S3E03 - "The Lost Boy" - Non Judging Breakfast Pod

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Steve (00:00):
And it's so funny because Dan, the guy who's been ignored for two
seasons, got one little sniff
of popularity.

Leif (00:07):
Of course, he does have that other stalker girl from
NYU recognized just by his name.

Steve (00:12):
That is true.
Overhearing is are you Z?
Dan Opre.
He's going to put you in the stalker pile.

Leif (00:30):
Hey, Upper East Siders and all you listeners out
there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast
pot. The coffee is strong, the waffles
are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than ever.
My name is Leith and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve (00:44):
And I'm Steve. I'm the newbie, the
greenhorn, the, I don't know, leap. We're in season three.
What are we calling me now?

Leif (00:51):
I don't know. But if you keep pushing, Blair's gonna push back and I'm
gonna be right behind her.

Steve (00:55):
Well, as long as you leave a sock on the door when you
are, then I think we're in the clear.
Okay, 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're your
dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama,
romance, sometimes questionable fashion
choices of this iconic 2007

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series.

Leif (01:17):
That's right. Each week we'll be taking a deep dive into the show
one episode at a time. We'll look at all the hidden
references and obscure parallels. We'll also take
a look at some stories from fandom and some behind the scenes
concepts along the way.

Steve (01:30):
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 a
mimosa, a cup of coffee, or some of Chuck's
special medicine and let's get started.

Leif (01:46):
Let's get started. And the week of this
recording week, we got the
sad news about Michelle Trachtenberg.

Steve (01:54):
Lost. Lost her. Her fight with the,
liver transplant. That they're suspecting
that it's complicated.

Leif (02:01):
Well, as of now, there's been no actual information
release other than the fact that she has recently had a liver
transplant.

Steve (02:08):
Yes. And a friend of hers did
say when they talked that she was
concerned about the survival of this
transplant. But yeah, very sad.
I know, I know. We shit on her earlier
performances on the show.
and it was actually especially
kind of impactful watching this

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episode and watching her really
crush it. We've talked about a
lot when she came onto the show, they didn't know what to do with her
and weren't writing to her strengths.

Leif (02:42):
Yeah. The character was originally written. Josh Schwartz
wanted it to be Misha Barnes and she turned it down.

Steve (02:48):
Yeah. And another big
thing that took the adjusting, as I
said when we were first watching it, I
watched Michelle Trachtenberg grow
up from being a 14 year
old or 15 year old to being an
18 year old or so on
Buffy. So then turning around

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a few years later and having her then
be that same age again was also
a little. I know you're not.

Leif (03:18):
It.

Steve (03:19):
It hurt the suspension of disbelief in that first
season. And now in
season two and season three, she really just
blends in. it's also so sad because
again, a huge Buffy fan.
Huge Buffy fan. And I've always,
always loved her
storyline, her season five storyline.

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I love the this is your sister that you've always
known and always been there and always has
been, no matter what the audience knows.
I always thought that was super creative and I always thought she
played a, phenomenal little sister.

Leif (03:55):
Yeah. Ah, she's. She's always been magnetic. She's.
She was a year younger than me. so I grew
up right alongside of her, essentially.
I mean, I remember watching her on Pete. Pete. She was
Iggy Pop Star.

Steve (04:09):
that's funny because Pete and Pete is, You and I
are just that far apart that a lot of those shows
were too, too young for me. But my
sister was watching some of them because they were just. She was
just at the top of that age bracket. So
I was familiar with Harriet the Spy. Never saw it.
I was familiar with Beat and Pete. Never watched

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it. But you knew that this kid
got great traction at a young age.

Leif (04:36):
Moving on to more positive topics, we had
the second episode of, Good Cop, Back
Cab. Have you watched it yet?

Steve (04:43):
I have not seen the second episode. I watched the first
episode and really liked
it. You know me, I am easy to
please. Everyone in our
gaming group always makes fun of me for being the guy
that likes everything, because I really do.
But I had so much fun with that first episode
and I really am looking forward to the next one.

Leif (05:06):
It's, better than I expected. It's
still, as a show, as a whole, not.

Steve (05:12):
It doesn't break any new ground. It's still a cop
show.

Leif (05:16):
But, the second episode, lady, does get a chance
to actually emote a bit. she.
She was really good at that. You know,
one scene in particular that
was nice to see.

Steve (05:29):
Yeah. And. And the flip side of that,
I really liked seeing her in
a. In a more comedic role,
even though she's not really driving the
comedy. It's almost a comedy with all
straight men the way that they're
being played. I,

Leif (05:48):
It's a more family friendly Reno 911.

Steve (05:51):
Yeah. Yeah, it really is. I
like that the father is super corrupt and they
call him on it every step of the way.

Leif (05:58):
Oh, it's. It's even worse than second episode.

Steve (06:01):
Yeah, I mean, it's. I feel
like it does point out
some of those problems
in the justice system. I also feel like, you
know, it is a cop show.

Leif (06:17):
and also some other good news, I guess, depending
on good news. But
Domino Kirk announced on Twitter
that her, and Pen are having twins.

Steve (06:27):
Yes. Congratulations, Pen.
And, what's her name again?

Leif (06:32):
Domino.

Steve (06:32):
Domino. Congratulations to the two of
them. Robin actually held up her phone
yesterday and said spotted and
showed me the announcement, so congratulations.
Ben and Domino.

Leif (06:48):
They're a little new nuclear family.
One son from her first
relationship. And then they had
one son together. Now two more children.

Steve (06:59):
Yeah, that's
got to be daunting. I had a friend,
a good friend of mine who called me many years ago who
said, I need your advice on how to do it. And I go, what? Being
a dad? And he says, being a dad to three kids.
And he had triplets, and he called them his insta
family.

Leif (07:18):
Well, luckily, Pen's out of work now, so he can. He can
focus on his family.

Steve (07:22):
Yeah, he can do the John Lennon thing without all the
abuse.

Leif (07:29):
Well, today we are here to talk about Gossip Girl.
Season three, episode three, the Lost
Boy original air date was September
28, 2009 and based on the
film the Lost Boys.

Steve (07:42):
Yes. obviously familiar with the Lost
boys.

Leif (07:46):
It is 1987 film with a
who's who of 80s cast.

Steve (07:50):
Yes.

Leif (07:51):
Directed. Directed by the guy who gave us the nipple.

Steve (07:53):
Batsuit. Yeah.

Leif (07:55):
Schumacher. Oh, okay.

Steve (07:57):
Yeah.

Leif (07:57):
Yes.

Steve (07:58):
And we had. The Coreys
were in it. We had Kiefer Sutherland in it.
We had. Trying to think of who else.
But I just. It was. They were just like,
who is every hot
actor around right now? And let's put
them into this vampire movie.

Leif (08:18):
This episode was written by Robert
Hall. he did three. Three episodes in season three,
Season two, rather. They were the X
Files. It's a Wonderful Lie. And
the grandfather.

Steve (08:30):
Yeah, I. I feel like the X
Files was the first one to kind of
get the swing going of season
two that we had those first three
episodes of the.

Leif (08:44):
Well, the third episode, because that was the Dark Knight.

Steve (08:46):
Oh, okay. Okay. I was. So it was just the
first two that Were the.

Leif (08:51):
The Hamptons.

Steve (08:52):
The Hamptons, right. Okay. I keep thinking it was
three episodes, but I've only seen this
once.

Leif (08:58):
well, Marcus was in a few more, so he kind
of jammed it up.

Steve (09:02):
Okay. That's why. Because Marcus was
still in it.

Leif (09:06):
Yeah.

Steve (09:06):
Okay.

Leif (09:08):
And then it was directed by Jean
de son Jack.
probably that up pretty bad, but, he did,
previously the Magnificent Archibald.
That was the Thanksgiving episode, definitely.
That was a really good scene at the end with, Eleanor,
Jenny and Bless.

Steve (09:27):
Where. Where Eleanor is like a, parent.
She parents Jenny and.

Leif (09:32):
And Blair.

Steve (09:32):
And Blair. Yeah, it was so. I remember
getting teary watching that. That's. That
was wonderful Eleanor
scene.

Leif (09:42):
Why don't you go ahead and read us that vulture recap?

Steve (09:45):
All right. The vulture recap says,
with everything they've been through, the lies, the
scheming, the boyfriends who turned out to be Ponzi
schemers, the girlfriends who turned out to be stepsisters,
the children they never knew existed,
it's not surprising that our friends on Gossip Girl have
developed what would commonly be called trust

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issues. Except in their case, they're actually
right. The Gossip Girl world is one of sidelong
glances, elaborate lies, and outlandish
plots. If someone awkwardly stutters in
a, sentence or tries to get off the phone
quickly, it means something. In last
night's episode, square jawed, shifty eyed, Scott
loved a lie about a college seminar

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causes Vanessa to. To question his entire
identity. And of course, she turns out
to be right because he is not who he says he
is. He is, in fact, Lillian,
Rufus's son, which he then lies
about. Meanwhile, Serena doesn't trust Carter
Bazin, in part because of what happened in
Santorini. Chuck and Blair pretend not to

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trust each other, but only because they think it's
hot. And of course, no one trusts Georgina,
except maybe Rufus, who, human
labradoodle that he is, trusts everyone.
Or maybe it's just the Botox
shaded.

Leif (11:05):
Ah, Matthew, settle there?

Steve (11:07):
Yeah, a little bit.

Leif (11:08):
There a lot of stuff going on in this
episode.

Steve (11:11):
Yes. Yeah, it was a very
scheme packed episode that. I
really liked that. That aspect of it.

Leif (11:19):
We'll go ahead and get into Act 1 with
the gossip Girl blast.
Mornings in New York. Time to wake up from
bad dreams, roll out of beds we've made, and
start making plans for a brighter future.
Lair is leaving a message for Chuck. While walking into her
dorm building at nyu, Blair

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ignores the sock on the door and her room.
Enters her room and is shocked to find a
shirtless Diane on a bed with your dad.

Steve (11:49):
So you just finished your first class.
You're already starting to talk about skipping
classes to go bang.
That's usually like second
semester sort of stuff. Usually it's you skip
class sometime halfway through your first semester because
you're drunk. You don't start skipping for sex until
at least the second semester.

Leif (12:10):
Claire Walters is advanced for her age.

Steve (12:12):
That is true. Always has been. Also, who doesn't know what
a sock on the door means?

Leif (12:17):
I'm wearing a glove and I still want to wash my hands.
After Blair leaves in disgust, Georgina is making plans to
meet the family and friends. Georgina seems like she's falling
for lonely boy, who maybe, as the kids say,
just be vibing.

Steve (12:34):
Yeah, kind of picked up on that.
Kind of picked up on that.

Leif (12:39):
Serena and Vanessa catch a Once again,
shoeless and clueless Dan doing the walk of shame.
Serena hopes it was Blair. Vanessa hopes it was
Georgina.

Steve (12:48):
that scene was fantastic. Every bit of it.
Vanessa walking out. Oh, I thought I heard you guys
here. And Serena and. And
Vanessa at the same time. Please tell me it was
Georgina. Please tell me it was Blair. It
was just so. It was really well
acted, directed, blocked. It was
just really a really good set up

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for that scene.

Leif (13:13):
After sitting and explaining things, Vanessa and
Serena agree not to judge Dan, but to tease him
mercilessly. Serena recruits Dan to come
help her. Vanessa is about to come along for when
another hole is inadvertently poked in Scott's
story.

Steve (13:27):
Yep, Scott's stories
keep crumbling. I found that scene
with Vanessa, Serena and Dan to be really
nice, like a nice friend. They're
all pretty much siblings at this point. Dan
and Vanessa have really established that sort of
sibling sort of relationship. And
Serena and Dan becoming

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siblings. I thought that was a really
cute scene. And you know we're going to mock you for
this mercilessly, but, you know, have
fun.

Leif (13:58):
Well, I don't get. So skipping ahead,
Dan goes with Serena and she came to get Blair
and she ends up taking Dan said, what did she need? Of
course she walked to NYU so she could go walk
to meet Carter. Like Dan just immediately
walks away when she meets Carter.

Steve (14:15):
Yeah. What? Yeah,
she had no real reason. She's the
Vanessa. There's no reason
for Serena to be there.
Of course, Serena is the new Vanessa.

Leif (14:30):
Vanessa calls Scott, who continues to poorly lie
to her as, ah, the camera pulls out. It is revealed that
Scott is receiving guitar lessons from Rufus.
Rufus starts giving fatherly advice about Scott's relationship
with Vanessa when they are interrupted by Jenny and
Eric. Rufus may be oblivious, but I think
Jenny has her radar up.

Steve (14:48):
I kept in my head. Ganon. There's. Hey,
you're really good at this. Thanks, dad. Dan. Dan.
Dan's dad.

Leif (14:58):
Eric. One line of the episode is comparing
Shakira to David Belly.

Steve (15:03):
Although Eric looked cut when
he came in. Broader shoulders,
like, tighter shirt on him. Did he
also, like, bulk up for, in
the off season?

Leif (15:15):
I didn't notice.

Steve (15:16):
Yeah. I just felt like I. And maybe it was just what
he was wearing, but I thought Eric came in looking a
little more cut.

Leif (15:24):
Forget what year Revenge started.
He was on that, and he looked much more
rough around the edges character.

Steve (15:32):
Oh, okay.

Leif (15:34):
I didn't.

Steve (15:34):
I didn't realize it. Was it simultaneous
to Gossip Girl?

Leif (15:38):
Yeah, it
didn't go at the beginning. It
started at some point. I forget when.

Steve (15:46):
Okay.

Leif (15:47):
Dan and Serena are walking down the street talking
about the respective relationship. Serena warns Dan
to DTR with Georgina before she goes from
zero to crazy fair.

Steve (15:58):
That's it if you know somebody
like that. Because, yeah, fair advice and good
advice.

Leif (16:06):
As Dan leaves, Carter shows up for his date with
Serena. As the pair are talking, another woman
walks up and accuses Carter of sleeping with her and leaving the
next day. She then slaps him even
though Carter denies it. Serena chickens out and inviting Carter
to the family event that evening.

Steve (16:23):
That felt like a setup. The first time
watching the whole thing. I,
had Chuck Bass written all over it and
felt like a setup, I think.

Leif (16:33):
Yeah. Maybe that's why Carter didn't defend himself.
He thought it was so obvious.

Steve (16:37):
Yeah, he did say, I don't know her.
This isn't real.

Leif (16:42):
I wasn't at that place.

Steve (16:44):
Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't even at the place where she said I was,
but okay. Serena.

Leif (16:48):
Vanessa is at NYU trying to get info about
Scott's enrollment. She discovers that there is no
Scott Adler registered at the college.

Steve (16:57):
I really like
Vanessa being the sleuth,
that it really makes sense to her character.
She wants to be a documentary filmmaker. She wants
to do investigative things. I felt that
this episode, Vanessa
really kind of shined in that
respect that she had something to do and

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everything she was doing made sense. It really
is a nice change of pace for
Vanessa, for her. For her character to be making
sense.

Leif (17:29):
And that is the end of the first act. We move
into Act 2
at the palace. Blair enters the enters
with room service. Once the server leaves, Blair
strips down to her Kiki de Mont
Ponace, Belle de Jour romper and pounces
on Chuck. However, Chuck isn't quite in the
mood because he has a big business meeting coming up.

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Blair puts her coat back on and storms out. As
she leaves the hotel room, she discovers an invitation
to La Taba Altair.

Steve (18:00):
Chuck, take 10 minutes. Take a 10
minute break. You've been working so hard on this.

Leif (18:06):
Take 10 takes chef. Much
more.

Steve (18:10):
Yeah.

Leif (18:11):
You gotta do it the right way. The Chuck fast way.

Steve (18:13):
Yeah.

Leif (18:14):
You gotta take your time.

Steve (18:15):
Yeah. It would take the whole couple of hours.

Leif (18:18):
But this is secret society number three.
It is.

Steve (18:21):
It is.

Leif (18:24):
In biblical times, destiny was delivered
in the form of stone tablets or a burning
bush. But today, true destiny is
often engraved and carries an embossed sea.
Deal. Dan is back at the
dorm and awkwardly tries to de escalate the
relationship. And Georgina completely plays it off at school.
Even Dan is surprised at how easy that was.

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Too easy, one might say.

Steve (18:48):
Yeah, it was Dan, being
super awkward again and not
knowing how to say the thing.

Leif (18:55):
If you want me to leave, I can just leave.

Steve (18:58):
Yeah. And Georgina, the way she
played it too, like, you're adorable. Can you get pizza? Let's
go. That it really kind of felt
like the message was receipt.

Leif (19:08):
Yeah.

Steve (19:09):
She. But also you kind of get the
sense that it is Georgina and that that's a card that she has
to play that, Georgina has shown she's
good at wrong and playing.
Yeah.

Leif (19:21):
And she thinks she can eventually convince him.

Steve (19:23):
Yeah.

Leif (19:24):
Because I do think she was legitimately.

Steve (19:26):
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

Leif (19:29):
Blair and Serena are strolling in the park
discussing first letable elater and
then Blair's sexual frustrations. I guess
that's just what seeing a shirtless Dan in the flesh does to
someone. Blair tries to get Serena
to dump Carter. The ever defiant Serena
instead calls and invites Carter to the event
leader.

Steve (19:50):
Once again, we have a really nice best
friend scene that we had one last
week. More toward the end. But I
feel almost as though the writers
are very intentionally creating
these moments to bring
Blair and Serena together. And I'm not mad at it. I think

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it's actually a really good thing to really
constantly establish that
friendship. So I, I just really liked,
what this scene did for sort of the
meta story of their
friendship.
I think it also kind of, I think Blair's kind
of showing her hand a little bit here too.

Leif (20:31):
And I think Serena almost swallowed that fun. Just to show
Lair how hard she.

Steve (20:35):
Is flirting with Carter. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. She was gonna start licking it at least.

Leif (20:43):
Chuck shows up for his business meeting only to be
told it's been canceled by an attractive assistant.
She blows off Chuck's attempts to charm his way back into the
meeting and instead advises Chuck to get a famous photo of her
boss in order to impress him.

Steve (20:56):
I initially, in the first couple
seconds, thought that Chuck was establishing
something here that could be
the thread that pulls
Blair and Chuck apart. He sees
a pretty, young person who looked really
familiar. The actor looked really
familiar. And I felt like she looked like someone from an

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earlier episode of Gossip Girl, but I could just
be completely mistaken. But I kind
of had that thought.

Leif (21:25):
Of, yeah, look those things up and see.

Steve (21:27):
Oh, I see. I'm not. I thought I'm not supposed to be looking stuff up.

Leif (21:30):
Oh, you can look up an actor's name.

Steve (21:31):
Oh, okay, then I'll. I'll. I'll do that.

Leif (21:33):
I like. If you see an actor, an episode, look up that
episode and.

Steve (21:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif (21:39):
Click on and see what episodes they were on.

Steve (21:41):
Well, there, there. Am I right? Was she in something?
Or do you. Oh, okay. I had no idea. I'll. I'll do that
research. Like I was saying, though, last,
week, I said that the Blair
and Chuck cannot be smooth sailing
indefinitely. They has to be
a shakeup at some point. So I thought that

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this. That his approach
to the receptionist might have been
that read that he was being too flirty.
I. I'm glad that I was wrong.

Leif (22:12):
So there was definitely something major set up for their
relationship in this episode. We'll talk about it while we get to
it.

Steve (22:18):
Okay.

Leif (22:20):
Joanna Garcia is helping Blake Lively shoulder
the mandatory cleavage requirements for the episode as Brie and
Nate are walking and talking. Bree's family
has still not called her back. The new couple decide
it's time for a public date.

Steve (22:33):
Robin, when we were watching this, Robin, like,
got up for just a quick second and said something like, are
you asleep yet? And I realized I
actually completely zoned out on this
scene the first time I watched it, and
the second time I watched it, I realized that it really.
I didn't miss anything,

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that it was just more
boring Nate relationships stuff.
And so deep into the
episode, both times, they.

Leif (23:05):
They're.

Steve (23:05):
You can tell that they're like, oh, and we got to throw this Nate stuff
in here too, because it's so late in the
episode. It's not, it's not even in the exposition.
Nate has these two scenes that
are nearly pointless except
for breeze scene at the end.
It's just this pointless, boring

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Nate arc.

Leif (23:27):
Welcome to the next five season. Oh.

Steve (23:32):
Nate.

Leif (23:33):
Yep, yep, yep. Nate's
just kind of there. That sucks. Dating older
women. That's Cool.
At least he's over 18 now.

Steve (23:45):
Exactly.

Leif (23:45):
Yeah. Now.

Steve (23:46):
Now that it's. Now that it's a little more appropriate.
She's a master's student we established, right?

Leif (23:52):
Yes.

Steve (23:53):
yeah.

Leif (23:53):
Grad.

Steve (23:53):
Grad students. So could be a doctoral, you
know, could be beyond. But
it's within college. But they're within six to
eight years.

Leif (24:03):
Yeah. Outside the
auction house, Blair and Chuck bump into each other and quickly
realize they are both here for the same photo.

Steve (24:12):
Wow.
I. I liked this
conflict for. For the two of them. That it
is putting them in a
friendly competition
that doesn't compromise
the relationship quite like

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another person would.

Leif (24:34):
Yeah.

Steve (24:34):
That they need tension, they need fighting, they need
scheming. That's their foreplay.
So for them to both be going
after this same piece of art, I thought that was
really good.

Leif (24:46):
Vanessa invites Scott to her dorm room to elicit
a confession out of him. To his credit, Scott
comes clean and reveals the truth about being Rubus and
Lily's love child. Gossip Girl has this to
say. They say
honesty is the best policy. I hope
everyone's policies are paid up because we're on a collision

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course.

Steve (25:08):
A quick note about Scott. Scott. I looked
into Inspector pilot or Pilot
inspector. The only thing that I could find
is that it is Jason Lee's
head.

Leif (25:21):
I saw that.

Steve (25:22):
I, And I wonder if they're trying to say that he looks like Jason.
Like a young Jason Lee. Like he could be
Jason Lee's kid. But that is the only reference
I could find on it.

Leif (25:34):
Have you seen the recent pictures of.

Steve (25:36):
Him of r. No, I
haven't.

Leif (25:40):
He's one of those people that he. His face still
looks young, but, you know, he's got like,
receding hairline.

Steve (25:47):
I. Yeah,
he's got like a baby.

Leif (25:52):
Face with a receding hairline. So it creates a little
cognitive dissonance.

Steve (25:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. It's sort
of like I can see. There's a face
that I can see, but I can't
place the name of it.

Leif (26:08):
We move into Act 3.
Back from the break, Scott is explaining his story
to Vanessa. Vanessa reveals to Scott that his
parents lied to Lily and Rufus about him dying.
Scott begs Vanessa to wait a day or two more m. So he can
talk to his parents before revealing the truth to
Rufus.

Steve (26:26):
Asking for a day or two is reasonable.

Leif (26:29):
Yeah.

Steve (26:29):
Ah, that situation that he put her in
is not unreasonable. Give me a day or
two. I need to think this over and talk to my
mom and talk to my parents.

Leif (26:39):
Yeah, I want to find out why they lied.

Steve (26:41):
Yeah. Find out why they lied. They need to tell, and they need to know
before I go to Rupert. All of that
was fair.

Leif (26:48):
Yeah. Carter is trying to check out of
his hotel, but his card is being declined, and his.
He is being charged for room service he claims not never
to have ordered. Serena walks in on the scene and
offers to pay his tab. Carter is upset that
Serena clearly doesn't trust him.

Steve (27:05):
Again, felt like a setup. It.
It had Chuck Bass written all over
it. They.

Leif (27:11):
They kind of play their hand, too, right. In this next scene because
they are charged Bob's Dom.

Steve (27:17):
Yeah.

Leif (27:17):
and then Chuck shows up.

Steve (27:19):
Shows up with the bottle of Dom.

Leif (27:20):
Yeah. Chuck comes to Blair's dorm room with a
bottle and a proposition that they both skip the
auction and just bang one out.

Steve (27:28):
Sounds fair. Again, yeah, they both had other
ideas. Yeah, they. And again, like,
you know, Chuck is coming in here with
some kind of scheme, like he's up to something.

Leif (27:40):
Vanessa continues to be the worst when she invites
Dan to coffee to tell him that Scott is lying, but refuses
to tell the whole story. And after Vanessa leaves,
Georgina lends a friendly air and convinces Dan that they
should investigate Scott's identity.
Why tell him that he's lying
without explaining it?

Steve (27:58):
Yeah. Or without at, least. Yeah, first. Yeah.

Leif (28:01):
First of all, just don't say anything.

Steve (28:03):
Yeah. First of all, you've already said you're not going to tell this
secret, and then you tell the secret that leads to the
secret. You know, you tell the. The other big
secret to Daniel, and
now you don't even say, hey, I
can't tell you right now, but he'll tell you
in a couple days. You could easily just say,
look, there's another secret here, and it's not mine to tell,

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which happens a lot on this show. It is okay to
say to someone, I know a secret. It's not mine
to tell. You need to get it from this person.

Leif (28:34):
But the fact that she specifically called him to tell
him.

Steve (28:38):
Yes. She sets up a meeting with. With Dan to
be like, hey, I have a secret. Yeah, I have a secret. My
boyfriend's lying to me. He's not who he says he
is. That's it.

Leif (28:48):
And don't worry about it.

Steve (28:49):
Yeah, don't worry about it. It's all fine.

Leif (28:52):
No worse.

Steve (28:53):
Yeah.

Leif (28:53):
And then Georgina comes in and, Mrs. Dan.
Definitely time to investigate.

Steve (28:58):
Yes.

Leif (29:00):
Chuck and Blair are just about to get to the good stuff
when their phones keep simultaneously interrupting them. they
quickly learned that each of them was using sex to distract the
Other from the auction. While the respective representatives bid
on the photo, Laird dashes out of the room with
Chuck, shoes in hand.

Steve (29:16):
Dorota's opposition research isn't what it used
to. Used to be.
they were. Yeah, they were trying to find the. The
value of the painting and have their people doing the
research behind their backs. I loved it.

Leif (29:31):
Lots of these people stealing each other's shoes.

Steve (29:34):
Yeah.

Leif (29:34):
Shot. Getting the paces on medicine from last season.
Yes.

Steve (29:37):
Yeah. Indeed.

Leif (29:40):
Georgina's sleuthing skills, picked up in a past life
as a preteen spy, combined with Dan's
memory for random facts, allow the pair to track down
Scott's true name.

Steve (29:50):
Now you say sleuthing skills. I'm going to replace that
with stalking skills. We know
Georgina is a little
unhinged, and so it just kind of
really explained to me that side of her character
that, yes, I'm gonna go on and learn everything I possibly can
about these people. And that just really fit in line with
what I know.

Leif (30:11):
Well, presumably she just googled the three things Dan
told her. Scott, MVP and
Eagles.

Steve (30:17):
Lions.

Leif (30:18):
Lions.

Steve (30:18):
Lions. Yeah.
Yes. A soccer
team called the Lions. And then that bound
his championship team.
And when I said that, though I do, I would
like to think that. That the intention
was more showing that
Georgina is good at this,

(30:40):
has that kind of savvy
with searching and
stalking. Essentially.

Leif (30:48):
she would be a good partner for Dan.

Steve (30:51):
Yeah.

Leif (30:52):
It would be a powerful duo. Scott finds Vanessa
and tells her he had had it out with his parents. He also
asked her to be by his side when he goes to confess his
identity to Rufus.

Steve (31:02):
Cool. Cool. I'll be there for
you. Absolutely.

Leif (31:07):
Dan is able to connect Scott's name to the fan
mail he got last year, but doesn't put the whole truth
together. Dan leaves a voicemail for V but
invites Georgina to the auction to go find Vanessa. of
course, dad. Think it's all about him.

Steve (31:20):
Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah,
Obviously you like your stalker.

Leif (31:25):
That's pretty rock star.

Steve (31:29):
I, ah, published one essay and they're already
coming after me. It must be
about me. Yeah, and it's so funny because Dan, the guy
who's been ignored for two seasons, got one
little sniff of popularity.

Leif (31:43):
Of course, he does have that other stalker girl from
NYU recognized just five by his name.

Steve (31:48):
That is true.
Overhearing is
going to put you in the stalker vial.

Leif (31:59):
And gust girl has this to say as we go to act
break. Turns out
photographs won't be the only thing up for grabs
tonight. Priceless secret is on the Auction block.
And bidding begins. Now
we move into Act 4. Nate and Brie
arrive at the Sotheby's, and Nate pulls
Brie in for a dramatic kiss in front of the swarming

(32:21):
paparazzi.

Steve (32:22):
Great.

Leif (32:24):
They look pretty, though.

Steve (32:26):
One note about these
scenes that I really
like how they were shot. This whole outdoor
outside, them coming in from the limos.
Them coming in. I thought it was well shot
and well directed. just the way that
they were one after another kind of bringing them through. Some
of it felt like one shot. I don't know if it was one

(32:48):
shot, but some of it felt that kind
of one shot scene feeling that
really brought in a continuity.

Leif (32:57):
as boring as Nate's storyline is, at least he actually has one.
Unlike, you know, Jenny.

Steve (33:02):
This is just.

Leif (33:03):
And her familiar Eric.

Steve (33:04):
Yes.

Leif (33:07):
Her familiar. Her familiar Eric.
As she's, casting spells, she comes
in for one. One light just kind of follows along behind it.

Steve (33:16):
Yeah.

Leif (33:16):
And it says something else that has nothing
to do with anyone's talking about.

Steve (33:20):
No. Yeah. Oh, we can have Eric for
an episode.

Leif (33:24):
Cool.

Steve (33:24):
We'll just put him in here. Of course, the guy
Eric is just getting paid for
showing up.

Leif (33:32):
Vanessa and Scott holding hands with the next to arrive.
Vanessa checks her phone and sees three missed calls from
Dan, but chooses to ignore it. She instead stops
to give Scott some reassurance.

Steve (33:42):
Yeah, Vanessa knows what's going on, so doesn't have to
worry about Dan's phone calls that
she keeps ignoring.

Leif (33:50):
Blair steps out of her limo just as Serena is walking
up. Blair quickly catches her up on the.

Steve (33:55):
Quest for the photo and again starts to
show her hand to Serena by talking about
Carter.

Leif (34:01):
Yes. And of course, Chuck shows
up. And this is where Serena finally starts to figure things out.

Steve (34:07):
Right.

Leif (34:08):
Claire storms off. However, Chuck hangs back to give Serena
the exact same advice about Cara that she got from Blair.

Steve (34:13):
Momentarily, she's putting
it together. Yeah.

Leif (34:18):
Rupus has to go check on the auction schedule before
Scott can make his confession. To make matters worse, it looks
like Scott's adoptive mother has also shown up at the
auction drive from Boston.

Steve (34:29):
Right. Yeah, that was. She got there quick. I
also really. Rufus is like,
see you, buddy. On the arm,
like, hey, pal. I just, It was
the most, like, not
dad like thing.

Leif (34:46):
It was.

Steve (34:47):
It was how I would sort of like I would
a student that did a good job. I might give that
little arm bat. Well done.
Because it's too condescending to bat them on
the head.

Leif (35:00):
Blair and Chuck sit down together, preparing to go to war
over the photo. However, the two only
succeed in distracting each other, and Serena ends up winning
the photo.

Steve (35:10):
I love that. What, ah, I really
loved about it is the way they
distracted each other by telling each other
how great each other is. You
don't need some secret society to prove how great
you are. You're Chuck Bass. When do you need to buy
somebody's affection? Was it. When do you need
to buy your way into someone's good graces? You just go

(35:33):
in and take it. And so I really like
how they distracted each other by
loving each other so much. And I
thought that was really sweet.

Leif (35:44):
Scott's mother confesses her fear is what caused her
to lie to Lillian Rufus. But she is now here to
support Scott in whatever he chooses. Thank God
they got a good actress for her because she. She actually able to.
This is like the one time I actually cared about Scott. You
put on the screen.

Steve (36:00):
It's funny, I.

Leif (36:03):
She, She carried the scene.

Steve (36:04):
She did. And at the same time, I
didn't fully trust
her. Maybe it wasn't the first time watching, maybe it was
the second time. It kind of reminded me
of my. My.
My older sister was
adopted by my dad during his first

(36:24):
marriage, before he met my mom.
And when she was in her
20s, she wanted to find her biological
parents and
did the research, tracked them down, eventually found
them. And they were this couple that is still.
Was still together, but at the time, they just
were too young to have a kid. They weren't ready to raise a

(36:46):
kid. And, I remember my
dad lipping out
on my sister. My dad could not handle
her wanting to go
find these biological
parents that my sister had to keep
saying, you're my dad. You're. You're the one who
raised me. That doesn't change.

(37:09):
And after she got in touch with
them, she invited them to her wedding a
few years later. She had been in touch. And I
know that they didn't come to the reception. They left
early. And my dad had said something about
them not getting to be a big enough part of it, and they
were mad about it.
And it always kind of. It kind of made me reflect

(37:32):
on that in the sense that I felt that
there was a lack of sincerity in what she
was saying. When she said,
you're my son, I felt like
that was her really almost guilting
him into, you're my son, but
go do whatever you want. And I felt that that

(37:52):
was a way of putting in his
head that he
shouldn't be telling Rufus.
And again, like you
said, I thought she
carried that scene. I felt For Scott in that
scene. I didn't trust her in that scene.

Leif (38:11):
Well, she's always been shady.

Steve (38:12):
Exactly, exactly.

Leif (38:15):
So we shit on, the assistants a lot
this show. But I think this is the second time,
at least the second time that Vanya has given
up information. That's how she found them
at this auction. She says, I went to their building.
I knew their address, and the doorman told me.

Steve (38:32):
Oh, yeah, that's really funny.

Leif (38:36):
These writers just hassle. They get people to stand or sit behind
desks.

Steve (38:42):
Receptionists, doormen.
Yeah.

Leif (38:47):
Dan and Georgina arrive and meet up with Rufus to
tell him that Scott is Dan's fan from last
year and might be dangerous. Vanessa walks up and
says, he's not dangerous. And Scott comes up with his mom
and confesses with another lie about
being Rufus and Lily's dead son's brother.

Steve (39:05):
Why? That was so dumb. Why
are you lying about this? And again, I feel like
it was the mom being like, you are my son,
that it kind of put it in his head, oh, if I go do
that, then I'm someone else's son, and I can't do that to my
mom. I really kind of felt that
that was the manipulation.

Leif (39:25):
But we go into the break with,
sorry, Vanessa. Looks like the price of
truth was just too rich for Scott's
blood.

Steve (39:36):
Yeah.

Leif (39:37):
Act five begins, and Serena has it out
with Chuck and Blair over their scheme to destroy Carter's
credibility. However, through their confession, Serena
figures out that Carter used his last trip go looking
for her father and that Carter only came
back from when he found him. Marie seems
oddly interested when she overhears the conversation.

Steve (39:57):
Yeah, it was Serena's recognition
that Carter went off to find her
dad was really. I liked
it. I like this Carter Basin glow up.
So far, it's sincere. It seems
to be so far. I also like
that their scheme all caught up

(40:17):
the warrant for his arrest. Well, you just might want to take a
DNA sample down to
the police station tomorrow.

Leif (40:26):
Well, who did Chuck rape.

Steve (40:29):
To get? Carter
got him.

Leif (40:34):
I'm Carter Basin.

Steve (40:38):
In his Batman voice,
Scott is continuing.

Leif (40:42):
The charade with Rufus, who is overcome with emotion and
gives Scott a. Huh? Hug.

Steve (40:48):
Dad.

Leif (40:50):
Just the look on Scott's face of like, oh, it's
happening, it's happening. And the look on
Rufus's face, too.

Steve (40:57):
yeah. Yeah.

Leif (40:58):
Oh, my God.

Steve (40:59):
Yeah.

Leif (40:59):
My son. He would have loved me. Yeah, I'm a good
dad.

Steve (41:02):
I'm a good dad. It's like.
And you know Scott, he probably would have been a good dad
to you. Male Scott
Male son of, his.

Leif (41:13):
Who can play guitar.

Steve (41:14):
Who can play guitar, who's definitely
cooler than Dan.
And you kind of get the
sense, we get the sense that
the Rossens kind of suck.
Right. That they love
their kids. But you also kind of wonder,
like, what kind of affection is there in

(41:37):
that family? Has he ever had a hug from his
dad before? Because he didn't look like it.
He looked genuinely like.

Leif (41:47):
This is what a hug from a dad feels like.
Serena convinces Blair that she should give up the
photo for Chuck. Blair sets the invitation
for Tabla Italiter on a table, and
Serena examines it and quickly comes to another
realization.

Steve (42:03):
It's funny because when I, when I first watched
this, the first time we saw the invitation, I was like, I
recognize that handwriting. I, I, I
recognized it right away from season
one.

Leif (42:15):
Blair gives the photo to Chuck and, ah, they make up
and reaffirm their love to each other.
Gossip Girl pipes in with
an epitymore. Even when you win, what
you thought you wanted can suddenly be, be
afraid.

Steve (42:31):
Yeah. Again, I thought they were sweet, her giving
the painting to Chuck because she doesn't need
the club. Yeah.

Leif (42:40):
She does not know it's a setup yet.

Steve (42:42):
Yeah. Ah, does she find out in this
episode?

Leif (42:45):
they don't show that.

Steve (42:47):
Yeah. So.

Leif (42:48):
But this is what I was mentioning alluding to
earlier as setting something
up to me. This is a clear. The
writers are clearly flagging up. Lair is willing to
give up what she wants for Chuck.

Steve (43:02):
Yeah. And Chuck has not demonstrated.

Leif (43:04):
they can go kind of three ways
here. They can go,
you know, Chuck does give something up for Blair.
They can have Chuck not give
up something for Blair. Or they can have this
situation come up again and Blair this time cheating.

Steve (43:22):
So. Yeah.

Leif (43:24):
So I figured I feel like they're gonna have to go one at
three ways there.

Steve (43:27):
Yeah, yeah. That, that, that
tracks.

Leif (43:31):
And then Serena confronts Georgina about the
invitation. She would recognize that g
anywhere. Serena tells Gina it's time
to go.

Steve (43:41):
Yeah, that's going to go over well.

Leif (43:44):
Well, I mean, I like the side of Serena when Serena
is playing the game. She plays to win.

Steve (43:49):
You're right.

Leif (43:50):
She is.

Steve (43:51):
You're right.

Leif (43:51):
cold blooded. That.

Steve (43:52):
Yeah, she, you're absolutely right.

Leif (43:55):
And she does much more interesting. Serena.

Steve (43:57):
It is. Especially since Serena tries
so hard not to play most of the time
and, and spent her.

Leif (44:04):
She wants to think of herself as being a good person.

Steve (44:06):
Yes. And she spent the better part of
her last two years in high school trying to stay out
of the game until that one moment when she kind
of felt like force and took
took over his queen for about five
minutes and realized she didn't really want it.
But, yeah, she doesn't really play the game much. So now that

(44:26):
she's about to. That is going to be a nurse.

Leif (44:29):
Serena hurries Dan, Vanessa, and Rufus into the
town car so that Georgina is left out in
the cold.

Steve (44:37):
That was cold, Serena. And
it's so funny. Yeah, because she's such a bad
liar, too. Oh, no, no, Georgina is definitely not.

Leif (44:47):
She had a headache.

Steve (44:48):
Yeah, she had a headache. Yeah, that's the
ticket.

Leif (44:53):
And Gossip girl has this to say about it,
but it's the things we walk away from that feel like they cost
the most. And yet it's when we've been
outbid, forced to watch our prize go home
with others, that rules of protocol no longer
apply. I wouldn't put your paddles away just
yet. Who knows what Pitters will do when they. When

(45:14):
they're desperate. And we
move into the epilogue, Dan
is giving Georgina a gentle breakup call out of the close
supervision of Serena. Georgina tries to play
it off cool, but her face and her laptop wallpaper
tell a different story.

Steve (45:30):
Yeah, the, wallpaper in the background
is what was the most
noticeable. Yes.

Leif (45:39):
Serena and Dan have a quick conversation and
is revealed that Carter isn't returning any of Serena's
messages.

Steve (45:46):
Yeah, that tracks.

Leif (45:48):
It turns out the system from earlier is friends with
Georgina and helped g set up Chuck and Blair.
Chuck tells the club owner to thank his assistant when
the lease, of the Empire hotel isn't renewed.
Sounds like Chuck has bigger plans on his mind.

Steve (46:03):
Yep. Chuck figuring out this scheme and
then getting the best of it. I really liked Chuck getting
the best of her after she screwed him like that
and gave the guy the photo. Like, here. Here's this
photo, and it's so funny. Here's this
5,6000 dollar photo that
my friend paid for. Here you
go. And just walks out like you can have it.

(46:26):
And it was a power move.

Leif (46:28):
So, I understand the
photos of him with, like, celebrity and stuff on the wall,
but on the, like, not the desk. Like the
credenza. across from the desk, there's a portrait
of just the guy.

Steve (46:42):
Oh, wow, I didn't notice.

Leif (46:43):
Portrait of himself in their office.

Steve (46:47):
It takes a special kind.

Leif (46:51):
Scott returns to the dorm to say goodbye to
Vanessa. Vanessa reluctantly agrees to keep
Scott's secret. However, as the cower pans out, we
see Georgina listening from outside the door.

Steve (47:02):
So Georgina's gonna know the secret.

Leif (47:04):
always look around corners.

Steve (47:06):
Yes. Yeah.

Leif (47:07):
Or you're gonna talk about secrets.

Steve (47:09):
Also, earlier, when you said to
Vanessa, here's a big secret. Give me two
days. Fair saying. Here's a big
secret. Now keep it forever from your family,
because Rufus is more of a dad to
her than her dad. Yeah, we've known that for
years. You. The Humphreys
are more Vanessa's family. Do we know

(47:31):
Vanessa's last name?

Leif (47:33):
Abrams.

Steve (47:34):
Abrams. Right. We do, but we know more m. But
she's more a Humphrey than she is anything
else. So you're saying
keep this lie up for me
indefinitely while I leave
you and go back to Boston?
So you're not even continuing this
relationship, and you expect her to keep up with your

(47:56):
lie? No. That and, now puts Vanessa in a
really weird situation because how do you tell Ruiz,
hey, by the way, that's actually your
kid. He's lying. So
it's all. It's so so to do
to her. Yeah.

Leif (48:12):
Carter arrives at the penthouse and uses and
Serena uses her lips to lure him into staying for
breakfast. The family, minus Lily welcomes him
for grapes. I guess, Rip is getting a bit
bougie now that he's on the Upper east side.

Steve (48:25):
I've been noticing that. That more and more.
It's just. I mean, he was running the auction and
handling this auction and all of these things
that he would have been so
opposed to even attending a year ago.
He's just. Well, this is my new role.

Leif (48:41):
Yeah. Half husband.

Steve (48:43):
Yeah. Trad
husband.

Leif (48:47):
Chuck is outside the Empire hotel and tells Blair
that her faith in him allowed him the courage to risk his
father's fortune to buy the entire
hotel. Also, he, booked the penthouse so
they can bang out their
frustrations.

Steve (49:01):
Yeah. why you have
this hotel empire? Why do
you need to cash out all of your stuff when your
company that you own could just buy that hotel
and you could just make that your personal project. Why
go out on your own? Why sell all of your shares
in the company that you're running?

Leif (49:21):
I think you can't just buy a
hotel in Marathon. That's going to be billions of
dollars.

Steve (49:28):
I mean, but yeah.
Yeah, I guess I just thought it was a bit more.
You have hotels?

Leif (49:35):
Yeah, they have one hotel. Oh.

Steve (49:38):
I thought it was, like, a, Well, it's a real estate empire, which is why, I
guess I thought he had more hotels.

Leif (49:42):
Maybe, but probably not in Manhattan.
Okay, I'm guessing
the cost of a Manhattan hotel is probably at
least $10 billion.

Steve (49:53):
Okay. okay. that's fair.

Leif (49:56):
A happy Carter and Serena part on the street And
Carter is flagged down by Brie. It sounds like
Carter did something to piss off the Buckleys. And Brie is going to
use Carter's location as capital to get back in
with her family.

Steve (50:09):
Yeah.

Leif (50:10):
Nate. Once again being used by an older woman.

Steve (50:12):
Yeah. M. Yeah, exactly. And this
time as an afterthought.
Yeah. And why are we pitting two
side characters against each other? Why? They're not
even. Both of these people are
temporary.

Leif (50:27):
Like, both this
cliffhanger and the next one are both all
about side characters. Because we get this one. And then
the final scene is Georgina deletes Dan's wallpaper
and books. They trained for the Boston,
clearly. To go after Scott.

Steve (50:43):
Yeah. Yes.

Leif (50:44):
Two more side characters.

Steve (50:45):
Yeah.
Yeah.

Leif (50:49):
Why.

Steve (50:49):
Why are we doing this, Gossip Girl? Why are we.
Why are we making drama out of the people? We don't care. We're
not going to care about mid season.

Leif (50:57):
And she has this to say about it.
Anyone want to start the bidding war on what happens next?
Going once, going twice.
X.O.X.O. gossip Girl.
what's coming next?

Steve (51:10):
Georgina's gonna go play Scott.
Somehow Serena is going after
Georgina, which is going to be fun. Yeah.
I. I could not care less about the Carter
briefing. It's. It's an extension of the boring
Nate relationship that I already don't care about. And I'm
starting to get bored with the Serena Carter relationship.
Last week, when we read the max

(51:32):
description of Serena not liking what she
was seeing of Carter, I said last week, by
the end of that episode, she's going to see that she was an
asshole and that it was. That she was wrong about everything.
So I'm kind of already getting bored with.

Leif (51:47):
Yeah. Carter has kind of been declawed, as it were.

Steve (51:50):
Yes. Very much the. The Carter
of last season who kidnapped a girl in front of
Chuck. And now he's
just this sweet guy who will do
anything for Serena.

Leif (52:02):
Anything else?

Steve (52:04):
Vanessa has to deal with this secret. I
don't. I see Vanessa
sitting on it and stewing about it, but she
has no one to talk to about it, and
so that's gonna have to boil over somehow.
Who does Vanessa go to about it?
Did she. She go to Blair? Like, does

(52:25):
she go to
Georgina? But Georgina already
knows, so Vanessa is sitting on
this thing that has to boil over at some point,
too.

Leif (52:37):
Will Scott come back?

Steve (52:39):
I feel like he has to at some point. I feel
like Scott has to come back at some point.

Leif (52:44):
I feel like he.

Steve (52:47):
He's been set up to be another
Georgina esque character that he'll Pop in
not so much for the chaos, but for
the drama here and there. I feel like
Lily has to be involved. He hasn't met Lily
yet and that has to happen. So I'm, I'm
assuming Scott will be back.

Leif (53:06):
It would be pretty funny if Lily never meets him.

Steve (53:08):
Yeah. Just never knows Rufus like,
like season six is like oh yeah. By the way, did I ever tell
you about that time I met our son's brother? Like.

Leif (53:20):
All right, let's go ahead and get into some
segments this week in fan and we
jumped into the Wayback Machine division. 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.

Steve (53:39):
Speak Sherman. Hello.

Leif (53:41):
Good boy. Disappointing
episode. Something feels off.

Steve (53:45):
I felt not so much that I was
disappointed. I felt like it was a nothing
episode. I felt like other than the
Scott thing, nothing went anywhere.
The plot of this season did not
go any further. That didn't bother me.
It feels like a standalone episode that
doesn't really play into a greater arc which

(54:08):
I think is what felt
off. That everything just kind of
wrapped up. And these cliffhangers also.
Two, two cliffhangers that we don't really give a shit
about because it doesn't affect the non judging Breakfast Club
or Dan.

Leif (54:23):
It's apparently easier to get a guest storyline as a
guest star. Way too much focus on them. The main characters like
Jenny and Nate have almost zero screen time.

Steve (54:32):
Yeah, very weird.
That's a higher again the higher Eric
to pay him the money to be on set to just walk
next to Jenny. That was it.

Leif (54:43):
Chuck and Blair work as a couple but they are missing the
sexiness they had in season one. The audience was just
as frustrated as glare and Sarah said
I, I don't.

Steve (54:52):
Really know about that. I, I say that
because the whole point was that there was supposed to be
the, the tension in them not.

Leif (55:00):
But that's why I say the audience was just as frustrated.

Steve (55:03):
Yeah, yeah. Ah, that's fair.

Leif (55:04):
They wanted to see the sex.

Steve (55:05):
Yeah, yeah. I mean the Blair coming
on to Chuck was sexy when she, when
he was working on this stuff. I, I, yeah, I
mean I, I guess I kind of get what they're saying but I felt
like it didn't bother me. I thought that it was
a good storyline for what it was.

Leif (55:23):
Ed Westwick is hot but needs subtitles.

Steve (55:25):
Yeah, I always watch with subtitles, but
that's accurate. Where
is she?

Leif (55:32):
A lot of comments about the whispering this episode
based on the Poor fashion and styling. There was
speculation, that there was a reduced budget for season three.

Steve (55:42):
That I, that could make sense.

Leif (55:45):
Yeah. I mean, their highest rated
episode of the series was season two, episode
three, the Dark Knight. From there, it's pretty much a
said slow, steady decline all the way through
the next. And finally,
way too much Vanessa.

Steve (56:03):
I get that. At the same time,
I don't mind Vanessa when Vanessa makes sense.
I felt like everything Vanessa did in this
episode made sense for her to do.
She wasn't out of place. She was caught
in the someone, else's ski.
I wasn't upset with Vanessa.

Leif (56:22):
I was very annoyed with the Dan
meeting.

Steve (56:25):
The Dan meeting.

Leif (56:26):
Or she. She invites him to tell him she has a seat.

Steve (56:29):
Oh, that. Yes, yes. I was annoyed by
that. On a whole though, I wasn't put off
by Vanessa. That was
Vanessa. Why would you. Why would you do
this?

Leif (56:40):
And I did actually copy down one
rather, vitriolic statement. It
does contain a O.C. season 3 spoiler. So if you
don't want to hear that, Skip ahead about 30 seconds.
But user Fierce Plastic had this to
say. Kill off Vanessa. Ugh.
he did it with Marissa Cooper. He can do it with

(57:02):
Vanessa. Ache her self righteous ass,
get into the middle of a gunfight because she thought she
could save everyone. And then she gets shot.
Or at least make her interesting and have her start a downward
spiral with drugs and sex. And she
has a pro. She has to prostitute herself
or what have you. She will be. She

(57:22):
will at least be interesting. And then Blair saves
her and then Vanessa can never say anything bad
about anyone ever. I really hate
Vanessa.

Steve (57:31):
Damn. Hey,
get it out, buddy. Get it all out.

Leif (57:37):
That was from User Fierce Plastic. That is
it for this week in fandom though. So let's head over to
episode threes.
What do you got this week?

Steve (57:49):
I gave this episode a B
minus. I felt like
again, I felt like it was an out of place
episode. That it was sort of a nothing episode that
didn't really go anywhere. I liked the Chuck
and Blair stuff. I like that they schemed
against each other and came together lovingly in
the end. I like they were all. I

(58:11):
liked that there were so many schemes in this
that everyone was scheming
or being schemed in some way, shape or
form. I did think the
ending with Carter and Brie and
the ending with Scott and
Georgina. All of these again, the side
character things. I thought that was a lame way to

(58:33):
end it. But overall I didn't hate the
episode. But I don't Think it was a
great or good episode, so be minded.

Leif (58:42):
All. right. I feel pretty much the same, but you're a
little more generous to me. Like you said, this wasn't
a bad episode, but it wasn't
particularly a good episode, so I just went right down
the middle of this. We'll just see.

Steve (58:55):
That's fair. That. That is a fair grade
off the stock.

Leif (58:59):
Watch. Who you got going up?

Steve (59:01):
Okay.

Leif (59:02):
I had.

Steve (59:02):
I had Chuck going up. He. He's
got this big idea. He's got a.
And did great scheming throughout the episode.
Chuck. I, had Serena going up.
I had Carter going
up because he seemed to be landing
Serena again. I had
Vanessa going up because I

(59:25):
liked her doing the sleuthing. I
like that her role in the
episode made sense, and for that,
I gave her an up because I don't often give her
enough. I had. Yeah,
I didn't believe that's what I had.
Oh, yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Sorry.

Leif (59:44):
For me. I had Serena going up because
she was observant for once, and
she was a cold, hard bitch at the end. I had
Chuck going up because, he got a new
plan. It looks like he's gonna go for it.
I also had Brie going up because she got
to make out with Nate, and she looks like she's gonna be able to

(01:00:05):
get something to get back with her family.

Steve (01:00:06):
There's a fair one.

Leif (01:00:08):
And then this one might be a little controversial, but
I had Rufus going on. Even though he was a
doofus, he got what he needed.
He got that closure. It's funny. It's gonna blow up in his
face.

Steve (01:00:19):
Yeah, obviously it's funny because,
yeah, he.

Leif (01:00:24):
Was happy all episode, pretty much.

Steve (01:00:26):
He really was.

Leif (01:00:30):
That's it. who do you got going down?

Steve (01:00:31):
So I. I had Rufus going down, and I had
him going down simply because he got
played so hard that I
had Scott told him the truth. I would have had
Rufus going up, but because
RUP is kind of, in a sense, his
just lost his son again.
I. I felt for him, but, yeah, I had

(01:00:54):
Rufus going down for that. I had Blair going
down. She lost the scheme, and
she gave the painting to Chuck. She.
She lost. So I had her going down.
I had Georgina going down because she
just got dumped. and I
believe that's everybody I had going there.

Leif (01:01:13):
All right, for me, I had Dan
because he was narcissistic, and
then he got yanked around by Vanessa, yanked around by
Georgina, and, yeah, he didn't have a good
episode. Blair going down because. Yeah, like, you Said she's
now showing that she's once again being
subservient to Chuck. I had Georgina going
down because she got bulldozed by Serena

(01:01:35):
Carteride. Going down because you lost
all credibility and his credit got with
and so he's not.

Steve (01:01:43):
That's fair.

Leif (01:01:44):
And Scott, I, Going down because he's a lying piece of
shit.

Steve (01:01:48):
Add Scott to mind. I forgot Scott. I knew there was
someone else forgetting.

Leif (01:01:52):
I also had Sean McPherson going down because he's about to lose
his club. And the assistant because she's probably
fired immediately.

Steve (01:01:59):
Yeah, those are also both there. I would
actually like to add the assistant. I won't add Sean McGeerson, but I'll add
his assistant. But here's the best
outfits from the last episode
we've seen.

Leif (01:02:14):
On over at the best outfits. Who you got?

Steve (01:02:17):
I had Georgina's, The.
Which. The. The purple that she wore to the,
To the auction.

Leif (01:02:24):
I thought it was more of a turquoise.

Steve (01:02:26):
Was it?

Leif (01:02:26):
That's confusing.

Steve (01:02:28):
Oh, I think Georgina's dress at the.
At the auction was the thing that.

Leif (01:02:32):
I actually had the same thing. Oh,
yeah, it was a Foley and Karena
asymmetrical zigzag jersey dress.

Steve (01:02:41):
Nice. Yeah, I. Yeah, I thought it really
popped. I don't know why I was thinking purple. I think she was in
purple some at a different time.

Leif (01:02:47):
But yeah, Claire had purple on.

Steve (01:02:50):
Okay. But I remember it was Georgina
that really caught my eye.

Leif (01:02:55):
And that is it for segments. You
got anything to plug this week?

Steve (01:03:00):
right now, just my TikTok and
Instagram. Steve Marshon M
A R C H I O N. You can also find me on
Blue sky at the Weed Wizard.
That's pretty much what I have going on right now.
No gigs or shows coming up. I've
been really into the show Mythic
Quest though on Apple tv.

(01:03:23):
It's summer. The Always Sunny
guys developed it and it stars Rob
McElhenny as the
creative director of a video of
an MMO. And, it's a very fun
show.

Leif (01:03:39):
Well, nothing for me this week, but if you want
to follow me on social Media, I am
HotCappicola. H O T C A
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Instagram and Blue Sky. You can follow
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Pod on instagram threads and
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(01:04:01):
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Leif (01:04:54):
And we will be back next week to talk about
Season three, Episode four
Dan de Florets.
The Max episode description reads
it's the first day of school at Constance Pillard,
which means it's also time for Jenny to take her,
rightful place as the new queen
bee.

Steve (01:05:16):
It's funny that the episode's named after Dan, but then
Max is like, that's not really what this is
about. But I'm excited to see Jenny back in
action too, so that's fun.

Leif (01:05:27):
Well, Dan's single again, so maybe you get the new girlfriend.

Steve (01:05:30):
Yeah, maybe. Well, yeah, maybe someone,
stalking Dan is going to, wind up with
it.

Leif (01:05:36):
He is the king of NYU after all.

Steve (01:05:38):
Yeah, he's very popular.

Leif (01:05:41):
Well, until next time. You know you love
us.

Steve (01:05:44):
XOXO Every time you walk away
run away you take a piece of me with you
there Every time you walk
away run m away you take a piece of me
with you there Every
time you walk away run away you take a piece of of
me with you there

(01:06:05):
oh it seems I'm walking right to
your door.
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 run away you take a

(01:06:27):
piece of me walk away 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.

Leif (01:06:50):
I.

Steve (01:06:50):
Left last night and it feels like way
too long
are you ever gonna see everything you mean
to me I'm trying really hard to believe
every time you walk away run away you take a
piece of meat with you there

(01:07:12):
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with? With you there?
Come back to me,
smile and you'll make my life
complete?

(01:07:35):
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? Take a

(01:07:57):

Leif (01:08:12):
Hm?

Steve (01:08:13):
piece of me with you there.

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