I&#x27;ve had it pointed out to me that there&#x27;s something weird about the show <i>Gilmore Girls</i> in the actors&#x27; delivery of lines. The actors don&#x27;t seem to be speaking particularly <i>fast</i>, but something about the structure of the dialogue still seems to be perceived as very &quot;dense&quot; by most people. I&#x27;m guessing the effect is from the actors shortening the conversational gaps between their line deliveries. It seems like the each reply comes near-instantly after the actor &quot;heard&quot; the previous line, which may be a super-stimulus for making the portrayed characters seem extremely &quot;witty.&quot;<p>I also have a feeling that actually increasing verbal velocity would <i>hinder</i> this effect; you wouldn&#x27;t get the impression of a witty character, but rather a manic one.