January 12, 2025 • 54 mins
Hey Upper East Siders and scandal-loving listeners! This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back to dissect the chaos of Gossip Girl Season 2, Episode 20, "Remains of the J." As Jenny's sweet 16 spirals into a rager, Serena's old friend Poppy Lipton stirs the pot, leading to unexpected drama and a questionable trip to Spain. Meanwhile, Blair and Nate navigate their rekindled relationship, while Vanessa and Chuck's unexpected alliance takes a steamy turn. Join our hosts as they unravel the tangled web of Manhattan's elite, with their signature humor and insight. Don't miss this dive into the drama, romance, and questionable decisions that define this episode!
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Leif (00:01):
The receptionists in the show are not.
Steve (00:03):
They're the worst. Every
receptionist on this show
should be fired. Every one of
them.
Leif (00:11):
Spilling all the tea.
Steve (00:12):
Yeah, they. They are the
driving plot device, the driving
conflict in probably
a third of the show
drink every time a receptionist
fucks.
Leif (00:34):
Hey, Upper east siders, and all you scandal loving listeners,
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.
Steve (00:48):
And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn, the, I don't
know, Leif. What are we calling the new kid on the block this
week in Gossip Girl terms?
Leif (00:56):
Well, whatever you are, thanks for canceling your party. Now I don't have to
pretend to feel bad about missing it.
Steve (01:01):
Well, it's okay, because it wasn't the party I wanted
anyway.
Leif (01:04):
Sounds good.
Steve (01:06):
So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has been watching
Gossip Girl since it first aired, and I'm diving in
for the first time. And together, we are your dynamic
duo, bringing you all the drama, romance,
and sometimes questionable fashion choices of this
iconic 2007 series.
Leif (01:23):
That's right. Each week we're going to take a deep dive into the show
one episode at a time. We'll analyze all the hidden
parallels and obscure references, and along the way, we'll
get some behind the scenes gossip and some stories from
fandom.
Steve (01:35):
And since we are all about inclusivity here at
the non judging breakfast pod, there is always room for you
at the non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab
your mimosa or a cup of coffee or maybe
roll up some of, Chuck's special medicine. And let's get this
started.
Leif (01:52):
All right, before we get into the episode,
some news. As of the weekend, we are recording this. It'll be
a few weeks when you guys are hearing this, but Blake
Lively has filed a lawsuit against Justin
Baldoni.
Steve (02:04):
For, if I'm correct, sexual harassment.
Right?
Leif (02:08):
Yes. Some pretty, nasty
claims. Yeah, just a very, very uncomfortable
working environment. And apparently he
hired the same publicity team that Johnny
Depp hired.
Steve (02:20):
Oh, already?
Leif (02:23):
No, this is. This is back when. When the whole thing went
down.
Steve (02:26):
No kidding.
Leif (02:27):
So she's saying like, yes, she's not only suing it for sexual
harassment, but also for defaming her. Her
character.
Steve (02:33):
Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, because there was some
that came out about her too, from him. that,
like, that he was talking about her.
Leif (02:42):
No, he was specifically not talking about her. Or
okay, yeah, but now she's saying that she.
He hired a company to put out, like, a bunch of stuff on social
media.
Steve (02:51):
Okay. All right,
well, see how that plays out.
Leif (02:57):
We're, gonna have to just wait and see how. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
Blake's not my favorite person, but, no one deserves
that.
Steve (03:03):
No, absolutely.
Leif (03:05):
Yeah. But, we got. We gotta wait to see what happens here, so it's
gonna go to court, so we'll see what happens. So anyways, we
are here to Talk about Season 2, Episode
20, Remains of the J Original
Air Date March 30.
Steve (03:19):
2009 Obviously referencing
Remains of the Day. Daniel Day Lewis.
Leif (03:25):
No, no, it's a 1993,
James Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma
Thompson and Christopher Reeve.
Steve (03:32):
Oh. Oh, really? Yes, I remember
Anthony Hopkins. I. I'm pretty sure I
never saw it.
Leif (03:39):
Yeah, I've never seen it.
Steve (03:41):
Yeah, I was really turned off to
Anthony Hopkins because I had a girlfriend take me to, like, one
of his movies that was like, She was really
moved by it and I was bored to tears. Can't tell you
what it was, but like, I didn't really.
Leif (03:55):
It was this one.
Steve (03:58):
I, It may have. It was either this one or.
I did not see this one specifically because of the other
one, because it looked like it was going to be like the other one. She
took me to.
Leif (04:08):
The IMDb tagline reads, A butler
who sacrificed body and soul service in the years
leading up to World War II royalizes too
late. How misguided his loyalty was to his lordly
employer.
Steve (04:20):
I did not see that. That is definitely not. That actually sounds kind of
cool.
Leif (04:24):
So apparently his boss was
a British lord, but he's a Nazi sympathizer.
Steve (04:30):
Oh, no shit. Yeah.
Leif (04:32):
So he's working with the Nazis.
Steve (04:34):
Wow. Yeah, see, that actually sounds like an
intriguing film. The one I saw was about
maybe Shadowlands, about a, writer.
Yeah, that's the one. It was. I think it was called Shadowlands because it's.
Because I remember it sounding really fucking dope. And
then it was a really boring movie about a writer, which
is also probably really amazing movie. But, like, I
(04:54):
was more interested in my date
than I was the movie is all.
Leif (04:59):
So speaking of writers or so called
writers, this episode was written by
Sarah Frank Meltzer, who has a
total of two writing credits, this
episode and an episode of a, one season Josh
Schwartz show called Rockville California. She's
also a producer for four episodes on that show.
Steve (05:18):
Yeah, so my guess is that she sat in the
writer's room and my.
Leif (05:23):
Guess is she was someone's. She was someone's assistant.
Steve (05:25):
Yeah. Oh, that, that, that tracks. And then got
promoted, got a shot and.
Leif (05:30):
Yeah, yeah, as she, she got on staff for, a
show that my one season.
Steve (05:34):
Yeah.
Leif (05:35):
Although interesting enough, IMDb still says
2009. Nothing
as if it's going to come back at some point.
Steve (05:42):
So, you know, maybe season two is just delayed.
You know, maybe it's on the Stranger Things
schedule.
Leif (05:52):
The episode was directed by Allison
Liddell Brown, also direct. Second, she
was asked back for, season four, but she's like
a prolific TV director. Also worked
on Chuck, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy,
Shameless, and a bunch of other things.
Steve (06:08):
Those are good shows too.
Leif (06:10):
Why don't you go ahead and read the Vulture recap?
Steve (06:13):
Here we go. The central theme of the human
drama Gossip Girl is identity. Each
new episode, these deftly drawn characters
tackle the central question of the human condition.
Who are they? What is their purpose
in the world? And God help them, will they
die alone after shitting themselves in a Duane
(06:34):
Reade? Well,
maybe not that last one. Anyway, in this
week's episode, Serena ran into her
undermining friend Poppy, who presented her with
a philosophical conundrum. If she isn't on the
arm of a designer at the Met one day and lazing
around the Maldives on a yacht the next,
is she really living life?
(06:56):
Similarly, we were later given to wonder, if a
woman has thousands of dollars worth of hair extensions
and doesn't make an effort to groom them, do they really
exist? Meanwhile, Jenny struggled to
remain true to her humphriness in the face of peer and
adult pressure. And Blair continued to be torn
between the happy, go lucky golden retriever that
(07:16):
is Nate and her animal attraction to
Chuck, the fun but dangerous pit bull.
He would almost be scary if he wasn't wearing
plaid Dan. Remarks of the latter.
Wouldn't we all?
Leif (07:30):
Yeah, he's still pretty scary if you get your sister alone on a
rooftop.
Steve (07:33):
Yeah, yeah.
Leif (07:35):
But let's go ahead and get into the episode.
We begin Act 1 with the gossip Girl
narration. Mornings are
simply more fun on the Upper east side. Our
favorite things to wake up to. Sun in the
sky, McKay on the rise, and a
wake up call from your latest lover. Or your best
friend. Serena calls to check up on
(07:57):
Blair, who lies about where she is. Both girls
are actually walking down the same Manhattan street.
Steve (08:02):
Yeah. The co dependence of their
relationship is to the point where
Serena covers
Blair's lie to her.
Bore her
like, there's no way that like, yes, you
both heard the same car horn
(08:23):
you know, that she just lied to you
and you covered for her.
Leif (08:28):
I, don't know. Serena's not that bright. Maybe she just didn't know.
Steve (08:30):
I mean, there's that. It just. It. To me, it
just really felt like that. That same Serena
always will kind of just.
She won't put up that fight a lot of the time. You know,
she'll. She'll often. Just when Blair is
saying something like that, she'll just give it to her.
Leif (08:47):
I mean, it might have been written that way in the script, but I did not
feel that from Blake. I felt like she totally believed
Blair.
Steve (08:54):
Oh, okay. That. Well, yeah. I mean, let's not.
Yeah, let's not go into Blake's
acting too much because. Because I think that
she, Like, if we were to rate the actors on
this show, she's probably C tier compared
to our, like, sn A
tier actors in here.
Leif (09:12):
Yeah, Her. Her and Nate are kind of in the same area.
Steve (09:15):
Yeah. Only I feel like Nate has
gotten better.
Leif (09:20):
He's gotten better writing, I think, but I don't know if he's necessarily
gotten better.
Steve (09:24):
I'm. Maybe I should say I think Chase has gotten
better. You think it's just better writing on the voice than it
is him, actually.
Leif (09:31):
Nate's had some better writing this season, I think, at least in the second
half here.
Steve (09:34):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (09:35):
Don't think his acting has changed much at all. It's kind of there.
Steve (09:38):
Yeah.
Leif (09:38):
Right, right.
Steve (09:39):
I mean. I mean, like, his. I was meaning more
to the boys, like, as he's
grown as an actor post Gossip
Girl, I still don't.
Leif (09:49):
Think he's that great of an actor. He just kind of funny.
Steve (09:51):
Yeah. I mean, I guess that's what it is. I guess I'm just kind
of in that mindset too, that funny is harder
than. Than drama.
Leif (09:59):
Yeah.
Steve (09:59):
So I often credit funnier actors
for that. Anyway, we're here to talk about Gossip
Girl in Brooklyn.
Leif (10:07):
Dan has fan mail. Jenny is about to turn
16, and Rufus informs the pair that Lily
wants to have breakfast with everyone. Jenny is impressed by the
amount of jams Lily has, so they head out the door.
Steve (10:19):
The way that everyone's like, man, and you know,
Jenny, you almost didn't make it to 16. It's like,
not really her fucking fault, Rufus.
Leif (10:28):
You kicked her out of the house.
Steve (10:29):
Yeah, yeah. For
following her dreams that were all laid
out in front of her, man, you really
barely survived this one because I totally got in the way and
ruined everything.
Leif (10:41):
we'll talk about Rufus. In a little bit here, but yeah.
Steve (10:44):
God. Fucking Rufus.
Leif (10:47):
Before they can leave, Vanessa shows up and Dan hangs
back. Vanessa is whining about Nate not calling for a
week. Seconds after Dan advises her to keep waiting,
Vanessa gets an email from Nate asking for a meetup.
Steve (10:59):
Girl, you broken up? It's been a week in high
school. Girl, you single?
Leif (11:04):
And you could call him too.
Steve (11:06):
Yeah, and you can call him. You can text him.
Leif (11:08):
You're the one that left.
Steve (11:09):
Yeah, you are the one.
Leif (11:13):
Serena runs into her old buddy Poppy
Lipton. Poppy is still living that it
girl life and gives Serena an oh, sweetie look when
Serena explains what she's been up to.
Steve (11:24):
She's such a shitty, shitty person.
Like, every ounce of her is just
terrible.
Leif (11:30):
Yeah. Oh, my God.
Steve (11:32):
You're doing high school stuff in high
school.
Leif (11:35):
At the penthouse, Lily, Rufus, Jenny,
Eric and Dan are prepping breakfast and joking
around. Chuck enters and trades jibes with Dan
before leaving for business. Definitely not cardio, which
is reserved for evenings.
Steve (11:48):
Yeah, gross. But, I loved the banter
between Chuck and Dan here. They. They really, I.
They really had a good play off of each other
here. Also, Eric, like
always gold. Always awesome.
Does this feel like a sitcom to anybody?
Leif (12:06):
More like a reality show.
Serena arrives and delivers the news that they are throwing Jenny
a sweet 16 party for which Jenny seems less than
thrilled about. Just as the scene ends, Rufus gets
a concerned look while reviewing Dan's financial aid
packet and pulls out his phone.
Steve (12:24):
so the first part of this. Why are
Serena and Lily
so hurt over her saying no,
that's not what I want? They're just. They're
so extra about it, you know?
Leif (12:39):
Well, up to hair Lily probably to put a deposit down on those
gators.
Steve (12:43):
Probably. I get to a degree.
Leif (12:46):
It was just maybe ask first.
Steve (12:48):
Yeah.
Leif (12:49):
Yeah. Why. Why are you waiting till the morning of to tell
her?
Steve (12:53):
Yeah. You. You could have warned her about this. Just make
it a surprise party at this point. Yeah.
Leif (12:59):
At school, Serena is wondering why Jenny doesn't want
a big party. Eric enlightened Serena that Jenny is probably
worried that no one will show up. Eric, once again
voice of reason.
Steve (13:09):
Yeah, and. And that makes a lot of
sense. Jenny has not had an
easy time and she is a finally
found obscurity a little bit in this
school and wants to
remain low key.
Leif (13:26):
The mean girls run into Serena and tell her they are glad that her
party got canceled so they don't have to feel bad about ditching it for
Penelope's party. Serena calls Poppy for help
with her party.
Steve (13:36):
Yo. Minions were out There taking
shots. Like shots
at Serena.
Leif (13:42):
Well, the minions are not exactly minions anymore.
Well, they're just kind of running school.
Steve (13:48):
yeah. It feels like Penelope is currently
queen and the minions are all. I
feel like the other three are still minions,
but they've always kind of had even ground
with Penelope, and it kind of feels that way.
Leif (14:02):
Yeah. Yeah.
Spotted. S learning the answer to the age
old question, what if you were throwing a party and no one
cared? When that happens, don't
cancel. Make them eat cake.
Vanessa sees Blaire leaving Nate's house. Chuck
pulls up at his limo and reveals he is the one who invited Vanessa here.
From Nate's account. C invites V to help him get revenge
(14:25):
on Nate and Blair. So.
Steve (14:27):
So good. Like, Chuck's plan here, and Chuck just
rolling up in the limo and rolling the
window down. I've known his password since he was
10. Soccer.
Leif (14:37):
Soccer.
Tornado.
And when you're not from the Upper east side,
sometimes morning is just the start to a
very bad day. We
move into Act 2. Back at school, Chuck
confronts Blair about her morning tryst with Nate. However,
(14:57):
Blair insists it's merely platonic. Chuck's
counter is. Of course it is, because Nate is still dating
Vanessa.
Steve (15:04):
Yeah. Nice dig. Way to
get that. Way to get that shot.
Leif (15:09):
Yeah. Lily and Rufus are
making chili at the loft. Rufus lets Lily know that
Dan got denied for financial aid. Lily
offers to help, but Rufus displays his trademark
stubbornness and says he can handle it himself.
Lily suggests selling the loft and moving in with
her.
Steve (15:27):
Yes, and Rufus also demonstrates his
trademark lying to his kids.
Leif (15:32):
Yeah, at least in the past, he was a good dad to
Dan. Not anymore.
Steve (15:37):
Now he's being a shitty dad to Dan.
Leif (15:39):
Seriously, let him take a free ride to Yale.
Steve (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Leif (15:44):
But we gotta have a reason for Dan to stay in New York, so,
Steve (15:46):
Exactly. It's so
shitty because Lily sits there. Hey, let
me. Let me offer. Let me help out with this. And
it would mean nothing to Lily. Dan wouldn't
even lie to him about that. You know, lie to Dan about
the financial aid coming through.
Through the Van Der Woodsen Foundation.
(16:07):
Yeah.
Leif (16:08):
Yeah.
Steve (16:08):
A scholarship through the Vander Woodsen Bass Foundation.
Leif (16:11):
But it's clear Rufus, is taking a pool for the betterment of the
show.
I know. Like, he won't take the money, but he
starts to agree to move in with her and sell the
loft.
Steve (16:25):
Yeah.
Leif (16:26):
What happens if. You know, when you get divorced
for the fifth time?
Steve (16:31):
Yeah. When you break up.
Leif (16:33):
again, now you're homeless.
Steve (16:36):
If anything, you should rent out.
Leif (16:38):
Yeah. Exactly.
Steve (16:39):
Rent the loft.
Monthly month to month
leases on the loft. Make it an
Airbnb.
Leif (16:50):
Nate and Blair are walking in a snow covered Central
Park. Blair nudges Nate to break up with Vanessa.
He is meeting V for dinner tonight.
Steve (16:58):
The I'm sure she thinks it's over two
bit is so classic Nate
and so such a
guy looking on to the next
thing that is right in front of
him. It's the classic golden retriever
Nate that is chasing after whatever ball
is being thrown. And the one that's in front of
(17:20):
him right now is Blair. And so.
Leif (17:23):
Oh.
Steve (17:23):
yeah. Vanessa's clearly thinking the same thing.
Which the flip side is he can think
that because she never sent anything back.
Leif (17:32):
Yeah.
Steve (17:32):
So on that end. Yeah, I mean,
you're you. Because you're broken up, guys. Both of you.
You're broken up.
Leif (17:39):
Serena and Poppy are taking Jenny shopping for a
party dress. Jenny obviously thinks it's still going to be a
casual, intimate party. When Jenny is trying on
dresses, Poppy convinces Serena to upgrade the
party. Serena just led
like a dog.
Steve (17:55):
Yes. To make this party all
about herself just to
regain Poppy's love.
It's so weird. It's weird.
Leif (18:06):
It's totally on brand for Serena, though.
Steve (18:08):
It's totally on brand for Serena.
Leif (18:10):
Yeah. And she's a narcissist.
Steve (18:12):
Totally.
Leif (18:14):
Vanessa is meeting with Nate, who breaks up with her. Nate
denies anything going on with Blair.
Steve (18:20):
Nothing was, it seems
really going on with Blair other than spending the
night together, which is something. If I
were to go and spend the
night with another woman for five
days and not text Robin,
even if I slept on opposite
(18:40):
sides of the bed foot to head,
I'm in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I'm in a
lot of trouble.
Leif (18:47):
At the very least, he was emotionally cheating.
Steve (18:49):
Yes, absolutely.
Leif (18:52):
Nate comes to Blair's penthouse to let her know about the
breakup. However, Blair was looking for some action, and all
she got was a forehead kiss as Nate leaves for the night.
Steve (19:00):
Ooh.
Leif (19:01):
B.B.
Steve (19:02):
Oh, so sad. But even better was
Dorota's Nate and Vanessa fanfic?
Not that it ever happens to me.
Leif (19:14):
Gospel girl comes in.
Poor B. It's hard to turn up the heat with an
old flame. But stand back. Someone's about
to add fuel to this fire.
Steve (19:25):
Poor head kiss was so good.
Leif (19:28):
Vanessa goes to the Van Der Woodsen penthouse and finds
Chuck wearing a velvet smoking jacket that would make Hef
proud.
Steve (19:35):
Gross. All of this gross.
Just no.
Leif (19:41):
Back m row commercial. We see Dan smelling chili
and Jenny carrying a stack of board games.
Dan lets Jenny know about the Natessa breakup.
Dan takes a phone call from my realtor and finds out
Rufus is selling the loft. Hello?
Steve (19:55):
Yes, I must obviously be talking to the person who
I'm calling on a landline
in 07 or, 09.
Leif (20:03):
Yeah. Yeah. The receptionists in the show are
not.
Steve (20:07):
They're the worst. Every
receptionist on this show
should be fired. Every one of
them.
Leif (20:14):
Spilling all the tea.
Steve (20:16):
Yeah, they. They are the
driving plot device, the driving
conflict in probably
a third of the show. Drink.
Every time a receptionist fucks
up.
Leif (20:32):
Serena and Blaire are, talking on the phone again, discussing
Nate and Blair as well as Nate and Vanessa. The conversation
is interrupted by Eric, who tells Serena to come out of her room to see
what's going on. Dan and Jenny arrive at
Lily's building, and Dan jokes with Vanya about reading
an Ann Coulter book. In the elevator, Dan reveals
the Rufus might be selling the loft.
Steve (20:53):
I love that Dorota is friends with the
doorman.
Leif (20:56):
Oh, they're more than friends.
Steve (20:57):
Oh, are they? have we seen.
Leif (20:59):
No, you have. You have to have watched the Dorota
Diaries web series.
Steve (21:03):
No kidding. Was that simulcast?
Leif (21:07):
Not as. Yeah, it's, like, coming out. Like. Yeah, not
like simulcast, but at this.
Steve (21:12):
But during the weeks between.
Leif (21:14):
Yeah, I think on the hiatus weeks, it was coming out.
Steve (21:17):
Well, I know what I'm doing this. I know what
I'm gonna be doing, especially
once Robin finds out about this.
Leif (21:25):
Yes. The Dorota Diaries.
Steve (21:27):
Dorota Diaries. How is this the first
time learning of this? Also fuck Ann
Coulter.
Leif (21:34):
What's the Dan making,
liberal jokes.
Steve (21:38):
Yeah.
Leif (21:39):
As the elevator doors open, Dan and Jenny
are hit by some, generic house music. Penelope and
the mean girls walk up and congratulate Jenny on her
party.
Steve (21:49):
Yeah.
Leif (21:49):
Yeah. Not a Jenny party.
Steve (21:51):
No, no, not. Not at all. I did love.
I did love how Dan immediately
walks in carrying this chili and all these board games and
is like, well, I need to find a caterer.
I'm, There's got to be one here.
Leif (22:08):
He's been to a few of these now.
Steve (22:09):
Yeah, I. Honestly, Dan had such a good
episode, I feel.
Leif (22:14):
Eric, Jonathan in tow, tries to smooth over his
sister's faux pas, but only throws gasoline on the
fire. Jenny sounds out of mass invite
via Gossip Girl.
Steve (22:25):
Jenny was right to be pissed at Serena
when they confronted each other.
Leif (22:30):
Yeah.
Steve (22:31):
And Serena really did just kind of blow
her off.
Leif (22:34):
Yeah, she. She basically gaslighted her.
Steve (22:36):
Yeah.
Leif (22:37):
Like, oh, you should have said something. Well, bitch, she did say
something.
Steve (22:40):
I said something. yeah. Later on, she said that after
she. She says that again later on. You should have said something.
She's like, I did yesterday and now. But she does, right
when she's here. She's like, this isn't what I wanted.
Leif (22:52):
Yeah. Chuck and Vanessa arrive together. Even
though Chuck claims to be in love with Blair. Or was it
Elle? He has no problem creeping on Vanessa.
When Vanessa sees Nate and Blair together, she panics and
pulls Chuck in for a kiss. Blair and Nate
are both giving confused Pikachu.
Spotting two people who should know better and two
(23:12):
people who don't know what hit him.
Steve (23:16):
Chuck perving on her in the
elevator. And the kiss.
All of it just so gross.
Leif (23:24):
I thought they had really good chemistry. I mean, they are fucking. They are
fucking in real life, so.
Steve (23:28):
Oh, at this point or.
Leif (23:29):
Yeah.
Steve (23:30):
Oh, no kidding. That. I. I'm not complaining
about the chemistry. I'm complaining about Vanessa and Chuck
both being people that I can't stand
getting together.
Leif (23:39):
I love Nate's. This is like, I think the only time in the
series Nate actually out acted or chase out
acted Layton with the expression on his face.
Yeah, he looked like confused Pikachu.
Steve (23:51):
Yeah, completely.
Leif (23:54):
Act three. The word is out. Jenny's
intimate family dinner is now officially a rager.
Poppy continues to jibe Serena about how much of a loser she
is. Now Serena stays at the party to attempt to keep
things under control. Poppy is the worst.
Steve (24:08):
She's awful. She's
absolutely terrible. And Serena,
usually, I mean, Serena follows
the thing that she's going to follow, the thing
that's in front of her, as we said. And
it's so much better for her when she follows
stuff like Dan and even Blair
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than Poppy.
Leif (24:31):
Serena asks Jenny for help to kick out the Crashers, but
Jenny points out that she invited them before their
feud can get out of hand. Eric informs Serena that
strangers are having sex on her bed. Yeah.
Steve (24:42):
And here's where Serena says, you should have
said something. And Jenny says, yeah, I said
something yesterday. But it's also Jenny, you said
something when you first got there too. And
Serena blew it off.
Leif (24:56):
Yeah.
Steve (24:56):
Twice now. Jenny should not have done
what she did now. She. She was
wrong like a teenager. She acted out like a
teenager. Blair or
Serena was really shitty.
Leif (25:09):
Yeah.
Steve (25:09):
Serena was a really shitty friend.
Leif (25:11):
And she admits it.
Steve (25:13):
She does. But she has to get there.
Leif (25:16):
Yeah. Dan
is entertaining three comely young ladies with tales of his
new fan when Serena interrupts to drag him
off.
Steve (25:25):
So I loved. I
love. Smart guy. Yes. I, love that he's just
there with three women Just standing
there macking and
just having them
enraptured in this conversation. Totally
smooth, totally playing it well. And then gets
interrupted by Serena, gets blocked by
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the ex or something. That's
not his fucking problem.
Leif (25:54):
Nate warns Vanessa to watch out for Chuck.
Blair interrupts and implies that she and Nate are more than
friends, but Nate denies it.
Steve (26:01):
Yeah, I thought it was actually pretty honest
and good of Nate to be
like, watch out for this guy.
You know the. I think that Nate
clearly cares about Vanessa.
Leif (26:16):
I mean. Yes, but then why. Why are you best friends with
him? Why are you best friends with this guy? You know,
he's a shithead.
Steve (26:23):
It's sort of like Aaron being friends with that guy too.
And we know that they're all friends with Chuck despite
him being a serial
sexual assaulter because
they've. They cleared that up when they called
themselves the non judging Breakfast Club.
Leif (26:40):
Blair throws Nate onto Chuck's bed, but
Nate just isn't feeling it.
Steve (26:45):
Yeah, I didn't really have words for this, even though I really
wanted to.
Leif (26:50):
Now, is this the first time we see the Chuck's painting of
Georgina as a Girl Scout?
Steve (26:55):
I didn't even notice that.
Leif (26:57):
Look it up. Georgina as girl Scout painting.
Steve (27:00):
Wow. I did not.
Leif (27:01):
It's above his bed.
Steve (27:02):
Even notice this?
Georgina as girl
Scout painting.
Oh, wow.
Leif (27:14):
Yeah, that's above Chuck's bed.
That lasts through the whole series.
Steve (27:19):
No, it's hidden.
Leif (27:20):
I think this is the first time we see it though.
Steve (27:21):
is it ever addressed that it's definitively
Georgina?
Leif (27:25):
I don't think. I don't think so. But I mean it clearly is.
Steve (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm wondering
if. Yeah, so it probably
didn't show up. If it has been there. Probably didn't show
up until after her appearance.
That's interesting.
Leif (27:41):
Chuck advises patience as he and Vanessa are
waiting for Nate and Blair to come out of the room.
When they come out separate, Chuck instructs Vanessa
to divide and conquer. However, Nate isn't
impressed by Vanessa becoming more Blair.
Steve (27:55):
Like what did she do aside
from make out with Chuck to be more Blair?
Leif (28:01):
Like, well, just coming with Chuck. It awesome.
Steve (28:04):
Yeah, I guess.
Leif (28:06):
I mean it's so, Nate's a dummy, but he know he knows a
scheme when he sees one.
Steve (28:09):
Yeah. Yeah. My. I guess the flip
side of that is the reason that Blair was
mad and left the room is because
Nate wasn't looking
to do much in that moment. I guess
it's, you know, she drug him in there because of Chuck
because Chuck kind of pushed that issue.
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But it's not. I guess I just didn't really see it that
much as their fault. But also, fuck Vanessa.
Leif (28:35):
So. Poor V.
Nobody gets what they want without losing something they
love, like their integrity.
Dan is helping Serena put on fresh sheets.
Serena opens up about her own selfish motivations for the
party. Change up.
Steve (28:52):
I liked Dan being a good friend to
Serena here. There were no
expectations other than, I'm gonna be a,
friend to you in this moment. And I really love that.
Leif (29:03):
It's almost like they're siblings.
Steve (29:05):
Almost like they're siblings
that are probably gonna bang again at some point. I'm
guessing.
Leif (29:13):
Downstairs, Vanya has barred the doors to prevent
hundreds of teenagers from storming the penthouse.
Lily and Rufus arrive just behind the cops who are here to
break up the party.
Steve (29:23):
We put hundreds in air quotes, though.
Maybe 50 kids.
Leif (29:29):
Bad boys, bad boys. What you gonna
do?
Lily is distraught over the state of her apartment. Lily
throws all the blame on Serena. Serena looks to
Jenny to say something, but Jenny is meekly staring at her
feet. Serena storms off. And finally
Jenny comes clean, but reveals that her reasoning is
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that she doesn't want to move to Park Avenue.
Steve (29:52):
First thing about this scene is
Lily's reaction when Rufus is like,
well, the most important thing is the kids are
okay. Yes. But the second most
important thing is this apartment
and the art. And I thought that her
response was really funny. This scene is
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really complicated because there's so much that.
That happens that. Where people
are simultaneously right and
wrong in their reactions and how they're
handling things.
Leif (30:25):
And I do like what Serena says there.
When it was just me and Eric, it was a safe bet to say it was me.
But now the list of suspects is expanding.
Steve (30:33):
Yeah. As this family is expanding, so is the list of
suspects. And, that's fair.
Leif (30:38):
Yeah. At a trendy looking
bar, Poppy convinces Serena to ditch being
routed to come to Spain with her and her boyfriend
Gabriel. To Espana. she's.
Steve (30:50):
She's the worst. Especially. It's,
funny. I was thinking about this Serena at this
point in her life and the way that she has been this
season, when she says road trip,
that's something that Serena would really enjoy.
I think. I think Serena would love to
drive across the country and fly back.
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And when she's shamed for that, like, no, we're going
to Spain. It's like, oh, oh, okay. That's right. I'm
supposed to be. That's how I'm supposed to be.
Leif (31:18):
Yeah. and, before you go to commercial, Gossip Girl
narrates. oh, looks like
someone's up to their old tricks. And just in
time, too. Cuidado, Espana.
Here comes el problema.
Then, we move into the epilogue.
Back in Brooklyn, Rufus and Lily
mutually decide to put moving in together on hold.
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Dan finds out about his financial aid falling through.
Dan is so used to being called poor, he actually
believed it. This might be the first time the show
actively acknowledges that the Humphries are definitely
not paupers.
Steve (31:54):
I appreciate this scene. As
somebody who grew up in a
three story Victorian
house in the 80s and was
constantly told how much of a struggle it
was. And not that my parents
didn't struggle, but I feel like a big part of
the struggle that they had was
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manufactured, that it was just
wanting more than actually
struggling. You know what I mean? Yeah. And
to see Dan's reaction, that's really how
I felt a lot of the time. Not on the level, because
clearly I was. My parents weren't making Humphrey money
by any means, but they had a
decent income and a great school
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district. And I always thought that we were
so much worse off than we were until
I actually was poor on my own until
I was a divorced single dad
teacher, you know?
Leif (32:53):
Blair and Dorota are walking in the park talking
about Nate. Blair, just when she had given up on
Nate, sees him waiting for her. Nate
and Dorota set Blair up, and we get the famous
snow kiss.
Steve (33:06):
Classic Nate. I felt that that was good
boyfriend Nate, that kind of stuff that he did
for Blair before. And I thought it was cute. I'm
okay with the Blair Nate. What do we
call Blair and Nate?
Leif (33:18):
Is it Nair?
Steve (33:20):
Nair. Okay. That's much better than bait.
Leif (33:25):
Yes. and the show got very
lucky with the snow opposite. I'm pretty sure that
was real snow.
Steve (33:32):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (33:33):
because you could see it melting on their heads, and it didn't
look.
Steve (33:36):
Like a TV amount of snow.
Leif (33:39):
Yeah.
Steve (33:39):
You know what I mean? Usually it's either a fair amount or
a little bit, but if you're someone who's lived in snow,
you know that those little flurries like that,
that you know what they look like. and so I don't think you're.
I think you're right. That that was natural.
Leif (33:54):
Serena shows up to meet Poppy and her boyfriend
Gabriel. Apparently, Gabriel met Serena last year
when she and Georgina were posing as Savannah and
Svetlana.
Steve (34:04):
Yes, I remember that. Is that
Armie Hammer?
Leif (34:08):
Yes. Famed cannibal Armie Hammer.
Steve (34:10):
Yes. Famed cannibal Armie Hammer.
Robin was the one who recognized him at first.
So, that was it him last
season too?
Leif (34:20):
No, we didn't, we didn't see, see him at all last season.
Steve (34:23):
Okay. I, I, Because I remember when
Georgina and Serena had the
interaction with the guys calling themselves
those names, but I didn't remember seeing him.
But yeah. Awesome.
Leif (34:35):
Well, Serena got blackout drunk. That, that or
blackout drugged.
Steve (34:40):
Yeah.
Leif (34:40):
That night. so yeah, apparently they were doing
it with more than those. The first two guys.
Probably in his bedroom. Dan
calls his fan. It turns out Dan's fan is
actually Rubus and Lily's love child, Scott
Rossin. Scott's adoptive parents intercept
the call and plan to hide it from Scott.
Steve (35:00):
Shitty ass fucking parents. They're
fucking, they're the, they're probably the worst
parents on the show. And that's a bar.
That is a, ah, bar.
Leif (35:10):
Well, I think we talked about last time like at the
Purr, like screen time.
Steve (35:16):
Their first screen time rate is
the worst. Also, there's something I
forgot to say about the previous scene that when
Serena is talking to famed cannibal Armie
Hammer, that she's doing that thing
that if she had cherries or strawberries or a glass
to lick, she'd be licking that glass.
Leif (35:36):
Yeah. So Poppy was shitty all episode, but she
might be losing her boyfriend pretty soon.
Steve (35:41):
Yeah, that's, that's kind of what it looks like.
Leif (35:45):
And ah, we get a series of scenes to end the episode with some
narrations. Mistakes. We all
make them. They usually start with the best of
intentions, like keeping a secret to protect
someone. And then Serena sends a text to
Lily letting her know that she's going to Spain.
Lily smiles at Eric, Jonathan, Jenny playing Hungry
Hungry Hippos before frowning at
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Serena's text.
Steve (36:08):
Yeah, you fucked up, Lily. It's also
Serena's pretty shitty for just running off to
Spain.
Leif (36:15):
I mean this is the second time she's done this this season.
Steve (36:17):
Yeah.
Leif (36:18):
Just went out of the country without even asking.
Steve (36:21):
Yeah, the first time it was at least
a vacation. This is
like I'm mad and storming off and I'm going
to continue to storm all the way to
Spain, Espana.
Leif (36:35):
Sometimes we don't even know what mistakes we've made
to get us where we are. And then Nate and Blair are
still making out in the snow. nothing really happened there. Or
we figure it out just in time to make it right again.
And then the final scene is Chuck is waking up and finds
Vanessa getting dressed and trying to sneak out without being
noticed. However, Chuck pulls her in for round
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two.
Steve (36:57):
We're more alike than you think.
Yeah, gross.
Leif (37:02):
But every mistake happens for a reason.
To teach you a lesson you would otherwise never
learn. And hopefully, we never make that
mistake again. Lucky for me, that
never happens. Xo, XO
Gossip Girl.
Steve (37:18):
That's our episode.
Leif (37:19):
Yep. So what's coming next?
Steve (37:22):
Well, I think that this Nate, our,
Chuck, Vanessa thing is gonna happen for a little bit,
and I think that it's going to become more than either of them want it
to, and then they're going to realize that and
hate each other. I
believe Serena's going to come home with a new
boyfriend. I think
that Nate and Blair are going to not
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have very much chemistry or very
much of a spark, and that's going to be on
Blair's mind while Chuck is seemingly
happy. Oh, and, Rufus is going to be a bad
parent.
Leif (37:57):
Bold prediction there, Cotton.
Anything else?
Steve (38:05):
I think that we're seeing
Jenny in one of her phases,
maybe, but I don't think that.
I feel like she hasn't had a whole lot of focus, even when
she's been having
these episodes for her.
So I feel like maybe
we're gonna get some dark Jenny
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stuff now that she's in trouble.
Leif (38:30):
Well, we do see that, her birthday party is
apparently cursed.
Steve (38:34):
Yeah. Yes.
That's good to think of. So probably
late next season. It's funny that her
birthday party. Oh, I guess the end of last
season was all shuffled later in the year
so that it would light. So that's where it lines up. Because of
the strike hiatus, or we're.
Leif (38:54):
Still right around that same time.
Steve (38:56):
Yeah, it was. I think it was.
Leif (38:59):
We've had several breaks, you know, and then we're out.
We're grabbing another one after this episode. there's going to be another hiatus.
Steve (39:04):
I thought I realized that
from something. I forget what. Oh,
just because of the way that they were wrapping everything up.
Had that kind of will be back in a
few weeks kind of feel, especially the Nate and
Vanessa cliffhanger. I think that
that made me really think, like, oh, yeah, this
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seems like.
Leif (39:26):
Well, let's get into some segments this
week in fan. And we jumped into the wayback machine to travel
to the television without pity forums from
2009. Hello there,
Peabody here. And this is the wayback machine
for traveling through time. And this is my boy,
Sherman. Speak, Herman.
Steve (39:45):
Hello.
Leif (39:45):
Good boy. They, were shocked at
Chuck and Vanessa, even if Ed Westbrook and
Jessica Soar are dating right now.
Steve (39:53):
Yeah, I. I was. I
probably would have been more shocked if we didn't talk about it a little last
week, but I Also just was more.
As soon as Chuck pulled up, I saw it coming, you know,
and once he pulled up in the limo, I saw it
coming, so I didn't have.
Leif (40:11):
As much problem with it as you did because, I don't really like users
characters, so why not just put them all together?
Steve (40:16):
Yeah, I think that's my thing is that I don't really like either of the
characters, so.
Leif (40:21):
But they are hot together, so. Yeah, why
not?
Steve (40:24):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (40:26):
The fans were watching the doroded website series, so
they pointed out the drone and Vanya are actually dating right now.
Steve (40:31):
Oh, nice.
Leif (40:35):
And that people were seriously annoyed with Serena.
And, but they also acknowledged that Jenny was selfish as well.
But more understandable.
Steve (40:42):
Yeah, I feel like Jenny just acted out. Serena was
selfish. Jenny acted out. I m don't think that
Jenny did anything selfish. I think Jenny
burned it all down because Jenny gets mad and burns it all
down.
Leif (40:55):
Some positive comments with regards to the new scorn,
Vanessa. Unlike them, they, like, are
becoming more Blair. Like, I don't like Nate. They
like her becoming more player.
Steve (41:05):
Like, well, that's because they like Blair.
And the fans who are on these
forums are savages
who really.
Who are out for blood.
Leif (41:18):
They are mean girls.
Steve (41:19):
They are mean girls.
Leif (41:23):
It looks like we found Dan's path to staying in
NYC next year. How will the rest join him?
Steve (41:29):
Yeah, because he can't get student loans
or Rufus can't release a new album.
Lincoln Hawk should just. Should tour.
Leif (41:37):
Or he could just take, you know, his girlfriend's money or
take your girlfriend's.
Steve (41:41):
Money and go on tour for a
while.
Leif (41:45):
I mean, prepare. He is a single dad, so we don't want
to leave anyone with, What's her name? Allison.
Steve (41:51):
No. No. Do we really want to
leave her with Lily? Although they should. They're not Lily's
kids, so she'd probably be pretty good.
Leif (42:01):
Let's go ahead and move into some episode
graves.
So there was things I liked in this episode. I liked that
Jenny was back in the focus, even though she was kind of just
a plot tool. And I didn't really like the way
she was acting this episode. She was more just bratty
teenager than, you know, scheming or
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pursuing her fashion career. She was kind of
there being a bratty teenager. I like Dan. He's
funny. Ah. As always. Pen is, you know, very
comedic and making jokes
with Vanya and then
wowing those three women about with his
tails, with his face.
Steve (42:39):
That was my favorite part of the entire
episode.
Leif (42:43):
But the bad was.
Yeah, Blair was not I did not like Blair
in this episode at all. She was just, like, whiny,
and I just don't. Why is she
settling to be a rebound and just.
Yeah. just did not like it at all. so overall, I gave this
a C minus.
Steve (43:02):
Yeah. I'm gonna give it a C plus.
I was really torn between a B minus and a C.
I like some of the Chuck and
Vanessa storyline as
much as I didn't really want them together.
I do, like, kind of where that went,
where it progressed. I. I kind of
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liked Jenny. the same things you said about
Dan and Jenny. I thought a lot of the
writing choices were, let's just say,
questionable. Like, the whole Poppy.
Leif (43:33):
Not surprised. That writer was diver ass back.
Steve (43:35):
Yeah, the writing for Poppy was
just so shallow,
catty, and
felt very. Almost
Mary sue ish. Almost like.
Like someone who believed that that is what
Serena should be doing rather than being a
complication, almost, you know,
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saying that that is what Serena should be doing.
Leif (44:00):
So we're saying that was all just
service level. That is what it is.
Steve (44:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (44:06):
There's not. Nothing more to that storyline. Yeah.
Steve (44:09):
Yeah. That she just.
Leif (44:11):
She's just a catty.
Steve (44:12):
Yeah, it was very. It was a very
shallow storyline. It was. There was
no depth to it all.
Leif (44:19):
right, well, let's go ahead and move
over to Stockwatch. Going
up, I had Eric and Jonathan because they were
together still and seemed happy and were making
jokes. I had Dorota going
up because she was good as usual, and now has
a boyfriend, Vanya, because she, ah,
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has the best character as a girlfriend.
And I. I had Lily going up. For some reason, I forget why I
put her going up.
Steve (44:47):
Oh, yeah, because she.
Leif (44:48):
She was mostly a good parent, and she
offered to pay for Dan's college.
Steve (44:53):
And, she up with Serena at the end. But
Serena also left before Lily had the
chance to.
Leif (45:00):
Yeah.
Steve (45:00):
Fix anything. But also, Lily didn't. We didn't see her
make any effort to fix it after that either.
Leif (45:05):
Well, that means Serena just left with a text.
Steve (45:08):
you will. I'm saying that Lily at any time could have
sent a text. Hey, I'm sorry. I see what I
did. I'm really sorry I jumped to
that conclusion, which I feel like is something that
newer Lily would do, so I'm a little
surprised she didn't.
Leif (45:23):
Who do you have going up?
Steve (45:24):
I'm going to add a couple to my list that I was
inspired by you, which would be. I had
Eric, but also Jonathan. I also want to
add Dorota and what was his name?
Leif (45:36):
Vanya.
Steve (45:36):
Vanya. I had Nate going up. He's getting the
girl. I had Blair going up, but I'm not going to keep her
going up. I'm going to put her in the middle. Chuck and
Vanessa, I had both going up. I'm going to send Dan
up. I had. I was really on the fence with Dan because of the
Yale thing, but everything else in Dan's
stuff was coming up. Dan, I felt today. So I'm going to give him.
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I'm going to give him the bump. I don't feel like Dan often gets
the bump.
Leif (46:01):
Anyone else?
Steve (46:02):
Nope. That's it.
Leif (46:04):
So for me, going down. I had Dan going
down.
Steve (46:08):
Oh.
Leif (46:08):
Because not only did he not get financial aid, but
he apparently has a stalker.
Steve (46:13):
Oh.
Leif (46:14):
Because that's not really his fan.
Steve (46:16):
Right. He has a stalker and he got cock
blocked by his ex.
Leif (46:20):
Yeah. I also had Jenny going down because she
was just kind of bratty and caused
havoc. Serena because she was selfish and got
led by Poppy. Rufus because he's a
horrible dad. Vanessa because she's sleeping
with Chuck. Chuck because he was creepy. Nate
because I don't think he really wants to be with Blair.
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And Blair because she was horrible this whole episode. And
just. And then also Poppy because she's the
worst.
Steve (46:46):
She is the worst.
Leif (46:47):
Who do you got?
Steve (46:48):
I had. I had Jenny as well. I had Rufus
and Lily both going down in this one.
Lily. I mean, her apartment's totally right
now.
Leif (46:58):
Well, I. But it's already being fixed by a team of
people, which she points out.
Steve (47:03):
Yeah, that's true. I
had. Actually, I think that is it that I
had for going down. I'm gonna send Poppy down, too, because Poppy
sucks. Poppy. Oh, and the parents.
The, Dan neurosis.
Yeah, the parents. The. The
per. On screen parenting
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bottom rung. Howard has done better.
Leif (47:27):
Some seriously bad war when it comes to parenting.
Steve (47:32):
But here's the best outfits.
From the last episode we
seen.
Leif (47:39):
On to best outfits.
I'm going to go with Vanessa's purple tuxedo swing dress
by Catherine Malandrino.
Steve (47:50):
We're on today. I, had the
same thing. Vanessa's purple dress.
Leif (47:55):
I also like Jenny's, shimmery gold Missani
Trapezi dress.
Steve (47:59):
Yeah. I also liked Serena, the black dress that
Serena was wearing as well. But
ultimately I was giving it to Vanessa, who I
don't think has very many outfits in the
running. So. Good on. Good on you,
Vanessa.
Leif (48:14):
Anything you want to plug this week?
Steve (48:16):
When does this come out?
Leif (48:18):
January.
Steve (48:19):
if this is if January 8th. Has not yet happened
happened. It has. Okay then you should have come see
me at Dawson street. But I have been promoting it. I just
didn't have a date. So as of now I don't have
anything really coming up. I
have been. I do recommend anyone
watch Shrinking on
Apple tv. It's Harrison
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Ford, Jason Siegel and Jessica Williams and
it is absolutely phenomenal.
I also if you want to give me a follow on
TikTok while it's still around or Instagram,
my handle is Eve Marchand M m a r
C H I o n and you can find me on
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me.
Leif (49:02):
Nothing really to plug this week but if you want to follow me on
Instagram I am
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Leif (50:28):
I would like to shout out the members of the
you Discord server that started listening to the podcast
recently. So thanks for listening. We will be back
next, week to Talk about Season 2, Episode
21 Satyr
Anything Robin.
Steve (50:44):
Robin was really excited
when she saw the title.
Leif (50:49):
The Netflix episode description reads,
serena returns from her trip to Spain with Poppy
and Gabriel. Blair makes a secret deal with
Nate's grandfather. Dan gets a job.
Steve (51:00):
Oh, good for Dan. Wash your dishes all the way to
Yale.
Leif (51:05):
Well, until next time. You know you love us.
Steve (51:08):
Xoxo Every time you walk away
run away you take a piece of me with you
there Every time you walk
away or run away M you take a piece of me me
with you there Every
time you walk away or run away M you take a piece of m
me with you there
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oh it seems I'm walking right to
your.
Leif (51:32):
Door.
Steve (51:35):
My heart's still resting looking for
something more
are you ever gonna see everything you mean
to me I'm trying really hard to believe
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 or run away you take a
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.
Leif (52:20):
Are.
Steve (52:21):
You ever gonna see everything you mean to me
I'm trying really hard to believe
every time you walk away run away you take a piece
of meat with you there
Every time you walk away run away you take a
piece of me with you you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
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piece of me with you there
come back to me
smile and you'll make my life
complete
every time you walk away or 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
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of m me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
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piece of me you 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
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there.
The receptionists in the show are not.
Steve (00:03):
They're the worst. Every
receptionist on this show
should be fired. Every one of
them.
Leif (00:11):
Spilling all the tea.
Steve (00:12):
Yeah, they. They are the
driving plot device, the driving
conflict in probably
a third of the show
drink every time a receptionist
fucks.
Leif (00:34):
Hey, Upper east siders, and all you scandal loving listeners,
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.
Steve (00:48):
And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn, the, I don't
know, Leif. What are we calling the new kid on the block this
week in Gossip Girl terms?
Leif (00:56):
Well, whatever you are, thanks for canceling your party. Now I don't have to
pretend to feel bad about missing it.
Steve (01:01):
Well, it's okay, because it wasn't the party I wanted
anyway.
Leif (01:04):
Sounds good.
Steve (01:06):
So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has been watching
Gossip Girl since it first aired, and I'm diving in
for the first time. And together, we are your dynamic
duo, bringing you all the drama, romance,
and sometimes questionable fashion choices of this
iconic 2007 series.
Leif (01:23):
That's right. Each week we're going to take a deep dive into the show
one episode at a time. We'll analyze all the hidden
parallels and obscure references, and along the way, we'll
get some behind the scenes gossip and some stories from
fandom.
Steve (01:35):
And since we are all about inclusivity here at
the non judging breakfast pod, there is always room for you
at the non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab
your mimosa or a cup of coffee or maybe
roll up some of, Chuck's special medicine. And let's get this
started.
Leif (01:52):
All right, before we get into the episode,
some news. As of the weekend, we are recording this. It'll be
a few weeks when you guys are hearing this, but Blake
Lively has filed a lawsuit against Justin
Baldoni.
Steve (02:04):
For, if I'm correct, sexual harassment.
Right?
Leif (02:08):
Yes. Some pretty, nasty
claims. Yeah, just a very, very uncomfortable
working environment. And apparently he
hired the same publicity team that Johnny
Depp hired.
Steve (02:20):
Oh, already?
Leif (02:23):
No, this is. This is back when. When the whole thing went
down.
Steve (02:26):
No kidding.
Leif (02:27):
So she's saying like, yes, she's not only suing it for sexual
harassment, but also for defaming her. Her
character.
Steve (02:33):
Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, because there was some
that came out about her too, from him. that,
like, that he was talking about her.
Leif (02:42):
No, he was specifically not talking about her. Or
okay, yeah, but now she's saying that she.
He hired a company to put out, like, a bunch of stuff on social
media.
Steve (02:51):
Okay. All right,
well, see how that plays out.
Leif (02:57):
We're, gonna have to just wait and see how. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
Blake's not my favorite person, but, no one deserves
that.
Steve (03:03):
No, absolutely.
Leif (03:05):
Yeah. But, we got. We gotta wait to see what happens here, so it's
gonna go to court, so we'll see what happens. So anyways, we
are here to Talk about Season 2, Episode
20, Remains of the J Original
Air Date March 30.
Steve (03:19):
2009 Obviously referencing
Remains of the Day. Daniel Day Lewis.
Leif (03:25):
No, no, it's a 1993,
James Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma
Thompson and Christopher Reeve.
Steve (03:32):
Oh. Oh, really? Yes, I remember
Anthony Hopkins. I. I'm pretty sure I
never saw it.
Leif (03:39):
Yeah, I've never seen it.
Steve (03:41):
Yeah, I was really turned off to
Anthony Hopkins because I had a girlfriend take me to, like, one
of his movies that was like, She was really
moved by it and I was bored to tears. Can't tell you
what it was, but like, I didn't really.
Leif (03:55):
It was this one.
Steve (03:58):
I, It may have. It was either this one or.
I did not see this one specifically because of the other
one, because it looked like it was going to be like the other one. She
took me to.
Leif (04:08):
The IMDb tagline reads, A butler
who sacrificed body and soul service in the years
leading up to World War II royalizes too
late. How misguided his loyalty was to his lordly
employer.
Steve (04:20):
I did not see that. That is definitely not. That actually sounds kind of
cool.
Leif (04:24):
So apparently his boss was
a British lord, but he's a Nazi sympathizer.
Steve (04:30):
Oh, no shit. Yeah.
Leif (04:32):
So he's working with the Nazis.
Steve (04:34):
Wow. Yeah, see, that actually sounds like an
intriguing film. The one I saw was about
maybe Shadowlands, about a, writer.
Yeah, that's the one. It was. I think it was called Shadowlands because it's.
Because I remember it sounding really fucking dope. And
then it was a really boring movie about a writer, which
is also probably really amazing movie. But, like, I
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was more interested in my date
than I was the movie is all.
Leif (04:59):
So speaking of writers or so called
writers, this episode was written by
Sarah Frank Meltzer, who has a
total of two writing credits, this
episode and an episode of a, one season Josh
Schwartz show called Rockville California. She's
also a producer for four episodes on that show.
Steve (05:18):
Yeah, so my guess is that she sat in the
writer's room and my.
Leif (05:23):
Guess is she was someone's. She was someone's assistant.
Steve (05:25):
Yeah. Oh, that, that, that tracks. And then got
promoted, got a shot and.
Leif (05:30):
Yeah, yeah, as she, she got on staff for, a
show that my one season.
Steve (05:34):
Yeah.
Leif (05:35):
Although interesting enough, IMDb still says
2009. Nothing
as if it's going to come back at some point.
Steve (05:42):
So, you know, maybe season two is just delayed.
You know, maybe it's on the Stranger Things
schedule.
Leif (05:52):
The episode was directed by Allison
Liddell Brown, also direct. Second, she
was asked back for, season four, but she's like
a prolific TV director. Also worked
on Chuck, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy,
Shameless, and a bunch of other things.
Steve (06:08):
Those are good shows too.
Leif (06:10):
Why don't you go ahead and read the Vulture recap?
Steve (06:13):
Here we go. The central theme of the human
drama Gossip Girl is identity. Each
new episode, these deftly drawn characters
tackle the central question of the human condition.
Who are they? What is their purpose
in the world? And God help them, will they
die alone after shitting themselves in a Duane
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Reade? Well,
maybe not that last one. Anyway, in this
week's episode, Serena ran into her
undermining friend Poppy, who presented her with
a philosophical conundrum. If she isn't on the
arm of a designer at the Met one day and lazing
around the Maldives on a yacht the next,
is she really living life?
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Similarly, we were later given to wonder, if a
woman has thousands of dollars worth of hair extensions
and doesn't make an effort to groom them, do they really
exist? Meanwhile, Jenny struggled to
remain true to her humphriness in the face of peer and
adult pressure. And Blair continued to be torn
between the happy, go lucky golden retriever that
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is Nate and her animal attraction to
Chuck, the fun but dangerous pit bull.
He would almost be scary if he wasn't wearing
plaid Dan. Remarks of the latter.
Wouldn't we all?
Leif (07:30):
Yeah, he's still pretty scary if you get your sister alone on a
rooftop.
Steve (07:33):
Yeah, yeah.
Leif (07:35):
But let's go ahead and get into the episode.
We begin Act 1 with the gossip Girl
narration. Mornings are
simply more fun on the Upper east side. Our
favorite things to wake up to. Sun in the
sky, McKay on the rise, and a
wake up call from your latest lover. Or your best
friend. Serena calls to check up on
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Blair, who lies about where she is. Both girls
are actually walking down the same Manhattan street.
Steve (08:02):
Yeah. The co dependence of their
relationship is to the point where
Serena covers
Blair's lie to her.
Bore her
like, there's no way that like, yes, you
both heard the same car horn
(08:23):
you know, that she just lied to you
and you covered for her.
Leif (08:28):
I, don't know. Serena's not that bright. Maybe she just didn't know.
Steve (08:30):
I mean, there's that. It just. It. To me, it
just really felt like that. That same Serena
always will kind of just.
She won't put up that fight a lot of the time. You know,
she'll. She'll often. Just when Blair is
saying something like that, she'll just give it to her.
Leif (08:47):
I mean, it might have been written that way in the script, but I did not
feel that from Blake. I felt like she totally believed
Blair.
Steve (08:54):
Oh, okay. That. Well, yeah. I mean, let's not.
Yeah, let's not go into Blake's
acting too much because. Because I think that
she, Like, if we were to rate the actors on
this show, she's probably C tier compared
to our, like, sn A
tier actors in here.
Leif (09:12):
Yeah, Her. Her and Nate are kind of in the same area.
Steve (09:15):
Yeah. Only I feel like Nate has
gotten better.
Leif (09:20):
He's gotten better writing, I think, but I don't know if he's necessarily
gotten better.
Steve (09:24):
I'm. Maybe I should say I think Chase has gotten
better. You think it's just better writing on the voice than it
is him, actually.
Leif (09:31):
Nate's had some better writing this season, I think, at least in the second
half here.
Steve (09:34):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (09:35):
Don't think his acting has changed much at all. It's kind of there.
Steve (09:38):
Yeah.
Leif (09:38):
Right, right.
Steve (09:39):
I mean. I mean, like, his. I was meaning more
to the boys, like, as he's
grown as an actor post Gossip
Girl, I still don't.
Leif (09:49):
Think he's that great of an actor. He just kind of funny.
Steve (09:51):
Yeah. I mean, I guess that's what it is. I guess I'm just kind
of in that mindset too, that funny is harder
than. Than drama.
Leif (09:59):
Yeah.
Steve (09:59):
So I often credit funnier actors
for that. Anyway, we're here to talk about Gossip
Girl in Brooklyn.
Leif (10:07):
Dan has fan mail. Jenny is about to turn
16, and Rufus informs the pair that Lily
wants to have breakfast with everyone. Jenny is impressed by the
amount of jams Lily has, so they head out the door.
Steve (10:19):
The way that everyone's like, man, and you know,
Jenny, you almost didn't make it to 16. It's like,
not really her fucking fault, Rufus.
Leif (10:28):
You kicked her out of the house.
Steve (10:29):
Yeah, yeah. For
following her dreams that were all laid
out in front of her, man, you really
barely survived this one because I totally got in the way and
ruined everything.
Leif (10:41):
we'll talk about Rufus. In a little bit here, but yeah.
Steve (10:44):
God. Fucking Rufus.
Leif (10:47):
Before they can leave, Vanessa shows up and Dan hangs
back. Vanessa is whining about Nate not calling for a
week. Seconds after Dan advises her to keep waiting,
Vanessa gets an email from Nate asking for a meetup.
Steve (10:59):
Girl, you broken up? It's been a week in high
school. Girl, you single?
Leif (11:04):
And you could call him too.
Steve (11:06):
Yeah, and you can call him. You can text him.
Leif (11:08):
You're the one that left.
Steve (11:09):
Yeah, you are the one.
Leif (11:13):
Serena runs into her old buddy Poppy
Lipton. Poppy is still living that it
girl life and gives Serena an oh, sweetie look when
Serena explains what she's been up to.
Steve (11:24):
She's such a shitty, shitty person.
Like, every ounce of her is just
terrible.
Leif (11:30):
Yeah. Oh, my God.
Steve (11:32):
You're doing high school stuff in high
school.
Leif (11:35):
At the penthouse, Lily, Rufus, Jenny,
Eric and Dan are prepping breakfast and joking
around. Chuck enters and trades jibes with Dan
before leaving for business. Definitely not cardio, which
is reserved for evenings.
Steve (11:48):
Yeah, gross. But, I loved the banter
between Chuck and Dan here. They. They really, I.
They really had a good play off of each other
here. Also, Eric, like
always gold. Always awesome.
Does this feel like a sitcom to anybody?
Leif (12:06):
More like a reality show.
Serena arrives and delivers the news that they are throwing Jenny
a sweet 16 party for which Jenny seems less than
thrilled about. Just as the scene ends, Rufus gets
a concerned look while reviewing Dan's financial aid
packet and pulls out his phone.
Steve (12:24):
so the first part of this. Why are
Serena and Lily
so hurt over her saying no,
that's not what I want? They're just. They're
so extra about it, you know?
Leif (12:39):
Well, up to hair Lily probably to put a deposit down on those
gators.
Steve (12:43):
Probably. I get to a degree.
Leif (12:46):
It was just maybe ask first.
Steve (12:48):
Yeah.
Leif (12:49):
Yeah. Why. Why are you waiting till the morning of to tell
her?
Steve (12:53):
Yeah. You. You could have warned her about this. Just make
it a surprise party at this point. Yeah.
Leif (12:59):
At school, Serena is wondering why Jenny doesn't want
a big party. Eric enlightened Serena that Jenny is probably
worried that no one will show up. Eric, once again
voice of reason.
Steve (13:09):
Yeah, and. And that makes a lot of
sense. Jenny has not had an
easy time and she is a finally
found obscurity a little bit in this
school and wants to
remain low key.
Leif (13:26):
The mean girls run into Serena and tell her they are glad that her
party got canceled so they don't have to feel bad about ditching it for
Penelope's party. Serena calls Poppy for help
with her party.
Steve (13:36):
Yo. Minions were out There taking
shots. Like shots
at Serena.
Leif (13:42):
Well, the minions are not exactly minions anymore.
Well, they're just kind of running school.
Steve (13:48):
yeah. It feels like Penelope is currently
queen and the minions are all. I
feel like the other three are still minions,
but they've always kind of had even ground
with Penelope, and it kind of feels that way.
Leif (14:02):
Yeah. Yeah.
Spotted. S learning the answer to the age
old question, what if you were throwing a party and no one
cared? When that happens, don't
cancel. Make them eat cake.
Vanessa sees Blaire leaving Nate's house. Chuck
pulls up at his limo and reveals he is the one who invited Vanessa here.
From Nate's account. C invites V to help him get revenge
(14:25):
on Nate and Blair. So.
Steve (14:27):
So good. Like, Chuck's plan here, and Chuck just
rolling up in the limo and rolling the
window down. I've known his password since he was
10. Soccer.
Leif (14:37):
Soccer.
Tornado.
And when you're not from the Upper east side,
sometimes morning is just the start to a
very bad day. We
move into Act 2. Back at school, Chuck
confronts Blair about her morning tryst with Nate. However,
(14:57):
Blair insists it's merely platonic. Chuck's
counter is. Of course it is, because Nate is still dating
Vanessa.
Steve (15:04):
Yeah. Nice dig. Way to
get that. Way to get that shot.
Leif (15:09):
Yeah. Lily and Rufus are
making chili at the loft. Rufus lets Lily know that
Dan got denied for financial aid. Lily
offers to help, but Rufus displays his trademark
stubbornness and says he can handle it himself.
Lily suggests selling the loft and moving in with
her.
Steve (15:27):
Yes, and Rufus also demonstrates his
trademark lying to his kids.
Leif (15:32):
Yeah, at least in the past, he was a good dad to
Dan. Not anymore.
Steve (15:37):
Now he's being a shitty dad to Dan.
Leif (15:39):
Seriously, let him take a free ride to Yale.
Steve (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Leif (15:44):
But we gotta have a reason for Dan to stay in New York, so,
Steve (15:46):
Exactly. It's so
shitty because Lily sits there. Hey, let
me. Let me offer. Let me help out with this. And
it would mean nothing to Lily. Dan wouldn't
even lie to him about that. You know, lie to Dan about
the financial aid coming through.
Through the Van Der Woodsen Foundation.
(16:07):
Yeah.
Leif (16:08):
Yeah.
Steve (16:08):
A scholarship through the Vander Woodsen Bass Foundation.
Leif (16:11):
But it's clear Rufus, is taking a pool for the betterment of the
show.
I know. Like, he won't take the money, but he
starts to agree to move in with her and sell the
loft.
Steve (16:25):
Yeah.
Leif (16:26):
What happens if. You know, when you get divorced
for the fifth time?
Steve (16:31):
Yeah. When you break up.
Leif (16:33):
again, now you're homeless.
Steve (16:36):
If anything, you should rent out.
Leif (16:38):
Yeah. Exactly.
Steve (16:39):
Rent the loft.
Monthly month to month
leases on the loft. Make it an
Airbnb.
Leif (16:50):
Nate and Blair are walking in a snow covered Central
Park. Blair nudges Nate to break up with Vanessa.
He is meeting V for dinner tonight.
Steve (16:58):
The I'm sure she thinks it's over two
bit is so classic Nate
and so such a
guy looking on to the next
thing that is right in front of
him. It's the classic golden retriever
Nate that is chasing after whatever ball
is being thrown. And the one that's in front of
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him right now is Blair. And so.
Leif (17:23):
Oh.
Steve (17:23):
yeah. Vanessa's clearly thinking the same thing.
Which the flip side is he can think
that because she never sent anything back.
Leif (17:32):
Yeah.
Steve (17:32):
So on that end. Yeah, I mean,
you're you. Because you're broken up, guys. Both of you.
You're broken up.
Leif (17:39):
Serena and Poppy are taking Jenny shopping for a
party dress. Jenny obviously thinks it's still going to be a
casual, intimate party. When Jenny is trying on
dresses, Poppy convinces Serena to upgrade the
party. Serena just led
like a dog.
Steve (17:55):
Yes. To make this party all
about herself just to
regain Poppy's love.
It's so weird. It's weird.
Leif (18:06):
It's totally on brand for Serena, though.
Steve (18:08):
It's totally on brand for Serena.
Leif (18:10):
Yeah. And she's a narcissist.
Steve (18:12):
Totally.
Leif (18:14):
Vanessa is meeting with Nate, who breaks up with her. Nate
denies anything going on with Blair.
Steve (18:20):
Nothing was, it seems
really going on with Blair other than spending the
night together, which is something. If I
were to go and spend the
night with another woman for five
days and not text Robin,
even if I slept on opposite
(18:40):
sides of the bed foot to head,
I'm in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I'm in a
lot of trouble.
Leif (18:47):
At the very least, he was emotionally cheating.
Steve (18:49):
Yes, absolutely.
Leif (18:52):
Nate comes to Blair's penthouse to let her know about the
breakup. However, Blair was looking for some action, and all
she got was a forehead kiss as Nate leaves for the night.
Steve (19:00):
Ooh.
Leif (19:01):
B.B.
Steve (19:02):
Oh, so sad. But even better was
Dorota's Nate and Vanessa fanfic?
Not that it ever happens to me.
Leif (19:14):
Gospel girl comes in.
Poor B. It's hard to turn up the heat with an
old flame. But stand back. Someone's about
to add fuel to this fire.
Steve (19:25):
Poor head kiss was so good.
Leif (19:28):
Vanessa goes to the Van Der Woodsen penthouse and finds
Chuck wearing a velvet smoking jacket that would make Hef
proud.
Steve (19:35):
Gross. All of this gross.
Just no.
Leif (19:41):
Back m row commercial. We see Dan smelling chili
and Jenny carrying a stack of board games.
Dan lets Jenny know about the Natessa breakup.
Dan takes a phone call from my realtor and finds out
Rufus is selling the loft. Hello?
Steve (19:55):
Yes, I must obviously be talking to the person who
I'm calling on a landline
in 07 or, 09.
Leif (20:03):
Yeah. Yeah. The receptionists in the show are
not.
Steve (20:07):
They're the worst. Every
receptionist on this show
should be fired. Every one of
them.
Leif (20:14):
Spilling all the tea.
Steve (20:16):
Yeah, they. They are the
driving plot device, the driving
conflict in probably
a third of the show. Drink.
Every time a receptionist fucks
up.
Leif (20:32):
Serena and Blaire are, talking on the phone again, discussing
Nate and Blair as well as Nate and Vanessa. The conversation
is interrupted by Eric, who tells Serena to come out of her room to see
what's going on. Dan and Jenny arrive at
Lily's building, and Dan jokes with Vanya about reading
an Ann Coulter book. In the elevator, Dan reveals
the Rufus might be selling the loft.
Steve (20:53):
I love that Dorota is friends with the
doorman.
Leif (20:56):
Oh, they're more than friends.
Steve (20:57):
Oh, are they? have we seen.
Leif (20:59):
No, you have. You have to have watched the Dorota
Diaries web series.
Steve (21:03):
No kidding. Was that simulcast?
Leif (21:07):
Not as. Yeah, it's, like, coming out. Like. Yeah, not
like simulcast, but at this.
Steve (21:12):
But during the weeks between.
Leif (21:14):
Yeah, I think on the hiatus weeks, it was coming out.
Steve (21:17):
Well, I know what I'm doing this. I know what
I'm gonna be doing, especially
once Robin finds out about this.
Leif (21:25):
Yes. The Dorota Diaries.
Steve (21:27):
Dorota Diaries. How is this the first
time learning of this? Also fuck Ann
Coulter.
Leif (21:34):
What's the Dan making,
liberal jokes.
Steve (21:38):
Yeah.
Leif (21:39):
As the elevator doors open, Dan and Jenny
are hit by some, generic house music. Penelope and
the mean girls walk up and congratulate Jenny on her
party.
Steve (21:49):
Yeah.
Leif (21:49):
Yeah. Not a Jenny party.
Steve (21:51):
No, no, not. Not at all. I did love.
I did love how Dan immediately
walks in carrying this chili and all these board games and
is like, well, I need to find a caterer.
I'm, There's got to be one here.
Leif (22:08):
He's been to a few of these now.
Steve (22:09):
Yeah, I. Honestly, Dan had such a good
episode, I feel.
Leif (22:14):
Eric, Jonathan in tow, tries to smooth over his
sister's faux pas, but only throws gasoline on the
fire. Jenny sounds out of mass invite
via Gossip Girl.
Steve (22:25):
Jenny was right to be pissed at Serena
when they confronted each other.
Leif (22:30):
Yeah.
Steve (22:31):
And Serena really did just kind of blow
her off.
Leif (22:34):
Yeah, she. She basically gaslighted her.
Steve (22:36):
Yeah.
Leif (22:37):
Like, oh, you should have said something. Well, bitch, she did say
something.
Steve (22:40):
I said something. yeah. Later on, she said that after
she. She says that again later on. You should have said something.
She's like, I did yesterday and now. But she does, right
when she's here. She's like, this isn't what I wanted.
Leif (22:52):
Yeah. Chuck and Vanessa arrive together. Even
though Chuck claims to be in love with Blair. Or was it
Elle? He has no problem creeping on Vanessa.
When Vanessa sees Nate and Blair together, she panics and
pulls Chuck in for a kiss. Blair and Nate
are both giving confused Pikachu.
Spotting two people who should know better and two
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people who don't know what hit him.
Steve (23:16):
Chuck perving on her in the
elevator. And the kiss.
All of it just so gross.
Leif (23:24):
I thought they had really good chemistry. I mean, they are fucking. They are
fucking in real life, so.
Steve (23:28):
Oh, at this point or.
Leif (23:29):
Yeah.
Steve (23:30):
Oh, no kidding. That. I. I'm not complaining
about the chemistry. I'm complaining about Vanessa and Chuck
both being people that I can't stand
getting together.
Leif (23:39):
I love Nate's. This is like, I think the only time in the
series Nate actually out acted or chase out
acted Layton with the expression on his face.
Yeah, he looked like confused Pikachu.
Steve (23:51):
Yeah, completely.
Leif (23:54):
Act three. The word is out. Jenny's
intimate family dinner is now officially a rager.
Poppy continues to jibe Serena about how much of a loser she
is. Now Serena stays at the party to attempt to keep
things under control. Poppy is the worst.
Steve (24:08):
She's awful. She's
absolutely terrible. And Serena,
usually, I mean, Serena follows
the thing that she's going to follow, the thing
that's in front of her, as we said. And
it's so much better for her when she follows
stuff like Dan and even Blair
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than Poppy.
Leif (24:31):
Serena asks Jenny for help to kick out the Crashers, but
Jenny points out that she invited them before their
feud can get out of hand. Eric informs Serena that
strangers are having sex on her bed. Yeah.
Steve (24:42):
And here's where Serena says, you should have
said something. And Jenny says, yeah, I said
something yesterday. But it's also Jenny, you said
something when you first got there too. And
Serena blew it off.
Leif (24:56):
Yeah.
Steve (24:56):
Twice now. Jenny should not have done
what she did now. She. She was
wrong like a teenager. She acted out like a
teenager. Blair or
Serena was really shitty.
Leif (25:09):
Yeah.
Steve (25:09):
Serena was a really shitty friend.
Leif (25:11):
And she admits it.
Steve (25:13):
She does. But she has to get there.
Leif (25:16):
Yeah. Dan
is entertaining three comely young ladies with tales of his
new fan when Serena interrupts to drag him
off.
Steve (25:25):
So I loved. I
love. Smart guy. Yes. I, love that he's just
there with three women Just standing
there macking and
just having them
enraptured in this conversation. Totally
smooth, totally playing it well. And then gets
interrupted by Serena, gets blocked by
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the ex or something. That's
not his fucking problem.
Leif (25:54):
Nate warns Vanessa to watch out for Chuck.
Blair interrupts and implies that she and Nate are more than
friends, but Nate denies it.
Steve (26:01):
Yeah, I thought it was actually pretty honest
and good of Nate to be
like, watch out for this guy.
You know the. I think that Nate
clearly cares about Vanessa.
Leif (26:16):
I mean. Yes, but then why. Why are you best friends with
him? Why are you best friends with this guy? You know,
he's a shithead.
Steve (26:23):
It's sort of like Aaron being friends with that guy too.
And we know that they're all friends with Chuck despite
him being a serial
sexual assaulter because
they've. They cleared that up when they called
themselves the non judging Breakfast Club.
Leif (26:40):
Blair throws Nate onto Chuck's bed, but
Nate just isn't feeling it.
Steve (26:45):
Yeah, I didn't really have words for this, even though I really
wanted to.
Leif (26:50):
Now, is this the first time we see the Chuck's painting of
Georgina as a Girl Scout?
Steve (26:55):
I didn't even notice that.
Leif (26:57):
Look it up. Georgina as girl Scout painting.
Steve (27:00):
Wow. I did not.
Leif (27:01):
It's above his bed.
Steve (27:02):
Even notice this?
Georgina as girl
Scout painting.
Oh, wow.
Leif (27:14):
Yeah, that's above Chuck's bed.
That lasts through the whole series.
Steve (27:19):
No, it's hidden.
Leif (27:20):
I think this is the first time we see it though.
Steve (27:21):
is it ever addressed that it's definitively
Georgina?
Leif (27:25):
I don't think. I don't think so. But I mean it clearly is.
Steve (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm wondering
if. Yeah, so it probably
didn't show up. If it has been there. Probably didn't show
up until after her appearance.
That's interesting.
Leif (27:41):
Chuck advises patience as he and Vanessa are
waiting for Nate and Blair to come out of the room.
When they come out separate, Chuck instructs Vanessa
to divide and conquer. However, Nate isn't
impressed by Vanessa becoming more Blair.
Steve (27:55):
Like what did she do aside
from make out with Chuck to be more Blair?
Leif (28:01):
Like, well, just coming with Chuck. It awesome.
Steve (28:04):
Yeah, I guess.
Leif (28:06):
I mean it's so, Nate's a dummy, but he know he knows a
scheme when he sees one.
Steve (28:09):
Yeah. Yeah. My. I guess the flip
side of that is the reason that Blair was
mad and left the room is because
Nate wasn't looking
to do much in that moment. I guess
it's, you know, she drug him in there because of Chuck
because Chuck kind of pushed that issue.
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But it's not. I guess I just didn't really see it that
much as their fault. But also, fuck Vanessa.
Leif (28:35):
So. Poor V.
Nobody gets what they want without losing something they
love, like their integrity.
Dan is helping Serena put on fresh sheets.
Serena opens up about her own selfish motivations for the
party. Change up.
Steve (28:52):
I liked Dan being a good friend to
Serena here. There were no
expectations other than, I'm gonna be a,
friend to you in this moment. And I really love that.
Leif (29:03):
It's almost like they're siblings.
Steve (29:05):
Almost like they're siblings
that are probably gonna bang again at some point. I'm
guessing.
Leif (29:13):
Downstairs, Vanya has barred the doors to prevent
hundreds of teenagers from storming the penthouse.
Lily and Rufus arrive just behind the cops who are here to
break up the party.
Steve (29:23):
We put hundreds in air quotes, though.
Maybe 50 kids.
Leif (29:29):
Bad boys, bad boys. What you gonna
do?
Lily is distraught over the state of her apartment. Lily
throws all the blame on Serena. Serena looks to
Jenny to say something, but Jenny is meekly staring at her
feet. Serena storms off. And finally
Jenny comes clean, but reveals that her reasoning is
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that she doesn't want to move to Park Avenue.
Steve (29:52):
First thing about this scene is
Lily's reaction when Rufus is like,
well, the most important thing is the kids are
okay. Yes. But the second most
important thing is this apartment
and the art. And I thought that her
response was really funny. This scene is
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really complicated because there's so much that.
That happens that. Where people
are simultaneously right and
wrong in their reactions and how they're
handling things.
Leif (30:25):
And I do like what Serena says there.
When it was just me and Eric, it was a safe bet to say it was me.
But now the list of suspects is expanding.
Steve (30:33):
Yeah. As this family is expanding, so is the list of
suspects. And, that's fair.
Leif (30:38):
Yeah. At a trendy looking
bar, Poppy convinces Serena to ditch being
routed to come to Spain with her and her boyfriend
Gabriel. To Espana. she's.
Steve (30:50):
She's the worst. Especially. It's,
funny. I was thinking about this Serena at this
point in her life and the way that she has been this
season, when she says road trip,
that's something that Serena would really enjoy.
I think. I think Serena would love to
drive across the country and fly back.
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And when she's shamed for that, like, no, we're going
to Spain. It's like, oh, oh, okay. That's right. I'm
supposed to be. That's how I'm supposed to be.
Leif (31:18):
Yeah. and, before you go to commercial, Gossip Girl
narrates. oh, looks like
someone's up to their old tricks. And just in
time, too. Cuidado, Espana.
Here comes el problema.
Then, we move into the epilogue.
Back in Brooklyn, Rufus and Lily
mutually decide to put moving in together on hold.
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Dan finds out about his financial aid falling through.
Dan is so used to being called poor, he actually
believed it. This might be the first time the show
actively acknowledges that the Humphries are definitely
not paupers.
Steve (31:54):
I appreciate this scene. As
somebody who grew up in a
three story Victorian
house in the 80s and was
constantly told how much of a struggle it
was. And not that my parents
didn't struggle, but I feel like a big part of
the struggle that they had was
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manufactured, that it was just
wanting more than actually
struggling. You know what I mean? Yeah. And
to see Dan's reaction, that's really how
I felt a lot of the time. Not on the level, because
clearly I was. My parents weren't making Humphrey money
by any means, but they had a
decent income and a great school
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district. And I always thought that we were
so much worse off than we were until
I actually was poor on my own until
I was a divorced single dad
teacher, you know?
Leif (32:53):
Blair and Dorota are walking in the park talking
about Nate. Blair, just when she had given up on
Nate, sees him waiting for her. Nate
and Dorota set Blair up, and we get the famous
snow kiss.
Steve (33:06):
Classic Nate. I felt that that was good
boyfriend Nate, that kind of stuff that he did
for Blair before. And I thought it was cute. I'm
okay with the Blair Nate. What do we
call Blair and Nate?
Leif (33:18):
Is it Nair?
Steve (33:20):
Nair. Okay. That's much better than bait.
Leif (33:25):
Yes. and the show got very
lucky with the snow opposite. I'm pretty sure that
was real snow.
Steve (33:32):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (33:33):
because you could see it melting on their heads, and it didn't
look.
Steve (33:36):
Like a TV amount of snow.
Leif (33:39):
Yeah.
Steve (33:39):
You know what I mean? Usually it's either a fair amount or
a little bit, but if you're someone who's lived in snow,
you know that those little flurries like that,
that you know what they look like. and so I don't think you're.
I think you're right. That that was natural.
Leif (33:54):
Serena shows up to meet Poppy and her boyfriend
Gabriel. Apparently, Gabriel met Serena last year
when she and Georgina were posing as Savannah and
Svetlana.
Steve (34:04):
Yes, I remember that. Is that
Armie Hammer?
Leif (34:08):
Yes. Famed cannibal Armie Hammer.
Steve (34:10):
Yes. Famed cannibal Armie Hammer.
Robin was the one who recognized him at first.
So, that was it him last
season too?
Leif (34:20):
No, we didn't, we didn't see, see him at all last season.
Steve (34:23):
Okay. I, I, Because I remember when
Georgina and Serena had the
interaction with the guys calling themselves
those names, but I didn't remember seeing him.
But yeah. Awesome.
Leif (34:35):
Well, Serena got blackout drunk. That, that or
blackout drugged.
Steve (34:40):
Yeah.
Leif (34:40):
That night. so yeah, apparently they were doing
it with more than those. The first two guys.
Probably in his bedroom. Dan
calls his fan. It turns out Dan's fan is
actually Rubus and Lily's love child, Scott
Rossin. Scott's adoptive parents intercept
the call and plan to hide it from Scott.
Steve (35:00):
Shitty ass fucking parents. They're
fucking, they're the, they're probably the worst
parents on the show. And that's a bar.
That is a, ah, bar.
Leif (35:10):
Well, I think we talked about last time like at the
Purr, like screen time.
Steve (35:16):
Their first screen time rate is
the worst. Also, there's something I
forgot to say about the previous scene that when
Serena is talking to famed cannibal Armie
Hammer, that she's doing that thing
that if she had cherries or strawberries or a glass
to lick, she'd be licking that glass.
Leif (35:36):
Yeah. So Poppy was shitty all episode, but she
might be losing her boyfriend pretty soon.
Steve (35:41):
Yeah, that's, that's kind of what it looks like.
Leif (35:45):
And ah, we get a series of scenes to end the episode with some
narrations. Mistakes. We all
make them. They usually start with the best of
intentions, like keeping a secret to protect
someone. And then Serena sends a text to
Lily letting her know that she's going to Spain.
Lily smiles at Eric, Jonathan, Jenny playing Hungry
Hungry Hippos before frowning at
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Serena's text.
Steve (36:08):
Yeah, you fucked up, Lily. It's also
Serena's pretty shitty for just running off to
Spain.
Leif (36:15):
I mean this is the second time she's done this this season.
Steve (36:17):
Yeah.
Leif (36:18):
Just went out of the country without even asking.
Steve (36:21):
Yeah, the first time it was at least
a vacation. This is
like I'm mad and storming off and I'm going
to continue to storm all the way to
Spain, Espana.
Leif (36:35):
Sometimes we don't even know what mistakes we've made
to get us where we are. And then Nate and Blair are
still making out in the snow. nothing really happened there. Or
we figure it out just in time to make it right again.
And then the final scene is Chuck is waking up and finds
Vanessa getting dressed and trying to sneak out without being
noticed. However, Chuck pulls her in for round
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two.
Steve (36:57):
We're more alike than you think.
Yeah, gross.
Leif (37:02):
But every mistake happens for a reason.
To teach you a lesson you would otherwise never
learn. And hopefully, we never make that
mistake again. Lucky for me, that
never happens. Xo, XO
Gossip Girl.
Steve (37:18):
That's our episode.
Leif (37:19):
Yep. So what's coming next?
Steve (37:22):
Well, I think that this Nate, our,
Chuck, Vanessa thing is gonna happen for a little bit,
and I think that it's going to become more than either of them want it
to, and then they're going to realize that and
hate each other. I
believe Serena's going to come home with a new
boyfriend. I think
that Nate and Blair are going to not
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have very much chemistry or very
much of a spark, and that's going to be on
Blair's mind while Chuck is seemingly
happy. Oh, and, Rufus is going to be a bad
parent.
Leif (37:57):
Bold prediction there, Cotton.
Anything else?
Steve (38:05):
I think that we're seeing
Jenny in one of her phases,
maybe, but I don't think that.
I feel like she hasn't had a whole lot of focus, even when
she's been having
these episodes for her.
So I feel like maybe
we're gonna get some dark Jenny
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stuff now that she's in trouble.
Leif (38:30):
Well, we do see that, her birthday party is
apparently cursed.
Steve (38:34):
Yeah. Yes.
That's good to think of. So probably
late next season. It's funny that her
birthday party. Oh, I guess the end of last
season was all shuffled later in the year
so that it would light. So that's where it lines up. Because of
the strike hiatus, or we're.
Leif (38:54):
Still right around that same time.
Steve (38:56):
Yeah, it was. I think it was.
Leif (38:59):
We've had several breaks, you know, and then we're out.
We're grabbing another one after this episode. there's going to be another hiatus.
Steve (39:04):
I thought I realized that
from something. I forget what. Oh,
just because of the way that they were wrapping everything up.
Had that kind of will be back in a
few weeks kind of feel, especially the Nate and
Vanessa cliffhanger. I think that
that made me really think, like, oh, yeah, this
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seems like.
Leif (39:26):
Well, let's get into some segments this
week in fan. And we jumped into the wayback machine to travel
to the television without pity forums from
2009. Hello there,
Peabody here. And this is the wayback machine
for traveling through time. And this is my boy,
Sherman. Speak, Herman.
Steve (39:45):
Hello.
Leif (39:45):
Good boy. They, were shocked at
Chuck and Vanessa, even if Ed Westbrook and
Jessica Soar are dating right now.
Steve (39:53):
Yeah, I. I was. I
probably would have been more shocked if we didn't talk about it a little last
week, but I Also just was more.
As soon as Chuck pulled up, I saw it coming, you know,
and once he pulled up in the limo, I saw it
coming, so I didn't have.
Leif (40:11):
As much problem with it as you did because, I don't really like users
characters, so why not just put them all together?
Steve (40:16):
Yeah, I think that's my thing is that I don't really like either of the
characters, so.
Leif (40:21):
But they are hot together, so. Yeah, why
not?
Steve (40:24):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (40:26):
The fans were watching the doroded website series, so
they pointed out the drone and Vanya are actually dating right now.
Steve (40:31):
Oh, nice.
Leif (40:35):
And that people were seriously annoyed with Serena.
And, but they also acknowledged that Jenny was selfish as well.
But more understandable.
Steve (40:42):
Yeah, I feel like Jenny just acted out. Serena was
selfish. Jenny acted out. I m don't think that
Jenny did anything selfish. I think Jenny
burned it all down because Jenny gets mad and burns it all
down.
Leif (40:55):
Some positive comments with regards to the new scorn,
Vanessa. Unlike them, they, like, are
becoming more Blair. Like, I don't like Nate. They
like her becoming more player.
Steve (41:05):
Like, well, that's because they like Blair.
And the fans who are on these
forums are savages
who really.
Who are out for blood.
Leif (41:18):
They are mean girls.
Steve (41:19):
They are mean girls.
Leif (41:23):
It looks like we found Dan's path to staying in
NYC next year. How will the rest join him?
Steve (41:29):
Yeah, because he can't get student loans
or Rufus can't release a new album.
Lincoln Hawk should just. Should tour.
Leif (41:37):
Or he could just take, you know, his girlfriend's money or
take your girlfriend's.
Steve (41:41):
Money and go on tour for a
while.
Leif (41:45):
I mean, prepare. He is a single dad, so we don't want
to leave anyone with, What's her name? Allison.
Steve (41:51):
No. No. Do we really want to
leave her with Lily? Although they should. They're not Lily's
kids, so she'd probably be pretty good.
Leif (42:01):
Let's go ahead and move into some episode
graves.
So there was things I liked in this episode. I liked that
Jenny was back in the focus, even though she was kind of just
a plot tool. And I didn't really like the way
she was acting this episode. She was more just bratty
teenager than, you know, scheming or
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pursuing her fashion career. She was kind of
there being a bratty teenager. I like Dan. He's
funny. Ah. As always. Pen is, you know, very
comedic and making jokes
with Vanya and then
wowing those three women about with his
tails, with his face.
Steve (42:39):
That was my favorite part of the entire
episode.
Leif (42:43):
But the bad was.
Yeah, Blair was not I did not like Blair
in this episode at all. She was just, like, whiny,
and I just don't. Why is she
settling to be a rebound and just.
Yeah. just did not like it at all. so overall, I gave this
a C minus.
Steve (43:02):
Yeah. I'm gonna give it a C plus.
I was really torn between a B minus and a C.
I like some of the Chuck and
Vanessa storyline as
much as I didn't really want them together.
I do, like, kind of where that went,
where it progressed. I. I kind of
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liked Jenny. the same things you said about
Dan and Jenny. I thought a lot of the
writing choices were, let's just say,
questionable. Like, the whole Poppy.
Leif (43:33):
Not surprised. That writer was diver ass back.
Steve (43:35):
Yeah, the writing for Poppy was
just so shallow,
catty, and
felt very. Almost
Mary sue ish. Almost like.
Like someone who believed that that is what
Serena should be doing rather than being a
complication, almost, you know,
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saying that that is what Serena should be doing.
Leif (44:00):
So we're saying that was all just
service level. That is what it is.
Steve (44:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (44:06):
There's not. Nothing more to that storyline. Yeah.
Steve (44:09):
Yeah. That she just.
Leif (44:11):
She's just a catty.
Steve (44:12):
Yeah, it was very. It was a very
shallow storyline. It was. There was
no depth to it all.
Leif (44:19):
right, well, let's go ahead and move
over to Stockwatch. Going
up, I had Eric and Jonathan because they were
together still and seemed happy and were making
jokes. I had Dorota going
up because she was good as usual, and now has
a boyfriend, Vanya, because she, ah,
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has the best character as a girlfriend.
And I. I had Lily going up. For some reason, I forget why I
put her going up.
Steve (44:47):
Oh, yeah, because she.
Leif (44:48):
She was mostly a good parent, and she
offered to pay for Dan's college.
Steve (44:53):
And, she up with Serena at the end. But
Serena also left before Lily had the
chance to.
Leif (45:00):
Yeah.
Steve (45:00):
Fix anything. But also, Lily didn't. We didn't see her
make any effort to fix it after that either.
Leif (45:05):
Well, that means Serena just left with a text.
Steve (45:08):
you will. I'm saying that Lily at any time could have
sent a text. Hey, I'm sorry. I see what I
did. I'm really sorry I jumped to
that conclusion, which I feel like is something that
newer Lily would do, so I'm a little
surprised she didn't.
Leif (45:23):
Who do you have going up?
Steve (45:24):
I'm going to add a couple to my list that I was
inspired by you, which would be. I had
Eric, but also Jonathan. I also want to
add Dorota and what was his name?
Leif (45:36):
Vanya.
Steve (45:36):
Vanya. I had Nate going up. He's getting the
girl. I had Blair going up, but I'm not going to keep her
going up. I'm going to put her in the middle. Chuck and
Vanessa, I had both going up. I'm going to send Dan
up. I had. I was really on the fence with Dan because of the
Yale thing, but everything else in Dan's
stuff was coming up. Dan, I felt today. So I'm going to give him.
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I'm going to give him the bump. I don't feel like Dan often gets
the bump.
Leif (46:01):
Anyone else?
Steve (46:02):
Nope. That's it.
Leif (46:04):
So for me, going down. I had Dan going
down.
Steve (46:08):
Oh.
Leif (46:08):
Because not only did he not get financial aid, but
he apparently has a stalker.
Steve (46:13):
Oh.
Leif (46:14):
Because that's not really his fan.
Steve (46:16):
Right. He has a stalker and he got cock
blocked by his ex.
Leif (46:20):
Yeah. I also had Jenny going down because she
was just kind of bratty and caused
havoc. Serena because she was selfish and got
led by Poppy. Rufus because he's a
horrible dad. Vanessa because she's sleeping
with Chuck. Chuck because he was creepy. Nate
because I don't think he really wants to be with Blair.
(46:40):
And Blair because she was horrible this whole episode. And
just. And then also Poppy because she's the
worst.
Steve (46:46):
She is the worst.
Leif (46:47):
Who do you got?
Steve (46:48):
I had. I had Jenny as well. I had Rufus
and Lily both going down in this one.
Lily. I mean, her apartment's totally right
now.
Leif (46:58):
Well, I. But it's already being fixed by a team of
people, which she points out.
Steve (47:03):
Yeah, that's true. I
had. Actually, I think that is it that I
had for going down. I'm gonna send Poppy down, too, because Poppy
sucks. Poppy. Oh, and the parents.
The, Dan neurosis.
Yeah, the parents. The. The
per. On screen parenting
(47:23):
bottom rung. Howard has done better.
Leif (47:27):
Some seriously bad war when it comes to parenting.
Steve (47:32):
But here's the best outfits.
From the last episode we
seen.
Leif (47:39):
On to best outfits.
I'm going to go with Vanessa's purple tuxedo swing dress
by Catherine Malandrino.
Steve (47:50):
We're on today. I, had the
same thing. Vanessa's purple dress.
Leif (47:55):
I also like Jenny's, shimmery gold Missani
Trapezi dress.
Steve (47:59):
Yeah. I also liked Serena, the black dress that
Serena was wearing as well. But
ultimately I was giving it to Vanessa, who I
don't think has very many outfits in the
running. So. Good on. Good on you,
Vanessa.
Leif (48:14):
Anything you want to plug this week?
Steve (48:16):
When does this come out?
Leif (48:18):
January.
Steve (48:19):
if this is if January 8th. Has not yet happened
happened. It has. Okay then you should have come see
me at Dawson street. But I have been promoting it. I just
didn't have a date. So as of now I don't have
anything really coming up. I
have been. I do recommend anyone
watch Shrinking on
Apple tv. It's Harrison
(48:42):
Ford, Jason Siegel and Jessica Williams and
it is absolutely phenomenal.
I also if you want to give me a follow on
TikTok while it's still around or Instagram,
my handle is Eve Marchand M m a r
C H I o n and you can find me on
Bluesky Heweed wizard for
(49:02):
me.
Leif (49:02):
Nothing really to plug this week but if you want to follow me on
Instagram I am
hotcapicola. That's H o
t C a P I C o
L a Also the same name on Blue
sky. And if you would like to support the
podcast you can do so for as little as $1
a month@patreon.com
(49:23):
nonjudging BreakfastPod. You can also
follow us on social media Nonjudging
Breakfast pod on Instagram
TikTok threads and you can also
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(49:45):
breakfastpod.com and if you would like to.
Steve (49:48):
Send us an email and get in touch with us, we'd love to hear
what you have to say and we'd like to read your comments
on air. You can send that email to
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and while you're listening right now, if you could
go ahead and give us a like a follow
a comment. It all
(50:09):
helps boost our visibility, especially in
Apple, podcasts. And
if you could please tell a friend what you're listening to
get other folks listening, share any links
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Leif (50:28):
I would like to shout out the members of the
you Discord server that started listening to the podcast
recently. So thanks for listening. We will be back
next, week to Talk about Season 2, Episode
21 Satyr
Anything Robin.
Steve (50:44):
Robin was really excited
when she saw the title.
Leif (50:49):
The Netflix episode description reads,
serena returns from her trip to Spain with Poppy
and Gabriel. Blair makes a secret deal with
Nate's grandfather. Dan gets a job.
Steve (51:00):
Oh, good for Dan. Wash your dishes all the way to
Yale.
Leif (51:05):
Well, until next time. You know you love us.
Steve (51:08):
Xoxo Every time you walk away
run away you take a piece of me with you
there Every time you walk
away or run away M you take a piece of me me
with you there Every
time you walk away or run away M you take a piece of m
me with you there
(51:29):
oh it seems I'm walking right to
your.
Leif (51:32):
Door.
Steve (51:35):
My heart's still resting looking for
something more
are you ever gonna see everything you mean
to me I'm trying really hard to believe
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
(51:57):
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
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.
Leif (52:20):
Are.
Steve (52:21):
You ever gonna see everything you mean to me
I'm trying really hard to believe
every time you walk away run away you take a piece
of meat with you there
Every time you walk away run away you take a
piece of me with you you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
(52:42):
piece of me with you there
come back to me
smile and you'll make my life
complete
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
(53:05):
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
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of m me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
(53:27):
piece of me you 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
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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