I just watched all seven seasons, plus the unofficial season eight which aired on Netflix nine years after the official show ended. I am now an official Gilmore Girls expert.
The show revolves around Rory Gilmore and her mother Lorelai, two brilliant ultra upper-class beautiful young girls who grew up in the idyllic town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Because Lorelai had Rory as a teenager (a huge scandal for the upper class), the two look and behave more like sisters than like mother and daughter.
Because Rory, is too pretty, charming, intelligent and upper-class for Stars Hollow, yet is nonetheless super nice to everyone, the whole town worships her and is super protective when any guy tries to date her. Meanwhile, because her mother screwed up her life by getting pregnant as a teen (by an upper class boy), Rory’s grandparents are especially protective of Rory because they see her as their second chance to raise a daughter right, and make sure she attends Harvard, Princeton, or preferably Yale since that’s where granddad went.
One of the themes of the show is that no one is good enough to date Rory. Even when she gets a boyfriend who the town considers super tall and good looking, the grandparents humiliate him for not being a good enough student for their precious Rory.
It’s interesting that the only girl in Stars Hollow worthy of being friends with this cream of the crop pale skinned, delicate boned, blue eyed white girl is a second generation Korean immigrant named Lane Kim, (virtually the only non-white in the whole town) thus fitting Rushton’s theory that Orientals are genetically superior.
Lane eventually rebels from her strict religious mother and joins a rock band, while Rory heads off to Yale to become the super star journalist she’s destined to be.
The show has only one black character, Michelle, a stereotypical French gay man with a thick accent, who was supposed to escort Lorelai to Lane’s wedding, but blows her off to attend a Celine Dion concert. .
Michelle’s charming misanthropy and refusal to obey his boss Lorelai is reminiscent of the black butler Benson on 1970s sit-com Soap. Although he is flaming, it was still apparently too edgy to have a character who was both black and gay by the early 2000s so the show kept his sexuality unconfirmed until the unofficial season 8 in 2016.
One interesting thing about the unofficial season 8, which is set 10 years after the official series ended, is we discover Rory didn’t exactly live up to all that early promise. This fits with regression to the mean. Perfect and super brilliant kids tend to slide towards mediocrity in adulthood.
Pumpkin Person 
LOVE this show! My mom and I used to watch it constantly.
Haven’t seen season 8 though… I’ve heard bad things and I don’t want GG tarnished, it’s sad Richard’s actor died.
I don’t see how season 8 would tarnish anything. Just interesting to see how everyone looks 9 years later. You can watch it on netflix.
I’m quarantined now so I watched the first episode. The writing’s the same as the old show and still very funny. It’s surprising they managed to get pretty much all the actors back on. MELISSA MCCARTHY… WHERE ARE YOU!?
peepee talking about tv and movies again like a prole.
peepee talks about fast food pizza, tv, movies, how big her tv is, how she doesn’t read, and then she claims to have a high IQ and be “very upper class”…
i apologize. i didn’t get the joke until today.
it’s spelled oprah not okra, dumbass! — peepee
Peevish Person, can I redeem myself by taking a social IQ test? I didn’t try to hurt your feelings!
You didn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. I just find your personality annoying. But yes if you provide an email (I wont post it) I can send you the social judgement test and you take it, I will unban you.
Okay I saw your email & have sent you the test. I’ll unban you once you complete it.
See…I knew you are a woman. No man would watch 100 hrs of Gilmore girls.
You’d be surprised.
My dad told me about a guy he knew in college who would read newspaper plot summaries of upcoming soap opera episodes, then impress girls who followed them with his prescience and apparent social IQ
” It’s interesting that the only girl in Stars Hollow worthy of being friends with this cream of the crop pale skinned, delicate boned, blue eyed white girl is a second generation Korean immigrant named Lane Kim, (virtually the only non-white in the whole town) thus fitting Rushton’s theory that Orientals are genetically superior.”
Probably one of the silliest things you have ever written.
Cool article. I used to watch the show on greek tv around 2001-2003, I think. I kind of hated how fast and pretentiously they were all talking. I think gays tend to love it, though.
And I would totally blow anyone off to attend a Celine concert.
How old are these girls supposed to be? I want to know whether or not I’m allowed to think they’re cute
In season 1 Rory & the genetic superior are 15 (played by a 19-year-old and 27-year-old respectively). In the clip I showed their characters are at least 20 and the actresses at least 24 and 32 respectively. Shows the genetic superiority of East Asians that they can play 12 years younger than their real age: Neoteny.
15-year-old played by a 19-year-old? It’s like a quantum superposition of the half-your-age-plus-seven rule.
peepee could learn a lot about lesbianism from this interview of a 71 year old jewish lesbian.
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/28/1068261907/fran-lebowitz-is-your-nyc-tour-guide-in-pretend-its-a-city
it seems of all “the arts”, comedy has the fewest homosexual males. but it has gobs of lesbians.
which proves hitch right that: “(straight) women aren’t funny, because they don’t need to be. (straight) men need to be…evolutionarily speaking.”
It’s because much of humour is self-deprecating and straight women and gay men are too invested in their physical appearance to make fun of it.
has the pill personality been T4-ed?
example:
1. i copy and paste the 52 week returns for all s&p 500 components.
2. then i select at random 15 of these components.
3. the average return of these 15 over the last 52 weeks actually more often beats the index, even though the median of returns is a little lower than the mean of returns.
4. i didn’t even know SBNY was part of the index. it was the 4th best performing out of 504 components. (yes the s&p 500 has more than 500.)
conclusion: the reason why individual investors in stocks may underperform the market is…
1. they pay people to pick stocks for them. so that’s a 100 basis points haircut or more a lot of the time.
2. they trade frequently like gamblers. they look at charts…
but commissions are $0.00 today. so they only pay the price in the spread. which is nothing if you aren’t trading all the time.
but the pill personality is correct that if you just pick one stock at random and hold onto it for 20 years…the odds it will underperform the index become, i forget, but at least 67%…because SKEW of returns.
but that article in forbes also makes the point that a lot of the best performers are NOT “glamorous”. they’re not “the new new thing”. they’re just an old type of business which is better than the competition. that is, they do an old thing in a new way.
pill is also 100% correct that it’s basically impossible to beat the market over a quarter or a year consistently (sans cheap leverage).
soros said: “i assume the market is always wrong.”
autists say: “the market is always right.”
interesting thing is that the EVIDENCE supports both…
predicting the behavior of a stupid crazy person ( = mr market) is IMPOSSIBLE.
predicting the…( = totally correctly priced given all available info) is IMPOSSIBLE.
BUT…
THE soros is right.
the tie breaker is market phenomena like TSLA and the CME NG contract over the last few months.
buffett said: “mr market has full blown AIDS. ‘time-arbitrage’ is the thing. because in the long run we’re all dead. but people with AIDS die within a few years.”
cue tv news story on viatical settlements for AIDS patients.
are you metrosexual pumpkin?
no
Puppy I’m not going to take your fucking stupid test which anime and bruno got perfect scores on even though they have autism. I[‘m not giving you my email. Unban me.
They did not get perfect on it. You have no idea what test I’m talking about. Just take it; if you fail you can just laugh it off as stupid.
I hope you made your test have clearer questions pp.
It was not at all obvious what kind of social situations I had to deal with.
You are still norming them, right?
still norming but the questions are the same.
Why dont you just accept you don’t know anything about women. If it bugs you so much, my test result isn’t going to cure your anxiety. [redacted by pp, 2021-12-30]
It’s not about my anxiety, it’s about scientific research.
I saw one clip from the show: the SAT clip. Since you know more about the show, what do you think Rory (the SAT girl)’s IQ is? Furthermore, can you guess both the verbal and non-verbal breakdown if possible?