Let's make one thing perfectly clear. Glenn Beck does not watch the Gilmore Girls.
"I don't know a thing about the Gilmore Girls, other than my girls are huge fans and watched every episode, and it became a ritual in the Beck household," Glenn said Monday on his radio program.
The premise of the show surrounds a mother and daughter relationship. The mother --- Lorelai --- had her daughter Rory at 16 years of age. The original show celebrates the success of her teen pregnancy. The much-anticipated Netflix revival ended with four words the show's creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, planned years ago: Mom? Yeah? I'm pregnant.
But it's Sherman-Palladino's comments in recent interviews that have fans scratching their heads. Sherman-Palladino said that abortion could be an option for Rory. That news made Glenn's daughters go ballistic: Rory would never do that!
"If it comes full circle by aborting the baby, you're invalidating your mother's choice," Glenn noted. "And you won't be able to pass that lesson on to your children because you would have killed them. I just want to point that out."
Glenn's daughter Hannah also nailed the problem with the ending.
"I thought this was so good. She said, The entire four episodes were about the fans. The four words were about the writer, Glenn said.
Listen to this segment from The Glenn Beck Program:
Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors:
GLENN: Okay. I don't know a thing about The Gilmore Girls, other than that my girls are huge fans and watched every episode, and it became a ritual in the Beck household. As they were growing up, they would watch The Gilmore Girls with their mother every Tuesday night, and they would go over to their aunt's house -- and even on reruns, every Tuesday night, they would watch The Gilmore Girls. And so it was a big deal around my house when The Gilmore Girls decided to reunite and do, what? Four episodes on Netflix. I am proud to say that I have never watched an episode of The Gilmore Girls.
PAT: Yeah, me too. By the way, weren't they paid the most of any actors on television to do those four episodes?
JEFFY: Yeah, like 750,000 for each in an episode.
PAT: Per episode. Yeah. The highest --
GLENN: Were any of them working? I don't even know the cast.
PAT: I don't know. But it was a lot.
GLENN: Were any of them like, "Yeah, I used to be on The Gilmore Girls, but now I'm working at T.J. Maxx." Or are they actors?
STU: I have legitimately no clue.
JEFFY: I have no clue.
GLENN: I have no idea either. So obviously this is not going to be a conversation about The Gilmore Girls, but rather culture and the left. Listen to this. So I'm not going to give you a spoiler alert, because I doubt there's anyone in this audience that is waiting to see The Gilmore Girls.
STU: But if you happen to be that person, this is the time to turn it off.
GLENN: That one. Turn it off for a second. Apparently -- and I don't know the story line at all, except, do you know what the premise is?
PAT: No.
STU: Two girls. That's about where I would go with it.
JEFFY: Two girls.
PAT: The mom and the daughter.
GLENN: The mom and the daughter. Okay. Rory, I think is the daughter -- oh, no, the mom's name --
PAT: Yes.
JEFFY: I thought they were sisters.
GLENN: Mom was -- no, they're like sisters.
PAT: Gertrude is the mother. Gertrude.
GLENN: They're like sisters because mom had Rory when she was 16 years old.
PAT: Oh, my.
GLENN: And so --
PAT: So they're good friends. They're just good friends.
GLENN: They're good friends. Stop mocking for a second. Let me get through it. Then you can do all the mocking you want. And I'm not going to stop you on the mocking. It's just to get through it.
So the idea is that this girl's life was so tough because she made the mistake of having sex, she had a baby, they've made it through, and that's what the whole thing is.
STU: She was punished with a baby.
GLENN: No. No. Yes, that's what you could -- stop with the mocking for a second.
STU: That wasn't mocking.
PAT: This is on the new --
GLENN: No, this is the whole premise of the --
PAT: Oh, the whole thing -- of the whole -- oh.
GLENN: -- is they were able to make it. They were alone in the world, and they were able to make it. She was 16. She decided to keep the baby. She was, you know, strong all the way through.
PAT: Yeah, yeah.
GLENN: She raised Rory to be a good girl.
PAT: Right.
GLENN: And they're really close. Okay? It's a success story of a teen pregnancy. That's what this is.
Everybody understand that? That's the only premise you need to know.
PAT: Yeah. Right.
GLENN: Success story of teen pregnancy.
Two stories now: One, the reason why people who were big fans of the show were unsatisfied with it -- they liked the four episodes. They didn't like the last four words of the final episode.
Now, apparently -- and I know nothing about this. I don't know why I've just lost my audio. But apparently, the thing that they didn't like is the last four words because the last four words were written a decade ago. And the writer did not -- the original writer and the original person that started the show did not write the last like three seasons back when it was on television. I don't know why. But she was jettisoned.
And she always said she wanted the episode to end -- or, the series to end when Rory was like 21 or 23 years old. And she was going to say the last four words, "Mom, I'm pregnant."
JEFFY: Right.
GLENN: Okay? And that would have been a big deal because she was --
PAT: You used the contraction. That was only three words.
JEFFY: Yeah, but it would have been --
PAT: Still...
STU: I am pregnant?
GLENN: Mom, I am pregnant.
STU: Okay. Got it.
GLENN: Mom, I am pregnant.
PAT: I'm just making sure because we'll hear nothing but that, and then they'll lose the point of the story.
GLENN: Thank you. Thank you, Pat.
PAT: Glenn Beck said, "Mom, I'm pregnant" is four words. That's all we'll hear.
GLENN: Okay. Thank you, Pat. I appreciate that.
Mom, I am pregnant.
PAT: Okay.
GLENN: And that would have been appropriate when she was 23 years old and young and unmarried and she's just getting out of college and she's got her whole world in front of her. Okay? Because it's not 16. But in our society, that's still young to be pregnant and unmarried. Okay?
PAT: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
GLENN: Well, now, she's not 23. She's 33.
PAT: Rory is?
GLENN: Rory.
PAT: Thirty-three now?
GLENN: Yeah. Because she was -- yeah.
PAT: Wow, has it been that long? Jeez.
GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So it's ten years later. When she was 23, they ended it. She's 33 now.
PAT: Wow.
GLENN: And so now, she's had her life. She's -- you know, she's still unmarried. She's started her career. Et cetera. Et cetera. And 33 is not young to have a baby. Right?
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: But it changes apparently -- and I don't know, and I'm not going to get into it. It changes the entire story line. It would have been a great ending ten years ago. Everybody is upset because it's like, "That's a bad ending now. That's not -- it changes -- now, that's a setup for a new season. It's not a cap." Okay?
Now -- now, that you understand that, that's the controversy.
But here's the real controversy: I read something -- because Gilmore Girls' fans generally are not listening to programs like this, they may not be getting the political news.
So there was a story on -- that I read -- I don't remember, New York Times or someplace, about the writer and what she said after, on those four words.
She said, "Well, Rory is smart enough to at least consider an abortion."
(chuckling)
GLENN: So I tell my daughters this. My daughters are -- they go -- they go ballistic. They go ballistic. And they start in, like, "Rory's a real person. Rory would never do that!"
(laughter)
STU: That's their complaint?
GLENN: Right. All right.
JEFFY: It's not the character. It's not the life.
GLENN: But, listen, here's how out of touch this writer is. Okay? What is the story?
JEFFY: Yeah. Right.
GLENN: The story is, at 16, a girl made a decision, and it's been the best decision of her life, and she's produced Rory.
PAT: It seems to be a pro-life show, in that eventuality.
JEFFY: Right.
GLENN: Show. If she would have had an abortion, Rory wouldn't exist.
STU: Yeah, real dull series.
PAT: Right. It would just be Gilmore Girl, and it wouldn't be the same.
GLENN: And she wouldn't exist. So it makes the entire story line meaningless.
STU: Right. The premise, as you describe it, these circumstances that are sometimes difficult create these wonderful things.
GLENN: Correct.
STU: Right? Like that is exactly --
GLENN: So now imagine being someone who at 16 -- your mom was 16. She gave birth to you. And you two made it. And now you're 33 with all these great memories, and you're pregnant and capable and wealthy enough to be able to have a baby, even by yourself. "I don't know, Mom. I'm thinking about cutting this one out."
JEFFY: Yeah, no way.
PAT: Crazy.
GLENN: Crazy.
PAT: Crazy.
It shows their agenda supersedes all.
GLENN: Everything.
PAT: Absolutely everything.
GLENN: My daughter Hannah said -- and I thought this was so good.
She said, "The four words -- she said, "The entire four episodes were about the fans." And she said, "The four words were about the writer. She had her thing she wanted to do, and it didn't matter if it wrecked it for all of the fans, she was going to be self-centered enough to do those four words because that's what she had planned." And she said, "She announced it ten years ago, those were the four words."
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: Everybody knew.
PAT: It doesn't even work.
GLENN: And it doesn't even work. So she said, "It became an ego project." And then on top of it, the abortion --
JEFFY: The abortion.
GLENN: I'm going to get my political message in here, which goes against everything in the show.
PAT: It sucks.
You know, J.K. Rowling kind of did the same thing, didn't she? After the fact of Harry Potter, she started throwing in all her little agenda items.
Oh, by the way --
GLENN: What? I don't know this.
PAT: -- Dumbledore was really gay. Oh, by the way --
GLENN: You've got to be kidding me.
PAT: -- Hermione was supposed to be black. Oh, by the way -- what? Well, then why didn't you do it that way, if that's what it was supposed to be. What are you talking about? Yeah --
GLENN: Where is the tip-off that Dumbledore was gay?
PAT: I don't -- if you go back and look at the movies -- I don't buy into it. I just think it's political correctness on her part now. I just think she didn't have a diverse enough cast and diverse enough story, and so now she's trying to make it diverse. It's pathetic. It's pathetic.
GLENN: I can't take it. I can't take it. I can't take -- look, I know, you know, people who make different lifestyle choices exist. I got it. I got it.
PAT: Yes. And I think we all know that.
JEFFY: Yes.
GLENN: And I don't have a problem. Fine. Whatever.
PAT: I know.
GLENN: Don't force me to marry people in my church, and I won't force you to not marry. Can we just have some perspective and get along and live together?
PAT: It would be great, but no.
GLENN: It would be great. But television is non-stop gay relationships. I mean, it's like -- it just -- it seems like 90 percent of the population is gay and 10 percent are straight and getting married.
PAT: Uh-huh.
STU: Well, this is why the Gaines situation stood out to so many people. Because I guess they didn't -- I don't watch the show.
GLENN: Oh, I do.
STU: I guess they don't have a lot of gay couples on or something.
PAT: Wouldn't that be sort of the balance to the rest of HGTV, which does feature them prominently.
STU: All the time. Just fine.
JEFFY: And they're in Waco, Texas.
STU: Yeah.
PAT: And they're in Waco.
GLENN: And Waco, Texas. Yeah. It's not like we're in San Francisco. We're in Waco, Texas.
JEFFY: Right.
STU: And the shows they have in California can feature a lot of gay couples.
JEFFY: And they do. They do.
PAT: They do.
GLENN: Did you hear how Chip Gaines responded?
STU: Gracefully.
GLENN: Really -- I'll give it to you here in just a second.
[break]
GLENN: I -- I know I'm getting yelled at. I can feel the anger from my two daughters as they're yelling at me from home, if they happen to be listening to the show. The mother's name is Lorelai.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: Long-term listeners of the show know the importance of that because it is my granddaughter's name.
(laughter)
PAT: Not coincidentally, by the way.
GLENN: Not coincidentally. Not coincidentally.
PAT: They are definitely connected.
PAT: Huge Gilmore Girl fans. Huge Gilmore Girl fans.
I'm going to get to Chip Gaines here in a second. Let me go to Ashley in Georgia. Hello, Ashley.
CALLER: Hey, Glenn. I need to correct you real quick.
GLENN: All right. Yeah.
CALLER: Okay? The last four words actually are, Rory says, "Mom." Lorelai says, "Yeah." And then Rory says, "I'm pregnant." Fade to black. Yeah.
GLENN: Ah. Got it. How did you feel about the ending?
CALLER: I hated it.
GLENN: Okay. And for the same reasons that I described?
CALLER: Yeah, I mean, it wasn't right. Yeah, it wasn't right. Yeah. So, yeah -- I --
GLENN: Did you know -- did you know about what the creator and the writer said about Rory and abortion?
CALLER: I read the article. Yes.
GLENN: You read the article.
Well, you listen to this show, and you're a fan of The Gilmore Girls.
CALLER: Yes. Yes.
GLENN: How did that make you feel?
CALLER: It pissed me off. You know, but then I got ticked off. And then I was like, you know what, I'm not surprised because these are -- it's a liberal -- if you watch it and follow it, it's -- you know, it's (inaudible) for crying out loud. I mean, it's a liberal show. They live in Connecticut. So, I mean, I wasn't surprised. But I was ticked. And then I was kind of disappointed. That that -- she kind of alluded to, like, if the show had gone on, Rory probably would have an abortion because that would be like the smart thing to do for her.
GLENN: Unbelievable.
CALLER: I don't know. It just was like, are you kidding me?
GLENN: I mean, have you missed the entire point of everything that you've written?
CALLER: Right. And that's my whole thing. I'm like -- and they talk about, "It comes full circle." And I'm like --
GLENN: If you -- if you -- if it comes full circle by aborting the baby, you're invalidating your mother's choice.
CALLER: Exactly.
STU: Doesn't it also break the circle? I mean, that's the whole point. The circle is over.
CALLER: Yeah.
GLENN: I mean, it's crazy. Ashley, thank you so much. And you won't be able to pass that lesson on to your children because you would have killed them. I just want to point that out.
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