Gilmore Girls
Season 7, Episode 12: "To Whom It May Concern"

Luke asks Lorelai to write him a character reference but the words just won't come. She says:

"You know I bet my problem is? The whole writing-by-hand thing. You know I think what would help is if I got my old electric typewriter out. The soothing sound of that irritating buzzing -- that's what would help me."



By using the typewriter, she gets the job done

I'm not very good with electric typewriters so I'm not sure what model this is.

Uwe wrote:

.... snip ....The typewriter is most definitely a 6-series Smith-Corona, but I'd have to do some digging to ID the exact model. Maybe someone else knows offhand?
 

Smith-Corona used so many model names on that style that we may never know exactly, but the electric ones are often called a variant of Coronet or Electra. Can we be sure this is electric beyond the character suggesting it is? Some electrics had that manual carriage return lever but all manuals did.

I too, was skeptical at first but, some more visual evidence to suggest this is an electric would be,
the 'plunger' or  'push button' style keys are a dead give away,
as Uwe suggests, the 'valence that surrounds the keys is also clearly visible. When I look at my SC Galaxie 12 from the same apparent angle, I still see the dark contrast of the open space that surrounds the keys sans valence.
The less obvious but, no less notable feature to catch my eye would be the typists impossible hand posture.
I have found it OK for pressing electronic keys but of no use for the longer stroke of the manual key board.
I have a Coronet but it may be newer than this one or just not the same model because mine has a large carriage return button where the Enter key would be found on a computer key board, rather than the return lever as pictured here.