Episode 2

S4E02 - "Double Identity"

Paris may be for lovers, but it’s also for limping ex–playboys, scheming blondes, and royals with street-food cravings. This week, Leif and Steve dig into Gossip Girl’s two-part premiere wrap-up, where Chuck is playing at being “Henry Prince,” Blair is serving Oscar de la Renta realness, and Serena can’t help but make everything about herself.

We break down:

  • Blair’s jaw-dropping red gown and her emotional Paris bridge showdown with Chuck.
  • Nate being…well, Nate—gullible, pretty, and easily played by Juliet.
  • Dan’s accidental reunion with Vanessa (plus a suspiciously quiet stage baby).
  • Serena juggling a morgue visit, a poll about her love life, and some questionable pants.
  • That closing loft scene—one of the best group reveals Gossip Girl has ever staged.

From Harry Winston sparkle to Chuck’s dramatic cane usage, this episode had it all. Grab a croissant and join us for all the drama, fashion, and fan forum throwbacks.

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Transcript
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Steve (2): A woman can do anything

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including being a misogynist.

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Yes.

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Steve (2): Including the being misogynist and and including being anti-feminist.

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I absolutely agree with that.

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Hey Upper Eastsiders and all you Scandal loving listeners out there,

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you just tuned into the Non-Judging Breakfast Pod where the coffee is

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strong, the waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than ever.

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My name is Leif and I'm your seasoned gossip girl veteran.

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And I'm Steve, the

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Steve (2): rookie, the greenhorn, the, I don't know, Leif.

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Where am I now in season four?

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I'm not sure, but I promise you this isn't a story for little girls.

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Well, I tell

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Steve (2): you what, I'll leave you with one of my sneakers.

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And you can come find me where I live.

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Alright, so here's the deal folks.

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Leif has been watching Gossip Girl since it first aired, and

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I'm diving in for the first time.

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And together we're your dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama, romance,

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and sometimes questionable fashion choices of this iconic 2007 series.

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Bring your magnifying glasses because each week we're dissecting

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every juicy detail of the show.

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One episode at a time.

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We'll connect the dots, uncover those sneaky little Easter eggs, and of

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course, serve up some piping hot behind the scenes tee and expect some iconic

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phantom moments do because what's a deep dive without a little drama.

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Steve (2): Since we are all about inclusivity here at the Non-Judging

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Breakfast Pod, there is always a room for you at the non-judging breakfast table.

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So go ahead and grab a cup of coffee, a mimosa, or see if you can dial up Chuck's

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dealer and let's go ahead and get started.

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Does

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Chuck have a

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Steve (2): dealer in Paris?

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He said he is got a guy to get him passports.

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I'm sure he is.

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Got someone who can get him drugs.

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Probably Prague two?

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Yes.

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How far is prog from Prague from Paris?

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I mean, it's Europe's uh, it's all like right next to each other in my mind.

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Uh, I'd probably, it's probably like a seven hour.

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Like drive maybe.

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How much by river

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for a

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anyway.

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Well, no.

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So he, they came to Paris to sell the rain.

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'cause they couldn't, he said, he says they couldn't se sell it

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at their usual house of product, so they brought it to Harry West.

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Right.

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And then that's why the bot Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then somehow they got robbed in Paris in shots.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Paris is such a dangerous city.

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We are here to talk about season four, episode two.

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A double identity.

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The original air date was September 20th, 2010.

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I, I went

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Steve (2): into this episode prepared to hate it because I was mad about

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the, the chuck stuff at the end of the first episode of the season.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which I thought that was really the only thing I didn't like about it.

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And then when I saw that we're doing an episode about it, I

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was, which I knew had to happen.

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I was prepared not to like this episode.

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Yeah.

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It really is a two part premiere.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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It, it really is.

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And, and it's funny 'cause there was like a two part finale and a two

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part premiere and I kind of wanted to talk about this that I noticed

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the end of season three was the first season to end solid, solid, solid.

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Like the last like three episodes I felt were really

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good solid Gossip Girl episodes.

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Whereas the ends of season one and two were where things just fell apart

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with Georgina coming back after the writer's strike or the whole Poppy

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Gabriel storyline that just wasn't holding up to everything else.

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I thought that this.

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Was a strong start after coming off of a strong finish from the previous season.

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So the episode title is based on the movie of the same title.

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Uh, double Identity came out in 2009, uh, in Sophia Bulgaria in 1992.

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And American Doctor Takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman

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escape from her would be assailant and becomes a victim of mistaken

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Identity as seen in the AFF athlete Hitchcock Classic, north by Northwest.

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And it was directed by Dennis Dimer and Stars, Val Kilmer,

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Isabelle Miko and Jordan Fad Ham.

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I've

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heard of it.

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Steve (2): No, it's, it's interesting to use the exact movie title

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and not Yeah, they,

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Steve (2): they, I, have they done that before?

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I feel?

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I

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believe so.

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Um, I can't think of an example at the moment, but yeah,

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I mean, well, poison Ivy.

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Oh yeah.

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Okay.

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Fair.

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Yeah.

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So this episode, this time it was Josh Saffron with Sarah Goodman.

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So last, last two episodes were Josh Saffron.

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With Stephanie Savage.

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Yeah.

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So I feel like he's writing the New York stuff and the women

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are writing the power stuff.

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That makes sense.

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That makes sense.

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And I also wonder who's, and I assume, and so there's also directed once

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again by Mark Pisarski, um, so I'm guessing he's doing the Paris stuff

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and I'm wondering who's directing the

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Steve (2): new side.

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Yeah, the New York side.

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Yeah.

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Because the attention is clearly on Paris.

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Yeah.

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You, which makes sense.

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You, you're gonna need an A team and a B team and you're going to,

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if you're going to have the budget to shoot in Paris, you're gonna want

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to really throw your energy there.

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Yeah.

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Uh, definitely.

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And why don't you go ahead and give us that vulture recap.

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All right.

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Steve (2): It is a truth universally acknowledged that the second, the

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person who broke your heart appears in front of you looking sorry,

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and pathetic is the second you realize you're completely over them.

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So it was for Blair in the last night's episode of the Greatest Show of our Time.

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She's been mooning over Chuck all summer.

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I hurt all over.

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She was sobbing just last week, but from the moment she laid eyes on him in Paris,

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she no longer gave a rat's bass about him.

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I won't be pulled back into the darkness.

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She insists when Serena tells her that she's the only thing.

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That will keep him from changing his name to Jason Bourne and fleeing to Kerala.

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I've been waiting all summer to feel sparkly again.

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Fortunately, she realized there's no better way to get said sparkle back

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than by saying, I don't love you anymore, while looking fabulous in full

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length, Oscar de la Renta and dripping with Harry Winston while a chiseled,

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Parisian royal weights curbside.

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God bless her, and the writers for it.

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Not least because this was one less episode of this show to end in a ball.

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Indeed.

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And that was a awesome dress.

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It was.

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Oh my God.

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And yeah, there's no party of the week.

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This is the, is this the first episode of Gossip Girl with

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No, there's supposed to be,

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I feel like there's been others.

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Again, I'm, I'm not thinking of an example at the moment, but I

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thought there's been a one or two.

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Yeah, I'm not sure.

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Uh, off, off the top of my head, I mean, so we get into act one

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with Gossip Girls Monologue.

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Summer is coming to a close as everyone knows, Paris, like the Upper East Side,

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empties out in August, leaving behind only the tourist and the Dreamers lamenting

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the imminent return to real life.

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Blair and Serena are once again chatting at an outdoor cafe in Paris.

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They discuss Serena's upcoming choice between Dan and Nate.

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And Blair getting a second date with Prince Louis.

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Serena is so

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Steve (2): fucking Serena in this whole thing of just, of course, these guys are

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just waiting for me, and they kind of are.

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Mm-hmm.

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But e especially Nate, whereas Dan is preoccupied, but just this whole to the

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point where there's a Gossip Girl poll.

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I know we're not there yet, but like.

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It is so like her.

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I also love how she, throughout the episode is comparing the two of them.

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And this is, this is the scene where Blair's like, yes, but

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Dan, but Humphrey is the donut.

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Uh, but also, once again, Blair somehow gets a second chance despite

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failing the Royals te initial test.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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She failed the test.

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What's the point of the test, right?

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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It's a, it's a multi-layered test.

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The first layer is, are you hot?

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Yes.

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Then

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there other layers don't necessarily matter.

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Serena gets a call from Lily who tells her about the call she got about Chuck.

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The Paris police needs someone to identify the body that washed up in

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the river, and Serena is the obvious choice and she's already in Paris.

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Steve (2): I kind of really went through my head about this a little bit that

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like, should Serena be the one to identify this body, it would be the

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quickest and easiest person to, and Lily even says, I will fly out there.

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This is too much.

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Yeah.

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Steve (2): So I think that Lily recognizes the weight she's putting on Serena.

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Oh, yeah.

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And I don't know if Serena really recognizes the weight of what she's

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been asked to do, but I do know that Lily, like she said, she was

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like, I'll, I will fly out there right now if I'm asking too much.

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Yeah.

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I, I think it is a lot to put on a, on a 19-year-old, 18, 19-year-old,

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Julia and Nate are recounting the many exploits of Serena

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while walking down the street.

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Juliet volunteers as Nate's life coach for 24 hours, so he can eliminate Dan

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as competition for Serena's heart.

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Steve (2): Oh, poor dumb.

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Nate, you are so dumb.

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You are so Nate, and you are

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so dumb.

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Oh, has yeah.

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Reference to Serena dating your stepbrother.

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Yes.

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I, I loved

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Steve (2): that because, well, and you also, he's relaying all of this drama

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on her, and you get the idea that this entire story is being told, leading up

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to this scene, but we as an audience know that she knows all of this.

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So you wonder when she says, man, if they were related, you gotta wonder

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if that was her trying to just throw out more for him to, to feed off of,

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you know, she's, she's very good at playing this slow game with Nate,

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but I also, yeah, normally exposition can be.

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But for some reason, I love what Gossip Girl does, the little exposition

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stuff to like, just to like lay out how ridiculous the row plots are.

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Oh

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Steve (2): no, I absolutely agree.

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I, I do love how they do that.

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I also love when they, later in this episode when they give us

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a whole backstory on thieves.

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You know, like, but you're exactly right that when they give us these

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snippets of how ridiculous this show is that, that they know when you hear

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all laid out like that.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Serita meets with a stereotypical French inspector at the morgue to

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potentially identify Chuck's body.

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Steve (2): And even though it's not Chuck, she now has a dead

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body that she has in her psyche.

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Yeah.

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Going forward, which is the thing that

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a body that was in water.

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Steve (2): Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It's not gonna be a pretty, yeah, I, when I was 12, I, I went to an open

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casket funeral for a scoutmaster, and that fucked me up for years.

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So, like, I can't imagine seeing a, you know, a bloated, washed up corpse.

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Yeah.

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But then, then you also have the relief of like, that's not my

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stepbrother, one of my stepbrothers.

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That's the stepbrother I haven't slept with.

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Not that he hasn't tried, not that he hasn't tried.

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And also, I'm just gonna throw yet in there, because we've still got

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almost three whole seasons left here.

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Oh.

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Chuck is in bed with Ava.

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Ava wants to bone all day.

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But New Chuck or Henry is all about being a diligent worker, Henry Prince.

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Steve (2): I, I, like I said, I wanted to hate this whole episode because I hated

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the Henry Prince and I, but I didn't,

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I I And the show, once again, wasting a perfect opportunity to

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let Ed use his real accident for this whole Henry Prince persona.

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Steve (2): Yes.

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Yeah.

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He was, he took it from Shakespeare.

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Yeah.

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Steve (2): Like, run an accent, bro.

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You're hiding out.

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Speak naturally.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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What if he's, what if he's gotten so bad at his American accent that he no longer

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can talk in, in his actual accent either?

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What if he just doesn't know how to speak anymore?

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Oh boy.

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Boy, me because he, because the only British accents he's heard has been people

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like, you know, the Duke and Marcus.

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Dan is singing lullabies to Milo at the Loft when Nate and Juliet show up.

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Nate is definitely not a baby guy, and immediately passes Milo off to Juliet.

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So Dan and Nate can talk.

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Steve (2): What I've found really funny about this scene is Dan's

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sitting there singing to the baby and like, I, I don't know what the

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word is, but bouncing, I guess, bouncing the baby and singing to him.

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And they come in and he gives him to Nate, and Nate's like,

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oh, I don't know what I'm doing.

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And Juliette's like, he just needs a woman's touch.

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But I wanna point out that through all of that, that baby's not fussy, not

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like, not the least bit cranky, fussy.

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That's a stage baby.

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That yes, and that baby looks very content like.

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That's how you want babies to be all the time.

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Little, little coups, little voice, little bit here and there.

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Yeah, that's, you want that?

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Dan and Nate sit down at the kitchen to table to chat about Serena.

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Dan is surprised to hear that Serena's going to Columbia and we'll be back in the

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city when Dan hops up to grab a diaper.

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Nate sneaks a peek at Dan's phone and sees a text from Serena.

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Juliet.

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Uh, Juliet comes out and tosses some gasoline on Nate's fire.

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Nate.

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Steve (2): The way phones work is that when it says new text message,

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that means they haven't read it yet.

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That's just how phones work.

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So take, take that information with you next time.

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Hey.

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Okay, let's just congratulate it for being, uh, able to actually read the text.

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It was under 200 pages.

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Steve (2): He was a, he sounded

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out all the letters.

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Chuck is leaving for work for the day and starts to hobble down the street and with

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his new cane as Chuck is crossing the street, Blair's car screeches to a halt.

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And the two former lovers lock eyes, what are we stopping for pedestrians now

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Steve (2): run 'em down.

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It was good and, and it was a nice moment and I really like what this moment

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leads to and I think the next scene or a couple scenes from now when she's

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with Serena, so I'll comment on that.

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I will say though, the uh, uh, I guess stunt choreography.

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Of the scene not, not great.

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Oh, no, because he, he was nowhere near getting hit.

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No.

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The budget, it's like he, it like the car breaks and then he walks up

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and like almost walks into the car.

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Yeah.

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With has already stopped.

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Yeah.

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They,

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Steve (2): they definitely put the budget into getting

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to Paris, not into the stunts.

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Uh, he, I, I'll do my

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own stunts

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and gossip Girl takes us to the first break with.

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They say it's easy to forget your troubles when the weather is warm,

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but all it takes is one fall breeze to blow reality right back in your face.

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Watch out Blair.

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He who sows the wind, reaps the storm.

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Act two begins, Juliet and Vanessa bring groceries back to the loft.

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Then Vanessa, AKA, the baby whisperer makes a beeline for Milo.

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Juliette is using Vanessa to take Dan out of this arena equation, but

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of course, in a nice way because Nate doesn't go in for scheming.

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Yeah, I liked

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Steve (2): Vanessa this whole episode.

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I really had no issue with her and I like that she's taken on this parental role or,

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or even just not even like parental, like.

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Just a, well, maybe parental, but this role with Milo that she is helping

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Dan with the baby, which really tracks that she's helping her best friend.

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And when she makes the comment about how when you grow up on a commune, you

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clock a lot of babysitting hours, so it makes sense that she's good with kids.

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Mm-hmm.

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I also kind of thought that granted her mom is also garbage, but I feel

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like maybe Vanessa has the best shot at being a decent mom out of

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the women on Gossip Girl right now.

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Steve (2): You know, because she's always the one that's broken

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away from her mom.

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Steve (2): Exactly.

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She's self-aware.

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Yeah.

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And she knows that and, and she knows that the shit with her mom.

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Isn't right.

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The, the shit her mom does isn't right.

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Mm-hmm.

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So she wants that relationship with a kid.

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So I, I do think that she'd probably be the best mom of the gossip girl kids.

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Yeah.

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Fair.

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Blair and Serena are discussing the Gossip Girl poll of Nate

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or Dan, but Serena shifts the conversation to a more serious topic.

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Serena brings up her trip to the morgue and the fact that Chuck

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has been missing all summer.

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Blair says to call off the Hounds because she just saw Chuck an hour ago and assumes

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Chuck is just in Paris stalking her.

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Serena wants to Blair to go talk to Chuck to see if he's all right, but Blair

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doesn't want to be late for her date.

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Steve (2): So this is what I was talking about a second ago, the setup for this

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scene where Blair is like, Chuck's fine.

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No, I saw him.

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He just limped off afterwards.

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Like clearly he's hurt with something, he's walking with a cane, but she's.

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It's fine.

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Like, I saw him, he's fucking fine.

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Let's get on with this.

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Let's move on.

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And honestly, throughout this whole episode, I'm kind of like, yeah, Blair,

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like, why are you chasing this guy down?

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Let just let him go.

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Which Blair is so ready to do right now,

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speaking of the can, why is getting shot in the gut require a cane

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Steve (2): as, as somebody who walks with a cane for one.

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Here's what's also funny is that he walks on the wrong side of the cane,

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that when you walk with a cane, you don't use it to prop up the side that is weak.

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You use it to steady the side that is strong, right?

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So my left leg is weak.

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I walk with the cane in my right hand because you have it basically,

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you, you want your, the swing of your arm to match the swing of your foot.

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So I get more.

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Support by having my right leg, my right hand, my left leg forward, and my

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right leg back, I've become a tripod.

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So that's why you walk with a cane.

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That way, if you're just limping along, you're actually doing

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your body so much damage because you're misaligning your spine.

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So like the, the, just the whole thing just kind of cracked me up.

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That, that like, also, like you said about getting shot in the gut, I mean,

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yeah, there's gonna be muscle damage or something like that, but a cane.

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That this long after recovery then, then he goes and starts walking at a shop.

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You can't be a waiter and have a cane.

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So yeah,

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it's just for dramatic purposes.

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Speaking of which, yes, Chuck is working at a pub and is literally

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helping an old man down the steps.

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Yes.

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Emma comes to take Chuck out on a break, but spooked by seeing Blair.

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Chuck wants to leave Paris for India.

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Emma is worried they don't have the money, but Chuck tells her he might

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have an idea about the finances.

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I think I know how we can handle

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Steve (2): it.

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No, no, no.

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I know a guy, he's me.

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Do we?

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Does he have the cane in the rest of the episode?

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I don't know if he does.

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Yeah,

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he does.

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He does.

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Okay.

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He has at the train station too.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Rufuss gets off the phone with the doctor who did the paternity test,

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but can't get any more information.

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Lily is going to the loft to help convert Cheney's older room into a nursery, but

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Rufuss is going to stay at home and pout.

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Steve (2): I really loved Lily in this episode.

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Yeah.

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Rufuss is 100% in his right to be skeptical that that baby is

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not Dan's and has every reason to have Dan get that information.

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For sure.

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What Rufuss is failing to realize is that no matter who that kid

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came out of, and no matter who's.

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Who fathered that kid That is a baby who needs love and who needs to be taken

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care of, and who needs to be changed and fed and held and all of that stuff.

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And it doesn't fucking matter whose kid it is.

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That baby needs parents right now.

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Yeah.

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Steve (2): And Dan is doing that and Vanessa is doing that.

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And that baby would be much better off with grandparents right now.

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And Lily knows that.

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Lily, it is not focused on whose baby it is.

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She's focused on.

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It's not hers.

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Yeah, it's not.

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It's not hers.

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So she's going to be a good parent

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while Dan is sleeping on the couch.

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Juliet lies to Vanessa telling her that Dan still has feelings for her.

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Nate looks shocked at first, but decides to go along with it.

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Steve (2): Nate.

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Oh,

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Steve (2): Nate, just golden retriever Nate.

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He's just so played this whole

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episode.

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Serena finds Ava, uh, Serena finds Ava's uncle and learns that Chuck slash Henry

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has been working for him as a waiter.

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Serena begs for his help finding her missing stepbrother.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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Who doesn't want to be found, but Serena has to save the day and Serena has to go

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save Chuck because he could be in trouble.

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Yeah.

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But like doesn't realize that finding him, if he is in trouble finding him, is

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the thing that'll put him in more danger

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after their apartment, Chuck dumps a bunch of cash

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out on the bed in front of Ava.

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They now have the money to get to India.

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When Serena knocks on the door, Chuck just plays dumb and

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acts like he's never met her.

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Steve (2): Shuts the door right in her face too.

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Damn.

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Uh,

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Serena with her little o face at Gossip Girl takes us to the act break with

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Holy Bruce Wayne Batman.

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It's one thing to hide who you really are.

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It's another to pretend you don't exist.

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Yeah.

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Act three begins.

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Blair is eating street food with Louis as they walk along the river sand.

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Louis invites her to the ball tonight.

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Steve (2): I love how this royal is out here walking with minimal security.

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I know there's like a dude with them, but there's like minimal security

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for this royal going to get street food, which I found interesting

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also, when he, well did, I mean, did you, did you catch the beginning of the

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episode where Blair says she's trying to.

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Prove she's not that she's of the

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Steve (2): people.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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Well, and he says the thing about like the, the drive through the countryside.

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And she looks disappointed at first until he says, like, for this big ball.

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And it's funny 'cause it's like, Blair don't look disappointed in anything if

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you're like, don't be like, oh, I, I don't wanna see the fucking countryside.

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So did you recognize the bridge?

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Yeah.

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The the lock bridge?

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Yes.

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In the, yeah.

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Um, so that, that is a fairly recent tradition with the locks.

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It's not a Parisian tradition is Taurus, that scans, which it started about 2008

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and it's been a serious like, issue.

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Yeah.

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I, I've heard that they like don't want people doing it.

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They started like, for a while they were like just cutting them off and,

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but people just kept putting about.

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Millions.

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Literally millions and like, like 45 tons worth of locks have been removed.

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So finally at some point they replaced it with, uh, instead of having a

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chain link fence, there's like glass paddles down, so you can't do it.

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But, but, but some artists have painted locks on there.

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Steve (2): That's skids.

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That's skids.

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That's really funny though.

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But the bridge has appeared in quite a bit of a popular culture.

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Steve (2): Yes.

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Yeah.

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Notably, though, 1995 remake of Sabrina, which was of course,

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originally in 1954 with Audrey Hepburn.

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Audrey Hepburn.

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Right,

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Steve (2): right.

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Oh, of course.

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Because that the remake was Harrison Ford, right?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Wait, I thought you said that the, oh, so there were no locks.

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The lock tradition hadn't started by then?

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No.

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Oh, wow.

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That's, that's interesting too.

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And it was also featured in the series finale of Sex and the City.

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Steve (2): Oh, okay.

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Yes.

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I think I remember that.

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I think that's, that might be the first time

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I knew about that bridge.

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Dan wakes up and finds Vanessa has cooked him a feast.

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Dan still exhausted and mixes up his feelings of friendship, gratefulness

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and sexual attraction for Vanessa and decides to go to Pound Town.

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Yeah, I mean

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Steve (2): it, it's such a natural thing.

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And of course Dan doesn't know that Vanessa has been given bad information.

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Mm-hmm.

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But it's not that Dan doesn't also feel things, you know, the Vanessa goes in

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for it and he goes right along with it.

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It's.

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Yeah, he's been, he's been exhausted for weeks.

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Yeah.

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I mean that's just shows up.

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She cooks all this food for him.

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Yeah.

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So like who was his girlfriend?

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Care with baby.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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And it was his girlfriend.

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You know, it's not like, it makes a lot of sense, you know, even for them

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just to get back together like mm-hmm.

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For Dan to be, yeah.

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There's absolutely no shade on any one of these two people for what happened

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here and I'm kind of glad, well, we'll get to that in a little bit.

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Also, I wanna point out that Lily said that she was leaving like three

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scenes ago and I know she had to go shopping in everything first, but it

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does take an unusually long amount of time for her to get them loft.

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Serena's waiting outside for Chuck.

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She begs him to come home, but he informs her that he's on his way to

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get a new passport and that after today there won't be a Chuck Bass anymore.

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And

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Steve (2): Chuck, it's very dramatic, but I kind of get it.

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And Serena just let him go.

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He's kind of an asshole.

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Post quiets.

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Dan learns to lie that Nate told Vanessa, and you

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Steve (2): feel for Dan here.

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'cause again, like he didn't know that this was brought on by bad information.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think that the way everything turns out, he is glad it happened, but

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he feels shitty that like, oh man, she thinks we're getting back together.

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Or she thinks there's something else here that I haven't really explored yet.

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Blair is prepping for the royal ball picking from amongst a full rack of gowns.

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Louis has sent over.

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Serena starts to tell Blair about Chuck, but then says not

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to worry and enjoy her date.

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As Blair gets back to prepping, she doesn't see Serena gets a envelope

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delivered inside A note from Chuck.

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Along with his shares of the empire and Bass industries.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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And then Serena.

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Yeah.

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Feels like she has to meddle even more.

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It's her brother.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It is, isn't it?

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Juliet is trying to find a hot blonde to be Nate's escort

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when Serena gets back in town.

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Nate is about to suggest Juliet herself when he gets an accusatory text from Dan.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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Again, this the way that Juliet is just playing Nate this whole time, and like for

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Nate to be like, oh, she won't be jealous of the person that you're picking out.

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She would only be jealous of someone like, oh wait, like

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the shiny thing in front of me.

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Like, it's so Nate to just

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fall to be so easily led into this.

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I mean, he's been trying to flirt with her for, you know, since,

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Steve (2): since, since he met her.

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Yeah.

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Oh, oh, of course.

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Which is also really funny that he was trying to flirt with her and she's like

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following him around everywhere He goes from the beginning of this episode, from

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the end of last week when he shows up at Chuck's apartment with all of these women

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going crazy in there, playing rock band.

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And then the beginning of this episode, she's just hanging around.

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So like, yeah, it's, you're so dumb.

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Blair is decked out in a gorgeous red Oscar de la renta gown when one of

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Louis's man service shows up to escort and excited Blair to Harry Winston For one

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final touch, Blair gets a text from Serena about Chuck, but decides to ignore it.

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Blair leaves her phone on the table and Serena leaves a voicemail saying

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that Chuck is in real trouble.

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He's not.

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He's

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Steve (2): not in any trouble at all.

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He's in no trouble.

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He is escaping all of his trouble.

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He's, he's leaving there.

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There's absolutely no trouble that Chuck is in for the first time Chuck is

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leaving because he isn't in any trouble.

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I, I also wanted to point out that both times that we watched this Robin Squealed

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when Blair was being told that she was getting being taken to Harry Winston both

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times.

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Well, gas Grill has this to say about it

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spotted one American leaving Paris.

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Oh.

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Steve (2): I wanted to mention something about Gossip Girl here that

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I feel like these last two episodes.

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Gossip Girl has been playing a role more.

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The character of Gossip Girl, I feel has been more present in these

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first two episodes than the tone that was set in the previous season.

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That Gossip Girl was kind of in and out of college, but we didn't

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rely on Gossip Girl for much of the character stuff that was going on.

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Whereas now the character in both episodes has been a little

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bit more forthright and Right.

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When this mysterious person shows up.

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Right, right.

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When this mysterious person shows up, yes.

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And we get into Act four, Serena gets a call from the inspector and

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has to go get something from him.

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Yes.

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Blair is at Harry Winston trying on a necklace when she

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spots a huge engagement ring.

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Serena and the inspector show up and explain that that is Chuck's ring and

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that he got shot trying to protect it.

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But Blair, why did

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Steve (2): you pick the weirdest necklace in the plate?

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Like, I didn't think that went with that.

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She has this amazing dress.

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I didn't think that the necklace that she picked really went with the dress.

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I liked it.

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Steve (2): I thought it was too boxy and colorful.

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Very colorful for, well,

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it was a very, the whole alpha was very fruity.

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Yeah.

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Seemed I could see that.

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It was, she was, the dress was like one of those that, uh, old image of like

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the woman with the fruit on her head.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's fair.

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I see that.

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Not, not fruity in a, not like that, like actual fruit.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Nate comes back to the loft and he and Dan let it all out.

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It turns out that Dan never even saw the text from Serena

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and that Nate got one too.

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Vanessa then comes out of the bedroom and learns that Nate lied to her, and

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that Serena's after both the guys, Vanessa storms off and Lily shows up

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with the, for the nursery makeover.

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Great scene.

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Steve (2): I applaud Dan for just coming out with it, that there's, you know,

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on gossip, bro, there's a lot of times that some like Vanessa comes out and

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asks the question, Dan doesn't cover.

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Dan's like, we both got this text from Serena and Nate lied to you and.

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There's no coverup.

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There's no lies.

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It's just, I'm really sorry.

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And like, I, I really don't know.

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I, I don't know what I'm thinking right now because I don't, didn't

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know all of this information.

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Now, this, the show is ever gonna explore some polyamory.

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This could be a, you know, could opportunity for it.

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Steve (2): I, Robin and I said the same thing, that the best

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solution would be a throuple.

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No, all four of 'em.

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Or, or I was gonna say, or all four of them.

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Or all five of them.

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Wait, he's the fifth.

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Uh, Juliet.

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Juliet, you know.

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Yeah.

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For a little while.

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She's got, she seems like she's evil.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And Blair's

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single right now.

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Get her in the mix.

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Serena tells Blair that Chuck has signed everything over to Lily and

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that Blair is the only one who can stop him from disappearing forever.

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Blair hesitates but says that she has a ball to attend.

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Serena follows Blair outside to a waiting Lou.

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When Serena gives Blair one last plea.

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Blair is caught looking between her and Louis as it cuts to commercial break.

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Uh, once again,

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Steve (2): this isn't Blair's responsibility.

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Like, let him go, let Chuck go disappear.

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And I real, I obviously the watcher of the show and the meta knowledge of the show,

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you can't just write Chuck off like that.

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But also he, it is not like he's gone forever.

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He sold off his stuff.

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He'll be back.

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You

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know, like, or if you really need to find him, you can find him.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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Or if you really need to find him, he

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does.

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He doesn't have money anymore, so he can't hide anymore.

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Yes.

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Steve (2): And, and you know, his, he, he, he has a new passport.

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You just need to get his new name.

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Yeah.

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Which you probably got from the bar guy,

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Steve (2): right?

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Yeah.

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My contact,

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we go into act five, Dan and Nate grab a couple of beers and head

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up to the roof to hash things out.

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I liked it.

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Little bro time.

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Steve (2): Yeah, a little bro time.

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I love that Dan doesn't hold a grudge, that he's just kind of, I

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love that Dan's whole persona right now is I'm a little too exhausted

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to give a shit about anything else.

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Yeah.

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Which makes sense.

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It tracks.

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I've been a dad three times over and especially the first one where every

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sound they make you go running 'cause you don't know because it's new.

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Mm-hmm.

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It is exhausting.

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And I had the luxury of working full-time.

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Right.

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My ex was the one staying home with the baby who Bailey was on a terrible

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sleep schedule for their first like three, four months of life.

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That, that while my ex would take care of Bailey more.

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It would still be keeping me up.

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And then weekends it was mostly me.

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And I even still, like, even though I wasn't home with the baby, I was

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still up at night taking care of taking care of them a lot of the time.

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It's exhausting.

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And in, in Dan's case, he's been alone for at least for a few weeks now.

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Steve (2): Yes.

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Yeah.

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With the only help being Vanessa who doesn't live there,

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sees I'm here, begins to play as we see Blair exit a cab in her red gown.

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She runs past a confused Ava.

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Ava then sees Serena exit the cab and begins to figure out who Blair is.

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And you feel for her?

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Mm-hmm.

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Because she's like, I

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Steve (2): knew it was too good to be true.

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Yeah, I, I knew, yeah.

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I'm about to run away with this guy.

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And what's also funny is that she sees this woman, just a random woman go

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running by her in a dress and knows.

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Well, it's what it, she knows when she sees Serena following her.

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Yes.

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'cause she's never preserved from before.

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Steve (2): Right.

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And, and talks to Serena about it.

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And just the way that she pieces it together, you feel

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for

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Steve (2): her?

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Yeah.

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The song continues and Blair sees Chuck and the two come together on the

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pedestrian bridge over the Paris Rail.

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They have a heartfelt conversation and when Blair returns the ring to

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Chuck, she then tells him, I don't love you anymore, but it takes more

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than even you to destroy Blair Waldorf.

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Chuck responds.

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Your old would be easier if I didn't come back.

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That's true.

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She stutters, but it wouldn't be my world without you in it.

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God damn

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Steve (2): amazing scene.

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Yeah, I, I definitely got a little gossip girl in my eye watching that scene.

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It was strong.

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It was powerful.

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He talks about Lily, like how.

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I don't remember if he says it now or if he said it to Serena about

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Lily being glad that he'd be gone.

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That before was it before I actually meant to address that

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too, because Lily has fought so fucking hard for that relationship.

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But that, that line, it wouldn't be my world without you in it.

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And, and let's also just talk about the cinematography of this scene

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that, that these shots, the shadows on the faces and the beautiful

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background of the train station.

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It was just absolutely gorgeous.

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Yeah.

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And, and also the juxtaposition of, of country casual Chuck and Royal Ballroom.

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Blair also just really made the, the colors of this scene really tie together

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where she kind of echoed the colors of the station and he echoed the colors

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of the windows in the background.

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It's just brilliant design all around kudos to, to, uh, Eric Damon

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and for, you know, just how that, how the costuming just tied into

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this beautiful scene so well too.

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So you, you called Chucks out the country casual.

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Personally, I was thinking of it as, uh, with the Cane.

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Jim e Cricket,

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tiny Tim.

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Uh, we move into the epilogue.

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Serena is back in New York and on the phone with Blair who is still in Paris.

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Blair is still asking Serena, who she's choosing.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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'cause she's gotta get that Gossip girl poll.

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Right.

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Juliet apologize to Nate for meddling in his life and

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the two agree to be friends.

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Juliet says she also wants to apologize to Dan,

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which is, it's the most suss

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Steve (2): thing, but only I Sure.

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It's probably only because of my meta knowledge or because of my,

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the meta knowledge of just how the gossip girl universe acts.

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But I'd like to apologize to Dan too.

Music:

Hmm.

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Text him.

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But I mean, that's something Nate would totally do is right.

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If they felt he was in the wrong, he would go to that person and,

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and say you he was in the wrong.

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Exactly.

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Steve (2): So it doesn't trigger, it doesn't,

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it doesn't set off any red flags to him.

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Dan and Vanessa are walking in a park.

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Dan tells her that he's not thinking about Serena anymore

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and wants to be with Vanessa.

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Steve (2): I, there's also a tiny bit of puppy dog and Dan, I feel sometimes I,

Leif:

I think it's, he's a Labrador retriever.

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Yeah.

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He's a Labrador.

Leif:

Well, and you know, men of men of that age, when they have the sex in front

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of them, tend to go to where the sex is

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and, and not just the sex, but also cooking for him.

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Taking care of his kid.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Where where it a letting him getting a nap for the first time in like weeks.

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Exactly.

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Steve (2): There's a lot that Vanessa is doing.

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Yeah.

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At the same time, they never broke up.

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He just kind of cheated on her.

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With Serena, which it was what a kiss and slept in the same room together.

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Yeah.

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So it was something that I feel most couples could work through anyway.

Leif:

Mm-hmm.

Leif:

It was the fact that Dan then had these lingering feelings that never got brought

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up and never got talked about, and it was just assumed we are not together because,

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well, Vanessa didn't know about that.

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'cause she, like, at first he was trying to call her and she

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wouldn't answer any of his calls.

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And then he was, the last thing we saw was he was going to go after Serena, but

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then got, you know, Georgina showed up.

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Steve (2): Well, but I'm even talking about last week

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when, when Vanessa returns.

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Right.

Leif:

That, that even then they're not getting back together.

Leif:

They're like, we had a split, but they never stopped to talk

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about their issues, which Dan says in this one, in this episode.

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But I wanted to also point out that it, that Dan to stop and be like.

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You are the one I want.

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You are the one I want to be with.

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It's a dis it's a decision and it's decisive.

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And he, and it makes sense.

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So I liked it.

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See how long he sticks to it?

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Well,

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Steve (2): yeah.

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I mean, Louie invites Blair to another event, but Blair decline saying

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she has to go back to her real life.

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However, she does give him one of her shoes and tells him to come find her.

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Steve (2): Why

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Blair?

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Steve (2): Why do you need to go back to your real life other than

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you just told Chuck to go back.

Leif:

But, 'cause I mean, good for, she wants to continue college.

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'cause, you know, education has been an important thing for Blair.

Leif:

Absolutely.

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Her whole family lives in Paris, so it, it's not, you know, she's not Serena.

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She can't get into a good school at the last minute.

Leif:

Oh, that's, well that's true.

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School's about to start in like a week.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Paris Community College.

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And again, what What's he doing?

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He can come to New York.

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Yeah.

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Well that too.

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He's, he's just a royal.

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Yeah.

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Steve (2): He's just

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a life of

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Steve (2): leisurer.

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Yeah.

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Which also it's really great.

Leif:

That, which is why I like the whole like, come you, come find me.

Leif:

I do like that aspect of it.

Leif:

The Blair's like, you come find me.

Leif:

Here's my shoe.

Leif:

You'll find me.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Rufuss finally comes to the loft now.

Leif:

Now that all the work is done, he has finally relented and

Leif:

is ready to be a grandpa.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yes.

Leif:

I really hope he doesn't lose the skepticism.

Leif:

I think that you do need to know who that baby's daddy really is,

Leif:

and whether or not it's Dan's well.

Leif:

Yes, but we'll get there.

Leif:

Serena shows up to the loft and greets her mom after a summer away.

Leif:

Then Dan shows up hand in hand with Vanessa, along with Nate and Juliette.

Leif:

Then Serena gets to shock of being introduced to Dan's son, Milo.

Leif:

Steve (2): This might be one of my favorite Gossip Girl scenes so far

Leif:

that the way that this whole scene beat for beat plays out was just

Leif:

kind of perfect that Serena comes in.

Leif:

Totally excited to see everyone, eager to have the conversation with Dan and

Leif:

Nate, which honestly felt like, like you were saying, like, look boys, let's

Leif:

just all do this was really how it felt.

Leif:

She was gonna approach this situation, and she shows up ready

Leif:

to kind of have this talk with them.

Leif:

They both walk in coupled up and then, oh, and here's a baby.

Leif:

And then Vanessa being like, you saw me four months ago.

Leif:

If you think that's mine, I'm offended.

Leif:

That line was great because, because she does, she looks at Vanessa

Leif:

like, how the fuck did this happen?

Leif:

And Vanessa's like.

Leif:

Clearly it's not me.

Leif:

So yeah, since I did shoot on the choreography for the earlier scene, I,

Leif:

I will give him props for this scene.

Leif:

Al. So first, like Dan, you see Dan first, he's like, hi, Dan and Vanessa.

Leif:

And then she sees him holding hands.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then Nate pops out from behind and, and Nate's like, and, and then Hi.

Leif:

And then this is Juliette.

Leif:

She kinda like swings out too, be honest.

Leif:

So it's like one after the other, they kind of reveal each?

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yes.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Like every, uh, again, like everything about this scene, just the flow of it.

Leif:

The beat for beat and the, even with, with Milo when he's revealed

Leif:

and then handed to Serena.

Leif:

And it's just, and it's just really nice to kind of see Serena's whole

Leif:

world come crashing down around her like this, after she's set it up.

Leif:

Mm-hmm.

Leif:

She's the one that said to Nate, she's the one that had.

Leif:

A suss evening with Dan and then said to Nate, look, I know you forgave me, but

Leif:

I'm not getting back together with you.

Leif:

I need the summer apart.

Leif:

And then went and banged waiters and bartenders for the entire summer.

Leif:

No shame, no shade.

Leif:

I support her decision to do that just like I supported Nate go into

Leif:

town on the little black book.

Leif:

But you both made these decisions.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And so for Serena to come back home expecting these two boys to be waiting

Leif:

for her panting at the door only to find them both booed up was, and Serena is in

Leif:

no way, shape or form going to be that mother figure to another kid's baby.

Leif:

No.

Leif:

Especially church's baby.

Leif:

No.

Leif:

That let's.

Leif:

The only thing she has going for her is that being Lily's

Leif:

daughter, she'll be better, a better mom to other people's kids.

Leif:

But there's no way that she has the capacity that Vanessa has to

Leif:

just be like, I'll play mom now.

Music:

Yeah,

Music:

Steve (2): sure.

Music:

She doesn't have that.

Leif:

Blair gets a gossip girl blast about everyone losing the

Leif:

poll about who Serena will choose.

Leif:

Blair and Serena exchanged texts while Serena fifth wheels it with

Leif:

Dan, Vanessa, Nate, and Juliet.

Leif:

Steve (2): Beautiful.

Leif:

And Blair's irk that her poll got eh shot down, but

Leif:

it's beautiful.

Leif:

Nate asked Juliette out on a date, but she says they give it a little

Leif:

time to breathe first, slow play,

Leif:

Steve (2): or she's really just not into Nate.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And it's all just a play.

Leif:

How can you not be into

Leif:

Nate though?

Leif:

He's so dreamy.

Leif:

Steve (2): He's.

Leif:

Rufuss finds Milo's blood type from the hospital ban and determines that it's

Leif:

not possible for him to be Dan's son.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yeah, Lily, you should listen to this.

Leif:

It's not conspiracy theory.

Leif:

I, I am team Lily on the fact that Milo needs in this moment

Leif:

parents to raise and love him.

Leif:

I also feel that they have the means that no matter whose baby this is,

Leif:

they can make sure that this baby has the best fucking life possible.

Leif:

So I really, yes, you should find out this information.

Leif:

But Lily also be a little skeptical too.

Leif:

Both things

Leif:

are true.

Leif:

Well, at this point in gossip, girls Universe, there's no need to be skeptical.

Leif:

I think they're saying it's a fact that that's not Dan's son now.

Leif:

Oh, I, I, which.

Leif:

That's not how biology works, but No, no, because there's, you know,

Leif:

recessive genes, otherwise o blood type would've gone extinct, right?

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

You can only get o from two o's then it would've gone extinct by now.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

After 10,000 years of, you know, history.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yes.

Leif:

Yeah,

Leif:

Steve (2): yeah.

Leif:

Just like left-handedness and brown eyes or blue eyes and Yes.

Leif:

My, my mom was learning genetics in high school and they told her

Leif:

that and my mom was like, wait, my friend has both, their parents have

Leif:

blue eyes and he has brown eyes.

Leif:

And her science teacher said, well, looks like the mailman did it.

Leif:

So

Leif:

they have,

Music:

uh,

Leif:

American school system at work

Leif:

Steve (2): and then you don't need to learn any more science ever again.

Leif:

'cause it doesn't evolve and never changes.

Leif:

Juliet is talking on the phone with someone and says things

Leif:

are going according to plan.

Leif:

She takes all the connections with Nate and Dan, offer Serena Murder board,

Leif:

Steve (2): and just Serena left on the Serena murder board.

Leif:

So we, we get this idea that she's gunning for Serena.

Leif:

Now, let's go to episode one, season one, episode one, when spotted Serena

Leif:

Vander Woodson at Grand Central Station coming in to back to New York.

Leif:

Do we know long how long Gossip Girl was around before that?

Leif:

I think it said, say started in eighth grade.

Leif:

Okay, so that been, so this, they were in 10th grade?

Leif:

No, they were juniors.

Leif:

So they were 11th, so that would've been ninth, 10th.

Leif:

So three years.

Leif:

Three years.

Leif:

So that's.

Leif:

Steve (2): A little interesting because it does kind of target Serena a lot.

Leif:

Right?

Leif:

Well, she was the first post canonically

Leif:

Steve (2): and she was canonically the first post.

Leif:

Correct.

Leif:

And

Leif:

yes, a 13-year-old in a See-through shirt was the first

Leif:

Steve (2): post.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Creepy.

Leif:

Steve (2): Oh boy.

Leif:

So I, I can see how they can still make us want to think that Gossip

Leif:

Girl is about taking down Serena.

Leif:

I, I believe that's what they want me to think

Leif:

right now.

Leif:

Chuck back in a full suit fights Eva and apologizes for lying to her.

Leif:

Chuck invites Eva to come to New York with him in the style of Chuck Bass.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Do we

Leif:

Steve (2): see, does she get in the car with him?

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Okay.

Leif:

I couldn't remember if we see her get in or if she's still considering it.

Leif:

And I think this is one of his best.

Leif:

I'm Chuck Bass that like, look, you're gonna be fine.

Leif:

I'm Chuck Bass.

Leif:

That, that it's not, it's not smarmy and it's not arrogant when he says

Leif:

it, it's inviting and it's meant to be comforting for the first time.

Leif:

I'm Chuck Bass isn't so much a declaration of depravity as it is,

Leif:

I'm someone who can take care of you.

Leif:

The Gossip Girl ends the episode with,

Leif:

with Dan Spotted kissing Vanessa and Nate's early morning

Leif:

coffees with a new blonde.

Leif:

It looks like the Oz Bakers have taken a beating.

Leif:

Serena Vander Whitson will be walking into Columbia's campus single.

Leif:

This poll is now closed and nobody won.

Leif:

Just as every summer ends, all tourists come home, all dreamers

Leif:

wake up and new problems are born.

Leif:

And just like that, a pretty girl's ugly secret is revealed.

Leif:

But no matter what the new season brings, will always have Paris Bezo, Bezo gossip.

Leif:

Girl.

Leif:

Steve (2): It's also interesting that this last blast is, comes off

Leif:

more of a blast than narration.

Leif:

Mm-hmm.

Leif:

Right?

Leif:

Because three seasons in, I've gotten to decipher the difference.

Leif:

Mm-hmm.

Leif:

And every now and then you get a narration that feels more like a blast.

Leif:

Right.

Leif:

Well, this

Leif:

Steve (2): definitely was

Leif:

because you see Blair

Leif:

Steve (2): actually reading it and you see Blair reading it.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

But I'm saying that you don't often see that, especially for like a closing

Leif:

mo, the closing bit, and I feel like the dagger in Blair's heart in this

Leif:

is Serena is going to school single.

Leif:

That now Serena, once again is a competition for the men of Columbia.

Leif:

We'll go back to what Jayden said about the patriarchal writing of this show,

Leif:

which I have on many occasions blasted the when Jenny's looking for a man for

Leif:

her status and all of these things.

Leif:

But it feeds into Blair Waldorf that she views her status in part by who

Leif:

is on her arm or whose arm she is on.

Leif:

And now her greatest competition that she was already mad is going to the

Leif:

same school is going in there single.

Leif:

So that's got to be weighing on Blair.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

And uh, so you get the, the line at the end there, but no matter what the new

Leif:

season brings, we'll always have Paris.

Leif:

Yeah, of course, of course.

Leif:

You know, you know the Humphrey Bogart reference.

Leif:

But, uh, hopefully it's not foreshadowing meta things to

Leif:

come about the season being bad.

Leif:

Steve (2): That's really funny because this season, the first

Leif:

two episodes were so good.

Leif:

Were, were so good.

Leif:

There has not been this good of a start to a gossip girl season yet.

Leif:

And that's really, and that really, especially the last two seasons

Leif:

started outside of the Upper East Side.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

We have this great, a great start to this season.

Leif:

These first two episodes are great and they were not entirely in New York,

Leif:

like the last two seasons did, only the last two seasons you really missed.

Leif:

New York, you really missed that Upper East side and you didn't,

Leif:

and probably because they're in the biest parts of Paris, still kind

Leif:

of living that Upper East Side.

Leif:

Mm-hmm.

Leif:

Attitude.

Leif:

But yeah, these are just two really solid episodes.

Leif:

But also I could see how they can fuck this up so badly.

Leif:

So badly.

Leif:

And I was even saying to Robin this morning that this show, I'm always

Leif:

hearing about how it just takes a steady decline from the beginning,

Leif:

but really after season three.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

A lot of people quit in season four.

Leif:

Wow.

Leif:

Oh boy.

Leif:

We always have Paris.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Always have Paris.

Leif:

Any predictions?

Leif:

Oh, I've got predictions.

Leif:

First of all, I predict that Juliet.

Leif:

Is not Gossip Girl.

Leif:

I predicted in episode one that it was Chuck.

Leif:

I know that they don't even know right now.

Leif:

And they may, even, the writers may think she's Gossip girl right now and may just

Leif:

change their minds in five episodes.

Leif:

I don't believe this is Gossip Girl.

Leif:

I feel like this show Gossip Girl is sexist, right?

Leif:

Gossip Girl is often body shaming and, and slut shaming women and putting women

Leif:

down and having women fight each other.

Leif:

I cannot help but feel the Gossip Girl is a man that that is just, but I, that's all

Leif:

things

Leif:

Steve (2): Blair

Leif:

does too though.

Leif:

Steve (2): So it, it is things that Blair does, but I don't

Leif:

believe Blair is Gossip girl.

Leif:

No.

Leif:

Right.

Leif:

But a woman can obviously, a woman can obviously do it.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

I am, i a woman can do anything

Leif:

including being misogynist.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Steve (2): Including the, being misogynist and, and including being anti-feminist.

Leif:

I absolutely agree with that.

Leif:

I feel like the level that Gossip Girl goes to it, and maybe I'm being sexist,

Leif:

maybe it's me thinking that men are more likely to go at women like this, and

Leif:

maybe that's my own sexism too, but I never get the feel that it's a woman.

Leif:

I, uh, there's this big part of me that feels like it's gonna still be Chuck in

Leif:

the end, that like now just right here where we are, even though all the shit

Leif:

the Gossip Girl has put Chuck through, I still wouldn't be surprised for it to be

Leif:

Chuck in the end and just ignore all the times when it clearly couldn't have been.

Leif:

Uh, because I feel like that's going to have be.

Leif:

In the end of this show, the, the, in the end of this show, they're

Leif:

gonna have to ignore whoever it is.

Leif:

You're gonna have to ignore shit.

Leif:

Who is she talking to?

Leif:

Juliet?

Leif:

Is she talking to Gossip Girl?

Leif:

That was my other question.

Leif:

Well, that, so that was my one thought.

Leif:

Was she talking to Howard Campbell is,

Leif:

oh, Jesus.

Leif:

I hope she was not talking to Holland Campbell.

Leif:

I was actually kind of hoping we never saw that actor again, but I, I don't know.

Leif:

I'm sure she can stir up trouble somewhere.

Leif:

She could have been talking to, to Georgina too.

Leif:

Did you tell me Georgina's gone forever?

Leif:

Oh, I think you did, but then you recanted it.

Leif:

Yeah, yeah, I was just joking.

Leif:

Yeah, so it could have been Georgina and it could be tied into this whole

Leif:

Georgina shit, or, but she could have been talking to Gossip Girl.

Leif:

I just feel like they, they're so thirsty for me to believe that this is

Leif:

Gossip Girl, that I can't believe it.

Leif:

Mm. If that makes sense.

Leif:

Yeah,

Music:

no,

Music:

Steve (2): I do.

Music:

Uh, my other big prediction, we're gonna find out about the baby.

Music:

We're gonna realize the baby is not Dan's.

Music:

I am kind of predicting that either Rufuss and Lily raise

Music:

Milo anyway, or they have a baby.

Music:

I feel like there's been so much of baby stuff and Lily being so into

Music:

this baby that I could see them either having a baby or raising Milo.

Music:

I could see Milo then becoming like a part of the show.

Music:

Especially if it gives Rufuss and Lily something to do.

Music:

I think it would be very intrusive for it to be.

Music:

Dan's kid.

Music:

So I don't think that that has, I don't think that has much to stand on.

Leif:

Well, like I said, in Gossip Girls Universe, I think that was, the blood type

Leif:

was conclusive evidence that it's not Dan.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yes, I, I agree with that.

Leif:

I agree.

Leif:

And I also feel like there is this side of this that the morality of the Gossip

Leif:

Girl universe is that baby's not Dan.

Leif:

So you don't have to have anything to do with it.

Leif:

Kick the curb, just like, yeah, just drop it off at the nearest adoption agency.

Leif:

Just leave it, leave it in on a doorstep at the fire station, the

Leif:

Upper East Side, like despite the fact that you could make sure that this kid

Leif:

has the best fucking life possible.

Leif:

Well, any other predictions?

Leif:

I think that the love triangle between Dan, Nate, and Serena is

Leif:

still gonna kind of flutter around.

Leif:

I'm worried that Serena's just gonna go full ham and try to like.

Leif:

Interrupt those relationships.

Leif:

'cause she's gonna be mad that no one's paying attention to her.

Leif:

Sounds like a Serena move.

Leif:

Sounds like a Serena move.

Leif:

Or Serena and Chuck.

Leif:

I think that that could happen.

Leif:

I think that there's a little bit of room for that now.

Leif:

Yeah, it's disgusting, but I think there's a door.

Leif:

Oh.

Leif:

Now let's get into segments.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

This weekend fan, uh, we hopped in the way back machine to travel

Leif:

to the fan forums from 2010.

Peabody:

Hello there.

Peabody:

Peabody here.

Peabody:

And this is the way back machine for traveling through time.

Peabody:

And this is my boy chairman speak.

Peabody:

Chairman.

Music:

Hello.

Peabody:

Good boy.

Leif:

Overall, it was a good episode.

Leif:

They really liked it.

Leif:

Yeah, it it is solid.

Leif:

Ed and Layton were amazing in the train station.

Leif:

Yeah, dude.

Leif:

Steve (2): Leighton's acting.

Leif:

The, the shit that she can do with her face just blows me away.

Leif:

And there are looks that she gives throughout this.

Leif:

The, probably her best one is when Serena convinces her to go to the train station

Leif:

and has that look of like, why are you turning my world upside down like this?

Leif:

And amazing for me it was when she heard Chuck was shot.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Oh my God.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

And where, where her whole, that's Chuck was shot.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Her whole demeanor just changes.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Absolutely.

Leif:

Incredible work on her part.

Leif:

Uh, they love that Serena was so worried about Chuck.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

She's worried about her brother.

Leif:

I don't think that anything Serena did all of my trashing

Leif:

Serena and how she handled this.

Leif:

Once again is ne not out of character for Serena and very much Serena

Leif:

believes Chuck needs to be safe and that she has to be the one to

Leif:

help to convince Blair to save him.

Leif:

I don't think Chuck needed to be saved.

Leif:

I think everybody's better off if he goes to India.

Leif:

But I do believe that Serena was good in this with how she handled Chuck.

Leif:

They're desperate to find out who Juliet was talking to.

Leif:

Yeah, very interested

Leif:

Steve (2): who, who would be after Serena like that is is the big question.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Not mad at Nate.

Leif:

Just disappointed.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

So pretty, so dumb.

Leif:

Daddy Dad is adorable.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yeah.

Leif:

Totes for some reason there was a lot of eight for Serena's blue pants.

Leif:

Interesting.

Leif:

They were kind of ugly.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yeah.

Leif:

I mean they were kind of intrusive and very blue.

Leif:

But I'm also, yeah, it didn't bother me, but I get it.

Leif:

Especially if you're looking more

Leif:

and finally there's mixed feelings on Heather.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yeah.

Leif:

She has not yet brought a lot to the table in terms of character.

Leif:

Here's another thing that I left out in the predictions and it's

Leif:

more of a question, why the fuck didn't she take him to a hospital?

Leif:

I don't.

Leif:

Now it could be they were off in the middle of the countryside and

Leif:

Prague where he washed up somewhere was dumped or whatever, but it seems

Leif:

like he was found on a city street and she took him home and nursed him.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

So she did not take him to a hospital, so why not?

Leif:

So there is something shady.

Leif:

Possibly they just want us to.

Leif:

Ignore that or is there something there?

Leif:

And I, that's something that I'm very curious about.

Leif:

We shall see.

Leif:

Yeah, because like they're saying, being on the fence about her,

Leif:

like I said, they haven't given us a lot about her character.

Leif:

Only that she wants to bang Chuck all the time.

Leif:

But that's a lot of women who wanna bang Chuck all the time and, and that he's,

Leif:

she's willing to follow him anywhere.

Leif:

Mm-hmm.

Leif:

But if she knows he's got the cash, then of course she's gonna

Leif:

be willing to follow him anywhere.

Leif:

So is she up to something or is she legit

Leif:

moving over to episode?

Leif:

Great.

Leif:

I like we've been saying great episode, a train station scene, one of my all

Leif:

time favorite scenes from the show.

Leif:

And yeah, just a lot of emotions.

Leif:

Soundtrack was great.

Leif:

Choreography was great.

Leif:

And I, you know, I, I liked the, the Dan and Nate stuff as well, like how

Leif:

they, you know, they were, you know, a little, little schemey there by Nate,

Leif:

but they, they wrote out the end.

Leif:

Steve (2): Yeah.

Leif:

So I gave this episode a Yeah, I'm,

Leif:

Steve (2): I'm meeting you there.

Leif:

Pretty much all the same reasons.

Leif:

I, I feel like there, it wasn't flawed even last week where the New York stuff

Leif:

felt a little weaker than the Paris stuff.

Leif:

Even I felt even the New York stuff was stronger this week,

Leif:

that Nate and Dan's storyline.

Leif:

So yes.

Leif:

I'm gonna meet you there with an a.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

My head count is that Josh Saffron didn't have to help as much with,

Leif:

uh, Sarah Goodman as he had to do with with Stephanie's Avid.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

So he had more time to focus on the New York stuff.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

Moving to Stockwatch going up, I had Dan, 'cause you know, he got a

Leif:

nap for the first time ever and he got, you know, food made for him.

Leif:

He got laid and you know, he didn't do anything wrong.

Leif:

He was, you know, just going with the flow.

Leif:

Absolutely.

Leif:

Uh, I had Juliette going up 'cause she or ski seems to be

Leif:

working perfectly, perfectly.

Leif:

I had Lily going up 'cause she was a good grandma.

Leif:

I had Chuck going up 'cause he is, you know, recognizing that he was a terrible

Leif:

person and he's trying to be better Blair going up 'cause she's moving on

Leif:

and you know, she had her little, you know, date with the prince and he seems

Leif:

to be, what's the, you know, he's, he seems like he's into it pretty much.

Leif:

But she's, you know, thinking about her, you know her stuff.

Leif:

She's still sticking with the college.

Leif:

I had Eva going up 'cause she.

Leif:

Going from being a peasant to being living on the Upper East side.

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

But that is it for going up.

Leif:

Steve (2): I believe I had all of the same ones.

Leif:

Dan, like you said, for all of the stuff that he's done in this

Leif:

episode, I had uh, Lily going up.

Leif:

I have Chuck going, Chuck and Blair going up for their realizations

Leif:

and for where they've come to.

Leif:

I had Ava coming up for, you know, rags to riches.

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I had Juliet going up 'cause her scheme seems to be working.

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I have Vanessa going up.

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Did you have Vanessa going up?

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I have Vanessa going up because I think that she really was great with Dan and

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that she and Dan end up together in the end of this and seemed very happy.

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So I have her going up.

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Yes.

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I believe that is everyone I had going up.

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Going

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down.

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I had Serena because, well, I think it's pretty obvious.

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Yeah.

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Um, I had Rufuss going down 'cause he's a, he was a pouty baby.

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Even, even though he is on the right.

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Right.

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I am still putting him down because he was just such a pouty little baby.

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Steve (2): I almost gave him an up 'cause he got there in the end, but

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then didn't really, and I, I, yeah,

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I had Vanessa going down 'cause I just can't see this work.

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Er, she's gonna get chewed up and spit out.

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Steve (2): I think that I can see that happening, but I feel like at the end of

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this episode, that's where she ends up.

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She did.

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Yeah.

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She ended up where, kind of where she wants to be, but she was lied

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and manipulated into that spot.

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Yeah, that's true.

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And same thing with Nate.

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He, he kind of ended up where he wanted to be, but he was lied and manipulated.

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So he's going down as well.

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Yes.

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What do you got?

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Steve (2): So, I, I'll start with Nate because Nate, I did have going

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down because he got played this whole episode and is continuing to get

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played, whereas I felt like Vanessa was lied to, but she wasn't like, I don't

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feel like she was manipulated by Dan.

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So I, I'm, I'm gonna keep her where she is, where I had her, who

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was manipulated by, uh, Juliet.

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By Juliet.

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Yeah.

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I have, I'm gonna keep Rufuss neutral 'cause I felt like he

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kind of got there in the end.

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So I'm not gonna give him the down, but Serena for just losing, losing it all

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and, and the hell I seen was so great.

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It's probably my favorite.

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Like Serena getting dumped on moment.

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No one even dumped on her.

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I think that that is it.

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Nate.

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Nate, Serena.

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And yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think just those two I had going down.

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But here's the best outfit outfits from the last episode.

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We've seen.

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Best Outfit No surprise here.

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Yeah.

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It's Glares Red.

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Do Dore Oscar Dorena.

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Steve (2): Yeah.

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There, there, there is absolutely zero competition in this episode.

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It is.

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And, and it's funny 'cause you told me that, that one of her best dresses was

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in this episode before I left last week.

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Mm-hmm.

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And you know, I'm waiting for it.

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And Robin and I at the same time when she first has that

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reveal, it's just breathtaking.

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So yeah, there's absolutely no doubt that that, you know, sorry, sorry.

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Rags.

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Sorry.

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Rags.

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Chuck, this one goes to Blair

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Jimy Cricket.

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Jim Jimy Cricket.

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That is it for segments.

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You got anything you wanna plug this week?

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I do.

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So

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Steve (2): I am about to become a professional dungeon master, so if you

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are interested in d and d and learning how to play, I will be working through

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a site called Start Playing and go ahead and you'll be able to find me

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and join games that I am running.

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Uh, and if you're not interested in DD, tell people that are, because this seems

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like it should be a, a neat gig for me.

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So start playing.com.

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Sounds fun.

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If you wanna find me, you can find me on Instagram or Blue Sky at hot capa Cola.

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That's.

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H-O-T-C-A-P-I-C-O-L-A.

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You can find the podcast on Instagram, TikTok and Threads at Non-Judging

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Breakfast Pod, and you can find links to our Discord and our Patreon server on our

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website non-judging breakfast pod.com.

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Steve (2): And if you would like to get in touch with us, we would

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love to hear what you have to say.

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Please feel free to send us an email at Non-Judging breakfast

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pod@gmail.com, and we would love to read what you have to say right here

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on the show and hear your thoughts.

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Also, if you could hit that like button, that subscribe or follow button, and

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please leave us a comment on this episode that you're listening to.

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It really helps us with our visibility and Apple Podcasts and on Spotify.

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And finally, if you could go ahead and tell your friends

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Make us your water cooler talk this week and get other folks in on the

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non-judging breakfast pod and get them here at our non-judging breakfast table,

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and we will be back next week to talk about Season four, episode three, the

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undergraduates, the episode description reads, on her first day at Columbia Blair

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attempts to gain membership into an ultra exclusive social club Hamilton House,

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but she's in for a few big surprises.

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New society, I guess.

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Steve (2): Not a secret.

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Ooh.

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Ah, secret Society.

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Ultra exclusive.

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Ultra exclusive.

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I can't wait.

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Blair, also the graduate, one of my favorite.

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Well, I shouldn't say one of my favorites now because so many other

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movies have kind of come and gone.

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But I love that movie.

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Great movie.

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Yeah, it's fantastic.

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So I'm also wondering,

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very misinterpreted ending.

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Steve (2): Yes.

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Yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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That does not look like joy in his eyes on that bus.

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Um, but I do wonder how that's gonna play in to this.

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We shall see.

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Yeah.

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I mean.

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Someone dating someone way out of their age range doesn't seem likely.

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

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Xo.

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Xo,

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every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Oh, it seems I'm walking right to your door.

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My heart's still resting.

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Looking for 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.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Never feels right when I'm out here on my own.

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I left last night and it feels like way too long.

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Are you ever going to 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, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there,

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come back to me,

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smile and you'll make my life complete.

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Every time you walk away, I run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away.

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You take a piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away, run away of me.

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Every time you walk away, run away of me.

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