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Okay, I can't believe I just watched that scene again, but according to Hulu closed captions, he says "I'm not autistic, just a good listener." His actual delivery is "somethingsomething autistic, just a good listener," but given Bay's referring to him as Rain Man, as well as the structure of that sentence, it makes

But he's not autistic, right? that was just something Bay said (and he denied) - definitely off-color, but probably not out of character given her privilege.
What was weird was that Daphne didn't react to his "I'll learn it in a month" more, because he appeared to just see it as something weird and trendy instead of a

I'm very excited that the class issue is coming back; that seemed to take a backseat in the first half of S2 with the Carlton arc. SaB set up a lot of differences between the two families in the premise (class, ethnicity, deaf/hearing) but the last ten episodes weren't as multilayered.
In contrast, this episode has the

Perhaps not the emotional level of the above, but I've always found Lorelai's "Sounds like your hand had a little help from your hormones" absolutely cringeworthy. (It's from Love and War and Snow, maybe? When Lane touches that guy's hair.)