PARIS: You have a problem with it?
FRANCIE: No, I’m just surprised. You seem so attached to those meetings.
PARIS: Well, I finally got a blankie. It’s much better.
Blankie, the baby-talk word for the security blankets that toddlers sometimes like to carry around for self-soothing. A famous example is the character of Linus in the Peanuts comic strip.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 