Yep, bull’s-eye, that’s exactly what pandemic life would be like in Stars Hollow
A round of applause for this fine fellow! In the grand (since March) tradition of imagining how characters from the world’s television shows would react to the bewildering, frustrating, depressing, infuriating, and darkly funny year that is 2020, may we present you with what may be the most accurate of them all: coronavirus, Gilmore Girls-style, courtesy of comedy writer Mike DiCenzo.
[Full disclosure: DiCenzo has written for our sister site, The Onion.]
DiCenzo is far from the first writer/TV nerd to attempt this feat. But it’s just… it’s just really good, y’all. Here’s how you can tell: Just picture Emily trying to set up iPads at the big long table in the Gilmore mansion where Rory and Lorelai would probably sit. Lorelai would keep changing her background to images from Cop Rock and Emily would be furious and would demand she remove it, and then Lorelai would and Emily would notice there’s no fridge in her kitchen because the fridge is being replaced and Emily would say something really snide about Luke installing it and Luke would say “Hi Emily, I’m here too” from off camera.
But they’re all that good. This one, in particular, is extremely true:
This is normally the part when we’d embed all the rest of the great, great tweets in this great, great thread, but it’s really long. So some highlights follow, but first: Another way you can tell this is good is that it inspired someone else to share, and that is also good.
“I saw Carrie Coon screaming over the table where she left her three missing masks” is so perfect that we had to check and make sure Mr. Kirkland isn’t secretly a Palladino. (As far as we can tell, he is not.) But back to the original thread! How’s Kirk faring, we wonder?