November 23, 2024 • 59 mins
Summary
Hey Gossip Girl lovers! Buckle up for a juicy episode as Leif and Steve spill the tea on Season 2, Episode 15, "Gone with the Will." It's will reading on the Upper East Side, but Chuck Bass isn't feeling too grateful. Just when he thinks he's got his inheritance all wrapped up, Uncle Jack comes in to snatch it away. Meanwhile, Serena and Dan's romance hits a major roadblock with a scandalous family secret that could tear them apart. Tune in as our hosts dish out the chaos, betrayal, and power plays among Manhattan's elite, all served with a side of humor and sharp insights. You won't want to miss it!
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
02:30 Thanksgiving Episode Release
04:00 Discussing "Gone with the Wind"
10:45 Chuck's Inheritance Drama
20:00 Serena and Dan's Family Secret
30:00 Rufus and Lily's Complicated Past
38:15 Jenny and Eric's Sibling Rivalry
45:00 Episode Highlights and Reflections
52:30 Stock Watch: Characters Rising and Falling
1:00:00 Best Outfits and Fashion Highlights
1:05:00 Predictions and Closing Remarks
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Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.
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Leif (00:00):
Oh, I did like the fun quip about Romeo and Juliet.
I. Technically, they don't share
DNA.
Unrelated.
I mean, they're sharing DNA. Possibly,
but they don't share DNA.
Yeah, they're not actually
siblings.
(00:25):
Hey, Upper east siders, and all you scandal loving listeners out
there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast
pod where the coffee is strong, the
waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than
ever. My name is Leif, and I'm your seasoned
Gossip Girl veteran.
And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn
that, I don't know, Leif. What do we call this season
(00:45):
two Gossip Girl newbie?
why are you bothering about this right now?
Well, hey, I still need to get board approval here,
so.
Fine, whatever. Now go breathe somewhere else.
So here's the deal, folks. Leap has been watching Gossip
Girl since the very beginning, and I'm watching for the
very first time. And together, we're your dynamic
(01:06):
duo, bringing you all of the drama, romance, and
sometimes questionable fashion choices of
this iconic 2007 series.
That's right. Each week we'll take a deep dive into the
show one episode at a time. We'll analyze all the
parallels, obscure references, and of course, the
couture catastrophes. Plus, we'll also be
(01:27):
touching on all the behind the scenes gossip and some stories from
fandom.
And since we're all about inclusivity here at the non
judging breakfast pod, there's always a seat for you at
the non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab your
coffee, a mimosa, or some of Nate and
Chuck's special medicine if it's that kind of day. And
let's get into this.
(01:47):
And we are going to be releasing this episode on the week of
Thanksgiving. So, we will be Talking about season
two, episode 15, Gone with the Will,
of course, based on the movie and novel Gone with the Wind.
Gone with the Wind. Yeah, of course.
Not a favorite of mine.
Never seen the whole thing start to
finish. I know my parents would like watch
(02:08):
it sometimes when it was on and it was just. It
would not captivate me enough to watch it. And
then by the time I was like, by the time I should have just
sought it out and watched it on my own, I never did.
Well, I mean, besides, for the whole antebellum theme
of it all, the main relationship is
very abusive.
That's, that was what I always
(02:29):
understood. That's like.
Yeah, not. Not for me.
Yeah, there was really nothing about it that I found
appealing.
But this episode originally aired on January
12, 2009. And it was written by
Amanda Lasher, who lasted pretapour
J. And she, she's pretty
much three to four episodes a season from season two to
(02:50):
season five. So she's here to stay.
Yeah.
And it was directed by Trisha Brock. this is
her one and only episode of Gossip Girl. But
she has been directing TV since 2012.
Some of the notable shows she worked on, Grey's
Anatomy, Veronica Mars, Ugly Betty,
the L word, Breaking Bad, 30
Rock, the Walking Dead, and Bridgerton.
(03:12):
You know, it's funny, I'm starting to find that
like when you. When we have these
one episode directors, they
tend to have really good
directing, even in spite of
some bad writing. There is a lot of.
There.
I found there to be a lot of
bad writing in this episode. This episode I felt was
(03:34):
written to just get through it with these
huge bombs. That could have been
so much better.
Why don't you go ahead and read the Vulture recap?
All right. So the Vulture recap.
Watching last night's episode of Gossip Girl,
we felt like we were listening to a song composed
only of choruses. Like we were
(03:57):
eating sundae without the ice cream. Or watching
a figure skater perform a set of only
the insane pirouette moves. All
can be the best parts of their respective
experiences, but they are best not
gorged on alone, lest you end up
nauseous and dizzy. So it was
(04:17):
with last night's installment of the greatest
show of our time gone with the
will, which was made up entirely
of twists. Chuck found out his dad left him
in charge of Bass Industries. Then it had it.
Then had it taken away due to the
machinations of his uncle and a
fine print morality clause. Less than 40
(04:40):
minutes later, things seemed like they were going to
be okay with Blair and Chuck for at
least one episode.
But they weren't.
And she threw peonies at his feet
forever. Dan and Serena seemed like they
were finally doomed. Then they weren't.
Then they were again. But most head
spinning of all was the plotline between
(05:02):
Lily and Rufus, which playing out in
a Boston hotel room, felt like. The
Exterminating angel meets Days of Our
Lives. In the beginning of the
episode, the once and forever lovers
swore their relationship was over and were
told they couldn't meet the child that Lily had given up
for adoption. Then they were told maybe they could
(05:25):
meet the child. Then they were told they couldn't again
ever. Then they had sex, after
which it was indicated they may be able to meet the
child after all. So they hot footed it to meet
the child's Adoptive father,
only to find out actually the
child was dead. He had drowned
just last year. Too
(05:47):
late. But also convenient.
Too convenient. It turned out the kid
wasn't dead. They were just having the wool pulled
over their eyes by some sneaky
Bostonians. Double
convenient. all that said, there were some
funny lines about tuna fish sandwiches and some
surprisingly realistic moments.
(06:09):
Yeah, I guess that.
I think it's pretty spot on. I mean, that
they really did just try to cram
shit.
He's it. He's out. He's it. He's out.
Yeah.
And what's with all the shade towards tuna fish?
Yeah, well. Well,
(06:29):
as somebody that hates tuna fish, I,
I. That all of the different tuna fish hate
resonated with me. My
mom made a tuna casserole when I was
growing up and it has kind of
ruined tuna fish for
me.
Across the board that.
(06:49):
Yeah, I can do tuna rolls. I can do like,
sushi. I can do that. But I can't do, like,
canned tuna. No. Can't do a tuna
sandwich. No.
It's why you get, like, canned tuna
rolls as well, like mayonnaise and tuna in. In a
roll.
See? Yeah, I
(07:12):
can yuck your yum. Not going to yuck your yum.
Go ahead and get into the episode. Act
one begins. The episode opens with Chuck
getting dressed while Gossip Girl narrates. When
most people lose a parent, they inherit sorrow,
loss, and a closet full of outdated clothes.
But on the Upper east side, death's sad chapter
(07:32):
comes with a silver lining. Or a gold one, if your
relatives invested wisely in precious metals.
And this was pretty much just sort of a montage of
people getting ready.
Yeah.
And they pull up. Yeah.
We shift to Jack exiting his limo with a
smirk on his face. Blair shows up and
rebuffs Jack's. Jack's. Attempts to ask a high
(07:54):
school student to come out with him. Later, Jack threatens to
tell Chuck about whatever it was that happened
in On New Year's.
Yeah, Jack, you're
obsessing over this teenager.
So we. We lose one inappropriate relationship with
Aaron leaving, and now we got another one to take its place.
Yeah. And. And he's trying to
(08:15):
groom her in real time,
like, only newer since New
Year's. Gross.
Well, I. He. He actually provided another.
Longer, probably
new. Newer.
Newer, like holidays or something.
And that makes it even creepier that he's known her since she
was, like, a little girl. It's some
(08:38):
le miserab.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Blair and Jack beat up with Chuck and are soon joined by
Nate. Chuck thinks the will is
just One last chance for bar to show his
disappointment and his son.
So, glad to see Nate. It was so nice of Nate
to show up for Chuck and be there.
And is he still using public transportation?
(08:59):
Because the buses were, like, right behind him and they
pulled away as he walked up.
That is true. He probably
is. Yeah. respect. And it was
just always the good friend. It just really
put a smile on my face.
Nate, a man of the people
in Brooklyn. Jenny and Dan are arguing about
(09:19):
Rufus and Lily's relationship status. Dan
is still clearly keeping the secret. As the
scene ends, we see Dan ignore Serena's call.
Yeah. Any Dan hate that there may have been
in this episode from people I think is
undeserved. I feel for him this entire episode.
I just felt like it.
(09:39):
He avoiding Sereno had to
just be really tough on this kid. And the one thing the
Vulture report mentioned was the
very real moments. And I think Dan
really is that moment. Yeah. Every time
he's on, what he.
Said to her at the end, like, I couldn't be around you and lie
to you.
Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah. Dan was amazing.
(10:01):
In this episode, at the will reading, Chuck
is left with all of Bart's personal assets.
Our Bass industries is split three ways.
49% goes to Lily. And the board
of a controlling 51% is revealed in a
personal letter to Chuck. Chuck, however,
declines to read it.
Yeah, very Chuck. Very. I don't want to hear my
(10:22):
dad's disappointment. Also very
predictable as to what was in that
letter.
M. And, you know, we see Blair
and Nate sitting outside the office because they're not allowed in.
But of course, Blair has to medal and.
Yeah.
Barges in and takes the letter from Jack and opens and reads
it.
Yeah.
Apparently Bart had faith in Chuck after all. But
(10:43):
Chuck says too little, too late and offers to
give the company to Jack, who seems to really
want it.
Yeah, With a
creepy wink at Nate at
the end of it.
Yeah. so the Forbes also does that to
me. That was more of a. Okay,
sport. This is mine.
(11:04):
I got that. That. I took it the same.
I didn't take it as innuendo or as
sexual. I took it as still just
kid. Slimy. Yeah, you know,
slimy. Like, hey, I just won. you know,
like, oh, you're. You're bragging
to teenagers that you party with this
(11:24):
guy.
We get some Serena Eric time, and Eric is complaining
that Jenny keeps third wheeling on her his dates with
Jonathan. They arrive at school, and Jenny is with
Jonathan, and they have already planned a night for the three of them
together.
I really hated this whole storyline.
I hated the whole third wheel storyline
(11:45):
because it was just a forced
conflict for the resolution at the end.
And they have other things that could be better.
I don't think that was forced at all. And I saw
several people in the forums mentioning that same exact situation happening
with friends of theirs.
Really?
Yeah, it's, apparently. And they also
commented it's basically a Will Grace stereotype. It's like,
(12:07):
basically Will Grace.
Yeah, that. That's fair. I, I get that.
I think that my problem with it
feeling forced was that
it just sort of felt like it came out of
nowhere. That all of a sudden this is a
problem. And it didn't see. I don't know. It
didn't. It felt forced in the.
(12:29):
It felt like they really needed to find conflict
for them.
And that's true, but I just don't think it was
for you. Remember, there was a time jump. So
this has been going off for a few weeks.
That's true. And that is one of those things
that I need to remember that there is a time jump and
that this is also, as you brought up the Will and
(12:49):
Grace thing, which makes it so much more
relevant to the time that
this was happening.
Serena fies Dan in the courtyard. Serena
is convinced that Dan's avoidance is because he thinks their parents
are hooking up, which she assures him they aren't.
Dan is once again forced to lie and pretend to go along
with it. Fuck you, Rufus.
(13:10):
Yeah, again, felt so bad for Dan and
you, Rufus.
Speaking of. Rufus and Lily are in the waiting room and
Rufus gets a call from Dan. Rufus
reiterate, reiterates that Dan needs to continue
to lie for Lily. However, the
minions overhear Dan's lying about lying to Serena. Of
course.
Yeah. And once again, fuck you,
(13:32):
Rufus. And I love that Dan went
at him and was like, you're the one,
you know, that we had to break up because there were
secrets all the time. And now I'm the one doing
this. You know, it's not okay.
Fuck you, Rufus.
Fuck you, Rufus.
Outside the palace, Blair insists Chuck read
(13:53):
the rest of Bart's letter. Jack is pulling a
Chuck by lurking in the shadows mean
mugging.
Damn those kids. Yeah, I would have gotten away with
it with the meddling kids.
Meddling kids. And I liked that
Bart trusted Chuck enough to leave
(14:13):
him with an empire that in the end.
But also you have to assume that Bart didn't think that
he'd be going out this soon. Yeah,
Bart was like, you know, I'M sure I've got a few
years before this is going to take effect. I'm sure
he'll grow up by the time this actually matters.
You say the Eric and Jenny thing is forced?
(14:34):
This is forced.
Oh. Oh, yeah. Well, again, I
felt like there's no.
Way Bart would reverse that fast and leave him
the company.
Yeah, yeah. yeah,
exactly. There's. I felt,
again, most of this episode felt
forced, really, that and I. And maybe
that's why I felt that the Jenny thing was because I just felt like
(14:57):
this whole episode was just being shoved down my throat.
Dan is exiting class when everyone in the courtyard gets a
blast and starts staring at Dan. Gossip
Girl has this to say.
Is lowly, lowly boy cheating on our queen
sound unlikely? Does the name Georgina ring
a bell? Get out your shovels and start digging the
(15:18):
dirt, kids. Gossip Girl is going to need a little help
getting to the bottom of this mess.
So awesome. This is the first time
in a while that we've seen Gossip Girl
as an active participant
character in the show. And she put
a hit out on Dan. Amazing. We
(15:39):
haven't seen this in forever and I
just thought that that was really
fucking cool.
We move into Act 2. Chuck
comes back to the palace to confront Jack and declares
he changed his mind and that he plans to
follow his father's wishes vis a vis take
over Bass Industries. Jack tries to
(16:00):
dissuade Chuck and is clearly angry about it, but
steps aside, at least for the moment.
You noticed that Thai girl I was about to take home had a
penis, so were even.
Ah. nothing like a little transphobia about.
Nothing like a little. Yeah, a little transphobia
to get through a scene.
But definitely checks out for someone like Chuck. Or like Jack.
(16:21):
And like Jack. Well, exactly. That was.
And also he just shows he can't
be trusted. His reaction to Chuck. Yeah,
Chuck. Like you can't trust this guy.
Even though he's probably right that Chuck is nowhere near ready
to run a billion dollars.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
But you can't trust.
But you can't trust him. Well, yeah, if anything,
(16:44):
Chuck should hire someone he can
trust to help him run the company.
Only he had a stepmom.
Yeah, who. Who
is a huge
shareholder as well.
And also, isn't he turning 18 in like five
minutes?
Yeah, because Blair is already 18.
(17:05):
Yeah, exactly. Like
till your 18th birthday. He's a senior in high
school, so he's waiting till what, like at the
latest. Latest September.
Like, like when he. When he's entering freshman
year.
Like one of the recaps I was looking at.
Like, they said they watched with their lawyer friend. And that
(17:26):
was one of the many lawyer things that were wrong with
SNZ episode. It would have been 25 at
least.
Really? For running the company or for the trust?
For the trust.
Really? I didn't realize. I thought that they, Because
that I found that to be believable, but that.
That's really funny.
Dan comes out of class to find his locker
(17:46):
ransacked. Blair kicks one of his books as she's taking
a call from Jack. Jack wants Blair to help him
throw a party for Chuck, to which he reluctantly
agrees.
Yeah, Jack, again, you're being gross and flirting with
a high school kid. So disgusting.
Say Ally.
Yeah.
So bad.
(18:07):
Rufus and Lily are meeting with a lawyer who did
track down their son's adoptive parents. But because
it was a closed adoption, the best he can do
is tell the parents that Rufus and Lily would like to speak to
them. Lily points out that Rufus is a selfish
brick.
Because Rufus is a selfish prick. He is
such a selfish prick in this whole
(18:29):
ordeal. And here his
kid is begging him to come
home, and he's like, but all I am is a
dad. Then go be a fucking dad.
Yes. maybe they will change their online, but you can still wait
from home. They can make a phone call from Boston
to New York.
Yeah, you. You can be there in a few hours.
(18:52):
So ridiculous.
Again, forced. Like, I can't
entirely blame Rufus, the character, because
I feel like the writing is, at
this point, it was shitty up
and up until now. Anyway. Right now
it again just feels like they're trying to
force this m
(19:13):
More. And it's like it's
exhausted.
Blair and Serena are walking in the halls discussing
Chuck's party and the Gossip Girl hit on Dan,
despite Blair's mocking of them. There's nothing wrong with tuna
sandwiches in theory. However, keeping
one unrefrigerated in your locker is pretty fucking
(19:34):
gross.
The Minions are fucking with
Serena right here. you're right. Keeping a tuna sandwich
in your locker is fucking disgusting, by the way. Yes.
That, I mean, I've already discussed my feelings until tuna
sandwiches. But Serena could destroy the
Minions. She could destroy
them if she wanted to.
And like, just a few episodes, they were, like, worshiping the round
(19:56):
she walked on. Like, what happened?
Yeah, I think it again, like,
bad writing. And also they try to make the
Penelope character
psychotic. At this point, I feel that
she's more and more
just trying to bully anybody.
(20:16):
Well, I think she needs a firm
hand. And right now Blair is
just completely distracted. That's been an ongoing storyline.
Yeah.
So she's just, she, she's going off, she's. Nothing's going off the
rails.
Because it's, Because throughout the whole thing, when
addressing Blair, they keep Serena's name
out of it, knowing full well that it has to do with Serena
(20:36):
too.
We get a multi layered scene with Dan and
Vanessa in a candy shop. Dan
reveals Rufus's secret to Vanessa but
is overheard by Nellyuki who also steals Dan's
phone. However, the scene isn't over as the mini
minions are back and they are berating Dan for cheating on
Serena again.
So first of all, totally
(20:58):
understood Dan opening up to Vanessa.
That was probably the one
most real scene to me in this
that I can't tell Serena. I'm going to tell
my best friend. That made sense.
Nelly Yuki stealing his phone.
Nelly. Come on. Like that's going to keep you out of
(21:18):
Yale. Like that. That can keep you out of
Yale. Theft. Yeah.
But she's desperate after her ploy from last week.
Yeah. She's on probation.
Yeah. And
finally, the mini minions were
fantastic. I loved it. You know
who I am going out with? Nate Archibald after
(21:39):
striking out with Dan Humphrey. Talk about failing
upwards.
So good.
Yeah, amazing. And, just the way that
those three just boom, boom, boom,
like one they were serving.
Jack is waiting for Chuck. When he arrives home,
Jack apologizes for earlier and convinces Chuck to
(22:00):
blow off Blair and come out with him with what I presume are
escorts.
Yeah. So I'm going to
get these escorts from my
underage nephew and take him
out drinking and get him super
fucked up to ruin his plans of
taking over this company. The
(22:21):
legality, the how does.
How, Sometimes it just really baffles me
when it just. When age really just
isn't a factor on this show at all.
They're white and they're rich.
Yeah.
And they're men.
And they're men. Yeah.
Don't get much more privileged than that. Serena
is waiting for Vanessa at the gallery so she can ask V
(22:43):
about Dan Vane. Nessa lies about knowing
anything. Not sure if Serena believes
her. When Serena leaves, V texts Dan asking where
Rufus and Leah or wed. Rufus and Leah are coming
back because Serena needs to know about their
son.
B. The first scene with Vanessa, I was like, oh,
it's like the good Vanessa that, like, I like
(23:04):
having around V.
You could have been a fucking hero here. All you had
to say is, Dan has a secret. It
isn't his to tell. He loves You.
Boom. When your parents get
home, you'll learn everything. Dan
can't tell you. I can't tell you, but
(23:25):
Dan loves you. She could have saved the day.
But of course, Vanessa turns to just
being dumb.
My head cat is that she was trying to break the buck.
Hey, I'll. I'll accept your head
cannon. Her.
Her facial expressions say that too.
Her facial expressions. I could be a hero,
(23:47):
but I'm just going to go ahead and this up even
more.
I think that was just trying to real And I think they were just trying to
show that she's a bad liar.
Yeah, I think you're right. But I like your headcanon
and I would like to keep going with it.
We shift to Nelly revealing to Penelope and Hazel
that she stole Dan's phone. And just in time to get
Vanessa's text. Looks like the secret is about
(24:09):
to get out.
Yeah, stupid. Fuck you, Nelly.
Blair looks simply stunning, prepping for what
looks to be a romantic dinner with Chuck. however, she is
disappointed when she gets a text from Chuck who
says he is working late and can't make it.
Yeah.
Yowza.
Although Blair, your outfit is saying more
than just friends.
(24:29):
Yeah, that is not a non
romantic dinner.
Yeah, you're non romantic dinner.
Practically lingerie. Yeah, the only
thing made it not lingerie was the fact that a belt.
We see Chuck in the limo looking conflicted for a moment.
But then he starts chugging champagne and living it up with
(24:50):
Jack's girls. So much for the back of the limo
being sacred, eh, Chuck? Chuck fails to notice that
Jack is conspicuously not
partying.
Yeah, pay attention, Chuck.
Pay attention. And, and this is
also really ridiculous because this
kid is still in morning.
(25:11):
This kid is still
grieving over his dad that died like
a couple months ago or a month ago or whatever it
is. So like, yeah, he's going to go out
and get up sometimes. Let
him work this out.
That's for later.
Looks like Chuck made his choice. But careful,
(25:32):
Bass, now that you're a big fish, there are a lot of
sharks in this pond. Rufus and Lily are waiting
in a hotel room when Rufus gets a call that the
parents don't want to meet and ask not to be contacted
again. Rufus gets pissy and says it's time to
go home. yeah.
Oh, well now, fine. I'm gonna give up. And he's being
a dick. He sucks again. It's
(25:54):
about time he gave up. And more than
anything, once again, this scene just felt
like filler. It just felt like they needed
to just Put. Well, we need another Rufus and Lily
fighting scene. Okay, let's just put this in.
At Chuck's brunch, Serita and Blair are
talking.
Yeah, they sure are.
(26:15):
Spare me those expressive eyebrows. I can't wait till you get
Botox.
And, players, like, slaps Penelope away from trying
to take Chuck. Special eclairs.
Yeah. Yeah.
Which, you know, it would have been nice for that. That had been brought up before
that he liked the Clares or something.
Yeah.
Why are you reserving the eclairs just for Chuck?
Yeah. Yeah. At a brunch with
(26:37):
all of these people. Yeah.
Dan and Jenny show up at the brunch as well. Jenny goes
off to find Eric, and Dan greets Serena.
I never miss an opportunity to celebrate Chuck
Bass.
Jan. When he was walking.
Yeah.
Again, Chuck. Dan's trying to do the right thing here
(26:58):
and trying to be the right boyfriend and
really tries to show up for Serena here.
Yeah, He. Unfortunately, Rufus has backed him into a
corner.
Yeah, totally.
Jack arrives without Chuck, who is apparently back in the
office after the night they just had.
Yeah.
The minions try to get Blair's clearance to release the info on
(27:18):
Rufus and Lee's kid, but Blair is too distracted and
tells them to release the info before she hears what it is.
Jack encourages Blair to take the vast board members
up to Chuck's office to meet him again.
The minions didn't mention
Serena, so they're. Oh, we've got this
hit on Dan Humphrey. Okay, fine.
Release it. I don't think Serena would. Blair would
(27:41):
have said that if Serena's name came up.
Yeah.
The other thing with this B.
How'd you miss this? How did you
miss taking the board members up to Chuck?
She's usually a step ahead of this. How did she not see
through Jack here? I felt like she should have seen the
trap and been like, I'll go check on
(28:01):
Chuck and bring him down instead of leading the board
members in. I felt like she missed an obvious setup.
she's clearly distracted.
Yeah.
Jenny sits down with Eric, who finally speaks up and tells
Jenny that he wants some alone time with Jonathan. The two
proceed to bicker like siblings
very much.
And this was where I really felt
(28:23):
that this was forced, that Jenny was just being
a brat about it. And maybe that's why I
felt it was forced is that I felt like,
why did. Why would she object
to letting them also having their
time? So I. I thought
that her reaction was over the
(28:43):
top. Also, I thought that Andal.
Or that Eric was a little more abrasive
than he usually is that Eric typically has a
more adult way of approaching things.
Yeah. So on Jenny's side, Serena actually
met. She kind of explains how. Why Jenny be like that? Because she
has no one else.
Yeah.
And then Eric is just sexually frustrated because he can't
be alone. His boyfriend.
(29:04):
Yeah.
Yeah, it makes sense to me.
Yeah, that. That. That makes sense.
Dan and Serena are joking and being flirty. When everyone
gets the blast, the secret is
out. Hold on to your floppy cable
net hats, kids. Lonely boy. Secret is
out. And this one's a doozy. D wasn't
cheating, but there's definitely a third party
(29:25):
involved. Seems DNS share a sibling.
While I'm always a fan of star crossed lovers, at
least Robbie and Juliet didn't share DNA.
huge bomb from Gossip Girl.
Biggest Gossip Girl drop that we've had in a while,
as I mentioned before, and it's
(29:47):
this reminder that Gossip Girl is a living,
breathing character in the show. She has been
such a narrator for
a few weeks. We haven't really seen
much plot coming from Gossip
Girl. Just recap, narration,
little things like that. Has
(30:08):
there been anything big in a while? I feel
like not since.
Maybe the Marcus stuff.
Oh, yeah, I think that, sounds about right. Well, I did like the
fun quip about Romeo and Juliet. I.
Technically, they don't share DNA.
Unrelated.
I mean, they're sharing DNA. Possibly, yeah,
(30:28):
but they don't share DNA.
Yeah, they're not actually
siblings.
Before we go to act break, we get a final scene
with Blair and the board members walking in on Chuck doing
coke and still partying with the presumed escorts.
Oh, Chuck, didn't your father teach you never
(30:49):
mix business with pleasure?
Yeah, again, I felt like. I felt
like, b. B, you should
have seen this coming.
She should have. But, yeah, she. They. They've been showing that
she's off her game.
Yeah, they have. They have.
And so I'm not sure if the woman
was with them. Was that another board member or was
(31:10):
that just the guy's wife?
But, they introduced her as a board member.
But I. I thought she kind of wanted to stay and party. She had
this look on her face.
Let's.
Let's party. So we
go into Act 3.
Dan chases down Serena, who begs him to
tell her it's not true. Dan, for once,
(31:31):
is speechless, confirming that it is true and that
he knew about it. Serena's gotta
go.
Yeah, fair. Like, I felt
like every reaction from the four of
them, completely fair. Serena
being like, I can't be here with you right
now, and Dan Wasn't. And Dan
(31:51):
was like, fair. I get it.
You know, and it's a lot
to take.
Yeah. And Jenny and Eric being like, wow, this
is why we fight like siblings.
Chuck enters the brunch still tucking in his
shirt. The board members are clearly disgusted and
disappointed. Chuck yells at Blair, blaming
(32:12):
her for everything.
Yeah. And Blair could very
easily have said, well, Jack told me
to throw this thing.
She didn't even, misdirected anger.
Yeah. And, and, and he has this wife problem.
You know, he has this wife hang up
that, that Jack is just
scratching at.
(32:32):
Yeah. So there was a bit of debate, debate on the
forums on whether this was just shitty behavior
or if it was actual abuse. Abusive
behavior. It's definitely
borderline.
Yeah. Chuck is definitely an abusive
person. Right.
Yeah.
And.
Yeah, we'll make that a call to action.
(32:54):
Yeah. We'll put a poll on Spotify
and if you have thoughts, definitely,
come on social media and talk to us about it. Was that
abuse or was it just.
Chuck being a. Yeah, yeah, fair
question.
Dan once again catches up with Serena outside the hotel.
He seems to at least temporarily pacifier.
Eric and Jenny also come out and join
(33:16):
the conversation. All four are looking shell
shocked and suddenly awkward to be around each other.
Yeah, again, it was suit that, how
would people react? It felt real. It felt
like really real moment. I,
really credit acting directing here. It
was. They're really a spot on
(33:37):
and really felt like you had a window into
these kids reactions.
Back at the hotel, Rufus is still acting like a
bratty child. For some crazy reason, Lily
admits she is still in love with him. Rufus,
overcome with emotion, pulls Lillian for the
kiss. And we fade to bat black back from the
(33:58):
commercial. Rufus and Lily are now lying naked
under the covers, basking in the afterglow
amidst the talks of Paris. Rufus gets a
call and apparently the adopted father wants to meet
with them.
Yeah. Fucking Rufus being such
a huge asshole to Lily. And then Lily
being like, but I'm in love with you. And then Rufus
(34:19):
is like, oh, all right, cool. Let's
just go with that now and not worry about this kid
thing anymore. And then he. Then they bang. And then
it's like, oh, I get to meet the kid. Sweet. I'm
getting everything I wanted.
Chuck confronts Jack about setting him up.
However, Jack just reveals how deep the setup went
(34:39):
and he already has assumed control of Bass
Industries with the board's blessing.
Yep, Jack is a huge piece of
shit.
And he wins.
Yeah, he won. Yeah. For how
long?
Lily and Rufus meet the adopted father who
says that he has something to tell him. But we get a scene
(35:00):
cut prior to the reveal, so nothing really happens yet.
So. But they are meeting with him.
Yeah, I did, I, I did call it at the scene
cut. that what he was had to.
Say, but he called it wrong.
I, I called it wrong. Yeah.
Eric enters Serena's room to talk. Eric is
back to being the wise sage and tells Serena that she
can't push Dan away right now because Dan and Jenny are
(35:22):
going through the same thing.
This reeks of gin and Chanel number five.
This has, this has grandma all over it. Yeah.
Reeks of gin and Chanel number five.
Eric for the win. The, the,
the only people who are going to understand
what you're going through are the other two
people going through the
(35:45):
exact same unique
experience. So Eric for the
win again. I hope Eric grows
up to become a psychologist. I want
Eric to be a therapist.
I can see that for him.
Yeah, I think it would be, I think that he would be
fantastic.
We go to the gallery and we get a nice Dan and Nate
(36:07):
scene. Nate apologizes for the Jenny thing
and empathizes with Dan about having personal details of
your life up for public gossip. Can we be seeing the return
of the bromance? Nate also reconnect with Chuck this
episode. We potentially get all three boys hanging out
together soon.
I would love it, actually.
good guy Nate. I always
(36:29):
fucking love Nate.
And this was such a classic Dan and Nate. See, because at first
Dan like gets all prickly, comes at him,
and Nate de escalates and they're
cool.
Just the way he keeps his cool. Dan comes
at him hard and he's like.
But I have been in the public eye with all of
my biggest shame embarrassment. And
(36:51):
Dan immediately is always like,
fuck.
And I have to wonder, is they only dating Vanessa to get
close to dad?
M. I mean that, that kind of tracks.
because when what Nate said, I found out
who my friends really were, I meant
you. You took me into your
home. And Nate having the self
(37:13):
awareness of like you kicking me out, like, I kind of get it.
I was hooking up with your sister. Like that would make me mad
too. Like, Nate just
owns it and moves on. And he was
just such a, great example of the
good guy here.
Yep. Back to Rufus and Lily. The
adopted father tells them that their son died in an accident
(37:35):
last summer, but that he was always a happy
child.
So I called, when, before the commercial
break, I said, oh, the kid's dead. When
he was explaining it and Saying it. He had the
article and all that stuff. I'm like, oh, this guy's full of shit.
I was like, I don't know how, I don't know what's going on here, but this
guy's full of shit.
(37:56):
Also. I know everyone grieves
differently. Why did you keep an
article about your son's grisly death?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's not, it wasn't an obituary. I, I, because I paused it. It's
like a full article.
Yeah, yeah.
Detailing, what happened.
Yeah.
Seems odd, but whatever.
Yeah.
Chuck arrives at Blair's penthouse to apologize.
(38:18):
But Blair is too hurt and sends Chuck a
pack in. Good for Blair finally
standing up for herself.
Yeah. And,
and it was somewhat, it was somewhat shitty. Here he is
in his time of need. But it's also, you got to put your own
life ma. Like you got to put your mask on first.
Right. And, and she has taken so much
(38:38):
from him.
And again, he's not really in
a real crisis. He just doesn't have his father's company at
17.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, he did
lose his dad. And he does feel,
I can imagine this 17 year old feeling like
he's lost everything right now,
and really needing that person.
(39:00):
And I, think one of the biggest things that
he failed to do right then. And
there were three words that
he could have said right there and
didn't. Although I wouldn't have believed if he
would have said it. I think that that would have just been
manipulative. Anyway.
And we move into the epilogue.
(39:23):
Back in Brooklyn, Dan and Jenny are making plans to
distract themselves when Serena and Eric come a
knocking.
Yeah.
Cute scene with them m before it.
Was f. Yeah, I loved it. I loved, I loved
the rest of this episode.
I really liked the two scenes.
Yeah.
Dan and Serena decide they are going to find a way to make
(39:46):
the relationship work despite the
skeeviness.
Yeah, I loved his apology here.
I loved them having that open
discourse like they did what brought them together
early on in season one. I felt that kind
of energy again. I loved the
clueless reference that
(40:07):
when Dan's searching
literature and we get
clueless from Serena.
Eric and Jenny compete on who can apologize first
but continue to tease each other.
Yeah, I said it first. Loved that.
Eric was so, was so cute. Always the,
always the grown up. He's always the grown up.
(40:29):
So as is tradition, we close the episode with a
montage. Chuck is getting
undressed. We see the adopted parents talking.
Lily and Rufus talking outside the loft.
Rufus opens the Door to find their children all together. We
end the episode with a closeup on Rufus and Lily's hands
clasping and Gossip Girl narrates.
The problem with inheritance is it's not,
(40:51):
always as simple as it sounds. Sometimes you get
more than you bargained for, or you discover that in
gaining one thing, you've lost something else. But
every once in a while, the fates smile upon you
and you get the one thing you really need.
Exo xo Gossip
Girl.
So a couple things that I had on this little ending
(41:12):
bit.
For one, the people, the
adopted parents just sucking here.
And there's a part of me that gets it.
My oldest sister is
adopted. I'm sort of from a Brady Bunch.
My parents were both married and had kids, then
got together and had me and my little sister. But
(41:32):
my dad's first wife couldn't
have kids, and so they adopted a
daughter. And so I grew up
with a sister that I just always knew to be
my sister and found out when I was maybe 11 or 12 that
she was actually adopted and it never
mattered. And then around
(41:54):
college, my sister got curious and started looking
for her biological parents.
And my dad kind of freaked out
about it. My dad, got really
upset about it, got
really insecure about it. And my
sister had to be like, look, you're my dad.
(42:14):
These are, these are just people that I want to know where I came
from. I want to know that history.
But you're my dad. That doesn't
change. So I kind of see both sides of this.
But I really think Rufus is a huge asshole for
his insistence on it. I also think that these people
are assholes because if you have raised
(42:35):
your kid so that if some other
parent comes along, they're just going to want to run off
and be with them now, then you're a pretty shitty
parent to begin with. I know that if my sister
had found those, other people and they were
billionaires living in
Silicon Valley or some bullshit, she would
(42:55):
never have left my dad. She wouldn't. She may
have found other ways to benefit, but she would never
have been like, well, that's my family now.
If you're worried about that, then you're pretty shitty
parent to begin with.
Yeah. So the individual sees here we get Chuck
getting undressed. Clearly a parallel to the opening scene of the
episode.
Yeah.
(43:16):
And it's interesting. They clearly want to show us that
Chuck was wearing his father's tie because he threw it down right next to
the picture.
Yeah, yeah.
Of his father. And it was the same tie so you use
that tie to go apologize to Blair.
Yeah. And Chuck got undressed
with no one else there. Typically, when Chuck is
going to bed or there's a Chuck moment
(43:37):
like that, we cut to him with
a woman in the bed. And this was indicated
that Chuck was getting undressed and going to bed
alone.
And, of course, the. The Lily and Rufus, like, Lily's just. She's
admitting they. They might not be meant to be family, but course,
right then they walk in and see their kids are acting
like a family.
I thought that was adorable.
(43:59):
I thought it was a very sweet scene. I love
that they walked in, saw what was
happening, and then held hands, that they were
like, okay, apparently,
we can give this a shot. I
loved how that came together, and I'm really
happy to see Lily and
Rufus finally getting at least something
(44:22):
here.
So that is it for our episode. Any
predictions?
I predict that Lily and Rufus live happily
and ever after, and so did Dan and Serena. No, I'm. I'm
kidding. I know that's not true because they all have to,
but I do, I do hope for
a good run of
Rufus and Lily and a little run of
(44:43):
Dan and Serena before something comes along and it up.
I'm assuming we got a mention of
Georgina. I feel like if they say her name
three times, it's going to summon her.
So I kind of feel like. And we're getting towards the later
episodes, so I'm feeling like there might be a
Georgina reemergence at
(45:03):
some point.
This is a longer season.
Yeah, yeah, we've got eight episodes left.
This was 15. There's 23.
25. Keep thinking it's 23.
That's norm. That's normal. But, yeah, season two is longer.
Okay. Okay. So 25.
Okay.
So we still have 10 episodes left. All right.
(45:23):
So, but I. I'm. I'm predicting,
I think that we're gonna have, these two
couples giving it a go for a bit. I. I could
see this being the Rufus and Lily show
going forward. As far as those. That
plotline, I could see them actually working out
now. I don't think Becks is going to
come steal him away.
(45:45):
I mean, obviously we're eventually going to see the kid. Do you think that's going to
happen this season?
I would. I would think so. I would think that
the whole fact that they went looking for this kid would
stir up the notion that he's being looked for,
that he would come looking for them.
I'm assuming that he is going to come looking for
them. By the end of the season.
(46:07):
What about Chuck and Blair? Are they going to continue to
bounce back and forth, or are they going to do something else?
If it. Maybe there will be a new love interest
for Blair. They. If they
need to throw someone else into
that mix. Otherwise, they're either just going to keep bouncing
off each other or they're going to finally work it out for an
episode or two. But I feel like.
(46:30):
I feel like they're going to draw a new
character in at some point. Something has to mix that
up because it's just been this whole season. Yeah,
it's been since. Since episode one.
Yeah. Since Marcus left has been just Chuck and Blair.
Yeah. And, like, the only thing that stirred that
pot at all was Marcus. And
so they need something to stir that pot. Either that or they need to get
(46:52):
together and let them be a couple for a little bit. But
I don't feel like we're gonna have
the Darina and chair
simultaneously working out. That doesn't. And
Vanessa and Nate. I don't think three happy
couples really makes for good drama.
Yeah, probably not. Let's go ahead and
(47:14):
get into some segments. We jumped
into the Wayback Machine to take a look at this week
in fandom. Hello there, Peabody.
Here.
And this is the Wayback Machine for traveling through time.
And this is my boy, Sherman.
Speak, Sherman. Hello.
Good boy. We went to fan for him again.
So we. I learned that that thing that we saw
(47:36):
at the beginning of the season where Canada was getting the episodes early,
that's no longer a thing. Oh,
the US Shut that shit down.
America First Merc
America.
So apparently the promo trailer for this episode made it
seem like there was no Jack and Blair hookup that
(47:56):
happened. People are annoyed by the misdirect.
I will say it is
so obvious that they hooked up that there
may be something else instead of a hookup.
Apparently, the promo specifically said they did
not. It was like, a scene that didn't make the upset
or something.
Oh.
So, people were annoyed by the misdirect.
(48:18):
So it was like in the preview.
Yeah, the preview from, last week. Yeah,
like next week on the Minions.
Yeah, all of them.
Jack is creepy, hitting on Blair and winking at
Nate. How old is this pansexual sleazeball?
Yeah, again, I didn't take
that. Sexual. Just
(48:40):
slimy.
Yeah. And I. I threw her pants. Sexual. Because that early wasn't in
the lexicon back then. They didn't
have the word for what they're trying to say.
Yeah,
that's fair.
Fan Forum is kind of done with Chuck after this
one. They are really down on Chuck. I was surprised.
Yeah. Because I'm still in a place where I feel for him
(49:03):
still. Like the lost dad thing.
I know, fucked him up. I feel like it takes time to get
over something like that.
And like I said, they're back and forth on
whether it was abusive or just mean.
Yeah. Especially showing up with the flowers
later to apologize. That's,
that's, that is some abusive
(49:24):
behavior. That is some. Yeah, narcissistic.
And also, as I mentioned, Eric and Jenny are giving Will and
Grace.
Yeah, very much.
They are still salty that Nate is favoring Dan over
Chuck.
Dan's nicer to him. Well, except for when
he kicked him out.
What's the point of Natesa dating if they aren't going to share
(49:44):
a single scene together?
True. They only talked about
their two month.
Relationship and to other people.
They literally worked in the scene together.
Yeah. Which I kind of love that in its own
right. That the writing, they couldn't work
them into a scene together.
(50:06):
we mentioned the Television Without Pity
forums last week. They were kind of. They thought that
Share Sibling made Darina more interesting.
Fanfare was not on that same kink.
Yeah.
Grossed out.
Yeah, a little bit.
That's fair.
(50:26):
So let's go ahead and get into some episode
grade. You're up first, Steve.
Yes, I am. So this
episode, I felt the writing was
close to terrible in. In the way that
they were trying to manage these
plot devices. I felt like it was such a
big episode with the reveals
(50:48):
that they didn't know how to
build to some of them. I thought that
the reveals were great. I thought the acting was great. I
thought the directing was really well done.
So I gave it a B. Mostly because I felt
the writing just really hurt the
advancement throughout the episode.
So you're giving it a B.
(51:09):
A B. Yeah.
I, was not as down on the writing as
you, but I was also not as high on the acting or
the directing. I thought pretty much everything from this
episode was a straight down the middle average
episode. The only thing, I gave it a C plus
because I like the epilogue.
Yeah, that's fair. I like the
advancement that happened
(51:30):
overall was my big thing that I
liked.
But yeah, it was just kind of an average upset.
It really. Yeah, wasn't great.
Moving on over to stock. Watch what you got going
up.
So I have Jack going up. Jack is
now CEO of Bass Industries. I
have Dan and Serena going up. I
(51:51):
have Eric and Jenny and Rufus and
Lily. The whole Family going up because
they have seemed to, at least
for now, all worked out, all of that shit. And that
is everyone I have going up for me.
I also had Jack because, yeah, he won what
he was. He got, what he wanted, his scheme work. I had Jenny and
Eric going up because they had the cute sibling stuff
(52:14):
going on. Nate going up because he was good guy
Nate.
Oh, I want to add Nate because I forgot about Nate.
All right, we'll add Nate. And I
had Dan and Serena going up because, you know, they
worked through their issues and they were cute.
I kept, Willie at neutral.
That's fair.
You got going down.
I have the adoptive parents going down.
(52:37):
I have the Minions going down. I have
Chuck and Blair both going down and
Vanessa going down for being a bad liar
and not saving the day when you had a chance to do something
good. And Vanessa, I will always give her a
shot down if I can.
So I kept Blair neutral because
she had a bad episode, but she stuck up for
(52:58):
herself at the end, so I kept her neutral.
That's fair.
You gave Rufus up. I gave her his dad because he was just such a
fucking dick all up.
Yeah, the up is because I feel like he got
everything he wanted in.
The end, but he didn't get the kid.
At least he got the info on the kid, though. He thinks he
got everything he was looking for.
And I had Chuck going down because, yeah,
(53:20):
he lost big time.
And damn, did Rufus get over that kid dying
really fucking quick now that I think of it.
Steve (53:28):
Yeah.
Leif (53:29):
Rufus down all the way. I also had the Minions at
neutral because the Minions were just being Minions.
Take my Rufus point away and send him down.
Fuck him.
See, I didn't give the Minions
dad because they were just being the Minions being
Minions. But that's it. for me on down,
(53:49):
just Chuck and Rufus.
Yeah, okay. But here's the best
outfits from the.
Steve (53:54):
Last episode we see.
Leif (53:59):
Who do you have for best outfit?
Jenny's coat. She was in early on.
Jenny was wearing that coat and it had like
the lining on it. I can't really
thing to describe. It was what was like a black coat with
like the fucking. I know no
one can see me pointing at my. At my collar,
but so I guess.
(54:21):
I will be the one and I'll be the horny bastard
and pick Blair's dress from her.
Or not date her lunge
address. Yes. So, yeah, it was a black
dress with waist trim. She had a bedazzled
sash belt with a black flower buckle.
It was from the Fall 2004 adultery and Gabbana
(54:42):
pretzel Porte collection.
Nice.
So, yeah, so that is it for segments.
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And next episode we will be Back for season
two, episode 16, you've got
Yale.
I saw the title. All I saw was the title. And I was.
And I. And I chuckled.
The Max episode description reads, the
students find out who is accepted to Yale University.
(56:32):
All right, let's. Let's get into that.
well, until next time, you know you love us.
Steve (56:37):
Xoxo Every time you walk away
run away you take a piece of me with
you there Every time you
walk away run, away you take a piece of me
with you there Every
time you walk away or run, away you take a piece of
me with you there
(56:57):
oh, it seems I'm walking right to
your door.
Leif (57:03):
My heart's.
Steve (57:04):
Still resting looking for something
more.
Leif (57:09):
Are.
Steve (57:10):
You ever gonna see everything you mean to me? I'm
trying really hard to
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a piece
of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
(57:32):
piece of me with you there
never feels right when I'm out here on
my own
I left last night and it feels like
way too long
are you ever gonna see everything you mean to
me I'm trying really hard to believe
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every time you walk away run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of m me with you there.
Leif (58:16):
Come back to me.
Steve (58:20):
Smile and you'll make my life
complete
every time you walk away I run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
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piece of me with you there
every time you walk away run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away run away you take a
piece of me m you with with you there
every time you walk away and run away you take a
piece of me with you there
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every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there.
Oh, I did like the fun quip about Romeo and Juliet.
I. Technically, they don't share
DNA.
Unrelated.
I mean, they're sharing DNA. Possibly,
but they don't share DNA.
Yeah, they're not actually
siblings.
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Hey, Upper east siders, and all you scandal loving listeners out
there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast
pod where the coffee is strong, the
waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than
ever. My name is Leif, and I'm your seasoned
Gossip Girl veteran.
And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn
that, I don't know, Leif. What do we call this season
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two Gossip Girl newbie?
why are you bothering about this right now?
Well, hey, I still need to get board approval here,
so.
Fine, whatever. Now go breathe somewhere else.
So here's the deal, folks. Leap has been watching Gossip
Girl since the very beginning, and I'm watching for the
very first time. And together, we're your dynamic
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duo, bringing you all of the drama, romance, and
sometimes questionable fashion choices of
this iconic 2007 series.
That's right. Each week we'll take a deep dive into the
show one episode at a time. We'll analyze all the
parallels, obscure references, and of course, the
couture catastrophes. Plus, we'll also be
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touching on all the behind the scenes gossip and some stories from
fandom.
And since we're all about inclusivity here at the non
judging breakfast pod, there's always a seat for you at
the non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab your
coffee, a mimosa, or some of Nate and
Chuck's special medicine if it's that kind of day. And
let's get into this.
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And we are going to be releasing this episode on the week of
Thanksgiving. So, we will be Talking about season
two, episode 15, Gone with the Will,
of course, based on the movie and novel Gone with the Wind.
Gone with the Wind. Yeah, of course.
Not a favorite of mine.
Never seen the whole thing start to
finish. I know my parents would like watch
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it sometimes when it was on and it was just. It
would not captivate me enough to watch it. And
then by the time I was like, by the time I should have just
sought it out and watched it on my own, I never did.
Well, I mean, besides, for the whole antebellum theme
of it all, the main relationship is
very abusive.
That's, that was what I always
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understood. That's like.
Yeah, not. Not for me.
Yeah, there was really nothing about it that I found
appealing.
But this episode originally aired on January
12, 2009. And it was written by
Amanda Lasher, who lasted pretapour
J. And she, she's pretty
much three to four episodes a season from season two to
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season five. So she's here to stay.
Yeah.
And it was directed by Trisha Brock. this is
her one and only episode of Gossip Girl. But
she has been directing TV since 2012.
Some of the notable shows she worked on, Grey's
Anatomy, Veronica Mars, Ugly Betty,
the L word, Breaking Bad, 30
Rock, the Walking Dead, and Bridgerton.
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You know, it's funny, I'm starting to find that
like when you. When we have these
one episode directors, they
tend to have really good
directing, even in spite of
some bad writing. There is a lot of.
There.
I found there to be a lot of
bad writing in this episode. This episode I felt was
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written to just get through it with these
huge bombs. That could have been
so much better.
Why don't you go ahead and read the Vulture recap?
All right. So the Vulture recap.
Watching last night's episode of Gossip Girl,
we felt like we were listening to a song composed
only of choruses. Like we were
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eating sundae without the ice cream. Or watching
a figure skater perform a set of only
the insane pirouette moves. All
can be the best parts of their respective
experiences, but they are best not
gorged on alone, lest you end up
nauseous and dizzy. So it was
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with last night's installment of the greatest
show of our time gone with the
will, which was made up entirely
of twists. Chuck found out his dad left him
in charge of Bass Industries. Then it had it.
Then had it taken away due to the
machinations of his uncle and a
fine print morality clause. Less than 40
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minutes later, things seemed like they were going to
be okay with Blair and Chuck for at
least one episode.
But they weren't.
And she threw peonies at his feet
forever. Dan and Serena seemed like they
were finally doomed. Then they weren't.
Then they were again. But most head
spinning of all was the plotline between
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Lily and Rufus, which playing out in
a Boston hotel room, felt like. The
Exterminating angel meets Days of Our
Lives. In the beginning of the
episode, the once and forever lovers
swore their relationship was over and were
told they couldn't meet the child that Lily had given up
for adoption. Then they were told maybe they could
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meet the child. Then they were told they couldn't again
ever. Then they had sex, after
which it was indicated they may be able to meet the
child after all. So they hot footed it to meet
the child's Adoptive father,
only to find out actually the
child was dead. He had drowned
just last year. Too
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late. But also convenient.
Too convenient. It turned out the kid
wasn't dead. They were just having the wool pulled
over their eyes by some sneaky
Bostonians. Double
convenient. all that said, there were some
funny lines about tuna fish sandwiches and some
surprisingly realistic moments.
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Yeah, I guess that.
I think it's pretty spot on. I mean, that
they really did just try to cram
shit.
He's it. He's out. He's it. He's out.
Yeah.
And what's with all the shade towards tuna fish?
Yeah, well. Well,
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as somebody that hates tuna fish, I,
I. That all of the different tuna fish hate
resonated with me. My
mom made a tuna casserole when I was
growing up and it has kind of
ruined tuna fish for
me.
Across the board that.
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Yeah, I can do tuna rolls. I can do like,
sushi. I can do that. But I can't do, like,
canned tuna. No. Can't do a tuna
sandwich. No.
It's why you get, like, canned tuna
rolls as well, like mayonnaise and tuna in. In a
roll.
See? Yeah, I
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can yuck your yum. Not going to yuck your yum.
Go ahead and get into the episode. Act
one begins. The episode opens with Chuck
getting dressed while Gossip Girl narrates. When
most people lose a parent, they inherit sorrow,
loss, and a closet full of outdated clothes.
But on the Upper east side, death's sad chapter
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comes with a silver lining. Or a gold one, if your
relatives invested wisely in precious metals.
And this was pretty much just sort of a montage of
people getting ready.
Yeah.
And they pull up. Yeah.
We shift to Jack exiting his limo with a
smirk on his face. Blair shows up and
rebuffs Jack's. Jack's. Attempts to ask a high
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school student to come out with him. Later, Jack threatens to
tell Chuck about whatever it was that happened
in On New Year's.
Yeah, Jack, you're
obsessing over this teenager.
So we. We lose one inappropriate relationship with
Aaron leaving, and now we got another one to take its place.
Yeah. And. And he's trying to
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groom her in real time,
like, only newer since New
Year's. Gross.
Well, I. He. He actually provided another.
Longer, probably
new. Newer.
Newer, like holidays or something.
And that makes it even creepier that he's known her since she
was, like, a little girl. It's some
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le miserab.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Blair and Jack beat up with Chuck and are soon joined by
Nate. Chuck thinks the will is
just One last chance for bar to show his
disappointment and his son.
So, glad to see Nate. It was so nice of Nate
to show up for Chuck and be there.
And is he still using public transportation?
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Because the buses were, like, right behind him and they
pulled away as he walked up.
That is true. He probably
is. Yeah. respect. And it was
just always the good friend. It just really
put a smile on my face.
Nate, a man of the people
in Brooklyn. Jenny and Dan are arguing about
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Rufus and Lily's relationship status. Dan
is still clearly keeping the secret. As the
scene ends, we see Dan ignore Serena's call.
Yeah. Any Dan hate that there may have been
in this episode from people I think is
undeserved. I feel for him this entire episode.
I just felt like it.
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He avoiding Sereno had to
just be really tough on this kid. And the one thing the
Vulture report mentioned was the
very real moments. And I think Dan
really is that moment. Yeah. Every time
he's on, what he.
Said to her at the end, like, I couldn't be around you and lie
to you.
Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah. Dan was amazing.
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In this episode, at the will reading, Chuck
is left with all of Bart's personal assets.
Our Bass industries is split three ways.
49% goes to Lily. And the board
of a controlling 51% is revealed in a
personal letter to Chuck. Chuck, however,
declines to read it.
Yeah, very Chuck. Very. I don't want to hear my
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dad's disappointment. Also very
predictable as to what was in that
letter.
M. And, you know, we see Blair
and Nate sitting outside the office because they're not allowed in.
But of course, Blair has to medal and.
Yeah.
Barges in and takes the letter from Jack and opens and reads
it.
Yeah.
Apparently Bart had faith in Chuck after all. But
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Chuck says too little, too late and offers to
give the company to Jack, who seems to really
want it.
Yeah, With a
creepy wink at Nate at
the end of it.
Yeah. so the Forbes also does that to
me. That was more of a. Okay,
sport. This is mine.
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I got that. That. I took it the same.
I didn't take it as innuendo or as
sexual. I took it as still just
kid. Slimy. Yeah, you know,
slimy. Like, hey, I just won. you know,
like, oh, you're. You're bragging
to teenagers that you party with this
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guy.
We get some Serena Eric time, and Eric is complaining
that Jenny keeps third wheeling on her his dates with
Jonathan. They arrive at school, and Jenny is with
Jonathan, and they have already planned a night for the three of them
together.
I really hated this whole storyline.
I hated the whole third wheel storyline
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because it was just a forced
conflict for the resolution at the end.
And they have other things that could be better.
I don't think that was forced at all. And I saw
several people in the forums mentioning that same exact situation happening
with friends of theirs.
Really?
Yeah, it's, apparently. And they also
commented it's basically a Will Grace stereotype. It's like,
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basically Will Grace.
Yeah, that. That's fair. I, I get that.
I think that my problem with it
feeling forced was that
it just sort of felt like it came out of
nowhere. That all of a sudden this is a
problem. And it didn't see. I don't know. It
didn't. It felt forced in the.
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It felt like they really needed to find conflict
for them.
And that's true, but I just don't think it was
for you. Remember, there was a time jump. So
this has been going off for a few weeks.
That's true. And that is one of those things
that I need to remember that there is a time jump and
that this is also, as you brought up the Will and
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Grace thing, which makes it so much more
relevant to the time that
this was happening.
Serena fies Dan in the courtyard. Serena
is convinced that Dan's avoidance is because he thinks their parents
are hooking up, which she assures him they aren't.
Dan is once again forced to lie and pretend to go along
with it. Fuck you, Rufus.
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Yeah, again, felt so bad for Dan and
you, Rufus.
Speaking of. Rufus and Lily are in the waiting room and
Rufus gets a call from Dan. Rufus
reiterate, reiterates that Dan needs to continue
to lie for Lily. However, the
minions overhear Dan's lying about lying to Serena. Of
course.
Yeah. And once again, fuck you,
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Rufus. And I love that Dan went
at him and was like, you're the one,
you know, that we had to break up because there were
secrets all the time. And now I'm the one doing
this. You know, it's not okay.
Fuck you, Rufus.
Fuck you, Rufus.
Outside the palace, Blair insists Chuck read
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the rest of Bart's letter. Jack is pulling a
Chuck by lurking in the shadows mean
mugging.
Damn those kids. Yeah, I would have gotten away with
it with the meddling kids.
Meddling kids. And I liked that
Bart trusted Chuck enough to leave
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him with an empire that in the end.
But also you have to assume that Bart didn't think that
he'd be going out this soon. Yeah,
Bart was like, you know, I'M sure I've got a few
years before this is going to take effect. I'm sure
he'll grow up by the time this actually matters.
You say the Eric and Jenny thing is forced?
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This is forced.
Oh. Oh, yeah. Well, again, I
felt like there's no.
Way Bart would reverse that fast and leave him
the company.
Yeah, yeah. yeah,
exactly. There's. I felt,
again, most of this episode felt
forced, really, that and I. And maybe
that's why I felt that the Jenny thing was because I just felt like
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this whole episode was just being shoved down my throat.
Dan is exiting class when everyone in the courtyard gets a
blast and starts staring at Dan. Gossip
Girl has this to say.
Is lowly, lowly boy cheating on our queen
sound unlikely? Does the name Georgina ring
a bell? Get out your shovels and start digging the
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dirt, kids. Gossip Girl is going to need a little help
getting to the bottom of this mess.
So awesome. This is the first time
in a while that we've seen Gossip Girl
as an active participant
character in the show. And she put
a hit out on Dan. Amazing. We
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haven't seen this in forever and I
just thought that that was really
fucking cool.
We move into Act 2. Chuck
comes back to the palace to confront Jack and declares
he changed his mind and that he plans to
follow his father's wishes vis a vis take
over Bass Industries. Jack tries to
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dissuade Chuck and is clearly angry about it, but
steps aside, at least for the moment.
You noticed that Thai girl I was about to take home had a
penis, so were even.
Ah. nothing like a little transphobia about.
Nothing like a little. Yeah, a little transphobia
to get through a scene.
But definitely checks out for someone like Chuck. Or like Jack.
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And like Jack. Well, exactly. That was.
And also he just shows he can't
be trusted. His reaction to Chuck. Yeah,
Chuck. Like you can't trust this guy.
Even though he's probably right that Chuck is nowhere near ready
to run a billion dollars.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
But you can't trust.
But you can't trust him. Well, yeah, if anything,
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Chuck should hire someone he can
trust to help him run the company.
Only he had a stepmom.
Yeah, who. Who
is a huge
shareholder as well.
And also, isn't he turning 18 in like five
minutes?
Yeah, because Blair is already 18.
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Yeah, exactly. Like
till your 18th birthday. He's a senior in high
school, so he's waiting till what, like at the
latest. Latest September.
Like, like when he. When he's entering freshman
year.
Like one of the recaps I was looking at.
Like, they said they watched with their lawyer friend. And that
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was one of the many lawyer things that were wrong with
SNZ episode. It would have been 25 at
least.
Really? For running the company or for the trust?
For the trust.
Really? I didn't realize. I thought that they, Because
that I found that to be believable, but that.
That's really funny.
Dan comes out of class to find his locker
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ransacked. Blair kicks one of his books as she's taking
a call from Jack. Jack wants Blair to help him
throw a party for Chuck, to which he reluctantly
agrees.
Yeah, Jack, again, you're being gross and flirting with
a high school kid. So disgusting.
Say Ally.
Yeah.
So bad.
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Rufus and Lily are meeting with a lawyer who did
track down their son's adoptive parents. But because
it was a closed adoption, the best he can do
is tell the parents that Rufus and Lily would like to speak to
them. Lily points out that Rufus is a selfish
brick.
Because Rufus is a selfish prick. He is
such a selfish prick in this whole
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ordeal. And here his
kid is begging him to come
home, and he's like, but all I am is a
dad. Then go be a fucking dad.
Yes. maybe they will change their online, but you can still wait
from home. They can make a phone call from Boston
to New York.
Yeah, you. You can be there in a few hours.
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So ridiculous.
Again, forced. Like, I can't
entirely blame Rufus, the character, because
I feel like the writing is, at
this point, it was shitty up
and up until now. Anyway. Right now
it again just feels like they're trying to
force this m
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More. And it's like it's
exhausted.
Blair and Serena are walking in the halls discussing
Chuck's party and the Gossip Girl hit on Dan,
despite Blair's mocking of them. There's nothing wrong with tuna
sandwiches in theory. However, keeping
one unrefrigerated in your locker is pretty fucking
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gross.
The Minions are fucking with
Serena right here. you're right. Keeping a tuna sandwich
in your locker is fucking disgusting, by the way. Yes.
That, I mean, I've already discussed my feelings until tuna
sandwiches. But Serena could destroy the
Minions. She could destroy
them if she wanted to.
And like, just a few episodes, they were, like, worshiping the round
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she walked on. Like, what happened?
Yeah, I think it again, like,
bad writing. And also they try to make the
Penelope character
psychotic. At this point, I feel that
she's more and more
just trying to bully anybody.
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Well, I think she needs a firm
hand. And right now Blair is
just completely distracted. That's been an ongoing storyline.
Yeah.
So she's just, she, she's going off, she's. Nothing's going off the
rails.
Because it's, Because throughout the whole thing, when
addressing Blair, they keep Serena's name
out of it, knowing full well that it has to do with Serena
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too.
We get a multi layered scene with Dan and
Vanessa in a candy shop. Dan
reveals Rufus's secret to Vanessa but
is overheard by Nellyuki who also steals Dan's
phone. However, the scene isn't over as the mini
minions are back and they are berating Dan for cheating on
Serena again.
So first of all, totally
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understood Dan opening up to Vanessa.
That was probably the one
most real scene to me in this
that I can't tell Serena. I'm going to tell
my best friend. That made sense.
Nelly Yuki stealing his phone.
Nelly. Come on. Like that's going to keep you out of
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Yale. Like that. That can keep you out of
Yale. Theft. Yeah.
But she's desperate after her ploy from last week.
Yeah. She's on probation.
Yeah. And
finally, the mini minions were
fantastic. I loved it. You know
who I am going out with? Nate Archibald after
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striking out with Dan Humphrey. Talk about failing
upwards.
So good.
Yeah, amazing. And, just the way that
those three just boom, boom, boom,
like one they were serving.
Jack is waiting for Chuck. When he arrives home,
Jack apologizes for earlier and convinces Chuck to
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blow off Blair and come out with him with what I presume are
escorts.
Yeah. So I'm going to
get these escorts from my
underage nephew and take him
out drinking and get him super
fucked up to ruin his plans of
taking over this company. The
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legality, the how does.
How, Sometimes it just really baffles me
when it just. When age really just
isn't a factor on this show at all.
They're white and they're rich.
Yeah.
And they're men.
And they're men. Yeah.
Don't get much more privileged than that. Serena
is waiting for Vanessa at the gallery so she can ask V
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about Dan Vane. Nessa lies about knowing
anything. Not sure if Serena believes
her. When Serena leaves, V texts Dan asking where
Rufus and Leah or wed. Rufus and Leah are coming
back because Serena needs to know about their
son.
B. The first scene with Vanessa, I was like, oh,
it's like the good Vanessa that, like, I like
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having around V.
You could have been a fucking hero here. All you had
to say is, Dan has a secret. It
isn't his to tell. He loves You.
Boom. When your parents get
home, you'll learn everything. Dan
can't tell you. I can't tell you, but
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Dan loves you. She could have saved the day.
But of course, Vanessa turns to just
being dumb.
My head cat is that she was trying to break the buck.
Hey, I'll. I'll accept your head
cannon. Her.
Her facial expressions say that too.
Her facial expressions. I could be a hero,
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but I'm just going to go ahead and this up even
more.
I think that was just trying to real And I think they were just trying to
show that she's a bad liar.
Yeah, I think you're right. But I like your headcanon
and I would like to keep going with it.
We shift to Nelly revealing to Penelope and Hazel
that she stole Dan's phone. And just in time to get
Vanessa's text. Looks like the secret is about
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to get out.
Yeah, stupid. Fuck you, Nelly.
Blair looks simply stunning, prepping for what
looks to be a romantic dinner with Chuck. however, she is
disappointed when she gets a text from Chuck who
says he is working late and can't make it.
Yeah.
Yowza.
Although Blair, your outfit is saying more
than just friends.
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Yeah, that is not a non
romantic dinner.
Yeah, you're non romantic dinner.
Practically lingerie. Yeah, the only
thing made it not lingerie was the fact that a belt.
We see Chuck in the limo looking conflicted for a moment.
But then he starts chugging champagne and living it up with
(24:50):
Jack's girls. So much for the back of the limo
being sacred, eh, Chuck? Chuck fails to notice that
Jack is conspicuously not
partying.
Yeah, pay attention, Chuck.
Pay attention. And, and this is
also really ridiculous because this
kid is still in morning.
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This kid is still
grieving over his dad that died like
a couple months ago or a month ago or whatever it
is. So like, yeah, he's going to go out
and get up sometimes. Let
him work this out.
That's for later.
Looks like Chuck made his choice. But careful,
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Bass, now that you're a big fish, there are a lot of
sharks in this pond. Rufus and Lily are waiting
in a hotel room when Rufus gets a call that the
parents don't want to meet and ask not to be contacted
again. Rufus gets pissy and says it's time to
go home. yeah.
Oh, well now, fine. I'm gonna give up. And he's being
a dick. He sucks again. It's
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about time he gave up. And more than
anything, once again, this scene just felt
like filler. It just felt like they needed
to just Put. Well, we need another Rufus and Lily
fighting scene. Okay, let's just put this in.
At Chuck's brunch, Serita and Blair are
talking.
Yeah, they sure are.
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Spare me those expressive eyebrows. I can't wait till you get
Botox.
And, players, like, slaps Penelope away from trying
to take Chuck. Special eclairs.
Yeah. Yeah.
Which, you know, it would have been nice for that. That had been brought up before
that he liked the Clares or something.
Yeah.
Why are you reserving the eclairs just for Chuck?
Yeah. Yeah. At a brunch with
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all of these people. Yeah.
Dan and Jenny show up at the brunch as well. Jenny goes
off to find Eric, and Dan greets Serena.
I never miss an opportunity to celebrate Chuck
Bass.
Jan. When he was walking.
Yeah.
Again, Chuck. Dan's trying to do the right thing here
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and trying to be the right boyfriend and
really tries to show up for Serena here.
Yeah, He. Unfortunately, Rufus has backed him into a
corner.
Yeah, totally.
Jack arrives without Chuck, who is apparently back in the
office after the night they just had.
Yeah.
The minions try to get Blair's clearance to release the info on
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Rufus and Lee's kid, but Blair is too distracted and
tells them to release the info before she hears what it is.
Jack encourages Blair to take the vast board members
up to Chuck's office to meet him again.
The minions didn't mention
Serena, so they're. Oh, we've got this
hit on Dan Humphrey. Okay, fine.
Release it. I don't think Serena would. Blair would
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have said that if Serena's name came up.
Yeah.
The other thing with this B.
How'd you miss this? How did you
miss taking the board members up to Chuck?
She's usually a step ahead of this. How did she not see
through Jack here? I felt like she should have seen the
trap and been like, I'll go check on
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Chuck and bring him down instead of leading the board
members in. I felt like she missed an obvious setup.
she's clearly distracted.
Yeah.
Jenny sits down with Eric, who finally speaks up and tells
Jenny that he wants some alone time with Jonathan. The two
proceed to bicker like siblings
very much.
And this was where I really felt
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that this was forced, that Jenny was just being
a brat about it. And maybe that's why I
felt it was forced is that I felt like,
why did. Why would she object
to letting them also having their
time? So I. I thought
that her reaction was over the
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top. Also, I thought that Andal.
Or that Eric was a little more abrasive
than he usually is that Eric typically has a
more adult way of approaching things.
Yeah. So on Jenny's side, Serena actually
met. She kind of explains how. Why Jenny be like that? Because she
has no one else.
Yeah.
And then Eric is just sexually frustrated because he can't
be alone. His boyfriend.
(29:04):
Yeah.
Yeah, it makes sense to me.
Yeah, that. That. That makes sense.
Dan and Serena are joking and being flirty. When everyone
gets the blast, the secret is
out. Hold on to your floppy cable
net hats, kids. Lonely boy. Secret is
out. And this one's a doozy. D wasn't
cheating, but there's definitely a third party
(29:25):
involved. Seems DNS share a sibling.
While I'm always a fan of star crossed lovers, at
least Robbie and Juliet didn't share DNA.
huge bomb from Gossip Girl.
Biggest Gossip Girl drop that we've had in a while,
as I mentioned before, and it's
(29:47):
this reminder that Gossip Girl is a living,
breathing character in the show. She has been
such a narrator for
a few weeks. We haven't really seen
much plot coming from Gossip
Girl. Just recap, narration,
little things like that. Has
(30:08):
there been anything big in a while? I feel
like not since.
Maybe the Marcus stuff.
Oh, yeah, I think that, sounds about right. Well, I did like the
fun quip about Romeo and Juliet. I.
Technically, they don't share DNA.
Unrelated.
I mean, they're sharing DNA. Possibly, yeah,
(30:28):
but they don't share DNA.
Yeah, they're not actually
siblings.
Before we go to act break, we get a final scene
with Blair and the board members walking in on Chuck doing
coke and still partying with the presumed escorts.
Oh, Chuck, didn't your father teach you never
(30:49):
mix business with pleasure?
Yeah, again, I felt like. I felt
like, b. B, you should
have seen this coming.
She should have. But, yeah, she. They. They've been showing that
she's off her game.
Yeah, they have. They have.
And so I'm not sure if the woman
was with them. Was that another board member or was
(31:10):
that just the guy's wife?
But, they introduced her as a board member.
But I. I thought she kind of wanted to stay and party. She had
this look on her face.
Let's.
Let's party. So we
go into Act 3.
Dan chases down Serena, who begs him to
tell her it's not true. Dan, for once,
(31:31):
is speechless, confirming that it is true and that
he knew about it. Serena's gotta
go.
Yeah, fair. Like, I felt
like every reaction from the four of
them, completely fair. Serena
being like, I can't be here with you right
now, and Dan Wasn't. And Dan
(31:51):
was like, fair. I get it.
You know, and it's a lot
to take.
Yeah. And Jenny and Eric being like, wow, this
is why we fight like siblings.
Chuck enters the brunch still tucking in his
shirt. The board members are clearly disgusted and
disappointed. Chuck yells at Blair, blaming
(32:12):
her for everything.
Yeah. And Blair could very
easily have said, well, Jack told me
to throw this thing.
She didn't even, misdirected anger.
Yeah. And, and, and he has this wife problem.
You know, he has this wife hang up
that, that Jack is just
scratching at.
(32:32):
Yeah. So there was a bit of debate, debate on the
forums on whether this was just shitty behavior
or if it was actual abuse. Abusive
behavior. It's definitely
borderline.
Yeah. Chuck is definitely an abusive
person. Right.
Yeah.
And.
Yeah, we'll make that a call to action.
(32:54):
Yeah. We'll put a poll on Spotify
and if you have thoughts, definitely,
come on social media and talk to us about it. Was that
abuse or was it just.
Chuck being a. Yeah, yeah, fair
question.
Dan once again catches up with Serena outside the hotel.
He seems to at least temporarily pacifier.
Eric and Jenny also come out and join
(33:16):
the conversation. All four are looking shell
shocked and suddenly awkward to be around each other.
Yeah, again, it was suit that, how
would people react? It felt real. It felt
like really real moment. I,
really credit acting directing here. It
was. They're really a spot on
(33:37):
and really felt like you had a window into
these kids reactions.
Back at the hotel, Rufus is still acting like a
bratty child. For some crazy reason, Lily
admits she is still in love with him. Rufus,
overcome with emotion, pulls Lillian for the
kiss. And we fade to bat black back from the
(33:58):
commercial. Rufus and Lily are now lying naked
under the covers, basking in the afterglow
amidst the talks of Paris. Rufus gets a
call and apparently the adopted father wants to meet
with them.
Yeah. Fucking Rufus being such
a huge asshole to Lily. And then Lily
being like, but I'm in love with you. And then Rufus
(34:19):
is like, oh, all right, cool. Let's
just go with that now and not worry about this kid
thing anymore. And then he. Then they bang. And then
it's like, oh, I get to meet the kid. Sweet. I'm
getting everything I wanted.
Chuck confronts Jack about setting him up.
However, Jack just reveals how deep the setup went
(34:39):
and he already has assumed control of Bass
Industries with the board's blessing.
Yep, Jack is a huge piece of
shit.
And he wins.
Yeah, he won. Yeah. For how
long?
Lily and Rufus meet the adopted father who
says that he has something to tell him. But we get a scene
(35:00):
cut prior to the reveal, so nothing really happens yet.
So. But they are meeting with him.
Yeah, I did, I, I did call it at the scene
cut. that what he was had to.
Say, but he called it wrong.
I, I called it wrong. Yeah.
Eric enters Serena's room to talk. Eric is
back to being the wise sage and tells Serena that she
can't push Dan away right now because Dan and Jenny are
(35:22):
going through the same thing.
This reeks of gin and Chanel number five.
This has, this has grandma all over it. Yeah.
Reeks of gin and Chanel number five.
Eric for the win. The, the,
the only people who are going to understand
what you're going through are the other two
people going through the
(35:45):
exact same unique
experience. So Eric for the
win again. I hope Eric grows
up to become a psychologist. I want
Eric to be a therapist.
I can see that for him.
Yeah, I think it would be, I think that he would be
fantastic.
We go to the gallery and we get a nice Dan and Nate
(36:07):
scene. Nate apologizes for the Jenny thing
and empathizes with Dan about having personal details of
your life up for public gossip. Can we be seeing the return
of the bromance? Nate also reconnect with Chuck this
episode. We potentially get all three boys hanging out
together soon.
I would love it, actually.
good guy Nate. I always
(36:29):
fucking love Nate.
And this was such a classic Dan and Nate. See, because at first
Dan like gets all prickly, comes at him,
and Nate de escalates and they're
cool.
Just the way he keeps his cool. Dan comes
at him hard and he's like.
But I have been in the public eye with all of
my biggest shame embarrassment. And
(36:51):
Dan immediately is always like,
fuck.
And I have to wonder, is they only dating Vanessa to get
close to dad?
M. I mean that, that kind of tracks.
because when what Nate said, I found out
who my friends really were, I meant
you. You took me into your
home. And Nate having the self
(37:13):
awareness of like you kicking me out, like, I kind of get it.
I was hooking up with your sister. Like that would make me mad
too. Like, Nate just
owns it and moves on. And he was
just such a, great example of the
good guy here.
Yep. Back to Rufus and Lily. The
adopted father tells them that their son died in an accident
(37:35):
last summer, but that he was always a happy
child.
So I called, when, before the commercial
break, I said, oh, the kid's dead. When
he was explaining it and Saying it. He had the
article and all that stuff. I'm like, oh, this guy's full of shit.
I was like, I don't know how, I don't know what's going on here, but this
guy's full of shit.
(37:56):
Also. I know everyone grieves
differently. Why did you keep an
article about your son's grisly death?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's not, it wasn't an obituary. I, I, because I paused it. It's
like a full article.
Yeah, yeah.
Detailing, what happened.
Yeah.
Seems odd, but whatever.
Yeah.
Chuck arrives at Blair's penthouse to apologize.
(38:18):
But Blair is too hurt and sends Chuck a
pack in. Good for Blair finally
standing up for herself.
Yeah. And,
and it was somewhat, it was somewhat shitty. Here he is
in his time of need. But it's also, you got to put your own
life ma. Like you got to put your mask on first.
Right. And, and she has taken so much
(38:38):
from him.
And again, he's not really in
a real crisis. He just doesn't have his father's company at
17.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, he did
lose his dad. And he does feel,
I can imagine this 17 year old feeling like
he's lost everything right now,
and really needing that person.
(39:00):
And I, think one of the biggest things that
he failed to do right then. And
there were three words that
he could have said right there and
didn't. Although I wouldn't have believed if he
would have said it. I think that that would have just been
manipulative. Anyway.
And we move into the epilogue.
(39:23):
Back in Brooklyn, Dan and Jenny are making plans to
distract themselves when Serena and Eric come a
knocking.
Yeah.
Cute scene with them m before it.
Was f. Yeah, I loved it. I loved, I loved
the rest of this episode.
I really liked the two scenes.
Yeah.
Dan and Serena decide they are going to find a way to make
(39:46):
the relationship work despite the
skeeviness.
Yeah, I loved his apology here.
I loved them having that open
discourse like they did what brought them together
early on in season one. I felt that kind
of energy again. I loved the
clueless reference that
(40:07):
when Dan's searching
literature and we get
clueless from Serena.
Eric and Jenny compete on who can apologize first
but continue to tease each other.
Yeah, I said it first. Loved that.
Eric was so, was so cute. Always the,
always the grown up. He's always the grown up.
(40:29):
So as is tradition, we close the episode with a
montage. Chuck is getting
undressed. We see the adopted parents talking.
Lily and Rufus talking outside the loft.
Rufus opens the Door to find their children all together. We
end the episode with a closeup on Rufus and Lily's hands
clasping and Gossip Girl narrates.
The problem with inheritance is it's not,
(40:51):
always as simple as it sounds. Sometimes you get
more than you bargained for, or you discover that in
gaining one thing, you've lost something else. But
every once in a while, the fates smile upon you
and you get the one thing you really need.
Exo xo Gossip
Girl.
So a couple things that I had on this little ending
(41:12):
bit.
For one, the people, the
adopted parents just sucking here.
And there's a part of me that gets it.
My oldest sister is
adopted. I'm sort of from a Brady Bunch.
My parents were both married and had kids, then
got together and had me and my little sister. But
(41:32):
my dad's first wife couldn't
have kids, and so they adopted a
daughter. And so I grew up
with a sister that I just always knew to be
my sister and found out when I was maybe 11 or 12 that
she was actually adopted and it never
mattered. And then around
(41:54):
college, my sister got curious and started looking
for her biological parents.
And my dad kind of freaked out
about it. My dad, got really
upset about it, got
really insecure about it. And my
sister had to be like, look, you're my dad.
(42:14):
These are, these are just people that I want to know where I came
from. I want to know that history.
But you're my dad. That doesn't
change. So I kind of see both sides of this.
But I really think Rufus is a huge asshole for
his insistence on it. I also think that these people
are assholes because if you have raised
(42:35):
your kid so that if some other
parent comes along, they're just going to want to run off
and be with them now, then you're a pretty shitty
parent to begin with. I know that if my sister
had found those, other people and they were
billionaires living in
Silicon Valley or some bullshit, she would
(42:55):
never have left my dad. She wouldn't. She may
have found other ways to benefit, but she would never
have been like, well, that's my family now.
If you're worried about that, then you're pretty shitty
parent to begin with.
Yeah. So the individual sees here we get Chuck
getting undressed. Clearly a parallel to the opening scene of the
episode.
Yeah.
(43:16):
And it's interesting. They clearly want to show us that
Chuck was wearing his father's tie because he threw it down right next to
the picture.
Yeah, yeah.
Of his father. And it was the same tie so you use
that tie to go apologize to Blair.
Yeah. And Chuck got undressed
with no one else there. Typically, when Chuck is
going to bed or there's a Chuck moment
(43:37):
like that, we cut to him with
a woman in the bed. And this was indicated
that Chuck was getting undressed and going to bed
alone.
And, of course, the. The Lily and Rufus, like, Lily's just. She's
admitting they. They might not be meant to be family, but course,
right then they walk in and see their kids are acting
like a family.
I thought that was adorable.
(43:59):
I thought it was a very sweet scene. I love
that they walked in, saw what was
happening, and then held hands, that they were
like, okay, apparently,
we can give this a shot. I
loved how that came together, and I'm really
happy to see Lily and
Rufus finally getting at least something
(44:22):
here.
So that is it for our episode. Any
predictions?
I predict that Lily and Rufus live happily
and ever after, and so did Dan and Serena. No, I'm. I'm
kidding. I know that's not true because they all have to,
but I do, I do hope for
a good run of
Rufus and Lily and a little run of
(44:43):
Dan and Serena before something comes along and it up.
I'm assuming we got a mention of
Georgina. I feel like if they say her name
three times, it's going to summon her.
So I kind of feel like. And we're getting towards the later
episodes, so I'm feeling like there might be a
Georgina reemergence at
(45:03):
some point.
This is a longer season.
Yeah, yeah, we've got eight episodes left.
This was 15. There's 23.
25. Keep thinking it's 23.
That's norm. That's normal. But, yeah, season two is longer.
Okay. Okay. So 25.
Okay.
So we still have 10 episodes left. All right.
(45:23):
So, but I. I'm. I'm predicting,
I think that we're gonna have, these two
couples giving it a go for a bit. I. I could
see this being the Rufus and Lily show
going forward. As far as those. That
plotline, I could see them actually working out
now. I don't think Becks is going to
come steal him away.
(45:45):
I mean, obviously we're eventually going to see the kid. Do you think that's going to
happen this season?
I would. I would think so. I would think that
the whole fact that they went looking for this kid would
stir up the notion that he's being looked for,
that he would come looking for them.
I'm assuming that he is going to come looking for
them. By the end of the season.
(46:07):
What about Chuck and Blair? Are they going to continue to
bounce back and forth, or are they going to do something else?
If it. Maybe there will be a new love interest
for Blair. They. If they
need to throw someone else into
that mix. Otherwise, they're either just going to keep bouncing
off each other or they're going to finally work it out for an
episode or two. But I feel like.
(46:30):
I feel like they're going to draw a new
character in at some point. Something has to mix that
up because it's just been this whole season. Yeah,
it's been since. Since episode one.
Yeah. Since Marcus left has been just Chuck and Blair.
Yeah. And, like, the only thing that stirred that
pot at all was Marcus. And
so they need something to stir that pot. Either that or they need to get
(46:52):
together and let them be a couple for a little bit. But
I don't feel like we're gonna have
the Darina and chair
simultaneously working out. That doesn't. And
Vanessa and Nate. I don't think three happy
couples really makes for good drama.
Yeah, probably not. Let's go ahead and
(47:14):
get into some segments. We jumped
into the Wayback Machine to take a look at this week
in fandom. Hello there, Peabody.
Here.
And this is the Wayback Machine for traveling through time.
And this is my boy, Sherman.
Speak, Sherman. Hello.
Good boy. We went to fan for him again.
So we. I learned that that thing that we saw
(47:36):
at the beginning of the season where Canada was getting the episodes early,
that's no longer a thing. Oh,
the US Shut that shit down.
America First Merc
America.
So apparently the promo trailer for this episode made it
seem like there was no Jack and Blair hookup that
(47:56):
happened. People are annoyed by the misdirect.
I will say it is
so obvious that they hooked up that there
may be something else instead of a hookup.
Apparently, the promo specifically said they did
not. It was like, a scene that didn't make the upset
or something.
Oh.
So, people were annoyed by the misdirect.
(48:18):
So it was like in the preview.
Yeah, the preview from, last week. Yeah,
like next week on the Minions.
Yeah, all of them.
Jack is creepy, hitting on Blair and winking at
Nate. How old is this pansexual sleazeball?
Yeah, again, I didn't take
that. Sexual. Just
(48:40):
slimy.
Yeah. And I. I threw her pants. Sexual. Because that early wasn't in
the lexicon back then. They didn't
have the word for what they're trying to say.
Yeah,
that's fair.
Fan Forum is kind of done with Chuck after this
one. They are really down on Chuck. I was surprised.
Yeah. Because I'm still in a place where I feel for him
(49:03):
still. Like the lost dad thing.
I know, fucked him up. I feel like it takes time to get
over something like that.
And like I said, they're back and forth on
whether it was abusive or just mean.
Yeah. Especially showing up with the flowers
later to apologize. That's,
that's, that is some abusive
(49:24):
behavior. That is some. Yeah, narcissistic.
And also, as I mentioned, Eric and Jenny are giving Will and
Grace.
Yeah, very much.
They are still salty that Nate is favoring Dan over
Chuck.
Dan's nicer to him. Well, except for when
he kicked him out.
What's the point of Natesa dating if they aren't going to share
(49:44):
a single scene together?
True. They only talked about
their two month.
Relationship and to other people.
They literally worked in the scene together.
Yeah. Which I kind of love that in its own
right. That the writing, they couldn't work
them into a scene together.
(50:06):
we mentioned the Television Without Pity
forums last week. They were kind of. They thought that
Share Sibling made Darina more interesting.
Fanfare was not on that same kink.
Yeah.
Grossed out.
Yeah, a little bit.
That's fair.
(50:26):
So let's go ahead and get into some episode
grade. You're up first, Steve.
Yes, I am. So this
episode, I felt the writing was
close to terrible in. In the way that
they were trying to manage these
plot devices. I felt like it was such a
big episode with the reveals
(50:48):
that they didn't know how to
build to some of them. I thought that
the reveals were great. I thought the acting was great. I
thought the directing was really well done.
So I gave it a B. Mostly because I felt
the writing just really hurt the
advancement throughout the episode.
So you're giving it a B.
(51:09):
A B. Yeah.
I, was not as down on the writing as
you, but I was also not as high on the acting or
the directing. I thought pretty much everything from this
episode was a straight down the middle average
episode. The only thing, I gave it a C plus
because I like the epilogue.
Yeah, that's fair. I like the
advancement that happened
(51:30):
overall was my big thing that I
liked.
But yeah, it was just kind of an average upset.
It really. Yeah, wasn't great.
Moving on over to stock. Watch what you got going
up.
So I have Jack going up. Jack is
now CEO of Bass Industries. I
have Dan and Serena going up. I
(51:51):
have Eric and Jenny and Rufus and
Lily. The whole Family going up because
they have seemed to, at least
for now, all worked out, all of that shit. And that
is everyone I have going up for me.
I also had Jack because, yeah, he won what
he was. He got, what he wanted, his scheme work. I had Jenny and
Eric going up because they had the cute sibling stuff
(52:14):
going on. Nate going up because he was good guy
Nate.
Oh, I want to add Nate because I forgot about Nate.
All right, we'll add Nate. And I
had Dan and Serena going up because, you know, they
worked through their issues and they were cute.
I kept, Willie at neutral.
That's fair.
You got going down.
I have the adoptive parents going down.
(52:37):
I have the Minions going down. I have
Chuck and Blair both going down and
Vanessa going down for being a bad liar
and not saving the day when you had a chance to do something
good. And Vanessa, I will always give her a
shot down if I can.
So I kept Blair neutral because
she had a bad episode, but she stuck up for
(52:58):
herself at the end, so I kept her neutral.
That's fair.
You gave Rufus up. I gave her his dad because he was just such a
fucking dick all up.
Yeah, the up is because I feel like he got
everything he wanted in.
The end, but he didn't get the kid.
At least he got the info on the kid, though. He thinks he
got everything he was looking for.
And I had Chuck going down because, yeah,
(53:20):
he lost big time.
And damn, did Rufus get over that kid dying
really fucking quick now that I think of it.
Steve (53:28):
Yeah.
Leif (53:29):
Rufus down all the way. I also had the Minions at
neutral because the Minions were just being Minions.
Take my Rufus point away and send him down.
Fuck him.
See, I didn't give the Minions
dad because they were just being the Minions being
Minions. But that's it. for me on down,
(53:49):
just Chuck and Rufus.
Yeah, okay. But here's the best
outfits from the.
Steve (53:54):
Last episode we see.
Leif (53:59):
Who do you have for best outfit?
Jenny's coat. She was in early on.
Jenny was wearing that coat and it had like
the lining on it. I can't really
thing to describe. It was what was like a black coat with
like the fucking. I know no
one can see me pointing at my. At my collar,
but so I guess.
(54:21):
I will be the one and I'll be the horny bastard
and pick Blair's dress from her.
Or not date her lunge
address. Yes. So, yeah, it was a black
dress with waist trim. She had a bedazzled
sash belt with a black flower buckle.
It was from the Fall 2004 adultery and Gabbana
(54:42):
pretzel Porte collection.
Nice.
So, yeah, so that is it for segments.
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And next episode we will be Back for season
two, episode 16, you've got
Yale.
I saw the title. All I saw was the title. And I was.
And I. And I chuckled.
The Max episode description reads, the
students find out who is accepted to Yale University.
(56:32):
All right, let's. Let's get into that.
well, until next time, you know you love us.
Steve (56:37):
Xoxo Every time you walk away
run away you take a piece of me with
you there Every time you
walk away run, away you take a piece of me
with you there Every
time you walk away or run, away you take a piece of
me with you there
(56:57):
oh, it seems I'm walking right to
your door.
Leif (57:03):
My heart's.
Steve (57:04):
Still resting looking for something
more.
Leif (57:09):
Are.
Steve (57:10):
You ever gonna see everything you mean to me? I'm
trying really hard to
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a piece
of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
(57:32):
piece of me with you there
never feels right when I'm out here on
my own
I left last night and it feels like
way too long
are you ever gonna see everything you mean to
me I'm trying really hard to believe
(57:55):
every time you walk away run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of m me with you there.
Leif (58:16):
Come back to me.
Steve (58:20):
Smile and you'll make my life
complete
every time you walk away I run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
(58:42):
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away run away you take a piece
of me with you there
every time you walk away run away you take a
piece of me m you with with you there
every time you walk away and run away you take a
piece of me with you there
(59:05):
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there.
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