Episode 20

Gossip Girl S2E20 - Remains of the J

Hey Upper East Siders and scandal-loving listeners! This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back to dissect the chaos of Gossip Girl Season 2, Episode 20, "Remains of the J." As Jenny's sweet 16 spirals into a rager, Serena's old friend Poppy Lipton stirs the pot, leading to unexpected drama and a questionable trip to Spain. Meanwhile, Blair and Nate navigate their rekindled relationship, while Vanessa and Chuck's unexpected alliance takes a steamy turn. Join our hosts as they unravel the tangled web of Manhattan's elite, with their signature humor and insight. Don't miss this dive into the drama, romance, and questionable decisions that define this episode!

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Transcript
Leif:

The receptionists in the show are not.

Steve:

They're the worst. Every

Steve:

receptionist on this show

Steve:

should be fired. Every one of

Steve:

them.

Leif:

Spilling all the tea.

Steve:

Yeah, they. They are the

Steve:

driving plot device, the driving

Steve:

conflict in probably

Steve:

a third of the show

Steve:

drink every time a receptionist

Steve:

fucks.

Leif:

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

Leif:

you just tuned into the non judging breakfast pod where

Leif:

the coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh, and

Leif:

the gossip is hotter than ever. My name is Leif

Leif:

and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn, the, I don't

Steve:

know, Leif. What are we calling the new kid on the block this

Steve:

week in Gossip Girl terms?

Leif:

Well, whatever you are, thanks for canceling your party. Now I don't have to

Leif:

pretend to feel bad about missing it.

Steve:

Well, it's okay, because it wasn't the party I wanted

Steve:

anyway.

Leif:

Sounds good.

Steve:

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

Steve:

Gossip Girl since it first aired, and I'm diving in

Steve:

for the first time. And together, we are your dynamic

Steve:

duo, bringing you all the drama, romance,

Steve:

and sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

Steve:

iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

That's right. Each week we're going to take a deep dive into the show

Leif:

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

Leif:

parallels and obscure references, and along the way, we'll

Leif:

get some behind the scenes gossip and some stories from

Leif:

fandom.

Steve:

And since we are all about inclusivity here at

Steve:

the non judging breakfast pod, there is always room for you

Steve:

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

Steve:

your mimosa or a cup of coffee or maybe

Steve:

roll up some of, Chuck's special medicine. And let's get this

Steve:

started.

Leif:

All right, before we get into the episode,

Leif:

some news. As of the weekend, we are recording this. It'll be

Leif:

a few weeks when you guys are hearing this, but Blake

Leif:

Lively has filed a lawsuit against Justin

Leif:

Baldoni.

Steve:

For, if I'm correct, sexual harassment.

Steve:

Right?

Leif:

Yes. Some pretty, nasty

Leif:

claims. Yeah, just a very, very uncomfortable

Leif:

working environment. And apparently he

Leif:

hired the same publicity team that Johnny

Leif:

Depp hired.

Steve:

Oh, already?

Leif:

No, this is. This is back when. When the whole thing went

Leif:

down.

Steve:

No kidding.

Leif:

So she's saying like, yes, she's not only suing it for sexual

Leif:

harassment, but also for defaming her. Her

Leif:

character.

Steve:

Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, because there was some

Steve:

that came out about her too, from him. that,

Steve:

like, that he was talking about her.

Leif:

No, he was specifically not talking about her. Or

Leif:

okay, yeah, but now she's saying that she.

Leif:

He hired a company to put out, like, a bunch of stuff on social

Leif:

media.

Steve:

Okay. All right,

Steve:

well, see how that plays out.

Leif:

We're, gonna have to just wait and see how. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

Leif:

Blake's not my favorite person, but, no one deserves

Leif:

that.

Steve:

No, absolutely.

Leif:

Yeah. But, we got. We gotta wait to see what happens here, so it's

Leif:

gonna go to court, so we'll see what happens. So anyways, we

Leif:

are here to Talk about Season 2, Episode

Leif:

20, Remains of the J Original

Leif:

Air Date March 30.

Steve:

2009 Obviously referencing

Steve:

Remains of the Day. Daniel Day Lewis.

Leif:

No, no, it's a 1993,

Leif:

James Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma

Leif:

Thompson and Christopher Reeve.

Steve:

Oh. Oh, really? Yes, I remember

Steve:

Anthony Hopkins. I. I'm pretty sure I

Steve:

never saw it.

Leif:

Yeah, I've never seen it.

Steve:

Yeah, I was really turned off to

Steve:

Anthony Hopkins because I had a girlfriend take me to, like, one

Steve:

of his movies that was like, She was really

Steve:

moved by it and I was bored to tears. Can't tell you

Steve:

what it was, but like, I didn't really.

Leif:

It was this one.

Steve:

I, It may have. It was either this one or.

Steve:

I did not see this one specifically because of the other

Steve:

one, because it looked like it was going to be like the other one. She

Steve:

took me to.

Leif:

The IMDb tagline reads, A butler

Leif:

who sacrificed body and soul service in the years

Leif:

leading up to World War II royalizes too

Leif:

late. How misguided his loyalty was to his lordly

Leif:

employer.

Steve:

I did not see that. That is definitely not. That actually sounds kind of

Steve:

cool.

Leif:

So apparently his boss was

Leif:

a British lord, but he's a Nazi sympathizer.

Steve:

Oh, no shit. Yeah.

Leif:

So he's working with the Nazis.

Steve:

Wow. Yeah, see, that actually sounds like an

Steve:

intriguing film. The one I saw was about

Steve:

maybe Shadowlands, about a, writer.

Steve:

Yeah, that's the one. It was. I think it was called Shadowlands because it's.

Steve:

Because I remember it sounding really fucking dope. And

Steve:

then it was a really boring movie about a writer, which

Steve:

is also probably really amazing movie. But, like, I

Steve:

was more interested in my date

Steve:

than I was the movie is all.

Leif:

So speaking of writers or so called

Leif:

writers, this episode was written by

Leif:

Sarah Frank Meltzer, who has a

Leif:

total of two writing credits, this

Leif:

episode and an episode of a, one season Josh

Leif:

Schwartz show called Rockville California. She's

Leif:

also a producer for four episodes on that show.

Steve:

Yeah, so my guess is that she sat in the

Steve:

writer's room and my.

Leif:

Guess is she was someone's. She was someone's assistant.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, that, that, that tracks. And then got

Steve:

promoted, got a shot and.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, as she, she got on staff for, a

Leif:

show that my one season.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Although interesting enough, IMDb still says

Leif:

2009. Nothing

Leif:

as if it's going to come back at some point.

Steve:

So, you know, maybe season two is just delayed.

Steve:

You know, maybe it's on the Stranger Things

Steve:

schedule.

Leif:

The episode was directed by Allison

Leif:

Liddell Brown, also direct. Second, she

Leif:

was asked back for, season four, but she's like

Leif:

a prolific TV director. Also worked

Leif:

on Chuck, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy,

Leif:

Shameless, and a bunch of other things.

Steve:

Those are good shows too.

Leif:

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

Steve:

Here we go. The central theme of the human

Steve:

drama Gossip Girl is identity. Each

Steve:

new episode, these deftly drawn characters

Steve:

tackle the central question of the human condition.

Steve:

Who are they? What is their purpose

Steve:

in the world? And God help them, will they

Steve:

die alone after shitting themselves in a Duane

Steve:

Reade? Well,

Steve:

maybe not that last one. Anyway, in this

Steve:

week's episode, Serena ran into her

Steve:

undermining friend Poppy, who presented her with

Steve:

a philosophical conundrum. If she isn't on the

Steve:

arm of a designer at the Met one day and lazing

Steve:

around the Maldives on a yacht the next,

Steve:

is she really living life?

Steve:

Similarly, we were later given to wonder, if a

Steve:

woman has thousands of dollars worth of hair extensions

Steve:

and doesn't make an effort to groom them, do they really

Steve:

exist? Meanwhile, Jenny struggled to

Steve:

remain true to her humphriness in the face of peer and

Steve:

adult pressure. And Blair continued to be torn

Steve:

between the happy, go lucky golden retriever that

Steve:

is Nate and her animal attraction to

Steve:

Chuck, the fun but dangerous pit bull.

Steve:

He would almost be scary if he wasn't wearing

Steve:

plaid Dan. Remarks of the latter.

Steve:

Wouldn't we all?

Leif:

Yeah, he's still pretty scary if you get your sister alone on a

Leif:

rooftop.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

But let's go ahead and get into the episode.

Leif:

We begin Act 1 with the gossip Girl

Leif:

narration. Mornings are

Leif:

simply more fun on the Upper east side. Our

Leif:

favorite things to wake up to. Sun in the

Leif:

sky, McKay on the rise, and a

Leif:

wake up call from your latest lover. Or your best

Leif:

friend. Serena calls to check up on

Leif:

Blair, who lies about where she is. Both girls

Leif:

are actually walking down the same Manhattan street.

Steve:

Yeah. The co dependence of their

Steve:

relationship is to the point where

Steve:

Serena covers

Steve:

Blair's lie to her.

Steve:

Bore her

Steve:

like, there's no way that like, yes, you

Steve:

both heard the same car horn

Steve:

you know, that she just lied to you

Steve:

and you covered for her.

Leif:

I, don't know. Serena's not that bright. Maybe she just didn't know.

Steve:

I mean, there's that. It just. It. To me, it

Steve:

just really felt like that. That same Serena

Steve:

always will kind of just.

Steve:

She won't put up that fight a lot of the time. You know,

Steve:

she'll. She'll often. Just when Blair is

Steve:

saying something like that, she'll just give it to her.

Leif:

I mean, it might have been written that way in the script, but I did not

Leif:

feel that from Blake. I felt like she totally believed

Leif:

Blair.

Steve:

Oh, okay. That. Well, yeah. I mean, let's not.

Steve:

Yeah, let's not go into Blake's

Steve:

acting too much because. Because I think that

Steve:

she, Like, if we were to rate the actors on

Steve:

this show, she's probably C tier compared

Steve:

to our, like, sn A

Steve:

tier actors in here.

Leif:

Yeah, Her. Her and Nate are kind of in the same area.

Steve:

Yeah. Only I feel like Nate has

Steve:

gotten better.

Leif:

He's gotten better writing, I think, but I don't know if he's necessarily

Leif:

gotten better.

Steve:

I'm. Maybe I should say I think Chase has gotten

Steve:

better. You think it's just better writing on the voice than it

Steve:

is him, actually.

Leif:

Nate's had some better writing this season, I think, at least in the second

Leif:

half here.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Don't think his acting has changed much at all. It's kind of there.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Right, right.

Steve:

I mean. I mean, like, his. I was meaning more

Steve:

to the boys, like, as he's

Steve:

grown as an actor post Gossip

Steve:

Girl, I still don't.

Leif:

Think he's that great of an actor. He just kind of funny.

Steve:

Yeah. I mean, I guess that's what it is. I guess I'm just kind

Steve:

of in that mindset too, that funny is harder

Steve:

than. Than drama.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So I often credit funnier actors

Steve:

for that. Anyway, we're here to talk about Gossip

Steve:

Girl in Brooklyn.

Leif:

Dan has fan mail. Jenny is about to turn

Leif:

16, and Rufus informs the pair that Lily

Leif:

wants to have breakfast with everyone. Jenny is impressed by the

Leif:

amount of jams Lily has, so they head out the door.

Steve:

The way that everyone's like, man, and you know,

Steve:

Jenny, you almost didn't make it to 16. It's like,

Steve:

not really her fucking fault, Rufus.

Leif:

You kicked her out of the house.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. For

Steve:

following her dreams that were all laid

Steve:

out in front of her, man, you really

Steve:

barely survived this one because I totally got in the way and

Steve:

ruined everything.

Leif:

we'll talk about Rufus. In a little bit here, but yeah.

Steve:

God. Fucking Rufus.

Leif:

Before they can leave, Vanessa shows up and Dan hangs

Leif:

back. Vanessa is whining about Nate not calling for a

Leif:

week. Seconds after Dan advises her to keep waiting,

Leif:

Vanessa gets an email from Nate asking for a meetup.

Steve:

Girl, you broken up? It's been a week in high

Steve:

school. Girl, you single?

Leif:

And you could call him too.

Steve:

Yeah, and you can call him. You can text him.

Leif:

You're the one that left.

Steve:

Yeah, you are the one.

Leif:

Serena runs into her old buddy Poppy

Leif:

Lipton. Poppy is still living that it

Leif:

girl life and gives Serena an oh, sweetie look when

Leif:

Serena explains what she's been up to.

Steve:

She's such a shitty, shitty person.

Steve:

Like, every ounce of her is just

Steve:

terrible.

Leif:

Yeah. Oh, my God.

Steve:

You're doing high school stuff in high

Steve:

school.

Leif:

At the penthouse, Lily, Rufus, Jenny,

Leif:

Eric and Dan are prepping breakfast and joking

Leif:

around. Chuck enters and trades jibes with Dan

Leif:

before leaving for business. Definitely not cardio, which

Leif:

is reserved for evenings.

Steve:

Yeah, gross. But, I loved the banter

Steve:

between Chuck and Dan here. They. They really, I.

Steve:

They really had a good play off of each other

Steve:

here. Also, Eric, like

Steve:

always gold. Always awesome.

Steve:

Does this feel like a sitcom to anybody?

Leif:

More like a reality show.

Leif:

Serena arrives and delivers the news that they are throwing Jenny

Leif:

a sweet 16 party for which Jenny seems less than

Leif:

thrilled about. Just as the scene ends, Rufus gets

Leif:

a concerned look while reviewing Dan's financial aid

Leif:

packet and pulls out his phone.

Steve:

so the first part of this. Why are

Steve:

Serena and Lily

Steve:

so hurt over her saying no,

Steve:

that's not what I want? They're just. They're

Steve:

so extra about it, you know?

Leif:

Well, up to hair Lily probably to put a deposit down on those

Leif:

gators.

Steve:

Probably. I get to a degree.

Leif:

It was just maybe ask first.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Why. Why are you waiting till the morning of to tell

Leif:

her?

Steve:

Yeah. You. You could have warned her about this. Just make

Steve:

it a surprise party at this point. Yeah.

Leif:

At school, Serena is wondering why Jenny doesn't want

Leif:

a big party. Eric enlightened Serena that Jenny is probably

Leif:

worried that no one will show up. Eric, once again

Leif:

voice of reason.

Steve:

Yeah, and. And that makes a lot of

Steve:

sense. Jenny has not had an

Steve:

easy time and she is a finally

Steve:

found obscurity a little bit in this

Steve:

school and wants to

Steve:

remain low key.

Leif:

The mean girls run into Serena and tell her they are glad that her

Leif:

party got canceled so they don't have to feel bad about ditching it for

Leif:

Penelope's party. Serena calls Poppy for help

Leif:

with her party.

Steve:

Yo. Minions were out There taking

Steve:

shots. Like shots

Steve:

at Serena.

Leif:

Well, the minions are not exactly minions anymore.

Leif:

Well, they're just kind of running school.

Steve:

yeah. It feels like Penelope is currently

Steve:

queen and the minions are all. I

Steve:

feel like the other three are still minions,

Steve:

but they've always kind of had even ground

Steve:

with Penelope, and it kind of feels that way.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Spotted. S learning the answer to the age

Leif:

old question, what if you were throwing a party and no one

Leif:

cared? When that happens, don't

Leif:

cancel. Make them eat cake.

Leif:

Vanessa sees Blaire leaving Nate's house. Chuck

Leif:

pulls up at his limo and reveals he is the one who invited Vanessa here.

Leif:

From Nate's account. C invites V to help him get revenge

Leif:

on Nate and Blair. So.

Steve:

So good. Like, Chuck's plan here, and Chuck just

Steve:

rolling up in the limo and rolling the

Steve:

window down. I've known his password since he was

Steve:

10. Soccer.

Leif:

Soccer.

Leif:

Tornado.

Leif:

And when you're not from the Upper east side,

Leif:

sometimes morning is just the start to a

Leif:

very bad day. We

Leif:

move into Act 2. Back at school, Chuck

Leif:

confronts Blair about her morning tryst with Nate. However,

Leif:

Blair insists it's merely platonic. Chuck's

Leif:

counter is. Of course it is, because Nate is still dating

Leif:

Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah. Nice dig. Way to

Steve:

get that. Way to get that shot.

Leif:

Yeah. Lily and Rufus are

Leif:

making chili at the loft. Rufus lets Lily know that

Leif:

Dan got denied for financial aid. Lily

Leif:

offers to help, but Rufus displays his trademark

Leif:

stubbornness and says he can handle it himself.

Leif:

Lily suggests selling the loft and moving in with

Leif:

her.

Steve:

Yes, and Rufus also demonstrates his

Steve:

trademark lying to his kids.

Leif:

Yeah, at least in the past, he was a good dad to

Leif:

Dan. Not anymore.

Steve:

Now he's being a shitty dad to Dan.

Leif:

Seriously, let him take a free ride to Yale.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

But we gotta have a reason for Dan to stay in New York, so,

Steve:

Exactly. It's so

Steve:

shitty because Lily sits there. Hey, let

Steve:

me. Let me offer. Let me help out with this. And

Steve:

it would mean nothing to Lily. Dan wouldn't

Steve:

even lie to him about that. You know, lie to Dan about

Steve:

the financial aid coming through.

Steve:

Through the Van Der Woodsen Foundation.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

A scholarship through the Vander Woodsen Bass Foundation.

Leif:

But it's clear Rufus, is taking a pool for the betterment of the

Leif:

show.

Leif:

I know. Like, he won't take the money, but he

Leif:

starts to agree to move in with her and sell the

Leif:

loft.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

What happens if. You know, when you get divorced

Leif:

for the fifth time?

Steve:

Yeah. When you break up.

Leif:

again, now you're homeless.

Steve:

If anything, you should rent out.

Leif:

Yeah. Exactly.

Steve:

Rent the loft.

Steve:

Monthly month to month

Steve:

leases on the loft. Make it an

Steve:

Airbnb.

Leif:

Nate and Blair are walking in a snow covered Central

Leif:

Park. Blair nudges Nate to break up with Vanessa.

Leif:

He is meeting V for dinner tonight.

Steve:

The I'm sure she thinks it's over two

Steve:

bit is so classic Nate

Steve:

and so such a

Steve:

guy looking on to the next

Steve:

thing that is right in front of

Steve:

him. It's the classic golden retriever

Steve:

Nate that is chasing after whatever ball

Steve:

is being thrown. And the one that's in front of

Steve:

him right now is Blair. And so.

Leif:

Oh.

Steve:

yeah. Vanessa's clearly thinking the same thing.

Steve:

Which the flip side is he can think

Steve:

that because she never sent anything back.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So on that end. Yeah, I mean,

Steve:

you're you. Because you're broken up, guys. Both of you.

Steve:

You're broken up.

Leif:

Serena and Poppy are taking Jenny shopping for a

Leif:

party dress. Jenny obviously thinks it's still going to be a

Leif:

casual, intimate party. When Jenny is trying on

Leif:

dresses, Poppy convinces Serena to upgrade the

Leif:

party. Serena just led

Leif:

like a dog.

Steve:

Yes. To make this party all

Steve:

about herself just to

Steve:

regain Poppy's love.

Steve:

It's so weird. It's weird.

Leif:

It's totally on brand for Serena, though.

Steve:

It's totally on brand for Serena.

Leif:

Yeah. And she's a narcissist.

Steve:

Totally.

Leif:

Vanessa is meeting with Nate, who breaks up with her. Nate

Leif:

denies anything going on with Blair.

Steve:

Nothing was, it seems

Steve:

really going on with Blair other than spending the

Steve:

night together, which is something. If I

Steve:

were to go and spend the

Steve:

night with another woman for five

Steve:

days and not text Robin,

Steve:

even if I slept on opposite

Steve:

sides of the bed foot to head,

Steve:

I'm in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I'm in a

Steve:

lot of trouble.

Leif:

At the very least, he was emotionally cheating.

Steve:

Yes, absolutely.

Leif:

Nate comes to Blair's penthouse to let her know about the

Leif:

breakup. However, Blair was looking for some action, and all

Leif:

she got was a forehead kiss as Nate leaves for the night.

Steve:

Ooh.

Leif:

B.B.

Steve:

Oh, so sad. But even better was

Steve:

Dorota's Nate and Vanessa fanfic?

Steve:

Not that it ever happens to me.

Leif:

Gospel girl comes in.

Leif:

Poor B. It's hard to turn up the heat with an

Leif:

old flame. But stand back. Someone's about

Leif:

to add fuel to this fire.

Steve:

Poor head kiss was so good.

Leif:

Vanessa goes to the Van Der Woodsen penthouse and finds

Leif:

Chuck wearing a velvet smoking jacket that would make Hef

Leif:

proud.

Steve:

Gross. All of this gross.

Steve:

Just no.

Leif:

Back m row commercial. We see Dan smelling chili

Leif:

and Jenny carrying a stack of board games.

Leif:

Dan lets Jenny know about the Natessa breakup.

Leif:

Dan takes a phone call from my realtor and finds out

Leif:

Rufus is selling the loft. Hello?

Steve:

Yes, I must obviously be talking to the person who

Steve:

I'm calling on a landline

Steve:

in 07 or, 09.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. The receptionists in the show are

Leif:

not.

Steve:

They're the worst. Every

Steve:

receptionist on this show

Steve:

should be fired. Every one of

Steve:

them.

Leif:

Spilling all the tea.

Steve:

Yeah, they. They are the

Steve:

driving plot device, the driving

Steve:

conflict in probably

Steve:

a third of the show. Drink.

Steve:

Every time a receptionist fucks

Steve:

up.

Leif:

Serena and Blaire are, talking on the phone again, discussing

Leif:

Nate and Blair as well as Nate and Vanessa. The conversation

Leif:

is interrupted by Eric, who tells Serena to come out of her room to see

Leif:

what's going on. Dan and Jenny arrive at

Leif:

Lily's building, and Dan jokes with Vanya about reading

Leif:

an Ann Coulter book. In the elevator, Dan reveals

Leif:

the Rufus might be selling the loft.

Steve:

I love that Dorota is friends with the

Steve:

doorman.

Leif:

Oh, they're more than friends.

Steve:

Oh, are they? have we seen.

Leif:

No, you have. You have to have watched the Dorota

Leif:

Diaries web series.

Steve:

No kidding. Was that simulcast?

Leif:

Not as. Yeah, it's, like, coming out. Like. Yeah, not

Leif:

like simulcast, but at this.

Steve:

But during the weeks between.

Leif:

Yeah, I think on the hiatus weeks, it was coming out.

Steve:

Well, I know what I'm doing this. I know what

Steve:

I'm gonna be doing, especially

Steve:

once Robin finds out about this.

Leif:

Yes. The Dorota Diaries.

Steve:

Dorota Diaries. How is this the first

Steve:

time learning of this? Also fuck Ann

Steve:

Coulter.

Leif:

What's the Dan making,

Leif:

liberal jokes.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

As the elevator doors open, Dan and Jenny

Leif:

are hit by some, generic house music. Penelope and

Leif:

the mean girls walk up and congratulate Jenny on her

Leif:

party.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Not a Jenny party.

Steve:

No, no, not. Not at all. I did love.

Steve:

I did love how Dan immediately

Steve:

walks in carrying this chili and all these board games and

Steve:

is like, well, I need to find a caterer.

Steve:

I'm, There's got to be one here.

Leif:

He's been to a few of these now.

Steve:

Yeah, I. Honestly, Dan had such a good

Steve:

episode, I feel.

Leif:

Eric, Jonathan in tow, tries to smooth over his

Leif:

sister's faux pas, but only throws gasoline on the

Leif:

fire. Jenny sounds out of mass invite

Leif:

via Gossip Girl.

Steve:

Jenny was right to be pissed at Serena

Steve:

when they confronted each other.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And Serena really did just kind of blow

Steve:

her off.

Leif:

Yeah, she. She basically gaslighted her.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Like, oh, you should have said something. Well, bitch, she did say

Leif:

something.

Steve:

I said something. yeah. Later on, she said that after

Steve:

she. She says that again later on. You should have said something.

Steve:

She's like, I did yesterday and now. But she does, right

Steve:

when she's here. She's like, this isn't what I wanted.

Leif:

Yeah. Chuck and Vanessa arrive together. Even

Leif:

though Chuck claims to be in love with Blair. Or was it

Leif:

Elle? He has no problem creeping on Vanessa.

Leif:

When Vanessa sees Nate and Blair together, she panics and

Leif:

pulls Chuck in for a kiss. Blair and Nate

Leif:

are both giving confused Pikachu.

Leif:

Spotting two people who should know better and two

Leif:

people who don't know what hit him.

Steve:

Chuck perving on her in the

Steve:

elevator. And the kiss.

Steve:

All of it just so gross.

Leif:

I thought they had really good chemistry. I mean, they are fucking. They are

Leif:

fucking in real life, so.

Steve:

Oh, at this point or.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, no kidding. That. I. I'm not complaining

Steve:

about the chemistry. I'm complaining about Vanessa and Chuck

Steve:

both being people that I can't stand

Steve:

getting together.

Leif:

I love Nate's. This is like, I think the only time in the

Leif:

series Nate actually out acted or chase out

Leif:

acted Layton with the expression on his face.

Leif:

Yeah, he looked like confused Pikachu.

Steve:

Yeah, completely.

Leif:

Act three. The word is out. Jenny's

Leif:

intimate family dinner is now officially a rager.

Leif:

Poppy continues to jibe Serena about how much of a loser she

Leif:

is. Now Serena stays at the party to attempt to keep

Leif:

things under control. Poppy is the worst.

Steve:

She's awful. She's

Steve:

absolutely terrible. And Serena,

Steve:

usually, I mean, Serena follows

Steve:

the thing that she's going to follow, the thing

Steve:

that's in front of her, as we said. And

Steve:

it's so much better for her when she follows

Steve:

stuff like Dan and even Blair

Steve:

than Poppy.

Leif:

Serena asks Jenny for help to kick out the Crashers, but

Leif:

Jenny points out that she invited them before their

Leif:

feud can get out of hand. Eric informs Serena that

Leif:

strangers are having sex on her bed. Yeah.

Steve:

And here's where Serena says, you should have

Steve:

said something. And Jenny says, yeah, I said

Steve:

something yesterday. But it's also Jenny, you said

Steve:

something when you first got there too. And

Steve:

Serena blew it off.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Twice now. Jenny should not have done

Steve:

what she did now. She. She was

Steve:

wrong like a teenager. She acted out like a

Steve:

teenager. Blair or

Steve:

Serena was really shitty.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Serena was a really shitty friend.

Leif:

And she admits it.

Steve:

She does. But she has to get there.

Leif:

Yeah. Dan

Leif:

is entertaining three comely young ladies with tales of his

Leif:

new fan when Serena interrupts to drag him

Leif:

off.

Steve:

So I loved. I

Steve:

love. Smart guy. Yes. I, love that he's just

Steve:

there with three women Just standing

Steve:

there macking and

Steve:

just having them

Steve:

enraptured in this conversation. Totally

Steve:

smooth, totally playing it well. And then gets

Steve:

interrupted by Serena, gets blocked by

Steve:

the ex or something. That's

Steve:

not his fucking problem.

Leif:

Nate warns Vanessa to watch out for Chuck.

Leif:

Blair interrupts and implies that she and Nate are more than

Leif:

friends, but Nate denies it.

Steve:

Yeah, I thought it was actually pretty honest

Steve:

and good of Nate to be

Steve:

like, watch out for this guy.

Steve:

You know the. I think that Nate

Steve:

clearly cares about Vanessa.

Leif:

I mean. Yes, but then why. Why are you best friends with

Leif:

him? Why are you best friends with this guy? You know,

Leif:

he's a shithead.

Steve:

It's sort of like Aaron being friends with that guy too.

Steve:

And we know that they're all friends with Chuck despite

Steve:

him being a serial

Steve:

sexual assaulter because

Steve:

they've. They cleared that up when they called

Steve:

themselves the non judging Breakfast Club.

Leif:

Blair throws Nate onto Chuck's bed, but

Leif:

Nate just isn't feeling it.

Steve:

Yeah, I didn't really have words for this, even though I really

Steve:

wanted to.

Leif:

Now, is this the first time we see the Chuck's painting of

Leif:

Georgina as a Girl Scout?

Steve:

I didn't even notice that.

Leif:

Look it up. Georgina as girl Scout painting.

Steve:

Wow. I did not.

Leif:

It's above his bed.

Steve:

Even notice this?

Steve:

Georgina as girl

Steve:

Scout painting.

Steve:

Oh, wow.

Leif:

Yeah, that's above Chuck's bed.

Leif:

That lasts through the whole series.

Steve:

No, it's hidden.

Leif:

I think this is the first time we see it though.

Steve:

is it ever addressed that it's definitively

Steve:

Georgina?

Leif:

I don't think. I don't think so. But I mean it clearly is.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm wondering

Steve:

if. Yeah, so it probably

Steve:

didn't show up. If it has been there. Probably didn't show

Steve:

up until after her appearance.

Steve:

That's interesting.

Leif:

Chuck advises patience as he and Vanessa are

Leif:

waiting for Nate and Blair to come out of the room.

Leif:

When they come out separate, Chuck instructs Vanessa

Leif:

to divide and conquer. However, Nate isn't

Leif:

impressed by Vanessa becoming more Blair.

Steve:

Like what did she do aside

Steve:

from make out with Chuck to be more Blair?

Leif:

Like, well, just coming with Chuck. It awesome.

Steve:

Yeah, I guess.

Leif:

I mean it's so, Nate's a dummy, but he know he knows a

Leif:

scheme when he sees one.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. My. I guess the flip

Steve:

side of that is the reason that Blair was

Steve:

mad and left the room is because

Steve:

Nate wasn't looking

Steve:

to do much in that moment. I guess

Steve:

it's, you know, she drug him in there because of Chuck

Steve:

because Chuck kind of pushed that issue.

Steve:

But it's not. I guess I just didn't really see it that

Steve:

much as their fault. But also, fuck Vanessa.

Leif:

So. Poor V.

Leif:

Nobody gets what they want without losing something they

Leif:

love, like their integrity.

Leif:

Dan is helping Serena put on fresh sheets.

Leif:

Serena opens up about her own selfish motivations for the

Leif:

party. Change up.

Steve:

I liked Dan being a good friend to

Steve:

Serena here. There were no

Steve:

expectations other than, I'm gonna be a,

Steve:

friend to you in this moment. And I really love that.

Leif:

It's almost like they're siblings.

Steve:

Almost like they're siblings

Steve:

that are probably gonna bang again at some point. I'm

Steve:

guessing.

Leif:

Downstairs, Vanya has barred the doors to prevent

Leif:

hundreds of teenagers from storming the penthouse.

Leif:

Lily and Rufus arrive just behind the cops who are here to

Leif:

break up the party.

Steve:

We put hundreds in air quotes, though.

Steve:

Maybe 50 kids.

Leif:

Bad boys, bad boys. What you gonna

Leif:

do?

Leif:

Lily is distraught over the state of her apartment. Lily

Leif:

throws all the blame on Serena. Serena looks to

Leif:

Jenny to say something, but Jenny is meekly staring at her

Leif:

feet. Serena storms off. And finally

Leif:

Jenny comes clean, but reveals that her reasoning is

Leif:

that she doesn't want to move to Park Avenue.

Steve:

First thing about this scene is

Steve:

Lily's reaction when Rufus is like,

Steve:

well, the most important thing is the kids are

Steve:

okay. Yes. But the second most

Steve:

important thing is this apartment

Steve:

and the art. And I thought that her

Steve:

response was really funny. This scene is

Steve:

really complicated because there's so much that.

Steve:

That happens that. Where people

Steve:

are simultaneously right and

Steve:

wrong in their reactions and how they're

Steve:

handling things.

Leif:

And I do like what Serena says there.

Leif:

When it was just me and Eric, it was a safe bet to say it was me.

Leif:

But now the list of suspects is expanding.

Steve:

Yeah. As this family is expanding, so is the list of

Steve:

suspects. And, that's fair.

Leif:

Yeah. At a trendy looking

Leif:

bar, Poppy convinces Serena to ditch being

Leif:

routed to come to Spain with her and her boyfriend

Leif:

Gabriel. To Espana. she's.

Steve:

She's the worst. Especially. It's,

Steve:

funny. I was thinking about this Serena at this

Steve:

point in her life and the way that she has been this

Steve:

season, when she says road trip,

Steve:

that's something that Serena would really enjoy.

Steve:

I think. I think Serena would love to

Steve:

drive across the country and fly back.

Steve:

And when she's shamed for that, like, no, we're going

Steve:

to Spain. It's like, oh, oh, okay. That's right. I'm

Steve:

supposed to be. That's how I'm supposed to be.

Leif:

Yeah. and, before you go to commercial, Gossip Girl

Leif:

narrates. oh, looks like

Leif:

someone's up to their old tricks. And just in

Leif:

time, too. Cuidado, Espana.

Leif:

Here comes el problema.

Leif:

Then, we move into the epilogue.

Leif:

Back in Brooklyn, Rufus and Lily

Leif:

mutually decide to put moving in together on hold.

Leif:

Dan finds out about his financial aid falling through.

Leif:

Dan is so used to being called poor, he actually

Leif:

believed it. This might be the first time the show

Leif:

actively acknowledges that the Humphries are definitely

Leif:

not paupers.

Steve:

I appreciate this scene. As

Steve:

somebody who grew up in a

Steve:

three story Victorian

Steve:

house in the 80s and was

Steve:

constantly told how much of a struggle it

Steve:

was. And not that my parents

Steve:

didn't struggle, but I feel like a big part of

Steve:

the struggle that they had was

Steve:

manufactured, that it was just

Steve:

wanting more than actually

Steve:

struggling. You know what I mean? Yeah. And

Steve:

to see Dan's reaction, that's really how

Steve:

I felt a lot of the time. Not on the level, because

Steve:

clearly I was. My parents weren't making Humphrey money

Steve:

by any means, but they had a

Steve:

decent income and a great school

Steve:

district. And I always thought that we were

Steve:

so much worse off than we were until

Steve:

I actually was poor on my own until

Steve:

I was a divorced single dad

Steve:

teacher, you know?

Leif:

Blair and Dorota are walking in the park talking

Leif:

about Nate. Blair, just when she had given up on

Leif:

Nate, sees him waiting for her. Nate

Leif:

and Dorota set Blair up, and we get the famous

Leif:

snow kiss.

Steve:

Classic Nate. I felt that that was good

Steve:

boyfriend Nate, that kind of stuff that he did

Steve:

for Blair before. And I thought it was cute. I'm

Steve:

okay with the Blair Nate. What do we

Steve:

call Blair and Nate?

Leif:

Is it Nair?

Steve:

Nair. Okay. That's much better than bait.

Leif:

Yes. and the show got very

Leif:

lucky with the snow opposite. I'm pretty sure that

Leif:

was real snow.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

because you could see it melting on their heads, and it didn't

Leif:

look.

Steve:

Like a TV amount of snow.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

You know what I mean? Usually it's either a fair amount or

Steve:

a little bit, but if you're someone who's lived in snow,

Steve:

you know that those little flurries like that,

Steve:

that you know what they look like. and so I don't think you're.

Steve:

I think you're right. That that was natural.

Leif:

Serena shows up to meet Poppy and her boyfriend

Leif:

Gabriel. Apparently, Gabriel met Serena last year

Leif:

when she and Georgina were posing as Savannah and

Leif:

Svetlana.

Steve:

Yes, I remember that. Is that

Steve:

Armie Hammer?

Leif:

Yes. Famed cannibal Armie Hammer.

Steve:

Yes. Famed cannibal Armie Hammer.

Steve:

Robin was the one who recognized him at first.

Steve:

So, that was it him last

Steve:

season too?

Leif:

No, we didn't, we didn't see, see him at all last season.

Steve:

Okay. I, I, Because I remember when

Steve:

Georgina and Serena had the

Steve:

interaction with the guys calling themselves

Steve:

those names, but I didn't remember seeing him.

Steve:

But yeah. Awesome.

Leif:

Well, Serena got blackout drunk. That, that or

Leif:

blackout drugged.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

That night. so yeah, apparently they were doing

Leif:

it with more than those. The first two guys.

Leif:

Probably in his bedroom. Dan

Leif:

calls his fan. It turns out Dan's fan is

Leif:

actually Rubus and Lily's love child, Scott

Leif:

Rossin. Scott's adoptive parents intercept

Leif:

the call and plan to hide it from Scott.

Steve:

Shitty ass fucking parents. They're

Steve:

fucking, they're the, they're probably the worst

Steve:

parents on the show. And that's a bar.

Steve:

That is a, ah, bar.

Leif:

Well, I think we talked about last time like at the

Leif:

Purr, like screen time.

Steve:

Their first screen time rate is

Steve:

the worst. Also, there's something I

Steve:

forgot to say about the previous scene that when

Steve:

Serena is talking to famed cannibal Armie

Steve:

Hammer, that she's doing that thing

Steve:

that if she had cherries or strawberries or a glass

Steve:

to lick, she'd be licking that glass.

Leif:

Yeah. So Poppy was shitty all episode, but she

Leif:

might be losing her boyfriend pretty soon.

Steve:

Yeah, that's, that's kind of what it looks like.

Leif:

And ah, we get a series of scenes to end the episode with some

Leif:

narrations. Mistakes. We all

Leif:

make them. They usually start with the best of

Leif:

intentions, like keeping a secret to protect

Leif:

someone. And then Serena sends a text to

Leif:

Lily letting her know that she's going to Spain.

Leif:

Lily smiles at Eric, Jonathan, Jenny playing Hungry

Leif:

Hungry Hippos before frowning at

Leif:

Serena's text.

Steve:

Yeah, you fucked up, Lily. It's also

Steve:

Serena's pretty shitty for just running off to

Steve:

Spain.

Leif:

I mean this is the second time she's done this this season.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Just went out of the country without even asking.

Steve:

Yeah, the first time it was at least

Steve:

a vacation. This is

Steve:

like I'm mad and storming off and I'm going

Steve:

to continue to storm all the way to

Steve:

Spain, Espana.

Leif:

Sometimes we don't even know what mistakes we've made

Leif:

to get us where we are. And then Nate and Blair are

Leif:

still making out in the snow. nothing really happened there. Or

Leif:

we figure it out just in time to make it right again.

Leif:

And then the final scene is Chuck is waking up and finds

Leif:

Vanessa getting dressed and trying to sneak out without being

Leif:

noticed. However, Chuck pulls her in for round

Leif:

two.

Steve:

We're more alike than you think.

Steve:

Yeah, gross.

Leif:

But every mistake happens for a reason.

Leif:

To teach you a lesson you would otherwise never

Leif:

learn. And hopefully, we never make that

Leif:

mistake again. Lucky for me, that

Leif:

never happens. Xo, XO

Leif:

Gossip Girl.

Steve:

That's our episode.

Leif:

Yep. So what's coming next?

Steve:

Well, I think that this Nate, our,

Steve:

Chuck, Vanessa thing is gonna happen for a little bit,

Steve:

and I think that it's going to become more than either of them want it

Steve:

to, and then they're going to realize that and

Steve:

hate each other. I

Steve:

believe Serena's going to come home with a new

Steve:

boyfriend. I think

Steve:

that Nate and Blair are going to not

Steve:

have very much chemistry or very

Steve:

much of a spark, and that's going to be on

Steve:

Blair's mind while Chuck is seemingly

Steve:

happy. Oh, and, Rufus is going to be a bad

Steve:

parent.

Leif:

Bold prediction there, Cotton.

Leif:

Anything else?

Steve:

I think that we're seeing

Steve:

Jenny in one of her phases,

Steve:

maybe, but I don't think that.

Steve:

I feel like she hasn't had a whole lot of focus, even when

Steve:

she's been having

Steve:

these episodes for her.

Steve:

So I feel like maybe

Steve:

we're gonna get some dark Jenny

Steve:

stuff now that she's in trouble.

Leif:

Well, we do see that, her birthday party is

Leif:

apparently cursed.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes.

Steve:

That's good to think of. So probably

Steve:

late next season. It's funny that her

Steve:

birthday party. Oh, I guess the end of last

Steve:

season was all shuffled later in the year

Steve:

so that it would light. So that's where it lines up. Because of

Steve:

the strike hiatus, or we're.

Leif:

Still right around that same time.

Steve:

Yeah, it was. I think it was.

Leif:

We've had several breaks, you know, and then we're out.

Leif:

We're grabbing another one after this episode. there's going to be another hiatus.

Steve:

I thought I realized that

Steve:

from something. I forget what. Oh,

Steve:

just because of the way that they were wrapping everything up.

Steve:

Had that kind of will be back in a

Steve:

few weeks kind of feel, especially the Nate and

Steve:

Vanessa cliffhanger. I think that

Steve:

that made me really think, like, oh, yeah, this

Steve:

seems like.

Leif:

Well, let's get into some segments this

Leif:

week in fan. And we jumped into the wayback machine to travel

Leif:

to the television without pity forums from

Leif:

2009. Hello there,

Leif:

Peabody here. And this is the wayback machine

Leif:

for traveling through time. And this is my boy,

Leif:

Sherman. Speak, Herman.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. They, were shocked at

Leif:

Chuck and Vanessa, even if Ed Westbrook and

Leif:

Jessica Soar are dating right now.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I was. I

Steve:

probably would have been more shocked if we didn't talk about it a little last

Steve:

week, but I Also just was more.

Steve:

As soon as Chuck pulled up, I saw it coming, you know,

Steve:

and once he pulled up in the limo, I saw it

Steve:

coming, so I didn't have.

Leif:

As much problem with it as you did because, I don't really like users

Leif:

characters, so why not just put them all together?

Steve:

Yeah, I think that's my thing is that I don't really like either of the

Steve:

characters, so.

Leif:

But they are hot together, so. Yeah, why

Leif:

not?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

The fans were watching the doroded website series, so

Leif:

they pointed out the drone and Vanya are actually dating right now.

Steve:

Oh, nice.

Leif:

And that people were seriously annoyed with Serena.

Leif:

And, but they also acknowledged that Jenny was selfish as well.

Leif:

But more understandable.

Steve:

Yeah, I feel like Jenny just acted out. Serena was

Steve:

selfish. Jenny acted out. I m don't think that

Steve:

Jenny did anything selfish. I think Jenny

Steve:

burned it all down because Jenny gets mad and burns it all

Steve:

down.

Leif:

Some positive comments with regards to the new scorn,

Leif:

Vanessa. Unlike them, they, like, are

Leif:

becoming more Blair. Like, I don't like Nate. They

Leif:

like her becoming more player.

Steve:

Like, well, that's because they like Blair.

Steve:

And the fans who are on these

Steve:

forums are savages

Steve:

who really.

Steve:

Who are out for blood.

Leif:

They are mean girls.

Steve:

They are mean girls.

Leif:

It looks like we found Dan's path to staying in

Leif:

NYC next year. How will the rest join him?

Steve:

Yeah, because he can't get student loans

Steve:

or Rufus can't release a new album.

Steve:

Lincoln Hawk should just. Should tour.

Leif:

Or he could just take, you know, his girlfriend's money or

Leif:

take your girlfriend's.

Steve:

Money and go on tour for a

Steve:

while.

Leif:

I mean, prepare. He is a single dad, so we don't want

Leif:

to leave anyone with, What's her name? Allison.

Steve:

No. No. Do we really want to

Steve:

leave her with Lily? Although they should. They're not Lily's

Steve:

kids, so she'd probably be pretty good.

Leif:

Let's go ahead and move into some episode

Leif:

graves.

Leif:

So there was things I liked in this episode. I liked that

Leif:

Jenny was back in the focus, even though she was kind of just

Leif:

a plot tool. And I didn't really like the way

Leif:

she was acting this episode. She was more just bratty

Leif:

teenager than, you know, scheming or

Leif:

pursuing her fashion career. She was kind of

Leif:

there being a bratty teenager. I like Dan. He's

Leif:

funny. Ah. As always. Pen is, you know, very

Leif:

comedic and making jokes

Leif:

with Vanya and then

Leif:

wowing those three women about with his

Leif:

tails, with his face.

Steve:

That was my favorite part of the entire

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

But the bad was.

Leif:

Yeah, Blair was not I did not like Blair

Leif:

in this episode at all. She was just, like, whiny,

Leif:

and I just don't. Why is she

Leif:

settling to be a rebound and just.

Leif:

Yeah. just did not like it at all. so overall, I gave this

Leif:

a C minus.

Steve:

Yeah. I'm gonna give it a C plus.

Steve:

I was really torn between a B minus and a C.

Steve:

I like some of the Chuck and

Steve:

Vanessa storyline as

Steve:

much as I didn't really want them together.

Steve:

I do, like, kind of where that went,

Steve:

where it progressed. I. I kind of

Steve:

liked Jenny. the same things you said about

Steve:

Dan and Jenny. I thought a lot of the

Steve:

writing choices were, let's just say,

Steve:

questionable. Like, the whole Poppy.

Leif:

Not surprised. That writer was diver ass back.

Steve:

Yeah, the writing for Poppy was

Steve:

just so shallow,

Steve:

catty, and

Steve:

felt very. Almost

Steve:

Mary sue ish. Almost like.

Steve:

Like someone who believed that that is what

Steve:

Serena should be doing rather than being a

Steve:

complication, almost, you know,

Steve:

saying that that is what Serena should be doing.

Leif:

So we're saying that was all just

Leif:

service level. That is what it is.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

There's not. Nothing more to that storyline. Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah. That she just.

Leif:

She's just a catty.

Steve:

Yeah, it was very. It was a very

Steve:

shallow storyline. It was. There was

Steve:

no depth to it all.

Leif:

right, well, let's go ahead and move

Leif:

over to Stockwatch. Going

Leif:

up, I had Eric and Jonathan because they were

Leif:

together still and seemed happy and were making

Leif:

jokes. I had Dorota going

Leif:

up because she was good as usual, and now has

Leif:

a boyfriend, Vanya, because she, ah,

Leif:

has the best character as a girlfriend.

Leif:

And I. I had Lily going up. For some reason, I forget why I

Leif:

put her going up.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, because she.

Leif:

She was mostly a good parent, and she

Leif:

offered to pay for Dan's college.

Steve:

And, she up with Serena at the end. But

Steve:

Serena also left before Lily had the

Steve:

chance to.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Fix anything. But also, Lily didn't. We didn't see her

Steve:

make any effort to fix it after that either.

Leif:

Well, that means Serena just left with a text.

Steve:

you will. I'm saying that Lily at any time could have

Steve:

sent a text. Hey, I'm sorry. I see what I

Steve:

did. I'm really sorry I jumped to

Steve:

that conclusion, which I feel like is something that

Steve:

newer Lily would do, so I'm a little

Steve:

surprised she didn't.

Leif:

Who do you have going up?

Steve:

I'm going to add a couple to my list that I was

Steve:

inspired by you, which would be. I had

Steve:

Eric, but also Jonathan. I also want to

Steve:

add Dorota and what was his name?

Leif:

Vanya.

Steve:

Vanya. I had Nate going up. He's getting the

Steve:

girl. I had Blair going up, but I'm not going to keep her

Steve:

going up. I'm going to put her in the middle. Chuck and

Steve:

Vanessa, I had both going up. I'm going to send Dan

Steve:

up. I had. I was really on the fence with Dan because of the

Steve:

Yale thing, but everything else in Dan's

Steve:

stuff was coming up. Dan, I felt today. So I'm going to give him.

Steve:

I'm going to give him the bump. I don't feel like Dan often gets

Steve:

the bump.

Leif:

Anyone else?

Steve:

Nope. That's it.

Leif:

So for me, going down. I had Dan going

Leif:

down.

Steve:

Oh.

Leif:

Because not only did he not get financial aid, but

Leif:

he apparently has a stalker.

Steve:

Oh.

Leif:

Because that's not really his fan.

Steve:

Right. He has a stalker and he got cock

Steve:

blocked by his ex.

Leif:

Yeah. I also had Jenny going down because she

Leif:

was just kind of bratty and caused

Leif:

havoc. Serena because she was selfish and got

Leif:

led by Poppy. Rufus because he's a

Leif:

horrible dad. Vanessa because she's sleeping

Leif:

with Chuck. Chuck because he was creepy. Nate

Leif:

because I don't think he really wants to be with Blair.

Leif:

And Blair because she was horrible this whole episode. And

Leif:

just. And then also Poppy because she's the

Leif:

worst.

Steve:

She is the worst.

Leif:

Who do you got?

Steve:

I had. I had Jenny as well. I had Rufus

Steve:

and Lily both going down in this one.

Steve:

Lily. I mean, her apartment's totally right

Steve:

now.

Leif:

Well, I. But it's already being fixed by a team of

Leif:

people, which she points out.

Steve:

Yeah, that's true. I

Steve:

had. Actually, I think that is it that I

Steve:

had for going down. I'm gonna send Poppy down, too, because Poppy

Steve:

sucks. Poppy. Oh, and the parents.

Steve:

The, Dan neurosis.

Steve:

Yeah, the parents. The. The

Steve:

per. On screen parenting

Steve:

bottom rung. Howard has done better.

Leif:

Some seriously bad war when it comes to parenting.

Steve:

But here's the best outfits.

Steve:

From the last episode we

Steve:

seen.

Leif:

On to best outfits.

Leif:

I'm going to go with Vanessa's purple tuxedo swing dress

Leif:

by Catherine Malandrino.

Steve:

We're on today. I, had the

Steve:

same thing. Vanessa's purple dress.

Leif:

I also like Jenny's, shimmery gold Missani

Leif:

Trapezi dress.

Steve:

Yeah. I also liked Serena, the black dress that

Steve:

Serena was wearing as well. But

Steve:

ultimately I was giving it to Vanessa, who I

Steve:

don't think has very many outfits in the

Steve:

running. So. Good on. Good on you,

Steve:

Vanessa.

Leif:

Anything you want to plug this week?

Steve:

When does this come out?

Leif:

January.

Steve:

if this is if January 8th. Has not yet happened

Steve:

happened. It has. Okay then you should have come see

Steve:

me at Dawson street. But I have been promoting it. I just

Steve:

didn't have a date. So as of now I don't have

Steve:

anything really coming up. I

Steve:

have been. I do recommend anyone

Steve:

watch Shrinking on

Steve:

Apple tv. It's Harrison

Steve:

Ford, Jason Siegel and Jessica Williams and

Steve:

it is absolutely phenomenal.

Steve:

I also if you want to give me a follow on

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TikTok while it's still around or Instagram,

Steve:

my handle is Eve Marchand M m a r

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C H I o n and you can find me on

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me.

Leif:

Nothing really to plug this week but if you want to follow me on

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Instagram I am

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Leif:

I would like to shout out the members of the

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Leif:

next, week to Talk about Season 2, Episode

Leif:

21 Satyr

Leif:

Anything Robin.

Steve:

Robin was really excited

Steve:

when she saw the title.

Leif:

The Netflix episode description reads,

Leif:

serena returns from her trip to Spain with Poppy

Leif:

and Gabriel. Blair makes a secret deal with

Leif:

Nate's grandfather. Dan gets a job.

Steve:

Oh, good for Dan. Wash your dishes all the way to

Steve:

Yale.

Leif:

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 you

Steve:

there Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away M you take a piece of me me

Steve:

with you there Every

Steve:

time you walk away or run away M you take a piece of m

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

oh it seems I'm walking right to

Steve:

your.

Leif:

Door.

Steve:

My heart's still resting looking for

Steve:

something more

Steve:

are you ever gonna see everything you mean

Steve:

to me I'm 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

Steve:

my own

Steve:

I left last night and it feels like

Steve:

way too long.

Leif:

Are.

Steve:

You ever gonna see everything you mean to me

Steve:

I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away run away you take a piece

Steve:

of meat with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

come back to me

Steve:

smile and you'll make my life

Steve:

complete

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:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of m me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me you 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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