Gilmore Girls (2000)

The blueprint for everything else here. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore trade jokes about movies, music and celebrities so quickly that scripts averaged 80 pages an episode, well past the usual length for an hour of TV, and the show's own tagline was "Life's short. Talk fast." Seven seasons and 153 episodes give you a whole small town to live in, Stars Hollow, Connecticut, plus Friday dinners with Emily and Richard that are as sharp as anything in the coffee-shop banter. Know going in that the Palladinos left before season 7, which another showrunner ran, and many fans can feel the difference in the voice.