The Lone Driftwood in a Sea of Banality

Alexis Bledel and Liza Weil in “Gilmore Girls”

While decrying the faux wit of TV show humanities professors today (Prof. Grace McCallister of Jack & Bobby in particular), The New York Times granted a possible exception to the late professor Asher Fleming of Gilmore Girls, “but only because he was sleeping with Paris Geller (played by Liza Weil), the greatest comic character currently on television.”

One would be hard pressed to argue here — both about the imitation intelligence of TV’s intelligentsia and the comic supremacy of Paris Geller, whose momentary bits on Gilmore Girls are now more than ever the real reason to watch the show.