I was flying back to Boston this week, distracted by the emotional hangover that follows a family Thanksgiving and a mild irritation at having to gate-check my carry-on backpack after schlepping through the airport. But as I stepped onto the plane, the conversation between two flight attendants perked me up. "There's a lot of young people named Rory and Lorelai these days," one of them said to the other, who nodded in response. "It clearly had an impact."
"It," of course, being "Gilmore Girls," the well-beloved aughts-era mother-daughter tale that makes a yearly resurgence when the temps drop. But as those attendants pointed out, the impact of the show goes beyond the annual rewatches. Millennials and early Gen Zers who grew up watching the show are finding ways to inject a bit of Stars Hollow into their parenting styles — whether that's nonstop quipping about how badly they need their coffee, or going so far as to name their children after the show's leads.
Why these specific flight attendants were talking about it I'll never know — I was too desperate to plant myself at 14A to stop and ask. But click the link below to learn more about the lasting legacy of the show and the overall Lorelai Gilmorification of today's young moms. |
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