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"Gilmore Girls" is known as one of the most rewatchable comfort shows of the aughts. It's beloved for its mile-a-minute dialogue, surreally perfect small-town setting, and a warm central relationship that's held together via the power of mom-daughter love and a shared fondness for junk food and pop culture. It's that last part that makes one of the show's own pop culture connections especially ironic: Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) love classic TV, but they're blissfully unaware that they're living with two stars of one of the most talked-about early sitcoms.

The pair live next door to a woman named Babette, a true eccentric who's as adorable as she is overbearing. Babette often says whatever comes to mind in her signature raspy voice, and she brings a sort of benevolent chaos to the series that counters some of Stars Hollows' more genuinely annoying characters. In a bit of great casting,...

Stars Hollow has always felt like a comfortable and quaint little fictional town. The town is part of the reason Gilmore Girls still appeals to fans years after the original series ended. Paris Geller, however, once insisted that the quiet hamlet must have a seedy underbelly, and frankly, some fans agree. These three Gilmore Girls fan theories suggest there are residents of Stars Hollow that are hiding big secrets.

‘Gilmore Girls fan theory #1: Kirk was a spy

Kirk Gleason’s backstory is a confusing one. While he claims to have grown up in Stars Hollow, longtime residents don’t seem to remember him. For example, Miss Patty had no idea who he was, despite later claiming him as a pupil. He also claimed to have a dozen siblings, but no one in town knew anything about them.

Kirk Gleason | Saeed Adyani/Netflix

While Kirk’s confusing backstory can be chalked up to continuity errors,...

Gilmore Girls was filled with characters who were easy to cheer on; they were effortlessly likable. Taylor Doose was not one of those characters. Stars Hollow’s town selectman was rigid, difficult, and may have been more than a little corrupt. Still, was Taylor all that bad? While we didn’t absolutely adore him, he had some redeeming qualities. We are here to defend the man.

Taylor Doose was easy to root against

Stars Hollow didn’t have a lot of residents you could dislike. Even the town’s most eccentric resident, Kirk Gleason, was mostly likable. Taylor Doose, however, was easy to root against. Taylor was rigid, difficult, and could be downright mean in his pursuit of a town run to the letter.

We hated Taylor when he told Jackson Belleville he had to tear down his greenhouse because it was a hair too close to the road. He was just being petty.

Gilmore Girls may have been mostly about the Gilmore family, but several other key characters factored heavily into the show. During its seven-season run, the series had a ton of different storylines featuring the main characters and the residents of Stars Hollow. Understandably some aspects of those storylines had to happen off-screen. Three off-screen Gilmore Girls storylines deserved some on-screen action, though.

‘Gilmore Girls’ never showed Taylor Doose becoming the town selectman again

In season 5 of Gilmore Girls, Jackson Belleville, fed up with Taylor Doose’s tyrannical management of Stars Hollow, threw his hat into the ring to become town selectman. Jackson beat Taylor by a landslide in a town election, much to his horror. A couple of follow-up episodes focused on Jackson growing tired of the job’s constant stressors. He hated being town selectman so much that he gave up somewhere along the way.

Michael Winters as Taylor...

Happy Thanksgiving, “Gilmore Girls” fans! Whether you’re having tofurkey or getting yours deep fried, there’s no denying that in addition to the holidays, it’s also time to celebrate Stars Hollow season.

Et recently spoke with “Gilmore” star Michael Winters, who played everyone’s favourite town selectman, Taylor Doose, on the beloved series, and he dished on the possibility of future episodes of the hit mother-daughter drama.

The series ran for seven seasons from 2000 to 2007 and Netflix gave hungry fans four movie-style reboot episodes in 2016 with “A Year in the Life”.

And while Winters told Et that he hasn’t specifically spoken with creators Amy Sherman-Palladino or Dan Palladino about the possibility of more “Gilmore”, he did have a very interesting conversation with another big player of the franchise — Lauren Graham! The 55-year-old actress, who played everyone’s favorite mom, Lorelai Gilmore, had some interesting insight into the series’ future.