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Jack Valentino

(5,230 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 01:05 AM Apr 30

Anybody else like the 'Gilmore Girls' show ??

I started watching them on one of my digital-TV sub-channels, about a year ago I think---
all that pithy and fast dialogue along with pop-culture references HOOKED me---
they play on "StartTV" from 11pm to 1am EST/EDT weeknights,
and on Saturday from 5 to 10 PM EST/EDT....

Well, I have had trouble keeping up with that schedule, except for Saturday's marathon---

About four days ago, I discovered that I actually OWNED the DVDs for the first three seasons----
in very attractive packages--- within a package that I hadn't actually looked at enough--

thanks to my best friend, now deceased, who bid me take all of his DVDs before his passing---
he spent a lot of time shopping garage sales and buying up DVDs in his last few years---
I have some doubts about whether he actually knew about what
'The Gilmore Girls' actually were either, or whether he had ever viewed them---
but he could spot a bargain!

(They were stored in one of those vinyl see-thru packages of which there were many,
but one I had not looked at too much before---
and when I acquired them from him back around 2018,
I had never heard of the 'Gilmore Girls'---
but a few days ago I actually looked at it
and it hit me stark in my face!!)

so, after having tried to watch them on a TV sub-channel,
you might imagine my shock to discover that I actually OWNED
the first three seasons on DVDs!


SO, as might be surmised, I have been on a DVD 'Gilmore Girls' marathon
for the past 4 days, LOL Just started Season Three....



Might have to shop for the latter seasons, at this point...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmore_Girls






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Anybody else like the 'Gilmore Girls' show ?? (Original Post) Jack Valentino Apr 30 OP
Brilliant casting and brilliant writing. no_hypocrisy Apr 30 #1
VERY brilliant writing! and no complaint on the acting, Jack Valentino Apr 30 #5
I've watched the Gilmore Girls series about ten times. zanana1 Apr 30 #2
The WHOLE series?? seems I only own 3/7's of it.... Jack Valentino Apr 30 #6
yes, many of the references are now very 'outdated,' but Jack Valentino Apr 30 #7
Nice without commercials, ain't it? rurallib Apr 30 #3
INDEED! I HATE commercials--- Jack Valentino Apr 30 #4

Jack Valentino

(5,230 posts)
5. VERY brilliant writing! and no complaint on the acting,
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 10:40 PM
Apr 30

but I am no expert on that--- all I can say is that it WORKS!

zanana1

(6,507 posts)
2. I've watched the Gilmore Girls series about ten times.
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 05:34 AM
Apr 30

I can practically recite the lines. Some of the references are outdated, but I think it's a brilliant show. I want to live in Stars Hollow!

Jack Valentino

(5,230 posts)
7. yes, many of the references are now very 'outdated,' but
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 10:52 PM
Apr 30

they refer to the very PRIME of MY life--- 80's and 90's---

A recent Gilmore Girls reference to a 'GO-GOs First Album autographed by Belinda Carlisle' comes to mind! LOL


(I love the Go-Go's NOW, and Belinda after them---
but I used to MOCK them, back in their prime in the 80's when I was
a dedicated hard rocker who despised 'commercial music'---

Now, it reminds me of 'good times' in my youth,
even if I didn't "like it" at the time....)

((sort of like those songs that you HATED SO MUCH,
that later you started to LIKE them ??? ))

Jack Valentino

(5,230 posts)
4. INDEED! I HATE commercials---
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 10:38 PM
Apr 30

when I have a book or cellphone news at hand,
I habitually READ through them!

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