Episode 12

S3E12 - "The Debarted"

This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are diving headfirst into the juicy chaos of Gossip Girl Season 3, Episode 12, "The Debarted." With the anniversary of Bart Bass's death creeping up, the Upper East Side is bubbling over with drama, shocking secrets, and a few heartstrings being pulled.

Join our dynamic duo as they tackle Chuck's emotional rollercoaster while he wrestles with memories of his father. Meanwhile, Serena is trying to untangle herself from the mess that is Trip. And let’s not forget Jenny, whose ambition takes a dark twist as she gets caught in a web of lies and betrayal—because who knew power came with such a heavy price tag?

Get ready for a whirlwind of emotions as Leif and Steve break down the episode’s most jaw-dropping moments, from surprise showdowns to gut-wrenching choices that will change everything for our beloved characters. With their signature witty banter and sharp commentary, this episode is bound to leave you hungry for even more scandalous gossip from the world of Gossip Girl!

Transcript
Leif:

It's nighttime, and Dan goes to the dorm to meet

Leif:

Willa, uh, Weinstein.

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And Willa then commits it.

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And then Willa commits a bit of white sexual

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assault by showing a video of herself naked to

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Dan without first asking for consent.

Steve:

Genetic. The

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apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Steve:

I saw where you were going, right?

Leif:

Hey, Upper east siders, and all you scandal loving 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. The newbie, the

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greenhorn, the. I don't know, Leif. What do

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we call the season three version of me?

Leif:

Well, since apparently you love your new bag more than your old

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friends, I guess you can carry it across the street.

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Enjoy being BFFs with a hunk of leather.

Steve:

Oh, uh, come on, Leif. We know I don't have friends.

Leif:

Yeah, I guess we did establish that.

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It's canon.

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It's canon in the

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NJB POD universe.

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

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beginning, and I'm tuning into Gossip Girl for the

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very first time. And together, we're your

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dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama,

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romance, and sometimes questionable fashion

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choices of this iconic, uh, 2007

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series.

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Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week we're dissecting

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every juicy detail of the show one episode at a time.

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We'll connect the dots, uncover those sneaky little

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

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the scenes tea. And expect some iconic moments from

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Phantom too, because what's a deep dive without a little

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drama?

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And since we are all about inclusivity here at the non

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

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non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab a

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mimosa, a cup of coffee, or your stash

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out of Old man in the Sea. And let's go ahead and get started.

Leif:

Let's get started. And we are recording on Mother's

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Day. So happy Mother's Day to all those mothers out there.

Steve:

Yes, happy Mother's Day, Robin.

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Uh, hopefully you're a better mother than the mothers of Gossip Girl.

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Because so far the best mom of the season is just

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not around. Is in Paris.

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Of course you guys will be listening to this episode on Memorial Day. So

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happy Memorial Day as well.

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And happy Memorial Day. Yes. I hope you're enjoying your

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weekend.

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Let's go ahead and get into it. We are here to talk

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about season three, episode 12,

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the debarted.

Steve:

The Departed, obviously taken from the

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Departed. It

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made me feel really old when I put that together.

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I kind of ignored it at first. It was just

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the debarted and didn't really think about the movie

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itself. And then when I thought about where they

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got that from, I realized how long ago that

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movie was made. Because to me, that's still

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like

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Marty's newest film,

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even though there's been how many since? But

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that just feels so fresh because Taxi

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Driver or not, Taxi Driver was that. He wasn't.

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No. Uh, what was his.

Leif:

Goodfellas is the biggest one.

Steve:

Was his big early one with De Niro. Right? Yeah.

Leif:

Like the other Bart title they did.

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Simpsons also did this one as well. So they did, uh,

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oh, brother. Barthau and the Departed.

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The Debarted.

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Both and Simpsons both did it.

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Simpsons did it.

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But the original air date of this episode was

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December 7, 2009. So we're getting

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close to the end of the year. And the episode was

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written by series co creator Stephanie Savage.

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This is her first episode of season three. In

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season two, she wrote Solo, Never Been Marcused,

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and the aforementioned oh Brother of Bartha. Whereup,

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Barthab. And also co wrote Valley

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Girls.

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I think this may have been her best of

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those.

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Really?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Uh, we're gonna disagree big time on this.

Steve:

Really.

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I think her only episode she's written good by herself was oh, brother,

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where part that.

Steve:

I really like that one, too. That. That was the funeral,

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right? Yeah, that one was really good. And

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I felt, uh. I'll say this. I feel like she can.

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That she knows Chuck. I feel like she.

Leif:

Like she likes Chuck.

Steve:

I feel like she likes Chuck. I feel like you're right about

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that.

Leif:

Yeah. Episode was directed by Jason

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Ensler. This is first and only episode of

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Gossip Girl. He's been a TV director since

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2003. Also worked on such

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shows like Chuck, Heart of Dixie, also a

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Josh Schwartz joint. He did an episode of Scrubs,

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did some episodes of Psych. My name's Earl.

Steve:

Two broke girls, big TV

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resume. Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Why don't you give us that

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vulture recap?

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Sure thing. Here we go. In

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ancient cultures, the wolves.

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I thought I would get through the first line. In ancient

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cultures, the wolf stands for many things.

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Hostility, aggression, and ferocity, to be

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sure. But also loyalty,

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fidelity, family. The wolf may

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hunt alone, but it always returns to

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its pack and will do anything to protect

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them. In the beginning of last night's episode of

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Gossip Girl, the pack was scattered.

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Serena was off On Long island,

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acting like a teenage Riel hunter

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with her married query, Trip

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Vanderbilt, who seemed remarkably

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unbusy for a newly elected congressman.

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Back at nyu, Nate and Dan were together,

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but alone, each tormented by thoughts of

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the other's ex girlfriend. And the

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anniversary of his father's death drove

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the recently domesticated Chuck Bass,

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the show's original lone wolf,

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back to his old, wild, snarling self.

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Thankfully, just as he was on the brink of

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climbing atop the nearest homeless shelter and

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unleashing a righteous howl, the pack

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managed to call him back.

Leif:

Uh, the wolves.

Steve:

The wolves.

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Writing mistake number one. Why? Why?

Steve:

Yeah, okay. The wolves.

Leif:

Why wolves?

Steve:

The wolves were ridiculous. Maybe it wasn't

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the writing that I liked as much as I

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liked the episode, but. But the what

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was with the wolves?

Leif:

Nassau county is right on the other side of Queens.

Leif:

It's right next to Queens.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

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You know where the wolf packs are.

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That's why it was so symbolic, because it's

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so rare now.

Leif:

I didn't get the real hunter reference, and

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I didn't look it up either. Do you remember that person?

Steve:

No, I. I just assumed.

Leif:

She slept with the politician.

Steve:

Yeah. Ah. Yeah, I assumed that it was. I honestly

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assumed it was some New Yorker, some New York

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socialite that slept with a politician.

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Listeners write it and let us know who Riel Hunter is.

Steve:

Yes, because we didn't look it up.

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We begin the episode in Act 1. An

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SUV is driving down a rural road on

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a wet night. We shift to an interior view of

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the vehicle, and Trip and Serena are fighting over the

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radio. A pack of wolves in the middle of the road

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causes Tripp to swerve into the barrier.

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Gossip Girl opens with.

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They say there are no accidents.

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Sometimes reality comes crashing into us.

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Other times, it dawns on us

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slowly, despite our best efforts to avoid it.

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Watch the road, creeper. Stop being

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dramatic on a swervy road. Just watch

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the road. Make sure there's no wolves in front of you.

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Deer, tree branch. Anything else?

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Anything else?

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They clearly wanted it to be

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this symbol.

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Of what?

Leif:

When I first saw this, I thought the wolves were gonna attack him or

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something.

Steve:

Right? Yeah, it seems set up

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for something much worse. Or at least

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surround the car.

Steve:

No, they were just in the road. They're. They're. They're on their way.

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Now we get an in media

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res and flashback to 12 hours earlier.

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Blair tries to bring Chuck breakfast in bed, but Chuck

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has other plans. He is already dressed and

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heading to the lower east side to check out some property.

Steve:

Yeah, Chuck, who's got really spicy here and

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now, because I saw the preview, I

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knew why. He was spicy, right?

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Uh, not a huge spoiler that it's the anniversary of his

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dad's death, but he is just.

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I like that they referred to him as domesticated in

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the Vulture report because that's this really

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grown up, the only real adult of

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this group and then just becomes an

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asshole again. And, um, you know, something's

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really bugging him.

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Lily is going through the coat closet, clearly looking

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for the letter that Maureen took last week. Rufus

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is concerned because it sounds like Lily has been cleaning the closet quite

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a bit. Lily asked Rufus to go to a co op

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garden meeting in her place.

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Lily's reorganizing this closet over and

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over again because she lost a fucking letter that she

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knows she put in there. And man,

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that passive aggressive.

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Oh, I figured you'd say that when asking Rufus

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to go to the thing. You fucking married a

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retired rock star. You knew

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this is what he did before you got married.

Leif:

Well, not really. He had a

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job right before, right up until right before you're right

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together.

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He had the gallery that was obviously.

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To pay for Yale.

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A ton of money.

Leif:

Yeah, but he had a job to go to.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Now he's just staying at home doing nothing.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. And combine that

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with the fact that Jenny's at school all

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day, so he's not really doing

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anything. I didn't really think of it that way because I

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really thought of it more just like, you know, he's a retired

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rock star and like, he. Because even his job that he did

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have, he just kind of popped in and out whenever he felt like

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it. Uh, yeah. It was

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a very convenient place for him to have.

Leif:

Yes.

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For scenes, Trip is holed up with.

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Serena and takes a call. Serena is in full

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lovey dovey mode, but Trip seems distant. He

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gets up and says he's going to town for supplies.

Steve:

This is a 2P episode for

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Trip's name in the closed captioning

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all the way until Nate's phone

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later on in the episode.

Leif:

Uh, well, that's because that's his.1p is like,

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that's how the writers have it.

Steve:

And what's funny is that I was

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trying to look up something else of the episode on the

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wiki, and the wiki said that it's always spelled with

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two P's except for a in Nate's

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phone. But it's not, because I have seen the closed

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captioning now that you pointed that out to me.

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Now I can't unsee it whenever it happens.

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And Tripp you fucking idiot. Yeah, I meant to lead

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with that, Jeff.

Leif:

What do you think he can't get any worse.

Steve:

Yeah, well. Oh my God.

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Just. And it's like, just wait. Like this is just

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starting to get bad.

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Blair notices the homeless man outside the building Chuck is

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looking at buying and suggests that Chuck should be going to his

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father's grave today. Instead of this, Chuck sends Blair

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off in his limo.

Steve:

So this is where we get the. Oh, it's Chuck's

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dad's anniversary. But it also.

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It was this time of year last year. It was

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maybe the same episode, right? Was it episode

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1112 when he died?

Leif:

I thought it was 10, but maybe not. I don't know. I. I forget.

Steve:

It may have been, um, just the,

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you know, it fits.

Leif:

Mhm.

Steve:

And you see Blair like

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confronting him about it too.

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And he's trying to buy this like, what

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is it, a homeless shelter to turn into a

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club or condos, I think.

Steve:

Condos, sure. Yeah. And

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his attitude of like, I have to

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do this, I have to.

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Jay Z's Empire State of Mind

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plays. Lily is sitting in the closet now

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empty of coats. And Gossip Girl has this to say.

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We make our own fortunes and then call them fate.

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The song continues and we transition to Trip

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calling someone and telling them they should meet.

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Gossip Girl continues. And what better

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excuse to choose a path than to insist it's

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our destiny? But at the end of the day, we all have to

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live with our choices. We transition to Chuck,

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who has the ghost of Christmas Bart standing behind him

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and patting him on the shoulder. Chug shrugs off

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Ghost Daddy's hand and Gossip Girl finishes the act with

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no matter who's looking over our shoulder.

Steve:

I actually had a bit to say about Chuck in

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this episode and the

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tragedy of Chuck here. Now

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when I saw the preview and I saw Barton it,

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I was originally like, no, um,

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no. Is this some. Did he. They fake

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his fucking death? Is it

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like, like it was

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back to the soap opera of

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fucking Marcus in season two?

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Like, oh, he's. He's still there

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and faked his fucking death. And now like,

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Jesus Christ.

Leif:

But now Chuck is having full on hallucinations.

Steve:

Yeah, Chuck is just hallucinating his dad.

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The thing that really

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struck me about this because, uh, it really

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did make me feel for Chuck in this episode that

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he has his dad on his shoulder

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shitting on him all the time. His

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dad poured himself into his work because

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he lost his wife and didn't know how to be a

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dad to this guy who looked to this

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kid who looked like the Woman he just loved.

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Right. That was what Bart had said.

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And yet Chuck internalized all of

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this disappointment to it being him being

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weak. But no, Chuck, you were

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a fuck up. You were getting drunk, you

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were sexually assaulting women, you were

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gallivanting around town, you were being a.

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A reputational asshole.

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And he was always disappointed from constantly

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having to bail you out of all of your

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bullshit. If Bart saw you

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running the empire right now, he'd be

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proud as fuck. I would think if he saw

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you having a, um, meaningful adult

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relationship with Blair, I think he'd be

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happy for you.

Leif:

We even got that in season one finale.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

He's like, finally, you're stepping up and being a man.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly. And so

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just knowing that this is Chuck

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beating himself up, I

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found really tragic in this episode. And it

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really moved my heart for Chuck to

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see because it felt realistic

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because it is what kids do, Especially someone that

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loses their dad, who was their. Who they kind of

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hated, but was their idol. And to him, his

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dad is still beating up on him because his

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dad doesn't know that he changed.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So I just felt that was really tragic.

Leif:

Yeah. We could, though, without the fool on hallucinations, I

Leif:

think.

Steve:

I don't know. Honestly, it didn't bother me.

Steve:

I felt like it really showed what

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was going on in Chuck's head,

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I don't think.

Leif:

But I think they just took it too far. Like when he started, like, arguing with

Leif:

Bart in the back of the limo and the driver's, like, staring at him,

Leif:

okay, what the hell's going on?

Steve:

Yeah, the stop looking at me thing, that.

Steve:

Okay, I'll give you the limo one.

Steve:

I think more about sitting

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on the couch. And this scene when he first shrugs him

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off. Those are the. Yes, the limo

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was silly.

Leif:

Yes, those could be played off as being subtle and just kind

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of showing the audience what's going on in his head. But when they

Leif:

started transitioning to him, um, having actual conversations

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that other people could hear, that was weird.

Steve:

Yes. I will say that I've

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kind of done that before. Right. That

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I've been caught up in an

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imaginary conversation in my head that I'm

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having with somebody that I'm with. Like, my

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dad is a great example. The shit that I've never said

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to my dad that I would like to, but just

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know he would be a brick wall. I know I've

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had that and, like, said something out loud like

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that I, uh. Not hallucinating my

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dad, but I've pushed a button in my

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own head. And so that's Why I didn't

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come. Never in front of people, never in

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the back of a limo. Although he was also

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pretty fucking drunk because he was. He had

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whiskey in hand all day long.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, but that's just. That's kind of the norm

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for Chuck.

Steve:

It is. And like, obviously it's all him projecting

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his own insecurities and his own ill

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fated relationship with his dad that never got the

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resolution that he wanted.

Leif:

So we move on into Act 2. The

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establishing shot of, uh, Central park is way too green to

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be December. Jenny

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is walking down the street and a very chatty Gossip Girl

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says, spotted an it girl with an it

Leif:

bag. It looks like the roadie to success is

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paved with cruel intentions. The minions are

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impressed by Jenny's new purse, which Jenny says didn't come

Leif:

from Lily. When Sawyer shows up with the same

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bag, Jenny says she can ditch the bag or

Leif:

find new friends.

Steve:

Jenny just fucking, um, cold.

Steve:

My mom brought it home for me. Okay, well, you can go walk across

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the street like Jenny.

Steve:

So shitty.

Leif:

Yeah. Uh, what were the thing about

Leif:

Bart? I've actually been meaning to mention this for a couple weeks now.

Leif:

Robert Bobby Burke has actually had a role on the

Leif:

Last of Us. Are you watching that?

Steve:

I was waiting for a few more episodes to come out

Steve:

to binge.

Leif:

Okay.

Steve:

Because I typically watch stuff like start stuff halfway

Steve:

through. I watched the first episode, but

Steve:

that was it.

Leif:

Okay. So, yeah, uh, he has

Leif:

a role in like two or three episodes. Uh, it

Leif:

was a pretty small part in the game that got expanded a

Leif:

bit.

Steve:

Oh, cool. Yeah, it'll be good to see him. I

Steve:

always thought he was good.

Leif:

Yeah, it's funny too, because he's always playing like, these asshole

Leif:

characters, but apparently he's super nice in real life. He's like a

Leif:

volunteer fireman. And I

Leif:

listened to an interview about some Irish podcast, uh,

Leif:

a while back a couple weeks ago. Tis yourself.

Leif:

It was fun. Yeah. He's a Irish American first generation.

Steve:

Yeah. That. That scans. Yeah.

Leif:

Grew up in New York.

Steve:

Yeah. Awesome.

Leif:

Blue collar.

Steve:

Yeah. And I believe I've actually

Steve:

heard that elsewhere that, like, you have this super.

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The Bart Bass character type that he

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plays, but he is just

Steve:

super nice guy, apparently.

Leif:

Yeah, he had a decent run on, uh,

Leif:

lawn or svu, I think maybe. And he was

Leif:

kind of evil on that too. Uh.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, Yeah, I think.

Steve:

But he was a cop, I think, right?

Leif:

Yeah, he's a corrupt cop.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

I never watched the show, but I've heard that's what it sound like.

Steve:

I feel like I've. I don't know If I was

Steve:

watching, I watched religiously years ago

Steve:

when it was new.

Leif:

And we see Sawyer walks off humiliated. But we find out

Leif:

that it was all according to Eric and Kira's plan, which is

Leif:

to convince Carmen and Jane that Jenny is the meanest queen ever.

Leif:

So they turn against her.

Steve:

Yeah, Eric trying to crown a new queen and.

Steve:

All right, Eric, I feel like you're in over

Steve:

your head, but we'll see.

Leif:

So what does Kira get?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Why is she even still involved?

Steve:

Yeah, why does she care

Steve:

who's queen? No one likes you.

Leif:

If she's just trying to get revenge on Jenny.

Steve:

Yeah, well, and she was. Her whole thing was

Steve:

in the beginning. Like, I want friends. I'm just trying to be friends with

Steve:

you. So I guess she thinks if she helps this new

Steve:

queen, then she can be one of her minions.

Steve:

High aspirations for Hera. I

Steve:

want to suck up to another friend. In high school.

Leif:

Dan and Nate are having a coffee date. Dan says

Leif:

he missed his shot with Vanessa, who is now entangled with Paul.

Leif:

But Nate gives him, uh, his bro. A pep talk.

Steve:

Single Nate is the best. Nate.

Steve:

Single Nate is when Nate is funny. When

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Nate is Dan's pal. When he's Chuck's friend.

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When he does all. When he's goofy and he's

Steve:

jokes. Single Nate is the best Nate.

Leif:

Nate just being a bro.

Steve:

Hey, Willa.

Steve:

It was so good.

Leif:

The boys are interrupted by Vanessa and Willa, who

Leif:

invite Dan for a weekend at her family's country house with a

Leif:

hot tub. At first, Dan turns it down, but

Leif:

Nate says to go. So he can either box out Paul with

Leif:

Vanessa or get with the hot drama major.

Leif:

Dan decides to go.

Steve:

Yeah. Nate's not wrong

Steve:

in the. In the mentality and morality

Steve:

of college. Right. This person is into

Steve:

you, you're into that person. Go on this

Steve:

trip, and something's bound to happen.

Leif:

Yeah. Either go head to head with Paul and get your girl or

Leif:

get a palate cleanser.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Get your mind off of

Steve:

this. And Will is cute.

Leif:

Yeah. A little forward.

Steve:

How so?

Steve:

Here. Here's my art. Here's my

Steve:

performance piece.

Leif:

Rufus shows up at the meeting and discovers he has become

Leif:

a house husband.

Steve:

Yeah. Holland Campbell immediately flirting

Steve:

with Rufus. And the second he

Steve:

walks into this meeting. Oh, we knew you'd be here

Steve:

eventually. Sploosh.

Steve:

Can I escort you to the table?

Steve:

I saved you a seat right under my face.

Leif:

Pretty obvious.

Steve:

Yeah, we knew you'd be here eventually.

Steve:

Uh, yeah. And, like, laying all her business out,

Steve:

like, yeah, your. Your wife's gonna cheat on you, too. By

Steve:

the way, just like my husband.

Leif:

Just like my husband banging the yoga teacher.

Steve:

Yeah. Why are you with him? Like, why are

Steve:

you part of this hoa if, uh, this

Steve:

guy's such a piece of money? Yeah.

Steve:

Facts. But also the look on Rufus

Steve:

face and he's realizing he's a trophy husband.

Steve:

He's like, I'm not some trophy husband. Oh,

Steve:

sweetie.

Leif:

Bless your heart.

Leif:

A lonely Serena is bored without cable

Leif:

and calls Trip to find out when he's coming back. Trip says

Leif:

he's meeting with the grandfather when we back tonight. Before hanging

Leif:

up, we see Trip is actually meeting with Maureen who

Leif:

wants to be the public wife to a congressman and ah, allow

Leif:

Serena to be the mistress.

Steve:

He's such a disgusting fuck. Like, you

Steve:

know that he's not with grandfather. When he starts saying that

Steve:

turns, you know, it's Maureen. And then when she's there

Steve:

and he's like, she's like, don't you care about your career? I

Steve:

care more. I do care about my career, but I care

Steve:

more about Serena and my

Steve:

1930s driver outfit that I'm wearing.

Steve:

Like, can we. What the are you wearing

Steve:

with that fucking. The jacket

Steve:

with the fucking looks like padded

Steve:

leather armor.

Leif:

Well, if anyone's going to be wearing it, it's going to be a generational

Leif:

wealthy person from Connecticut.

Steve:

Yes. I'm so m. Where were the

Steve:

Knickerbockers to go with the hat though?

Steve:

Where's your stick with a little hoop that you can

Steve:

run down the street playing with it.

Leif:

Chuck is back at the Empire drinking scotch and

Leif:

arguing morality versus profits with the ghost of his

Leif:

father. Ghost daddy mocks Chuck for admitting he

Leif:

loves Blair.

Steve:

And again, while it was all

Steve:

the understanding of Chuck is beating

Steve:

himself up because even what I.

Steve:

What I really liked in this is that Bart

Steve:

didn't always act like Bart. Especially this

Steve:

scene. Bart acted more like

Steve:

Chuck. Yeah. Than he did Bart. More

Steve:

sardonic, more

Steve:

sarcastic, more cutting in the way he does

Steve:

things. Bart was always direct.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Bart didn't mock people. Why would Bart. Why

Steve:

would Bart Bass mock someone? He would just buy you.

Leif:

He kind of mocked, uh, Rufus a little bit.

Leif:

A little bit.

Steve:

A little bit.

Leif:

But when he was talking to Dan.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes, but

Steve:

fair. But.

Leif:

But the guy was banging his wife.

Steve:

Yeah, he had. He had reason.

Leif:

Serena calls Nate and he lets her know where the secret statue is

Leif:

located. Nate gets a funny look when she mentions

Leif:

Trip is meeting with the grandfather. As

Leif:

Serena hangs up, she is surprised to find

Leif:

Maureen is at the cottage. Maureen lays out her

Leif:

proposal of allowing Serena to remain as Trip's secret mistress.

Leif:

Serena at first balks, but then Maureen reveals

Leif:

that she has Serena's letter from Dr. Daddy.

Steve:

Yeah, I loved the whole Old man in the Sea thing

Steve:

where Nate's like, I didn't read it either, but look at it.

Steve:

Of course I didn't fucking read it. Books.

Steve:

And yeah, I love that we can tell that he knows something's

Steve:

up right away. But Maureen coming in

Steve:

and laying out this. You can be a side piece

Steve:

and.

Leif:

Get whatever it is you're getting out of this.

Steve:

Yeah. And it's funny. It's funny to

Steve:

me.

Leif:

I think that's when Serena rises. She's like, oh, shit.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. That she's really not

Steve:

getting anything. Yeah. Uh, she's not really

Steve:

involved in this relationship. This

Steve:

is all Trip's whim. And when

Steve:

Trip's whim is over, Serena's gone.

Steve:

And, uh, like you said, I think this is where she first

Steve:

recognizes that.

Leif:

We move into Act 3.

Leif:

A drunk Chuck stood up Blair for lunch, but

Leif:

Blair is very understanding. However, Chuck is a

Leif:

dick and throws Blair out. Bart tells Chuck,

Leif:

maybe there's hope for you yet.

Steve:

I really liked Blair here. Blair

Steve:

can have such a temper and can take things

Steve:

so personally. And her patience

Steve:

in this episode. Uncharacteristic,

Steve:

but also not out of

Steve:

character.

Leif:

Yeah. Very similar to the funeral episode.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. That. She just wanted to

Steve:

be there for Chuck.

Leif:

Eric is trying to poison Carmen and Jane against

Leif:

Jenny, but Queen J is two steps ahead and

Leif:

shows up with two more of the limited edition bags for the

Leif:

Minions. Eric is confused how Jenny. The price

Leif:

of a smart car for those purses.

Steve:

And I turned to Robin and I said,

Steve:

jenny's selling drugs.

Leif:

And I did actually look up, uh, in 2009,

Leif:

Smart cars ran between about $12,021,000. 12,000 and

Leif:

21,000

Leif:

for a Smart car.

Steve:

Do we call them smart cars anymore? Do they still make cars that we

Steve:

call smart cars?

Leif:

Well, that was like an actual brand.

Steve:

Oh, was it?

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Remember them?

Leif:

Yeah, it's those little box cars. They're like little teeny

Leif:

two seaters.

Steve:

Oh, is that what they were called?

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Are they still. Are they gone? Are they still around?

Leif:

They might be still around in Europe, but definitely not. They did not

Leif:

catch on here.

Steve:

Wonder why. And actually,

Steve:

I really do to an extent wonder why. Because if you're

Steve:

living in a city, those would be. If m.

Steve:

You're a single person in the city, that's what you should be driving.

Leif:

Yes, yes. But like, there's zero cargo

Leif:

room at all. So you can. Yeah, yeah.

Steve:

If you're living in a one bedroom apartment in the city. That's what you should be

Steve:

driving.

Leif:

Yeah. Or at a European city where they have tiny

Leif:

roads or.

Steve:

Yes, fair. Well, many of.

Leif:

The maniac roads are huge compared to cities in

Leif:

Europe.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Yes. I've actually, I do know

Steve:

that I have seen or especially some of

Steve:

like the highways outside of the cities

Steve:

where you have mountainous,

Steve:

you know, areas with one lane roads.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair is having tea with Lily

Leif:

who completely forgot that it was the anniversary of Bart's

Leif:

death. Blair tells Lily that Chuck has never

Leif:

been to see his mother's grave and doesn't even know where

Leif:

it is. Lily promises to go see

Leif:

Chuck.

Steve:

Lily recognizing that she's been

Steve:

so caught up in her own shit that she forgot that it was

Steve:

Bart's. The anniversary of her husband's

Steve:

death.

Leif:

And to be fair, at the funeral she was already

Leif:

hooking up with someone else.

Steve:

She was, yes. She had moved on fairly quickly.

Steve:

Yes. Uh, and

Steve:

yeah, she was gonna leave. They were on the

Steve:

brink of breaking up when he died. It seemed

Steve:

to.

Leif:

Yeah. Now, when you first watched

Leif:

this, did the mention that Bart

Leif:

never shared the location of the mother's grave? Did that throw up

Leif:

any red flags for you?

Steve:

I thought in an earlier episode

Steve:

Chuck had visited his mom. Had

Steve:

discussed visiting his mom's

Steve:

grave. I thought I did. That was the only thing. When

Steve:

they said he's never seen. Been to his mom's grave. I

Steve:

had a. Oh. Moment.

Leif:

Well, and it specifically said that Bart refused to tell him where

Leif:

it was.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

So did that throw up any red flags?

Steve:

Yes. Yeah.

Leif:

Oh, for the end of the episode.

Steve:

For the end of the episode. Yes. That was

Steve:

like. That's a weird thing. Why wouldn't you ever.

Steve:

Yes. I didn't quite formulate the. Is

Steve:

she not dead? But I did get to the.

Steve:

That's weird. Why would you never do that?

Steve:

There's something else underlying here

Steve:

and. Yeah.

Leif:

Rufus returns and finds out that it is the one

Leif:

year anniversary of Bart's death and assumes that is why

Leif:

Lily has been so upset. Lily just leans right

Leif:

into it.

Steve:

Yep. That is

Steve:

exactly why she's so evil.

Steve:

She is. I, uh, I

Steve:

love the character of

Steve:

Lily Van Der Woodsen.

Steve:

I really love.

Leif:

She's Humphrey now.

Steve:

Well, Lily Humphrey. Yes.

Leif:

As Jenny points out.

Steve:

Yes. I love her

Steve:

character because she is.

Steve:

She does good things and she is good

Steve:

sometimes. And she has the potential

Steve:

for good and this potential for

Steve:

fucking evil. And. And

Steve:

it just makes her very human to me

Steve:

that a lot of TV characters, even really

Steve:

dimensional characters don't always Feel so

Steve:

human. And I really like that in one

Steve:

episode, she can do something super sweet and

Steve:

loving like go to try to support Chuck,

Steve:

but also doesn't remember her

Steve:

dead husband's anniversary and

Steve:

is lying to her living husband about

Steve:

bang. About visiting her first

Steve:

husband.

Leif:

Serena calls Nate and is upset about what

Leif:

Maureen said, but still claims to have faith in Trip.

Leif:

Nate reveals that Trip lied about meeting with the

Leif:

grandfather and that that faith erodes

Leif:

just a little bit more. Gossip Girl says,

Leif:

looks like the love's nest has become a hornet's

Leif:

nest. We find out that Nate is on his way to

Leif:

Nassau county, and Gossip Girl continues.

Leif:

And here comes Nate to stir it up.

Steve:

Yeah, I like. I love how

Steve:

Nate's like this. Like,

Steve:

Tripp this shit.

Steve:

Um, and that he's just fucking done with

Steve:

it.

Leif:

We go into Act 4.

Leif:

It's nighttime, and Dan goes to the door to meet

Leif:

Willa, uh, Weinstein.

Leif:

And Willow then commits it.

Leif:

And then Willow commits a bit of white sexual

Leif:

assault by showing a video of herself naked to Dan

Leif:

without first asking for consent.

Steve:

Genetic. The

Steve:

apple doesn't fall apart from the tree.

Steve:

I saw where you were going. Right.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So, uh, as the audience, of course, we don't actually see the video, but

Leif:

judging by Dan's reaction and the sounds that were coming

Leif:

out of it, it was probably pornographic in nature.

Steve:

Yeah. Well, Dan does say you're naked.

Leif:

Oh, yeah, we know she's naked. That could be somewhat arty.

Steve:

That could be. Yes.

Leif:

But by the sounds and his reactions, you're naked.

Steve:

And taking it from three dudes is a little less

Steve:

artistic to some. Yes.

Leif:

Lily shows up at Chuck's suite to get him to come with

Leif:

her to Bart's grave. Chuck is trying to blow

Leif:

her off because continue to work would be the best way to honor his

Leif:

father. Lily gets a call from Serena to let her know

Leif:

that Maureen has the letter. Lily says she's going to tell

Leif:

Rufus everything and that Serena should come home. Lily

Leif:

is being a good mom for once. But Lily

Leif:

asked Chuck to go to Bart's grave for both of them. Chuck

Leif:

throws the flowers in the trash and says they should be yellow

Leif:

roses. That was his mother's favorite.

Steve:

Yes. Lily coming in and being a better parent to

Steve:

Chuck than to her own kids is not unusual.

Leif:

Well, she was a good m. Parent to Serena. Finally, in that moment, too.

Steve:

In that moment, she was. She just come home and she.

Steve:

That's. That is her pattern with Serena. It is.

Steve:

Something happens. Get the fuck out. I don't want to see you.

Steve:

Go away. And then it's okay,

Steve:

just come home and we'll work it out. And typically, because

Steve:

something happens, because Serena's

Steve:

decisions do lead her to a place where she just needs

Steve:

her mom. Yeah,

Steve:

she does kind of trap herself like

Steve:

that.

Leif:

Serena is leaving the cottage as Trip finally

Leif:

returns. Serena gives Trip a chance

Leif:

to deny everything, but he doesn't. Serena agrees to

Leif:

let Trip drive her home, but won't be talking to

Leif:

him. We hear the same Ravenette song from the opening of the

Leif:

episode as they get into Tripp's Range Rover.

Steve:

Don't get in that car, Serena. There's wolves out there.

Steve:

There are wolves on the street. Don't get into that car.

Leif:

So I did not like the writing, but I did like the acting and the

Leif:

directing in this episode. And, um, using that same

Leif:

song again to show we're now here.

Leif:

Ah, we're at that point.

Steve:

Yes. Yes. And, yeah,

Steve:

Trip, just how spineless

Steve:

he is. That. Yeah, I

Steve:

just, uh. He just made me

Steve:

cringe.

Leif:

Yeah. As we see. We see the wolves again and they

Leif:

crash. We see the crash again. We also see Nate

Leif:

is still riding into the city in a limo. Chuck, also in

Leif:

a limo, ignores a call from Blair, who is returning to the

Leif:

dorms. A day's Trip stumbles out of the

Leif:

SUV and looks at an unconscious and bloody Serena

Leif:

before calling Maureen.

Steve:

Maureen. The motherfucker calls

Steve:

Maureen before 911.

Steve:

This fucking guy who's. I care more about

Steve:

Serena than my career. I'm ready to burn it

Steve:

all down for Serena. Oh, fuck Maureen.

Steve:

I may have just killed Serena. Can you get here quick

Steve:

so we can move her fucking body to a

Steve:

different seat? I know we're not there yet, but.

Steve:

Fucking asshole.

Leif:

Yeah, not good. We go to Act

Leif:

5, and Nate gets out of his limo when he sees police cars

Leif:

and an ambulance. He sees Serena being wheeled

Leif:

on a gurney. However, Tripp has apparently left the

Leif:

scene of the accident.

Steve:

And one P in his name.

Leif:

Nate leaves a voicemail for Trip and tells him,

Leif:

meet me at the hospital or I'm going to the cops.

Steve:

Yeah, good, uh, guy Nate. Yeah, good guy

Steve:

Nate. And. And everything Nate here is.

Steve:

I feel completely justified.

Leif:

Yeah, Nate had a great episode.

Steve:

Yes. And it's funny because, like, Nate has

Steve:

those kind of. As Robin often used to

Steve:

refer to me as Captain Save a Ho.

Steve:

Nate has those sort of tendencies

Steve:

of, like, here's the shiny thing, and I'm going to

Steve:

fight everyone who I can to, like. Um, go.

Steve:

And it didn't feel like that. We know that Nate

Steve:

now is crushing on Serena, but it

Steve:

felt like I'm going To save my friend

Steve:

Serena. And it didn't feel like it was about his

Steve:

feelings for her, but about what was

Steve:

right. I didn't feel. I feel like. Let me put it

Steve:

this way. I feel like Nate would have

Steve:

done everything he did in this episode if

Steve:

he wasn't currently crushing on Serena.

Steve:

I think he would have done this even if he was with

Steve:

Blair. For example.

Leif:

Probably. Lily comes home to find

Leif:

Rufus cooking his famous Balinese. She

Leif:

lets him know that she has to tell him something serious, but

Leif:

is interrupted by a shocking call from a 516

Leif:

area code.

Steve:

Yeah. And so she doesn't get to tell him because

Steve:

of the call. Yep. I.

Steve:

When you're talking about the directing, I feel like the

Steve:

direction from here to the end,

Steve:

especially this next. The gathering of

Steve:

the crew montage. I just thought that

Steve:

the cuts and the

Steve:

pacing were just really

Steve:

energetic and really engaging.

Leif:

Yeah, I agree. Dan and Willow are making

Leif:

out pretty hard on her bed, but he's not really

Leif:

feeling it and pulls away. Dan is saved from

Leif:

further explanation when his cell phone rings, and he darts for the

Leif:

door.

Steve:

Oh, Dan, he's a nice guy. He's not

Steve:

just going to sleep with someone because someone is there to sleep with

Steve:

him. And I can

Steve:

appreciate that. I've done it. I've

Steve:

been there, too.

Leif:

Willa, uh, is left with blue balls, and Dan goes to knock on

Leif:

Blair's door to tell her that Serena has been in an accident

Leif:

and they have to go to meet the family at the hospital.

Leif:

Vanessa is standing in the hallway for some reason, so I guess she can

Leif:

come too. I love

Leif:

the day I ghost the Blair.

Steve:

Yeah, I actually did, too. I love that that was

Steve:

his first stop. That it is.

Steve:

We need to go. And that Vanessa really was

Steve:

an afterthought. And Vanessa, when

Steve:

he sees her, it is like, oh, yeah, you're kind of friends with

Steve:

us. Let's go. Come with us. But also, Dan currently

Steve:

thinks he's in love with her. So, like, come on, let me. Come with me to

Steve:

the hospital.

Leif:

And presumably, Vanessa and Serena are friends,

Leif:

supposedly. Even though they never had. They have never once hung out

Leif:

alone.

Steve:

Right. And I'm also thinking more

Steve:

of how if something really bad was

Steve:

happening to Serena, if Serena died

Steve:

in this car accident, who would be the first person

Steve:

to be there for Dan?

Leif:

That'd be Vanessa.

Steve:

Vanessa. Yeah, no doubt. So Dan

Steve:

probably wants her there for other reasons, too,

Steve:

but it is sort of like, come on, let's go. Like,

Steve:

Blair, you and I need to go do this.

Leif:

Uh, I don't know if you caught the sign on, uh, Blair's

Leif:

door.

Steve:

Oh, the.

Steve:

The.

Leif:

For inquiries, call Dorota.

Steve:

Call Dodo with the phone number.

Leif:

Chuck finally takes a call from Blair and finds out

Leif:

Serena's been in an accident and redirects his

Leif:

driver Arthur to Nassau. Ah, County

Leif:

Ghost Daddy chastises Chuck for ditching the business

Leif:

meeting for family.

Steve:

And, uh, yes, again, the.

Steve:

The flip out of. Of Bart. There's.

Steve:

I kind of get it. I thought it was silly. I kind of got

Steve:

it. The bigger thing here

Steve:

is Chuck silencing

Steve:

that voice for his friends. To

Steve:

who? Chuck recognizing he

Steve:

doesn't need to be his dad, his friends,

Steve:

his sister is more important in this

Steve:

moment.

Leif:

Mhm.

Steve:

And that really got me on Chuck's side here.

Leif:

Trip finds Nate outside the hospital. We

Leif:

find out that not only did Trip leave the scene of the accident,

Leif:

he also moves Serena into the driver's seat.

Leif:

Maureen comes up and tells Nate that she is prepared to give

Leif:

Trip an alibi and that the grandfather will back her

Leif:

up. When Trip asks Nate to help to see

Leif:

Serena, Nate decks him.

Leif:

Gossip Girl brings us to the end of the act with

Leif:

Spotted. The Fall of a politician in the rise

Leif:

of a Hero. Poor congressman. You've just

Leif:

been vetoed.

Steve:

Two things here, uh, are three things here. First of

Steve:

all, the fact that Maureen comes in and

Steve:

calls grandfather William.

Steve:

Like I'm on a first name fucking basis

Steve:

with grandfather now. So

Steve:

who's he gonna be listening to? So

Steve:

damn Trip having the

Steve:

fucking audacity to

Steve:

ask to see her. Can I

Steve:

see the person that I just almost killed and then put in the driver's

Steve:

seat to blame the entire accident on?

Steve:

Are you fucking insane?

Steve:

And finally, when. When

Steve:

Nate punches him, um, Robin had a

Steve:

total Nate boner for the rest of the

Steve:

episode that she was like, that was hot.

Leif:

I guess he doesn't. Just didn't want to get caught with

Leif:

Serena because I don't understand. Other than that, like, why

Leif:

would he even do this? Because. What, was he drinking or

Leif:

something?

Steve:

There was no evidence of that. It was simply,

Steve:

uh.

Leif:

He just didn't want to get caught with Serena.

Steve:

Yeah, he didn't want to get caught. Which if that

Steve:

accident happened, it was him and him and his intern

Steve:

that he was driving home again

Steve:

with all of them lining their stories up.

Steve:

It would be fine. Of course this is. That

Steve:

wouldn't happen because this is Maureen's out, right?

Steve:

Like, no, no. This is how we get rid of Serena.

Steve:

And, um. Yeah. What a

Steve:

fucking spineless shit.

Steve:

He was the good one.

Leif:

We move into the epilogue.

Leif:

Lily is comforting Serena, who is lying in A hospital

Leif:

bed. However, Serena is upset that Lily didn't

Leif:

tell Rufus yet.

Steve:

Blake Lively is particularly pretty in

Steve:

this scene when she's not wearing makeup and

Steve:

they get her. You know, there's the one side with the bash, but then when

Steve:

you get the other side of her, she's just

Steve:

very. You're just a very pretty

Steve:

m angle of her that, like, you don't really see because you

Steve:

usually see her glamified because

Steve:

that's the character that she plays. So seeing

Steve:

her like that, it was. Yeah, she just.

Steve:

It was a very pretty angle.

Leif:

I noticed in this next scene here, she gives

Leif:

Blair a little lip bite.

Leif:

Uh, more romance between Blair and Serena. Theories

Leif:

coming out. So as Lily leaves, Blair comes in and hugs her

Leif:

best friend. Serena tells Blair she was right about Trip all

Leif:

along.

Steve:

Yes. Which we all knew. Blair was right about

Steve:

Trip. And last week, Serena

Steve:

or last week, Blair. You fucked up

Steve:

when you told Serena. Oh, I was wrong.

Steve:

Go. No, you weren't. You were right. Yeah.

Steve:

Tell, like, don't tell Serena. Go chasing after him.

Steve:

Be like, oh, wow. Yeah, he really did say all those things. But he's still a

Steve:

married man. He's still a creeper.

Leif:

Yeah. Chuck arrives at the hospital

Leif:

and immediately starts having PTSD

Leif:

flashbacks to a year ago when Bart died in the car

Leif:

crash. Blair finds Chuck huddled on the ground.

Leif:

Chuck is relieved to hear that everyone is here and going to

Leif:

be okay. Chuck admits he was pushing Blair

Leif:

away to prove his father wrong. Blair helps Chuck

Leif:

get up.

Steve:

I cried. I cried at the, uh. I cried when

Steve:

Blair. Both times. Both times I

Steve:

watched when Blair came around the corner

Steve:

to find Chuck and went to him

Steve:

and said the whole. You're becoming the man in ways

Steve:

your father never was. And when she

Steve:

went to him, I just. It punched me in

Steve:

the gut.

Leif:

Yes. It's kind of ironic that Blair was

Leif:

saying that Chuck carried her and carried

Leif:

everyone else when she was clearly carrying the

Leif:

scene, because before she

Leif:

showed up, I was actually laughing when Chuck was stumbling around.

Steve:

Well, while stumbling around the hospital

Steve:

again and him running away from his

Steve:

dad and all that stuff. It was. Again,

Steve:

it was that moment when Blair comes

Steve:

around the corner to find him that it was. That

Steve:

got me. You're right about. The flashback

Steve:

was oddly

Steve:

choreographed, and I feel like, again, it was

Steve:

trying to fit the energy of what

Steve:

was going on.

Leif:

Jenny and Eric are alone in a waiting area. Eric is

Leif:

frustrated with the vending machine and declines Jenny's offer

Leif:

to share her coffee. However, after a moment, they

Leif:

both apologize at the same time. There's nothing

Leif:

like tragedy to bring People back together.

Steve:

It's nice to see Jenny and Eric make up.

Steve:

I HM was worried that

Steve:

that was going to go on too long.

Steve:

I actually wouldn't have minded another episode or two of them

Steve:

taking shots, but I was really worried it was

Steve:

going to go on too long and

Steve:

I'm hoping that it does.

Leif:

The problem was it was too one sided of a fight.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

It was just Eric getting beat up.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Eric has the resources but

Steve:

Jenny has the brains. And Eric doesn't

Steve:

have the soul to go after someone

Steve:

like, oh, I'll buy this person a purse.

Steve:

You gotta. That's not cutting anyone's throat,

Steve:

Eric. And Eric isn't a throat cutter.

Leif:

Rufus is about to leave for the hospital when Maureen shows up at

Leif:

the penthouse. She gives Rufus the

Leif:

letter. Why?

Steve:

Like that's your whole leverage, isn't it? But I guess now that

Steve:

Serena is all fucked up and out of the picture, it

Steve:

doesn't matter and now you just want to blow shit up.

Steve:

Uh uh. That one I was very

Steve:

much why. Maybe

Steve:

she has an end game with this. But I was

Steve:

really baffled as to why she would go to

Steve:

Rufus with it. Other than the TV

Steve:

gods needing the turmoil.

Leif:

That's the biggest reason. Although it

Leif:

could be that she was actually being honest at that moment.

Leif:

That she knows what it's like to be cheated on and she just

Leif:

didn't like. Rupert is a nice guy. She felt bad for

Leif:

him. Could be possible.

Steve:

And with you saying that, I'll say this, I

Steve:

don't have ill will towards Maureen.

Steve:

Really. What she did to move Serena in the

Steve:

car was shitty. But Maureen has

Steve:

been on the receiving end of

Steve:

bullshit. All she tried to do was help her husband

Steve:

win an election in the wrong way.

Steve:

Doing the worst, you know, doing something wrong.

Steve:

But he was already ready to bang

Steve:

Serena. Well, I guess it was the end of that episode

Steve:

that he, that they first talked. Yeah.

Leif:

Because he was. If he had just found out that it was her or

Leif:

dad. Did he?

Steve:

No, he didn't even know it was her yet.

Leif:

Yeah, that's what he didn't find out.

Steve:

It was her until the next episode when they were

Steve:

already still flirting. Uh, like all of that was

Steve:

already in motion before he knew it was even

Steve:

Maureen. And all the Maureen stuff was just

Steve:

an excuse to bang a teenager.

Steve:

I don't care that she pulled the stunt to get her husband

Steve:

elected. Like that shit happens. No, uh, one got

Steve:

hurt. I don't really. Uh, I, I probably

Steve:

wouldn't vote for the guy one. Well, I don't know. Who

Steve:

knows what his Policies were. But it really

Steve:

didn't bother me. The only thing that Marine has

Steve:

done that I think is really shitty is

Steve:

setting Serena up in the car. I

Steve:

think most of the rest of what she's done is

Steve:

borderline justifiable. Okay.

Steve:

I found this letter. I didn't steal

Steve:

this. This was in my fucking pocket. Your mom gave

Steve:

me this letter, and I have it.

Leif:

The whole setup, she was proposing this. This episode was

Leif:

pretty bad though, as well.

Steve:

In the morality

Steve:

of right and wrong, human beings.

Steve:

I get it. In the morality of

Steve:

politics. I don't think she was

Steve:

out of line to be like, I still

Steve:

want my political shine, so here's

Steve:

how we're going to do it. I saw it just

Steve:

as political maneuvering only

Steve:

sexually, essentially. And my point,

Steve:

just being like, yes, Maureen is diabolical.

Steve:

I don't think that the things that she has done have

Steve:

been completely unjustified.

Steve:

She was cheated on.

Steve:

She was. Yeah, she was cheated on.

Leif:

She was definitely wrong. But that doesn't make her a good person.

Steve:

Uh, I'm not saying good person. I'm saying I'm not really holding as

Steve:

much against her.

Leif:

Okay.

Steve:

Like, I don't think that she's.

Steve:

I don't put her in the category of

Steve:

Aaron. Right. Or as.

Leif:

I mean, technically, I think she's worse than Aaron.

Steve:

And it was a bad example.

Leif:

In a real life morality situation.

Steve:

Yeah, that was a bad. Aaron was a bad example.

Steve:

I feel like. Like, I don't.

Leif:

I mean, just the moving Serena in the car seat makes

Leif:

her one of the worst people.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Again, I. I'll that that

Steve:

alone doing that is the worst thing I think that

Steve:

she's done. And the thing that she's done that was

Steve:

uncalled for and unjustified being

Steve:

mad enough to do it. I. I can get it, but

Steve:

I. But that was wrong.

Leif:

Back at the hospital, Dan turns to Vanessa and gives

Leif:

her his most earnest look and tells her he loves

Leif:

her. Vanessa says she loves him too, but clearly in

Leif:

a friendly way. Vanessa gives Dan a graceful out

Leif:

and gets up to check on Serena.

Steve:

Shuts that shit down.

Steve:

I fucking never liked

Steve:

Vanessa more than her being like, I love you

Steve:

too. Oh, Dan. Sometimes tragedy brings people

Steve:

closer together. Deuces

Steve:

like, nope, this isn't happening. Yeah,

Steve:

I hope it stays that way. But I really,

Steve:

really loved how she just

Steve:

shut it down.

Leif:

Lily returns home with Jenny, uh, and Eric.

Leif:

Rufus is nowhere to be found, but the letter is sitting on the end

Leif:

table in the living room. Gossip Girl begins her end of

Leif:

episode monologue. Sinatra sings New

Leif:

York, New York Is a hell of a town, but on the Upper

Leif:

east side, sometimes it just feels like hell.

Steve:

Yeah. So Rufus finds the letter. We haven't

Steve:

seen the next thing that he does yet, though, right?

Leif:

No.

Steve:

Okay.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

That was just them coming home and finding out Rufus in there. Then we see

Leif:

Rufus is meeting with the woman from the co op meeting, and

Leif:

Gossip Girl continues. Even when we're sure

Leif:

we've earned that happy ending, it doesn't always

Leif:

come.

Steve:

So, yes, he's now with Holland Kemble.

Leif:

Again, and she is very happy to see

Leif:

him.

Steve:

She is very happy to see him. And Rufus

Steve:

finds this letter, and his

Steve:

instinct is, I'm going to go find

Steve:

that woman who was flirting with me earlier today and talk to her

Steve:

about this. Instead of calling

Steve:

Vanessa's mom, who's one of his best friends,

Steve:

instead of going to anyone else that

Steve:

he knows, he calls this person

Steve:

that he met today that was flirting with him that

Steve:

he knows is down to pound.

Steve:

Because she kind of made it clear.

Leif:

Does he? Because I have a feeling Rufus just gets that a

Leif:

lot.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Uh, and he. I think he went to. I'm going to give him the benefit of doubt. Say

Leif:

he went to her for advice because she knows. She's

Leif:

dealt with this before. She knows what it's like to have a cheating spouse.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And Rufus is just used to women being nice to him.

Steve:

Yeah. I mean, God damn it, Rufus,

Steve:

I hate you so much.

Leif:

Yes. Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So, yeah, I would notice if a woman was being like that to me,

Leif:

but, yeah, Rufus might just be used to it.

Steve:

Yeah, it just happens all the time.

Steve:

It's like John Hammond, 30 Rock

Steve:

when he's in the bubble.

Leif:

Dan is going home to the loft alone. And Gossip

Leif:

Girl continues. Second thoughts

Leif:

creep in. Dan's all alone.

Steve:

Um, Dan's all alone. As you should be right now.

Steve:

Dan, go find Willa. Go find Willa

Steve:

Weinstein.

Leif:

Stay away from her.

Steve:

Get that Weinstein money.

Leif:

Jenny is pretty dressed up for bed. And Gossip

Leif:

Girl says secret missions sneak

Leif:

out.

Steve:

Yep. Jenny's dealing drugs. I

Steve:

know I will. We're about to see that, but

Steve:

Serena.

Leif:

Rolls over and sees Nate sleeping in the chair in her

Leif:

hospital room. She then smiles before going

Leif:

back to sleep. Gossip Girl says, and

Leif:

only sleeping beauty finds her prince.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jenny meets Damien on the street. And we find out Jenny

Leif:

has been dealing drugs with him to finance those

Leif:

handbags. Gossip Girl says,

Leif:

in this city, nothing is for certain. The

Leif:

night can push you forward into a dark future or

Leif:

plunge you into a mysterious past.

Steve:

So we. We see Jenny dealing drugs, and this

Steve:

is when we see.

Leif:

Yeah. The music abruptly stops and we

Leif:

see Chuck exiting his limo with a bouquet of

Leif:

yellow roses. He finds a dark

Leif:

haired woman at his father's grave. She immediately

Leif:

recognizes Chuck and runs away. Chuck

Leif:

finds one halfway locket with the letter E

Leif:

engraved on the outside and a picture of his

Leif:

father on the inside.

Steve:

And, uh, the woman left. Did you say

Steve:

the woman left yellow roses on the grave, too?

Leif:

I did not mention it, but yeah, she did.

Steve:

Yeah. So the woman at the grave also leaves the

Steve:

yellow roses, sees Chuck and runs away.

Leif:

And, uh, have we heard what his mom's name

Leif:

is before?

Steve:

No.

Leif:

Oh, we haven't.

Steve:

I don't believe so. I believe that the only.

Steve:

I believe that it's only ever been mentioned as

Steve:

your mom, Chuck's mom, my mom. I

Steve:

don't believe we've heard her name before.

Leif:

I. I feel like they must have.

Leif:

Why show us the E. Yeah, I.

Steve:

I had that thought too. Like, should I know E.

Steve:

Because the assumption is it's his mom. And my

Steve:

other reaction was, oh, great, another Chuck

Steve:

mystery. Because the last Chuck mystery was

Steve:

so compelling. And I really hope this doesn't

Steve:

become another one of, like, the noir

Steve:

attempt that they did with that other.

Leif:

Talk about the Eyes Wide Shut plot line.

Steve:

The Eyes Wide Shut plot line.

Leif:

Yeah. Hopefully it's a little better.

Steve:

Hopefully.

Leif:

But it looks like Chuck is going to go off the deep end again.

Steve:

Yep, yep, yep.

Leif:

The full quote from Gossip Girl at the end of the episode is

Leif:

Sinatra sings. New York, New York, it's a

Leif:

hell of a town. But on the Upper east side,

Leif:

sometimes it just feels like hell. Even when we're sure

Leif:

we've earned that happy ending, it doesn't always

Leif:

come. Second thoughts creep in.

Leif:

Secret missions sneak out. And only Sleeping

Leif:

Beauty finds her prince. In this city,

Leif:

nothing is for certain. The night can push you forward into the

Leif:

dark future or plunge you into a mysterious

Leif:

past.

Leif:

What are your predictions?

Steve:

Number one. Like you said, Chuck's gonna go off the deep end trying

Steve:

to figure out who this mystery woman is.

Steve:

I think that Chuck can get a little obsessive

Steve:

sometimes, and I think that this might. He

Steve:

might spiral a bit. I could see Chuck

Steve:

spiraling a bit here, which could

Steve:

mean an uncertain future for Chuck and

Steve:

Blair. I don't think this Dan Vanessa thing is

Steve:

over. Over. I think Vanessa put the kibosh on it. But

Steve:

that's also very much how the Dan Serena

Steve:

relationship kind of teetered for a

Steve:

bit in a couple times. Like both when

Steve:

they first got together and then in. In

Steve:

a later time getting together that it was Oh, I think I

Steve:

like her. Oh, I think I like him. And they

Steve:

kind of teetered.

Leif:

So this was actually the mid season finale. This

Leif:

episode aired on December 7th. The next episode

Leif:

is until three months later. March.

Steve:

Really? So no Christmas episode.

Steve:

Wow.

Leif:

Because they plenty of time for Serena to heal up.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

She doesn't have to be in a hospital at all.

Steve:

You're right. Right. And doesn't have a shattered uh,

Steve:

head too. How about that

Steve:

scar goes away like

Steve:

completely.

Leif:

I think that was probably the last time we see it.

Steve:

Probably like Scott.

Leif:

So we got Chuck going off the deep end. Uh,

Leif:

what's. What's else for what?

Steve:

Oh, Lily and Rufus.

Leif:

I don't know.

Steve:

I. Do they break up? Do I?

Steve:

Rufus has a loft to go back to. So I.

Steve:

I definitely feel like there's going to be

Steve:

a blow up with them.

Steve:

I don't think Lily slept with baby

Steve:

daddy. I think she went there for another

Steve:

reason. For another thing that

Steve:

because of how Lily was like, it's time I told

Steve:

Rufus the truth and was doing it with

Steve:

like ownership that it felt like, yeah, I'm

Steve:

keeping a big secret. But it's not as

Steve:

bad. The other side of it is, uh,

Steve:

if she did bang her ex while she was engaged to another person

Steve:

and she went to Rufus and said, well, I

Steve:

banged you when I was engaged to Bart. You

Steve:

can't be that mad. You should know this is just kind of what I

Steve:

do.

Leif:

Yeah. But yeah, it is definitely easy to see why Lily has been

Leif:

married five times now.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. And okay, so

Steve:

let's talk about this for just a second. When we

Steve:

first meet Lily in season one, it is

Steve:

Lily Van Der Woodsen, right? Mhm.

Steve:

She is then Lily Van

Steve:

der Woodsen Bass. And then she is Lily

Steve:

Humphrey. So she got married twice

Steve:

and didn't change her name and kept her.

Steve:

Either that or was Serena and

Steve:

Eric's dad the third

Steve:

in the line. Which he's not because we know

Steve:

Klaus came in between there and somebody

Steve:

else.

Leif:

Yeah, that's pretty. Uh, that he was the first.

Leif:

But we know the Klaus that she married was

Leif:

only for like a month. So that can explain why she never changed her

Leif:

name that time.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, that's true. That it was

Steve:

really quick. And were there two Klaus?

Leif:

Yeah, but one was just a boyfriend and lasted longer than the one that she

Leif:

married.

Steve:

That's right. That's right.

Steve:

God damn. I really do want a Lily spinoff. I

Steve:

just want an entire show of.

Leif:

Lily banging her way across.

Steve:

Banging her way. Banging her way through the 80s and

Steve:

90s and early 2000s,

Steve:

uh, rated R

Steve:

TV, Ma, Lilly, Lily

Steve:

spinoff.

Leif:

What about, uh, Jenny? What's next for Jenny?

Steve:

Oh, Jenny's going to jail.

Steve:

Jenny is not.

Steve:

Jenny is smart. Jenny is cunning. Jenny is

Steve:

not a drug dealer. And Jenny is going to find herself in a really

Steve:

bad situation. You know, she was

Steve:

had the whole, like, next time I want to go to the table alone,

Steve:

I guarantee there's an upcoming

Steve:

episode with I'm at the table alone, and

Steve:

click, crank handcuffs right

Steve:

there at the table. Jenny's getting arrested is my

Steve:

big prediction. I feel like I. I

Steve:

feel like Rufus has wanted her to arrested for so long that he's

Steve:

finally going to get it.

Leif:

What about Serena and Nate? Are they going to get together?

Steve:

I hope so. Single Nate is the best

Steve:

Nate. So I'm worried they'll get

Steve:

together and it'll be boring because

Steve:

Nate in relationships is boring.

Steve:

Serena in relationships is dumb. So

Steve:

I'm worried that it's going to be dumb and boring. But I

Steve:

also feel like they deserve

Steve:

each other in that way. Of

Steve:

the two golden retrievers getting together

Steve:

and having golden

Steve:

retriever love, it's cute to me.

Steve:

So I kind of want it to at least happen also

Steve:

to. Because my initial

Steve:

prediction, my overall number one prediction of they're all gonna

Steve:

bang needs to be fulfilled, and

Steve:

it's not being fulfilled yet, But I do

Steve:

want to see that happen.

Leif:

Um, and, you know, Serena's got. And he got to do something

Leif:

while Dan and Vanessa are together.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I kind of hope that

Steve:

eventually comes back to Dan and Serena.

Steve:

I kind of feel like that would be a good way to

Steve:

close out season six. That I feel

Steve:

like that'd be a good way to close out the show is those

Steve:

two getting back together. But I don't really need it

Steve:

right now.

Leif:

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

Leif:

This week in fandom, we jumped in the wayback machine to

Leif:

travel to the fan forums from 2009.

Leif:

Hello there, Peabody here. And this is

Leif:

the wayback machine for traveling through time. And this

Leif:

is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. The overall reaction

Leif:

from the fan forum, unlike me, they thought this was the best episode of the

Leif:

season.

Steve:

I loved this episode. I

Steve:

really did. You are right about

Steve:

some of the writing problems. The wolves are

Steve:

ridiculous. There are flaws.

Steve:

But as far as an episode moving me

Steve:

emotionally, yeah, it wins.

Leif:

They thought Ed was great.

Steve:

I mostly did. He didn't talk a lot.

Steve:

He brooded the whole episode so he didn't have to hide his

Steve:

accent. But also, the fandom loves Ed

Steve:

anyway. Like, they Just. Yeah.

Leif:

Love Nate and Serena at the end.

Steve:

Yeah. Yep.

Leif:

Positive reactions to Dan and Vanessa.

Steve:

Positive as in positive to them being together or

Steve:

positive in how that ended up?

Leif:

They're excited for them to get together.

Steve:

Gross.

Leif:

I agree. But I think Phantom

Leif:

just wants them to be separated from the Upper east side.

Steve:

Yes. Also, there's a get it over with

Steve:

aspect to it, too, that no relationship

Steve:

lasts.

Leif:

Hopefully they. They break so bad, Vanessa just leaves

Leif:

forever.

Steve:

Or they could kill her off. Oh, but then they don't

Steve:

leave forever.

Leif:

I don't want Vanessa to die. She's a good person. She's just

Leif:

annoying.

Steve:

Yeah. Fair. Fair.

Steve:

Usually a good person. Unless she's

Steve:

blackmailing Blair.

Leif:

Chuck and Blair are chef's kiss.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Happy that Jenny and Eric made up.

Steve:

Yep. I'm, um. There.

Leif:

There was mixed reactions on Jenny being a drug

Leif:

dealer. Some people liked it, some people hated it. Thought it was

Leif:

gross.

Steve:

I think it's gross, but I love it.

Steve:

I think that it's exciting. Uh, what?

Leif:

It's exciting?

Steve:

Yeah, it's exciting. And it's

Steve:

so in line for Jenny. It's so

Steve:

something Jenny would do. I don't think it's a stretch

Steve:

for her character. I think that Jenny believes

Steve:

she's invincible. She sees the money.

Steve:

She doesn't want to take Lily's money.

Steve:

She wants her own.

Leif:

I don't think she really cares about the money so much as. That

Leif:

excites.

Steve:

Uh, yeah.

Leif:

She's just bored with being queen. That's. She's. She's above

Leif:

that.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

She's not Blair. She. She's. She has a real

Leif:

ambition.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Unlike Blair, who just wants to be popular.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. And. And wants to

Steve:

be. Blair just wants to belong.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

And rule.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

Jenny wants to sell drugs. Have a little excitement.

Leif:

Well, that is it for this week in fandom. Uh, let's go

Leif:

ahead and move over to episode grades.

Leif:

It is my week to go first. So,

Leif:

as I mentioned, not my favorite episode.

Leif:

I thought the acting was, for the most part, pretty good, other than

Leif:

Chuck stumbling around in the hospitals. A little

Leif:

over the top for me. The directing was good. He had

Leif:

junk.

Steve:

Act drunk. Ed act

Steve:

drunk.

Leif:

He wasn't acting drunk, though. He was acting like he was, like,

Leif:

hyperventilating.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Just a little over the top. The directing was good.

Leif:

Uh, we had, you know, good use of music in the episode. They

Leif:

kind of did some different stuff with Gossip Girl. Kind of. They

Leif:

did, like, the end of the episode, Gossip Girl thing a couple times

Leif:

where she was, like, inners dispersed within a scene, like.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

But yeah, the writing. Not good. I just.

Leif:

I don't like Sevyn's writing.

Steve:

She's. I mean, honestly, she's the worst

Steve:

recurring writer.

Leif:

The whole hallucinating with Bart was just a little over the

Leif:

top.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

The ptsd, which is. I mean, I've

Leif:

never lost a parrot, so I can't really say, but it just seems

Leif:

a little over the top. And the wolves.

Leif:

Ridiculous. So at the end of the day, I came

Leif:

down with a C. Damn.

Steve:

Damn. Okay, so I did not

Steve:

have all the problems you had with it. And

Steve:

when an episode, um, moves me the way this

Steve:

one did, I go to the top.

Steve:

I gave this an A minus. I

Steve:

agree with a lot of your criticisms. It didn't

Steve:

distract from the episode to me. And I

Steve:

think that's really the big difference is that your

Steve:

criticisms are valid. The wolves.

Steve:

Why? Why wolves? What is

Steve:

your symbol? Stephanie? At the same

Steve:

time, it wasn't enough to

Steve:

lessen how I felt about the episode itself.

Steve:

It got me engaged and emotional, so I liked it.

Leif:

Moving to Stockwatch. Going up.

Leif:

Nate.

Steve:

Nate.

Leif:

He was awesome. This episode. Jenny and Eric because they made

Leif:

up. Blair, because she was a great

Leif:

girlfriend. Maureen, because she won.

Leif:

And that's it.

Steve:

Yep. Yep. I had

Steve:

the same. I had Chuck, but I'm going to take him

Steve:

off because I don't think that he went up.

Steve:

I just think that he. I don't think Chuck

Steve:

went up. I just think that Chuck did the right thing.

Steve:

But other than. So I really had all of.

Steve:

Exactly what you said. Nate, Blair,

Steve:

Maureen, Jenny, and Eric.

Leif:

Uh, for me, going down.

Steve:

Lily.

Leif:

Rufus, because he's just pathetic.

Steve:

Poor Rufus.

Leif:

Dan, because he got shut down and sexually assaulted.

Leif:

Serena because, well, she got into a car accident,

Leif:

almost died and lost her boyfriend and

Leif:

tripped because he's just the absolute worst.

Steve:

Uh, I also had Lily and Rufus for the

Steve:

same reasons. I also had Trip

Steve:

and Serena for the same reasons. I also

Steve:

had Kira because she's no

Steve:

longer in the plotting circle.

Steve:

All of her work is now out the window.

Steve:

And who was the other one that you said?

Leif:

Dan.

Steve:

Yeah, I didn't have Dan go. No, I just. I had

Steve:

Dan neutral.

Leif:

Yeah, I Chucked neutral. I actually almost had him going down

Leif:

because he was kind of spiraling all up.

Steve:

Yeah, I'm keeping him at neutral.

Steve:

Um, like you said, I almost had him going up,

Steve:

but. Nah. But

Steve:

here's the best outfits from the last

Steve:

episode we seen.

Leif:

Best outfit for me. So, anyways,

Leif:

it wasn't a very big fashion episode because

Leif:

there was no party, for one thing.

Steve:

No party. And it was all Outerwear. Yeah, they were all outside

Steve:

most of this.

Leif:

So I ended up going with Blair's houndstooth pussy

Leif:

bow blouse from Alexander McQueen with, uh,

Leif:

the Brooks Brothers fleece double breasted black skirt

Leif:

and a white star style coat and

Leif:

slingback white with black toe cap Levin

Leif:

heels.

Steve:

So I actually also went with

Steve:

Blair, but her Giovanni Rufino

Steve:

coat that she was wearing, the big, uh, she

Steve:

had like kind of a podcast poofy kind of coat with a big

Steve:

black scarf on it as well.

Leif:

That's the same thing, isn't it?

Steve:

Oh, was it? Yeah, I thought it was. Okay, then we had to.

Steve:

I. I must have seen the name wrong. Maybe mine is

Steve:

a photo credit.

Leif:

But yeah, she. It was that scarf. It was a pussy bow

Leif:

blouse.

Steve:

Oh, okay. Oh, I didn't. So I thought it was a scarf.

Steve:

That's.

Leif:

And she had. She. There was a scene earlier without the jacket

Leif:

as well.

Steve:

Oh, okay. It was. It was the coat that I

Steve:

loved, though.

Leif:

There was also from the flashback, I

Leif:

might have given this. This dress best dress

Leif:

on the episode where Bart dies where

Leif:

Serena was wearing. You don't really see it in this episode because she's wearing a

Leif:

coat over it.

Steve:

Oh.

Leif:

But it was like a tulle dress underneath there.

Steve:

Yeah, I remember that.

Leif:

Jenny's jacket was kind of nice. I like that.

Steve:

Robin's comment. It was the first like five

Steve:

minutes of the show and Robin was like, the

Steve:

outerwear on this series is

Steve:

next level.

Leif:

That was the WB and CW in general. Yeah, they

Leif:

had a lot of great coats.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Uh, that Drax back on Dawson's Creek.

Leif:

I love the jackets they were wearing like the 1560s

Leif:

in.

Steve:

Also, while we're talking about the outerwear and

Steve:

complimenting it, trip, we're not talking to

Steve:

you and your padded leather armor.

Leif:

That is it for segments. You

Leif:

plug in anything this week.

Steve:

I am not plugging anything

Steve:

this week other than my Instagram and

Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

Give me a follow and you can

Steve:

follow me on bluesky the

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Steve:

have much going on at the moment.

Leif:

Not much for me either. Uh, check out that podcast I

Leif:

mentioned earlier. Tis yourself. Nice Irish

Leif:

woman doing, uh, interviews with celebrities.

Leif:

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

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me on Instagram and bluesky.

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:

and also our Discord server on our website,

Leif:

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Steve:

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Leif:

Indeed. And we will be back next week

Leif:

to talk about season three, episode

Leif:

13, the Hurt

Leif:

Locket.

Steve:

The Hurt Locket.

Leif:

The episode description reads, chuck tracks the

Leif:

woman he saw at his father's grave.

Leif:

Jenny agrees to help Damien, Nate and

Leif:

Serena get friendly.

Steve:

All right, what class is Chuck? What?

Steve:

What, uh, what DND class would Chuck

Steve:

be if he's trying to go on this? Like,

Steve:

does he have the ranger skills

Steve:

necessary or the rogue skills

Steve:

necessary to track this person down? He seems like an

Steve:

NPC class. I don't know if he can do the tracking himself.

Leif:

M. NPC nobleman.

Steve:

NPC nobleman. Yeah.

Leif:

Either that or he's a vigilante.

Steve:

Oh, that. Oh, that. Yeah. Well, the Batman

Steve:

voice definitely, definitely

Steve:

leans into that. Right?

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Like, Dan's a bard. Right? Just all written

Steve:

word. Bard.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

I would put him as a bard. Nate would probably

Steve:

be a fighter. Something that doesn't need to do too much

Steve:

thinking and use Paladin. Paladin. Yeah.

Steve:

Nate's a Paladin. Nate's a Paladin.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Serena is a siren.

Leif:

She's a monstrous humanoid.

Leif:

That tracks.

Steve:

That tracks.

Leif:

Jenny is a halfling.

Steve:

Rogue. Yes. Yes.

Leif:

So, uh, Eric is an

Leif:

aristocrat.

Steve:

Yeah, I was going to say he's also got to be an NPC

Steve:

class. Roof, uh, is also

Steve:

a bard, obviously.

Steve:

Lily, uh, an NPC aristocrat.

Leif:

I would also think Lily might be a

Leif:

necromancer.

Steve:

Oh, that's fair. Oh, yeah,

Steve:

because she learned it from Cece. I mean, that makes

Steve:

sense.

Leif:

Training to become a lich.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Fair.

Steve:

Yeah. It wasn't chemotherapy that she was going through. It was

Steve:

actually the ritual to ascend to lichdom

Steve:

that Cece had to do over the summer. That makes

Steve:

a lot of sense.

Leif:

Blair.

Steve:

What would Blair be, then?

Leif:

Yeah, uh, she could be an anti

Leif:

paladin. Possibly.

Steve:

She could be. She could. Yeah, she could be

Steve:

an anti paladin. An assassin.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Although I don't really see

Steve:

her as being so much sneaky as much as

Steve:

subtle.

Leif:

Yeah, she might be a vigilante. Class as well.

Steve:

Yeah, I could. Yeah, that one makes sense.

Leif:

She does like disguises.

Steve:

Yes. Oh, yeah. Claire.

Leif:

Well, until next time. You know you love us.

Steve:

XOXO Every time you walk away,

Steve:

run away you take a piece of me with

Steve:

you there Every time

Steve:

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

Steve:

Right to your door

Steve:

my heart still.

Steve:

Resting looking for 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 piece

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away I 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:

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 to

Steve:

me I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

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

Steve:

of meat with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

Steve:

Come back to me.

Steve:

Smile and you'll make my.

Steve:

Life complete.

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

ah Every time you walk away

Steve:

or run away you take a piece of me with

Steve:

you there Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away take a piece of me

Steve:

with you there Every

Steve:

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

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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

Steve:

of me 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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