Each episode of the hit '00s series Gilmore Girls is full of references to art, pop culture, and literature. In an October 2025 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the show's co-creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, revealed she got into it with Warner Bros. because she wanted to keep in a reference to late concert pianist, Oscar Levant, for a season 1 episode.
“They were desperate for me to take it out and I said, ‘Why?’ They’re like, ‘Nobody knows who Oscar Levant is.’ I thought, there’s four gay kids in Iowa right now who know who Oscar Levant is (laughs), and it’s for those four kids. And in the next page, there’s a Justin Timberlake thing for everyone who doesn’t know who Oscar Levant is," said Sherman-Palladino to the publication.
In addition, she said that Warner Bros. "didn’t understand the scripts" for Gilmore Girls.
"It wasn’t soapy enough for them. There were too many pop culture references they didn’t understand. At every turn, we were not necessarily what they wanted or what they thought they needed, but it was a different time. Today, a Gilmore Girls would not get on the air. No way, no how," said the writer in the interview.
Amy Sherman-Palladino & Lauren Graham Spoke About the Long 'Gilmore Girl' Scripts
While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Sherman-Palladino noted that the scripts for Gilmore Girls, which had a seven-season run until 2007, were much longer than what's typical.
"We were shooting 80 pages in eight days, so 10 pages a day with no hiatuses and no breaks, and we were doing 22 episodes. I don’t know how we did it," recalled Sherman-Palladino.
Sherman-Palladino also noted that the show's stars Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham, who played Rory and Lorelai Gilmore, had to work extremely hard while filming the series.
"We had so little time and so little money that by Christmas, when I think we would get a week off, Lauren and Alexis’ eyes were so huge for lack of sleep and from the constant workload that I kind of thought they were going to kill me. We were doing a different kind of show with a massive amount of dialogue, with a massive amount of walk and talks without coverage, and it was just hard," said Sherman-Palladino to The Hollywood Reporter.
Graham spoke about the lengthy Gilmore Girls scripts in a February 2025 panel at the ATX TV Festival, alongside Sherman-Palladino.
"They were at least 20 Pages longer than a regular one hour show. [A regular show] is about 60 pages and ours were regularly 85 [pages]," said Graham during the panel.
She also said that as the show progressed, the scripts "just got longer."
"We almost never cut anything so you could never say, 'Well you're not going to use this scene.' Because we used them all, we just had to speed it up," said Graham.
In addition, she noted that she and Bledel weren't the only actors who had to get out fast-paced dialogue.
"By the end every single person in the town [Stars Hollow] was like on whatever that thing is it makes you talk fast," quipped the actress while on the panel.
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