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If you're a "Gilmore Girls" fan and Netflix subscriber and you won't have time to sit and watch six hours of it on Friday, Nov. 25, you'd better stay off social media.

We're finally going to find out The Final Four Words that series creator/writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino repeatedly said she planned to use to end the 2000-07 series.

(It didn't work out that way, because she left the show in a contract dispute with Warner Bros. before the seventh and final season.)

Netflix being what it is, all four installments of the revival will begin streaming at 1:01 a.m. on Nov. 25. And some fans are going to jump to the end of the fourth 90-minute episode to find out what The Final Four Words are.

Social media being what it is, The Final Four Words are going to online almost immediately, before most of us get up on that Black Friday morning — even those of us who are up ridiculously early to do Christmas shopping.

"It would be great if people who wanted to see the last four words first got some therapy before it actually aired and got rid of that inclination," Sherman-Palladino said, adding that she knows some will "go right to the last four words and then put it on the internet and possibly spoil it for people who are going to take the journey."

It would be great if we lived in a world where people weren't obnoxious jerks. Where no one would do that.

But we don't, which does not make Sherman-Palladino happy.

"It really is a journey leading up to the last four words. And I do think that it's going to mean a lot more if you've taken the journey, and it's going to mean a lot less if you just flip to the last page.

"That being said, what can I do? So I would hope that people would want to take the whole trip. It's a fun trip. It's worth it."

The four 90-minute installments take place over a year — winter, spring, summer and fall. They bring us back into the lives of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) Gilmore and bring back almost all of the regulars. Except, of course, for the late Edward Herrmann (who played Lorelai's father).

Even Melissa McCarthy shows up (briefly) as Sookie.

Sherman-Palladino and her husband/producing partner, Daniel, were quick to point out that if it weren't for Netflix, "Gilmore Girls" would not be returning.

"Netflix was really, really open to a new format," Sherman-Palladino said, "which was four 90-minute chapters taking place over the course of a year. In the old days, there would have been no outlet for that."

But Sherman-Palladino wanted each episode released a week apart, like a traditional network. And she was insistent about that in meetings with Netflix executives.

"I told them I was going to hang myself from a shower curtain if they put them all out [at once]," she said. "And they said, 'Well, OK. Can we help you with that? Because we have really nice shower curtains here.' "

She lost. Netflix will do what Netflix does. And Sherman-Palladino is resigned.

"I didn't get to put them out separately," she said. "It happens. But the good outweighs the bad in the sense that this is a wonderful place to be able to create things and do things in a different way.

"So, you know, [the] shower curtain will wait."

Scott D. Pierce covers TV for The Salt Lake Tribune. Email him at spierce@sltrib.com; follow him on Twitter @ScottDPierce. —

'Gilmore Girls' returns

P The four 90-minute episodes begin streaming on Netflix at 1:01 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 25.