Melissa McCarthy explains why she isn't part of the new Gilmore Girls show.

We’re all frothing — frothing — with excitement and caffeine overload about the new Gilmore Girls redux happening on Netflix imminently.

As we ticked off our cast checklist, we discovered a glaring oversight though. Allow me to illustrate.

• Lorelei Gilmore – check
• Rory Gilmore – check
• Luke Dane – check
• Lane Kim – check
• Emily Gilmore – check
• Sookie St James – ?????????????????????

Now, I have total faith in creator and writer Amy Sherman Palladino’s choices for these characters she created, but I’m deeply concerned.

How can you have Stars Hollow without the culinarily-skilled and neurotic yet loyal Sookie St James?

Sherman Palladino says McCarthy won’t be appearing is because she’s “really fucking busy”, which I get. She’s a massive Hollywood star as well as having two kids and her own fashion line.

In an interview with TV Line, Sherman Palladino said she told McCarthy’s people: “Look, if Melissa is available and has an afternoon free, I’ll write her a scene. Melissa was one of us. If she has a spare moment to run over [to the set] — even if for just a cameo — we would be totally game. And if it’s a last-minute thing, I would write her in and we would figure it out. That’s the way we left it.”

Sherman Palladino explained she never planned on giving Sookie St James a big part in the new show because she knew McCarthy’s schedule would be too insane with Ghostbusters and other filming commitments, but she hoped she’d be able to make time for a scene or two.

Watching the show back in the early 2000s, you never could have known that the biggest name to emerge from the series would be Melissa McCarthy, who played the adorable Sookie St James, Lorelai’s best friend and business partner.

I CAN NOW CONFIRM: it’s time for me, and this jacket I stole in 2007, to return to work.@netflix #GilmoreGirls pic.twitter.com/tBb07J9oO1

— Lauren Graham (@thelaurengraham) January 29, 2016

However, McCarthy’s comedic skills were a revelation in Bridesmaids, and since that film she’s become a headliner in her own right. My feeling on the subject was perhaps that McCarthy had moved onto bigger and better things and wanted to leave the past where it was. Not so, says the actress.

Thanks for the invite, but sadly no one asked me or Sookie to come back to Stars Hollow. Wish them all the best!! https://t.co/II2Atug4wx — Melissa McCarthy (@melissamccarthy) February 2, 2016

I don’t know whether it was McCarthy’s “people” who screwed this up for all of us, but if it was, I shake my fist at them. I shake it hard.

Is it too late? Write that scene, Amy Sherman Palladino! The world needs you.