For years, parents on teen television shows were predominantly used to service the teenage stories.
It was actually rare to see Lorelai, as she put it, play the “mom card.”
As Lorelai once told Emily (Kelly Bishop), “Rory and I are best friends, mom.
Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel in ‘Gilmore Girls.'.Everett Collection
We’re best friends first and mother and daughter second.
And you and I are mother and daughter always.”
Suddenly, the person you’re kind of stuck hanging with is the person youwantto hang with.
How many parents can say their kid willingly brought their boyfriend over for movie night?
After all, there aren’t many shows that have built an entire episode around a mother-daughter double date.
Because she was Rory’s best friend … who just so happened to be her mom.
Read more fromI Want My Teen TV, EW’s summerlong celebration of teen shows past and present.
