Raincoats and Recipes
Rory has come home for the summer. The Dragonfly is opening, with all their friends as guests. Lorelai is catching on to the fact the Luke is interested in her. Emily invites Rory to a vacation. Kirk and Lulu are also spending the night at the Dragonfly. Jason shows up.
Kirk's job: Firewood expert.
Maid of the week: Sriva.
Tropes
- The Big Damn Kiss: How Luke and Lorelai become an item, first time.
- Blatant Lies: Emily tells Lorelai they're not eating rabbit because Lorelai won't eat rabbit, but she's in her thirties and too old to believe that sort of thing.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Kirk relates how he once spelled "I love you" in oreos for Lulu, but she was really hungry so he doesn't think she noticed.
- Lorelai berates Rory for having sex with a married man, telling her she should have waited until Dean had filed divorce papers and his ring was off. Rory retorts that he took his ring off.
- Continuity Nod: Jason mentions the dead plant that Lorelai gave him when they were together. It was alive when she gave it to him, but was dead when they came back after Floyd outed them to her parents.
- Dramatically Missing the Point:
- Rory can't understand why Dean would think she's back with Jess just because when he showed up at Yale she told Dean to go so she could talk to Jess.
- Rory spends her caught-having-an-affair argument with her mom focusing on whether she herself is safe and okay, not understanding why Lorelai is so focused on whether the guy she slept with is really divorcing his wife.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Since Lorelai slept with Christopher while he was with Sherry, what choice does Rory have but to sleep with her married ex? Lorelai calls her on it.
- Foreshadowing: Emily invites Rory to go to Europe with her that summer.
- Forgotten Anniversary: Lorelai congratulates Sookie on her wedding anniversary, prompting Sookie to shout "oh my god!" and run out the door.
- Gone Horribly Right:
- Sookie's hiring strategy to hire too many and find out who to fire by letting them do their jobs doesn't work when they're all incredibly competent.
- To remedy this they lock all of them in a room with Michel for twenty minutes, and six of them quit, so now they are left with too few.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Rory doesn't think Dean could be angry about the Jess situation because he's jealous, since he's married, so she figures he's just protective.
- Hypocritical Humor: Lorelai is as vague as possible talking to Rory about the Luke siuation and gets frustrated that she doesn't understand. Rory lampshades it.Rory: You're frustrated with me right now?
- I Know You Know I Know: Emily yells at Lorelai for making her share a hotel room with Richard when she knows that Lorelai knew that they weren't together anymore. A discussion of whether it counts when Lorelai didn't know she knew she knew ensues.
- Literal-Minded: Kirk, 31, has not yet figured out that "spending the night together" is a euphemism for "having sex".
- Mood Whiplash: Kirk loved dogs when he was a dogwalker a few episodes ago, but now he has a job that involves wood and hates dogs because dogs pee on wood.
- Non Sequitur: Michel's refusal to yank pictures off the wall in the inn means to Kirk that the man has never been in love.
- Noodle Incident: Rory got into Paris's green tea stash and it went wrong on so many levels.
- Running Gag: Lorelai gets so distracted by Luke maybe being interested in her that she backs into a table, and later walks into a passing door.
- Shout-Out
- Lorelai wishes she had a man like Aragorn.
- Jess showing up was as bad as James Spader in Pretty in Pink.
- The town troubador playing Lily-A-Passion by Grant-Lee Phillips.
- Rory was out like Farrah Fawcett on Letterman.
- Lorelai wishes she could find a guy like Aragorn.
- Taylor says it's the little things that separate the Barbra Streisands from the Roslyn Kinds.
- Lorelai was unaware it was Blake Edwards night at the Dragonfly.
- Stealth Insult: "Kirk is lucky to have found you, Lulu" is not intended as a compliment for Lulu. Or Kirk.
- Too Much Information: Kirk tells Luke that he's never spent the night with Lulu. Luke lets him know he doesn't want to know, but Kirk assures him that they have had sex. They just haven't spent the night together.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Lorelai claims to have worked toward the goal of owning an inn for twenty years, but twenty years ago she was sixteen and pregnant and living at home. Could arguably be seen as Justified, as many people round up in casual conversation rather than use Ludicrous Precision. However, Depending on the Writer, the timeline of when Lorelai left Hartford changes, so it could go either way.
