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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jason has trouble sleeping in the same bed as someone else, as well as in the same room as any distractions. The result is his guest room is a lot more luxurious than his own bedroom.
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* DistonctionWithoutADifference: When Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents they're dating, Jason suggests just telling one of them.

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* DistonctionWithoutADifference: DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents they're dating, Jason suggests just telling one of them.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Inverted. When one of the people on the tour thinks the gIlmores are hired actors playing the house's family, Richard angrily declares that they are not actors.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Inverted. When one of the people on the tour thinks the gIlmores Gilmores are hired actors playing the house's family, Richard angrily declares that they are not actors.

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Lane got the job she wanted waiting tables at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist. Paris wants to tell Rory about her affair with an older man, but Rory discovered that by herself at the end of the previous episode. Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents about her relationship with Jason. Emily and Richard are letting the historical society walk around their house while they eat.

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Lane got the job she wanted waiting tables at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist. Paris wants to tell Rory about her affair with an older man, but Rory discovered that by herself at the end of the previous episode. Lorelai sleeps over at Jason's, but tells him she doesn't want to tell her parents about her relationship with Jason. their relationship. Emily and Richard are letting the historical society walk around their house while they eat.
eat. Jason takes a friend named Crystal to a fibromyalgia function.



* DarkHumor: Doyle compliments Rory on her merciless and dark-witted reviews.



* DistonctionWithoutADifference: When Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents they're dating, Jason suggests just telling one of them.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Inverted. When one of the people on the tour thinks the gIlmores are hired actors playing the house's family, Richard angrily declares that they are not actors.



* TakeThat: Doyle says that if you want perfectly all right, go to Harvard.

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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
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Doyle says that if you want perfectly your work to be "perfectly all right, right", go to Harvard.Harvard.
** Jason thinks fibromyalgia is a boring disease.
** According to Jason, talking to Crystal is like beating your head against a wall with spikes.

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* BlatantLies:
** Rory tells Lorelai that Paris and Jamie are doing fine. Lorelai immediately catches on that something is not right.
** Rory tries to convince Emily that she swallowed her marzipan without opening her mouth. It doesn't work.



%% * 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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* HypocriticalHumor: Paris thinks Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are disgusting with their [=PDAs=] (or [=PDsA=]), unaware that Rory has seen her making out with her sixty-year-old professor.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Asher Fleming mentions to Rory that they have an important persona in common. She thinks he means Paris, but he means her grandfather.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Asher Fleming mentions to Rory that they have an important persona person in common. She thinks he means Paris, but he means her grandfather.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Asher Fleming mentions to Rory that they have an important persona in common. She thinks he means Paris, but he means her grandfather.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: Michel somehow got the idea that Davy's name was Truman.



* DeathbringerTheAdorable: Cyrus the ''really'' quiet English terrier.

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* DeathbringerTheAdorable: Cyrus the ''really'' quiet English Jack Russell terrier.



** When Lorelai learns about Paris's escapades with a sixty year old man, she figures Creator/WoodyAllen will hire her for his next movie.

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** When Lorelai learns about Paris's escapades with a sixty year old sixty-year-old man, she figures Creator/WoodyAllen will hire her for his next movie.



* TakeThat: Doyle claims that if you want perfectly all-right, go to Harvard.

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* TakeThat: Doyle claims says that if you want perfectly all-right, all right, go to Harvard.
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* BizarreTasteInFood: Averted with Lorelai and Rory and marzipan. It's basically made of sugar, yet they hate it.
* CallBack: Lorelai asks Rory to remember [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E07 Dean]] when considering how much of a rigt Paris has to fall for another man when Jamie is such a good boyfriend.

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* BizarreTasteInFood: Averted Subverted with Lorelai and Rory and marzipan. It's They love sugar. Marzipan is basically made of sugar, yet they hate it.
* CallBack: Lorelai asks Rory to remember [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E07 Dean]] when considering how much of a rigt right Paris has to fall for another man when Jamie is such a good boyfriend.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Invoked when Lorelai tries and fails to tell Richard what chimps do to people they don't like.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Invoked when Lorelai tries GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and fails 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 tell Richard what chimps do to people they don't like.make sure your example fits the current definition.

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Tour guide from the Historical Society: Dorrie.



* LampshadeHanging: Lorelai tells Rory that as a reporter she'll have to talk really fast. Rory asks if she means faster than she already talks.



** Lorelai wants Emily to rate Jason's date on a scale from Creator/CatherineZetaJones to conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton.

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** Lorelai wants Emily to rate Jason's date on a scale from Creator/CatherineZetaJones to conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton.Creator/ParisHilton.
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* CallBack: Lorelai asks Rory to remember [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS03E07 Dean]] when considering how much of a rigt Paris has to fall for another man when Jamie is such a good boyfriend.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Though it's technically foreground, Rory trying marzipan while Lorelai talks to her parents. A brief moment in the real background before Jason disappears when he's about to spit out his piece.


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** Lorelai's reference for how to pronounce French loanwords is Music/MariahCarey.

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Lane got the job she wanted at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist. Paris wants to tell Rory about her affair with an older man, but Rory discovered that by herself at the end of the previous episode. Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents about her relationship with Jason. Emily and Richard are letting the historical society walk around their house while they eat.

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!!The Nanny and the Professor

Lane got the job she wanted waiting tables at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist. Paris wants to tell Rory about her affair with an older man, but Rory discovered that by herself at the end of the previous episode. Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents about her relationship with Jason. Emily and Richard are letting the historical society walk around their house while they eat.



* BizarreTasteInFood: Averted with Lorelai and Rory and marzipan.

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* BizarreTasteInFood: Averted with Lorelai and Rory and marzipan. It's basically made of sugar, yet they hate it.



** The episode title references Series/NannyAndTheProfessor.



* TooMuchInformation: Michel has had to wax.

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* TooMuchInformation: TooMuchInformation:
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Michel has had to wax.wax.
** Though she is already aware of the relationship, Rory does not want to hear Paris talk about her sixty-year-old boyfriend.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Invoked when Lorelai tries and fails to tell Richard what chimps do to people they don't like.
* GoldDigger: Emily refers to Jason's date as this. Jason claims she's just a friend.



* GoldDigger: Emily refers to Jason's date as this.
* GreenEyedMonster: Lorelai learns that Jason took a woman who wasn't wearing underwear to a function for fibromyalgia.

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* GoldDigger: Emily refers to Jason's date as this.
* GreenEyedMonster: Lorelai learns that Jason took a woman who wasn't wearing underwear to a function for fibromyalgia.fibromyalgia whose name turns out to be Crystal.



* RunningJoke: Lorelai's issue with the plural of cul-de-sac being culs-de-sac, because why borrow French grammar with French loan-words.

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* RunningJoke: Lorelai's SeinfeldianConversation: Lorelai takes issue with the plural of cul-de-sac being culs-de-sac, because why borrow French grammar with French loan-words.loan-words, they are English words now.



** By the sound of it, Jason and Lorelai watched Film/{{Hidalgo}}.

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** By the sound of it, Jason and Lorelai watched Film/{{Hidalgo}}. Lorelai's main complaint was that none of the horses talked.


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** Apparently Fonzie used the bathroom as his business office.
** Lorelai asks if Jason is Hugh Hefner.
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* BizarreTasteInFood: Averted with Lorelai and Rory and marzipan.
* CaptainObvious: Rory points out that her mother is a pig for brushing crumbs under the sink. Lorelai asks if she only realized that now.


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* RunningJoke: Lorelai's issue with the plural of cul-de-sac being culs-de-sac, because why borrow French grammar with French loan-words.


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** When Lorelai learns about Paris's escapades with a sixty year old man, she figures Creator/WoodyAllen will hire her for his next movie.
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Lane got the job she wanted at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist. Paris wants to tell Rory about her affair with an older man, but Rory discovered that at the end of the previous episode. Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents about her relationship with Jason. Emily and Richard are letting the historical society walk around their house while they eat.

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Lane got the job she wanted at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist. Paris wants to tell Rory about her affair with an older man, but Rory discovered that by herself at the end of the previous episode. Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents about her relationship with Jason. Emily and Richard are letting the historical society walk around their house while they eat.



* InsistentTerminology: Lorelai doesn't brush dirt under the sink, just crumbs.
* ItIsDehumanising: Michel doesn't mea anything by it, but Lorelai reacts to him referring to the baby as "it".

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* InsistentTerminology: Lorelai doesn't didn't brush dirt under the sink, just crumbs.
* ItIsDehumanising: Michel doesn't mea mean anything by it, but Lorelai reacts to him referring to the baby as "it"."it". He doesn't really have the foreigner excuse, either, since French doesn't have a neuter grammatical gender.



** Lorelai wants Emily to rate Jason's date on a scale from Creator/CatherineZetaJones to Daisy and Violet Hilton.

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** Lorelai wants Emily to rate Jason's date on a scale from Creator/CatherineZetaJones to conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton.



* TakeThat: If you want perfectly all-right, go to Harvard.

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* TakeThat: If Doyle claims that if you want perfectly all-right, go to Harvard.

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* GreenEyedMonster:

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* GoldDigger: Emily refers to Jason's date as this.
* GreenEyedMonster: Lorelai learns that Jason took a woman who wasn't wearing underwear to a function for fibromyalgia.



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** Jason is only interested in spending time with Lorelai and Creator/EarthaKitt.
** Crystal thinks that Film/{{Babe}} can really talk.

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Lane got the job she wanted at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist.

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Lane got the job she wanted at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist.
journalist. Paris wants to tell Rory about her affair with an older man, but Rory discovered that at the end of the previous episode. Lorelai doesn't want to tell her parents about her relationship with Jason. Emily and Richard are letting the historical society walk around their house while they eat.



* AmbiguousDisorder: Jason has trouble sleeping in the same bed as someone else, as well as in the same room as any distractions. The result is his guest room is a lot more luxurious than his own bedroom.



* DeathbringerTheAdorable: Cyrus the ''really'' quiet English terrier.



* GreenEyedMonster:



** MarthaStewart did a piece about making a hat out of newspaper.
* TooMuchInformation: Michel has had to wax.

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** MarthaStewart Martha Stewart did a piece about making a hat out of newspaper.
** Doyle hates ''Time'' Magazine.
** By the sound of it, Jason and Lorelai watched Film/{{Hidalgo}}.
** Jason keeps books like Literature/WutheringHeights and Literature/ValleyOfTheDolls in his guest room.
** The history tour mentions Stanford White in connection with the house.
** Lorelai wants Emily to rate Jason's date on a scale from Creator/CatherineZetaJones to Daisy and Violet Hilton.
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* TakeThat: If you want perfectly all-right, go to Harvard.
* TooMuchInformation: Michel has had to wax.wax.
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Lane got the job she wanted at Luke's. Sookie hired Tobin to take care of Davey. Michel tries his hand at babysitting. ''The Yale Daily News'' conducts it initiation rite for new journalist.

!!Tropes:
* ChildHater: Michel claims he doesn't hate babies, but Lorelai retorts that babies hate him.
* GratuitousFrench: As mocked in the pre-intro segment, English is full of it.
* InsistentTerminology: Lorelai doesn't brush dirt under the sink, just crumbs.
* ItIsDehumanising: Michel doesn't mea anything by it, but Lorelai reacts to him referring to the baby as "it".
* ShoutOut:
** Creator/HarrisonFord and Creator/CalistaFlockhart were at the resort Paris went to.
** Even if Asher Fleming loses his job and reputation, [[Film/{{Casablanca}} he'll always have Paris]].
** MarthaStewart did a piece about making a hat out of newspaper.
* TooMuchInformation: Michel has had to wax.

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