"Lorelai refuses to listen to Richard's plan to bribe Rory into resuming school, saying that Rory has to want to go back on her own. Both Rory and Lorelai are saddened by the fact that their estrangement is keeping them apart on Rory's 21st birthday. Emily takes it upon herself to plan a party for her granddaughter when Rory shows no interest in the event. Richard and Emily find out that Rory and Logan have been sleeping together. Lorelai tries to convince Luke to participate in her mad scientist Halloween skit."
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This is the second time Rory has had a birthday party. The first time was in the season 1 episode
Rory's Birthday Parties when she turned 16.
The scene where Madeline Albright is Rory's mother (in Rory's dream) is word-for-word the conversation Lorelai had with Rory in the season 1 episode
Rory's Birthday Parties
Lorelei: Determined, demented, delovely.
This is a reference to the song
It's Delovely by Cole Porter. It appeared in the musical
Anything Goes. The original refrain is "It's delightful, it's delicious, it's delovely."
Lorelai: No, me and John O'Hurley.
John O'Hurley is an actor who is best known for his role as J. Peterman on
Seinfeld.
Rory: I just had a dream that Madeline Albright was my mother!
Madeleine Albright was the 64th Secretary of State in the US under President Bill Clinton.
Richard: She's running around talking about tea parties like the Mad Hatter.
The Mad Hatter is a character from the book
Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carrol.
Episode Title: Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number
The title of the episode is a variation on the lyrics of the song
One by Three Dog Night. The original lyrics are:
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do; Two can be as bad as one, It's the loneliest number since the number one..."
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