Gilmore Girls, or why I'm not afraid of girl-comedies

Although Gilmore Girls is my foremost secret, guilty pleasures, it isn't that secret, especially now.  I'm not the only guy I know that likes the show, but I am one of very few.  I first saw Gilmore Girls in the context of an assignment for a class on film and television.  I was required to analyze a television show and reveal how it subtly encouraged consumer tendencies and formed a complete advertisement that reinforced the show's actual, paid advertisements.

I don't know for sure whether or not that paper had any legitimacy, but my tastes have definitely changed since freshman year.  Criticism grew into adoration, and before I knew it, I found myself debating girls (pretty much always girls) about whether Logan was a worthy mate for Rory.  (I would say yes; he is far superior to Jess or Dean.)  

So, instead of enumerating the actual ways that Gilmore Girls is an excellent television show (amazing dialogue, cultural consciousness, overwhelmingly charming quirkiness), I'll go over a few totally superficial and insubstantial reasons why I love Gilmore Girls.

1. Rory Gilmore is my fantasy girlfriend.  It is a little known fact that a scientist working for CW spliced the genes of this lemur (massive eyes), an Argentinean model, and Kim Deal to create Alexis Bledel.  In reality, though Argentinean, Alexis grew up in Houston and even has a small part in Rushmore.  A true thinking man's pinup.  The series ends with Rory still being single, giving me a false hope that someday she will make the transition from fictional to actual, and that I will be at the right place in the right time when that happens.
2. I aspire to live a bourgeois bohemian life in suburban/rural Connecticut while not appearing to do any real work.  Lorelai's ability to run a hotel without any serious training or a college degree (at first) is admirable.  However, it's pretty clear that even in the early years, before she because a wildly successful entrepreneur, the younger Gilmores never really had to worry about money.  For a single mother at the age of 16, Lorelai has certainly done quite well for herself.  Even if not every character in the show is expressly rich, they all certainly dress rich and have rich tastes.  Even Rory's father randomly falls into ridiculous, excessive wealth.  That all these people are living extremely well is comforting to me.
3. I am a total sucker for indie rock references.  While few aspects of the show deal with music in a substantive way, all it takes is a few cameos (The Shins, Sonic Youth) and some off-hand references to Elvis Costello for me to become completely infatuated with a show.  These references indicate to me that there may be a like-minded individual there on the other end of the hierarchical relationship between producer and viewer.  Granted, an assiduous critic at this point might reintroduce his freshman year study on marketing in television shows, but I prefer to ignore that.  To me, Amy Sherman-Palladino (producer) is a rabid fan of the Magnetic Fields, despite the fact that she used to write for Roseanne.
4. I really like the confused look in people's eyes when they are looking through the DVDs owned by my roommate and me and they finally get to the Gilmore Girls box-set.  Very few people can easily comprehend complete incongruity.