--- title: Jimmy Fallon on Gilmore Girls Characters: Watch VIDEO description: Jimmy Fallon is Team Jess. canonical: https://time.com/4572943/jimmy-fallon-on-gilmore-girls/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-16T16:29:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:42.852Z og:title: Jimmy Fallon Is More Obsessed With Gilmore Girls Than You og:description: Team Jess has at least one celebrity endorsement og:url: https://time.com/4572943/jimmy-fallon-on-gilmore-girls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Fallon Is More Obsessed With Gilmore Girls Than You twitter:description: Team Jess has at least one celebrity endorsement twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Fallon Has Much Deeper Feelings About _Gilmore Girls_ Than You by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 16, 2016 4:29 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 16, 2016 4:29 PM UTC On _The Tonight Show_ on Tuesday, Jimmy Fallon revealed a secret— he is a [_Gilmore Girls_ ](http://time.com/4426758/gilmore-girls-revival-show-releases-the-first-trailer-and-a-premiere-date/?iid=sr-link2)super fan. Fallon watches the show every single night before he goes to bed and has deep feelings about Rory and Dean and Jess and Lorelai and all the characters in Stars Hollow. He even considers himself to be on Team Jess and is rooting for Rory to pick him as her boyfriend. However, Fallon is a latecomer to [_Gilmore Girls_ fandom](http://time.com/4544932/gilmore-girls-stars-hollow-election-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/?iid=sr-link4) and is a little bit behind in the series. He’s just finished season four and needs to watch the three remaining seasons before [the show’s revival](http://time.com/4510031/gilmore-girls-revival-news/?iid=sr-link1) airs on Netflix over Thanksgiving. As long as he watches six hours a day for the next ten days he can do it, and as _The Tonight Show’s_ announcer Steve Higgins noted, he’s no quitter. While Fallon is a little overdue in his viewing, he still has a Top Four characters, including town everyman Kirk, who Fallon considers one of the best actors in show business, resident grouch Luke Danes. “He’s kinda grumpy, but you know he has a good heart,” explained Fallon. Fallon’s heart, though, belongs to Rory’s schoolmate, Paris Geller. “She’s smart, she’s got the brains,” Fallon said. “I want to swim around in her brain a little bit.” Fallon may be a fan, but can he pass this [_Gilmore Girls_ fan quiz](http://time.com/4526406/gilmore-girls-quiz-facts-trivia/?iid=sr-link1)? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4572943/jimmy-fallon-on-gilmore-girls/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4572943/jimmy-fallon-on-gilmore-girls/"},"headline":"Jimmy Fallon Has Much Deeper Feelings About Gilmore Girls Than You","datePublished":"2016-11-16T16:29:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:42.852Z","description":"Team Jess has at least one celebrity endorsement","url":"https://time.com/4572943/jimmy-fallon-on-gilmore-girls/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Netflix","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","Gilmore Girls"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4572943/jimmy-fallon-on-gilmore-girls/","name":"Jimmy Fallon Has Much Deeper Feelings About Gilmore Girls Than You"}}]}] ```