Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too
Luke is cooking breakfast at Lorelai's house, which she feels is a totally different experience than eating it at Luke's Diner. Paris inherits an eighteenth century printing press from Asher. Jackson has built a hydroponic greenhouse that falls short of the town housing code by 6 inches (15 cm). Dean and Rory run into awkwardness with their dating. Jackson decides to run for town selectman.
Tropes
- 0% Approval Rating: Taylor gets no votes in the election, except the one from himself and the nine votes Lorelai buys for him because she feels sorry for him. She literally buys them by standing outside the voting booths and giving people ten dollars and asking them to vote for Taylor.
- Angrish: Jackson gets so mad at Taylor that Sookie has to point out that the sounds he makes are not English.
- Comically Missing the Point: Kirk polls people relative to the one thousand people they poll for presidential elections. That rounds up to one person, so he polls himself.
- Did Not Think This Through: It's only after he wins the election that Jackson realizes he doesn't actually want to be selectman, he just wants to be a produce farmer and a family man.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: The song Jackson has Hep Alien play at his rally is basically the musical version of his speech.
- Hypocritical Humor: Sookie sends Jackson out with the baby to attract voters, then gets mad at Taylor for giving away free ice cream for the exact same purpose.
- Informed Judaism: Paris somehow inverts this trope by listing kaballah among the crazy things young people do to be unique, despite have been informed to be Jewish herself several times.
- One-Steve Limit: Subverted. Taylor didn't approve Lorelai's parking space application because she forgot to specify which Lorelai Gilmore she was.
- Metaphorgotten: Played with. Taylor argues that people should be required to tuck their trousers into their socks, because tics drink the equivalent of a 150 pound man drinking 9000 gallons of human blood.
- Mind Screw:
- Lane insists that you don't rock'n roll to meet girls. She's a girl, so she should know.
- Gil claims Hendrix made Star-Spangled Banner an anthem. Lane points out that it kind of already was an anthem. Gil voices his agreement that it's because Hendrix made it one.
- No Party Given: While it seems fairly obvious which positions Jackson and Taylor represent, no party affiliation is mentioned as you don't need one to be town selectman.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: It's kind of illegal to bribe anyone to vote a certain way, but this doesn't stop Lorelai from paying a few people ten dollars each to vote for Taylor.
- Shout-Out:
- Rory compares Lane's situation to Sonny & Cher: the early years.
- Tommy Lee Jones has a Starbucks at his house, and to Lorelai it misses some of the point of going to Starbucks.
- Lorelai reassures Rory that Luke only stood outside boomboxing In Your Eyes all night.
- Paris thinks any movie but Shoah is a make-out movie.
- Michel gets upset when Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz are having relationship trouble.
- Benjamin Franklin was out of his mind.
- Gypsy refers to Taylor as their Papa Doc.
- Paris refers to Dean being back with Rory as "Hoss returns".
- Lane plans on being a Dickens character in twenty years.
- Lane wants to know whether Rilo Kiley were better before or after their breakup.
- Taylor needs to see the wizard and get a heart.
- Rory thinks someone should get Clara some Ramones instead of Avril Lavigne.
- Rory has to deal with James Joyce.
- Seals&Crofts rock harder than Scarbury as far as Gil is concerned.
- Hep Alien decide to make an impromptu rock'n roll cover of Joey Scarbury's Believe It Or Not, like Jimi Hendrix did with The Star-Spangled Banner, sort of.
- Lorelai thinks Taylor getting no votes but his own is a Swept Away kind of humiliating.
- Brian has Ken Burn's Jazz on DVD.
- Too Much Information: Taylor talks at length about ticks during his "tuck your pants in your socks during tick season" pitch.
- Universally Beloved Leader: Jackson. Except for Taylor, but he's only 0.002% of the town's population, so it rounds to a hundred.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Played with. Kirk claims American voters are polled 1005 out of 280 million, which is 1/278000 of the voter population. For 0,002 people, one five hundredth of a person, to be one two-hundred seventy-eight thousandth of the town's adult population, there'd have to be just over 557 eligible voters in Stars Hollow. In the end there turns out to be at least 1124 eligible voters in Stars Hollow.
