--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Gilmore Girls image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85b3f4ef9151a9e1/69869f1acd6848755f096024/t100_tv_gilmore-girls1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 11, 2014 # _Gilmore Girls_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  The WB/CW Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel must have had personal trainers who had them lift tiny weights with their tongues. Amy Sherman-Palladino’s chatter-rich scripts brilliantly took single mom Lorelai and teen daughter Rory and made them the stars of a Tracy-Hepburn love story. (Sample: Rory teases her mom about dating a much younger man. Lorelai: He’s in his twenties! Rory: He must have been a very good boy to deserve such a happy day. I bet they let him ride a pony.) But what sold the show was Graham and Bledel, as a mother-daughter duo who could never say I love you—however indirectly and snarkily—often enough, or in too many words. [Get This TV Series](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BJGYUS/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101674/gilmore-girls/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101674/gilmore-girls/"},"headline":"Gilmore Girls","datePublished":"2014-08-11T21:50:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:19.084Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101674/gilmore-girls/","keywords":["Comedy","drama","Gilmore Girls"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85b3f4ef9151a9e1/69869f1acd6848755f096024/t100_tv_gilmore-girls1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85b3f4ef9151a9e1/69869f1acd6848755f096024/t100_tv_gilmore-girls1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"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":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101674/gilmore-girls/","name":"Gilmore Girls"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Gilmore Girls","description":"Amy Sherman-Palladino's chatter-rich scripts brilliantly took single mom Lorelai and teen daughter Rory and made them the stars of a Tracy-Hepburn love story.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Ub4e0fK9/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T18:57:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Ub4e0fK9.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101674/gilmore-girls/","duration":"PT32S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101674/gilmore-girls/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```