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Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 15: Gone With The Will

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You Know That Uncle That Gets Drunk And Lecherous? Don’t Be That Uncle

 

Highlights: Evil Uncle Jack becomes creepy; Chuck finds out the consequences of trusting family; Blair’s no one’s wife; the search for the star crossed love child continues

 

Why is it that SluttySerena can go to Buenos Aires on a fifteen hour flight, break up with UberPretentiousAaron three hours in, dance around shanty towns with old men who don’t speak English but wear fine white hats, and return thinner with a tan while I go to Mexico for a jaunt and come back whiter and chubbier while simultaneously struggling with intestinal rebellion?  Oh, that’s right, because she’s rich. 

 

Chuck continues to perfect the art of frowning without moving a facial muscle while EvilUncle perfects his creepiness enough for me to start calling him CreepyUncle.  Blair scolds CreepyUncle for being creepy.  C comes out of The Palace to meet B and Creepy Uncle when BoringNate suddenly appears to support him in his time of need during the reading of the will.  Then, and this is what it looks like to me, go back into The Palace.

 

Over in very poor Brooklyn, KleptoJenny insists that her dad must be boffing JudgyLily on their excursion—you know, the trip RockinRufus and JL left for while informing only half of their offspring.  DownerDan insists otherwise.  KJ suggest that DD doesn’t want RR to be with JL because he’s back with SluttySerena.  Then he gets a restricted call and stares at the phone.

 

JL is missing the reading of the will.  The will reader asks C if he’s okay with CU being his legal guardian.  Casks CU if he can have girls sleep over, CU says sure thing (as long as he can get in on it no doubt), so C is fine with it.  All assets are in a trust for C to start blowing on his 18th birthday.  29 % of Bass Industries remains with the board and 20% is for JL.  Then he hands a letter to C who doesn’t want to read it because it’s about his inheritance. 

 

B and BN want C to read the letter but he doesn’t want to because he thinks his father wrote to him about how he sucks.  B reads it aloud.  It says that he was hard on C and knows how hard being a man is so the majority share of Bass Industries will go to him.  CU and C are upset by this.  C doesn’t want it because his dad never thought he was worthy while alive.  He tells CU he can have it.

 

SuicidalEric complains to SS while walking down the street in the cold.  Don’t they have a car service? Why are they always walking everywhere? He says that KJ keeps showing up whenever he’s out with Jonathan, and SS says she has no other friends.  Then they come upon KJ planning a film festival with Jonathan and she loves their matching backpacks.

 

SS finds DD to tell him that their parents aren’t getting back together so now they can mack it and he doesn’t have to avoid her.  DD lies that that was what he was worried about and says that they’re good. 

 

In some orphanage far, far away, RR gets a frantic phone call from DD about how he’s lying to SS and she has a right to know.  RandomGirl and the chickadees overhear and want to tell SS.  Then they start talking about B behind her back for no apparent reason.

 

B chases after C to tell him that his father trusts him with the Bass legacy and she knows he can do it; all he needs to do is read the rest of the letter.  He walks away, reading.  CU creepily stares on through the glass in the door.

 

In the school courtyard, everyone stares at DD as he walks through.  He shakes his head and keeps walking, knowing the feeling of everyone hating him.  Again.  Or still.

 

C goes to CU’s office to say he owes him a lot but will be taking over Bass Industries.  CU says he will have to turn 18 to do so because it’s not an after school job and he has no experience.  C says that he’ll find a place for CU in the company if he wants to stay.  CU leaves. C flairs his nostrils, and then takes a seat at his new desk, obviously drunk with power.

 

CU calls B.  Oh, God, he keeps getting creepier!  What adult male thinks it’s okay, for any reason, to call up the cell phone of a sixteen year old girl he’s not even related to? He apologizes and wants to make things right because C is his only family.  He wants to throw a party for C taking over and B suggests that partying while FatherSlime is dead is tasteless.  He really wants to do something nice so he invites himself to dinner with her, C, and their friends, so that he has his pick of the litter, or rather the chickadees in this case.

 

RR and JL are pissed because the adoption agency is following their rules.  RR wants to find his own lawyer and JL tells RR to stop thinking about himself.  The agent says he’ll try to get in touch with the family.

 

B tells SS that GossipGirl is looking for evidence of DD cheating on SS.  B says no one would want DD.  The chickadees smile, thinking they’re helping.  B leaves to get ready for dinner.  No one has attended class today.

 

DD and LongLostVanessa arrive at Dylan’s Candy Store where NelliYuki suddenly appears.  DD tells her about RR and JL’s secret.  So now LLV knows before KJ, SE, and SS.  LLV drops all her candy while NelliYuki steals DD’s phone out of his pocket without either of them realizing it.  Seriously.  These people need self-defense classes.  BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS!  Then the mini-chickadees show up and once again confront DD for cheating on SS.  They tell LLV that she’s failing upwards by dating BN after DD.  He leaves, LLV stays, and NelliYuki remains crouched behind a candy counter with stolen goods in her possession.

 

CU greets C at home and wants him to reschedule B for dinner.  He tells him that Chuck Bass can’t work all day and go home to the wife.  Then he opens Door Number 2 to reveal a bunch of whores, ready to go.  This is so wrong on so many levels.  So.  Gross.

 

LLV finds SS at the Poor Art Gallery to ask if DD has said anything to her about them, admittedly a pathetic inquiry.  LLV lies and says she knows nothing.  SS knows that DD can keep secrets form her.  LLV smiles a smile that says, I’m not telling you anything so go away.  Then she texts DD when SS leaves about RR and JL.

 

At some club, the chickadees praise NelliYuki for stealing DD’s phone.  They get the text from LLV and figure out that RR and JL have a love child.  They tell NelliYuki that her probation is now a little bit shorter.

 

Jeez.  Now B’s sporting boobs like SS.  She gets a text from C that says he’s working late.  It simply leaves out the part about the kind of work he’s doing.  In a limo.  With alcohol.  With vaginas.  With his uncle.  So. Gross.

 

Over in the world’s most taking-forever-storyline RR gets a call from the adoption agency.  He tells JL that the adoptive family doesn’t want to talk to them ever.  He brushes JL off and leaves.

 

SS and B attend a casual setting party in a library where C is supposed to be meeting the members of the board.  She gets a text from CU that says they’ve arrived.  KJ and DD come in.  KJ wants to find SE.  DD is using RR’s old cell.  He finds SS because he loves brunch and it’s perfect and he thinks it’s crazy he’s here. 

 

CU walks in as B and the attendees sing For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow.  No C, though.  CU says that C is in the office after a rather rough night.  Then the chickadees interrupt to tell B about the Gossip Girl hit for DD’s cheating ways.   She gives them the okay to release what they have on him without knowing what it is.  Then CU introduces B to the Bass Industries people and she shows them to C’s office.

 

KJ sits with SE and he tells her that he needs to hang out with Jonathan alone.  She’s mad that SE is conceited and wants to hang out with his boyfriend alone.  He tells KJ she’s annoying.  Thank you, Suicidal Eric!  She storms away.

 

Then everyone gets the Gossip Girl blast, including JK and SE.  Then SS flips open her cell.  She pouts at it.  Then DD reads over her shoulder and pouts, too.  No one says anything, though.  The chickadees stare and offer fake sympathetic glares.  SS leaves.

 

B opens C’s office door with the big wigs in tow to find C enveloped in whores with pills and cigars strewn across the desk.  He’s all slurring and pale.  The board members storm out.

 

Down at brunch, SS blames DD for their parents having a love child.  KJ and SE look at each other dismayed.

 

B returns to the brunch to drink champagne.  The board members storms after her.  Then C arrives to pull up his pants.  He tells the board members that he didn’t know they were going to be there.  They don’t understand what his father was thinking and they all leaves.  He tells B to stop trying to play wife.

 

DD follows SS out to say that RR told him that JL wanted to tell SS herself.  He tells SS to call JL right away.  He says that’s why they’re in Boston.  Then SE emerges to ask if it’s true and SS says it is because she found out at the same time he did so she has some authority of course.  Then KJ says this is why they fight like siblings.  What the?  Sharing a sibling doesn’t make them all related.  DD wants to get all the facts.  SS wants to process this alone. 

 

JL packs in Boston but RR isn’t ready to leave.  He wants to write a harassing letter to the family.  He says that it works out well since she doesn’t want to meet her son.  She says that she’s thought about him every day and she doesn’t want to make more mistakes.  He doesn’t want to fail and wants one more day.  She says that one more day is excruciating because she’s still in love with RR and she doesn’t want him to hate her forever.  He then starts mackin it with her because that’s fairly appropriate right about now.

 

RR and JL lie in bed together, reminiscing about the old times.  His phone rings. He frantically writes down a bunch of information.  The adoptive father wants to meet with them without his wife knowing.  They’re good at lying and sneaking, so this will work out.

 

C finds CU eating after the brunch.  He wonders how his only family could ruin him.  CU says that FatherSlime placed him on the other side of the world and has repaid him by giving the company to his pecker son.  CU says that there’s a morality clause that allows the board to replace C with CU so now he’s in charge.

 

JL and RR meet the adoptive dad in a restaurant.  He has something he has to tell them. 

 

SE finds SS in her room to see if she’s okay because him, being the one who most recently attempted suicide between the two of them, is the more level headed. 

 

DD goes to the Poor Art Gallery to find LLV and finds BN there, celebrating his anniversary with LLV.  He tells DD he saw the blast and knows what he’s going through.  Instead of allowing the sympathy, DD gets all tooly and is like, Really??  You found out your girlfriend shares a sibling you never knew you had?  Because DD’s problems are the world’s only problems and no one could possibly relate to his woes.  BN found out who his real friends were through his own problems and says that LLV has been talking about DD and then apologizes for kissing KJ.  He wants BN to tell LLV he stopped by.  Actually, he calls her “V”.  Yes, they’ve started calling her V.  Ugh.

 

The adoptive dad starts telling RR and JL a story about sailing.  Any story that starts with a boat and is about someone you’ve never met ends in death.  Andrew, the love child, was caught in a rip tide.  RR and JL are so sorry; if they had known, they wouldn’t have bothered.  Had known?  They didn’t even think about the possibility.  I’m surprised RR isn’t blaming them for killing his son.  The dad says that his wife has had a lot of trouble with it and hands them a newspaper clipping.  JL asks if he was happy and the dad says that he always smiled.  Nice to rub in the pain, JL.  How much you wanna bet this dude is lying? 

 

C arrives at B’s with her favorite flowers and an apology.  She says that it’s too late and she won’t let him self-destruct.  She says he has to blame himself because she and his father believed in him.  She’s done.  He steps back on the elevator and the doors shut but not before she throws the flowers at his feet for the long trip back down alone. 

 

Over in the Poor House, KJ and DD talk about what they aren’t going to talk about.  Then SS and SE arrive.  DD babbles quickly about the secret and wanting to tell her.  He wants to know if it’s incest to date the sibling of a half-sibling and hopes someone in Russian literature has an answer.  SS says that Cher from Clueless dated her step-brother.  I’d never thought I’d say this but Thank You, Serena! for putting ToolDownerDan and his too-smart-references to shame.

 

KJ serves SE a plate of something (waffles?!?!!) and he apologizes first.  They talk about getting on each other’s nerves.  SS and DD come into the kitchen and want sandwiches.  Dangit, not waffles.  I guess only RR can make waffles.

 

Now it’s a musical montage but with funky music!  C strips off his tie.  The distraught wife finds her husband in the restaurant and asks if it’s over; he says that they’ve lost one son and they can’t lose another.  See?  I so friggin called that!  (You see, the clipping was about their other son and not the RR/JL love child).  Plus, for even MORE comedy, the dad says he and his wife have to lie because they have money.  Obviously, he does not know that RR is poverty stricken.  JL suggests to RR that they’re not meant to be a family as they open the door to the Poor House to see all their offspring there.  They immediately join hands and my heart skips a beat because this has got even more chaos written all over it.

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 14: In The Realm Of The Basses

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The Darkest Realm Of All

 

Highlights: JudgyLily, RockinRufus, and Evil Uncle Jack compete for World’s Worst Parent or Guardian; Blair masters the art of fooling herself; SluttySerena and DownerDan reunite the toolbox; KleptoJenny returns to the life of a fifteen year old and as SuicidalEric’s best fag hag

 

Is your heart beating quickly with anticipation?  Boys and girls, it’s time to exhale.  Gossip Girl has returned from our New Year’s festivities.  SluttySerena tangoed with old men in Buenos Aires.  DownerDan celebrated (read: brooded) alone.  KleptoJenny is going back to high school.  Blair has found a new social ladder to climb with the Colony Club, a group of middle-aged women.  Uncle Jack Bass is out looking for Chuck.  Chuck is smoking the hooka pipe in a sweat hut somewhere in a jungle with a hot Asian chick.  LongLostVanessa is still visiting her grandma (which means we don’t have to see her this episode!).  No mention of BoringNate.  He’s probably checking the cake (inside joke—for those of you who watch The Soup). 

 

RockinRufus returns home from his Boston trip not having found the sculptor or painter he told DD he was on the hunt for.  Wait a minute.  After he got angry with JL, didn’t he tell DD and KJ he wasn’t going anywhere?  So then he skipped out on the holidays with the children he knows to go to Boston in search of an artist, which is obviously a total fabrication.  This?  Is stupid.  He wants to go to school with DD.  Because he’s still regressing to when he was a teenager. 

 

B is honored to be in the running for the Colony Club.  She tells Servant Lady that she wants a perfect future, Chuckless.  Then she gets a text from Chuck’s uncle, saying that he found C and they’re headed home. 

 

KJ tells SE that she can handle high school after all the adult stuff she’s been through.  Then she admits she’s a little nervous.  Nelli Yuki is happy KJ is back.  The chickadees immediately reprimand Nelli Yuki for talking to KJ.  SE points out that Nelli Yuki is the new old KJ.  He warns KJ to not get involved.

 

Evil Uncle Jack is H. O. T.  He finds B and SL on a sidewalk and pulls C out of a limo, all disheveled and pale.  B orders SL to go home.

 

Upon arriving at school, RR wants to make a plan with DD for later because they missed the holidays together and RR has no friends and needs to hang out with his son to feel wanted and liked.  DD goes to class and RR gets a call from an adoption agency in Boston.  The lady says that they have no record of the adoption he described and suggests he talk to the birth mother.  He says he was going to do that because he’s been looking in Boston all week and found nothing.  Let me reiterate: he skipped the holiday celebration with his own children to look for a child he does not know.

 

DD and SS meet up.  She’s tan and newly single, having dumped Uber Pretentious Aaron three hours into the fifteen hour flight.  There goes the Mile High Club points.  Unless they had break up sex.  She got an email from her mom that said JL and RR would never be together, so she waited in Buenos Aires to decide if she should be with Downer Dan again.  DD feels the same way she does and so now they’re back together.  Jeez.  They mack it—the two original tools become one again.  At least UPA won’t be around anymore, touting his unfortunate facial hair and manipulation skills.

 

B and SS embrace in the hallway at school.  B says C was so messed up and admits she told him she loved him.  SS thinks that’s great but B insists it’s not.  Then DD shows up and B goes to vomit.  Me, too.

 

JudgyLily finds RR in the Poor Art Gallery.  He wants to know where the child is and then bemoans the Boston adoption agencies.  She says it was a boy and she gave up her rights to look for him. RR says it’s not fair because he’s a father, not a rock star, and deserves to know his other son. 

 

At a coffee and yogurt shop, the Chickadees torture Nelli Yuki while KJ and SE watch on as if it’s a scene from The Hills.  RandomGirlPenelope makes her clean her shoe and KJ intervenes.  She tells RG to be nice.  RG says sure, and then drops yogurt on her own shoe again to make Yuki clean it again.  KJ pulls Yuki away.  RG orders DroopyHazel to clean it.

 

B finds C smoking the reefer in the school courtyard.  She wants to know if he has something to say to her.  He stares blankly and silently.  Then Head Mistress Quigley scolds him for smoking a giant joint.

 

RR walks in on DD and SS mackin it in the Poor House.  He wants SS to go home and never be there if he’s not there because he feels left out.  Before SS is even out of the room, he tells DD that it’s a big mistake to get back with her.  Because obviously, she’s gonna get pregnant and give up the baby for adoption and not tell DD and make him find out seventeen years later through a dossier of her life.

 

B goes with C to HMQ’s office to defend him.  EvilUncle comes in and C greets him because C doesn’t remember how his uncle brought him home in the rickshaw.  B wants to stand up for C anyway.  MHQ says that C was smoking pot and C corrects that it was hash. B says that legally C would be found temporarily insane, so if a court couldn’t convict him, they can’t either.  So then C pulls out another joint for the walk home and EU asks what kind of suspension will be involved.

 

RR plays 90s depression rock during the Poor Humphrey Breakfast.  Where are the waffles?  KJ loves SS and is happy she and DD are back together.  In fact, I think KJ wants to date SS herself.  DD knows that RR hates SS because of JL and doesn’t understand why RR can have input on DD’s relationship but DD can’t comment on RR’s.  Actually, DD, that’s right—you DON’T get to comment because that’s your father, an adult, and as your father, he has every right to approve or disapprove of your relationships and you don’t get to have a say about his.  However, in DD’s defense, rarely do the parents play the parent role so I’ll let the snotty tool comment (You’re not gonna walk me to school today?  I’m heartbroken!) slide.  Plus, it’s Hil. Air. Eee. Us.

 

BTW—What’s up with RR’s too tight turtleneck collection?

 

At school, KJ brings her defense case for Yuki to B, saying that it’s not cool that the Chickadees broke Yuki’s glasses. RG says that if Yuki leaves the group without hassle, the Chickadees will be finished.  B says that she’s hosting the Colony Club and she doesn’t care about the Yuki nonsense.  RG goes a little nutso, suggesting Yuki leave the group in a body bag, and even DroopyHazel calls her out on it.

 

SS and DD bemoan their star-crossed forbidden cursed love.  B approaches so DD leaves.  B tells her about C’s hash smoking.  SS says C always disappears but then comes back.  B says this time, C is different.  SS suggests they wait until nighttime and then if he’s still missing, they’ll look for him. Because looking for a missing person is always better in the dark.  Then SS has to run to class.  Since when is SS so concerned with getting to class on time?

 

SE, KJ, and Yuki are sitting at the Chickadee’s table at the coffee yogurt place.  Since when do they have a table there?  Where IS this place?  Then a shitload of people come in and KJ tells them all to sit wherever they like.  RG swears to get KJ.  She calls her dad and says that she’s being bullied and that he should report it to HMQ.

 

B finds C at the burlesque club that he bought back the night before.  She tells him to go home and he says he has no home and he’s hosting a party.  He wants her to let go of her fantasies and asks if she’s going to profess her love again.  She storms out.

 

DD arrives at the Poor House with SS to rummage through RR’s stuff.  She finds a ring and thinks RR proposed to JL who denied him and that’s why RR is angry.  DD says that it’s his mom’s ring but the theory was a good one.  Then SS gets a text from B and leaves.  DD finds RR’s Map of Boston Adoption Agencies.  DD calls the number and hears adoption and then thinks RR is giving him up for adoption.  Okay, not really.

 

B arrives home and cries in her mirror without tears.  She then grabs her own neck and stiffens up.  She’s okay again.

 

KJ is in trouble at school because the Chickadees claimed she was bullying them.  Then Yuki babbles about the secrets she knows about the Chickadees.  Information that could have been helpful yesterday, Nelli Yuki.

 

DD confronts RR about Boston.  RR asks if Chuck Bass said anything to DD.  Man, this is just pathetic.  DD is appalled that C knows something about the Humphrey family that DD does not know.  RR says that now isn’t the right time for DD to know and refuses to give up any information.

 

SS meets B but B has pulled herself together.  SS says B is all C has.  B insists upon hosting the Colony Club.  SS says they need to help C if he’s in trouble.  Umm, wasn’t SS the one who said that B shouldn’t worry and they should wait on it?  B says that she’s saving her own life instead of worrying about C.  GOOD FOR YOU, BLAIR!!!!!  SS could learn something here.  Instead, SS gives B a condescending shake of the head before getting on the elevator to leave.

 

DD goes to C’s club to ask about RR and JL.  DD babbles about artists and orphans.  C says he was going to keep JL’s secret but since they’re even, he tells DD that JL and RR had a love child and RR just found out.  The last person to tell would be SS and even C wouldn’t share a sibling with a lover.  Yes, even C has boundaries.

 

B sucks up to the Colony Club in her living room.  They ask B about the company she keeps.  They don’t approve of SS’s cleavage on Page Six.  They’re happy Father Slime died.  They think C is an abomination.  B tells them that the Van der Woodsens are kind and that she needs to go help C.  She says that the Colony Club is just like high school.

 

C meanders around the club in a haze.  SE shows up to tell him to come home.  C says it was nice to having SE as a little brother.  Awwwwwwww!  I KNEW C loved SE like a brother.  C says he’s going to check out things from higher up.  SE goes outside when he gets a text from KJ.

 

The Chickadees are threatening to ruin KJ and KJ spills all the rumors about them that she’s going to send to Gossip Girl if they don’t back down.  RG thinks KJ wants back into the group to go to the Collegiate Party and KJ says she doesn’t care and is doing a good deed.  The Chickadees are bored and walk away.  Yuki is upset because she thought KJ was going to take over the Chickadees in a new regime, and then Yuki runs after RG because she did all this because she wants to go to the party.  KJ goes to get hot chocolate with SE.  Hey, umm, where’s Jonathan and what did he have to say to SE last episode?

 

RR arrives at JL’s to say that DD knows.  JL wants to know what her kids will think of her.  She says she was heart broken and scared and not ready and has had a hole in her ever since she gave up their kid.  RR doesn’t hate her and neither will her kids, but he needs time.  Six months to six years, perhaps? (awesome memory if you get that!).

 

DD finds SS at C’s club.  DD wants to tell SS what he found out. 

 

EvilUncle finds B at the party.  He’s drinking and boasting that his family really can throw a party.  She says EU isn’t a great influence.  SE, being half hugged by EU, tells them that C is taking in the view from above.  EU thinks C’s upstairs.  B says he knows nothing about C and that C has a penchant for rooftops.

 

C is singing to himself as he skips along the edge of the roof.  He drops his glass and it smashes in slow motion on the sidewalk.  He says, oops.  He could be next.  Is this karma?  He tried to rape KJ on a rooftop so now he bites it on a rooftop?

 

EvilUncle calls out, CHUCK! when he and B get on the roof.  C teeters on the edge.  B calls EU an idiot and says that you can’t surprise someone standing on a ledge.  B needs to write an advice book.  EU tells C to come down because his father wouldn’t want this.  C says he knows what his father didn’t want—him.  He yells out, I’m Chuck Bass!  Then he whispers, Who cares?

 

B runs over and says she cares.  She can’t take it if he leaves.  She tells him he can’t do anything to himself because he’d be doing it to her.  She reaches out her hand.  He looks at it.  Then C gives her his hand.  He squeezes.  Then he climbes down and buries his head in her neck.  He apologizes.  She soothes him, saying it’s okay.  I melt.

 

DD starts to tell SS outside of the club the big news but then gets a call from RR.  RR says that he and JL are going in search of their child.  WHAT THE????  When the hell did that happen?  How can they simply up and leave like that?  RR instructs DD to keep the secret from SS because that’s something between Mother and Daughter.  Which is great when Mother is going away and can’t tell Daughter until she gets back, possibly with the secret in tow.  Also, in this case, it’s something among Mother, Daughter, Step-Son, deceased Husband, ex-Lover, and Son.  And never mind telling SE and KJ.  Can we say “bad parenting?”

 

B tells EU to take C back to the Van der Woodsen place.  EU says C will be better with him.  B doesn’t trust EU and says that C cannot find out about New Year’s.  EU smirks and goes away in the limo with C while B gives them the death stare.

 

DD tells SS that RR is going away.  She rubs DD’s face.

 

JL and RR load up into her car, beginning the long-overdue search for their lovechild, leaving two of their children completely in the dark about where they’re going and with no supervision at home.

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Musings

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Waaaaaaaaaa–No New Episodes Until Next Year

Highlights: What do we think may happen?

How sure are we that FatherSlime, aka Bart Bass, is dead?  We do not know what kind of accident he had.  We did not see a body.  We know he had a shitload of money and young female blood on his hands (figuratively–Chuck usually has the literal kind from all the deflowering he does, forceful and otherwise).  The private investigator who was with him before the accident, as I pointed out last week, was unscathed, and that’s left unexplained. 

Here’s a cool plot twist.  FatherSlime is alive and in hiding for whatever stupid reason he came up with–something like he was finally developing a genuine rapport with his only son so he had to stop that quickly and remain the crappy stoic father he’s been all these years.  So he fakes his own death.  JudgyLily immediately marries RockinRufus who forgives her for the super secret Granny told him (we’ll get to that ridiculousness in a second).  Then FatherSlime shows up alive and well, rendering JudgyLily a polygamist, a huge no-no in most socially elite circles.

Maybe Chuck is in on the faked death, and has left to live with his father in hiding, which is why he pushed SuicidalEric away and left Blair with only a note.  Then again, a date-rapey seventeen year old with a penchant for fine whiskey may not be capable of pulling off that kind of torturous, heart-breaking charade of single-teardom.

JudgyLily’s super secret sounds super dumb.  Super uber dumb.  They couldn’t come up with anything better than “was it a boy or a girl?”  Maybe the “it” isn’t a person.  Maybe RockinRufus is asking about a puppy she drowned, and he was using personification because he’s deep and musical.  The “it” may be a person, but perhaps a person she killed or maimed or kept as a sex slave.  Alas, I have a feeling “it” is indeed a love child.  A commenter on NYMag’s blog suggested that Jonathan, SuicidalEric’s ex-boyfriend, is the love child.  That?  Would be awesome.  I don’t think it will happen, unless the writers aren’t sure who it is and read that blog and decide it’s a really good idea. 

SluttySerena nor Suicidal Eric can be the love child.  The timing wouldn’t make sense.  DownerDan nor KleptoJenny can be the love child since they came out of Alison, not JudgyLily.  LongLostVanessa cannot be the love child because she’s a little too funky, so while RockinRufus could be in her DNA, JudgyLily, no matter how hip she claims she was, cannot.  UberPretentiousAaron’s ex-uberpretentious-girlfriend could be the love child, but I don’t think she’s coming back on the show since DownerDan didn’t sleep with her so that’s out of the question. 

Maybe a foreign exchange student will appear at school and that will just so happen to be the love child.  Hey, this is interesting.  DownerDan and SluttySerena will get together when UberPretentiousAaron gets bored of pretending to be in love with SluttySerena and dumps her.  Then they will both find out that their parents have a love child, and they will find out that RockinRufus has forgiven JudgyLily and they are getting married after all.  Which means that DownerDan and SluttySerena will be step-siblings dating one another, and will each share the same half-sibling.  Now if they have babies, then their babies will somehow be related already but not quite. 

Then KleptoJenny will have more temper tantrums because there’s another child involved that takes attention away from her.  SuicidalEric may succeed in committing suicide after realizing what a ridiculous family he’s part of, especially after his own mother left him for the holidays.  LongLostVanessa will also commit suicide, seeing as how she cannot get RockinRufus to love her no matter how much time she spends hanging around the Poor Art Gallery And Cafe in her Forever 21 gear.

Where has Chuck gone?   Spending his time boinking flight attendants from plane to plane?  Living out of his limo?  To a dark, dark place?

Boring Nate.  Boring.  But so pretty.  He will be relieved when LongLostVanessa commits suicide because he will realize how slumming isn’t really the way he wants to live after all.

Blair will never get over Chuck, and she will pine away until he returns from said dark place.  However, she will never feel horrible about herself again because PapaCy is there to put NastyMom in her place.  I still think PapaCy and NastyMom may run into the Humphrey-van der Woodsen love child on their honeymoon.  She will take all her anger and sadness out on the chickadees.

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 13: Oh Brother Where Bart Thou?

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Bye  Bye Father Slime

 

Highlights:  The paler ChuckSlime gets, the darker his soul, and the sexier he becomes.  So.  Very.  Sexy.  And nothing else matters.  Aside from SluttySerena becoming as toolish if not more than DownerDan and UberPretentiousAaron when she screams at Chuck during his own father’s funeral.  Yeah, that happens.

 

FatherSlime, AKA Bart Bass, is dead.  Everyone at the van der Woodsen / Bass residence is wearing black except for SuicidalEric who’s in hospital attire.  Granny is drunk.  SluttySerena is in a sexy slip.  They think JudgyLily is mourning by making lists and possibly moving into The Palace with ChuckSlime.  She wants comfort food, not a tuna tower, so she goes for a walk to get away from the hot kitchen.

 

Blair and PapaCy are eating breakfast in awkward silence.  NastyMom likes the picture of FatherSlime in the paper.  Blair laments that CS won’t answer his phone.  PC encourages B to eat more, more, more.  Ah, what a refreshing change from NM urging her to puke even on an empty stomach.  B’s appalled that NM is talking about her honeymoon, but PC explains that in death there’s life, or something to that affect.

 

DownerDan arrives at SS’s to check on her while she wears excessive jewelry around her neck.  She thanks him for being a rock since FS passed away.  Does anyone really say that?  “Thanks for being a rock”?  They both think it feels natural that he’s around to be a rock.  Again, rock?  Tool, yes.  Rock?  Sounds stupid. 

 

UPA arrives at SS’s to check on her while she wears excessive jewelry around her neck.  Do you see a pattern developing?  She tells them that she’s going to the funeral with her family. She will meet them both there.  What is this, prom?  Like they’re silently fighting over who gets to take her to the graveyard?

 

RockinRufus is apparently JL’s idea of comfort food.  She meets him in the park for a walk.  She feels guilty about FS’s dying.  He tells her not to blame herself and that it’s okay.  She has a voicemail from FS but hasn’t listened to it yet.  RR says he’ll listen.  Sure, and then he’ll erase it before JL gets to hear it a la LongLostVanessa’s slick move with BoringNate’s letter to KleptoJenny.  Then RR vows to wait for JL anywhere from six months to six years.  As they chat it out, Granny, who has followed JL, watches.

 

ChuckSlime looks strung out and evil.   Oh, man, I’m feeling that in my tinglies.  You know, I’m tired of calling him ChuckSlime.  He’s taken his angst and highjinx to a new level this season.  Chuck is now Chuck.  Simply Chuck.  Chuck meets the private dick and bargains for the info that FatherSlime had wanted when they got into the accident.  Wait a second.  Was the detective in the car with FS when he was in the fatal accident?  Because the detective doesn’t have a scratch on him.  Anyway, Chuck says that his father is dead because of JudgyLily.  He goes to bury his father.  Is it wrong that grief is sexy?

 

JL listens to the voicemail: FS didn’t even care that she was going behind his back to talk to RR; FS knew why JL was in the hospital in France.  Dun dun DUN!!!

 

DD and UPA wait on the church steps for SS.  Both get texts from SS and they bicker about why UPA got his second.  The van der Woodsen limo arrives and SS hugs DD first.  SE finds KJ who appeared out of nowhere and asks if she’s seen Jonathan because even though they’re not together, he was hoping he’d be there.

 

Granny asks JL if RR will be making an appearance since his kids are there.  Then she says she saw JL with RR in the park.  Because she’s a stalker mom.

 

Chuck is drunk on alcohol, madness, and bloodlust.  B and BoringNate are holding him up and B is instructing him to lift his knees and move foward.  BN thinks C showing up is a bad idea, but B insists that he needs to show up at his father’s funeral.  She offers to make C throw up.

 

JL thanks DD for being at the funeral.  Then from over the hilly graveyard comes Chuck, flipping out.  He bellows, What are you doing here?  DD immediately gets high and mighty, catching an attitude with the boy whose father has passed.  B explains that Chuck is loaded.  SS jumps in to defend DD, saying that DD has been more helpful these past few days than Chuck has.  What the?  See?  T. O. O. L. Granny says that Chuck doesn’t have to make sense today.  Not often do I agree with Granny; here, she’s right.  JL tells C he needs to be with his family.  C says, I have no family.  Mmmmm, he’s so pale and disheveled.  Mmmmmm.

 

In the poor part of town, RR strums his guitar, beginning the long six month to six year wait for JL.  DD comes home, reporting that he was kicked out of the funeral.  Chuck said that DD’s father killed C’s father.  DD wonders if RR thought of going to the funeral.  RR says that wouldn’t be okay.  Then DD says he and SS are friends only even thought they’ve been hanging out a lot lately.  RR says good and DD over-analyzes and questions why his being just friends with SS is so good for RR.  Of course, RR is looking at the big picture of six months to six years, and does not want step-siblings hooking up because that would be step-incest and JL might judge that and dump him again.

 

B and BN try to make C eat at the funeral. Actually, B is the one trying to help while BN stands by all pretty and quiet.  C leaves and BN says B is maternal.  She says she’s been hanging out with PapaCy too much and is turning Jewish.  Heh heh. 

 

PapaCy tells NM that funerals make him think of death too much.  He wants to get married tomorrow instead of waiting.  B buts in and says no way because she was all for their marriage only if she’s away at college and not involved.  NM thinks it’s romantic.  KJ comes out of nowhere again and offers to make NM a wedding dress by 7 AM because she owes her an all-nighter and wants to make amends.  Really?  As much as KJ was wrong in turning her back on everyone, she really doesn’t owe NM anything considering NM took credit for KJ’s designs. 

 

UPA wants SS to go to Buenos Aires with him for the holidays.  She needs to take care of her family.  UPA thinks she wants to stay for DD.  He says that trip is his gift to her and her coming can be her gift to him.  She says, But I bought you a book.  HIL. AIR. EEE. US!  That?  Was awesome.  I bought you a plane ticket so you bought me a book.  Classic.  She’s left to think about it.

 

Granny pulls JL aside to ask what Chuck knows about JL and RR.  JL says that Chuck has already told what he knows.  Granny insists that JL go find Chuck.  Then Granny gets a call, gets mean, and goes downstairs to meet someone.

 

Jonathan shows up to talk to SE.  Aww, young love.

 

Chuck is tearing through files, looking more and more like a neurotic vampire.  He tells JL she should be worried.  He refuses to look at her because she disgusts him because she disrespected the family by hanging out with RR the poor man.  She blames Chuck for making his father get in the car and for meddling.  He says the blood is on her hands so she smacks him across the face to show that her hands have no blood at all.  She immediately apologizes.  He says when he gets his money, he’ll disappear.

 

Chuck goes to leave downstairs, and SE tries to stop him.  SE says that he’s buried his step-father and doesn’t want to lose his brother.  Chuck says, We’re not brothers.  Oh.  Knife to my heart.  That’s so sad because Chuck was the only one who treated SE like a person when SE was still suicidal and just came out.  They really were brothers and their relationship has been so endearing.  So sad!

 

Chuck heads out and B follows even though BN tells her not to.  The writers have really made BoringNate out to be a really bad friend in times of need.  Sure, he’s there, but he’s not doing anything. 

 

Granny tells JL that she found out that the super secret about JL is in enemy hands and they should sell the info to the highest bidder.  JL thinks it’s the worst time to let the super secret come out.  Granny says it’s the best time to reveal the super secret.

 

B finds C on the street and wants to go with him.  She wants to be there for him.  He tells her she’s not his girlfriend.  She says that he’s him and she’s her.  Then she says—and she must be reading my recaps to say this—they are ChuckAndBlair, BlairAndChuck.  She will stand by him through anything.  He asks why and she says, Because I love you.  Oh. My. God.  SHE SAID IT!  She said I LOVE YOU.  He says, That’s too bad, and leaves in the limo.  Nooooooo!

 

SS tells DD that UPA invited her to Buenos Aires.  I have no idea where they are or why they’re walking in the rain.  He says she should pack a bikini.  She goes back to the conversation they never finished at the Snowflake Ball and how neither of them wound up sleeping with the UberTools.  She wants him to tell her not to go with UPA, but DD refuses to tell her what she should do. Then he mumbles really quickly and leaves.

 

At home, PapaCy tells B that they are family.  She says that C is as soulless as ever even after she admitted she loves him.  Then she cries.  PC says that C needs time.  They hug.  Then B asks for more hugging.  Finally, B has a parent who treats her lovingly.

 

Granny haunts JL some more, asking what JL’s going to do about loving RR.  JL has tried to fight it, but she can’t stop loving him.  SS overhears, realizes why C was so upset.  Then for no apparent reason, she points out that FatherSlime is dead.  JL reminds her that she stopped being with RR so SS could be with DD.  SS says that UPA asked her to go to Buenos Aires and she’s going to go…if that’s okay with JL.  Nice way of sort of asking permission.  JL is happy to let her go off to a foreign land with someone she barely knows.  SS tells JL to be with RR.

 

DD finds KJ in her room at the Poor House.  She’s steaming NM’s outfit.  She tells DD that if he plays the game, he’ll get the girl.  She orders him to carry the garment bag so that he can come along to NM’s wedding and see SS there.

 

JL calls RR to ask him to go away for the holidays since the kids are all away somewhere.  Wait a minute.  Where’s SuicidalEric going to be?  The Humphrey kids are going to their mom’s and SS is going abroad, but what about SE?  Nice one, JL.  And nice not to care about C, even though he hates you.  Such a bad parent.  RR can’t wait six months to six years, so he agrees to go with JL.

 

The private dick brings C the super secret information because C is the only bidder.  Granny told the detective that she was going public with the info, but he doesn’t believe it.  C doesn’t know if he should buy the info if it’s going to be public anyway.  Private Dick tells him to make a wise decision since he’s going to be the richest kid in New York.

 

At the Waldorf house before the wedding, SS tells UPA she’s going away with him.  KJ and DD arrive.  DD says he carried the garment bag—an OBVIOUS reference to Dirty Dancing’s Baby saying she carried a watermelon.  UPA checks on PC.  DD tells SS he doesn’t want her to go with UPA.  She says that JL and RR are in love and she can’t ask JL to stop loving RR a second time when things between SS and DD never work out.  Then B interrupts to get SS’s fashion advice.  SS hugs DD and says she’ll be in touch post-holiday.

 

Chuck meets with JL, saying he can’t believe she’s going to go public with her super secret.  She says it’s Granny’s decision.  He says Granny lied.  She begs him not to turn his back on the people FatherSlime didn’t trust.

 

NM and PC get married.  UPA and SS hold hands at the ceremony.  B tears up.  Servant Lady smiles and gets teary eyed.

 

MUSICAL MONTAGE!  The wedding ends with laughter and clapping. DD walks the streets depressed and brooding.  Chuck burns the super secret info.  JL removes her ring.  RR wears a too-tight turtleneck as he packs his guitar .  B laughs as champagne is poured.  PC toasts to the Waldorf-Rosens.  B finds C in her room and snaps at him for a second but he’s completely broken so she cradles him and he falls into her and he’s so lost.  Swooooon.

 

RR busily scribbles a note at home.  No doubt, this is how he’s informing his children about his going away for the holidays and have a good Christmas and all without making sure they get to their mom’s or anything.

 

ETA: I was right about the note.  Upon pausing my DVR, I could see what it said.  It’s written in that dad-like all-caps handwriting except for when he’s writing the closing.

 

Dear Dan and Jenny,

I’m going out of town for a few days.  Don’t worry–it’s all good and when I return hopefully we’ll have lots to talk about.  Your mom is expecting you tomorrow and is going to pick you up at the train.

Have a great holiday.

Love you gu…

 

This?  Is bad parenting.  Don’t worry it’s all good?  What middle-aged man says that?  Certainly not one who wears too-tight turtlenecks (although I have to admit he is a hottie).  Have a great holiday?  Like he has to be politically correct towards his children.  Dude, it’s okay to say Merry Christmas when you know your offspring don’t bask in the glow of Kwanzaa candles.

 

Granny arrives in Poor Brooklyn.  She wants JL to be happy.  He doesn’t want Granny to come between him and JL.  Granny says the problem is that JL’s in love with RR and they can never be together if JL holds onto her super secret.

 

UPA decides that the first time he and SS sleep together will be on the airplane.  They cuddle in the limo with a neck pillow.

 

RR broods in the dark Poor House when DD arrives home from his brooding walk.  DD sarcastically thanks RR for not telling him that RR and JL are in love again.  RR says that SS doesn’t know what she’s talking about and that the note and the packing mean nothing because RR isn’t going anywhere.

 

DD calls SS.  She doesn’t want to answer the phone in front of UPA.  He says she can because he knows she still has some feelings for DD and he wants her to work them out because UPA is falling in love with her.  She ignores the call and macks it with UPA.  Omigod, she fell for that.  The only reason he said that was so she wouldn’t answer the phone.

 

ANOTHER MUSICAL MONTAGE!  UPA and SS mack it.  B and C spoon on her bed.  JL waits in Grand Central with her bags for RR.

 

RR arrives in Grand Central with an angry frown.  He storms up to JL and says: Tell me one thing—was it a boy or a girl?  That’s it?  She was pregnant and got an abortion, no doubt forced to by Granny? That’s the super secret?  I was hoping she was a hermaphrodite or something.

 

Back to B’s house.  She’s now alone with only a note:

 

I’m sorry for everything.

 

You deserve much better.

 

Don’t come looking for me.

 

Chuck

 

Nooooooooooooo.  Not my ChuckAndBlair!!!!!!!!!

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 12: It’s A Wonderful Lie

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Dopplegangers!

 

Highlights: JudgyLily decides to chuck Father Slime; ChuckSlime and Blair get together only as clones; Another tool joins the box; the love rhombus with KleptoJenny, LongLostVanessa, and BoringNate reshapes and reshapes and reshapes

 

Gossip Girl’s Guide To Surviving A New York City Winter: Cashmere sweater for ice skating, gourmet hot chocolate for window shopping, and a perfect date to the Senior Snowflake Ball.  One of these things is not like the others, but sure sounds like fun.

 

Blair can’t wait to see the creme de la creme of the ball attendants.  Slutty Serena has no time to think about it.  ChuckSlime disapproves of all the guys who want to bring Blair because he’s in love with her. Aw.  True love is hating every guy who wants to bone the girl who has your heart.

 

SluttySerena literally runs into DownerDan and shows him all the profound books she’s bought at one of those poor people used book shops.  She’s not reading them herself.  She’s giving them to UberPretentiousAaron for Hanukah.  Ouch; nice to use the knowledge from one relationship to benefit another and never use it yourself.  UPA can’t go to the Snowflake Ball, but SS is still going to go because she likes Anna Karenina.  DD wants to go, too, and they’ll both be going solo.  They will hang out together at the ball, and UPA will have no problem with it because he’s friends with his own ex.  Meaning he’s totally doing it with her.

 

LongLostVanessa arrives at The Poor House to find KleptoJenny rearranging RockinRufus’s vinyl by genre because she has nothing better to do because she has no future anymore.  The one thing she can’t stop thinking about is BoringNate.  LLV suggests KJ move on.  Then LLV’s phone rings.  It’s BN of course.  LLV goes to leave for the gallery so she can quickly return his call.  She bumps into RandomGirl on her way out.  Here’s the priceless exchange:  “Oh hello weird documentary girl” “Goodbye sad wannabe Blair.”  How much do I love this show?

 

RandomGirl wants to commission a dress from KJ for the Snowflake Ball.  The chickadees keep biting off her.  KJ hates her but gets to overcharge for her designs so she agrees.

 

RR finds JudgyLily on the street outside The Ball.  She hasn’t spoken to FatherSlime since Thanksgiving and doesn’t plan to until the New Year.  RR may go to the dance but isn’t sure he wants to.  Then he runs away when  FS shows up wanting to talk.

 

At the Poor Gallery, UPA’s uber pretentious ex is mocking all the art.  SS and DD show up and can we feel the tension, people?  I love it when exes meet exes. 

 

Meanwhile, BN is slumming it hardcore yet again by mackin it with LLV.  He wants her to go to the Snowflake Ball.  That’s the gayest date request I’ve ever heard.  She hesitates and he realizes that LLV hasn’t told KJ about them.  I guess that means that they’re an item.  BN doesn’t want to come between friends, but he insists that KJ blew him off and doesn’t care.  He says he’s happy with being with LLV.  By default.  She tells him to reign in his horses before they make the front page of Gossip Girl.

 

RandomGirl asks KJ what the story is between her and BN because she wants to ask him to The Ball.  Then she reminds KJ that the Upper East Side is way better and richer than Brooklyn so there was no way things would work out with KJ and BN.  Then they both get a text blast from GG—a picture of BN mackin it with LLV.  It’s a real close up, too.  Seriously, these people need to be a little more aware of their surroundings.

 

JL doesn’t like that FS has shown up at a school function to talk to her.  He’s fired his private investigator and promises to try to not control her or the kids because he realizes that he’s a sucky husband.  He vows to change in time for The Ball.  She leaves without answering him.

 

SS complains to UPA that his ex is too protective of him.  Meanwhile, his ex is being uber pretentious towards DD at the Poor Cafe Bar in the Poor Gallery.  She wants gourmet stuff and DD practically hands over some DunkinDonuts.  Wow, another tool in the mix.   DD agrees to give UPEx a tour of Brooklyn.  UPA agrees to go to the Snowflake Ball.  They all agree to be tools. 

 

At the Poor House, LLV arrives all happy until KJ points out the text blast from Gossip Girl.  LLV says that KJ kissed BN behind her back first.  KJ says she felt guilty about it and backed off and calls LLV desperate.  LLV says she’s going to go to the Snowflake Ball with BN, dangit!

 

Now for my favorite part of the show—any scene with Blair and ChuckSlime, filled with sexual tension and true love without ever speaking of either.  ChuckSlime informs Blair that he must choose her date to the Snowflake Ball to prove he knows her better than anyone else.  She says she has to pick his date then.  Of course, this all turns into a bet.  Blair gets CS’s limo for a month if he likes his date.  He wants ServantLady if Blair likes hers.  Leave it to these two to put a person up as ante for a bet.

 

Oh, jeez.  Buzzkill.  The Tool Quartet is trolling around the city, discussing, well, who cares?  Something pretentious that SS has no clue about most likely.  UPEx wheedles a date out of DD so now all four are going to the Snowflake Ball together.  I didn’t think this would happen but I love it when opposite exes get together—that makes everything all that much more awkward.  In this case, however, it’s too much toolage.  Hang on—did UPA say that UPEx is bisexual?  Let’s leave it at a maybe for now because I’m too annoyed by the four of them to actually go back and find out for sure.

 

FS is leaving for a meeting in Miami, but first berates CS for opening the file safe.  Nice progress in their relationship.

 

KJ arrives at RG’s to discuss fashion.  The chickadees tell KJ that LLV sucks.  One of the chickadees tries on a dress to find out that it’s see-through.  Then KJ tells them that LLV is going to the ball with BN.  They plan to somehow make LLV wear the unlined dress, I think, but I have no idea how they’ll do that.

 

Blair chooses shoes from her closet while bragging to SS that she will so find the right date for CS.  SS says that seeing exes with others is awkward and that she found out UPEx “extends” herself to guys on a first date.  Oh, so she’s slutty like Serena, and not bisexual.  She wants to give DD the heads up.  Blair points out that guys don’t exactly care and DD doesn’t think about SS having sex with UPA.  SS hasn’t slept with UPA, though.

 

KJ comes to the Poor Cafe and Gallery to deliver the see-through dress to LLV.  She calls it a peace offering.  LLV agrees to try it on.

 

Blair is crucifying ServantLady because they can’t find the perfect date for CS.  SL joined Facebook to find the girls, but it’s not working.  Blair describes herself to describe his perfect date, but it can’t be her.  SL doesn’t want to shine CS’s shoes for a month and Blair says, “His shoes if you’re lucky.”  OMG, total handjob reference.

 

DD calls SS as he walks down the street, complaining about the price of renting clothes.  He asks if she’s okay with him going to the ball with UPEx and she says sure, which is a lie.  They hang up and SS thanks UPA for going with her to the ball.  Then she wants to thank him properly.  Meaning sleeping with him. 

 

LLV has the dress on and they agree it’s great.  LLV says that she’s always been jealous of KJ because growing up, KJ and DD had it all.  Then she tries to continue but BN calls and interrupts.  KJ leaves and LLV wants to talk to him in person.

 

JL calls home to tell FS that she’s waiting for him to go to the Snowflake Ball.  FS is in a meeting with the investigator FS said he’d fired.  She calls back to tell FS that her plans have changed—she’s not going to wait and he shouldn’t show up.

 

Snowflake Ball Time!!!!!  Ooh, really bad dancing!  The chickadees plan to play a particular song when LLV walks in and get DroopyHazel’s “new boyfriend” to shine his spotlight on LLV, exposing her underwear, ooh or lack thereof!, through the dress. RandomGirl asks BN to save her a dance.

 

Remember Natasha Liukin from the Summer Olympics (whose name I’m probably spelling incorrectly)?  Yeah, well, I’m pretty sure that’s her, hitting on Chuck Bass.  Blair cockblocks and asks where her date is.  She introduces him to Justine, a practical look-alike.  He brings out a practical-Chuck look-alike as Blair’s date.  Heh heh.

 

DD awkwardly dances with UPEx, who tells him that SS and UPA haven’t had sex because that’s typical first date conversation.  He says he doesn’t care.  He so does.

 

Blair and CS are not happy with the people they’ve been set up with.  Neither wants to concede.

 

JL shows up to the dance.  RR shows up to the dance.  I suppose they’re chaperones, but I think they feel as if it’s really their own dance because they both act like children.  They dance together when JL says she’s leaving FS for herself and wants nothing from him. 

 

DD and SS both stand in awkward solo poses in the middle of the room until they notice one another.  They talk about how they each seem to be having a good time.  He says he knows the plan for SS to sleep with UPA later.  She says there’s nothing to talk about, and she knows that UPEx plans on seducing DD.  He gets all Dan about it, overanalyzing and being a major tool.  Then they do weird innappropriate touching.  She thought sex meant something to DD.  He says he hasn’t had it in a while.  She gets frustrated with his tooldom and leaves.

 

LLV finds KJ at the dance and wonders why she’s there.  She sees BN behind her, wiping off his suit, but I don’t know if they had been talking.  LLV says she’s going to end things with BN.  She didn’t want to hurt KJ.  The chickadees are wondering when the big sheer reveal will happen.  LLV approaches BN who says she looks gorgeous.  She wants him to be quiet and look pretty as she breaks things off with him.  She’s never felt this way about anyone else and then shows him the letter she took away from KJ’s house and admits she stole it before KJ saw it.  Then she cries and tries to leave. 

 

That’s when the chickadees hit the spotlight and LLV’s all, well, actually, you can’t see a thing.  BN stands mesmerized.  Then he has a blank look on his face. Everyone cackles in slow motion echo except for KJ who offers her jacket and BN who looks on in indifference-bordering-some-sort-of-emotion.

 

BN pulls KJ aside to ask, Did you do that to Vanessa?, as if he’s a first grade teacher.  He says that LLV didn’t deserve public humiliation simply because LLV went behind KJ’s back and lied and ruined everything between her and BN.  He then shows the letter to KJ and says that he wrote it to tell her his true feelings and that LLV stole it and felt so bad that she confessed.  KJ knows that BN thinks she’s horrible.  BN is happy she didn’t get the letter because she’s not who he thought she was.

 

OMIGOD, I LOVE THIS SHOW.  CS and Blair are all ornery and they find the look-alikes making out.  Blair claps her hands at them and shouts, “Hey! Explain this!”  The CS wannabe has a higher-whisper voice, like CS’s, and explains that when CS and B walked off, he and Justine the B wannabe liked each other.  B gave Justine the headband.  Ha!  Dopplegangers can work it out, but the real thing won’t work.  Oh!  The agony!!!

 

JL feels horrible about having to leave FS and she never thought her life would turn out this way.  RR says something about her smiling and faking it.  She wants him to tell her something he shouldn’t.  He let her go on her wedding day because he wasn’t sure what he needed and wasn’t sure he could give her what she needed.  He’s full of regret for that decision.  CS sees them talking.  The ball is so not the appropriate place for this conversation. 

 

FS is in a limo with the detective who insists on finishing the job even though he’s been fired.  CS calls FS to tell him that JL is at the Snowflake Ball with RR and she’s figured something out.  FS asks the detective what he knows.

 

CS finds JL and admonishes her behavior now because she’s been good for the Bass family.  He says that FS is on his way. 

 

LLV is outside getting into a cab.  Wow, that took a long time to leave the ball.  BN runs after her and asks if she did anything more than steal his letter to KJ.  She says that was all.  He admits that when she walked away, he realized that she was the one he wants to be with.  Then they mack it. Again.  I really don’t like this—mostly because I don’t like BN with anyone because I want him to be with me because I’m a sucker for pretty boys, man bangs, and 23 year olds.

 

The chickadees accost KJ and scold her for trying to save LLV.  KJ can’t imagine why she wanted to be one of them and says LLV is ten times the person they will ever be. 

 

Everyone at the ball at this point is making out.  Except for B and CS.  He wants B to dance with her.  She says there’s no point because they’ll never be like that.  He says he would never change them if it meant losing what they have.  She wants to know what they have.  He says, “Tonight.”  Then they dance together and I go completely gaga all over again.  I heart ChuckAndBlair!!!

 

Then JL gets a restricted call on her cell. 

 

UPEx wants to leave with DD alone.  He doesn’t want to be rude and leave without the other tool duo.  SS wants to talk to DD alone so the other exes go to get separate cabs.  She apologizes for the way she acted earlier.  She doesn’t want him to do what he wants to do without her clearing the air.  He says it’s clear and doesn’t need an apology.  He’s happy they can both go with clean air.  Awwwkkkkkwwwwwaaaarrrrdddd silence.  Then he says that sleeping with her was the greatest night of his night.  She says it was hers, too.

 

JL runs up to SS looking for CS.  She says FS has been in an accident.  Which means we need to batten down the hatches for the most evil version of Chuck we’ve ever witnessed.  Which means my tinglies are in for quite a ride.

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 11: The Magnificent Archibalds

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Thank Goodness For Poverty

Highlights: The Captain goes felonious; Suicidal Eric learns the truth about judgment; LongLostVanessa and KleptoJenny make up, and so do BoringNate and ChuckSlime

 

Thanksgiving again!  We don’t have any flashbacks like last Thanksgiving.   Instead, GG is equating the destruction of an entire native culture with Blair’s need to move because of PapaCyrus.  B wants to have a perfect Thanksgiving this year even though GayDaddy isn’t coming.  SluttySerena tells her she can come but only for a while because UberPretentiousAaron, her non-boyfriend, is meeting the van-der-Woodsen-Bass clan.  B thinks that SS doesn’t like him since she’s showing him off.  SS doesn’t want to date anyone else, which is typical of girls who are dating boys who don’t want to be exclusive.

 

DownerDan shows up at school looking for KleptoJenny.  RockinRufus can’t find her anywhere.  SS says KJ has been spending time with SuicidalEric.  He tells SS to have a happy Thanksgiving.

 

Then BoringNate accidentally (wink wink) bumps into DD in the hallway.  Oh, to touch the ex-boyfriend but only for a second more.  ChuckSlime runs into BN but BN wants to brush him off, still distraught over losing all the loves of his life in one fell swoop.  The lesson here is clear: Don’t get yourself involved in a love rhombus.  BN chooses slumming over CS.

 

KJ and SE are finding out about how to divorce your parents.  KJ is surprised to hear that her parents will be notified.  The woman in charge explains it: They need to know you no longer want to be their child.  Heh heh.  Only one polysyllabic word in that explanation.

 

LongLostVanessa tells DD that she’s going to watch a German film and eat frozen turkey on Thanksgiving.  DD invites her to stay at the Poor House for the holiday but she doesn’t want to see KJ.  He says that KJ will be a no show.  LLV thinks KJ is having Thanksgiving with BN, but DD explains that BN doesn’t talk to KJ anymore.  RR comes in babbling about Tokyo, SketchyAgnes, and KJ.  He wants to call the cops.  DD says that KJ is with SE.  RR immediately calls JudgyLily and asks to speak to KJ.  JL says that KJ isn’t there.  RR says she’s been staying with SE.  Then JL finds KJ’s sewing machine which really isn’t all that hidden.

 

BoringMom is dragging BN through a hotel, telling him they’ve run out of options.  Then they drop in to Captain Ahab, who’s been in hiding.  His disguise: weird, old man facial peach fuzz and a fluffy sweater in lieu of a suit.  BN is angry that he’s been squatting while Captain Crunch has been livin’ it up in the Caribbean.  Captain wants them all to move to Domenica and they leave the decision up to BN.  Because once again, children should make adult decisions.  Then again, in reviewing the track record here, BN probably is the best qualified.

 

Speaking of bad parenting, RR and JL are taking a stroll along the water and the cold doesn’t seem to be affecting them even though it’s November in NYC (then again, RR walked from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side in a sweater while it was snowing, so it’s fitting). JL didn’t know that KJ was living at her place until today.  JL insists that she mediate between RR and KJ and that KJ stay with the van-der-Woodsen-Bass Clan for Thanksgiving because they are a family.  RR tells her to give KJ marshmallows. 

 

SS calls B and tells her that UPA is probably out with a girl.  B is baking. SS wants to make new traditions.

 

SE finds FatherSlime home early.  SE texts KJ not to come up and tells FS that things may not work out with Jonathan.  FS thinks Jonathan is schtupping the swim team captain.  SE finds CS to ask why FS would say that.  CS explains that FS has a dossier on everyone in the world.

 

SS is impressed with UPA’s romantic dinner.  He says she’s all he thinks of, especially when he’s hittin’ up other girls.  He’s now a one-woman man, most likely out of convenience.  She’s overjoyed and wants champagne.  He explains that he’s sober.  She says she used to party, but now she’s stone cold.  Because she changes who she is to be with the boy she likes.

 

FS and JL catch SE on his way out.  She calls him out on the whole KJ living there in hiding situation.

 

B finds PapaCy in the kitchen, eating her pie, and critiquing it.  She asks NastyMom why she’s letting PC ruin everything.  Heh heh. I love hyperbole.  NM says that PC made reservations at B’s favorite restaurant and B needs to get with the program.  B complains to Servant Lady.  SL shows B a ring that PC proposed to NM with and says that they’re going to tell everyone at Thanksgiving dinner.

 

JL tells KJ that she saw RR and they need to work things out because RR loves her.  KJ thanks her and goes to bed.  I don’t know how KJ suddenly goes deaf or beams herself out of earshot so quickly, but JL calls after her and she doesn’t hear.  So JL does what any normal person would do; she goes through KJ’s bag.  She finds the emancipation papers.

 

RR and DD are food shopping for Thanksgiving, which apparently not a busy holiday from the looks of the store.  DD tells RR he should actually tell KJ that he misses her.  They bump into UPA who lives around the corner, whom they’ve never bumped into before, and he says he’s picking up food for [dramatic pause].  DD says that he can hear her name. 

 

Now it’s a Convergence of All Things Tool as DD wants UPA to say hi to SS for him and then babbles on about FS and RR and JL and how it’s so complicated even though it was a full year ago and SS doesn’t like cheese and suggests wine.  UPA says that SS no longer drinks so DD sees that as a reason to bring up SS’s alcoholic binge when Georgina/Sara was in town.  Man, now I don’t know who’s douchier.

 

B complains to NM about not wanting to hear “the news” but NM refuses to admit to any “news” on the horizon.  B decides not to go to dinner.

 

BN bumps into LLV at the Poor Gallery and Café where she plans to get some paperwork done.  He’s dropping off The Pixies Boxset (really?  really) and he wrote a thank you note to RR, no doubt in girly handwriting.  He can’t take it to the Poor House because of the awkward aftermath of the love rhombus fallout.  He says that he’s alienated everyone he knows and tells LLV to take care.

 

SS barges into CS’s room fro a word and he tells her to hike up her dress.  No, it’s not a date rape moment, yet.  She wants him to promise not to tell UPA anything about her because she wants it to come out naturally.  CS could care less and goes to FS’s study.  UPA arrives miserable about the Georgina news and SS stumbles over her words to cover until she simply calls DD a liar and jealous.  Now she’s the tool.  The three of them deserve each other.

 

JL calls RR to order him to walk from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side again.  RR tells DD to tell LLV not to come because Thanksgiving is canceled.

 

LLV gets stopped on the street near the Poor Gallery.  Some guy wants to talk to her about BN.

 

CS and SE are opening FS’s safe.  Gold bars and files are inside.  LLV calls CS to tell him that BN’s in trouble with the FBI.  CS decides reluctantly to help and leaves SE to the files. 

 

B walks along with SL, scolding her that there’s nothing to be thankful for.  SL wants to feed the ducks.

 

JL tries to force SS to drink and SS reminds her that she’s only 17.  Good parenting.  Then UPA talks to JL about all the paintings in the house. 

 

SE is freaking out to KJ about the FS’s dossier on him.  KJ asks about SS’s and JL’s files.  Then she calls him “E.”  Since when is that his nickname? She can’t find her emancipation papers anywhere.  DD shows up and UPA asks why he lied about SS.

 

JL shows RR the emancipation papers. KJ catches them looking at her papers and is not too happy about it.

 

DD and UPA show up in SS’s room to confront her about who lied to whom.  DD lies and says that he lied to UPA and UPA says, That’s not cool man.  Omigod, I hate them all. Then UPA leaves and DD reminds her that the truth always comes out. In walks SE with everyone’s files of truth.

 

BN arrives at the Poor Gallery again to meet up with LLV, CS, and the FBI guy. They tell him that Oh Captain My Captain has been planning a kidnapping to get ransom money to live on and that he and his mom are the kidnappees.  BN is on the verge of tears.  CS says that the only way to end it is to turn the Captain and Tenille in.

 

KJ babbles about burned dresses.  RR says he misses KJ and is willing to let her go to get her back because he won’t stop loving her.  Um, NO NO NO NO NO.  Be a parent, dammit! She probably won’t be granted emancipation anyway since there’s really no neglect.  At least not until recently when RR gave up and turned to his guitar for solace.  She thinks he’s giving her a guilt trip and leaves.

 

JL confronts FS about the dossiers.  He wants to protect them all.  JL thinks it shows a lack of trust.  She drags her kids away because he’s not for family.

 

BN arrives at the Captain’s place to say that he knows about the kidnapping plan and loves him but can’t respect him.  He gives the Captain the option to get some sack and turn himself in or run away.  BN refuses to live in a mess. 

 

JL brings SE to a restaurant.  SS has gone off with her own file.  SE says he read JL’s file.  He can’t believe she didn’t tell him she was in an institution when she was 19 and that her telling him would have helped him when he was in the institution.  Let me say that again: JUDGY LILY WAS INSTITUTIONALIZED WHEN SHE WAS 19.  SE becomes the parent as usual and tells her she can talk about it when she’s comfortable with it. 

 

SS arrives at B’s dinner while B isn’t there.  She gives the file to UPA and says that DD didn’t lie and UPA can read all about SS’s indiscretions.  Then he can decide if he wants to be with her.  Then she tells NM where B is after texting her.

 

KJ bumps into B and SL on the street.  They both complain about their parents.  B says that RR will go anywhere for KJ and NM won’t do the same.  Then NM shows up, gives KJ a scarf, and tells B to come home to show her something.  They bring KJ home too.

 

Captain Kirk kisses BMom and hugs BN.  He turns himself in.  BMom cries.  BN whimpers.  Then they magically transport themselves to their condemned abandoned house where LLV and CS somehow know they’ll be.  They’re still squatting but now that Captain is no longer on the lam, they have their assets back.    BN tells LLV he hasn’t heard from KJ so now he’s available for her again.  Didn’t it not work out the first time because she lived in Brooklyn and it had nothing to do with KJ?  Nothing’s changed so why would it work now?  CS tells BN they’re going to go get drunk.

 

B comes home and finds GayDaddy there.  That’s the big surprise.  B thought NM and PC were getting engaged.  NM explains that she wanted GayD’s approval first because PC would be the step-dad for his daughter. 

 

RR and DD arrive at the Poor House and find KJ already there.  She loves RR too and wants to be part of the Poor Humphreys.  They all hug each other at once. Suddenly, it’s The Waltons.

 

UPA arrives at SS’s bedroom and doesn’t want to read the dossier.  He wants to hear it all from her in time.

 

JL comes over to the Poor House with SE to have dinner because that’s where real families go because only the poverty-stricken know what it’s like to really have to be thankful.  LLV arrives too.  She and KJ have an awkward moment, but now that LLV secretly has BN back, everyone can be friends again.  Hooray!  DD gives KJ her mail but RR pulls her away to eat marshmallows first.  On top of the stack of mail is BN’s letter, waiting to be read.

 

GG is thankful for a lot this year:

 

Rekindling old friendships, like CS and BN drinking in the limo.  Aww, it’s good to see the boyfriends together again.

 

New relationships of the tool variety like SS and UPA.

 

How close we get by being ourselves, like Gay Daddy finally being gay.

 

How you can always go home again, no matter how poor your home is.

 

Now FS wants to find out why JL was institutionalized and he makes a phone call to find out. 

 

LLV goes to call her parents.  She finds BN’s letter.  She reads it.  BN declares his caring for KJ.  LLV does what any good friend and confident would do to someone who is part of a family that has taken her in for the holidays—she gets rid of the letter immediately, thinking, Boring Nate is mine, bitch, mine mine mine!

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 10: Bonfire of the Vanities

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The Roof, The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire

Highlights:  DownerDan grows a pair; KleptoJenny makes a lousy firefighter; SluttySerena dates the most pretentious boy in all the land; NastyMom dates;  B finds herself on the other end of the manipulation stick; The Bass Family Empire forms a new bond; RockinRufus realizes that he’s the root of the arrogance in the Humphrey trio

 

RockinRufus is doing what any dad would do after finding out that his daughter has run away to move in with a better family—making pasta sauce and clinging to his son.  DownerDan got a recommendation from Shapiro after he sent off his Bass story.  KleptoJenny is now living with SketchyAgnes, and RR met with the mom who is just enough June Cleaver to pass inspection.

 

Blair reminisces to the chickadees about dressing up with SluttySerena as a child and now she’s turning 18.  She has to meet her mom’s new boyfriend, Cyrus, an old friend of NastyMom.  SS can’t stop texting UberPretentiousAaron and wants martinis at B’s party.

 

KleptoJenny and SketchyAgnes are meeting with a business manager.  They can’t agree on the name of their brand.  KJ wants herself to be the brand while SketchyAgnes insist on having the line named after her.  They start bickering in front of the guy. Then they tear out of there and it’s all SA’s fault.  They need a manager to meet with buyers.

 

Servant Lady is preparing for NastyMom’s boyfriend to come over.  B wants to put about twelve dozen white roses on the table and wants to use the good China, dammit.  Then Cyrus appears.  Small.  Bald.  Lisping.  How perfect.  It’s Cyrus Rose, who is reminiscent of the description of that bald Rose character from Candace Bushnell’s book, Trading Up. 

 

ChuckSlime has gotten hockey tickets for FatherSlime.  FatherSlime says that the gesture is nice but misguided because FS has no time for hockey.  Meaning he has no time for his son.  Meaning CS killed his mother and FS will never forgive him for it.

 

DD shows up at a restaurant to pick up a letter from Shapiro.  Shapiro introduces DD to the lead editor of New York Magazine.  The editor wants DD to write a story on the real Bass family because it’s the anniversary of Bass Industries Taking Over The Universe.  They want DD to go undercover and dig up dirt, the same kind of dirt he used in his short story which was completely obvious in being based on the Bass family.  DD doesn’t want to make enemies, but Shapiro tells him to get some sack and do it.

 

SS is roaming around Time Square (Upper East Siders NEVER do that) and sees herself on a jumbo video billboard.  UberPretentiousAaron appears behind her.  This guy is getting annoying real quick.  He wants SS to pose for him.  That’s how all artists get to see naked girls.  They call it an art project and next thing you know, you’re all naked all over for the world to see. 

 

B meets up with SS to tell her that Cyrus is unsuitable; she expected Cary Grant and got Danny DeVito.  SS has to go because she needs to be UberPretentiousAaron’s muse.  B says that it won’t work out and UPA will leave her when he moves on to cubism.  SS calls B Grace Kelly and B decides to tolerate Cyrus for the time being.

 

DD finishes up interviewing FatherSlime.  FS is happy to help DD learn about construction because DD is a friend of SS.  DD wants to shadow FS after school for a few days.  He says that his own dad has a narrow world and is poor.  FS calls RR a fine man but knows that DD is right and FS is much better and richer.  He offers DD two days a week to be his son.

 

KJ screeches at SA for not showing up to meetings.  SA is hung over after hanging out with CreepyMax.  KJ left her fifteen messages and is angry that they have no business managers.  SA may do it today if she can get out from under her big hat.  KJ laments that she left her school and job and her dad hates her and clothes is all she has.  SA goes to throw up.  KJ steals her food and calls the business guy from the day before.

 

FS offers for DD to go to a hockey game with him because FS is trying to replace the son who killed his beloved wife with another more acceptable son.  CS shows up and sees that he’s being replaced by DD.  DD leaves after having caused enough strife.

 

Cyrus thinks that flowers for 18 dollars is too steep.  B mumbles maniacally about being Grace Kelly and says she wants to use her own florist and not a cheaper one.  B used to reenact Cyndi Lauper with NastyMom.  Cyrus says he got tickets to Cyndi Lauper so he and NastyMom will be out of her way.  B wants her mom at the party.  NastyMom chooses the Cyndi Lauper tickets because B is a fatty.  You know, FatherSlime and NastyMom would make a much better pairing rather than JudgyLily and FatherSlime.

 

KJ arrives at the business guy’s office, saying that she severed ties with Sketchy Agnes.  He says he’ll be happy to work with her.  She says, Awesome, which is now her response to everything.  The guy asks if she’s 18 and she says she’s 15.  He says that he needs her parents’ signature on a permission slip.  Not feeling too good about making your dad hate you now, huh, KJ?

 

SS meanwhile acts like a muse for UPA.  He wants her to do nothing and be still.  He’s got on some uber hipster music.  He has SS lounge over a chair and pretty soon he’s gonna have her naked.  They mack it.  This is exactly what KJ was doing with CreepyMax. 

 

CS sees DD meet Shapiro at New York Magazine.  He calls up some girl he knows who interns there. He will find out what DD is up to.  I feel an “I’m Chuck Bass” moment coming soon.

 

UberPretentiousAaron has made a montage of all the images of SS from the day before.  She’s all giggly about it.  Wasn’t this the same kind of exhibit DD made for her with snow and stuff when she took DD’s virginity?  Then some other girl shows up to model for UPA.  She thought that modeling was her thing so she leavs.  The other model drinks SS’s coffee.

 

DD gets an email and thinks he’s already cracked the Bass Secret Code.

 

B berates NastyMom about the characteristics of Cyrus, all of which are unlike B’s dad.  NastyMom needs to get her hair done for the Cyndi Lauper show.  B thinks the tiny man Cyrus has a big secret that makes him bad for NM.

 

Some chubby guy wearing flannel meets with DD on a street corner and tells him that FS got her start up cash by burning down his own building and collecting insurance.  DD runs home to tell RockinRufus about his new-found knowledge of Bass Arson.  RR thinks that telling the world will ruin everyone’s lives.  DD thinks he’s more important than everyone else.  Then RR gets a call that says KJ is missing.

 

B is eating with Cyrus, saying her mom is happy with him.  Cyrus knew NM was the one.  B asks if he was romantic with his ex-wife.  He says no and tells B that he was too young and wasn’t passionate when he got married at first, so when he went to Vietnam in the draft, he fell in love with Kim Lee, the Vietnamese girl.  He decided to end his marriage, but found out Kim Lee was killed in her village.  B shows a facial expression akin to remorse.  Cyrus couldn’t stay in a loveless marriage anyway, but remained friends with his ex.  Now he feels love with NastyMom. 

 

SS calls UberPretentiousAaron and asks him to go out to one of her favorite spots, a puppet theater.  He’s still hanging out with the model in the studio.  He wants to play with puppets the next day.  She says sure because she likes guys who don’t want her.

 

B is getting ready for her party.  NastyMom scolds her for having a meal with Cyrus because he was touched by the meal and she knows that B always schemes.  She knows B is looking for dirty but can’t find any because Cyrus is pure and clear.  She says that Cyrus cheated on his ex-wife and fell in love with his mistress.  NM gets teary eyed and leaves.

 

SketchyAgnes gets a call from the business guy’s office, looking for KJ, saying that the contracts are ready for Jenny Humphrey Designs.  SA says she’ll give her the message, but I think we all know that SA is either going to go ape shit or she’s going to sabotage KJ.

 

At the party, the chickadees are mooning over the platinum blonde bus boy.  They ask SS what’s up with her boy toy.  SS says the muse thing backfired and tells B about the other girl who modeled for UPA.  B is wearing a dress that looks like it was on Project Runway.

 

KJ shows up at SA’s and SA says RR was ringing her doorbell for an hour.  Then she accuses KJ of stealing the contact list and her designs.  SA claims that she was responsible for all of KJ’s success so far.  KJ wants her dresses back. SA says that the dresses don’t belong to anyone and pours lighter fluid all over them.  KJ screams that SA is out of her mind and KJ weeps weeps weeps instead of physically trying to stop SA by maybe grabbing some of the dresses out of the can, hitting away the lighter fluid, or blowing out the flame.  Maybe she plans to put out the fire with her tears.

 

Cyrus sees SS at B’s party and says he’s seen her all over the studio.  OMG.  UberPretentiousAaron is Cyrus’s son.  How bout that?  This show is so incestuous.  Cyrus thinks UPA is smitten with SS because he took SS to The Cloisters.  SS is on the way to his studio.  NM then inappropriately asks Cyrus if he cheated on his ex.  He says yes and she kicks him out of the party.  She tells B she thought Cyrus was different.  Then Cyndi Lauper appears.  Cyrus bought out her gig and asked Cyndi Lauper to come to the party because Cyrus is in love with B’s mother.  B introduces Cyndi Lauper to Servant Lady.  B got a conscious for her birthday and runs out of her own party.

 

DD arrives at FatherSlime’s house and asks him about the arson story.  He wants a good explanation and apologizes since it’s not his business anyway.  CS is listening in the hallway.  FS says it’s been on his conscience for years.  DD realizes that there was a death in the fire.  CS runs in and tells FS not to say anything else because DD is writing for New York Magazine.  FS offers him money but DD doesn’t want his money.  Dude, take the money.  You’re poor, remember?  Just because you hang out with rich kids doesn’t mean you’re rich.

 

CS threatens to destroy DD as DD tries to leave.  CS tells him not to ruin his family.  DD thinks writing is more important than anything in the world.

 

B finds Cyrus outside.  She expected a better fight.  He knows that fighting with the daughter of the woman he loves wouldn’t bring him anything.  B realizes that the Cyndi Lauper move was his manuever and calls him a genius.  She tells him to come upstairs so she can tell NastyMom the whole truth about the Vietnamese girl.

 

DD meanwhile has titled his stupid article after a date, which I believe he did with his first story ever published.  He sends it to FatherSlime with an index card that has an apology scrawled across it.

 

SS arrives at the studio to find UPA having dinner with the other model.  He lectures her that high school dating is different than real life dating.  He likes to date lots of girls at once and she can feel free to date too.  She leaves, trying to scrape together some dignity.  I get what he’s saying, but he doesn’t need to be a condescending douche bag about it.

 

In the poor house, KJ asks RR for his signature, saying she’ll be back if he does so.  How does she have the upper hand in any of this?  She says that if he doesn’t sign, everything she’s done has been for nothing.  She needs to find another way, maybe sleeping on SA’s couch.  Little does RR know that SA is a nutloaf and kicked KJ out.  So KJ roams around the streets with her sewing machine and luggage one more time.

 

KJ has found a couch to crash on.  She calls Mr. Smith, the business guy, on a Sunday, wanting to meet at his office later.

 

FS finds CS to apologize.  He says he never blamed CS for his mom’s death.  He read the DD story and found out that CS felt that way.  FS has had trouble being close to CS because every time he looks at CS, he sees the mom.  He misses her and doesn’t want to make more mistakes.  He wants to know his son.  He wants to go to the hockey game.  That will surely make it better.  CS smirk-smiles in a genuine way. 

 

DD broods in the Poor House while RR tells him that KJ is still on the lam.  DD points out that RR always has to be right, but to get KJ back, he might have to let her win.

 

KJ tells Mr. Smith that neither of her parents will sign the papers.  He suggests she divorce her parents.  She says okay because emancipation is easy and of course the man who knows her for five seconds has her best interests in mind and gives the best advice ever.

 

SS complains that UPA doesn’t want her.  B thinks that SS doesn’t believe in relationships like that.  She admits that Cyrus isn’t that bad.  Then she sees Cyrus at the breakfast table.  He’s been talking about love, life, and death with NastyMom.  NM says that Cyrus is moving in.

UPA arrives at SS’s to take her to the puppet park.  She says that they broke up the night before.  He says that they couldn’t have broken up since they weren’t actually dating.  She thanks him for making her feel shittier.  He goes off on a completely irrelevant tangent about life on the Upper East Side.  So SS goes out in her slip and a coat to walk in the park hand in hand with the biggest tool box since Dan Humphrey.

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 9: There May Be Blood

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Gorillas In Dresses and Some Tough Love

 

Highlights:  The Boring Nate-Downer Dan-KleptoJenny love triangle becomes a love rhombus when Long Lost Vanessa gets involved; ChuckSlime still hearts Blair and vice versa; RockinRufus knows what success is and doesn’t want it for his children

 

KleptoJenny and Agnes are busy making KJ’s new line.  Interesting how Agnes is still hanging around KJ seeing as how last time they hung out, Boring Nate swept KJ away.  Apparently, BN is now ignoring KJ after their passionate smooch on the sidewalk.  The two of them are trying to make clothes in time for something, but I’m not quite sure what.

 

Meanwhile, DownerDan is teaching BoringNate all about the poor part of town.  I suppose BN felt so guilty after kissing DD’s little sister that BN is now working even harder to keep his love affair with DD strong.  DD doesn’t understand why KJ is acting so secretive and BN says he has no clue why but of course he knows about the clothing line.  Then DD’s text goes off and it’s the girl that BN hooked up with at Yale when he was  pretending to be Dan.  DD is all jealous and wants to be BN.  DD is all down on himself, thinking that he won’t get a recommendation and BN tells him to cheer up buckaroo!  DD wants to be alone to brood silently so he suggested BN go talk to KJ.

 

Blair and SluttySerena are having tea with some woman from Yale who is ignoring Blair and wants to hear all about SS’s life in the limelight.  The woman leaves and SS keeps trying to hide her own light because that’s what she does for Blair but it’s not working.  SS tells B to stop cracking her knuckles.  The woman is going to order room service for her daughter and SS offers for B to take the daughter to a movie. 

 

Hold on.  The woman just said that her daughter would be fine with some ice cream and Harry Potter.  Then the daughter comes out and she’s, like, the same age as SS and B.  I was expecting a little girl in pig tails.

 

SS struts down the street and runs into Aaron.  They start talking about the caterpillar at camp and then Aaron says the girl on the motorcycle was a friend and that he recognized SS as soon as she stepped into the gallery.  SS starts to invite him to a gala where her mom is being honored and her brother is out of town (hopefully frolicking in a field with his boyfriend).  But before she finishes, some girl runs up and mack it with Aaron.  SS walks away.

 

DD and BN arrive at the Poor House in time for DD to judge KJ.  This time he has reason to judge.  She’s wearing one of those hats that you would put on a teddy bear.  It’s the size of a thimble.  It’s atrocious.  Agnes is trying to wheel out KJ’s line and DD catches them in the act.  The act of trying to design a clothing line?  Busted.

 

Blair is sitting for the Yale woman’s daughter and the daughter wants to go out and be devirginized with Bacardi and a boy.  B tells the girl to stop moving her mouth. HIL. AIR. EEE. US.  Has anyone else noticed how these people are the fastest talkers in the world?

 

DD can’t believe that KJ quit NastyMom’s and BN grumbles to defend KJ but DD tells him it’s none of his business.  Come on, DD, he’s her brother-in-law, practically.  KJ announces that they’re putting on a gorilla fashion show so they have to get to the zoo to fit the gorillas in time.  Tonight’s her one chance and BN stares on, moving his Adam’s apple dramatically.  DD goes off to think.

 

SS sits in her bed to moon over pictures of Aaron from camp.  B busts in to rat out the Yale lady’s daughter who wants to be deflowered or else she’ll ruin B’s reputation to the Yale people.  SS is all about herself and caring about the pictures.  She tells B to take the girl to the charity ball.

 

The daughter wants to go wherever Gossip Girl talks about on her blog.  B wonders where the glory is in doing a hipster.  She suggests she make Muffy the Rich Girl jealous by trying on outfits from SS’s closet and going out to a party.

 

DD arrives at the Poor Cafe to complain to Long Lost Vanessa about KJ.  She’s defending KJ, too, and doesn’t want to be lumped with BN because BN is DD’s friend, not hers.  Ooh, those are the words of a woman scorned.  I wonder how DD lives with himself knowing he’s got sloppy seconds.  LLV says that DD did the right thing in taking BN in even if BN hates her.  DD says that if LLV likes BN, she should tell him because BN is a likeable guy.  LLV finds it odd that DD will defend BN to the end while he’ll jump to condemn his own sister.  Love is blind.  Love is strange.  DD doesn’t want KJ to get into trouble and ruin her life.  Rockin Rufus shows up in time to hear the word mistake.

 

ChuckSlime bumps into Emma the Yale daughter and she’s all giddy and calls him the devil.  He reveals that the gala is all old people.  She wants him to take her for a ride.  He sends a box to SS and agrees to take her out.

 

B and SS get ready and the servant gives the box to SS.  It’s a licorice ring.  Aaron had left it for her with the consierge.

 

Back in Brooklyn, KJ berates BN for trying to offer advice and for not talking to her since they macked it on the sidewalk.  BN says it’s complicated.  She says that if he cares about her, he should go with her.  He says maybe he should drive.  So they get into the van and go.  RR, LLV, and DD see the van drive off and try to make it stop because they think even poorer people are kidnapping BN.

 

Meanwhile, CS is in the date rape limo with Emma the Yale daughter.  She’s all over him.  This is gonna be the easiest date rape ever.

 

Hours later, SS and B are texting CS and SS put out an APB on Gossip Girl.  CS commes in complaining that the girl tried to rape him.  B scolds him for trying to deflower another virgin in the back of his limo—she’s more upset because that was her own scenario, not because she won’t get into Yale because of it.  He says that the back of the limo is one of the few things sacred to him, which obviously makes B feel better about having popped her cherry there, and that right there shows the love between the two of them.  He says Emma ran away.  SS gets a text that Emma was at a bar.  SS doesn’t want to help B because she has to go to the charity thing but B makes SS come out anyway.

 

BN and KJ arrive at the charity gala and BN wonders if KJ might be showing her fashions to the wrong crowd because everyone there is friends with his mom.  She explains that all the wealthy people will be there to fund her line.  She gives him a suit to wear so he can fit in with the crowd.  He stares at the suit as she walks away.

 

B, SS, and CS arrive at the bar where Emma should be.  B doesn’t want to hear SS complain about an albatross.  They find Emma in a booth with some guy.  B calls Emma tacky.  Some guy pulls SS aside to set up her table and Emma bolts again because she’s the fastest girl alive.

 

KJ goes into the ball and sees a sign with JudgyLily and FatherSlime’s picture.  She realizes who the ball is for and is dismayed.  When the door guy asks for her name, she becomes uber slick and says Erica Van Der Woodsen but sometimes they leave off the A.  Smart smart smart.  She says her parents are the guests of honor.  Really, when did she get to be so clever?  JL finds KJ and KJ awkwardly congratulates her.  JL asks who she’s there with and BN arrives in time, saying he invited KJ.  KJ tells BN that she’s about to ruin the night of the only rich people who have been nice to her but she has to go through with it.  BN starts kissing her mid sentence, and some tweeny bopper takes a picture of them.  She says, You kissed me.  He says, I know.  Wow, romance.  He doesn’t regret anything and then she walks away as he lets out another one of those sighs.

 

B and SS are still in the bar and B blames SS for ruining B’s chances at Yale again.  CS interrupts the argument to point out Emma in a corner booth.  Oh, wait, not Emma, but Emma’s mom.  In the booth with a man who isn’t Emma’s father.  As the lady macks it with the stranger, B takes a picture with her phone.

 

At the ball, Agnes and KJ find the tech guy at the function who’s quitting to go into gaming so he doesn’t mind helping them out.

 

Over in Brooklyn, RR wonders where KJ is and what she could be doing.  Neither KJ nor BN are picking up their phones.  RR can’t believe he trusted any of them.  DD is online and sees the pic of KJ and BN mackin it at the ball on Gossip Girl.  DD obviously is shocked at such a betrayal.  He won’t show RR but says they’re at the palace.  RR and DD run off quickly while LLV leans against a wall, also upset about being ignored by BN.

 

RR, LLV, and DD are in a cab uptown.  They all obviously pooled their funds to afford this ride.  RR thinks BN would have said something if he’d known in advance about it.  LLV defends BN and DD says that BN’s morals are questionable.  He wonders aloud who would have thought BN would date LLV and an old married lady at the same time.  That’s obviously his wounded heart speaking.  They bicker about BN being a good guy and BN doesn’t like him.  RR can’t believe the cab driver is letting the Mr. Softee truck pass them and tries to bribe the driver with everything he’s got—a single dollar bill.  Man, I love this show.

 

At the Palace ball, the doorman won’t let RR, LLV, and DD in because they’re poor.  DD looks for BN.  LLV looks for KJ.  JudgyLily sees RR and says she saw KJ and then FatherSlime greets RR and RR runs off and FS is upset so JL gets him a drink.

 

SS doesn’t want B to blackmail the Yale lady.  SS says the family needs help.  B says they’re more screwed up than SS’s family.  SS needs to go to the gala.  She asks B to save Emma first before using blackmail. 

 

DD finds BN at the gala.  DD grabs him and throws him against a wall.  This is sooooo reminiscent of the fight between BN and CS when they broke up.  History repeats itself, only this time, BN is the breakee while DD (whoda thunk it) is the breaker.  He shows BN the Gossip Girl picture on his phone and asks if that’s him with his 15 year old sister.  DD is angry because they took him in.  BN says that he’s not a creepy older guy and it just happened.  DD calls him the guy who traded sex for money.  What?  But they’re all poor.  Oh, he means LLV and the Duchess.  BN says DD has no right to judge him.  DD wants BN out of the house and he goes off to find KJ.

 

B and CS arrive at the apartment to stop Emma from losing her virginity.  They tell her to check Gossip Girl on her phone.  It says Muffy has lost her virginity and Gossip Girl cherry in one night.  Then B walks in and feels violated.  CS tells the guy to lose the tulip.  We don’t get to see anything.  I think that’s best.  Emma storms out, upset that Muffy the Rich Girl beats her at everything.

 

SS is in a cab, listening to Aaron’s outgoing message, saying that the girl who kissed him isn’t his girlfriend.   She wanted to thank him for the ring.  Then some girl picks up while she leaves a message.  The girl says that Aaron’s in the bathroom and SS hangs up flustered.

 

BN tries to leave the ball and KJ wants him to stop.  BN says that RR and DD are there and DD saw them kissing on Gossip Girl.  She begs BN to stay because she needs him.  He stands there and takes a deep breath.  He’s got this breathing thing down.

 

Time for the awards.  Some guy congratulates JudgyLily and FatherSlime for their philanthropy in Sri Lanka.  Then the lights go aout and music comes on.  All the screens show pictures of KJ and models in her clothes and announce her clothing line.  RR’s reaction?  “Oh, no.”  Heehee. 

 

The models plow through in some punkish fashions.  They throw post cards around.  JudgyLily smiles and giggles while FatherSlime is aghast and may pass out.  BN catches KJ’s eye and smiles.  JL dances.  Then Agnes comes through in a tutu dress.

 

LLV laughs.  Agnes dances on a table and breaks classes.  BN gives KJ a sideways glance.  They hug and mack it.  LLV sees and her smile fades into disgust.  She walks out right past them.  KJ tries to run after her.  BN tries to stop her but KJ says she shouldn’t have done that and leaves anyway.

 

Then the show is over and RR and DD moan about how they can’t believe KJ did that.

 

In the back of CS’s limo, B tells Emma that this was not the way she should want to lose her virginity.  CS wonders what would be a better way.  Emma gets out of the car.  B thanks CS for getting Gossip Girl to post the stuff about Muffy.  He says he’d do it for her any time.  I LOVE THEM!!!   B has to bolt out of the car before Emma runs away again.

 

Emma tells B that B, Muffy, and her mom all won.  B says that she should sleep with someone she loves.  Emma asks if B was in love her first time.  B says yes and that she wrote the book on self-centered mothers.  Emma thinks B is perfect.  B says, True!  Heeheeheeeeeeeeee.   Emma is upset that her mom doesn’t want to hang out when they go to the city.  B tells her to avoid gross guys.

 

The TA from Yale calls DD and tells him that she couldn’t get him a recommendation letter.  SS finds DD and says that KJ won’t get into too much trouble.  He says that KJ does whatever necessary to get what she wants; she alienated everyone in her life but she’ll be in the New York Times tomorrow, while he has no courage.  SS cares about DD and he says that he’s not getting into Yale or any other school with a decent writing program.  He goes off to find his dad.

 

Emma and B walk in to find Yale lady all bent out of shape because they’re home late.  B tries to warn Yale lady not to say anything, but Yale lady scolds B and says she’s not Yale material.  B asks if she had fun with the strange man and shows her the picture from the bar.  Emma comes back in to defend B. The woman says it’s no wonder why she doesn’t want to spend time with Emma.  B decides not to show the picture and says that the woman should pay more attention to her daughter before it’s too late.

 

KJ runs out of the ball trying to find LLV.  RR instead comes out and pulls her aside.  KJ tells him to let go of her.  He says she doesn’t care who she hurts.  She says that people adore her and she has too many missed calls already.  He says that he’s disappointed because he’s her dad.  He wants KJ to apologize to JudgyLily who’s just appeared and tells them that the whole thing was inspired.  He says that KJ won’t get away with it and then rats her out to a policeman for being the person responsible for the criminal fashion show.  The officer says he has to take her to the station and they’ll call her parents from there.  She says that RR IS her father.  This?  Is AMAZING!!!!!! 

 

JL says that they won’t be pressing charges because they own the hotel.  Crap.  JL ruins EVERYTHING.  RR tells her to stay out of it.  JL is trying to save RR from a mistake.  KJ tells them to figure it out and decides to walk home.  To Brooklyn.  At night alone.  In her dress and heels.  And stupid stupid hat.

 

CS finds BN at BN’s barren house.  CS can’t believe how bad it is.  BN says that Brooklyn is over and he’s going to stay with his mom.  CS wants him to come to his place but BN won’t hear of it.

 

SS tries to get B out of bed with the idea of going to Princeton.  B calls Princeton a trade school.  Man, I love Blair.  The Yale dean calls B’s cell and then SS gets called away because she has a visitor.  It’s Aaron who wants to get pastries.  She says that the ring was sweet but she doesn’t want to date his posse.  He explains that one girl was a friend and the other one was something he can’t explain but he can’t stop thinking about SS.  He wants to think fate brought them back together.  SS falls for this stupid crap and he tells her not to eat the ring because it’s 9 years old, the original from camp.  B comes bounding in saying that the dean wants her at Yale.

 

In Brooklyn, RR tells DD that KJ stomped out at 6 AM.   DD was up all night finishing the story about Chuck Bass because now that his sister has staged a fashion show, he needs to try to one up her.  RR explains that success is not the same thing as other people’s praise.  That one line makes me fall in love with Rufus all over again.  DD refuses to listen.  RR goes into KJ’s room and finds that only plastic hangers are left.  KJ’s moved out.


MUSICAL MONTAGE!!  B and SS giggle on SS’s bed, looking at the Yale catalog.  BN walks around the city with a suitcase and mails a letter to KJ.  Then walks off looking pretty.  DD mails his story to the guy from the Paris Review.  RR walks in circles around KJ’s room.  KJ walks the streets of Brooklyn with a suitcase and her sewing machine, wearing way too much eyeliner.

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 8: Pret A Poor J

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I’m Bored And Now You’ve Ruined My Pants

 

Highlights: KleptoJenny quits slave labor to star in kiddie porn; SluttySerena makes DownerDan give advice in the name of friendship; ChuckSlime and Blair play until someone gets hurt; BoringNate creates a love triangle for the ages

 

Blair is masturbating.  How’s that for an opening scene?  I know I commented that her Hamptons tan was fabulous, but now it’s irking me.  We’re close to Halloween; that tan needs to fade and the highlights need to fade to black.  Servant Lady warns her that God is watching her, even when she masturbates.  B says she needs to finish something, that something being masturbating.

 

KleptoJenny is rushing around the Poor House on her cell phone, acting all important.  Her hair is now shaggy short except for the long bangs that act as a blindfold.  She’s got on uber-dark eyeliner and she’s become a psuedo-punk girl.  Or is she emo?  No, I think she’d need a different kind of hat.  RockinRufus and DownerDan make fun of her for being so busy.  RR asks DD to help out with LongLostVanessa at the gallery for an art opening.  DD has no soccer practice so sure he can help.  His presence might also ward off a little longer the impending bow chicka bow wow moment between LLV and RR that’s inevitable.

 

KJ rushes to find her homework (for whom?  for what?  isn’t RR her teacher since she’s home-schooled?  or maybe LLV is.)  KJ’s so busy that she’s almost forgotten to pee!  She runs for the bathroom and DownerDan can barely contain himself as he yells, Nate My Boyfriend!  Okay, he doesn’t yell the boyfriend part, but it’s certainly implied.

 

KJ runs into BoringNate at the bathroom door.  He’s shirtless. As in he’s not wearing a shirt.  As in he has no shirt on. I should really move on from this, but I can’t.  He has a hair dickey.  Okay, I’ll stop.  He asks if she’s changed her hair.  She decides to pee at work.  That’s what happens when a girl lives in a house of males; she hasn’t learned that holding in her pee can cause a massive UTI.  Tsk tsk, Rockin Rufus.  Get that girl some maternal nurturing.

 

Blair’s walking to school (doesn’t she have a limo?) and ChuckSlime pulls up in his limo to offer her a ride.  He insists that she get in and she finally gives in.  He locks the doors and wants her to say those three words.  She says, I hate you, and he drives away.

 

NastyMom is having problems with the buyers at the sweatshop.  The model KJ is dressing, Agnes, recognizes the top of her head and compliments her on her designs (KJ dyed her hair—how can this girl recognize her by that?).  KJ recognizes the model’s feet.  NM doesn’t let KJ sit in on the buyer meeting even though she said she could before.  KJ sighs as only an emo-pseudo-punk teen girl can.  BN arrives so he can give her a book she forgot at home and he leaves and Agnes the Model says that BN is totally into KJ.  KJ thinks BN thinks of her as a little sister, and Agnes finally points out what always happens on shows like these—incest. 

 

SluttySerena and DD are now friends again since they met on BN’s doorstep and had their heart-to-heart where DD was so wise, so they meet up in the courtyard and yet again decide they want to try to be friends.  Since when are the courtyard scenes shot inside?  Blair shows up and DD says he’ll leave, which Blair wants because she thinks any friendship with him is doomed anyway.  SS insists he stays to help figure out ChuckSlime from a guy’s perspective. 

 

Blair says she can’t get CS to sleep with her.  DD asks, You want him to sleep with you? in the way only Dan can.  Blair picks up the judgment in his voice and SS insists he’s working on it.  He apologizes and suggests that she lies, saying she loves CS to get him to sleep with her.  She says if she says it, he’ll win. Then DD points out that even though he’s devious, he’s still a boy, and CS won’t be able to resist her if she’s always around. 

 

NastyMom apologizes to KleptoJenny for not letting her in the meeting.  She explains that she has nothing to show to the buyers for next season.  The buyer from Bloomingdale’s loved the dress KJ is wearing and NastyMom wants to show the buyers from Barney’s and Bendel’s what KJ is wearing.  KJ think she’ll be allowed in on the meetings if she remakes the dress and says it’s NastyMom’s design. 

 

Blair appears on CS’s carhood with her skirt jacked up around her crotch, showing off a strappy garter.  She wants to go for a drink, and he decides to take her garters to the bar.  I realize, I’m smiling way too much this episode already.  Man, I’m so fourteen.  Blair says she wants to change her signature scent and gets CS to smell her neck.  He says it smells like desperation.  She sips her drink and toasts to friendship.  Then she pours her drink on his crotch, pretending it’s an accident, and wipes his crotch feverishly.  He responds by saying he’s bored with her efforts and now his pants are ruined.

 

SluttySerena arrives at the Poor Gallery and asks the artist where DownerDan is.  He’s off in the Poor Cafe with Long Lost Vanessa.  The artist, Aaron, asks her to look at his stenciled blurb on the wall and she jokes that things are spelled incorrectly (because she loves tutors—no, no, really, I realize that when she said that at the dean’s house to Blair, she meant The Tudors, the show, and not her tutor because she doesn’t have one—moving on).  She introduces herself and he takes off his glasses.  Man, SS is gonna go slumming again with one of those broody moody types. 

 

LLV tells DD that RR is stressing and has an eye twitch.  DD’s cell rings and LLV sees that it’s Blair calling.  B tells DD that she was humiliated by ChuckSlime because he didn’t even get it up when she was rubbing his crotch.  She laments she didn’t show him the nape of her neck because that’s CS’s weak spot.  DD insists she remain stalkerish and go to SS’s house to intercept CS on the way to his bedroom.

 

DD hears SS’s laugh from the other room because it’s bugged with microphones.  Aaron asks her to come to the show.  DD comes in to take her to dinner.  Aaron tells them to have fun on their date.  Ooh, no way!  I know that line.  I INVENTED that line.  Smooth move.  He finds out that it’s not a date.  DD explains that they used to date and now they’re friends.  Heehee—that’s what Jerry did on that one episode of Seinfeld when a bunch of different guys didn’t believe that he and Elaine ever dated.  Only here, Dan’s more loserish and judgmental. 

 

Across town at a bar, KJ, who’s like 15, is hanging with Agnes.  They switch clothes so because Agnes has been coveting KJ’s dress.  Ooh, now it’s official.  KJ’s wearing Agnes’s hat, and that hat is an official emo hat.  Max, Anges’s friend shows up and he’s all suave and hipster chic.

 

SS and DD are walking around with coffee.  B keeps texting SS to ask about candles and to say that seducing CS will be easy.  DD sighs haughtily but says that the texts from B aren’t annoying at all.   At least SS is finally acting like a teenager and texting every two seconds.

 

ChuckSlime comes home and before going into his room, has a creepy reason to go into SS’s room.  That doesn’t make any sense.  There was nothing about that room that would make him go in unless he was trying to find SS.  Anyway, he asks B what she’s doing and she says that SS knew she was upset and invited her to stay over.  And light candles apparently.  B puts her hair up and keeps her back turned so CS can see her nape.  That’s it.  He’s done for.  He undoes her dress, He doesn’t care if she doesn’t say she loves him.  They start mackin’ it and her text alert goes off.  At first they ignore it but then they both dive for it.  CS gets it and reads SS’s “U R so bad” as a response to B’s “this is gonna be EZ” and he tells B she almost had him and walks out.  Oooh, even I’ve got blue balls from that.

 

Over in the hipster bar, CreepyMax is taking creepy Fiona Apple Music Video pictures.  KJ needs to go home and do slave labor but CM and Agnes want her to sleep when she’s dead and meet the stylists they know.  KJ turns to get her bag and Agnes and CM have left already.  KJ needs the dress for the pattern so she runs after the taxi and calls Agnes’s phone that goes straight to voicemail even though it was just on for her to get the call from the stylist friends.

 

Agnes shows up at the sweatshop the next day to persuade KJ with the almost-kiddie-porn pictures from the night before to start her own clothing line.

 

SS and Blair show up at the Poor Gallery and Poor Cafe.  SS finds Aaron to help and he asks if she can weld.  She says she saw Flashdance, which would so totally explain the single off-the-shoulder shirt she’s wearing!

 

DD meanwhile figures out that B loves ChuckSlime.  He says that he felt exposed when he told SS he loved her but it was the greatest moment when she said it back.  B thinks that CS wins if she says it and she’ll be simply another girl.  DD suggests she take a risk to have everything.

 

KJ hands in the dress to NastyMom and NM tells her she looks like hell and should go home.  KJ wants to meet the buyers and NM says the dress is a mess.  She saw the pictures from the night before and knows that KJ wasn’t slaving all night as she should have been.  NM tells her to accept real responsibility and should’ve known better than to rely on a child.  KJ insists that NM is scared that the buyers want to go into business with KJ.  KJ wants to take her dress.  NM hands her the one she made the night before.  KJ means the green tutu dress from the fashion show.  NM warns that if she takes the green dress, she can’t do slave labor in the sweatshop.  KJ does what she does best and steals the dress back.

 

B finds herself alone on her bed.  She text ChuckSlime that he wins and he should show up to date rape her.

 

RockinRufus is happy about the opening at the gallery because it’s so successful.  DD points out that SS has shown up with B.  RR says it’s the second time “that girl” has shown up and wonders if DD is dating her now.  DD says he’s only tolerating B and it’s for the sake of remaining friends with SS.   DD asks why B isn’t with CS and she says she needs a drink because she’s freaking out.

 

LLV is pissed at DD because he invited B to her opening.  HER opening?  What the?  DD says that SS invited B, not him.  LLV is pissed because she was recently the pawn in the latest Chuck Bass and Blair Evil Variety Hour and CS came out looking more innocent and rueful than B did.  DD had no knowledge of this because, well, because LLV never actually told him because she was humiliated but since he’s DD he should pick up on these types of humiliating vibes.  LLV is getting gloomier with every episode.  Can’t they give her the hair highlights instead of B and make her happy?  Even SuicidalEric has a happy day. 

 

SS is busy touching the art.  Aaron finds her and wants to share his success by taking her out to dinner.  She takes a peek over at DD and tells Aaron she’s not dating right now.  He says he’s used that line before.  Man, he must have a book of lines.  He gives her a second chance—if she can tell him the fate of Cecil the Caterpillar, he will go out with her.  She says she can’t date boys who make up riddles.

 

B shows up when Aaron leaves to tell SS that CS is going to meet her on the roof. If he rejects her, she can jump off the roof.  SS warns against that plan, citing that her obituary shouldn’t read that she died in the poorest of all borroghs, Brooklyn.

 

When B makes her way to the roof, DD warns her to be careful.  He says that his advice before was bad and now she should make sure CS is done playing games.  Ooh, DD’s gotten into her head now.

 

Agnes shows up at the Poor Gallery opening because CreepyMax knows Aaron.  She asks KJ about her stunt with NastyMom and says that someone she knows wants to do a story on KJ as being a designer to watch.  In a rare moment of clarity, KJ points out that she’s an unemployed, home-schooled 15 year old.  Agnes tells her that KJ should do her own line.  Again, KJ speaks the truth and says she’s poor.  Agnes says it’s still totally possible.  She drags KJ out to a party. 

 

BoringNate runs after KJ, asking if she’s leaving already.  She says she has to go to a party.  He was hoping they could hang out.  She says they can hang out tomorrow at the loft.  Love triangle.  Awkward love triangle.  A brother, a sister, and one pretty pretty boy.  Sigh.  He laments that she’s never home and has to make out with DownerDan instead.  KJ reveals that she’s quit the sweatshop and BN wants to know what her dad thinks about her starting her own line.  KJ wanted him to say “wow” and instead he asks if she really thinks it’s possible to start her own line.  DownerDan has really rubbed off on him.  Then BN asks how old CreepyMax is and KJ says he’s an amazing photographer.  She leaves with her friends.  Who she’s known for five minutes.

 

Up on the roof, B can’t find the nerve to say “I love you.”  She wants CS to say it with her.  CS says that they made the deal that she would say it first.  She wants to know why she has to go first since she waited on the helipad, went to Tuscany, and asked him to say it first.  And when he didn’t say it, she wanted to die.  He thinks this is one of her games and she says he’s the one who started it.  He says she’s the one who finished it.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!  This can’t be!!!!!!!  Now I want to die!!!!!!!!!  I’m so fourteeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnn!!!!!!!!!!  I’m not smiling anymore.  This is a roller coaster of emotions!  Damn you, Gossip Girl!!!!!!  Quit playing around with my heart.  Fortunately, B does not jump from the rooftop.

 

BN introduces himself to Aaron at the gallery.  He gets the rundown on CreepyMax.  “Great guy as long as he’s not dating your sister.”  Sister.  Potential lover.  Both.  Whatever.

 

B shows up in tears in the gallery and SS asks DD what happened.  DD says that the Chuck Bass and Blair Duo was headed for doom anyway, so he helped it along by offering crappy advice on purpose.  SS is angry that DD didn’t tell her that he didn’t like hanging out with Blair and he should’ve said that instead of screwing over two people who love each other.  Even if one of those two people tried to date rape his little sister.

 

Over at the party, KJ is watching Agnes and CreepyMax make out while CM takes pictures.  Then Agnes starts dancing to this song she loves (which is a pretty crappy song from what I hear and not a dance tune).  The party is the three of them.

 

DD finds CS running down the stairs and CS says he’s ignoring him.  DD explains that B loves Chuck and she was going to tell him until Dan stopped her.  You know, this is so stupid.  Sure Dan screwed up the I Love Yous between B and CS, but he did it because he was angry with Blair for screwing over himself and LLV, and NOT because ChuckSlime tried to date rape his little sister. No, that’s something I would not get over.  Jeez.  So I’m all for Dan not helping out, but Dan the Tool is screwing them over for the wrong reasons.  He’s doing it because he feels like the Superior Introspective Dan Humphrey Who Needs To Protect His Hip Brooklyn Friends Who Are Poor rather than being Dan the protective and loving brother who still wants to murder the guy who tried to rape his sister.  I hate him!

 

Speaking of date rape and sisters, KJ is dancing with Agnes at the apartment.  Agnes takes off her shirt.  KJ is shocked.  CreepyMax keeps taking pictures.  Then KJ takes off her shirt because she’s all Fiona Apple Criminal, too.  Then the doorbell rings.  It’s BoringNate, “her knight in shining Armani.”  Heeheheeheeee.  Good one, GG.  KJ insists she’s not going to leave and CreepyMax takes his picture.  BN sits on the couch to wait for her so KJ grabs her clothes and leaves the apartment without putting her shirt on first. 

 

SS has stormed out of the Poor Gallery and DD follows her to apologize.  He was worried if he fought with SS because he wants to be friends.  SS says that she wants to go out with Aaron but said no because she didn’t know how DD would feel.  He says he likes Aaron so she has her blessing if that’s what she wants.  She feels like she’s known Aaron forever and then exclaims, Cecil the caterpillar!  She realizes she knows Aaron from camp in Europe where they got married with licorice rings.  It lasted until she ate her ring.  DD needs to find LLV and SS needs to find Aaron.  She sees him get on a motorcycle with a girl climbing on behind him.  For some reason, I’m totally not upset at all for Serena.

 

B sits at her vanity and CS shows up.  She says he won and he says he didn’t.  He says that they can’t say those three words to each other because they both know the moment they do, it will be the end of all that’s between them, not the beginning of something.  Chuck Bass and Blair on a ferris wheel eating cotton candy is not the Chuck Bass and Blair Evil Empire that we all know and love.  She says it wouldn’t have to be like that but he insists it would be.  The thing that makes them work is the game.  He says maybe in the future something could happen.  She says waiting would bring some excrutiating pleasure.  They kiss and then she sheds a single tear and he leaves, but not without grabbing her hand and not wanting to let go.  Omigod.  That’s it.  I’m in love with Chuck and Blair.  Not with Chuck.  Not with Blair. But with ChuckAndBlair.  This IS so excrutiatingly pleasureable.  Especially with this music.  Haunting!  I can’t take it!

 

KJ comes out of the building with her clothes finally on.  She exclaims that they were dancing around in their underwear, not making a porno.  Again, in a rare moment of clarity, Nate this time responds, Not yet anyway!  She says she would never put herself in that kind of situation.  Hey Emo-Psuedo-Punk Girl, you just did.  KJ asks BN why he cares so much since it’s not like he’s related to her (he’s practically her brother-in-law but I guess she’s in denial).  He gives her a throaty “because.”  She kisses him quickly.  He lets out a huge sigh, a sigh filled with “omigod what am I going to tell your brother who’s also my boyfriend?” and “I’ve been waiting for this since I kissed you when I thought you were Serena at the masquerade ball!”  KJ gets embarrassed and tries to run away.  Instead, BN pulls her back and then they start mackin’ it all quickly and with lots of head movement like two anxious teenagers are supposed to kiss all awkwardly when they think it’s passionately.

 

BTW—In real life, Chase Crawford is 23 and Taylor Momsen is about 16 so who’s the pedophile now, Nate?  I’m aware that’s not a logical argument.  That stems from my own love for Chase Crawford since all the guys I’ve been dating lately have been 23 so he’d fit right into my wheelhouse.  I know I swoon for Chuck Bass all the time [all right, okay, I swoon for Blair], but he’s fictional and I wouldn’t really want to date someone so devious, and Chase Crawford looks real good without a shirt so all he’d have to do is stand shirtless near me and I’d be in heaven.  Moving on.

 

But, wait a second, oh no!  Poor Dan!  Literally and figuratively!  DownerDan Humphrey loses again.  That’s what happens when you’re a tool.

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 7: Chuck In Real Life

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Love Is Poor, Love Is Gay (and Lust Is All Over)

 

Highlights: BoringNate and DownerDan secure their love with a date; SluttySerena complains complains complains; LongLostVanessa teams up with ChuckSlime; Blair denies being a horndog; SuicidalEric’s boyfriend comes out to play

 

SluttySerena comes into family breakfast to find that FatherSlime has returned and he and JudgyLily have some new rules for the family.  No staying out late on weeknights and she must wear a Parisian suit that FatherSlime bought for her.  They will be having a house warming party so they can debut as a family and SuicidalEric and his darker hair gets to bring a friend.  Finally we get to see his boyfriend!  Serena can’t believe her mom is making rules and stuff. 

 

In the Poor House, Long Lost Vanessa and KleptoJenny are cutting up fliers to save a speakeasy in Brooklyn.  DowerDan doesn’t think anyone at his school would feel guilty about being rich so no one will help.  Then they notice that he has a soccer ball in his bag. His new boyfriend, BoringNate, asked him to try out for the team, so of course DD is going to.  Can’t upset the new boy toy.

 

Remember when SluttySerena wore a silk dress on the beach in the Hamptons?  Remember when the girls suddenly had semi-school uniforms?  Today, as Serena and SuicidalEric walk to school, she’s sportin a matching silky silver cardigan and has the belt wrapped around her neck as a tie.  Yeah.  Anyway, she’s complaining about the rules and Eric is trying to get her to see the bright side—at least she doesn’t have to deal with being suicidal and gay. Serena still doesn’t like the rules because JudgyLily chooses to do whatever her new men want to do like ski, have colonics, and convert to Islam.  Serena doesn’t think her mom should decide what the children are allowed to do. 

 

Awww!  Yeay!!! New boyfriends DownerDan and BoringNate are strolling the school halls together; they both have their shirts untucked and their ties askew.  BN compliments DD on his soccer skills.  ChuckSlime arrives in his scarf (it’s about time that thing is back!) and now not even BN wants anything to do with him.  You see, since BoringNate is now poor, he needs to stick to his own kind, even if no one else knows that he’s lost all his money.

 

Blair walks by in time to see ChuckSlime get the brush off and delights in his having no friends and not being able to sleep with her again.  Even though her body wants him, her brains know better.  She goes off to a disciplinary hearing….

 

For one of the girls at the steps.  RandomGirl and Chickadee are scolding some girl for wearing the wrong outfit.  The girl says, I didn’t realize–.  Then Blair yells, That tights are not pants?!?!?!  Hil. Air. Eee. Us!!!

 

LongLostVanessa arrives to ask Blair to help her save the speakeasy.  Blair tells her that charity is for diseases, not NYC real estate.   LLV blackmails Blair with the picture of WifeyDuchess and The Brit making out and threatens to show it to everyone to show why Blair and he broke up.  Blair takes a clipboard to have people sign a petition to help LLV.

 

ChuckSlime finds SluttySerena lounging in her room, reading a book, obeying the new rules since SuicidalEric convinced her.  Chuck explains that the new rules don’t apply to him so he’s on his way out.  He says that his dad is trying to impress some new clients by showing his family shares their values.  Serena is not going to have values.  Instead, she frolics out of her room in a short-short, red, plunging-neckline dress and tells FatherSlime she’s not wearing underwear and is ready to find some tabloids so she can get a crotchshot on Page 6. 

 

ChuckSlime meanwhile arrives at Blair’s house.  She wants him to seduce and humiliate LongLostVanessa because LLV is now annoying Blair way too much.  She thinks that since DownerDan stole Chuck’s best friend, Chuck should steal DD’s.  Plus, Chuck will be able to do the impossible—the only person LLV hates more than Blair is Chuck Bass.  Then she says Chuck has erectile dysfunction.  He kisses Blair on the cheek and saunters out.

 

SluttySerena and Blair are having lunch the next day in what looks like Tavern On The Green but probably isn’t because no Upper East Sider would actually eat there.  Serena thinks Blair still has a thing for Chuckslime.  SuicidalEric comes in and introduces Jonathan, his boyfriend.  The girls’ mouths drop open and they get all giggly and giddy.  FINALLY!  Eric’s boyfriend is HOT.  Maybe he’ll stay away from the suicide game for a while.  And maybe the hot boyfriend will do something about Eric’s ever-darkening hair.  He looks sickly.  SuicidalEric has invited Jonathan to the housewarming.  Jonathan has already met Chuck.  Seriously, I really love the brotherly relationship Chuck and Eric have, and it’s so right that Chuck has met Jonathan first.  SluttySerena wants to hear all about how the two of them met.  I’m sure it has nothing to do with them fiddling with their ties on a busy street in broad daylight. 

 

Over in the poor part of town, DownerDan is bragging about his stupid soccer skills to KleptoJenny, who is mighty tan for someone who’s been slaving away in a sweatshop for the past few weeks.  She’s happy that DD finally has guy friends.  He insists that he has other guy friends.  Right now, I’m realizing that Dan has absolutely no friends, guys or girls.  Not even LLV, really, since RockinRufus has stolen her away.  Plus, RockinRufus claims to be DD’s friend but dad’s can’t count and neither can freaky dolls like Cedric, DD’s boy doll.  To prove that he has friends, DD calls up BoringNate and I guess it’s a real call even though it seems fake and I’m surprised they didn’t tell him so.  DD first has to explain that he’s Dan, Dan Humphrey, and then sets up a place to meet up later and says “Love you” and hangs up.  Okay, okay, he says “love it” because it’s too early in their relationship for those three little words.  They’re going to “Play soccer” later.  Here, “play soccer” is obviously code for “dry hump like crazy.”  KJ and RR wonder if Cedric is invited and mock DD relentlessly.  Ah, family love.

 

LLV is hanging with older and older men every episode.  Her new friend is the guy who wants to save the speakeasy, and I’m pretty sure he’s in his 60s.  ChuckSlime arrives and wants to buy the building but keep it the same.  LLV doesn’t trust him and wants landmark status.  Then someone throws a tomato at Chuck to make him leave.  Chuck storms away in his limo.

 

SluttySerena arrives home and JudgyLily tells her not to be childish and Serena says she’s being treated like a child.  Umm, isn’t that the way a family works?  Serena wants to defy FatherSlime and Lily explains that he’s her husband so all the rules are from both of them.  Serena says that FatherSlime is not her father and last year they were almost a real family.  Lily says Serena could benefit from structure and she should have insisted on it three years ago. Serena suggests that was three husbands ago and decides not to go to the party later.

 

DownerDan arrives at BoringNate’s house and finds the seized notice.  He then trespasses and finds the place deserted except for a pillow and a sleeping bag in the middle of the living room.  Then he gets a call from BN who’s waiting for him in the park to “play soccer.” 

 

ChuckSlime arrives at Blair’s to tell her that the deal is off.  Blair still wants LongLostVanessa destroyed but Chuck says there’s not enough in it for him.  She ups the ante and offers to prostitute herself if Chuck reconsiders.  He unties her robe and says they have a deal.  He can’t wait to date rape her.

 

LongLostVanessa arrives at ChuckSlime’s house because she saw his proposal for buying the building and keeping it a landmark and she thinks that she still shouldn’t trust him.  He says she can go on a website to insult him.  Heehee.  He changes out of his smoking jacket for her.

 

Blair is putting on a dress that ChuckSlime bought for her as SluttySerena complains that JudgyLily dated two guys named Klauss.  She says that FatherSlime is the worst because he’s a hypocrite.

 

In the park, BoringNate and DownerDan are on their date, talking about their dads.  DD wants to learn how to do that cool bounce the ball on your knee trick from BN.  BN instead asks him if he’s going to the house warming and DD says he didn’t plan on it since he wasn’t invited.  BN seems surprised because he thought DD would at least still be kind of speaking to SluttySerena.  BN wants to stay home and watch a movie but he can’t invite DD since the housekeeper hasn’t been around.  And now he’s poor but he won’t admit it.  To prove he’s not poor, he buys DD a drink.  Ah, how gentlemanly.  I guess BN is the man in the relationship, which I find quite surprising.

 

ChuckSlime arrives at the speakeasy with LLV and the old man knows Joe Kennedy, who Chuck admires for being a womanizer.  The guy reminisces about the gangsters who had style and thinks Chuck would fit in.  Chuck thinks that’s the nicest compliment.

 

DownerDan calls KleptoJenny to tattle to her about his boyfriend BoringNate’s living situation.  They don’t understand why he’s not living with Chuck, as if Dan wouldn’t get all jealous.  They concoct a plan to invite BN over for dinner because RockinRufus is making chili and everyone who hears about it is required to go, which makes no sense, and while he’s at the Humphrey Home, they will convince him to stay, preferably in DD’s bed naked.  When BN gives DD his water, DD tells BN he has to come to dinner and that Scattergories will be involved.

 

SluttySerena runs into SuicidalEric’s boyfriend Jonathan at her house and finds out that FatherSlime said that the house warming was family only.  Which it isn’t.

 

At the speakeasy, LLV likes that ChuckSlime is going to save the place and she apologizes for being wrong about him.  He gets a text from Blair and he tells LLV that she should come to the housewarming.  He’ll send a car because she’s poor and has no transportation.

 

Oh. My. God.  My new favorite music video?  The Chuck Bass montage to Britney’s Womanizer.  AWESOME!!!!

 

The Bass-van-der-Woodsen house warming is more of an upscale gala event where JugdyLily is wearing a prom dress and SluttySerena is wearing the Paris suit.  Serena asks FatherSlime why SuicidalEric couldn’t bring his boyfriend.  He suggests she speak to Eric. 

 

Blair finds ChuckSlime and she still wants him to crush LongLostVanessa even though he’s really buying the building.  LLV shows up, happy to not have brought a poor casserole.  FatherSlime pulls Chuck away from them both.

 

Meanwhile at the poor house, BoringNate is impressed with KleptoJenny for leaving school to work at the sweatshop.  RockinRufus asks BN how things are with his dad being locked up.  DD changes the subject to brag about his boyfriend’s soccer skills.  BN likes living alone right now where the memories are.

 

At the housewarming, FatherSlime is angry that ChuckSlime is buying the speakeasy.  Chuck tries to show why it’s a good idea, but FatherSlime hates his son no matter what and Chuck isn’t worth anything.

 

BoringNate tries to leave and DownerDan desperately tries to tempt him to stay with Scattergories.  DD admits that he saw the squalor at BN’s place and BN gets all mad that DD broke in.  DD says that KleptoJenny wants him to stay, too, if BN wants to act straight for a while.  BN is appalled that they think he’s the Humphrey Family Charity Case.  He says, “We hung out at Yale and played soccer once.  So what?”  Harsh!  BN is so nasty when he breaks up with people.  He storms out.

 

LongLostVanessa tells ChuckSlime that he deserves to be treated much better than how his dad treats him.  Chuck says that his father knows him better than LLV does and makes some good points.  He wants LLV to stay and she starts falling for his act.  Or is he going all BoringNate on us and really falling for her too?  Blair looks on all jealous.

 

Meanwhile, SluttySerena is complaining about FatherSlime to SuicidalEric because that’s all she does.  She insists that FatherSlime didn’t want Jonathan there because it would ruin their family image even though Eric is telling her point blank that it was his own decision because he didn’t want to come out of the closet in a national magazine unless that magazine was The Advocate or something.  A reporter comes over to ask them questions about their family being close-knit.  Serena takes that as a personal insult and tells the reporter about how JudgyLily constantly left her and Eric to run off with random men, some of whom were coke-heads.  Lily’s hair looks like a helmet.  Serena realizes that it’s not FatherSlime she hates; instead, she hates her mother.

 

Blair finds ChuckSlime to call off the bet on the grounds of boredom.  He thinks Blair is worried with having to go through with sleeping with him because he’s making headway.

 

JudgyLily is complaining to SuicidalEric that SluttySerena went off in front of the reporters.  Eric explains to Lily, his mother, that she wasn’t ever there.  She says there was a lot going on in her life and she’s doing the best she can.  He says she can’t expect them to become a family by simply saying it.  Why is Eric the smartest person ever and he’s only 14 and has to parent his own mom?

 

Oh.  My.   God.   I can’t even.  Right now, I’m recovering from a fit of raging giggles that landed me on the floor.  DownerDan and RockinRufus are licking and sucking the most phallic-looking popsicles ever.  I can’t I can’t I can’t.  I have no idea what’s going on.  Where did these popsicles come from?  What happened to Scattergories?  What’s happening?   RR gives DD the advice that a good friend is one who stalks someone who refuses help the first time around.  Being a friend is giving someone something he needs even if he doesn’t ask for it.  The popsicles are totally a symbol here.  Totally.  In other words, RR approves of BoringNate as a possible son-in-law because he’s so darn pretty, so DD needs to give it to him.  Hard.

 

LongLostVanessa is trying to leave the house warming but Blair has taken her bag.  She erased the picture of The Brit and The Duchess so now LLV has nothing on Blair.  She then tells LLV all about the bet between her and ChuckSlime and LLV doesn’t believe her.  Blair tells her that the real estate was foreplay and the real goal was to humiliate LLV.  Chuck appears and doesn’t agree or disagree but LLV takes his silence as agreement.  Blair is happy that LLV was humiliated and admits to losing so will wait for him in her room.  How did she lose, exactly?  I really don’t understand the bet.

 

SluttySerena and DownerDan run into each other on the steps of BoringNate’s seized house.  Now they’re, like, boring by association because this scene is pointless.

 

ChuckSlime arrives at the speakeasy—man, these people get to Brooklyn fast—and the old guy has heard about the deal not going through from LongLostVanessa.  Chuck won’t give up.  The guy tells Chuck to save himself.  LLV is wearing way too much makeup.

 

SluttySerena asks DownerDan why he’s there.  DD explains that BoringNate is his “friend” or at least hopes he still is.  Serena needed to get some air and talk to someone, but the one person she wants to talk to she can’t anymore.  DD suggests she pretend that he’s Nate since Nate pretended to be him.  Dude, let it go.  Serena tells him about the house warming and how she hates her mom.  DD suggests her mom is ashamed of not being perfect and that’s why she acts so perfectly.  Serena says, I thought you were pretending to be Nate, meaning that answer is way too smart to come from Nate.  Then Serena apologizes for everything that happened between them.  FatherSlime arrives in a limo to take Serena home and she’s happy that DD is Nate’s friend.  She leaves with FatherSlime. 

 

When SluttySerena and FatherSlime arrive home, everyone has since left the party.  JudgyLily apologizes for not being around for seventeen years.  Serena says that the brief period between Klausses was good.  Serena apologizes for embarrassing them.  Lily says that’s who they are and she doesn’t care who knows.  But doesn’t FatherSlime, since he has that whole dossier on Lily? 

 

DownerDan arrives back in the poor house with BoringNate right behind him.  KleptoJenny gets ice cream and RockinRufus gets his 80s songbook because Nate seems like a Wham! guy.  What the?   I mean, I agree Nate would be into Wham but what’s with the guitar and the ice cream?

 

ChuckSlime finally comes to Blair’s room, where she has lit candles.  She asks what took him so long and he says if she thought the wait was long, she has no idea what she’s in for.  Is that a penis reference?  They mack it.  He tells her to say those three words she wanted him to say to her in the Hamptons.  She won’t say those words.  He counts the letters and the syllables.  She won’t say them but she’s prepared to settle.  He’s not.  He won’t give himself to her if she won’t say those words.  She thinks this is because of LLV but he says he wants to raise the stakes.  He chased her for long enough so now it’s time she chases him.  He leaves her on her bed, all hot and bothered, and all alone.