Episode 25

Gossip Girl S2E25 - The Goodbye Gossip Girl

This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are diving headfirst into the juicy drama of the season finale of Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 25, aptly titled "The Goodbye Gossip Girl." As the Upper East Siders gear up for graduation, secrets are spilled like overpriced champagne, relationships are put to the ultimate test, and Gossip Girl’s manipulative grip tightens around the group like a designer belt that’s just a tad too snug. Serena's shocking proclamation that high school equals the end of her Gossip Girl saga sends shockwaves through the crew, but let’s be real—can anyone ever truly escape the clutches of GG? With a flurry of explosive Gossip Girl blasts dropping scandalous secrets like confetti, tensions reach a boiling point at Nate's after-grad bash, leading to confrontations that are more intense than a high-stakes game of musical chairs. Join Leif and Steve as they unpack the chaotic culmination of this season, exploring the intricate dynamics of love, betrayal, and the awkwardness of teen angst. Expect insightful commentary, plenty of laughs, and a few surprises that’ll have you gasping louder than a dramatic cliffhanger! So grab your favorite breakfast treat, settle in, and let’s relive the rollercoaster ride of emotions that is Gossip Girl. Trust us, you won't want to miss it!

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Transcript
Leif:

Again, it's just master manipulation by gossip

Leif:

Girls. She's trauma bonding them.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

It's like classic abusive pattern.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And then I like the lines as each people walk in.

Leif:

Like when Dan walks in, he thinks it's him.

Leif:

And then.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And then Blair comes in.

Steve:

They're working together.

Leif:

Oh, yeah. Blair walks in, Dan's like, oh, that makes sense. And then

Leif:

Jenny pop and he's like, they're a team.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Foreign.

Leif:

Hey Upper East Siders And all you scandal loving listeners out there,

Leif:

you just tuned into the non judging breakfast pod where the

Leif:

coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh, and the

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gossip is hotter than ever. My name is Leaf and I'm your

Leif:

seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn,

Steve:

the, I don't know, Leif. What are you going to call the person at

Steve:

the end of season two now?

Leif:

Well, graduation day is here. Do you think you're ready to be

Leif:

queen?

Steve:

I mean, as long as Gossip Girl's not following me

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to college, I think I could handle it.

Leif:

All right then.

Steve:

All right, folks, so here's the deal. Leap has

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been a fan of Gossip Girl since it first aired. And I'm

Steve:

diving in for the first time. And together we're your

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dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama, romance,

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and 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

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show one episode at a time. We analyze the

Leif:

hidden parallels and obscure references. Plus we'll

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also be touching on all the behind the scenes gossip and some

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stories from fandom.

Steve:

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

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breakfast pod, there is always a seat for you at the non

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judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab your

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mimosas, some, coffee or maybe some of

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Nate and Chuck's special medicine. And let's get this

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started.

Leif:

Go Birds.

Steve:

Go Birds. Everyone,

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I'm. I. This city is just

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amazing right now. Everybody who

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is, like Nick Wright who was saying that he doesn't

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think that the Eagles will make it to the red zone

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just the most. I've never seen

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a game like that before.

Leif:

It was definitely a beat down.

Steve:

Yeah, that, it was, it was a really. It

Steve:

was really fun. If you're an Eagles fan.

Leif:

And no Blake Lively this year.

Steve:

No, I did notice that she

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was not hanging out with T. Swift this year.

Leif:

We are here to talk about the season finale of

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Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode

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25, the Goodbye Gossip Girl

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Original Air Date May 18,

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2009.

Steve:

Yeah, let's get into

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it.

Leif:

the title is a reference to the Goodbye

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Girl, a 1977 Rom

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com starring Richard Dreyfuss, who he

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won the Academy Award for best actor

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and was at the time the youngest person ever do

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that.

Steve:

I have not seen it, but I have heard of it.

Leif:

The quick synopsis is. After being dumped by her

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live in boyfriend, unemployed dancer Paula

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McFadden and her 10 year old daughter Lucy are forced

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to live with a struggling Off Broadway actor,

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Elliot Garfield, who is subletting their apartment.

Leif:

Crazy rom com shenanigans.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

The episode was written by Josh

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Saffron. His fifth episode of this season,

Leif:

ninth episode overall of Gossip Girl.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

A, regular. A regular staple at this

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point.

Leif:

he's basically the showrunner now.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Episode directed by Dorby Buckley, bringing him

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up for the big, big guns.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

I mean, and Norman Buckley, like, he. As

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we've discussed, not just Gossip Girl,

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but the teen drama genre. The guy owns it when it

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comes to directing.

Leif:

His last two episodes that he did were Age, of

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Dissonance, which was the 18th episode this season. Then he

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also worked directly with Saffron on New Haven

Leif:

Can Wait.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

And we like New Haven Can Wait, if I remember correctly.

Leif:

We like both those, I think.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Why don't you go ahead, give us the Vulture recap.

Steve:

All right, the Vulture recap. When early on

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in last night's episode, Serena declares

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that the end of high school means the end

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of me on Gossip Girl, your blood

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ran cold. We knew, as anyone

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passingly familiar with Chekov's gun

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method of storytelling would, that

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precisely the opposite would be true. And

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that, God and CW willing, our

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omniscient narrator would continue to stalk this Upper

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east side princess till her

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brittle body was Chanel

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clad, feet up in the grave. And after

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this dramatic season finale in which

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resolutions were reached, new side boob

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was exposed and arch villainous

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Georgina Sparks vowed to make a dramatic

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comeback. We can't wait for. For the next season.

Leif:

Neither can I.

Steve:

Neither can I. Yeah.

Steve:

I really had mixed feelings on this episode,

Steve:

but the end, the

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setups at the end, and we'll get to it. But I

Steve:

really liked how it played out at the end of

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this.

Leif:

Well, let's go ahead and get into it. Act one

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begins with a gospel girl monologue.

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Like everything on the Upper east side high school graduation

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is done with a little differently. Who needs pomp and

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circumstance when you have paparazzi?

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After a quick montage of students preparing for

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graduation, we See Blair and Serena at a restaurant

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having breakfast. Serena reveals that Chuck told Serena

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that he loves Blair, but didn't tell Chuck that Nate and

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Blair broke up. As they leave the restaurant,

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paparazzi are outside waiting for Serena.

Steve:

Nice little beginning moment.

Steve:

I'm pretty sure Gossip Girl's gonna follow them.

Steve:

My first watch through of this, she's like,

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the end of gossip. End of ice cold is the end of Gossip

Steve:

Girl. I'm like, m. I've got. Really. The

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show is kind of called Gossip Girl.

Steve:

Not to get meta. Not to get too meta on you,

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Serena, but I think you're. I think you've got at least four years

Steve:

left.

Leif:

Did you pay attention to what they were eating at all?

Steve:

No. Or they eating?

Leif:

Serena had her usual, like, I think croissant or something like

Leif:

that. But Blair had finished

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eating, but she left a strawberry on her

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plate.

Steve:

Oh, wow.

Leif:

I wonder if she was trying to lure Sarita into

Leif:

sucking all that to.

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Try to try to flirt with her.

Leif:

And then also, they're leaving. Serena

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tries to avoid the paparazzi, and Blair, like, stands back and

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poses.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah. I love that.

Leif:

Next we get Nate and Vanessa have a friendly

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conversation. Nate apologizes how their breakup

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went down, and Vanessa announces that

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she's still going.

Steve:

To Europe and NYU where Dan

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is going, so she'll be around

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more.

Leif:

At least they're in the same school now.

Steve:

I was going to say at least it'll make sense for her

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to be there, and it won't be Dan just dragging her

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to parties where no one knows

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and or likes her.

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Just as Dan walks up, Nate announces that he

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is having an after grad party, and Dan and Vanessa

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are both invited. Nate leaves, and Dan points out

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something in the program to Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah, which I knew what it was

Steve:

from that moment.

Steve:

It was so in tune with the

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rest of this show. It's one of those

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little Easter eggs that just

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has blended since the pilot

Steve:

since he can't open

Steve:

automatic doors. It was such a great

Steve:

piece to this.

Leif:

Yeah. Josh, ah Shafren actually does watch the show.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

You can tell. And it's that matter of.

Steve:

It was really a shout out to fans. You know, if you're

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watching this show enough, you know what's gonna

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come of this.

Leif:

And then, we have a lot going on in the next scene,

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Jenny is walking down the hall with Eric, excited that the

Leif:

mean girls will be graduating and there will be peace next

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year. Said mean girls show up and ask Jenny if she

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wants to throw her hat in the ring for queen next

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year. However, Belair blows through and

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declares she picks the queen.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

And you know what? I feel like

Steve:

these scenes kind of go together. That I'll comment

Steve:

after the next.

Leif:

Yeah. Actually, like, Gossip Girl does this has done this in the

Leif:

past, but never as much as in this episode

Leif:

where you have people entering and leaving the conversation

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within the same scene.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Steve:

It did happen more here that there.

Leif:

Were that first scene with Nate and Vanessa

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and Dan, and then now this one. And then also

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again later it happens at the party at, least once.

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So after Blair leaves, Penelope declares that they don't listen to

Leif:

Blair anymore and that the girl who brings them the

Leif:

best untold gossip by midnight gets to

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be queen. And it looks like Little J. Has some

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competition in the form of new transfer

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Emma Boardman, who Blair babysat. And there might be

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blood. So more continuity.

Steve:

Yeah, I appreciated the,

Steve:

continuity again. And it's funny

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how Blair still doesn't realize

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that she has completely lost control

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of the minions M. And that's why.

Leif:

She'S lost control, because she's not paying attention.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

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Serena finds Dan waiting in the courtyard. Turns

Leif:

out he wasn't listed in the program. Someone

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walks up to get Dan to approve an insert in which

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they misspelled his name. Congratulations,

Leif:

Don.

Steve:

And I love that. How they get it right and then

Steve:

wrong. Daniel Humphrey was left out.

Steve:

Congratulations, Don. It

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was. It's so great.

Steve:

So great. And it was just.

Steve:

It's. Again, it is a joke for someone

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who has watched this show from episode one

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until now. And I always

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love those kind of jokes. There's that moment

Steve:

in Buffy at the prom when they're all

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talking about the great things that Buffy has

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done. And it kind of reminds me of.

Leif:

When she gets the Class Protector Award.

Steve:

The Class Protector Award.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

That this kind of Easter egg makes

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me feel that same kind of

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joy that I had during that episode.

Leif:

Elsewhere in the courtyard. So they do it again, this scene

Leif:

where it kind of, like, switches over to Blair approaching

Leif:

Chuck, and she starts to tell Chuck about the breakup,

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but chickens out at the last second.

Steve:

Yes. And it's

Steve:

just we really kind of felt like this was sort of

Steve:

done, and now here she is running back to Chuck again.

Steve:

Okay, all right. I know that this is what the

Steve:

show.

Leif:

I mean. I mean, did we think it was done?

Steve:

I mean, they should not not done.

Leif:

I mean, he just told Serena last episode that he loved her,

Leif:

and he set up the prompt war.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

actually, the love you was, like, two episodes ago,

Leif:

and then set up the prompt for the last episode.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

In the auditorium, Rufus gets pissy when

Leif:

he remembers he and Lily reserved their graduation seats

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together. Eleanor and Cyrus try to play

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matchmaker. Lily clearly wants to get married, but

Leif:

Rufus is still being stubborn.

Steve:

I loved Cyrus and Eleanor in this

Steve:

scene. I love Cyrus the

Steve:

character. And I think that Wallace

Steve:

Shawn has

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consistently delivered on who

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that character is and what his personality

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is. And he's just this ball of joy

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at all times. And I absolutely love

Steve:

it when he's on. And I love the awkward

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moment that they all shared and how Lily was an

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asshole about it and put Rufus on

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the spot because he deserved it. And

Steve:

I love that.

Leif:

During Queller's convention speech, Blair and

Leif:

Serena are talking about the future and new beginnings until

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everyone's phones go off. Gossip Girl has some

Leif:

parting comments for the graduating seniors. After the

Leif:

blast, Serena declares that Gossip Girl is going

Leif:

down.

Steve:

Yeah, I thought this whole thing was kind

Steve:

of weird that for one, she

Steve:

sent out a blast that targeted the non

Steve:

judging Breakfast Club and Dan, and

Steve:

nobody stood up because they were all

Steve:

scared at that point. But the even

Steve:

weirder thing to me is the.

Steve:

That's it. She's going down. And it's only

Steve:

because Gossip Girl has been doing this shit this

Steve:

whole time and there has never been an effort

Steve:

to find out who she is. There's only

Steve:

like one conversation

Steve:

that they had at one point where there

Steve:

was speculation when it was the Eric

Steve:

conversation. So now that it's just, oh,

Steve:

now we're going to find her and bring her down,

Steve:

it just seemed.

Leif:

Well, it's the narcissist. And Serena. Gossip

Leif:

Girl was a master manipulator in this episode.

Leif:

She knew exactly how to target each one of these

Leif:

people.

Steve:

True. true. I just thought that.

Steve:

I wish that it would have built to a.

Steve:

We're gonna get her more

Steve:

throughout the season. Yeah, I wish that was an

Steve:

underlying theme rather than

Steve:

a afterthought at the end of the season.

Leif:

Yeah, I just wish it wouldn't really come up at all.

Steve:

But yeah, that. Or that. Or that.

Leif:

I also know even some of the teachers were getting Gossip

Leif:

Girl alerts now because some of them were looking at their phones as

Leif:

well.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then this was the actual blast.

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Not so fast. You're not graduating until I give

Leif:

you my diplomas. Minor labels

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and labels stick. Nate Archibald,

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class whore. Dan Humphrey, the ultimate

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insider. Chuck Bass, coward.

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Blair Waldorf, weakling. And as

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for Serena Van der Woodsen, after today,

Leif:

you're officially irrelevant.

Leif:

Congratulations, everyone. You deserve

Leif:

it.

Steve:

Yeah, and I guess that's where I was sort of

Steve:

what do you? Why is everyone

Steve:

responding this way? It was a weird

Steve:

response from the rest of the kids.

Leif:

Did you catch. Dan gave a little subtle

Leif:

smile. I don't know if that was direction or if that was

Leif:

just Penn Badgley being a goofball, as usual, but he

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just gives, like, a little slight smile when

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his.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Moving into act two, at an after

Leif:

grad lunch party, Serena is trying to recruit

Leif:

the mean girls into her war against Gossip Girl with

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little success. Nate sees his grandfather and says he's

Leif:

going to do some damage control. Chuck and Blair seemed willing

Leif:

to help when Serena points out that they probably have the

Leif:

most secrets to protect and.

Steve:

They walk off in different directions.

Leif:

Rufus finds Lily alone, tries to apologize,

Leif:

but is still not ready to move

Leif:

forward.

Steve:

Rufus, when she said what it was and

Steve:

you said to her, you tried to give me money behind my back,

Steve:

and I said not to. Do you hear

Steve:

how dumb it sounds when you say it

Steve:

out loud? Do you hear how

Steve:

dumb it sounds for a reason to break up with

Steve:

this person?

Steve:

And there's almost a moment as he's saying it that

Steve:

he almost has that in his face. Like, when I say

Steve:

it out loud, it doesn't sound so convincing.

Leif:

Nate, in the name of full disclosure, tells the

Leif:

grandfather about Nate literally being a whore for an

Leif:

older married woman. The grandfather isn't

Leif:

thrilled, but promises to protect Nate if

Leif:

anything comes out. As the scene ends, Chuck is looking

Leif:

for Blair, and Nate finally tells Chuck about the

Leif:

breakup.

Steve:

Grandfather is so fucking creepy here,

Steve:

where he's like, oh, welcome to

Steve:

politics. Yeah, welcome to Washington.

Steve:

All right. Yeah. You're banging. Oh, yeah,

Steve:

she's married. Oh, yeah. All right, high five.

Steve:

Oh, she paid you. All right, let me look into this.

Leif:

Well, after he says that she's married, like,

Leif:

I think Graph's response was, tell me more.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Dan and Vesta are talking about ditching the party when

Leif:

Serena comes up to try to recruit them on her quest to take

Leif:

down Gossip Girl. However, they seem

Leif:

uninterested. Dan gives a very pragmatic

Leif:

but insensitive ramble about he and Serena are

Leif:

probably going to drift apart post high

Leif:

school.

Steve:

Dan, shut the fuck up.

Leif:

Read the room.

Steve:

M. Read the fucking room like

Steve:

you're. You're at your high school party with the high

Steve:

school friends. Shut the fuck up and read the

Steve:

room.

Leif:

But at the same time, Serena was being so

Leif:

needy.

Steve:

Yeah, that is. That is also true.

Steve:

yeah, because she was realizing that. That she is

Steve:

peaked. Yeah, that she

Steve:

peaked in high school.

Leif:

Chuck wasn't lying about running some stats because

Leif:

in the next scene, we have him explaining the breakdown of

Leif:

Gossip Girl Blast about Constance. Saints Jude's

Leif:

versus Manhattan's other private high schools. The

Leif:

NJBC pulls it to puts it together that

Leif:

Gossip Girl is almost definitely one of the graduates in the

Leif:

room right now.

Steve:

Yeah, it was pretty clever, though, of Chuck

Steve:

to run these

Steve:

figures. And it's funny because you don't.

Steve:

Chuck always ask people that does stuff for him, but

Steve:

when it comes to, like, running a business and

Steve:

doing digging and finding dirt, he's kind of a

Steve:

natural at it. I thought it kind of fit. Yeah, I kind

Steve:

of fit Chuck's demeanor.

Leif:

Serena sends a tip to Gossip Girl as Chuck calls

Leif:

for quiet in the room. Jonathan's phone

Leif:

beeps as he receives the tip Serena just sent.

Leif:

As the NJBC surrounds Jonathan, the show

Leif:

goes to a commercial break.

Leif:

Did you think it was Jonathan?

Steve:

I thought that was a little convenient, but I thought

Steve:

it would have been a good thing. But also,

Steve:

I knew that this was going to go on for four more

Steve:

seasons and they weren't going to find out who Gossip Girl

Steve:

was by the end of the episode. Like, I

Steve:

just kind of figured they wouldn't.

Leif:

But they could have gone the Pretty Little Liars route and have

Leif:

multiple Gossip Girls, and that's.

Steve:

And so I had that thought, too, that, like, oh,

Steve:

that would be kind of cool that Jonathan is

Steve:

among the network. But I

Steve:

didn't really. I was shocked. But then

Steve:

the explanation also made a lot of sense.

Leif:

After the commercial, it's revealed that Jonathan is not

Leif:

actually Gossip Girl. He just hacked her computer.

Leif:

Jonathan now has access to the entire database of

Leif:

gossip. After Serena and Jonathan leave,

Leif:

Jenny finds a juicy piece of gossip that could win her

Leif:

the contest and allow her to abolish the

Leif:

monarchy. However, she asks Eric if she should.

Leif:

If she should, because it would obviously hurt

Leif:

someone to reveal the info.

Steve:

okay. Jonathan, you have all of her

Steve:

emails, you have all of her.

Steve:

All these downloads and all these

Steve:

things that people have sent to her. You can't get a name

Steve:

off that computer. Somewhere. Like, somewhere.

Steve:

Come on, Jonathan. Do better.

Leif:

So there was. If you freeze,

Leif:

frame, you can see quite a few tips that were

Leif:

on the. On there.

Steve:

Oh, really?

Leif:

Yes, Somewhere.

Leif:

Blair purging her lunch during sophomore year.

Steve:

Oh.

Leif:

Chuck having sexual problems.

Steve:

That happened.

Leif:

The longest book Nate has ever read. Being Dr.

Leif:

Seuss.

Steve:

Scans player peeking on.

Leif:

Aaron Rose in the shower.

Leif:

Oh, stepbrother. What are you doing?

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, gross.

Leif:

Nate having three nipples. Nate turning

Leif:

Howard Archibald in.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Dan not being able to afford Yale. And,

Leif:

Dorota's an illegal immigrant.

Steve:

Wow. Leave Dorota

Steve:

out of it.

Leif:

And then some of the names of the people who sent

Leif:

tips in were, people from the production and

Leif:

set crews.

Steve:

Oh, that's funny.

Leif:

Next up, Rufus has the old six

Leif:

dream out and gives Danny a little sage wisdom,

Leif:

advising him that he should go to Nate's party and say a, proper

Leif:

goodbye to high school. I could have sworn Dan

Leif:

and Nate were in a good place after the last conversation together. I

Leif:

mean, why is he suddenly mad at Nate again?

Steve:

Yeah, well, I. Yeah, I didn't necessarily

Steve:

get mad at Nate as much as just wanting to

Steve:

stay away from the. From the scene.

Steve:

because I guess I was going more on the way Dan

Steve:

was in the previous scene where he was like

Steve:

to Serena, like, I don't really want to be friends with any of

Steve:

you anymore ever. So that's kind of where I took

Steve:

it as. As we were listening to

Steve:

Lincoln Hawk's new album getting written.

Leif:

After Dan leaves, Rufus goes to call Lily,

Leif:

who is just walking up to the door with a six pack

Leif:

and a bag of Chuck's weed. Even

Leif:

Rufus knows Chuck has the good shit.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, they're gonna. They're gonna burn Chuck's

Steve:

stash and.

Leif:

Yeah, a little reminiscing.

Steve:

Yeah, that.

Steve:

I mean, that. That seemed like the obvious thing

Steve:

there, right?

Leif:

Back on the Upper east side, Blair is preparing for

Leif:

Nate's party, talking to Eleanor. Eleanor

Leif:

encourages Blair to go after Chuck.

Steve:

It was.

Steve:

That was such a sweet moment. It was such a nice.

Leif:

I mean, it was. But why. Why is she

Leif:

pushing him to go after this guy with all these red flags?

Steve:

Well, because Eleanor doesn't really understand

Steve:

the things that her kid is really going through.

Steve:

So, like, it was sweet for her to be an

Steve:

encouraging mom. I don't think she really

Steve:

recognizes the weight of what Chuck's

Steve:

trauma actually is. You know, I think that

Steve:

it's more go get her girl than anything

Steve:

else.

Leif:

Well, I mean, she does know that Blair told him

Leif:

that she loved him and he walked away. She said.

Leif:

Right, that scene.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But as she said, it is becoming a trope for them

Leif:

to have conversations in front of the mirror like this. This

Leif:

is like the third or fourth time this and kind of see us happen.

Steve:

It's when they have their bonding moments, and it's when

Steve:

Eleanor is actually like a

Steve:

sweet mother and not being over

Steve:

critical.

Leif:

Dan and Vanessa arrive at the party. A

Leif:

very drunk Nelly is about to confess her love to

Leif:

Dan, but runs off when she spots Serena across the

Leif:

room.

Steve:

Nelly's been hot for Dan this

Steve:

whole time. I love that.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Ah, she. She was, very funny as a drunk

Leif:

girl.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

And I don't know that we've ever really seen much of

Steve:

Nellie and Dan in the same place at the same

Steve:

time. So her admiring him from

Steve:

afar just makes it so much more

Steve:

believable, especially because he's the guy that

Steve:

nobody fucking notices. So,

Steve:

like I. Again, just a little

Steve:

wonderful thing that I thought was added in here.

Leif:

no one notices, but at the same time, he is the ultimate

Leif:

insider.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

It's a weird dichotomy at this point.

Steve:

It is. And when we get to Blair's

Steve:

takedown.

Leif:

Jenny, an attempt to be nice, warns Blair. The

Leif:

gospel girl knows about Blair and Jack on New Year's Eve.

Leif:

Blair snaps at Jenny. Jenny gets defensive

Leif:

and tells Blair that Penelope isn't following Blair's orders

Leif:

anymore. Blair then tells Jenny to keep her mouth shut

Leif:

and calls her a waste of time before

Leif:

storming off. Look out. Be not

Leif:

so little Jay as her fucked around and found out face

Leif:

on and tells is to get Penelope.

Steve:

Blair always underestimates

Steve:

Jenny and she always goes so hard

Steve:

at Jenny, and it doesn't usually work out for her.

Leif:

Again, this just goes back to Blair is distracted

Leif:

from the game. Yeah, he's completely focused on

Leif:

Shaq. Because as you see later, she does

Leif:

say, you know, you are my choice, blah, blah, blah, you

Leif:

know. Yeah, she's just too wrapped up

Leif:

in Chuck to really pay attention right now.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Blair pulls Chuck into a quiet room.

Leif:

Blair begins seductively undressing in order

Leif:

to get Chuck to admit his feelings. However, before

Leif:

Chuck can say those three little words, Gossip

Leif:

Girl sends another blast. We see everyone at the

Leif:

party's reactions as Gossip Girl has this to

Leif:

say. Serena Van der

Leif:

Roetsen just couldn't leave. Well, and left

Leif:

alone since she had to find out the truth about me.

Leif:

I'm going to tell you the truth about

Leif:

everyone. Every gossip bomb I've

Leif:

got is about to drop. And if you got a problem with that,

Leif:

take it up with her. Ever wonder why Ms. Carr left

Leif:

town? Dan Humphrey had sex with her during the school

Leif:

play. The sparks between Humphrey's sis and Nate

Leif:

during a hot photo session. Thank God it stopped at

Leif:

PG13 or someone could have ended up in jail like her

Leif:

brother. And as for Blair Waldorf, say

Leif:

uncle. We hear she kept it in the Bass family on

Leif:

years. But rumor has it Chuck spent some time

Leif:

in Brooklyn. Metaphorically speaking, of

Leif:

course. Serena VanderWithen here's looking

Leif:

at you.

Steve:

That. That blast. I mean, it's

Steve:

Kind of great that it just drops everything. And some stuff

Steve:

that we didn't know, too. What didn't we know

Steve:

we didn't know know about

Steve:

Chuck and Chuck.

Leif:

Jack and Jack. Yeah, it was

Leif:

strongly implied, though. yeah, I caught Dap

Leif:

pretends to be annoyed by. Oh, another blast.

Leif:

Why are you unsubscribed, Dan? Why are you still subscribed?

Steve:

Yeah, like you graduated, bruh.

Leif:

Things are getting volatile as we return from commercial

Leif:

break. The gossip bombs did their job as

Leif:

everyone appears to be at each other's throats.

Leif:

Metaphorically speaking, of course. Serena tries

Leif:

to play peacemaker, but then just draws

Leif:

everyone's ire onto her. And then Dan

Leif:

tries to defend Serena, but Blair goes after him as

Leif:

well.

Steve:

Yeah, the way that. The way Blair

Steve:

takes Dan down and is like, no,

Steve:

you're not the ultimate insider. You're not just

Steve:

tagging along to all of this shit all the

Steve:

time. And of course, Nelly also, once

Steve:

again, chiming in.

Leif:

Guy and ignored the rest of

Leif:

us. I mean them.

Steve:

I mean them.

Leif:

He dated Serena Van Wilson. You're best friends with Nate

Leif:

Archibald. You were the lead of the school play. You had, sex with the

Leif:

teacher. You're on the soccer team.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Blair once again finds Chuck alone in the room

Leif:

and tries to push past their issues.

Leif:

Blair tells Chuck that she loves him. However,

Leif:

once again, Chuck still can't say it back and

Leif:

walks away from a tearful Blair.

Steve:

Another. Another great. Another great acting

Steve:

scene for Blair. You know, she. She

Steve:

really sells it. She really brings that

Steve:

across the quivering lip, you

Steve:

know? It was just. She really sold it.

Steve:

And Chuck's an idiot, and Chuck fucked it up.

Leif:

Back at the loft, Rufus and Lily are reminiscing about

Leif:

old Lincoln Hawk gigs. Rufus gets caught

Leif:

up in the moment and converts an old concert wristband into

Leif:

an engagement ring and proposes to Lily on the

Leif:

spot.

Steve:

All right, now, Rufus, act high.

Steve:

I just. I just felt the whole time like

Steve:

Rufus was just acting so high.

Steve:

It was like, I. I hate

Steve:

this. I. I thought Lily was a

Steve:

convincing eye, but Rufus just.

Steve:

Okay, okay, Matthew, act high.

Leif:

Outside the party, Nate tries to comfort Sarita,

Leif:

who is spiraling about never getting a chance

Leif:

to gain forgiveness if she doesn't fix things. Tonight,

Leif:

Sarita sends a text to Gossip Girl threatening to reveal

Leif:

her identity if she doesn't meet with her.

Leif:

Sarita was so cringe this whole episode.

Steve:

Yeah, she just is such a narcissist. Like,

Steve:

she'll believe that I know who she is.

Steve:

She'll believe it. And so then she'll show

Steve:

up and.

Leif:

We go into Act 3. Back at the party,

Leif:

Blair finds Jenny in the washroom and is a lot

Leif:

more apologetic this time. She even gives,

Leif:

Jenny the gossip that Chuck rejected Blair yet

Leif:

again. Great moment between these two as Blair

Leif:

declares that Jenny is her choice to replace her as

Leif:

queen. And fuck boys.

Steve:

I always like when they're together. I always like when they

Steve:

play off each other. Yeah, I think the two of them have good

Steve:

chemistry. They're the best actors among the

Steve:

kids. And so I really love

Steve:

when they have scenes like this together. And I thought they were

Steve:

good.

Leif:

Fuck boys and roll. The school

Leif:

at the Oak Room. Serena and Nate have been waiting for over

Leif:

an hour when Dan is the first person to show up.

Leif:

Dan tries to help Serena through her extreme

Leif:

insecurity issues.

Steve:

I, I looped you. That is not something.

Steve:

That is not a reference.

Leif:

I understood it was an app for like

Leif:

10 seconds.

Steve:

Okay. Like, find your friend.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

Stop. Sure they paid for that spot?

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

They bought drinks for everyone at the bar.

Steve:

Yeah, for all the teenagers

Steve:

at the bar. New app under

Steve:

Scandal.

Leif:

Then we see just about every named teen

Leif:

character show up and everyone gets a blast.

Leif:

You wanted to meet Gossip Girl? Well, look

Leif:

around. You just did. I'm, nothing without

Leif:

you. And while both high school friendships

Leif:

fade, it's my hope that what happened today

Leif:

will bond you forever. Now all my secrets are

Leif:

out. You have a clean slate until college.

Leif:

Congratulations. I'm coming with you.

Steve:

That was. It was so dumb. This

Steve:

whole subline was

Steve:

dumb. And it's so dumb

Steve:

again.

Leif:

It's just master manipulation by Gossip Girl.

Leif:

She's trauma binding them.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

It's like classic abusive pattern.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And then I like the lines as each people walk in.

Leif:

Like when Dan walks in, he thinks it's him.

Leif:

And then.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And then Blair comes in.

Steve:

They're working together.

Leif:

Oh, yeah. Blair walks in. Dan's like, oh, that makes sense. And then

Leif:

Jenny and he's like, they're a team.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, that makes sense. Yeah,

Steve:

that one I love.

Leif:

Blair apologizes to Serena.

Leif:

Serena tells Blair it's unnecessary. Chuck

Leif:

is the only one not here. Yes, that's because he's

Leif:

standing outside like a creepy stalker.

Leif:

Such a weird shot.

Steve:

Looking in, looking in on everyone,

Steve:

and then slinking away. Oh, Chuck.

Leif:

And, we move into the epilogue.

Leif:

Just like last season. We get a flash

Leif:

forward with a one week later title

Leif:

card. Lily is admiring an actual diamond

Leif:

ring to replace the makeshift ring from Rufus

Leif:

Proposal. Eric and Jenny are unpacking a waffle

Leif:

iron. Eric is excited to Try it out. But Jenny has to

Leif:

meet Blair.

Steve:

I loved Eric's enthusiasm

Steve:

for the waffle maker.

Leif:

I mean, the acting was horrible, but. Yeah, right,

Leif:

right.

Steve:

But it's been so well

Steve:

established again with the Easter eggs, first of all, that we all

Steve:

know that Rufus makes great waffles. And now

Steve:

he's moved in and gets this super fancy waffle

Steve:

maker to make his waffles. It's also

Steve:

been well established that Eric

Steve:

craves a home cooked meal because his

Steve:

mom can't make one

Steve:

and never has. And there have been other times

Steve:

that you've seen Eric make the comments

Steve:

about how his mom can't

Steve:

cook.

Leif:

And I think it's not just the home cooked meal he wants.

Leif:

What's the home cooked meal represents? Which is a

Leif:

family.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah.

Leif:

He is perpetually lonely.

Steve:

Yes.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

And the waffle maker

Steve:

and, and really represents that for the

Steve:

Humphries and bringing that to

Steve:

the. The joined family. I,

Steve:

I. Yeah.

Leif:

I think this is a great thing for Eric. I mean, he's got a dad now. He's got

Leif:

a sister, he's got new brother, is going to be off of

Leif:

college, but you know, be around it sometimes.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

Where is NYU in relation to the Upper

Steve:

east side?

Leif:

Nyu, is like lower west side.

Leif:

Okay, remember we talked about this the other

Leif:

week? We were talking about where the apartment was, how. the apartment.

Leif:

The naked guy was actually not in between them at

Leif:

all.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Serena is packing while talking with Blair.

Leif:

Gossip Girl has been tracking Chuck across Europe.

Leif:

Blair gives Serena a framed photo of Serena's

Leif:

mugshot. And Serena is spending the summer in Europe

Leif:

while Blair is going to stay close to home.

Steve:

we also hear that Chuck has been gallivanting

Steve:

around Europe.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, did you? I didn't. I missed that.

Steve:

But yeah, we.

Steve:

We do hear that Blair has been tracking it and the Gossip Girl

Steve:

has been updating.

Leif:

Dan and Vanessa are at a cafe. Dan

Leif:

admits to missing Blair, Nelly, and even

Leif:

Chuck Bass. Nate shows up and convinces

Leif:

Vanessa to let him come with her to Europe after all.

Leif:

During this, what appears to be a random guy tries

Leif:

to help Vanessa with her lie about taking someone else to

Leif:

Europe. After Nate and Vanessa leave, the guy

Leif:

and Dan bond over Nate having things come easy to him.

Steve:

M. Yep.

Steve:

This strange guy here.

Leif:

Did you recognize him right away or No?

Steve:

I did. I think I called it.

Steve:

Robin didn't. I think I was like,

Steve:

that's the brother. And she was like, the brother. And

Steve:

then the next scene. I could be wrong about that,

Steve:

but I'm sure I'll find out soon. the other

Steve:

thing, Dan, is she hot?

Steve:

Nate is here talking about how he's getting hit

Steve:

on by this deputy mayor. And

Steve:

Dan's response is, is she

Steve:

hot?

Leif:

And Nate says, kinda.

Steve:

Kinda?

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Nate's like, yeah.

Leif:

I mean, come on. That. That's how high school guys

Leif:

talk.

Steve:

It is. It really is.

Leif:

Blair and Jenny arrive at the restaurant and interrupt the

Leif:

meanie girls coronation of Emma Boardman.

Leif:

Blair takes the diamond studded headband and crowns

Leif:

Jenny instead.

Steve:

When Blair is shooing

Steve:

the girls off and she uses

Steve:

Cyrus's catchphrase, I actually have not

Steve:

enough.

Steve:

yeah, that.

Leif:

That really, she has incorporated that into her

Leif:

lexicon.

Steve:

That. I love that. And again, it's

Steve:

just really good continuity and

Steve:

really good writing.

Leif:

Back at the cafe, Nate, Dan and Vanessa

Leif:

are getting ready to see a movie. In the corner, we see

Leif:

Rando Scott with Rufus, Rolling Stone cover, and

Leif:

an article about Lillian. Rufus.

Leif:

Georgina calls Dan and lets him know that she's got his

Leif:

money back. And when Georgina finds out that Dan is

Leif:

going to nyu, she tells him she will see him next

Leif:

year.

Steve:

Yeah, so the totally not

Steve:

dead brother is

Steve:

going, to NYU with you, Dan. But his parents think he's in

Steve:

Oregon or Maine, but I would think

Steve:

Oregon. I think he'd leave. Well, I guess

Steve:

Maine's closer to where he was.

Leif:

At the NYU bursar office, Georgina is paying

Leif:

her tuition and requests Blair as a

Leif:

roommate.

Leif:

Oh, boy.

Steve:

It's fun.

Leif:

oh, boy.

Steve:

I'm. I was. I'm sold on

Steve:

season two Georgina Sparks.

Steve:

So I am excited for season three Georgina

Steve:

Sparks. So I'm here for

Steve:

this.

Leif:

Serena is about to get in her limo to go to

Leif:

the airport when Carter shows up. Carter says he found

Leif:

Serena's father in Fiji.

Leif:

Serena, already on her way to the airport,

Leif:

hops into the limo and tells Carter to get

Leif:

in.

Steve:

First mention of Serena's dad that I

Steve:

can really think of.

Steve:

especially the fact that she's looking for

Steve:

him. We've known that he's not in the picture.

Steve:

This is the first time we've known that there's a

Steve:

mystery behind where he is.

Leif:

So they did. I did freeze

Leif:

frame on the letter to, get.

Leif:

It's the eye on them. Agency

Leif:

PI Case detail report, Vander Woodson.

Leif:

Although it looks like a CDC announcement

Leif:

kind of activity, report

Leif:

says just like it's two days worth activities.

Leif:

pretty boring stuff. He leaves his hotel in a white

Leif:

Mustang, goes to an office for a while,

Leif:

into a restaurant. And then day

Leif:

two, he goes to his

Leif:

hotel. Or, goes from the hotel

Leif:

to his Office again. And then

Leif:

he meets with a woman at a restaurant. Although there

Leif:

was a typo. Actually, it's a typo. Actually, it

Leif:

says they seem to be meeting with a

Leif:

woman.

Leif:

Whoever was the PI didn't spell,

Leif:

check.

Steve:

Didn't proofread.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And then on the street, Chuck

Leif:

is waiting for Blair. He was flying all

Leif:

over Europe to get Blair her favorite things.

Leif:

Chuck finally says those three words, eight

Leif:

letters. And Blair and Chuck begin to make

Leif:

out as we get the final sign off in the season.

Leif:

Xo xo Gossip

Leif:

Girl.

Steve:

Yeah, I, I, I thought that was super

Steve:

sweet. I love the, the, the

Steve:

him finally saying it.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Came around.

Leif:

Goes back to the first episode of the season.

Steve:

Yep.

Steve:

And it all just kind of worked around.

Steve:

And I liked how it ended. I,

Steve:

I, I, I think the epilogue was my

Steve:

favorite part of, this episode.

Leif:

So I think I've mentioned in the past how in New

Leif:

York City, if you're going to be filming, if you're going to be closing down a

Leif:

street to film, you have to put up notices.

Leif:

Well, and ahead of time.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So at this point in the show's filming, anytime

Leif:

they're filming on the street, there's hundreds of kids

Leif:

on around the set.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

They filled this scene two ways. They

Leif:

filmed one with Nate and Blair and one with Chuck and

Leif:

Blair.

Steve:

Oh, dirty.

Steve:

dirty. I can

Steve:

appreciate that. I appreciate

Steve:

that.

Leif:

Because, like, Gossip Girl walks. So Game of

Leif:

Thrones could run as far as, like, on set.

Leif:

Spoilers.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

There's people always, like, taking pictures,

Leif:

stealing little side. You know, if anyone threw out their

Leif:

sides, they were getting stolen.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

It was really the dawn of that age, too. I mean, we've

Steve:

talked about, like, the message boards for the show

Steve:

and the real interaction between

Steve:

the Internet and tv.

Steve:

This is early in people figuring out how to mesh

Steve:

those things together and to build

Steve:

fandom through those things.

Leif:

But that is our episode and our

Leif:

season. Any predictions for next

Leif:

year?

Steve:

I predict that

Steve:

Serena is not going to stay at Brown very

Steve:

long. I don't know how far Brown is

Steve:

from Rhode Island White. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought.

Steve:

I thought it was a different state. So, yeah, I was, I'm assuming

Steve:

Serena will be coming back from Brown and going to

Steve:

NYU pretty soon.

Leif:

They're not going to split the show.

Steve:

I don't think that would be wise because they already kind of

Steve:

have to if they're going to keep Jenny in the show. Right. They

Steve:

already kind of have to if they're going to keep Rufus, Lily, Eric,

Steve:

and Jenny in the show to split it A third

Steve:

way. I don't. I don't see that happening. I

Steve:

also see Nate ending up at nyu

Steve:

and then they're all there. I.

Steve:

I don't see Chuck going to nyu. I just see him.

Leif:

Why would Nate go to nyu, though?

Steve:

He pissed off grandfather by leaving his,

Leif:

He already left the school that grandfather went to, wanted him

Leif:

to go to. He's going to Columbia, not Yale, which is in New

Leif:

York.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And they never actually show school in the show, so it doesn't

Leif:

really matter what school as long as he's in New York.

Steve:

Yeah, Yeah, I just kind of figured they'd bring them all

Steve:

together.

Leif:

Are we gonna get any changes to the cast?

Leif:

Anyone upgrade or downgraded?

Steve:

I'm wondering if this

Steve:

is. If Georgina becomes a

Steve:

regular cast member. I mean, she's set up

Steve:

to appear in episode one, and

Steve:

so is it going to be, we're going to have her for a bit and then get

Steve:

rid of her like they've done in the

Steve:

past, or is she going to be

Steve:

a member of the cast now? I know that

Steve:

Jenny exits early at some point and I'm pretty

Steve:

sure that happens next season,

Steve:

so that also makes room for

Steve:

adjustments there. I could see

Steve:

Eric kind of getting a downgrade because

Steve:

there's not.

Leif:

As he's not main cast, technically.

Steve:

That's true. That's true. And I don't know, could

Steve:

Nate get a downgrade now that Blair and

Steve:

Chuck are going to be

Steve:

together? That, can only last so

Steve:

long before it.

Leif:

But it does seem like human Vanessa might be starting up

Leif:

again, which.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Which would all be at nyu.

Steve:

So. Yeah, I don't really see anyone getting too much of a

Steve:

downgrade that's a regular cast member. But

Steve:

I am curious about. Well, also the

Steve:

addition of, Scott that I'm wondering

Steve:

if he's going to be. He's obviously

Steve:

going to have a storyline in

Steve:

the new season. Is he going to be a cast

Steve:

member? And that means.

Steve:

Are they all gonna fuck? Oh, my God. He has to

Steve:

know who Serena is before that they're

Steve:

actually related.

Leif:

And we have to fight a love interest for Dan,

Leif:

presumably. Unless he's gonna just get back with

Leif:

Serena again.

Steve:

I mean, it's gotta happen at some point.

Steve:

I'm sure. I. I don't see them being done

Steve:

done. But yeah, I. Well,

Steve:

Georgina. I know Dan knows that

Steve:

Georgina's crazy and

Steve:

that Dan doesn't like Georgina, but Dan can

Steve:

also be dumb when it comes to

Steve:

women, so there's a possibility there.

Steve:

And I'll also say this going back to

Steve:

Ms. Carr. The Ms. Carr episode.

Steve:

Dan is going to NYU. Blair is going to

Steve:

NYU. Dan and Blair have chemistry.

Steve:

There's a chemistry there when they want to turn it on.

Steve:

So are they going to be alone together at NYU at some

Steve:

point? Point, yeah.

Leif:

You got Dan, Blair and Vanessa is going to be at NYU

Leif:

too.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Chuck's going to presumably be doing business

Leif:

stuff.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Chuck should be running his guy.

Leif:

How exciting.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Any other predictions before we get into segments?

Steve:

I don't think so. I think those are my big. Oh,

Steve:

Rufus and Lily. I think that they're going to get married. I think that

Steve:

they're going to have stupid dumb fights for the rest of this show,

Steve:

but I think they're going to get married and live happily ever

Steve:

after. That's my kind of hope

Steve:

prediction.

Leif:

Well, let's hope so. Let's

Leif:

go ahead and get into this week in fandom. we jumped

Leif:

into the Wayback Machine to check out the Television without pity

Leif:

forums from 2009.

Leif:

Hello there, Peabody here. And this is

Leif:

the Wayback Machine for traveling through time.

Steve:

And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak,

Steve:

Sherman. Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. Overall, the

Leif:

reaction. Great episode.

Leif:

Most. Most people liked it.

Steve:

I get it. I like the episode overall.

Leif:

They like the Chuck and Blair resolution, but

Leif:

still felt it took too long.

Steve:

Yeah, they did a little, they did the cat and mouse with

Steve:

it.

Leif:

They're happy they're together, but yeah,

Leif:

it just. It doesn't hit as hard because it took too

Leif:

long.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Including in this episode.

Steve:

Including.

Leif:

Most people are sad about have to wait for season

Leif:

three. Oh, those sweet summer children. If only they

Leif:

knew about waiting two years between eight episode

Leif:

seasons.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, man, it is getting worse.

Leif:

Disappointed we didn't get to see Georgina's

Leif:

takedown of Poppy.

Steve:

Yes, I agree with that.

Steve:

I felt like that was probably

Steve:

a. We didn't have time to write

Steve:

it in. I. I wonder how

Steve:

much of the previous

Steve:

episode had other

Steve:

things originally written into it that were then

Steve:

cut to fit the pilot into it. That I wonder if

Steve:

the original. I wonder if the original draft

Steve:

was the pilot episode of the spin

Steve:

off and then someone had a draft of the

Steve:

actual episode but then shit had to

Steve:

get cut out of that so they just one lined

Steve:

it at the end of the season.

Leif:

The fans also pointed out that

Leif:

USC stood in for Brown and the OC because the

Leif:

Brown was also featured in the oc so they're wondering

Leif:

what school they're going to use to shoot it for in gossip.

Steve:

that's funny.

Leif:

But that is it for this week in fandom. Let's

Leif:

go ahead and get it to episode graze.

Leif:

What do you got?

Steve:

I went a B plus. I thought that

Steve:

the I'm gonna take her down storyline was

Steve:

dumb, and I kind of felt like

Steve:

Serena was just kind of

Steve:

narcissistic and dumb in this episode. I

Steve:

still felt like it was a good episode.

Steve:

I really felt like the end of it really drugged me into

Steve:

it. So, yeah, be blessed.

Leif:

Yeah, I definitely agree. It was a good

Leif:

episode. And the only thing that I didn't really like was,

Leif:

yeah, Gossip Girl shouldn't be a character.

Leif:

It should just be an Omnis Edition narrator.

Leif:

And yeah, doesn't need to get

Leif:

involved in the plot. We don't really care who it is. But I

Leif:

still gave the episode an A. Yeah. Because, it, had a lot

Leif:

of great continuity. The writing was really good. He

Leif:

had some good resolutions, and he

Leif:

saw the season long arcs play out.

Steve:

Yeah, the writing. The writing on this

Steve:

show. Well, on this episode was.

Steve:

Was better than the episode at times. The

Steve:

dialogue and Easter eggs were better than parts of the plot.

Leif:

Heading over to Stockwatch, who you got going

Leif:

up?

Steve:

I had a lot of people going up. I was feeling very

Steve:

generous and some good things happened to some people here.

Steve:

So first of all, I had Rufus and Lily. They got engaged

Steve:

and they got over their shit, so good

Steve:

job. I had Jenny and Eric.

Steve:

I mean, Jenny, clearly, her stock went way up. She came out on

Steve:

top. She's the queen. Eric, because he has a

Steve:

family. I had Dan and Vanessa.

Steve:

Dan is done with high school and graduated and off

Steve:

to nyu, and he seems content with it. And

Steve:

so does Vanessa, who also is running off to Europe with

Steve:

Nate. So that seems pretty cool. I have

Steve:

Chuck and Blair going up for finally getting their

Steve:

shit together and saying there, I love you. And then

Steve:

I have Georgina Sparks going up for showing up

Steve:

and throwing a monkey wrench and shit for next season.

Leif:

Anyone else that, is, oh, I'm.

Steve:

Going to give up to Jonathan for hacking Gossip Girl.

Steve:

And that is it for going up for me.

Leif:

I had. Cyrus actually had. I had all three of the

Leif:

couples, basically. So you got Cyrus, Eleanor

Leif:

for giving good advice. Ru and L for

Leif:

getting together. Chuck and Blair for getting together.

Steve:

I should add Cyrus and Eleanor. I. I forgot about

Steve:

them. And Cyrus is amazing.

Leif:

I also had Jenny going up because she got queen.

Leif:

I had Gossip Girl actually going up because

Leif:

she manipulated to shoot out everyone out

Leif:

of everybody. And then Jonathan also, he. Because

Leif:

he hacked Gossip Girl. And I gave Deli a,

Leif:

up because she was just funny.

Steve:

That's fair.

Leif:

Georgina because she also took down Poppy, which

Leif:

neither the NJBC or Lily could pull

Leif:

off.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

And she.

Leif:

And she's primed to take down Blair.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Who do you got going down?

Steve:

I have actually. I have Nelly going

Steve:

down because she was

Steve:

dethroned. And she

Steve:

was.

Leif:

Nelly wasn't.

Steve:

Not. Not dethroned, but she was turned

Steve:

down by Dan. You know, she. She spilled her heart out to

Steve:

Dan, who didn't care. But the other reason I had Nellie

Steve:

going down was that it was her

Steve:

secrets that got Jenny to be

Steve:

queen.

Leif:

It wasn't really her secrets, though. It was the secrets that she

Leif:

had gotten from Penelope and is. Remember, that

Leif:

was from the, Right, right, the pop up fashion show.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

But it was because Nelly Yuki

Steve:

gave Jenny the ammo that took down. Took them

Steve:

down. Right. It was. Meleuki had the ammo.

Steve:

Right. Yeah, it did Jenny. Right. And so.

Leif:

And everyone knew that she had it.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But she just didn't want to be queen at that time.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

so. Yeah, I don't really think those are Nellie's. I

Leif:

know they labeled as Nelly's secrets, but it wasn't really her

Leif:

secrets.

Steve:

Yeah. I had grandfather going down for

Steve:

being creepy. I had the minions

Steve:

going down for losing

Steve:

everything to Jenny. I believe that's

Steve:

it for my going downs.

Leif:

So for me, I had Serena

Leif:

because she was just cringe this whole

Leif:

episode. Scott. Because, whoa,

Leif:

guy, you're going to be wearing some Rufus

Leif:

skin on your wall soon.

Steve:

I left him neutral just because we didn't have

Steve:

a whole lot, but damn.

Steve:

Yeah, there is that.

Leif:

And I did have the minions, but especially Edmund

Leif:

Boardman. She took the biggest hit.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes.

Leif:

I had Dan, Vanessa, Nate, and Eric.

Leif:

All neutral.

Steve:

Okay, I get that.

Leif:

That doesn't really had any plots. They didn't really.

Leif:

Yeah, Eric got, a family, but that's just something we kind

Leif:

of observed. Wasn't really part of the story other than

Leif:

offwire.

Steve:

And I also want to add Serena to

Steve:

my down list because she sucked.

Steve:

And. And I. And I meant to have her on that list

Steve:

and forgot to put her on it. But here's the best

Steve:

outfits from the last episode

Steve:

we see.

Leif:

Who do you have for best outfit?

Steve:

I had Blair's dress for the party.

Steve:

and I love that even when.

Leif:

The one she takes off.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Steve:

The one with the jacket. When she comes in, she has the jacket

Steve:

on. Takes that off. But then the dress. Yeah. That she

Steve:

wears. She has it on in front of her mom, too.

Steve:

When you really see it.

Leif:

For me, I had Chuck's suit from the first

Leif:

party with. He had like the, it was like a brownish suit with like the

Leif:

the peach, shirt and the orange.

Steve:

Tie that was on my list. That and

Steve:

the, my other one that was on my list was

Steve:

Carter's suit at the end, the

Steve:

gray with the gray pinstripe shirt. I thought that was

Steve:

really slick.

Leif:

I also like Jenny's dress from the first party.

Leif:

Yeah, she always has great style. she had like a

Leif:

zipper dress. Zipper was in the front.

Steve:

Yeah, it was really cool.

Leif:

Well, that is it for segments. Do you have

Leif:

anything you want to plug this week?

Steve:

Got a gig in February on the

Steve:

26th at a

Steve:

bar in Philadelphia. And I can't think

Steve:

of the name off the top of my head, but follow

Steve:

me on Instagram and

Steve:

follow me on TikTok at

Steve:

Steve Marshon. At Steve

Steve:

Marshon. M A R C H I O

Steve:

n and I will be posting stuff there

Steve:

to announce where I'm playing.

Leif:

for me, nothing really to plug, but I will mention that

Leif:

a few days after this episode drops, the

Leif:

new Late Meester show will be coming out

Leif:

on the cw. Good Cop, Bad

Leif:

Cop.

Steve:

Oh cool.

Leif:

So check that out.

Steve:

I'm going to want to, I'm going to want to watch that.

Leif:

you can follow me on social media if you want

Leif:

to go on Instagram, I'm m hotcapicola

Leif:

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Leif:

And we're going to take a little break in between seasons so we can

Leif:

catch up on recordings. So we'll be back in about two

Leif:

weeks. we'll be back to talk about season three, episode

Leif:

one, Reversals of

Leif:

Fortune.

Steve:

I'm Excited?

Leif:

The max episode description reads, serena

Leif:

returns from Europe with many secrets to hide.

Steve:

I, I'm excited. I know what she's

Steve:

looking for. I know that she's

Steve:

also probably doing sex stuff

Steve:

because that often happens when Serena goes on European

Steve:

trips. So, yeah, I'm excited.

Leif:

And the paparazzi are following her.

Steve:

And the pronzi are following her.

Steve:

Yes.

Steve:

I'm not interested in Serena's sex stuff. I'm just saying that

Steve:

I'm interested in the scandal. I don't really

Steve:

want to know what she's doing. She kind of creeps me out.

Leif:

Well, as vulture mentioned, we did get some new side

Leif:

boob.

Steve:

Yes.

Steve:

Yeah.

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 you with you

Steve:

there Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away you take a piece of m me

Steve:

with you there Every

Steve:

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

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

oh, it seems I'm walking right to

Steve:

your door

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

Steve:

I left last night and it feels like

Steve:

way 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 m

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:

ah Every time you walk away

Steve:

or run away you take a piece of me with

Steve:

you there Every time

Steve:

you walk away or run away you take a piece of

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away and run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away, you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

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