Episode 21

Gossip Girl S2E21 - Seder Anything [w/Shari Weiss]

Hey Upper East Siders and Gossip Girl aficionados! This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back with special guest Shari Weiss from Teen Drama Whore to unravel the drama of Gossip Girl Season 2, Episode 21, "Seder Anything." As Blair navigates the treacherous waters of socialite life, Nate finds himself caught between family expectations and personal desires. Meanwhile, Serena's impromptu Spanish escapade leads to unexpected marital complications, and Chuck faces his past with a surprising apology to Jenny. Join our hosts as they dive into the chaos of the Upper East Side, with their usual humor and keen insights. Don't miss this episode filled with secrets, redemption, and plenty of farcical moments!

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Transcript
Steve:

Foreign.

Leif:

Hey up residers and all you scandal loving listeners

Leif:

out there, you've just tuned into the non judging

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breakfast pod where the coffee is strong,

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the waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter

Leif:

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

Leif:

Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, your newbie, your

Steve:

greenhorn. You're. I don't know, leaf. What do we call

Steve:

the season two newbie in Gossip Girl terms?

Leif:

I don't know, but it sounds like you're still wondering. The Bassian

Leif:

desert while I found the Vanderbilt province land.

Steve:

Well, you just better keep grandfather happy

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then.

Leif:

Sounds good.

Steve:

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

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Gossip Girl since the very beginning. And I'm tuning in

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for the first time. And together, we're your dynamic

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duo, bringing you all the drama, romance, and

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sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

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iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

That's right. Each week we're taking a deep dive into the

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show. One episode at a time. We'll analyze

Leif:

all the obscure references, hidden parallels,

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and of course, the couture catastrophes.

Leif:

And along the way, we'll take a look at some behind the scenes

Leif:

gossip and stories from fandom.

Steve:

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

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judging breakfast pod, there is always room for you

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at our non judging breakfast table. So. So please

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grab a cup of coffee, a mimosa, or maybe some of,

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Chuck's special medicine, and let's go ahead and get

Steve:

started.

Leif:

Sounds good, Steve. And we got make

Leif:

some more room at the breakfast table this morning because we got a

Leif:

guest. We are here with Shari

Leif:

Weiss from Teen Drama or.

Shari Weiss:

Hi.

Steve:

Yes, thank you.

Shari Weiss:

Thanks for having me.

Leif:

thanks for joining us.

Steve:

Thank you so much for being here today.

Leif:

This episode will be released on

Leif:

January 20.

Leif:

Sherry, do you watch, Sex Lives of college Girls?

Shari Weiss:

I haven't, but I need to. I know I need

Shari Weiss:

to.

Leif:

So there's. There's a little thing this week, and, this is not really.

Leif:

Spoiler. Yeah, the cat. There's

Leif:

one, a male character named Kanan.

Shari Weiss:

Okay.

Leif:

And in the episode, he does this little. They're in

Leif:

the gym and he kind of lifts up his shirt, like show off his

Leif:

abs. And this guy, he's in good shape. He's in much

Leif:

better shape than me. And. But

Leif:

everyone's talked about the episodes, like, what's going on?

Leif:

They CGI his abs there,

Leif:

or was it a prosthetic?

Leif:

And you know, because also the episode, he was, a Halloween party

Leif:

and he was playing a boxer so you had his shirt off completely and it

Leif:

didn't have those, like, cartoonish abs.

Leif:

And then a day later, like, the next day after

Leif:

the episode came out, turns out the

Leif:

US Is the only broadcast that had this on

Leif:

it. It was not added for the

Leif:

other Canadian broadcast or anywhere else in the world.

Shari Weiss:

That's so strange.

Leif:

Yeah. So apparently, you gotta

Leif:

have cartoonish, abs in the U.S.

Leif:

i guess.

Shari Weiss:

We have high standards.

Steve:

I never wanted a six pack because I always had a

Steve:

keg.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Anyways, we are here

Leif:

to talk about season two, episode

Leif:

21 of Gossip Girl, titled

Leif:

Seder. Anything. The original air date

Leif:

was April 20, 2009.

Steve:

Yes. One of, one of my favorite

Steve:

movies. I absolutely love

Steve:

say Anything.

Leif:

Of course.

Steve:

John Cusack.

Leif:

Yep. 89. Cameron Crow film with John

Leif:

Cusack. Ione Sky.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Even if you've ever seen it, most people probably know the

Leif:

jukebox above the head.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly. I actually worked in the mall

Steve:

where they met when I lived in Seattle. That's.

Shari Weiss:

Wow.

Steve:

Yeah. I remember watching and being re watching

Steve:

it in Seattle, and they drive by it, and I'm like, wait, I.

Steve:

I work there.

Leif:

so this episode was written by Amanda

Leif:

Lasher. This is her third. Third episode of the

Leif:

season. Previously wrote Pret de Por J

Leif:

and Gone with the Will.

Steve:

Yeah. Decent, right?

Leif:

Yeah. Good. Episodes and episodes directed

Leif:

by John Stevens. This is his first time

Leif:

in the director's chair, but you might recognize his name because

Leif:

he wrote three episodes this season.

Steve:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

If you watch the O.C. you'd also recognize his name

Shari Weiss:

because he was a big writer and producer

Shari Weiss:

over there as well.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

Oh, okay. So, so clearly a Josh

Steve:

Schwartz team member for

Steve:

sure. That was brought along.

Leif:

Yeah. This is his first time in the director's chair, though.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Steve, why don't you go ahead and read that Vulture recap?

Steve:

Sure thing. Because of

Steve:

Passover, the theme of Gossip Girl was,

Steve:

fittingly, redemption. As

Steve:

Cyrus, the drama's spiritual center,

Steve:

prepared a brisket for an evening seder, the

Steve:

characters around him continued to simmer in the

Steve:

oily stew pot that is the Upper

Steve:

east side, trying like so many

Steve:

aromatic vegetables to hang on

Steve:

to their individual essence while

Steve:

absorbing and being absorbed by

Steve:

others. After much mishigos,

Steve:

Blair was forgiven by Nate and later Cyrus

Steve:

for acting like a, social climbing

Steve:

psychopath. She is changing for the better.

Steve:

Chuck confirmed, who redeemed himself for his first

Steve:

season sin of trying to rape Jenny on the roof of the

Steve:

kiss on the lips party by offering her

Steve:

a heartfelt apology. Meanwhile,

Steve:

Serena was forgiven by her mother, Lily,

Steve:

for Running away to Barcelona,

Steve:

causing a scene at Eleanor Seder and the

Steve:

general sin of being an exotic

Steve:

butterfly who merely wants to be free, but

Steve:

sometimes makes mistakes. Oh, sweetie.

Steve:

Lily tells her daughter during their heartfelt

Steve:

conversation, which takes place in front of a glass

Steve:

doored refrigerator packed with colorful

Steve:

produce. I could never think of you as a bad

Steve:

person. You got into Brown.

Leif:

Any thoughts?

Shari Weiss:

It's fun. That was written by

Shari Weiss:

Vulture. yeah, by Jessica Pressler.

Leif:

And I think it's a man

Leif:

actually writes the. The recast for Gas.

Shari Weiss:

Okay.

Leif:

yeah, I forgot his name though.

Shari Weiss:

It was pretty spot on.

Leif:

Go ahead and get into the episode. We

Leif:

begin act one with another Blair dream

Leif:

sequence. She is a character in an Audrey Eprom

Leif:

film. Once again, this time Eliza Doolittle from My

Leif:

Fair Lady. Blair awakens to a Gossip Girl

Leif:

monologue. When you lose hope in a

Leif:

dream, sometimes all you have left with

Leif:

is sleepless nights. while some call the doctor for a

Leif:

refill, I find the best solution is

Leif:

a full social calendar.

Steve:

Something really interesting about this dream though. Cuz

Steve:

she's not just Eliza Doolittle, she's also

Steve:

Mrs. Higgins. Yes, right. So

Steve:

she is both the protagonist and

Steve:

antagonist here, showing that she's the one

Steve:

who's looking down on. On her.

Steve:

You know, she is the one who is not

Steve:

living up to her own standards.

Leif:

any thoughts on the dream?

Shari Weiss:

I just thought it was another example of the, of the

Shari Weiss:

classic Blair dream sequences where

Shari Weiss:

they blend reality

Shari Weiss:

and fiction in a way that is also a really

Shari Weiss:

great cinematic homage. you know, a lot of people think

Shari Weiss:

OSSA Girl is low culture, but would

Shari Weiss:

a low culture piece of art be paying

Shari Weiss:

tribute to the iconic films of Audrey

Shari Weiss:

Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe and all these

Shari Weiss:

other sequences that we see come to life?

Leif:

Oh, yeah, it's clear the writers are pretty

Leif:

big cinema. and literature nerds.

Steve:

Yeah, very much.

Leif:

Blair is catching Cyrus up on the gossip as he is

Leif:

preparing for Passover dinner. Cyrus offers to

Leif:

help Blair with nyu, but Blair has given up on

Leif:

college and has committed to the life of a

Leif:

socialite. Eleanor is clear clearly not pleased

Leif:

with this direction for her daughter.

Steve:

No, yeah, I, she's just not cool

Steve:

with raising a socialite, which I.

Leif:

Real north women are not socialites.

Steve:

Yeah, I love that about Eleanor is you're

Steve:

going to, you're going to get something

Steve:

more than just being a socialite.

Steve:

I, I've always respected Eleanor and

Steve:

her drive and her ambition.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah, makes sense. she's an anomaly in the cast of

Shari Weiss:

characters.

Leif:

Serena is back from Spain. She is greeted by

Leif:

a creepy Chuck, who claims to be over

Leif:

Blair. Chuck calls out Serena claiming to be

Leif:

in Spain with Poppy when Poppy has been back for

Leif:

town. Back in town for a week.

Steve:

Yeah. Chuck being gross. Yeah.

Leif:

I saw, the one reference to Vanessa

Leif:

in the episode.

Steve:

Oh, I didn't even catch that he referenced

Steve:

her.

Leif:

He said I had a thing with the boho barista for a

Leif:

minute.

Steve:

Wow. I didn't. I didn't

Steve:

even take that as a

Steve:

Vanessa thing. That's really funny. But also,

Steve:

Chuck catches Serena in her lie

Steve:

about being in Spain with Poppy.

Leif:

Indeed. Yeah. Chuck mentions the boho

Leif:

baristas. That's the one Vanessa mentioned in the

Leif:

episode. And he's saying, I realized I was 17 year

Leif:

old Billionaire with stamina.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah. Vomit inducing.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair and Nate are making out in

Leif:

front of the church. They go in and discuss Nate getting

Leif:

into Yale and Columbia. Blair gets more bad

Leif:

news when Maureen comes up and tells her that she didn't get

Leif:

into the Junior Whitney committee.

Leif:

Not good for Blair right now.

Steve:

No, it

Steve:

takes a while to start to matter.

Steve:

Just told her she hasn't begun to

Steve:

matter.

Leif:

And, ah, Nate being a little insensitive, talking about how he got

Leif:

into both Yale and Columbia.

Steve:

But also for you, Nate.

Leif:

in Brooklyn, Dan notices some possible

Leif:

sparks between Jenny and her lab partner, Wes.

Leif:

Rufus can't make any money and he refuses to let

Leif:

Dan get a job. However, Rufus leaves to go

Leif:

shopping with Lily, and Jenny thinks she has a job

Leif:

for Dan.

Shari Weiss:

I thought the idea that came up of selling the loft was an

Shari Weiss:

interesting one.

Leif:

Yeah. was that the last episode?

Steve:

That was the last episode. They're gonna sell the loft.

Leif:

This episode, he decides he's gonna sell the gallery.

Leif:

Right which way to go? Rufus,

Leif:

you need money, so sell your livelihood.

Steve:

Yeah, no, but, there

Steve:

is a willingness there for Rufus to live off of

Steve:

Willy. You know, he's like, lily wants to go buy a new

Steve:

whatever, and I'm going to go shopping with Lily instead of

Steve:

doing any of the responsible things I need to take care of. Like,

Steve:

I'm not going to the gallery to work right now. I'm going to go shopping

Steve:

with my girlfriend.

Shari Weiss:

He's slowly getting introduced to the finer things in life, and

Shari Weiss:

I think he's liking it more than he wants to admit.

Steve:

Hey, I think you are very.

Leif:

Just let her pay for college, God damn it.

Steve:

Thank you.

Leif:

Back at the church, the grandfather makes a deal

Leif:

with Blair to help convince Nate to choose Yale over

Leif:

Columbia.

Steve:

Bea knows the game.

Leif:

Yeah, but she should know that Nate doesn't like that kind

Leif:

of thing.

Shari Weiss:

She should, but it's not beneath

Shari Weiss:

her to play a game. Right.

Leif:

So yeah, it's definitely in character.

Steve:

Especially a game that feels like an

Steve:

easy wood, you know? Oh, I just need to

Steve:

nudge him in the direction of Yale. Sure. He's already, you know,

Steve:

fine. No problem.

Leif:

And also, like, previous to the scene, he

Leif:

was kind of definitely like on the fence. He

Leif:

wasn't leaning one way or the other.

Steve:

Yeah, he was definitely right down the middle. So it didn't seem like a

Steve:

hard thing to push him one way or the other.

Shari Weiss:

Well, except for the fact that he didn't want to go to Yale just because he felt

Shari Weiss:

like he was only accepted because of his

Shari Weiss:

grandfather. So I think maybe going

Shari Weiss:

to Columbia, he felt that was more

Shari Weiss:

of a genuine admission that he earned.

Steve:

Right.

Shari Weiss:

This is the Yale admission.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Cyrus gets a call from Serena who says she needs a

Leif:

lawyer. And we go to our first commercial break.

Steve:

Oh no. Who did she hand cocaine to?

Shari Weiss:

Who did she almost kill or actually kill?

Leif:

Back from commercials. Rufus is carrying Lily's

Leif:

shopping bags back to her apartment. Rufus is

Leif:

still whining about not selling any art.

Steve:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

Might actually have to be in your gallery and meet

Shari Weiss:

with clients to sell art.

Steve:

Yeah, it helps.

Leif:

Serena comes into the living room and Lily asks Rufus to

Leif:

excuse them. Lily is not happy about Serena's

Leif:

trip to Spain. Lily grounds Serena.

Shari Weiss:

I'm still amazed that ah, as like, as rich as these

Shari Weiss:

people are and the lifestyle they live, that

Shari Weiss:

she as this as a minor

Shari Weiss:

child is able to just leave

Shari Weiss:

and flee to another country. It

Shari Weiss:

will come back at will and what have you. And

Shari Weiss:

that's what ah, almost makes it hilarious, the idea of

Shari Weiss:

Lily grounding her. Yeah,

Shari Weiss:

she was grounded to obey that.

Leif:

Well, at least some of them are 18 at this

Leif:

point.

Leif:

We know Blair is definitely 18 and Dan is definitely 18

Leif:

because he mentioned.

Steve:

That when he was banging a teacher.

Shari Weiss:

Yes, I'd have get that in there for legal reasons.

Leif:

Yeah, just like the

Leif:

SC when they. They magically changed Luke's age.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah. With Julie. Exactly what I was thinking,

Shari Weiss:

Leif.

Steve:

And the other thing we've talked often about how Lily

Steve:

is a good parent to everyone but her own kids.

Shari Weiss:

Children.

Steve:

Yeah. And here's a great example

Steve:

of. As a parent, I know that one of the

Steve:

hardest things to do is stop and

Steve:

listen to what your kid is saying before

Steve:

formulating your ideas. And

Steve:

because you're already mad and you're already hot about it and it's

Steve:

really, really hard to step out of that moment and

Steve:

listen to their explanation and listen to what they have to

Steve:

say. But it's an important part of

Steve:

parenting to do that.

Leif:

Serena calls Blair. Blair comments

Leif:

on how much better being with Nate is and

Leif:

compares herself to the suffering of the Jewish people.

Leif:

Serena susses out that Blair won't be at her

Leif:

home all day, so she could presumably go

Leif:

see Cyrus without Blair knowing.

Steve:

Robin took pause,

Steve:

comparing her plight.

Shari Weiss:

Such a hard life that she lives.

Leif:

Poor Blair.

Shari Weiss:

She's been wandering in the desert for 40 years.

Leif:

Yeah. It looks like Dan got the

Leif:

cater waiter job as he gets out of the catering van with his new

Leif:

co worker and Dan goes into overshare mode

Leif:

before realizing whose house they are at.

Leif:

Eleanor walks up and mentions that Dan looks

Leif:

familiar.

Steve:

I love this. It is the start of some very

Steve:

classic farce writing,

Steve:

like the. The. A lot of the Satyr

Steve:

storyline. A lot of the Waldorf house

Steve:

is run like a farce, and most of it

Steve:

is done really well.

Shari Weiss:

that was my observation as well, that it was a classic

Shari Weiss:

Gossip Girl episode in that it centers

Shari Weiss:

around an event that brings people together in

Shari Weiss:

unexpected ways. And it's a, full farce all the

Shari Weiss:

way.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Which, if I remember

Steve:

correctly, My Fair Lady. Although

Steve:

I don't think My Fair lady is classified as a farce.

Steve:

I think Pigmalion is the original

Steve:

play, so again, it ties into that

Steve:

opening scene as well.

Shari Weiss:

Right.

Leif:

Good point. Once inside,

Leif:

Dan is trying to get out of the job, but Eleanor offers to

Leif:

pay them double, which causes Dan's coworker Corrine

Leif:

to pressure Dan as well.

Steve:

That was so funny.

Leif:

Understandable.

Shari Weiss:

I mean, money's persuasive.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And Eleanor knows how to get shit

Steve:

done. I need this done, Dan. I'm going to

Steve:

give you more money. Just do it.

Shari Weiss:

It's also funny that Eleanor even thought she needed a wait staff

Shari Weiss:

for like, the five guests that she was having.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

I like how much Dan actually knows about their. Like, she, like, oh,

Leif:

derota can help. Yeah, like, wow,

Leif:

Dan, you know a lot about Blair's house.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

We shift back to Nate and Blair.

Leif:

Nate, who earlier today was unsure about which college

Leif:

to choose, is now firmly in the Columbia

Leif:

camp. Blair fails to sway Nate back to

Leif:

Yale.

Shari Weiss:

It's interesting that she'd be willing to go along

Shari Weiss:

with Nate going to yell because that would make a long distance

Shari Weiss:

relationship for them. And you would think that she wouldn't want

Shari Weiss:

that, that she would find it for the sake of their

Shari Weiss:

relationship. She should want him to go to Columbia and just,

Shari Weiss:

you know, be in the same city. But it shows how

Shari Weiss:

misguided her motives are that she Cares more about

Shari Weiss:

working with the junior community and getting

Shari Weiss:

what she wants. And she's okay being, you know,

Shari Weiss:

hours away from her boyfriend.

Steve:

I also feel like, tied into that. There's an

Steve:

element of if he's at Yale,

Steve:

she can kind of vicariously

Steve:

fulfill her dream too.

Shari Weiss:

Okay. Versus being jealous of him.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

And the possibility of getting in next year to Yale.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah. I thought you were gonna say when you said that

Shari Weiss:

if he's at Yale, in a way, the

Shari Weiss:

mice can play that, like, without having Nate in

Shari Weiss:

town. She's actually liberated in some

Shari Weiss:

ways to.

Steve:

That's probably to scheme and do

Steve:

her.

Shari Weiss:

And run into Chuck and, you

Shari Weiss:

know.

Leif:

We get a little Gossip Girl blur between scenes

Leif:

here. Obi, too bad

Leif:

you weren't invited to Nate and Trip's lunch, because whatever

Leif:

happened, it looks like you're the one paying.

Steve:

We've briefly touched on it last week, and now

Steve:

it's really coming through that Trip is a shit

Steve:

starter.

Leif:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

It was not until rewatching this that I realized

Shari Weiss:

why he's called Trip and it's called

Shari Weiss:

he's Triple because he's, William Milling

Shari Weiss:

the third.

Leif:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

And I feel like I went through years not realizing

Shari Weiss:

this. I just felt like he was genuinely

Shari Weiss:

like his God given name was Trip

Shari Weiss:

and not that it was triple. And that

Shari Weiss:

triple in itself was a nickname.

Shari Weiss:

This is my epiphany.

Leif:

It's a. It's actually a pretty common nickname

Leif:

for those Rick. People name their

Leif:

sons after each other three times in a row.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah, I wouldn't know that.

Leif:

And we see Serena is telling Cyrus that she got married

Leif:

in Spain. Somehow cater waiter Dan was hiding

Leif:

behind the much smaller Cyrus and overhears what Serena

Leif:

said.

Shari Weiss:

How's she gonna hide beside Cyrus?

Leif:

It's like, how do you not see him there?

Steve:

Yeah,

Steve:

yeah. You who hides behind Sean

Steve:

Wallace or Wallace Shaw.

Shari Weiss:

Tiny child.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Act two. Serena explains how she got drunk and

Leif:

may or may not have married Poppy's boyfriend

Leif:

Gabriel. Dan is understandably a little

Leif:

salty about this.

Steve:

Dan is hilarious in this too.

Leif:

Yes, you're the wife of the land of Genery,

Leif:

and I'm a cater waiter at Seder.

Shari Weiss:

I just love any story that brings Dan and Serena

Shari Weiss:

back together, and especially this one,

Shari Weiss:

because as we'll get to later in the episode, they do have to

Shari Weiss:

pretend that they're back. They're actually romantically back

Shari Weiss:

together. And, you know, as a Dorina fan, for

Shari Weiss:

the most part, I just. Just like when they're

Shari Weiss:

back in each other's webs like this, and, you know, they

Shari Weiss:

weren't For a bit because of. You know, we had

Shari Weiss:

Aaron and we had Rachel Carr and what have you. So

Shari Weiss:

there were interludes, and,

Leif:

And they got back together for, like, five minutes in

Leif:

between those two relationships somehow.

Steve:

And the other thing that I keep coming back to is that

Steve:

Dan really takes the we're friends

Steve:

seriously, and he really tries to be a

Steve:

friend to Serena a lot of the

Steve:

time. He's done it in the past few.

Leif:

Episodes, which Lily points out at the end

Leif:

there.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

At the rehearsal dinner, Blair asks Nate what's going

Leif:

on. Nate completely ignores the grandfather,

Leif:

who becomes suspicious.

Steve:

Boom, boom, boom.

Leif:

Rufus and Lily arrive at Seder. Eleanor is happy to

Leif:

see them and hints at Dan working in the party.

Steve:

I'm so happy you invited yourself.

Steve:

Seemed like such a. She was actually

Steve:

happy because she wanted the buffer but also wanted

Steve:

to make sure that she pointed out to Lily.

Steve:

Yeah, you invited yourself.

Steve:

The other thing. I loved the did you know?

Steve:

Well, you'll find out.

Leif:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

Which is just part of the great farce set up.

Steve:

Yeah. M. Yeah, it really is. It just,

Steve:

Everything has to be in a hurry. There's no time

Steve:

to explain that your son is here waiting tables.

Steve:

You'll find out. It was

Steve:

really well done.

Leif:

Dan and Serena enter the party. Serena says

Leif:

Blair invited her, and then she invited Dan. Rufus

Leif:

notices Dan is dressed like a cater waiter, but doesn't

Leif:

quite put two and two together.

Shari Weiss:

You know, I actually don't think his. His outfit was

Shari Weiss:

that. I'm a server here. Like, that much of

Shari Weiss:

a giveaway. I feel like somebody could actually get.

Leif:

Away with wearing that, especially since Dan is known

Leif:

for wearing vests.

Shari Weiss:

And it's black and it's white, and it's just. I don't

Shari Weiss:

know.

Leif:

It's a classic look.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah. And. And again, just the.

Steve:

The farcical Eleanor

Steve:

walks in. Oh, but Blair's not going to be here. All

Steve:

of these excuses that are coming off

Steve:

at, the top of their heads. It was. I loved

Steve:

that. This was my. Actually my favorite of those

Steve:

farcical seals.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jenny and Wes are at the Vander Woodsen apartment getting

Leif:

ready to play Monopoly when Chuck

Leif:

bursts in with his conquest for the night. Wes and

Leif:

Jenny get a little awkward at Chuck's lurid

Leif:

display.

Steve:

I like seeing Jenny with a nice boy.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah.

Steve:

And Monopoly.

Shari Weiss:

She deserves some innocence.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, she does.

Leif:

Back at the Waldorfs, Lily is talking up

Leif:

Rufus to the art collector.

Shari Weiss:

You know, even Lily has ulterior motives.

Steve:

You should. You should move your. Your. You

Steve:

should move your gallery to the city. It's Funny to

Steve:

me, because anyone who doesn't live in New York City,

Steve:

the city is all of New York City.

Steve:

Brooklyn is the city.

Leif:

Well, also the fact that he said Williamsburg is dead.

Leif:

I mean. Yeah,

Leif:

that didn't.

Shari Weiss:

Not in 2024.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, it was.

Leif:

Funny artist.

Steve:

Yeah. I was gonna say that this was around the time that

Steve:

Williamsburg really started picking up,

Steve:

too.

Shari Weiss:

Right. Like, not. I'm not saying this to

Shari Weiss:

reference the Gossip Girl Max's version

Shari Weiss:

of it, but, like, if there was a Gossip Girl

Shari Weiss:

today, they wouldn't be beating on

Shari Weiss:

Brooklyn, like, in the way that the original

Shari Weiss:

series did. Yeah, there would be. There would need to be a different

Shari Weiss:

way to show that the Humphreys were of lower

Shari Weiss:

stature.

Steve:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

From the wrong part of town.

Leif:

And, yeah, I've not watched the reboot, but I believe the

Leif:

richest character is from Brooklyn.

Shari Weiss:

ob. maybe. I don't remember. I mean, I did watch all of it, but

Shari Weiss:

I've tried to block it from my memory.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

I watched, like, the first 15 minutes. I was like, no, it's not for

Leif:

me.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah.

Leif:

Serena tries to apologize to Dan about

Leif:

marrying Gabriel, but Eleanor repeatedly yells for Dan

Leif:

to get the matzah.

Shari Weiss:

Have a Seder without matzah.

Steve:

I mean.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And I love. I love the whole time

Steve:

that I believe. This is also

Steve:

where Rufus kind of looks at Dan like, why would you do that? And he

Steve:

goes, I'm just gonna go with it. Now.

Steve:

She keeps talking to him like a waiter, and Dan

Steve:

keeps acting like he's. Or Rufus keeps acting like he's a

Steve:

guest.

Shari Weiss:

It's almost like.

Steve:

Loved it.

Shari Weiss:

They're building a house of cards. Or, like, the opposite of

Shari Weiss:

Jenga. Like, as each thing has happened, another

Shari Weiss:

card or another block is added, and it's

Shari Weiss:

like, at what point is this whole thing going to topple over?

Steve:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

We eventually see that it all comes falling

Shari Weiss:

down.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

At the rehearsal, Blair is asking Trip

Leif:

what's going on with Nate. Before Trip can reveal his

Leif:

conversation with Nate, Nate clinks his glass for a

Leif:

toast. Nate reveals that it was the grandfather

Leif:

who dimed out the captain back in season one.

Steve:

More shit starting from. From Trip, though. Like, we see

Steve:

that Tripp is a shit starter and he's not looking out

Steve:

for Nate's best interest, because

Steve:

what do.

Leif:

We think his motives are?

Steve:

Steve, My. I would assume

Steve:

that he wants Nate out of

Steve:

the family for his because he doesn't want

Steve:

Nate to gain any kind of

Steve:

position over him. That's my.

Steve:

That's my working theory right now, is

Steve:

that Nate now has this internship at the

Steve:

Mayor's office coming up, and that Trip is

Steve:

worried that Nate might try to get in his

Steve:

way.

Shari Weiss:

The timing is interesting because this is the backdrop of all this,

Shari Weiss:

is Trip and Maureen getting married, and you would think that

Shari Weiss:

Trip would want the focus solely on him, that

Shari Weiss:

it's his day, it's his time, and yet he's stirring

Shari Weiss:

with the pot in a way that takes attention away from

Shari Weiss:

him and puts it on Nate and the

Shari Weiss:

grandfather. So it's an interesting

Shari Weiss:

tactic.

Leif:

Oh, B. Looks like you hitched your wagon to a

Leif:

falling star.

Leif:

Gabriel shows up the Seder looking for Serena,

Leif:

and Gossip Girl takes us to the commercial break with this

Leif:

zinger. Baruch atta a

Leif:

Dios mios. This Passover is gonna

Leif:

get its own Spanish inquisition.

Shari Weiss:

Oh, my gosh. I hated that. I hated that

Shari Weiss:

one.

Steve:

I hated God.

Steve:

Gabriel, first of all, what the are you doing just

Steve:

showing up at some. Not even the person you're

Steve:

looking for. You're not even going to her

Steve:

house. You're going to her friend's house to

Steve:

a dinner they're having. Why

Steve:

the would this person show up here?

Steve:

It does align perfectly with any

Steve:

farce, for sure. It is

Steve:

very. yeah, as far as the writing scheme

Steve:

of being a farce is concerned. Yes,

Steve:

but in the realm of real life. What

Steve:

the.

Shari Weiss:

I was gonna say that I liked Army Hammer in the Social

Shari Weiss:

Network, but rewatching this episode reminded me that I

Shari Weiss:

think he just did a horrible acting job in this role

Shari Weiss:

of Gabriel.

Steve:

Terrible.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah, it's just a. Just terrible

Shari Weiss:

acting, and it's

Shari Weiss:

strange knowing where he is in

Shari Weiss:

2024.

Leif:

And what I was going to say was that in

Leif:

this show, everyone just shows up everywhere. So I always

Leif:

take that place. No one ever calls. They just show

Leif:

up.

Steve:

But Armie Hammer. I don't think they're serving what you like.

Shari Weiss:

No.

Steve:

I don't think it's kosher.

Shari Weiss:

No.

Leif:

He would flesh it out on the passover menu.

Shari Weiss:

No, certainly not at

Shari Weiss:

Elmer's.

Leif:

As, we move into Act 3, Dan

Leif:

interrupts the Seder to tell Serena that she needs to come to the

Leif:

foyer.

Shari Weiss:

I like your pronunciation there.

Leif:

Thank you. That's three years of high school

Leif:

French for you.

Steve:

Poor Cyrus. I really

Steve:

feel so bad.

Leif:

He really soldiered on through, everything that was.

Steve:

He did.

Leif:

Gabriel is trying to talk to Serena, but Serena

Leif:

interrupts to tell him that she is back together with Dan, who

Leif:

just goes along for the ride. Eleanor comes to

Leif:

the foyer, and, much to Serena's dismay,

Leif:

invites Gabriel to dinner.

Shari Weiss:

More the merrier. There's, you know, the Extra chair for

Shari Weiss:

Elijah, plenty of seats to

Shari Weiss:

go around.

Leif:

Speaking of which, do you want to explain that to our,

Leif:

non Jewish audience?

Shari Weiss:

Oh, I don't know that I sufficiently can, we leave

Shari Weiss:

a chair open symbolically for Elijah to

Shari Weiss:

invite him to our seder table. If you'd like to know

Shari Weiss:

why, I suggest Googling, if you can. I'm gonna

Shari Weiss:

sufficiently remember off the top of my

Shari Weiss:

head.

Leif:

So the basic gist is

Leif:

that he's there to confirm that the men

Leif:

are circumcised.

Steve:

I'm kind of glad he never shows up.

Leif:

He also takes part in Bris's,

Shari Weiss:

Would contribute further to the farce, though.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah, that component didn't take

Shari Weiss:

place.

Steve:

and Gabriel is super creepy

Steve:

too. Like, the acting

Steve:

just. And his mannerisms

Steve:

and his dialogue is just so, like,

Steve:

forceful and wooden

Steve:

in.

Shari Weiss:

A way that just. There's nothing that

Shari Weiss:

endears you to him.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And.

Steve:

And why would you. I, understand again, for

Steve:

the farce, it's funny that he stays,

Steve:

but why would you as a person walk into

Steve:

this place and be like, okay, sure, I want to

Steve:

meet all of your family. Person that I

Steve:

spent a couple days with who doesn't want me here.

Shari Weiss:

I think they lack self awareness in a way and, like,

Shari Weiss:

have a tunnel vision of like, this is my

Shari Weiss:

end goal and so I'm going to stay here to achieve it.

Shari Weiss:

Versus picking up on normal social cues that would tell

Shari Weiss:

him, oh, this is not the right time and place for this.

Steve:

I should write.

Leif:

Yeah. Jumping to the end of the episode, is

Leif:

it possible that the bad acting was intentional?

Leif:

Like, was the show? The character is not a good.

Steve:

Yeah, there's. There's that possibility too.

Shari Weiss:

But I like, I feel like in every episode

Shari Weiss:

where we have Gabriel, like Army's acting is

Shari Weiss:

adjust just this wooden

Shari Weiss:

terribleness.

Steve:

Yeah, he was terrible when we first met him.

Steve:

At the end of last episode for sure.

Leif:

At the rehearsal, the grandfather approaches Blair

Leif:

and gives her a five minute deadline to fix things

Leif:

with Nate.

Shari Weiss:

Five minutes? A whole five minute?

Steve:

Yeah. You just grabbed a teenage

Steve:

girl by the grandfather.

Steve:

Unbelievable.

Shari Weiss:

Even if someone happened to witness that moment,

Shari Weiss:

who in that room was gonna stand up to the grandfather and be

Shari Weiss:

like, manhandles her?

Steve:

Yeah, maybe Nate in this moment.

Shari Weiss:

Had he seen it?

Steve:

Yes, had he seen it?

Leif:

Things at the Seder start to heat up as Serena

Leif:

pulls Dan in to sit next to her. Rufus and

Leif:

Lily are both appalled when they see Serena and Dan

Leif:

holding hands. Cyrus attempts to soldier

Leif:

on.

Leif:

I like that Lily notices it. That

Leif:

has to point it out to Rufus.

Steve:

How fucking rude you're at

Steve:

someone else's party.

Steve:

And this is where the, where it started actually.

Steve:

Like I started to get annoyed by

Steve:

it, but I did like the the hand

Steve:

holding the. She. She's my boyfriend.

Steve:

I thought that was funny.

Shari Weiss:

And not only are you at Salatha's party, but like in that very

Shari Weiss:

moment, someone is trying to conduct a religious

Shari Weiss:

ceremony.

Steve:

Yes.

Shari Weiss:

You basically interrupt the proceedings to confront

Shari Weiss:

your kids on whether or not they're back together.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Chuck is getting hot and heavy with his date when he realizes

Leif:

he had already been with this woman previously. He gets

Leif:

up to get a. I.

Shari Weiss:

Was surprised that that was a turn off for him.

Steve:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

That killed his mood and I don't.

Leif:

Know why, at ah, this point he's just

Leif:

wants a new girl every, every night and he doesn't

Leif:

want the emotional connection because he's

Leif:

a 17 year old billionaire with stamina.

Steve:

Honestly, I bet that was a big part of it.

Steve:

The I've already been here and that

Steve:

is now becoming a relationship even though it's been a

Steve:

year after.

Shari Weiss:

Remember her?

Steve:

Yeah. but I'm saying that after, after being with

Steve:

Vanessa for a brief period of time, but

Steve:

definitely worse, I'm assuming more than once,

Steve:

you know, And I think that then

Steve:

going from that to being with someone he's already been with,

Steve:

it's like, oh, no, no, no, I'm not doing that.

Leif:

Yes. To a normal person who it, it seems

Leif:

weird, but, Chuck's twisted mind, it makes sense.

Steve:

That's kind of where I landed.

Leif:

Yeah. Out, in the living room, Chuck is

Leif:

once again making Jenny and Wes feel awkward.

Leif:

Jenny tells Wes to meet her at the elevator so they can take a

Leif:

walk. Jenny hangs back and absolutely

Leif:

eviscerates Chuck with her words. Oh, I love

Leif:

that. I love it.

Steve:

It was so good. And I'm so glad

Steve:

that they finally addressed the kiss on the lips

Steve:

party, that they finally addressed the

Steve:

assault in season one that we have just

Steve:

been doing this glow up for a season and a half

Steve:

of poor little Chuck. Lonely, poor little

Steve:

Chuck, sad boy with his dad dying and all that.

Steve:

But we finally have gotten

Steve:

that addressed from episode one.

Shari Weiss:

It was very satisfying.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Yeah. We'll talk about where we get into the phantom section

Leif:

at the end. But yeah, people were actually surprised

Leif:

because like, people were considering the pilot episode to be like, not

Leif:

even canon at this point.

Shari Weiss:

Right.

Leif:

It was also mentioned that Chuck had a mom and like a couple other

Leif:

things that, you know, it was not.

Steve:

That Chuck had a mom, but that Chuck had his

Steve:

mom's pills. So

Steve:

it doesn't say she's alive. It says that he still has her

Steve:

pills, which. That's a little

Steve:

shocking that they're not gone.

Shari Weiss:

Have they not expired?

Steve:

Yeah, and it did. It made the kiss on the

Steve:

lips party canon, which I really

Steve:

appreciated that they did that and addressed it

Steve:

finally.

Shari Weiss:

Completely agree.

Leif:

At the rehearsal, Blair tells Nate that he

Leif:

did the right thing and that they should leave.

Leif:

Blair goes to get her coat and the grandfather steps in to

Leif:

manipulate the situation to his advantage. And

Leif:

Blair's downfall.

Steve:

We, we used to talk about Leighton Meester's

Steve:

acting all the time

Steve:

because it's always spectacular.

Steve:

And I feel like we haven't really talked about it as much,

Steve:

recently because we've just gotten so used to

Steve:

it. And this scene,

Steve:

her facial expressions,

Steve:

her reactions to Nate and Grant

Steve:

and everything around her happening, it was

Steve:

so moving.

Leif:

Mm, And Gossip Girl comes

Leif:

in with Watch out,

Leif:

Bea. Seems like just when you got

Leif:

it right, William Vanderbilt is going to do

Leif:

you wrong.

Leif:

And we go back to the satyr once again. Cyrus keeps

Leif:

getting interrupted by Dan, Serena, Willy,

Leif:

Rufus and Gabriel. The truth about

Leif:

Dan's job gets out as well as the fact that he and

Leif:

Serena are not back together.

Steve:

And this is where I was really like, what the

Steve:

fuck? How are you this rude and

Steve:

irreverent? You basically. It's

Steve:

basically like you're having this conversation at, at

Steve:

church, right? Like this is a religious

Steve:

ceremony that you were in that you invited

Steve:

yourself to. And now you're ruining

Steve:

it because your kids holding hands with someone.

Steve:

Shut the fuck up. There's time to talk after the

Steve:

ceremony.

Shari Weiss:

Or just politely excuse yourself. Hey, Dan,

Shari Weiss:

Serena, can we talk to you in the other room?

Shari Weiss:

Yeah, it can't wait. Of course it should wait.

Shari Weiss:

But there was a way to have that conversation that was

Shari Weiss:

not in the way that they did it. But this is that, this is that

Shari Weiss:

house of cards.

Steve:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

crumbling.

Leif:

And it just makes for good tv.

Steve:

And I loved, Yeah, it does. And I did love

Steve:

Dan being. And it's

Steve:

funny, I don't know if

Steve:

I would have

Steve:

recognized how

Steve:

disrespectful that was if I

Steve:

didn't marry a Jewish woman and go to a

Steve:

Seder every year for the past 12 years

Steve:

and really understand what, what

Steve:

it is. So I could see

Steve:

how to people that don't

Steve:

really know what it is. How it doesn't seem

Steve:

as rude or as

Steve:

irreverent. It was the irreverence that really got

Steve:

me. And I'm not a reverent

Steve:

person, but having that

Steve:

respect for somebody Running a religious

Steve:

ceremony. That was what got me.

Shari Weiss:

I'm, so glad you said this, Steve, because this is actually my issue with

Shari Weiss:

how, Judaism is treated on Gossip

Shari Weiss:

Girl, and why the line about, you

Shari Weiss:

know, like, bothers

Shari Weiss:

me so much, is that,

Shari Weiss:

instead of being treated with reverence, Judaism

Shari Weiss:

on the show is often used as a punchline. And, it's a way

Shari Weiss:

to,

Shari Weiss:

To me, it comes off as laughing at. Instead of laughing

Shari Weiss:

with. To your point, if you knew

Shari Weiss:

about how important a seder was,

Shari Weiss:

you wouldn't make it, a farce like this. Which is not

Shari Weiss:

to say that people don't have funny seders. There's

Shari Weiss:

fun songs that we sing at Passover. There can be

Shari Weiss:

silly moments. It's not like this, like,

Shari Weiss:

stoic thing. but

Shari Weiss:

the.

Steve:

It's a very jovial ceremony. It's supposed to be

Steve:

a very happy ceremony. Yeah,

Steve:

exactly. I always complain that I

Steve:

don't get to lay down at my mother in law's house. It's in

Steve:

the book. I should be allowed to lay down when I meet.

Shari Weiss:

At least get a pillow for your back.

Shari Weiss:

But just, you know, and it's.

Shari Weiss:

Is why I wanted, to discuss this episode. and

Shari Weiss:

just, of course, there's the great irony of

Shari Weiss:

the. The token Jewish character being

Shari Weiss:

played by Lala Shan, who's actually very

Shari Weiss:

anti Israel and has been outspoken in the last couple

Shari Weiss:

of years. And so there's. There's. There's

Shari Weiss:

layers.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Nate and Blair are leaving the rehearsal, and Nate

Leif:

confronts Blair about her deal with the grandfather.

Leif:

So. Yeah, Blair's busted.

Steve:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

As always, you cannot make a deal on Gossip

Shari Weiss:

Girl and expect that it will not be exposed at some

Shari Weiss:

point.

Steve:

And. Yeah. And my initial reaction is, does

Steve:

she now run back to Chuck,

Steve:

who, had. First time seeing this episode.

Steve:

That's. My initial thing is. Oh. Who she's

Steve:

gonna run to. Her safety net.

Leif:

Lily and Serena hash out their differences.

Leif:

Lily lets Serena know that she got accepted to

Leif:

Brown. Karine comes in and tells them that

Leif:

Gabriel just left.

Steve:

Yeah. Serena does not understand real life.

Leif:

No.

Shari Weiss:

How could she? She's. She's not been exposed to it.

Steve:

Yeah. where is Brown?

Shari Weiss:

Massachusetts. okay.

Steve:

I thought it was. Yeah, I thought it was. No.

Leif:

Isn't it Rhode Island?

Shari Weiss:

I think you're right. Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah, I think.

Shari Weiss:

Yes.

Leif:

And I only know that. I only know that because the OC

Leif:

Right next to risd.

Shari Weiss:

Right. I was thinking after Seth and Summer. You are so right,

Shari Weiss:

Lee.

Steve:

Yep. Risd, of course. Which was also

Steve:

mentioned on Gossip Girl, where

Steve:

Aaron went to school.

Leif:

Yes.

Shari Weiss:

Yes.

Steve:

Those are a long, long time ago.

Leif:

And the creepy Max guy.

Steve:

Yeah. Where Aaron went to college sometime in the

Steve:

90s.

Leif:

Serena chases down Gabriel, who informs them

Leif:

that it wasn't a real wedding and they

Leif:

are. Aren't actually married. Just as they

Leif:

are about to kiss, Blair pulls up in tears and needs

Leif:

her best friend.

Shari Weiss:

Okay, my two things here. How dumb

Shari Weiss:

is Serena that, like, she actually thought that they were,

Shari Weiss:

a, really married in a foreign country, and

Shari Weiss:

B, what is she seeing in Gabriel

Shari Weiss:

that is like, I want to

Shari Weiss:

pursue this guy.

Leif:

He's like, totally hot.

Shari Weiss:

Fair. Fair.

Leif:

Ah.

Steve:

I was also saying. I also was

Steve:

thinking about how dumb Serena is

Steve:

here.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And Serena's never been

Steve:

a brain project. You know, she's

Steve:

never been a, ah, genius. But

Steve:

she's just so dumb here.

Leif:

Well, I heard her and Nate are the same thing.

Leif:

They go for the shiny object that's in front of them.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. very much.

Leif:

They're golden retrievers.

Shari Weiss:

Right?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Cruelty, justice. Serena Vanderwoodsen is

Leif:

falling in love. Blair Waldorf is falling

Leif:

apart. We move into the

Leif:

epilogue.

Steve:

I. I loved that. Once again,

Steve:

Serena about to kiss this dude she's totally

Steve:

into drops everything for Blair.

Shari Weiss:

Best friends, man.

Steve:

Best friends. She. She'll always drop everything for

Steve:

Blair. Blair can curse her out and then

Steve:

call her 20 minutes later and she drops everything for

Steve:

Blair. And I've always loved that about their friendship.

Leif:

Yeah. Chuck

Leif:

is moping in his room when Nate shows up to share the pity

Leif:

party. Chuck actually says something poignant

Leif:

and insightful about Blair not needing to change.

Steve:

I was glad to see them together again. I was glad

Steve:

to see Nate and Chuck being best friends.

Shari Weiss:

And it's still awkward. They're not with the same

Shari Weiss:

girl. There's no way for it to not be the elephant in the

Shari Weiss:

room.

Steve:

Yeah, it's stupid for. It's stupid to

Steve:

want her to be anything other than who she is. It was

Steve:

also, I, did like.

Leif:

That line from Chuck.

Steve:

Yeah, that. That's. That is true for any

Steve:

relationship ever, that if you

Steve:

want them to be someone else, then you don't

Steve:

want the person you're with.

Shari Weiss:

You could say Nate. Like, you know what you're signing up for when you date

Shari Weiss:

Blair Waldorf?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Lily finds Dan doing dishes and thanks him for being

Leif:

a good friend to Serena. Rufus enters and

Leif:

announces he sold a painting to the art collector and

Leif:

plans on selling the gallery.

Shari Weiss:

I guess they just, like, looked at a picture on his phone and

Shari Weiss:

like, like, sure, I'll buy that painting.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And, ah, Rich people.

Steve:

I guess I'll find. I'll find something else to do.

Steve:

My suggestion, Release a new album.

Steve:

I'd like some fresh Lincoln Hawk.

Shari Weiss:

Okay. Like, he

Shari Weiss:

could open, like, a waffle restaurant where? Oh, yeah, just make

Shari Weiss:

waffles.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Blair and Serena are lying in Blair's

Leif:

bed comforting each other. Blair is regretful

Leif:

of a lot of things, including being rude to Cyrus

Leif:

earlier. Eleanor comes in and announces that there's someone

Leif:

here to see Blair.

Steve:

Yeah, just classic.

Leif:

Oh, yeah. I really like this scene.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

The friendship. Yeah.

Steve:

I didn't really have much to say about it other

Steve:

than, Yeah, yeah.

Shari Weiss:

It's sweet the way that they're cuddling together.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes. Yes.

Leif:

At the Vander Woodson penthouse, Chuck comes out to the

Leif:

living room to find that Nate has left. Jenny

Leif:

comes back in. And Chuck apologized for last year and

Leif:

says that if Jenny does move in, he won't

Leif:

be here.

Shari Weiss:

It was needed.

Steve:

Yeah. Once again.

Leif:

yeah. Tell her Taylor Momson really sold the scene.

Shari Weiss:

Yeah, absolutely.

Steve:

Absolutely.

Leif:

Despite the horrible haircut.

Steve:

Again, the fact that they made it

Steve:

canon and they addressed it and they

Steve:

brought it full circle. It was about

Steve:

time. It should have been done last season.

Steve:

I'm glad they did it.

Leif:

But, you know, now we know it's going to get out and

Leif:

everyone's going to find out because right now, only Dan, Serena are the only

Leif:

ones to know. And maybe Blair.

Steve:

Yeah. Probably Nate. Maybe

Steve:

the parents don't know. Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

Well, Lily has this affection for

Shari Weiss:

Charles that I feel like if she did find out about it, she

Shari Weiss:

would find some way to blame Jenny and excuse

Shari Weiss:

Chuck.

Leif:

Probably.

Steve:

yeah, that fair. I was

Steve:

also flashing back to the Jenny did

Steve:

get revenge on Chuck at one point at

Steve:

the masquerade when

Steve:

she tied him up without it or locked him

Steve:

out without his clothes.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair comes downstairs

Leif:

and apologized to Cyrus and asks him to help with

Leif:

help to get her into nyu. Nate is

Leif:

also there and it looks like he is going to give Blair another

Leif:

chance.

Steve:

After all, Cyrus is Sweet to

Steve:

Blair 100% of the time. Even when

Steve:

Cyrus does a scheme against Blair, it's to make her

Steve:

happy. I do love that

Steve:

he loves Blair the

Steve:

way that he does.

Shari Weiss:

If you're gonna have a stepdad, you want Cyrus to

Shari Weiss:

be your stepdad.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Leif:

And also, once again, you get a shot of Eleanor,

Leif:

smiling in the background, which is nice.

Leif:

Serena leaves a flirty message for Gabriel and

Leif:

somehow manages to avoid licking the phone.

Leif:

However, we see the

Leif:

message come through on, Gabriel's phone and he is with

Leif:

Poppy. These two Are clearly up to

Leif:

something.

Leif:

Gotta lick something.

Shari Weiss:

Oh God.

Steve:

Lucky M. That phone wasn't a strawberry.

Steve:

I definitively.

Steve:

I hate guest stars on this show.

Steve:

M. There has. Has there

Steve:

been a good

Steve:

teen? I'm

Steve:

not. Aside from Cyrus

Steve:

and a couple of the other adults that will guest star.

Steve:

All of the young ones suck. Michelle Trachtenberg

Steve:

was terrible. Armie Hammer is

Steve:

terrible. Aaron is terrible.

Steve:

Rachel Carr. Every. Every

Steve:

one of these storylines, the Rachel Carr

Steve:

wasn't a terrible actor, but

Steve:

it was just some really up storytelling.

Leif:

So we end the episode with a Gossip Girl sign

Leif:

off

Leif:

on Passover. We ask why is

Leif:

it this night is different from any other night? But

Leif:

who are we kidding? Tonight's no different from the

Leif:

rest. These things always happen around here.

Leif:

Shalom, Gossip Girl.

Shari Weiss:

It's true. I mean, it's accurate. And then this

Shari Weiss:

shalom is just another

Shari Weiss:

to my point earlier.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Shari Weiss:

The way things are. Punchlines, but yeah.

Leif:

So, Steve, any predictions?

Steve:

I'm predicting Jenny and Chuck.

Steve:

I'm. I got

Steve:

a weird. The way that. And I

Steve:

don't like it. It's the

Steve:

way that she looked at Chuck after he

Steve:

apologized and went away. And she gave

Steve:

him the sad puppy look that

Steve:

everyone has been giving Chuck since Bart died. But

Steve:

Jenny. Everyone has been giving

Steve:

Chuck the. Oh, you poor

Steve:

thing. But Jenny. And then

Steve:

she gave it to him when he walked away. And

Steve:

that kind of made

Steve:

something spin in the back of my head. Which

Steve:

also leaves the only two people

Steve:

uncommitted to another. If Jenny and

Steve:

Chuck were to have something happen, the only two open

Steve:

that are left that I keep dreading, that I

Steve:

keep saying is going to happen is Dan and

Steve:

Vanessa. So I'm just.

Steve:

I'm watching out for that because I'm waiting for that

Steve:

steamroller to roll over us like the Austin

Steve:

Powers. That's to me what it is. Like the Austin Power

Steve:

steamroller. I'm waiting for it to happen, knowing

Steve:

it's going to.

Leif:

So now that you saw this final scene, does this

Leif:

retroactively make Poppy's actions from last week make a

Leif:

little more sense?

Steve:

That she's trying to get something. She's

Steve:

scheming against Serena.

Steve:

Yeah. So

Steve:

yeah.

Leif:

She wasn't just being an.

Leif:

Yeah. She was directly manipulating her.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

It seems like.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

To what end? I already hate

Steve:

it.

Leif:

Any thoughts of what. What they're trying to pull?

Shari Weiss:

Yeah. What do you think the end goal is?

Steve:

I'm assuming some kind

Steve:

of illegal,

Steve:

maybe drug smuggling thing.

Steve:

Something like getting her to go back and forth

Steve:

to Spain and unwittingly do something.

Steve:

You know, sneaking something in her luggage.

Leif:

Okay, well, that is

Leif:

it for our episode. So let's go ahead and get into

Leif:

some segments. We jump into the wayback

Leif:

machine to visit 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, Sherman. Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. this week, a,

Leif:

vast majority, of the fans seem to be back on the Chuck

Leif:

bandwagon after being off for a few weeks.

Shari Weiss:

No. No. One apology does not make

Shari Weiss:

me back on the Chuck bandwagon.

Steve:

No.

Leif:

What the. I forgot to ask you at the beginning episode. Who are

Leif:

your favorite and least favorite characters?

Shari Weiss:

Vanessa is probably least favorite.

Leif:

Popular.

Steve:

Joy started with Vanessa. I was like,

Steve:

wait.

Shari Weiss:

favorite?

Shari Weiss:

I don't know that I have a favorite individual as much as

Shari Weiss:

there's couples that I root for, such as

Shari Weiss:

Dan and Serena and another Serena

Shari Weiss:

pairing that happens.

Leif:

Fair enough. so the.

Steve:

My. My one big theory, Sherry, is

Steve:

that they're all going to. So

Steve:

I. Who

Steve:

knows? Maybe. But. So whenever

Steve:

there is these different pairings, it's like I.

Steve:

I just. In my gut, I feel like they're all going to

Steve:

bang each other.

Shari Weiss:

That's an essential ingredient of a teen drama television

Shari Weiss:

show. The partners dosied out with each other,

Shari Weiss:

and it becomes this really incestuous web where everyone

Shari Weiss:

is tangled with everyone. And I thought it was

Shari Weiss:

interesting before when you said the one pairing we

Shari Weiss:

haven't seen is Dan and Vanessa, because there's another pairing

Shari Weiss:

that we haven't seen that you didn't mention.

Steve:

the ones that I've thought of before, there's

Steve:

Nate and Serena, which we thought was

Steve:

gonna happen at one point.

Shari Weiss:

From the pilot.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Well, the pilot, but then also the end

Steve:

of season one into season

Steve:

two. Nate and Serena ran off

Steve:

together at the end. the other

Steve:

one that a couple weeks ago I brought up that

Steve:

they had chemistry was Blair and Dan. That

Steve:

when Blair and Dan were in the play together,

Steve:

there was something there that I. That I picked up

Steve:

on. And then I mentioned it to Leif, and Leif

Steve:

was. Was seeing it too.

Shari Weiss:

They match wits well.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

so most people like the episode overall. They

Leif:

thought it was a good episode. So, I agree.

Steve:

Yeah, I agree.

Leif:

People are actually intrigued about the Serena storyline

Leif:

for once.

Steve:

You, know, with the last half. Yeah, with the last

Steve:

scene. I get it. Up until

Steve:

then, the Serena storyline was the

Steve:

weak storyline.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Serena can't carry a storyline on her own through an

Steve:

episode. She needs Dan or

Steve:

Blair to carry in a storyline.

Leif:

Multiple people Thought. Hoped it would be

Leif:

Chuck waiting for Blair at the end of the episode and not Nate.

Shari Weiss:

I didn't think it would be him.

Steve:

Yeah, no.

Leif:

I mean, we saw Nate leave, so it's like, why would you think it was

Leif:

Chuck? Yeah, the

Leif:

SMB scene was great, which we've talked about. Yeah.

Leif:

yep. Surprising amount of Dan

Leif:

Hate for how little a role he played in the episode.

Shari Weiss:

I don't think he played a little role in the episode.

Leif:

I mean, he played a big role as far as the Kai,

Leif:

but he didn't really have his own storyline at

Leif:

all.

Shari Weiss:

But he was also integral into the.

Steve:

Way Serena's storyline

Steve:

unfolded and Eleanor's storyline. I felt like

Steve:

he. I, He, He was a supporting character in

Steve:

this. I think that he was one of those supporting

Steve:

characters that had a lot on his shoulders, though.

Shari Weiss:

Right. He was in scene after scene after scene,

Shari Weiss:

and he had his own agency in terms of how he

Shari Weiss:

got there. Like, he got there because of his own storyline

Shari Weiss:

of needing a job to make money.

Leif:

Fair enough.

Steve:

Yeah. And personally, I thought Dan was

Steve:

a. Was awesome in this episode.

Leif:

Funny, but he's. He's always funny.

Steve:

Yeah. And. And I also loved

Steve:

that, you know, by the end, when the whole. When the

Steve:

whole thing is

Steve:

exposed, it's Dan who's like, no, I'm

Steve:

not doing this.

Leif:

I'm not doing this anymore.

Shari Weiss:

But he did.

Steve:

Why am I doing this?

Shari Weiss:

He did take one for the team for a while, for his. For

Shari Weiss:

his ex. And. Yeah, it shows you what

Shari Weiss:

Serena means to him.

Steve:

I find that he does that a lot, that he gets wrapped up

Steve:

into it, and then at some point is like, am I doing

Steve:

it? Reminds me of Spike in the Buffy musical

Steve:

when they're at. When they're all singing at the very end, and

Steve:

Spike is like, why am I still doing this? And just walks

Steve:

off. Why am

Steve:

I doing this?

Leif:

The final point that I got from the forums was,

Leif:

where's Anne? Like, we get. We're getting all these

Leif:

Nate and his family storylines. Where is his mom?

Steve:

I didn't really think much of it because I would.

Steve:

I'm feeling like maybe she's too embarrassed to come

Steve:

around. Or then the other side of

Steve:

it. Maybe she is there,

Steve:

just not. We just never see her. Yeah. That

Steve:

she doesn't have an important. Or maybe. Oh, even

Steve:

better. This is the rehearsal. It's not the wedding

Steve:

itself. Maybe she wasn't invited.

Leif:

But what about the previous episode with the, With the Archibalds

Leif:

or the Vanderbilts?

Steve:

Trip went and got Nate and brought Nate.

Steve:

Right. That wasn't she wasn't again,

Steve:

wasn't invited. Maybe granddad

Steve:

grandfather is still trying to send her a bit of a

Steve:

message.

Leif:

Well, if. I mean, if I was ready the episode, I would like

Leif:

to write in her reaction to the. Even if she's not there, I

Leif:

would add a scene with Nate and her at their house

Leif:

and her reaction to this whole situation.

Steve:

Sure.

Shari Weiss:

But I'm guessing.

Leif:

Guessing the actress probably just wasn't available.

Shari Weiss:

Or they want to pay another cast member.

Steve:

I actually thought it was even more a matter of

Steve:

the writer just not thinking of it.

Shari Weiss:

Just come on, Amanda Lasher, step it

Shari Weiss:

up.

Leif:

So let's go ahead and move into some episode

Leif:

grades.

Leif:

Steve, why don't you go first?

Steve:

I gave this one a B. I thought

Steve:

it was a good episode. Even the

Steve:

stuff that I thought was clunky. And

Steve:

I thought that as far as a. An episode of

Steve:

Gossip Girl, it was good.

Steve:

I

Steve:

think, that the really

Steve:

shining bad spot is Armie Hammer's acting,

Steve:

which again with knowing that he's

Steve:

putting on a ruse, maybe that has something to do with

Steve:

it, but I didn't know that the whole episode

Steve:

and it was terrible.

Leif:

So what was the grade?

Steve:

B plus.

Leif:

B plus. Okay. How about you, Sheri?

Steve:

What do you got?

Shari Weiss:

I'm a B. and my reasons are,

Shari Weiss:

is I,

Shari Weiss:

think the Blair Nate grandfather

Shari Weiss:

storyline is a little snooze worthy. It

Shari Weiss:

feels a little low stakes. And that

Shari Weiss:

until we get to the end of the Jenny Chuck

Shari Weiss:

storyline, that also feels kind of

Shari Weiss:

like a filler type thing. the

Shari Weiss:

only, to me twisty,

Shari Weiss:

exciting storyline was the Serena Dan

Shari Weiss:

Sater one. so if there's

Shari Weiss:

three storylines, I think one of them only really captured

Shari Weiss:

my attention. And then also,

Shari Weiss:

I think the best episodes are the ones where the

Shari Weiss:

storylines converge, where

Shari Weiss:

everyone ends up at the party and the

Shari Weiss:

storylines intersect and everything explodes in a way that

Shari Weiss:

has ramifications for each storyline.

Shari Weiss:

And in this episode, the three storylines were very

Shari Weiss:

disjointed, apart from Blair and Serena coming

Shari Weiss:

together toward the end.

Leif:

So I like this episode a little better than

Leif:

you guys. I gave it an A because I just

Leif:

laughed a lot. And M. The

Leif:

party was just a great scene, even if it was

Leif:

somewhat offensive, but it just made for good

Leif:

comedy, so I gave it an A.

Steve:

Fair.

Leif:

All right, let's go over to Stockwatch.

Leif:

What do you got, Steve? Who's going up?

Steve:

Going up. I have Rufus going up. He made a

Steve:

sale and he's making life decisions.

Steve:

I had Jenny going up

Steve:

for having a boyfriend and

Steve:

for Telling off Chuck. I had Wes going

Steve:

up for landing

Steve:

Jenny and for being a sweet, sweet boy

Steve:

playing Monopoly. I have Nate going up

Steve:

because he's back in grandfather's good graces and

Steve:

even embarrassed grandfather. And grandfather,

Steve:

instead of being embarrassed, goes up

Steve:

and makes amends. So Nate,

Steve:

for sure. And, let's also throw grandfather

Steve:

in. Even though he's a complete piece of shit, he's getting what he

Steve:

wants.

Leif:

I mean, is he. I mean, Nate's not going to. Yeah.

Steve:

Was that definitive? Was that decided?

Leif:

What? At the. At the end, Nate says, looks like we'll be

Leif:

in the city together.

Steve:

Oh, okay.

Leif:

All right.

Shari Weiss:

He's still grandfather at the end of the day.

Steve:

Yeah. His stock, I don't know if it can legally go

Steve:

down without it, causing

Steve:

anyone else. I had Dorota for having

Steve:

the weekend off. Good for her.

Leif:

All right, Sherry, who do you have going up?

Shari Weiss:

So I have the same person going up and down.

Shari Weiss:

So should I share now, or do.

Leif:

We, do all the ups first, then the

Leif:

downs?

Shari Weiss:

Okay, well, chronologically, this is not

Shari Weiss:

going to make sense, but we're rolling with it. my

Shari Weiss:

upperson is Jenny because

Shari Weiss:

of the apology that she gets in

Shari Weiss:

the end. The acknowledgement of how she was wronged in

Shari Weiss:

this really grave way, was really

Shari Weiss:

overdue. And, it was

Shari Weiss:

an essential moment for her character,

Shari Weiss:

in her coming of age story

Shari Weiss:

and in the arc of the show.

Shari Weiss:

So the fact that something from the pilot

Shari Weiss:

that was extremely egregious was

Shari Weiss:

finally. Finally addressed, as we said earlier,

Shari Weiss:

made her stock up for me.

Leif:

Anyone else?

Shari Weiss:

Nope. She was my pick.

Leif:

Okay. For me, I have Blair

Leif:

going up because she still has

Leif:

Nate, and it looks like she's going to get into college after

Leif:

all. Nate going up because

Leif:

he was. He was his own man for

Leif:

once, and he got what he wanted. And looks

Leif:

like he's still going to have Blair. Cyrus

Leif:

because he was just a soldier all episode, and

Leif:

Eleanor because she's a good mom again. She's

Leif:

definitely done a big 180 since the

Leif:

pilot episode. I also had Lily going

Leif:

up.

Steve:

She's a whole new person from the

Steve:

pilot, literally.

Leif:

I also have Lily going up because, she had that

Leif:

night scene with Serena at the end, and. And she

Leif:

was trying to actually be. Be a parent for once. Yeah, she

Leif:

did ground her daughter for, like, probably the first time

Leif:

ever. And I had Jenny going up for the same reasons

Leif:

you guys had, because she got a. Got her apology.

Leif:

She got. She got her licks in. She. She gave

Leif:

it to Chuck really good there, that first scene.

Leif:

But that's all for ups. So who do you got going down?

Leif:

Steve.

Steve:

And actually, I'm gonna add Cyrus and Eleanor to my

Steve:

ups. I wasn't thinking of them, but I agree that

Steve:

they definitely came out

Steve:

on top. Especially we. I, I. You

Steve:

know what the, the. The thing that was never

Steve:

revealed at the end is I'm really

Steve:

curious as to whether or not Eleanor made a good

Steve:

impression on Cyrus's mother,

Steve:

if she's made any headways, and Cyrus's mother hates

Steve:

her. going down.

Steve:

I have Serena forgetting Blade.

Steve:

and I actually had Lily going down

Steve:

because for a few of the bad mom, like,

Steve:

the not listening thing early on and the whole,

Steve:

like, oh, no, you're a good person. You got into the college.

Steve:

You want to. Kind of really struck

Steve:

me in a weird way.

Steve:

But, that was my only downs. I had Blair.

Steve:

I had Blair remain neutral because I felt like

Steve:

she had the opportunity

Steve:

of going up, but then she kind of went down. And then

Steve:

kind of, I felt like she landed in the middle.

Leif:

Fair enough. Sheri, who do you got going

Leif:

down?

Shari Weiss:

So, as I said before, I have Jenny as

Shari Weiss:

my pick for both. and it's because,

Shari Weiss:

I guess you could say maybe they cancel each other out and she

Shari Weiss:

ends up being neutral. But up until we

Shari Weiss:

get that moment with her and Chuck at the end and they finally

Shari Weiss:

have that long needed conversation,

Shari Weiss:

her story in the episode just felt like,

Shari Weiss:

what is the point of this? Like, we just watched her just

Shari Weiss:

basically have this, like, very little

Shari Weiss:

innocent date with Wes that felt very

Shari Weiss:

pointless, and it felt like they just needed

Shari Weiss:

something to help flesh out Chuck's storyline,

Shari Weiss:

and she just felt very inconsequential to the

Shari Weiss:

episode. So as I was watching it, it just felt

Shari Weiss:

like there's nothing for Jenny

Shari Weiss:

here. And then the very end is what saved it for

Shari Weiss:

me.

Leif:

For me going down Serena, because she has.

Leif:

She's getting played. And then I also had

Leif:

Chuck going down because even though he does

Leif:

apologize,

Leif:

it doesn't redeem him. It's nice that he apologized,

Leif:

but doesn't redeem him. And also, he's

Leif:

clearly lonely

Leif:

and just living up

Leif:

not very fulfilling life right now. Mm.

Steve:

But here's the best outfits from the.

Steve:

Last episode we see.

Leif:

Go over to best outfit. Steve, who do you got?

Steve:

Blair's. The one that she was wearing

Steve:

at the end, the sort of

Steve:

mesh, the black and sort of,

Steve:

I guess, like, almost a

Steve:

peachish color. And then it had, like, the

Steve:

neck, the collar around the neck. So, yeah,

Steve:

Blair's, like, party dress.

Leif:

I really liked Sherry. What

Leif:

about you?

Shari Weiss:

Mine is much more subtle. I really liked the tank

Shari Weiss:

top that Jenny was wearing. I thought it had just

Shari Weiss:

enough edge, but it was also age appropriate.

Shari Weiss:

I thought it fit her really well and it was something that

Shari Weiss:

I would like to wear myself.

Steve:

Nice.

Leif:

For me, it was a very brief appearance. But

Leif:

Blair's dress from the dream, the black and

Leif:

white single strap dress. and the single strap was like a bow.

Leif:

And then she had the big hat.

Steve:

Yeah.

Shari Weiss:

Not her outfit as the beggar.

Leif:

No, it's Mrs. Higgins, the upper crust

Leif:

outfit. Well, that

Leif:

is it for segments. Sheri, thank you for

Leif:

joining us.

Shari Weiss:

Thank you for having me.

Leif:

And is there anything you would like to plug at this time?

Shari Weiss:

Well, you guys can find

Shari Weiss:

me@teendramah.substack.com

Shari Weiss:

or my original website was teendramahor.com

Shari Weiss:

but the one that I update is the substack. And

Shari Weiss:

there's a weekly newsletter that comes out on Tuesdays called

Shari Weiss:

Teen Drama. Links at the top is usually

Shari Weiss:

a random thought or some kind of mini essay. And

Shari Weiss:

then the links portion is I provide,

Shari Weiss:

a roundup of everything that's going on in the teen

Shari Weiss:

drama world, over the last week as it relates

Shari Weiss:

to these shows and their cast members.

Shari Weiss:

so if you're interested in keeping up with the genre and you don't want to have

Shari Weiss:

to do all the Googling yourself, I do it for you.

Shari Weiss:

So you can get that in your inbox every Tuesday.

Leif:

And I would actually definitely suggest reading, this week's

Leif:

episode because you did talk about Jewish culture and teen

Leif:

dramas.

Shari Weiss:

Yes, I did. Yes.

Leif:

And Steve, you got anything to plug this week?

Steve:

I'm just going to plug my tik tok and

Steve:

Instagram at Steve Marshon

Steve:

M a r C H I o n

Steve:

And then you can also find me at the Weed

Steve:

wizard on Blue sky.

Steve:

And that is my socials. Other than that, I

Steve:

don't really have anything coming up. And I've,

Steve:

been watching the Penguin, which has been fun,

Steve:

but, that's pretty much it for me.

Leif:

Well, for me, go ahead and going to recommend Sex Lives of

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college girls again before it gets canceled because I

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think this might be the last season.

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Robin loves that Robin was watching it.

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Next week we'll be back to Talk about Season 2

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Episode 22 Southern

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The

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Netflix episode description reads

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Chuck and Nate are at a crossroads in their friendship,

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a result of their mutual interest in Blair.

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Yep, saw this happening, saw this kind of

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unfolding and I'm curious to see how

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it goes.

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Well, until next time, you know you love

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us.

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Xoxo Every time you walk

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away, run away you take a piece of me

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with you there Every

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

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me with you there

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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oh it seems I'm walking right to

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your door

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My heart's still resting looking for

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something more

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Are you ever gonna see everything you mean

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to me I'm trying really hard to believe

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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Never feels right when I'm out here on

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my own

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I left last night and it feels like

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way too long

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Are you ever gonna see everything you mean

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to me I'm trying really hard to believe

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Every time you walk away, run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of m me with you there.

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Come.

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Back to me,

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smile and you'll make my life

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complete

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you you there

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piece of me with you there

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every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there.

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