Over the course of seven seasons and 153 episodes from 2000 to 2007, followed by a four-part revival series in 2016, Gilmore Girls has become a cultural touchstone with an extraordinarily devoted fan base. In every episode, its fast-paced style of dialogue offered biting observations and timeless humor about issues such as dating, sex, marriage, divorce, race, gender equality, gay rights, and more, while its characters offered rapid-fire pop culture references with seemingly every breath. Every episode is laced with jokes about people, places, and events that have been blurred, or even forgotten, by time, from the Bangles to the Mothman Prophecies to the works of Shakespeare to the long-forgotten Glitter. Meticulously researched episode by episode, Gilmore Girls Pop Culture Reference Guide is an eye-opening, illuminating encyclopedia of thousands of topical jokes that will help both new and longtime fans experience their favorite show in a whole new light.
Gilmore Girls Pop Culture Reference Guide by Matt Browning will be published March 3, 2026. Globe Pequot/Lyons Press provided an early galley for review.
Huge fan of the show here (I own all seven seasons on DVD but was not a fan of A Year in the Life revival). So, I am very familiar with all things GG.
This book is exactly what you would expect - an episode by episode cataloging of a variety of references from the show, explaining each of them in turn for the uniformed viewers. Of course, anyone with a wide knowledge of books, TV, movies, celebrity and the like will have picked up on these right away. But, for those less savvy in all things trivial, this is a fun guide.
Looking through this book, I realized just how load with references the scripts had to be. Often there are twenty or more references dropped. Granted, the pace of the dialogue helps to spread them out a bit. Still, they were coming fast and furious.
Fans of the show will want to check this out.
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