Episode 7

S5E07 "The Big Sleep No More"

This week on Non-Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve dive into Gossip Girl Season 5, Episode 7, “The Big Sleep No More”—an episode packed with masquerades, messy schemes, and recycled drama.

From yet another mask party to Blair’s ongoing Chuck obsession, the guys aren’t holding back. They break down the Sleep No More-inspired chaos, Diana’s increasingly unhinged manipulation tactics, and why Nate might be the most easily played character on the Upper East Side.

Plus:

  • Serena vs. Gossip Girl heats up 🔥
  • Ivy’s world starts to crumble 👀
  • Dan proves once again… he might be the worst 😬
  • And is this the most frustrating episode yet?

Grab your coffee (or mimosa) and join us for a brutally honest recap filled with laughs, rants, and a whole lot of side-eye.

Episode Highlights:

  • Why the masquerade trope officially needs to retire
  • Blair’s “test” of Chuck… and why it backfires
  • Diana Payne: Mastermind or worst character ever?
  • Nate’s never-ending manipulation saga
  • Dan’s book tour meltdown (and why it doesn’t land)
  • Ivy vs. the Upper East Side: cracks begin to show

Segments:

  • 🕰️ Wayback Machine (2011 fan reactions)
  • 📈 Stock Watch (Who’s up, who’s down)
  • 👗 Best Outfit of the Week
  • ⭐ Episode Grades (Spoiler: not great…)

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Transcript
Leif:

My moment of hope was gone the instant he showed

Leif:

up on the Upper east side. He should have stayed

Leif:

in Portland. Hey, Upper east siders and all you

Leif:

scandal loving listeners out there, you've just

Leif:

tuned into the non judging breakfast pod where the

Leif:

coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh, and, and

Leif:

the gossip is hotter than ever. My name is Leif

Leif:

and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve:

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

Steve:

greenhorn, the. I don't know, Leif. What are we

Steve:

saying now that we're here in season five?

Leif:

Oh, look, they have red hots you never could

Leif:

resist. Do you want one?

Steve:

Leaf, are you trying to make me kiss you? Because

Steve:

it's working.

Leif:

Okay, let's go.

Steve:

Damn remote recording.

Steve:

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

Steve:

Gossip Girl since it first aired, and I am diving

Steve:

in for the first time. And together, we are your

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dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama, romance,

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and sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

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iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week

Leif:

we're dissecting every juicy detail of the show

Leif:

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

Leif:

uncover those sneaky little Easter eggs, and of

Leif:

course, serve up some piping hot behind the scenes

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tea. And expect some iconic fandom moments too,

Leif:

because what's a deep dive without a little drama?

Steve:

And since we are all about inclusivity here at the

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non judging breakfast pod, there is always a seat

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for you at the non judging breakfast table. So go

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ahead and grab a mimosa cup, of coffee or grab

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something from Nate's stash and let's go ahead and

Steve:

get into this.

Steve:

I feel like good guy Chuck isn't like, you know,

Steve:

indulging as much as he used to.

Leif:

Well, before we get into the episode, since our

Leif:

last recording, two, shitty but famous people have

Leif:

died. Yeah, Chuck Norris and Nicholas Brendan.

Steve:

Yeah, Chuck Norris didn't die. He became death, I

Steve:

believe. But yeah, it's funny because he. Yeah,

Steve:

it's one of those. I never really gave a shit

Steve:

about Chuck Norris or any other stuff. But didn't

Steve:

he get his start playing an Asian guy? Or am I

Steve:

thinking of.

Leif:

You're thinking of David Carradine.

Steve:

David Carradine. Yeah. Who got his start.

Leif:

Chuck Norris guy start as the bad guy in a Bruce

Leif:

Lee movie.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, yeah, I. Yep, I remember now.

Leif:

But so, we have two, kind of tropes going on in

Leif:

this episode. We got the lucky number seven, which

Leif:

is the Chuck and Blair episode. And we have the

Leif:

masquerade ball going on. Which means no one can

Leif:

recognize anyone because they're wearing a mask.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Except for Chuck.

Steve:

So fresh. So fresh. So original. This is the third

Steve:

masquerade, I believe. Yes.

Leif:

We are here, of course, to Talk about Season 5,

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Episode 7, the Big Sleep no More original air date

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was November 14, 2011 and it was actually based on

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two things this week, of course. The movie the Big

Leif:

Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Laura Bacall,

Leif:

and also the performance we see, Sleep no More.

Steve:

Yes. Which I looked into a little bit before the

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episode where it was this. Essentially, it was

Steve:

Macbeth performed throughout a house, and

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everybody has to wear a mask and go room to room

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and see different aspects of the performance. So

Steve:

neat, if that's your thing.

Leif:

I do have one friend who said he has been there,

Leif:

been to it, like, a lot of times. I'm not sure if

Leif:

you went through it enough to see all 52 cards.

Steve:

Wow. I didn't realize that every time you went, it

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was also different. I thought it was just an,

Steve:

ordering thing, but that's interesting.

Leif:

Well, I'm not sure, but based on what I saw in the

Leif:

episode, it seems like you get a different

Leif:

experience based on what card you draw.

Steve:

Yeah, that makes sense. I thought it was cohorts

Steve:

going through, but that makes sense, too. Yeah.

Leif:

And I actually did try and watch the movie the Big

Leif:

Sleep, and, I mean, I did make it through, but I

Leif:

was sleeping through some of it. Noir just is not

Leif:

for me.

Steve:

No. No.

Leif:

But, yeah, directed by Howard Hawks and starring

Leif:

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and John

Leif:

Ridgely. Came out in 1946. Episode was written by

Leif:

Dan Steele. This is his first of two Gossip Girl

Leif:

episodes and first all of first ever writing

Leif:

credit. Well, he did go on to do, 23 episodes of

Leif:

the, Josh Schwarz show Heart of Dixie, and he did

Leif:

22 episodes of a show called Faking It. And he

Leif:

also wrote the romcom Xmas starring Leighton

Leif:

Meester and Robbie Amnell.

Steve:

Oh, I don't know who Robbie Amnell is.

Leif:

He's the brother of the guy from Arrow.

Steve:

Oh.

Leif:

He was on a couple CW shows.

Steve:

So, yeah.

Leif:

Episode was directed by Vincent Misiano. This is

Leif:

his first of two Gossip Girl episodes. Second is

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all, like, right around the corner. Episode 10 of

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this season. So they. They booked them, like, back

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to back, it looks like. But he's. Yeah, been

Leif:

around for a while. He started on Ally McBeal,

Leif:

done five episodes of the West Wing, five episodes

Leif:

of Law and Order, show that I like, but no one has

Leif:

ever seen Eli Stone. And he also did 11 episodes

Leif:

of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Steve:

what was Eli Stone?

Leif:

That was the lawyer who was a prophet. Starring

Leif:

Johnny Lee Miller, the guy from Hackers,

Leif:

Trainspotting, and later, elementary.

Steve:

It sounds familiar, but I can't place it.

Leif:

Some notable guest stars. This episode we get two

Leif:

returners. James Naughton as the grandfather and

Leif:

Brian J. Smith as Max Harding, you, grandfather,

Steve:

let me just say now, and we'll, obviously we'll

Steve:

get into why later, but. But you. I have a rant

Steve:

prepared about this. It's a very short rant.

Leif:

Well, before we get to that, why don't you give us

Leif:

the Vulture recap?

Steve:

Speaking of short rants, Vulture this week says

Steve:

trench coats, Venn diagrams, red hot candies. The

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plots within last night's plot of Gossip Girl

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contained as many elements and were as difficult

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to understand as Sleep no More, the Macbeth

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inspired show in Chelsea where much of the action

Steve:

took place. Shivy and Serena hatched a scheme to

Steve:

get the attention of Gossip Girl. Shivey. There we

Steve:

go. I was. Shivey and Serena hatched a scheme to

Steve:

get the attention of Gossip Girl. Blair planned to

Steve:

entrap Chuck, who colluded with Doroda on a

Steve:

counter attack. And of course, Diana plotted

Steve:

against everyone with, as it turns out, a, silver

Steve:

fox we've seen before. M. Vulture is just giving

Steve:

up.

Leif:

yeah.

Steve:

Vulture's like, do I have to? Do I have to?

Leif:

Yeah, Had. It's having fun. Behind you.

Steve:

Yes, I know. I apologize for that. That's Parisa

Steve:

Tomei.

Leif:

So we open Act 1 with another Blair as Audrey

Leif:

dream. this time, Blair is in the tennis court

Leif:

scene from Sabrina. She is expecting Louie, but

Leif:

finds Chuck there instead. In the movie, Audrey's

Leif:

character is flirting with the older brother of

Leif:

the character she is romantically linked to.

Steve:

Oh, God, Blair, like, come on, just stop from the

Steve:

get. It's like, oh, my God, it's another Blair

Steve:

Chuck dream. Just get over this. Like, why are we

Steve:

doing this again? And I'm not. I don't mind the

Steve:

dream sequences in theory. Like, I think it's such

Steve:

a cool part of Blair's personality. I'm just tired

Steve:

of the chair. I'm dreaming about Chuck. Yeah, I'm

Steve:

just tired of the chair of it all.

Leif:

Aren't we?

Steve:

so much.

Leif:

Also notable, the. The person, the actor across

Leif:

from Audrey in the scene in the movie is, once

Leif:

again, go back to the. The title Humphrey Bogart.

Steve:

Yeah, which Chuck. Chuck, you're no Humphrey

Steve:

Bogart.

Leif:

So we open up with a Gossip Girl monologue. Good

Leif:

morning, Upper east siders. Or is it? We heard a

Leif:

certain future royal has more than one rude

Leif:

awakening this week. Blair wakes in a huff along

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with Gossip Girl's musings. Blair tells Dorota

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that she is being haunted by Chuck's fake apology.

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But Dorota is not sure that it was fake, seeking

Leif:

to distract herself from thoughts of Chuck. Seems

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fruitless when the. The Bass man is above the fold

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in the newspaper for his philanthropy and on the

Leif:

top of the page of, on Gossip Girl because of his

Leif:

love of animals.

Steve:

First of all, I love that we've already

Steve:

established that Chuck doesn't know how to be

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good, and it's like, what do I do? Pet dog. Give

Steve:

money to charity.

Leif:

Solve all your problems with money.

Steve:

Yeah, I like to buy one. Good. Please.

Leif:

One ticket to heaven, sir.

Steve:

Yeah. How much for an alignment shift?

Leif:

We'll take you to paradise.

Leif:

At the Empire Suite, Nate is shocked to see Chuck

Leif:

up and about so early. But Chuck clearly

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subscribes to the proverb of idle hands are the

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devil's plaything. Nate is tired of only getting

Leif:

work and sex with Diana. He needs some romancing

Leif:

outside of the bedroom.

Steve:

So Nate, for one, like, oh, my. But my. But my

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emotional needs aren't being taken care of. And,

Steve:

like, kudos to you, Nate, for knowing that and for

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being vocal about it at the same time. maybe

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you're just in a really unhealthy relationship.

Leif:

Date someone your own age, Nate.

Steve:

Yeah, date someone your own age, Nate.

Leif:

You're in college supposedly.

Steve:

Yeah. And Chivey is right there, and, well,

Steve:

obviously. Totally.

Leif:

I mean, he doesn't need another shady character

Leif:

like. Like that.

Steve:

Yeah, but I mean, like, his options are limited.

Steve:

What do you.

Leif:

What do you mean his options are limited?

Steve:

He's. You're right. You're right. You're right.

Steve:

He's Nate Archibald. He has no. He has no living.

Steve:

The limit does not exist.

Leif:

Dan is video chatting with Rufus and Lily about

Leif:

his book tour, but something seems off. Serena and

Leif:

Charlie walk through the room, but Serena coldly

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says she's too busy to chat.

Steve:

Serena's still mad that she lost her job over

Steve:

doing something Dan didn't ask her to do. She lost

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her job canning the project that Dan was really

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excited about without telling Dan first.

Leif:

Serena, if you freeze framed it, you could have

Leif:

seen that. Lily's contact list includes Blaine

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Trump, who is online, Serena, who is offline,

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Eric, who is online, and Archibald offline, Topsy

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Taylor online, Dan Humphrey on call, Jenny

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Humphrey offline, and Fabiola Baraska Online.

Steve:

Do we meet Fabiola in another episode?

Leif:

Possibly.

Steve:

I think she did a cameo once. She's a real person,

Steve:

right? Like that's a designer or something?

Leif:

Something like that, yeah. In the hallway, Charlie

Leif:

wonders what's up with Serena and Dan. Serena says

Leif:

it's a long story, but is more worried about no

Leif:

one reading her blog. Without Gossip Girl's shield

Leif:

of anonymity, it's hard to just take shots at

Leif:

people. Charlie suggests telling a real story

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about herself to grab the reader's attention.

Steve:

Yeah, I really don't have much to go on with. With

Steve:

this yet, but they're just sort of, I don't know.

Steve:

This whole pitting Serena against Gossip Girl

Steve:

thing, it feels like it should be interesting.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

I'm just waiting for that to happen. It's a good

Steve:

idea. Like, it's a. It's a really good idea. Meta.

Steve:

Right? It's a cool idea for the show to. To go

Steve:

for, especially because if I remember correctly,

Steve:

at this point, they were kind of going season by

Steve:

season, maybe even half season by half season on

Steve:

whether or not they're going to be renewed. They

Steve:

were kind of in the spiral by now, so it almost

Steve:

feels like they're like, okay, we need to really

Steve:

go. We need to turn this back into Gossip Girl.

Steve:

Because, like, season three, Gossip Girl kind of

Steve:

took a big step back, and then last season was

Steve:

more prominent, but now having it be like, okay,

Steve:

we're going after her a little bit more grown up

Steve:

of a plan and a little bit more planned out than

Steve:

when they went after her in season two.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Was that season two? Yeah. So I think that on,

Steve:

where

Leif:

the plan was just texting her and saying, meet me

Leif:

at the spot.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

With zero leverage.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, man, did we show her.

Leif:

But yeah, it kind of sense. You sense it's coming

Leif:

to towards an end here. It's coming towards a

Leif:

conclusion.

Steve:

Yes.

Steve:

Yeah. And so I think that the meta plot of Serena

Steve:

going after Gossip Girl is a good one. I. Man,

Steve:

maybe they just need a better actor than Diana.

Steve:

Like, I don't know what the disconnect is, because

Steve:

it's just so bad. Like, it was just.

Leif:

She didn't need to be in the relationship with

Leif:

Nate.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Why couldn't it have been, like, a male professor

Leif:

or something that was mentoring Nate?

Steve:

Because Nate needs the honeypot. If anyone knows,

Steve:

you know, I know how to get that kid's attention.

Steve:

Let's send a hot older woman to seduce her.

Leif:

But as I've been saying. No, but as I've been

Leif:

Saying all along, that was not the plan at all.

Leif:

And Diana went against it.

Steve:

Right, right, right, right. Because she ran into

Steve:

him early.

Leif:

That was never the plan. And the grandfather's

Leif:

actually pissed off about that. So, again, why

Leif:

could. Why couldn't it have been a male teacher or

Leif:

something?

Steve:

But it's funny, because we didn't see Grandfather

Steve:

be pissed off.

Leif:

We did.

Steve:

Grandfather was like. I felt like he was just

Steve:

like, oh, well, you fully rehabilitated my.

Leif:

But, from. Well, you get from the context of the

Leif:

earlier context conversation where you don't

Leif:

actually hear him, but from her reaction.

Steve:

Right, right. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I forgot about

Steve:

that.

Leif:

Yeah, that's actually coming up right here.

Leif:

Eric at the Spectator. Diana is having a

Leif:

surreptitious phone conversation with someone who

Leif:

is unhappy about something Diana did to keep Nate

Leif:

at the paper. She promises she will keep him and

Leif:

Serena there. She then spies on, Nate and Charlie

Leif:

talking out in the main office area. We don't find

Leif:

out here that it's Grandfather, but we find out

Leif:

she's talking to that same person we saw at the

Leif:

beginning of the season, and he's not happy about

Leif:

what. What she's been doing.

Steve:

Yeah, I forgot about that scene.

Leif:

Nate is trying to lay his game down, but Charlie

Leif:

says she has a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend

Leif:

that's also their boss. Diana calls over for

Leif:

Charlie to come to her office, and Charlie says if

Leif:

he wants something more from his relationship, ask

Leif:

for it. But ask Diana, not her.

Steve:

Yeah, fair. Aside from Nate not even knowing about

Steve:

the constant jeopardy Ivy's job is in,

Leif:

not just her job.

Steve:

Well, not. Yeah, not just her job, but, like, her

Steve:

whole thing. But, like, even without Nate knowing

Steve:

that Nate, like, you're going to a girl who is

Steve:

probably a little into you. You're picking up,

Steve:

she's into you to lay your problems about her boss

Steve:

on it. How do you not see that? This is already

Steve:

just not how you. Who to go to?

Leif:

Yeah.

Leif:

A worried Rufus gets off a call with Alessandra

Leif:

and tells Lily that Dan has been missing his book

Leif:

signings.

Steve:

Dan, I'm so fucking mad at you.

Leif:

Yeah. This is like, we're contractually obligated

Leif:

to keep Pen in the episode, so we have to put some

Leif:

kind of stupid story. We couldn't just have him

Leif:

off on his book tour, right?

Steve:

What's he making right now? Obviously, like, Penn

Steve:

is making a movie or doing some other thing.

Leif:

He is shooting readings from Tim Buckley at this

Leif:

point.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

Yeah. He's working seven days a week right now.

Steve:

Yeah. It felt like he was like you. Exactly like

Steve:

you said that he was contractually obligated to

Steve:

sit into a, to be in the episode. And so they had

Steve:

him in for like five minutes. Not even. Yeah.

Leif:

Blair is walking with the park with Dorota in an

Leif:

attempt to distract herself from Chuck, but is in.

Leif:

But instead she spots Chuck rescuing a duck. After

Leif:

some witty banter, Chuck goes along his way with

Leif:

monkey. Blair continues to rant to Dorota that

Leif:

Chuck's new attitude is just a ruse.

Steve:

I did love the throwback to the peace treaty of 08

Steve:

when that she gets the D or 09 or whatever it was

Steve:

that she gets the duck bond.

Leif:

And Dorota once again carrying, like, the fancy

Leif:

artisan bread.

Steve:

Which is actually really bad for ducks. Like,

Steve:

feeding ducks bread is actually really bad for

Steve:

them.

Leif:

And artisan bread is probably even worse than, you

Leif:

know, like, regular loaf bread.

Steve:

Right? Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Because it's as heavier.

Steve:

Yeah. And the grains aren't as finely milled and.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Diana tells Charlie that she wants to start a war

Leif:

between Gossip Girl and Serena, but just uses that

Leif:

as a lead in to question why she was hanging

Leif:

around Nate again. Charlie says that was all Nate

Leif:

and suggests loosening up with him a bit. Diana

Leif:

shuts the advice down and tells Charlie to keep

Leif:

pushing Serena. Charlie then says she doesn't want

Leif:

to do anything to jeopardize her life, the life

Leif:

she has now, Especially not over a guy.

Steve:

Yep. Good move, Charlie. Good move.

Leif:

Then enter a guy outside the Spectator. Serena

Leif:

bumps into and has a meet cute with Ivy's old

Leif:

boyfriend Max. He's in town looking for Ivy, who

Leif:

he thinks works in the building.

Steve:

You should have stayed in Portland, Max.

Leif:

Yes, he should have.

Steve:

You should have stayed in Portland.

Leif:

But did you notice this is almost exactly the

Leif:

scene from the book where Sarita bumps into the

Leif:

guy.

Steve:

Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And this is what Gossip Girl has to say as we go

Leif:

to the first act break in drama. There are many

Leif:

ways to unmask a villain. Sometimes you know who

Leif:

the bad guy is from the start, but most times you

Leif:

find out they've been right in front of you all

Leif:

along.

Leif:

We move into Act 2. Nate hangs back to talk to

Leif:

Diana after a staff meeting because he is confused

Leif:

as to where the relationship is going. Diana

Leif:

suggests that they should take a few days off

Leif:

while she's in Paris and that, he have some fun

Leif:

while she's gone. When Nate asks if that means

Leif:

they aren't exclusive, she says whatever makes him

Leif:

happy because she can't Afford to lose her right

Leif:

hand man.

Steve:

Nate, Seriously, fucking Nate here, it's not a

Steve:

real relationship. And that's what he's really

Steve:

just not getting, right? Like, you're not in a

Steve:

real relationship because this person doesn't care

Steve:

about you. And how are you not seeing that at all?

Steve:

How do you not feel used?

Leif:

Because he's her right hand man. He's.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. It is just classic, poor dumb Nate to

Steve:

just get manipulated. But God, Nate, it's so sad

Steve:

to watch.

Leif:

In real time, we are back to Venn diagrams. Blair

Leif:

is clearly questioning her decision to marry

Leif:

Louis. She knows that Chuck is chucking with her

Leif:

head and has come up with a test to prove it.

Steve:

I was just over every scene with Blair in it. this

Steve:

whole episode, maybe the first time, this whole

Steve:

series that I've been like, I don't give a shit

Steve:

about the Blair story. We've done this so many

Steve:

times. It's just so redundant and petty. And can

Steve:

we please stop this constant run around?

Leif:

Well, I think the props department is over it as

Leif:

well. Did you freeze frame the Venn diagram at

Leif:

all? No, there's a pro and cons list and a Venn

Leif:

diagram. The list was kind of partially cut off.

Leif:

We saw good with children. Chuck, no. Louis, yes.

Leif:

Polite Chuck no. Louie yes. And then it's kind of.

Leif:

Then we don't get any more Louis answers because

Leif:

it's cut off, but it's well mattered. Chuck, yes.

Leif:

Gracious Chuck no. Well read Chuck yes. Respects.

Leif:

And then you can't even see what the. What the

Leif:

word is after that. Chuck no. So he doesn't

Leif:

respect someone. But then. But then when they got

Leif:

really lazy and it shows that they don't care

Leif:

about the storyline either. The Venn diagram.

Leif:

Under New Chuck, you have animal cruelty,

Leif:

inhumanity, starving children, lies, poorly run

Leif:

charities. Under both, you have Russians, cheap

Leif:

liquor, and 200 thread count sheets. And then

Leif:

under old Chuck, you have ageism,

Leif:

unattractiveness, hostile takeovers, early morning

Leif:

walking the dogs, and, dog excrement hair. So

Leif:

that's clearly should have been under new Chuck.

Leif:

Like, it's like everything's all reversed. So they

Leif:

were very rushed in the props department on that

Leif:

one.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, that's funny.

Leif:

Serena and Max once again exit the Spectator. The

Leif:

security guard couldn't identify anyone there

Leif:

under the name Ivy Dickens. No duh. However, Max

Leif:

tells Serena the real reason he is in town is for

Leif:

a job interview. Serena offers to show him to the

Leif:

restaurant.

Steve:

Serena just runs into the boy and takes him on to

Steve:

the restaurant again.

Leif:

What I don't get is, like, so a couple weeks ago,

Leif:

he was a line cook or something at, like, a diner.

Leif:

Just like.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then he went to some restaurant in Portland

Leif:

for, like, two to three weeks, and now he's

Leif:

getting an interview at Bergdorf's.

Steve:

Yeah. Well, no, not even because she took him to

Steve:

Burgdorf's for lunch. He was going somewhere else

Steve:

entirely. But it was like, a super fancy. I forget

Steve:

what it was, but it was, like, a super fancy

Steve:

somewhere where Serena goes. Yeah, somewhere that

Steve:

Serena frequent. Yeah, exactly.

Leif:

So, yeah, pretty impressive, move up the career

Leif:

chain for our boy Max. I almost wonder if Ivy

Leif:

secretly set him up for an interview.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or Diana. you know, if Diana

Steve:

found.

Leif:

I don't know if Diana knows about Max, though.

Steve:

Oh, maybe not.

Leif:

Serena gets a call from Charlie and tells her she

Leif:

met a cute guy. Charlie urges her to take him to

Leif:

lunch at a hot location. Serena doesn't want to

Leif:

make him late, but Charlie continues to push the

Leif:

idea

Steve:

she could have taken him to lunch anywhere close

Steve:

to where he was going to be anyway. All of this

Steve:

just seems to be so, like, forced drama. Hey, I

Steve:

have an interview. Cool. I'll show you how to get

Steve:

there. And then afterwards, I could take you to

Steve:

lunch.

Leif:

Sarita doesn't wait around for people, but

Steve:

she, like, would have. I don't know. Like I said,

Steve:

it just feels so forced.

Leif:

After the call, we find out Diana was listening

Leif:

over Charlie's shoulder. She tells her to get over

Leif:

there to get a picture and send it off to Gossip

Leif:

Girl along with a depressing message. As she is

Leif:

about to leave, Nate comes over to talk to her,

Leif:

but she just shuts him down.

Steve:

Yeah, good on her. Good on her. In this moment to

Steve:

be like, leave me alone with this shit, Nate.

Leif:

Rufus has gotten off the phone with a, hotel in

Leif:

Baston and found out that Dan never checked out.

Leif:

He is still worried because it isn't like Dan to

Leif:

miss an obligation. Lily says they can go to

Leif:

Boston and check on him.

Steve:

It wasn't even that Lily said, we can go to Boston

Steve:

to check on him. It was the way that she's like,

Steve:

no, I know you. Like, we're going there. Like, I.

Steve:

Yep. Yeah, you're. You're good. And. And when

Steve:

she's like, we can catch a flight there. And he's

Steve:

like, it'll be quicker to drive. It was just. I

Steve:

really liked that little bit of Lily that we got.

Leif:

Nate is following an annoyed Charlie down the

Leif:

street. Nate tells her that he and Diana might not

Leif:

Be as much of the couple as he originally thought.

Leif:

Poor simpleton.

Steve:

Yeah, you poor, poor, silly guy.

Leif:

Oh, we're not exclusive. So I'm basically going to

Leif:

go flirt with another co worker.

Steve:

Yeah. And the one that I was flirting with last

Steve:

week to make you jealous, for that matter. Yeah,

Steve:

it's just. Yeah, come on. Poor dumb Nate. Just do

Steve:

better.

Leif:

Serena and Max are outside the restaurant when Max

Leif:

says he is relying on Serena to get to his

Leif:

interview on time. Serena's conscience gets the

Leif:

best of her and she tells him he better go

Leif:

straight to his interview.

Steve:

Yeah, I do appreciate that this version of Serena

Steve:

is like, no, I could be actually ruining this

Steve:

guy's career. I'm gonna not do that to him.

Leif:

Well, we're seeing both Serena and Chuck both

Leif:

reflecting on the book and growing from it. I wish

Leif:

we saw that more with. Not just that, but with all

Leif:

the characters.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

The book should be more of a story, I think. Not a

Leif:

story itself, but more of a plot driver.

Steve:

yeah, I knew exactly where you were coming from.

Steve:

And instead they're like, well, Dan's not here.

Steve:

He's just on this book tour. But that could still

Steve:

be pushing everything.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And, yeah, it's just sort of an afterthought of

Steve:

it. Especially with Blair, you know, especially

Steve:

how she's.

Leif:

Well, she starts even. Ready yet?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Other than the sex scene, right after Sarita

Leif:

ditches Max and he heads off to his interview, we

Leif:

see Nate is still failing to lay his wrap down

Leif:

with Charlie. However, when Charlie spots Max

Leif:

coming, she pulls Nate in for a kiss. An excuse to

Leif:

cover her face. It works as Max walks right by the

Leif:

kissing couple.

Steve:

This was probably the one point of the show that I

Steve:

kind of laughed a little. And I do like Charlie. I

Steve:

do like her.

Leif:

She is probably the most interesting thing right

Leif:

now.

Steve:

Yeah, absolutely. I feel like we're still getting

Steve:

the same level of effort from Ed as we always

Steve:

have. I haven't really seen, too big of a drop,

Steve:

off there. I feel like Layton is still putting in

Steve:

the work, but I feel like Blake and Pen are just

Steve:

checked out, and I feel like Chase is a little

Steve:

checked out of it. Even though this is probably

Steve:

the most Nate heavy plot we've had in a while and

Steve:

probably the least boring Nate storyline. But that

Steve:

doesn't say anything because it's still not a

Steve:

great storyline. And it's not not boring. It's

Steve:

just less boring than anything else Nate has ever

Steve:

been tied up in.

Leif:

And also for this seaweed, it's pretty clear that

Leif:

Max does not know Ivy as well as Chuck knows Blair

Leif:

because otherwise he would have sensed her there,

Leif:

Right?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Unfortunately, Gossip Girl did catch Charlie

Leif:

kissing Nate, and Diana doesn't look too happy

Leif:

about it.

Steve:

Yep, of course she did.

Leif:

And this was the Gossip Girl blast. oh, Charlie,

Leif:

looks like you stayed in character all too well.

Leif:

Too bad there's always an understudy waiting in

Leif:

the wings for you to slip and fall.

Leif:

We move into Act 3. Back in the office, Diana is

Leif:

grilling Charlie about the kiss. However, she does

Leif:

believe Charlie's max explanation and says she

Leif:

will deal with him as long as Charlie can convince

Leif:

Nate that she isn't interested in him. Charlie

Leif:

seems a bit confused when Diana suggests that she

Leif:

do that by asking Nate out on a date. Yeah,

Leif:

rightfully confused.

Steve:

Yeah, because Diana gets all these big plots for

Steve:

teenagers, by the way, for like these 20 year old,

Steve:

19, 20 year olds that she is, like here, like

Steve:

manipulating and plotting against.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

And just all these brilliant ideas. It's so lame.

Leif:

As Nate returns home, Chuck mocks him. about the

Leif:

poll on Gossip Girl, we get some classic Nate

Leif:

fusion as he is getting mixed signals from the two

Leif:

women currently in his orbit. Chuck tells Nate

Leif:

about the Sleep no More performance he will be

Leif:

attending tonight. When Chuck begins to invite

Leif:

Nate, he shows Chuck the text he got from Charlie,

Leif:

also inviting him to the event.

Steve:

Yeah, I also want to point out that this is the

Steve:

only interaction we have with non judging

Steve:

Breakfast Club members. That there's a couple

Steve:

times that Nate and Chuck cross paths and that's

Steve:

it. The gang isn't together or doing anything.

Steve:

Which of course is always one of our big

Steve:

highlights when they all are together, especially

Steve:

in the end of an episode and even in this when

Steve:

they're all sort of in the same place, they're not

Steve:

together.

Leif:

Well, you also get Chuck and Blair.

Steve:

Yeah, but you get just very little and. And even

Steve:

that's not satisfying.

Leif:

Sarita and Blair are both bemoaning that Gossip

Leif:

Girl never posts what you want when you want it.

Leif:

With Blair's advice, Serena decides blogging isn't

Leif:

for her and goes to tell Diana. She suggests that

Leif:

Blair should leave Chuck alone and focus on

Leif:

working on her relationship with Louis. Blair

Leif:

agrees, but immediately calls for a ticket to

Leif:

tonight's performance. When Serena leaves, Dorota

Leif:

eavesdrops on Blair's phone call.

Steve:

It's just so tired. this conversation. They've had

Steve:

it how many times? Like, oh, well, I'm gonna go do

Steve:

this, but don't go doing this, and I won't go

Steve:

doing this. And then Blair Goes and does it.

Leif:

Serena shows up at Diana's office ready to quit,

Leif:

but is interrupted by the arrival of Max, who came

Leif:

to thank her for her apricot tip. Diana suggests

Leif:

they go out to celebrate tonight with dinner and a

Leif:

show. Serena can go home and change and Diana will

Leif:

give Max the details.

Steve:

Yeah, just instantly comes up with new ways of

Steve:

manipulating teenagers. Good job, Diana. Good job.

Steve:

You're so on top of this and so smart. Honestly,

Steve:

like, she's. Is she the worst character ever on

Steve:

Gossip Girl? Is she the worst one? Who else?

Steve:

Karen? Yeah, Aaron's pretty terrible.

Leif:

Gabriel.

Steve:

Gabriel's pretty terrible.

Leif:

But they didn't last as long.

Steve:

And they were running schemes on their peers. They

Steve:

were running schemes on people that were like

Steve:

maybe two or three years younger. Maybe one.

Steve:

Aaron's case, like 10. The camp counselor. And

Steve:

Aaron wasn't really running schemes. Aaron was

Steve:

very out on, out in the open about like, yeah, I'm

Steve:

just a shitty guy. Like, I'm just going to treat

Steve:

you like shit. But Gabriel was running schemes,

Steve:

but he was running it on another 19 year old. You

Steve:

know, someone who's closer to being a peer. This

Steve:

is a grown ass woman, like in her probably 40s

Steve:

now, who is manipulating a whole bunch of 19 and

Steve:

20 year olds. Grow up like you're trying to make

Steve:

your mark as the new person who is spreading teen

Steve:

gossip. You grimy.

Leif:

Well, Gossip Girl decides to point out that we

Leif:

have a party of the week. Seems the play's the

Leif:

thing tonight. But watch out, players, you might

Leif:

be the ones getting played. We move into Act 4.

Leif:

Chuck enters the hotel to the sound of big band

Leif:

music and MC takes the stage and begins explaining

Leif:

the guidelines of the show. Chuck, having been

Leif:

dealt an ace, takes the door to his left. We then

Leif:

see Blair carrying a full deck, pull an ace and

Leif:

follow him. Dorota in KGB mode grabs someone's

Leif:

card and also follows.

Steve:

It's not nice to steal. Also, why wasn't that

Steve:

person already in? Like, she had the ace card?

Steve:

Why, why were you waiting?

Leif:

I mean, I guess people are just like chatting up

Leif:

in the lobby. that's where the bar is. So you know

Leif:

people are gonna linger at the bar.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate and Charlie enter together. Charlie seems

Leif:

anxious and excuses herself to talk to Diana.

Leif:

Originally, Diana had just planned to catch them

Leif:

together, so Nate would come running back to

Leif:

apologize to her. But it seems she has something

Leif:

else in mind. Charlie rejoins Nate.

Steve:

Everything about this is just so fucking annoying.

Steve:

And especially Diana. These are kids that you're

Steve:

just toying with.

Leif:

She's trying to get her back.

Steve:

Yeah, but like, she's also like, toying with this

Steve:

20 year old.

Leif:

Max arrives at the party and Diana waves him over.

Leif:

When he asks if Serena has arrived yet, Diana lies

Leif:

and says she's already in side. Diana says that

Leif:

Sarita wants Max to find her and she's wearing a

Leif:

dress that matches the one Charlie was wearing.

Steve:

Yep. Wait, so they're gonna get Serena mixed up

Steve:

for the other blonde at the masquerade?

Leif:

Never happened before.

Steve:

It's the third. This is the third fucking dime.

Leif:

They're all wearing masks of disguise.

Steve:

Yeah, it's the third fucking time you've used this

Steve:

same trope. Imagine being the guy. It's like,

Steve:

here's your shot at writing a Gossip Girl episode

Steve:

for the first time. Oh, you know what? I'm gonna

Steve:

write these two episodes. It's already been done.

Steve:

Yeah, like this whole thing we just saw this, was

Steve:

it two seasons ago or was it last? It was last

Steve:

season, right?

Leif:

It was season four. And season one had the mask

Leif:

balls.

Steve:

Yeah. When we had the people kissing Serena

Leif:

and well, Noah's kissing Serena.

Steve:

No, everyone thought they were kissing Serena.

Steve:

That's right. And then, the other one where we're

Steve:

professing our love to Serena, who

Leif:

isn't Serena, who has a very distinctive body.

Steve:

Yes. Who's the tallest fucking person at any of

Steve:

these parties? Wow, Serena, you sure did lose an

Steve:

inch and a half. You sure did lose like four

Steve:

inches.

Leif:

But, two cup sizes.

Steve:

Yeah, and two cup sizes, but man, I'm gonna go for

Steve:

it.

Leif:

Chuck is enjoying the show while Blair watches

Leif:

from the shadows. Dorota comes up behind Blair and

Leif:

confronts her on breaking her promise to Ms.

Leif:

Serena. Blair says she isn't going to undermine

Leif:

Chuck, just reveal his evil doings. Blair then

Leif:

distracts Dorota and follows after Chuck.

Steve:

I hate when they make Dorota dumb because, like,

Steve:

it was funny, you know, there's the famous Russian

Steve:

actor and she turns around, she's like, where?

Steve:

Where? It's like, But it was still the guy got a

Steve:

Chuck.

Leif:

I didn't really take that as DRO to being dumb.

Leif:

More that just Blair knows the buttons to push,

Leif:

Right?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And yes, Serena arrives late, which we learn was

Leif:

at Diana's suggestion. She once again lies and

Leif:

says Max hasn't arrived yet. Diana tells Serena to

Leif:

wait at the bar for Max while she goes inside. We

Leif:

then see Diana whisper something to the doorperson

Leif:

before slipping them some cash.

Steve:

Yep. Way to manipulate these teenagers even more.

Leif:

Yep.

Steve:

Diana, you grimy, grimy lady.

Leif:

Nate and Charlie Momentarily reconnect. But when

Leif:

Nate spots Diana watching them, he suggests they

Leif:

split up again. Nate walks over to Diana, who says

Leif:

she has decided she would rather spend time with

Leif:

him than go to Paris. Nate says he's already here

Leif:

with someone else, but she counters that Charlie

Leif:

is seeing someone and maybe using Nate to make

Leif:

him, jealous.

Steve:

And like, she's just like, pulling all these

Steve:

strings. It's so frustrating. It's like she's

Steve:

pulling all these strings and it's just. It's,

Steve:

just pathetic to me.

Leif:

Yeah. Back in the bar area, the doorperson from

Leif:

before asks Serena if she wants to join the last

Leif:

group. Sarita says she's still waiting for someone

Leif:

and then mutters under her breath that he seems

Leif:

not to be coming. Some NPC snaps a photo of Serena

Leif:

sitting alone and depressed.

Steve:

The one that was paid off, if I'm correct.

Leif:

So it was always taking a picture of Serena,

Leif:

right?

Steve:

You're.

Leif:

Blair wanders through the performance wearing her

Leif:

mask until she finds Chuck alone in a candy shop.

Leif:

Even with the mask, Chuck instantly recognizes her

Leif:

and says he should get back to the performance,

Leif:

but Blair blocks his exit. Blair does her best to

Leif:

tempt Chuck into making a pass, and eventually he

Leif:

gives in and kisses her. Dorota looks through the

Leif:

window in shock.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Blair. Blair, what are you doing?

Steve:

Yeah, first of all, you came in and gave Chuck

Steve:

very, very hot, right? You came in hot, and you

Steve:

were trying to get this reaction out of him, and

Steve:

you got it. And I don't know how you can say that.

Steve:

He's a terrible person for reacting that way

Steve:

because you went in with every intention of

Steve:

getting him to do exactly what he did. You caused

Steve:

that to happen. And if you did not go in there and

Steve:

if you did not push this whole thing, that

Steve:

wouldn't have happened and he would have left you

Steve:

alone. And more. I'm just annoyed at the whole,

Steve:

at, this even being a thing. Why are we doing

Steve:

this?

Leif:

Diana finds Charlie and tells her it's time to go

Leif:

kiss Nate and. And points to a man in the crowd.

Leif:

Charlie walks over and kisses him, but whoops,

Leif:

it's actually Max. And Nate sees the whole thing.

Steve:

Whaaa.

Leif:

And, they have to take their masks off to kissy.

Leif:

She still doesn't fucking see him.

Steve:

Yeah, she comes in with her eyes closed. Also,

Steve:

he's like 4 inches taller than Nate too.

Leif:

Is he?

Steve:

I thought he would seem like he was taller than

Steve:

Nate.

Leif:

I, see about the same height.

Steve:

I got the impression, I felt that Max was really

Steve:

tall because of how Much taller. He is than

Steve:

Serena.

Leif:

Was he taller than Serena?

Steve:

I thought so.

Leif:

What's the actor's name again? Max or no. Brian.

Leif:

J. Smith. How tall is Brian J. Smith? Six foot.

Steve:

Six foot. Six foot. How tall. How tall is Nate?

Leif:

I think he's listed six foot.

Steve:

Well, I mean, you could be listed as six foot.

Leif:

Well, I mean, that's what this guy's listed at,

Leif:

too, though, so.

Steve:

yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. I used to

Steve:

always say I'm six two, six three on dating

Steve:

websites.

Leif:

five, ten.

Steve:

Okay. Yeah.

Leif:

All right. Yeah.

Steve:

And how tall is Blake Lively? Five' nine, I think.

Leif:

Five' ten.

Steve:

Also five' ten.

Leif:

Yeah. I mean, I guess he's a little

Steve:

bit taller, but, I mean, like, those two inches,

Steve:

if you kiss someone earlier that day, those two

Steve:

inches are going to be noticeable.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

You know?

Leif:

And this is what Gossip Girl has to say about the

Leif:

scene. It's been the performance of a lifetime for

Leif:

cousin Charlie. But tonight, it looks like it just

Leif:

might be the final curtain.

Leif:

We move into Act 5. We return with a slap. Blair

Leif:

slapping Chuck, that is. She says she now knows

Leif:

she made the right choice with Louis. Chuck is

Leif:

surprisingly calm about the whole thing and

Leif:

watches Blair storm out before looking and seeing

Leif:

Dorota through the window. Dorota looks knowingly

Leif:

at Chuck.

Steve:

And again, like, I'm annoyed with Blair this whole

Steve:

episode, it's just a dumb story for her. And I'm

Steve:

just over this whole thing, and so I'm just

Steve:

annoyed by this still.

Leif:

Rufus enters the loft on a phone call, presumably

Leif:

with a mechanic. It sounds like he had planned to

Leif:

drive to Boston, but the car broke down before he

Leif:

got out of the garage. He comes back to the loft

Leif:

to wait, but is surprised to see Dan in his room.

Steve:

One of the things that I found kind of funny about

Steve:

this. Dan drives that car all the time, doesn't

Steve:

he? Isn't that the car that Dan.

Leif:

I mean, not all the time. Whenever they need to

Leif:

leave town.

Steve:

I guess what I found funny about it is that Rufus

Steve:

was like, man, I don't even know the last time I

Steve:

drove this thing. Like, I never drive it. And it's

Steve:

just sort of the. That car actually gets driven

Steve:

somewhat regularly, just not by you. That. It just

Steve:

kind of, to me, established that Dan is just,

Steve:

like, taking this car all the time. I thought it

Steve:

was just more

Leif:

like once or twice a year, which.

Steve:

That's fair, too, because that would kill a car.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So, yeah, either way, I just. I. Yeah, I found it.

Steve:

I found it. To be believable, but also just like I

Steve:

would find it also believable for Rufus to have no

Steve:

idea how much that car is actually driven.

Leif:

Diana finds Serena still waiting alone after the

Leif:

show and shows her the Gossip Girl blast about

Leif:

her. She then uses this as leverage to convince

Leif:

Serena to continue helping her in a quest to take

Leif:

down Gossip Girl.

Steve:

Yeah, good job, Diana. You really manipulated

Steve:

another teenager. Good job.

Leif:

After Sarita leaves, Nate also comes out and sits

Leif:

down next to Diana, next to Diana and says she was

Leif:

right about Charlie. Diana then plays some more

Leif:

mind games with him and makes him think everything

Leif:

with the relationship is up to what he wants.

Steve:

Yeah, I doubt that he's going to be upset about it

Steve:

again later. It's just so, the whole thing. I, I

Steve:

just, I hate this.

Leif:

Back at the loft, Dan is explaining he stopped

Leif:

going to the signings because no one was coming.

Leif:

Rufus counters with the fact that Lincoln Hawk

Leif:

used to play for empty bars at first, but word of

Leif:

mouth eventually spread and they made it big.

Steve:

I hated Dan here as a performer, as someone who

Steve:

has played, has been playing music for a long

Steve:

time. You're on this book tour to sell books and

Steve:

you can't expect people to just know about it and

Steve:

show up. Your job now, when you're an artist, your

Steve:

job is not to make art. Your job is to sell your

Steve:

art. And that is the sad thing about the society

Steve:

that we live in, right? That is how our society

Steve:

operates. That you can that your art doesn't mean

Steve:

shit if you're not going to sell it. And now I'm

Steve:

not speaking from a philosophical point of view.

Steve:

I'm speaking from the capitalism point of view

Steve:

that Dan has created this book that he has to go

Steve:

and sell. And as an artist and as a performer,

Steve:

yeah, I've played to rooms where no one is there.

Steve:

I've run an open mics where people haven't shown

Steve:

up and it's just me and a bartender and maybe the

Steve:

cooking staff occasionally comes out to see a

Steve:

song, but you just do that sometimes. And

Steve:

sometimes it is like that for a couple shows in a

Steve:

row. And then later on you have shows where you

Steve:

are on a huge stage and you get plenty of people

Steve:

out to it. And so it's just. It was so frustrating

Steve:

for me. And it is so like Dan. Dan doesn't

Steve:

recognize. He's so used to seeing all of these

Steve:

people with enormous privilege that he discounts

Steve:

his own privilege as if he's the underprivileged

Steve:

one in this group. But you're not Dan and you

Steve:

never were underprivileged. You may have been

Steve:

lesser privileged than the people you are

Steve:

surrounded by, but at no moment were you ever

Steve:

underprivileged in your life. And I think that

Steve:

this is when it really shines that Dan is like,

Steve:

man, this stuff that I actually have to work for

Steve:

now is too hard. And I don't like it. And I'm just

Steve:

so disappointed in him.

Leif:

Yeah. Also, unless you're like George Martin or

Leif:

Dan Brown or something, you're not going to get

Leif:

more than like 10 to 20 people at a book signing

Leif:

in 2011. No, you're just not.

Steve:

Yeah, at that point, you're not there to sign.

Steve:

You're not there. Well, let me flip that. people

Steve:

aren't going to be there to see you. People are

Steve:

gonna see you because they're there and your job

Steve:

is to sell them your book.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Hey, I'm signing these. Hey, you should check this

Steve:

out. You should buy this book. I'm gonna sign it

Steve:

for you. I know me. If I see. If, I were to come

Steve:

across that and it seemed like a book I'd be into,

Steve:

I'd probably do it. I've done that before where

Steve:

someone's like, hey, I wrote this. And kind of it

Steve:

is like, okay, sign it for me. And I'm happy to

Steve:

read it because if I don't like it, then maybe

Steve:

someone else will want this signed copy. And if

Steve:

not, I'll have a signed copy of a book I like.

Leif:

In an effort to get Max away from her Upper east

Leif:

side friends, Ivy has brought them out to the

Leif:

street. She pretends she kissed him on purpose

Leif:

because she recognized him and wants to reconnect.

Leif:

When Max reveals he was there with Serena, Ivy

Leif:

gets even more desperate to get him out of there.

Leif:

But Max stands his ground and goes back inside.

Steve:

Ivy, you had so many ways to play this and you

Steve:

played it wrong. You could have played it better.

Steve:

You played it wrong. First of all. The first way

Steve:

you could have played it is opening your eyes

Steve:

before the kiss.

Leif:

Diana walks up behind Ivy and taps her shoulder to

Leif:

gloat a bit. She then fires Ivy and snaps a

Leif:

picture to send to Gossip Girl. The only question

Leif:

is which name she is going to send it under.

Steve:

Yes. You sure did manipulate and destroy this 20

Steve:

year old Diana. Good job. Great. Even within the

Steve:

morality of Gossip Girl, how we discussed that

Steve:

many times, I'm no less annoyed.

Leif:

This is what Gossip Girl says about it all. Masks

Leif:

eventually have to come off, and with them, so do

Leif:

the gloves.

Leif:

We go into the epilogue Speaking of gloating,

Leif:

Blair is gloating to Dorota for being right about

Leif:

Chuck not having changed. Dorota just smiles and

Leif:

sends a thank you text to Chuck.

Steve:

Yeah, they were plotting together to make sure

Steve:

Blair knew that Chuck hadn't actually changed just

Steve:

to send her back into Louie's arms. And, God damn

Steve:

it. Does it make sense? the thing that really

Steve:

annoyed me about the end and them working together

Steve:

and all that, is that within the context of

Steve:

everything else. Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. Like

Steve:

that adds up. And I hate it. I hate that it does.

Leif:

At the Empire Suite, Chuck smiles at the text and

Leif:

then explains the plan to Nate. Nate says he

Leif:

decided to not let anyone else pull his strings.

Leif:

Just then, Diana gets off the elevator and

Leif:

queries, you wanted to see me? Nate leads her into

Leif:

the bedroom while Chuck smiles in amusement.

Steve:

Someone's going to pull your string, all right,

Steve:

Nate. She's going to keep pulling your string for

Steve:

as long as you let her.

Leif:

Serena finds Charlie pacing in her room. Charlie

Leif:

is worried if Gossip Girl is out to get her. She

Leif:

says she quit her job and wants to go home again.

Leif:

However, Serena says she can't let Gossip Girl

Leif:

bully her. Serena reiterates that Charlie is

Leif:

family and she will protect her. Serena just has

Leif:

to make a quick phone call and then they can chat

Leif:

more.

Steve:

I, like kind of where they were going with this,

Steve:

this attempt to make Gossip Girl more relevant.

Steve:

Like I was saying that the meta idea of Serena

Steve:

going after Gossip Girl, but also Gossip Girl

Steve:

hasn't been super relevant in the past two

Steve:

seasons, the way that they're making her now. And

Steve:

so I think that having Charlie be the target of

Steve:

Gossip Girl and Serena being like, okay, now she's

Steve:

going after someone I love, I can't let her do

Steve:

that. I thought that that stuff was actually good

Steve:

motivation and good plot development. I. If I were

Steve:

Ivy, I would empty that account in gtfo. Or at

Steve:

least I wouldn't even empty it. I'd take a few

Steve:

hundred grand in cash in a briefcase and I would

Steve:

dip and just never be seen by any of these fucking

Steve:

crazy people again.

Leif:

That's what she's trying to do, right?

Steve:

But just do it. What does Yoda say?

Leif:

In the bedroom, Diana says she really likes Nate,

Leif:

but she was just trying to play it cool before.

Leif:

She's not ready to commit to a serious

Leif:

relationship as equals. Her phone rings and Nate

Leif:

tells her to answer it while he goes to get some

Leif:

champagne. It's Serena who says she is ready to

Leif:

take down Gossip Girl now. They make plans to meet

Leif:

first thing tomorrow morning.

Steve:

So, Nate, all of this stuff and all this

Steve:

seriousness, and then she's like, so it's just you

Steve:

and me. And he goes, just you and me. And we'll

Steve:

just see where it goes. Well, you're see where it

Steve:

goes. Isn't that how, you got to here? Isn't this

Steve:

what seeing what it. And that's a writing thing.

Steve:

Like, that's not even a character thing or

Steve:

anything else. That's just bad writing. You have

Steve:

nothing better for Nate to say than see where it

Steve:

goes? Come on.

Leif:

Dan is texting with Rufus and thanking him for the

Leif:

pet talk and is on the road. But we see Dan hasn't

Leif:

left the loft yet.

Steve:

You baby, you tool. Fuck you. Dan would.

Steve:

I like.

Steve:

And I just, again, I would love to go on the road

Steve:

and go from place to place and not get paid, not

Steve:

have anybody there, but just have the experience

Steve:

of doing it, you know, Ah, these kids.

Leif:

But of course he was being paid to do it, right?

Steve:

But he'd be getting paid. And it's a fucking like

Steve:

job obligation. Like, you have a job now, Dan, and

Steve:

it's to sell books.

Leif:

Chuck goes into his bedroom and is about to throw

Leif:

away his mask, but decides to keep it in a place

Leif:

of prominence instead.

Steve:

Yeah, I kind of felt like when I saw that, I was

Steve:

like, I wonder how much the Sleep no More people

Steve:

paid Gossip Girl to have the constant reminder of

Steve:

their show on Chuck's dresser for the remainder of

Steve:

the series, if it's still there next week.

Leif:

The other things we see on his dresser are two

Leif:

photos. One is a baby and one is a dark haired

Leif:

woman. I think it's supposed to be Chuck's mom.

Leif:

Although, I don't know why he's keeping a photo of

Leif:

her. Yeah, and then he's also got like a fancy old

Leif:

alarm clock, a cigar box and a sword. And then a

Leif:

caddy with various, toiletries.

Steve:

Is it one sword? I thought it was two.

Leif:

It's a sword and the scabbard.

Steve:

Oh, okay, okay. I don't know why my brain made it

Steve:

a katana and a wakasashi over top of each other.

Steve:

Is that the right word? Did I say that right?

Leif:

Sure, why not?

Steve:

That's the small one.

Leif:

Why not?

Steve:

Things I've learned from Dungeons and Dragons. My

Steve:

weapon knowledge is not from being a violent

Steve:

person. It's all from dnd. I wouldn't know what a

Steve:

glaive was. A faard. Isn't that the captain of the

Steve:

Enterprise?

Leif:

Before Nate can return with the champagne. Diana

Leif:

has jumped on another call and tells the

Leif:

grandfather that everything is in place. Nate

Leif:

called it. Nate's image has been already

Leif:

rehabilitated, and Serena is right where they want

Leif:

her to be.

Steve:

Okay, so first of all, called that one from the

Steve:

get. Right? First person I said was grandfather

Steve:

when I was trying to think of someone manipulating

Steve:

Nate. And then I kind of pulled back from

Steve:

grandfather, and here's why. And here's the rant.

Steve:

You had jobs lined up for Nate.

Leif:

No, he didn't. His mom.

Steve:

The whole thing.

Leif:

His mom did.

Steve:

His mom. Okay, so here's part of the. Then here's

Steve:

again, some bad writing for it. Because the

Steve:

conundrum Nate kept presenting back then was,

Steve:

here's what my family wants me to do versus what

Steve:

Diana wants me to do. Nate all this time, felt

Steve:

like he was going against his family by going with

Steve:

Diana.

Leif:

But you could argue that maybe grandfather just

Leif:

knows Nate by now. He knows that Nate wants to be

Leif:

a rebel.

Steve:

Right. So let's. So let's go there first.

Leif:

Let's so make it. So we'll make it look like he's

Leif:

going against the Valley, but really, he's just

Leif:

doing what we want him to do, so.

Steve:

Right. So I'm really just manipulating him into

Steve:

what I want. But also the simple fact that Ann had

Steve:

these jobs lined up that were good jobs. And also,

Steve:

Nate, you haven't even graduated from the college

Steve:

you're still going to, and you're worried about

Steve:

these jobs. But let's just set that aside for a

Steve:

second anyway. But Nate was ready to acquiesce to

Steve:

what the family wanted them to. Wanted him to do.

Leif:

Again. it was never the family, though. I think

Leif:

you're conflating the grandfather and his mom.

Leif:

There's no indication that they're the same thing.

Steve:

I just felt like a lot of the wording early on in

Steve:

this season led me to put the two together,

Steve:

because he would refer to it as my family, what my

Steve:

family wants when talking about the jobs from his

Steve:

mom. And so that's. But all of that aside, all of

Steve:

these things aside, it's just dumb. I'm just so

Steve:

annoyed that it's like, now grandfather is trying

Steve:

to re.

Leif:

We also know that Anne is estranged from the

Leif:

family still.

Steve:

Oh, See, I kind of thought that she was back in

Steve:

with them after she and Howie split. But, the

Steve:

other thing here, how he's like, you have

Steve:

successfully rehabilitated my grandson's image. 1.

Steve:

When was his image really tarnished? Right. He's

Steve:

the one that went against the guy who was being

Steve:

corrupt and stood up to Trip.

Leif:

No. Yes. But his image was tarnished when he took

Leif:

the blame in the campaign. No one knows about. No

Leif:

one knows about the whole thing with Trip and

Leif:

Serena.

Steve:

Right. I forgot he took the. Yeah, yeah, I forgot

Steve:

that he did that. But now his image is

Steve:

rehabilitated by banging his boss at this dying.

Leif:

Well, again, grandfather's not happy about that

Leif:

part.

Steve:

He is.

Leif:

Right.

Steve:

He's not happy about that part. But you did hire

Steve:

this person to manipulate him into coming to work

Steve:

for your newspaper to rehabilitate his image. But

Steve:

even if you're not happy about that part, then you

Steve:

must admit your son, your grandson's image, has

Steve:

not been fully restored because he's banging his

Steve:

boss in public. Yeah.

Leif:

that's really hurt as image, I don't think.

Steve:

Yeah. What's the goal here, grandpa? What's the

Steve:

goal?

Leif:

I mean, that's a very Kennedy kind of thing. Yeah,

Leif:

it's like he's married or anything. Yeah, neither

Leif:

are married. They're two single people fucking.

Leif:

Yeah. Nate bagging the hot older lady, that's good

Leif:

for his image.

Steve:

Classic Nate.

Leif:

Grasshoppers just want her manipulating him too

Leif:

much.

Steve:

Yeah, well, it's hard to not, you know, when you

Steve:

start down that road and you see how easy it is.

Leif:

Diana caught feelings.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Max is still at the hotel and sees the blast about

Leif:

Charlie and is confused at one, that they are

Leif:

calling her Charlie Rhodes, and two, that she is

Leif:

Serena's cousin.

Steve:

Yeah. Who are you going to tell about that? Max.

Leif:

That's to see.

Steve:

I really thought it was going to be the real

Steve:

Charlie that was going to blow up her spot, but

Steve:

now, no, it might be Max. Unless she can convince

Steve:

him not to.

Leif:

This is what Gossip Girl says to end the episode.

Leif:

Lock your windows, Upper East Siders. Looks like

Leif:

Serena's cuckoo cousin Charlie is off her beds

Leif:

again and about to jump to her own conclusion. We

Leif:

all wear different masks for different reasons.

Leif:

Some masks we put on because it's truly who we

Leif:

want to be. Some wear because we can't bear to

Leif:

face what's really underneath or because it's what

Leif:

someone else needs us to be. And some masks we

Leif:

wear because we hope to stay hidden. But that's

Leif:

the problem with masks. They can be ripped off at

Leif:

any moment. X.O.X.O. gossip Girl. what is coming

Leif:

next?

Steve:

I think Charlie's gonna get away with it somehow.

Steve:

I think that she can convince Max to keep quiet.

Steve:

But it's gonna be expensive. It's gonna be costly.

Steve:

I shouldn't Say expensive. I'm gonna say costly.

Steve:

Grandfather is trying to get Nate back in the

Steve:

fold, which means that's gonna blow up in

Steve:

grandfather's face. Ah, man. Dan, you idiot. I

Steve:

don't even know Chuck, man. I'm hoping Blair will

Steve:

actually move on from this stupid Chuck shit. At

Steve:

least until the wedding, which I'm assuming

Steve:

Louie's gonna come back and we're gonna see them

Steve:

start patching things up maybe. And. But then more

Steve:

drama there, because Beatrice is gonna be mad

Steve:

about stuff and. Yeah, I think that's most of it.

Steve:

oh, and Serena going after Gossip Girl. Yeah, I

Steve:

think that Serena. I think that we're gonna see

Steve:

that ramp up a little bit, and I think that could

Steve:

be interesting. If I'm correct, the Gossip Girl

Steve:

reveal is the final episode of the series.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

Okay. I thought. I thought that had been

Steve:

established. Okay. Which means that they started

Steve:

down this storyline, and then they were like, oh,

Steve:

we have another season. Oh, oops.

Leif:

Well, they're still thinking it's someone else at

Leif:

this point.

Steve:

Oh, fair. They think that Gossip Girl is someone

Steve:

else, and now all of the fan base is probably

Steve:

thinking of who it is, and then they're gonna be

Steve:

like, no, and make it someone else. Like Lost. Oh,

Steve:

they're on heaven. No, they're not all dead yet.

Leif:

I'll say. There is going to be something in, the

Leif:

next episode that is a hint to who they think

Leif:

Gossip Girl is right now.

Steve:

I love it.

Leif:

Let's get into segments.

Steve:

Hello there, Peabody. Here. And this is the

Steve:

wayback machine for traveling through time. And

Steve:

this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman.

Steve:

Hello.

Steve:

Good boy.

Leif:

This week in fandom, we travel to the Television

Leif:

without pity forums from 2011. Their overall

Leif:

impression of this episode, no bueno.

Steve:

Yeah, this episode sucked.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair is pathetic.

Steve:

Pathetic. And I hate pathetic Blair. She's been

Steve:

pathetic before. And yeah, I hate it when they

Steve:

play her like this.

Leif:

And Chuck's redemption is too heavy handed.

Steve:

Yep, we get it. You're a good guy. Now, Chuck. For

Steve:

now.

Leif:

Dan is a loser.

Steve:

Yep. Yep. You suck.

Leif:

Nate is Nate.

Steve:

Yep.

Leif:

Serena continues to have her best season since

Leif:

season one.

Steve:

Agreed. Agreed. That Serena, that self reflecting

Steve:

Serena, it has been, a. Ah, positive. I like her

Steve:

story arc right now.

Leif:

It's not a good thing if Ivy is your most

Leif:

interesting storyline.

Steve:

Ouch. No lies, though.

Leif:

And finally, they are confused about the

Leif:

grandfather's attentions. Why would he want Nate

Leif:

to join the Spectator? And why does he care about

Leif:

Serena at all?

Steve:

Yeah. Although he was mad at Serena for something.

Steve:

I forget One of the. I think the last plot he was

Steve:

tied up in, she did something to upset him. And I

Steve:

forget what. Oh, she was Tripp. Yeah, yeah. She

Steve:

was the other woman with Trip. So like, she was

Steve:

like the cause of the Trip scandal. So I get why

Steve:

he's after her too.

Leif:

On to episode grades. It is your week to go first,

Leif:

man.

Steve:

Non judging. Breakfast Club was hardly together at

Steve:

all. The party of the week was a mask party that

Steve:

was already done two other times. So many recycled

Steve:

plots. Weak. Blair. this is a. I'm. I think I'm at

Steve:

a D minus. I really hated this episode. Like, I

Steve:

was just bored and annoyed and I think that Diana

Steve:

Payne really is like the worst character that

Steve:

they've had. Like, and she gets worse every

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

Yeah, this was not a good episode. The only kind

Leif:

of interesting thing is Ivy and I guess the sleep

Leif:

no more thing was kind of cool, I guess. Sort of.

Steve:

Yeah. It was a neat taste of a New York art piece

Steve:

that rich people would go to. So, like, I thought

Steve:

it fit, but it was also like, well, actually not

Steve:

rich people.

Leif:

It was like a hipster thing.

Steve:

Hipster. Well, yes. Yeah.

Leif:

So I gave it a slightly better than you because.

Leif:

Only because I know there's much more worse to

Leif:

come. So I gave it a D.

Steve:

That's frightening. We have not failed an episode,

Steve:

and this one was close. But I think that being a

Steve:

little bit interested in Ivy kept it afloat for

Steve:

me. But we're.

Leif:

We still have room to fall.

Steve:

Yep. Vulture hasn't given up yet, which is really

Steve:

where my, like, wall kind of is where my. That's

Steve:

the tunnel. I'm seeing us.

Leif:

The interesting thing is the episode they quit on

Leif:

is the first episode back from winter break. So

Leif:

they waited through break, saw that episode, and

Leif:

then quit.

Steve:

And they were like, fuck this. I'm done.

Leif:

Moving to Stockwatch. Who do you got going up?

Steve:

I'm giving Chuck an up. I do feel like he is doing

Steve:

what he's supposed to be doing. I'm giving Serena

Steve:

an up because I also feel like I like the

Steve:

character development and I like that she is

Steve:

honestly trying to be a better person. I'm giving

Steve:

Diana and up because her schemes are working out.

Steve:

I'm giving grandfather an up because his stupid

Steve:

ass scheme is working out. I'm giving Rufus an up

Steve:

for being some. Some good dad advice. I'm gonna

Steve:

give Max the up for having a successful interview

Steve:

and getting the follow up. And does Nate go up

Steve:

now? I'm leaving Nate neutral because he's a

Steve:

dumbass who's being played neutral. Nate, I think

Steve:

that's it. I'll give Lily the up. Lily was good,

Steve:

too. What did Lily do that I liked? Oh, driving to

Steve:

Boston thing. Those are my ups. Oh, Dorota. I'm

Steve:

sorry. And I'm gonna give Dorota an up for being

Steve:

fun. Dorota.

Leif:

For me, I had. Even though she's the worst, Diana

Leif:

is obviously succeeding. She's manipulating

Leif:

everyone right now. I had Rufus going up for

Leif:

giving some good advice to Dan. I had Chuck going

Leif:

up for being mature. And I had grandfather going

Leif:

up for manipulating the scheme, but that is it.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, that's a fair list.

Leif:

Who do you have going down?

Steve:

Charlie. She's fired. She's busted. She's on the.

Steve:

She's on the ropes more than she has ever been.

Steve:

I'm going to send Blair for being a pathetic loser

Steve:

in this episode. Dan for being a more pathetic

Steve:

loser than Blair in this episode. was there anyone

Steve:

else that really. I think that might be it. I

Steve:

don't think that I want to give Nate a down. I

Steve:

just think that he's coasting. So, yeah, I think

Steve:

that'll be it for mine. Let me hear what you have

Steve:

to say and see if I change my mind.

Leif:

All, right. So for me, I have Dan going down

Leif:

because he is a big, fat loser.

Steve:

Yeah. Big loser. Fuck you, Dan.

Leif:

Blair for being pathetic.

Steve:

Yeah. Fucking pathetic.

Leif:

I have Serena going down for being manipulated and

Leif:

also just kind of being sad.

Steve:

That's. That is fair.

Leif:

I like her growth, but she's being manipulated.

Leif:

Clearly lost the episode.

Steve:

Yeah, that is totally fair.

Leif:

Ivy, because she's been walking the line, but she

Leif:

kind of crossed over to the bad side this episode.

Leif:

it looks like she is about to get caught. you had

Leif:

Max going up. I had him going down because he is

Leif:

also being manipulated here and just being drug

Leif:

all around, and, you know, he's not getting that

Leif:

fucking job.

Steve:

I was giving him an up because I had a moment of

Steve:

hope for him, and I've liked.

Leif:

My moment of hope was gone the instant he showed

Leif:

up on the Upper east side. He should have stayed

Leif:

in Portland, But that is. Oh, I also have Nate,

Leif:

going down because he is also being manipulated,

Leif:

and he hates. He hates that.

Steve:

So it's funny, he says he hates it, but he sure is

Steve:

good at it. Yeah.

Steve:

But here's the best outfits from the

Steve:

last episode we've seen.

Leif:

Who do you have for best outfit?

Steve:

Man, this one was tough for me. I think probably

Steve:

Charlie's dress at the. At the end, at the Sleep

Steve:

no More.

Leif:

The gold dress.

Steve:

That gold dress. And like with the sort of

Steve:

stripiness on it. Yeah, I'm going to give it to

Steve:

her.

Leif:

for me, I gave it to Serena's black beaded mini

Leif:

dress with the cow necks from the Moshido Spring

Leif:

2010 collection.

Steve:

Okay. That was at the end too, as

Leif:

I had like the gold little buckle thing on the

Leif:

front too.

Steve:

Yeah, that was, that was actually my, my second

Steve:

choice for the episode because I did really like

Steve:

that one too. Yeah, like, even Blair's outfits

Steve:

weren't fun.

Leif:

I would have liked your outfit from the park if it

Leif:

wasn't leopard print.

Steve:

Yeah, like everything that.

Leif:

So, not Blair.

Steve:

Yeah, Blair was just done dirty this whole

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

That is it.

Leif:

For segments, do you have anything you would like

Leif:

to plug this week?

Steve:

I, don't really have anything specific, but you

Steve:

can go ahead and find me on TikTok or Instagram.

Steve:

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Steve:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Leif:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Leif:

And we will be back next week to Talk about Season

Leif:

5, Episode 8 All the Pretty sources. The episode

Leif:

description reads, Serena is hard at work planning

Leif:

a dream bridal shower for Blair, but it should

Leif:

come as no surprise that Serena has to plant some

Leif:

false information about the shower in order to

Leif:

keep Blair from finding out all the details. Chuck

Leif:

and Dan decide to spend the day together to

Leif:

distract themselves from the fact that they didn't

Leif:

make the invite list for Blair's shower. Nate and

Leif:

Serena find a silver bullet in Diana's war against

Leif:

Gossip Girl, but struggle about whether to use it

Leif:

or not.

Steve:

Oh, boy. I feel like that has some good potential

Steve:

for some fun. Blair, Serena, best friend stuff,

Steve:

and Chuck and Dan and. And also, it sounds like we

Steve:

have a Chuck and Dan team up, which there. That

Steve:

has always been gold. So I feel like we have the

Steve:

recipe for a better episode than we just had. this

Steve:

is episode eight, right? We're going into episode

Steve:

eight. we're getting close to Thanksgiving, but I

Steve:

guess it's not Thanksgiving yet. And is it 10?

Steve:

That's always the Serena Dan episode.

Leif:

Usually. Yeah, usually.

Steve:

Ah, episode 10. So we're not at anything, any kind

Steve:

of special landmark here, so hopefully this has

Steve:

some good payoff.

Leif:

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

Steve:

XOXO Every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away you take a piece of me with you

Steve:

there Every time you walk away or run away you

Steve:

take a piece of me with you there oh it seems I'm

Steve:

walking right to you door my heart still resting

Steve:

looking for something more are you ever gonna see

Steve:

everything you mean to me I'm trying really hard

Steve:

to believe every time you walk away run away you

Steve:

take a piece of me with you there Every time you

Steve:

walk away I run away you take a piece of me me

Steve:

with you there Every time you walk away or run

Steve:

away you take a piece of me with you there never

Steve:

feels right when I'm out here on my own I left

Steve:

last night and it feels like way too long are you

Steve:

ever gonna see everything you mean to me I'm to

Steve:

trying trying really hard to believe Every time

Steve:

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

Steve:

with you there Every time you walk away or run

Steve:

away you take a piece of me with you there Every

Steve:

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

Steve:

me with you there come back to me smile and you'll

Steve:

make my life complete every time you walk away or

Steve:

run away you take a piece of me with you there

Steve:

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

Steve:

piece of me with you there?

Steve:

Uh?

Steve:

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

Steve:

piece of me with you there? Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away? Take a piece of me with you

Steve:

there Every time you walk away or run away and

Steve:

take a piece of me with you there? Every time you

Steve:

walk away run away? You take a piece of me with

Steve:

you there? Every time you walk away or run away?

Steve:

You take a piece of me with you there Every time

Steve:

you walk away or run away? You take a piece of me

Steve:

with you there.

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