Our niece Ella had been watching this and recommended it - though all the film references would have gone straight over her head - had we realised it was from Ms Sherman-Palladino we would have been on it much quicker. It has the same quick humour and warmth, and family interaction dynamics, as The MMM, though probably with a younger demographic in mind.
Lauren Graham (Parenthood 2010-15) and Alexis Bledel (pronounced 'Bled-elle', who had no previous acting experience) are Lorelai and Rory, and we were pleased to see another familiar face from MMM, Alex Borstein, as an argumentative harpist. In fact she was supposed to play the continuing character Sookie but couldn't get out of her Mad TV contract. We're somewhere near Hartford, Connecticut, and the townsfolk are straight out of Capra.
Lorelai at one point says 'I've just become a Jewish comedienne', which made us laugh.
The cast: Melissa McCarthy (chef), Keiki Agena (friend), Yanic Truesdale (FOH), Kelly Bishop and Edward Herrmann (mom and dad), Scott Patterson (coffee shop), Liz Torres (flamboyant dance teacher), Jared Padalecki (boyfriend), Ted Rooney (teacher).
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