Gilmore Girls...and guy

Back when Emily had her oral surgery, Karen checked out the DVDs for the first season of Gilmore Girls. We'd never watched this show while it was on, or seen any of it since it left the air, but had heard recently from some friends that it was a fun diversion, and since Emily was pretty much confined to a chair without the ability to speak for the first 2-3 days, Karen thought some new TV might be a nice distraction from the pain.
We all loved it. Fast-paced, pop-culture rich dialogue, quirky characters, lots of laughter, fun relationships; if you haven't seen it, it's about a single mom (Lorelai) and her daughter (Rory) who live in Stars Hollow, CT, along with their eccentric friends and family. Our whole family got hooked. We went back to the local library and got season 2, and had just as much fun with the second season.

So on a recent Friday night, when the girls got home from school, we had the third season ready for the DVD player, and an evening with the Gilmore Girls planned.
The Gilmore's love coffee, especially from Luke's Diner, and are rarely seen without a coffee cup in hand, so all drinks we had that night had to be sipped from to-go cups, from Luke's naturally. Even if they weren't coffee, they had to look like coffee.
All snacks were retrieved from Doose's Market, Stars Hollow's only grocery store.
Our homeschool room became Chilton Academy, the private high school where Rory attends to prepare for her Ivy League college career, and hopeful future as the Christiane Amanpour of the next generation.
Lorelai has never cooked a meal in her life. If we were really eating like the Gilmore's we'd have had massive amounts of takeout, but we opted instead for foods that could be put in the oven or microwave without preparation. We thought that was Gilmore-esque.
No, it wasn't healthy, but it was good, and we had a marvy time catching up with all our Stars Hollow friends.

Besides, what evening isn't better with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts and Popcorn, Indiana Cinnamon Sugar Kettlecorn?