Episode 2

Gossip Girl S2E02 - Never Been Marcused [with Robin]

Summary

In this episode of the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leaf and Steve discuss Season 2, Episode 2 of Gossip Girl. They analyze the relationships between the characters, the drama unfolding, and the questionable decisions being made. They also touch on the themes of old money vs. new money, the power dynamics between the characters, and the soap opera-like nature of the show. Throughout the episode, they provide humorous commentary and share their thoughts on the various plotlines. In this episode, the hosts review the second part of their conversation and identify the principal themes. They discuss the plot developments, character dynamics, and fashion choices in the episode. They also give their episode grades and discuss their favorite outfits. The hosts plug their social media accounts and encourage listeners to engage with them. They end the episode by previewing the next episode and signing off with the iconic Gossip Girl sign-off.

Keywords

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 2, drama, relationships, old money, new money, power dynamics, soap opera, Gossip Girl, episode review, conversation analysis, plot developments, character dynamics, fashion choices, episode grades, favorite outfits, social media, engagement, preview, sign-off

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Random Facts

09:02 The Complex Relationships in Gossip Girl

17:12 The Clash Between Old Money and New Money

22:22 The Soap Opera-like Nature of Gossip Girl

27:32 Questionable Decisions and Selfish Desires

47:02 Analyzing Plot Developments and Character Dynamics

51:07 Fashion Choices and Favorite Outfits

53:47 Engaging with Listeners on Social Media

01:04:00 Previewing the Next Episode and Sign-Off

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Transcript
Leif:

His sister is married to Tony Romo

Leif:

Oh, wow.

Robin:

That's a random fact.

Leif:

Wow. I mean, is

Leif:

he able to get through his vows without. Without his

Leif:

voice going out? Because I've listened

Leif:

to him try to broadcast for 20

Leif:

minutes, and it doesn't seem to last that long.

Leif:

That's a shame.

Robin:

Let me get a Tony Romo Dig in there somewhere.

Leif:

M. No, I mean,

Leif:

Hey, upper east siders and all you scandal loving listeners out

Leif:

there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

Leif:

pod, where the coffee is strong, the waffles

Leif:

are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than ever. My

Leif:

name is Leif, and I'm your seasoned gossip girl veteran.

Leif:

And I'm Steve, your newbie, your

Leif:

greenhorn, your. I don't know, Leif. What do you call

Leif:

a season two kid on the block in

Leif:

Gossip girl terms?

Leif:

Well, I don't know if you know your arse from your arsenal yet, so you're

Leif:

still just a minion.

Leif:

That's fair enough. Here's the deal, folks.

Leif:

Leif has been listening, watching Gossip girl since

Leif:

the very beginning, and I have been watching, and

Leif:

I'm watching right now for the very first time. And together,

Leif:

we are your dynamic duo, bringing you

Leif:

all of the drama, romance, and

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sometimes questionable fashion choices of

Leif:

this iconic 2007 tv

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series.

Leif:

That's right. Each week, we'll be taking a deep dive into the

Leif:

show one episode at a time. We analyze all the

Leif:

parallels, obscure references, and, of course, the

Leif:

catarrh catastrophes. Plus, we will also be touching on the

Leif:

behind the scenes gossip as well as stories from fandom.

Leif:

And since we're all about inclusivity here at the non

Leif:

judging breakfast podesthe, there is always room for

Leif:

you at our non judging breakfast table.

Leif:

So please grab a mimosa,

Leif:

grab a cup of coffee, or maybe some of Nate and

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Chuck's special medicine, and let's get this show

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started.

Leif:

All right, let's do it. And, Steve, we are not

Leif:

here alone. Today. We have with us

Leif:

the, wife of the pod, Robin.

Leif:

Yes. Welcome, Robin, our own Kylie

Leif:

Kelsey, to the non judging

Leif:

breakfast podesthe.

Robin:

Thank you very much for having me. It was the Kylie Kelsey

Robin:

reference that actually convinced me to be on the show. I heard

Robin:

that. I've been mentioned a number of times, and

Robin:

I thought, why not sit in? As

Robin:

a fellow gossip girl newbie, it has been a

Robin:

blast to watch along with you guys.

Leif:

Yes, and you being our Kylie Kelsey would also

Leif:

mean. Ladies. Anyone who would date

Leif:

leaf at this point, you would be the official

Leif:

T. Swift.

Leif:

Okay.

Leif:

Non judging breakfast pot, not a bad place to be. It is

Leif:

not a bad place to be. So

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just. Just putting that out there.

Leif:

So a little scuttlebutt going on, but

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this will be old news by the time this podcast releases at the end of

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August. But Taylor Momsen,

Leif:

Jenny, she got bit by a bat on stage.

Robin:

Yes, I heard this. Didn't I send you? Yes,

Robin:

I sent you a clip of this.

Leif:

And she continued performing.

Leif:

She just fucking rolled with it. She did

Leif:

not freak out.

Leif:

Nope.

Leif:

She didn't scream. She goes, there's a

Leif:

fucking bat on my leg.

Leif:

I was just like, get him.

Robin:

She's never seen me.

Leif:

I think she just. I think that

Leif:

she just became the new Aussie.

Robin:

I was gonna say, is that the most metal thing that, like, you could

Robin:

possibly do? Get bitten by a bat performing?

Leif:

Yeah, I mean, I feel like it's a deep honor. Like it's

Leif:

a metal honor at that point.

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

The bat chose you.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

So today we are here to talk about season

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two, episode two, never been

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marcused.

Leif:

Yes.

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Which is based on never been kissed.

Leif:

Yes. A, reference I definitely got,

Robin:

And I more than got because Steve always

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teases me that I've only seen about 20 movies in my

Robin:

life. But of those 20 movies, I've seen each of them

Robin:

probably a hundred times, and this is

Robin:

firmly on that list.

Leif:

Definitely a good, good one to start with. Yeah. Drew

Leif:

Barrymore. What's his name? Arquette.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. And, and I

Leif:

was in love with Drew Barrymore

Leif:

when I was four years old. And. And so

Leif:

even, like, up until when this movie came

Leif:

out, like, I. I would be

Leif:

one of those guys would be like, I'm not watching a fucking rom.com. oh, Drew

Leif:

Barrymore's in it. Okay, okay, I'll go. Well,

Leif:

just because you want to go.

Leif:

I do like both of her Adam sailor movies that she's

Leif:

in.

Leif:

I don't think I've seen the newer one blended.

Leif:

Yeah, I haven't seen that one.

Leif:

I think it's underrated.

Leif:

that I feel like. I feel like Adam

Leif:

Sandler's last. I feel like

Leif:

the last decade Adam Sandler has been a little

Leif:

underrated. I feel like he's put out some good stuff. That

Leif:

basketball movie was good uncut gems.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

The plans, like, it was, you know, typical sandler.

Leif:

Rom.com.

Leif:

Yeah, it's. Yeah, yeah. But I mean,

Leif:

I feel like the whole.

Leif:

You got the whole Brady bunch in Africa. The vibe to, it.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

so this episode originally aired on

Leif:

September 8, 2008. the television without

Leif:

pity episode description. No Bayless this week. So I had to go

Leif:

to took a snippet from Jacobs. Full recap?

Leif:

Hell, yes. So Dan and Serena agreed to take

Leif:

it slow for 5 seconds, but that lasts

Leif:

approximately as long as it takes Serena to turn

Leif:

legit he back to Manhattan into a

Leif:

hilariously seductive woman woman show of

Leif:

nine and a half weeks. I realized tonight that I

Leif:

badly misread the scene last week when Serena was scrubbing

Leif:

his suit. He apologized for calling Raori a

Leif:

billion times. Now I can actually enjoy whatever is

Leif:

going on with them. I'm adults. Sometimes

Leif:

Blair's emotional cover stories within cover

Leif:

stories have gotten so insane that she's

Leif:

convinced she's actually in love with lord Marcus, whose

Leif:

judgmental, over invested mother, the

Leif:

duchess, is also Nate's girlfriend.

Leif:

Katherine the cougar is

Leif:

a

Leif:

milfem.

Leif:

this episode was written by Stephanie Savage. This is her

Leif:

first solo effort. Previously, she co wrote the

Leif:

pilot and finale with Josh shorts. Not sure how much

Leif:

she actually wrote.

Leif:

Well, I'm just saying that we know who is carrying the

Leif:

late finale. If that's

Leif:

the case, Stephanie Savage did something.

Leif:

I feel like she has credits elsewhere.

Leif:

Well, she's, like his partner.

Leif:

Okay.

Leif:

part of our.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand. Yeah.

Leif:

She didn't do the, Who wrote true

Leif:

blood?

Leif:

Not her.

Leif:

Not her. Okay. That name just for some

Leif:

reason, that just hit that part of

Leif:

my brain that. Okay.

Leif:

Good episodes directed by

Leif:

Michael Fields, who previously directed Roman

Leif:

Holiday and desperately seeking Serena.

Leif:

One was good. One was bad.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. Roman Holiday was a good episode, and.

Leif:

And, you know, I

Leif:

I don't. Haven't seen

Leif:

many episodes in season one where I could say the

Leif:

directing was really bad. There was

Leif:

bad acting. There was bad writing. but

Leif:

I felt like directors typically

Leif:

weren't the low point.

Leif:

Yeah. And, I mean, that's. A. Tv is not a

Leif:

director's medium.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

The writers have a lot of control.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Episode begins in act one,

Leif:

gossip Girl monologues. As summer comes

Leif:

to an end, I'd like to share a few things I've learned about the fun and

Leif:

the sun. Gossip Girl's guide to summer fun. Tip

Leif:

number one. Don't fall asleep on the job. The

Leif:

best hookups are free of morning breath and awkward conversation,

Leif:

and the only thing harder than making up is. Is waking

Leif:

up. So the episode does open

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Serena and Dan awake arm in arm on the beach.

Leif:

Dan is ready to jump back in, but Serena is

Leif:

hesitant. Dan tries to use his lips to

Leif:

convince Serena, but she manages to resist

Leif:

this.

Robin:

my note here ties in so nicely to. To our little

Robin:

intro banter there. I had written down. What

Robin:

in the rom.com is happening here?

Robin:

Who just effortlessly awakes,

Robin:

tousled on the beach on a blanket

Robin:

in the arms of their lover.

Leif:

It was Serena vanderwitz,

Leif:

obviously does, evidently.

Robin:

It was a very interesting, opening scene. It was,

Robin:

yes. Very robcom esque.

Leif:

and there were many times

Leif:

in season one where you brought up that

Leif:

they were a couple, that this was just young lust and

Leif:

that these kids were just burning hot.

Leif:

And. And I didn't really

Leif:

feel that so much in the first season,

Leif:

and then I felt like this just

Leif:

was kind of forcing that angle. Like,

Leif:

that's all they ever were. And it's like

Leif:

they. They found things. Like

Leif:

Serena was becoming this

Leif:

better person, a better stoop.

Leif:

I mean, yeah, they. They got along well,

Leif:

but they didn't really have much in

Leif:

common.

Robin:

No, but, like, Steve and I

Robin:

have nothing in common on paper.

Leif:

Yeah. like, and. And, you know,

Leif:

we did start out sure. Hot and heavy, like, you know,

Leif:

and, you know, then found that, common ground in

Leif:

between. So, you know, I

Leif:

didn't. I'm just saying that I felt like that

Leif:

became the entire focus of this

Leif:

episode where even in other episodes where

Leif:

they've. Where sex or making

Leif:

out was a thing, it was

Leif:

never so like, oh, that's all

Leif:

that they have together.

Leif:

I don't think it was all they had, but I do think

Leif:

that was the primary thing. It was just theme

Leif:

in season one. I feel like that they were

Leif:

always drawn to each other, but then, like,

Leif:

as soon as they started, like, talking about things, things went

Leif:

wrong.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Because he couldn't handle, he had the whole upstairs

Leif:

downstairs thing.

Leif:

The, the upstairs downstairs thing was always a problem.

Leif:

Yeah. I felt like. I felt like

Leif:

there was just a little more substance in season one than

Leif:

they're giving it in the start of season two.

Robin:

I agree.

Leif:

Well, I think the issue is that they don't want to talk about their issues.

Leif:

Well, yeah. And that's the big thing, is that

Leif:

they're just making out to avoid talking

Leif:

about stuff, which also, it's kind of like there.

Leif:

That tracks.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And I. Last week, I think you said that, you thought they

Leif:

got the writers, got them back together from reading the message boards. But

Leif:

I think it's actually just because Penn and Blake

Leif:

are, like, all over themselves, all over each other.

Leif:

Like, sus. The camera stops anyway, so.

Leif:

Yeah. Cause they didn't. They were. They

Leif:

were still dating at this point.

Leif:

They did up until season three.

Leif:

And right around what time did Green lantern come out?

Leif:

Yeah, sometime around there.

Leif:

Oh, that's interesting.

Leif:

I mean, I guess it probably came out, like, some sort times towards

Leif:

season four, but it was probably filmed, like, between season two and

Leif:

three.

Leif:

Yeah. Hey, hold my beer real

Leif:

quick. Hey, Ben, hold my beer.

Leif:

he didn't do so bad after that. He did. What's his name? What's your

Leif:

name for a while? the daughter of

Leif:

the Cosby daughter.

Leif:

Oh, oh, not Lisa.

Leif:

Not her daughter.

Leif:

Oh, her daughter. Oh, okay.

Leif:

yeah. Penn dated her, and then now

Leif:

he's married to one of the kirks.

Leif:

Oh, he married into old money.

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

Kind of like the chest.

Leif:

I'm telling you, it can work out. Yeah.

Leif:

His wife actually is kind of serena

Leif:

ish.

Leif:

I think this is also a good time to say that out back, we do

Leif:

have two cardinals that come by that we have

Leif:

named Ryan Rednolls and Blake

Leif:

Flively.

Robin:

And by we, Steve means he has named them that

Robin:

because he is the punniest.

Leif:

Blair and Marcus are riding bikes. I don't care

Leif:

about this couple at all.

Leif:

Yeah. Pretty boring.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then we get a whole nother scene with them, eating,

Leif:

breakfast at a restaurant.

Leif:

Marcus is blimey blue.

Leif:

His accent is just

Leif:

so terrible. And it's funny

Leif:

because it may. It reminds me of

Leif:

angel from Buffy when

Leif:

angel has an irish accent. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Leif:

So bad. It's like. Yeah. When. When he

Leif:

tries his artist to do his lucky charms. But

Leif:

just.

Leif:

We love David Boreanis. He's a big Phillies fan.

Leif:

I. Yeah, I love David and I. And I love angel. I love

Leif:

David Boreanis.

Leif:

his irish accent could have used some coaching.

Leif:

I love.

Robin:

Oh, sorry, Leif. My main note for this scene

Robin:

was, quote myself. How old is this

Robin:

dude? I understand that age is

Robin:

somewhat of a mystery in this show between actors and

Robin:

characters, but there is something about Marcus that

Robin:

just. I'm, ah, a 30 year old vibes.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

He's definitely past college.

Leif:

Yeah. And where most of the

Leif:

time when we

Leif:

see these actors that are like Asher,

Leif:

who looked like he was mid

Leif:

twenties, when we have these actors

Leif:

that.

Leif:

Show that they at least dress him in high school clothes.

Leif:

Exactly. They dress them in high school clothes. Or they say that

Leif:

they're attending such and such high school

Leif:

for him to be like, no, I'm not

Leif:

attending college. He didn't say royals don't

Leif:

go to college.

Robin:

He's not attending college because he's 30.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. Nobles still

Leif:

go to college. Yeah.

Leif:

He's already got his graduate degree.

Leif:

Yes. Yeah.

Leif:

By the way, it's doctor lord. Marcus.

Leif:

Blair calls Serena because she is worried about screwing

Leif:

up her relationship with the lord,

Leif:

which. Yeah, players already back on. On the back,

Leif:

but right away here.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Uncharacteristically so.

Robin:

I felt too, yeah, I was irritated with Blair in this

Robin:

scene because she's typically such a power player,

Robin:

and you've liked this guy for

Robin:

27 minutes, and now all of a sudden, he's

Robin:

already. He's already being vague about the

Robin:

future. Wow, that's a lot. But

Robin:

not even for Blaire.

Leif:

Yeah. And, one little look when you

Leif:

mention his mom and you

Leif:

run, and, like, a lot of

Leif:

people are going to be like,

Leif:

oh, you want to meet my mom? Like. Like, that

Leif:

could mean many things. For instance, my mom

Leif:

is a real pain in the ass who.

Leif:

Who, likes inappropriate

Leif:

relationships. I'm not talking

Leif:

about my mom. I'm talking about the lord.

Robin:

Glared at Steve so strongly because his.

Leif:

Mother is a spoiler of the episode.

Robin:

Wonderful woman.

Leif:

My mother. My mother is a saint. Although we did learn

Leif:

this weekend. She does not listen to this, though. She

Leif:

started listening to this podcast but stopped because

Leif:

leaf and I curse too much.

Robin:

She's cursing, Steven.

Leif:

Yeah. damn.

Leif:

Fucking.

Leif:

Curse too much. When we were

Leif:

sitting at dinner having this conversation, I

Leif:

brought up Gossip girl, and she goes, what's gossip girl? And I was like, well,

Leif:

that's the show we're talking about. You're talking about a

Leif:

show. So she

Leif:

didn't get very far when she did this.

Robin:

Love her.

Leif:

Love you, mom.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Chuck sneaks past Blair and slips inside to

Leif:

befriend Marcus. I'm sure there are absolutely zero

Leif:

ulterior motives.

Leif:

Yeah. I love the

Leif:

who doesn't have in this town, who doesn't have history,

Leif:

and it just so disarming.

Leif:

Marcus, you have no idea you're getting into here.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. And Chuck just.

Leif:

He plays him, like, just

Leif:

a well tuned instrument.

Leif:

Serena and Dan run into each other waiting for the

Leif:

jitney. Goo goo, eyes ensue.

Robin:

Yeah. My note here was, do rich people take the

Robin:

jitney? Is that a thing? Also, is a

Robin:

jitney just a bus?

Leif:

Yes.

Robin:

With a fancy name so that maybe some rich people will take

Robin:

it.

Leif:

Yes.

Robin:

Got it. Got it. And, I understand Jitney's now.

Leif:

So if you go to Long island, you'll notice

Leif:

there are a lot of parkways

Leif:

and things like that because

Leif:

back then, you weren't allowed to take trucks or

Leif:

buses on there, and they didn't want people

Leif:

from the city specifically.

Leif:

yeah, people of color coming from Harlem

Leif:

coming out to Long island. They didn't want that to happen.

Leif:

So wait, so you're telling me that some of

Leif:

these major traffic routes are because of

Leif:

racism?

Leif:

I'm afraid so, Steve.

Leif:

that tracks. But

Leif:

also, they said earlier, like, let's get

Leif:

together somewhere around a lot of people where we can

Leif:

talk about this, and, like, here's a

Leif:

whole lot of people for a, three hour bus trip.

Leif:

Yeah, but apparently it's not. It's plenty private

Leif:

for them, because, as we'll see the next time we see

Leif:

them, Blair comes back into the restaurant and sees

Leif:

Chuck and Marcus together, who have made plans for

Leif:

squash. Well, Eric grabs Chuck by the scruff

Leif:

and tosses him away.

Robin:

I noticed here that bass hole is the

Robin:

greatest insult of all time. Steve, I think you

Robin:

wanted to make a list of Chuck bass related

Robin:

insults.

Leif:

Yes, because I also, my note here is bass

Leif:

hole.

Leif:

Chuck bastard.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Mother chucker.

Robin:

They're all so good.

Leif:

I do. Mother Chucker and bass hole are my favorite.

Robin:

Coming, Blair.

Leif:

But, Chuck bastard is also. I mean,

Leif:

keep coming. Keep them coming.

Leif:

Blair hitches a ride with Marcus back.

Robin:

Into the city in a limo, as I

Robin:

expected. Thank you.

Leif:

Makes sense. Nate tells

Leif:

his mother he's going back to the city. However, there's a

Leif:

problem. The feds have frozen the Archibald assets

Leif:

for Howie's crimes. Ann's vanderbilt father

Leif:

has also cut her off.

Leif:

It. It takes Anne less than a minute to suck.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Enter Ann. And then you could, like, set a

Leif:

timer, and sometimes she can

Leif:

get a sentence or two out, but it's under a minute

Leif:

before it's just. No, you are the worst human

Leif:

being.

Robin:

And I love how the words and the actions do

Robin:

not meet in this scene for her is that she's

Robin:

telling Nate this really heavy

Robin:

information and still

Robin:

gardening and tending to her

Robin:

estate and pruning her as alias

Robin:

as she's delivering this, like, life altering new to her

Robin:

only child.

Leif:

That's just Ann in, a nutshell, though. She's all about a period.

Robin:

Amazing. Amazing.

Leif:

And you have to think, like, all of these assets being

Leif:

seized but you. But, then

Leif:

who's. Why isn't the house being seized they're at right

Leif:

now? Because it's probably from the family

Leif:

estate, not from hers,

Leif:

which means that cutting her off

Leif:

means. No, you only get to live in the Hamptons

Leif:

house.

Leif:

Although I do like Nate's. They want to take our

Leif:

money.

Robin:

I'll take care of it, mom.

Leif:

Yeah, don't worry. I'll handle this. I'll do

Leif:

it. I'm sure I'll find some.

Leif:

I'll find a job. Delivery papers.

Robin:

It'll solve all of our problems.

Leif:

I mean, that is how lover boys lover boy starts, isn't

Leif:

it?

Leif:

Katherine is leaving a message for Nate. The fair is

Leif:

still on.

Leif:

Woo. Well,

Leif:

yeah.

Leif:

So gross.

Leif:

So gross.

Leif:

Katherine gets a call from her son

Leif:

Marcus.

Leif:

Yes. So soap opera is full on

Leif:

this.

Leif:

Yeah. This was the moment when everyone had

Leif:

warned me, when everyone's like, you're watching season one. Oh,

Leif:

that's the best. And, like, yeah. the. Trust me, I know

Leif:

where it goes from there. That's always been the

Leif:

conversation. And in

Leif:

that moment, that was the moment I was

Leif:

like, yep, we are watching a soap opera

Leif:

now. This is no longer.

Robin:

So here for that.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, all right, bring it.

Robin:

I mean, we were eighties, nineties kids. Like, when you were homesick from

Robin:

school.

Leif:

Yeah. You watched your stories, your stories that.

Robin:

Your parents and grandparents watched.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Robin:

I have fond, young and the restless memories, and

Robin:

I think this is evoking.

Leif:

Yeah. I remember none of it because I always thought

Leif:

it was gross how they kissed.

Leif:

Blair has brought a bottle of champagne for the

Leif:

ride back to the city.

Leif:

Woo.

Leif:

Woo. Looks like romance is flying.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Love is in the air.

Leif:

Ah.

Robin:

With your 30 year old boyfriend.

Leif:

I kind of just think that's a normal thing on the upper east

Leif:

side. I feel like Serena and Blair are always dating.

Leif:

Like, especially Serena. Probably dated.

Robin:

Like, true. They all made sort of reference to that.

Robin:

Yeah. I just, like, he's the first. Maybe not the first, but

Robin:

he's, like, this recurrent character.

Leif:

Yes.

Robin:

Not of,

Leif:

Does he have diplomatic immunity?

Leif:

So we come back for commercial. and we're on the jet

Leif:

knee. Dan plays his mp3 player as he and

Leif:

Serena ride on opposite sides of the bus. A series

Leif:

of comical scenes, gravity and teenage

Leif:

lust forced Dan and Serena to have sex in the bus

Leif:

bathroom. They literally had no

Leif:

choice.

Leif:

This was so fucking dumb, this whole

Leif:

thing.

Leif:

The music was good, though.

Leif:

It was. Well, I mean, the music's always good. I mean,

Leif:

I haven't had seen an episode of Gossip

Leif:

Girl where the music doesn't, you know, at

Leif:

some point stand out, but.

Leif:

Yeah, but, who eats strawberries like

Leif:

that?

Leif:

Really? Yeah.

Robin:

Who's bringing chocolate covered strawberries on a jitney ride

Robin:

and eating them seductively on said jitney

Robin:

ride?

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

This scene was ridiculous.

Leif:

Yeah. The only. Yeah. Unless you're trying to have

Leif:

sex, you don't eat a strawberry like

Leif:

that.

Leif:

And a far less sexy limo ride.

Leif:

Blair and Marcus are discussing

Leif:

plans. Blair, advice, Marcus and his mom

Leif:

to her annual welcome back party to the city.

Leif:

As soon as Marcus looks away. Blair says a

Leif:

911 text to Dorota planning last minute party.

Robin:

Dorota, the real mvp of this show. Yeah,

Robin:

I love Dorota. And this is

Robin:

her, like, blair not being Blair.

Robin:

Since when does Blair, like, panic

Robin:

like that? And I don't know. She's just off

Robin:

her game most of this episode.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And, she is a lowly waldorf.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. and

Leif:

I felt like this scene

Leif:

is even m better

Leif:

conveyed by Marcus that, like,

Leif:

it felt more like a. Ah. Oh, I don't want to talk

Leif:

about my mom, you know, like, or, no, I don't want you to

Leif:

come and hang out with my mom. You know, like,

Leif:

he was warning all.

Robin:

Of us that she's so gross.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Oh, yeah. So Blair and Serena definitely have this

Leif:

dichotomy that. So Blair is definitely more

Leif:

new money and Serena's old. Yeah, that totally

Leif:

plays into the whole thing where Serena's effortless and

Leif:

Blair has to work for everything.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Eleanor.

Leif:

So, now that she's, like, with this lord, this is her chance to kind

Leif:

of get above Serena and station.

Robin:

Interesting. I never thought about that.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah. Eleanor made.

Leif:

Self made.

Leif:

Like, I think Harold is sort of old

Leif:

money, but Eleanor is

Leif:

definitely. She married up, and,

Leif:

yeah, it's definitely later seasons actually measure, like. Yeah,

Leif:

Waldorf women work for the, you know, where they.

Robin:

Yeah, that's true. Eleanor does have, like, an actual career.

Leif:

And it's funny, now that you mention it, if you look

Leif:

throughout the show, the old money,

Leif:

new money relationship is all over

Leif:

the place. Right. It's, you know,

Leif:

Lily and, Lillian. No money. You know,

Leif:

like, new old money and no money

Leif:

with Lillian, Rufus, and. And with.

Leif:

But even with bass, like, Bart bass new money, he's new

Leif:

money. So there's old money and new money with Lillian.

Leif:

Bart and, the

Leif:

archibalds are new money and old money. Well,

Leif:

all. Also, it's probably more new money and no

Leif:

money or old money and no money

Leif:

now. Yeah, now. But I also got the.

Leif:

Got the impression that he was more, you

Leif:

know, definitely. Below her station,

Leif:

Nate and Chuck are.

Leif:

Riding back together when Chuck answers a call he doesn't want

Leif:

to take in front of Nate.

Leif:

I was bummed that we get this

Leif:

glimpse of Nate ribbing on

Leif:

Chuck and, like, getting witty and these quick

Leif:

one liners back and forth with Chuck, and it's just

Leif:

a reminder that, man, I wish they'd let

Leif:

chase be funny. Yeah, he's a

Leif:

funny dude, and he's a funny actor, and

Leif:

he's hilarious on the boys.

Leif:

He's also terrifying on the boys at times and

Leif:

disgusting. But he also

Leif:

is, really funny.

Leif:

Yeah, definitely. He's a southern boy.

Leif:

Hm.

Robin:

Yeah, their banter was great in that scene. Their

Robin:

friendship is, you know,

Robin:

surviving.

Leif:

M his sister is married to Tony Romo.

Leif:

Oh, wow.

Robin:

That's a random fact.

Leif:

Wow. That's a shame.

Robin:

In there somewhere.

Leif:

No, I mean. I

Leif:

mean, is he able to get through his

Leif:

vows without. Without his voice going

Leif:

out? Because I've listened to him try to

Leif:

broadcast for 20 minutes, and it

Leif:

doesn't seem to last that long.

Leif:

In Brooklyn, Rufus is back. Vanessa has

Leif:

converted part of the gallery storage space into a functional

Leif:

cafe. The pair have an oddly

Leif:

intimate conversation.

Robin:

M I am so glad you noted

Robin:

this, leaf, because I think one of the fun parts

Robin:

about doing this for me is taking my own notes

Robin:

and then realizing what I have

Robin:

or don't have in common with other people who are watching the

Robin:

show. And this was something that just jumped off the screen

Robin:

to me is that Vanessa is the same age as your

Robin:

children, and yet you are confiding in her as

Robin:

if she's your friend.

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

And I know that age is apparently quite a construct on

Robin:

this show altogether, but, like, pick Elaine.

Robin:

Rufus, she's not your buddy.

Leif:

Definitely weird.

Leif:

Yeah. And, like, Rufus is sort of

Leif:

like, not only is he, like, the dad, but he's,

Leif:

like, the everybody's dad, right, which kind

Leif:

of made that weird. And, like, yeah, you hired

Leif:

her to do some business stuff, but you're also. Now

Leif:

it's just. Yeah.

Leif:

so last. Last week, we mentioned that we thought that

Leif:

Cece was filling in for

Leif:

Lily because Kelly's not available. Right.

Leif:

Maybe Vanessa is filling in here for.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, there's definitely a few

Leif:

places where it feels like these could have been lily

Leif:

scenes. Yeah. because she doesn't interact with

Leif:

anybody else, does she?

Leif:

Yeah, she. They also. Yeah, they also have the other, you know.

Leif:

yeah, she doesn't talk to. Does she talk to Nate? She

Leif:

does. Yeah. Yeah,

Leif:

cuz. Oh, yeah, yeah,

Leif:

yeah. So she does have other interactions.

Leif:

Nate's back at his house and is being edits, being

Leif:

combed over by the FBI.

Robin:

Nate, man.

Leif:

Acap.

Robin:

Douchey FBI guy.

Leif:

Acabe.

Leif:

Yeah, this shit. Why is this

Leif:

dude such a dick to

Leif:

this 17 year old?

Leif:

And, like. And, like, frequently going through

Leif:

his mom's closet and stuff, like, yeah, what the hell,

Leif:

dude?

Robin:

I do love, though, that Nate tried to be a big boy and was

Robin:

like, I'll ask the questions around here.

Robin:

What?

Leif:

Nate. Aw.

Robin:

Ah, sweetie, that's a nice try.

Leif:

And, like, here you're trying to find this

Leif:

kid's dad and you think that the best way to get

Leif:

him to turn on his dad is to just be a

Leif:

complete fucking asshole to him,

Leif:

not just being like, hey, kid, look, look,

Leif:

your dad could probably get this worked out if he comes

Leif:

home, but no, he's like, I'm gonna tear your life apart.

Leif:

Piece of shit kid. And I've been in your

Leif:

mom's closet and I know that she's not gonna

Leif:

handle being poor.

Leif:

Sucks to be you.

Steve:

Sucks to be you.

Leif:

She's gonna have to live at the hamptons from now

Leif:

on.

Robin:

ten to her azaleas.

Leif:

She was cut off.

Leif:

Chuck and Marcus are having a rousing game of

Leif:

squash. Marcus thinks Katherine is going to make Blair

Leif:

crumble. Looks like Chuck has a new

Leif:

BFF.

Robin:

Alright, so as, as the newbie here, my note

Robin:

was, is squash just wall tennis

Robin:

with sweaters? There was a lot of

Robin:

sweating. And you're wearing cable

Robin:

knit.

Leif:

Yeah, sure. I'm just that that's how

Leif:

rich people stay in shape.

Leif:

I'm just gonna.

Robin:

Cause they can't go fabric.

Leif:

Cause they can't go out jogging. Because then they'd be actually seen by the

Leif:

real.

Leif:

Okay, wait, your mom didn't take you to

Leif:

aerobics at a, ah, local racquetball

Leif:

club where they had squash and racquetball

Leif:

and swimming?

Leif:

Yes. So speaking of, what is the difference between squash and

Leif:

racquetball?

Leif:

I do not know. This.

Leif:

Someone needs to write it and tell me.

Leif:

Yeah, I know.

Robin:

It looks like wall.

Leif:

Looks like wall tennis. Maybe you get to use more

Leif:

walls in one of them. I don't know.

Robin:

Or less cable knit sweaters.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Send us an email not judging

Leif:

breakfastpodmail.com yet.

Leif:

To be fair, we had my mom could take

Leif:

aerobics class money. Not you could

Leif:

actually join the racquetball club money.

Leif:

So we move into act two. Blair is reviewing

Leif:

party plans with Dorota. Serena shows up and

Leif:

Blair asks her to invite Dan to the party for his

Leif:

soccer knowledge.

Robin:

Did we know anything about his soccer knowledge before

Robin:

nests?

Leif:

Even more.

Leif:

But it makes sense. It definitely tracks for Dana's character.

Robin:

It does. It does. He's, going to like a sport.

Leif:

I was reminded earlier that he actually

Leif:

makes fun of Nate for

Leif:

playing soccer. That Nate in a

Leif:

previous episode, it was in the SATs

Leif:

episode. Because I listened to our podcast of the SATs

Leif:

episode today, and in it when Nate

Leif:

is like, oh, yeah, I'm just going to go play soccer. And Dan's like, you're going to go

Leif:

play soccer? Right now, and, like, really

Leif:

came at him hard during, like, playing

Leif:

soccer during sat season.

Leif:

So why didn't Blair ask Nate?

Leif:

that was exactly like, why wouldn't Blair ask

Leif:

Nate? I can tell you why. It's because Stephanie Savage

Leif:

didn't watch all of season one

Leif:

or didn't write or didn't take notes.

Leif:

Anyway, Nate shows up at the penthouse. Chuck

Leif:

is selling his shares of vitriola. Nate is shocked

Leif:

when Chuck claims it's to impress Blair, but as soon

Leif:

as Nate leaves, we find out whatever is going on

Leif:

involves misses Howie.

Leif:

oh. yeah.

Leif:

Dead it down.

Leif:

It's cute how subtle Chuck is when he's,

Leif:

like, talking vaguely, making it sound

Leif:

like he's talking about getting rid of Marcus,

Leif:

but he's actually right there doing the right thing. But

Leif:

he's actually.

Leif:

Yeah, but of course, since he was using that

Leif:

same language with Ann.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate, the dumbest of all characters, found that. Found him

Leif:

out.

Leif:

Well, because.

Leif:

Must have got struck by lighting during that fellow, conversation.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Dan and Serena talk on the phone. Now Dan wants

Leif:

to take some time, but Serena invites him to Blair's party.

Leif:

Seems like these two have already flip flopped their positions from just

Leif:

earlier this episode. Dan has become a

Leif:

real hit it and quit it this season.

Leif:

Your. Your knowledge of Premier League football is

Leif:

integral to one of her schemes,

Leif:

which. Which. I love how Serena

Leif:

is just like, I can't

Leif:

explain this. Blair wants you at this party.

Leif:

But I like how dad just goes along with that. He's like,

Leif:

yeah, okay.

Robin:

That's my software.

Leif:

Yeah, which

Leif:

also kind of, we should make

Leif:

note of the fact that

Leif:

right now Dan is at a point with Blair that he no

Leif:

longer ignores her schemes but is

Leif:

willing to be a part of it to a mild

Leif:

point. He is definitely warming up to

Leif:

Blair.

Leif:

Nate is telling Vanessa about his family

Leif:

drama, and then, what is lesbian mexican, and how is

Leif:

it different from regular mexican food?

Robin:

I have the exact same note. Vanessa,

Robin:

what is lesbian mexican?

Leif:

Yeah, Robin said that, and then I turned

Leif:

and showed her your script right at the

Leif:

same time, said that it was Leaf's note, too,

Leif:

and then I was the one that said that the taco jokes

Leif:

are just low hanging fruit or no

Leif:

hanging fruit. Yeah, but I also had the note of

Leif:

yes, please with Nate and Vanessa.

Robin:

Yes, they're cute.

Leif:

It's something for Vanessa to do.

Leif:

She makes him. He makes her bearable.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Then Nate gets a call delivering even more

Leif:

family drama. Nate deduces from his conversation

Leif:

with mommy dearest that she is taking money from

Leif:

Chuck.

Leif:

Yeah, Nate, like, Chuck loves you,

Leif:

bruh. Like he loves you. Just let him. Let

Leif:

him help you out, brah. He doesn't want this for you.

Leif:

Oh, I'll take care of it.

Leif:

Yeah. How?

Robin:

Right. We've seen that this whole episode. Seen you take care of

Robin:

it by running around the upper east side

Robin:

talking to people about how you're not going to take care of

Robin:

him.

Leif:

No. Well, no, he doesn't, because no one's around to

Leif:

talk to Nate again. Like, every

Leif:

time anything goes wrong with Nate's parents,

Leif:

fucking no one is there except for the

Leif:

fucking pedo. Who's calling him.

Leif:

Who is dodging the calls, from.

Leif:

Nate and Vanessa leave on a positive note, but it looks like Nate

Leif:

is about to go confront Chuck,

Leif:

so. Yeah, except plans. They're gonna meet up

Leif:

later. Yeah, maybe. We'll

Leif:

see.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, it's very. And,

Leif:

yeah, that was finally someone to talk to him, too.

Leif:

Like, yeah, he does. And that's also not the first

Leif:

time that Chuck has no one to talk or that Nate has no one to talk

Leif:

to and finds Vanessa.

Leif:

Yeah. However, it looks

Leif:

like Chuck is doing some confronting him his own, with Nate's

Leif:

cougar girlfriend. Da da da.

Leif:

I don't do business with children.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, you don't.

Robin:

I had the exact same note. You don't do business with children,

Robin:

but you're sleeping with a high school student.

Leif:

Yeah, you'll sleep with them, but you won't do business with them. unless

Leif:

that business is prostitution.

Leif:

I, won't do business with them unless it's the oldest

Leif:

business.

Robin:

I just want to hug Nate.

Leif:

Back from commercial break. Blair's party has

Leif:

plenty of guests, but none of them look to be having any

Leif:

fun. Blair tries to get Dan to impress Marcus, but

Leif:

Dan quickly ducks out with Serena.

Leif:

Blair failing just isn't written. Well, like it.

Leif:

Like, it doesn't seem like her in any of it.

Leif:

And Dorota failing. Cause, like,

Leif:

the. Her thing of, like, Dorota invited

Leif:

these. These are people Dorota invited. Yeah.

Leif:

Roto wouldn't fail at a party like this. Even with

Leif:

last minute instruction. I feel like the road is

Leif:

better than this. Blair's better than this. Stephanie

Leif:

Savage is not better than this.

Leif:

Nope.

Robin:

Since when does Blair Waldorf plan a snooze of a party?

Leif:

Yeah. Never.

Leif:

Unless it's a slumber party.

Leif:

Dan and Serena find a quiet corner of the party

Leif:

but are immediately interrupted by Chuck entering the party with

Leif:

Katherine. And,

Leif:

yeah, this is where we get more repetition from last season.

Leif:

Or you get the opposite. Or. Yeah, Dan

Leif:

calls out Vanessa's name. Now we get Serena calling out Chuck's

Leif:

name.

Leif:

Yeah, my. My note says

Leif:

more of the same, and it's calling out the wrong name.

Leif:

And then it's, oh, that's his. Oh, I can't tell you.

Leif:

I can't say. And then that's all of the

Leif:

problems that you kept having.

Leif:

But at least, you know, we'll see if you talk about them later

Leif:

on.

Leif:

Chuck introduces Blair to Katherine. Blair,

Leif:

not knowing who the woman is, insults her to her face.

Leif:

Serena walks over, and the three women awkwardly

Leif:

look at each other while Chuck smirks.

Robin:

I loved Serena in this scene, trying to run

Robin:

interference and do, like, the best

Robin:

introductions you possibly could, given the truth of who

Robin:

these people actually are. M. And let's throw a book club in

Robin:

there, because, you know, who

Robin:

can. Who can argue with a book club?

Leif:

Well, that is actually coming up.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

First we have, back at the gallery, Rufus is

Leif:

asking Vanessa if she can continue running the

Leif:

cafe while he goes on another tour.

Leif:

Again, is this.

Robin:

She's not your friend, Rufus. Yeah, she's not your friend.

Leif:

Oh, she's. He's a. She's an employee, though,

Leif:

right?

Leif:

Well, that. There's. There's two conversations

Leif:

that happen, though, right? There's the conversation of, you want to.

Leif:

You could. Could you run this? But

Leif:

the other conversation of, I'm kind of

Leif:

thinking about going back. you know, I'm thinking about going

Leif:

back on tour. Allison can hang out with

Leif:

the kids, and it's like, if you leave us with Allison,

Leif:

Rufus, we will never forgive you,

Leif:

even if she's written out, even

Leif:

if she's. Even if she's a big theater fan and

Leif:

has had a new show every week, you

Leif:

know, Pirates of Penzance next week. I don't care. That

Leif:

was there already at. Right. Anyway, who

Leif:

cares? Who cares?

Leif:

South Pacific, I think.

Leif:

Yeah, they're at South Pacific. and just

Leif:

my. The conversation also is that,

Leif:

like, should I go on tour? Like,

Leif:

kind of leaning on her for advice? And again,

Leif:

like, feels like Rufus should have had

Leif:

two different people to have these conversations with.

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

And I feel like, though, I'm realizing now that maybe

Robin:

I'm empathizing a little bit with Vanessa's character here

Robin:

because I do think Rufus is pretty

Robin:

dreamy, and I have, like, deeply rooted daddy

Robin:

issues. So I kind of get the

Robin:

vanessa. I kind of get the vanessa angle here.

Robin:

Like, I'm gonna befriend the dreamy dad.

Robin:

I can't have dan, so why not have rufus?

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

Am I the vanessa?

Leif:

no one can hate you that much.

Leif:

back at the party, blair tries apologizing

Leif:

to duchess beaton. Katherine looks on with

Leif:

disdain as blaire recites a litany of her sins.

Leif:

Once blaire has humiliated herself thoroughly, katherine points

Leif:

out that Marcus will never end up with a lowly waldorf.

Leif:

Blair is really getting a taste of her own medicine

Leif:

here.

Leif:

I found blair

Leif:

laying out all of her cards

Leif:

on the table. Was so not

Leif:

blair, and even fumbling even all

Leif:

that, it just, one another example of,

Leif:

like, I get that they had to keep her failing and failing and

Leif:

failing for her to eventually really come out on top, but I

Leif:

just felt like. It just didn't feel like blaire.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Right in the middle of the katherine and blair dress down, Nate

Leif:

arrives to the party in a tracksuit, and it immediately

Leif:

becomes awkward. When nate and katherine recognize each other,

Leif:

Serena tries to cover for them by explaining everyone's

Leif:

convoluted sexual history, which, of course, just makes it more

Leif:

awkward.

Robin:

Yes. Insert book club here.

Leif:

Yeah, that's Nate's friend from book

Leif:

club. And the best was. Was gossip

Leif:

girl in the. In the monologue when. When it

Leif:

was Nate is Blair's ex, blah,

Leif:

blah, blah. Nate and

Leif:

Marcus's mom are in a book club.

Robin:

Nice try, Serena.

Leif:

So that is the end of act two. We move into act

Leif:

three. Serena is comforting Blair about her

Leif:

failure at a party. yes.

Leif:

As we've been saying. Yeah, not. Not a good party. She's

Leif:

just backsliding all up that.

Leif:

Yeah. And I love. You know, I love

Leif:

that we see the friendship here. I love that we see that

Leif:

core friendship and that we see the tough love

Leif:

from Serena talking to Blair the way

Leif:

only. Only Serena and Eleanor and

Leif:

maybe Lily can. And how she

Leif:

just. Yeah, I really

Leif:

loved seeing that little spark

Leif:

between them.

Leif:

Elsewhere at the party, the other half of the non judging breakfast

Leif:

club are arguing about Chuck giving money to misses

Leif:

howey.

Leif:

Chuck hopes you. Yep.

Leif:

Just accept it. Just.

Leif:

Just take it.

Leif:

Let your friend who just let it.

Leif:

Happen, just let it happen.

Leif:

Helping you out.

Leif:

This is chug bass we're talking about.

Robin:

Right? And nate. So

Robin:

Nate just lie down and.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Serena is apparently done, thinking it is just down

Leif:

to get down with dapper Dan. Nate catches

Leif:

them but seems happy for them. Nate has to hang

Leif:

back because he gets a booty call text from

Leif:

katherine.

Leif:

Yeah. Gross. I

Leif:

I did love how nate reacted to

Leif:

seeing serena. Yeah, he was happy for them,

Leif:

and it was genuine. And I love that

Leif:

nate just. He's always just so

Leif:

supportive of his friends, and I feel

Leif:

like he's starting to see Dan as a friend now.

Leif:

Yeah, and. And I just. That, I really like that.

Leif:

Yeah, I want to see more Dan.

Leif:

And then I would really like to see more Dan.

Robin:

Nate, stan.

Leif:

Since day one. Since day one.

Robin:

I love it.

Leif:

Nate tries to break up with katherine, but she manipulates

Leif:

him like the predator that she is.

Leif:

Oh, she's so fucking gross.

Leif:

Yeah, I

Leif:

I was sort of okay with just, like, a fling between

Leif:

them. you know, he's 17. It's legal in New York.

Leif:

I mean, but once he wants out and she's

Leif:

drawing him back in, that's when it gets.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Really quick.

Leif:

And. And if the best case

Leif:

scenario, I'll be Blair's father in law.

Robin:

The, emotional manipulation, too, of, like,

Robin:

this is not just physical. This is. Oh, honey, tell me your

Robin:

problems and how can I help you? And

Robin:

that's another layer to, her

Robin:

predatory nature.

Leif:

Rufus returns to the loft while listening to a cute

Leif:

voicemail from Jenny. He looks around at the empty

Leif:

loft and all the stuff he missed with his kids this summer and

Leif:

immediately calls his agent.

Leif:

Rufus loves his kids more than the road.

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

Love it. I love a nice family. A nice family.

Leif:

Rufus, you should go on the road with the kids next summer.

Leif:

Unless they want to stay back. Unless they want to stay back.

Leif:

Well, it's that they both had jobs this summer.

Leif:

Yeah. Well, how'd that work out for

Leif:

Dan? And how's that going to work out for

Leif:

Jenny?

Leif:

Yeah, he hooked up with a lot of girls.

Leif:

Facts.

Leif:

got his drink on with that wannabes Skype

Leif:

Michelle guy.

Robin:

Oh, yeah.

Leif:

And then just when you thought the Nate and

Leif:

Catherine story couldn't get any worse, now

Leif:

she's literally paying him for sex.

Leif:

Yes. Nate. Nate just became a prostitute.

Leif:

Nate. Nate.

Leif:

He's taking care of it.

Leif:

How is this better than letting Chuck, ah, pay for it?

Leif:

Yeah. In what way?

Leif:

In what?

Leif:

Yeah, but

Leif:

thankfully, it looks like this story might be coming to an end, because

Leif:

Blair walks in with Nate on top of the

Leif:

duchess. Oh, my effing

Leif:

God.

Leif:

Yeah, it was, you know, one of those

Leif:

predictable things. But she needs to go.

Leif:

But also, like, she needs to

Leif:

go. And at the end of this,

Leif:

she still hasn't gone.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

We move into the ep blog. Nate gracefully leaves so

Leif:

Blair can get her black back.

Leif:

Blackmail.

Leif:

on go, Blair.

Leif:

Go.

Leif:

Take the bitch down.

Leif:

I love her face when she says, katherine

Leif:

will be. Just a moment. it was that second that. It's like,

Leif:

there she is.

Steve:

Yes.

Robin:

Yes.

Leif:

There she is.

Robin:

I wrote, I wrote it all caps. queen bee

Robin:

reigns again.

Robin:

It was Blair. Back to being Blair in

Robin:

her best possible form.

Leif:

And, we get. Marcus walks in, and Blair gets a

Leif:

forced approval from katherine. It looks like

Leif:

Marcus and Blair are Facebook official.

Leif:

She had to get to know the real me.

Robin:

So perfect.

Leif:

Back at the wealth, we see a cute humphrey, reunion. Dan

Leif:

reveals he's converting his short story into a chapter of a

Leif:

novel.

Leif:

I really sided with jenny when she said, someone

Leif:

thinks that your life is pretty interesting.

Robin:

I loved this whole scene so much. I love their family

Robin:

banter. I think it is so sweet. I feel like those kids

Robin:

didn't eat all summer because they were so darn excited to

Robin:

see some good rufus home cooking.

Leif:

Yeah, and it's two meals.

Robin:

You know, it was just. It was just

Robin:

sweet.

Leif:

He has two meals that he cooks?

Leif:

Yeah, pasta and waffles. Waffles and waffles?

Leif:

Well, yeah, waffles, of course, but I haven't noticed

Leif:

that it was only pasta for dinner. I thought there was.

Robin:

There was a salad there.

Leif:

Well. Cause Lily has commented on his cooking early

Leif:

on. I forget what he did he make her just.

Robin:

Wasn't it pasta sauce that he had made?

Robin:

Hey, I don't care if he's a two trick pony. That's better

Robin:

than, you know, ordering room service every

Robin:

night. That I'm sure a lot of these other people are doing.

Leif:

Fair.

Leif:

Serena and Blair are having a sleepover, but Chuck

Leif:

is also home. Serena takes

Leif:

Chuck's drink and leaves the room. Blair has

Leif:

won this round, but Chuck points out that tomorrow is another

Leif:

day. How long are they going to play this out?

Leif:

Just get these two kids together already.

Robin:

Their flirt fighting is such a

Robin:

highlight of this show for me. They have such

Robin:

fantastic chemistry, and they both just. They

Robin:

just play stereotypical villain

Robin:

in love so. Well.

Leif:

I love how when Blair

Leif:

starts the conversation, he goes, that's not

Leif:

sarcasm in your voice? She goes, no, it's

Leif:

victory. And I also love how she said

Leif:

she recognized. I think she has recognized something

Leif:

in me. Or more like I recognize someone

Leif:

in her.

Leif:

Zing, zing.

Leif:

Nate calls Vanessa and blows her off. If it was anyone

Leif:

besides Vanessa, I would probably feel bad. As

Leif:

Nate hangs up, we see Katherine get into the limo

Leif:

and hand Nate an envelope. The limo pulls away,

Leif:

and Nate is looking out the window forlornly.

Leif:

Someone called the police. That woman is kidnapping a

Leif:

child.

Leif:

Blinking an so's.

Robin:

Yeah. Nate's head against the window is, like, the

Robin:

saddest moment of this entire episode. And,

Robin:

despite all of your disdain for

Robin:

Vanessa, I really did feel badly for her in this scene,

Robin:

I thought she was trying to be so sweet to Nate

Robin:

and set up that little chinese food,

Robin:

little picnic for them.

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

Feel badly for her.

Leif:

I felt bad for her because I. And like I've said, I

Leif:

feel like Vanessa sucks less when

Leif:

Nate is with her, and I really did feel

Leif:

like this was such a shitty way for it to go. And

Leif:

also, can this plotline end in handcuffs? And

Leif:

I know it won't, but God damn, it

Leif:

should.

Robin:

Like, the child is holding an envelope of cash

Robin:

with his head against the window.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Robin:

Like, someone help him.

Leif:

This is. Yeah. Can you extradite

Leif:

someone from England for,

Leif:

Yeah. It's just sickening.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

So that is our episode. Any predictions for

Leif:

next week?

Leif:

My biggest prediction is that Catherine is

Leif:

not going to receive the consequences she

Leif:

deserves of being

Leif:

a sex trafficker and

Leif:

predator. Other than that, I think that.

Leif:

I think this Dan Serena thing is just gonna

Leif:

keep being silly for a while. I

Leif:

hope not.

Robin:

I want them to get back to being them and not just,

Robin:

you know, horny bunny rabbits.

Leif:

I feel like we're going to see horny bunny rabbits until

Leif:

Georgina Sparks shows up mid season. When did

Leif:

I. What was my other prediction? My midseason prediction.

Leif:

You said they would. They would last a mid season.

Leif:

Oh, yeah. So, okay, so I'm going to. I'm going to up

Leif:

that prediction from mid season to

Leif:

mid season when Georgina Sparks shows her.

Robin:

Georgina is going to come back.

Leif:

I think Georgina will be back just

Leif:

because she's a great way to blow things up and great way

Leif:

to mess it all up. And it'll be really

Leif:

annoying. And it'll be really frustrating.

Robin:

Then you'll be less annoyed with Vanessa because Georgina.

Leif:

Yeah, Georgina will be there. Hopefully she's

Leif:

banging Nate by then.

Leif:

Maybe Georgina will be banging Nate.

Leif:

All right.

Robin:

I.

Leif:

Maybe Vanessa and Georgina will be banging Nate.

Leif:

Where? What kind of show?

Robin:

Many options.

Leif:

When is it? When did it switch to Max?

Robin:

So many options.

Leif:

Let's go ahead and move it to some segments.

Leif:

Hello there. Peabody here. And this

Leif:

is the wayback machine for traveling through time. And this

Leif:

is my boy Sherman. Speak, Sherman.

Leif:

Hello. Good boy.

Leif:

So this week in fandom, the wayback, machine was

Leif:

a little. Little rusty. The television without

Leif:

pity message board, thread was missing for this

Leif:

episode, so I had to go over to fan

Leif:

forum.

Leif:

It's weird that the regular write up

Leif:

and the forums were all missing from.

Leif:

Well, the write up is on

Leif:

the episode thread. That's how you

Leif:

normally get it from, right? Yeah.

Leif:

so I also, I just I learned on the fan

Leif:

forum that this is the first episode. And for

Leif:

some time, Canada was getting the

Leif:

episodes Sunday night while America was.

Leif:

Getting it on Monday night. Whoa. So you could

Leif:

see. You could spoil everything in Canada

Leif:

if you want to do, or you could fake spoil

Leif:

everything.

Steve:

You could.

Leif:

You could totally. Eric Bischoff, gossip girl

Leif:

for the Americans.

Leif:

Yeah. So they had specific spoiler rules

Leif:

laid out in the thread.

Robin:

So they get universal healthcare and poutine and

Robin:

earlier episodes of Gossip Girl.

Leif:

Indeed.

Leif:

I'm just saying fans were desperate for more

Leif:

Chuck and Blair. That was the biggest thing. And then

Leif:

also, they were, they also noticed the weird vibes

Leif:

from fruits and Vanessa.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. They're pretty.

Leif:

They're. They glare.

Leif:

But, yeah, it was a, yeah, not. Not a lot of chatter on

Leif:

that message board. It was all pretty similar. It's kind of just, like, repeating the

Leif:

same thing. I like the Todd's rule, not pity.

Leif:

That's more snarky fan base.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

So we'll go ahead and move into episode grades.

Leif:

You, Steve, you want last. First. Last time. So I will

Leif:

go first this time. I thought this

Leif:

was a decent episode. It was definitely better than last week,

Leif:

I thought, but it still wasn't a great episode, so I gave it a

Leif:

b minus. Robin, what did you give

Leif:

it?

Robin:

I gave this episode a c.

Robin:

I felt like they were trying to

Robin:

prep us to basically say, here's what

Robin:

happened over the summer, and here's what could be coming next

Robin:

in the fall. And it felt like they were cramming a

Robin:

lot of little tidbits into one episode, as opposed

Robin:

to the big jaw dropping, which is sort of

Robin:

what I enjoy about the show. so I thought it

Robin:

was middle grain.

Leif:

I gave it a c. I hated this

Leif:

episode. I shouldn't say I hated it, but this was my least favorite

Leif:

episode to date. I believe I gave it a c

Leif:

minus. I thought the writing had some

Leif:

good one liners and good

Leif:

jabs, but it didn't have good

Leif:

writing. Like, the writing wasn't the character,

Leif:

the writing for the characters, even, like, the Nate

Leif:

scene that I liked. Nate really

Leif:

doesn't do that. You know, Nate doesn't joke

Leif:

like that. So it felt like they just

Leif:

didn't have the characters down.

Robin:

Yeah. Whoever was writing for Blair this episode.

Leif:

Was missed the mark.

Leif:

I thought the plot was just ridiculous. The

Leif:

Lords, the stepmother

Leif:

is the lord. When it turned into a

Leif:

soap opera, I thought it was ridiculous. I thought

Leif:

Chuck was good. I liked. I liked

Leif:

Chuck in this episode. I liked that it was another time

Leif:

that we saw Chuck,

Leif:

under plan a scheme that blew up in his

Leif:

face in some way because Chuck is really good at

Leif:

that. Like, you know, poison ivy when

Leif:

he stalks. When he stalks

Leif:

Serena, and it turns out it's Eric who is in

Leif:

the hospital, in the rehab, and

Leif:

nothing. Serena. And when he,

Leif:

you know, lets out to gossip girl that Blair was

Leif:

sleeping with two people, like, he does these

Leif:

schemes and then doesn't shield himself

Leif:

properly and it backfires on him.

Leif:

And I kind of love that. That he's,

Leif:

you know, really good at it, but he's still learning.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

So also, like, so in this episode, I mean, I do

Leif:

kind of like the change of scenery, but I.

Leif:

New York as a city is missing.

Leif:

yeah. New York is such a character

Leif:

in the show, and to do

Leif:

two episodes out of it

Leif:

does feel like a lot.

Leif:

Yeah. The other thing I did forget

Leif:

to mention, it was as we did finally get to see the

Leif:

Vanderwitson pass.

Leif:

Yes. Yeah, we did that.

Leif:

It finally renovated.

Leif:

Yes. They're staying in the palace

Leif:

hotel all last, season.

Leif:

Yeah.

Robin:

Rough lives.

Leif:

Moving on to stock watch.

Leif:

Going up. I had Dan and

Leif:

Serena because they just, you know, they had fun. You know,

Leif:

they didn't solve their problems, but they got weighed a bunch.

Leif:

So good, for them. I, gave

Leif:

Vanessa stock up because, she was a good friend. Looks like she got

Leif:

a job now, dude, helping out

Leif:

Rufus, even though that's kind of weird, but good for

Leif:

her. And also Blair, because

Leif:

her schemes came out and she's now dating the

Leif:

lord. She's Facebook

Leif:

official.

Robin:

I will give my stock on the rise

Robin:

to, also to Blair and Vanessa.

Robin:

Yeah, I thought Vanessa was trying to be a really good

Robin:

friend to Nate and, oddly, to Rufus.

Robin:

And I thought she just was giving good friend energy in this

Robin:

episode. And also, despite Blair's

Robin:

very messy start to the episode,

Robin:

her monologue at the end of just tearing

Robin:

down Catherine and

Robin:

declaring victory over Chuck.

Robin:

They're why Blair is my favorite character on parchment.

Leif:

I'm sorry. I thought you were just a, washed up, has

Leif:

been bleach bond swimsuit

Leif:

model who married above our station.

Leif:

What about you, Steve?

Leif:

I had Chuck going up because I felt like Chuck, you know,

Leif:

cashing out the. The shares to help his

Leif:

buddy. I loved that. So Chuck went up

Leif:

for me for once. Blair I had going

Leif:

up at for the same reason. In the end, she

Leif:

got to, she's with the. The.

Leif:

Or, you know, the lord now that

Leif:

she's getting to live her princess fantasy. And

Leif:

Marcus, cuz he landed Blair. I mean, Blair,

Leif:

she may be a lowly Waldorf but she's a handful,

Leif:

and she wouldn't be hard for any

Leif:

lord, I guess, to just be a

Leif:

lord and Blair. Okay. Anyway, I

Leif:

had Rufus's stock going up because family

Leif:

and I also had Vanessa choice. Yeah,

Leif:

I had Vanessa's stock going up because

Leif:

she got a job, working for Rufus in a coffee shop

Leif:

that she designed, and she kind of gets to be her own boss

Leif:

for the most part. Like, she's working for rufus, but it

Leif:

seems like she's going to get to kind of run this coffee shop

Leif:

while being homeschooled, so that's kind of cool.

Leif:

So going down. Too obvious. Catherine

Leif:

and nate because captain's horrible, and Nate's just

Leif:

being taken advantage of, so he's going down.

Leif:

And I also had chuck going down because he

Leif:

lost this episode. Clearly.

Leif:

I mean, he did lose. I did know that. I did.

Leif:

I think he tried to do a good thing for Nate, but it didn't

Leif:

really work out.

Leif:

Yeah, it's true.

Leif:

So he just sold his. Sold his, prize for nothing.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Robin:

I also had katherine and nate. Katherine's stock is in the

Robin:

negative. As negative as negative can be.

Robin:

And just poor, sweet Nate. I

Robin:

mean, poor, sweet Nate. Just the head against the

Robin:

window, people. That's all you need to know.

Leif:

Yeah. I had Nate and Catherine going down.

Leif:

Nate, of course, for money.

Robin:

ayo.

Leif:

I had Dan and serena going down, mostly because I

Leif:

was just. Well, because they could.

Leif:

Because you got to get up to get

Leif:

down.

Leif:

Got to get up, get down. And they just. They really just

Leif:

annoyed the shit out of me this whole episode there. and

Leif:

then I also had Anne. Her

Leif:

stock continues to plummet. She's

Leif:

cut off and banished to the Hamptons

Leif:

with her garden. With her garden. With her

Leif:

gigantic garden and beachfront property. That's

Leif:

the life you are now cursed with.

Leif:

You may only have the gold card. The

Leif:

platinum stays with us. But here's

Leif:

the best outfits from the last

Leif:

episode we seen.

Leif:

Moving on to best outfit,

Leif:

I had Serena's blue starry night

Leif:

alter dress by Adam long did she wear at the party?

Robin:

I was so excited about this because I

Robin:

typically have trouble picking out a favorite

Robin:

outfit, but this one jumped off the screen to me when

Robin:

Chuck met Katherine for the first time. And he

Robin:

was wearing this sort of maroon purple

Robin:

suit with this light pink, maybe pinstripe shirt

Robin:

underneath. And I just thought it was a stunning color,

Robin:

combination. Also, Chuck's new hairdo

Robin:

is growing on me in this episode. I still hate it.

Robin:

I hated it at first, but he.

Leif:

Still looks, like, definitely better than the first season.

Robin:

He still looks a little bit like Count chocula or Count

Robin:

Chocula.

Robin:

But I loved the outfit.

Leif:

Chuck always looks good for the George Clooney. Bruce

Leif:

Wayne.

Leif:

Yeah. Ah, yeah.

Robin:

It's growing amazing.

Leif:

Bruce Wayne. He,

Leif:

Chuck wears a lot of purples, which I think is like a

Leif:

royalty. I think that that's meant to be, like, a royalty

Leif:

play, but he always looks good in it.

Leif:

I had. I picked Jenny's outfit at the

Leif:

very end. It's that, like, blue

Leif:

and red halter top with,

Leif:

like. It looked like it went into the whole outfit.

Leif:

It was a dress.

Leif:

Yeah, it was a dress. Yeah. It was really super

Leif:

cute.

Leif:

Like a butterfly necklace thingy.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Robin:

Listening to my husband talk about clothes will never not be

Robin:

funny. For anyone that has ever seen this

Robin:

man, he wears a graphic tee and

Robin:

basketball shorts. Unless you have to tell

Robin:

him to not wear a graphic tee in basketball

Robin:

shorts. So just the outfits

Robin:

of the episode are probably my favorite part of this podcast.

Leif:

To be fair, there are times when I, I'm wearing a

Leif:

bathrobe and not the

Leif:

basketball shorts,

Leif:

but if.

Robin:

I'm leaving the house, that's more about your fashion choices. Steve.

Robin:

I love it.

Leif:

Well, that is it for segments.

Leif:

actually, I did want to really quickly, we've brought

Leif:

up fashion, and we talk about it every episode over

Leif:

and over, and yet we have never mentioned Eric

Leif:

Damon on this podcast. And I

Leif:

feel like that, this is a good point to give him a shout

Leif:

out, because he is the.

Leif:

He's the fashion designer for the show, and

Leif:

what episode of this show does not pop

Leif:

head to toe on every single character?

Leif:

So he does an absolutely very good job.

Leif:

He's. He actually worked with Blake Lively on a new project

Leif:

that's coming up soon, too, called, it ends with

Leif:

us.

Leif:

Probably won't watch that, but probably not.

Leif:

Comes out in August. I'll forget about

Leif:

it by the time.

Leif:

So that is it for segments. So let's go

Leif:

ahead and move it to some plug. But first, Robin, thank you very

Leif:

much for joining us.

Robin:

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Leif:

Thank you very much. The Kylie Kelsey of

Leif:

the non judging breakfast bod.

Robin:

It's an honor as a philadelphian. It is an honor to

Robin:

be in any. The same sentence as Kylie Kelsey. I'll take

Robin:

it.

Leif:

Is there anything you would like to plug at this time?

Robin:

no. My social media

Robin:

consists of stepchildren and step cats, so

Robin:

it is private because no one needs or wants

Robin:

to see my beautiful stepchildren and

Robin:

my two lovely cats.

Leif:

Any other shows you're watching lately.

Robin:

Oh, my gosh.

Leif:

Any recommendations?

Robin:

Oh, leaf, don't. That's a pandora's box. I don't know if that one

Robin:

open.

Leif:

she watches a lot of the prison documentary

Leif:

shows. I. Life after

Leif:

lockup.

Robin:

Life after. Oh, God, it's my favorite. Vanderpump rules.

Leif:

Vanderpump rules.

Robin:

Bravo, girl. I love a good prison inmate

Robin:

show. Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Robin. Robin.

Robin:

Trash.

Leif:

Garbage is pretty much my likes

Leif:

reality tv a lot.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. When? When. Yeah.

Leif:

So anything you want to plug for this, Steve? this should be

Leif:

coming out on August 26.

Leif:

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Take care.

Steve:

Every time you walk away I run away you take a piece

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away I run away you take a

Steve:

piece of m me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away and run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

oh, it seems I'm walking right to

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your door.

Leif:

My heart's.

Steve:

Still resting looking for something

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more.

Robin:

Are.

Steve:

You ever gonna see everything you mean to me

Steve:

trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

never feels right when I'm out here on my

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own

Steve:

I left last night and it feels like

Steve:

way too long

Steve:

are you ever gonna see everything you mean to

Steve:

me? I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away, run away you take a piece

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away, run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

Leif:

Come.

Steve:

Back to me

Steve:

smile and you'll make my life

Steve:

complete

Steve:

every time you walk away I run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

ah every time you walk away

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or run away you take a piece of me with you

Steve:

there every time you walk

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away, run away you take a piece of me

Steve:

with you there every

Steve:

time you walk away, run away you take a piece of me

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

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