My daughter and I watch the Gilmore Girls episodes season through season almost like music. We begin at Season One, first episode, and continue until the ending with Season Seven. Then we go back to Season One and start all over again. The writing is so clever and the acting is so good, you hear and see new things with every showing. When I can NO LONGER watch any more Spongebob Squarepants or ICarly or Suite Life of Zach and Cody et al... the ONLY show we can agree upon to watch together always turns out to be - you guessed it - Gilmore Girls. We both like the caring relationship between the mother Lorelai and her daughter Rory. But the show is all about the networking that happens within a small town like Stars Hollow, the state of Connecticut, a college/university - first Harvard, and then Yale, and all of the permutations possible within the nucleus of an immediate family of parents, grandparents, child, and grandchild. The show does a beautiful job of showing friendships that span decades, and the development of community. My daughter is learning all sorts of great lessons that will help her in the future. Yes, some of the themes are a bit adult for her, but we talk about what happens in the show, and we LOVE some of the sayings that we heard in some of the shows. Such as.... "Oy with the poodles already.." and "Copper Boom." Some of my favorite characters include the incredibly anal fellow student of Rory's - Paris. Paris is always incredibly specific and insulting, but in an affectionate way. Her friendship with Rory is one of the most wonderful parts of the show. However, my favorite characters are definitely Lorelai and Luke. Lorelai's dialogue is so funny and so intelligent and reference-specific, one never gets bored listening to her. Her relationship with Luke, whom she has known in the show for many years,is an incredibly solid and strong one.
As I go through my day and experience the inevitably ridiculous and surprising occurrence from day to day, I often think "What would Lorelai say?"
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