Season 6, episode 4
Always A Godmother, Never A God
Lorelai sorts her VCRs by which ones she's keeping and which ones getting rid of. She keeps most, and throws out two tapes. Sookie and Jackson are baptising their kids because Jackson's mother wants them to. Michel hates the Bellevilles to the point of what Lorelai names "snarcasm". Rory has a new phone number that Sookie has but not Lorelai.
Maid of the week: a woman with an unidentifiable accent, only known as Maid.
Colin's Dutch milkmaid: Katrinka
Tropes
- Aesop: "You can do anything if you just believe in yourself", even skip getting up early to go to the baptism where you are godmother.
- Blatant Lies: Sookie's excuses for not asking other people than Rory to be the other godmother.
- Brick Joke: When she was born, Sookie declared that Martha was to get about a dozen middle names to use up all the names they wanted to give their children, and at her christening it turns out she really got all those names.
- Call-Back: Jackson's relatives are in town, including two we met long ago, his cousin Rune and his brother Bo.
- Character Shilling: Apparently Rory can barely keep up with Logan.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Zach thinks the point of baptism is that you get to keep the baby if the parents die.
- Kirk thinks the two children being baptized have separate sides of the church like at a wedding, and you sit on the side of the baby you like best. He worries that if he picks a side it will offend the other baby.
- When Reverend Skinner asks the prospective godmothers about their religious affiliation they treat it like a job interview.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Finn's crush Veronica is engaged and it kind of pisses him off.
- Dissimile: Sookie and Jackson argue about how similar a baptism is to a bath. Jackson thinks if you're secular it's close enough, while Sookie thinks that it differs in how many people stand around watching you.
- Manipulative Bastard: Sookie decides to get Lorelai and Rory in the same room by making them both godmothers.
- Mind Screw: Kirk wears the suit they buried his father in at the baptism.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: Sookie's.
- Product Placement:
- The Sony products Zach and Brian spent nine thousand dollars on.
- The Pierre
- C-span again.
- Self-Deprecation: Luke tells Lorelai she's gonna be one of those old women who hoard canisters and laundry measuring cups.Lorelai: "Gonna" be?
- Shout-Out
- Lorelai claims you can run "fire" in a movie theatre showing Deuce Bigalow because it wouldn't be crowded.
- Lorelai wants to keep her tape labeled Magnum, P.I. because it's actually Knots Landing.
- Lorelai needs her 21 Jump Street, season one.
- Lorelai has a tape where Rosie O'Donnell plays a disabled woman obsessed with riding the bus directed by either Anjelica Huston or Mae Rose.
- Lorelai finds taped seasons of Please Don't Eat The Daisies.
- Jackson hated watching Sookie's cousin in Nicholas Nickleby.
- Finn claims dating Katrinka in Amsterdam was like dating Wonder Woman in America.
- Bo makes Lorelai hate Risky Business and Tom Cruise in his underwear.
- Sookie's old roommate apparently thinks she's Susan Powter.
- A DAR member thinks Rory looks like Clara Barton.
- Rory has learned nothing from Mad Hot Ballroom, least of all that she could carry a baby to the fountain without being in the church.
- Lane calls Rory Marianne Faithfull.
- Zach thinks you have to be R2D2 to know how to use the recording equipment he and Brian bought.
- Brian asks if Rory made Sookie an offer she couldn't refuse.
- Kirk thinks there's a lot of Greta Garbo in Martha.
- Rory's religious affiliation is that she has read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
- Davey is the Andy Warhol to Martha's The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- The Stoic: Finns are this and it bothers Emily.
- Sustained Misunderstanding: Whatever Lorelai says to stop Bo from thinking she is a nymphomaniac just reinforces his belief.
- Take That!: Emily refers to Finns as "walking dead".
- Talks Like a Simile: Lorelai informs Luke that criticizing the state of her attic is like walking into an operating room in the middle of a surgery and getting mad that the heart is on the outside of the body.Lorelai: You're like "Hey! The heart is supposed to be on the inside!" and the surgeon is like "I'm not done yet, get out of my operating room!"
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Or maybe just characters in this case. Sookie has trouble working out a fairly simple addition question.
