Episode 16

S3E16 - "The Empire Strikes Jack" (featuring Danielle Joy)

This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back at it, diving into the delightful drama of Gossip Girl Season 3, Episode 16, titled "The Empire Strikes Jack." Buckle up, because the stakes are higher than a pair of stilettos on the Upper East Side! Chuck is dealing with some serious family drama thanks to his long-lost mother, Elizabeth, while Blair is juggling a fashion show and her mom’s lofty expectations. Meanwhile, Jenny’s caught in a wild web of chaos with her former frenemy, Agnes, leading to a night that’s anything but predictable.

Join Leif and Steve, along with their fabulous guest Danielle Joy, as they break down the episode’s most jaw-dropping moments—think Chuck’s emotional rollercoaster and Jenny’s chaotic escapades. Expect sharp commentary, hilarious banter, and a sprinkle of cringe-worthy moments as they untangle the messy threads of love, loyalty, and betrayal that keep you hooked on these characters. So, grab your breakfast of choice—be it a bagel, a smoothie, or a slice of cake—and settle in for an episode loaded with all the drama and scandal you crave! Trust us, it’s way more entertaining than mindlessly scrolling through your social media feed.

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Danielle Joy (She/Her) is an actor, producer, and podcast co-host. She executive produced and acted in the new media series The Hunted: NYCSS, which took home the Silver Award in the 2023 Web Series World Cup with 13 awards and over 25 nominations. She is the co-producer and co-host of STILL...?!, The Podcast, a podcast about all the crap STILL going on in the entertainment industry for female-identifying artists. She also general managed & acted in a production of Monica: This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky which was brought to audiences at 59E59 in NYC, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019. Other select credits include: Plays: Proof (Shetler Studios, Catherine/Producer);Film: Testament (Associate Producer), Checking Out (New Media Series Pilot, Danielle/Producer). Audio: The Iron Anthology (Audio Fiction World Cup 2023 Top 15, 20+ nominations - Associate Producer) Danielle has a degree in business management, and finds ways to adapt that degree to help her on every project she is a part of. Danielle has traveled halfway around the world, and has worked from almost everywhere she has visited. An expert in time zone management, she considers herself extremely lucky and reminds herself every day not to take anything for granted. She will also happily pet your dog.

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Transcript
Steve:

Yeah, and apparently Dorota's baby kicks out of

Steve:

time. And sloppily, because she

Steve:

kicks like Lars Zolrick from Metallica.

Leif:

Shots fired.

Steve:

Shots fired.

Leif:

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

Leif:

there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

Leif:

podcast where the coffee is strong, the

Leif:

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 newbie, the greenhorn, the,

Steve:

uh, I don't know, Leif. We're in season three. What am I

Steve:

now?

Leif:

You whore and a half. You just couldn't keep it in your pants,

Leif:

could you?

Steve:

Well, Leif, it wasn't me,

Steve:

because I'm in love with your uncle.

Leif:

Okay.

Steve:

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

Steve:

Gossip Girl since it first aired, and I'm diving in for

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the first time. And together, we're your dynamic duo,

Steve:

uh, bringing you all the drama, romance, and

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sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

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iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week we're

Leif:

dissecting every juicy detail of the show one

Leif:

episode at a time. We'll connect the dots.

Leif:

I cover those sneaky little Easter eggs, and of course, serve

Leif:

up some piping hot behind the scenes tea. And expect

Leif:

some iconic phantom moments too, because what's a deep

Leif:

dive without a little drama?

Steve:

And since we are all about inclusivity here at the non

Steve:

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

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non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab your

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mimosa, a cup of coffee, or roll up something from

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Chuck's stash, and let's go ahead and get into this.

Leif:

Ah. All right, Steve, June is guest month because

Leif:

we got another guest today. We are here with

Leif:

actor, producer, and podcast host,

Leif:

Danielle Joy.

Steve:

Yay.

Danielle Joy:

Hi, everyone. Hi. Hi.

Leif:

Welcome to the podcast.

Steve:

Yes, welcome to the non judging breakfast table.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Thank you for having me.

Steve:

Absolutely.

Leif:

And so we do ask this for everyone, but

Leif:

it's, uh, a little more interesting in your case.

Leif:

But what is your relationship with Gossip Girl?

Danielle Joy:

Oh, man. So I actually worked on the

Danielle Joy:

show in various capacities, but

Danielle Joy:

you'll be seeing me in this episode.

Steve:

That's really fun. And we

Steve:

definitely were spotting for you the

Steve:

entire time.

Leif:

Yes, I did admit I went a little Joe

Leif:

Goldberg on your Instagram and I found the

Leif:

picture of you from 10 years ago very

Leif:

appropriate.

Danielle Joy:

You reference with Penn Badgley, by the way.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Uh, so we both have our guesses. I don't know if you want to say now or if

Leif:

you want to wait till we get to the scene to reveal?

Danielle Joy:

Up to you guys.

Steve:

Why don't we guess now, and then when

Steve:

you're actually in it, you tell us if we're right or

Steve:

if we're wrong.

Danielle Joy:

Sure. Yeah, that works. Yeah.

Leif:

So I was thinking, you are the third

Leif:

Columbia student.

Steve:

Yeah, I was thinking. Because I was torn. There

Steve:

were two people that I kind of was torn on.

Steve:

And of course, I'm going only from your Instagram as well.

Steve:

I was torn between. There was one of the models

Steve:

that I thought could have been you. There

Steve:

was also the same one that Leif was just

Steve:

talking to that was in the scene with

Steve:

Marisa Fumaro and

Steve:

the other Columbia, uh, student. So

Steve:

those were my two guesses that we. That I thought I

Steve:

saw.

Danielle Joy:

Do you want me to confirm or deny?

Leif:

Uh, let's wait till we get to the scene.

Danielle Joy:

Uh, very good guesses, gentlemen.

Steve:

Some other scene should be like, you idiots.

Steve:

I was Lily's stunt double.

Leif:

A little bookkeeping before we get into the episode. A few

Leif:

episodes ago, I did, uh, mention I was going to look up one

Leif:

when Penn Badgley and Blake Lively broke

Leif:

up. Uh, it was. Yes,

Leif:

it was, uh, announced by Us Weekly. It was

Leif:

confirmed in their October of 2010 issue,

Leif:

which would have been the beginning of season four

Leif:

shooting.

Steve:

Yeah. Okay, that tracks.

Leif:

Now, Greene Lantern fell between March and

Leif:

August of 2010.

Danielle Joy:

Spoiler alert.

Steve:

Yeah, that was my next question.

Leif:

Now, I'm guessing Blake was probably not at all of

Leif:

that because she was fairly small part in the movie.

Leif:

So I guess she probably went after Gossip Girl. And

Leif:

in filming, which I recall was probably

Leif:

like, April ish was when you guys usually ended.

Leif:

Does that sound right, Danielle?

Danielle Joy:

Uh, yeah,

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. I remember we started in, like, July,

Danielle Joy:

and we would usually finish. It was like, uh, it was

Danielle Joy:

a good 9 to 10 months of filming for each

Danielle Joy:

season.

Steve:

Yeah, she had a small role in

Steve:

the movie, but a big role in Ryan Reynolds heart.

Leif:

Yes. So we are here to Talk

Leif:

about Season 3, Episode 16,

Leif:

the Empire Strikes Jack. The

Leif:

original air date was, uh, March of, uh,

Leif:

2010.

Steve:

I feel like there's a familiarity with this title.

Steve:

I feel like I recognize this one from somewhere.

Leif:

It does sound, obviously, Star wars reference,

Leif:

for those that don't know that have been living under a rock for the

Leif:

last 40 years.

Danielle Joy:

I do love what they do with all the titles, though. Uh, they always make them

Danielle Joy:

very clever.

Steve:

Yeah. These great movie references

Steve:

and always a lot of fun. And Leif

Steve:

and I are also big Star wars nerds, too,

Steve:

in different capacities. He shook

Steve:

his head.

Danielle Joy:

I Always wondered if they came up with the

Danielle Joy:

titles first and then wrote the story around the

Danielle Joy:

title, because it always sort of has to do with what's

Danielle Joy:

happening in the show. Or if they wrote the stories and

Danielle Joy:

then tried to find a title that would work.

Leif:

Well, sometimes the titles really have nothing.

Steve:

To do with the show.

Leif:

I guess probably sometimes they came up with the titles first, but I know

Leif:

for a fact that they definitely came up with them after the fact

Leif:

sometimes. Like, for instance,

Leif:

the episode before the writers strike in

Leif:

season one was the, uh, name of the

Leif:

episode was came up with by the crew because the writers

Leif:

were already on strike.

Steve:

So they name it Thin Line between Chuck and

Steve:

Nate. Yes.

Danielle Joy:

Okay.

Steve:

Yeah. And I was gonna kind of say

Steve:

the same thing as Leif. I feel like there's kind of

Steve:

a, uh, mix of those things happening. Cause

Steve:

sometimes. Sometimes the title feels really

Steve:

shoehorned, but other times it feels

Steve:

just absolutely appropriate. Personally,

Steve:

I like this one.

Leif:

I thought it was perfect.

Steve:

It was a perfect title.

Danielle Joy:

Super appropriate. Yeah. And.

Leif:

Ah, we'll get to it. But I thought the final scene actually did kind of mirror

Leif:

the final scene of Vampire Strikes Back as well.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, I could see that.

Steve:

Uh, it's the opposite. I am your

Steve:

father.

Leif:

No, no, the actual final scene where Luke, uh, and Leia are

Leif:

on the ship.

Steve:

Oh, oh, right, yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Blair and Chuck.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah. This. We got Blair and Chuck declaring war.

Steve:

Yeah. Ah, yeah.

Leif:

So this episode was written by Jake

Leif:

Coburn. He came on as story editor in

Leif:

season three, and this is his second chance at writing.

Leif:

Uh, previously did episode six, Enough About

Leif:

Eve, which was the episode

Leif:

where Blair and Vanessa were competing for

Leif:

the speech at the freshman dinner.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And the episodes directed by Joe

Leif:

Lazarev previously did O Brother,

Leif:

Wer Bart thou and how to succeed in

Leif:

Bassness.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

I like the director's credits more than the writer's

Steve:

credits here. I think that

Steve:

those are some good, uh. Oh, brother. Where

Steve:

Bart. That was a great episode.

Leif:

Now, I'm not complaining, but

Leif:

I did notice more than the

Leif:

usual background, gratuitous,

Leif:

nearly nudity in this episode.

Danielle Joy:

Well, they had the models.

Leif:

Yeah. Anytime you have

Leif:

models, they don't really show that,

Leif:

like, the girls just walking around in their

Leif:

underwear. They don't typically show that on a CW

Leif:

show. Yeah, I thought it was definitely noticeable to

Leif:

me.

Danielle Joy:

Definitely one of the more sexy episodes.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

There's also this episode. Some of the outdoor

Steve:

shots, there were some really

Steve:

cinematic. There's some really cinematic

Steve:

framing in some of the outdoor shots. In this

Steve:

especially, there's one with Chuck in front of

Steve:

the bridge. I don't know if it's the Brooklyn Bridge. Uh, but.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, the bridge. Yeah, I think it was the Brooklyn Bridge

Danielle Joy:

with his mom. Right.

Steve:

Well, it's at. Right after. Well, there's that scene.

Steve:

And then right after she leaves when he's on the phone and the

Steve:

sun has set and it's just that glow

Steve:

behind him. The

Steve:

cinematography in this was, ah,

Steve:

well done this episode.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

If only the writing.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, they. They hardly ever filmed

Danielle Joy:

outside. Um,

Danielle Joy:

I don't want to say that, though. We did film outside a lot.

Danielle Joy:

Um, but, yeah, most of the time

Danielle Joy:

we were on location or on soundstages.

Danielle Joy:

So, uh, yeah, the outdoor shots were always really

Danielle Joy:

nice.

Leif:

By this time, anytime there was filming outside, there was

Leif:

large crowds.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

Okay. Yeah. And so that makes sense also why

Steve:

those shots stood out so much,

Steve:

too. That's a really good point.

Leif:

Steve, why don't you go ahead and read us that Vulture recap?

Steve:

All right, here we go. I believe in

Steve:

second chances, Eleanor Waldorf tells the

Steve:

delinquent Jenny Humphrey when

Steve:

welcoming her back to work in her

Steve:

fashion sweatshop. It's an

Steve:

interesting choice of phrasing. Second chances are

Steve:

something one needs to believe in, since, like

Steve:

true love in astrology, some suspension

Steve:

of common sense is required. After

Steve:

all, most of the time, the result is

Steve:

disappointment. If someone doesn't behave

Steve:

the way you hope they will the first time around,

Steve:

what are the chances they'll completely change?

Steve:

In last night's episode, Jenny, despite

Steve:

ingesting a large quantity of pharmaceuticals,

Steve:

managed to not disappoint Eleanor. At least

Steve:

not yet. Chuck Bass, however,

Steve:

did not fare so well, even though he knew

Steve:

Elizabeth willingly participated in a cruel and

Steve:

inhuman plot to rob her estranged son

Steve:

of his fortune out of love for a man who

Steve:

was not only a blatant jerk, but a

Steve:

possessor of the worst hairpiece since

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Sam Donaldson. He gave her the

Steve:

chance to rally to his defense or at

Steve:

least stick around and mother himself, and was left

Steve:

red nostril and quivering. Her failure to

Steve:

come through on this front, more than anything she'd

Steve:

done so far, should have tipped him off to the

Steve:

fact that this stubborn loner was

Steve:

indeed his mother.

Steve:

Oh, Chuck, here's my

Steve:

thing about the Vulture report this week. It

Steve:

doesn't even mention the

Steve:

Dan Vanessa Trainwreck plot

Steve:

going on.

Danielle Joy:

Why would you mention it?

Leif:

It's just completely pointless. It was a nothing story.

Steve:

It was so bad.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, uh, it was so bad.

Steve:

So Leif and I have a common saying

Steve:

about Gossip Girl, and it's that we feel like the

Steve:

writers. A lot of Times would be great.

Steve:

Writing teachers that they have these

Steve:

great tools and great tricks and they

Steve:

know the. The right way to do twists and

Steve:

right way to put things out. But then the execution

Steve:

itself, a lot of the time just kind of

Steve:

falls flat. That when it actually comes to the

Steve:

words on paper, there's a lot of times that it's like

Steve:

you had all of this right here,

Steve:

and this is what you went with, you know, and

Steve:

Dan and Vanessa is what you went with

Steve:

the Rut episode.

Danielle Joy:

And I feel like when this show came out, I was in

Danielle Joy:

my 20s. Right. And it had such a chokehold

Danielle Joy:

on everyone, you know, 18 to 34.

Danielle Joy:

And, you know, fashion was inspired and, like, I

Danielle Joy:

definitely dressed like Blair Waldorf when the show came out.

Danielle Joy:

But, yeah, I, uh, watching it back now,

Danielle Joy:

I'm like, wow, these storylines are

Danielle Joy:

like, I wouldn't put up with this as

Danielle Joy:

a. As a person in the dating world. Like,

Danielle Joy:

why did I think that this was so sexy and

Danielle Joy:

appropriate back then? But

Danielle Joy:

I feel like the actors did such a good job

Danielle Joy:

with the words they were given and the

Danielle Joy:

script they were given to not make

Danielle Joy:

it seem as downer

Danielle Joy:

as it was.

Leif:

Yes. The actors often carry the show.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Yeah. They definitely chose the right people for this

Danielle Joy:

show.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah, yeah. Uh, I really. I think

Steve:

Leighton Meester is one of the

Steve:

best actors to come from this show, too,

Steve:

I thought.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Her and Pen and Ed are my

Danielle Joy:

favorites.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Steve:

And I also think that Eleanor,

Steve:

um, Margaret Collins and, um,

Steve:

uh, Kelly Rutherford, I think, are also

Steve:

just absolutely spectacular.

Steve:

They. They can just own any scene they're

Steve:

in, even when they're not trying to. So.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, yeah, I heard. I heard. I was listening

Danielle Joy:

to one of your most recent podcasts that just aired, and you

Danielle Joy:

were saying how, like, you didn't want the drama between,

Danielle Joy:

uh, Lily and Rufus. You're like, save the drama for the

Danielle Joy:

kids. Like, I was like, yeah,

Danielle Joy:

yeah, it's a teen show.

Leif:

We don't care about the parents.

Steve:

Yeah. Just let them get along

Steve:

already.

Danielle Joy:

There are enough kids in the ensemble to have

Danielle Joy:

multiple storylines. You don't need the parents in there as

Danielle Joy:

well, but the parents make it interesting, too, especially when you get

Danielle Joy:

to, um, later seasons with Blair's

Danielle Joy:

parents as well. I loved her storylines with her

Danielle Joy:

parents, but, yeah.

Leif:

Uh, uh, she definitely has the best parental

Leif:

unit at this point with four know solid

Leif:

parents.

Steve:

Yeah. That live in Europe.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

That aren't there to ruin her directly the

Steve:

way they were.

Danielle Joy:

Parents are really there.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, Lily's there for everyone. That's

Steve:

not her kids.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, same with Rufus.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, same with Rufus. Yeah, he's a great dad to

Steve:

anyone but Jenny.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Yeah. Poor Jenny. The

Danielle Joy:

only person nice to her is Nate.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

I was thinking in this episode when we. Well, when we

Danielle Joy:

get to it later, but, like, I was thinking he would have been a better brother

Danielle Joy:

to her than Dan. Yeah, like, he should have

Danielle Joy:

been her brother.

Leif:

Now, do you have a favorite and

Leif:

or least favorite character?

Danielle Joy:

Uh, well, I am very partial

Danielle Joy:

to Blair, so her style

Danielle Joy:

definitely inspired me the most. I'm very, like, preppy.

Danielle Joy:

Um, I actually have my headband.

Leif:

Nice. I've got it on the right side, too.

Leif:

Uh, you have it on the right side?

Danielle Joy:

Uh, so, yeah, I bought this back in Gossip Girl days, and I

Danielle Joy:

still have it. I don't really wear headbands that much

Danielle Joy:

anymore, but college.

Steve:

There's no headbands in college.

Danielle Joy:

Blair has a special place, uh, in my heart and also

Danielle Joy:

because I was her stand in for multiple years,

Danielle Joy:

um, for the last, like, two or three seasons

Danielle Joy:

of the show. So. Yeah,

Danielle Joy:

that's awesome.

Leif:

Well, let's get into the episode. Act one

Leif:

begins with a montage of models prepping for a

Leif:

fashion show, and Gossip Girl opens the episode.

Leif:

They say clothes make the man, but who makes the

Leif:

clothes? On the Upper east side, it's Elwin or

Leif:

Waldorf. Ah. And we hear her new line is to

Leif:

die for.

Leif:

So, as we said, we get the, uh, scantily clad

Leif:

models walking around and a little

Leif:

montage going on. And then Rufus is walking with

Leif:

Jenny. We get some exposition about Rufus being

Leif:

back moved into Lily's. Much to

Leif:

Jenny's surprise, Rufus has also volunteered her

Leif:

to assist with Eleanor's latest.

Steve:

Fashion show because now he suddenly

Steve:

supports her.

Danielle Joy:

So I. Like I said, I haven't rewatched the

Danielle Joy:

show up until now, and I thought that this

Danielle Joy:

episode was the one where Agnes torches the

Danielle Joy:

dresses. Obviously, that happened beforehand. Right.

Leif:

Because that's now season two.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Yeah. Um, I don't know why I had that mixed up in

Danielle Joy:

my brain, but. So what

Danielle Joy:

happened with Jenny and Eleanor that

Danielle Joy:

she would need to give her a second chance?

Leif:

Or Jenny quit

Leif:

and took her dress that she had, like, let

Leif:

Eleanor take the credit for.

Danielle Joy:

Uh, okay, right, right, right.

Steve:

And then went off and went to.

Leif:

Start the fashion line with Agnes. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Gotcha. Okay. And then Agnes finished all the dresses,

Danielle Joy:

right?

Steve:

Yeah, Yeah.

Leif:

I mean, you rip it on Rufus, but this is actually one of his best

Leif:

parenting episodes for Jenny, I would say it really.

Steve:

It honestly is like, uh, honestly, this.

Leif:

Was a great thing. This is a great thing for him to do.

Steve:

He should have done this two years ago. Yeah,

Steve:

exactly. Like, years ago when she's like, I want to go work for

Steve:

her. Like. Okay, cool.

Danielle Joy:

Is he friends with Eleanor?

Steve:

No.

Leif:

He'S friendly. I mean, he's been to dinner parties at her house

Leif:

a few times.

Steve:

Yeah, he has. And now he also is

Steve:

married into money, so.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, right. He married Lily.

Steve:

Yeah. He's in the Upper east side now, so

Steve:

everyone knows who he is now.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. You can call in a favor to Eleanor Waldorf,

Danielle Joy:

apparently.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Now that he's a token

Steve:

husband. Now that he's Lily's

Steve:

token.

Leif:

Well, if you ever see the duo. He tried to get Eleanor to

Leif:

fire Jenny.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, Yeah. I just. I

Danielle Joy:

didn't. I was like, how did he. How did he have this

Danielle Joy:

relationship with Eleanor to call in a

Danielle Joy:

favor? It's like, maybe Lily did it. I

Danielle Joy:

don't know.

Leif:

Yeah, I mean, they've met a few times. They had dinner. Uh, he's been

Leif:

to dinner at her house at least twice.

Danielle Joy:

Okay, but enough to, like, call in a favor?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Well, I mean, it is free labor.

Danielle Joy:

That's true. That's true. And. Yeah, but as, like, a second

Danielle Joy:

chance, too.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

She already messed up, so. I don't know. I don't know.

Danielle Joy:

I thought that was. That was weird. I forgot what had happened, but I was like,

Danielle Joy:

does he know her?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

So Jenny and Rufus enter the Waldorf penthouse, and

Leif:

Jenny is immediately remembers her love of this world, and

Leif:

she sees all the, you know, prep going on, uh, everything

Leif:

moving around, hubbub bubble. For the prep for the

Leif:

show.

Steve:

Yeah. I was really excited for a

Steve:

fashion show episode. Uh, the last one was

Steve:

fun. Also, it's because you have

Steve:

Eleanor, and like I said earlier, she's one

Steve:

of my favorite actors on the show, and her

Steve:

storylines always just make

Steve:

me feel something.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, I love Eleanor Wildorf, too. Yeah. I also

Danielle Joy:

thought it was interesting that they're prepping at

Danielle Joy:

the Waldorf penthouse.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Doesn't she have an atelier somewhere that

Danielle Joy:

she could be getting her models or an office that

Danielle Joy:

she should be using? Why?

Leif:

I guess that scent was being used for something else.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Clearly that day,

Leif:

Chuck and Blair are saying their morning goodbyes as they

Leif:

go about their respective days. The two still

Leif:

haven't uncovered Jack's plan. But as

Leif:

Blair leaves, two large security guards arrive and tell

Leif:

Chuck they're there to escort him off the

Leif:

premises.

Danielle Joy:

Poor Chuck. Poor

Danielle Joy:

Blair with the hat in that scene.

Leif:

I kind of like that gray outfit. The gray outfit, though.

Steve:

Remember that?

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, the hat.

Steve:

Remember that? Total Stranger that said she's my mom that a DNA

Steve:

test says she probably is, that I trust completely.

Steve:

That's still a good idea, right?

Danielle Joy:

So, yeah, so I hadn't. Again, I hadn't watched the episode previous to

Danielle Joy:

this, but. So Chuck signed

Danielle Joy:

over his hotel to a

Danielle Joy:

woman that he just met

Danielle Joy:

based off of the results of the DNA test that he

Danielle Joy:

didn't have control over.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Even if the DNA test is true, he still doesn't

Leif:

know her.

Danielle Joy:

Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

Leif:

This is someone who abandoned him for his whole life.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. 18 years or whatever. Yeah,

Danielle Joy:

yeah, yeah. Chuck, come on. You're smart.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Apparently not.

Steve:

It was. Yeah, apparently not. Apparently,

Steve:

Chuck just needs a mom so bad.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

So badly.

Leif:

Lily, Hello.

Steve:

Yeah, like, oh, no, I can't ask my

Steve:

dad's company that definitely would not want to see me

Steve:

fail. Help me out. Like, come on, dude,

Steve:

drop the ego.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. That was an interesting plot point

Danielle Joy:

in the show. I mean, obviously it has to

Danielle Joy:

happen for what happens at the end of the show, but, like,

Danielle Joy:

why would you do that, Chuck? You're so smart.

Danielle Joy:

Chuck and Blair are such schemers that I feel like he would

Danielle Joy:

have thought this through a little bit more and talk

Danielle Joy:

to Blair about it, too. I don't know if he did, but.

Leif:

I feel like Blair is actually the one who, like, really pushed him into

Leif:

it. They set that

Leif:

foreshadowing up big that it was, you know. Oh,

Leif:

uh, I was the one who pushed you into it. I was the one

Leif:

that gave you the strength to do it.

Steve:

This whole episode, I was waiting for

Steve:

Chuck to turn on Blair,

Steve:

and he never did, because I was waiting for him to be like, and

Steve:

you.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. I'm surprised she would counsel

Danielle Joy:

him to do that. That's. So have a relationship with

Danielle Joy:

your mom. Yes. But sign over the rights to your hotel.

Danielle Joy:

No.

Steve:

Claire is really quick to give really bad advice, though.

Steve:

She is. Because SHU will be like, oh, maybe you shouldn't trust

Steve:

her. And then the second that she meets somebody, she's like,

Steve:

oh, no, I buy it completely.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

She did the same thing with Trip and Serena. When

Steve:

Trip was. She was like, oh, no, he must really actually

Steve:

love you. You should go on a trip with this congressman

Steve:

who's married to someone else.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. And she also takes her own bad advice a lot,

Danielle Joy:

too.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. But she's so smart, too, and they scheme, and when they have

Danielle Joy:

plots, they, like, work out and. Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Just not very good advice givers, apparently.

Leif:

Jenny apologizes to Eleanor, and the two

Leif:

make nice. However, Jenny is shocked to find out that

Leif:

she is the not the only one getting a second chance.

Leif:

Jenny's former business partner, Agnes is also in the

Leif:

show.

Steve:

Yeah. This train wreck is back.

Danielle Joy:

Why is Agnes there?

Steve:

This is not. She is not a

Steve:

character we needed more of

Steve:

to begin with.

Danielle Joy:

She's an interesting character in the sense

Danielle Joy:

that she creates drama. Right, right,

Danielle Joy:

right. And that's a wild show. But, like,

Danielle Joy:

the reasoning as to why she's there is very

Danielle Joy:

confusing. Like, you're just given

Danielle Joy:

second chances to everyone today, Eleanor.

Steve:

Yeah. And her beef with Jenny is

Steve:

also kind of like, where is this really coming

Steve:

from?

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, you ended. They buried the

Danielle Joy:

hatchet. And then she's like, huh? Haha. Just

Danielle Joy:

kidding.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, just kidding. Because

Steve:

you burnt. I burnt your dresses, and I'm still mad about

Steve:

it.

Leif:

Well, I think she got mad is because Eleanor was

Leif:

giving her more than a second chance.

Leif:

Jenny. That is.

Steve:

Yeah. You think? Jealousy. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Because Agnes says later on, she said something about,

Danielle Joy:

like, I was gonna have my own fashion line, and you ruined

Danielle Joy:

it. But, like, Agnes, you're here with

Danielle Joy:

Eleanor. You just made nice with Jenny. Someone else who can

Danielle Joy:

help you with your career. Why are you trying to destroy that?

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, Jenny was, uh, willing to give you a second chance as

Danielle Joy:

well. Like, you completely destroyed that. And then the

Danielle Joy:

blonde girl that. Who

Danielle Joy:

was that?

Leif:

That was Noah. This is the first time we ever seen her.

Danielle Joy:

Who's that?

Steve:

Y.

Leif:

But for some reason, she also hates Jenny. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Uh, yeah, apparently. Why does everyone hate Jenny?

Danielle Joy:

I was like, wait, did I miss something? I don't remember her.

Steve:

Nope, you did not miss anything.

Steve:

Nothing that we all didn't miss.

Leif:

Dan and Vanessa are riding the elevator to Lily's

Leif:

penthouse, anxious about telling the family about them dating.

Leif:

However, their fear was needless, as everyone already knows.

Leif:

Rufus and Serena congratulate Dan and Vanessa because, of course.

Leif:

Course, Nate spilled the beans.

Leif:

Never tell Nate a secret.

Steve:

Oh, no, never. And I hate this

Steve:

whole. This whole Dan Vanessa story.

Steve:

They had that hot kiss at one point

Steve:

behind the photo, uh, thing. The photo

Steve:

booth. And other than that, it has just been,

Steve:

first of all, like, let's just open up a book of

Steve:

tropes and see what we can do with

Steve:

these best friends now dating. Like, let's just watch

Steve:

Friends and then write

Steve:

this whole storyline. Oh, we

Steve:

gotta hide it from people. And this is where we're friends. And this is where

Steve:

we're not. Oh. And now we're in a rut after dating for

Steve:

five minutes, and it's like, shut up.

Leif:

The only thing I could think is they were trying to kind of

Leif:

balance the deep, like, the

Leif:

Darkness of the Chuck storyline with something a little

Leif:

bit funny, but it just didn't land.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, funny and heartwarming at the end, but,

Danielle Joy:

yeah, the whole damn Vanessa storyline. Um, in this

Danielle Joy:

episode, I was. This is when I was like, what are they

Danielle Joy:

doing? Like, if I were in this relationship, I would.

Danielle Joy:

First of all, I would not be listening to Serena's advice.

Danielle Joy:

No, you know, she didn't. She didn't really give advice. She just sort of,

Danielle Joy:

like, planted a little seed in Vanessa's head about being in

Danielle Joy:

a rut. And Vanessa's like, oh, my God, we are in a rut. And I

Danielle Joy:

was like, serena, shut up.

Leif:

Like, yeah, first of all,

Leif:

you know, Sarina and Nate weren't ever really

Leif:

friends. They're friend adjacent.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But they weren't hanging out, watching movies together and,

Leif:

you know, having deep conversations into the night.

Steve:

The most friendly thing. The most friendly thing

Steve:

they've actually done together is Serena

Steve:

covering for Nate's affair

Steve:

with a married woman. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

But also, like, Nate's been obsessed with Serena since the

Danielle Joy:

beginning.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

So it's not. It's not like they were ever just friends. He's always

Danielle Joy:

had the hots for her.

Steve:

Exactly.

Leif:

And she's always had the hots for him, too.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, she did. Yeah.

Leif:

Per Lily.

Danielle Joy:

Her and Lilial.

Leif:

No, Pearl, per Lily. She said, like. Like in

Leif:

the. Like the first or second episode, she's like, oh, she's, like,

Leif:

talking to Nate. She's like, uh, oh, I think my daughter's always had a crush on you.

Steve:

Yeah, I remember that.

Danielle Joy:

The reason that. That Nate's so obsessed with her

Danielle Joy:

is because they hooked up while he was dating Blair.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

That's episode one, isn't it?

Steve:

Yes. And either episode one or

Steve:

two, the first time we see Lily interact with

Steve:

Nate, she says something to him in front of

Steve:

Dan, too, I think. Right. I think Nate and Dan are

Steve:

in the lobby.

Leif:

Yeah. But I think. I don't think, uh, she knew Dan was there. Dan was just

Leif:

kind of sitting there.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

She was talking to Nate.

Danielle Joy:

Dan was Joe Goldberg hanging,

Danielle Joy:

preparing for his role in you.

Leif:

Shot on the same soundstages.

Danielle Joy:

But yeah. She says something to Vanessa like,

Danielle Joy:

oh, we always try and mix things up, and we don't want

Danielle Joy:

it to ever get stale or something. And Vanessa's like,

Danielle Joy:

hm, I should do that. And

Danielle Joy:

then. Yeah. And then I'll talk about it when we get to that

Danielle Joy:

scene. But, like, oh, my God, why are you. Like, why

Danielle Joy:

did that get into your head?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Eleanor explains to Blair how she is trying to lure

Leif:

a Walmart analog to carry her new line.

Leif:

Shots are fired at Bristol Palin as Blair clearly

Leif:

looks down on the retail chain. However,

Leif:

Eleanor insists that Blair bring her normal college

Leif:

friends to the party to impress Mr.

Leif:

Conwell on how down to earth the

Leif:

Waldorfs are. Dorota wonders what Blair will

Leif:

do as she has no friends, only second rate

Leif:

minions.

Danielle Joy:

I love Dorota. Love, love, love Dorota.

Steve:

Yeah. And apparently, Dorota's baby kicks out

Steve:

of time. And sloppily, because

Steve:

she kicks like Lars Zolrick from Metallica.

Leif:

Shots fired.

Steve:

Shots fired.

Danielle Joy:

I love how Blair goes down the region. She's like, what about Sax

Danielle Joy:

or Bloomingdale's? Like,

Danielle Joy:

Bloomingdale's a four or so.

Steve:

And just her face when her mom says

Steve:

Cornwalls or Cornwalls. And she just

Steve:

blank, like, are you kidding me?

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, but, mom. Um, no.

Leif:

A distraught Elizabeth bursts into Chuck's

Leif:

suite to apologize for forcing Chuck to leave.

Leif:

Jack is close behind her and points out how he

Leif:

masterminded the whole thing and the empire is

Leif:

now his. A heartbroken Chuck stares

Leif:

down Elizabeth as he walks out under his own

Leif:

power. Poor Chuck.

Steve:

Ugh.

Leif:

But he brought it on himself.

Steve:

And I sat there, and I was like, oh, Jack must have something

Steve:

on her.

Danielle Joy:

Me too. Yes. I was like, what does he have

Danielle Joy:

on her?

Steve:

And as we were saying, here you have the writers with

Steve:

this great setup. He has some kind of

Steve:

really great dirt on her. No, no.

Steve:

Just. Just. The woman can't help herself around

Steve:

the man that she's in love with.

Danielle Joy:

The brother of her. Of her dad.

Steve:

Yeah. Of her dead, not husband.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Uh, like

Danielle Joy:

you were in love with both brothers. I don't.

Steve:

Like, uh.

Steve:

Oh, my God, the worst.

Danielle Joy:

But she seemed distraught. But, like, if she was really

Danielle Joy:

distraught, she wouldn't have done it.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. It's so weird.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And as Chuck points out later, it, uh, completely

Leif:

doesn't make sense, because why would you love someone that would

Leif:

do so?

Steve:

Like. Yeah. Why would you. Hey,

Steve:

I love you so much. You know, it would be great if

Steve:

we. A great way for us to bond. Let's

Steve:

completely fuck over your estranged son that

Steve:

thinks you're dead. That'll bring us together,

Steve:

spark up the romance, get us out of a rut.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. It's all about ruts today, isn't it?

Steve:

This is a run episode. This was. This was

Steve:

their way.

Danielle Joy:

But she comes in, she's like, I'm so, uh, sorry, Chuck. And then Jack's

Danielle Joy:

like, I mastermind the whole thing. And I was like, you're in Love with

Danielle Joy:

that. He's literally being a complete

Danielle Joy:

asshole. Yeah, like you're saying I'm

Danielle Joy:

sorry and he's saying, hahaha.

Danielle Joy:

Clearly you made the wrong choice.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

And Gossip Girl takes us into the first commercial break

Leif:

with.

Leif:

We hear Chuck's hotel is hanging on by a thread and

Leif:

Jack's pulling all the strings.

Danielle Joy:

You're so clever, Gossip Girl. So clever.

Leif:

Act two begins. Vanessa and Serena are at

Leif:

the buffet line discussing how they are both in new

Leif:

relationships with lifetime friends. Serena

Leif:

unintentionally causes Vanessa to become self conscious about her and

Leif:

Dan doing the same things they have always done. Dan

Leif:

comes in and talks about their Saturday tradition, which

Leif:

just causes Vanessa to get even further inside her

Leif:

head.

Steve:

So fucking dumb.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, so this was one of those lines that I was,

Danielle Joy:

I was mentioning before about how the

Danielle Joy:

acting really helps the scene

Danielle Joy:

because. Or the story, because I

Danielle Joy:

completely believed that Serena did not mean

Danielle Joy:

any harm by saying these lines.

Danielle Joy:

Whereas like, in any other situation you might

Danielle Joy:

think that she was competing with Vanessa and being like, oh, you

Danielle Joy:

guys are in a rut. Like, uh, you need to spice it up.

Danielle Joy:

But she just like mentions it offhandedly. And

Danielle Joy:

I completely believe that she wasn't trying to do anything

Danielle Joy:

bad to Vanessa. And I thought that that was really

Danielle Joy:

good because the writing was very much like a competition.

Danielle Joy:

So yeah, this is one of those lines where I thought that the, the acting

Danielle Joy:

definitely helped steer the story in the right

Danielle Joy:

direction.

Steve:

Yeah, that's a really good point.

Leif:

Jenny is trying to get Agnes fitted, who is not

Leif:

being very helpful. Jenny apologizes to Agnes

Leif:

and the two make up. Jenny gets a text from

Leif:

Damian looking for his drugs and Jenny explains the

Leif:

situation to Agnes. Agnes comes up with a plan to

Leif:

get revenge on Damian.

Steve:

First of all, why are you apologizing to

Steve:

Agnes? Yeah, uh, she's the

Steve:

one who was torching

Steve:

your entire plan in front

Steve:

of every investor you went to and

Steve:

then literally torched all of your work.

Steve:

And then you're like, I'm sorry that I stopped inviting you to

Steve:

the meetings that you kept blowing up.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, yeah, I

Danielle Joy:

just.

Steve:

Ugh.

Danielle Joy:

Uh, I don't know why I'm friends with

Danielle Joy:

Agnes. Like, I can understand her wanting to be friends

Danielle Joy:

with Blair and Serena, but like, Agnes literally

Danielle Joy:

has no social clout that Jenny would

Danielle Joy:

want to have.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. And why

Steve:

are you already. You've just made up

Steve:

with for five minutes and you're telling her about your

Steve:

drug dealing ex boyfriend

Steve:

and exhaust. Yeah, yeah.

Danielle Joy:

And also Agnes says, oh, let's get

Danielle Joy:

revenge on Damian. How?

Danielle Joy:

When? What, what was the Plan.

Danielle Joy:

She just said, come meet us at the show.

Leif:

Yeah, they're gonna show. They're gonna, like, show up the drugs and then flush them down

Leif:

the toilet.

Danielle Joy:

Right. Which also was like, that's gonna be a

Danielle Joy:

huge. Like, he's gonna. He's gonna be mad. That's

Danielle Joy:

not revenge.

Leif:

Well, I think that was, uh, Agnes's whole. She

Leif:

wants chaos. She just wants chaos.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. But Jenny. Jenny should realize that, like, it's just gonna be

Danielle Joy:

chaos. Flushing the. She does

Danielle Joy:

is like, torching the dresses. Like, it's not gonna be good.

Steve:

Right? Yeah.

Leif:

So we have talked in recent episodes how Jenny

Leif:

definitely does need friends. She doesn't really

Leif:

have any friends. So that part I can kind of

Leif:

buy. Kind of bending over backwards to get her friend

Leif:

back.

Danielle Joy:

Mm, that's true. Yeah. Uh, but why that

Danielle Joy:

friend?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

And then who's the one girl that hates her?

Steve:

Go find Eric.

Danielle Joy:

Go find Eric. I know her and Eric are really good friends.

Leif:

Yeah, he's off, um, on Long island

Leif:

getting revenge.

Danielle Joy:

Yes. That was

Danielle Joy:

also a really good show. You should do that after this one.

Steve:

Which one was that?

Leif:

Revenge.

Danielle Joy:

Revenge.

Steve:

Mhm.

Leif:

Vanessa goes to Serena to ask for advice on how to

Leif:

spice things up unsolicited. Nate

Leif:

suggests two words, roleplay. Serena

Leif:

then suggests a themed date based on one of

Leif:

Dan's favorite films.

Steve:

This kind of goes back to what you were saying about

Steve:

Serena, how that first scene was kind of

Steve:

written almost competitively

Steve:

or could have been very easily, a

Steve:

very catty kind of

Steve:

interaction. And here you have Serena once again,

Steve:

full blown, like, hey, here's something

Steve:

that you could do that Dan would probably like.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Well, this seemed to very much reminded me

Leif:

of season one with the opposite with

Leif:

Serena, uh, going to Vanessa asking for advice on

Leif:

Dan's gift.

Steve:

Oh, right. In season one.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. It's like, does Vanessa know him better or

Danielle Joy:

does Serena know him better?

Steve:

Well, and that's funny because it's Vanessa knows

Steve:

him as a friend and all the friend stuff to

Steve:

do. But Serena knows him romantically.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

So it is kind of different worlds that they're

Steve:

approaching it from.

Danielle Joy:

But again, this scene too. Like, I didn't feel like

Danielle Joy:

Serena was again competing or

Danielle Joy:

showing up Vanessa. Like, I know what he wants.

Danielle Joy:

Like, it just felt very helpful. It felt very

Danielle Joy:

sincere.

Steve:

Yeah. And genuine and

Steve:

friendly.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Eleanor is impressed by Jenny's work and tells her that

Leif:

after the show they should talk about fighting Jenny a permanent

Leif:

position. One of the other assistants, Callie,

Leif:

shows up with Damian's pills retrieved from Jenny's

Leif:

dresser. Agnes is excited to get her chaos.

Leif:

Binge. On. But after Eleanor's praise,

Leif:

Jenny is having second thoughts on blowing things up.

Leif:

Smart choice, Jenny.

Danielle Joy:

Smart, smart, smart, smart.

Steve:

Callie has a name.

Danielle Joy:

I know. I was like, who?

Steve:

Okay, can we talk about her for a second?

Steve:

This person shows up out of

Steve:

fucking nowhere. She is

Steve:

nowhere in this show. Then one day shows up.

Steve:

First of all, here are the pills exactly where you told me

Steve:

they were. Jenny and I put them in this clutch.

Steve:

You told this stranger where to

Steve:

find your drug stash?

Danielle Joy:

She's a named character. All right? She's

Danielle Joy:

clearly friends with Jenny.

Steve:

They must have history.

Leif:

I did have to go with the IMDb to find her name.

Danielle Joy:

Well, good for her. Good for that actress. I mean,

Danielle Joy:

she got a big part in this episode.

Steve:

Yeah, she did great.

Steve:

It's just.

Danielle Joy:

Well, uh, that was not me.

Steve:

Elsa would where your drug

Steve:

stash is.

Danielle Joy:

But also, like, give them the keys to your apartment

Danielle Joy:

and tell them where your drug stash is and,

Danielle Joy:

um, then put them in my club. Like.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

And does she really have time to go run all the

Danielle Joy:

way to Brooklyn and then come back to the Upper east side?

Leif:

Well, that would be at, ah, Lily's.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, they were at Lily's.

Leif:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, they're at Lily's. But still, yeah.

Leif:

Nate and Serena arrive at the bar to meet Chuck and Blair.

Leif:

Chuck explains the whole Jack Bass Empire takeover

Leif:

plot. Chuck's big plan is to get Elizabeth

Leif:

alone so he can appeal to her as a son to his mother.

Leif:

Chuck leaves to do just that. And Serena and

Leif:

Nate, uh, express their doubts on the validity of the

Leif:

DNA test, but Blair asks them to hold off.

Leif:

The running joke of Blair having no friends

Leif:

continues.

Danielle Joy:

Why are they at a bar?

Leif:

Because they're always at a bar.

Leif:

Chuck's depressed. He needs to drink. He needs some whiskey.

Danielle Joy:

He wasn't there, was he?

Leif:

He was there at the beginning of the scene.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, was he? Okay, sorry, my bad.

Steve:

Well, to that point, this whole

Steve:

scene could have been a text. Yeah,

Steve:

Yeah. M. Hey, guys. This is what's going

Steve:

down with Jack. But no,

Steve:

it's like, meet me at this bar so I can tell you what's going on with

Steve:

Jack.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah,

Danielle Joy:

the way that they zip around the city. It just is.

Danielle Joy:

They get from movies so quickly.

Danielle Joy:

Um, but they plant this seed about

Danielle Joy:

the DNA test being faked, and

Danielle Joy:

I'm like, oh, how's this going to play out? That's interesting.

Steve:

Mhm.

Danielle Joy:

We'll talk about that later.

Leif:

At nyu, Dorota finds Blair's

Leif:

air quote friend Brandeis and asks her

Leif:

about her hourly. Right. And if she has around

Leif:

3:30 more friends just like her.

Steve:

It was interesting how much the Columbia dorm

Steve:

looked like Dan's. Outside of Dan's

Steve:

dorm where he met Melissa.

Leif:

No, that is the NYU dorm.

Danielle Joy:

That's the NYU dorms? Yeah.

Leif:

I thought. I want you.

Steve:

Why was Brandeis at nyu?

Leif:

She's at nyu.

Danielle Joy:

That's where Blair is.

Steve:

I thought Brandeis was Columbia.

Leif:

No, those two girls that we

Leif:

just meet this episode are from Columbia.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Where did Blair meet Brandeis again?

Leif:

At the NYU coffee shop.

Steve:

Yeah, but I didn't think Brandeis went to nyu.

Leif:

She did.

Danielle Joy:

Have you watched ahead, Steve? Have you

Danielle Joy:

watched more episodes than you're supposed to?

Steve:

No, no, absolutely not.

Steve:

Not since the very. The first four episodes.

Steve:

I started binging. It was like. You do not get the concept

Steve:

of this show, do you?

Steve:

And, uh, now my poor wife.

Danielle Joy:

Maybe you're getting Brandeis confused with Callie because

Danielle Joy:

they're such important characters.

Steve:

Yeah, that must be it.

Steve:

Callie goes to Columbia, right?

Danielle Joy:

Maybe. Sure.

Danielle Joy:

She's a working girl, so she's out of. Well, wait,

Danielle Joy:

Brandeis is the working girl.

Steve:

Brandeis is the.

Danielle Joy:

But, yeah, Callie's got a job, so maybe she's, uh.

Danielle Joy:

Maybe she's out of college. I don't know. Who cares about Callie?

Steve:

Who cares about Callie?

Danielle Joy:

That's what the name of this episode should have been.

Leif:

Back at the Waldorf penthouse, Jenny leaves the room to

Leif:

wheel out a rack of garment bags with Callie

Leif:

and foolishly trusts Agnes to watch her purse.

Leif:

We, as the audience, see Callie give Agnes a sly

Leif:

smile as she leads Jenny out of the room.

Leif:

Agnes immediately goes for the purse and takes the

Leif:

pills.

Danielle Joy:

Like, why would you. Why,

Danielle Joy:

Jenny?

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Why are you still trusting this person?

Danielle Joy:

She's still trusting. Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, hey, watch my stuff, okay. Yeah,

Steve:

watch my stuff with all the drugs in it.

Danielle Joy:

It wasn't even that, like, she was about to take her stuff, and Agnes was

Danielle Joy:

like, oh, I'll watch it.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Danielle Joy:

And I was like. But there's like, what

Danielle Joy:

if she gets. What if she gets called away? What if Eleanor needs her to try

Danielle Joy:

out another outfit? Like, what? Like, take your bag.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

And also, what if Eleanor comes by and just, like, happens

Danielle Joy:

to, like, what if Agnes is in the bathroom and

Danielle Joy:

Eleanor sees it or spills or someone bumps into it, et

Danielle Joy:

cetera, et cetera. Anyway, yeah, it's like, this was.

Leif:

In the comic book world. There's a popular phrase called

Leif:

plot induced stupidity.

Danielle Joy:

100%. Yes,

Danielle Joy:

I know. I find this with a lot of shows where I'm just like,

Danielle Joy:

if they just sent a text message or if they just

Danielle Joy:

clarified something really quickly. Or if

Danielle Joy:

someone asked for clarification, none of this would have happened.

Danielle Joy:

And yeah, m. The plot definitely relies

Danielle Joy:

on plot induced stupidity.

Steve:

Yeah. Especially for a character like

Steve:

Jenny, who's not stupid. Yeah, Jenny

Steve:

isn't stupid. Trusting sometimes,

Steve:

but not stupid.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, this was definitely a case of her being trusting

Danielle Joy:

to someone she just made up with 20 seconds

Danielle Joy:

ago.

Leif:

Gossip Girl takes us into the next break with.

Leif:

Careful Jay. The show's about to start, and it

Leif:

looks like Eleanor's line is going to bring the whole new

Leif:

meaning to high fashion.

Leif:

Act three begins. At the fashion show. Blair is

Leif:

telling Serena to leave the Chuck situation alone.

Leif:

Serena is surprised to see Brandis at that

Leif:

event, but Blair points out Brandis's target, Mr.

Leif:

Conwell. The ladies are closed for

Leif:

business, but are just acting as normal college students.

Leif:

When Serena becomes incredulous, Blair points out

Leif:

that prostitutes are people too and have a lot of

Leif:

disposable income.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So this is where I begin to question a few

Leif:

episodes. Blair got in good with the

Leif:

Tisch kids. She couldn't just, like, hire

Leif:

some actors? Actors?

Danielle Joy:

They would have been way cheaper than $300 an hour. Yeah,

Danielle Joy:

they would have done it for free.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Performance art feat. Don't worry about it.

Danielle Joy:

Performance art. Yeah. Oh,

Danielle Joy:

man. Well, I'll let you know that a lot of those kids there

Danielle Joy:

probably were from Tish the Bell.

Steve:

That's funny.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Not surprising. In Brooklyn, a

Leif:

napping Dan is awakened by a kiss from Vanessa

Leif:

in full Rear Window cosplay.

Steve:

Oh, Christ. Vanessa.

Danielle Joy:

So they left

Danielle Joy:

Lily's, and he was like, see you at 6.

Danielle Joy:

And she was like, maybe 6:30. And then he's

Danielle Joy:

asleep in a chair. What time is it? Like,

Danielle Joy:

how late was she? And how did she have time

Danielle Joy:

to do that whole makeup and hair, get up? And

Danielle Joy:

did she do it at the apartment? Did he fall asleep waiting for her to get

Danielle Joy:

dressed? Did she ride the subway looking like that?

Steve:

Set that whole table in silence?

Leif:

Yeah. While he was sleeping.

Steve:

While he's sleeping uncomfortably in a

Steve:

chair 10ft away.

Danielle Joy:

She drugged him. She absolutely drugged him

Danielle Joy:

with Jenny's pills. Uh,

Danielle Joy:

but, yeah, that was an interesting choice. And he

Danielle Joy:

didn't seem super into it, did he?

Leif:

Yeah, he was like, yeah, I don't really like shellfish.

Danielle Joy:

Well, she said she was gonna make, like, a yummy

Danielle Joy:

noodle dish. Like, why didn't he. Why didn't she just make

Danielle Joy:

that. Does. Is shellfish part of Rear Window?

Leif:

Yeah, it was like a whole. Like, it was the whole recreation of the whole

Leif:

scene.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, okay.

Leif:

Yeah. Uh, at the Show Jenny catches

Leif:

Agnes visibly distributing Damien's pills to the

Leif:

models. Jenny tries to shut it down, but Agnes

Leif:

blackmails her into keeping quiet. Jenny tries to

Leif:

tell Eleanor anyways, but it's too late. The show's about

Leif:

to start. Agnes and Callie still are

Leif:

plotting to take Jenny down.

Danielle Joy:

And, like, what was Jenny going

Danielle Joy:

hoping to do by telling

Danielle Joy:

Eleanor? Because the models were

Danielle Joy:

absolutely fine. Like, it didn't ruin

Danielle Joy:

the show at all.

Leif:

Yeah, they probably have a decent tolerance buildup.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

Especially to that point. Agnes, uh,

Steve:

is just handing out these pills to these models and

Steve:

the models are like, cool pills.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, all right. Sweet. No one's one of these.

Leif:

I don't care.

Steve:

Yeah. What is this? Is this Tylenol? Is it

Steve:

Necstasy? It's just. Oh, okay. I'm just gonna.

Steve:

Thanks for the random pills.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. And she has no idea what the pills are. There were multiple different

Danielle Joy:

ones, multiple different colors and different sizes. Which ones are she

Danielle Joy:

giving out? Uh. And what is that gonna do to the

Danielle Joy:

models? And then apparently nothing.

Steve:

And who lost their cholesterol medicine for them to get

Steve:

this stash now? Because the last time they

Steve:

had a stash, it was just stuff they stole from Lily.

Leif:

Thanks to some loyal employees. Chuck gets his one on

Leif:

one meeting with Elizabeth. Chuck gets his answer on

Leif:

why she helped Jack, and it's because she loves

Leif:

him. Chuck himself exposes the

Leif:

flawed writing of the storyline when he asks,

Leif:

what kind of person would convince you to

Leif:

do this to me?

Danielle Joy:

That was a great show.

Leif:

Elizabeth tells Chuck that was a great show that she isn't really his

Leif:

mother.

Steve:

Are you fucking serious?

Steve:

My love for the man is just too

Steve:

strong to be a good person.

Steve:

I hated this. Like, that's

Steve:

what you have on her.

Danielle Joy:

That's what he has on her. Uh, and also, like, what?

Danielle Joy:

Like, why? Why does the woman have to be the weak one?

Danielle Joy:

There could have been so many reasons as to why

Danielle Joy:

she was like, uh, listen, I don't know

Danielle Joy:

you, you don't know me. I'm just a horrible person.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

I killed someone in Jack.

Danielle Joy:

I left you once, I'm going to leave you again. Like, what did you expect?

Danielle Joy:

But no, it's because she was in love with your dad's

Danielle Joy:

brother.

Steve:

Yeah. Your dead dad's brother.

Leif:

I mean, make it about money. Like Chuck thought.

Steve:

Yeah, like anything.

Steve:

And again, it goes back to the

Steve:

setup the writers had and the

Steve:

turn they took. It's like.

Steve:

And also him. Yeah,

Steve:

him.

Danielle Joy:

Hm. I know. Yeah. Uh, but Chuck's

Danielle Joy:

acting in this scene I thought was really good in terms

Danielle Joy:

of, like, you don't really get a lot of

Danielle Joy:

emotional crying scenes in Gossip Girl. It's a lot

Danielle Joy:

more betrayal. I mean, this was betrayal as well, but this

Danielle Joy:

was also seeded and rooted in the fact that this

Danielle Joy:

was his mother. It wasn't just like, a friend of his. Like, this was someone

Danielle Joy:

he's been wanting to meet and be with and have a relationship with

Danielle Joy:

his entire life. Um, so his acting in this scene

Danielle Joy:

I thought was amazing and heartbreaking.

Leif:

I did think, uh, Ed's acting was much better in

Leif:

this episode than the past few episodes where he was kind of

Leif:

phoning it in. But

Leif:

yeah, he did do a good job in this episode.

Leif:

Deadmau5 is deejaying the fashion show.

Leif:

Serena tells Nate about Blair's hired friends.

Leif:

Nate gets a call from Chuck, who tells Nate the

Leif:

Empire is gone. Unfortunately,

Leif:

Nate has a, uh, plan.

Steve:

Nate. Aw, are you

Steve:

thinking?

Leif:

So I realized this morning when doing my notes,

Leif:

Nate is basically Tommy boy.

Leif:

He's got a rich family. Most people

Leif:

like him. Um, he's a likable guy. He likes to party,

Leif:

and he's not that smart.

Steve:

Yeah, he's gonna be in college for seven

Steve:

years. Yes. Lots of people go to

Steve:

college for seven years. Yeah, they're called

Steve:

doctors. Um,

Steve:

this was also the scene with that shot of the Brooklyn

Steve:

Bridge behind Chuck when he

Steve:

calls Nate and. Yeah, I loved that

Steve:

shot.

Danielle Joy:

Mhm.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, Nate, don't do the thinking.

Steve:

Um, we have Blair to thank.

Danielle Joy:

Yes. And Serena tries to

Danielle Joy:

formulate a plan with him too. And I was just like, this is. What are you guys

Danielle Joy:

doing? You're not.

Steve:

And Serena, you can't create a plan that doesn't

Steve:

involve yourself as some kind of honeypot. Like, you

Steve:

only know one way to scheme.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

It's to throw yourself at somebody who's not interested.

Danielle Joy:

Poor Serena.

Steve:

Poor Serena. I keep saying that I just

Steve:

want someone to handcuff Serena and

Steve:

Nate together so they can't see any other pretty

Steve:

shiny objects and just stay together

Steve:

at all times because they're the perfect couple.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, I like how you call them golden retriever couple

Danielle Joy:

as well.

Steve:

Yes, they're our golden retrievers.

Danielle Joy:

They are golden retrievers.

Steve:

They'll go for the. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

They really are the perfect couple.

Steve:

Uh, yeah. I love them together so

Steve:

much. But again, handcuff them together. Don't

Steve:

let them see any shiny

Steve:

other object.

Leif:

Dan shits on Vanessa's lobster, then pulls out

Leif:

two tickets to the student movie theater. This just

Leif:

annoys Vanessa even more about being stuck in a rut,

Leif:

which Dan is still oblivious to. Rufus

Leif:

shows up and immediately Tries to back out when he sees they are on a

Leif:

date. Before he can leave, Vanessa pass him

Leif:

aggressively and invites Rufus to stay for dessert.

Leif:

She then gets up and walks into the other room.

Steve:

It's funny to me. And Dan makes this

Steve:

point at the end, but the whole point

Steve:

to being with your best friend is to

Steve:

continue the relationship you had,

Steve:

right? Like, you're. You're together and you work because

Steve:

you have this history and this great

Steve:

relationship already that you're now adding a

Steve:

layer to. And that was really

Steve:

Dan's point later. But this is where I'm, um,

Steve:

thinking, like, vanessa, why are you making such a big

Steve:

deal of the fact that you're doing the stuff that you've been

Steve:

doing together all along? Why is that a problem?

Danielle Joy:

I was gonna ask you guys, like, whose side are you on? Are you on Dan's

Danielle Joy:

side or Vanessa's side? And it seems like you're on Dan's side.

Steve:

I'm totally.

Leif:

I get both sides.

Danielle Joy:

You're both sides.

Leif:

I understand both sides. I mean, I would

Leif:

be more on the dance side if it was me, but I can see

Leif:

Vanessa's point of view.

Steve:

I feel like it was just too early in the

Steve:

relationship for Vanessa to jump to this.

Steve:

That, like.

Danielle Joy:

I agree.

Leif:

She definitely got inside her head.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly.

Danielle Joy:

And also, like, talk about it first. You

Danielle Joy:

know, again, this is like, if they just talk to each other,

Danielle Joy:

but, uh, if she's like, hey, I feel like

Danielle Joy:

we're in a rut. Can we maybe do a

Danielle Joy:

rear window roleplay next week? Would that

Danielle Joy:

be fun? Instead of just surprising him with it out of

Danielle Joy:

nowhere because Serena put an earworm in

Danielle Joy:

her. You know, like, uh, Dan

Danielle Joy:

had no idea where this was coming from. He was completely

Danielle Joy:

blindsided. Also, Dan's favorite movie is

Danielle Joy:

Rear window.

Leif:

I would be Dan's favorite movie.

Danielle Joy:

Watching other people.

Leif:

I could see that.

Danielle Joy:

Another you reference, maybe.

Leif:

But also, Rufus, he shows up and acts

Leif:

surprised, but they specifically told him they were going to have a

Leif:

ramantic dinner tonight.

Danielle Joy:

Yes. Yes, yes. He knew.

Danielle Joy:

Get out of it, Rufus.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. You're not even living there.

Leif:

Now he's got to get his 12

Leif:

string, because that's what you need

Leif:

every.

Steve:

Day because we haven't heard every time

Steve:

on a 12 string yet.

Danielle Joy:

Also, like, wouldn't your guitar be the first thing you

Danielle Joy:

move to your new apartment as a musician?

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Take over. Ah, Bart's office with all his guitars.

Steve:

My instruments were all safely moved in before,

Steve:

like, all of my instruments and nerd stuff were safely

Steve:

moved in before my clothes.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. What do you need clothes for. No.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, that's what the laundry machine is for.

Steve:

Exactly. Exactly. I can just

Steve:

toss them in. Uh, you know, it's just my wife and I living

Steve:

there who needed. You know.

Leif:

Blair is trying to schmooze Mr. Conwell, but it

Leif:

seems he has spotted the sex workers in the audience.

Leif:

He tells Blair that he would never have that type of

Leif:

clientele associated with his store's

Leif:

Midwest image. Well, I mean, he

Leif:

knew about that a little too easily.

Steve:

Yeah. That was. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

There's nothing he can. There's nothing he can do about

Danielle Joy:

that, though. Those people probably

Danielle Joy:

still shop at his store anyway.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Regardless if Eleanor Waldorf's line is there or not. Like,

Danielle Joy:

he can't. He can't stop that.

Leif:

Has he seen the people of Walmart.com?

Danielle Joy:

I know. You should be lucky for these lovely people shopping

Danielle Joy:

there.

Leif:

Yes. Jenny

Leif:

watches from the wings as Eleanor takes her bow for

Leif:

a successful show. Callie hands Jenny a

Leif:

congratulatory glass of champagne. As Jenny

Leif:

races her glass, she fails to see Callie telling

Leif:

Agnes that she put a triple dose of the pills

Leif:

in Jenny's drink.

Steve:

Why? Does Agnes have a minion?

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. How. How does she have a minion?

Steve:

How.

Danielle Joy:

That's apparently also friends with Jenny, but is like, I've been looking for a way

Danielle Joy:

to screw her over.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Everyone's just jealous of Jenny because she's so

Leif:

talented.

Steve:

She is just such a talented designer.

Steve:

As Dan is such a talented writer.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. As Rufus is such a talented

Danielle Joy:

musician.

Steve:

And Rufus is a talent. Yes.

Danielle Joy:

Everyone's so talented. Who is only talented

Danielle Joy:

businessman.

Steve:

Yes.

Danielle Joy:

Talented model.

Steve:

Rufus is only not a big

Steve:

celebrity because he chose not

Steve:

to be. Chose to stay home with his kids

Steve:

rather than being

Steve:

a rock star.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Gossip Girl takes us to our next commercial with.

Leif:

We hear Eleanor's show brought down the house.

Leif:

Sounds like a night to remember, if you can.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, we're

Steve:

just drugging people now.

Leif:

We're just drugging people and making

Leif:

jokes about it.

Danielle Joy:

Again, they gave all the models

Danielle Joy:

one pill. And then Callie was like. And nothing happened. And then

Danielle Joy:

Callie was like, I gave her a triple dose. Of what? Nothing.

Danielle Joy:

Like, yeah, nothing

Danielle Joy:

happened with those pills.

Steve:

She took three metformin.

Danielle Joy:

But also Jenny, like, Agnes hands her the, um.

Danielle Joy:

Agnes hands her the champagne. And Jenny was like,

Danielle Joy:

oh, last time, Eleanor congratulated me herself.

Danielle Joy:

Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug. Like, maybe

Danielle Joy:

that's a hint to, like, not drink the random

Danielle Joy:

champagne that someone just gave you.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Also, Jenny, you're 16, aren't you? Like, you shouldn't be

Danielle Joy:

Drinking.

Leif:

Well, yeah, that's never stopped anyone on this show.

Danielle Joy:

No, I know. Which.

Steve:

That's, uh. It's so funny how we actually

Steve:

hardly talk about that anymore. Where the first

Steve:

half of the first season, we are always talking

Steve:

about. Oh, yeah, and here are these teenagers at a bar just

Steve:

getting pounded at a bar.

Leif:

At least they're in college now.

Steve:

Yeah, at least they're in college now. And a lot of the drinking

Steve:

does take place more at, like, private

Steve:

events or at a, uh,

Steve:

house or a dorm. It's not in

Steve:

bars as much.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah. All of season one and two.

Leif:

Except for Chuck.

Steve:

Yeah, except for Chuck. But a lot of times it's

Steve:

his bar, too.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, it's his bar. Usually.

Leif:

So we move into Act 4, and the drugs are

Leif:

hitting Jenny hard and fast. She is

Leif:

already stumbling around and asks Agnes what she put in

Leif:

her drink. Agnes rips the fake friendship

Leif:

facade off and tears into Jenny for ruining

Leif:

her life and suffering zero consequences.

Leif:

I don't know about that, Agnes.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, uh, zero consequences. You mean torching her

Danielle Joy:

dresses wasn't enough?

Danielle Joy:

But also, okay, wasn't the plan to

Danielle Joy:

flush these pills. Where's Damian? Did Damian not

Danielle Joy:

show up?

Steve:

Yeah, he never. He never showed up.

Danielle Joy:

He never shows.

Leif:

Well, presumably Jenny texted him and said not to show up.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, okay.

Leif:

She said she was going to. Yeah, she

Leif:

showed that, but she said she was going to back out.

Danielle Joy:

Okay, well, that was a cut scene then.

Leif:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

So it's like, he's still showing up, isn't he? And then

Danielle Joy:

Agnes is. Well, I'll talk about it in a

Danielle Joy:

minute.

Steve:

Yeah, the second part two of her plan.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Uh, anyway, yeah,

Leif:

Nate's plan has gone into effect as Jack arrives at the

Leif:

fashion show looking for Chuck. Nate tells Jack to

Leif:

wait by the bar, and he is immediately surrounded by some of the

Leif:

escorts.

Steve:

Oh, Nate.

Leif:

So high school.

Danielle Joy:

This is like, don't be suspicious. Don't be

Danielle Joy:

suspicious.

Steve:

Don't be suspicious. Don't.

Danielle Joy:

It's like you call me here to meet with my nephew, who is not

Danielle Joy:

here, but all of a sudden, there are tons of women all over me.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Oh, Nate. Rufus

Leif:

is awkwardly trying to make small talk as he is to close,

Leif:

clearly imposing on a date. Vanessa gets up and Rufus

Leif:

whispers some advice to Dan. However, before they realize it,

Leif:

Vanessa is out the door.

Steve:

Why are you sitting there?

Danielle Joy:

Get out of there, Rufus.

Leif:

Like, yeah, just leave.

Steve:

Why did you sit down? You already said you shouldn't sit

Steve:

down. Yeah, why did you sit down?

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Uh, this was probably the funniest scene to me, because

Danielle Joy:

after she leaves, Dan Just goes. She left. All

Danielle Joy:

right. So over it.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Like I said at the beginning, I think that was the intention of

Leif:

this storyline was to bring some humor to the episode.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

And Pen is great at the humor stuff.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But I just don't care about Dan and Vanessa.

Steve:

Ah, yeah. Yes, completely.

Danielle Joy:

I also just love how Dan is so desperate or was so

Danielle Joy:

desperate to be in this world, and then when they

Danielle Joy:

act the way the world acts, he's just like,

Danielle Joy:

they're out of the. Like, you wanted this.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

At the show, Blair accuses Brandeis of going

Leif:

outside mission parameters. Brandeis, however, is

Leif:

innocent. Mr. Kamala actually recognized a male

Leif:

escort at the party. Seems Mr. Midwest Family

Leif:

man is something of a hypocrite. You can tell how little Blair

Leif:

actually cares about Brandeis by how quickly,

Leif:

uh, she apologizes to her. She would never pause to

Leif:

Sarina that fast.

Steve:

And, uh, yeah. I love her owning this

Steve:

Cornwall guy. Cornwell guy.

Leif:

And that comes next.

Steve:

Oh, I thought that was right there.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

This is just where she confronts Brandeis.

Steve:

Yeah. And Brandeis is like, it's not me.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Because.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair immediately takes this new information to

Leif:

blackmail Mr. Conwell into reconsidering Eleanor's line.

Steve:

Yes. Classic Blair.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

This is the scheming Blair that I love.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Not that I condone blackmailing, but, like, come on, this is.

Danielle Joy:

This is the essence of blackmail.

Leif:

The original plan failed, but she goes right to blackmail.

Steve:

And as we've often said, within the morality

Steve:

of this show, uh, she's right

Steve:

on. On cue. You know, she's.

Danielle Joy:

She is the barometer for the show.

Danielle Joy:

She really is the barometer for the show.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

As they and Serena walk towards Jack's limo,

Leif:

Nate explains the plan to take a picture of Jack with the

Leif:

escorts to show to Elizabeth when they open the door,

Leif:

Jack isn't having sex with the women. They are having a

Leif:

conversation about sustainable energy.

Steve:

I love that.

Danielle Joy:

What an easy night for those ladies, huh? Huh?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

As presumably Nate also paid them.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

But also, I. I would think that a picture like

Danielle Joy:

that would. Would be enough.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Be compromising. You're with two escorts

Danielle Joy:

in your limo. You know, I didn't happen

Danielle Joy:

to catch you in the throes of passion, but you're still

Danielle Joy:

in the limo with them, taking them somewhere. Like I would

Danielle Joy:

put the pieces. Like, that picture would still work, I think.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

So silly.

Leif:

But the one bright side of Nate's plan is that it puts him outside

Leif:

to see a stumbling and nearly passed Jenny

Leif:

being shoved into a cab by Agnes and Callie

Leif:

for the purpose of.

Steve:

Having her sexually assaulted. Like.

Steve:

Like you. Now Agnes is just

Steve:

escalating to accessory

Steve:

to.

Leif:

And presumably that taxi driver heard what they were saying,

Leif:

too.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So he's kind of eight on a two now.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Like, we haven't. We haven't gotten to that. To that

Danielle Joy:

scene yet. But like you just said, Agnes's

Danielle Joy:

plan was not get

Danielle Joy:

Jenny hammered and then throw her on

Danielle Joy:

stage in the middle of the fashion show and destroy her chances with

Danielle Joy:

Eleanor Waldorf. It was get her hammered,

Danielle Joy:

take her to another location with random men,

Danielle Joy:

and get her date raped.

Steve:

Like, well, she says when she's putting her in the

Steve:

cab, we're going to get this girl laid.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, but how is that revenge?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Like, just pure evil.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Like, Jenny was stumbling around, and

Danielle Joy:

all she had to do was just push her on stage at the

Danielle Joy:

fashion show.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

And embarrass her in front of Eleanor. Like, why jump

Danielle Joy:

immediately to sexual assault with random

Danielle Joy:

people?

Steve:

Yeah. Just dropping her off at some point.

Danielle Joy:

She didn't know that those men were going to be there.

Steve:

Like, yeah, uh, there's got to be a bachelor party there. There's. You know,

Steve:

there's always a bachelor party.

Danielle Joy:

At this bar, and I love that.

Danielle Joy:

Right after Nate and Serena see Jack,

Danielle Joy:

Nate's like, I'll call Chuck, and Serena's like, I'll

Danielle Joy:

go find Blair. Why? Why? Just to get her

Danielle Joy:

off screen. Right. So that Nate's the only one who

Danielle Joy:

used Jenny. And, like, why couldn't Serena also

Danielle Joy:

be there? I didn't. I didn't understand. Because she never goes and finds

Danielle Joy:

Blair.

Leif:

No.

Steve:

Uh, yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, no, she does. She does eventually. But. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Like, why. Why are you going back to Blair? Because your plan failed.

Danielle Joy:

I don't understand.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Gossip Girl has this to say.

Leif:

Spotted. Little J. Passing out in a taxi.

Leif:

Oh, looks like somebody better call the fashion police.

Leif:

We go into Act 5, and Agnes and her crew

Leif:

dump a barely conscious Jetney off at a bachelor

Leif:

party. Chaotic, evil.

Danielle Joy:

Which lecherous men.

Danielle Joy:

You would think that at least one of them would be decent and be

Danielle Joy:

like, hey, let's get you home. Like, who are you? Like, no

Danielle Joy:

one talks to her. They just leave her on the couch. And then one

Danielle Joy:

guy's like, hey, I'll get her home. And it's like, no, your friends

Danielle Joy:

know that you're being weird.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Stop. Stop him.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. It's.

Danielle Joy:

They leave her there for, like, ages.

Steve:

Yeah. And the friends I know we haven't gotten.

Leif:

Like, they said she looks like she's 12.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Should you try to help her out Maybe.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. Uh, but unfortunately,

Leif:

believable.

Danielle Joy:

This whole bachelor party is happening around her passing out on a

Danielle Joy:

couch while all the guys are just, like, standing around being like,

Danielle Joy:

she's sexy. She looks like she's 12. We should get her home. What should

Danielle Joy:

we do about it? And it's just like,

Danielle Joy:

nobody does anything until, like, at the very end, the guy who's

Danielle Joy:

super drunk is like, I'll help her. And it's like, no, you won't.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Backstage of the show, Conwell, with Blair's

Leif:

encouragement, tells Eleanor that he would love to have her new

Leif:

line in his stores with a few changes.

Leif:

Eleanor, however, is unwilling to compromise her artistic

Leif:

vision and her brand and turns down the offer.

Leif:

Blair, emboldened by her mother's honesty and courage,

Leif:

tells Eleanor about not having any real friends

Leif:

again.

Steve:

I love Eleanor. She's such a fucking boss.

Steve:

She's just like, you want to take my name

Steve:

off of my clothes? No.

Steve:

Absolutely not.

Danielle Joy:

What was this guy's deal? Like, what. Why was he

Danielle Joy:

even there? Like, he knows Eleanor

Danielle Joy:

Waldorf's designs. It's not like she was a new designer.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Why would he even be entertaining this notion

Danielle Joy:

if he didn't think the clothes were going to be

Danielle Joy:

a good fit anyway? I don't know. I thought. I mean, it

Danielle Joy:

was great to see powerful Eleanor Waldorf and

Danielle Joy:

Blair be able to open up to her mom,

Danielle Joy:

but, like, this guy was just obviously

Danielle Joy:

not there for a while.

Leif:

He wanted the free trip to New York so he could meet with his, uh, male

Leif:

escort friend.

Steve:

Really, ultimately, there you go. That is what

Steve:

it looks like.

Danielle Joy:

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

Steve:

I also loved.

Steve:

Eleanor does everything she can to try to get

Steve:

me to cry when she. At the end of her

Steve:

episodes. And I think I held it together with this one.

Steve:

But, man, when she was talking with Blair and she's

Steve:

like, the thing about Waldorf women

Steve:

is we don't fit in everywhere. And

Steve:

you. You fit in somewhere you haven't found

Steve:

your place. Like, the thing that her daughter needs

Steve:

so much to hear from her right now, and she

Steve:

just nails it. She just

Steve:

lands that plane. You know,

Steve:

she just really gets through to

Steve:

Blair the way Blair needs it right there. And

Steve:

I just love that Blair has.

Danielle Joy:

The best parents on the show, hands down.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

And also, like I said earlier, these

Steve:

two are two of the best actors on the show,

Steve:

and when they have a scene together, it just is

Steve:

so moving. We've also said one of

Steve:

our favorite scenes is from the second Thanksgiving

Steve:

episode with the two of them and Taylor

Steve:

When Jenny is making up with

Steve:

Blair and Eleanor on Thanksgiving, where

Steve:

that hit me right in the gut.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

So, yeah, I love watching them work.

Danielle Joy:

And it's so good to see as well, because Blair,

Danielle Joy:

when we have scenes with just Blair, like the whole show is

Danielle Joy:

basically Blair and she

Danielle Joy:

is an adult. She acts and

Danielle Joy:

comports herself like an adult. And then when we see her with

Danielle Joy:

her mom, she turns into a kid and, you know, she

Danielle Joy:

gets a little bit more vulnerable. And I think that dynamic

Danielle Joy:

really just the, uh, acting level of it, the

Danielle Joy:

vulnerability of it, it's just. It's. It's really

Danielle Joy:

interesting to see on screen as well.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

Leif:

The bachelor party is getting ready to move on to the next

Leif:

destination. Jenny is still semi conscious. And

Leif:

once sleazeball offers to hang back to take care of

Leif:

blondie, a slurring Jenny takes a call

Leif:

from Nate, who is thankfully able to track her phone,

Leif:

which.

Danielle Joy:

How. How is he tracking her phone?

Leif:

Um, I mean, find my phone was a

Leif:

thing at that point.

Steve:

Was it?

Danielle Joy:

But, like, why would. Why would Nate be able to track Jenny?

Danielle Joy:

It's just funny.

Steve:

It's convenient. Yeah, it is.

Danielle Joy:

The thing about Gossip Girl is they had a lot of,

Danielle Joy:

um, contracts with different

Danielle Joy:

phone providers. Oh, yeah, There were always a lot

Danielle Joy:

of. That's why Gossip Girl pops up on the phones. And there's a lot of

Danielle Joy:

insert shots of a phone or like they're using the phone in

Danielle Joy:

a way that you wouldn't expect to use it. So this Find My

Danielle Joy:

Friend.

Steve:

Throwing it in the trash.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. In your phone. I know they

Danielle Joy:

just disposable, but yeah. So this

Danielle Joy:

Find My Friend feature was probably something that the company

Danielle Joy:

was like, hey, we need to feature this. And

Danielle Joy:

they wrote it into the episode as a way to do that. So that's

Danielle Joy:

what I'm thinking because they did a lot of that.

Leif:

Mhm.

Danielle Joy:

Throughout the show, where the phones were essentially like

Danielle Joy:

another character on the show as well.

Steve:

Oh, that.

Leif:

Let's bing it.

Danielle Joy:

Binging.

Leif:

I think that gets big in season five. I think

Leif:

everyone has to. Let's bing it.

Danielle Joy:

Let's bang the fuck up. Noah says that there was

Danielle Joy:

one. I think you might have seen this episode already, but there was one

Danielle Joy:

where Blair turns on music. It's Flo

Danielle Joy:

Rida, and she's listening to her phone walking down

Danielle Joy:

a hallway. It's Flo Rida, get low or something.

Danielle Joy:

I just remember that being like, oh, you can listen to music on your

Danielle Joy:

phone now. It was one of those

Danielle Joy:

insert shots. So, yes, the phones are another character on the show. So

Danielle Joy:

I'M assuming that this is one of those things

Danielle Joy:

where they were trying to show a feature of the phone, little

Danielle Joy:

product placement.

Steve:

Yeah, that makes sense.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Dan finds Vanessa at her dorm and invites

Leif:

her on a surprise romantic second.

Danielle Joy:

First date, which Vanessa,

Danielle Joy:

she got out of that makeup and hair so quickly

Danielle Joy:

and put on new makeup and did her hair so quickly.

Steve:

Like, took off the fake lashes, then

Steve:

redid her mascara.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

She must have done on the subway ride home or something.

Danielle Joy:

She should be in a lounge bar set. Hair and a

Danielle Joy:

bun, no makeup. What are you

Danielle Joy:

doing?

Steve:

And also. Just shut up.

Steve:

Just stop, Vanessa. Uh, just stop.

Danielle Joy:

I'm sorry it didn't work out the way you wanted to, but let's not

Danielle Joy:

pout. Please

Danielle Joy:

take the L and just be like, well, that didn't work. Let's

Danielle Joy:

go see some shows, like, hang out with your

Danielle Joy:

boyfriends.

Steve:

Do the thing that you love doing with your boyfriend.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Elizabeth calls Chuck for a final meeting and

Leif:

tells him that she tried to get Jack to give the

Leif:

hotel back to Chuck, but Jack chose the hotel

Leif:

over her. With nothing left,

Leif:

Elizabeth is returning to Zurich. Chuck asks

Leif:

her to stay for him, but she tells him that she isn't

Leif:

really his mother. And Jack faked the DNA test.

Danielle Joy:

Duh.

Steve:

So much.

Leif:

But that he. But she didn't though, right?

Danielle Joy:

Well, duh. To the. To the. Jack doesn't love her.

Leif:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Like, duh, Jack doesn't love you. Jack was clearly using

Danielle Joy:

you. And you should have known that if you've known him for

Danielle Joy:

20 years because you knew his brother.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

You've known Jack for a long time.

Steve:

And the whole, like, stay for me, though. Stay for

Steve:

me. Chuck, how much do you really mean to this

Steve:

person? How much have they demonstrated you

Steve:

really mean to them?

Danielle Joy:

Um, yeah. But he still wants his mom.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

And the. And the only way that he could, uh, she could get

Danielle Joy:

rid of him was to say that she wasn't his mom.

Danielle Joy:

And that's when he sort of gives up, which is also heartbreaking.

Danielle Joy:

Like, he, like learning that the woman

Danielle Joy:

that you want to have so desperately want to have a relationship with

Danielle Joy:

faked a DNA test to steal your hotel from you.

Danielle Joy:

The only thing that's really, like, your family.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Only thing you have left of your family. That's.

Danielle Joy:

That's terrible.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

That's heartbreaking.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate arrives at the club and overhears the bachelor party

Leif:

talking about a very young looking girl.

Leif:

Nate arrives just in time to stop the sleaze ball from sneaking

Leif:

Jenny back to his apartment. And Nate escorts Jenny out

Leif:

of the club.

Steve:

These dudes know that their friend

Steve:

is about to. To assault

Steve:

a minor, and they're like, man, that guy's

Steve:

in there. All right? Like, man, someone should get him away

Steve:

from her. It's like you.

Danielle Joy:

You.

Steve:

If you're recognizing that, you should get him

Steve:

away from her.

Danielle Joy:

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Then also, a random guy

Danielle Joy:

comes in and steals this blonde

Danielle Joy:

chick away, and no one stops him. No one knows who Nate

Danielle Joy:

is. Yeah, Nate just says, jenny and

Danielle Joy:

picks her up, and you're like, oh, she's fine.

Danielle Joy:

Like, you don't know who he is either.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Where are the bartenders and all this?

Danielle Joy:

Um, yeah. Bartender would clearly get her someone.

Leif:

I mean, some. Someone should have

Leif:

fixed this.

Steve:

Yeah. She should have been. Yeah.

Steve:

In an ambulance by now,

Steve:

leaving the bar.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. There were no girls at this bar. Like,

Danielle Joy:

female solidarity. Like, if I saw her, I'd be like, let me look in your

Danielle Joy:

purse. Where do you live? You know, like.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly.

Danielle Joy:

Home. There were no women in this bar at all

Danielle Joy:

to help her.

Steve:

Uh.

Leif:

But Gossip Girl has this to say.

Leif:

Uh, it seems chivalry isn't dead

Leif:

after all. Lucky for this damsel in a

Leif:

dress, some things never go out of fashion.

Leif:

We go into the epilogue, and by this time, Nate

Leif:

has gotten Jenny home. She is sobered up enough to get past

Leif:

Rufus and get to her room. Rufus thanks

Leif:

Nate for seeing her home. And Nate is about to leave when

Leif:

he realizes he's still holding Jenny's bag.

Danielle Joy:

Jenny sobered up so quick,

Danielle Joy:

he wrote.

Steve:

The same thing down.

Danielle Joy:

I was like, I have never in my life.

Danielle Joy:

I've never taken pills. But also,

Danielle Joy:

I've been drunk, and I am hungover for a

Danielle Joy:

day. She was like, all right, I'm just gonna go to bed now.

Steve:

Uh, what were those

Steve:

pills? Right?

Danielle Joy:

Clearly nothing, because nobody was affected

Danielle Joy:

by them.

Steve:

They're forget me nows.

Danielle Joy:

And then also, Rufus got back

Danielle Joy:

to the apartment really quickly.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Like, he was just in Brooklyn, right?

Steve:

Yeah. Yep, he was.

Leif:

Well, presumably some time has passed, because

Leif:

they. They did say, like, presumably enough time for them

Leif:

to have walked all the way home from the show, because that's. That was the excuse

Leif:

of why they were late.

Steve:

Oh, that is true.

Leif:

Okay, so the Rufus part is definitely more

Leif:

believable. But, yeah, you would think Jenny would be still a little

Leif:

more than influence.

Danielle Joy:

She would be. She would be sneaking in

Danielle Joy:

past her dad, like, hey, Nate, you

Danielle Joy:

go in first, distract my dad upstairs, and then I'll sneak

Danielle Joy:

in, you know, like, uh, there's no way she Would be

Danielle Joy:

sober.

Leif:

Uh, uh, speaking of Rufus, I know

Leif:

Nate's trustworthy and all that, but you just kind of leave

Leif:

him standing in the foyer. That just seems, like, bad and matters.

Leif:

I'm going to go to bed now. See you, Nate.

Steve:

Take it easy.

Danielle Joy:

No one cares about these kids. None of the parents care about these kids.

Steve:

None.

Leif:

Serena congratulates Blair for finally being honest with

Leif:

her mother. When Blair is approached by three Columbia

Leif:

students who recognize her because everyone at Columbia reads

Leif:

Gossip Girl, Blair compliments one's shoes,

Leif:

but then corrects her on the placement of her headband. Bow. Uh,

Leif:

Blair asks Serena what she knows about

Leif:

Columbia.

Danielle Joy:

This is me.

Steve:

Yay.

Danielle Joy:

Finally. Yes. I

Danielle Joy:

appreciate you saying I was one of the models, but this is me.

Steve:

Well, I actually had the thought of

Steve:

could you have done both because they were such different

Steve:

scenes. Could they have been like, switch your outfit.

Steve:

Get. You know. Yeah, but.

Steve:

Yeah, so. But that

Steve:

does make a lot of sense.

Danielle Joy:

I am the one that doesn't talk because

Danielle Joy:

I was just picked from a random background

Danielle Joy:

person. Um, yeah, they. The

Danielle Joy:

director. So in Gossip Girl, there's

Danielle Joy:

this trope of, like, everyone has to be in three. So

Danielle Joy:

there's, like, Blair and her two minions, and, like, you know, so like, there's

Danielle Joy:

a trope of there being three. So they had the

Danielle Joy:

two girls that.

Steve:

Were hired, Marissa Fumero

Steve:

and Alice Callahan.

Danielle Joy:

Both of them were so nice. And they

Danielle Joy:

had those two cast already. And so the director was like, we

Danielle Joy:

need a third. We need a third person to walk up with them.

Danielle Joy:

So he picked. Or someone picked a PA. Picked like 6 to

Danielle Joy:

10 girls and lined us all up. And

Danielle Joy:

I was chosen with another girl by the director.

Danielle Joy:

And then I was wearing what I was wearing. And then the other

Danielle Joy:

girl was wearing the silky blue, uh,

Danielle Joy:

shirt. And the director turned to one of the PAs and was like,

Danielle Joy:

what are the girls wearing? And they said, oh,

Danielle Joy:

they're wearing these frilly shirts. And I was wearing a frilly

Danielle Joy:

shirt. And that is why I got picked. So

Danielle Joy:

because I matched the aesthetic, I was

Danielle Joy:

chosen.

Steve:

Wow. That.

Leif:

We're definitely of that era.

Danielle Joy:

Yes.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

They were both so, so nice. Very,

Danielle Joy:

very welcoming and, uh, chatty

Danielle Joy:

when we weren't filming. So they were both very, very nice.

Leif:

Fun.

Steve:

I recognized. Can't remember if it's Melissa or

Steve:

Marissa Fumaro.

Leif:

Melissa.

Steve:

Melissa. But she was on Brooklyn. Nine. Nine.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

And I always had a thing for her

Steve:

when she'd come on. And my wife always.

Steve:

It's like a long running joke. So when she showed up, she

Steve:

goes, great, your girl's here.

Danielle Joy:

And now you met another one of the ones in that scene, so.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That's awesome.

Danielle Joy:

But yeah, so Brooklyn Nine Nine was after that. So she was,

Danielle Joy:

um, talking about how she was a huge, like,

Danielle Joy:

soap actress.

Steve:

Oh, okay.

Danielle Joy:

Mostly soaps. Um, so we were talking about that

Danielle Joy:

backstage, and then we did that, and then she got on Brooklyn

Danielle Joy:

Nine Nine, and I was like, go, you.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Because she was really nice. Good for her. Um,

Danielle Joy:

yeah.

Steve:

That's awesome.

Leif:

Nate goes to Jenny's room to return her purse and finds

Leif:

her fighting depression. Nate tries to cheer her

Leif:

up, but nothing seems to get through to Jenny. Until she gets a

Leif:

text from Eleanor telling her that she's hired

Leif:

Jenny. Hugs and thanks Nate for saving her. As

Leif:

Nate gets up to leave, Jenny gets a

Leif:

schemey look on her face

Leif:

again.

Danielle Joy:

Agnes's plan could have been so much better if she

Danielle Joy:

just kept Jenny at the fashion

Danielle Joy:

event in front of Eleanor Waldorf. If Agnes really

Danielle Joy:

wanted revenge, that's what would happen. People need to

Danielle Joy:

consult Blair and Chuck when they want a scheme.

Danielle Joy:

There's just no point in anyone else doing any scheming.

Steve:

And Nate is such a good big brother friend.

Steve:

He's so. And you had mentioned the big brother

Steve:

thing earlier, and I

Steve:

really love how he treats Jenny.

Steve:

Although you. It's not the same both

Steve:

ways. Jenny obviously

Steve:

has a thing for Nate. Oh, that was.

Danielle Joy:

Ah.

Steve:

Yeah. And I get it. You know,

Steve:

Nate is. I mean, he's Nate.

Steve:

He's not a bad catch.

Danielle Joy:

No, he's cute and he's nice and he's friendly.

Danielle Joy:

But yeah, he's definitely like a good older

Danielle Joy:

brother to Jenny. And, uh, he's never. He's never

Danielle Joy:

been. As far as I can remember, he's never been anything

Danielle Joy:

more to her. Like, he doesn't.

Steve:

They.

Leif:

They definitely had a few kisses in season three.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, did they?

Steve:

Yeah, they had a very.

Danielle Joy:

Cut that out.

Steve:

Well, it was. It was a short, and it just.

Leif:

Happened to happen while he was. Nate was living with them

Leif:

too, so. Because he was more of your brother than ever.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, yeah.

Steve:

Uh, yeah. And then. And then Dan

Steve:

ended up. That blew up Dan and Nate's

Steve:

relationship, and

Steve:

that broke up Jenny and Nate,

Steve:

and that kind of pushed Nate and Vanessa together.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, I don't remember the earlier seasons that well.

Leif:

In season one, I thought Dan was a good brother to Jenny, but

Leif:

then in season two, he started taking his cues from Rufus.

Steve:

Yes. And a lot more.

Steve:

The patriarchal parenting

Steve:

of Rufus, of my son is

Steve:

free to explore his creative interests. But

Steve:

my little girl needs to stay in school and

Steve:

be a good Little.

Danielle Joy:

Kid, but also, like, I

Danielle Joy:

know Rufus got this job for Jenny,

Danielle Joy:

but this fashion show went on until the wee

Danielle Joy:

hours of the morning, and Rufus was a.

Danielle Joy:

Okay with Jenny staying out that late without a chaperone.

Danielle Joy:

He was like, oh, yeah. Thanks, Nate, for bringing her home. Like, how did you think she was going

Danielle Joy:

to get home? Dan was doing nothing

Danielle Joy:

that night. Like, aside from the fact that

Danielle Joy:

Vanessa wanted him to have a

Danielle Joy:

date night. But both of them, um, should have been at the

Danielle Joy:

fashion show watching over Jenny.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Especially because while Jenny's grounded, the

Steve:

whole thing was, you go to school. You.

Steve:

You are escorted from class to class. You have

Steve:

lunch with the principal, you go back to being

Steve:

escorted from class to class, and then you're escorted home,

Steve:

and now it's.

Danielle Joy:

But go to this fashion show on your own.

Leif:

Uh, that was just the last episode, and that.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Dan absolutely should have been at that fashion show. It's not

Danielle Joy:

like he didn't know people there. Yeah, he absolutely should have been

Danielle Joy:

there watching over Jenny.

Leif:

Anyway, m. Yep. Dan's

Leif:

romantic date is takeout and progress in

Leif:

Vanessa's dorm room. But really, it's his words that

Leif:

seal the deal for him. They kiss, and Gossip Girl

Leif:

begins her closing monologue.

Danielle Joy:

Nope. This was. I would be so angry at

Danielle Joy:

Dan if I were Vanessa. I'd be so

Danielle Joy:

angry.

Steve:

No, let me show you exactly why. You're right.

Danielle Joy:

Thank you. Those are the words I want

Danielle Joy:

to hear. Thank you.

Steve:

Yeah. No, no, no. Uh, I'm gonna just lay out for you that you

Steve:

were right all along, and here is why.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Hey, maybe she just really likes to be right.

Steve:

And it's funny.

Leif:

It seemed to work. It seemed to work.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, I just. I, uh.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

If I. If someone promised me the most romantic date ever

Danielle Joy:

and then did the same thing that I was just complaining about that

Danielle Joy:

I didn't want to do

Danielle Joy:

and then said, but this is the most romantic date, I'd be like,

Danielle Joy:

all right, we're broken up now. Bye.

Danielle Joy:

Like, clearly, I need more. Like, uh, yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

I was so mad.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But Dan being Dan.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate finds Serena on the street, and the two kiss.

Leif:

Uh, not much happens. They just kind of find each other.

Danielle Joy:

Aw.

Leif:

Jenny is on her laptop reading a Gossip Girl blast

Leif:

entitled the Golden Couple, featuring a picture of

Leif:

Nate and Serena.

Steve:

Golden retriever couple.

Danielle Joy:

So true.

Steve:

But again, here you see Jenny

Steve:

plotting that. You can see that she wants to get

Steve:

in between them.

Danielle Joy:

Leave it alone, Jenny.

Steve:

Uh, she's so hurt.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

I mean, I get it, though, because, I mean, Nate is just, like,

Leif:

constantly saving her. I Mean, she can't help it. She

Leif:

can't help falling in love with him.

Steve:

And the previous episode when she said she

Steve:

looked him dead in the eye and said, well, you're not available,

Steve:

you know?

Leif:

And, uh, yet he's still there.

Steve:

And yet he's still there.

Danielle Joy:

But it's not like he was there because he had a fight with Serena.

Danielle Joy:

Uh, he was there because he happened to be the one

Danielle Joy:

available.

Steve:

Yeah. And saw her shoved into a cab.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Leif:

Stay tuned for next week.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jack is in Chuck's suite, drinking alone, staring

Leif:

out the window like Lex Luthor. Jack picks up

Leif:

his phone and calls Elizabeth in a last ditch

Leif:

effort to get her to stay. Instead, Elizabeth

Leif:

is more disgusted by Jack than ever and hates herself for

Leif:

ever having loved him. Their party,

Leif:

uh, their party words imply that Elizabeth is really Chuck's

Leif:

mother. And as Elizabeth car pulls away from the

Leif:

hotel, we see that she once again repaired

Leif:

the locket containing the picture of Bart and Elizabeth

Leif:

holding baby Chuck.

Steve:

Please be gone forever.

Danielle Joy:

This was so sad, though, because I had forgotten

Danielle Joy:

that she was actually his mom. And when she said we

Danielle Joy:

faked it, I was like, oh, yeah, makes sense, right?

Danielle Joy:

But she is actually his mom and she did all of that to him

Danielle Joy:

because Chuck even says to her, my mom would never do this.

Danielle Joy:

And then she was like, well, I'm not your mom. I was like, okay, that makes sense.

Danielle Joy:

But then she is his mom and she did that to him.

Danielle Joy:

And I was. I was very sort of quite a.

Steve:

Roller coaster with her.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah.

Steve:

Uh, the other thing. Jack, right?

Steve:

The way Jack is upset

Steve:

that she's leaving and doesn't want her to.

Steve:

That he does actually seem to love this

Steve:

person, despite being

Steve:

a horrible human being.

Leif:

I think love is a little strong. I think he likes having her around.

Leif:

The convenience. Having someone that

Leif:

loves him and is willing to do anything,

Leif:

including betraying her own son for him.

Steve:

Yeah, I mean, well, you know,

Steve:

it is a green flag, you know, if someone's willing to

Steve:

screw over my kids for me. I, uh,

Steve:

you know, that's a.

Leif:

You really love me.

Steve:

That's keeper. Come on, Robin.

Danielle Joy:

He definitely thought that she could be useful as

Danielle Joy:

a pawn later on to manipulate Chuck. Uh,

Danielle Joy:

but then she tells him, I told him he wasn't my son.

Danielle Joy:

And then he was like, ah.

Steve:

Ah.

Danielle Joy:

Okay, nevermind.

Leif:

Yeah, peace.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, like you're useless. Bye.

Leif:

Blair is hanging a Columbia pendant in her dorm room

Leif:

when Chuck knocks on the door. It looks like Chuck and

Leif:

Blair are ready to go to war with Uncle Jack.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, this is my favorite. Chuck and Blair scheming

Danielle Joy:

Yeah. Love them together.

Leif:

And then Gossip Girl closes the episode with,

Leif:

if you are what you wear, you better dress the part

Leif:

you want. A few lucky ladies can do

Leif:

no wrong. Their looks perfection,

Leif:

and they've got accessories to match. But most

Leif:

girls get tired of the same old look, and they'll do

Leif:

just about anything to get the hot new piece

Leif:

on their arm. And then there are those with no

Leif:

vision of their own. Thieves of fashion that will

Leif:

steal the shirt off your back. And always remember,

Leif:

appearances can be misgiving. But whatever you

Leif:

wear, always dressed to kill.

Leif:

XOXO Gossip

Leif:

Girl. And that is the episode.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

What is coming next?

Steve:

My number one prediction is,

Steve:

first of all, Jenny is going to go after

Steve:

Nate and Serena. Jenny's going to try to

Steve:

break them up and go for Nate. I also

Steve:

believe Blair is looking for a

Steve:

change of scenery. I think we might see her try to

Steve:

transfer to Colombia. That she definitely

Steve:

is more interested in and

Steve:

knows that she has potential minions and friends

Steve:

at Columbia. So that'd be. That'd be

Steve:

interesting. Except then we have Dan and

Steve:

Vanessa at NYU and Nate

Steve:

and. And Blair at

Steve:

Columbia, and we're back to having this

Steve:

separate show again, which we're already getting

Steve:

into with that couple.

Leif:

I consider. They never actually show class.

Leif:

I don't think that really matters. They're all going to school

Leif:

in New York.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Danielle Joy:

You don't know. If they don't show class.

Leif:

They haven't yet. We're almost.

Leif:

Almost one full season in through college years.

Steve:

Yeah. I don't have they. I think we

Steve:

saw, what, two high school class

Steve:

scenes? I think that there were only one or two

Steve:

the entire time they were in high school, and I think

Steve:

that at least one. Mrs. Carson.

Leif:

Yeah, they were, like, outside the classroom, too. They were in the hallway.

Leif:

They weren't even in the classroom.

Steve:

Yeah, there's no drinking at the schools,

Steve:

so they can't. They're not going to shoot there.

Danielle Joy:

Clearly.

Leif:

Uh, any other predictions?

Danielle Joy:

I have one.

Leif:

Oh, okay.

Danielle Joy:

I think Callie is going to get her own spin off show.

Danielle Joy:

No, I won't see predictions because obviously I've seen this.

Leif:

The Callie Diaries.

Steve:

The Callie Diaries.

Steve:

Those two were my big predictions.

Steve:

I'm going to optimistically predict that we're done

Steve:

with Elizabeth, at least for a while. I'm hoping.

Leif:

So we never see that

Leif:

actress again.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Uh, she's getting the Scott treatment.

Steve:

Yes. Only with Scott, it's. We'll never

Steve:

lose touch because we're a family.

Steve:

So. Yeah, that. And my other big thing

Steve:

is Chuck and Blair are now going to war

Steve:

against Jack. So I'm gonna make

Steve:

this a two way. It is either

Steve:

going to be Chuck and Blair out,

Steve:

scheme Jack and get the hotel back,

Steve:

or Chuck and Blair scheme

Steve:

against Jack to get the hotel back. But it

Steve:

breaks them up. So that's my

Steve:

other big thing is that this like

Steve:

split with Jack that whatever

Steve:

it comes out to is going to be too costly

Steve:

to keep them together. That's my. I feel

Steve:

like they set such a bomb in the last

Steve:

episode with Blair being so

Steve:

supportive. I feel like that even though

Steve:

that bomb seemed to be forgotten this episode, I

Steve:

feel like it's still ticking. Those are my

Steve:

predictions.

Leif:

Let's get into segments. This week in

Leif:

Phantom, we jumped into the Wayback Machine to travel to

Leif:

the fan forums from 2010.

Leif:

Hello there, Peabody here. And this is the

Leif:

Wayback Machine for traveling through time. And this is

Leif:

my boy, Sherman. Speak Sherman.

Steve:

Hello. Good boy.

Leif:

Overall thoughts? They again liked the episode.

Steve:

They loved the soap operas.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

The 2010 fans

Steve:

love the soap opera shit.

Danielle Joy:

This show had a chokehold

Danielle Joy:

on, uh, everyone when it first came

Danielle Joy:

out. Like everyone was watching this show. It

Danielle Joy:

was so popular. The fashion was

Danielle Joy:

inspired. Like every single store carried fashions

Danielle Joy:

inspired by this show. I'm not surprised that people

Danielle Joy:

loved it.

Steve:

Yeah, I actually there's somebody that

Steve:

I'm friends with that we talked about having

Steve:

on the show at some point, but I don't know if she's

Steve:

ever really, uh, talk to us about it

Steve:

much. But it was exactly like you said, that

Steve:

her entire fashion sense was

Steve:

developed watching Gossip Girl

Steve:

that, uh, uh, just how much of an impact

Steve:

it had across the board.

Steve:

Which is why we comment on the fashion

Steve:

of it. Which my wife again

Steve:

thinks the funniest thing to hear is me talk about

Steve:

fashion. But

Steve:

it was just so iconic that you can't not talk

Steve:

about it. And we can't not talk about, um,

Steve:

Eric Damon, right? Yeah, yeah, we like to

Steve:

shout out Eric Damon, the fashion design, the director

Steve:

of the show a lot because of

Steve:

especially see the first two seasons. This season

Steve:

hasn't been as eye

Steve:

catching, I feel, as the previous two,

Steve:

but it still happens a lot.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, the wardrobe department, they were also very nice

Danielle Joy:

and they worked really hard on

Danielle Joy:

everything. I've got lots of stories about that too.

Steve:

Oh, cool.

Leif:

Uh, so they also pointed out Agnes is, uh, kind of

Leif:

like Jenny's Georgina.

Steve:

Yeah, I had that thought of.

Steve:

She's a Georgina wild card.

Leif:

But specifically Georgina goes after

Leif:

Sarita.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Agnes goes after Jenny.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And they feel bad for Jenny, but they were already

Leif:

ready to attack her when she inevitably

Leif:

tries to Steal Nate.

Leif:

So they're ready to pounce on her.

Leif:

But someone did point out that Serena lost the moral high

Leif:

ground on that barstool on the pilot. And also

Leif:

just a few weeks ago, was going after Tripp, who was a married man.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Maybe a little bit of carbide on her part.

Steve:

I mean. Yeah.

Leif:

And the potential Serena

Leif:

Jenny triangle dominated most of the discussion.

Leif:

Um, but they also hated Jack and his evil

Leif:

facial hair.

Steve:

He looks terrible.

Danielle Joy:

Who wouldn't?

Danielle Joy:

I don't know how Chuck's mom didn't realize that he was evil. From

Danielle Joy:

that.

Steve:

From the mustache.

Danielle Joy:

From the mustache. Bad hair. Like,

Danielle Joy:

yeah. Like it's supposed to be a very fashionable show. And he shows up

Danielle Joy:

and you're like, eh.

Steve:

Uh, yeah.

Leif:

And then a lot of Ed Westwick praise, as usual.

Leif:

Moving into the episode grade.

Leif:

It is my week to go first,

Leif:

so. Yeah, once again, not a great

Leif:

episode. The Jenny storyline was

Leif:

interesting, but definitely made me very uncomfortable at the

Leif:

end. I guess that

Leif:

technically can be considered good art, but.

Leif:

Yeah, it makes me realize that I am

Leif:

happy that they shoot these teen shows with 20 year

Leif:

olds.

Danielle Joy:

Ah.

Leif:

And not actual teenagers, because that kind of stuff just is

Leif:

uncomfortable to watch when they're actual teenagers.

Steve:

Yeah, it really is.

Leif:

Uh, I ended up giving this one a D.

Leif:

Daniel, how did you grade the episode?

Danielle Joy:

Uh, I had a hard time with this, but I think I'm going to give it

Danielle Joy:

a B.

Leif:

Okay.

Danielle Joy:

For the reasoning. The reasoning I have is the.

Danielle Joy:

The acting I really enjoyed, like I was. We

Danielle Joy:

talked about throughout the episode. The lines that I thought could have been

Danielle Joy:

taken one way were acted very nicely and sincerely.

Danielle Joy:

Um, Chuck with his emotion

Danielle Joy:

Elizabeth. Um, Eleanor and Blair

Danielle Joy:

with their mother daughter scenes. Uh,

Danielle Joy:

and that's why I gave it the B rating

Danielle Joy:

and the pluses, because I was in it.

Leif:

Fair enough.

Steve:

Fair.

Leif:

Steve, what do you got?

Steve:

Well, I mean, yes, the

Steve:

scene work by the extras in this was

Steve:

fantastical. Fantastical. Thank you. I mean, we have to

Steve:

really point that out. Um, great

Steve:

work. Especially when you have the acting where

Steve:

you have to do it all expressive. You don't have the lines

Steve:

and you just. And it's all pure what you're

Steve:

bringing to the table. Phenomenal acting on the extras

Steve:

parts, I will say that.

Danielle Joy:

Thank you. Thank you.

Steve:

Um, I gave this episode a C

Steve:

minus. I love,

Steve:

love Eleanor. I love her in every

Steve:

episode she's ever in. I love the

Steve:

fashion show episodes for

Steve:

the energy that they bring to the show

Steve:

and the recurring theme

Steve:

that they have. I hated Agnes. I

Steve:

hated the Agnes story.

Steve:

I hated the, um, Dan and Vanessa

Steve:

Storyline so much. I

Steve:

hated the Elizabeth and Jack storyline.

Steve:

These three main storylines. Well, the

Steve:

two main ones, I hated how they were playing

Steve:

out. I loved the Blair storyline.

Steve:

The Blair storyline, her and Eleanor.

Steve:

The callback to Brandeis. Blair

Steve:

thinking to bring in call girls.

Steve:

Uh, it's so Blair. I loved

Steve:

that. And so that saved it from being a

Steve:

D to me. But that and,

Steve:

like I said, the stellar scene work by the extras.

Steve:

So I went with a C minus.

Leif:

Moving over to Stockwatch

Leif:

for me, I had going up. Jack, because even though

Leif:

he's horrible and the worst, he is

Leif:

definitely succeeding in what he's trying to do. Eleanor,

Leif:

because she had artistic integrity and had a

Leif:

successful fashion show. Nate, because he

Leif:

saved the day. Uh, it was very close to be

Leif:

another nothing episode to Nate, but he did come through at the

Leif:

end. I did give Dan up

Leif:

because even though he was oblivious,

Leif:

he was basically living the male pornographic fantasy.

Leif:

Good for him, I guess. And then Rufus, because for

Leif:

once he was actually. He gave good advice to both his

Leif:

kids in this episode, I thought. And Jenny, even

Leif:

though things almost ended terribly,

Leif:

she did come out kind of ahead in the end.

Leif:

Danielle, who do you have going up?

Danielle Joy:

Callie going up,

Danielle Joy:

definitely. I think we're going to see big things

Danielle Joy:

from her in the future. I

Danielle Joy:

can't get over it. I'm sorry. Um,

Danielle Joy:

yeah. Ah, the Columbia girls.

Steve:

Girl.

Danielle Joy:

We'Re done now. We don't have to do the rest of the podcast.

Steve:

Yeah, we're good.

Danielle Joy:

You guessed it. The Columbia

Danielle Joy:

girls definitely going up. I feel like we're gonna see some more of

Danielle Joy:

them. Blair going

Danielle Joy:

up, just because I always love her and always.

Danielle Joy:

I think I sort of had Chuck

Danielle Joy:

both going up and down, or I guess staying neutral then,

Danielle Joy:

because he was devastated by his mom and

Danielle Joy:

losing the hotel.

Danielle Joy:

But he thrives on

Danielle Joy:

having a plan and scheming, so I think we're going

Danielle Joy:

to see him rise a bit more in

Danielle Joy:

the upcoming episodes as well. And, uh, Nate going up

Danielle Joy:

because he's just a great older brother. Everyone else was just,

Danielle Joy:

meh, Steve.

Steve:

All right, I had. First of all, I had Eleanor going up

Steve:

and Blair. I thought that they.

Steve:

Even though Blair kind of had a down episode, it was

Steve:

such an uplifting end for her. I felt like she

Steve:

got the up. I had Nate going up also.

Steve:

Good guy. Saving the day. I, uh, had Brandeis

Steve:

going up. Another successful

Steve:

episode for Brandeis. She has won

Steve:

both episodes that she's been in.

Steve:

I had Jenny going up for

Steve:

impress. Shitty stuff happened to her, but she came

Steve:

out on top in that episode. I have

Steve:

Jack going up Because Jack is

Steve:

winning right now. I also had the Columbia

Steve:

girls going up because anytime someone's

Steve:

on, uh, on the screen, we give them the

Steve:

opportunity, they're fair game to get stock. And

Steve:

I, uh, I love the opportunity to give

Steve:

stock to somebody who's on our podcast.

Steve:

So the Columbia girls, for sure.

Leif:

For me, going down, I had Chuck because,

Leif:

yeah, he was just getting kicked in the nuts all

Leif:

episode, pretty much. And

Leif:

while Blair did have her personal gains, I think she's just

Leif:

too tied into the Chuck storyline. So she also. I had her

Leif:

going down. Elizabeth, because she

Leif:

is the worst mom ever on a show of horrible

Leif:

moms. Agnes, because

Leif:

she is pure evil.

Leif:

Callie, for going along with it. And

Leif:

since he was mentioned, I will give Damian a down because

Leif:

he lost his drugs.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Danielle, who do you got going down?

Danielle Joy:

I mean, basically, all the same, definitely Elizabeth. She's a

Danielle Joy:

horrible mother. Um,

Danielle Joy:

Agnes is. Is evil, but

Danielle Joy:

she's. She's not good at it.

Leif:

She's.

Danielle Joy:

She's not good at it.

Steve:

She's criminal at it.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, she's probably the worst. Yeah. So

Danielle Joy:

Agnes going down. Um, and, uh,

Danielle Joy:

what's. What's the guy's name? Caldwell's.

Steve:

Oh, Cornwell.

Danielle Joy:

Cornwell. Cornwell's going down.

Leif:

Steve, who do you got going down?

Steve:

Um, I had Vanessa going down for obsessing over this

Steve:

rut the whole episode. I have Dan going down because he's

Steve:

with Vanessa. I have

Steve:

Chuck going down because,

Steve:

like you said, just everything kind of sucked for Chuck

Steve:

this episode. I had Elizabeth going down

Steve:

because, like, you two already covered

Steve:

horrible, um, Conwell going

Steve:

down for losing out on a

Steve:

great business opportunity. And

Steve:

I'm going to send Agnes down as well

Steve:

for just being a terrible

Steve:

criminal.

Leif:

Uh, all right, that is it for Stockwatch. Moving over

Leif:

to best outfits.

Steve:

But here's the best outfits from the last

Steve:

episode we see.

Leif:

For me, I, uh, like a good scarf game, so I gave

Leif:

it to Serena in her black dress and the big red, poofy

Leif:

scarf. Danielle.

Danielle Joy:

Uh, my favorite outfit of the episode

Danielle Joy:

was Agnes's dress at the fashion show.

Danielle Joy:

So the one that Jenny was sewing. But I also.

Danielle Joy:

I meant to mention this before, really loved. I don't

Danielle Joy:

know if you could see it, but I remember being obsessed with it when we

Danielle Joy:

were filming. Blair had a bow

Danielle Joy:

tied into her hair, so her hair

Danielle Joy:

was actually tied in a bow shape. It

Danielle Joy:

was on the left side of her head, and I was obsessed with that. I just thought

Danielle Joy:

it was the cutest detail and, um, way to

Danielle Joy:

accessorize your hair by just tying your own hair into

Danielle Joy:

A bow.

Leif:

So, Agnes, check that out.

Danielle Joy:

And Blair's bow. Uh, hair bow. Yeah. Which

Danielle Joy:

is on the left side, by the way, not the right.

Leif:

Steve, what do you got?

Steve:

I had Jenny in her

Steve:

outfit at the show tonight. I like. You know, it was

Steve:

very classic Jenny. The fishnets, the red skirt,

Steve:

and especially at the end, because as

Steve:

Robin will say, the coat game,

Steve:

the outerwear game on this show is so

Steve:

great. And Jenny had that really cool big

Steve:

puffy jacket at the end too.

Leif:

So that is it for our segments. All we have left

Leif:

to do is some plugs. But first, Danielle, thank

Leif:

you again for joining us.

Steve:

Yes, thank you. It was great having you.

Leif:

Yes. And is there anything you would like to plug at

Leif:

this time?

Danielle Joy:

Yes. So I currently, uh, have

Danielle Joy:

a podcast out as well. It's called still the

Danielle Joy:

Podcast about all the crap still going on

Danielle Joy:

in the entertainment industry for female identifying artists.

Danielle Joy:

Uh, so as you can tell, I am in the industry.

Danielle Joy:

I'm an actor, producer, um,

Danielle Joy:

background artist, stand in on Gossip Girl

Danielle Joy:

as well. Photo double. Um,

Danielle Joy:

and yeah, so my co host, Corey Hunt and

Danielle Joy:

I talk about all the things that we as female

Danielle Joy:

identifying artists face every day on set.

Danielle Joy:

How sometimes we're picked just because we're wearing a ruffly

Danielle Joy:

shirt. And, you know, you could be the

Danielle Joy:

best actor in the world, but you're wearing the wrong shirt. So.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, definitely check that out. I've listened to a few

Leif:

episodes. Good stuff.

Danielle Joy:

Thank you.

Leif:

I listened to the episode, uh, where you talk about Blake Lively's new

Leif:

movie. It ends with us.

Danielle Joy:

Oh, it ends with us. Yeah.

Leif:

Steve, you plug in anything this week?

Steve:

I am. So, as I mentioned previously,

Steve:

I was cast in a feature

Steve:

length film called Best of this. And if you go

Steve:

to some of my

Steve:

socialsvemarshonvemarshon

Steve:

on Instagram or, uh, TikTok. Steve

Steve:

Marshon M A R C H I O N.

Steve:

We are currently having a casting call for

Steve:

Best of This. We're looking for a few more parts

Steve:

to flesh it out. It'll be shooting

Steve:

in Philadelphia, outside of Philadelphia

Steve:

in the fall. So if you check

Steve:

out my socials and you're interested in

Steve:

auditioning for this film,

Steve:

please get in touch with us and we'll

Steve:

send you in the right way and set

Steve:

you up. Outside of

Steve:

that, I don't think I really have much going

Steve:

on. Uh, you can find me at,

Steve:

like I said, Instagram and TikTok. Steve

Steve:

Marshon M A R C H I O N.

Leif:

All right. Uh, nothing really for me to plug this week. Uh,

Leif:

just, uh, go check out still the podcast. And if you

Leif:

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

Leif:

on instagram and bluesky

Leif:

hotcappicola. That's H o t

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c a p I c o l a.

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And if you want to follow the podcast you can find us on

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instagram threads TikTok

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also find links to our discord server, our

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patreon and others things on our website

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breakfastpod.com and if.

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You would like to send us an email, we would love to hear what you

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have to say and we'd maybe even read it here on the

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air. You can send us an

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also while you're listening, if you could give us a like

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And finally tell your friends what you're listening to.

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Make us your water cooler talk and

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and see what we have to say about it.

Leif:

And we will be back for Our next episode.

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Season 3 Episode 17

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Inglorious Bastards

Leif:

I love two S's.

Danielle Joy:

Love it. So good.

Steve:

God damn it. Once again, that means that Inglourious

Steve:

basterds is over 20 years old.

Steve:

It just makes me like, yeah, I was in my

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20s when that came out.

Leif:

The episode description reads, chuck and

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Blair are faced with the most difficult decision they

Leif:

have ever faced as a couple. Serena has

Leif:

a surprise birthday planned for Nate. But Jenny

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does her best to sabotage Serena's efforts.

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Dan and Vanessa's new relationship hits a

Leif:

bump in the road.

Steve:

Oh, my God. I just had a new prediction.

Steve:

Jack is going to indecent proposal her.

Steve:

Oh, my God.

Danielle Joy:

Who? Jenny?

Steve:

No, Blair.

Danielle Joy:

Blair.

Steve:

Uh, Jack's going to indecent proposal Blair

Steve:

to get the hotel back to, uh. Oh,

Steve:

of course. We'll see.

Leif:

Until next time. You know you love us.

Steve:

XOXO Gossip Girl.

Steve:

Every time you walk away run away you take a

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piece of me you with you there

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every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

Steve:

oh, it seems I'm walking right to

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your door

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my heart's still resting looking for

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something more

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are you ever gonna see everything you mean to me

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I'm trying really hard to believe

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

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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

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piece of me with you there

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Never feels right when I'm out here on

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my own

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I left last night and it feels like

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way too long?

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Are you ever gonna see everything you mean to

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me? I'm trying really hard to believe?

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Every time you walk away run away? You take a piece

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of meat with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Come back to me,

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smile and you'll make my life

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complete?

Steve:

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

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of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away and take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away and run away you take a

Steve:

piece of 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.

Danielle Joy:

Can I. Can you hear me?

Leif:

I hear you.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Okay.

Danielle Joy:

Did my camera die? Uh, no. It's

Danielle Joy:

charging. Oh, um, no. What

Danielle Joy:

happened? New recording track created

Danielle Joy:

changes in my devices. Oh, God.

Danielle Joy:

Guys, I'm so sorry. Hold on one second.

Danielle Joy:

This. I'm the worst. I'm the

Danielle Joy:

worst.

Steve:

Honestly, you're not.

Danielle Joy:

That's good to know. All right, let me try and turn this off and on again.

Steve:

Have you heard an episode with Shannon?

Danielle Joy:

Okay, let's see.

Steve:

Now, I have to make sure Shannon hears that, so I'm not

Steve:

saying that behind her.

Danielle Joy:

Cut that out. Cut that out.

Danielle Joy:

Actual recording is highest

Danielle Joy:

quality. Oh, guys, I'm so

Danielle Joy:

sorry. I've disappeared.

Leif:

Well, uh, we still got your voice, so let's just

Leif:

wrap it up.

Danielle Joy:

Okay. Sorry.

Steve:

Yeah, no, we're at the finish line.

Danielle Joy:

Yeah, I'll give you a headshot to put.

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