So it's a show?: keeping up with the Gilmore Girls

Christopher has seen Oxford Blues, but...has anyone else? We are now 2 of the approximately 12 people that have seen it not named Rob Lowe or Christopher Hayden, and we are HERE FOR IT. We try to find any info we can on this forgotten '80s Brat Pack flick, any understanding of its confusing plot, and any reason why this movie is Christopher's best understanding of college life. Other pop culture w...

Eve Harrington has arrived in your earbuds...and at Yale? Rory is hosting a Chilton student Paris is sure we need to watch out for—here's hoping there's less drama than in the epic #GirlSquad featured in All About Eve! We're talking all about this 1950 Best Picture winner, including how its legacy overlaps a lot with another movie we watched in season 3, how this fictional story overlapped with th...

So it's a...rebroadcast? That's right! We're bringing a favorite episode back to the top of your podcast feed because who doesn't need more Norma Desmond in their life? We are big—it’s the podcasts that got small! We’re cruising down Sunset Blvd. to figure out what kind of breakfasts Emily Gilmore likes to serve on Saturday mornings. Were the people who made this 1950s movie even more high mainten...

Lorelai may have ditched the Audi in Marseilles, but Jackson has yet to ditch some needy Stars Hollow residents...and we've yet to ditch our for love the Bourne series! We love the fights with random objects, awesome female characters, and the Matt Damon of it all in this '00s action spy trilogy, but what the hey does it have in common with Gilmore Girls? We investigate the books that inspired the...

TJ is fighting like crazy with Liz, and Jake LaMotta is fighting like crazy with anyone in the same room. We're going back to the top of the AFI Top 100 Films list to check out one of Martin Scorsese's important early works, the boxing film Raging Bull. Why were our feelings so mixed about this movie? Has TJ even really seen it? And our all-time favorite segment returns: Can Kyla name all four of...

Welcome to our 100th episode! In honor of this huge milestone, we're learning about Rory's journalism heroes. Who learned about boxing by hopping in the ring? Who joined the Hell's Angels? Who followed English soccer hooligans? Who survived 4 months in a Nazi prison? Who was killed in action while reporting? We talk about the reporters who inspire Rory to take a literal leap of faith, and then we...

It's time for another spooOOooky edition of SO IT'S A SHOW, and this time the spook is a...bird...creature...moth...something? Like Luke and Lorelai, we have now seen The Mothman Prophecies, the 2002 Richard Gere horror film based on...true...events...something? We talk about why this is a meh film, what maybe happened in the '60s to inspire it, and—most importantly—whether we're afraid of moths a...

Cue up your favorite cute little ditty and pack your bags for a trip to the bizarre world of Pippi Longstocking...aka Sweden? We research the country's favorite child superheroine, who was inspired by bedtime stories and inspired many characters and women of the future. Was Lorelai one of the women she inspired? And exactly what version of her story are Luke, Lorelai, Dean, and Rory watching in St...

Is this the worst movie we've ever watched for the podcast? Is this the worst movie we've ever watched in our lives? We dive into the shallow waters of Swept Away, the 2002 bad-movie-award-winning, box-office-flopping...drama?...romantic comedy?...random music video delivery system? Between the plot points that are icky and the ones that are confusing, we try to figure what this Madonna movie has...

Have you been pining for someone for a long time? Then you might be Frank Sinatra, and you might have found your Ava Gardner! We dig into the drama-filled marriage between the famous crooner and famous starlet, try to keep the web of their Hollywood relationships straight, and break our own hearts just a little bit as we learn about their unrequited love during the rest of their lives. And, of cou...

Welcome to episode 2 of season 5, in which we talk about 2 episodes of Gilmore Girls and 2 movies we didn’t really like! Rory is going to Europe with Emily, and when she reaches Italy, the references to classic novels are really flying. Is Rory being shipped to Europe like in a Henry James novel? Is Emily basically Maggie Smith in an adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel? And is it possible someone...

Season 5, baby! And the only way to celebrate this big milestone is by inviting our moms back to celebrate with us! We ask them about their memories of the ‘70s sitcom Laverne & Shirley, why they loved the show, and what TV shows do differently today. Also, who is more like Laverne and who is more like Shirley? Does Sookie have anything in common with Laverne and Shirley’s neighbor Squiggy? And sh...

Well, we’re here again with another episode about an ‘00s CW show about an exceptionally bright teen with a very close parental relationship and in a relationship with a rich boy named Logan. Plot twist: It’s Veronica Mars! In Kyla’s latest rewatch of our other fave CW series, she realized this teen detective show loves pop culture refs almost as much as the Gilmores, so we had to do some compare...

We're rebroadcasting a favorite episode because a new movie Mank is coming out soon all about the making of the pop culture we discuss in this previous episode. We'll be back with a new episode in 2 weeks. In this ep we ask, “So it’s the greatest movie of all time?” aka Citizen Kane. Then we ask, “What the heck does this have to do with Christopher’s parents on Gilmore Girls?” We dig into intervie...

Lorelai is looking for a man like Aragon (um, Luke much?), and we’re looking for an excuse to talk about some of our favorite movies. We love The Lord of the Rings almost as much Dean does, and we have almost as many memories of watching these movies and reading the books by J.R.R. Tolkien as we do of watching Gilmore Girls. Whether they’re naming their pets after characters, planning a LOTR birth...

As kids we shared our toys with all the girls and boys, but today we share our pop culture references. We’re nearing the end of season 4 with a mish mash of refs from an episode full of lots of Dean and Jess drama and lots of Liz and TJ comedy. Why does Jess want everyone to think he’s reading Punk Planet magazine? How are Jackson and Sookie’s arguments like a 1950s workout? What does the music ch...

Laps are an illusion, and so may be the plot of the Lords of Flatbush. But the career boost this movie was and the impact these characters had on future tv show and film characters is no illusion at all. We talk the lords—and the lord who almost was—while also trying to understand New York neighborhoods (spoiler alert: we're still staring at our map). Other pop culture we ref: Gaslight, The Outsid...

Put on your ball gowns and grab your...pool floaties? Lorelai is comparing a family catfight to Dynasty, and we’re not sure what that has to do with formalwear or swimming pools. We talk the ‘80s TV hit and the 2016 reboot of the series, which both feature plenty of family drama but have some notable changes between the two. We talk about how the Carringtons’ family feuds compare to the Gilmores’,...

Surf’s up, beach partiers! If beach volleyball wasn’t enough for you, great! We’re going back to the beach with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. Summer may be wrapping up for us, but it was never ending in the Beach Party movies, which featured plenty of surfing, dancing, and repeating plot lines. How did these movies reflect teenage culture when they came out? What modern pop culture do thes...

We feel the need...the need for beach volleyball! We’re going back to the ‘80s again for a closer look at Top Gun, the fighter jet blockbuster that launched Tom Cruise to stardom. How does this movie compare with the real Top Gun in the Navy? What other pop culture has used this same pop culture ref? Why does all beach volleyball attire seem so uncomfortable? And why doesn’t Paris feel the need fo...

Who wrote The Frog Prince, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Little Red Riding Hood? The Brothers Grimm! And who wrote a terrible letter telling Richard not to marry Emily? Perhaps someone even more terrifying! This ep takes a closer look at the fairy tales you probably grew up on, as well as the much more gruesome versions you probably didn’t. We talk a not-so-great movie with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger...

If you liked World War II, you’ll love this episode! And if you love Lane’s cousin Christine, you’ll love her reference to Hogan’s Heroes, the ‘60s sitcom that was set in...a German prison camp? Believe it or not, this TV show was controversial for a second and a hit long after that. We talk about the real experiences of the cast during WWII, how this show translated to German audiences, and the m...

Who wrote about giant wasps, talking horses, and eating babies? Paris Geller knows the answer! In this ep we’re trying to figure out what the hey “brobdingnagian” means—and how to say it. We cover the 1726 novel Gulliver’s Travels (where the word originated), as well as other words the same author invented, why this novel was controversial when it came out, and how the 2010 movie adaptation got Sc...

Yo, Adrian! We’ve got on our leather jackets and filled our glasses full of raw eggs to talk about another Best Picture winner. We want to know why Lorelai thinks Jess Mariano is like Rocky Balboa, the classic sports underdog hero from a writer/director who lived out a Cinderella story. We talk about a bunch of sequels, a famous statue, and a dog named Butkus. And while we were trying to get “Gonn...

Stay in school and read a book, kids! Or...do what we did and watch the movie instead of reading the 800+ page novel. We may not know if the book is better than the movie, but we do know we loved the 2012 adaptation of Anna Karenina! We talk about the gorgeous costumes, a horse called Frou Frou, and a whole bunch of complicated family relationships. Then we gotta talk about the man who wrote the n...