Season 6, episode 13
Friday Night's All Right For Fighting
Luke has postponed the wedding and Lorelai insists that he let her do all the canceling. Logan is still trying to win Rory back. Paris is handling her job like a petulant child. Emily and Richard learn that Christopher is paying for Yale this year and don't take it too well. Paris decides to write the entire newspaper by herself. Rory steps up. So does Logan.
The Lorelais go to Friday night dinner and end up arguing it out with the grandparents.
Tropes
- Alternate History: Conversed. Lorelai assures her parents that without their help, Rory would have graduated Stars Hollow High, gone to community college and beauty school.
- Bookworm: Luke marvels at how much April reads.
- Brick Joke: The town gossips find it weird that Luke would have a kid who is a reader. Later, it turns out even Luke can't believe he has a kid who reads.
- Call-Back: Emily tells the girls about her talk with Shira.Emily: I just wish I'd remembered to call her a cocktail waitress.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Sookie at first thinks Lorelai means that Luke has a young goat when she says he has a kid.
- Several newspaper people try to hand Logan a pen when he pretends to be looking for one to stall the printing guy on the phone.
- Continuity Nod:
- Lorelai reenacts the scene where she originally enlisted her parents to help her knock some sense into Rory.
- Emily reenacts her roast of Shira Huntzberger.
- Emily yells at Lorelai again for not following proper procedure (getting married) when she was sixteen and pregnant.
- Double Standard: Emily feels it's this that when she is in cahoots with Christopher to break up Luke and Lorelai, it's villainous, but when Rory is letting him pay for Yale that's just fine.
- Funny Background Event: Rory's expression while Lorelai reenacts her talk with her parents about how to stop the dropping out of Yale.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: Invoked by Lorelai, who refers to the naked statue in the Gilmore driveway as "slightly pornographic".
- Hidden Depths: Subverted with Logan. Everyone seems to think he knows nothing about newspapers, despite his father being a newspaper magnate and Logan himself being a competent writer.Logan: I can't believe you didn't call me! I know this stuff backwards and forwards.
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Miss Patty and Babette both can't imagine that Luke would ever date a reader, making their main argument against his paternity is that April reads books.
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: According to Babette, this is Ruthie's modus operandi.
- Shout-Out:
- The title is a play on Elton John's Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting.
- Lorelai quotes John Mellencamp on "it hurts so good".
- Logan thinks his overtures are not slick, but like a Nora Ephron movie.
- Logan threatens to eat a pint of icecream while watching An Affair to Remember if Rory cancels their date.
- Lorelai thinks if Rory lets Richard and Emily find out by themselves that they're no longer paying for Yale it will be like the opening night of Taboo all over again.
- Lorelai thinks Rory is cold toward her grandparents.Lorelai: Ice ice baby
- Paris's journalist threw a Naomi Campbell hissy fit.
- Rory suggests Paris get herself bitten by a radioactive spider so she can get all the work done by the deadline.
- Lorelai tells her parents that Christopher Isherwood from Cabaret paid Rory's tuition.
- Lorelai does an impression of Queen Elizabeth II to soften the blow of having signed Rory up for another Friday night dinner.
- Rory did not Mildred Pierce her mother.
- Emily and Richard are The Bridges of Madison County and Rory is Meryl Streep.
- The drama club has a production of Sweeney Todd.
- Bill does Cat's Cradle with his yo-yo.
- Luke reads Geometry for Dummies to keep up with April.
- Lorelai surmises that Emily finds Reno 911! funny.
- Take That!:
- Paul Anka is totally fine having his freedom slowly stripped away as long as he's not aware it's happening, just like a true American, Lorelai explains while showing Sookie how to sneak a leash on him.
- Kirk's sales pitch for European chocolate is that it's just like mud, but chocolate.
- Babette tells Ruthie off by saying that when she's not being rude she doesn't know what to do with herself.
- Babette informs Miss Patty that East-side Tilly's new facelift was done with scotch tape.
- Emily says of course Rory is spoilt, only children are always spoilt, with a meaningful look in Lorelai's direction.
- Who's Your Daddy?: Sookie sometimes wonders if the Arnez kid is Jackson's son he doesn't know about because the kid speaks exactly like Jackson, down to getting louder at the end of a sentence.
