45. I’ve officially started singing the theme song at this point.
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For years, Girlmore Girls has been an embarrassing blind spot in my pop culture life, like The Wire or Freaks and Geeks. So with all seven seasons of Amy Sherman-Palladino's series — revolving around history's most beloved mother and daughter — available to stream on Netflix beginning on Oct. 1, I decided to get a head start and binge-watch the whole first season on DVD.
Going in, I knew very little about Gilmore Girls — I was aware of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel); that Lorelai shared a very long flirtmance with Luke (Scott Patterson), who owned a diner and might be balding because he wears a lot of baseball caps; Rory's myriad of men — most of whom went on to get their own WB shows — a pair of extremely posh grandparents; Melissa McCarthy playing a character named Sookie years before Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Novels and True Blood Sookie; something about a hotel; something about weekly dinners; a lot of Sorkin-esque fast talking; and a town called Stars Hollow, where it was always autumn.
I also knew that people loved this show. Like, deeply, passionately, crazily. I knew there would be 'shipping and swooning and many opportunities for my own dysfunctional childhood to seem quaint by comparison.
So I stocked up on coffee (which was very apt in retrospect) and sat down for a 21-hour marathon of Gilmore Girls. Here's what I thought.
Episode 1: "Pilot"
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1. Oh, the "g" in Gilmore girls is lowercase.
2. Show opens with "There She Goes" playing. The first reminder (of many, I'm assuming) that this show is old.
3. A sign informs me that Stars Hollow was founded in 1779. That same year this song was released.
4. "I lost my Macy Gray CD." Yep. Old.
5. First laugh of the show comes courtesy of Rory asking that creeper, "Are you my new daddy?" Sold.
6. And now Rory is wearing the biggest sweater I've ever seen.
7. Oh wow, Jared Padalecki really grew into his face.
8. Did my town have teen hayrides?
9. Oh, so Melissa McCarthy was always incredible. It just took the world a long time to recognize that.
10. Eighteen minutes in and there are already a billion lines I want to quote forever and ever.
11. No one is — or ever has looked — younger than Jared Padalecki.
Best Line of the Episode
Lorelai: "I stopped being a child the minute the strip turned pink, OK? I had to figure out how to live. I found a good job."
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