Does no one else find this show exhausting?
A lot of things annoy me about this show, but one of the worst is the constant quipping. If it were just Lorelei and Rory, you could conclude it was just an obnoxious family trait, but every character in this show speaks in sarcastic one-liners! It's exhausting to listen to these people, and they're all (Rory and Lorelei especially) convinced that they're amazingly clever and witty. It would have been much more effective if the writers had added the occasional humdinger, instead of writing every line like it has to out-do the one before it.
That's what I found to be the worst thing about the show. But I gave up at S2 E17 because of the myriad of other idiosyncracies that I discovered were permanent:
1) If Rory and Lorelei make one more reference to the god-like properties of coffee... Their obsession is not as endearing as they think it is. And at times they seem to assign it the powers of alcohol, like when Lorelei is stressed because she has to associate with her parents and absolutely has to have coffee in order to make it bearable.
2) Rory and Lorelei's eating habits make me gag. They live on take-out, diner food, and candy. It's really gross. And they rub it in our faces like it makes them unique and we should be impressed that they're not fat. They seem super proud of the fact that they refuse to have vegetables. In reality, they'd be fat, sluggish, vitamin deficient, acne-faced, depressed, and cavity-ridden.
3) The town is toooo perfect. It's absolutely idyllic, and totally unrealistic. Which was proven in the episode when Paris tried to find the seedy underbelly of the town and came up empty. They have nauseating picnic basket fundraisers, for goodness' sake. Not to mention that no one is poor, almost everyone is a yuppie, and they all seem to do nothing but eat, drink, and be merry. And now that I think about it, why do there never seem to be any children around? There's a whole school full of teenagers, but you rarely see any kids. Probably because kids add mayhem and the one-liners would look even less likely coming from a 5-year-old.
4) Rory has terrible taste in guys. From Dean with his stupid haircut, possessiveness, and apparent expectations of love and devotion after dating (a 16-year-old) for like 3 months, to that other loser, Jess, who I also find unattractive and whose personality is repellent. Jess is supposed to be the brooding bad boy, but he just comes across as a useless dickhead.
5) The bah-bah-bah-bah-bah musical interludes they throw in sometimes.
I found myself liking the scenes with Emily and Emily's husband (I forgot his name) best because they seemed to most closely resemble human beings.