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You’ll Never Guess Who Skipped Boyscouts To Watch Gilmore Girls: Tales From The Slack

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Scott Ross
Scott Ross
10 months ago

TBF Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and the Marvelous Ms. Maisel are all very good shows

Stef Schrader
Stef Schrader
10 months ago

Man, I’m completely lost on this one. We were more Buffy nerds.

A. Barth
A. Barth
10 months ago
Reply to  Stef Schrader

I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

Steve Lee
Steve Lee
10 months ago
Reply to  Stef Schrader

Why not both?

Stef Schrader
Stef Schrader
10 months ago
Reply to  Steve Lee

ain’t nobody got time for that

(okay, maybe they did, but I do not)

Last edited 10 months ago by Stef Schrader
Scott
Scott
10 months ago

I watched it, mostly because of a still-strong tv crush on Lauren Graham, but can’t recall the specific story arcs or character development enough to answer the questions. The rapid-fire banter between Lorelai and Rory was great and reminded me of ABC’s Moonlighting from some years before, and the quirky circle of friends and relatives were always entertaining.

Opa Carriker
Opa Carriker
10 months ago

WTF!!

Dodsworth
Dodsworth
10 months ago

You skipped Boy Scouts to watch Lauren Graham? Good choice. Anyone who loves Santa Claus is all right by me.

Phantom Pedal Syndrome
Phantom Pedal Syndrome
10 months ago
Reply to  Dodsworth

Puberty, the reason I’m not an Eagle Scout.

Mr Sarcastic
Mr Sarcastic
10 months ago

Man I have never lost so much respect for a group of people in such a short amount of time. Yeah Torch. You want tv talk about remember quantum leap, star trek friends?

Marc Fuhrman
Marc Fuhrman
10 months ago

For what ever reason my mind read Gilmore Girls as Golden Girls, the 80’s sitcom starring Bea Authur and Betty White. The further I read this article the more confused I got at what was being said.

Taargus Taargus
Taargus Taargus
10 months ago

Wow, you’re right, I never would have guessed.

Ben
Ben
10 months ago

Wait, David Tracy, of Highlander and toy hauler infamy, knows something about pop culture that I don’t? My whole world has been turned upside down! Black is white, dogs are cats, BMW drivers are using their turn signals!

Taco Shackleford
Taco Shackleford
10 months ago

Hey, new paying member as of this week, and can’t seem to access the post. any help would be great.

Mercedes Streeter
Mercedes Streeter
10 months ago

Hey! Try logging out and back in. If that doesn’t work, sent matt@TheAutopian.com an email and he should get ya back on track. 🙂

Last edited 10 months ago by Mercedes Streeter
Taco Shackleford
Taco Shackleford
10 months ago

Everything is working on my desktop now, except after reading this I may not have realized exactly what I signed up for with the Gilmore Girls conversation. Guess I’ll need to add it to my watch list, and see if the majority of Autopians are right.

Turbeaux
Turbeaux
10 months ago

Never watched the show, but I want to chime in on Jason’s wrangler comment. I used to work with a flamboyant gay man named Bubba who drove a Wrangler with a confederate flag attached. That is great breadth all in one vehicle.

RootWyrm
RootWyrm
10 months ago

… what’s a Gilmore Girls?
<flips back to The West Wing>

MATTinMKE
MATTinMKE
10 months ago
Reply to  RootWyrm

Same. West Wing was the best.

Adrian Clarke
Adrian Clarke
10 months ago
Reply to  MATTinMKE

I do a full rewatch every couple of years, and will avidly consume everything Aaron Sorkin writes/directs/adapts.
Even Studio 60, Adrian? Especially Studio 60.

Crank Shaft
Crank Shaft
10 months ago

God Damn It! Now after watching a few clips of Paris Geller I gotta watch an entire fucking chick show. I could instantly tell that her alone would make it completely worth it. Thanks Matt, thanks Autopian, thanks Slack.

Matt, I still want Slack access. Is there a membership level?

Also, if you’ve never seen Bad Santa…

Steve Lee
Steve Lee
10 months ago

Paris, Lane, and Kirk

Crank Shaft
Crank Shaft
10 months ago
Reply to  Steve Lee

Star Trek?

10001010
10001010
10 months ago
Reply to  Crank Shaft

I too was thinking Tom, Tre, and James T.

Pupmeow
Pupmeow
10 months ago
  • Paris, Lorelai’s mom, and the snooty French receptionist from the inn (Michel?). We would sneak in champagne and get drunk while we eye-fuck Luke.
  • Luke. (Is this really a question?)
  • Any Non-Dean human.
Rob Spiteri
Rob Spiteri
10 months ago
Reply to  Pupmeow

All great points

MATTinMKE
MATTinMKE
10 months ago
Reply to  Rob Spiteri

Off topic, but how’s the recovery going Rob? You Ok?

NewBalanceExtraWide
NewBalanceExtraWide
10 months ago

I always mix this up with Felicity because my ex wife liked both shows. I laughed when I walked in to a scene where an art school kid from Felicity got hit by a bus when laughing because I had no context and it was hilarious how it was shot… I remember him waving and BAM- bus. I earned so much shit for laughing at it. I’ve not extensively watched either show. But, there should absolutely be an investigation of cars in the Fullerverse… Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls have some great car/character matchups.

Steve Lee
Steve Lee
10 months ago

I am floored that somebody else also watched Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls.

Phantom Pedal Syndrome
Phantom Pedal Syndrome
10 months ago

From what I’ve seen of the show, too much of the dialogue is just fast talking fa la la for me.
It reminds me of those old Micro Machine commercials with John Moschitta Jr.
https://youtu.be/Gzd11GMBONg

Last edited 10 months ago by Phantom Pedal Syndrome
Crank Shaft
Crank Shaft
10 months ago

So your not a fan of Screwball Comedies?

Phantom Pedal Syndrome
Phantom Pedal Syndrome
10 months ago
Reply to  Crank Shaft

Some. ‘Raising Arizona’ was good.

Mr Sarcastic
Mr Sarcastic
10 months ago

Raising Hope was better.

Phantom Pedal Syndrome
Phantom Pedal Syndrome
10 months ago
Reply to  Mr Sarcastic

Careful, don’t make me raise my internet fist and shake it at you in an ineffectual manner.

Phantom Pedal Syndrome
Phantom Pedal Syndrome
10 months ago

Really? Nobody? I can’t be the only one born in the early 80’s here.

Andrew Wyman
Andrew Wyman
10 months ago

If a town was that full of quippy smart people, it would most definitely implode. But they had a pretty good selection of cars.

Which brings me to a question. Which non-car based show had the best cars?

10001010
10001010
10 months ago
Reply to  Andrew Wyman

For All Mankind has some pretty snazzy and period correct rides.

Drew
Drew
10 months ago
Reply to  10001010

It was weird to see that they would have mostly the same cars while their technology was more advanced in most other ways. I kind of felt that an alternate history like that should have divorced itself from period-correct vehicles to sell that it was different.

Good series, though.

10001010
10001010
10 months ago
Reply to  Drew

In season3 I’ll agree with you, but Seasons 1 and 2 weren’t that far advanced from technology of the time.

Adrian Clarke
Adrian Clarke
10 months ago
Reply to  10001010

In season two, set in 1983 Thomas Paine (I think) has an EV and there’s a bit of a gag when he mentions the range (it’s pretty poor) and Ed Baldwin jumps in his Corvette parked next to him.

A. Barth
A. Barth
10 months ago
Reply to  Adrian Clarke

In season two, set in 1983 Thomas Paine (I think) has an EV

Well, that’s just Common Sense.

Mercedes Streeter
Mercedes Streeter
10 months ago
Reply to  Andrew Wyman

A Series Of Unfortunate Events had killer car casting, even if most viewers never noticed.

Mr Sarcastic
Mr Sarcastic
10 months ago
Reply to  Andrew Wyman

For that Northern Exposure was better or even Eureka.

A. Barth
A. Barth
10 months ago

This show is like North Dakota: I am aware that it exists and people talk about it sometimes; I harbor no animosity toward it but I’m fine with not experiencing it.

Pupmeow
Pupmeow
10 months ago
Reply to  A. Barth

As someone who lived in North Dakota for a few years … I harbor much animosity toward it.

Outofstep
Outofstep
10 months ago
Reply to  A. Barth

Same here. It exists and I know the one who was in Sin City has nice eyes but that’s it.

Acrimonious Mofo
Acrimonious Mofo
10 months ago
Reply to  A. Barth

Exactly.

Mr Sarcastic
Mr Sarcastic
10 months ago
Reply to  A. Barth

COTD for accuracy

Stef Schrader
Stef Schrader
10 months ago
Reply to  A. Barth

lol same (although I actually wanna see North Dakota, if for no other reason than to tick the “visited that” box)

Root
Root
10 months ago
Reply to  Stef Schrader

Me too! One of three states I haven’t yet visited…

10001010
10001010
10 months ago

Never seen it
#StandWithTorch

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