Episode 5

S3E05 - "Rufus Getting Married"

This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back to dissect the juicy intricacies of Gossip Girl Season 3, Episode 5, titled "Rufus Getting Married." As the wedding bells chime, the drama unfolds in true Upper East Side fashion, with secrets, lies, and unexpected family reunions at every turn.

Rufus and Lily are finally ready to tie the knot, but not without a whirlwind of chaos! With Georgina lurking in the shadows and Scott's true identity threatening to unravel everything, will the couple make it to the altar? Meanwhile, Dan finds himself caught in Georgina’s web of manipulation, while Serena grapples with her feelings for Carter. And let’s not forget about Blair and her new rivalry with Bree, as they both vie for the spotlight.

Join Leif and Steve as they dive into the tangled web of relationships, heartfelt moments, and the signature Gossip Girl drama that keeps us all on the edge of our seats. So grab your favorite breakfast treat—whether it’s a mimosa or a waffle—and settle in for a lively discussion that will leave you craving more gossip and insight into the lives of our favorite characters!

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Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

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Transcript
Steve:

Dan is like, oh boy,

Steve:

he's up to something. I didn't pull

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it off. No, Dan, you didn't.

Leif:

As Serena like, what was that about?

Steve:

I don't know. I should have called

Steve:

Blair.

Leif:

Hey, Upper East Siders and all, you scare Gandal loving listeners out

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there. You just tuned into the non judging breakfast pod

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where the coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh,

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and the gossip is hotter than ever. My name is

Leif:

Leif and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve:

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

Steve:

the. I don't know, Leif. What are we calling the. The new

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kid when we're this far in?

Leif:

Well, I'm not too sure, but let's just hope your family didn't make its

Leif:

money in investment banking.

Steve:

Leaf, sometimes I think that you're just pushing me away because you

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know I'm the one that can hurt you.

Leif:

That might be true.

Steve:

So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has been a fan of Gossip

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Girl from the very beginning. And I'm diving in for the

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first time. And together we're your dynamic

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duo, bringing you all your drama, romance, and

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sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

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iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

Grab your cocktails and magnifying glasses because each

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week we're dissecting each juicy detail of the

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show one episode at a time. We'll

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connect the dots, uncover those sneaky little Easter

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eggs, and of course, serve up some piping hot behind the

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scenes tea. And expect some iconic fandom moments

Leif:

too, because what's a deep dive without a little drama?

Steve:

And since we are all about inclusivity here at

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the non judging breakfast pod, go ahead and

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grab a seat at the non judging breakfast table

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and go ahead and grab some coffee or a,

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mimosa. Or go ahead and call up Chuck's dealer.

Steve:

And let's go ahead and dive into this.

Leif:

so as of this recording, we've watched two more

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episodes of Good, Cop, Bad Cop 4 and

Leif:

5. Are you caught up?

Steve:

I watched 4 5. They're not

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releasing them until a week later now

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on Hulu. So you either have to watch it live, at

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least the last one. I had to. I didn't watch it

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live. and then it didn't get released right away. I am

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caught up on number four four, which

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is the one that you originally had said.

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Make sure to watch this one.

Leif:

Yeah, because we have the rant of Blair

Leif:

or sorry, Lou Lou,

Leif:

ranting about waffles.

Steve:

Ah, yes, I. And. And

Steve:

I. I don't know if I Would have picked up on

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it if you actually. No, I would have, because at

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the end of her rant, I was like,

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oh, wow. Just like Gossip Girl. Oh, that's what

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Leif was talking about. But it was

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like. Was it intentional?

Steve:

It felt a little like

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a shout out. It did so.

Leif:

And there's more. Gossip Girl

Leif:

Easter eggs in episode five.

Steve:

Oh, I cannot wait. I am really

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enjoying this show.

Leif:

So one is kind of representing season one

Leif:

when her and Jenny broke out,

Leif:

Eric out of the Ostrov Center.

Steve:

Oh, right. Yeah.

Leif:

And like that scene at the counter, she basically

Leif:

recreates that scene.

Steve:

Oh, nice.

Leif:

And then also she goes by the pseudonym

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Claire, which

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is what people always do.

Steve:

Which is her, not her. Which is her

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pseudonym when she wants to hide stuff. Which

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again, she's only done once so far

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in season one that I've seen and

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you want.

Leif:

So if Dan's right, he always gives

Leif:

characters, like, stupid names that

Leif:

are obvious. So who.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

Charlie Trout. Charlie Trout, Sabrina

Leif:

and Claire.

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Claire.

Leif:

Claire Carlisle is Claire's name in

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dance writing.

Steve:

Oh, that's awesome.

Leif:

What is it now? We also received the tips.

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I want to set us a tip. Nonjudging.

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breakfastpodmail.com.

Steve:

Yes, I saw this. I started reading

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it, realized that I should not be reading it, and

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immediately contacted Leif.

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I'm like the good kid who finds his dad's

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porn. Nope, I'm not watching

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this. Dad, you left this out.

Leif:

It reads, dear non judging breakfast pod,

Leif:

I hope you're doing well. This is Eden from the Discord

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group. First off, thank you so much for the amazing

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podcast. As a gen zer with deep love

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for all things 90s and 2000s, I'm always

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on the lookout for a new pop culture podcast about my favorite

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shows. I have to mention, I also love

Leif:

all your Buffy references. I have a lot of thoughts about

Leif:

the show and have been wanting to share them for a while

Leif:

now that you're on season three. The now, this is where we

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omit and it's about. It's about episodes coming up in

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about four episodes. So we will bring that back

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when we get to that episode they finish off

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with. Many people write Gossip Girl

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off as a mindless teen drama with some, inconsistencies in

Leif:

writing and quality, which is valid, but only true fans

Leif:

are allowed to critique it. Lol. However,

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there is also something so enigmatic,

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enchanting, and endlessly fascinating about this

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show. I really appreciate you guys giving it the level of

Leif:

discussion it deserves. As a former English

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slash cinema double major, I live

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for this Type of, analysis teen shows, and

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especially girly teen shows absolutely

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deserve deep, nuanced conversations.

Leif:

This was so fun. Please feel free to share my thoughts on

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the pod if you like. All the best, Eden.

Steve:

First of all, Eden, thank you.

Leif:

Yeah, thanks for writing in.

Steve:

Yeah. And that's very, very

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touching to hear that. To hear that that's how

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you're viewing, hearing from

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us. Because we often have the

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question of why are you doing this? And why are two

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middle aged men watching

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this teen drama that is

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aimed towards teenage girls?

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And we really stand by the fact that for

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one, entertainment is supposed to be for everybody

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and we have

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other perspectives and so we really

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appreciate you

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hearing our perspective.

Leif:

Definitely thanks for writing in Eden. And also

Leif:

if you have seen the whole series,

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check out their YouTube channel,

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NostalgiaEdit. they do Gossip

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Girl edits.

Steve:

Oh, awesome.

Leif:

But lots of spoilers.

Steve:

I will watch that in a couple

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years when we are done

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this. But, I will definitely shout you

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out. So thank you once again. Also,

Steve:

I love the Gen Z

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love of the 90s

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and 2000s and

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even a lot of millennial

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friends that

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our friend Dave Shields once

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said to me. I'm so envious that you were there when

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Nevermind came out, that you picked it up

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off of the shelf at the store

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and bought it and when 10

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came out and when all of these

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other big cultural things were happening.

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And I think back of like, man, I listened to

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the first Black Sabbath album and I'm like, who are the people

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that sat this on their record player for the first

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time? So there is that

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generational nostalgia that I really

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appreciate. so again,

Steve:

thank you for really making me think about

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our podcast, which is really what that email did.

Steve:

It really made me think

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about the non judging breakfast pod

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and how we're viewed. And again, we just

Steve:

really appreciate it.

Leif:

Yes. And one last thing before we get

Leif:

into the episode. Did we already talk about the thing with

Leif:

Juliet Landau, and podcasting?

Steve:

I don't think so.

Leif:

Have you heard about what's been going on with that at all?

Steve:

no, I did not. I

Steve:

think I knew that she had a

Steve:

podcast.

Leif:

Yeah, she started a podcast

Leif:

with two fans

Leif:

basically, and then pulled a power

Leif:

play and kicked them out.

Steve:

Damn.

Leif:

And then rebranded it with the name

Leif:

of another podcast that already existed.

Steve:

So. So now she's on a

Steve:

copyright infringement or, you know, intellectual

Steve:

property infringement.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And yeah.

Steve:

Oh, damn.

Leif:

And has been very dismissive when the, Because the person is like

Leif:

in fandom on Reddit and

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like he's. I think it's a he or

Leif:

they, he, she or whatever.

Leif:

they, they are going after, like, not going

Leif:

out, like, just like polite emails and stuff and dms

Leif:

and she's been like, very dismissive.

Steve:

That's. That's insane. Yeah, I had

Steve:

no idea any of that was going on. I did hear that she

Steve:

was starting a podcast, but I didn't catch any of

Steve:

the. Any of this drama surrounding

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it.

Leif:

We are here to talk about Gossip.

Steve:

Girl today though, indeed.

Leif:

Season three, Episode five Rufus

Leif:

Getting Married.

Steve:

Not Drufus Getting Married

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Originally Air Date.

Leif:

October 12, 2009 and ah, the

Leif:

title is based on a movie called Rachel Getting

Leif:

Married. I. I heard of it. I

Leif:

never saw it. Have you seen it?

Steve:

No, I, I never heard of it either.

Leif:

Based on the title. I, I had always written it off as just

Leif:

like a generic romantic comedy,

Leif:

but from the description, that's not what it sounds

Leif:

like. A young woman who has been

Leif:

in and out of rehab for the past 10 years returns

Leif:

home for the weekend for her sister's

Leif:

wedding. It's, starring Anne Hathaway,

Leif:

but it's also directed by Jonathan

Leif:

Demm, who is best known for

Leif:

Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia.

Steve:

Okay, so that made me a little.

Leif:

Bit interested in it.

Steve:

Yeah, I'm a little interested in it. It sounds

Steve:

dark.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So, yeah, I'm

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a little interested.

Leif:

Anyone see it? Write in and tell us more about it.

Leif:

This episode was written by

Leif:

Layla Gerstein. She had,

Leif:

previously written season two, episode

Leif:

22, Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Steve:

Right in there.

Leif:

The Gabriel era.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a tough time to be a writer

Steve:

on the show. It's the Gabriel era,

Steve:

but I don't think

Steve:

I remember giving that a high grade. I think that one

Steve:

was lower for

Steve:

me. I know I didn't like the Gabriel

Steve:

stuff.

Leif:

You think when he was on set, do you think they had a huge, ah,

Leif:

human body parts at craft services?

Steve:

I was thinking that the

Steve:

meat tray was just laid out like the Operation

Steve:

Guy.

Leif:

Episode directed by Ron

Leif:

Fortunato. This is his first of two

Leif:

times in the director's chair, but he was director of

Leif:

photography for 47 episodes.

Steve:

Oh, I wonder if it was, Oh, shit. We need

Steve:

someone to direct this.

Leif:

Probably.

Steve:

Can we get. Yeah. Oh, you. You know this. You

Steve:

know what? We're doing enough. Can you fill

Steve:

in?

Leif:

yeah, he does that like, once in a while, but he's

Leif:

mostly cinematographer or

Leif:

directory.

Steve:

Yeah. So it just sounds like. Yeah. Or

Steve:

maybe he was. He shot his shot and they gave him

Steve:

a chance.

Leif:

And, this is, I mean he's got one more, yeah, some point

Leif:

later in the series in television, because.

Steve:

We'Ve talked about it in the writer's room, and

Steve:

I know that it's also kind of true for movies to

Steve:

a degree. How much of directing is directing by

Steve:

committee? Or is it there's one director who

Steve:

is there directing the

Steve:

entire episode, typically?

Leif:

Oh, probably a lot of committee because they shoot,

Leif:

like, on different parts of the city at the same

Leif:

time.

Steve:

Yeah. Okay. That's exactly what I was thinking.

Leif:

There's definitely an A and a B team.

Steve:

Exactly. So even though the director

Steve:

that's getting credit for it, that

Steve:

person is probably a director

Steve:

in other scenes and other episodes and things like

Steve:

that is kind of my thinking.

Leif:

There's also always at least one writer on set. Not necessarily

Leif:

even the writer who wrote the episode, but there's always at least one writer

Leif:

on set.

Steve:

Right. If they need edits, if there's something that's not

Steve:

working.

Leif:

Why don't you go ahead and give us that very short Vulture

Leif:

recap?

Steve:

Yes. Thank you. Vulture. What rhymes

Steve:

with Sonic Youth and is also music to

Steve:

our ears. Truth, friends.

Steve:

And that was what we heard a lot of on last

Steve:

night's Gossip Girl. Vanessa finally told

Steve:

Dan the truth about Scott. Carter came clean to

Steve:

Serena about a really revolting thing he did to

Steve:

his ex girlfriend. Lily revealed that

Steve:

beneath her porcelain veneer and mannered

Steve:

comments about the Bolognese,

Steve:

she's just a lady full of wonder.

Steve:

Complicated, runny nosed feelings. And

Steve:

Dorota revealing her stunning,

Steve:

creamy decolletage.

Steve:

Delicate. Delicate.

Leif:

It was nice seeing Dorota out of her uniform.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Ah, and she looked

Steve:

beautiful. and, ah, we'll talk about that,

Steve:

you know, more. But yeah, it was really.

Steve:

Yeah. I love Derog.

Leif:

Let's get into it.

Steve:

Yep.

Leif:

Act one begins, as always, with a Gossip

Leif:

Girl monologue.

Leif:

Some say love is a river

Leif:

Some say love is a silly song

Leif:

Some say love is all around us it lifts

Leif:

us up where we belong Some say

Leif:

love is hearing laughter in the rain but on the Upper

Leif:

east side, we all know love is a

Leif:

pain.

Steve:

Rufus, you have your own house. Like,

Steve:

why are you waking up on the couch? Why would you sleep

Steve:

on the couch? Like, go home.

Leif:

Well, it's not his home anymore. He, like, basically have to ask

Leif:

permission if they had to stay there.

Leif:

Stan, he let

Leif:

Dan branch out, you know. Yeah, he's too cheap to,

Leif:

you know, buy him a door. Pay for his door, Pay for his door.

Leif:

I'll go live my girlfriend so you can have that. Your own

Leif:

college experience.

Leif:

Love Is in the air. We get a quick montage of

Leif:

happy couples. Serena and Carter, Nate and

Leif:

Bri, Dan and Olivia, Chuck and

Leif:

Blair, and Rufus and Lily. Yeah,

Leif:

the video of Dan typing is

Leif:

definitely a meme gif. Oh, yeah,

Leif:

with the little chromebook on top of the.

Leif:

Is that a paper stand or something?

Steve:

Yeah, Yeah, I think it was a trash can.

Leif:

The trash can.

Steve:

Yeah, it could have been a newspaper stand.

Leif:

That's definitely a meme gif. I, don't know if you've ever seen that.

Steve:

I haven't, but I'm not surprised.

Leif:

Just like, cackling typing in the middle of the

Leif:

street.

Leif:

Yeah, I do like to touch the over if it's like,

Leif:

Cracky is back as he gets up.

Leif:

I'm so old.

Steve:

This is why we don't go back on tour.

Leif:

Carter and Serena are having breakfast at Blair's house, and

Leif:

we have a quick exposition on why Carter wasn't around

Leif:

last week. We also get to hear two spoiled rich

Leif:

kids bemoaning being cut off by their parents.

Leif:

Carter encourages Serena to talk with her mom.

Leif:

Serena asks Carter to go to have breakfast with her friends

Leif:

and get some intel on Nate's new girlfriend.

Leif:

When Carter hears the Buckley name, he

Leif:

quickly makes up an excuse on why he can't

Leif:

attend.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Why are you at, Blair's?

Steve:

That was weird.

Leif:

That was the end of last episode.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes. I still just thought

Steve:

it was odd because where else?

Leif:

I mean, I guess she could get a hotel room, but she's cut off, so she can't get a

Leif:

hotel.

Steve:

Yeah. Is she cut off, or is

Steve:

she just being stubborn?

Steve:

I've never heard Lily say, I'm not gonna.

Steve:

I'm canceling your credit card if you leave here.

Leif:

That would be a Lily move.

Steve:

It would. And the fact that she

Steve:

hasn't done it is just all the more evidence

Steve:

that Lily isn't, To me, I feel like Sabrina

Steve:

is being stubborn and I'm working for

Steve:

myself and not taking my mom's money

Steve:

rather than being cut off, if that makes

Steve:

sense. In other words, I think Serena could

Steve:

have gotten a hotel room.

Leif:

But no one's living at Blair's house, though.

Steve:

yeah. Yeah. Oh,

Steve:

yeah, because we haven't seen Eleanor. Yeah.

Leif:

she fought from Paris or somewhere.

Steve:

Probably. There's fashion stuff happening at some place in the

Steve:

world. It's fashion o'clock somewhere.

Leif:

Dan and Vess are discussing Georgina, Olivia

Leif:

and Scott with. We find out that Olivia is in

Leif:

Tokyo.

Steve:

Yes, Olivia's in

Steve:

Tokyo filming a movie with Orlando

Steve:

Bloom.

Leif:

I, think are. Are they just a, like, press tour.

Steve:

Or doing a press tour. Right, right. They're on a press

Steve:

tour in Japan. The

Steve:

sashimi late. Sashimi

Steve:

later, was it. What did he say?

Steve:

His stupid sushi puns. But also, we

Steve:

learned that he can't use his own IMs

Steve:

because every time he logs in, Georgina

Steve:

jumps on and starts trying to talk.

Leif:

Yeah. Vanessa walks into a

Leif:

coffee shop alone, and Georgina sneaks up behind

Leif:

her.

Steve:

I thought Vanessa's reaction was a little straight.

Steve:

It was a little overreacting. Dan was

Steve:

like, yeah, Georgina pops in and DMs me

Steve:

every time I log in. I don't think that

Steve:

that necessarily is over the top.

Steve:

We all know Georgina's crazy. We know that

Steve:

Georgina is over the top. But I thought

Steve:

Vanessa's reaction was un.

Steve:

Vanessa. Like, I don't think that it really

Steve:

represented how Vanessa

Steve:

tries to treat people.

Leif:

Yeah. To see with, Georgina sneaks up on her.

Steve:

That's what I'm talking about is when she's like.

Steve:

When she's like, georgina,

Steve:

you're here. It was, of course,

Steve:

Vanessa, why she's coming back.

Leif:

I felt there was, like, weird, like, sexual tension there.

Steve:

I don't.

Leif:

Especially the way Georgina came up and, like, just like.

Leif:

Like rubbed her arm when she came up behind her.

Steve:

Yeah. That. I. I don't not

Steve:

see it.

Leif:

Chuck and Blair are having brunch with Nate and Brie.

Leif:

Blair is being kind of setting towards Brie. Bri

Leif:

perks up at the mention of Carter, which Chuck notices

Leif:

immediately.

Steve:

I love the line of, the

Steve:

vampire riding in on a broomstick. Vampires don't

Steve:

ride broomsticks. We'll leave it to Georgina Sparks to

Steve:

start a mutant strain.

Steve:

And I know women, and we're not that nice.

Steve:

When Bri walked away.

Leif:

And yeah, Blair is staunchly anti

Leif:

Southerner.

Steve:

Very much. I thought it was

Steve:

interesting when

Steve:

Brie ordered in what I'm I'm going to assume

Steve:

is Mandarin. What? She

Steve:

ordered in another language.

Steve:

And Blair corrected the

Steve:

order. Blair said

Steve:

about what? The things that Nate wouldn't like

Steve:

after she ordered, which I don't believe that

Steve:

Blair is fluent in Mandarin

Steve:

or whatever language was

Steve:

ordered in. But she's been to these restaurants

Steve:

enough that she knows what it is and knows how to order

Steve:

it. So I thought that was.

Steve:

I thought that was a really

Steve:

Blair power play to do,

Steve:

but get over it, baby.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah.

Leif:

You had your chance with that. You turned him down.

Steve:

Yeah. Also, though Brie sucks.

Steve:

She's not wrong that Brie sucks. She's wrong

Steve:

in why she thinks Brie sucks.

Leif:

Yes. Lily, is looking at an

Leif:

old wedding album when Serena walks in. Lily is

Leif:

still blaming Rufus for Serena not going to Brown.

Leif:

Jenny and Eric warn Serena, that Rufus and Lily

Leif:

might be in real trouble.

Steve:

Yeah, Lily is blaming Rufus for Lily

Steve:

going away. That's

Steve:

literally what she says. I went

Steve:

away. I'm not mad at you. I went

Steve:

away and left you with a man who

Steve:

doesn't get it. So who are you mad

Steve:

at? Lily? Why are you mad at Rufus?

Steve:

And I mean, as we know,

Steve:

we find out later, Rufus nails it in the,

Steve:

on, the fucking head. Rufus slaps her in the face

Steve:

with some love knowledge. But we'll

Steve:

get there. I, I will go on record

Steve:

as saying until the very end of

Steve:

this, I fucking hated the Rufus

Steve:

Lily back and forth stupid

Steve:

bullshit. Grow up, you

Steve:

fucking children.

Leif:

Indeed. But Rufus is on another

Leif:

island, visiting Dan at the Brooklyn loft. Rufus is

Leif:

such a sad sack that Dan feels obligated to help, so he

Leif:

calls. Ser. I smell a paratrap scheme

Leif:

incoming.

Steve:

Rufus has no poker face. I

Steve:

want to play high stakes poker with Rufus

Steve:

Humphrey because, you know, he

Steve:

walks in just. I'm just going to walk into

Steve:

the house and dump my entire mood on my kid,

Steve:

let them know how unhappy I am and hint at

Steve:

why. And they'll just have to get it because I'm going to

Steve:

be passive aggressive toward

Steve:

the people who, did nothing to me. Yes,

Steve:

classic Rufus.

Leif:

Classic. Georgina is sitting at a

Leif:

cafe with Vanessa, desperate for information on,

Leif:

why Dan won't call her back. When V tells G

Leif:

that Dan is dating someone else, Georgina

Leif:

blackmails V into helping her break up Dan and

Leif:

Olivia.

Steve:

I love that she just

Steve:

drops everything and goes full

Steve:

crazy. And you see it in her

Steve:

face. I think it's really some of Michelle

Steve:

Trachtenberg's best work on the show. When

Steve:

you just visibly see her

Steve:

alter her face and just. Well,

Steve:

then you're going to break them up.

Leif:

Yeah, it's almost like a spring just like pops out in

Leif:

her.

Steve:

Yeah, like, like all of the meds are

Steve:

just flushed out of her system. And

Steve:

we are a go for crazy.

Leif:

We, end the act with a Gossip Girl

Leif:

blast.

Leif:

Some say love is a secret you keep secret,

Leif:

but Dargina sparks, love's always a

Leif:

battlefield.

Steve:

I said to you before

Steve:

we started that the episode grade on this

Steve:

episode dropped every time I watched it.

Steve:

And there are like,

Steve:

every episode, there are the storylines that I really enjoy and the

Steve:

ones that I don't. And this is one that I really, I liked the

Steve:

Georgina Dance and Vanessa

Steve:

storyline throughout. I hated the

Steve:

Rufus and Lily stuff. I hated the Bree

Steve:

stuff. I hated the

Steve:

other dumb stuff, but I

Steve:

loved the. This whole scene in

Steve:

the. In this is the

Steve:

phone call, right? When are we not there

Steve:

yet? Oh, my bad.

Leif:

We get into Act 2 with

Leif:

Georgina coaching in the background. Vanessa

Leif:

poorly attempts to lie to Dan about Olivia

Leif:

cheating. Dan thinks Vanessa might be

Leif:

stoned. Based on a list of reasons Georgina fed

Leif:

to Vanessa, Dan is surely going to suspect

Leif:

that Vanessa is in love with him.

Steve:

This phone call is so

Steve:

fucking funny. It's so

Steve:

dumb. It's such a bad

Steve:

ploy. But it was just

Steve:

so, It was so

Steve:

Georgina, and it just fit. And

Steve:

it just. The way Vanessa was going along with

Steve:

it because she was being blackmailed and

Steve:

it was just making me

Steve:

laugh the whole time.

Leif:

Crazy hijinks.

Steve:

Yes, it was really fun.

Steve:

Crazy hijinks.

Leif:

And apparently getting people to dump a celebrity is

Leif:

commonplace for Georgina.

Steve:

Yes, yes. I've

Steve:

done this before.

Steve:

Here. It's really easy.

Leif:

Let the Parent Trap commence. The Humphrey

Leif:

and van der Woodsen children get Lily and Rufus to sit down together

Leif:

at a diner.

Steve:

I will do pretty much anything my kids

Steve:

ask me to do. Right.

Steve:

I love my kids. I'll do anything for my kids.

Steve:

If my kids are saying, hey, we really

Steve:

want you to work this stuff

Steve:

out, I'm at least gonna give it a

Steve:

shot. I'm gonna hear my kids

Steve:

seeing the importance of it, and they've done

Steve:

that. If they've heard Robin and I

Steve:

upset about something with each other, there have

Steve:

been times that one of the kids will say, hey,

Steve:

and kind of jump in, and

Steve:

it's important to them that they work this out. And

Steve:

that kind of really struck me that

Steve:

you're not just working it out for each other.

Steve:

Here's a whole family that you've brought together that

Steve:

wants to stay together. And

Steve:

that really struck me.

Leif:

But, yeah, gotta get the Parent

Leif:

Trap scheme going.

Steve:

Well, I'm really saying

Steve:

that I felt like the Parent Trap

Steve:

scheme should have meant more to the parents, that they

Steve:

should have reflected on how much it meant to their kids

Steve:

for them to at least talk

Steve:

it, talk it out.

Leif:

Oh, it did for a minute.

Steve:

They, They did for a minute. You're right.

Leif:

And then they start fighting.

Steve:

Yes. And it's. So

Steve:

you guys know all of this stuff

Steve:

just. Yeah.

Leif:

It's the same fight they've been having since season one.

Steve:

Yeah, one, exactly. It.

Steve:

It hasn't stopped.

Leif:

It's the same fight that Dan Sarita keep having as

Leif:

well.

Steve:

Yeah. And here's the thing. Now that you're married, you're going to keep

Steve:

having all, you might still keep having this fight, but the thing

Steve:

is the same. Just

Steve:

the whole fight is basically, get over

Steve:

yourselves.

Leif:

Take the leap.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

yeah. Definitely a rare good episode for

Leif:

Rufus.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah.

Leif:

Chuck is giving Blair an elaborate

Leif:

massage when she tells him that Carter is at

Leif:

her mom's penthouse. Chuck leaves Blair with

Leif:

some blue balls and to presumably pass that

Leif:

info on.

Steve:

To Brie, future NASCAR mom

Steve:

Brie.

Steve:

Blair.

Leif:

Dan is walking with Eric and Jenny, who both agree that

Leif:

Vanessa is definitely in love with Dan and that Dan needs

Leif:

to tell her how she feels about Olivia. So this is where the

Leif:

retcon kind of starts that I mentioned back in season

Leif:

one, where in season one it was Dan

Leif:

who said that he loved.

Steve:

Vanessa before she went away.

Leif:

Yeah. And now it's. Now it's like kind of

Leif:

reversing that.

Steve:

Yes. And Eric and Jenny are kind

Steve:

of. Although they're also

Steve:

seemingly incorrect too. Right.

Steve:

So Jenny and Eric are piecing all of

Steve:

this together for him. But I

Steve:

love how quick they come to the conclusion

Steve:

too, because of the relationship Dan and

Steve:

Vanessa have always had. So I,

Steve:

I see your point about the retconning. I also

Steve:

just loved how quick Eric is just like, whoa, yeah,

Steve:

she's clearly in love with you. Like, duh. and then

Steve:

Jenny's like, yeah, I.

Leif:

Mean, everyone knows that.

Steve:

Yeah, everyone knows that. Look at your entire fucking history. Of course

Steve:

Vanessa's in love with you.

Leif:

Rufus and Lily are once again reminiscing

Leif:

and it looks like things are going well until

Leif:

Rufus suggests a little more low key for the

Leif:

wedding. Lily blows up because Mayor

Leif:

Bloomberg would be disappointed.

Steve:

Oh, here it is. Right? These two fucking idiots. I,

Steve:

I thought that that whole scene happened together,

Steve:

but these fucking idiots.

Leif:

Yeah, they're, they're in love with their past

Leif:

selves. Like they're, they're not teenagers

Leif:

anymore, but they, they want to be.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes.

Leif:

Because they, like whenever they're reminiscing, they're like, they're, they're

Leif:

clicking.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

But then as soon as they have to start thinking about the now or the future, it's

Leif:

like they start fighting. Yeah, I

Leif:

guess maybe they're just feeling old, they're having a midlife crisis, they're

Leif:

trying to relive their youth and they're maybe not meant to be.

Steve:

I actually think it's more of a matter

Steve:

of, I think that's a big part of it. Right?

Steve:

That they have this nostalgia that's keeping

Steve:

them together more than

Steve:

where they are right now. So. Yeah, there's a

Steve:

point there.

Leif:

Dan walks in on Vanessa making an Olivia and

Leif:

Orlando Bloom Photoshop, Dan starts

Leif:

doing a patented Dan rant about them just being

Leif:

friends and trying to let her down easy. Until

Leif:

Vanessa finally can't take it and tells him Georgina is

Leif:

blackmailing her.

Steve:

The writing and

Steve:

directing of this scene

Steve:

is just. Muah. It

Steve:

was perfect from the second he

Steve:

walked in and catches

Steve:

her. And he starts

Steve:

into his whole obviously

Steve:

prepared speech, everything that

Steve:

he was thinking on his way over of how he was

Steve:

gonna break it to Vanessa that this is not it. And

Steve:

it just starts pouring out of his mouth.

Steve:

And Vanessa realizing in.

Steve:

In real time what's happening, just

Steve:

starts. Wait, no, whoa. Stop. Shut

Steve:

up. And just pushes back on

Steve:

the whole thing until it finally comes out

Steve:

to this really,

Steve:

dramatic reveal at the end of

Steve:

it that it's. Okay, fine.

Steve:

Scott's your brother, and

Steve:

Dan has the face.

Steve:

The confused Pikachu

Steve:

confused Pikachu face.

Leif:

I will fight back a little bit. I won't say it's perfect

Leif:

writing because there's. Once you get into the

Leif:

room, it's great. But why are you doing this Photoshop

Leif:

with your door wide open?

Steve:

Oh, okay. I mean, I'll give you

Steve:

that.

Leif:

With your back to it and headphones on.

Steve:

Yeah, so I will give you that.

Steve:

It would have made more sense had Dan,

Leif:

Nice product placement, by the way.

Steve:

Had Dan knocked on the door, she didn't

Steve:

answer and then walked in.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, they were. Beats the headphones, I believe.

Leif:

So, yeah. We get some Sonic

Leif:

playing over a monotage of Rufus and

Leif:

Lily separately staring longly at the same

Leif:

picture of the two of them happy. The pair

Leif:

go to each other's apartments and end up having their makeup

Leif:

over the phone. Looks like these two are getting

Leif:

married tomorrow.

Steve:

Idiots. Oh, my God.

Steve:

Stop.

Leif:

Put on those dancing shoes, kids. Looks like

Leif:

we're going to the chapel. Gastro girl states as

Leif:

we go into Act 3,

Leif:

both the NYU minions and the new

Leif:

Constance minions are at the Vander Woodson

Leif:

penthouse assisting Jenny, Serena and Blair

Leif:

organize a quickie wedding for Rufus and Lily.

Leif:

Dorota even called the Sonic

Leif:

Youths.

Steve:

I will forever refer to them as the Sonic

Steve:

Youths from now on.

Steve:

Jenny. Jenny.

Steve:

Dismissing the.

Leif:

And the look between Blair and Jenny. And then

Leif:

Serena, too. She notices it as well.

Steve:

Oh, my God. My par. My family are

Steve:

in hedge funds, and they're all broke. You can go.

Leif:

Yeah, you're definitely in the. In the housing crisis right

Leif:

now.

Steve:

Yes, but all, And it's

Steve:

just that alone just

Steve:

foreshadowed Jenny's

Steve:

season that I'm now

Steve:

waiting to get back to Constance to see what Jenny

Steve:

has cooking up. Because

Steve:

dark Jenny seems to be on

Steve:

the horizon and I'm fucking here

Steve:

for it. And of course I know it might.

Leif:

Be a three way war now.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Because you got, you have all three of them like looking at each other.

Steve:

Yeah, Yeah. I

Steve:

also know that Jenny,

Steve:

we love Jenny. We're

Steve:

big fans of Jenny. I know that the

Steve:

fandom doesn't always like Jenny. I know that a lot of the

Steve:

fandom has a lot of Jenny hate. And

Steve:

I can only assume that it comes from two

Steve:

things. The whiny, teenagery stuff

Steve:

in season one and two that I

Steve:

really liked because I felt it was really

Steve:

authentic to the part. But I also

Steve:

have this feeling that there's shit on the horizon that she

Steve:

is going to do that is going

Steve:

to affect how I see

Steve:

her. I feel. I've seen the

Steve:

glimpse of dark Jenny. I've seen it

Steve:

peek its head out. So I'm

Steve:

really angry. I really want to see dark Jenny

Steve:

now.

Leif:

It's like when she gray, like does something crazy and like the

Leif:

fetus comes out a little bit.

Steve:

Yes, exactly.

Leif:

And knocks out a bunch of people.

Steve:

Exactly. That is.

Steve:

Oh, exactly. That Jen

Steve:

Gray.

Leif:

Ruth Madoff also gets a name drop in that scene.

Steve:

Yes, yes. I also loved

Steve:

that they had, oh, they had the

Steve:

minions there and when they were at the

Steve:

end all being dismissed and

Steve:

Serena goes, new mean girls. You go

Steve:

do. And she referred to them as new mean

Steve:

girls.

Leif:

Dan and vessel are at the loft. Vanessa convinces

Leif:

Dan to hold Georgina off for one more day.

Steve:

Sounds like a bad idea.

Leif:

Dan, you're not the best liar.

Steve:

Yeah, this does not, yeah, war

Steve:

Schemer. Call Blair. Well,

Steve:

he's best with Blair. Yeah, call Blair and have

Steve:

her deal with Georgina. That's who you've always

Steve:

gone to. Don't, ah, try to do this on your

Steve:

own because you fuck up.

Leif:

He thinks he's got the magic though.

Steve:

but not if he's not going to grab her ass.

Leif:

Lily is reading her vows to Serena.

Leif:

Serena points out they are the exact same vows she used

Leif:

with Klaus. Belair comes in and announces

Leif:

that the mayor expedited the permits

Leif:

for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Steve:

This is where she calls them the new mean girls. It

Steve:

was this scene when they were. I forgot that

Steve:

there was these two different moments again. But

Steve:

I love that Serena's like, you

Steve:

could have read these to Klaus. You could have read

Steve:

these to any of your other husbands. This is

Steve:

different. This is special. This is the love of your life. This is

Steve:

your soulmate treated that way.

Leif:

Dan is talking with Georgina. We

Leif:

find out that Georgina got Poppy deported.

Leif:

Dan is obviously lying about wanting to get back together with

Leif:

Georgina. However, it takes him not grabbing her ass

Leif:

for Georgina to be sure of it.

Steve:

I love the layers to Georgina.

Steve:

She got Poppy deported.

Steve:

Poppy. There was no evidence that Poppy

Steve:

was anything other than an American citizen.

Steve:

So how do you get an American citizen

Steve:

deported? It's. I

Steve:

love how much

Steve:

of her character we never actually

Steve:

see. We only hear these

Steve:

stories that everyone else tells about

Steve:

her. And I think that's a

Steve:

really great aspect of character development,

Steve:

especially for a character who is only in

Steve:

three episodes at a time. And as

Steve:

an English teacher teaching character development, you

Steve:

talk about, how do you know a, character? It's what

Steve:

they say. It's what they do. But one of the most

Steve:

important things is what other people

Steve:

say about the characters. And

Steve:

I think that this show, again, we've always talked

Steve:

about how they'd be great writing teachers,

Steve:

and that is such great

Steve:

writing to really fill out

Steve:

and really immerse this character in the

Steve:

world when she's only in and out

Steve:

for scenes here and there in

Steve:

a few episodes.

Leif:

And while Dan wasn't, going to grab her ass,

Leif:

I'm pretty sure the food cart guy did want to.

Steve:

Oh, absolutely.

Leif:

He totally was checking out her ass as she walked by.

Steve:

Yes. 100%.

Steve:

100%.

Steve:

Although she did bring his attention to it.

Leif:

It's only natural to look at something when someone mentions it.

Steve:

Yes. Yes. If someone's like, oh, I just spilled

Steve:

food all over my crotch, I'm like, I'm not

Steve:

trying to look at your crotch. It's just that you brought my attention to

Steve:

your crotch. Exactly.

Leif:

But he lingered.

Steve:

But he lingered for sure.

Leif:

Serena and Carter are having a phone conversation,

Leif:

and she insists that she. He has to come to the

Leif:

wedding.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

After Carter and Serena hang up, Chuck walks in and

Leif:

presents Carter with a choice. Come to the

Leif:

wedding and be there for Serena and face the wrath of the

Leif:

Buckleys. Southern justice, or take a one way

Leif:

ticket, disappoint Serena and save his own

Leif:

skin.

Steve:

I'm getting tired of being your travel.

Leif:

Agent, and I can't hear what you're

Leif:

saying. Chuck, you're whispering.

Steve:

Where is she? Where's Rachel?

Steve:

When we were watching that scene, Robin said, that

Steve:

goddamn Batman voice.

Steve:

But yeah, he buys. He buys.

Steve:

I think he buys more tickets for Carter than he does

Steve:

flowers for Blair. And we know he buys

Steve:

flowers for Blair.

Leif:

Georgina is waiting at the bus stop for Scott, who's back in

Leif:

town. It looks like Georgina and Scott Are going to crash

Leif:

the wedding.

Steve:

Grimy, but

Steve:

classic Georgina.

Leif:

You know it's coming.

Steve:

I need. Yep, I need. I. You want to fuck with me? I'm

Steve:

going to drop a chaos bomb in your fucking

Steve:

lap.

Leif:

Looks like the wedding song just became stormy

Leif:

weather. But don't worry. Here comes the

Leif:

sun. Gossip Girl leads us into

Leif:

Act 4. At the wedding,

Leif:

Dorota is looking pretty fly in her wedding

Leif:

attire. Unfortunately, the Sonic Youths are

Leif:

stuck in traffic. Blair tells Serena that

Leif:

the to be patient with Carter. Brie thanks

Leif:

Nate for inviting her. And Jenny is rocking a

Leif:

purple dress and telling Eric that the wedding

Leif:

setup turned out perfectly well.

Steve:

And Remember, next time, Mr. Chuck has a

Steve:

chopper and rolls her eyes at Dorota,

Steve:

who's panicking. Blair

Steve:

heartless.

Leif:

So you mentioned things coming for

Leif:

Jenny. I think this is, like the second time in a

Leif:

couple episodes we've seen Jenny wearing a purple

Leif:

dress. And that's. And that's not, That's not her

Leif:

normal color.

Steve:

No. But it is

Steve:

highly symbolic of royalty.

Steve:

Purple is the royal.

Leif:

And there is someone else who likes purple a lot.

Steve:

Yes, there is. There is someone who, is

Steve:

also often wearing purple.

Leif:

Blair has also been wearing purple a lot this season, though. So

Leif:

Blair and Chuck are both been wearing purple a lot.

Steve:

I haven't. I haven't noticed it on Blair because Chuck, it's

Steve:

been episode two. Yeah.

Leif:

But, in season three, Blair has had a couple of purple

Leif:

dresses.

Steve:

Okay, that's. That's a really good.

Steve:

That's a really good.

Leif:

I think this is the second one for Jenny.

Leif:

Chuck and Blair bicker about Carter and

Leif:

Serena.

Steve:

Yeah, it's. I thought it was

Steve:

cute.

Leif:

They're bickering about external things.

Steve:

Yes. They're not fighting. and it's

Steve:

about their friend and what's best for their

Steve:

friend. That they don't see the same thing

Steve:

being the best for their friend.

Steve:

And this has a

Steve:

resolution. This fight has a

Steve:

resolution once Carter shows up and Chuck is

Steve:

like, well, shit.

Leif:

And Brie does what she does.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

It was bad for both their friends. It was about Nate and

Leif:

Serena.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah.

Leif:

And their respective partners. Dan calls

Leif:

Vanessa to describe his kiss with Georgina.

Leif:

Totally overconfident in his acting abilities.

Leif:

Oh, Dan Fletcher, Flesh your

Leif:

heart.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jenny is helping Lily get dressed, and she tells Lily

Leif:

that as hard as it was to see her mom leave, she is

Leif:

happy for Rufus and Lily. Lily is fretting

Leif:

about her vows and tosses what she has written in

Leif:

the trash.

Steve:

Grow up, Lily.

Steve:

Get over it. Knock it the fuck off.

Leif:

Lily, Lily.

Steve:

Lily.

Leif:

Lily. Lily. Carter Confesses to

Leif:

Serena that he has faked a relationship with a rich

Leif:

woman to get them to pay off his debts and left

Leif:

her at the altar. Despite

Leif:

Carter's pleas that it's different with Serena.

Leif:

She storms off.

Steve:

It was a shitty thing Carter did. It is

Steve:

also reasonable for

Steve:

Serena to put herself into the shoes

Steve:

of the rich person he was trying to

Steve:

rip off. Being a rich person that

Steve:

he's now dating. And has

Steve:

even said, can you talk to your mom about money for

Steve:

me? So I get

Steve:

sort of Serena's

Steve:

initial reaction, but it was also

Steve:

really shitty to just. The

Steve:

other side of that is he doesn't have to tell you shit.

Steve:

He could have disappeared or he could have been

Steve:

like, hey, I'm in traffic, I can't

Steve:

get to the wedding. I'll talk to you afterwards.

Steve:

And ignored the whole situation. He could have found another

Steve:

way out of it, but he went and he went. Full blown

Steve:

honesty. So being thrown

Steve:

off by it is one thing, but to just be like

Steve:

you. Dude, I thought she was a little

Steve:

overreacting.

Leif:

I do like the writing. again, this ties

Leif:

back to the first episode of the season with Bri's story.

Leif:

We get that first reveal of why she's trying to get back to

Leif:

her family. Because she wasn't there to help her cousin.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

The altar.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

So it all, It all ties back together.

Steve:

Yes. Wow. Yeah, that.

Steve:

I just want to reflect on that for a second because I.

Leif:

That's like. The first thing we learn about Brie.

Steve:

Is when she meets Nate. And we

Steve:

do learn right away that there was something with her cousin.

Steve:

Do we know that she was left at the altar and she wasn't there? Is

Steve:

that what she says? Or is it just that she wasn't there for

Steve:

her cousin when she needed her?

Leif:

I think they mentioned the wedding.

Steve:

I think you're right. I think you're right.

Steve:

Let us know.

Leif:

Georgina shows up and tells Dan that she just

Leif:

came to give Rufus and Lily a wedding

Leif:

present.

Steve:

Dan is like, fuck.

Leif:

Oh, boy.

Steve:

She's up to something. I didn't pull

Steve:

it off. No, Dan, you didn't.

Leif:

And Saria's like, what was that about?

Steve:

I don't know. I should have called

Steve:

Blair.

Leif:

Rufes and Lily are walking together somewhere else in the

Leif:

park. Lily has cold feet.

Steve:

Lily, stop being so fucking dumb.

Steve:

Just stop. It's.

Steve:

It's.

Leif:

I get it, though. And Rufus nailed it. She's

Leif:

scared.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

All her previous marriages were. Were business

Leif:

arrangements, basically.

Steve:

Yes. Yes. And now it's from the heart. Yeah,

Steve:

I. Yes. But also just like, grow Up.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Grow up.

Steve:

Ah.

Leif:

The Wedding March. Here comes the awkward pause.

Leif:

Gossip Girl narrates as everyone rises up and there is

Leif:

no bride or groom. Georgina exits stage right,

Leif:

and Serena quickly follows after her.

Leif:

Gossip Girl continues. Looks like the wedding

Leif:

dress might have a runaway train.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Either party shows up at the wedding.

Steve:

Yeah. We. Well, they're both together,

Steve:

arguing around the corner. Yes.

Leif:

Rufus is still trying to convince Lily to take the

Leif:

leap. However, they are interrupted by Scott.

Leif:

Lily tells him off. A heartbroken Scott

Leif:

runs off. Georgina walks up with a crowd in

Leif:

tow and drops Scott's true identity to Rufus and

Leif:

Lily.

Steve:

Like I said, she just walks up,

Steve:

sets a bomb down in front of them,

Steve:

hits the timer for two seconds, a little delayed

Steve:

blast fireball. And just, that's your kid.

Steve:

And walks out and lets it just

Steve:

boom. Right behind her as everyone is

Steve:

just like, well, that's impossible. What does she mean

Steve:

by that? And just fucking

Steve:

masterful.

Leif:

And Gossip Girl brings us to the commercial break.

Leif:

Ooh, ooh, Love child. Things don't get

Leif:

any easier. Might have to move the honeymoon

Leif:

suite to the Heartbreak Hotel.

Leif:

Act five begins. Back for the

Leif:

commercial break. Dan confirms that Scott is actually their

Leif:

son. Ruse and Lily go to find their son

Leif:

together.

Steve:

Yeah. The truth finally comes out. And

Steve:

Lily realizes that hard

Steve:

truth of marriage is that

Steve:

when it comes to the hard stuff, you

Steve:

do that shit together, you work that

Steve:

stuff out together, and that's what

Steve:

gets you through a marriage, is

Steve:

doing it together. And I think that that

Steve:

really hits Lily once

Steve:

she recognizes how she talked to him

Steve:

and how much she wished to take that

Steve:

moment back.

Leif:

Yeah. Carter once again

Leif:

tries to convince Serena that it's different with her.

Leif:

Serena once again walks away so

Leif:

heartbroken, she can't even muster up her

Leif:

catchphrase.

Steve:

And she,

Leif:

You saw, she wanted to say it. She wanted to say it.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, it's not like she

Steve:

doesn't have a past of

Steve:

her own. And the whole, like,

Steve:

premise of the beginning of this show is in the fact

Steve:

that she has a past.

Steve:

And we know Carter is well aware

Steve:

of it. So why aren't you at

Steve:

least talking to this guy in the midst of all

Steve:

this? Like, why aren't you at least hearing

Steve:

him out?

Leif:

Carter approaches Bri, who is flanked by a

Leif:

pair of douche bros wearing jeans and sports

Leif:

coats. The two men are brothers of her

Leif:

cousin, the woman Carter left at the altar.

Leif:

Carter lets her know that they can take him from his

Leif:

hotel later. Chuck, as is his custom,

Leif:

is watching the scene unfold from a distance.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes.

Leif:

Interesting. Bit of tribute with this scene.

Leif:

She mentions they were defensive linemen for

Leif:

Arnett Mead.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Does that mean anything to you?

Steve:

Well, Arnett Mead,

Steve:

I mean, I just assumed it was a Texas university.

Leif:

There is, no school or

Leif:

town named Arnett

Leif:

Meadow. However

Leif:

it is. Sorry, in the real world there's

Leif:

this. But in the show Friday Night

Leif:

Lights, it is the Dylan Panther's biggest

Leif:

rival.

Steve:

Okay, that is

Steve:

really, that's really

Steve:

cool. I really dig that.

Steve:

So it's a little

Steve:

Easter egg there. Yes. That's really cute.

Steve:

That is. It sort of feeds into

Steve:

the. What's the. Is it the

Steve:

Newhart theory that all shows

Steve:

are actually a dream

Steve:

of Bob Newhart or something like that? Because you can kind

Steve:

of Kevin Bacon every

Steve:

show back to that one in some

Steve:

way.

Leif:

Georgina is helping herself to wedding cake

Leif:

and an annoyed looking Dana Blair walk by and

Leif:

Georgina makes a phone call. Blair makes a phone call.

Steve:

Blair makes a phone call.

Leif:

Yes, I walk by Tran.

Steve:

I love that it's Dan and Blair and then

Steve:

you see her pop up the phone just, just staring

Steve:

daggers in the back of her head. And

Steve:

also I love that Georgina's sitting there just

Steve:

chowing down like no one else is going to eat this.

Steve:

Just. I know, like I know what I did.

Leif:

Just I think she's eating specifically the wedding

Leif:

cake.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes, she was eating the wedding cake and but

Steve:

again with such an attitude of like, yeah, I know what I did.

Leif:

Rufus and Lily are searching Chinatown for Scott,

Leif:

still wearing their wedding clothes. Rufus tells Lily

Leif:

that she is breaking his heart.

Steve:

Read her like a fucking book.

Steve:

He just read her up and down.

Steve:

You want to run away from me because

Steve:

unlike all your other marriages, I can

Steve:

hurt you. And

Steve:

that's again, one of those marriage things that

Steve:

I really take to heart is

Steve:

that there are women that I dated

Steve:

before Robin and after my ex

Steve:

wife and I was looking to find

Steve:

the person that could hurt me,

Steve:

if that makes sense. That I wanted

Steve:

to marry somebody because I

Steve:

knew she could hurt me. Because

Steve:

that's the kind of love. And I know

Steve:

the other side of it is she won't, but

Steve:

if she did something, yes, she

Steve:

could hurt me. And trusting that she

Steve:

won't is also that really powerful part

Steve:

of love and marriage.

Steve:

So I reflect on that in this.

Steve:

And I really liked Rufus's whole

Steve:

great writing, bad acting.

Steve:

Rufus act sincere. I more and more

Steve:

don't like Matt Settle as

Steve:

an actor because when he tries

Steve:

to do the dramatic stuff, it's just so breathy

Steve:

and dramatic. And

Steve:

especially when it's up against Kelly Rutherford

Steve:

who just fucking Owns

Steve:

everything she does.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah, poor Matt.

Steve:

Yeah, poor Matt.

Leif:

Rufus spots Scott and chases him down.

Leif:

Lily and Rufus declare their love for each other and their love for

Leif:

their children, including Scott. They all hug

Leif:

each other. And Gossip Girl brings us to the

Leif:

commercial. Spotted.

Leif:

A family reunited. It feels so

Leif:

good.

Steve:

I watched this scene three times. I

Steve:

cried at this scene three times I cried

Steve:

at Lily. And Lily saying that all I thought

Steve:

about for the past 20 years is holding our child in our

Steve:

arms. And Kelly Rutherford, again,

Steve:

just sells every

Steve:

emotion on her fucking face and in

Steve:

her body and in her gestures. And you

Steve:

just feel what she is

Steve:

saying. And that whole

Steve:

moment just is so

Steve:

powerful and so touching. And

Steve:

for them all to hug at the end.

Steve:

And you're now welcome

Steve:

into part of our family again.

Steve:

And Scott's reason for running away.

Steve:

I thought you gave me up

Steve:

because you didn't love each other and then realized you

Steve:

did and wanted to be a part of

Steve:

that. And now I see that you don't.

Steve:

And. And now I see this. This bullshit

Steve:

that you guys are fucking doing. I'm

Steve:

out. So for him to then

Steve:

welcome them back, too, I just felt all of it

Steve:

was so honest and open.

Leif:

Yeah, definitely a great scene.

Steve:

Yes. When I talk

Steve:

about this episode

Steve:

losing points, the more I watched it,

Steve:

a big part of it is I feel like

Steve:

this phantom menaced me in the fact

Steve:

that most of the

Steve:

episode I kind of felt was a little slow

Steve:

and dragged, but the end, I thought was

Steve:

just fucking gold. M. And

Steve:

I feel that way about the Phantom Menace. You have,

Steve:

like, I've always felt there's these two

Steve:

hours of just, I think.

Leif:

Like, the second two thirds of the movie is actually pretty good.

Steve:

I like the pod racing scene, and I

Steve:

like everything after they, I like

Steve:

the battles, the battle scenes. Except for the Anakin

Steve:

in space, the

Steve:

Darth Maul, the pod racing odds, like, about, like,

Steve:

an hour and a half in general.

Steve:

I felt like I really loved that movie when I first

Steve:

saw it because I loved the end more than I

Steve:

loved the rest of it. Like, I felt like the

Steve:

end made me go. I saw it in the theater five times,

Steve:

and after the fifth, I was like, no, I really don't like

Steve:

this movie that much. I was so into it

Steve:

every time, but every time, the grade just kind of

Steve:

dropped because of everything that led up to

Steve:

this spectacular finale.

Steve:

Except for Jar Jar. Except. Except for

Steve:

Anakin.

Leif:

Let's, get into the epilogue. At the

Leif:

Loft, in a small private ceremony,

Leif:

Ruis and Lily exchange their vows with Kim

Leif:

Gordon serving as the officiant. Everyone

Leif:

Hugs I. Did

Leif:

you think we were going to get that?

Steve:

I, I, I. It's funny, when I first saw her, I

Steve:

was like, wait, I know who that is.

Steve:

And couldn't place it with

Steve:

despite all of the

Steve:

drops leading up to it. And then when they started

Steve:

singing, I was like, oh, it's fucking Kim

Steve:

Gordon of the

Steve:

Sonic Youths.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And it's funny, I am not a Sonic

Steve:

Youths fan, necessarily. On, the

Steve:

last episode, we talked about recording a double

Steve:

episode, and the whole way up, I listened to the Sonic

Steve:

Youths because I wanted to

Steve:

just kind of reminisce of what it is about

Steve:

them that I didn't really like. To be honest,

Steve:

that the last time I tried to give them a deep

Steve:

dive, I only got a little way through and just

Steve:

wasn't really into it.

Steve:

And this time, listening to them,

Steve:

I realized I do like a lot of their stuff.

Leif:

Yeah, they would think they'd be right up your alley.

Steve:

They really are now, which

Steve:

is. I think the problem was that the first time

Steve:

I went. Started going album by album,

Steve:

and I feel their first album didn't

Steve:

really catch me the way

Steve:

other first albums have.

Steve:

I also don't

Steve:

love Kim Gordon's voice.

Steve:

I do believe it is

Steve:

quintessential 90s. I do believe

Steve:

it captures the attitude and

Steve:

affect of Gen X

Steve:

beautifully. I think that her, It's that

Steve:

I don't want to call her lazy, but a sort of

Steve:

laziness in the voice that.

Steve:

And I'm not calling Gen X lazy. I'm,

Steve:

kind of. It's very reflective of sort of that

Steve:

apathetic nature that we had when we were

Steve:

teenagers. It reminds me of the Simpsons

Steve:

episode where the one kid where

Steve:

the one Gen X kid says to the other,

Steve:

are you being sarcastic? Oh, I don't even know

Steve:

anymore. When they brought out Homer Simpson at

Steve:

the Lollapalooza.

Steve:

Oh, it's the. Oh, it's the Cannonball guy.

Steve:

We love him. Are you being sarcastic?

Steve:

I don't even know anymore. And

Steve:

that. I feel like that is Kim

Steve:

Gordon's voice in the Simpsons Quote.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

More. More fun trivia. Kim Gordon also,

Leif:

performs in an episode of Gilmore Girls.

Steve:

Oh, that's nice. That's cool.

Leif:

With her two sons, I believe.

Steve:

Oh, neat. And again, no

Steve:

disrespect to her or Sonic Youth

Steve:

because they are definitely

Steve:

a huge influence on

Steve:

music.

Leif:

They're definitely one of those bands. Like, everyone who listened

Leif:

to them went out and formed the band.

Steve:

Yes. Yes. And they are a

Steve:

musician's band. I don't

Steve:

find them to be a Lyricist,

Steve:

band, all of the time. I find some

Steve:

of their. That they kind of COVID

Steve:

redundant themes, but with

Steve:

new sounds and experimental sounds.

Steve:

Whereas that's what I really feel

Steve:

they brought to

Steve:

the table is the experimental

Steve:

sounds. And, to use feedback

Steve:

as an instrument,

Steve:

that's. Yeah, it's. It's

Steve:

creative, and, I mean, it's

Steve:

genius. And to make

Steve:

it work, to make it melodic, to make

Steve:

it both scratch, you know,

Steve:

scratch the fingernails on the chalkboard and kind

Steve:

of relieve the tension that music is supposed to relieve

Steve:

at the same time. So I have to always give

Steve:

them credit for what they've accomplished.

Leif:

Definitely. Lily

Leif:

asked Serena about Carter. She tells Serena that she

Leif:

wants her to be happy and admits that if Serena was at

Leif:

Brown, this wedding probably wouldn't have happened.

Leif:

A makeup scene.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Dan and Jenny and Eric are joking with Scott about

Leif:

his shared features. Scott tells Dan that

Leif:

he's going back to Boston.

Steve:

I should have known you were lying. No 1 under at

Steve:

40 likes Lincoln.

Leif:

Hawk that much, which further

Leif:

confuses the timeline. Yeah,

Leif:

because anyone over 40 in the 90s.

Leif:

yeah, it really messed up. So was he

Leif:

in the 80s? or the 90s? Which was

Leif:

it? Show.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I'm. Right. Because

Steve:

I'm over 40 now.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So 10 years ago, you would have been

Steve:

in 15. It would have been, like, in 35.

Leif:

It would have been, like,' in your 20s and your 80s.

Steve:

And the 80s. Yeah.

Leif:

If you're for over 40

Leif:

in 2009.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. So, yes,

Steve:

again, the muddied timeline at some

Steve:

point, time loop. The flux capacitor

Steve:

that was in the Lincoln Hawk tour bus.

Steve:

I also. I don't know. I think you saw it, but

Steve:

I just realized the other

Steve:

day, Lincoln Hawk is the name of

Steve:

Sylvester Stallone's character.

Leif:

In over the Top, which is

Leif:

famously Rufus's favorite, movie.

Steve:

When I picked up on that, I found that to

Steve:

be hilarious. Has he mentioned

Steve:

over the Top before?

Leif:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he has.

Steve:

I haven't picked up on it.

Leif:

So, we know Scott is supposed to be the older

Leif:

brother, but he really feels like the younger brother when he's

Leif:

interacting with Dan.

Steve:

That could be a parenting thing. Right.

Steve:

Obviously, the people that raised him are

Steve:

very sheltering and

Steve:

very controlling.

Leif:

Overbearing.

Steve:

Yeah, and very overbearing. And Rufus is not. And

Steve:

Rufus especially lets

Steve:

Daniel grow up and be an adult.

Leif:

Gives an apartment.

Steve:

Gives him an apartment.

Leif:

Yes. That's permission to stay at.

Steve:

Can I sleep in the house I pay for?

Steve:

No.

Leif:

And Serena does not interact with Scott at

Leif:

all.

Steve:

Weird. That's A little weird. Serena, you're being

Steve:

weird. Go talk to your brother.

Steve:

Although I could see her being like.

Steve:

Because she never met Scott at

Steve:

all. She has never been in the same room as Scott, I don't

Steve:

think. Yeah, so. Whereas Dan

Steve:

at least met him. Yeah.

Leif:

and Eric.

Steve:

And Eric and Jenny just are nice.

Leif:

Well, they met him a few times because, remember, he was coming over to

Leif:

the.

Steve:

Oh, the guitar lessons. Yes, they

Steve:

met him for the guitar lesson.

Leif:

I remember there's this weird kid. Thank you,

Leif:

guys. Lessons for you, dad.

Leif:

We, get an original acoustic recording of Sonic

Leif:

Use performing their song Star Power

Leif:

for the party. Yeah.

Leif:

So that was fun.

Steve:

Yeah, that. Yeah, I liked it.

Leif:

Serena is alone in a darkened bedroom. Chuck comes

Leif:

in and admits to what he did with Carter. And

Leif:

as much as Chuck hates him, Carter must really care about

Leif:

Serena. Good on Shakta.

Steve:

Yeah. Come clean.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Could have been a little earlier on

Steve:

it.

Leif:

And we get some more Sonic Youth as, Nate

Leif:

confronts Bri about using him. She fully

Leif:

admits it because in Texas, blood is thicker than

Leif:

oil. Brie apologizes, but Nate

Leif:

asks her to leave.

Steve:

And of course he's gonna ask you to leave. You just told

Steve:

him. The whole thing is a fucking sham. Even if you

Steve:

apologize, you are just sitting here

Steve:

telling him. Yeah, we were never gonna make it

Steve:

anyway, so of course he wants you to go.

Steve:

You're not gonna remain friends after

Steve:

this.

Leif:

You always have the breakup sex, though. Give her the

Leif:

courtesy.

Steve:

Yeah. Do you get breakup sex if the

Steve:

relationship was fake?

Leif:

Apparently not. Not in Nate's world.

Steve:

Not in Nate's world. Unless that happens later.

Leif:

Unless you pay him.

Steve:

Unless.

Leif:

Well, Serena

Leif:

leaves a message for Carter that she wants to talk to him.

Steve:

Oh, Carter.

Leif:

Yeah. We see Carter riding in the back of a

Leif:

limo, sandwiched between the Buckley bros.

Steve:

I'd like to think we're done with Bri, but I feel

Steve:

like this has to now be

Steve:

resolved. Unless Carter's just

Steve:

disappeared. I mean, I know

Steve:

we. We've discussed. I know that. I know

Steve:

that Carter leaves the show.

Steve:

I know that Sebastian

Steve:

Stan gets fired

Steve:

when he and Layton break up.

Steve:

So I do know those things.

Leif:

We don't necessarily need Brie anymore because Brie was just kind

Leif:

of the leader family to Carter.

Steve:

Right?

Leif:

So now we could have other Buckley characters.

Steve:

So we could also have other Buckley characters.

Steve:

And I'm fine with that, too. I'm fine with

Steve:

Brie being gone. Bri bored me. I'm

Steve:

hoping the rest of the Buckleys don't with whatever's going on with

Steve:

Carter, but honestly, whenever they do

Steve:

these Guest star is

Steve:

the plot. They start to lose

Steve:

me on the episodes. Because here's the thing.

Steve:

I don't give a shit about Carter Basin. And if they

Steve:

go right now and they dump him

Steve:

in the George Washington off the

Steve:

George Washington Bridge, I'm not going to

Steve:

be sad that Carter was killed off on

Steve:

the show. So I really don't care about

Steve:

finding out how he gets rescued and really

Steve:

finding out how Chuck gets him out of this, because that

Steve:

is, I know we haven't gotten there yet, but

Steve:

that's going to be my prediction.

Leif:

Jenny and Eric happily watch Rufus and Lily dance

Leif:

together. Oh, Dan is

Leif:

lamenting to Blair that Georgina got away

Leif:

unscathed. Blair says he shouldn't

Leif:

be so sure of that.

Steve:

Yeah, Blair made a phone call. Blair

Steve:

made a phone call.

Leif:

And speaking of which, we see Georgina sitting at

Leif:

the bar. Vanya, posing as a

Leif:

Belarusian prince, invites Georgina to come with

Leif:

him to his home country. Somehow, Georgina

Leif:

believes him. And it looks like Georgina is going to be off

Leif:

the show for a while. Dota, hiding behind a

Leif:

menu, appears to be in and on the scheme as well.

Steve:

Yes, that was Dorota

Steve:

incognito.

Leif:

Was that. You recognize Vanya as well?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. yes.

Leif:

Now, I'm really surprised Georgina didn't recognize.

Steve:

Vanya, except for the fact that Georgina

Steve:

is solely focused on what's in front of her at any given

Steve:

time. That I would think that someone like

Steve:

a doorman just blends in to her

Steve:

background because she's not focused on that.

Leif:

Maybe, But I just feel like she just has

Leif:

super memory and.

Steve:

And really good people skills and just.

Leif:

Like, intelligence on all these people.

Steve:

that. That part is true.

Leif:

But the real world reason why she was so easily let off is

Leif:

because she. Michelle Trachtenberg was cast on

Leif:

Mercy, a medical drama that went for 23

Leif:

episodes. She was the second lead, next

Leif:

to Taylor Schilling.

Steve:

So, yeah, so she had to leave Gossip Girl to

Steve:

go onto another show.

Leif:

So good for her. Got a full season.

Steve:

Yeah. It's just a shame that it happened right when I was

Steve:

starting to really like that character.

Leif:

Everyone back at the wedding is still dancing to

Leif:

Sonic Youth. Noticeably not dancing are

Leif:

Nate and Serena. Huh?

Steve:

Huh?

Leif:

The last shot is Nate and Serena standing on the opposite

Leif:

side of that door, just kind of looking depressed.

Steve:

Yeah. I mean, they both had. That had

Steve:

a.

Leif:

They just both maybe broke up with people.

Steve:

Yeah, maybe.

Leif:

M. I mean, definitely Nate and Brie broke up, but

Leif:

possibly a serious try to get Carter back.

Leif:

But.

Steve:

But Carter's not answering and doesn't seem

Steve:

Interested in getting back together. If

Steve:

I'm Serena, I could very well read into that

Steve:

as, wow, he didn't want to get back together with

Steve:

me. Although, Serena, you should maybe be a little

Steve:

worried.

Leif:

And Gossip Girl takes us to the credits with.

Leif:

There are songs that make us want to dance,

Leif:

songs that make us want to sing along,

Leif:

but the best songs are the ones that bring you back to the

Leif:

moment you first heard them, and once again, bring

Leif:

break your heart. Xo.

Leif:

Xo Gossip Girl.

Leif:

Great statement.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

That is our episode. So what is coming

Leif:

next?

Steve:

So, as I already said, I believe

Steve:

whatever's happening with Carter, we're going to see

Steve:

Chuck get involved to get him out.

Steve:

Probably also Nate,

Steve:

because Nate is now mad at the Buckleys

Steve:

and the real

Steve:

Buckley drama is not Buckley Bass, but

Steve:

Buckley Archibald. So clearly we're going to have to get

Steve:

deeper into the Archibald Buckley

Steve:

drama. I hope it's good. I'm not

Steve:

optimistic because it sounds like a, snooze

Steve:

fest because so far when we've had Buckley's and

Steve:

Archibalds together, I've been bored.

Steve:

And it's the only time I'm

Steve:

bored watching this show. Even when I'm

Steve:

annoyed with the show, even when I think it's

Steve:

badly written or. Or

Steve:

there's bad acting or something is

Steve:

not clicking, even on the C episodes,

Steve:

I'm not bored. I'm.

Steve:

I just don't think it's necessarily

Steve:

good all the time when it comes

Steve:

to Nate and Bri. I'm fucking

Steve:

bored. Bri was not interesting to me

Steve:

until Blair started being an

Steve:

asshole at the restaurant.

Steve:

That's. That made Brie kind

Steve:

of interesting only because I liked

Steve:

watching Blair on her. So

Steve:

I really hope this

Steve:

plays out either quickly or more

Steve:

entertaining than that relationship was bringing

Steve:

to the table. I hope that

Steve:

Rufus and Lily and their relationship

Steve:

takes a more backseat to

Steve:

this show and that they have a relationship

Steve:

of guiding and supporting the kids

Steve:

instead of needing all their own back and

Steve:

forth drama.

Leif:

We can only hope.

Steve:

I. I really, really hope. And I'm not

Steve:

optimistic because every time I've

Steve:

started thinking that they were finally doing that,

Steve:

they do more childish shit like they did in this

Steve:

episode. I do hope that they can make their

Steve:

relationship about the family and

Steve:

their kids and the future

Steve:

more than just reminiscing in the

Steve:

past and arguing about who's

Steve:

rich and who's not and arguing about money

Steve:

because you don't have money troubles.

Steve:

And Roof is just accept the fact that you are now

Steve:

fucking rich, that you are now in the

Steve:

society you hate. You're in it.

Steve:

Start giving your money away.

Leif:

What's next for Scott?

Steve:

I think we'll see him in the holiday episode,

Steve:

like he said. I think that he's gonna.

Steve:

I think we're not gonna see him for a little

Steve:

bit, but then I feel like he'll

Steve:

pop in. In the holiday episode.

Steve:

Maybe something will be going on with Vanessa at

Steve:

that point. And we're gonna see a, Vanessa Scott

Steve:

triangle. Why wasn't Vanessa at the wedding?

Steve:

That was weird.

Leif:

I thought she was.

Steve:

No, they. He. Very specifically. Dan very

Steve:

specifically is like, Vanessa is sorry she couldn't be

Steve:

here. She'd really. And then Scott says, I'll come back at

Steve:

the holidays. And Vanette. And he said, I think Vanessa would

Steve:

really like that. Which I'm wondering if

Steve:

Jessica was busy when they

Steve:

were shooting that scene for some other reason,

Steve:

because it was such a weird absence. Like

Steve:

maybe she just was left off the call sheet and they

Steve:

forgot to add her that day. But

Steve:

it was a weird absence to have her not at the

Steve:

party.

Leif:

What if I told you we will never see Scott

Leif:

again?

Steve:

Are you fucking kidding me?

Leif:

Which means Serena never has an on screen conversation

Leif:

with her brother.

Steve:

God damn it.

Leif:

He does get the Allison treatment where he gets mentioned once

Leif:

in a while,

Leif:

but never seen again.

Steve:

Never seen again. Never visits for the

Steve:

holidays. Never, of fucking

Steve:

course, anything else you get.

Steve:

I am impressed that Blair and

Steve:

Chuck are still

Steve:

in a Gossip Girl universe.

Steve:

Healthy relationship. I won't call their

Steve:

relationship healthy, but I'll say that in the

Steve:

morality and in the universe of

Steve:

Gossip Girl, they're really working out.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And they are. now, like

Steve:

we said, their conflicts are external and not

Steve:

internal. And so I do

Steve:

feel. I say it every week. I feel like there's drama

Steve:

coming for them. I'm just. Now I

Steve:

don't know where it is, if that makes sense. Now.

Steve:

It's. They really are just doting

Steve:

on each other. So I guess that there's gonna have

Steve:

to be something. There's probably gonna be a power play

Steve:

or maybe something that's going on with

Steve:

Jenny. Although Chuck going for high

Steve:

school girls just doesn't strike me as

Steve:

Chuck. But I think something's on the

Steve:

horizon. Oh, and also, as I mentioned earlier, Dark

Steve:

Jenny. I. I know it's coming.

Steve:

I don't know how soon, but. But let's get

Steve:

there.

Leif:

Well, let's go ahead and get into some

Leif:

segments this week in

Leif:

fandom. we jumped into the Wayback Machine.

Leif:

Hello there. Peabody here. And this

Leif:

is the Wayback Machine for traveling through time. And

Leif:

this is my Boy, Sherman, speak. Sherman.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. No tells with that

Leif:

petty thread. actually, there's no thread for

Leif:

them for a few episodes coming up here, so

Leif:

I went over to fan forum.

Steve:

That's weird.

Leif:

I mean, they exist, but the

Leif:

archive.org just doesn't have them

Leif:

anymore. Overall,

Leif:

they liked the episode. Okay,

Leif:

Happy Rufus and Lily got married. And that Scott

Leif:

plotline seems to be resolved.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it was.

Leif:

All taken care.

Steve:

Of, wrapped up in a nice little bow.

Leif:

There was one user with the

Leif:

username Lily loves Rufus was all over the

Leif:

thread.

Steve:

That's funny.

Leif:

A lot of talk about the promo for next

Leif:

episode I did not watch.

Steve:

I've never seen any promos.

Leif:

So it looks like Chuck may

Leif:

be kissing a guy.

Leif:

Lily is immature and selfish.

Steve:

Thank you.

Leif:

And they also pointed out that Georgina is fooled way

Leif:

too easily.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Well, let's, go ahead and get into some episode grades.

Leif:

I went first last time. So what do you got this week?

Steve:

I'm going to give this a B minus.

Steve:

I'm going to let the Phantom Menace.

Steve:

I'm going to let it get me still.

Steve:

Again, I really got annoyed with Rufus

Steve:

and Lily this whole episode. More. More Lily than

Steve:

Rufus, to be honest. But I. I was annoyed

Steve:

with that storyline. I was really

Steve:

annoyed with the

Steve:

Carter Serena.

Steve:

I was. I shouldn't say really annoyed, but I was kind of

Steve:

bored with some of the Carter Serena stuff. Bored

Steve:

with the Nate stuff. even though there wasn't that much of

Steve:

it. But the parts of this episode that were great

Steve:

were just so good. I

Steve:

loved the family makeup scene at the end.

Steve:

I loved the epilogue of this

Steve:

episode. I loved Rufus and Lily

Steve:

meeting, coming together with Scott. The

Steve:

last 20 minutes of this episode I thought

Steve:

was fantastic. The first 20

Steve:

minutes, I should say the last 10 minutes were fantastic. In

Steve:

the first 30 minutes were kind of hit or miss for

Steve:

me.

Leif:

Fair enough. I have a little bit better than.

Leif:

Yeah, I like the writing stuff. Like, even

Leif:

though the Lily stuff annoyed me, I thought it was

Leif:

good writing because it made sense for the character,

Leif:

so I actually ended up liking it. Okay.

Leif:

The Nate and Brie stuff is boring, but, like, there's only, like, one or

Leif:

two scenes, so whatever. And, you know,

Leif:

Serena Carter stuff, that was

Leif:

okay. It was not terrible. Wasn't

Leif:

great. But I, liked all the wedding

Leif:

planning stuff. the Parent Trap stuff was

Leif:

funny. And the Vanessa

Leif:

Georgina dance stuff was hilarious.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

So I gave it a B plus.

Steve:

Okay. I think that's fair.

Leif:

Stock riots, who you got going up?

Steve:

I have Rufus and Lily going up for finally doing

Steve:

the damn thing.

Steve:

I have Scott going up for

Steve:

being a part of the family that he will forever be a part

Steve:

of and cherish and love.

Leif:

Yeah, it kind of takes some shine off that, that last scene with,

Leif:

with Lily saying how much, you know, she thought about him every

Leif:

day for the past 20 years. That piece

Leif:

out Deuces.

Steve:

I had little Jenny, little J going

Steve:

up mostly for that one line. You

Steve:

can go. Yeah, I had

Steve:

Blair going up for taking care of the

Steve:

Georgina problem. And also just in general,

Steve:

was right about things, was right about

Steve:

Bri. I have Bri going up because she actually

Steve:

got what she was after in

Steve:

Carter. She was never interested in

Steve:

Nate. And so I

Steve:

had her going up because her family got what they wanted.

Steve:

I have the new mean girls going up for

Steve:

helping out Jenny. I

Steve:

believe that is it all right.

Leif:

For me going up. I also have Rufus and Lily for

Leif:

getting married. Scott for having a family.

Steve:

Dorota and Vanya for

Steve:

Doroda and Vanya were the two that I meant to add

Steve:

on here that I didn't.

Leif:

They had their scheme and Dorota looked so beautiful in

Leif:

her wedding dress or wedding outfit. And

Leif:

I had Dan going up because. Why did I have Dan going

Leif:

up? I, mean, he got his, he got his brother. He

Leif:

got a brother, another little brother.

Steve:

That'S also, that's his big brother.

Leif:

Yeah. and Eric growing up because he's got

Leif:

more family now as well. And that's always good for Eric

Leif:

and Jenny because yeah, she is definitely,

Leif:

about to make her power play.

Steve:

You know, I'll add Dan and Eric as

Steve:

well. I kind of left Dan out

Steve:

unintentionally.

Leif:

Yeah. All the huffers of Aaron with and this minus Serena pretty much

Leif:

go out.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, I definitely see that. And yes,

Steve:

minus Serena as well.

Leif:

Who you got going down?

Steve:

Serena, Carter.

Steve:

Nate. Poor, poor lonely Nate. And

Steve:

Georgina getting shipped off. I have

Steve:

Georgina going down.

Steve:

that's all I have.

Leif:

Mostly the same Carter, Serena, Nate and

Leif:

Georgina. But you had the mean girl. New

Leif:

mean girls going up. I gave Carmen a down

Leif:

because she got dismissed.

Steve:

She did get dismissed. I, I,

Steve:

yes, that, that is fair. I was kind of

Steve:

looking at them as a

Steve:

unit and two up, one down.

Steve:

I gave them the up. But I

Steve:

definitely,

Steve:

understand because she. You

Steve:

can. God damn that.

Steve:

It was her saying it.

Steve:

And the fucking look as they

Steve:

all.

Leif:

Made eye contact like flair approves. And then

Leif:

Serena just like, I don't know about that.

Steve:

Yeah. But here's the best

Steve:

outfits from M. The last episode

Steve:

we've seen.

Leif:

Who do you got for best outfit?

Steve:

I'm giving it to Dorota that,

Steve:

especially someone who doesn't get

Steve:

to wear. Wear

Steve:

anything other than a maid's outfit or a maid's outfit

Steve:

with a scarf. Her

Steve:

incognito look. I really

Steve:

like that they let her wear something and

Steve:

really look beautiful.

Steve:

And the. The hat,

Steve:

the. The flowery dress.

Steve:

It was a, great outfit. Was

Steve:

it the number one on there?

Steve:

Maybe not. I also loved Blair's

Steve:

green dress, but I'm giving it to Dorota because. Green

Steve:

dress at the wedding.

Leif:

That was not green.

Steve:

It was green. She was wearing a green dress.

Leif:

It was an ombre dress.

Steve:

Ombre. What is ombre?

Leif:

Shaded.

Steve:

Shaded.

Leif:

Yeah, because, like, it's. It's like. It was like a

Leif:

yellowish mustard, like, grayish green at, top,

Leif:

and that was, like, purple at the bottom.

Steve:

Oh, I'm thinking of the top that. The greenish

Steve:

top is what I was.

Leif:

But it was all one dress. And it's. It's. It's. It's

Leif:

shaded. It's an ombre dress. That was. That was

Leif:

actually my dress. The episode. yeah, it says, I'm

Leif:

glad.

Steve:

I'm glad it is, because I really wanted that one to also

Steve:

get the shout out. But.

Leif:

So, yeah, it was an ombre Valentino dress. She's

Leif:

also wearing red and black miu Miu wedges

Leif:

and an alligator skin clutch and a juicy

Leif:

couture gold and black wrist cuff.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I did.

Steve:

I loved how she looked at that wedding.

Steve:

Robin, actually. Also, Robin's pick

Steve:

would have been Serena's dress, too. Robin loved the dress that

Steve:

Serena was wearing. You can always count on

Steve:

a great outfit at a wedding on

Steve:

Gossip Girl. Although the. The wedding

Steve:

dress was awful. Lily's wedding dress

Steve:

was awful.

Leif:

I did like Jenny's dress, the purple dress.

Leif:

It wasn't half his. Wasn't fitted right

Leif:

for her or something. Something was off for

Leif:

me, but I liked it in theory.

Steve:

Yeah, well, Jenny made it.

Steve:

You know, she's still learning.

Leif:

No, that was definitely a designer dress.

Steve:

Oh, yeah. She stopped making her own stuff.

Leif:

I believe it was an Elie Saab.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

Yeah, I did look that one up as well.

Steve:

She started making her own stuff when she became a bass.

Leif:

Well, that is it for segments. what are you

Leif:

plugging?

Steve:

I'm currently reading

Steve:

the Horus Heresy 40K

Steve:

series, and I'm on, like, the

Steve:

13th or 14th book, the first

Steve:

Heretic. And it's just some of the best

Steve:

writing I've come across in that series, and

Steve:

it's a really well written series. So if you like

Steve:

the fantasy sci fi

Steve:

genre, it's a really good

Steve:

glimpse of that.

Leif:

Fair enough for me. I, will say

Leif:

watch Good Cop Bad Cops, we get a second season

Leif:

and also check out nostalgic edit

Leif:

on YouTube which you mentioned before, Gossip Girl

Leif:

edits and a couple other shows as well. And

Leif:

if you want to follow me on social media, you can find me on Blue

Leif:

sky and Instagram hotcapicola. that's

Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Leif:

And we will be back next week to talk about

Leif:

Season three, Episode six,

Leif:

Enough About Eve.

Leif:

The, Max episode description reads

Leif:

Vanessa vies with Blair to deliver the

Leif:

freshman toast.

Steve:

All right, I am familiar

Steve:

with All About Eve, the title, but I don't know if

Steve:

I've seen it. I think that it was one of

Steve:

those you're too young for this when it

Steve:

came out. And it was, I think it was my sister that

Steve:

was like, you're too young for this because my dad let me watch fucking

Steve:

Revenge of the Nerds when I was 10. Or however

Steve:

old I was when that came out.

Leif:

Until next time, you know you love us.

Steve:

Xoxo Every time, you walk away, run

Steve:

away you take a piece of m me with you

Steve:

there Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away you take a piece of m me

Steve:

with you there Every

Steve:

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

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

oh, it seems I'm walking right to

Steve:

your door

Steve:

my heart's still resting looking for something

Steve:

more

Steve:

Are you ever gonna see everything you mean

Steve:

to me? I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with with you there

Steve:

never feels right when I'm out here on

Steve:

my own

Steve:

I left last night and it feels like

Steve:

way too long

Steve:

are you ever gonna see everything you mean

Steve:

to me I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of meat with you you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of m me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

come back to me

Steve:

smile and you'll make my life

Steve:

complete

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of m me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away and take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away and run away you take a

Steve:

piece of meat with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with with you there.

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