Episode 23

Gossip Girl S2E23 - The Wrath of Con

Hey there, Gossip Girl fans! This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are diving into the thrilling chaos of Gossip Girl Season 2, Episode 23, "The Wrath of Con." As the season approaches its climax, the stakes have never been higher for our beloved Upper East Siders. Serena finds herself in a tangled web of lies and deceit, all while grappling with her feelings for Gabriel, whose past is anything but innocent. Meanwhile, Chuck and Blair's relationship takes a turn as they navigate their complicated feelings amidst the chaos. With Georgina back in the mix, the drama intensifies as the Non Judging Breakfast Club hatches a plan to take down Poppy and reclaim what's theirs. Join our hosts as they unpack all the scheming, backstabbing, and unexpected twists that make this episode a standout. Expect plenty of laughs, insightful commentary, and a few surprises along the way!


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Transcript
Leif:

When she offered it. Just take it.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

99% of the population can't afford to send their

Leif:

kids to Yale.

Steve:

Yeah. And your girlfriend is

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like, here is the money for it. It's

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like. It's basically like if you bought a

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sandwich.

Leif:

Hey up, reciters and all you scandal loving listeners out

Leif:

there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast pod

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where the coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh,

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and the gossip is hotter than ever. My name is Leif

Leif:

and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, your newbie, the

Steve:

greenhorn, the, What are we calling me these days, Leif?

Leif:

I'm not sure, but I do know that the Lord can't enter a

Leif:

body sullied by alcohol.

Steve:

Well, that's pretty good because I like to be the one doing the

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entering.

Leif:

All right.

Steve:

He's so disgusting.

Steve:

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

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Girl since it first aired, and I'm tuning in for the first

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time. And together, we are your dynamic duo,

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bringing you all the drama, romance, and

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sometimes questionable fashion choices of

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this iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

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

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

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parallels, obscure references, and we're also going

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to take a look at the behind the scenes gossip and some stories

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from fandom along the way.

Steve:

And M, since we are all about inclusivity here at the non

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

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non judging breakfast table. So grab a

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mimosa, some coffee, or maybe

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some of Nate and Chuck's special medicine. And let's go ahead and get

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started.

Leif:

And this episode will be releasing on February

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3rd, but the week we are recording is right

Leif:

after all the LA fires broke out. a

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lot of. A lot of homes destroyed. Hooting. Leighton Meester,

Leif:

Adam Brody.

Steve:

Yeah, and I was actually thinking of this on the way up

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of. You know, our. Our hearts definitely go out

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to all of you in LA going through this.

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I. Robin's close friend lives

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out there. She's trying to get him to leave the city

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because he's. He keeps saying, oh, it's not.

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I'm safe in my house, but you can't go outside.

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It's just smoke everywhere.

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So be safe out in LA if

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anyone is listening to us out there.

Leif:

but also this week, Leighton's trailer for

Leif:

her new show on the CW came out.

Steve:

No kidding.

Leif:

Yes. She is doing a show called Good Cop,

Leif:

Bad Cop. Premieres in February.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

It Appears she's part of a family of cops. her

Leif:

father is played by Clancy Brown.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

Adam Brody is going to have a cameo in at least one episode.

Steve:

Oh, all right. Personally, I'm so over

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cop shows. Like, they're.

Leif:

I was over them always. yeah.

Steve:

I mean, I was a. I was a huge Law and

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Order fan at one point, and there were a few

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other times. A few other shows along the way,

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but for the most part, like you said, I'm.

Steve:

I'm not a huge.

Leif:

It doesn't appear from the trailer. This is a

Leif:

procedural, per se. It's more of a comedy.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

It's like a family comedy. Type that. It's a sitcom.

Steve:

Okay. I mean, I'm probably going to give it a chance

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because I love her. I liked her

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in How I met your father, which was also

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not a great show. I don't need a show to be

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great to watch it. Leaf will tell you that I enjoy a

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lot of really, really terrible stuff. I'm

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typically the guy in our friend group who

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likes everything except the Lord of the Rings,

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which baffles everybody.

Leif:

But we are here to talk about Gossip Girl. Today

Leif:

we're going into season two, episode

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23, the Wrath of Khan.

Steve:

I loved the title here. I

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got a good chuckle of it at the end of last episode.

Steve:

Great reference to Star Trek.

Steve:

I really wanted them at some point to,

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You were conned, Con.

Leif:

The original air date for this episode was May

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4th, 2009. May the fourth be with

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you.

Steve:

May the fourth be with YOU. Interesting to have a Star

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Trek reference on. May 4.

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Episode was written by Sarah Goodman.

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This is her first episode of Gossip Girl and only

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her third writing job. However, she does go on to be a

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mainstay in the writer's room all the way through the show's final

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season. And most recently, she is

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the showrunner for, the Cruel Intentions remake.

Steve:

I didn't realize there was a Cruel Intentions remake. Have

Steve:

you seen it?

Leif:

I've watched a couple episodes. It's not horrible,

Leif:

but the actors just aren't. Sarah

Leif:

Michelle Geller and Ryan Phillipe.

Steve:

Yeah, it's just. Yeah, that movie

Steve:

is. It's a perfect movie. Yeah, it's.

Steve:

There aren't many movies I will actually call perfect, but I feel

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like that one throws through and through is a, perfect

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movie. Also, the. The writing on

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this episode. It's obvious why she got a,

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nod to stay in the room. The writing in this

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episode is damn near impeccable.

Leif:

Yeah. The episode was directed by

Leif:

Janice Cook, who previously directed

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episode 116, All About My Brother.

Leif:

And then episodes three and 16 in season

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two, The Dark Knight. And you've got Yale, so it's

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interesting.

Steve:

She did the other Georgina episode. Right.

Steve:

Wasn't all about my brother. Was when.

Leif:

Yeah, that's when Eric came out. Right?

Steve:

She outed Eric. Yeah. And

Steve:

so another Georgina episode. again,

Steve:

this episode, I felt was well

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directed and really well written. Yeah.

Leif:

Why don't you, go ahead and give us that vulture recap?

Steve:

Sure thing. In your face, all you

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parent groups who decried Gossip Girl as a

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sensationalist, immoral piece of trash.

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This episode, the second to last one before the

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season finale, reminded us that this

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show is not merely a sensationalist, immoral

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piece of trash. It's a tool for learning.

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For instance, this episode introduced its

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audience to the new vocabulary word

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fochelite. It's a word we like

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almost as much as mokalite, which

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we coined and we suspect Gabriel

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is. Plus, the kids at home were schooled

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about issues in the news. Ponzi

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scheme. Very brief

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recap this week.

Leif:

Yes. short and sweet and. Yeah. Just tried to Google

Leif:

mochalite, and I still don't know what it means.

Steve:

Or moshalite.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. Motionlight's probably better.

Steve:

Yeah, it's probably motionlight.

Leif:

There's link to stream moshalite music

Leif:

such as motionlight. There's a

Leif:

moshaverse.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Who knows?

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, a male socialite,

Steve:

maybe.

Leif:

Can men not be socialites?

Steve:

I don't know.

Steve:

We're out of my league here.

Steve:

Can men be socialites? Or is it because, I mean, they

Steve:

don't go out at the debutante ball? You

Steve:

know, that's for the women.

Steve:

They just escort. Right.

Leif:

Yeah. We go into the

Leif:

episode. We begin act one with a

Leif:

monologue.

Leif:

Four wise men once said. I get by with a

Leif:

little help from my friends. But on the Upper east side,

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there's an added challenge of finding out who those friends really

Leif:

are.

Steve:

Yeah. Love the Beatles reference.

Leif:

Doesn't know. It makes sense, though.

Steve:

Not at all. But I love that they made it. Yes.

Leif:

We begin almost right where we left off last

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week. Chuck is riding a cab back to the city.

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He calls Serena, who apologizes that she didn't

Leif:

believe him sooner. Georgina, is still with Chuck and

Leif:

still playing up the Jesus card.

Steve:

I don't believe there's been any other

Steve:

episode that picks up

Steve:

immediately following the previous

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episode like this.

Leif:

I think the previous Georgina,

Leif:

run, where after Serena says, you know, I killed someone,

Leif:

it kind of picks up.

Steve:

You're right. You're Right. It picks up right there with

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her and Blair talking about it.

Leif:

But going back to the good writing, directing, and

Leif:

also, I guess, costume design, they're all wearing the same

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clothes and you could tell some of them are a little bit wrinkly

Leif:

looking.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

So, yeah, good work by the prop department there.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

It was.

Steve:

All in all, it was seamless.

Steve:

This was essentially a two part episode

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without the to be continued. It

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really. I was kind of excited

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to be immersed right back into

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the next moment when usually it's a couple

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days.

Leif:

Serena enters her apartment with the intention of telling

Leif:

Lily about Gabriel skipping town. But

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Lily sidetracks her with a lavish gift. Because

Leif:

Lily is suddenly so proud of Serena, Serena doesn't

Leif:

reveal the sauce. She instead calls Blair.

Leif:

I smell a scheme brewing.

Steve:

I smell, a. I'll take care of this. By

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one of the kids. Again. Don't worry, I'll handle

Steve:

it. By one of the kids.

Leif:

But again, also, you know, back to the

Leif:

writing. This is not the first time in this

Leif:

episode they set something up that pays off later on with the

Leif:

bracelet.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Nate and Blair are still arguing about the apartment, but

Leif:

Blair needs to go help Serena now. In the end,

Leif:

Nate decides to tag along this time.

Steve:

And I was glad he did

Steve:

because I, love that this

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episode is another non judging Breakfast Club

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

Everyone's stories are intertwined.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

The entire cast except for Vanessa, who's not in the episode.

Leif:

Okay.

Steve:

Yeah, that's fine.

Leif:

I also thought this was an interesting parallel

Leif:

to previous scenes with Dan and Serena

Leif:

where Dan is always understanding what Serena needs to

Leif:

drop. Dropped everything to go help Blair, but Nate

Leif:

was a little more not understanding.

Steve:

Yeah, that is true. Although Nate

Steve:

also. I was surprised in the previous

Steve:

episode that Nate didn't do anything to help

Steve:

Serena. That Nate was very

Steve:

much, very selfish in the moment. I want

Steve:

to do this thing with you, Blair. And now

Steve:

that that has kind of, to a

Steve:

degree blown over. They still have more to talk

Steve:

about, but Nate being like, well, I'm

Steve:

going with you. I was actually glad that it's

Steve:

like, good. You need to be involved with.

Leif:

No, it's good that he went with her. But the initial reaction of

Leif:

not wanting her to go to help Serena. Yeah,

Leif:

I'm not saying it's necessarily bad, but it's just, an interesting

Leif:

parallel with the Dan and Serena scenes previously.

Steve:

You're right. Especially with the relationship

Steve:

that Blair and Serena have. The drop everything. No matter

Steve:

how much we hate each other, we drop everything

Steve:

for each other. So you're. You're right.

Leif:

Dan Gets that. But Nate is still

Leif:

getting there, I guess.

Steve:

yeah. Although Dan ran got

Steve:

tired of it too though by the end of that

Steve:

relationship. The whole. Especially one year

Steve:

ago from now when Serena wasn't telling

Steve:

him what was going on.

Leif:

But that wasn't to go help Blair. That was just to go

Leif:

party with Georgina or whatever she was doing.

Steve:

Well and. And covering up the murder she didn't commit.

Leif:

Yes. The

Leif:

Humphreys are walking down the street. Rufus is

Leif:

still on cloud nine. He announces that he is going to propose

Leif:

to Lily. After getting Eric's permission, Dan

Leif:

cuts out to try to convince Serena to come to

Leif:

brunch.

Steve:

First of all, Rufus is too happy. Zip ity doo

Steve:

dah. Also,

Steve:

I feel like his acting.

Leif:

I always forget his name. Matthew Settle.

Steve:

Matthew Settle. I always feel like his acting

Steve:

kind of is. He's better at some things than

Steve:

others and he's not very good at happy. But I

Steve:

feel like whenever he's happy someone was like, act

Steve:

happy. And that's what we get.

Leif:

Nate and Blair arrive at Serena's place. Serena

Leif:

admits that she messed up with Gabriel. But Blair and Nate

Leif:

agree to help.

Steve:

I loved. I loved Blair here and this wasn't. It's

Steve:

not something I wanted to be right about. And

Steve:

then instantly I'm here for my friend.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Don't tell me he gave you scabies.

Leif:

if only. If only.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Also arriving is Chuck and

Leif:

Georgina who says she just wants to apologize to

Leif:

Blair.

Steve:

I really like Georgina here.

Steve:

Really like her in this entire

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

I told you. They lean into her style

Leif:

going forward.

Steve:

They really do. It is a

Steve:

180 from last year where I

Steve:

couldn't stand Michelle

Steve:

Trachtenberg. Yeah, it wasn't even Georgina. It was.

Steve:

I couldn't stand Michelle Trachtenberg. And this

Steve:

year Michelle Trachtenberg has been

Steve:

awesome.

Leif:

So originally Josh Schwartz wanted

Leif:

Misha Barton for the part, but she turned him

Leif:

down. I, think she would have worked better for the original version of

Leif:

Georgina.

Steve:

You think so?

Leif:

She has that charisma.

Steve:

She does.

Leif:

She draws people in. She's not a great actress, but she

Leif:

draws people in.

Steve:

I guess my concern with her is that

Steve:

I find her to be a little flat.

Leif:

Yeah, she's definitely flat, but she can. But she still is

Leif:

able to draw people in solely based on

Leif:

her looks.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

The non judging Breakfast Club is now gathered

Leif:

in Serena's room. Serena is leaving a

Leif:

voicemail for Gabriel stating that she is pregnant.

Steve:

She's so fucking stupid. The whole

Steve:

like. But I know there had to be something real there

Steve:

between beneath. It did There.

Leif:

Serena, she was.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

So.

Steve:

But although was she. I don't know if

Steve:

he would. I still don't believe he was telling the truth.

Leif:

I think he was. Because if, like you

Leif:

said, if. If he didn't have feelings, he would have just left

Leif:

like he was supposed to. He should have been arrested

Leif:

here.

Steve:

Well, he should have been arrested here, but

Steve:

they're stupid. Like, they're so

Steve:

fucking dumb about how they handle it.

Steve:

Because. Because even if he's not

Steve:

the main culprit, even if it is all

Steve:

Poppy putting this scheme together,

Steve:

he's still doing it. He is

Steve:

still involved in this Ponzi scheme that is still

Steve:

illegal and still involved with not having your

Steve:

money.

Leif:

Well, like you said, he was. You know, she was

Leif:

originally a mark, but I think he did sort of

Leif:

fall for her, because everyone falls for Serena Vander

Leif:

Woodsen. Dan arrives

Leif:

and finds out that the investment is fake. Serena begs him not

Leif:

to tell Rufus so that she can handle it.

Steve:

Yeah, kids are gonna handle it because your mom gave

Steve:

you a bracelet. Not that your mom's gonna handle it any

Steve:

better.

Leif:

Well, she's gonna make it go away.

Steve:

She'll make it go away, but we'll get to

Steve:

that. Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Just when it seems that things can't get any worse,

Leif:

Georgina barges in and everyone starts yelling at each

Leif:

other. However, they are saved by the bell as

Leif:

Gabriel does.

Steve:

Call back her entrance. It's going

Steve:

to take an act of God. And she just walks

Steve:

in and it pauses and you have that

Steve:

moment of like, oh, they all look at her and then they scream

Steve:

at each other and they're all fighting and

Steve:

they. You brought her here. And oh, my God,

Steve:

I love,

Leif:

So good.

Steve:

I loved it.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Again, that's writing and directing.

Steve:

There's not even much that the actors needed

Steve:

to do because there was just such

Steve:

great timing in that scene.

Leif:

And that is the end of Act 1. We move

Leif:

into Act 2. Serena is

Leif:

meeting with Gabriel and she calls him out on his

Leif:

scheme. Chuck enters, backed by security guards,

Leif:

and threatens to call the feds. Gabriel claims

Leif:

that Poppy has the money.

Steve:

Serena wants to be loved

Steve:

for who she is so

Steve:

badly that she will accept

Steve:

anyone telling her that. They do.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And that's where I didn't necessarily

Steve:

think that Gabriel was telling the truth. I think that

Steve:

he heard, oh, she's pregnant. Oh, shit, this

Steve:

is going to come back on me. I better do something

Steve:

about it was my impression of him. I also don't

Steve:

think Armie Hammer was. Is a fantastic

Steve:

actor either. I think he's quite terrible at

Steve:

conveying Anything. I believe that you

Steve:

need to have human emotion, not eat human

Steve:

emotion in order to. In order

Steve:

to act. And I think he just lacks

Steve:

it. So I think that. That. That there.

Steve:

That lends a lot to the discrepancy

Steve:

between our view of what happened there,

Steve:

because I don't think that he conveys

Steve:

anything very well.

Leif:

True. Except smarmy

Leif:

asshole Dan finds Lily and spills

Leif:

the tea. Lily says he did the right thing and

Leif:

that she will take care of the situation quickly and

Leif:

quietly.

Steve:

Y'all should know Dan can never keep his mouth shut.

Steve:

Never.

Leif:

Yeah, And I like how they're fighting new

Leif:

and creative ways to hide the baby bump.

Leif:

Yeah, she's wearing, like, a jacket,

Leif:

a wrap, and she's got a Birkin bag.

Steve:

In front of her. It's really funny, because I actually

Steve:

thought that maybe she already had the baby

Steve:

from one of the other scenes where it looked like she

Steve:

had, like, they were still covering, but she had

Steve:

less because, you know, sometimes you still carry that, that.

Steve:

That. Wait a little while, but yeah, like.

Leif:

She'S wearing a jacket inside the whole episode.

Steve:

Yeah, she is indeed.

Leif:

Back at the restaurant, Gabriel is explaining to Serena and

Leif:

Chuck that his Ponzi scheme with Poppy. And Gabriel

Leif:

reiterates that in the end, Papi

Leif:

took the money and screwed him over as well.

Steve:

Yeah. This is where we get the Focalite ball

Steve:

line. I swear, you were just a mark at

Steve:

the beginning, but I fell in love with you.

Steve:

It's so lame. If he did fall in love with her, it's

Steve:

just as lame as if.

Leif:

The reason why. Yeah, because if he didn't fall in

Leif:

love, there's zero reason for him to show up here

Leif:

and zero reason to.

Steve:

Explain everything unless it's all a lie.

Steve:

And Poppy was like, well, here's how you have to handle this new

Steve:

thing, because, my. And my. Because

Steve:

the last time we saw the two of them

Steve:

together, they pop. I'm, Poppy and

Steve:

Gabriel, they were super happy, but they

Steve:

were like, oh, she's on her way here. We better clear out of

Steve:

here. And then Poppy came back. It all felt

Steve:

very planned and rehearsed to me.

Leif:

Well, yes. And then, like, put it away like she was

Leif:

gonna buy him out, but she took all the money out of the account and

Leif:

just didn't show up.

Steve:

But they were very romantically.

Steve:

They acted romantically involved when they

Steve:

were by themselves.

Leif:

Yeah. I think he's just a him, though.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And I. And I. Yeah, Largely that

Steve:

the way that he and Poppy were

Steve:

when they found out Serena was coming

Steve:

back, that's what told me it's all a lie

Steve:

again.

Leif:

I get different, different writers for each episode. So, yeah,

Leif:

in this episode, it was. It was written as if

Leif:

that he did have feelings for her.

Steve:

I didn't get that.

Leif:

Nate and Blair are still bickering outside the hotel

Leif:

with Georgina, begging for Blair's forgiveness.

Leif:

Gabriel, Chuck and Serena exit. Gabriel still wants

Leif:

to pursue a relationship with Serena, but she says

Leif:

he's gotta go.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, I don't really have

Steve:

anything for that.

Leif:

The non judging Breakfast Club drafted an

Leif:

unwilling Georgina into the war against Poppy.

Leif:

It sounds like they have a plan. Gossip Girl has this

Leif:

to say. It looks like

Leif:

Georgina is losing her religion, whereas Bee met

Leif:

her match in the battle for G's soul.

Steve:

When Georgina says to Blair, everyone's

Steve:

forgiven me except for you. That's not how

Steve:

forgiveness works, Georgina. You can't

Steve:

just. Everyone else is doing it. I'm just waiting on

Steve:

you to forgive me.

Leif:

And has everyone really forgiven her?

Steve:

I don't believe anybody has.

Steve:

The other thing I had here was when they let

Steve:

Gabriel go and Serena's like, oh, he won't be

Steve:

hard to find. The guy that just took all of your

Steve:

money and can disappear at any second won't be hard to

Steve:

find if he is lying right here, Serena.

Steve:

He can just go right to the airport and be

Steve:

gone.

Leif:

Yes. Chuck's PIs are, able to find people anywhere.

Steve:

Yeah, I guess so.

Leif:

Lily is going over the list of investors with Bruce

Leif:

Kaplan. When Serena arrives at home, Lily pulls

Leif:

Serena aside and absolutely eviscerates Ah, her with

Leif:

words. Lily tells Serena to just stay out of

Leif:

it because mother knows best. After Serena leaves,

Leif:

she tells Bruce that they are going to do something a

Leif:

little different with Rufus's payout.

Steve:

Yeah. Lily once again being concerned about

Steve:

appearances and how it's going to

Steve:

look on her and Serena.

Leif:

Speaking of Rufus, he is walking down the street with

Leif:

Eric, who is underwhelmed by Rufus proposal

Leif:

ideas. However, ultimately Eric is happy

Leif:

and welcomes Rufus to the family.

Steve:

Yeah. Again, Eric being

Steve:

the most pragmatic and adult person

Steve:

here, is basically

Steve:

saying, are you sure my

Steve:

mom is the one you want to marry?

Leif:

Also, another good setup for later in the episode when

Leif:

Rufus says Lily is nothing like Cece, and Eric just kind

Leif:

of gives him a look like, sure about that?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Steve:

And it's so true.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And I love how Eric knows this.

Steve:

Eric knows his mom, Eric knows his grandmom,

Steve:

and Eric is the most grounded

Steve:

Upper east sider on the show.

Steve:

And so for him to have that reaction. I really.

Steve:

I love Eric.

Leif:

Meanwhile, Blair is using Georgina's desire for

Leif:

forgiveness to push her into helping with the scheme to take down

Leif:

Poppy. However, just as Blair is able to convince

Leif:

G. S calls B to call off the plan.

Steve:

two things. The first is that the list of things that

Steve:

Blair says that

Steve:

Georgina did that she needs forgiveness for, she didn't

Steve:

do to Blair. She did to Serena.

Leif:

Well, she didn't really. I mean, at least on the show, she has

Leif:

not really done anything directly to Blair. So why is she even asking for Blair's

Leif:

fort given.

Steve:

Exactly. Other than to me

Steve:

it's the history of them that she

Steve:

needs forgiveness for. So the fact that

Steve:

Blair. I kind of wished they

Steve:

would have made stuff up that wasn't in the

Steve:

show that she did to Blair to get

Steve:

forgiveness like they did when Georgina

Steve:

got sent to her parents.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

In the. In the previous time. The other

Steve:

thing about this, the if you

Steve:

cut revenge out of the Bible, it's really just

Steve:

a pamphlet.

Leif:

How did you know my favorite passage?

Steve:

And you shall know my name is the

Steve:

Lord when I lay my vengeance

Steve:

upon thee.

Leif:

I think, Flair watches Pulp Fiction a lot.

Steve:

that's exactly what I was thinking.

Leif:

Serena is disgusted when she comes out of her room to find

Leif:

Lily having polite tea with Poppy. Lily

Leif:

reiterates the best thing to do is let her and it

Leif:

go. Who gives a fuck about the next guy. Am I right?

Steve:

Yeah. Lily sucks in this episode.

Steve:

Lily. It's funny because I often

Steve:

root for Lily. I usually like

Steve:

Lily a lot in a lot of what she does.

Steve:

And yet this episode

Steve:

made her a complete villain while

Steve:

sticking 100% true to character,

Steve:

which I thought was really, really well

Steve:

done. Showing the really negative

Steve:

side of this person who is

Steve:

a. Is usually a very good cast

Steve:

member. One of the better people and one of

Steve:

the often a better voice of reason sometimes

Steve:

for a lot of things. And for her to really suck for

Steve:

a whole episode really made for good tv.

Leif:

Yeah. We'll get more to it in the stock watch.

Leif:

But even though this is a great episode,

Leif:

not a lot of people are going up.

Steve:

No. No. Yeah. Why did that had the same

Steve:

thing. Yeah. Really to

Steve:

go up in this one, you had to be on screen for like five

Steve:

seconds or less.

Leif:

Dan, alone in the loft, gets a call from the business manager

Leif:

who lets him know that Rufus is going to start receiving dividends in

Leif:

about six weeks.

Steve:

Yep. Another guy just. Oh, here's some important

Steve:

business information for you for your dad

Steve:

kid who does

Steve:

this.

Leif:

He must. It must actually depend as secretary again.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, it had to

Steve:

be a receptionist or secretary because every one of

Steve:

them on this show should be fired.

Leif:

Maybe Dan should actually has his future

Leif:

career.

Steve:

Yeah, he could because then he can tell everybody everything

Steve:

all the time.

Leif:

Serena goes to Blair's house. Looks like the plan is

Leif:

back on. Poppy must pay.

Leif:

Georgina is going to pretend to be a rich Canadian who just

Leif:

moved to New York and is planning on meeting Poppy for tea.

Steve:

I loved it. I love the non judging breakfast

Steve:

club talking with each other. Nate with the are you we sure

Steve:

we shouldn't just call the cops? But the way, the way it was

Steve:

cut, the way it was edited, the way it was

Steve:

directed and.

Leif:

Yeah, that's actually the next scene after the commercial break.

Steve:

Oh, my bad.

Leif:

Yeah, so you're right. Yeah. We come back from the

Leif:

commercial and the NJBC is ironing out

Leif:

the plan when Serena gets a call from Dan. Serena

Leif:

is passive aggressive because Dan ratted her out, but still

Leif:

tells Dan that the plan is still on.

Steve:

Yes. And Yeah, like I said, I love them being

Steve:

together here.

Steve:

I love that they all

Steve:

contributed. They all shot lines

Steve:

in Chuck smelling Georgina.

Leif:

Smells of aspiration.

Steve:

So fucking creepy.

Leif:

Rufus and Jenny are at the penthouse setting up for Rufus

Leif:

proposal. When Lily gets home earlier than expected,

Leif:

Jenny whisks her up the stairs to.

Steve:

Distract her little J with her sweet little pep

Steve:

talk for daddy. I love, I love how nervous Rufus

Steve:

is and how Jenny gives him the pep talk and I love how supportive

Steve:

she is.

Leif:

And Jenny's rapid fire explanation of Twilight is

Leif:

so of the time.

Steve:

Oh yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

The NJBC plus G arrives in New

Leif:

York's famous Russian Tea room. The girls enter,

Leif:

but Nate holds Chuck back for a private conversation

Leif:

about their little love triangle with Blair.

Steve:

Yeah, I, I was again on team Nate

Steve:

here. and I was very much like.

Steve:

Because Nate isn't saying you have

Steve:

to back off, you have to leave her alone. He's saying

Steve:

you have to decide if this is what you want or

Steve:

not. Because this is what I want. And so

Steve:

if you don't want it, get out of the way. And if you

Steve:

do, say something so we can work it out. I

Steve:

felt that that was a lot better than last week where he was trying

Steve:

to piss a circle around Blair.

Leif:

I agree. Dan calls Lily and asks about the

Leif:

dividends and then once again spills the tea on Serena's

Leif:

plan at the Russian Tea Room.

Steve:

Narc. Dan is such

Steve:

a narc. Yeah, I don't, I don't blame

Steve:

him. I never, when Dan is a narc, I

Steve:

don't typically Think he's doing the wrong thing. I

Steve:

believe Serena's doing the wrong thing in this.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Instance.

Leif:

Although Lily might not be the best person to

Leif:

tell.

Steve:

Well, and Lily's not the best person to tell. And the

Steve:

other thing is, Lily isn't handling it any

Steve:

better. Like Serena's handling

Steve:

of it is almost better

Steve:

than. Than Lily's, because at

Steve:

least Serena's, if it would have been

Steve:

executed properly, could prevent her.

Steve:

Poppy, from doing this to other

Steve:

people.

Leif:

Not really, though, because the cops were not the plan.

Steve:

It was the PI they were going.

Leif:

To blackmail her into giving the money back and then. But then let her

Leif:

go.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, that's true.

Leif:

So.

Steve:

So it's not much better.

Leif:

So, honestly, I mean, Lily. Lily's plan is

Leif:

not good for future victims, but it is

Leif:

good for getting the situation solved. And.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Swept by the rug.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Lily immediately calls Serena and orders her to stop

Leif:

the plan. However, Serena ignores her and tells her

Leif:

she's got to go and hangs up.

Steve:

Yep.

Leif:

And then while Lily is making another call,

Leif:

Rufus is still setting up for the proposal when he stumbles across

Leif:

the investor payout list and sees that he is getting more

Leif:

than the rest. According to the spreadsheet, he only

Leif:

invested 40,000, but is going to be receiving

Leif:

indefinite monthly payments of $5,000.

Steve:

So, first of all, your entire music catalog was only

Steve:

worth 40 grand because that's what you were saying you were

Steve:

gonna use to invest, and

Steve:

you sold it for 40 grand. That doesn't

Steve:

seem like a lot to sell your.

Steve:

To sell the publishing rights. I feel like he'd be

Steve:

making more off of them than that.

Steve:

And also, why are you snooping, Rufus?

Steve:

You found this document.

Steve:

Other people's financial business.

Steve:

Why are you snooping?

Leif:

I like how it's just in there with bags of money, too.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah, because that's

Steve:

how they keep their money.

Leif:

Probably have, like, dollar signs on.

Leif:

Poppy is meeting Georgina's new alter ego,

Leif:

Cheryl Lynn. Gossip Girl has this to say before

Leif:

going to break. They say

Leif:

that numbers don't lie and money talks, but does

Leif:

Georgina still speak Poppy's language?

Steve:

I love Georgina. The Sex and the

Steve:

City, like, playing into the

Steve:

whole, I'm a

Steve:

damsel in distress socialite,

Steve:

or I'm trying to be in this circle

Steve:

and trying to do these things.

Steve:

She plays into it so well,

Steve:

and it made me think she's using.

Steve:

She's still using all of the Christian

Steve:

motif m in it. But you see

Steve:

the schemer in here.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

You see the person who loves taking on this character

Steve:

and running a scheme and

Steve:

plays it so well, by being

Steve:

disarming and be almost

Steve:

self humiliating. Because you know that if you were to

Steve:

actually say to somebody like Poppy Lipton, are you a

Steve:

Carrie? That they would laugh in your face.

Steve:

Laugh in your face.

Leif:

And we move into Act 3.

Leif:

At the Russian Tea Room, Blair and Chuck are waiting for a

Leif:

text from Georgina. But Blair use it as an opportunity

Leif:

to give Chuck one more chance to admit his feelings.

Leif:

Chuck once again fails to man up.

Steve:

I like that. Blair says, we'll figure it

Steve:

out. All of us. I recognize

Steve:

that if you and I happen, there's a

Steve:

problem with Nate, but we will all work

Steve:

this out. It. You just have to let

Steve:

me know.

Steve:

Also, stupid Chuck.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So stupid.

Leif:

Serena overhears their conversation. And once Blair

Leif:

walks away, Chuck admits that he does love Blair, but he

Leif:

can't make her happy.

Steve:

Poor Chuck. I, think that the

Steve:

real turning point, and this goes back to the

Steve:

conversation that he had with Blair. I think the real

Steve:

turning point was when Blair said to him,

Steve:

you just want me to be as miserable as you are. And I

Steve:

think that that really

Steve:

moved something in Chuck that he

Steve:

loves this person and never wants her to be as miserable as

Steve:

he is.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Georgina is roping Poppy in for the takedown, but it

Leif:

seems to stumble when Poppy demands cash

Leif:

again.

Steve:

Georgina staying in character, having

Steve:

the whole oh my,

Steve:

my sweet Bible camp, if I can ask my

Steve:

daddy for more money. And I

Steve:

loved. I loved it.

Leif:

Nate enters the restaurant and lets Serena and Blair know that

Leif:

the police are outside.

Steve:

Yeah, something's not right here.

Leif:

Immediately I was like, that wasn't the plan.

Steve:

Yeah, I was like, the police. That wasn't the plan.

Leif:

Georgina gets a text from Blair that the cops are outside,

Leif:

so reluctantly hands Papi the bag.

Steve:

Bag of cash.

Leif:

Serena goes outside to get the cops and come in and

Leif:

arrest Poppy. But it turns out that the Serena is the one being

Leif:

arrested. As Serena's being cuffed, she tells Blair and

Leif:

Nate to call Chuck. Poppy slips off in the

Leif:

confusion.

Steve:

Yeah. Lily is having her daughter

Steve:

arrested to protect her reputation.

Leif:

I do get it. because she does explain it a.

Steve:

Little more later when this can go

Steve:

away.

Leif:

And you know, getting arrested is not the thing

Leif:

that's gonna hurt her reputation. It's conning her friends and

Leif:

family, you know, into losing money.

Steve:

Yeah, that.

Leif:

That's the bad thing.

Steve:

And I do get that.

Leif:

And we go to commercial and come back for the

Leif:

epilogue. Blair enters the

Leif:

restaurant and blames a dumbfounded Georgina for setting

Leif:

them all up.

Steve:

Oh, B, that's a mistake. Yeah,

Steve:

I get why? You're suspicious.

Steve:

But that's a mistake. B.

Leif:

He pushed a little too hard.

Steve:

Although the way that this wraps up,

Steve:

maybe she pushed her in in the exact right direction too.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. See what happens? Rufus

Leif:

confronts Lily about the list and her ultimate

Leif:

repayment plan for him. Rufus gets

Leif:

extremely self righteous. and Lily was

Leif:

wrong to go behind Rufus back, but I totally understand where she's coming

Leif:

from. When she told him how hard it was to watch him agonize

Leif:

about paying her dance tuition.

Steve:

Awesome. You wouldn't let me send my kid to

Steve:

jail. How come

Steve:

you get to send your kid to jail and I can't send my kid to

Steve:

jail?

Leif:

It's a fair point.

Steve:

It is, it is. It's also,

Steve:

I thought that was just a really

Steve:

funny moment for him to

Steve:

be like, wait, you wouldn't let me do that.

Leif:

Well, I think at this point, Rufus does realize that was the wrong

Leif:

move.

Steve:

Yeah, I agree. I think you're right.

Steve:

And I think that him seeing someone else do it

Steve:

reinforces that it was the wrong move.

Leif:

Let her play for college. Seriously.

Steve:

But seriously, you have

Steve:

a ridiculously wealthy

Steve:

billionaire wife, soon to be

Steve:

fiance. If you didn't get. If you didn't

Steve:

bail because she wants to help you

Steve:

out. And I, do understand

Steve:

the embarrassment angle

Steve:

of, for Rufus if that was a public

Steve:

thing. Now I also understand it's kind of

Steve:

condescending to slip him money Behind.

Leif:

Oh, yeah, behind the back is wrong. But when

Leif:

she offered it, just take it.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

99% of the population can't afford to send their

Leif:

kids to Yale.

Steve:

Yeah. And your girlfriend is

Steve:

like, here is the money for it. It's

Steve:

like, it's basically like if you bought a

Steve:

sandwich at the police station.

Leif:

Serena discovers that it was Lily that had her arrested

Leif:

for stealing, quote unquote, the tennis bracelet that Lily

Leif:

gave her at the beginning of the episode. Again, very good

Leif:

setup and payoff.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, it was really well done.

Leif:

Rufus finds out that Lily had Serena arrested

Leif:

and then points out the hypocrisy of shopping or

Leif:

stopping him from doing the same to Jenny. Earlier in the season,

Leif:

Rufus decides that the proposal was a big mistake.

Steve:

Oh, I jumped ahead. I didn't realize I jumped ahead there.

Leif:

Yeah, the first conversation was more arguing about the money. And then he

Leif:

finds out because, she gets the call.

Leif:

And Riff is like, what was that about? And he's

Leif:

like, oh, yeah, Serena's arrested.

Steve:

Yeah, I had her arrested. Yeah, I was thinking that that was all the

Steve:

same scene, but it wasn't. But I had her

Steve:

Arrested. I'll go with you.

Leif:

No, it's all right.

Steve:

You don't have to. Okay, fine. I did.

Leif:

I'm going to let her stew there for a while first.

Steve:

You wouldn't let me put my kid.

Steve:

In a cop car, but you're going to have your kids stew in jail

Steve:

for a couple days.

Leif:

Outside the police station, Nate and Blair

Leif:

mutually decide that moving in together isn't the right move right

Leif:

now. However, prom might be a bit more suitable considering

Leif:

their ages.

Steve:

Very mature conversation. Yeah, they were very.

Steve:

Both of them were like, this is where this

Steve:

came from. And it wasn't okay, we are 18.

Leif:

There was no rush to play let's.

Steve:

Go to prom first. That was

Steve:

cute. You should ask me to play prom first.

Steve:

Cute and very grown up. I liked it.

Leif:

And then the episode ending montage begins with

Leif:

Georgina calling Blair to tell Blair that she is going after

Leif:

Poppy. It appears Georgie is back to her old

Leif:

self. Tell Jesus that the bitch is back.

Steve:

That I loved it. I thought she was so

Steve:

great. And seeing the. I don't

Steve:

want to say heel turn, but

Steve:

seeing the sunglasses on

Steve:

and the I am not that sweet little

Steve:

girl anymore. You. You brought it out of me.

Leif:

And. Yeah, and it is one of the most iconic lines from

Leif:

the show.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, it was fantastic.

Steve:

watching this episode

Steve:

now I understand why Shannon wanted to be

Steve:

on a Georgina episode so bad. Watching

Steve:

this now, I understand why Shannon loves Georgina so

Steve:

much.

Leif:

Lily is drinking alone. Rufus arrives home and tells

Leif:

Dan and Jenny to return the ring before sulking

Leif:

off to his room.

Steve:

Mr. Dramatic Pants. @ least

Steve:

this time it's an adult conflict between

Steve:

Rufus and Lily and not, how many people did you bang?

Steve:

Because the last time they had a conflict, it was

Steve:

silly and juvenile.

Leif:

And this is a little silly. And you have to. Because it's about versus

Leif:

pride.

Steve:

It is. And Lily trying to

Steve:

sneak him money that he wouldn't accept

Steve:

otherwise. And

Steve:

another piece of this that I keep

Steve:

reflecting on is if Lilly

Steve:

gave you a $5,000 a

Steve:

month allowance, like this thing

Steve:

is, no one would know. No one would know except for you

Steve:

and Lily. Your kids don't even have to know.

Steve:

So what is the embarrassment?

Steve:

And I'll also say this from my point of view

Steve:

where for the past six years, my wife

Steve:

supported me. You know, I was on workers comp.

Steve:

I was injured, I couldn't work, wasn't allowed to make money,

Steve:

and my wife had to cover the

Steve:

bills, had to cover most of

Steve:

our expenses, most of my

Steve:

things that I would need from day to day.

Steve:

And yes, it is. I

Steve:

Understand the embarrassment

Steve:

angle of not being able to support yourself, because I've lived

Steve:

that firsthand. But this isn't even not being able to support

Steve:

yourself. And the only people that knew that Robin

Steve:

was doing that was me and Robin and

Steve:

anyone that we trusted with that

Steve:

information. And now all of you. But

Steve:

because, Because again, I'm also not the prideful person

Steve:

that Rufus is. I knew I was in a

Steve:

situation that I could not

Steve:

provide what I wanted to.

Leif:

And you. Were you already married when you went on

Leif:

disability?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

That's slightly different.

Steve:

There is. You're right. There is that difference

Steve:

that we were already married. We

Steve:

were. We were married. We were already

Steve:

married, but for like three or four months.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So it wasn't. It was new. We were only

Steve:

married that summer. We were married

Steve:

in July. I was hurt in November.

Leif:

Chuck, Nate, and Blair are each using their own unique

Leif:

methods of persuasion to get Serena out of jail.

Steve:

I loved. I loved, loved,

Steve:

loved this.

Leif:

you got Chuck trying to blackmail. Nate's using

Leif:

his grandfather and the mayor connections,

Leif:

and Blair's just using her entitled whining.

Steve:

So great, great. I loved it. It just.

Steve:

It just felt so. I

Steve:

want more of the. The non judging

Steve:

Breakfast club doing stuff. I feel like it's. This

Steve:

is the second time that they've done a

Steve:

story with them. Both times it was the

Steve:

end of the season, so I'm assuming that that's going to become an

Steve:

end of season thing because I know that they

Steve:

have those patterns and I'm excited for that.

Steve:

I loved this.

Leif:

And then the final scene of the episode is Serena getting

Leif:

her now infamous mugshot taken.

Leif:

And Gossip Girl ends the episode.

Leif:

Oh, no. We warned you that no good would come from

Leif:

spinning a wicked web. You just got tangled up in

Leif:

your own lies. And the more you twist,

Leif:

the tighter the trap until you're locked in a

Leif:

prison of your own making. Smile for the camera.

Leif:

S xo exo

Leif:

Gossip.

Steve:

The only lie Serena told is that she was pregnant.

Steve:

She. Well, I mean, this all the. I guess

Steve:

it's just.

Leif:

It's the whole montage, you know, that's broken. It's broken up. I

Leif:

put it all together just because it sounds better, but yeah, it's broken up over all

Leif:

those final scenes.

Steve:

Yeah. And all of it all falling. Yeah, I remember

Steve:

now. The mug shot is great.

Leif:

Yeah, it's all over the Internet and it

Leif:

actually comes back in the show. Like, there's various

Leif:

shots of it throughout.

Steve:

To get one of those hung up in here.

Steve:

Serena mugshot next to the other Gossip Girl posters.

Leif:

Yes, but that is our episode what's coming

Leif:

next.

Steve:

So I am predicting

Steve:

I'm going to start with Georgina, that Georgina

Steve:

is going to work her

Steve:

own scheme to fix the Poppy

Steve:

situation and get her money back. And in

Steve:

doing so is going to have a greater

Steve:

turn to then target either

Steve:

Blair or the non judging breakfast Club.

Steve:

That will result in her having to be shuffled

Steve:

off again like at the end of last season.

Leif:

So we, got 24. So we got two more episodes.

Steve:

After two more episodes.

Leif:

Is that gonna happen this season?

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. I believe that the next episode is her

Steve:

going after Poppy and then the season

Steve:

finale is going to be

Steve:

her going after the rest or maybe just

Steve:

Blair. But I feel like there's going to be a

Steve:

greater turn against them

Steve:

to leave it into the next season for when

Steve:

she eventually comes back next season. is she always

Steve:

an end of season thing or is she.

Steve:

I also predict that Rufus and Lily are going to

Steve:

be fine. Robin, is like, they're broken up. They're going

Steve:

to break up. This is it. They're broken up now. And I'm like,

Steve:

this is too central to the show.

Steve:

This relationship is way too

Steve:

important to this show to end.

Steve:

So I think they're gonna be fine.

Leif:

Anything else?

Steve:

I don't think so. yeah, I don't think

Steve:

so.

Leif:

Well, let's get into some segments then.

Leif:

This week in Fan and we jumped into the wayback machine to

Leif:

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.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. Overall, it was a

Leif:

good episode. Most people really liked it.

Steve:

Yeah, it was.

Leif:

Yeah. Eric is the only sane Vander

Leif:

Woodsen.

Steve:

Eric is the only sane Upper East Sider.

Steve:

Let's broaden that umbrella a little bit.

Leif:

Most fans are bored. And over the Chuck and Blair back

Leif:

and forth.

Steve:

Yeah. So I'm glad that's finally done.

Leif:

Dan needs to shut his trap and go back to Brooklyn.

Steve:

Narc.

Leif:

Blair is going to regret pushing Georgina over the

Leif:

edge.

Steve:

Agreed. That is my big prediction.

Leif:

Yeah. And finally, Rufus, get

Leif:

over yourself.

Steve:

Get over yourself.

Steve:

Take the money. Put your kid through college.

Steve:

The college you dreamt of his whole life that

Steve:

he got into.

Leif:

You, were willing to take financial aid. Why is that any different?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Taking

Steve:

financial aid from taxpayers versus somebody who

Steve:

hardly pays taxes.

Steve:

That would be a write off for her. Yeah.

Steve:

Charitable donation.

Leif:

The Dan Humphrey Foundation.

Steve:

Dan Humphrey Foundation. She could start a foundation and have

Steve:

a tax write off. You're benefiting her,

Steve:

Rufus.

Leif:

Let's move into episode grades. What do you got this

Leif:

week?

Steve:

A. I, I. And, bordering A,

Steve:

this might be. This is definitely top five

Steve:

episodes. This is one of the best episodes of Gossip

Steve:

Girl so far.

Leif:

I agree. Writing was on point. Directing was

Leif:

very good. Acting was good. we didn't even mention it,

Leif:

but, you know, the Layton tearing up in the

Leif:

Chuck and Blair scene, it was perfect.

Steve:

We don't talk about her acting as much as we used to because

Steve:

it's just a given. But, yeah, brilliant.

Leif:

And I'm gonna just go ahead and give it the A plus.

Steve:

Yeah, it deserves it. I. You know what? I'll

Steve:

do it too. I'm gonna give it the bump. I'm gonna give it the A plus

Steve:

bump. It was super smooth. Which

Steve:

is another thing, like, Gossip Girl often

Steve:

has hang ups somewhere in an

Steve:

episode that you kind of go, what?

Steve:

Why would they do that? And in this, when

Steve:

they did it, my big why would they do that? Was

Steve:

letting Gabriel go. But it was also so

Steve:

in character for everything going on.

Leif:

And the biggest plus is that everyone's story

Leif:

was intertwined.

Steve:

Yes, everyone's story. Everyone.

Leif:

You didn't have Dan of Anessa, like, sitting off in the loft drinking

Leif:

by themselves. And, everyone was coming

Leif:

together.

Steve:

Yeah. You pretty much had every

Steve:

character in the room with every other character

Steve:

at some point in this episode,

Steve:

when Dan walks in and when Georgina walks

Steve:

in, we got to get this crazy out of here.

Leif:

Going on over to Stockwatch. He got going up.

Steve:

I had Poppy going up because she seems

Steve:

to be getting away with this. I had Eric

Steve:

going up for being Eric. I had

Steve:

Jenny going up as well. And

Steve:

yeah, those are my ups.

Leif:

I have the exact same thing. Poppy's

Leif:

winning the scheme. Eric was sane

Leif:

and pragmatic as usual, and Jenny

Leif:

was being a good supported daughter and helping out, being a

Leif:

good wing woman for, Which is a little bit weird, but

Leif:

she was doing her job.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Who do you got going down?

Steve:

Serena, Lily,

Steve:

Rufus, and Chuck.

Steve:

I didn't give it to Blair because I felt like Blair kind

Steve:

of landed in the middle because she's still

Steve:

working things out with Nate. I didn't give

Steve:

up or down to Nate because I feel like he landed right where

Steve:

he was previously. I. I felt like

Steve:

a lot of people didn't go anywhere but

Steve:

serene Serena in jail, Lily being

Steve:

a horrible mom and pretty shitty

Steve:

girlfriend, Rufus being a shitty

Steve:

boyfriend, and Chuck just

Steve:

being shitty.

Leif:

So I had the same four as you. But also, I'm

Leif:

gonna add Dan, because once again, it looks like he's

Leif:

losing his tuition for like the third time.

Steve:

I was so, you know, I should put Dan on there. I was

Steve:

really back and forth on Dan because I felt like he

Steve:

was doing the right thing in the episode despite losing his

Steve:

tuition again.

Leif:

Yeah, I think he was doing the right thing. But yeah,

Leif:

again he's losing his tuition for

Leif:

like the third time now.

Leif:

I also had Nate and Blair because they're both

Leif:

with people that. I mean, Blair is not in love with

Leif:

Nate and Nate is with someone that doesn't love

Leif:

him.

Steve:

that's fair.

Leif:

I also have Georgina going down because she lost her Bible

Leif:

money.

Steve:

The reason I didn't have Georgia, because I thought of that

Steve:

too. But other than the Bible money, I

Steve:

had Georgina going up because she was

Steve:

awesome in the whole episode.

Leif:

She was awesome, but it was not what she wanted

Leif:

to happen. Yeah, she like,

Leif:

like I said, Lily was also entertaining, but she was

Leif:

horrible.

Steve:

Yeah, that's true, that's true. But yeah, I'm keeping, I'm

Steve:

keeping Georgina even for now because I want to see what she

Steve:

does. But here's the best outfits

Steve:

from the.

Steve:

Last episode we've seen.

Leif:

Who do you got for best outfit?

Steve:

Georgina. That the purple outfit? The

Steve:

purple dress with the purple headband. I just

Steve:

thought it really

Steve:

popped. it really

Steve:

communicated the angle.

Steve:

She was going for the

Steve:

wholesome yet stepping into

Steve:

society look. I really enjoyed that

Steve:

outfit.

Leif:

For me, it was Jenny's leather jacket with the black

Leif:

mini and like the assortment of necklaces.

Leif:

Yeah, the jacket necklaces really made m it work.

Steve:

It was, yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, I really liked it.

Leif:

Well, that is it for segments. You got anything to plug

Leif:

this week?

Steve:

I do. On March

Steve:

15, I will be at

Steve:

Dawson Street Pub playing

Steve:

some Black Sabbath songs. There will be a night of Black

Steve:

Sabbath music with a, few different bands. And then

Steve:

they asked me to come and do a few ukulele

Steve:

Black Sabbath covers. So I will be doing that on

Steve:

March 15th at Dawson Street Pub in

Steve:

Roxboro. Maniung, Philadelphia, whatever

Steve:

part you want to call it.

Leif:

I think Jake Shikamboro does do a black savvy

Leif:

song. I want to look into that.

Steve:

Okay. Right now I'm definitely doing Sweet

Steve:

Leif because of my affection for the

Steve:

Sweet Leif. I really

Steve:

want to do something from the Glenn Hughes era. I find him

Steve:

to be a phenomenal. I can't sing like Glenn Hughes, but

Steve:

I find him to be a phenomenal singer and I

Steve:

really like some of his work with Sabbath

Steve:

and I also kind of feel like I have to do something from the

Steve:

do era because I Fucking love Dio. I'm thinking

Steve:

maybe Heaven and hell.

Leif:

Nothing for me to plug this week so I will just go ahead and

Leif:

give you my socials. I'm on Instagram and on

Leif:

Bluesky hotcapicola. That's H

Leif:

o T C A P I C o

Leif:

L A and you can follow the

Leif:

podcast at non judging breakfast pod

Leif:

on threads, Instagram and TikTok.

Leif:

And if you want to check out our Discord server or our

Leif:

Patreon, just check out our

Leif:

website@uh,

Leif:

www.nonjudgingbreakfastpod.com.

Steve:

I'Ll also plug my TikTok is

Steve:

Steve Marshon and my Instagram

Steve:

is also at Steve Marshon M A R C

Steve:

H I O N and my blue sky is at

Steve:

Steve the weed Wizard. And also if you would like to get in

Steve:

touch with the non judging breakfast pod, we would

Steve:

love to hear from you. So please send us an

Steve:

email@nonjudgingbreakfast

Steve:

podmail.com we'd love to hear your

Steve:

thoughts and read them on air. And

Steve:

while you're at it, if you could go ahead and give us

Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

if you could tell a friend what you are listening to, we would

Steve:

really appreciate that. Get your friends listening to the non

Steve:

judging breakfast pod. Make us the water cooler

Steve:

talk this week at work.

Leif:

thank you everyone for joining us and we will be back next

Leif:

week to Talk about Season 2, Episode

Leif:

24, the Pent ultimate episode of the

Leif:

season titled Valley

Leif:

Girls.

Steve:

Very excited.

Leif:

The max episode description reads

Leif:

flashback to Lily's life in the

Leif:

80s.

Leif:

And this was actually a failed backdoor

Leif:

pilot.

Steve:

No kidding.

Leif:

This was. They were trying to make a show of Lily

Leif:

and rufus in the 80s and supposedly

Leif:

they're gonna rope in Sandy and Kirsten from the OC as

Leif:

well. It's gonna be a big crossover universe. But it

Leif:

never happened.

Steve:

I'd watch that.

Leif:

I would watch that too. Especially, especially when you see the

Leif:

casting. They do very. They did very good casting.

Steve:

I'm excited.

Leif:

Lily and her sister.

Steve:

I'm excited. Her sister.

Steve:

We have never heard of Lily's sister.

Steve:

we've never even heard Cece mention Lily's sister.

Steve:

I don't even know the writers know Lily has his

Steve:

sisters.

Leif:

Well, she does starting next week.

Steve:

I think they find out this week.

Steve:

Wait, she has a sister? Just everybody in the writer's room when Josh

Steve:

Wirtz comes in, and then her sister, and they're all like, wait, what?

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 run away you take a piece of me

Steve:

with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of m me with you there

Steve:

oh it seems I'm walking right to

Steve:

your door

Steve:

my heart's still resting looking for

Steve:

something more

Steve:

are you ever gonna see everything you mean to

Steve:

me I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away 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 m.

Leif:

I.

Steve:

Left last night and it feels like way

Steve:

too long

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 run away you take a

Steve:

piece of meat 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:

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 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 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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