,t aren't hers.
* ConspiracyTheoryConspiracyTheory: The one against Mary Magdalene.


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* GreenEyedMonster: Lane is annoyed with Zach's groupies, but has yet to realize it's because she wants to be with him.
-->'''Cheryl:''' God, I just wanna spend like three years doing nothing but reading.
-->'''Lane:''' What book?


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* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Business is going through the roof, but not the restaurant's roof, that's solid as rock.


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* ProductPlacement: Cider Mill
* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Unless Rory mispronounced "panna" as "fromaggio", that waiter was putting her in her place.


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** All the bands Hep Alien covered.


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** Film/{{Showgirls}}

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Rory is in Paris with Emily.

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Rory is in Paris Rome with Emily.
Emily. Lorelai becomes a workaholic to forget about her fight with Rory.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint

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* ComicallyMissingThePointChildHater: It backfires on Michel, as the Krumholtz kids think he's funny. Lorelai claims to hate children, but probably only means ones that aren,t hers.


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* {{Foil}}: Zach and Brian come up with the idea to only play crappy cover songs to make their originals stand out.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Michel knows how to do this. Lorelai clarifies that a "damn" is where you store water to power an electrical facility.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Subverted since they're speaking Italian in Italy, though the subtitles apparently can't understand what Emily is saying.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Sookie observes that Lorelai is the kind of boss Emily is when being frozen out of her daughter's life.


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** Film/CitizenKane
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Rory is in Paris with Emily.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint
* ConspiracyTheory
* EmbarrassingNickname: Lorelai has been nicknamed The Blur.
* NeverMyFault: Guess it's Lorelai's fault that Rory feels bad about having an affair with a married man.
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** Brian has been reading ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail''.
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