Episode 14

S3E14 - "The Lady Vanished"

This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, our dynamic duo, Leif and Steve, are diving headfirst into the whirlwind of Gossip Girl Season 3, Episode 14, titled "The Lady Vanished." And let me tell you, if you thought the Upper East Side was all about brunching and shopping, think again! With Chuck's mother making a jaw-dropping comeback, you can bet the drama is thicker than a New York bagel. The tension between Chuck and Blair is reaching boiling point, and Serena is tangled up in her own emotional mess thanks to her estranged father. Yikes!

Join Leif and Steve as they unravel the deliciously twisted plotlines of love, betrayal, and the all-seeing Gossip Girl. From Jenny's wild escapades with Damien to the explosive parenting battles between Rufus and Lily, this episode is jam-packed with the kind of scandalous antics that keep fans glued to their screens. Expect sharp commentary that’ll make you chuckle, some eye-rolling at the outrageous decisions of our favorite characters, and a few heart-pounding moments that will have you gripping your breakfast burrito in suspense. So, grab your favorite morning treat, whether it’s pancakes, avocado toast, or just a good ol’ cup of coffee, and settle in for another episode that’s serving up all the juicy gossip you can handle!

Transcript
Steve:

Rufus, you fucking noob, you left your

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scarf at her house. And also the

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best part, I mentioned earlier about

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wondering if there was history with Holland and

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Lily that Holland slept with one of

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Lily's husbands or something like that, or. Or Lily.

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Actually, no, it was. I had the suspicion that

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Lily slept with Holland's husband

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because she says early on about like, you know, the husband cheating

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and whatnot. And so for her to take that

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scarf to Vanya and be

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like, rufus.

Leif:

Left this at my place definitely feels purposeful.

Steve:

She knew what she was doing. Yeah. Ah, she was sending a

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message to Lily that your man's hanging out with

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me. That was a shot. That was not a

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message. That was a warning shot.

Leif:

Hey, up residers and all you scandal loving listeners out

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there, you just tuned in to 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 ever.

Leif:

My name is Leif, and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, the new kid on the block.

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The greenhorn, the fresh meat, the.

Steve:

I don't know, Leif. What do you call the newbie

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here in Gossip Girl terms?

Leif:

I don't know. I'm just glad I got my couch scotchgard before you

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and Robin came over.

Steve:

Oh, no need, Leaf. I'm an expert in the kitchen.

Steve:

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

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Gossip Girls from the very beginning, and I'm

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

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your dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama,

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romance, and sometimes questionable fashion

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choices of this iconic 2007

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series.

Leif:

Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week we're

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dissecting every juicy detail of the show. We, one

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episode at a time, we'll connect the dots, uncover, uh,

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those sneaky little Easter eggs, and of course, serve up

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some piping hot behind the scenes tea.

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And expect some iconic fandom moments too, because what's

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a deep dive without a little drama?

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And since we are all about inclusivity here at

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the non judging breakfast pod, there is always

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room for you at the non judging breakfast table. So go ahead

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and grab a mimosa, a cup of coffee, or. Or

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pass a joint to your bassist, and let's go ahead

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and get into this.

Leif:

Let's do it. Anything going on this week?

Steve:

Um, not too much, other than my

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obsession with baseball has now grown

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into an obsession with the Lehigh Valley

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Iron Pigs as well. Uh, I took

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the kids to the doubleheader yesterday and

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had an awesome time. I love going to that

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stadium. It's our Third. My third game this year so

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far.

Leif:

That's enough sportsball talk for now.

Leif:

Uh, everyone's turned off their podcast now.

Steve:

That everyone stopped listening.

Steve:

Here's the other thing that's going on.

Leif:

Uh, there's more.

Steve:

This isn't baseball. This isn't baseball. This is actually

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relevant because this is something that I wanted to talk to you

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about, because I think that you and I might see eye to eye here.

Steve:

I heard some stuff come up about the

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Lively Baldini case.

Steve:

Right. There's this whole angle of

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them trying to subpoena records from

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Deadpool, making the claim that

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Ryan Reynolds was making fun of Justin

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Baldini in Deadpool

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with the character Nice pool.

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And that they've been trying. They're trying to add that as

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a defamation piece of this case.

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And here's my thing.

Leif:

I had not heard this.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, this. I heard it a long time ago, and then I've

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heard it a couple times since. I'm surprised you

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haven't, because this has stood out to me.

Leif:

It definitely makes sense, though.

Steve:

Well, it completely makes sense.

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And Disney and Marvel are like, we

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can't give you trade secrets. We can't give you

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our character development details, because those are

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trade secrets, and we can't just offer those

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up. And so that's part of this lawsuit.

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And where I'm coming from, this.

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Whatever the relationship, whatever actually

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happened here between Lively and

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Baldini, you're

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allowed to make fun of people. How can you sue

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someone for making fun of you in a film?

Steve:

How. How can you sue someone for defamation

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for that? Because it

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happens all the fucking

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time. That's 25.

Leif:

Fair Use Act.

Steve:

Yes. Uh, absolutely. And

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90% of Hollywood is

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making fun of one thing or another

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or trying to get you to think about something. It's

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all metaphor and it's all allegory.

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So, like, oh, he hurt my feelings. But you can't

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sue for that.

Leif:

I guess if it's a pattern,

Leif:

I guess that's. I mean, that's what a defamation case

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is. Is here.

Steve:

I.

Leif:

Yes, it's part of a pattern. I guess they

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could work it in. I guess it's not

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like it's not a case on its own, but.

Steve:

Right. And since they're suing on a bigger

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case, I think that that angle

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is childish,

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Especially because no one knew this.

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No one knew that Nice Bull was making fun of

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him until he brought it up. Until, uh,

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he brought it into this lawsuit.

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I never thought. I didn't know anything about it. And I don't think

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most people said, oh, I Bet he's making fun of him.

Steve:

I think he did, but I think.

Leif:

Maybe people who know him realize it

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was making fun of it.

Steve:

Yeah, that. That. That makes sense.

Leif:

Anyways. Gossip Girl Season 3

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Episode 14 the Lady Vanished

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Original Air Date March 15, 2010

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Based on the Lady Vanishes

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directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Steve:

Yeah, and you sent me the link. I didn't get a chance to watch the

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movie, and I'm bummed because I've never seen an Alfred

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Hitchcock movie I don't like. So did

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you. Did you get to watch the movie?

Leif:

I watched a bit of it. The quality was just. It was really

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bad.

Steve:

Oh, yeah. And that's the.

Leif:

It's on, like. It's on several streaming services for free

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as well.

Steve:

Okay. Yeah. I still want to go back and look at it.

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I also want to see. I want to try to get Emily

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watching Hitchcock because she loves horror movies,

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and I think it'd be fun to watch some. She has an

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appreciation for that kind of thing sometimes.

Leif:

I think it was like 240p resolution or something.

Steve:

Oh, geez.

Leif:

Like watching a potato.

Leif:

But, yeah, the story, uh, it really has very little

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to do with the. This episode. But the story was.

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While traveling in continental Europe, a rich, young

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Playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have

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disappeared from the train. So,

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missing, uh, person.

Steve:

Yeah, very Hitchcock. Yeah, very.

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I love Psycho. I love the Birds.

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I love.

Leif:

I think Rear Window.

Steve:

I can't remember if I saw all of Rear Window or not.

Leif:

Anyway, this episode was written by

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Robert hall and. And also by

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Amanda Lasher, so there's a co production here.

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Robert, uh, hall did previously

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season two, episode four, the X Files, season two, episode

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12, It's a Wonderful Lie, and season two,

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episode 19, the Grandfather. And

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from this season, he also did the Lost Boys

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and the Treasure of Serena Madre, which.

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The Thanksgiving episode. Yes.

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And then Amanda Lasher had previously done

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in season two, Predator, Poor J. Gone with the

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Will Sat or anything. And then in

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season three, the Freshman. And they

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shoot Humphreys, don't they?

Steve:

Yeah, they mostly.

Leif:

I feel like Robert hall maybe wrote

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like. So I'm not sure who did. I'm just guessing.

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Robert hall did the Vanessa Dan stuff, and

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then Amanda Lasher did the

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rest of it. The NJBC and

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the Jenny Damian stuff.

Steve:

That. That makes sense.

Leif:

The. Yeah, because, like, the. The Dan and Vanessa stuff seem

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very Male. Gazy.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh. Oh, completely.

Steve:

Absolutely. And

Steve:

I completely hear that. I almost feel

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that the Jenny storyline could even

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have been, uh, the place where they collaborated the

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most because it really

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had some of the line of, like,

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I remember being a teenage boy. The

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worst part about having a teenage daughter is remembering what it's

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like to be a teenage boy.

Leif:

We'll get to that.

Steve:

Yeah, I know. So, like that.

Steve:

That feels so.

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Yeah.

Leif:

Episode was directed by 80s teen star

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Andrew McCarthy.

Steve:

Oh, I saw that and in the credits

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and thought to myself, oh, that can't be Andrew McCarthy.

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And then it's just now occurring

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to me, Andrew McCarthy was

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her dad. Was Lily's dad.

Leif:

Yeah. Which goes on to a tradition at Josh

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Swartz throws where the dad

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character kind of gets written off and becomes a director. Uh, that

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happened with, uh, what's his name? Who played Merce's dad

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in the O.C. oh,

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uh, who played, um, Tate Donovan.

Steve:

Yeah. Okay.

Leif:

He became a director. And so this was one of Andrew Carcy's first

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gigs, as he did, like, a couple of things before that. Like, uh,

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he did two episodes of something called Lipstick Jungle and

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a short prior to this. But now he's

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going on to a pretty decent, uh, directing career. He's

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did episode of, uh, Halt and Catch fire. He

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did 15 episodes of Orange is the New Black,

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26 episodes of the Blacklist.

Steve:

Interesting. Wow, that's. I, I, I

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only watched the first season and a half of

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Blacklist. I think the first season of Blacklist was

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amazing television. And then they were like,

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well, what do we do now? And kind of

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went off the rails, but I just like James

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McCarthy and James Spade or Andrew McCarthy and James

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Spader working together. That, that

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feels like an 80s hole somewhere.

Leif:

Why don't you give us that vulture recap?

Steve:

All right. The world rotates

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on its axis. Time marches on.

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Seasons change. One crop shrivels while the new

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seedlings pop up in its place,

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just as it is on Gossip Girl. Sometimes

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the winds from the inevitable storms draw our fair

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characters close together. Other times, it

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takes them far apart. Last night's episode

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saw both Blair and Chuck started out

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feeling disconnected and untrustworthy of one

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another, but quickly came together to deal with the

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reappearance of Chuck's mother. Nate and

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Serena bent their blond heads together when talking

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about the problem of Serena's father, as

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if they were sharing one mind, and they might as well

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have been. And downtown, in a cramped

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room at nyu, Dan and Vanessa came

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together at last. Maybe literally,

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but at the same time, uptown, all

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was not well with the rest of the Humphries. Rufus

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and Lily, so happy just last season,

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had become completely alienated from one another.

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Now with the advent of Damien, Jenny's

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drug dealing Quasi boyfriend Jenny and

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her father are also having a falling out.

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I think she needs to be back in Brooklyn to

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feel the, uh, ground under her feet. Rufus

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explains to Lily when she quite reasonably

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suggests they deal with the problem as a family.

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And I think I might need that too. Too bad for

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Rufus. The world never stops turning.

Leif:

Indeed.

Steve:

Fuuuufus.

Leif:

Yeah. Rufus, Rufus, Rufus. So bad.

Steve:

Uh, like the acting's as bad as the parenting, too.

Leif:

Well, act one begins with a Gossip Girl monologue.

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Get up and go at it, Upper east side. I hear little

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J. Is having foreign relations with a handsome

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attache. We always knew she had

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friends in high places, but how low will she

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go? Jenny and

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Damien appear to be getting cozy in a room, but Damien is

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really there to store his drugs. The two lovebirds are

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interrupted by a call from Damien's father, and Jenny gets a

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big bit miffed when he refers to her as

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just a friend.

Steve:

First of all, Jenny, this is a business, and you're

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just. She's trying to mix business

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with pleasure and

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looking for that relationship. Come on,

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Jenny. Pick a lane.

Leif:

Nate and Serena are, uh, in the honeymoon phase and

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can't keep their hands off each other. We get an

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extended foreplay scene that they were hoping was giving Top

Leif:

Gun but is actually hot shots.

Steve:

Yes. Yes.

Steve:

Yeah, they. They. They wanted. They

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wanted seven and a half weeks.

Leif:

And ended up with hot shots.

Leif:

Oh, so over the top.

Steve:

It was so. Yeah, it was so bad.

Steve:

Uh, I didn't, uh, I didn't. Nate

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cooking breakfast. I liked that. I didn't know he had

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a kitchen.

Leif:

But he was toasting waffles.

Steve:

He was toasting waffles. And Serena was

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so impressed with his cheffery.

Leif:

Well, I guess it's probably as good Nate didn't burn the place

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down because they wouldn't toaster

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put his knife in there.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Up against.

Leif:

It's not coming out.

Steve:

Yeah, hold on. Let me. Let me try to get this. Let me try

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to get this knife with this, uh, curtain here.

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In their post coital bliss, Nate and Serena

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hear what they think is Chuck and Blair going at it in the

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bedroom. However, at that moment, Nate gets a call

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from Chuck. Chuck asks Nate to grab his cell phone out of

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the bedroom before Blair goes snooping.

Steve:

This was. I love that because

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you hear her from the start and you're like

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that. She's not actually having

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sex with Chuck right now.

Leif:

Yeah, she'd be way too embarrassing.

Steve:

Yes. She's way too proper, but

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you know that she's just trying to now them

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feel uncomfortable. Also, this is where Nate has that.

Steve:

I told you I was good in the kitchen.

Steve:

Indeed. It was slick.

Leif:

Chuck is stalking his possible mother and exchanges

Leif:

a wad of cash for a room key.

Steve:

Yeah, we see Chuck stalking Evelyn

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and.

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Apparently has, like, a second sense and like he somehow

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knows she's behind that

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elevator.

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When the elevator dings and he's

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look, she's near me, I feel a

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presence. A presence I haven't felt

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since earlier today.

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Serena goes into the bedroom to find Blair reading a

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magazine while letting out, quote, unquote cries of

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passion. Serena presses Blair on. What's

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wrong? Blair admits she isn't connecting

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with Chuck anymore and that he is shutting her

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out.

Steve:

Yeah, toxic besties.

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Adorable. I always

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talk about how much I love their relationship, but I also

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can't ignore how toxic it is too.

Leif:

Why? Are these people friends?

Steve:

Yes. You know, Serena's in

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there and Blair is just. I love that Blair is

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just nasty to Serena and

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throws a few barbs and Serena's like, oh,

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Blair needs to talk. Goes

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in, puts the pillow down. Come on, Blair.

Leif:

Dan is walking in the dorm hallway in full

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winter dress, but everyone else seems to be in beach wear.

Leif:

Dapper Dan avoids the advances of a comely

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co ed.

Steve:

Yeah, Dan just has these horny

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freshmen throwing themselves

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at him on a daily

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basis. There's two more later, and

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he's hung up on

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Vanessa. What the fuck, Dan?

Leif:

Dan knocks on Vanessa's door and immediately goes into

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apology mode about the whole I love you thing. He

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ropes Vanessa and Paul into a classic double date with

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the X setup. But first, Dan needs to find a girlfriend.

Leif:

He name drops the coed from earlier. Melissa

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is a good name.

Steve:

Yeah, and why not? Well, I have a date instead of, oh,

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I've been seeing someone. If he checked your messages that

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don't say that, you would know. But why

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not just say, oh, yeah, I met someone and I'm taking a date to it,

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and then go find her and make up for it?

Leif:

Chuck is rummaging through Elizabeth's room and

Leif:

luggage. He finds something hidden in a wrapped cloth, but the

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scene cuts before it's revealed.

Steve:

Yeah, just rummaging through this

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stranger's room. That not

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complete stranger, but also just a little

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light B and E. And.

Leif:

Uh, this is just another scene where I just. I

Leif:

question what I. Look, I know he's

Leif:

dark, he's brooding, he's sexy, he's got

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daddy issues, but Ed Westbrook is just not

Leif:

a good actor. No, he was

Leif:

acting like someone searching a room. He did not. It was not

Leif:

natural at All.

Steve:

Yes, yes.

Leif:

So, like going through the motions of.

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Searching a room, and I felt that there was one place that

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he can't.

Leif:

Even blame it on the accent. Because he wasn't even talking.

Steve:

Yes, yes. Because there were times that he

Steve:

was looking in things. Are you

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looking for something or are you opening drawers?

Steve:

That there was no. I know exactly what

Steve:

you're talking about.

Leif:

It didn't feel natural.

Steve:

Yeah, and I felt the exact same way. And then

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goes for the purse or

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attache. Uh, there was something like that

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that he went through. And if the thing he was looking for wasn't

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right on top, he wasn't going to see it. And then when he finds

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the thing that he finds. Why would you even open that?

Steve:

Because you haven't been concerned with any other piece of cloth

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you've found so far. Of course, it's wrapped in

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gauze. For some reason.

Leif:

Nate enters the bedroom but is unable to get

Leif:

past Serena and definitely not Blair when he tries to

Leif:

sneak out Chuck's phone. Blair quickly

Leif:

sees through Nate's attempt at thinking on the spot, and she has a

Leif:

moment of nostalgia for dating someone that is a

Leif:

horrible liar.

Steve:

I love Nate getting caught and trying

Steve:

to. Oh, well, uh, I just wanted to, uh, check a

Steve:

tweet and then. Serena, you fucking asshole. Wait,

Steve:

didn't Chuck just call you and ask you to get him his

Steve:

phone and not tell Blair about it?

Leif:

Fucking Serena froze before us.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. I mean, um.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Jenny and Damien are counting pills in the bedroom when Lily

Leif:

walks in. The pair manages to hide the drugs, so Lily

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assume they are getting into some hanky panky.

Steve:

Instead, LJ gets busted

Steve:

and not for doing what she's busted for.

Steve:

Yeah, she should be busted for the other thing, but that's

Steve:

not what she's busted for. So I also think

Steve:

Lily kind of overreacts. And

Steve:

according to what they're saying, it's like noon.

Steve:

Why is the assumption that this boy stayed over and

Steve:

not came over this morning?

Leif:

Well, they're surprised that she's up early,

Leif:

so it's presumably before noon today.

Steve:

Okay, you're right. Yes, you're

Steve:

right. You're right.

Leif:

Nate recognizes the missed calls on Chuck's phone as the

Leif:

same number that Chuck called him from earlier.

Leif:

Blair plays the message and discovers that it was from

Leif:

Elizabeth and that she was trying to see Chuck before she

Leif:

left town. As Nate, Blair and Serena are trying

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to figure out the message. Chuck returns,

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revealing that her name is Evelyn and

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that she is his mother. Gossip Girl leads us

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into the first act break with.

Leif:

And just like that, we get the mother of

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all questions.

Leif:

Yes, a lot going on that scene.

Steve:

Yeah, uh, yes, there was a lot

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going on. And I also feel like it

Steve:

didn't do a whole lot

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in the sense of we know now

Steve:

that the non judging breakfast pod now has all the

Steve:

info, which was a big reveal to

Steve:

them. I really

Steve:

also more than anything, like what

Steve:

this starts setting up. And it's a little more in

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the next scene, but I like what this sets up for Serena

Steve:

and Chuck for their juxtaposition of what they're

Steve:

going through.

Leif:

So Act 2 begins. We come back from the commercial and

Leif:

we see that Chuck has found the other half of the locket

Leif:

showing a picture of Elizabeth Evelyn

Leif:

presumably holding an infant Chuck. He explains that

Leif:

Bart just manipulated him into believing what Bart wanted

Leif:

him to. Chuck says that now that he knows for sure,

Leif:

he wants nothing to do with his mother, ever the

Leif:

narcissist. Serena projects her daddy issues onto

Leif:

Chuck and she can't understand why he wouldn't want a

Leif:

relationship with a long lost parent. Chuck

Leif:

storms off and Blair tells Nate and Serena to honor

Leif:

Chuck's wishes.

Steve:

I'm sure they will. Like I said, I like the dynamic

Steve:

this sets up between Chuck and Serena.

Steve:

Of ch. Serena has

Steve:

this longing that she's actively looking for this

Steve:

person. And now Chuck finds out that he

Steve:

might actually have the thing Serena is looking for

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and doesn't know if he really wants it and doesn't know how to

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handle it. I also the

Steve:

Bart says that suits are appropriate to

Steve:

wear to kindergarten and that blue chip stocks

Steve:

are an appropriate gift for a child.

Leif:

Yes, Father of the

Leif:

year.

Steve:

Bart, could you imagine being

Steve:

a five year old and getting stock

Steve:

for your birthday? Like, what do I do with this?

Steve:

Actually, that kind of happened. I got a savings bond at one

Steve:

point. Oh, it's.

Leif:

I definitely got savings bonds a couple times when I was a kid.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, it's a hundred dollars.

Steve:

Eventually, one

Steve:

day, if you wait that long.

Leif:

Back at the penthouse, Damian is getting bored when

Leif:

Rufus arrives. Rufus, also showing some

Leif:

narcissism, assumes Lily's emergency was

Leif:

a ploy to get him to come over because of the relationship.

Leif:

He is, however, shocked to find Jenny had a boy

Leif:

over.

Steve:

Rufus just bursts in like an asshole.

Steve:

Oh, what are you tricking me over here for? Lily, what's

Steve:

so important? Don't you remember that your kid

Steve:

lives here? Uh, but it's not Dan.

Leif:

Now, to be fair, I think you mentioned

Leif:

Lily's overreaction earlier. I think she

Leif:

part of her did kind of use the get rupus to come

Leif:

up that.

Steve:

That scans. That scans. But it was a valid.

Leif:

Yeah, he should be there to do that.

Steve:

But it is valid.

Leif:

But Lily uses the truth to lie. Yes,

Leif:

she is a master.

Steve:

Yeah, she's. Lily is also a

Steve:

narcissist. She is the tree. The apple

Steve:

did not fall far from.

Leif:

We get a montage of Beachbots as we are back in the dorms.

Leif:

The cliche of exes on a double date pays off in

Leif:

the expected way. Paul and Melissa are

Leif:

starting to realize they are both third wheeling on this

Leif:

date.

Steve:

I thought it was kind of funny. I thought

Steve:

Vanessa was actually the funnier one in this

Steve:

scene. And Dan just looked awkward and out of place. Dan

Steve:

has just looked awkward and out of place for three episodes

Steve:

now. Yeah, and I don't like it.

Steve:

I don't like it, Pen. But I like the whole. And um, then

Steve:

he was my prince Charming. Dan was Prince Charming.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

I like the actor plays Paul. He's really sassy.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. He's such a theater kid.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

He is such a.

Leif:

Such a stereotype.

Steve:

Yes. And being a theater

Steve:

kid, I fucking love it because I feel

Steve:

seen.

Leif:

Blair finds Chuck at the bar and apologizes and offers

Leif:

to be there for him whatever he wants. She

Leif:

then gives him the locket and suggests it's time to leave it at

Leif:

Bart's grave.

Steve:

I love how Blair's whole thing here is this is your

Steve:

trauma, this is your thing you're dealing with.

Steve:

I'm here for whatever you need.

Steve:

And the whole apology without a caveat,

Steve:

that it's no, I'm just letting you know

Steve:

I am here for you.

Steve:

That's what this is about. I liked her

Steve:

support of him here and. Okay, you want her out,

Steve:

let's go. Let's put this at the grave and let's never think about it again.

Steve:

Cool.

Leif:

Rufus is yelling at Lily for allowing a boy to

Leif:

stay over and ignores Damien's lame excuse.

Leif:

Rufus demands that Jenny pack her things because they

Leif:

are both going back to Brooklyn. Lily is

Leif:

beside herself.

Steve:

Robin referred to Rufus as a drama queen

Steve:

in this scene.

Leif:

And he's also, uh, kind of tallying on himself for being

Leif:

a shitty to women as a teenager.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah, he's telling on

Steve:

himself for being a shitty kid. And the way

Steve:

he immediately blames Lily

Steve:

that like, this is your fault. That this

Steve:

boy Jenny is not Sarita. Yeah,

Steve:

fuck you, Chris. Fuck you.

Steve:

You are not Lily.

Steve:

Uh, I don't know where I was going with that. But

Steve:

he's. And also just. Can we talk about the

Steve:

acting? Matt, settle. Like

Steve:

you can't do angry. He can't

Steve:

do angry. He can

Steve:

barely manage disappointed.

Steve:

And it's just always so.

Steve:

It's always so dramatic

Steve:

and not. It doesn't feel like real

Steve:

emotion. It feels acted.

Steve:

Whenever he shows that emotion,

Steve:

it's like they cast him for season one,

Steve:

Gossip Girl. And then they're like, oh, shit, we have a season two.

Steve:

We need to make him more dramatic and make him

Steve:

fight with Jenny more. And then they're like, oh,

Steve:

he's not very good at that.

Leif:

Let's just do it anyways.

Steve:

Yeah. So stop writing him in these stupid drama

Steve:

roles and the whole Lily fight. Just

Steve:

stop. Oh, and it's gonna get worse.

Leif:

Yep. Yep. At the party,

Leif:

Vanessa points out to Dan that things are still

Leif:

awkward between them. Um, Dan suggests a mock photo

Leif:

to get back in the friend groove. However, the two

Leif:

hot bodies pressed up against each other in such a

Leif:

confined space leads to the inevitable

Leif:

spontaneous makeout.

Leif:

Really? Uh, I thought they were fucking hot.

Leif:

I hate it from a writing standpoint because it just

Leif:

segregates the show. Yeah, but they were fucking hot

Leif:

together.

Steve:

Only because it's Dan and Vanessa.

Steve:

And to your point, even more, this

Steve:

whole scene is one of the

Steve:

best, almost, I want to say,

Steve:

cinematic moments of Gossip

Steve:

Girl. And they don't do a lot of

Steve:

film tricks and a lot of cinema

Steve:

tricks. They tend to be very much.

Steve:

This is what you're looking at. It's a multi

Steve:

camera show and they just kind of set up their cameras.

Leif:

Absolutely. They just don't have time for that kind of thing.

Steve:

Exactly. And here we have

Steve:

this really great one shot

Steve:

scene of them going behind,

Steve:

squeezing behind, doing the makeout, being

Steve:

like, oops. And then taking the

Steve:

picture with no emotion on their face and

Steve:

coming back around the other side. I

Steve:

was, I loved the shot. It

Steve:

was a great shot. You're right, they were hot.

Steve:

The, the, the makeout scene was great.

Steve:

It was also just. I,

Steve:

I, I, uh, didn't want this to happen anyway. I knew,

Steve:

I knew this was going to happen.

Leif:

Yeah. It had to happen eventually.

Steve:

It had to because they're all gonna fucking, uh. For my

Steve:

theory to hold, this had to happen.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

My problem with it. Yeah. Is it segregates the

Leif:

storylines. This episode was a great example. The

Leif:

three storylines were completely separate.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. This. Yes. And

Steve:

the party of the week had Vanessa

Steve:

and Dan.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

No one wants to go to a party with Dan and

Steve:

Vanessa. The parties were always.

Leif:

Well, actually, every girl at NYU was.

Steve:

To go to Party Fair. Fair. Every girl

Steve:

at NYU wants to get on the

Steve:

Dan Express.

Leif:

The Humphrey Ponies express yeah.

Steve:

The Humphrey Express.

Steve:

Pronounced with an umpty.

Steve:

My name is home free. Pronounced with an

Steve:

home free. I bet he gets

Steve:

busy in a Burger King bathroom.

Leif:

At some point, Nate and Serena pretend

Leif:

to wave the white flag and invite Chuck and Blair to

Leif:

dinner. It appears it might be a setup, and Serena is

Leif:

dragging Nate along on his scheme, kicking and screaming.

Leif:

Gossip Girl cautions.

Leif:

Careful, S. You may think you know what's best,

Leif:

but this time you might be pushing your Chuck.

Steve:

Pushing your Chuck was. Was good. I, I

Steve:

actually. I actually really. That one stuck out.

Leif:

It's all part of the Chuck glove this season. You know, he's no longer

Leif:

being compared to fuck words. Now he's.

Steve:

He's luck. Yes,

Steve:

it's true. It's true in the episode where

Steve:

Chuck tries to find his mother. He's not a mother chucker,

Steve:

but. And Serena,

Steve:

you fucking narcissist. It's just,

Steve:

oh, well, I know what he must be going through

Steve:

because of my daddy issues, so I'm going to solve it

Steve:

all. Yeah.

Leif:

We move into Act 3 at the

Leif:

restaurant. Nate and Serena are stalling for time.

Leif:

Eventually, Evelyn, uh, arrives and they reveal their ruse

Leif:

to Chuck. Serena pushes Chuck to talk to her

Leif:

so the not knowing doesn't haunt him forever.

Steve:

Yeah, the meddling is so annoying.

Steve:

Uh, that's my big thing there.

Steve:

It works out. It was in the long

Steve:

run.

Leif:

I hate that Serena was right.

Steve:

Yeah, it was the right thing. She was right.

Steve:

And I hate that she was. And she

Steve:

was right, but she wasn't. And we'll even get to that

Steve:

because when we get to the Serena Evelyn

Steve:

conversation. But you're right. I hate that

Steve:

she was right. I hate that this was sort of the right

Steve:

thing to do because none of it's for the right reason.

Leif:

She doesn't deserve to be right.

Steve:

Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Leif:

At the beach party, Paul and Melissa have figured it out and

Leif:

basically tell Dan and Vanessa to fuck off with their drama.

Steve:

Yeah, busted.

Steve:

Just bang already. Paul's just basically like, go,

Steve:

Go fucking bang already. And the fact that they

Steve:

already broke up, that you have to wonder if they

Steve:

broke up because of Dan,

Steve:

that because of Paul's irritation

Steve:

at other times, even if he didn't know it was

Steve:

Dan, but knew that there was a

Steve:

friend out there that was that

Steve:

person keeping you from that connection.

Leif:

Just listen to Bismarck, B. Fellas.

Steve:

Yeah, just listen. Never trust a girl

Steve:

when she says he's just a friend.

Leif:

Chuck is talking with Evelyn while Blair and Serena

Leif:

and Nate watch from across the restaurant. Chuck

Leif:

assumes all she wants is money and writes Evelyn a

Leif:

check. Blair stops Serena from going over to them.

Leif:

Chuck tells Evelyn that the money is hers if she never

Leif:

tells him her story and leaves forever.

Leif:

Evelyn hesitates before ultimately taking the check.

Steve:

Chuck is really defensive. And Chuck,

Steve:

completely in character all along, um, has always put

Steve:

up big walls and has always used his

Steve:

money to hide from feeling things.

Steve:

And this completely makes sense. And

Steve:

it felt also like he says later that it felt like a

Steve:

test and she fucking fails.

Steve:

Okay? And clearly, you know, she even

Steve:

has like a, okay, this must be what you want.

Steve:

I'll take your money and go. But you're the

Steve:

grown up here and you should recognize that

Steve:

I feel like she, that Evelyn should have recognized

Steve:

that this is a test, that no, I don't

Steve:

want your money. But she failed. But

Steve:

of course then we would have wrapped up this episode 20

Steve:

minutes too early.

Leif:

Jenny is packing and is surprised Damien is

Leif:

still there, but only to retrieve his drugs.

Leif:

Jenny admits that she was upset that he referred to her as just

Leif:

a friend. Damien turns it back on Jenny that

Leif:

she's still in high school and their father isn't wrong to be

Leif:

mad. As Damien goes to leave,

Leif:

Jenny stops him and purposely dumps the pills on the floor for

Leif:

Rufus to see. Gossip Girl jibes.

Leif:

Watch your step, little J. Damian may be your

Leif:

drug of choice, but it looks like this love could

Leif:

be bad medicine.

Steve:

I have a couple things here. The first being that

Steve:

Damien saying that Rufus isn't out of line

Steve:

I think is one of the most mature things that

Steve:

someone has said on this show. That

Steve:

the self awareness of Damien in this

Steve:

moment to say, uh, Jenny, you're in

Steve:

high school. Your dad isn't out of line for not

Steve:

wanting us together. I'm going to, I'm going to, going to head

Steve:

out that. Yeah. I

Steve:

for a moment had an inkling of

Steve:

respect for Damien for

Steve:

when I thought he was going to bow out of this whole thing.

Steve:

And then. Jenny, what the fuck

Steve:

are you thinking? Jenny, this isn't

Steve:

I want to start a fashion show.

Steve:

This is drugs, Jenny.

Leif:

We move into Act 4.

Leif:

Rufus is once again accuses Lily of being a

Leif:

bad parent. Rufus enters stern

Leif:

dad mode and sits Jenny down for a talk.

Leif:

Damien, despite his aversion to drama, has seen enough and

Leif:

admits the drugs are his or rather his father's.

Steve:

Yeah, like Rufus. Yeah. Lily just

Steve:

knew she was selling drugs out of the

Steve:

apartment. Did you know about this? Of course she

Steve:

didn't fucking know about this.

Leif:

We.

Steve:

Wouldn't that have been the first thing she told you if she knew about

Steve:

this, do you think Lily would Keep that from you.

Leif:

Like so. Such a dick.

Steve:

He just wants to be mad at Lily

Steve:

and wants the fight to be about her.

Steve:

What terrible parenting that

Steve:

you want this fight. You're just trying

Steve:

to pick this fight with your wife. It's about your

Steve:

kid who is clearly troubled, who

Steve:

is clearly holding tons of

Steve:

drugs, of narcotics, for fuck's

Steve:

sake, for more than would be in someone's

Steve:

pill closet. And you're like, I'm

Steve:

gonna use this opportunity to fight with my

Steve:

wife, who probably used this opportunity

Steve:

to try to work things out with me. So I'm gonna

Steve:

make it even worse. And meanwhile, Jenny is just

Steve:

not being parented because they just make it

Steve:

about each other. Disgusting. And. And I mean it

Steve:

kind of for personal reasons. That

Steve:

really bothers me because,

Steve:

uh. And I won't get into it on here, but it really

Steve:

bothers me when parents make the

Steve:

relationship about them hating

Steve:

each other more important than

Steve:

their kids. Well, being and using the kids

Steve:

to fight. I hate it. And again, I want to

Steve:

point out, but Lil, Little Jenny, Lil, Lil

Steve:

J. This isn't a guerrilla fashion

Steve:

show. This isn't something that someone's

Steve:

just going to be like, oh, I don't want to press charges. This

Steve:

is jail time. This is

Steve:

intent to distribute. This is

Steve:

when Rufus is. When she says, what, are you going to send me to

Steve:

military school or ground me for life? And he's like, maybe both.

Steve:

I was like, yeah, like, that's the one thing I almost

Steve:

agreed with. Like, yeah, if you're selling

Steve:

drugs, like, this isn't a

Steve:

little you're grounded thing. This is

Steve:

fucking serious.

Leif:

Again, uh, it's a cry for help. Her

Leif:

parents have given her endless money and

Leif:

zero supervision.

Steve:

Zero parenting at all.

Steve:

Yes, it is absolutely

Steve:

a cry for help. She's bored and

Steve:

over and over went from having to

Steve:

fight for her position to just

Steve:

being privileged and not knowing how to handle that.

Steve:

And they didn't do shit to help her

Steve:

with this transition. They just dropped her in the

Steve:

house and then split up. Yeah.

Leif:

The non judging Breakfast Club is arguing, uh, uh,

Leif:

in the street outside the restaurant. First, Chuck storms

Leif:

off, followed by Serena. Blair recognizes why

Leif:

Serena was so interested in Chuck's reunion and

Leif:

also leaves. And only Nate is left

Leif:

alone and clueless.

Steve:

Poor Nate. I love.

Leif:

Yeah, like a dog

Leif:

sitting on the porch waiting for his master to come home.

Steve:

It's like Arrested Development when the Peanuts theme, when

Steve:

the Charlie Brown theme would come on,

Steve:

just drops his head and walks, um, home.

Steve:

I also, I love that that Blair calls

Steve:

out Serena on this and is like, you know, this isn't what it's about.

Steve:

That's not why you're doing this. And then

Steve:

she leaves, and Nate's like, well, what is it about? Not

Steve:

my place to tell, kiddo.

Steve:

I think right m. Now, one of my favorite

Steve:

parts of the Serena

Steve:

Nate relationship are the Blair Nate

Steve:

interactions. That they're not interested in each other

Steve:

but have so much history

Steve:

that they just know each other so well, and it just

Steve:

leads to such great banter

Steve:

that Nate's not gonna push back on Blair there.

Steve:

Nate hasn't pushed back on Blair for 11 years.

Leif:

Dan and Vanessa are arguing about who lied to

Leif:

whom. Vanessa says she wishes Dan never

Leif:

confessed his feelings. So, uh, he leaves to get another drink.

Steve:

It's nice that they're finally honest

Steve:

with each other here.

Leif:

Well, not totally.

Steve:

Is this. Am, um, I thinking in the wrong place?

Leif:

Yeah, this is where Vanessa says, I just wish you never had

Leif:

said anything. And then Dad's like, shit, and

Leif:

walks off. Well, I gotta go get another drink.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But this conversation, it

Steve:

does show a little bit of, like,

Steve:

that history that, uh, Nate,

Steve:

Vanessa, we've known each other a long time.

Steve:

History.

Leif:

Damian is explaining how his father went on

Leif:

escalating benders after his mother left them.

Leif:

Eventually, his father got clean. But this morning, Damian

Leif:

found the bag of pills and came to Jenny for help.

Steve:

Dude, great cover. Great story.

Steve:

I'd buy it. Why'd you bring the drugs here? I don't know,

Steve:

dude. I panicked and didn't know what to do, and I brought him

Steve:

here.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah, that. Scans, no notes,

Steve:

like you. Sure thing, dude. Like, I buy

Steve:

your story. Came in for the save. And

Steve:

of course, then Rufus is still an asshole. Yeah,

Steve:

just. Still a fucking asshole.

Leif:

Blair finds Chuck lying in bed and offers

Leif:

talking or sexual. Chuck chooses sex.

Steve:

Nice to, uh. Nice to reconnect.

Steve:

There. Blair and Chuck, that was this thing

Steve:

that was really bothering Blair and

Steve:

now Chuck, you know, reconnecting. Great.

Leif:

Jenny thanks Damien for the crazy story,

Leif:

but he admits it was true, except for the part about his dad

Leif:

getting sober. Jenny is even more touched

Leif:

that he actually opened up to her. Rufus,

Leif:

having flushed the pills, comes down and tells Damien and

Leif:

it's time for him to leave. And Rufus and Jenny to go back to

Leif:

Brooklyn.

Steve:

I like that they've made Damien a little bit

Steve:

of a sympathetic character here. And what I.

Steve:

I, uh, mean by that, I think Damien's a piece of shit.

Steve:

Obviously, he's another fucking predator

Steve:

on this show.

Leif:

Uh, just enough daddy issues to make him

Leif:

sympathetic.

Steve:

But. But he came with just enough daddy issues.

Steve:

I Think what I'm saying is I felt

Steve:

Aaron and Gabriel and Trip

Steve:

for Serena were all very one

Steve:

dimensional. That they were all very much,

Steve:

I'm an older dude taking advantage of a younger girl.

Steve:

Yeah, very much. That there was. I

Steve:

mean, we saw Aaron's parent

Steve:

dad. He has a healthy relationship with his

Steve:

father who is all about like, you know, getting his

Steve:

son some. At times you don't

Steve:

see the damage side of those

Steve:

characters.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And so to finally see one of these assholes

Steve:

be a little damaged, it at

Steve:

least made it make a little more sense.

Leif:

Mhm.

Steve:

It made him more real of a person.

Leif:

I agree.

Steve:

And Rufus was an asshole again.

Leif:

Serena just can't let things go and finds

Leif:

Elizabeth before she can leave town.

Leif:

Gossip Girl ends with the act with,

Leif:

well, s. Looks like Chuck's mom isn't the

Leif:

only one with baggage.

Steve:

So, Evelyn, this whole time, I've got something I need

Steve:

to tell you. I never wanted you

Steve:

and never wanted to be a mom. And

Steve:

really I wanted you to believe I was dead

Steve:

your whole life. That's what she tells

Steve:

Serena.

Leif:

I thought, yeah, but that's next.

Steve:

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that that was awful.

Leif:

That's after the act break.

Steve:

Oh, I forgot there was an act break there.

Leif:

Yes. Yeah. This is where she just kind of shows up and says,

Leif:

you know.

Steve:

Yeah, because it's super shitty. It makes. It

Steve:

makes so much sense. It's shitty, but it

Steve:

makes so much sense. I need to know for

Steve:

me. So I'm gonna do the thing.

Leif:

So as we get it to the final act, Serena wants to hear

Leif:

Elizabeth's story to possibly find a reasonable explanation

Leif:

on why her father left her. Elizabeth

Leif:

admits that she was a young, unwed mother. And when

Leif:

Bart saw his son for the first time, he wanted to be a father and

Leif:

a husband. Elizabeth turned down the proposal and

Leif:

instead took payments from Bart to stay away. It was

Leif:

her request that Bart tell Chuck that she

Leif:

was dead.

Steve:

Yeah. The truth is, I just never wanted the little.

Steve:

I wanted him to think I was dead. That, uh.

Steve:

So what story are you hoping to

Steve:

tell him with?

Leif:

Well, I got the impression that she wanted to get an abortion and

Leif:

Bart forced her to have the kid.

Steve:

Yes. And because we agreed, we'd put it up for

Steve:

adoption. Like, okay, fine, I won't have the

Steve:

abortion. We'll put it up for adoption. And then

Steve:

Bart couldn't go through with it after seeing his little boy.

Leif:

Mhm.

Steve:

But then also the whole, like, every day I look at

Steve:

you, I see your mother.

Leif:

What the was that?

Steve:

I didn't. That I Didn't really that

Steve:

that's still alive out there somewhere. And I pay

Steve:

her regularly to keep away from you

Steve:

so that you can think she's dead.

Leif:

That kids, is what we call a retcon.

Leif:

Florence the Machine's dog days are over. Please.

Leif:

As Vanessa admits she has feelings for Dan

Leif:

too. They realize that they are on a no man's

Leif:

land between friends and lovers and decide to

Leif:

throw down and save. See what happens.

Steve:

I think what happens is they bang.

Steve:

This was also. I liked this when they had

Steve:

this sort of, uh.

Leif:

She admitted to being scared.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. She admitted to being.

Leif:

Scene was great.

Steve:

Uh, yes.

Leif:

I mean one of my all time favorite songs.

Steve:

First of all, it's. It's a fantastic song and

Steve:

it really has that like we don't know what we're doing

Steve:

energy. Yeah, we were. It has that. I'm

Steve:

diving into something blind energy

Steve:

to it and it really

Steve:

brought that whole thing together. I. I agree

Steve:

that that was a really good scene.

Leif:

Back at the penthouse, Jenny begs Rufus to allow

Leif:

Damien visitation rights. And Lily begs for him

Leif:

and Jenny to stay so they can work out their issues.

Leif:

Rufus ignores both their pleas and takes Jenny

Leif:

back to Brooklyn.

Steve:

When I was a kid, I had a

Steve:

friend who went into

Steve:

friends hospital, was checked in to

Steve:

a psychiatric facility

Steve:

for a few weeks. And I remember I was afraid to

Steve:

tell my parents because I was afraid of them

Steve:

not wanting me to be friends with someone who had

Steve:

these kinds of problems. And I hid

Steve:

it from my mom and I told my dad

Steve:

again, nervous that my dad was going to end up with,

Steve:

you're not going to be friends with him anymore. And my dad's

Steve:

response was, I'm glad

Steve:

someone who's this troubled has a friend

Steve:

like you to help them out. And

Steve:

Rufus's whole, I don't want you

Steve:

anywhere near this troubled boy and the problems

Steve:

that he's having I think is so

Steve:

fucking ignorant. And there's two huge

Steve:

things that you're doing here as a parent. For one, when

Steve:

you tell your kid you're not allowed to hang out with that person,

Steve:

what are they going to do? They're going to hang out with that fucking

Steve:

person. No doubt. But

Steve:

to tell your kid this person

Steve:

is troubled and their family is

Steve:

troubled, so I want you to

Steve:

shut them out is a terrible

Steve:

lesson. Emily has a friend who

Steve:

sometimes gets who. Who has some

Steve:

what I would call troubling behavior. And Emily

Steve:

is like, I don't deal with that shit. I don't put up with that shit.

Steve:

If she's doing that when I'm around, I'M out.

Steve:

But she's still there for her to be her

Steve:

friend, the friend that she needs. And

Steve:

I find Rufus just to be so ignorant and

Steve:

judgy on the. Wow. Your

Steve:

friend's dad has a drug problem. Yeah. No

Steve:

more friends. You're not going to be friends with someone whose dad has

Steve:

a drug problem. There's more layers to this.

Steve:

Of course, the actual relationship is

Steve:

more nuanced than that. And Rufus is again,

Steve:

like, I don't want to be rewarded for being right. He's right

Steve:

to keep her away from Damien because he's a shady piece of

Steve:

shit. But not on the evidence he has.

Steve:

Which is what really bothers me. Yeah. Is

Steve:

that he's just ignorant, judgy, and then just fights

Steve:

more with Lily. And what are the men

Steve:

on this show when they're really fighting with someone that they're

Steve:

with? What is the real reason that they're really

Steve:

doing that most of the time? Because they're trying to bang someone

Steve:

else.

Leif:

Chuck and Blair are basking in the afterglow. And

Leif:

Chuck admits that he hoped Elizabeth would turn down the check.

Leif:

Just then, the front desk calls up to tell Chuck that

Leif:

Elizabeth is downstairs and waiting to see him.

Steve:

I kind of thought it was a test. I think I said that

Steve:

earlier. I don't know. I felt like this was kind of a

Steve:

lay, uh, it all out kind of thing. Alright.

Leif:

Rufus comes down to find Jenny missing.

Leif:

Did that crazy kid run away again?

Leif:

Gossip Girl seems to think so. And she has this to

Leif:

say.

Leif:

There comes a time when every father learns you can't

Leif:

keep a bad girl down.

Steve:

And that's when Jenny ran away

Steve:

again.

Leif:

Took something with her too.

Steve:

Yep. Yeah, because Rufus flushed the drugs. You

Steve:

don't flush narcotics like that. You're just

Steve:

adding them to the water stream Now, Rufus, there are

Steve:

disposable places for those things.

Steve:

There are ways to dispose of that. That is not

Steve:

dumping narcotics into

Steve:

the water, into the sewer system.

Steve:

Public service announcement. If you're trying to get rid of a whole bunch

Steve:

of narcotics, take them to a pharmacy and they'll get rid of

Steve:

them for you. Or get like they had. They sell like

Steve:

disposal, like bags. Or I think they give

Steve:

away my one pharmacy gave away bags. Like if

Steve:

you have old pills, don't flush them. Put them in here and

Steve:

toss them.

Leif:

We move into the epilogue. Serena

Leif:

comes back to the Waldorf apartment to find Nate there

Leif:

waiting for her. Serena finally tells Nate about

Leif:

her failed attempts to find her father. Talking

Leif:

to Elizabeth has finally convinced Serena that her father

Leif:

just doesn't want to see Her. Nate tells Serena that

Leif:

he wants to be there for her and know about her.

Leif:

The two embrace again.

Steve:

I like them together. I feel like. I feel

Steve:

like they are a, uh, good,

Steve:

stableish couple, as, like,

Steve:

sort of in their own

Steve:

I again, I want them handcuffed together

Steve:

so that neither of them can be around any other pretty

Steve:

people, so that if they are. If they see

Steve:

another pretty person, they're with each other. I just want them handcuffed

Steve:

eternally and to run off into, uh,

Steve:

until they retire to a farm up state, like

Steve:

good golden retrievers do.

Leif:

I'll give you that. This was a cute scene.

Steve:

As of right now, I'm a big Nate, Serena,

Steve:

they're fine.

Steve:

Well, it's also not

Steve:

as boring as Nate's other

Steve:

relationships. This is probably the least

Steve:

boring Nate relationship thus far.

Leif:

We come back to Elizabeth just having told Chuck, we

Leif:

have to assume is the same story she told Serena.

Leif:

However, Elizabeth has decided that she wants Chuck to know

Leif:

her, and she gives back the check and declares she is

Leif:

staying in New York.

Steve:

I think Chuck is right to be defensive in the beginning of

Steve:

this. I like that Evelyn takes the

Steve:

lumps and kind of

Steve:

fights through to the, no, here's the money. No, I don't

Steve:

want the check. No, I want to actually know my son.

Leif:

So, first of all, I get not wanting to repeat the

Leif:

same story twice for brevity, but why do you

Leif:

give the story to Serena and not to Chuck? Why don't

Leif:

you get to see Chuck's reaction to the story?

Steve:

Yeah, and it's funny because I almost

Steve:

feel like she gets away with it

Steve:

by saying, I want to know

Steve:

you. Right. And doesn't bring up

Steve:

the why did I give you up? It's just right to

Steve:

look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look. I was wrong. I knew I was

Steve:

staying away. I was staying away, but now I want to know my son.

Leif:

And then my second point for the scene was

Leif:

Leighton just carried the scene, as

Leif:

always, breaking through Blair's cool exterior with those.

Leif:

Just a little twinge of a smile

Leif:

and then just comparatively, you know,

Leif:

added. And I forget, the woman's Laura Harrer,

Leif:

maybe, I think is her name.

Steve:

I think that sounds right.

Leif:

Um, she's such a soap opera

Leif:

actor. And I looked it up, and she indeed had a

Leif:

recurring role in General Hospital and also on Young and the Restless

Leif:

that scans.

Steve:

Scans really hard.

Leif:

She also is in two different TV versions of

Leif:

Moha and Drive as the same character.

Steve:

And in the movie. Right. The. Wasn't she in the actual movie?

Leif:

Yeah, in the movie, uh, and then also a TV

Leif:

version of the movie.

Steve:

Wow, that's funny. I didn't know there was a TV version of the

Steve:

movie.

Leif:

Speaking of the afterglow, Dan and Vanessa are

Leif:

also in it. They both want to take things slow because

Leif:

once the family's nose, the pressure will be turned way

Leif:

up.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Cute little scene.

Steve:

The cute little post coital.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Dan and Vanessa showing a lot more.

Leif:

Skin than Chuck and Blair did.

Steve:

Yeah, they. They. Yes. Also, um,

Steve:

they have the whole, like, their trajectory of

Steve:

being friends and stuff. And I always

Steve:

say that I married my best friend.

Steve:

Robin is my. Is my best friend.

Steve:

And so I like that little bit

Steve:

that these best friends and how they're like, okay, well,

Steve:

let's just, like, be friends that do this

Steve:

and. Because that means that they won't do it for too long until

Steve:

they get mad and break up.

Leif:

Jenny chases down Damien on the nightless streets of

Leif:

Manhattan. She snags some, um, oxycodone from

Leif:

Lily for them to sell at the party. Damien says they

Leif:

should blow off the party and pulls Jenny in for a

Leif:

kiss.

Steve:

Yeah. So now little. Little Jenny

Steve:

is stealing Lily's

Steve:

oxycodone, and Damien goes full predator.

Steve:

Great. Again.

Leif:

Uh, he's supposedly

Leif:

presumably the same age as Nate and Serena and

Leif:

Dan, and we were fine with Nate because he went to school

Leif:

with Serena.

Steve:

Right, right, right. No, no, no. I thought there was something

Steve:

else that made him older than

Steve:

Serena, too, but I guess.

Leif:

So. Characters, we're gonna presume. 17

Leif:

and 19.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Okay, now, chemistry between

Leif:

Pen and Jessica was tough. Hot.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

These two. This kid.

Steve:

There's nothing.

Leif:

So not.

Steve:

There's nothing.

Leif:

And. And. And it's understandable because, uh, I looked up

Leif:

Kevin Zigers would have been either 25 or

Leif:

26 when they filmed this.

Steve:

And Jenny's like, 17.

Leif:

17.

Steve:

17.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So. Okay, yeah, you're right that they're. That he went to school with

Steve:

Serena, So the age thing really isn't

Steve:

as bad. In fact, it makes the you're in high school

Steve:

thing even more condescending.

Leif:

Dude, you're a freshman.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a freshman. You're barely

Steve:

out of, uh, high school because Jenny's. What, a

Steve:

junior now?

Leif:

Yeah. Lili is swilling

Leif:

wine alone at the penthouse. The elevator

Leif:

dings as Vanya arrives to deliver Rufus's

Leif:

scarf that was left at the lost and found by

Leif:

Holland.

Steve:

Rufus, you noob,

Steve:

you. You left your scarf at her

Steve:

house. And also the best part.

Steve:

I mentioned earlier about wondering

Steve:

if there was history with Holland and Lily

Steve:

that Holland slept With one of Lily's

Steve:

husbands or something like that or. Or Lily. Actually,

Steve:

no, it was. I had the suspicion that Lily

Steve:

slept with Holland's husband because

Steve:

she says early on about, like, you know, the husband cheating and

Steve:

whatnot. And so for

Steve:

her to take that scarf to Vanya

Steve:

and be like, rufus.

Leif:

Left this at my place definitely feels purposeful.

Steve:

She knew what she was doing. Yeah, she was sending

Steve:

a message to Lily that your man's hanging

Steve:

out with me. Yeah, that was a shot.

Steve:

That wasn't. That was not a message. That was a warning

Steve:

shot.

Leif:

Yeah, otherwise, you just hang on to the scarf until you see him again.

Steve:

Exactly. Exactly.

Leif:

Nate sits in silent support as, uh, Serena

Leif:

leaves a voicemail for her father, stating that she

Leif:

is no longer looking for him and doesn't want to know

Leif:

him.

Steve:

Yeah, it's nice that Serena is getting closure, but

Steve:

not therapy. She needs

Steve:

therapy. Like, I'm glad you're getting closure.

Steve:

Please get therapy.

Leif:

Were you paying attention to Nate at all in the scene?

Steve:

Uh, very little. He was just there.

Leif:

Looked like he was about to fall asleep because he just didn't know how

Leif:

to react.

Steve:

Yeah, that. That scans.

Leif:

Blair kisses Chuck goodbye so he can spend

Leif:

some quality time with dear old mom. Blair

Leif:

watches Chuck getting to know his mother as Gossip Girl

Leif:

closes with

Leif:

spotted Chuck Bass breaking bread with his

Leif:

mother. Looks like our little boy lost

Leif:

is finally found. For now, at least.

Leif:

X.O. x.O. Gossip

Leif:

Girl, Chuck's.

Steve:

What do you want to know? I thought was

Steve:

interesting. It felt very tv.

Steve:

Yeah, I think is what it was. But also

Steve:

just Chuck just taking this bait of, like,

Steve:

let me talk about me, and then I'll never ask you why

Steve:

you left. Neither of us want to

Steve:

know.

Leif:

So that is our episode. What is coming next?

Steve:

First of all, Jenny's in big trouble.

Steve:

I don't know how Jenny's. This runaway

Steve:

feels like it's going to end. I think Jenny thinks it's going

Steve:

to end the way the previous one did. I don't think it's

Steve:

going to. I had the thought that

Steve:

Serena's dad is not in the picture

Steve:

because of Cece.

Leif:

Is this really a runaway, or is it just sneaking out to go to a party?

Steve:

Jenny, uh, she didn't have any stuff.

Leif:

With her or anything.

Steve:

Yeah, it's. Well, I mean,

Steve:

maybe it's sneaking out to go to a party. It just feels like running

Steve:

away because that's what Jenny does when she's mad.

Leif:

But, uh, like, last time, they made it, like, a point of showing her,

Leif:

like, pouring the suitcase and the sewing machine and

Leif:

stuff.

Steve:

Yeah, Exactly. But I feel like we're

Steve:

supposed to think she's running away. And who knows, maybe it is

Steve:

just ditching to go to a party. Which. How do you go

Steve:

home from that? Like, you know that going home from that, your dad

Steve:

is just going to do all the same shit and you're just going to run away anyways. Just run away

Steve:

now. Yeah. I have this feeling that Serena's

Steve:

dad is away because of cece. That Cece

Steve:

the meddler meddled there.

Steve:

And that's why she kind of

Steve:

let Rufus know. Uh,

Steve:

she didn't tell Rufus anything, but she definitely

Steve:

upended the timeline for Rufus.

Steve:

And I think that we've seen cece come

Steve:

around on Rufus and you got to wonder why,

Steve:

why she didn't want her with Van Der

Steve:

Woodsen. So I kind of feel like that is

Steve:

a thing in there. I have a prediction and you can.

Steve:

I'm probably. I might be wrong on this, but my one prediction

Steve:

is we'll never see Evelyn again. Now that

Steve:

the storyline is resolved,

Steve:

it feels like, oh, now that you know who I am,

Steve:

it feels very Scott to me. And

Steve:

we. And now that's resolved, I

Steve:

think that shit's gonna blow up with Lily and Rufus and

Steve:

Holland and I'm not excited

Steve:

about it. Uh, I think we continue to

Steve:

go towards Blair being there for

Steve:

Chuck. Being there for Chuck. Being there for Chuck. Being there for

Steve:

Chuck. When's Chuck gonna be there for Blair again?

Steve:

So I'm waiting for that shake

Steve:

up to happen. I feel like

Steve:

again, they've been so comfortable for so long.

Steve:

They've been such a, like the longest

Steve:

running relationship in a while.

Steve:

So I feel like there's something gonna happen

Steve:

here. Yeah.

Leif:

Let's go ahead and get into some segments

Leif:

this week in fandom. Ah, we jumped into the

Leif:

Wayback Machine to travel to the fan forums from

Leif:

2010. Hello

Leif:

there, Peabody here. And this is the

Leif:

Wayback Machine for traveling through time. And this

Leif:

is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. Overall,

Leif:

the impression was this was a good to great episode.

Steve:

Really good to great.

Leif:

This is what people want. They want Dan and

Leif:

Vanessa separated from the non judging Breakfast Club.

Steve:

Yeah. But it becomes two

Steve:

shows.

Leif:

Yeah, look, I, I agree. Like I, this is better

Leif:

than previous ones because I thought all three story lines

Leif:

were good storylines.

Steve:

I didn't like the Chuck storyline. I, I thought it

Steve:

was executed fine, but I didn't like

Steve:

it.

Leif:

It's. Yeah, it's definitely a stupid soap opera. But yeah, I,

Leif:

I think it was well developed. This episode.

Steve:

I, they, they have.

Leif:

It was definitely better than the last episode.

Steve:

Right. And. Well, and I guess that's kind of. To me,

Steve:

they just kind of. I have, uh, trouble

Steve:

delineating between. When you

Steve:

have such a continuous storyline. It's. I'm already annoyed

Steve:

with it from last week. I was further annoyed

Steve:

with it this week because it was more of. Last week. It was

Steve:

more of. It was a Ross and Rachel thing. Will they.

Steve:

Won't they. Are they gonna. Are they gonna talk? Oh, I give

Steve:

you the check. She walks away and just baiting back and

Steve:

forth instead of. And I

Steve:

realize they need to like stretch through an episode, but

Steve:

if you need to do that, then do it in one. Mhm.

Steve:

And I know that today it would have been.

Steve:

If this was made. If Gossip

Steve:

Girl was Never made in 2007 and they

Steve:

made Gossip Girl starting off

Steve:

today, that they would probably be

Steve:

12 episodes long and that

Steve:

would have been one episode because they wouldn't have needed to

Steve:

catch people up next week and the week after.

Steve:

But it just because of that. Because this was

Steve:

three episodes of this bullshit.

Steve:

I'm bored. And I. And I'm done with it.

Steve:

I. And especially for the whole reveal to be.

Steve:

Oh yeah. I just didn't fucking want the kid. Yeah, just

Steve:

fuck him, kids. No, fuck him. Fuck his

Steve:

dad. I'm glad I'm dead.

Leif:

The, uh, fans also love, uh, this is a good Chuck and

Leif:

Blair episode. They loved how protective Blair is of Chuck.

Leif:

But like, some are wondering when we're going to see the

Leif:

reverse.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah.

Leif:

Uh, why do they keep cutting away from Chuck and Blair?

Leif:

Sexy times.

Steve:

Do you think they hate each other?

Leif:

That's because I just can't take his shirt off.

Steve:

Oh, is he pasty?

Leif:

That. And like, unlike the other boys, he refuses to

Leif:

shave or starve himself for two weeks before

Leif:

they shoot.

Steve:

Oh yeah.

Leif:

And he has tattoos.

Steve:

Oh, that's. That's an easy fix.

Leif:

It takes a few hours.

Steve:

Yeah, I, I guess I'm, um. Yeah, it does.

Leif:

It's. It's easy, but it takes. It takes a few more hours

Leif:

to do your day.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Every day.

Steve:

Yep.

Leif:

Happily surprised that we got NJBC action

Leif:

this early in the season because normally that's like an end of

Leif:

the season kind of thing.

Steve:

Mhm. That. I'll give you that. It's nice to have them

Steve:

together.

Leif:

A lot of people seem to think Evelyn slash

Leif:

Elizabeth is a fake.

Steve:

Oh, Jesus Christ. I don't. Ah. Uh.

Steve:

Jesus Christ. I don't. I don't want more of this.

Steve:

I don't want more of this.

Leif:

They are shipping both Danessa, uh, and

Leif:

Jamie in Really, Jamie?

Steve:

First of all, we're going with that. And second of all,

Steve:

really, I think Jennian would have been better

Steve:

because, like, you get more of her name in it. But anyway.

Leif:

Does Lily have a problem? Ox used for headaches

Leif:

and sleeping till noon.

Steve:

I feel like this sleeping dill noon thing is a

Steve:

recent thing. Right. We haven't seen

Steve:

her with oxy all along.

Steve:

I could see her being someone that has oxy

Steve:

in the cabinet in case they want it. I don't think she has

Steve:

a problem. I don't. I don't feel like that's a storyline they

Steve:

want to do.

Leif:

They did Kirsten's an alcoholic storyline in the

Leif:

O.C.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

Uh, I feel like that would just be really springing something on us because

Steve:

there's been zero evidence. Yeah,

Steve:

zero. This entire time. Of course, there wouldn't be

Steve:

any of the money stuff. She can just get money. Like, she's. That.

Steve:

That's not her problem. But I just. I don't

Steve:

like it.

Leif:

Well, that is it for this week in Phantom. Um, let's move

Leif:

over to episode

Leif:

Grand.

Leif:

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

Leif:

week. So, like I said, the individual stories

Leif:

were. I like them. I mean, I don't really like

Leif:

where it's going, but I thought they were well developed

Leif:

this episode, and the directing was good. Like you said. You

Leif:

had that cool scene with the. The photo

Leif:

behind there. So, uh, I thought this would be

Leif:

episode.

Steve:

Yeah, I thought it was a C episode. I, uh,

Steve:

wasn't really feeling any of the

Steve:

storylines that much. I, uh. Because I haven't been really

Steve:

shipping Danessa at all

Steve:

so far. So even though I knew it was going to happen and knew

Steve:

it was coming, I didn't really want it to.

Steve:

So I liked the scenes. They were. Some of the

Steve:

scenes they were in, especially that one. But I

Steve:

didn't like how a lot of it played out to

Steve:

begin with. I really wasn't a big fan of

Steve:

the Jenny storyline. Like, it's this whole

Steve:

drugs thing and the whole, like, I'm gonna drop drugs on the floor to start

Steve:

a fight with my dad.

Leif:

See, you're looking at it from the dad point of view, I think.

Steve:

I think you're right.

Leif:

Um, from the kid point of view, it's exciting.

Steve:

I get that. I get that. But I'm a dad

Steve:

and I'm always. I can't not be.

Leif:

Um. Yeah.

Steve:

And I guess having said that, I get

Steve:

very irked with Rufus. Bad

Steve:

parenting with him just not getting out of

Steve:

his own fucking way. And again, I

Steve:

Was a little triggered by him going at

Steve:

Lily and blaming and trying to

Steve:

pick fights with her using his

Steve:

kid. That is something that really.

Steve:

It, uh, triggers me. It really bothers me. And so I really

Steve:

didn't like a lot of that stuff. So, yeah, I went with a C for

Steve:

this episode.

Leif:

Fair enough.

Leif:

Over to stockwatch.

Leif:

Going up. I had Blair because she's once

Leif:

again being a good girlfriend. Chuck, because he's got a

Leif:

mommy now. Nate and Serena because

Leif:

they were cute and had a lot of sex.

Leif:

Dan and Vanessa because they finally got together and

Leif:

they were pretty sexy together. Uh, so these

Leif:

last three might not normally be

Leif:

ups, but because Rufus is just so bad,

Leif:

he makes all three of them go up. Jenny,

Leif:

Damian, and Lily.

Steve:

Wow. So I had

Steve:

some of the same. I had Blair and Chuck for the same

Steve:

reasons. I had Nate and Serena for the same

Steve:

reasons. I had Paul and Melissa

Steve:

as it looks like they're getting together. I

Steve:

had Damien going up, and that is my

Steve:

last one going up because Damien

Steve:

doesn't get busted for his drug ring

Steve:

and continue on, and now it gets the

Steve:

girl. So I had Damien going up.

Steve:

I'm going to send Lily j. I'm going to send. Not

Steve:

Lily, uh, Jenny up. I am going to give her the up

Steve:

because at this moment, I

Steve:

feel like she has the upper hand. She. I think it's. I think the

Steve:

carpet is going to get ripped out hard

Steve:

from under her, But I feel right now she's kind of floating

Steve:

and thinks that she's really up there. False inflation

Steve:

of stock.

Leif:

She got the business and the boy.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly.

Leif:

Going down. Rufus.

Steve:

Rufus.

Leif:

Elizabeth. Once again, Bart, just

Leif:

because he was men.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And you gave them going up. But I had them going down.

Leif:

M. Paul and Melissa because they were just getting used.

Steve:

Oh, I see. I had them going up because they got together

Steve:

in the end and got rid of the dead weight.

Leif:

Did they get together? They just kind of go off and we.

Steve:

Oh, I kind of got the impression that they hit it off.

Steve:

If they hit it off up. If they just were

Steve:

annoyed and walked off down. So I guess

Steve:

that's really open to interpretation here.

Steve:

All. Uh, right.

Leif:

Who do you got going down?

Steve:

Uh, you said Elizabeth. I had her written down as Evelyn, but

Steve:

Evelyn. Elizabeth definitely going down

Steve:

like her. She's a terrible

Steve:

person. Rufus is going down. I have Lily

Steve:

going down because I also feel like,

Steve:

although Lily was trying to keep

Steve:

the family together and trying to.

Steve:

Can't we just work this out as a family?

Steve:

One, I still, uh, as you pointed out earlier,

Steve:

it's just as much using Jenny to get her

Steve:

her way as she, as Rufus is trying to use

Steve:

Jenny to pick a fight. She's trying to use Jenny to solve

Steve:

a fight. The other reason for Lily

Steve:

going down is because she doesn't have

Steve:

Rufus anymore because Rufus again stormed

Steve:

out and she lost her pills.

Leif:

She'll just get more pills.

Steve:

So just get more pills.

Leif:

Anyone else? I.

Steve:

Yes, I had Dan going down because

Steve:

it's Vanessa.

Leif:

But he loves Vanessa.

Steve:

He does, but it's Vanessa. I have Dan.

Steve:

Okay. Dan goes down again for loving

Steve:

Vanessa.

Steve:

That's even worse. Uh, and then

Steve:

finally I have Holland m going down because she picked

Steve:

a fight with fucking Lily. And I don't

Steve:

see how that ends well for Holland.

Steve:

But here's the best outfits from the last

Steve:

episode we see.

Leif:

Moving over to best outfits.

Leif:

Not a lot to choose from.

Steve:

Yeah. Again, it's because of the party

Steve:

thing. Right? It's usually the party outfits that

Steve:

really stand out. But here it was Dan in

Steve:

the tank top and Vanessa in uh, whatever that was.

Leif:

So because of that, I actually I'm going to give it to

Leif:

Paul for his little neckerchief and popped collar.

Steve:

Oh, okay. That's fair.

Steve:

That's actually. I can appreciate

Steve:

that I went with Blair with

Steve:

that black top that she's wearing throughout most of the show.

Leif:

And that neck, the big necklace.

Steve:

Necklace. And was it like with a leopard pant,

Steve:

a leopard skirt or a tan skirt?

Leif:

I don't think it was leopard.

Steve:

Looked brown. It looked like it had some kind of pattern on it, but I

Steve:

couldn't quite make it out.

Leif:

I don't think Blair would wear leopard print.

Steve:

I don't either, which is why I thought it was.

Steve:

Which is why I didn't assume leopard. But it had

Steve:

some kind of something on it.

Leif:

Well, that is it for segments. Do you have anything you

Leif:

want to plug this week?

Steve:

Um, I'm not really plugging anything there this week

Steve:

unless it's the Iron Pigs, apparently.

Steve:

But I would like to say that if

Steve:

you want to see more of what I am doing,

Steve:

I. You can find me on TikTok or

Steve:

Instagram @ Steve Marshon.

Steve:

At Steve Marshon. M A R C

Steve:

H I O N And I'm posting

Steve:

stuff there. Uh, other than that, you can also find me on

Steve:

bluesky at the Weed.

Leif:

Wizard and nothing really for me to plug either. So,

Leif:

um, you can follow me on Instagram and

Leif:

Threads and bluesky at

Leif:

hotcapicola. That's H O T

Leif:

C A P I C O L A

Leif:

And you can follow the podcast at Non

Leif:

Judging breakfast pod on Instagram

Leif:

threads, TikTok and you can also

Leif:

check out our website non judging

Leif:

breakfastpod.com for links to our

Leif:

discord, Patreon and other

Leif:

stuff.

Steve:

And if you'd like to get in touch with us, we would love to hear what

Steve:

you have to say. Please feel free to send us an

Steve:

email@nonjudging

Steve:

breakfastpodmail.com we'll

Steve:

listen to your thoughts and probably read them here

Steve:

on our podcast. And we'd

Steve:

love to have you contribute to that conversation.

Steve:

And while you're at it, and while you're listening, if you, if

Steve:

you could go ahead and click that follow button or the

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subscribe the like and leave us a comment

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on really helps us with our visibility, especially

Steve:

on Apple podcasts and Spotify.

Leif:

And we will be back next week to talk about

Leif:

season three, episode 15,

Leif:

the 16 Year Old Virgin.

Leif:

The episode description reads, Jenny

Leif:

and Damian consider taking their relationship to the next level,

Leif:

but Serena is determined not to let that happen.

Leif:

Meanwhile, Dan and Vanessa are trying to figure out what their

Leif:

relationship actually is.

Steve:

Oh boy, Serena's gonna meddle.

Steve:

I can already predict, but I,

Steve:

I can already say it's the party episode.

Leif:

All over again from last year.

Steve:

Well, yes, and Serena

Steve:

is once again probably going to be a

Steve:

total fucking narcissist and be right

Steve:

about what she's doing. Like she's

Steve:

probably gonna be breaking them up for

Steve:

her own stupid, superficial

Steve:

reasons. But they shouldn't be together.

Steve:

Or should they? I kept thinking of him

Steve:

as another much older

Steve:

predator, the way that Sarita

Steve:

is attracted to. And when you pointed

Steve:

out that they went to school together, in my

Steve:

headcanon he was older, so that

Steve:

would. It would have been her sophomore year that

Steve:

she was there. And my head cannon had him as a senior,

Steve:

but that was never established. It was just established that they

Steve:

went to school together. And so the fact that

Steve:

the age disparity isn't as bad

Steve:

as I thought. And even if he was a senior

Steve:

when Serena was a sophomore, that's, that's a little

Steve:

worse. That's. That's worse.

Leif:

That's definitely worse.

Steve:

That's like senior to eighth grade. Yeah, so

Steve:

that is bad. But if he's Serena and

Steve:

Nate's age, like you said, we had no problem with Nate.

Steve:

Nate had a bigger problem with Nate.

Steve:

But so yeah, do they not belong together? They are just two

Steve:

rich, entitled kids selling drugs.

Leif:

Selling drugs. Hardcore drugs.

Steve:

Hardcore drugs. Narcotics.

Leif:

That's a lie from the last of us. I sell hardcore

Leif:

drugs.

Leif:

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

Steve:

Xoxo.

Steve:

Every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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:

oh it seems I'm walking right.

Steve:

To your door.

Steve:

My heart still resting looking for something

Steve:

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, 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 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 to trying 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 piece

Steve:

of m me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

Steve:

Come.

Steve:

Back to me

Steve:

smile and you'll make my life

Steve:

complete

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away take a piece

Steve:

of me with you there.

Steve:

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

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

uh. Every time you walk away or run

Steve:

away you take a piece of me with you

Steve:

there mhm Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away you take a piece of me

Steve:

with you there.

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

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