Gilmore Girls

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Gilmore Girls, the successful spinoff to REBA, is created by Amy Sherman-Palladino. It is about a ludicrously hot mother and daughter who say clever things to one another at incredible speeds.

Until Sherman-Palladino's departure from the show in 2006, dialogue on Gilmore Girls was so rapidly exchanged that it often broke the sound barrier, and thus could not be heard for all the sonic booms. To compensate, the show employed a small army of closed-captioning typists, whose turnover rate on a per-episode basis -- due to nervous breakdowns or crippling carpal tunnel syndrome -- was an astronomical 95%. Meanwhile, the actors on the show long ago gave up attempting to film the dialogue as written, after they all contracted laryngitis two episodes into the first season. Instead, they all merely flapped their mouths quickly while the camera rolled, much like Mr. Ed. Their dialogue was then recorded in post-production and run through sophisticated NASA computers to increase its velocity to the desired pace without losing coherence.

Following Sherman-Palladino's ascent into the heavens to share the joys of screwball dialogue with the populations of distant star systems, she has been replaced as the series' executive producer with the entire population of a small Iowa town, all of whom have spent the past six years undergoing rigorous government training to be able to generate equivalent quantities of one-liners. (This long-held contingency plan follows the semi-successful deployment of an Alaskan village to perform similar duties following Aaron Sorkin's departure from The West Wing.) Critics are nonetheless underwhelmed.

At the height of the show's terrible powers, it was estimated that the cast of Gilmore Girls represented 20% of U.S. throat lozenge sales. That record has now been eclipsed by the sobbing, perpetually hoarse stars of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.