If you’ve been hearing the faint sound of “la la la’s” and acoustic guitars on the wind, it’s not just the standard autumnal pull of a Gilmore Girls rewatch in the air; the show is also celebrating its silver jubilee. But 25 years later, its creator says there’s no way the classic mother-daughter comedy series would ever make its way to our screens today.

In a new Gilmore Girls cast interview with THR , creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has been looking back on the early creative battles she had with Warner Bros., recalling one particular choice the studio got stuck on during the production of Season 1 —a typically random reference in a script to pianist Oscar Levant.

“They were desperate for me to take it out and I said, ‘Why?’ They’re like, ‘Nobody knows who Oscar Levant is.’ I t

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