Episode 20

S3E20 - "It's a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World"

Welcome back, Upper Eastsiders! On this episode of The Non-Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif (your Gossip Girl veteran) and Steve (our lovable newbie) are back to dish out all the drama, chaos, and questionable party snacks from Gossip Girl Season 3, Episode 20.

Leif kicks things off with a scheming mood, while Steve tries to figure out his new identity now that we’re knee-deep in season three. From mommy issues and awkward brunches to Blair’s Columbia aspirations and Chuck’s ever-deepening emotional spiral, we’re pulling apart every juicy moment—hummus on a card table included.

Expect wild theories, plenty of sass, and our usual mix of pop culture chaos and heartfelt critique. Whether you're watching Gossip Girl for the first time or reliving it through a haze of nostalgia, we’ve got you covered with commentary that’s fresher than Dorota’s tea and hotter than Jenny’s eyeliner choices.

Produced by Leif Capicola and Steve Marchion. 

Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

The Gossip Girl Theme Performed By Steve Marchion.

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Leif:

Oh, you scheming.

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Like when she's walking away, she looks back, she's like, you

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should'just you should've kept going. Should have ve said something

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else. She should'like just told my daughter to fuck

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herself cause I don't keep a fuck by

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her.

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Yeah, yeah, Would that'been hot.

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Hey Upper Eastsiders and all you scandal loving listeners out

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there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

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pod where the coffee is strong, the

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waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than

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ever. My name is Leif and I'm your season Gossip

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Girl veteran.

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

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the what are we calling me now in season three,

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Leaf?

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I don't know, but 10 freshmen, a keg and hummus on

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a car table is not a party. It's a tragedy.

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Shame away. You know that's my kink.

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Fair enough.

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So here's the deal folks. Leaf has been washing Gossip

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Girl since it first aired. And I'm diving in for the first

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time. And together we're your dynamic

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duo, bringing you all the drama, romance,

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and sometimes questionable fashion choices of this,

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iconic 2007 series.

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Bring your magnifying glasses because each week we're

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dissecting every juicy detail of the show one

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

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

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hot behind the scenes tea. And of course

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expect some iconic moments from Phantom 2,

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because what's a deep drive for that little drama?

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And since we are all about inclusivity here at the non

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

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non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab

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your mimosa, a cup of coffee or

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maybe some of Chuck's special medicine and let's

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go ahead and get this thing going. Although

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this week you may not want Chuck special medicine.

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So we got another comment on

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Spotify from user

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Malkfoy. I apize.

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I'm saying that wrong, but it

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says Jadedn's friend here really

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enjoyed the episode and great work by Jaden on defending our

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girl Jenny. She deserves a better show. And

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fandom started following the pod and we will definitely

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tune in for upcoming episodes.

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Awesome. Thank you very much for listening.

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Yes, definitely. Thank you.

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Yeah, I feel like Jenny should just like

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move on, start a band

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and find her own thing.

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No.

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Ah. I don't know if you watched the first two episodes of Dexter

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Resurrection yet.

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I have not because I still haven't

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watched the other Dexter

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things. Now this new One Is this the one

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with Sarah Michelle Geller or was, that the prequel?

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That's the prequel.

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Okay. So. Yeah, I still haven't seen that.

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And that's gonna have a second season. That's hard to. To picked up for a second

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season.

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There's another Dexter reboot too. Right.

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Well, so there was two sequel. this is the

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second sequel series. So they add new blood, which is one

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season which focus on the son of the

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teenager.

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Okay.

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And at the end of that, the teenager shoots

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and apparently kills Dexter.

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Oh, shit.

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Okay, spoilers, Spoiler

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alert. yeah, but of course that's immediately

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recognized at the first scene of the

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prequel.

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Yeah. Oh, of the prequel.

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Okay, so. Okay.

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Yeah. Cause the prequel'like basically

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his flashback, but he's still alive, essentially.

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Oh, I see it. Yeah.

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So. But anyways, the new series

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without any spoilers, I will just say the first

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two episodes for at least for the first two episodes,

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the Empire Hotel was a major location.

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No kidding.

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Yes.

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That's awome. Does Chuckch still own it?

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I don't think so.

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That would be great.

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I keep kept expecting to just like.

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Walk up and'see just like watch him in the

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background with like two prostitutes. Just go up

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an elevator somewhere. Would have been.

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But instead they had this guy who' like a knockoff

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version of Michelle from Gilmore Girls.

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I don'teah. I don't know Gilmore

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Girls.

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And so we are here to talk about season three,

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episode 20, it's a dad, dad,

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dad, dad World Original air date

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was May 3, 2010 and the title is based

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off of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad

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World.

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I've never seen it. there's also

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the Mighty Mighty Boss. Stones had their album named

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after it. It's a plaid, plaid, plaid, plaid world.

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Nate was living that this epode.

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Yes, he was. You know, I kinda

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wonder. It was maybe

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10 years earlier when that album

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came out. no, a little more than that.

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So maybe it was kind of a double tribute.

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So you thought last week that might have been a Peter

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Sellers movie? It's not.

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No.

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Nah. directed by Stanley Kramer.

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Writers are William Rose and Tania Rose. And the

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stars are Spencer Tracy,

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Milton Barl and Ethel Merman.

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If I remember correctly, though, I think it is

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another. Is it another, like sort

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of war comedy?

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Doesn't sound like I have not seen this one,

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but it sounds like it's an early version of the Amazing

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Race.

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o.

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Several different motorists witness a single car crash in the

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California desert. And after drivers death, dying

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words indicate the location of a hidden stash of

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loot, and they turned against each other in a mad

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dash across the state to get to it.

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Yes, there was

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another movie remade. I think was a Cannonball

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Run, I think was inspired by.

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I haven't seen that either.

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This movie. yeah. And I could be wrong that it might not be

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Cannonball Run, but there is another movie

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that was inspired by this, and I

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believe that that movie was then remade,

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because this movie. When did the Mad Mad World come

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out?

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I did not rateite down the air, but I'm gonna say probably the

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60s.

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Okay. Because then I feel like there was some kind of

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thing in the late 70s, early 80s, and

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then another one in the 90s that kind of had this

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vibe as well.

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well, that is that movie. But this episode was

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written by Amanda Lasher. She has

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been a staple in the writers room for most of the show's run.

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Some of her highlights include Setyder Anything, the

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Freshman, and they shoot Humphriesys, don't

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they?

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So it looks like we have some

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survival in the writer's

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room.

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Well, she's an executive producer, I think.

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Oh. So she has a little more leverage. And

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she has good episodes that she's done too.

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Yeah, those are all

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pretty solid.

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She had some not great ones in there that didn't list. Those were

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her highlights.

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Oay.

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But, you know, they can't all be winners on this show,

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Right. Episode was directed by

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Jeremiah Checnik. This is his first

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of three episodes of Gossip Girl.

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His previous credits include TV and

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movies. started his career with two music videos,

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Van Halen's when it's Love and hall,

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not'downtown Life. But then he went

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on to direct Benny and June

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and Christmas Vacation.

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Oh.

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So kind of a big name. Oh, I

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thought.

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Who did.

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I think that Christmas Vacation was written by Nationalv

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antin.

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Well. Right. Well, National Lampoon is a

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trooe, Right? Ye. Yeah. But I thought. For some

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reason, I thought the director was Christopher Columbus, the guy that

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did Home Alone, But I could just be courting

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IMDb.

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It was this guy. Yeah.

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That's awesome. Those are two solid

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movie credits.

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I really like Betty J. Yeah.

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And it's gotta be tough to be the guy directing the Van

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Halen video following up right now.

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That was like, that huge

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sensation break, one breakthrough video and

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all that stuff.

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Yeah. Why don't you go ahead and read us that

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vulture recap?

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All right. Ordinarily, the

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characters on Gossip Girl thrive on deception,

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plotting secrets, and withheld tidbits of

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information are what keep their Hair full, their skin

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luminous and their tits buoyant. What did you think it

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was?

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The waffles.

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But on last night's episode, it was as if everyone

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had been plumped up with the truth

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serum. Instead, people were coming clean about

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their darkest secrets all over the place.

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Blair admitted to Nate that she had been lying about

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going to Columbia. Chuck admitted to Lily that

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he was frightened of losing her. Vanessa

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told Dan, you were right. Serena

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nervously confessed to her father that she was

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acting actually a party girl instead of a

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straight edge student, as if he couldn't tell that

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from the fact that she was wearing a sequined Ace

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bandage. And after

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several months, Jenny decided that

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she couldn't even wait another hour to tell

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Rufus about her drug dealing past,

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even if it meant crashing at Doctor'without Borders

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gala to do it. Once there, however, she

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was stopped short by a girl with a confession of her

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own. That was an oxy you sold me. It was

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antibiotics, she hissed. I didn't get high.

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I got a yeast infection. For the

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record, we love that actress for delivering that

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line and hopes she gets a Monastak commercial out

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of this. Thankfully, by the end of the

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episode, things had reverted to normal

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and new webs of deceit were being

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woven and draped across the Upper east

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side. that actress

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instead of a Monastak commercial got a

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seriesuse she is the Marvelous Mrs.

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Maisel of the series. The

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Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. have you watched that at all?

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No.

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Fantastic series. Absolutely

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love.

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That's what I hear. We begin

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Act 1 with a gossip Girl monologue.

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It's said that we're all strapped to Fortun's

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wheel. Nowhere is this truer than the ever changing

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landscape of love. As one couple enjoys an

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upswing, another is plunged downwards.

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But top or bottom, don't get too comfortable,

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because one thing you can rely on is that the wheel

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will keep on turning.

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We open with a juxtaposition between

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scenes. Nate and Serena are all lovey

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dovey in the Empire suite, and Dan and Vanessa are being

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cold and affectionless in the loft. Serena has

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apparently spent the past week only visiting for late night fuck

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sessions and then returning to the penthouse to support her

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mother and see her dad. Chuck is

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still hooking up with multiple random women per night.

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Go ahead and judge him. Shame turns him on.

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You have these two parallel relationships that you're

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watching in the beginning, and then

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you definitely see the affection on one

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side, the cold in

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affffection on the other side.

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Yeah, it's leading to something.

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Dan and Vanessa are once again Making stupid

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rules for their relationship. This time, it's

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what they can and can't talk about. Just rip the band aid

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off already and break up.

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Yeah, they're doing the rules thing

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again. You already did

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almost this same thing in your

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second episode of this stupid,

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boring relationship.

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Just rip the band aid off.

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Yes.

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At the penthouse, Eric gets a text from Elliot, but,

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admits to Jenny they have been too busy to even go on a first

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date yet. Serena comes up the elevator and gives Ruth

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a heartfelt greeting before. Big timing, little

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Jay. Lily comes down and asks everyone

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to just act normally. The last person arrive

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is William, because Serena invited him,

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much to Rufus s chagrin.

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Yeah, Serena, you're

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being an asshole already. The

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other thing, Lill's expression when she

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talks about Chuck is

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heartbreaking. That the way

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she says, oh, if he was here, it wouldn'it

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would show me that something wasn't all right.

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Which is such a Lily thing to say. But you can just see

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and face that

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she misses Charles.

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Yeah. Might be the only person she actually

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loves.

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Yep.

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U.

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William makes a big show of giving Lily a checkup.

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He then invites everyone to a gala where he is being

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honored. Serena is enthusiastic, Eric

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is sarcastic, and Lily accepts on behalf of her

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and Rufus.

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Yeah, why are they

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honoring this guy? Doesn't he have an older brother who's more

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successful?

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Well, he was a record guy.

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Yeah, I know, but I'm also making a Baldwin rif.

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I'm also trying to make a Baldwin referece.

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Well, this is specifically Columbia alumni.

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Right? Right.

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Yes. Eric and Serena have a

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brief exchange where Serena says Eric has to give Dr.

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Daddy a chance. Eric rightfully points out that

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William left when he was 2, is a complete

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stranger, and. No, the fuck he doesn't.

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Absolutely, Eric. Absolutely. I

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was so on board with Eric.

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Yeah, it was sad at the end.

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Yes, yes. I was disappointed.

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He got manipulated.

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Yes. And, like,

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Rufus opened the door for it. we'll

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get there.

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As, ah, everyone sits down for breakfast.

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Serena pushes Rufus aside to make room for Dr.

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Daddy. Yeah, Saena's just so

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bad this episode.

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She's terrible. I really

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can't stand her in this episode.

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And again, it's the golden

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retriever. It's the thing that's in front of her. And now,

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like, here's this dad that is trying

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so, like, he's in front of me, and I'm gonna be, like,

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listening to him. But, like, this

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other dude has been your fucking dad

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when no one in this whole

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world would step up to that job

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when no one Wanted to. None of your other

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stepfathers have ever taken the

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interest that Rufus has taken in you

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as a daughter.

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O absolutely. Yeah. Sheeah. did Rufus

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dirty Rufus is also.

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A fucking idiot in this episode. But I

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feel for him on that. On

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that angle.

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Blair calls Nate to ask him to reserve her a good

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spot for his lacrosse game. She is once again

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spiraling about how she doesn't fit in at

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nyu.

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Yeah, it's cute that she was gonna go

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seeate's sports game. Yeah. Right.

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Like and obviously with the second

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with the ulterior motive of trying to meet

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Columbia boys. But it was also. I'm

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gonna go see my friend's game. And that was sweet.

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Blair bumps into the Columbia girls from a few

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episodes ago. They describe having a perfect

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off campus setup for the next term. Belaira

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Wise about transferring to Columbia.

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Yes. I loved the return of the Columbia

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girls of the headbands.

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I really had fun with this story.

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and Blair kind of

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reestablishing herself and Blair

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kind of getting kicked around a lot

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and not letting it

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really phase her too much. in a

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lot of it that it's more of just like this

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bullshit. You right. So I really liked

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that. I also loved. Isn't that the food that

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paralegals eat when she asks about

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falafel?

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Yeah,

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yeah. they might have to install a dumb later if I was gonna be over a

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falafel house.

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Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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But yeah, the first episode, these two were

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credited as girl number one and girl number two. Now they have actual names.

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They are. The blonde is Jessica

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and the Burnett is

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Zoe.

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All right, so they are named now.

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Yes.

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I feel like they had a friend that should be with them.

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I'm bummed that that very charismatic,

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quiet third friend is not.

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Yeah. In this episode she should have got the part two.

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Yeah. She should have been invited along. But they always do thing in

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things in threes as she was saying. I thought about

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that about how they said they always do things in

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threes. So once you have the two of them

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in Blair.

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Yeah.

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Now you have your three and the one without

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lines got cut. And

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bumm not to see you there, Danielle.

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Yeah. Serena is lying to her

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father about her time in boarding school. Trying to make it sound

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like all she cared about was academics. Jenny

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is not sitting still for that though. And reveals that damn

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told her he caught Serena at a bed and breakfast with

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a teacher. In retaliation, Serena

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announces that she's moving back in and taking her old room

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back from Jenny. Rufus is startled to learn that William

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is also moving into the building.

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This Jenny Serena thing

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I found interesting because episode

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20, which we're on season two,

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episode 20 was Jenny's

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birthday party and Serena throwing

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the party for Jenny, and then Jenny getting mad and

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blowing that party up. So once again, we have

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Serena and Jenny at it

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at the end of the season like this. M.

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And on the one

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hand, Serena, you

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were nearly. You rode naked on a

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horse across a field to get your dad's

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attention. He knows who you are.

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so why are you lying about your high school

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stories? Why are you even opening the

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door for Jenny here? And why would you even say, like,

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oh, I was in a contest like that? Oh, we were drinking hot

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chocolate. Grow up.

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But thiss me back to the whole Serena

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was adultized way too young. she was

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drinking absintt at like 14.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Gossip Girl takes us to the actbreak with

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Better watch out, Humphreys. They say love makes

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a family, but on the Upper east side, everyone knows

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it's real estate. We

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move into Act 2. Dan calls

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Rufus to apologize for running late. However,

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Rufus informs him that Vanessa has applied to an internship that

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will take her to Haiti for three months.

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Danrettably has to cancel on Rufus.

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I kind of love this. And

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Vanesse, you fucking idiot. Not saying to

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Rufus, by the way, I'm not telling Dan about this. But

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then d. Rufus would be like, then don't put

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me down. So

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Rufus has no

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reason not to tell Dan here.

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Well, if you remember, Vanessa says she was about to tell him

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that morning, but then Dadi came up with silly

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rules.

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Yes.

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So she had planned to tell him about it.

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She had planned to tell him about it, but once again,

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she planned to tell him about it after she heard back

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instead of before she applied to the thing

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that she told her that his

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dad knew about before him. That's

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what's shitty. Like, hey, I'm gonna apply to

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this thing. This is what it's going to

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mean if I get it. Like,

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not, oh, I applied to this thing and I might get it.

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They're interviewing me. So once again, Vanessa,

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you're an asshole.

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And don't get your hopes up that she's leaving the show for an extended per period.

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Cause it's gonna be summ a break. And,

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I know. No, I said to Robin at the end

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of all this, I was like, why'd they have to do this at

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the end of the season? Why couldn't they have done this

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mid season so we would actually be rid

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of Vanessa for three months.

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Yeah.

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But no. Had I already recognized

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that?

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William, tries to make nice with Eric, who still isn't having

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it. He tries to shock William by announcing

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his sexuality and his suicide attempt. And

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while I don't trust William at all, he at least says the right

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things. He would like to get to know Eric on Eric's

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terms.

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He does say the right things. But also

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Eric, everything he says is

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just spot on. Like, do you want toa bring a girl tonight? I'm

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gay, so no, I don't.

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And then when he's like, well, I. I want to make

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up for this. That window closed somewhere

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between my 12th 12th

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birthday and my suicide attempt.

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And it's like that suicide

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attempt was two and a

Leif:

half years ago, almost three years

Leif:

ago. And you never came to

Leif:

this kid after that. So, like,

Leif:

what fucking right do you

Leif:

have?

Leif:

Yeah. Didn't even know about it.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

That's how out of touch he is with it.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. So I

Leif:

really, I really felt for Eric.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Serena is tossing all of Jenny's things out of her

Leif:

closet. Rufus enters an attempt to play peacemaker.

Leif:

But both girls storm off.

Leif:

Yes. and again that parallel to a season

Leif:

ago at the end of it, when

Leif:

Serena gets blamed and and basically

Leif:

says, ask your daughter and storms off. And now

Leif:

you have her saying once again to

Leif:

Rufus, how many problems does she have

Leif:

to cause before you realize she's the problem?

Leif:

And as much of an asshole as Serena

Leif:

is, she's right at this

Leif:

point. Which of course also explains

Leif:

some of her being mad at Rufus.

Leif:

Because honestly, if Serena's moving in, like, hey, this is my

Leif:

room. And Ruf is like, we can make up Chuck's room for

Leif:

you. Fuck you. I'm gonna

Leif:

have my room. And you can put your daughter in Chuck's

Leif:

room. And fuck Willie for agreeing in the next

Leif:

scene too. I don't know. One of the women Chuck tried

Leif:

to assault in the first episode is gonna need to move into his

Leif:

room.

Leif:

Well, I think with Serena, it makes more sense with Seren. Cause it's obviously

Leif:

gonna be a temporary thing with her.

Leif:

Yeah. But I don't think she knows that.

Leif:

And Trust was only living there for a while. Like a couple months.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

It's not like he lived there for years or anything. Yeah.

Leif:

And he wasn't like bringing tons of people

Leif:

home at that time.

Leif:

Yeah, it's more. It makes much

Leif:

more sense for Sena to go to that room.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

I mean, assuming it's gonna be temporary, which it, you know, should

Leif:

be. Cause she's you know, and going to

Leif:

you not going to college, but still.

Leif:

Yeah, it is like I wantna be home while my mom is.

Leif:

She's like fucking homeless,

Leif:

isn't she?

Leif:

and she lives at Blairs.

Leif:

Right. But that's not really her home either.

Leif:

Like, and she's like crashing with

Leif:

Nate. Ah, Nate's at the Empire, right?

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

So she's crashing with Nate at the.

Leif:

Empire, who's technically just crashing with Chuck.

Leif:

Who's just crashing with Chuck.

Leif:

Does Nate have his own place

Leif:

or he's just crashing with Chop? Right.

Leif:

Well, he rented that room at end the apart at the

Leif:

end of season two. I don't know if he kept it cause like the

Leif:

whole all impetus was right for him and Blair to move

Leif:

in together.

Leif:

Yeah'be right in between two places

Leif:

now. It's like a commute.

Leif:

But oh wait, I'm just gonna move into a Chuck

Leif:

instead.

Leif:

At the NYU cafe, Dan confronts

Leif:

Vanessa about the internship in Haiti.

Leif:

Vanessa admits that she got the job and it's a

Leif:

huge opportunity. She says she wishes they were still

Leif:

just friends so they can talk about this stuff.

Leif:

Dan asked her point blank if she wants to go back to

Leif:

that. When Vanessa hesitates before saying,

Leif:

I don't know, Dan continues the parade of storm

Leif:

offs from the previous scene.

Leif:

I would have stormed off absolutely if I

Leif:

would'sat down

Leif:

after storming in after getting that

Leif:

information and then having that reaction.

Leif:

No, yeah, I'd storm off.

Leif:

That was obnoxious.

Leif:

Just break out.

Leif:

Just break up.

Leif:

Rufus and Lily are talking about the ever

Leif:

expanding household and Lily apologizes for the awkwardness

Leif:

with William. Rufus asks if it's possible

Leif:

that William still has feelings for her and she says no

Leif:

way. They end with a nice m smooch.

Leif:

However, Rufus'face is covered in

Leif:

doubt. As the scene ends, he calls

Leif:

Holland for a favor.

Leif:

You're an idiot, Rufus.

Leif:

The best thing you could have done for your marriage,

Leif:

honestly is let that guy move in underneath so

Leif:

that you would always, always be around.

Leif:

Like the best thing you could have

Leif:

done is not call Holland

Leif:

in that moment.

Leif:

I don't know. I think that was definitely the right move.

Leif:

I would, I, I.

Leif:

The only problem is that he's just not good enough to pull it off.

Leif:

Well, that's the thing, is that he's notnna pull it

Leif:

off and or he is

Leif:

and you know,

Leif:

because it's successful. But then is it

Leif:

successful? We don't really know how that's all going toa play

Leif:

out because of the end. It's just

Leif:

Rufus more than

Leif:

anything going To Holland. You're an

Leif:

idiot. You sat on that board. So, like, you

Leif:

know other people on that board, you don't have to

Leif:

go to the person that you may or may not have banged.

Leif:

Blair is still walking with her new Columbia friends,

Leif:

Jessica and Zoe. When Blair declines to get

Leif:

involved in the Jenny and Serena's feud, Jessica

Leif:

and Zoe shame her into jumping into the game.

Leif:

And when she does, they even provide some ammo for the

Leif:

takedown.

Leif:

Blair Waldorf got third person.

Leif:

That was. That was something.

Leif:

Yeah. that might come back to bite them in

Leif:

the ass.

Leif:

Yes, it might. I really loved the old

Leif:

school. The season

Leif:

one and two Blair of this

Leif:

episode. It really took me back.

Leif:

I did like her comment in the scene though. I've had some

Leif:

recent bad luck getting involved in real estate disputes.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Oof. Oos.

Leif:

And Gossip Girl takes us to the next break with

Leif:

we hear Blair Walderss headed for a comeback.

Leif:

But if she wants to keep her fans happy, she better

Leif:

keeps serving up the hits.

Leif:

Hm.

Leif:

We move it to act three. Jenny

Leif:

comes after Serena in the kitchen accusing her

Leif:

directly. And then through Blair of spelling the tea.

Leif:

The two argue about whose lies to their

Leif:

respective fathers are more harmful. Jenny wins

Leif:

this round when she points out that while she may be lying about some of

Leif:

her actions, Rufus knows who she is. But William

Leif:

is only going to know a fake version of Serena.

Leif:

But Jenny also like going there

Leif:

and throwing shit at

Leif:

Serena and being like,

Leif:

how dare you let Blair do this.

Leif:

Jenny, you're the one that's sold drugs. Somebody had

Leif:

dirt on you and somebody let it out and I had nothing to do with

Leif:

it. So maybe don't sell drug.

Leif:

Vanessa comes to the loft to apologize.

Leif:

Dan says he is firee with Vanessa going to Haiti,

Leif:

but thata decides to say however she

Leif:

is going to tell the woman from FCNN in person over

Leif:

drinks tonight.

Leif:

She's so dumb. How dumb would

Leif:

you be to turn this thing down?

Leif:

Yeah, you're gonna be away from your boyfriend for three

Leif:

months. How could you turn down an

Leif:

internship with a

Leif:

major company that's sending you away to do

Leif:

this thing based on some stupid play you

Leif:

wrote and based on your garden

Leif:

documentary and they wanna like give you an internship and you're.

Leif:

Like, well, this is probably based on her story about ah,

Leif:

trip.

Leif:

Oh, right. yeah.

Leif:

I'm guessing it's probably that same woman.

Leif:

Yes. Yeah, that makes sense.

Leif:

But also the scene ends with like a close up

Leif:

on Dan's face. It just has a look of like, damn, I almost got

Leif:

rid of her.

Speaker C:

It was just close.

Leif:

Blair is now walking by herself and is

Leif:

contemplating replying to Amalia about NYU

Leif:

housing when Nate shows up. He calls her out for

Leif:

never showing up at his game. Nate calls Blair al for

Leif:

reverting to her old ways, but she's pretending to be a

Leif:

Columbia student outing Jenny on Gossip Girl.

Leif:

And then Jessica overhears the conversation and pulls out her

Leif:

sidekick as the scene ends.

Leif:

So this was

Leif:

2010, and it would have

Leif:

aired, what, like, April, right? April.

Leif:

May 2010.

Leif:

It was May 3rd.

Leif:

May 3rd. So, my first thought was, like, there was

Leif:

snow on the ground. 2010 was the year that

Leif:

there was a huge blizzard that.

Leif:

I know I was out of school for, like, a week

Leif:

when it happened, and I think that was, like, a

Leif:

March, maybe even April Blissz.

Leif:

Yeah. So I probably would have filed the late February,

Leif:

early March.

Leif:

Yeah. And so that. I'm

Leif:

assuming that's, like, remnants of that

Leif:

blizzard that took place. Oh, also, I

Leif:

love Nate being a therapist again.

Leif:

It also. It does seem like this is a day later.

Leif:

Yes, but it was. There was, like, no snow, and it

Leif:

was, like, nice out the day before, and now today, it's

Leif:

like it had snowed a

Leif:

lot. Like, it was the day after a.

Leif:

You. and I growing up, and. Well, I grew up in snow, and you

Leif:

grew up somewhat here, and then no snow at

Leif:

all, but you've been around snow enough to know

Leif:

that that was not fresh snow.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

But, yeah, I really love Nate being the

Leif:

therapist again, and I really hope that he's studying

Leif:

psychology at Columbia.

Leif:

Following Nate's prompting, Blair goes to the Empire

Leif:

to convince Chuck to see Lily. Chuck just

Leif:

mocks Blair. We see her get a gossspel girl

Leif:

blast and then leave. As she is getting on the

Leif:

elevator, she calls Amalia and she says she is ready

Leif:

to sign the lease on their NYU apartment.

Leif:

I love how unfazed Blair

Leif:

is in this whole scene when she walks in and

Leif:

it's like, no, we're broken up. You do this. I know

Leif:

who you are, but stays

Leif:

on point. And even Chuck trying to rattle her and

Leif:

Chuck with the, If you. Maybe if you went to an Ivy, you'd have a

Leif:

better take my. On my

Leif:

psychology and

Leif:

her being rattled on the way out, but

Leif:

just also just being like, nope, this is my life

Leif:

now. Nope, I'm an NYU student. That's

Leif:

who I am, and I'm gonna go own it. I really like

Leif:

impressed with Blair there.

Leif:

I agree. so I also, The whole.

Leif:

This whole concept of the NYU apartment I find

Leif:

funny because some in some corner of the

Leif:

Rudy's room. They acknowledge that it does take

Leif:

time to get around the city, but everyone else is

Leif:

fast traveling all the time,

Leif:

so why can't you just leave at Al.

Leif:

Yeah, exactly.

Leif:

And then Gossip Girl has this to say.

Leif:

Spotted. Be claiming to be a co ed at

Leif:

Columbia when everyone knows she's a zero at

Leif:

NYU or B. First she lost

Leif:

Chuck and now her dignity. You make your

Leif:

bed, you lie in it. Be too bad yours is

Leif:

in the East Village.

Leif:

Yeah, it's allgh B.

Leif:

We go into Act 4. Serena calls

Leif:

Rufus out for blocking Dr. Daddy from moving into the

Leif:

building. Rufus admits to it, which Lily

Leif:

overhears. Lily still thinks William is only

Leif:

moving in to get close to the kids and that Rufus is just being

Leif:

jealous. Serena strongly suggests that Rufus

Leif:

no longer come to the gala. Rufus, he

Leif:

tried to fly too close to the sun, skeming

Leif:

against the big boys.

Leif:

And that was kind of, I guess, maybe my whole

Leif:

he shouldn't have done that. Is because of the fallout.

Leif:

And it's because Lily doesn't take shit like

Leif:

that. You know, going behind her back after she says,

Leif:

no, it's fine. Let him move in. And then going behind her back

Leif:

to do that. That's gonna piss off Lilyy.

Leif:

Well, I mean, it is that. It isn't. Cause they can

Leif:

also turn her on.

Leif:

She.

Leif:

She liked Embark and stuff like that.

Leif:

Yeah, she did. Yeah, she did. Yeah. Maybe

Leif:

she's like, up your game, Rus.

Leif:

Yeahus. She isn't really that mad at him when she sees

Leif:

him later, is she? It's Serena that's like, don't come to this

Leif:

thing. Yeah, yeah. Lily right now is like, mmm, m.

Leif:

Oh, you scheming.

Leif:

Like when she's walk away, she looks back, she like, you should have

Leif:

just. You should have kept going. Should have said something else.

Leif:

Should'like just told my daughter to fuck herself.

Leif:

Cause I don't give a fuck by her.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. Would that have been hot?

Leif:

I do. Like, this is about Serena.

Leif:

Serena will go toe to toe

Leif:

with any adult on the show.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

She will speak her mind whether she's right,

Leif:

whether she's wrong, whether she's making an

Leif:

ass out of herself. And knows it or

Leif:

not. She will go toe

Leif:

to toe with any adult on this show and

Leif:

will not back down. And does

Leif:

it in a very adult way. A lot of the

Leif:

time. The way she addressed Rufus, she

Leif:

talked to him like he was an adult.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And you know, it's the product of her basically raising

Leif:

herself and raising her little brother and

Leif:

being around other adults who

Leif:

saw her as the caretaker

Leif:

so there is that side of Serena that I

Leif:

do respect.

Leif:

Oh, yeah. I mean, when Whenta opens the throttle, she

Leif:

is a force to be reckoned with.

Leif:

Absolutely.

Leif:

Blair enters the gala only to be immediately called

Leif:

out by Jessica and Zoe for pretending to be a Columbia

Leif:

student. I guess Blair now knows where the Gossip

Leif:

Girl blast came from.

Leif:

I love that Blair is in this

Leif:

place of acceptance. She has this sort

Leif:

of Zen over her. I feel like she's

Leif:

hurt and she's beaten, but she's

Leif:

not. She's not flailing and she's not

Leif:

drowning. She's just accepting. And I really like

Leif:

that about her.

Leif:

Serena, Lily and Dr. Daddy arrive at the

Leif:

gala. William quickly peels off to talk to some

Leif:

colleagues. Lily sees a dumbruck Chuck ding

Leif:

across the room and also excuses herself from

Leif:

Serena.

Leif:

That arrival, that whole

Leif:

scene. I'm gonna let you do the

Leif:

next part cause I feel like these things tie

Leif:

together.

Leif:

Chuck apologizes to Lily for not showing up

Leif:

until now, but promises to be there for every step of the

Leif:

way. Chuck comments on how great she looks and

Leif:

Lily admits that she feels great. They share a

Leif:

warm embrace.

Leif:

This whole scene where

Leif:

it starts with Chuck walking in,

Leif:

scanning the room, seeing Lily

Leif:

in a way that would often be sought.

Leif:

Almost romantic, right? Which we

Leif:

know that it's not a romantic thing. It just shows

Leif:

how eager Chuck is

Leif:

to show Lily that he's there for

Leif:

her.

Leif:

And then they make eye contact.

Leif:

Lily breaks away. And then we go to the non judging

Leif:

breakfast club.

Leif:

Blair, Serena and Nate group up. Serena kisses

Leif:

Nate and thanks him for getting Chuck to show up.

Leif:

First Nate and then Blair denied being the ones to

Leif:

convince Chuck and Nate.

Leif:

Had nothing to do with it. And Blair, Blair's

Leif:

response is like he ever listens to me.

Leif:

And Serena knows that Chuck wouldn't

Leif:

be here that if there wasn't something else. So

Leif:

yes, Blair, it was absolutely because of what you

Leif:

did. But I just loved how they

Leif:

all came, how they all

Leif:

were there for that moment. M.

Leif:

And how they let Chuck be

Leif:

the hero of that moment too. And

Leif:

then the apology happens. And

Leif:

that conversation where Chuck

Leif:

has a mom again and it

Leif:

was just so sweet. And

Leif:

I mean I got emotional watching.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah. The second part was great. The first

Leif:

part where he sees her across the room. He just looks zockked out when

Leif:

he was staring across the room.

Leif:

But then.

Leif:

Yet I do like to see where they actually talk and they apologize and they have

Leif:

the warm breez.

Leif:

Yes. And you know, he puts

Leif:

his lips on her shoulder

Leif:

and it's such a

Leif:

motherly sort of

Leif:

Way like this mother son.

Leif:

Almost like, you know, that caretaker.

Leif:

Yeah, I just thought that was great.

Leif:

Dan finds Jenny hiding out at the loft. And

Leif:

while he would love her company, he askeds if the Gossip

Leif:

Girl blast was true. Jetty admits that she

Leif:

was dealing, but not anymore. Dan

Leif:

suggests she should have a little faith in Rufus and

Leif:

admit the truth. Jenny agrees and goes to find a

Leif:

dress for the gala.

Leif:

Hey, Dan. you're being a good big brother here. You are.

Leif:

What reason does Jenny

Leif:

have to have faith?

Leif:

Well, from the D's point of view.

Leif:

Right. No, no, no, seriously. If you just come

Leif:

clean like, he's pretty cool.

Leif:

He's a cool guy.

Leif:

He's really cool. If you want toa be a writer and you're a

Leif:

dude.

Leif:

Or if you're Serena.

Leif:

Or if you're Serena.

Leif:

He listens to her.

Leif:

But this scene made realize there has been

Leif:

a serious lack of Dan and Jenny this season.

Leif:

Yes, you're absolutely right.

Leif:

There hasn't been that big brother.

Leif:

Those interactions, the little sister big brother

Leif:

stuff. In fact, even when it

Leif:

kind of come up, Nate has played the

Leif:

role more than Dan. But that was

Leif:

for other reasons.

Leif:

Serena finds Dr. Daddy annmits the true

Leif:

story from boarding school and the fact that she has been involved in

Leif:

many scandals. Dr. Daddy just

Leif:

rolls with the punches and continue to say all the right

Leif:

things. Serena is afraid that after Lily is

Leif:

better, you will just leave again. When Dr.

Leif:

Daddy promises they will be a happy family again,

Leif:

Serena throws rivers under the bus with a smile on her

Leif:

face.

Leif:

That's what killed me. That. Yeah, you're

Leif:

mad at Rufus right now. Rufus

Leif:

has been your dad since he married

Leif:

Lily, since he got together with Lily. Except

Leif:

for the times when he's like, you should stay away from Van Derwood and

Leif:

Whitman. But for the most part,

Leif:

he has been a much better father to you than any

Leif:

father you've ever had.

Leif:

Well, yeah. Telling us stay the away to f banersood

Leif:

woman is preempting him know, stay away from his

Leif:

stepsister.

Leif:

Yeah, I mean, that's still good advice. Yeah.

Leif:

So this is what gosp squirrel has to say as we go to the break.

Leif:

Aw. Ah.

Leif:

Serena finally has the perfect relationship with

Leif:

her daddy. But will her dream come true?

Leif:

Be Rubus worst nightmare.

Leif:

We go into Act 5. Blair

Leif:

randomly bumps into someone from Columbia's admissions office at

Leif:

the bar. He remembers her application specifically

Leif:

and congratulates her for getting into Columbia. But

Leif:

wait, didn't Blair say she missed the transfer

Leif:

deadline?

Leif:

That's what I heard. Although

Leif:

I did call a few

Leif:

episodes ago. That we were gonna get Blair transferring to

Leif:

Columbia.

Leif:

After the admissions guy leaves, Nate comes up to

Leif:

Blair and reveals Chuck had joked about applying to

Leif:

Columbia on Blair's behalf because she was too

Leif:

prideful to ad make NYU was a mistake. It's

Leif:

nice to see Blair happy.

Leif:

Yeah. She's so

Leif:

giddy. And you never

Leif:

see that. So. Yeah,

Leif:

I loved seeing Blair be little

Leif:

girl giddy. Yeah.

Leif:

Eric finds Rufus making a lonely sandwich

Leif:

wearing his tuxedo. Eric convinces him that he

Leif:

should be with Lily tonight, not William. At that moment,

Leif:

the elevator dings and Elliot steps into the

Leif:

benous. Apparently, William invited Elliot because he

Leif:

knew Eric didn't have plans. Rufus

Leif:

continues to be an awesome stepdad and tells Eric that

Leif:

it's okay to be mad at his father, but it's also okay

Leif:

to let him try to make amends.

Leif:

Yeah, Again, like, Rufus has no

Leif:

reason to do this other than just being

Leif:

a good dad. Yeah, he's

Leif:

being.

Leif:

He cares about these kids.

Leif:

Yeah. He cares about these kids so much that he's

Leif:

like, look, you have every right to be mad at

Leif:

him. He said to Serena last week, don't let my shit

Leif:

be your shit and be open to

Leif:

him. And he's doing the same thing with Eric.

Leif:

Now.

Leif:

Holland attempts to intercept Rufus, who has just arrived at

Leif:

the gala. However, Rufus just dodges her and

Leif:

goes right to Lily. Rufus apologizes and

Leif:

says he just wants to be with her and doesn't care who

Leif:

lives where. William sees them smooching from across

Leif:

the room.

Leif:

Holland came in hot, too. She got,

Leif:

like, face, like, front to front with Rufus,

Leif:

like, yo, what's up? It's

Leif:

lady. His wife is right over there.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah. Chuck

Leif:

and Jenny run into each other and both comment on how

Leif:

good and healthy Willie looks. Their

Leif:

conversation is interrupted as William has called up on the stage

Leif:

to accept his award. William throws out his

Leif:

prepared speech and instead uses the podium to say that

Leif:

walking away from his family was the biggest mistake of his

Leif:

life. He then promises he will do everything in his

Leif:

power to make it right and says those three words,

Leif:

eight letters. Lil is shocked, Rufus

Leif:

is staring daggers, and Serena is on cloud

Leif:

nine.

Leif:

The Jenny and Chuck pairing

Leif:

here was a little

Leif:

foretelling, I feel, but

Leif:

also, I loved that that Chuck

Leif:

was instantly sus of Dr.

Leif:

Daddy. That was this, right? Ye. Yeah. Where he

Leif:

walks up and they're like, she looks really

Leif:

good. Like, really healthy.

Leif:

What do you think? It's for telling of a couple of

Leif:

things.

Leif:

Well, I mean, so it looks like there's

Leif:

a match up here because later on,

Leif:

they reconnect about

Leif:

this. And so

Leif:

I feel like putting them into this situation could

Leif:

very easily lead to a Jenny Chuck

Leif:

hookup too. If they're investigating something

Leif:

together. Those kind of things often those lines and

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Gossip Girl often get blurred.

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Well, this is what Gossip Girl has to say about the situation.

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My o. I. Did Dr. Vanderoodson just

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make a public pass at Rufus wife?

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Looks like this Dr. Without Borders needs a few

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boundaries.

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Dr. Daddy was totally telegraphing his

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moves.

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Yeah. We move into the

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epilogue. Rufus is drinking a whiskey

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at the bar and Lily comes up and admits that he was right

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about William but that it doesn't matter because she loves

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Rufus. But Rufus once again askeds for another

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doctor. Lilyy asked Rufus to sleep at the lotft for

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the night. Fucking

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Lily.

Leif:

Fucking Lily. Matt, act

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mad.

Leif:

Well, that was the previous scene where he stares into the camebra as the scene

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ends.

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Well, I was thinking of when he's standing at the bar when they

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bring it back from break and he's at the bar and he's like

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the grunting waiting for Lily to come up.

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And again I said this last week.

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The greatest doctors in the world are

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in New York. Why would you not get

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a second opinion?

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Not a new doctor. Just have another

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doctor run the same tests, that's

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all.

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That would make too much sense.

Leif:

Yep, not enough drama for the

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adults.

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Some rando calls Jenny out for selling her what was

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supposed to be oxy but ended up being antibiotics

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that gave her a yeast infection. Of course,

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an already pissed off Rufus over years and takes out

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all his frustrations on Jenny.

Leif:

Ms. Maisel puts Jenny on blast

Leif:

and then Jenny is Dad, it's

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not you. Like it's not what you think.

Leif:

And he's just not having it. Oh,

Leif:

Jenny. The again.

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Season 2 episode 20

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also ended with Jenny in big trouble with Rufus.

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Dan shows up the dorm and convinces Vanessa to take

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the internship. He also has a very romantic gift

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of fancy stationery for handwritten letters.

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Dan tells her to include a little bit of the dirty stuff.

Leif:

My note on this actually says why during the

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hiatus

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we're finally getting rid of Vanessa and it's

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during the break.

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Damn.

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Damn it you writers.

Leif:

Holland finds Serena in the courtatom and says she has

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some info about Rufus that Lily should know.

Leif:

Holland, why are you going to

Leif:

Serena about whatever the fuck this

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is, you asshole.

Leif:

Yeah, involving the kid. Not a cool mo.

Leif:

Yeah, you're going to the kid. You're

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grimy. She's grimy. She's always been

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grimy.

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Yep. Serena runs off

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to Dr. Daddy. And tells him to fight for mommy.

Leif:

Yep, the golden retriever just got some information

Leif:

and woof woof.

Leif:

Jenny is on her bed not googling for

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cancer. As she scrolls through the results, something

Leif:

seems to catch her eye.

Leif:

No, she's.

Leif:

We're not Googling, Bill.

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Send her over some money, then we'll say your stup search engine

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name.

Leif:

Give us another check.

Leif:

Yeah.

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So Blair tracks down Jessica and Zoe and

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informs him that she is in fact transferring to Columbia next

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termm and that they got some bad information. But

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if they cross her again, they'll get to see

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Blair Waldorf takedown firsthand.

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Yeah, Blair coming right at her new minions

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and just kind of without saying

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it. Well, I guess she does say it. I don't live with the

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help. Just, boom.

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You are now minions, my minion.

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Yes. Chuck receives a thank you text from

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Blair before taking a call from Jenny, who voices her

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suspicion about William's prescription for Lily.

Leif:

I like that text. I like the place

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that. That it leaves Blair

Leif:

and Chuck. I like this

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episode where it leaves the two of them at

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a place of we, we can still be

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friends, we can coexist, and we're

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not romantically involved, but we're gonna

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be in each other's lives and we were important

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to each other. Oh, and then the call from

Leif:

Jenny where Jenny's been through

Leif:

Lilyy's medicine cabinet. Yeah.

Leif:

So stuff that's being is labeled as

Leif:

oxycontin from William as actually antt

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antibiotics.

Leif:

So. Which if you

Leif:

feed someone antibiotics for a long

Leif:

time, it wreaks havoc on the body.

Leif:

Yeah, and can look like other diseases.

Leif:

and we already kind of knewl was up with the prescriptions from last week.

Leif:

Yes. Yes.

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Eric is telling Lily all about Elliot. When Serena

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and Dr. Daddy show up. Eric says it's okay for him

Leif:

to stay, and then even Billy agrees.

Leif:

Serena answers a call from Rufus and declines to give the

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phone to Lily.

Leif:

Lily is an asshole here, but it's the

Leif:

lilliest thing to do. To be like, yeah, come on in.

Leif:

What Lily should have done is said, don't you have a new place

Leif:

downstairs?

Leif:

Well, he doesn't.

Leif:

Well, yeah, that's true, but why don't you guys go out

Leif:

somewhere? But it's the Lily thing to do.

Leif:

Ma at Rufus and Vitamin and

Leif:

Serena. Fuck you. Fuck you,

Leif:

Serena.

Leif:

Eric thanks Dr. Daddy for setting up his date with

Leif:

Elliot. Serena returns and lies about who

Leif:

called.

Leif:

The four look like a happy family laughing on

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the couch.

Leif:

Fuck you, Serena.

Leif:

Yeah. The Gossip Girl ends the

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episode with.

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Listen carefully. Yes, Ah, Holland has a tale to

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tell. Apparently, her upstairs neighbor has

Leif:

been coming downstairs. They

Leif:

say that the family are the people who will always take

Leif:

you in, but if instead they shut the

Leif:

door or even worse, let someone

Leif:

else take your placees. What do you say,

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Serena? Who's your daddy?

Leif:

Xo. Xo Gossip

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girl.

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That is our episode. What's

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coming next?

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All right, well, let's start with. Let's start

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small. Vanessa's gonna be gone. Dan

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is gonna be.

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I'm. I've been waiting for this Dan

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Blair thing to happen, and I'm concerned that

Leif:

it's going to be also on the hiatus

Leif:

and that we're not going to get very much of it. I'm worried it's going to happen

Leif:

at the end and come back from hiatus, and it's going toa

Leif:

be over. That feels very on

Leif:

brand. But anyway, I'm hoping that this

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is the avenue there.

Leif:

I believe Jenny and Chuck

Leif:

are going to uncover Dr.

Leif:

Daddy's devious deeds,

Leif:

and that's gonna blow up

Leif:

the Rufus thing. I think Serena will

Leif:

eventually realize that Rufus has been

Leif:

a better dad to her than anybody else.

Leif:

And eventually, I feel like by the end

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of the season anyway,

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William will show who he is. That is

Leif:

very much in line with the last two seasons

Leif:

that we have this villain show up at the

Leif:

end who kind of reveals who they

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are. So by the end,

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it's true. By the season finale, we're trying

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to work past the scandal.

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So I'm hoping that Jenny and Chuck

Leif:

bring all of that out.

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So I asked this last week, and you didn't really have a

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good guess. Any m. New

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information on, who Dr. Daddy was talking to

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on the phone at the end of the last episode?

Leif:

My one guess is that it could

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be. Damn. Is that

Leif:

his name there?

Leif:

Is Damian on the show?

Speaker C:

Was that the.

Leif:

Wait. Who's the drug dealing.

Leif:

Who's Jenny's drug dealing?

Leif:

Damien.

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Damien. Yeah. So I think damn. Is a

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possibility. Or more likely his dad.

Leif:

Who else would be in

Leif:

pharmaceuticals? Cause the other obvious one is

Leif:

Chuck, but Chuck wouldn't. I really don't

Leif:

think Chuck would be doing that to Lilyy. I don't think. Well,

Leif:

I don't know who knew. Chuck is. Yeah. Other than

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those two, I can't really think of who else.

Leif:

Who does William have connections with?

Leif:

Who does William have connections with? Cece.

Leif:

William has. So let's see.

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Cece. None of the other

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parents that I could think of that are

Leif:

alive, like Bart, but

Leif:

Bart's dead.

Leif:

Captain. The captain was

Leif:

into some drugs he's in jail, though. He is in

Leif:

jail. Unless he's out.

Leif:

Unless. I don't know.

Leif:

I feel like that would've been a story.

Leif:

I feel like it would'been. Who else

Leif:

is a pharmacist?

Leif:

Pharmaceuticals.

Leif:

Or a doctor.

Leif:

Or a doctor. Who else is a

Leif:

doctor? I feel like I'm missing

Leif:

something huge here. Vanessa's mom

Leif:

isn't a doctor.

Leif:

Not that we're aware of.

Leif:

Not that we're aware of another

Leif:

doctor. Okay. I'll

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have to think on it.

Leif:

We'll have to find out next week.

Leif:

Yeah.

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So let's get into some segments

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this week in fandom. Ah, we jumped in the wayback

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machine to travel to the fan forums from

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2010. Hello

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there, Peabody here. And this is the

Leif:

wayback machine. We for re traveling through time. And this is

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my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman.

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Hello.

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Good boy. Not much to say

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this week. most people kind of felt like it was another filler

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episode setting up the end of the season.

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They liked the Chuck and Blair stuff.

Leif:

They really like the Chuck and Lily stuff. And

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at this point, they're not even really hating on Jenny. They just find

Leif:

her boring.

Leif:

That's fair. yeah.

Leif:

Not much going on this week, but that's kind of the overall

Leif:

sentiment.

Leif:

Yeah, it does have that

Leif:

middle of the road sort of feel to it.

Leif:

That kind of filler

Leif:

feel that we're setting up stuff

Leif:

and we're not really tying anything

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new together. But

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I enjoyed it.

Leif:

Well, moving into episode grades,

Leif:

Middle of the road is dead on. Because I gave it a

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C. Yeah, I gave it.

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I'm giving it a C

Leif:

again. Middle of the road. It wasn't

Leif:

bad. It had good stuff

Leif:

to it. But.

Leif:

Yeah, I mean, I liked the Chuck and Millie scene,

Leif:

and a couple of larair scenes were okay, but

Leif:

that's about it.

Leif:

I like that Vanessa'going away, but

Leif:

we're.

Leif:

Gonna miss it, though.

Leif:

I know. I don't like that.

Leif:

All right, moving into stockwatch. Going up.

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I had Blairuse

Leif:

she's into Columbia, and she

Leif:

kind of got some new menus. It looks like

Leif:

I had William going up. Cause he seems to be

Leif:

winning everyone over. Eric going

Leif:

up. Caus he had a nice little date with Elliot. And

Leif:

he had some righteous indignation at the beginning of the

Leif:

episode. I had Dan going up cause

Leif:

he was a, great boyfriend on this episode. You

Leif:

he's very understanding and told her

Leif:

to take the internshipuse. It's a great opportunity.

Leif:

We'll make it.

Leif:

We'll figure it out. Yeah, I had Vanessa going up

Leif:

because she got a Great opportunity, even

Leif:

though she almost blew it. I also had Chuck going

Leif:

up cause he finally showed up for Lily.

Leif:

Yeah, I had a much the

Leif:

same. I had Dr. Daddy going

Leif:

up. I had Chuck growing

Leif:

up. I had Blair going

Leif:

up for getting into Columbia. I had Nate going

Leif:

up for being a good therapist friend.

Leif:

I had Eric and Elliot going up for having a nice

Leif:

date. And for Elliot always being able to show up for Eric when Eric

Leif:

needs him. I wasn't

Leif:

originallynna do this, but I'm gonna give Dan and Vanessa

Leif:

both up, for the exact same reasons that you

Leif:

said. And Dan should go

Leif:

up because he's gonna get rid of Vanessa for three

Leif:

months. I don't get rid of her for three

Leif:

months, but Dan does. And I'm happy for

Leif:

him.

Leif:

Yeah, I had Nate neutral just cause he

Leif:

spilled the tea once again. Y and

Leif:

he didn't really do much.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

but going down, I had Rufususe

Leif:

he lost. Yeah,

Leif:

Serena cause she's an asshole. Lily cause

Leif:

she's also an asshole. Jenny cause she

Leif:

got bullied by Serena and

Leif:

Hollandus. She's awful.

Leif:

Yeah. yes. So, yeah,

Leif:

Rufus for me as well. Serena as

Leif:

well. Lily as well for

Leif:

being played. Little Jay for

Leif:

getting outed. And now she's going toa be

Leif:

in big trouble with Rufus. I also

Leif:

had the Columbia girls, Zoe and

Leif:

Jessica going down because they

Leif:

tried to get one up on Blair and now they're minions.

Leif:

But here's the best outfits from the last

Leif:

episode we'seen.

Leif:

Moving over to best outfits.

Leif:

For me, it was Jenny's mint strapless

Leif:

gown with the half train by Marchesa.

Leif:

Oh yeah, that was nice. I personally liked

Leif:

the sequins a bandage that

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Seren was wearing. I actually really like that dress that she

Leif:

was wearing. So I'm giving it to

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Serena and.

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That is it for segments. Do you have anything

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you wantna plug this week?

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Not particularly,

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episode Description when things get

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tense between Rufus and Will, Serena chooses to

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stand behind her father while Rufus is made to feel like

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an outsider in his own family. Oh

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Serena, well, until next

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time. You know you love us.

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XOXO Every time you walk

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away, run away you take a piece of me with

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you there Every time

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you walk away run away you take a piece of

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me with you there

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Every time you walk away and run away you take a

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piece of me with you there

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oh it seems I'm walking right.

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To 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

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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 me with you there

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Every time you walk away I runaw away you take a piece

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of me 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

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Never feels right when im'm out here on my

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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 me with you there

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of me with you there

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of m me with you there

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Come back to me

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smile and you'll make my

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life complete

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of me with you there?

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Every time you walk away around away you take a piece

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of me with you there

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piece of me with you there?

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of me with you there?

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Every time you walk away run away you take a

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piece of me with you there?

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piece of me with you there?

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of m me with you there

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