Episode 6

Gossip Girl S2E6 - New Haven Can Wait [w/Jake Marchion]

Summary

In this episode of the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve, joined by special guest Jake Marchion (@Jake.marchion), discuss Season 2, Episode 6 of Gossip Girl, titled "New Haven Can Wait." The hosts dive into the ongoing rivalry between Blair and Serena as they vie for a spot at Yale. They explore the comedic and dramatic moments, from Chuck's secret society schemes to Nate's flirtations under a false identity. The trio also touches on themes of friendship, ambition, and the pressures of elite education. Along the way, they share their thoughts on the episode's writing, directing, and character dynamics, while offering insights into the show's cultural impact and behind-the-scenes trivia.

Keywords

Gossip Girl, relationships, college, drama, characters, fandom, plot, Yale, rivalry, secret societies

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Initial Impressions

05:14 Guest Introduction: Jake Marchion

10:02 Discussion of Yale and College Visits

18:45 Blair and Serena's Rivalry

24:32 Chuck's Secret Society Shenanigans

30:16 Nate's False Identity and Flirtations

35:09 Dan's Struggles and Humiliation

40:12 Jenny's Ambitions and Rufus' Resistance

45:18 Blair's Desperation and Sabotage

50:27 Serena's Unexpected Success

55:34 Final Thoughts and Predictions

01:00:00 This Week in Fandom

01:05:42 Episode Grades

01:10:00 Stock Watch

01:15:00 Best Outfits

Produced by Leif Capicola and Steve Marchion. 


Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

The Gossip Girl Theme Performed By Steve Marchion.

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Transcript
Leif:

So he gives her the clever alias of

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Dan Humphrey again.

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Why are you flirting with a high school kid? You

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know that this kid is in high school.

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

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there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

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pod, where the coffee is strong, the

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waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than

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

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girl veteran.

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And I'm Steve, your newbie, your greenhorn

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here. I don't know, Leif. What do you call the new kid on

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the block when they're around season two of Gossip

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Girl?

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Well, not everyone wants to be Blair Waldorf because

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not everyone can be Blair Waldorf.

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I mean, that is fair enough. I will just

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continue to idolize from a distance.

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Sounds good.

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All ah right. So here's the deal, folks. Leif has been

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watching Gossip Girl since it first started, and

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I'm watching the series for the very first time. And together,

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we're your dynamic duo, bringing you all the

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drama, romance, and sometimes questionable

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fashion choices of this iconic

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2007 series.

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That's right. Each week, we're going to be taking a deep dive into

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the show one episode at a time. We're going to analyze

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all the parallels, obscure references, and, of

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course, the couture catastrophes. We're also going to be looking at

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fandom stories and some of the behind the scenes gossip along the

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way.

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

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breakfast pod, there's always room for you at the non

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judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab your

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mimosa, a cup of coffee, or some of nate and

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chuck special medicine, and let's get started.

Leif:

Yeah. So we are not here alone. We are

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here with another guest today. A few weeks ago, you got to meet

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the wife of the pod. So now we have the

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son of the pod, Jake Marshawn.

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Say hi, Jake.

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Hi.

Jake:

I'm Jake.

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Son of pod.

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So, Jake, what is your history with Gossip Girl?

Jake:

I watched till about, like, season three or four, and

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then I, like, got distracted by other shows.

Leif:

Yeah, a lot of people do, tend to tune out about

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that point.

Jake:

I have seen a good bit of it. I never really finished it, but

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I've seen, at least to this point, for sure, a few times.

Leif:

So without spoiling, who

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are your favorite and least favorite characters?

Jake:

I'm huge on Dan. I just love Penn Badgley as a whole.

Jake:

So you and all of those shows.

Leif:

Yeah. You were a fan of Penn Badgley before for gossip?

Jake:

Like, I saw, first episode I was like, oh, my God, this is Penn Badgley.

Leif:

Yeah. When I introduced Jake to it, he was like, wait, that's Ben

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Badgley.

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And, yeah, Dan is not very popular in

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fandom. I. Yeah.

Jake:

Love him to death.

Leif:

Yeah.

Jake:

I also.

Leif:

He's my favorite character, but, I understand why, you know,

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the target audience is not really a fan of him.

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Wait, who's Dan? Sorry, I was just playing on the whole

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thing that nobody knows who Dan is.

Jake:

I also, I was. I did. Chuck grew on

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me eventually. I did like Chuck in the future.

Leif:

Yes. He's entertaining. He

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was very entertaining.

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I mean, even at this point, after his glow up,

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his season one glow up, and they.

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Yeah, they definitely do a lot to make him a

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sympathetic character.

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Yeah.

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Anything else going on before we get into the

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episode?

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I was gonna just bring up that now I'm

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one episode behind, but I think all of us

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also have been watching Chase

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Crawford's other show right now.

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We're indeed. Yeah, I do

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love the boys. We are.

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Speaking of the boys, I love the boys.

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I do love that he is once again just

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like this. His greatest

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attribute, really, is being hot and so

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much so that the one

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character is willing to lobotomize herself to

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be into him for one time,

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like, once at a time.

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But, yeah, I don't know how I feel about

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this season. It's, like, not any worse, but

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it kind of not really going anywhere for me right

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now.

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I feel like it's also they.

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I feel like they really tried to, like, pull back the

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curtain on the, like, on the

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metaphor, and it's very

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much, very.

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They did finally notice, if you paid attention to the

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backlash online. Yeah, they did finally notice. We

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were making fun of them the whole time.

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Yeah. Laughing. Laughing at. Not with,

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So in this episode, I don't know if you noticed,

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but all the exterior scenes that were

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Yale were actually floated at Columbia.

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That. That's really funny, and I did not know

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that. So they shot it at Columbia. Was that all of

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it, or was that just like, what about the,

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like, the b reel and, like,

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the, you know, still shots of the

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buildings? Was that also

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Columbia?

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Yes. And if you've seen Gilmore girls, that I think is

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Stanford playing as Yale.

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It'S so great that they're like,

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no one's going to know the difference.

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No one is going. The number

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of people who would know that this is Columbia,

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not Yale, aren't watching Gossip

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girl.

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Shocker. There's a lot of people in New York watching Gossip

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Girl.

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Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, that makes sense.

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Yeah. And the forums, they did totally recognize it.

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Oh, did they? You know what? Oh, yeah, because they're

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all, like, upper east siders and. Yeah, of course.

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That. Yeah, that's even better.

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So we are here to talk about season two,

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episode six, new Haven can wait.

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original episode aired on October 13,

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2008, and it was based on the

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movie Heaven can wait.

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Yeah. Is that. Wait? No, I'm thinking of my blue

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heaven. Heaven can wait is. Oh, that was the

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one where the. The guy is reincarnated,

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right?

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I have not seen it, but the Wikipedia

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description says is a

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1978 american sports fantasy

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comedy drama film directed by Warren

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Beatty and Buck Henry about a

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young man, played by Beatty, being

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mistaken, taken to heaven by his guardian angel, and the

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resulting complications of how this mistake can be

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undone given that his earthly body has been

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cremated.

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Okay. I have never seen it.

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I have only seen. I remember going

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to my. My parents would drop me off

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at west coast Video, like, all the time,

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and they would, like. Whenever a popular movie came out, it

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started with dirty dancing. They were like that. They

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called up, and they're like, no, we won't reserve a copy of it. You need to

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be here when it comes in. And they just dropped me off and

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waited for me to. So they did this all the time. And I would look

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at all of the covers, and that's one that I remember seeing all the

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time. That was a long way to say that.

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So the gossip girl wiki episode

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description. Following a fight

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with Blair, Serena decides to get even by ditching her

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plans to visit Brown and accepting a personal

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invitation from the dean of Yale to visit the school.

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After discovering that his recommendation letters for Yale

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were never submitted, Dan frantically tries to

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figure out a way to salvage any chance of getting accepted into the

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school. While visiting Yale, Chuck is

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kidnapped by the group of skull and bones members,

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and Nate hookup hooks up with a student who may hold

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the key to Dan's acceptance. Pretty

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accurate description.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's not as

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spicy. Yeah.

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Ah, I miss Bayless.

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Yeah. Did he just stop watching season two?

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Yes. Maybe.

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Those Bayless descriptions were fantastic.

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This episode was written by Josh

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Saffron. He's taken reins already.

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See? Starting to take control of the show here.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Quite a few episodes in season one. Bad news. Blair,

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17 candles, high society,

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and, woman on the verge. And he also did summer. Kind of

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wonderful.

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Yeah. And it's funny cause he has some good episodes and some

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bad episodes.

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Yes.

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Right. Like, woman on the verge was one of the.

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What?

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It was the better of the Georgina

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Sparks episodes, but it was

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still not great.

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Yeah.

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And then. Yeah. Bad news. Blair was never

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one of my favorites. That's the. That's the fashion shoot, right?

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Yeah.

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I really liked that one.

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Yeah, I was. I always kind of felt.

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Especially the end scene.

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I. Yeah, the end. The Dan and Blair scene,

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and also.

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The serena and Blair at the end when they steal the

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clothes.

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Oh, yeah. And they did the vash and shoot throughout the city.

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Yeah.

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And then. Yeah. 17 candles was the,

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Blair's birthday party, which is. That was decent

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one. And I. Society was obviously one of the best episodes in season

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one.

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Yeah. Yeah. And I really liked the

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birthday party one. I remember I liked it more than you did.

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Cause it's very. It runs through, like, every dating

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cliche.

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Yeah. It was directed by Norman

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Buckley. Back again did Handmaiden's

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tale, thin line between Chuck and Nate, and much I

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do about nothing. All, well directed episodes.

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Yeah. excellent episodes for the director. Thin line

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is still one of my favorite

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episodes, except for the Rufus stuff,

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but, like, I can't blame him for that. That was just really

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bad writing.

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So we get into the episode.

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We open with another Blair Audrey

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dream sequence. Blair is

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Eliza Doolittle from my fair lady and

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interviewing for Yale. However, her meeting was crashed by

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Serena.

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I love it. I love it. What did you think,

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Jake?

Jake:

I thought it was pretty wacky, but in a good way.

Jake:

It was very, like, out there. It was funny.

Leif:

Yes. This is one of the Audrey movies I have not

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seen, so I actually.

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Saw this in, like,

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middle school. We had to watch it. My middle school

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English. My middle school music teacher got me

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into theater. You know, it was her.

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It was watching the. The movies that she showed us

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that got me into, like, theater and stuff.

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And was the movie a m musical as well?

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Yes. yeah.

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Was Audrey Evans singing, was she in.

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My fair lady, or was she in pygmalion?

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She's my fair lady, because my fair.

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Lady is a musical. Pygmalion is the

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non.

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Why? No, I know there was a musical theater, but I didn't realize the.

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The movie was also a musical

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with her.

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I'm 99% sure it is, unless

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there's two versions of it and she. And it's not her version,

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but although I can't remember her

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singing, I wish I could. Other than the rain in Spain

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is mostly in the plane, but, yeah,

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I'm pretty sure I thought it was

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get.

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A gossip girl monologue. Rise and

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shine, early birds. Gossip girl. Here.

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We all have dreams of some good some

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bad and some fun and freudian

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and some are, dreams we've had our whole lives.

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Blair awakes from her dream to breakfast served by

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Dorota. Blair is excited to visit Yale and

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is aiming to get an, invite to Dan's private

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dinner party. She is ready to escape

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Serena.

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I love Dorota here. Dorota just always the

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supporting, like, caretaker. I am

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so proud of you. Like, when she says, I am so proud of

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you, it's just like, you feel it. It, and she

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means it, you know?

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Where would Blair be without Dorota?

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Jake:

Dorothy's, great.

Leif:

What are your feelings on Dorota?

Jake:

I love Dorota. I think she's one of the best, and she's just

Jake:

never a bad moment for Dorota.

Leif:

Yeah. And she's one of the best people on

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the show, you know? And, I mean, I feel like the show kind

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of says. Is saying something with that, you know,

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that when you have they. I feel like they try to

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make Vanessa one of the better people on the

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show. I think that they don't always do a great job.

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Dan started out as a good person.

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Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

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I don't think they always come through on Vanessa, but I think it's sort

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of like writing smart characters. To write good

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characters, you've got to be.

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Well, she's trying to be a good person, but they also tried to

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force her into a world that didn't want her.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, very much so.

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And she had no place, really.

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Yeah.

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At a different park avenue penthouse, lily

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is wondering why Serena is turning down a personal invitation

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to toriel. Despite last week's

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events, Serena is still being protective towards

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Blair.

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And now I, feel like we

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see this with Serena throughout the episode where it's

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this reluctant

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going after Blaire that, like,

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that she's not. I feel like she's not really owning what

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she's doing with some of it by the end of the

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show. At this point, I mean, I think it

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even makes sense, like, yeah, we are rivals now.

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We, like. But Serena's whole thing was,

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I'm no longer going to worry about your feelings

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when I'm taking care of me. Serena has never

Leif:

cared about going to Yale.

Jake:

Yeah, she really didn't want to go to

Jake:

Yale at all until Blair told her she couldn't.

Leif:

Right? Yeah.

Jake:

She had no interest in it, and then Blair said that she didn't have what it

Jake:

takes, and that's when she was like, I'm gonna go to Yale.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Leif:

I thought she kind of did.

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this whole conversation with Lily. Like, she kind

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of did, but she just knew it was a bad idea. She knew it was a bad

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idea.

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Yeah, well, and I felt like the kinda did.

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And again, this is just a college visit, right? You could

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take more than one.

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Yeah. Yeah, and I.

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Especially if you got their kind of money.

Leif:

Exactly. And I think that Serena's.

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I think that the reason that Serena was kind

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of interested is because of the

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lengths they went through to send her a handwritten. Yeah, I

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mean, you know, if I got a handwritten note from

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a college, I'm. I'm gonna go

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there. Like, from the dean?

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Yeah.

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Like, yeah, see what.

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See what they have to offer. I love how.

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I love how tv treats dean like

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principal. Like, in every.

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Every situation, I'll send you to the dean's

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office.

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Like, there are several different deans.

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I've never met a dean, at least not

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in my four year, five years in college.

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I never once, I don't think, met a dean,

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except. Or at least not in a professional setting. Like, I

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think I've met a dean.

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Like, Blair admits to Dorota

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that she hasn't spoken to Serena in a week, so, there's

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still that. They haven't talked since the fashion show.

Leif:

Yeah, I heard Michael Kors named a

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bag after her. It's like,

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dorota timing. timing

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Dorota.

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But maybe Derota is trying to force. Force the issue.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Cause she always has

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Serena's back, too. Like,

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Naroda, ride or die. Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Gotta love Toronto for the best interest of the

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kids. Like, that's the thing, is that it's all in the. Like, she

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is the one person who always has

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all of the kids best interest at heart.

Leif:

Yeah.

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Lily likes the sexy black dress that was set over

Leif:

for Serena.

Leif:

That was definitely a Serena dress. With how much cleavage was being shown.

Leif:

Yeah, I know. I know. And I

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do. I do love the dress. And she

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pulled it up. Yeah. I will talk about

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that later.

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Whoa.

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What's up? Misses bass.

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At the loft. Dan and Rubus are discussing what it takes

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to get into Yale. Rufus seems

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naive. Oh, you're. You're the best dad. I'm

Leif:

sure you'll get in, and if.

Leif:

You don't, that's something wrong with them.

Leif:

how little you know about, especially Ivy League.

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I do feel like Rufus is trying to do some solid

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dadding here, though. Like, I think that Rufus, you

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know.

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I mean, he's trying, I guess, but, I mean,

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he's swinging. He's not going. He's

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not going down looking.

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Of course he's going to be encouraging and he's going.

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Of course he'll be encouraging and

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enthusiastic. It's Dan. It's not

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his other child.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah. we'll get.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, we will.

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Chuck and Nate are also discussing college

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plans. Nate wants to get away from his family, and

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Chuck wants to join the best secret society.

Leif:

I love that. Nate is. Yale is now Nate's

Leif:

safety school.

Leif:

Yes. What did you, what did you see,

Leif:

Jake?

Jake:

I mean, from that part there, I didn't really get a whole much,

Jake:

but I did find it funny that they were saying,

Jake:

like, that Yale is a safety school

Jake:

for anyone at all and that Chuck

Jake:

is trying to join a secret society. Like, it doesn't surprise me

Jake:

at all for Chuck. It's, like, perfectly on brand for him.

Leif:

I think this is Chuck's best scheme so far.

Leif:

Date.

Leif:

By the way, is this the first secret society that's been

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mentioned in the show?

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Okay, so let's start keeping a tally.

Leif:

Okay? Oh, that's. That's really fun.

Leif:

and I think it's the first mentioned, but it's the first we've

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seen for sure. But, like, just.

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I'm going. I'm judging colleges based on their

Leif:

secret societies, and I'm just. And now,

Leif:

the skull and Bones is, like,

Leif:

allegedly a real thing, right?

Leif:

Oh, it definitely is a real thing.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and it's still in

Leif:

operation or whatever. Yeah. You know, you have these

Leif:

things, at other schools, too. But I just. I

Leif:

love that. I love that.

Leif:

You know, it's so on brand for Chuck to be looking into

Leif:

that for schools. Again, this is the best Chuck

Leif:

scheme because, again, didn't see it coming

Leif:

at all. And, man, is

Leif:

he. Yeah.

Leif:

But of course, Chuck wouldn't go to college, right?

Leif:

Why would he? Well, I mean, I could see Chuck going.

Leif:

Going to college, right? And

Leif:

taking all just bullshit classes

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and just so he can say he went,

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but also just to be a part of the campus. I could

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see him, like, not really going to

Leif:

college, but tag along with a.

Leif:

He is actually a bit neater. Enroll.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Have either of you seen the movie the skulls with

Leif:

Josh Jackson and Paul, Walker?

Leif:

No, but I heard of it. Is that what it's

Leif:

about? Yeah. Oh, okay, there.

Leif:

Yeah, they're at. I think they have. It's

Leif:

Harvard instead of. Yeah, maybe it's. Yeah.

Leif:

But, Yeah. Who's the woman

Leif:

actresses. The actress

Leif:

from Coyote Ugly. Piper Parabo.

Leif:

Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't remember her name, but I can see her

Leif:

face. Yeah.

Leif:

It's not a great movie, but it's. It's kind of

Leif:

funny. The students are getting a

Leif:

lecture on maintaining the school's reputation on their IB

Leif:

visits, and Dan and Chuck trade

Leif:

insults.

Leif:

When they said, we're going to spend the weekend together, I was really

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hoping for more. Dan and Chuck

Leif:

together?

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Although I think that everything I.

Leif:

Again, I love the whole. I love everything Chuck did

Leif:

in this episode on, on a. On an

Leif:

objective level.

Leif:

Did anyone notice Nate in this scene?

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, because he was standing right behind them.

Leif:

Right. What was he doing? Was he doing something? No.

Leif:

he was doing absolutely nothing. And I recall

Leif:

in an episode one season, season one episode, you had

Leif:

talked about how Taylor Mobson was not involved

Leif:

in the scene at all, but she was always doing something bad.

Leif:

Her presence was always chased.

Leif:

He was just standing there looking blankly forward,

Leif:

the whole scene.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Zero reaction.

Leif:

Yeah. I do. I do remember. I know

Leif:

exactly what you're talking about, and you're right. And, I mean,

Leif:

again, it's like Taylor mums momsen came

Leif:

into this show with a different level of acting than

Leif:

anybody else.

Leif:

Serena tries to offer an olive branch to

Leif:

Blair, who promptly douses the branch in gasoline and

Leif:

lights a match. Serena starts firing back. But

Leif:

not everyone could be Blair Waldorf.

Leif:

Yeah. It's so funny how every one

Leif:

of their fights is Blair just,

Leif:

like, on the offensive for something she doesn't have all the facts

Leif:

about. And if Blair would just chill for, like, 2

Leif:

seconds, they would get along so much better, but

Leif:

at the same time, also, blair. Fuck you. You

Leif:

pen. Like you're gonna shit on Upenn here. And

Leif:

when with our Philadelphia, podcast

Leif:

here. Upenn is an ivy fucking league

Leif:

school. My Robin, it's all.

Leif:

It's only the holy trinity.

Leif:

Robin. Robin has her graduate degree as

Leif:

her master's from.

Jake:

And I actually agree, like, wholeheartedly here because Penn's my dream

Jake:

school.

Leif:

Yeah.

Jake:

So it's like, what the hell?

Leif:

Yeah. Jake is. Jake dreams of grad,

Leif:

school. Also at Upenn, Jake is

Leif:

starting college in the fall, which is why we should have maybe

Leif:

mentioned that, why this is a fun episode. Cause Jake just

Leif:

got done doing this.

Jake:

Not at yale, though.

Leif:

Not at. Yeah.

Jake:

a lot less drama with it. No secret

Jake:

societies. I wasn't tied to anything.

Leif:

Excuse me. You actually absolutely went

Leif:

into a secret society of

Leif:

sorts. The frat Alpha chi rho

Leif:

is a fraternity, and they definitely have.

Leif:

It's not. I wouldn't say it's a secret society, but it

Leif:

has secrets.

Leif:

None we want to hear.

Leif:

None you want to hear.

Jake:

I wasn't kidnapped or anything. That's.

Leif:

You were not kidnapped.

Jake:

That did not happen.

Leif:

Like the episode they duct tape your buns

Leif:

together.

Leif:

No, no, no.

Jake:

They did nothing. They're not. I was not tied anything or no

Jake:

bags over my head.

Leif:

No, no.

Leif:

Look out. Be. There's a cannonball coming your

Leif:

way in Brooklyn, Jenny is

Leif:

trying to use Vanessa to convince Rufus to let Jenny

Leif:

work and homeschool. Thankfully, it appears

Leif:

Rufus Vanessa redship is trending back towards

Leif:

appropriate levels.

Leif:

Yeah, trending back

Leif:

toward. But yes, Rufus, has zero

Leif:

interest in, like, you can

Leif:

tell right then and there that he's like, yeah, I'll

Leif:

go do this thing. That's how I'll send you back to school.

Leif:

Yeah, but like I said, like, you know,

Leif:

he's. He's always supportive

Leif:

of Dan's writing. 100%.

Leif:

Yep. Yep.

Leif:

That's why you. You were number nine

Leif:

on the ten most forgotten list.

Leif:

We move into act two. We hear

Leif:

there's nothing like Yale in October. The crisp air,

Leif:

the turning leaves the invasion of prospective

Leif:

freshmen. Better hurry up, lonely boy.

Leif:

Your future's waiting. Dan is first to

Leif:

bat in the dean of, Barabe's office.

Leif:

Dan is told he needs to hit the english

Leif:

department to earn himself a second letter of

Leif:

recommendation. Dan may be regretting

Leif:

not writing that Chuck story.

Leif:

Yeah. Kudos to you and your

Leif:

thesaurus, mister Humphrey.

Leif:

He has improved his interview skills, I have to say.

Leif:

Yeah. Oh, yeah, from. From his last interview. Like

Leif:

that. when I was in

Leif:

college, a professor talked about, like,

Leif:

do not. This is, you know, spell check in the

Leif:

online thesaurus. These things are brand new. And she

Leif:

said that she was reading a kid's paper about going to

Leif:

college and getting depressed, and it was on depression,

Leif:

and it would in, like, the depression, they go into the

Leif:

sadness, they go into the concavity

Leif:

that they go into.

Leif:

They were just using the thesaurus and found another word

Leif:

for a, depression.

Leif:

Chuck and Nate are lazing on campus.

Leif:

Nate spots a cute co ed and switches into

Leif:

pursuit mode. Chuck is black

Leif:

bagged and kidnapped.

Leif:

I love this. Did you have anything?

Jake:

I mean, Chuck getting kidnapped is just so funny.

Leif:

Yeah, it is so great. Also, Nate

Leif:

just totally picking up a, ta. Like,

Leif:

has to be an upperclassman to have enough

Leif:

poll to go get signatures and letters of

Leif:

recommendation.

Leif:

Yeah. And he just.

Leif:

And he just. From across the

Leif:

way, it's good to be Nate Archibald. It

Leif:

is.

Jake:

Or in this case, Dan Humphrey.

Leif:

Yeah, or, yeah, in this case, Dan Humphrey.

Jake:

And I love that whole, like, I'm Dan Humphrey thing. It

Jake:

reminds me of how I met your mother when Barney pretends to be Ted

Jake:

Mosby for a night.

Leif:

The Ted Mosey sex detect. Yes.

Jake:

Ted Mosby, sex architect.

Leif:

I let my kids watch how I met your mother at

Leif:

a wildly inappropriate age, and it's my favorite show,

Leif:

much like how my dad let me watch shit

Leif:

like revenge of the nerds when I was a

Leif:

preteen.

Leif:

Blair, is waiting for interview when Serena emerges from

Leif:

the dean's office, who seems quite smitten with

Leif:

Serena. Blair is severely

Leif:

outgunned in this war with Serena.

Leif:

Yeah, I knew who he was talking to before the door

Leif:

opened.

Jake:

And then, Blair's jealousy when she gets in there, when she's, like,

Jake:

saying how. Like, she's just obviously going

Jake:

on about Serena. Like, my hair doesn't sparkle when the sun hits

Jake:

it.

Leif:

how bad is this assistant? Like, why is she. Why would

Leif:

she say that about, like. Oh, I've never heard him laugh like that.

Leif:

Years.

Leif:

Yeah. Why would you say that to somebody sitting outside

Leif:

shitting their pants? Like, someone

Leif:

visibly defecating on the floor

Leif:

right in front of them?

Leif:

Yeah, this. This assisted. And this is the

Leif:

only bad thing she does in this episode.

Leif:

She.

Leif:

She's. She has every scene. Basically. She's a

Leif:

baddeene person.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Nate, ah, is flirty with new girl Jordan. Nate

Leif:

finds out his family name is mud, thanks to the

Leif:

captain, so he gives her the clever

Leif:

alias of Dan Humphrey

Leif:

again.

Leif:

Why are you flirting with a high school kid? You

Leif:

know that this kid is in high school. You know that

Leif:

this kid is at least

Leif:

two or three years young. I mean, I would think it has to. He has to be

Leif:

at least three or four years younger.

Leif:

Like, you are gonna be at least a junior.

Leif:

At least a junior for having

Leif:

the poll that she has. And just this

Leif:

high school kid from across the way. Oh, hey, cutie.

Leif:

I mean, he does look 25.

Leif:

He does. He does. And he's a

Leif:

cutie. I mean, I'm not. I'm not gonna deny that.

Leif:

Nate Archibald.

Jake:

I just don't understand. He could have used any name

Jake:

at all.

Leif:

Yeah.

Jake:

And he chooses Dan Humphrey.

Leif:

Right? But he uses the name that no one is gonna know.

Leif:

Like, it goes back to the. No one knows Dan Humphrey.

Leif:

So the. And. And we talk a lot on

Leif:

here about how Nate is just sort of a, really easily

Leif:

led dog, right? Like, he's not.

Leif:

He's not. He's got great grades, and he's a

Leif:

great student, but he's not a bright guy.

Leif:

He's not a great thinker. And so

Leif:

when you. When you hear Nate Archibald and

Leif:

it's like, what is the one name no one is going to

Leif:

recognize?

Leif:

But Dan's not a nobody anymore.

Leif:

He's definitely a somebody now.

Leif:

Right. But to Nate, he's the closest thing to a nobody

Leif:

that Nate probably knows.

Jake:

And especially with the writing. And

Jake:

he's with the girl, the ta of the writing

Jake:

department. Yeah, like, those. Those things are obviously

Jake:

gonna cross, and they do.

Leif:

Yeah, well, he also. It seems like he was taking on the whole

Leif:

damn Persona, like, trying to pretend he was a writer.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So cute,

Leif:

Nate. Yeah. Cause that was kind

Leif:

of one of those things, which we get to later is, does

Leif:

she know Dan Humphrey as a writer, or does Nate

Leif:

tell her he's a writer?

Leif:

But either way, Chuck is being recruited

Leif:

by the skull and bone society. Seems they want

Leif:

Chuck for his party throwing skills.

Leif:

I love. I love that Chuck from the

Leif:

git is like, I'm just going to go out

Leif:

there and sit here, and they'll find

Leif:

me. And he was right,

Leif:

and they did. I love that.

Leif:

Blair is perfect on paper, but she has

Leif:

trouble opening up to people. Her traditional

Leif:

image might not be what Yale is looking for anymore.

Leif:

Blair is channeling nervous Dan and kisses the dean

Leif:

on the cheek.

Leif:

Did you, when you met you that professor at

Leif:

Lockhaven, did you give a kiss on the cheek before you?

Jake:

Yeah, I actually watched this episode the night before, so I thought that

Jake:

you were supposed to kiss the professor.

Leif:

You were supposed to. Yeah, that is its tradition.

Jake:

Yeah. Yeah, I got rejected.

Leif:

Oh.

Jake:

gotta find a new school.

Leif:

Okay, so apparently this scene was lifted

Leif:

right from the books.

Leif:

Oh, was it? Yeah, that's also.

Jake:

I just think, like, with Blair not being able

Jake:

to find a single thing about herself that, isn't

Jake:

on paper is, like, wild.

Leif:

Well, I think it's sad, and it's like. Cause

Leif:

Blair makes a comment, everything worth knowing about

Leif:

me is in the folder. I made sure of it.

Leif:

And it's not true. Like, she does have

Leif:

stories, she does have other, but she can't

Leif:

think on her feet like that sometimes.

Leif:

Well, and also, it's also, you know, about

Leif:

how thorough she is.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

She puts everything that she wants to put out

Leif:

there.

Leif:

Yeah. And so to pivot

Leif:

into tell, me a story about yourself,

Leif:

it's like, you know, tell me a story. Cause that last girl was in a

Leif:

fashion show.

Leif:

I fucked my boyfriend's best friend in the back of a limo.

Leif:

But we were broken up.

Leif:

yes, Serena admits that she came

Leif:

only to punish blair. But now that she's here, she

Leif:

likes it. Serena gets invited to the dean's dinner

Leif:

party, much to blair's chagrin. The new

Leif:

old serena is just a kiss on a lips. A, cold,

Leif:

hard bitch.

Leif:

I I

Leif:

for one, why can't you both go to Yale? Like, like, why is

Leif:

it yours, blair? Why is

Leif:

yale yours and not both of you? Now I

Leif:

also. Now I do understand that part of it

Leif:

probably really is blair is sick of

Leif:

living in the shadow of serena her whole life, and now

Leif:

it's her time to get out from under Serena's shadow.

Leif:

But, like, also, it's a big

Leif:

school.

Leif:

Well, that I think also, part of the problem is, like,

Leif:

a lot of these feeder schools, like

Leif:

constances, they only. They take one. It's,

Leif:

like, guaranteed at least one person's going to get in

Leif:

that, you.

Leif:

Know, that kind of. That goes along with the,

Leif:

ivy. Poison ivy episode. Yeah, okay, that.

Leif:

Okay, so because I remember there being

Leif:

the one person gets to, like,

Leif:

escort them.

Leif:

But again, it seems they want

Leif:

Serena that bad. Couldn't she just say, like, oh,

Leif:

I'll come if my best friend can come to.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that.

Leif:

That would be too simple.

Leif:

Exactly.

Leif:

Also, strike two for the assistant. Why would you

Leif:

tell her this is my last invite? What. What's.

Leif:

What is the purpose?

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Why?

Leif:

Yeah. Oh, hey. I'm just letting you know you're getting the

Leif:

last invitation. Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Terrible.

Leif:

At the atelier, Rufus is hovering like a

Leif:

weirdo. Rufus, asks Eleanor to be the bad guy and

Leif:

fire Jenny, but Eleanor rightfully laughs in

Leif:

his face. So bad.

Leif:

Rufus.

Leif:

Yeah. What a dickhead. Did you have

Leif:

anything? Jake?

Jake:

I mean, he's just.

Leif:

It's not Dan.

Jake:

Yeah, he can't support her.

Leif:

No. I fucking

Leif:

love Eleanor here. I

Leif:

love her. You had dreams when you were 15. If

Leif:

they all started coming through, would you just put them on

Leif:

hold? I'm not gonna

Leif:

fire your kid.

Steve:

This is a young person's game.

Leif:

She's doing everything I want her to, like. Yeah.

Leif:

Get him, Eleanor.

Leif:

Chuck and serena bump into each other walking

Leif:

around campus. Chuck divulges blair's

Leif:

strategy to. For dinner to serena.

Leif:

Chuck and serena's diabetes. So creepy, considering

Leif:

their history. But I can't help but cackle at the

Leif:

banter.

Leif:

I love. Yeah, I love it.

Leif:

They're hilarious.

Leif:

Yeah, they're great. and it

Leif:

is creepy, but that's chuck. I

Leif:

also really liked, here

Leif:

we see again that Serena is getting

Leif:

information that she doesn't necessarily want. She

Leif:

doesn't she's still not outwardly trying

Leif:

to sabotage blair. She's just trying to beat

Leif:

blair. but then she gets the information that can

Leif:

sabotage blair. You know.

Leif:

Nate is making out with Jordan and her dorm room.

Leif:

Nate has ridiculous game because he's giving all the wrong

Leif:

answers, and yet it somehow works.

Leif:

Or. Or Nate having to answer

Leif:

questions about books.

Leif:

But, I mean, like, at the same time, like,

Leif:

there is something to saying. Like, I tried reading

Leif:

that book, and I couldn't get through it. And, like, I'm a

Leif:

writer, and I love reading, obviously,

Leif:

because that's why I want to go to Yale, but I couldn't read that

Leif:

because it bored me. Like, wow,

Leif:

that's really a strong opinion on something, which,

Leif:

you know.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Which is also like. But, I mean, it is a thing

Leif:

about people who study English. As you

Leif:

know, like I mentioned last week, I

Leif:

fucking hate Hemingway. I

Leif:

always have. He's a miserable old, He was a

Leif:

miserable old man who hated youth and

Leif:

life and

Leif:

happiness, but.

Leif:

He sure could turn a phrase.

Leif:

God damn. But he was such a good writer. Like, he is.

Leif:

He fucking turn a phrase. Like you said, he

Leif:

was such a good writer, but I hate everything he's

Leif:

written.

Leif:

Dan knocks on the door looking for help getting a

Leif:

recommendation. Dan unwittingly blows up

Leif:

Nate's spot.

Leif:

Dan, you snitch.

Leif:

You.

Jake:

You had.

Leif:

You had the moment to play it cool.

Leif:

Yeah. So this is,

Leif:

like, chase leaning into his skills here. The

Leif:

comedy of the. Like, standing in the back, like, no,

Leif:

no, no.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

I,

Leif:

Yeah. Again, like, give me more

Leif:

bunny Nate. Yeah, like, when. When he gets

Leif:

to be funny, he's great. Yeah, like, when you give

Leif:

him good banter. When you give him good.

Leif:

Like, yeah.

Leif:

Yes. Put him on some rom coms.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Maybe a bromance or two.

Leif:

Yeah. With.

Leif:

With a leading lady with

Leif:

two arms and two legs.

Jake:

Yeah.

Leif:

And not nothing aquatic. Nothing

Leif:

aquatic.

Leif:

The boys spin off romantic

Leif:

comedy.

Leif:

She had eight legs and lived in the ocean.

Leif:

Dad and Nate are arguing. Dan is

Leif:

upset about Nate borrowing his identity. Nate

Leif:

is tired of Dan's judgment and a constant chip on his

Leif:

shoulder.

Jake:

I feel like it's very valid for Dan to feel the way he

Jake:

does.

Leif:

I thought they were both had valid points in this scene.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Jake:

I feel like Nate's was a little less so

Jake:

than Dan's because he did, like, steal his identity.

Jake:

Yeah, 100%.

Leif:

Dan definitely had the moral high ground here.

Leif:

Yeah, the bro high ground.

Leif:

He had the moral high ground. But then where Dan made

Leif:

the mistake was taking it to the same place he

Leif:

always takes it, which is the upstairs downstairs thing.

Leif:

Yeah, that really did not matter in this,

Leif:

this conversation at all. But he just always

Leif:

goes back to that.

Leif:

Yeah. I also need to say

Leif:

that when we talk about Dan being a good

Leif:

writer and good with words and stuff like that and how we often make

Leif:

fun of it, but in this case,

Leif:

synonymous sex was one of the

Leif:

best fucking

Leif:

drops. One of the. And it's just a

Leif:

throwaway line, and I kind of caught it the first

Leif:

time, and you, and I don't think you catch, many people

Leif:

would catch it if they're not watching with the

Leif:

subtitles on. But it, like, the synonymous

Leif:

sex. Like, it was such a

Leif:

great line, and I just. I cracked

Leif:

up when I saw that.

Leif:

And here comes strike three for the assistant.

Leif:

Blair bribes the dean's assistant into giving her the

Leif:

address of the party. It's like, give it out with

Leif:

porcelain.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. although I. This is the

Leif:

Blair that I love. This is the Blair that I've always

Leif:

loved, is the. I'm going to find

Leif:

the person who can get me the thing I want and get them the thing

Leif:

they want. You know, like, and, and, like, okay,

Leif:

this woman is obsessed with porcelain cats. I can afford

Leif:

all of these cats that she owns.

Leif:

Where can I go find a. And

Leif:

you know that Blair just went and was like, okay, porcelain cats. What

Leif:

is the most rare porcelain cat

Leif:

that I could find right now? What is this woman going

Leif:

to want? Like, I love it. I love that point.

Leif:

As you mentioned, this is the player that, you know, gets what

Leif:

she wants. And gossip girl takes notice

Leif:

because poorest she should know bees rules by

Leif:

now. When someone leaves you off the list, don't get

Leif:

Madden. Get in.

Leif:

I love that. Don't get mad. Get

Leif:

in.

Leif:

Rufus is impressed with Jenny's skill, talent

Leif:

and responsibility. However, that is not enough to sway

Leif:

him. Jenny acquiesces, but asked to

Leif:

run one last errand.

Leif:

Rufus is such a dick. Like,

Leif:

I'm. I was so, like, I knew

Leif:

this is what was. What it was gonna be. I knew what he was doing

Leif:

at the start. And again, this is a very predictable

Leif:

storyline in it, but it's

Leif:

like, But it's so

Leif:

disappointing for. For him

Leif:

to, again, be so supportive of one

Leif:

kid and then just be ready to rip everything

Leif:

out from under the other one.

Leif:

Yeah, I agree. And this is

Leif:

something I don't think I thought of until

Leif:

this watching. Did Jenny plan

Leif:

this whole thing? because

Leif:

when they get there, she's like, oh, I forgot to put this in the garment bag.

Leif:

So we have to bring it back.

Leif:

I kind of wondered that, too. and

Leif:

I. And, you know, yeah. To not.

Leif:

But, like, Lily wasn't supposed to be there,

Leif:

but, like. Yeah, I

Leif:

feel like there was an element of Jenny kind

Leif:

of laying groundwork to be, like,

Leif:

I can at least.

Leif:

And then she gave the excuse to leave the room.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

She's smart. She's what she's doing.

Leif:

She's. She's a smarty pants. At

Leif:

the dean's party, Blair and Serena continue to

Leif:

argue. Blair's world is

Leif:

crumbling.

Leif:

Yeah. Again, if she wasn't always on the

Leif:

offensive, if she would have just come in there

Leif:

and. And just been, like, you're here

Leif:

to. Yeah, I made my way in. Well, okay. And then

Leif:

I.

Leif:

You know that anyone catch

Leif:

the song the, string quartet was playing?

Leif:

Okay. I heard it. It was very

Leif:

squeaky, and I couldn't place what it was because I kept

Leif:

getting distracted by, like, did

Leif:

you recognize it?

Jake:

I did not know it was, used.

Leif:

Time is running out.

Leif:

Okay. All right. I knew I recognized it, but I

Leif:

couldn't.

Leif:

I really liked it.

Leif:

Yeah. I actually, seen it

Leif:

did work for this scene.

Leif:

I. Yeah, I guarantee you

Leif:

that was an Alexandra pastimus choice there.

Leif:

Oh, was it?

Leif:

I was just guessing.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Chuck one ups the beach boys because his party

Leif:

has three girls for every guy,

Leif:

but that's not enough. The rich elites want revenge

Leif:

and demand Nate's head on a platter. Will chuck

Leif:

turn on his boyenne, one of his three

Leif:

loves?

Leif:

Yeah. I mean, obviously not

Leif:

like, I knew then that, like, you have

Leif:

the thought of, like, Willie, but, like, well.

Leif:

I didn't think the first time, but then, like, then, like, the second

Leif:

instance, I go, it still looks like he's gonna do it. It's like, wow, is he really

Leif:

gonna do this? And then. But then.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Blair gets back in the game when she

Leif:

connects. correct. Serena's french. Then blair

Leif:

uses her father's alumni status to get a what up

Leif:

on serena.

Leif:

Yeah. this is. This is such a throwback

Leif:

to poison ivy. Yeah. Like, this

Leif:

exact thing from. From that

Leif:

episode.

Leif:

Nate tells Chuck you will be at mike's bar, and

Leif:

chuck tells him to stay put. Is Chuck really

Leif:

going to do it?

Leif:

Yeah, I I feel like the first time I

Leif:

was watching, I was like, no way.

Leif:

At this point. Still, like, there's no way he's actually gonna do

Leif:

that.

Leif:

Serena uses knowledge by watching Henry cavill

Leif:

on the Tudors to win the next volley with blair.

Leif:

However, it looks like blair might have another trick up

Leif:

her sleeve.

Leif:

Yeah. I mean, I kind of expected blair

Leif:

to switch the cards from the start.

Jake:

Yeah. When she was staring at the card in the basket after

Jake:

Serena put it in.

Leif:

Yeah.

Jake:

And why would Serena just leave it there? Like, just put it in and walk

Jake:

away?

Leif:

Like, you know, blair's doing, but. Yeah, I mean, that's

Leif:

what they were supposed to do, but also. Yeah, you're. Yeah.

Leif:

oh, wait, wait. It's the last minute.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Chuck didn't betray Nate after all. He just

Leif:

pointed them towards Dan Humphrey, who gets the same

Leif:

black bag treatment from earlier.

Leif:

Poor Dan.

Jake:

I just feel so bad for Dan.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

This is not his trip.

Leif:

Nah, nah, not. Not a good trip for Dan. Oh, but he

Leif:

might. Might. Got a new friend.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

At the dinner, Blair switched Serena's card

Leif:

to read Pete Fairman.

Leif:

Serena, though, managed to spin it, or at least attempts to

Leif:

if Blair wasn't going to going kamikaze on

Leif:

her.

Leif:

Yeah. Like, Blair, how are you? What are

Leif:

you thinking? Like, you're ruining

Leif:

your shot at, Yale.

Leif:

Just. She's not saint. Yeah,

Leif:

she's not a saint person.

Leif:

Yeah. And you're like. Like, this party you're

Leif:

crashing to try to impress this

Leif:

person. You're just. You. Like,

Leif:

you don't look good at all.

Leif:

And, what's funny is that I didn't recognize the name Pete

Leif:

Bearman at first. I. They did

Leif:

not do a good enough job of.

Jake:

Really, I did not.

Leif:

Hammering.

Jake:

I watched it so long, so I was like, who is.

Leif:

Yeah. The person that she didn't kill. Yeah. The person

Leif:

she passed cocaine to.

Leif:

Once outside the party, the argument heats up

Leif:

and gets physical. Ding,

Leif:

ding, ding, ding.

Leif:

Yeah, it's like they're both kind of right here. Like,

Leif:

they both. I get both.

Leif:

They're both pretty horrible, and, they're.

Jake:

Both terrible at fighting.

Leif:

Yeah.

Jake:

Like, that had to be the worst of any

Jake:

type of, like, mma wrestling

Jake:

anything I've ever witnessed in my whole life.

Leif:

I mean, the next time we see them and they're cleaning up, neither of.

Leif:

No torn clothes, no messed. No, their

Leif:

hair is both pristine.

Leif:

Blair missing her headband.

Leif:

Blair is missing your headband?

Leif:

And that.

Leif:

And that's it.

Jake:

So does that mean Serena won the fight if

Jake:

she got Blair's headband off?

Leif:

I believe so. That's like, a decrowding.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Lily is admiring herself in Serena's black dress

Leif:

from earlier. When Jenny and Rufus arrive. Rufus

Leif:

channels Keanu reeves when he sees Lily walk

Leif:

in wearing the dress.

Leif:

Jenny offers to pick out a different pair of shoes,

Leif:

which conveniently leaves Lily and Rufus alone.

Leif:

Even Lily is on Jenny's bandwagon here.

Jake:

I feel like. Like you said earlier, Jenny knew what she was doing.

Jake:

Like, she leaving Lily alone to convince him.

Jake:

Yeah, this was a little planned.

Leif:

You know, she wasn't planned for the start. She was definitely thinking in

Leif:

that moment.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. And

Leif:

I, It's also great because it is a

Leif:

more organic meeting of Lily and

Leif:

Rufus, where before it was Lily just kind of

Leif:

shoehorning herself back into Rufus's life,

Leif:

and he was like, nah. And

Leif:

now here and Lily, when she's like,

Leif:

I'm always happy to see you. and it's

Leif:

like, man, Lily knows that she made a

Leif:

mistake. Lily, you know,

Leif:

and at least, you know, Bart

Leif:

was a mistake at this

Leif:

point. I feel also, I hope, Willie.

Leif:

Frisk Jenny after she came out of her, closet.

Leif:

Or. Or would it be more likely that Lily would be

Leif:

like, meh. Yeah, she probably

Leif:

wouldn't care. Yeah, I know. oh, those are only

Leif:

$30,000 chanel shoes.

Leif:

I don't know. Chanel makes shoes. I don't think they do.

Leif:

The, ones in the shot were Jimmy choose.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

At the bar, Nate is still waiting for

Leif:

Chuck when the skull and Bones brothers walk into the

Leif:

bard, bragging about tying Nate Archball to a

Leif:

statue in the quad. Nate stands up and

Leif:

probably declares his name, pushes over to the douche

Leif:

bros, and hightails it out of there.

Leif:

Well, yeah, I just kidnapped and assaulted a guy

Leif:

and, stripped him down naked. And I'm just gonna

Leif:

shout about it in this bar.

Jake:

A round of shots.

Leif:

But again, chase getting to do

Leif:

comedy.

Leif:

Yeah, chase gets to be funny. And,

Leif:

yeah, I loved it.

Leif:

Physical comedy, even.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah. And I love the,

Leif:

like, starts the fight, and then it's like, oh, shit.

Leif:

There'S six of them.

Leif:

Yeah. I actually thought we were about to see

Leif:

Nate go

Leif:

six on one for a second. I was like, is he gonna,

Leif:

like.

Steve:

I'm not.

Leif:

I'm not gonna believe it happened, but I'm gonna watch. It

Leif:

is the deep. He is the

Leif:

deepest.

Leif:

We see Dan and only his boxers tied to the

Leif:

statue in the middle of campus. Embarrassing. Yes, especially

Leif:

when you consider his choice of boxers. But considering this was

Leif:

supposed to be the legendary skull and bones, I think Dan

Leif:

got off pretty light. However, good

Leif:

guy Nate shows up to the rescue. Unfortunately, the

Leif:

captain didn't pass on his nautical skills to Nate because

Leif:

Jordan has to come help with the knot.

Leif:

I remember the first time watching, thinking, like, dude,

Leif:

all those people that tied up Dan, every one of them has a

Leif:

boat. Yeah. They know how to tie a

Leif:

knot. They've all got boats.

Leif:

Yeah, they're all the crew team.

Leif:

Yeah, they had. Some of them may only have two

Leif:

boats now that they had to sell three after the

Leif:

captain fucked them over.

Leif:

Blair and Serena are picking up the pieces from their

Leif:

fight. They agree to their go to their separate ways

Leif:

once college starts.

Leif:

Yeah. Like, I wish that they, And I know you're

Leif:

supposed to, but I wish they could see that they don't have to fight each

Leif:

other. Like, they could be such a powerful team.

Leif:

But I'm tired of being Darth Vader next to your sunshine

Leif:

Barbie. Steve.

Leif:

I'm a people person. What can I say?

Leif:

From comrades to combat. We thought we'd seen

Leif:

it all, but we've never seen this. Serena

Leif:

and Blair calling a ceasefire after so much

Leif:

scorched earth can either side claim victory?

Leif:

We move into the epilogue. It looks

Leif:

like Rufus is going to let Jenny give homeschooling

Leif:

a try after all. Rufus asks Vanessa

Leif:

to bring the forums to surprise Jenny at

Leif:

breakfast.

Leif:

I'm glad to see Rufus coming

Leif:

around here and, like, I.

Leif:

As somebody, as an educator and somebody who's,

Leif:

like, teaching and I. And I have, like, you know,

Leif:

advanced degrees in educational psychology and stuff

Leif:

like that. And the way that we do high school

Leif:

in. In America is already wrong,

Leif:

you know, sending every single

Leif:

kid to essentially

Leif:

college preparatory classes when they could be

Leif:

receiving job trainings or going to tech

Leif:

schools and going to things like that. But we don't

Leif:

encourage that. We encourage this. College, college,

Leif:

college. And then these kids,

Leif:

like, you know, at 18, start

Leif:

learning trades and start learning things they could have

Leif:

been doing at a younger age.

Leif:

And especially something like Jenny, where she has a path

Leif:

and she has a, love and a dream

Leif:

and has an easy path

Leif:

to it at this point.

Leif:

Yeah, so you're talking about that. But it's pretty clear

Leif:

these writers don't know what homeschool

Leif:

is. It would be better if they would have talked about maybe

Leif:

professional school where they can. Kids can,

Leif:

like, test out so they can work. But

Leif:

homeschooling involves Rufus basically

Leif:

being with Jenny for four to 6 hours a

Leif:

day.

Leif:

Well, how is Vanessa homeschooling, for

Leif:

that matter? She's living by herself. I don't

Leif:

know where.

Leif:

That's really funny because I didn't know that because, And

Leif:

now I don't know about 2007, especially because

Leif:

I know today you could easily.

Jake:

Online school.

Leif:

Just do mine.

Leif:

Yeah, just do online school.

Jake:

Like, there's, like, a whole, like, Pennsylvania, like,

Jake:

Commonwealth online academy.

Leif:

Yeah.

Jake:

Anyone could be in that.

Leif:

Exactly.

Leif:

Yeah. I don't know where they were in 2007. but they were definitely not

Leif:

there in the mid to late nineties when

Leif:

I did a couple years.

Leif:

Yeah, they were starting. They were

Leif:

starting in, I think, that the first

Leif:

online schools started opening around a one

Leif:

or zero two, and they didn't really. I

Leif:

know that by zero six, I was

Leif:

teaching. I was actually running a

Leif:

school that was using all digital

Leif:

education. Right. Like, all the kids were doing all of their

Leif:

classes on computers, and I've worked in two

Leif:

schools like that. The first one, like I said, in,

Leif:

like, oh, seven. Oh, from zero seven to

Leif:

zero nine.

Leif:

like, if only the writers had, you know, talk to some of the

Leif:

actors on their shows about, like, how

Leif:

they did the professional acting schools and they

Leif:

tested out so they could work full time at, like,

Leif:

13.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Hey.

Leif:

Hey. Taylor Mumpson, who was actually

Leif:

needing to be educated while doing

Leif:

this.

Leif:

How did you do, Eric? I think Layton,

Leif:

Blake. Like, all of them.

Leif:

Yeah. And the

Leif:

other funny thing with this is, like,

Leif:

this homeschooling path. The other thing is get a

Leif:

Ged. Like. Like, you're talking about, like, testing out.

Leif:

And, like, there are, like, I. One of. I

Leif:

knew this musician out in Seattle who was like, yeah, high school

Leif:

just wasn't cutting it for me. M so I got my

Leif:

GED.

Leif:

I think you have to be able to be a certain age, at least

Leif:

1716.

Leif:

I believe it is 16. And, I

Leif:

think it's, like, 16 with certain,

Leif:

like, you need, like, I think maybe a letter saying,

Leif:

yeah, you're done with high school, but, like, something that she

Leif:

could get from eleanor, you know?

Leif:

Serena and Blair have one last face off outside

Leif:

the dean's office. However, it looks like they both

Leif:

fell on their swords for each other. I still think

Leif:

Blair is actually in love with serena, but

Leif:

2008, television. Sanders just wouldn't let her

Leif:

go there. Like, this scene, like, it's

Leif:

so clear to me that Blair is in love with serena. She

Leif:

is in love with her. Absolutely.

Leif:

I, didn't feel that

Leif:

as much as I felt that she wants to be

Leif:

her, that it's more of a desperately seeking

Leif:

Susan than a romantic

Leif:

love. That's how I. That's just how

Leif:

I always. That's how it looked to me,

Leif:

like.

Leif:

But the whole thing, like, I don't want you, not in

Leif:

my life. And, like, I can't. I can't live without you.

Leif:

Even though I hate you. I hate you, but I cannot live without

Leif:

you.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that

Leif:

you love. That's love.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Right. Sometimes. I mean, not always, but, like, that is

Leif:

an aspect of it.

Leif:

Yeah. What do you think, JK? Any thoughts,

Leif:

do you think?

Jake:

Not really. I feel like, honestly, at, this

Jake:

point in their relationship, they should just not. It should

Jake:

be like a no contact, like a break.

Leif:

Yeah. They're only taxes for each other, but

Leif:

just.

Jake:

But do you think terrorizing each other.

Leif:

But do you think, Blair is in love with Serena?

Leif:

No.

Jake:

I really don't know. I

Jake:

feel like it's a mix of my dad

Jake:

said wanting to be her, or it's more

Jake:

just wanting to. Not, like, wanting to be on

Jake:

her level, you know? I feel like she's obsessed with

Jake:

what Serena can achieve.

Leif:

That is definitely an aspect like her status.

Leif:

Dan and Nate and Jordan are walking around campus, and

Leif:

it looks like Jordan is now dance errand girl.

Leif:

However, I also see a bromance brewing.

Leif:

Yeah. Why is she just, like, running?

Leif:

I'm gonna.

Leif:

I'll find someone for you, dad. Don't worry. I'll just go around

Leif:

campus asking people.

Leif:

Yeah, guy that I just met

Leif:

who has the name of the guy that I

Leif:

was of, the high school kid I was about to sleep with. His

Leif:

name. And I will say that

Leif:

I do love. I've always loved Dan and Nate when

Leif:

they're friendly. And again, this is

Leif:

very reminiscent of poison ivy, where they

Leif:

spat early on and then they come

Leif:

together and they're friends again. But

Leif:

I was also this ta. This

Leif:

probably junior or higher at Yale

Leif:

is forming a throuple

Leif:

now with two high school

Leif:

kids. I mean,

Leif:

I'm here for it. Love

Leif:

is love. Do your thing.

Leif:

Better a college junior than a married

Leif:

duchess.

Leif:

Yeah.

Jake:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

I mean, this is definitely an upgrade. Nate likes the

Leif:

older women, but when.

Jake:

Is he going to ask if he's getting paid for this,

Jake:

right?

Leif:

So what do I get paid?

Leif:

Excuse me, Jordan, where's my check?

Leif:

full on gigolo.

Jake:

Does Jordan have a son for Blair today, by any chance?

Leif:

Chuck's lies have caught up to him, but it looks

Leif:

like Chuck was just on campus to get

Leif:

blackmail material for on the future elites.

Leif:

Like I said, this is Chuck's best scheme.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. Like, finally pulled something off.

Leif:

He totally pulled it off. I didn't see it coming at

Leif:

all. I mean, I saw the, you know, oh, he's here.

Leif:

He's going to get out of fucking NATO.

Leif:

But, like, it wasn't even that. It was from the

Leif:

get. I'm gonna. I'm learning about secret

Leif:

societies because I want their secrets

Leif:

and I want to own them. And he now owns the

Leif:

skull and bones, which is

Leif:

fantastic.

Leif:

Now Chuck and Nate are arguing, and Nate

Leif:

decides to take the train with Dan. Chuck's

Leif:

all alone again.

Jake:

I do just love this for Nate's character. You know, him, being

Jake:

able to realize that, like,

Jake:

there's nothing wrong with casual

Jake:

people things.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Jake:

You don't really need to take a limo everywhere

Jake:

sometimes, like, a good friendship is more important.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And I also like this for the show as well, in general, because

Leif:

it gets Dan more integrated with the. It's

Leif:

not just, serena's no longer his only connection.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. And now Nate creates

Leif:

that connection.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate also doesn't know

Leif:

necessarily about the story

Leif:

that. That Dan was writing to. Correct, so there

Leif:

is. So there is. Chuck is upset

Leif:

about something that Nate doesn't know about,

Leif:

so there's that.

Leif:

Maybe if he reacted when they were talking about earlier.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

He would have found out.

Leif:

Maybe. Yeah.

Leif:

Serena gets a call from dean barabe, who

Leif:

tells her to expect to be on the early menace

Leif:

list, but blair isn't. Also, the dean

Leif:

wants to issue a press release about serena's visit, thus

Leif:

proving Blair's point from earlier.

Leif:

Yeah, and. And it's funny

Leif:

when, flashing earlier when he said that lady

Leif:

had a lovely story about how she was in a fashion

Leif:

show, but he knew that because he has

Leif:

the newspaper in front of him with the fashion show.

Leif:

Yeah. And so, like, he just really

Leif:

proves that whole thing that they just want Serena. They

Leif:

want the vander Woodson status, and they want

Leif:

this fresh, young face at Yale.

Leif:

We get a classic end of episode

Leif:

montage of Blair and Serena are hugging.

Leif:

Lily is putting the black dress back in her

Leif:

closet. Jenny is flourishing at the

Leif:

atelier. Chuck stares daggers from his

Leif:

limo as Nate and Dan are having a great time

Leif:

walking together. Blair gives a last

Leif:

longing look at Yale before getting into the limo with

Leif:

Serena. The sequence is punctuated by

Leif:

some pointed narration from Gossip Girl.

Leif:

Greens. Everyone has them.

Leif:

Some good, some bad, some, you

Leif:

wish you could forget. Sometimes you realize you've outgrown

Leif:

them. Sometimes you feel like they've. They're finally

Leif:

coming true. And some of us just have

Leif:

nightmares. But no matter what your dream,

Leif:

when morning comes, reality intrudes and the

Leif:

dreams begin to slip away. Dream a little

Leif:

dream with me. Xoxo,

Leif:

gossip girl.

Leif:

They already used dream a little dream.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Come on now.

Leif:

Obviously, Jake, you know what's coming up by that. Steve, any

Leif:

predictions from you?

Leif:

I I did.

Leif:

Clearly, Chuck is about to go after Dan.

Leif:

I feel like there's going to be some Chuck Dan stuff, and

Leif:

I'm here for it, because. I'm also here for it because I

Leif:

want to see where Nate. How Nate reacts to Chuck

Leif:

Dan stuff. And, yes, they would just write him out of the episodes like

Leif:

he do. and,

Leif:

this. It seems like Serena and

Leif:

Blair are coming back to friends again.

Leif:

I feel like they were trying to kind of even

Leif:

give us a little bit of a poison ivy ending, but not

Leif:

quite to the strength of poison ivy

Leif:

or thin line. Yeah. You know, like,

Leif:

those. Those were the ones, like, tears in the

Leif:

eyes.

Leif:

so, I mean, m do you think it is going to be, you

Leif:

know, like that, or is it going to be back to war next?

Leif:

I think we have at least one more episode of war,

Leif:

because this was two of three episodes.

Leif:

I'm following along with that rule

Leif:

of three when we see stuff that, like, they have

Leif:

to. We've talked about this before on the podcast

Leif:

that serial television,

Leif:

when they weren't expecting people to. When

Leif:

they knew people wouldn't tune in.

Leif:

Hours to watch one out of three episodes.

Leif:

Right. So they had to make sure you could get enough of the

Leif:

plot in one out of three episodes

Leif:

without needing to watch the others because

Leif:

not everyone at this point yet. DVRs

Leif:

were starting to become a home.

Leif:

Yeah. Tivo. TiVo is a thing at this point, but, yeah. you have to be kind

Leif:

of, well, on the. On the rich side. Upper middle class, at least.

Leif:

Yeah. Well, and actually, at this point,

Leif:

you could get DVR through,

Leif:

like I had it for Comcast.

Leif:

Yeah, you could just recap.

Leif:

Yeah. but. But even then, you

Leif:

know, they didn't know how to. What

Leif:

to do with that yet. You know, they didn't know

Leif:

that they could break these traditions

Leif:

yet. Yeah.

Leif:

So looks like everyone's trying to get it to Yale. Is

Leif:

the show gonna switch the new Haven next year?

Leif:

Well, that's what I actually was having. That question. I

Leif:

had that thought, too, that I know that they graduate at the

Leif:

end of the year. So where do they go?

Leif:

and do they all go to

Leif:

Yale, or do they all go somewhere

Leif:

else? Or do they all go to colleges that are

Leif:

nearer to each other?

Leif:

so there are several colleges in New York. Yeah. I

Leif:

mean, because it would make sense to just stay in New

Leif:

York and have someone at NYU and someone at Columbia, and,

Leif:

you know, that makes sense, too.

Leif:

So that is it for our episode.

Leif:

Any last thoughts on the episode?

Leif:

None here. Yeah.

Leif:

We will move into some segments

Leif:

this week in fandom, we hopped into the

Leif:

wayback machine to check out the television without pity

Leif:

forums back in 2008. Hello

Leif:

there, Peabody here. And, this is the wayback

Leif:

machine for traveling through time.

Leif:

And this is my boy Sherman. Speak,

Leif:

Sherman. Hello. Good boy.

Leif:

Fans are happy as, Serena and Blair made up, although

Leif:

maybe a little too much, a little too soon.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And we kind of thought, yeah, m might keep going next week.

Leif:

Yeah, there will be. I feel like there's something. There will be another

Leif:

thing.

Leif:

They are also pleased Dan is making additional friends

Leif:

on the upper east side. So that, like we said.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate integrating him into the cast more. Yeah,

Leif:

most of the, like. they were actually a lot of talk of the preview for next

Leif:

week. Then they were all getting cruel intentions lies from

Leif:

it.

Leif:

Oh, I did not see the preview for next

Leif:

week, so. But I do love me some cruel

Leif:

intentions there. There's some good Sarah

Leif:

Michelle Geller work.

Leif:

Yes. So that's what made me fall in love with her.

Leif:

Yeah, I can understand that.

Leif:

yeah.

Leif:

Now that Chuck is all alone, will he be forced to tell Blair,

Leif:

I love you?

Leif:

Oh. I

Leif:

mean, they've. They've been on the back

Leif:

burner for a while now, since.

Leif:

Since this whole season,

Leif:

really. There was the back and forth where Chuck was going,

Leif:

like, actively pursuing Blair

Leif:

against Marcus, but, like, since

Leif:

then, since.

Leif:

He left, he's been just kind of hanging out.

Leif:

Yeah, but. But we've seen backburner stuff,

Leif:

right? We've seen. We've seen him.

Leif:

He's been plotting.

Leif:

He's been plotting like, he did. He sent Amanda. Yeah.

Leif:

After Dan.

Leif:

Now this is something that's really starting to bug me. The

Leif:

elitism among the Chuck fans is

Leif:

really kind of starting to annoy me on the forums.

Leif:

Nate should just shut up and thank Chuck

Leif:

and. Yeah, Chuck. Cesar so elevated. It's

Leif:

like prestige tv when he's on the screen.

Leif:

Oh, Jesus. What are you talking about? Is it

Leif:

because. Is it because of his hair? Is it because he wears

Leif:

an ascot now? Is it because he's

Leif:

gradually, like, continuing his transition

Leif:

into Fred?

Jake:

He's gonna start setting traps for Dan?

Leif:

Yes. And, Blair is getting a

Leif:

majority. The support between the Serena and the Blair

Leif:

people still. And, there's several muse fans in the

Leif:

audience.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Moving on to some episode grades. You

Leif:

went first last time, so I'm gonna go first this week.

Leif:

This wasn't quite as good as last week, but it was still a

Leif:

good episode. Directing, was good. Norman Buckley always

Leif:

does a good job. although, you know, the back and forth

Leif:

Serena and Blair stuff was good.

Leif:

I like Chuck and Dan and Chuck and Nate.

Leif:

so I'm gonna give it a b. This is solid. Upset.

Leif:

What about you, Jake?

Jake:

I would honestly say b. Or, like, if there's b pluses.

Leif:

B plus.

Jake:

I'd say b plus. I did really like the episode. I don't

Jake:

know if it's. It's definitely up there with my favorites, but I

Jake:

wouldn't say it's the best one so far, but it is. I did think

Jake:

overall, it was a very good episode.

Leif:

Yeah. I'm in line with both of you. I gave

Leif:

it a b as well. I thought, like you

Leif:

said, this was a solid episode. It

Leif:

was good. and it may be not as

Leif:

good as last week, but it was a good episode. It was very

Leif:

solid. And I found that, you know,

Leif:

I kind of have to accept this. This version

Leif:

of Blair of being the. A

Leif:

little more unhinged.

Leif:

Well, you gotta remember this is kind of the blair we got in the

Leif:

first three episodes before her and Serena made

Leif:

up.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

Leif:

This is kind of how Blair is when her and Serena are

Leif:

fighting.

Leif:

Yeah, she kind of falls apart. Yeah, she falls

Leif:

apart and love with her,

Leif:

but, yeah, for the same reasons I gave this a b plus. I

Leif:

thought it was a good episode.

Leif:

Moving into stock watch going up.

Leif:

I had Serena because she clearly won the

Leif:

episode. She looks like she's getting early admittance to

Leif:

Yale. She did get Blair to forgive her at

Leif:

the end. And, yeah, she's good episode. She's

Leif:

the girl. I gave dad a good

Leif:

up because, he, you know, it looks like he's going to get his recommendation.

Leif:

He's got a new friend.

Leif:

Nate, same reason. Got a new friend. So he's going up. He

Leif:

also looks like he's got to look up with a hot co ed.

Leif:

And, of course, the real winner of the episode,

Leif:

jenny. She's fucking awesome.

Leif:

She's my favorite.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Jake, who do you got going up?

Jake:

I had Chuck for sure, like, controlling an entire

Jake:

secret society of America's future.

Jake:

I also, Dan and Nate, both I had going

Jake:

up. I do love the bromance they have

Jake:

brewing, and I think for both of them, that's pretty good.

Jake:

And actually, honestly, lily for convincing

Jake:

Rufus to let Jenny continue her dream, I

Jake:

think that kind of elevates her a little

Jake:

success.

Leif:

Yeah, actually, and I'm going to start. That actually makes me

Leif:

want to add somebody to my list. So I'll start with her, with

Leif:

Eleanor for going to bat for Jenny,

Leif:

and. And, like, literally, she still

Leif:

has this protege, this, you know,

Leif:

prodigy working for her, you know, that's good for

Leif:

her. Then I also had Nate and Dan for all

Leif:

the same reasons you had. I had Jenny just like

Leif:

you guys did. I I gave rufus a bump up for

Leif:

the very end for coming around.

Leif:

I had both blair and Serena going down

Leif:

because.

Leif:

And we're not there yet.

Leif:

Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right.

Leif:

That all your ups?

Leif:

Yeah, that's all my ups. I always do that.

Leif:

Yeah. So going down, I had Chuck

Leif:

actually going down because even though he got one over on the skull bones,

Leif:

I don't really care about them.

Leif:

Did I say chuck? Because I actually meant to give Chuck an up

Leif:

also for the skull and bones thing. So I get that you

Leif:

give him.

Leif:

Down, but I really don't care about those

Leif:

people. And then the people I do care about, he is

Leif:

all, He's got separated from his friends, and I.

Leif:

Yeah, he's got nothing right now.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then I also had Blair going down because she

Leif:

looks like she's losing out on Yale and was

Leif:

just self destructing all episode.

Leif:

And also Rufus because I thought he was

Leif:

horrible, so that that way. I see, was not enough to save

Leif:

him.

Leif:

That is fair. I, actually was considering

Leif:

taking it away before I gave it to him. I'm still thinking about

Leif:

it.

Jake:

So I also think Rufus a little bit down just

Jake:

for. I mean, he came around in the end, but the whole

Jake:

time, it's just like dan. Dan. Dan is.

Jake:

Can't let anything go for Jenny.

Leif:

Yeah. Take him off from me. I'm just gonna give him nothing.

Leif:

I'm giving him nothing.

Jake:

I also had Blair, like, way down, just

Jake:

like the whole outing Serena as a murderer and

Jake:

all that, it's like. And then just being nuts

Jake:

in front of the dean, it's. She made a complete fool

Jake:

of herself whole episode.

Leif:

Anyone else?

Jake:

I mean, maybe that new, Jordan girl for sleeping

Jake:

with a college or high school student trying to.

Jake:

Kind of creepy.

Leif:

That's fair.

Leif:

Now, Steve, you can give your doubt.

Leif:

Yeah. I gave both Blair and Serena a, down. And

Leif:

Blair for, what I said

Leif:

earlier about her be just being unhinged when she's

Leif:

in this, but serena, it is

Leif:

because serena, when.

Leif:

When blair said to her you could never get into

Leif:

yale, Serena was.

Leif:

Garrett was m motivated to get

Leif:

into yale, but we weren't. She wasn't

Leif:

talking about. She's talking about merit. Right?

Leif:

And Serena, in the end, realizes that if she gets into

Leif:

yale, it is not on merit. It is

Leif:

on the prestige, and it is on

Leif:

her. Her status.

Leif:

And I think that that really

Leif:

hurt Serena in the end, and I think that that.

Leif:

And they also act in a fool on the dean's porch. Both

Leif:

of you, knock it the fuck off. They both go

Leif:

down.

Leif:

Yeah. the main reason why gave Serena up, because she just.

Leif:

She checks all the privilege boxes, and

Leif:

she just fails up.

Leif:

Yeah, she really does.

Leif:

She's rich, white, pretty.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. Just edges.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

That is it for stock watch. Unless you got any more downs.

Leif:

Nope. just those two. But here's the best

Leif:

outfits from the last episode

Leif:

we see.

Leif:

Moving on to best outfit.

Leif:

For me, it was Chuck's brown coat with the

Leif:

orange pants. the coat also had some orange stitching

Leif:

to kind of make it, like a burnt orange almost.

Leif:

He had green socks, brown, leather

Leif:

shoes, and then a pink button up shirt with a

Leif:

cravat and a matching pocket square.

Jake:

I also went with Chuck, sue, and I also love the

Jake:

little ascot, just like Fred from Scooby Doo.

Jake:

I thought that was definitely the best outfit.

Leif:

Yeah, I actually went with

Leif:

Lily's dress in the end. Hello,

Leif:

misses bass.

Leif:

Robin knows that I think Lily is hot

Leif:

because she's objectively hot. Like, come

Leif:

on. But also that, you know, it was,

Leif:

I thought it was really cool that it's supposed to be a Jenny

Leif:

design for Serena even.

Leif:

You know, I like. I like that dress.

Leif:

All right, that is it. For some segments, all we

Leif:

have left is some plugs, but, Jake, thank you for joining

Leif:

us.

Jake:

Thank you for having me.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And, where can people find you on social media?

Jake:

I mean, usually just Jacob,

Jake:

Marshawn. It's pretty much all my socials.

Leif:

Anything else you want to plug? Not specifically. Recommendations

Leif:

or anything.

Leif:

He spells his name the same way I do.

Leif:

What about you, Steve? You plug in anything?

Leif:

I think just at this point still

Leif:

sometime, next month. This comes out in September, so

Leif:

sometime next month, I will be up in

Leif:

Lockhaven for the fringe festival.

Leif:

I will get exact dates for our next. For our next

Leif:

episode, but, you can come out and see me. I don't have

Leif:

exact locations yet because they usually give me those

Leif:

later, but, you will. There will be signs all

Leif:

over Lockhaven, and if you follow me on

Leif:

TikTok or Instagram at Steve

Leif:

dot Marshan, m a r c h I o

Leif:

n, I will be posting more

Leif:

information on the shows there. That's

Leif:

my big thing that will be coming up at that point.

Leif:

how about you, Lee?

Leif:

Hey. Well, nothing to really plug or recommend this week,

Leif:

but you want to find me on social media, you can find me on

Leif:

Instagram ot Capicola. And you can find

Leif:

the podcast on TikTok and Instagram

Leif:

and threads on judging practice

Leif:

pod on Twitter, we're

Leif:

pod. And you can also visit our website,

Leif:

nonjudgingbreakfastpod.com. and there you can find links

Leif:

to our Reddit and discord servers.

Leif:

And if you would like to get in touch with the podcast,

Leif:

we would love to hear from you. Send us an email.

Leif:

Our email address is

Leif:

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Leif:

we'd love to hear what you have to say and read your comments

Leif:

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Leif:

please give us a like a

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comment, a follow, a subscription,

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and also tell your friends what you're

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listening to. All of those things really help us

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out.

Leif:

Okay. And next week, we will be talking

Leif:

about season two, episode seven,

Leif:

chuck in real life. The max

Leif:

episode preview reads, to get

Leif:

revenge, Blair convinces Chuck to

Leif:

seduce Vanessa.

Leif:

Oh, wow. Yeah,

Leif:

I'm really interested in this one.

Leif:

Cause, like, we get a new good side character.

Leif:

This one.

Leif:

Oh, good, good. is Jordan a one and done?

Leif:

I think she might be mentioned again. Like,

Leif:

I think she, like, calls Dan to say, like, she

Leif:

couldn't get a recommendation.

Leif:

She appears again. but, yeah. So that is

Leif:

it for this week. catch us back in a week. You know

Leif:

you love us.

Leif:

Xoxo.

Steve:

Every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

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

Steve:

of me with

Steve:

oh, it seems I'm walking right.

Leif:

To 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 piece

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away 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, I 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, run away? You take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away? You take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away? You take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away? You take a

Steve:

piece of 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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