Episode 15

Gossip Girl S2E15 - Gone With the Will

Summary

Hey Gossip Girl lovers! Buckle up for a juicy episode as Leif and Steve spill the tea on Season 2, Episode 15, "Gone with the Will." It's will reading on the Upper East Side, but Chuck Bass isn't feeling too grateful. Just when he thinks he's got his inheritance all wrapped up, Uncle Jack comes in to snatch it away. Meanwhile, Serena and Dan's romance hits a major roadblock with a scandalous family secret that could tear them apart. Tune in as our hosts dish out the chaos, betrayal, and power plays among Manhattan's elite, all served with a side of humor and sharp insights. You won't want to miss it!

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

02:30 Thanksgiving Episode Release

04:00 Discussing "Gone with the Wind"

10:45 Chuck's Inheritance Drama

20:00 Serena and Dan's Family Secret

30:00 Rufus and Lily's Complicated Past

38:15 Jenny and Eric's Sibling Rivalry

45:00 Episode Highlights and Reflections

52:30 Stock Watch: Characters Rising and Falling

1:00:00 Best Outfits and Fashion Highlights

1:05:00 Predictions and Closing Remarks

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Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

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Transcript
Leif:

Oh, I did like the fun quip about Romeo and Juliet.

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I. Technically, they don't share

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DNA.

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Unrelated.

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I mean, they're sharing DNA. Possibly,

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but they don't share DNA.

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Yeah, they're not actually

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siblings.

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

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there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

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pod where the coffee is strong, the

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waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than

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ever. My name is Leif, and I'm your seasoned

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Gossip Girl veteran.

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And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn

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that, I don't know, Leif. What do we call this season

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two Gossip Girl newbie?

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why are you bothering about this right now?

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Well, hey, I still need to get board approval here,

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so.

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Fine, whatever. Now go breathe somewhere else.

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So here's the deal, folks. Leap has been watching Gossip

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Girl since the very beginning, and I'm watching for the

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very first time. And together, we're your dynamic

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duo, bringing you all of the drama, romance, and

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sometimes questionable fashion choices of

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this iconic 2007 series.

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That's right. Each week we'll take a deep dive into the

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show one episode at a time. We'll analyze all the

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parallels, obscure references, and of course, the

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couture catastrophes. Plus, we'll also be

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touching on all the behind the scenes gossip and some stories from

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fandom.

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

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judging breakfast pod, there's always a seat for you at

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the non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab your

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coffee, a mimosa, or some of Nate and

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Chuck's special medicine if it's that kind of day. And

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let's get into this.

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And we are going to be releasing this episode on the week of

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Thanksgiving. So, we will be Talking about season

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two, episode 15, Gone with the Will,

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of course, based on the movie and novel Gone with the Wind.

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Gone with the Wind. Yeah, of course.

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Not a favorite of mine.

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Never seen the whole thing start to

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finish. I know my parents would like watch

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it sometimes when it was on and it was just. It

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would not captivate me enough to watch it. And

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then by the time I was like, by the time I should have just

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sought it out and watched it on my own, I never did.

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Well, I mean, besides, for the whole antebellum theme

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of it all, the main relationship is

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very abusive.

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That's, that was what I always

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understood. That's like.

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Yeah, not. Not for me.

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Yeah, there was really nothing about it that I found

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appealing.

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But this episode originally aired on January

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12, 2009. And it was written by

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Amanda Lasher, who lasted pretapour

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J. And she, she's pretty

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much three to four episodes a season from season two to

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season five. So she's here to stay.

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Yeah.

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And it was directed by Trisha Brock. this is

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her one and only episode of Gossip Girl. But

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she has been directing TV since 2012.

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Some of the notable shows she worked on, Grey's

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Anatomy, Veronica Mars, Ugly Betty,

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the L word, Breaking Bad, 30

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Rock, the Walking Dead, and Bridgerton.

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You know, it's funny, I'm starting to find that

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like when you. When we have these

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one episode directors, they

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tend to have really good

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directing, even in spite of

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some bad writing. There is a lot of.

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There.

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I found there to be a lot of

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bad writing in this episode. This episode I felt was

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written to just get through it with these

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huge bombs. That could have been

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so much better.

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Why don't you go ahead and read the Vulture recap?

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All right. So the Vulture recap.

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Watching last night's episode of Gossip Girl,

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we felt like we were listening to a song composed

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only of choruses. Like we were

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eating sundae without the ice cream. Or watching

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a figure skater perform a set of only

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the insane pirouette moves. All

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can be the best parts of their respective

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experiences, but they are best not

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gorged on alone, lest you end up

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nauseous and dizzy. So it was

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with last night's installment of the greatest

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show of our time gone with the

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will, which was made up entirely

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of twists. Chuck found out his dad left him

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in charge of Bass Industries. Then it had it.

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Then had it taken away due to the

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machinations of his uncle and a

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fine print morality clause. Less than 40

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minutes later, things seemed like they were going to

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be okay with Blair and Chuck for at

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least one episode.

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But they weren't.

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And she threw peonies at his feet

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forever. Dan and Serena seemed like they

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were finally doomed. Then they weren't.

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Then they were again. But most head

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spinning of all was the plotline between

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Lily and Rufus, which playing out in

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a Boston hotel room, felt like. The

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Exterminating angel meets Days of Our

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Lives. In the beginning of the

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episode, the once and forever lovers

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swore their relationship was over and were

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told they couldn't meet the child that Lily had given up

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for adoption. Then they were told maybe they could

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meet the child. Then they were told they couldn't again

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ever. Then they had sex, after

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which it was indicated they may be able to meet the

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child after all. So they hot footed it to meet

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the child's Adoptive father,

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only to find out actually the

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child was dead. He had drowned

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just last year. Too

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late. But also convenient.

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Too convenient. It turned out the kid

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wasn't dead. They were just having the wool pulled

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over their eyes by some sneaky

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Bostonians. Double

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convenient. all that said, there were some

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funny lines about tuna fish sandwiches and some

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surprisingly realistic moments.

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Yeah, I guess that.

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I think it's pretty spot on. I mean, that

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they really did just try to cram

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shit.

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He's it. He's out. He's it. He's out.

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Yeah.

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And what's with all the shade towards tuna fish?

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Yeah, well. Well,

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as somebody that hates tuna fish, I,

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I. That all of the different tuna fish hate

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resonated with me. My

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mom made a tuna casserole when I was

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growing up and it has kind of

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ruined tuna fish for

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me.

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Across the board that.

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Yeah, I can do tuna rolls. I can do like,

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sushi. I can do that. But I can't do, like,

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canned tuna. No. Can't do a tuna

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sandwich. No.

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It's why you get, like, canned tuna

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rolls as well, like mayonnaise and tuna in. In a

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roll.

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See? Yeah, I

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can yuck your yum. Not going to yuck your yum.

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Go ahead and get into the episode. Act

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one begins. The episode opens with Chuck

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getting dressed while Gossip Girl narrates. When

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most people lose a parent, they inherit sorrow,

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loss, and a closet full of outdated clothes.

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But on the Upper east side, death's sad chapter

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comes with a silver lining. Or a gold one, if your

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relatives invested wisely in precious metals.

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And this was pretty much just sort of a montage of

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people getting ready.

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Yeah.

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And they pull up. Yeah.

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We shift to Jack exiting his limo with a

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smirk on his face. Blair shows up and

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rebuffs Jack's. Jack's. Attempts to ask a high

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school student to come out with him. Later, Jack threatens to

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tell Chuck about whatever it was that happened

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in On New Year's.

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Yeah, Jack, you're

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obsessing over this teenager.

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So we. We lose one inappropriate relationship with

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Aaron leaving, and now we got another one to take its place.

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Yeah. And. And he's trying to

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groom her in real time,

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like, only newer since New

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Year's. Gross.

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Well, I. He. He actually provided another.

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Longer, probably

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new. Newer.

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Newer, like holidays or something.

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And that makes it even creepier that he's known her since she

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was, like, a little girl. It's some

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le miserab.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Blair and Jack beat up with Chuck and are soon joined by

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Nate. Chuck thinks the will is

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just One last chance for bar to show his

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disappointment and his son.

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So, glad to see Nate. It was so nice of Nate

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to show up for Chuck and be there.

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And is he still using public transportation?

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Because the buses were, like, right behind him and they

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pulled away as he walked up.

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That is true. He probably

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is. Yeah. respect. And it was

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just always the good friend. It just really

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put a smile on my face.

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Nate, a man of the people

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in Brooklyn. Jenny and Dan are arguing about

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Rufus and Lily's relationship status. Dan

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is still clearly keeping the secret. As the

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scene ends, we see Dan ignore Serena's call.

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Yeah. Any Dan hate that there may have been

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in this episode from people I think is

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undeserved. I feel for him this entire episode.

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I just felt like it.

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He avoiding Sereno had to

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just be really tough on this kid. And the one thing the

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Vulture report mentioned was the

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very real moments. And I think Dan

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really is that moment. Yeah. Every time

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he's on, what he.

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Said to her at the end, like, I couldn't be around you and lie

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to you.

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Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah. Dan was amazing.

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In this episode, at the will reading, Chuck

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is left with all of Bart's personal assets.

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Our Bass industries is split three ways.

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49% goes to Lily. And the board

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of a controlling 51% is revealed in a

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personal letter to Chuck. Chuck, however,

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declines to read it.

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Yeah, very Chuck. Very. I don't want to hear my

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dad's disappointment. Also very

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predictable as to what was in that

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letter.

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M. And, you know, we see Blair

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and Nate sitting outside the office because they're not allowed in.

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But of course, Blair has to medal and.

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Yeah.

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Barges in and takes the letter from Jack and opens and reads

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it.

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Yeah.

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Apparently Bart had faith in Chuck after all. But

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Chuck says too little, too late and offers to

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give the company to Jack, who seems to really

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want it.

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Yeah, With a

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creepy wink at Nate at

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the end of it.

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Yeah. so the Forbes also does that to

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me. That was more of a. Okay,

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sport. This is mine.

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I got that. That. I took it the same.

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I didn't take it as innuendo or as

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sexual. I took it as still just

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kid. Slimy. Yeah, you know,

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slimy. Like, hey, I just won. you know,

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like, oh, you're. You're bragging

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to teenagers that you party with this

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guy.

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We get some Serena Eric time, and Eric is complaining

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that Jenny keeps third wheeling on her his dates with

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Jonathan. They arrive at school, and Jenny is with

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Jonathan, and they have already planned a night for the three of them

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together.

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I really hated this whole storyline.

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I hated the whole third wheel storyline

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because it was just a forced

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conflict for the resolution at the end.

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And they have other things that could be better.

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I don't think that was forced at all. And I saw

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several people in the forums mentioning that same exact situation happening

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with friends of theirs.

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Really?

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Yeah, it's, apparently. And they also

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commented it's basically a Will Grace stereotype. It's like,

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basically Will Grace.

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Yeah, that. That's fair. I, I get that.

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I think that my problem with it

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feeling forced was that

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it just sort of felt like it came out of

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nowhere. That all of a sudden this is a

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problem. And it didn't see. I don't know. It

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didn't. It felt forced in the.

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It felt like they really needed to find conflict

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for them.

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And that's true, but I just don't think it was

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for you. Remember, there was a time jump. So

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this has been going off for a few weeks.

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That's true. And that is one of those things

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that I need to remember that there is a time jump and

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that this is also, as you brought up the Will and

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Grace thing, which makes it so much more

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relevant to the time that

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this was happening.

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Serena fies Dan in the courtyard. Serena

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is convinced that Dan's avoidance is because he thinks their parents

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are hooking up, which she assures him they aren't.

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Dan is once again forced to lie and pretend to go along

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with it. Fuck you, Rufus.

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Yeah, again, felt so bad for Dan and

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you, Rufus.

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Speaking of. Rufus and Lily are in the waiting room and

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Rufus gets a call from Dan. Rufus

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reiterate, reiterates that Dan needs to continue

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to lie for Lily. However, the

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minions overhear Dan's lying about lying to Serena. Of

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course.

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Yeah. And once again, fuck you,

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Rufus. And I love that Dan went

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at him and was like, you're the one,

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you know, that we had to break up because there were

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secrets all the time. And now I'm the one doing

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this. You know, it's not okay.

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Fuck you, Rufus.

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Fuck you, Rufus.

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Outside the palace, Blair insists Chuck read

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the rest of Bart's letter. Jack is pulling a

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Chuck by lurking in the shadows mean

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mugging.

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Damn those kids. Yeah, I would have gotten away with

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it with the meddling kids.

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Meddling kids. And I liked that

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Bart trusted Chuck enough to leave

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him with an empire that in the end.

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But also you have to assume that Bart didn't think that

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he'd be going out this soon. Yeah,

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Bart was like, you know, I'M sure I've got a few

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years before this is going to take effect. I'm sure

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he'll grow up by the time this actually matters.

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You say the Eric and Jenny thing is forced?

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This is forced.

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Oh. Oh, yeah. Well, again, I

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felt like there's no.

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Way Bart would reverse that fast and leave him

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the company.

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Yeah, yeah. yeah,

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exactly. There's. I felt,

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again, most of this episode felt

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forced, really, that and I. And maybe

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that's why I felt that the Jenny thing was because I just felt like

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this whole episode was just being shoved down my throat.

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Dan is exiting class when everyone in the courtyard gets a

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blast and starts staring at Dan. Gossip

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Girl has this to say.

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Is lowly, lowly boy cheating on our queen

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sound unlikely? Does the name Georgina ring

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a bell? Get out your shovels and start digging the

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dirt, kids. Gossip Girl is going to need a little help

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getting to the bottom of this mess.

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So awesome. This is the first time

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in a while that we've seen Gossip Girl

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as an active participant

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character in the show. And she put

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a hit out on Dan. Amazing. We

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haven't seen this in forever and I

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just thought that that was really

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fucking cool.

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We move into Act 2. Chuck

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comes back to the palace to confront Jack and declares

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he changed his mind and that he plans to

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follow his father's wishes vis a vis take

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over Bass Industries. Jack tries to

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dissuade Chuck and is clearly angry about it, but

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steps aside, at least for the moment.

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You noticed that Thai girl I was about to take home had a

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penis, so were even.

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Ah. nothing like a little transphobia about.

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Nothing like a little. Yeah, a little transphobia

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to get through a scene.

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But definitely checks out for someone like Chuck. Or like Jack.

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And like Jack. Well, exactly. That was.

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And also he just shows he can't

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be trusted. His reaction to Chuck. Yeah,

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Chuck. Like you can't trust this guy.

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Even though he's probably right that Chuck is nowhere near ready

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to run a billion dollars.

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Absolutely. Absolutely.

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But you can't trust.

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But you can't trust him. Well, yeah, if anything,

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Chuck should hire someone he can

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trust to help him run the company.

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Only he had a stepmom.

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Yeah, who. Who

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is a huge

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shareholder as well.

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And also, isn't he turning 18 in like five

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minutes?

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Yeah, because Blair is already 18.

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Yeah, exactly. Like

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till your 18th birthday. He's a senior in high

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school, so he's waiting till what, like at the

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latest. Latest September.

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Like, like when he. When he's entering freshman

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year.

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Like one of the recaps I was looking at.

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Like, they said they watched with their lawyer friend. And that

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was one of the many lawyer things that were wrong with

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SNZ episode. It would have been 25 at

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least.

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Really? For running the company or for the trust?

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For the trust.

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Really? I didn't realize. I thought that they, Because

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that I found that to be believable, but that.

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That's really funny.

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Dan comes out of class to find his locker

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ransacked. Blair kicks one of his books as she's taking

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a call from Jack. Jack wants Blair to help him

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throw a party for Chuck, to which he reluctantly

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agrees.

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Yeah, Jack, again, you're being gross and flirting with

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a high school kid. So disgusting.

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Say Ally.

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Yeah.

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So bad.

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Rufus and Lily are meeting with a lawyer who did

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track down their son's adoptive parents. But because

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it was a closed adoption, the best he can do

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is tell the parents that Rufus and Lily would like to speak to

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them. Lily points out that Rufus is a selfish

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brick.

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Because Rufus is a selfish prick. He is

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such a selfish prick in this whole

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ordeal. And here his

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kid is begging him to come

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home, and he's like, but all I am is a

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dad. Then go be a fucking dad.

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Yes. maybe they will change their online, but you can still wait

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from home. They can make a phone call from Boston

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to New York.

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Yeah, you. You can be there in a few hours.

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So ridiculous.

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Again, forced. Like, I can't

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entirely blame Rufus, the character, because

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I feel like the writing is, at

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this point, it was shitty up

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and up until now. Anyway. Right now

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it again just feels like they're trying to

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force this m

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More. And it's like it's

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exhausted.

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Blair and Serena are walking in the halls discussing

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Chuck's party and the Gossip Girl hit on Dan,

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despite Blair's mocking of them. There's nothing wrong with tuna

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sandwiches in theory. However, keeping

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one unrefrigerated in your locker is pretty fucking

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gross.

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The Minions are fucking with

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Serena right here. you're right. Keeping a tuna sandwich

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in your locker is fucking disgusting, by the way. Yes.

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That, I mean, I've already discussed my feelings until tuna

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sandwiches. But Serena could destroy the

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Minions. She could destroy

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them if she wanted to.

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And like, just a few episodes, they were, like, worshiping the round

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she walked on. Like, what happened?

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Yeah, I think it again, like,

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bad writing. And also they try to make the

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Penelope character

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psychotic. At this point, I feel that

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she's more and more

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just trying to bully anybody.

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Well, I think she needs a firm

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hand. And right now Blair is

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just completely distracted. That's been an ongoing storyline.

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Yeah.

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So she's just, she, she's going off, she's. Nothing's going off the

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rails.

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Because it's, Because throughout the whole thing, when

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addressing Blair, they keep Serena's name

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out of it, knowing full well that it has to do with Serena

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too.

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We get a multi layered scene with Dan and

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Vanessa in a candy shop. Dan

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reveals Rufus's secret to Vanessa but

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is overheard by Nellyuki who also steals Dan's

Leif:

phone. However, the scene isn't over as the mini

Leif:

minions are back and they are berating Dan for cheating on

Leif:

Serena again.

Leif:

So first of all, totally

Leif:

understood Dan opening up to Vanessa.

Leif:

That was probably the one

Leif:

most real scene to me in this

Leif:

that I can't tell Serena. I'm going to tell

Leif:

my best friend. That made sense.

Leif:

Nelly Yuki stealing his phone.

Leif:

Nelly. Come on. Like that's going to keep you out of

Leif:

Yale. Like that. That can keep you out of

Leif:

Yale. Theft. Yeah.

Leif:

But she's desperate after her ploy from last week.

Leif:

Yeah. She's on probation.

Leif:

Yeah. And

Leif:

finally, the mini minions were

Leif:

fantastic. I loved it. You know

Leif:

who I am going out with? Nate Archibald after

Leif:

striking out with Dan Humphrey. Talk about failing

Leif:

upwards.

Leif:

So good.

Leif:

Yeah, amazing. And, just the way that

Leif:

those three just boom, boom, boom,

Leif:

like one they were serving.

Leif:

Jack is waiting for Chuck. When he arrives home,

Leif:

Jack apologizes for earlier and convinces Chuck to

Leif:

blow off Blair and come out with him with what I presume are

Leif:

escorts.

Leif:

Yeah. So I'm going to

Leif:

get these escorts from my

Leif:

underage nephew and take him

Leif:

out drinking and get him super

Leif:

fucked up to ruin his plans of

Leif:

taking over this company. The

Leif:

legality, the how does.

Leif:

How, Sometimes it just really baffles me

Leif:

when it just. When age really just

Leif:

isn't a factor on this show at all.

Leif:

They're white and they're rich.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And they're men.

Leif:

And they're men. Yeah.

Leif:

Don't get much more privileged than that. Serena

Leif:

is waiting for Vanessa at the gallery so she can ask V

Leif:

about Dan Vane. Nessa lies about knowing

Leif:

anything. Not sure if Serena believes

Leif:

her. When Serena leaves, V texts Dan asking where

Leif:

Rufus and Leah or wed. Rufus and Leah are coming

Leif:

back because Serena needs to know about their

Leif:

son.

Leif:

B. The first scene with Vanessa, I was like, oh,

Leif:

it's like the good Vanessa that, like, I like

Leif:

having around V.

Leif:

You could have been a fucking hero here. All you had

Leif:

to say is, Dan has a secret. It

Leif:

isn't his to tell. He loves You.

Leif:

Boom. When your parents get

Leif:

home, you'll learn everything. Dan

Leif:

can't tell you. I can't tell you, but

Leif:

Dan loves you. She could have saved the day.

Leif:

But of course, Vanessa turns to just

Leif:

being dumb.

Leif:

My head cat is that she was trying to break the buck.

Leif:

Hey, I'll. I'll accept your head

Leif:

cannon. Her.

Leif:

Her facial expressions say that too.

Leif:

Her facial expressions. I could be a hero,

Leif:

but I'm just going to go ahead and this up even

Leif:

more.

Leif:

I think that was just trying to real And I think they were just trying to

Leif:

show that she's a bad liar.

Leif:

Yeah, I think you're right. But I like your headcanon

Leif:

and I would like to keep going with it.

Leif:

We shift to Nelly revealing to Penelope and Hazel

Leif:

that she stole Dan's phone. And just in time to get

Leif:

Vanessa's text. Looks like the secret is about

Leif:

to get out.

Leif:

Yeah, stupid. Fuck you, Nelly.

Leif:

Blair looks simply stunning, prepping for what

Leif:

looks to be a romantic dinner with Chuck. however, she is

Leif:

disappointed when she gets a text from Chuck who

Leif:

says he is working late and can't make it.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yowza.

Leif:

Although Blair, your outfit is saying more

Leif:

than just friends.

Leif:

Yeah, that is not a non

Leif:

romantic dinner.

Leif:

Yeah, you're non romantic dinner.

Leif:

Practically lingerie. Yeah, the only

Leif:

thing made it not lingerie was the fact that a belt.

Leif:

We see Chuck in the limo looking conflicted for a moment.

Leif:

But then he starts chugging champagne and living it up with

Leif:

Jack's girls. So much for the back of the limo

Leif:

being sacred, eh, Chuck? Chuck fails to notice that

Leif:

Jack is conspicuously not

Leif:

partying.

Leif:

Yeah, pay attention, Chuck.

Leif:

Pay attention. And, and this is

Leif:

also really ridiculous because this

Leif:

kid is still in morning.

Leif:

This kid is still

Leif:

grieving over his dad that died like

Leif:

a couple months ago or a month ago or whatever it

Leif:

is. So like, yeah, he's going to go out

Leif:

and get up sometimes. Let

Leif:

him work this out.

Leif:

That's for later.

Leif:

Looks like Chuck made his choice. But careful,

Leif:

Bass, now that you're a big fish, there are a lot of

Leif:

sharks in this pond. Rufus and Lily are waiting

Leif:

in a hotel room when Rufus gets a call that the

Leif:

parents don't want to meet and ask not to be contacted

Leif:

again. Rufus gets pissy and says it's time to

Leif:

go home. yeah.

Leif:

Oh, well now, fine. I'm gonna give up. And he's being

Leif:

a dick. He sucks again. It's

Leif:

about time he gave up. And more than

Leif:

anything, once again, this scene just felt

Leif:

like filler. It just felt like they needed

Leif:

to just Put. Well, we need another Rufus and Lily

Leif:

fighting scene. Okay, let's just put this in.

Leif:

At Chuck's brunch, Serita and Blair are

Leif:

talking.

Leif:

Yeah, they sure are.

Leif:

Spare me those expressive eyebrows. I can't wait till you get

Leif:

Botox.

Leif:

And, players, like, slaps Penelope away from trying

Leif:

to take Chuck. Special eclairs.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Which, you know, it would have been nice for that. That had been brought up before

Leif:

that he liked the Clares or something.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Why are you reserving the eclairs just for Chuck?

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. At a brunch with

Leif:

all of these people. Yeah.

Leif:

Dan and Jenny show up at the brunch as well. Jenny goes

Leif:

off to find Eric, and Dan greets Serena.

Leif:

I never miss an opportunity to celebrate Chuck

Leif:

Bass.

Leif:

Jan. When he was walking.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Again, Chuck. Dan's trying to do the right thing here

Leif:

and trying to be the right boyfriend and

Leif:

really tries to show up for Serena here.

Leif:

Yeah, He. Unfortunately, Rufus has backed him into a

Leif:

corner.

Leif:

Yeah, totally.

Leif:

Jack arrives without Chuck, who is apparently back in the

Leif:

office after the night they just had.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

The minions try to get Blair's clearance to release the info on

Leif:

Rufus and Lee's kid, but Blair is too distracted and

Leif:

tells them to release the info before she hears what it is.

Leif:

Jack encourages Blair to take the vast board members

Leif:

up to Chuck's office to meet him again.

Leif:

The minions didn't mention

Leif:

Serena, so they're. Oh, we've got this

Leif:

hit on Dan Humphrey. Okay, fine.

Leif:

Release it. I don't think Serena would. Blair would

Leif:

have said that if Serena's name came up.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

The other thing with this B.

Leif:

How'd you miss this? How did you

Leif:

miss taking the board members up to Chuck?

Leif:

She's usually a step ahead of this. How did she not see

Leif:

through Jack here? I felt like she should have seen the

Leif:

trap and been like, I'll go check on

Leif:

Chuck and bring him down instead of leading the board

Leif:

members in. I felt like she missed an obvious setup.

Leif:

she's clearly distracted.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jenny sits down with Eric, who finally speaks up and tells

Leif:

Jenny that he wants some alone time with Jonathan. The two

Leif:

proceed to bicker like siblings

Leif:

very much.

Leif:

And this was where I really felt

Leif:

that this was forced, that Jenny was just being

Leif:

a brat about it. And maybe that's why I

Leif:

felt it was forced is that I felt like,

Leif:

why did. Why would she object

Leif:

to letting them also having their

Leif:

time? So I. I thought

Leif:

that her reaction was over the

Leif:

top. Also, I thought that Andal.

Leif:

Or that Eric was a little more abrasive

Leif:

than he usually is that Eric typically has a

Leif:

more adult way of approaching things.

Leif:

Yeah. So on Jenny's side, Serena actually

Leif:

met. She kind of explains how. Why Jenny be like that? Because she

Leif:

has no one else.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then Eric is just sexually frustrated because he can't

Leif:

be alone. His boyfriend.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah, it makes sense to me.

Leif:

Yeah, that. That. That makes sense.

Leif:

Dan and Serena are joking and being flirty. When everyone

Leif:

gets the blast, the secret is

Leif:

out. Hold on to your floppy cable

Leif:

net hats, kids. Lonely boy. Secret is

Leif:

out. And this one's a doozy. D wasn't

Leif:

cheating, but there's definitely a third party

Leif:

involved. Seems DNS share a sibling.

Leif:

While I'm always a fan of star crossed lovers, at

Leif:

least Robbie and Juliet didn't share DNA.

Leif:

huge bomb from Gossip Girl.

Leif:

Biggest Gossip Girl drop that we've had in a while,

Leif:

as I mentioned before, and it's

Leif:

this reminder that Gossip Girl is a living,

Leif:

breathing character in the show. She has been

Leif:

such a narrator for

Leif:

a few weeks. We haven't really seen

Leif:

much plot coming from Gossip

Leif:

Girl. Just recap, narration,

Leif:

little things like that. Has

Leif:

there been anything big in a while? I feel

Leif:

like not since.

Leif:

Maybe the Marcus stuff.

Leif:

Oh, yeah, I think that, sounds about right. Well, I did like the

Leif:

fun quip about Romeo and Juliet. I.

Leif:

Technically, they don't share DNA.

Leif:

Unrelated.

Leif:

I mean, they're sharing DNA. Possibly, yeah,

Leif:

but they don't share DNA.

Leif:

Yeah, they're not actually

Leif:

siblings.

Leif:

Before we go to act break, we get a final scene

Leif:

with Blair and the board members walking in on Chuck doing

Leif:

coke and still partying with the presumed escorts.

Leif:

Oh, Chuck, didn't your father teach you never

Leif:

mix business with pleasure?

Leif:

Yeah, again, I felt like. I felt

Leif:

like, b. B, you should

Leif:

have seen this coming.

Leif:

She should have. But, yeah, she. They. They've been showing that

Leif:

she's off her game.

Leif:

Yeah, they have. They have.

Leif:

And so I'm not sure if the woman

Leif:

was with them. Was that another board member or was

Leif:

that just the guy's wife?

Leif:

But, they introduced her as a board member.

Leif:

But I. I thought she kind of wanted to stay and party. She had

Leif:

this look on her face.

Leif:

Let's.

Leif:

Let's party. So we

Leif:

go into Act 3.

Leif:

Dan chases down Serena, who begs him to

Leif:

tell her it's not true. Dan, for once,

Leif:

is speechless, confirming that it is true and that

Leif:

he knew about it. Serena's gotta

Leif:

go.

Leif:

Yeah, fair. Like, I felt

Leif:

like every reaction from the four of

Leif:

them, completely fair. Serena

Leif:

being like, I can't be here with you right

Leif:

now, and Dan Wasn't. And Dan

Leif:

was like, fair. I get it.

Leif:

You know, and it's a lot

Leif:

to take.

Leif:

Yeah. And Jenny and Eric being like, wow, this

Leif:

is why we fight like siblings.

Leif:

Chuck enters the brunch still tucking in his

Leif:

shirt. The board members are clearly disgusted and

Leif:

disappointed. Chuck yells at Blair, blaming

Leif:

her for everything.

Leif:

Yeah. And Blair could very

Leif:

easily have said, well, Jack told me

Leif:

to throw this thing.

Leif:

She didn't even, misdirected anger.

Leif:

Yeah. And, and, and he has this wife problem.

Leif:

You know, he has this wife hang up

Leif:

that, that Jack is just

Leif:

scratching at.

Leif:

Yeah. So there was a bit of debate, debate on the

Leif:

forums on whether this was just shitty behavior

Leif:

or if it was actual abuse. Abusive

Leif:

behavior. It's definitely

Leif:

borderline.

Leif:

Yeah. Chuck is definitely an abusive

Leif:

person. Right.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And.

Leif:

Yeah, we'll make that a call to action.

Leif:

Yeah. We'll put a poll on Spotify

Leif:

and if you have thoughts, definitely,

Leif:

come on social media and talk to us about it. Was that

Leif:

abuse or was it just.

Leif:

Chuck being a. Yeah, yeah, fair

Leif:

question.

Leif:

Dan once again catches up with Serena outside the hotel.

Leif:

He seems to at least temporarily pacifier.

Leif:

Eric and Jenny also come out and join

Leif:

the conversation. All four are looking shell

Leif:

shocked and suddenly awkward to be around each other.

Leif:

Yeah, again, it was suit that, how

Leif:

would people react? It felt real. It felt

Leif:

like really real moment. I,

Leif:

really credit acting directing here. It

Leif:

was. They're really a spot on

Leif:

and really felt like you had a window into

Leif:

these kids reactions.

Leif:

Back at the hotel, Rufus is still acting like a

Leif:

bratty child. For some crazy reason, Lily

Leif:

admits she is still in love with him. Rufus,

Leif:

overcome with emotion, pulls Lillian for the

Leif:

kiss. And we fade to bat black back from the

Leif:

commercial. Rufus and Lily are now lying naked

Leif:

under the covers, basking in the afterglow

Leif:

amidst the talks of Paris. Rufus gets a

Leif:

call and apparently the adopted father wants to meet

Leif:

with them.

Leif:

Yeah. Fucking Rufus being such

Leif:

a huge asshole to Lily. And then Lily

Leif:

being like, but I'm in love with you. And then Rufus

Leif:

is like, oh, all right, cool. Let's

Leif:

just go with that now and not worry about this kid

Leif:

thing anymore. And then he. Then they bang. And then

Leif:

it's like, oh, I get to meet the kid. Sweet. I'm

Leif:

getting everything I wanted.

Leif:

Chuck confronts Jack about setting him up.

Leif:

However, Jack just reveals how deep the setup went

Leif:

and he already has assumed control of Bass

Leif:

Industries with the board's blessing.

Leif:

Yep, Jack is a huge piece of

Leif:

shit.

Leif:

And he wins.

Leif:

Yeah, he won. Yeah. For how

Leif:

long?

Leif:

Lily and Rufus meet the adopted father who

Leif:

says that he has something to tell him. But we get a scene

Leif:

cut prior to the reveal, so nothing really happens yet.

Leif:

So. But they are meeting with him.

Leif:

Yeah, I did, I, I did call it at the scene

Leif:

cut. that what he was had to.

Leif:

Say, but he called it wrong.

Leif:

I, I called it wrong. Yeah.

Leif:

Eric enters Serena's room to talk. Eric is

Leif:

back to being the wise sage and tells Serena that she

Leif:

can't push Dan away right now because Dan and Jenny are

Leif:

going through the same thing.

Leif:

This reeks of gin and Chanel number five.

Leif:

This has, this has grandma all over it. Yeah.

Leif:

Reeks of gin and Chanel number five.

Leif:

Eric for the win. The, the,

Leif:

the only people who are going to understand

Leif:

what you're going through are the other two

Leif:

people going through the

Leif:

exact same unique

Leif:

experience. So Eric for the

Leif:

win again. I hope Eric grows

Leif:

up to become a psychologist. I want

Leif:

Eric to be a therapist.

Leif:

I can see that for him.

Leif:

Yeah, I think it would be, I think that he would be

Leif:

fantastic.

Leif:

We go to the gallery and we get a nice Dan and Nate

Leif:

scene. Nate apologizes for the Jenny thing

Leif:

and empathizes with Dan about having personal details of

Leif:

your life up for public gossip. Can we be seeing the return

Leif:

of the bromance? Nate also reconnect with Chuck this

Leif:

episode. We potentially get all three boys hanging out

Leif:

together soon.

Leif:

I would love it, actually.

Leif:

good guy Nate. I always

Leif:

fucking love Nate.

Leif:

And this was such a classic Dan and Nate. See, because at first

Leif:

Dan like gets all prickly, comes at him,

Leif:

and Nate de escalates and they're

Leif:

cool.

Leif:

Just the way he keeps his cool. Dan comes

Leif:

at him hard and he's like.

Leif:

But I have been in the public eye with all of

Leif:

my biggest shame embarrassment. And

Leif:

Dan immediately is always like,

Leif:

fuck.

Leif:

And I have to wonder, is they only dating Vanessa to get

Leif:

close to dad?

Leif:

M. I mean that, that kind of tracks.

Leif:

because when what Nate said, I found out

Leif:

who my friends really were, I meant

Leif:

you. You took me into your

Leif:

home. And Nate having the self

Leif:

awareness of like you kicking me out, like, I kind of get it.

Leif:

I was hooking up with your sister. Like that would make me mad

Leif:

too. Like, Nate just

Leif:

owns it and moves on. And he was

Leif:

just such a, great example of the

Leif:

good guy here.

Leif:

Yep. Back to Rufus and Lily. The

Leif:

adopted father tells them that their son died in an accident

Leif:

last summer, but that he was always a happy

Leif:

child.

Leif:

So I called, when, before the commercial

Leif:

break, I said, oh, the kid's dead. When

Leif:

he was explaining it and Saying it. He had the

Leif:

article and all that stuff. I'm like, oh, this guy's full of shit.

Leif:

I was like, I don't know how, I don't know what's going on here, but this

Leif:

guy's full of shit.

Leif:

Also. I know everyone grieves

Leif:

differently. Why did you keep an

Leif:

article about your son's grisly death?

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

I mean, it's not, it wasn't an obituary. I, I, because I paused it. It's

Leif:

like a full article.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Detailing, what happened.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Seems odd, but whatever.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Chuck arrives at Blair's penthouse to apologize.

Leif:

But Blair is too hurt and sends Chuck a

Leif:

pack in. Good for Blair finally

Leif:

standing up for herself.

Leif:

Yeah. And,

Leif:

and it was somewhat, it was somewhat shitty. Here he is

Leif:

in his time of need. But it's also, you got to put your own

Leif:

life ma. Like you got to put your mask on first.

Leif:

Right. And, and she has taken so much

Leif:

from him.

Leif:

And again, he's not really in

Leif:

a real crisis. He just doesn't have his father's company at

Leif:

17.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. Well, he did

Leif:

lose his dad. And he does feel,

Leif:

I can imagine this 17 year old feeling like

Leif:

he's lost everything right now,

Leif:

and really needing that person.

Leif:

And I, think one of the biggest things that

Leif:

he failed to do right then. And

Leif:

there were three words that

Leif:

he could have said right there and

Leif:

didn't. Although I wouldn't have believed if he

Leif:

would have said it. I think that that would have just been

Leif:

manipulative. Anyway.

Leif:

And we move into the epilogue.

Leif:

Back in Brooklyn, Dan and Jenny are making plans to

Leif:

distract themselves when Serena and Eric come a

Leif:

knocking.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Cute scene with them m before it.

Leif:

Was f. Yeah, I loved it. I loved, I loved

Leif:

the rest of this episode.

Leif:

I really liked the two scenes.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Dan and Serena decide they are going to find a way to make

Leif:

the relationship work despite the

Leif:

skeeviness.

Leif:

Yeah, I loved his apology here.

Leif:

I loved them having that open

Leif:

discourse like they did what brought them together

Leif:

early on in season one. I felt that kind

Leif:

of energy again. I loved the

Leif:

clueless reference that

Leif:

when Dan's searching

Leif:

literature and we get

Leif:

clueless from Serena.

Leif:

Eric and Jenny compete on who can apologize first

Leif:

but continue to tease each other.

Leif:

Yeah, I said it first. Loved that.

Leif:

Eric was so, was so cute. Always the,

Leif:

always the grown up. He's always the grown up.

Leif:

So as is tradition, we close the episode with a

Leif:

montage. Chuck is getting

Leif:

undressed. We see the adopted parents talking.

Leif:

Lily and Rufus talking outside the loft.

Leif:

Rufus opens the Door to find their children all together. We

Leif:

end the episode with a closeup on Rufus and Lily's hands

Leif:

clasping and Gossip Girl narrates.

Leif:

The problem with inheritance is it's not,

Leif:

always as simple as it sounds. Sometimes you get

Leif:

more than you bargained for, or you discover that in

Leif:

gaining one thing, you've lost something else. But

Leif:

every once in a while, the fates smile upon you

Leif:

and you get the one thing you really need.

Leif:

Exo xo Gossip

Leif:

Girl.

Leif:

So a couple things that I had on this little ending

Leif:

bit.

Leif:

For one, the people, the

Leif:

adopted parents just sucking here.

Leif:

And there's a part of me that gets it.

Leif:

My oldest sister is

Leif:

adopted. I'm sort of from a Brady Bunch.

Leif:

My parents were both married and had kids, then

Leif:

got together and had me and my little sister. But

Leif:

my dad's first wife couldn't

Leif:

have kids, and so they adopted a

Leif:

daughter. And so I grew up

Leif:

with a sister that I just always knew to be

Leif:

my sister and found out when I was maybe 11 or 12 that

Leif:

she was actually adopted and it never

Leif:

mattered. And then around

Leif:

college, my sister got curious and started looking

Leif:

for her biological parents.

Leif:

And my dad kind of freaked out

Leif:

about it. My dad, got really

Leif:

upset about it, got

Leif:

really insecure about it. And my

Leif:

sister had to be like, look, you're my dad.

Leif:

These are, these are just people that I want to know where I came

Leif:

from. I want to know that history.

Leif:

But you're my dad. That doesn't

Leif:

change. So I kind of see both sides of this.

Leif:

But I really think Rufus is a huge asshole for

Leif:

his insistence on it. I also think that these people

Leif:

are assholes because if you have raised

Leif:

your kid so that if some other

Leif:

parent comes along, they're just going to want to run off

Leif:

and be with them now, then you're a pretty shitty

Leif:

parent to begin with. I know that if my sister

Leif:

had found those, other people and they were

Leif:

billionaires living in

Leif:

Silicon Valley or some bullshit, she would

Leif:

never have left my dad. She wouldn't. She may

Leif:

have found other ways to benefit, but she would never

Leif:

have been like, well, that's my family now.

Leif:

If you're worried about that, then you're pretty shitty

Leif:

parent to begin with.

Leif:

Yeah. So the individual sees here we get Chuck

Leif:

getting undressed. Clearly a parallel to the opening scene of the

Leif:

episode.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And it's interesting. They clearly want to show us that

Leif:

Chuck was wearing his father's tie because he threw it down right next to

Leif:

the picture.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Of his father. And it was the same tie so you use

Leif:

that tie to go apologize to Blair.

Leif:

Yeah. And Chuck got undressed

Leif:

with no one else there. Typically, when Chuck is

Leif:

going to bed or there's a Chuck moment

Leif:

like that, we cut to him with

Leif:

a woman in the bed. And this was indicated

Leif:

that Chuck was getting undressed and going to bed

Leif:

alone.

Leif:

And, of course, the. The Lily and Rufus, like, Lily's just. She's

Leif:

admitting they. They might not be meant to be family, but course,

Leif:

right then they walk in and see their kids are acting

Leif:

like a family.

Leif:

I thought that was adorable.

Leif:

I thought it was a very sweet scene. I love

Leif:

that they walked in, saw what was

Leif:

happening, and then held hands, that they were

Leif:

like, okay, apparently,

Leif:

we can give this a shot. I

Leif:

loved how that came together, and I'm really

Leif:

happy to see Lily and

Leif:

Rufus finally getting at least something

Leif:

here.

Leif:

So that is it for our episode. Any

Leif:

predictions?

Leif:

I predict that Lily and Rufus live happily

Leif:

and ever after, and so did Dan and Serena. No, I'm. I'm

Leif:

kidding. I know that's not true because they all have to,

Leif:

but I do, I do hope for

Leif:

a good run of

Leif:

Rufus and Lily and a little run of

Leif:

Dan and Serena before something comes along and it up.

Leif:

I'm assuming we got a mention of

Leif:

Georgina. I feel like if they say her name

Leif:

three times, it's going to summon her.

Leif:

So I kind of feel like. And we're getting towards the later

Leif:

episodes, so I'm feeling like there might be a

Leif:

Georgina reemergence at

Leif:

some point.

Leif:

This is a longer season.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, we've got eight episodes left.

Leif:

This was 15. There's 23.

Leif:

25. Keep thinking it's 23.

Leif:

That's norm. That's normal. But, yeah, season two is longer.

Leif:

Okay. Okay. So 25.

Leif:

Okay.

Leif:

So we still have 10 episodes left. All right.

Leif:

So, but I. I'm. I'm predicting,

Leif:

I think that we're gonna have, these two

Leif:

couples giving it a go for a bit. I. I could

Leif:

see this being the Rufus and Lily show

Leif:

going forward. As far as those. That

Leif:

plotline, I could see them actually working out

Leif:

now. I don't think Becks is going to

Leif:

come steal him away.

Leif:

I mean, obviously we're eventually going to see the kid. Do you think that's going to

Leif:

happen this season?

Leif:

I would. I would think so. I would think that

Leif:

the whole fact that they went looking for this kid would

Leif:

stir up the notion that he's being looked for,

Leif:

that he would come looking for them.

Leif:

I'm assuming that he is going to come looking for

Leif:

them. By the end of the season.

Leif:

What about Chuck and Blair? Are they going to continue to

Leif:

bounce back and forth, or are they going to do something else?

Leif:

If it. Maybe there will be a new love interest

Leif:

for Blair. They. If they

Leif:

need to throw someone else into

Leif:

that mix. Otherwise, they're either just going to keep bouncing

Leif:

off each other or they're going to finally work it out for an

Leif:

episode or two. But I feel like.

Leif:

I feel like they're going to draw a new

Leif:

character in at some point. Something has to mix that

Leif:

up because it's just been this whole season. Yeah,

Leif:

it's been since. Since episode one.

Leif:

Yeah. Since Marcus left has been just Chuck and Blair.

Leif:

Yeah. And, like, the only thing that stirred that

Leif:

pot at all was Marcus. And

Leif:

so they need something to stir that pot. Either that or they need to get

Leif:

together and let them be a couple for a little bit. But

Leif:

I don't feel like we're gonna have

Leif:

the Darina and chair

Leif:

simultaneously working out. That doesn't. And

Leif:

Vanessa and Nate. I don't think three happy

Leif:

couples really makes for good drama.

Leif:

Yeah, probably not. Let's go ahead and

Leif:

get into some segments. We jumped

Leif:

into the Wayback Machine to take a look at this week

Leif:

in fandom. Hello there, Peabody.

Leif:

Here.

Leif:

And this is the Wayback Machine for traveling through time.

Leif:

And this is my boy, Sherman.

Leif:

Speak, Sherman. Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. We went to fan for him again.

Leif:

So we. I learned that that thing that we saw

Leif:

at the beginning of the season where Canada was getting the episodes early,

Leif:

that's no longer a thing. Oh,

Leif:

the US Shut that shit down.

Leif:

America First Merc

Leif:

America.

Leif:

So apparently the promo trailer for this episode made it

Leif:

seem like there was no Jack and Blair hookup that

Leif:

happened. People are annoyed by the misdirect.

Leif:

I will say it is

Leif:

so obvious that they hooked up that there

Leif:

may be something else instead of a hookup.

Leif:

Apparently, the promo specifically said they did

Leif:

not. It was like, a scene that didn't make the upset

Leif:

or something.

Leif:

Oh.

Leif:

So, people were annoyed by the misdirect.

Leif:

So it was like in the preview.

Leif:

Yeah, the preview from, last week. Yeah,

Leif:

like next week on the Minions.

Leif:

Yeah, all of them.

Leif:

Jack is creepy, hitting on Blair and winking at

Leif:

Nate. How old is this pansexual sleazeball?

Leif:

Yeah, again, I didn't take

Leif:

that. Sexual. Just

Leif:

slimy.

Leif:

Yeah. And I. I threw her pants. Sexual. Because that early wasn't in

Leif:

the lexicon back then. They didn't

Leif:

have the word for what they're trying to say.

Leif:

Yeah,

Leif:

that's fair.

Leif:

Fan Forum is kind of done with Chuck after this

Leif:

one. They are really down on Chuck. I was surprised.

Leif:

Yeah. Because I'm still in a place where I feel for him

Leif:

still. Like the lost dad thing.

Leif:

I know, fucked him up. I feel like it takes time to get

Leif:

over something like that.

Leif:

And like I said, they're back and forth on

Leif:

whether it was abusive or just mean.

Leif:

Yeah. Especially showing up with the flowers

Leif:

later to apologize. That's,

Leif:

that's, that is some abusive

Leif:

behavior. That is some. Yeah, narcissistic.

Leif:

And also, as I mentioned, Eric and Jenny are giving Will and

Leif:

Grace.

Leif:

Yeah, very much.

Leif:

They are still salty that Nate is favoring Dan over

Leif:

Chuck.

Leif:

Dan's nicer to him. Well, except for when

Leif:

he kicked him out.

Leif:

What's the point of Natesa dating if they aren't going to share

Leif:

a single scene together?

Leif:

True. They only talked about

Leif:

their two month.

Leif:

Relationship and to other people.

Leif:

They literally worked in the scene together.

Leif:

Yeah. Which I kind of love that in its own

Leif:

right. That the writing, they couldn't work

Leif:

them into a scene together.

Leif:

we mentioned the Television Without Pity

Leif:

forums last week. They were kind of. They thought that

Leif:

Share Sibling made Darina more interesting.

Leif:

Fanfare was not on that same kink.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Grossed out.

Leif:

Yeah, a little bit.

Leif:

That's fair.

Leif:

So let's go ahead and get into some episode

Leif:

grade. You're up first, Steve.

Leif:

Yes, I am. So this

Leif:

episode, I felt the writing was

Leif:

close to terrible in. In the way that

Leif:

they were trying to manage these

Leif:

plot devices. I felt like it was such a

Leif:

big episode with the reveals

Leif:

that they didn't know how to

Leif:

build to some of them. I thought that

Leif:

the reveals were great. I thought the acting was great. I

Leif:

thought the directing was really well done.

Leif:

So I gave it a B. Mostly because I felt

Leif:

the writing just really hurt the

Leif:

advancement throughout the episode.

Leif:

So you're giving it a B.

Leif:

A B. Yeah.

Leif:

I, was not as down on the writing as

Leif:

you, but I was also not as high on the acting or

Leif:

the directing. I thought pretty much everything from this

Leif:

episode was a straight down the middle average

Leif:

episode. The only thing, I gave it a C plus

Leif:

because I like the epilogue.

Leif:

Yeah, that's fair. I like the

Leif:

advancement that happened

Leif:

overall was my big thing that I

Leif:

liked.

Leif:

But yeah, it was just kind of an average upset.

Leif:

It really. Yeah, wasn't great.

Leif:

Moving on over to stock. Watch what you got going

Leif:

up.

Leif:

So I have Jack going up. Jack is

Leif:

now CEO of Bass Industries. I

Leif:

have Dan and Serena going up. I

Leif:

have Eric and Jenny and Rufus and

Leif:

Lily. The whole Family going up because

Leif:

they have seemed to, at least

Leif:

for now, all worked out, all of that shit. And that

Leif:

is everyone I have going up for me.

Leif:

I also had Jack because, yeah, he won what

Leif:

he was. He got, what he wanted, his scheme work. I had Jenny and

Leif:

Eric going up because they had the cute sibling stuff

Leif:

going on. Nate going up because he was good guy

Leif:

Nate.

Leif:

Oh, I want to add Nate because I forgot about Nate.

Leif:

All right, we'll add Nate. And I

Leif:

had Dan and Serena going up because, you know, they

Leif:

worked through their issues and they were cute.

Leif:

I kept, Willie at neutral.

Leif:

That's fair.

Leif:

You got going down.

Leif:

I have the adoptive parents going down.

Leif:

I have the Minions going down. I have

Leif:

Chuck and Blair both going down and

Leif:

Vanessa going down for being a bad liar

Leif:

and not saving the day when you had a chance to do something

Leif:

good. And Vanessa, I will always give her a

Leif:

shot down if I can.

Leif:

So I kept Blair neutral because

Leif:

she had a bad episode, but she stuck up for

Leif:

herself at the end, so I kept her neutral.

Leif:

That's fair.

Leif:

You gave Rufus up. I gave her his dad because he was just such a

Leif:

fucking dick all up.

Leif:

Yeah, the up is because I feel like he got

Leif:

everything he wanted in.

Leif:

The end, but he didn't get the kid.

Leif:

At least he got the info on the kid, though. He thinks he

Leif:

got everything he was looking for.

Leif:

And I had Chuck going down because, yeah,

Leif:

he lost big time.

Leif:

And damn, did Rufus get over that kid dying

Leif:

really fucking quick now that I think of it.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Rufus down all the way. I also had the Minions at

Leif:

neutral because the Minions were just being Minions.

Leif:

Take my Rufus point away and send him down.

Leif:

Fuck him.

Leif:

See, I didn't give the Minions

Leif:

dad because they were just being the Minions being

Leif:

Minions. But that's it. for me on down,

Leif:

just Chuck and Rufus.

Leif:

Yeah, okay. But here's the best

Leif:

outfits from the.

Steve:

Last episode we see.

Leif:

Who do you have for best outfit?

Leif:

Jenny's coat. She was in early on.

Leif:

Jenny was wearing that coat and it had like

Leif:

the lining on it. I can't really

Leif:

thing to describe. It was what was like a black coat with

Leif:

like the fucking. I know no

Leif:

one can see me pointing at my. At my collar,

Leif:

but so I guess.

Leif:

I will be the one and I'll be the horny bastard

Leif:

and pick Blair's dress from her.

Leif:

Or not date her lunge

Leif:

address. Yes. So, yeah, it was a black

Leif:

dress with waist trim. She had a bedazzled

Leif:

sash belt with a black flower buckle.

Leif:

It was from the Fall 2004 adultery and Gabbana

Leif:

pretzel Porte collection.

Leif:

Nice.

Leif:

So, yeah, so that is it for segments.

Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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two, episode 16, you've got

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I saw the title. All I saw was the title. And I was.

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And I. And I chuckled.

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The Max episode description reads, the

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students find out who is accepted to Yale University.

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All right, let's. Let's get into that.

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well, until next time, you know you love us.

Steve:

Xoxo Every time you walk away

Steve:

run away you take a piece of me with

Steve:

you there Every time you

Steve:

walk away run, away you take a piece of me

Steve:

with you there Every

Steve:

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

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

oh, it seems I'm walking right to

Steve:

your door.

Leif:

My heart's.

Steve:

Still resting looking for something

Steve:

more.

Leif:

Are.

Steve:

You ever gonna see everything you mean to me? I'm

Steve:

trying really hard to

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 piece

Steve:

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

Steve:

my 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 piece

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of m me with you there.

Leif:

Come 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 piece

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

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

Steve:

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 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 m you with with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away and 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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