Red Light on the Wedding Night

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Synopsis

During a wild bachelorette party thrown by Sookie, Lorelai makes an impulsive phone call to Rory's dad Christopher and realizes that Max is not the man for her.

Plot outline

Lorelai, Sookie, Emily, Michel, and Rory go to a drag club for Lorelai's bachelorette party. Emily regales the group with stories about the week before her wedding, some of which give Lorelai pause about her own feelings about marriage. When everyone else leaves to call their sweeties, Lorelai calls Christopher instead of Max. Later that evening at home, Lorelai announces to Rory that she's calling the wedding off because she's realized that Max isn't the one for her. Mother and daughter decide to take a road trip to avoid the sympathies of all of Stars Hollow.

Music

• "Get Happy" by Judy Garland
• "True" by Spandau Ballet
• "Church Of The Poison Mind" by Culture Club
• "Spring Released" by Grant-Lee Philips
• Also referenced: 'N Sync

Movie References

• Billy Jack
• Them!

Pop Culture References

Lorelai: Well, it ain't Guy Fawkes Day.

Lorelai: "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty." Perfect!
Rory: Mussolini it is.

Lorelai: Take me upstairs and see if you can get me into Mensa.

Lorelai: Well, we are Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.

Max: He's the middle child.
Lorelai: Poor Jan!

Miss Patty: Well, Sinjin was a let-down the second time, but he was my Burton and I was his Taylor. Just wish I could've found a little Mike Todd there in the middle.

Rory: Why don't you go on inside and you and my mother can continue the 'Rory's building a house' routine and when that gets boring you can move on over to Who's on First?

Rory: Funny, I never pictured you as a Bob Vila kind of girl.

Rory: Paris has been accumulating these things since she could walk. I mean, she has a list of good deeds that could bump Mother Teresa off the Harvard list.

Michel: If I eat that, I cannot have my Boca Burger later.

Lorelai: These are women from countries that have dictatorships and civil wars and death squads and all of that they survived, but 5 minutes working for Emily Gilmore and people are begging for Castro.