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Gossip Girl S2E03 - The Dark Night
Episode 32nd September 2024 • Non Judging Breakfast Pod • Mithril Chain Network
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In this episode of the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve discuss Season 2, Episode 3 of Gossip Girl titled 'The Dark Night'. They analyze the various storylines, including Dan and Serena's struggling relationship, Nate's complicated situation with Catherine and Vanessa, and Blair's manipulative actions. They also discuss the cameo appearance of Penn Badgley in a Ariana Grande music video and the behind-the-scenes gossip of the show. In this episode, Blair attempts to seduce Marcus, but Chuck overhears. Vanessa confronts Catherine about her involvement with Nate. Chuck and Blair get steamy in the dark, and Jenny opens up to Eleanor about her insecurities. Dan and Serena finally admit that their issues prevent them from being a couple. Nate finds out about Catherine's blackmail and Vanessa encourages him to be with her. The power comes back on, and Blair admits to Marcus that she knew it was Chuck all along. Marcus's manhood is challenged, and he kisses Blair in front of everyone. Dan and Vanessa commiserate over their failed relationships.

Keywords

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode 3, The Dark Knight, relationships, manipulation, cameo appearance, behind-the-scenes gossip, Gossip Girl, seduction, confrontation, steamy, insecurities, admission, blackmail, power outage, manhood, commiseration

Takeaways

  • The episode showcases the complicated relationships and manipulative actions of the characters.
  • The hosts discuss the cameo appearance of Ariana Grande in a music video and share behind-the-scenes gossip of the show.
  • They give a positive review of the episode and highlight the strong chemistry between certain characters.
  • The episode sets up future storylines and leaves viewers wanting more. Blair's attempt to seduce Marcus backfires when Chuck overhears
  • Vanessa confronts Catherine about her involvement with Nate
  • Chuck and Blair's steamy encounter in the dark
  • Jenny opens up to Eleanor about her insecurities
  • Dan and Serena finally admit that their issues prevent them from being a couple
  • Nate learns about Catherine's blackmail and Vanessa encourages him to be with her
  • Blair admits to Marcus that she knew it was Chuck all along
  • Chuck's manhood is challenged and he kisses Blair in front of everyone
  • Dan and Vanessa commiserate over their failed relationships

Sound Bites

  • "Dressing him up like a boy toy, like a fucking Ken doll. So gross."
  • "Dan and Serena are stuck in an elevator. Dan uses the emergency phone and is pretty much told to just hang tight."
  • "Nate confronts Blair, who doesn't deny helping Catherine to set him and Vanessa up."
  • "Vanessa was great in this. Vanessa was just understanding and loving and caring and was just a very empathetic person in this episode."
  • "Blair is waiting in her room when Chuck enters and imitates Marcus' accent, telling Blair to blow out her candle. Chuck and Blair begin to get steamy in the dark."
  • "Jenny returns the favor by opening up to Eleanor. She talks about how one of Eleanor's dresses inspired Jenny to take up fashion in the first place."

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Recap

03:02 Cameo Appearance and Behind-the-Scenes Gossip

06:28 Review of Season 2, Episode 3

11:16 Complicated Relationships and Manipulation

18:34 Positive Review and Strong Chemistry

23:53 Setting Up Future Storylines

35:15 Blair's Seduction Gone Wrong

36:14 Steamy Encounter in the Dark

38:06 Jenny's Insecurities

39:04 Admission of Relationship Issues

40:59 Nate's Blackmail Revelation

42:24 Chuck's Manhood Challenge

42:52 Confronting Catherine

44:19 Goodbye Dan and Serena

45:18 Chuck's Declaration of Love

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Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

The Gossip Girl Theme Performed By Steve Marchion.

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Transcripts

Leif:

Now captain is dressing Nate like he is her son.

Leif:

Last week I wondered whether this relationship could get any worse. This

Leif:

week's writer, John Stevens says, hold my beer.

Steve:

Hold his fucking beer.

Steve:

Dressing him up like a, boy

Steve:

toy. Like a, fucking head doll.

Leif:

So gross.

Steve:

Oh my God.

Leif:

Hey, Upper East siders and all you scandal loving listeners out

Leif:

there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

Leif:

pod where the coffee is strong, the waffles

Leif:

are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than ever.

Leif:

My name is Leif and I'm your seasoned gossip girl

Leif:

veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, your newbie, your

Steve:

greenhorn. You're, I don't know, Leif. What do we call

Steve:

the season two gossip girl newbies?

Leif:

I'm not really sure, but can you tell the difference between

Leif:

an american actor faking a british accent and a british

Leif:

actor playing an american faking a british accent?

Steve:

As a matter of fact, I can pick up on

Steve:

it here and there and I will. And I actually have quite a bit to

Steve:

say on that. I have quite a bit

Steve:

to say on that.

Leif:

Okay, let's go.

Steve:

So here's the deal, folks. Leap has been a fan of

Steve:

Gossip Girl since the beginning and I'm watching for the very

Steve:

first time. And together we're your dynamic duo, bringing

Steve:

you all the drama, romance, and

Steve:

sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

Steve:

iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

That's right. Each week we're going to take a deep dive into the

Leif:

series one episode at a time. We're going to analyze all

Leif:

the obscure references, parallels, and

Leif:

of course the couture catastrophes. We're also going to talk

Leif:

about behind the scenes gossip and fandom stories

Leif:

along the way.

Steve:

And since we're all about inclusivity here at, ah, the

Steve:

non judging breakfast podesthe, there's always room for

Steve:

you at the non judging breakfast table. So go ahead

Steve:

and grab your mimosa, a cup of coffee, or

Steve:

some of Chuck and Nate's special medicine if it's that kind

Steve:

of morning. And let's go ahead and get right into

Steve:

this episode first.

Leif:

actually, we got a little cast news to talk about.

Leif:

Won't be exactly news by the time you guys are listening to

Leif:

this, but it was just a couple days ago that the

Leif:

new Ariana Grande video came out of

Leif:

featuring our own and Badgley.

Steve:

I didn't actually realize how new

Steve:

that was. You had mentioned it to me just today.

Leif:

Yeah, they came out four days ago as of this recording. Oh,

Leif:

okay, so it's a sort of COVID but

Leif:

not a cover of the boy is mine by Monica and

Leif:

Brandi, who are in the video as well. And

Leif:

it's, I like, the music's not exactly

Leif:

for me, but I did enjoy the video

Leif:

because it was, you know, kind of a throwback. It told a

Leif:

whole story and went through, like, all

Leif:

scenario.

Steve:

It really reminded me of the old MTV days

Steve:

where, where you would have, like a bit

Steve:

of a movie that goes along with

Steve:

the video. You, you saw it, like, with a lot of Michael

Steve:

Jackson videos and a lot of the hip hop videos,

Steve:

especially, like, even with, like, the break in the middle, that

Steve:

was no music and just a cut scene.

Steve:

Yeah, it really reminded me of some

Steve:

classic MTV when, when

Steve:

artists were really starting to try to play

Steve:

with the format and, yeah, like you said, the

Steve:

song wasn't really, the song wasn't for

Steve:

me. You know, it's, I

Steve:

wish no shade towards Ariana Grande.

Steve:

my niece is a huge fan.

Leif:

We don't, we don't, we don't want to be killed by the grande fans.

Leif:

And she got a great voice. But I had to bet I did

Leif:

go back and watch the other, the Monica and

Leif:

brandy version again, and

Leif:

it just. Not necessarily them, but

Leif:

the, the beat just had a little more junk in the trunk.

Steve:

Yeah. And that song also is one. It's going to take me

Steve:

back, you know, it's always going to put me back in

Steve:

college and, and I, it's always going to take me

Steve:

back there. And whereas this song that I heard for

Steve:

the. And I also have to be completely fair and

Steve:

say it is rare for a song, the first time

Steve:

I hear it, for me to be like, that's, that's

Steve:

something I love. But, yeah, no shade

Steve:

towards Ariana Grandpa. And the video

Steve:

was fun. Yeah, I had a lot of

Steve:

fun with that video.

Leif:

You know, after listening to the Monica brandy one

Leif:

again, I was like, yeah, that is a thick beat.

Leif:

And so I had to go down a little rabbit hole.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So it was actually produced by Dallas

Leif:

Austin, who has worked with, who's who

Leif:

of the music business. Yeah. Lionel Richie,

Leif:

Madonna, MJ,

Leif:

TLC, Duran Durang, West Stefani,

Leif:

Pink, George Clint and George

Leif:

Michael.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

So admit many others. So,

Leif:

yeah, he did what he was doing.

Steve:

It's, it's also interesting that

Steve:

this video was, came

Steve:

out right before we are

Steve:

shooting this particular episode because

Steve:

it did have all of the Batman,

Steve:

themed.

Steve:

You know, no Batman, but it was a

Steve:

very Gotham themed. Yeah.

Leif:

So definitely a catwoman.

Steve:

Yeah, definitely a catwoman.

Leif:

Was Penn playing

Leif:

Christopher Walken's character from,

Leif:

bat Mary terence.

Steve:

Oh, I mean, I just.

Steve:

Oh, maybe I was seeing it more

Steve:

as the more recent, like.

Steve:

Yeah, but maybe.

Leif:

Maybe I kind of felt he was

Leif:

channeling that kind of character.

Steve:

I see it now that you mention it.

Leif:

So enough, about Ariana Grande,

Leif:

the lovely woman she is. Happy 30th

Leif:

birthday. But we are here to talk about Gossip

Leif:

Girl, and we're.

Steve:

Indeed.

Leif:

Yeah, we're going to talk about season two, episode three. Yeah, the

Leif:

Dark Knight.

Steve:

The Dark Knight. A reference I definitely

Steve:

get.

Leif:

it's the Christopher Nolan's Batman movie, the second in his trilogy.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. And also just, you

Steve:

know, at which this would have been around that time,

Steve:

but also the dark knight just being a

Steve:

Batman reference. anyway, I have

Steve:

a tattoo of Gotham.

Leif:

The original air date was September 15,

Leif:

2008, and the

Leif:

tv.com episode description reads,

Leif:

serena and Dan are trapped in an elevator during

Leif:

citywide blackouthenne making them work out their

Leif:

differences. Marcus and Blair have problems of

Leif:

their own, which is passion. While Chuck problem is

Leif:

having no passion with women other than Blair.

Leif:

Nate struggles with his feelings for Vanessa and Katherine.

Steve:

Yeah, I don't think he

Steve:

really does, but I don't think it's that he's struggling

Steve:

with his feelings. I think he's

Steve:

struggling with a situation.

Leif:

As, the episode was written by John

Leif:

Stevens. This is his first episode of Gossip

Leif:

Girl. Also, has written for Gilmore

Leif:

Girls, the OC, Gotham, and

Leif:

Pennyworth.

Steve:

Yeah. I actually have been meaning to watch Pennyworth

Steve:

just because I like the concept of it.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Have, you seen it?

Leif:

No. Janice Cook is back. She

Leif:

previously directed all about my brother in season one, which

Leif:

we both gave a b minus.

Steve:

Yeah, that was. That was when Georgina

Steve:

outed Eric.

Leif:

Right. And Ashere and all

Leif:

that.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jenny's party.

Steve:

Yeah. Not a terrible episode, but also

Steve:

not. Yeah, I mean, b minus episode.

Leif:

I thought this was definitely a big improvement from the last

Leif:

few weeks.

Steve:

Yes. Oh, yeah. From the m. From the last

Steve:

two weeks. Yes. Over season one. No, but,

Steve:

like.

Leif:

Yeah, this. This episode, I think,

Leif:

could have fit just as well.

Leif:

Many episodes in season one.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. I I. Like, I thought this was the first

Steve:

one that felt like they were.

Steve:

It felt like they were trying again.

Leif:

So I was thinking about it today after I rewatched

Leif:

it in season one of the

Leif:

OC. They had this whole mini season

Leif:

before, like. Cause they. They ran seven episodes

Leif:

in this during the summer, right?

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

And then. And then they came. They came back, like, two, like a month and a

Leif:

half later.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

For the rest of the season.

Leif:

And that was. It was like a whole mini arc before they got to school.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And it's like, a lot happened in that arc.

Steve:

I remember this. I remember.

Leif:

I kind of feel like they're trying to recreate that with the

Leif:

Hamptons, but it was just too short. It was only two

Leif:

episodes. So, like, you had dance Serena get

Leif:

together and break up, like.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

Like, there's, like, all these mini arcs that.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Over two episodes.

Steve:

Yeah. And. Yeah.

Leif:

It just didn't work right.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

And now they're back to the city, and I.

Leif:

Yeah, I will talk about the grade when we get there, but, yeah, I definitely thought

Leif:

this episode was better.

Steve:

I agree that I liked this episode.

Leif:

Yeah. The heat wave was funny. You know, those days in the city

Leif:

are all those.

Steve:

Oh, yeah.

Leif:

The dog days of summer.

Steve:

The makeup. Kudos to the makeup department.

Steve:

And maybe they were just out in the city sweating it up

Steve:

like that. But the way that they had, like,

Steve:

that, that you. You looked at them, and it's

Steve:

like they were glistening. Like they were out

Steve:

in this city in the summer.

Steve:

Yeah. I really thought.

Leif:

I thought it was always in specific

Leif:

areas that they were glistening. I

Leif:

mean, sweat gathers, and it was

Leif:

cheeks and boobs. And I thought to

Leif:

myself, someone had the job that week of making

Leif:

sure Serena's tits were always glistening.

Steve:

the. Where I really noticed at first, though, was

Steve:

Dan's neck was the back of his neck.

Steve:

But the. The close ups were definitely,

Steve:

like. I mean, you know, moisture

Steve:

gathers in

Steve:

crevices. Right. That's the most.

Steve:

That's the most disgusting thing I've said on this show, I think,

Steve:

but, yeah.

Leif:

Like, because, you know, shooting for an episode usually lasts,

Leif:

like, ten days or so.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So someone for those ten days had the job of

Leif:

making sure that she was glistening. Jessica and Blake were

Leif:

glistening at all times.

Steve:

Yeah. the other time I noticed it, though,

Steve:

was Blair. When she comes in

Steve:

from outside and she's trying to. She's trying to hit

Steve:

that, and I also noticed

Steve:

it. I just really thought that stood out to

Steve:

me. Yeah. I felt the heat in that

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

So moving into act one

Leif:

in the last hazy days of summer, a few simple

Leif:

tips to beat the heat. One, drink plenty

Leif:

of fluids. Two, stay out of the sun.

Leif:

Three, limit all physical activity.

Leif:

That is, within reason. Gossip girl

Leif:

narrates a montage. Chuck is drinking

Leif:

alone, Jenny is running errands, and Dan and

Leif:

Serena are making out.

Steve:

Yep. Yeah. I mean, that sums it

Steve:

up.

Leif:

Blair is trying to get busy with Marcus, but the

Leif:

old limey doesn't have what it takes to come out

Leif:

and.

Steve:

Play Robin right off the bat

Steve:

with this one to end it with the forehead

Steve:

kiss. Like, to have this really sweet, like, you know, you're

Steve:

more to me than that, and I don't want to rush things, and I want to think

Steve:

of you as this delicate flower, which also is kind of,

Steve:

but like, to go through all of that, but then

Steve:

to end it with the creepy forehead kiss

Steve:

from this, you know, 32 year

Steve:

old. Yeah.

Leif:

We see Jenny struggling under all the stuff she is

Leif:

carrying while talking on the phone with Vanessa. They

Leif:

are discussing whether Vanessa should call Nate or not.

Steve:

I love Jenny's advice here. I love

Steve:

how she's just like, will it. Will it

Steve:

sound creepy?

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah, it will. It will you. Yes.

Steve:

But that's what you do. Like, you're. You're fucking Vanessa.

Steve:

Go be Vanessa and stop being this. And I

Steve:

thought that was great.

Leif:

Now Katherine is dressing Nate like he is her son.

Leif:

Last week, I wondered whether this relationship getting worse.

Leif:

This week's writer, John Stevens, says, hold my beer.

Steve:

Hold his fucking beer.

Steve:

Dressing him up like a, boy

Steve:

toy. Like a, fucking head doll.

Leif:

So gross.

Steve:

Oh, my God. And, yeah.

Steve:

Oh, my. And. And it's funny because, like, when I mentioned that to

Steve:

Robin, her first response was like, oh, well, you

Steve:

know, well, she's dressing him the way that she wants him to

Steve:

look for, like, the man she wants. But I was

Steve:

also like, but she's taking him shopping the

Steve:

way a, mom takes their kids shopping for the first

Steve:

day of school to do it. Like, it was

Steve:

so gross. Weird.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate gets a call from Vanessa and makes plans to hang

Leif:

out with her. Sure this will go great.

Steve:

Yeah, we've. We've seen Nate lie

Steve:

before and kind of

Steve:

drown in his lies before,

Steve:

and this time he turns around. Like,

Steve:

you can tell. It's like that disdain that he actually has

Steve:

is building for Catherine or already has, where he just turns like, oh,

Steve:

it's my mom. Doesn't blink an eye,

Steve:

doesn't have any hesitation, and

Steve:

just lies straight out and

Steve:

is just cool with it.

Leif:

And, well, in this case, I don't blame him.

Steve:

No, not at all. Not at all. It's just

Steve:

that he never thinks through his lies. And this

Steve:

one was like he didn't need to, but, like,

Steve:

no hesitation.

Leif:

Dan and Serena are walking down the street and discussing

Leif:

announcing their relationship status. However, it looks

Leif:

like their secret is going to get out as a random

Leif:

person snaps a photo of the pair kissing on the

Leif:

sidewalk.

Steve:

Yeah, I'll start now by saying

Steve:

that this whole Dan and

Steve:

Serena episode annoyed the

Steve:

shit out of me. Like. Like, all of it.

Steve:

And. And it started here, where it's

Steve:

like, Serena lives in the fucking spotlight.

Steve:

She. She has. The reason you know

Steve:

her is because you saw her at a party and

Steve:

recognized her out of everybody else because she's always in the

Steve:

fucking spotlight. And you've been watching her in the spotlight

Steve:

creepily for a year.

Leif:

That was before Gossip Girl.

Steve:

Yeah. I I'm. But I'm saying.

Leif:

Well, but that was before the entity of Gossip

Leif:

Girl.

Steve:

When was the entity of Gossip girl?

Leif:

Pretty soon after that.

Steve:

Interesting. But my point still being that,

Steve:

like, prior to this relationship,

Steve:

Serena had lived a very public life.

Steve:

Yeah. And. And that's how he knew

Steve:

so much about her to begin with. Like, he had

Steve:

doeb because.

Leif:

But apparently he did not know anything about her.

Steve:

Yeah. I guess it's the

Steve:

whole thing with.

Leif:

The relationship is he put her on a pedestal, and then

Leif:

once when he got to actually know her, he realized

Leif:

he really.

Steve:

She was a human fucking be.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And. And a human being that is. That. That

Steve:

has mean, you know,

Steve:

means well beyond

Steve:

his. And. Yeah, I

Steve:

was with the one girl.

Leif:

Another week, and we get another cameo. This time it's

Leif:

former America's Next Top model contestant and

Leif:

Mark Lee. Chuck is walking her out of the

Leif:

penthouse and promises to call her later when he's feeling

Leif:

better. Chuck gets the blast about DNS

Leif:

kissing.

Steve:

But it's like, why is Chuck irritated by this? Like, what?

Steve:

What? Chuck seems irritated by the.

Steve:

By the gossip girl blast, but, like, what stake do

Steve:

you have in dan and Serena?

Leif:

Oh, he just doesn't like Dan.

Steve:

Yeah, but, like, it was. I.

Steve:

Like, I felt like the jenny and blair reactions

Steve:

made more sense. I thought Chuck. It's like, what does Chuck

Steve:

care? Nate. I think nate could have cared, but

Steve:

he.

Leif:

Well, he just cares about serena, and he thinks that Dan's bad

Leif:

for. Yeah,

Leif:

that's what the show's trying to tell you, is chuck cares

Leif:

about serena as a sister, and he thinks this is the

Leif:

wrong decision.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Which it is.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

As we find out.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Maybe, that's what the show is trying

Leif:

to.

Steve:

I know. Yeah. I'm just.

Leif:

Blair also gets the blast and is.

Steve:

Disgusted, and that made sense to me,

Steve:

especially when she explains herself later

Steve:

on. I love the best friend. Tough love later

Steve:

on.

Leif:

Yeah. She had good advice.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jay runs back into the loft to hug and congratulate

Leif:

Dan. Rufus asks Dan if he worked out his issues

Leif:

with Serena yet, and Dan.

Steve:

Lies that he has, and Rufus seems

Steve:

to see through that, too. Yeah, Rufus can tell.

Steve:

Like, oh, yeah, great son.

Leif:

yeah, he does his son, likes to avoid those conversations.

Leif:

Vanessa and Nate are being cute walking down the

Leif:

street. However, Catherine is spying from her limo.

Steve:

Yeah, venates. they're cute.

Steve:

I just coined that one. I don't know if someone else did.

Steve:

One eight, sir.

Steve:

Yeah, I think.

Leif:

I think their official ship name is Natesa.

Steve:

Natesa.

Leif:

Let's see.

Steve:

See, like. But, like, she is

Steve:

already, like, bossy of his time. And, like,

Steve:

you know, like, oh, you have family stuff again.

Steve:

It's like, I do have family stuff.

Leif:

This. This is, like, now Lex Luthor status, though.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Hailing in the limo.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ.

Leif:

Blair and serena, are prepping for the party. They

Leif:

discuss eleanor meeting Marcus for the first time.

Leif:

Serena tries to get blair to ask serena about

Leif:

serena and dan getting back together. Blair finally

Leif:

relents and asks serena the same question. Ruth as dan,

Leif:

serena is a little more honest.

Steve:

Yeah, a ah.

Leif:

Little more.

Steve:

Yeah. And like I said, blair's response.

Steve:

Okay, you guys talk through all of your stuff, and if you're

Steve:

still happy, then I will be happy for

Steve:

you. And fair.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair gets a call from katherine asking

Leif:

about who nate was with. These. These

Leif:

ladies are scheming.

Steve:

She lives in

Steve:

brooklyn. The way

Steve:

she says, that is so

Steve:

great.

Leif:

Nate comes over to the penthouse to. And finds

Leif:

Chuck in a robe, smoking a joint. Nate

Leif:

changed his mind about Chuck's money, but it's too late. Chuck

Leif:

has reinvested. Chuck once again

Leif:

mentions some kind of ailment. Whatever it is,

Leif:

japanese takeout seems to be the cure.

Steve:

Yeah, I, called right then and

Steve:

there. I was like, chuck can't get enough.

Steve:

I like when he. Yeah, like,

Steve:

Chuck can't get it up.

Leif:

Oh. Back at

Leif:

the atelier, Jenny is busting her butt trying to get

Leif:

ahead in the fashion world. Jenny notices something off

Leif:

about the dress she is fitting to the model, but Laurel

Leif:

just slaps her down. Lie away, little

Leif:

J. Lie away?

Steve:

Yeah, right here. This scene. You

Steve:

see the plotline of this

Steve:

play out? You know, it. It is

Steve:

a very obvious take. I end up

Steve:

liking it a lot.

Leif:

Anyway, cliches are cliche for a reason.

Steve:

Yeah, well, I was having this conversation earlier.

Steve:

They're familiar, and they feel good.

Steve:

And the. But, like, Laurel

Steve:

is such an asshole.

Steve:

Yeah, like, all the time. And I was like, jenny,

Steve:

like, lil J, you chose this.

Steve:

This was your decision. You were like, oh, I could

Steve:

go work for the cameo from

Steve:

two weeks ago, but no, I'm going to choose to work

Steve:

under these conditions instead. And Laurel

Steve:

didn't change at all. She's like, oh,

Steve:

thank you for staying. Now know your fucking place.

Leif:

Dan and Serena are walking in the park, but Serena gets a

Leif:

call. Dan is taken to task by a trio of middle

Leif:

school girls dressed in PW uniforms.

Leif:

This scene was Joshua absolutely reading the

Leif:

message boards and turning those posts into dialogue on the

Leif:

show, and Dan and Serena are still avoiding the real

Leif:

conversation.

Steve:

I loved it. I absolutely.

Steve:

I loved it. I loved these little junior

Steve:

Upper east siders. And honestly, if Josh

Steve:

Schwartz wants to throw in the forum

Steve:

comments into his show

Steve:

regularly by throwing those girls

Steve:

in, I am here for it. I

Steve:

am totally here for it. I loved

Steve:

it.

Leif:

It was.

Steve:

I was also with. When they're like, we're

Steve:

all on your side, it's, like, not me. And I

Steve:

was like, yeah, little girl. Cause, like, he's a

Steve:

fucking dumbass.

Leif:

But it's kind of interesting. Who was on his side?

Steve:

The little girl that looked like. That looked like the

Steve:

blair? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Was she? I

Steve:

thought she had, like, blue eyes, but she had the headband.

Leif:

Yeah, she had the head.

Steve:

She had the headband. Yep. I've come to

Steve:

realize the headband. The

Steve:

significance of the headband now.

Leif:

That's why I said they were there. BW uniforms.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah, the Blair waldroph uniform. Nate and

Leif:

Vanessa are about to kiss, but are interrupted by multiple texts from

Leif:

Katherine. Blair walks in flowers and

Leif:

sunshine. However, Nate and Vanessa see through Blair

Leif:

immediately. When Vanessa walks away, Blair easily

Leif:

maneuvers Nate into bringing Vanessa to the party. Classic

Leif:

divide and conquer. Nathan, you are

Leif:

the weakest leak.

Steve:

It was. I loved this scene. I

Steve:

loved how they were both like, wait, you came down here

Steve:

to invite me to a party? Like, how they both saw through it,

Steve:

but I loved how when Vanessa walks away and

Steve:

Nate, And they start, like, whisper

Steve:

arguing, and he's like, and what? Your plan is to

Steve:

distract me with Vanessa? Yes. Well, that just

Steve:

seems really nice for one of your plans. Hey,

Steve:

let's. What is she? And she says, don't be offensive.

Steve:

As far as your plans go, it's kind of nice.

Steve:

Don't be offensive.

Leif:

Yeah, that's pretty good. I waited to get it. look at a little shot

Leif:

of vitamin water.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Blair calls Katherine to let her know that the plan

Leif:

is on, but her bedroom floor is off limits.

Leif:

Blair, does that mean she's free to fucking your bed?

Steve:

Yeah. And Blair, would it. Would it.

Leif:

Why would you say my. My room is off limits?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Why is it just the floor?

Steve:

You also have, like, a couch in there. Yeah, I'm pretty

Steve:

sure that stuff started.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Which I would personally. I'd rather them fuck on

Steve:

my floor.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Any other place in my room. And. Yeah,

Steve:

and it was also, like, Blair, what did you do? Like,

Steve:

what? Like, now Nate is the

Steve:

casualty and.

Leif:

Like, that Larry doesn't care.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Steve:

Sometimes she has an inkling of who's gonna be

Steve:

a casualty. Right. Like, she. She cared when

Steve:

Eric was the. Was the accidental casualt.

Leif:

He's a civilian.

Steve:

Right. Well, yeah. All right,

Steve:

facts. Fair. Fair.

Leif:

Nate's in the game.

Steve:

Yeah, he is. I mean, I can't argue that.

Leif:

And, that is the end of the first act. We move into act

Leif:

two. Serena rise back at the penthouse to

Leif:

see the flight attendant having. Leaving while

Leif:

Chuck pours himself a glass of whiskey,

Leif:

neat. Chuck admits that he is having a problem in

Leif:

the bedroom. Chuck glass used Blair as

Leif:

sexual drain out.

Steve:

he's tried everything from the erotic to the

Steve:

pharmaceutical. Yeah.

Leif:

And he doesn't have a romantic bone in his body.

Leif:

Especially that one.

Steve:

Yeah, especially that one. And,

Steve:

man, Chuck, you're so fucking

Steve:

gross. Like, you're so gross.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So, yeah, we. We get the. The best and the worst of

Leif:

Chuck in this episode.

Steve:

Yeah, we really do.

Leif:

You get the super quippy, hilarious line

Leif:

one liners, but then you also get the creepy Batman

Leif:

rapist.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, we get, like, the fucking.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Eleanor walks into the atelier just as

Leif:

Jenny was questioning Eleanor's design. didn't see that one

Leif:

coming. Jenny tries to apologize, but it's too

Leif:

late. Eleanor, already grumpy from her

Leif:

transatlantic flight, promptly fires

Leif:

Jenny.

Steve:

I love Margaret Collins in this whole

Steve:

episode. She is.

Leif:

And I love all their seas together.

Steve:

Yeah, I want more of that. They are

Steve:

two powerhouses just really

Steve:

acting up a storm together. They're

Steve:

amazing.

Leif:

I love that we got some more layers to Ella this

Leif:

episode. She opened up the jetty in a way we haven't seen

Leif:

before.

Steve:

Yeah, and that scene where it's like

Steve:

this intern is shitting on my stuff,

Steve:

like that.

Leif:

Biggest fear.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly. And like, to fire her. She's

Steve:

completely in her right, and she acted like a. Like

Steve:

a strong boss. And when she

Steve:

comes in and she fires her and she even says, I'll give

Steve:

you the letter of recommendation, you still get the

Steve:

letter of recommendation from me. Your job here is

Steve:

done.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Like, she.

Leif:

People around here I can trust.

Steve:

Yeah. I had so much respect for

Steve:

her in that scene as a

Steve:

boss. She showed me, like,

Steve:

CEO boss, you know?

Steve:

And whereas Laurel has just

Steve:

shown, like, just asshole.

Steve:

Yeah. Just. Just. I'm going to stomp you in the dirt, and

Steve:

I'm going to just bully you. Whereas,

Steve:

like, Margaret Collins was more

Steve:

brutal on Jenny by firing

Steve:

her but just didn't do it with any kind

Steve:

of anything other than just business.

Leif:

There's no vindictiveness, like, with Laurel.

Steve:

Yeah, it wasn't, Yeah, I loved it.

Steve:

Yeah, I thought she just. She sold me on that.

Leif:

Nate runs it to Marcus. Out on the streets. Nate discovers

Leif:

that Catherine is coming. Nate quickly leaves a

Leif:

voicemail for Vanessa. I'd inviting her to.

Steve:

Goddamn it, Nate. Oh,

Steve:

I promise I won't do this thing. And then he does it, and it's

Steve:

like. And Vanessa's response when

Steve:

she's talking to Rufus in the next scene where she says,

Steve:

like, I can handle this. Like, I can take it. Like,

Steve:

vanessa's seen shit. Like, Vanessa knows

Steve:

and shit.

Leif:

Vanessa gets the voice valve just in time for Rufus to enter the

Leif:

lock with an air conditioner. Vanessa opens up to Rufus,

Leif:

battle frauds with Rufus, or, sorry, with Nate.

Leif:

Dan walks in on Vanessa, says

Leif:

she will meet him at the party. So

Leif:

more weird scenes with, Rufus and Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

I was really worried he was gonna say, vanessa is

Leif:

gonna be my date. We could double date

Leif:

Dan.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. yeah, I'll go with Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

And the woman that he did end up dating looked a

Leif:

little like Vanessa.

Steve:

A little bit. I can see it. I

Steve:

did like his advice to her, though, when he's, like, when

Steve:

she. When he said, well, you can do x, y, and z, and she's like, that

Steve:

is the mature, grown up response.

Steve:

Well, if you want to do the immature thing, you can just

Steve:

pretend you never got that message and show up anyway.

Steve:

And it was like, I liked

Steve:

it. Yeah.

Leif:

We have arrived at the party of the week.

Leif:

All the principals are arriving. Chuck and Blair trade

Leif:

barbs. Chuck goes full into full

Leif:

Batman mode and starts grinding on Blair right

Leif:

in the middle of the party.

Steve:

Subtle.

Leif:

So creepy.

Steve:

Like, it's so creepy, but also, like,

Steve:

you're. She's just, like, letting this happen.

Steve:

Yeah. And, like, letting him, like,

Steve:

whisper things into her ear that are just

Steve:

so erotic. And

Steve:

it's like. Like, guys,

Steve:

you're, like, at the middle of a fucking party you're throwing.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Dan picks up Serena at the pass, but things seem off

Leif:

between these two lovebirds.

Steve:

Yeah. They clearly

Steve:

just have nothing left to talk about other than their

Steve:

issues, which they're avoiding talking about.

Leif:

Back at the party, Nate confronts Blair, who

Leif:

doesn't deny helping Catherine to set him and Vanessa

Leif:

up.

Steve:

I don't like sharing my toys,

Steve:

especially when I've paid for

Steve:

them.

Steve:

She is so disgusting.

Steve:

Yeah. oh.

Leif:

So bad.

Steve:

Oh, my God.

Leif:

Can this story end?

Steve:

Please, like. And, like, I don't even care if she

Steve:

doesn't go to jail. I would love for her to just end it, just

Steve:

like, with her losing fucking everything. Like, I feel like

Steve:

that, but I feel like it's gonna end with her just going

Steve:

away and, probably coming back at some

Steve:

point.

Leif:

Then Katherine comes and gets way too handsy

Leif:

with Nate. He threatens to break up with her

Leif:

and he her. And Katherine instantly

Leif:

plays the victim and starts apologizing. She is just

Leif:

pulling right from the abusers handbook now.

Leif:

Vanessa walks in and sees Dane, Catherine holding hands.

Leif:

And then Howard goes out and all of manhattan.

Steve:

Yeah, she's so gross. Vanessa sees it

Steve:

and he's like, fuck. But, like, she's so

Steve:

gross. She's so, like, the whole,

Steve:

like, trying to turn the tables and making it Nate's

Steve:

fault and like, oh, it was just.

Leif:

We move into act three. Blair

Leif:

brings out the candles and tells everyone to remain

Leif:

calm.

Steve:

No one goes outside in a blackout.

Steve:

Well, at which, actually, Robin was like, what? No one can go out? And I

Steve:

was like, yeah, but it's a New York blackout. Like, there's no street

Steve:

light.

Leif:

Yeah, it'd be scary.

Steve:

It would be pitch fucking black

Steve:

out there. Except for headlights. Headlights would be the only thing

Steve:

you would see. That sounds terrifying. Yeah.

Steve:

I mean, maybe not in the Upper east side as much.

Leif:

Nate pulls Vanessa aside and explains what's.

Steve:

Been going on when Vanessa

Steve:

stops and just says, tell me

Steve:

everything.

Steve:

Vanessa, just, in my

Steve:

opinion, like, she just skyrocketed

Steve:

for me. Like, that she

Steve:

is as much as she, like, she's such an

Steve:

asshole on so many occasions. She really is the

Steve:

person who I feel like is the

Steve:

most understanding of people

Steve:

go through shit.

Leif:

And Vanessa should be a good

Leif:

character.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But they just never give her a reason to exist.

Steve:

Right? Yeah. And. And I

Steve:

really felt that,

Steve:

like, my heart just for

Steve:

Vanessa just. It was the first time that I

Steve:

was really like, wow. Like, wowed

Steve:

by her.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Just to stop and be like, okay,

Steve:

this is super fucked up.

Steve:

Tell me. And like, wow, that's.

Steve:

That is a good person.

Leif:

Katherine confronts Blair about her lack of

Leif:

sex life with Marcus and how it will always be that

Leif:

way.

Steve:

Oh, why do you know this?

Steve:

Why do you know about his sex life?

Leif:

Yeah. Well, I mean, presumably because the dad's the

Leif:

same way.

Steve:

Maybe, but, like.

Steve:

But why are you talking about it? Why are

Steve:

you bringing. Why is.

Steve:

Ew. Yeah.

Leif:

Where are they going with this?

Steve:

Yeah, you're talking to a

Steve:

teenager. Yeah. Hey, you know, you're dating my

Steve:

son, but I bet he doesn't plow you, does

Steve:

he? Like, that's so fucked

Steve:

up.

Steve:

No boundaries.

Leif:

Oh, yeah, she. I mean, she. She wants to pretend she's still a teenager.

Steve:

She does. She really does.

Leif:

She's treating Blair like an equal.

Steve:

Yeah, one. One last hurrah. Before the book,

Steve:

before the surgery.

Leif:

Dad and Serena are stuck in an elevator. Dan

Leif:

uses the emergency phone and is pretty much told to just

Leif:

hang tight. Serena points out that he should have

Leif:

mentioned her name. They argue momentarily before

Leif:

Dan gives in and calls. And of course, now someone

Leif:

is coming right away.

Steve:

She was right. Because. Because she, for

Steve:

one. Okay, Daniel,

Steve:

she lives in the building like she's a tenant.

Steve:

They know her like, so even aside from

Steve:

the whole, like, the world stops for Serena Vanderwitson,

Steve:

which. Yeah, you know what? It fucking does. And you

Steve:

could love that about her. You could. You could

Steve:

love that about her, but instead, you just let it bother you.

Steve:

Fuck off, Dan. Fuck off.

Leif:

it does bother pretty much everyone,

Leif:

and that's. That's where Blair big

Leif:

problem, too.

Steve:

Yeah, but Serena doesn't

Steve:

necessarily ask for it. Right.

Steve:

I feel like Serena just goes about her life doing

Steve:

Surina.

Leif:

I'm not blaming, sir.

Steve:

Yeah, no, no, I. And I. But I'm saying, like, the

Steve:

people that do have a problem with it, and

Steve:

Blair. Blair doesn't like it because, of course, there

Steve:

is the whole. Blair's always working to be

Steve:

what Serena is naturally.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Whereas. And I guess Dan kind of is, too.

Steve:

But at least Blair is able to see

Steve:

through that and remain best

Steve:

friends with her, you know, most of the time.

Steve:

Most of the time?

Leif:

Some of the time?

Leif:

About, a third of the time, sure.

Steve:

But I mean, like you said from the start, like, they are the core

Steve:

friendship. You know, they are the core ship.

Leif:

They were in season one. It's that. It's now the Chuck and

Leif:

Blair show.

Steve:

Oh, okay. I thought that was an

Steve:

ongoing thing.

Leif:

It should have been.

Steve:

Yeah, agreed.

Leif:

Jenny, broken and defeated, is about to leave her job for

Leif:

the last time and presumably walk back to

Leif:

Brooklyn in the middle of a blackout. However, even

Leif:

Eleanor isn't that cruel and tells Jenny to stay until the

Leif:

blackout is over. Oh, and as long as you're here, make yourself

Leif:

useful.

Steve:

Yeah. and again, like, every scene

Steve:

with.

Leif:

The two great binding, this. Yeah, this is where, you know,

Leif:

they. She reveals, you know, their

Leif:

insecurities to Jenny, and then Jenny, you know, comes back, you

Leif:

know, gives her a little pep talk.

Steve:

What was that? This one? Yeah.

Steve:

and and they just. They have great

Steve:

chemistry together. They both are just

Steve:

really vulnerable and

Steve:

very, you know,

Steve:

just. Just the communication is so

Steve:

good, and just. They just play off each other so well. I loved

Steve:

it.

Leif:

Back to Nate and Vanessa. Nate is begging her to

Leif:

save him from his to catch a predator scenario gone

Leif:

wrong. She tells him he needs to do it himself,

Leif:

but she will be here when he gets back.

Steve:

again, Vanessa was great in this. Vanessa was just

Steve:

understanding and loving and

Steve:

caring and was just a very

Steve:

empathetic person in this

Steve:

episode. And I loved it.

Leif:

Blair attempts to seduce Marcus. She tells him

Leif:

to meet in her bedroom, but chuck

Leif:

overhears.

Steve:

Yeah. And so then we have the revenge of the nerds

Steve:

setup, which. Great. Chuck

Steve:

back. We're. We're inching back

Steve:

to episode one. Chuck.

Leif:

Yeah. not good. Even though flair clearly knew

Leif:

who it was.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Back from commercial. We get a run in between Vanessa

Leif:

and Catherine. Yes, Catherine. We do try to

Leif:

forgive children when they're victims of sex crimes.

Steve:

She's so fucking dumb. She is so

Steve:

dumb.

Leif:

Yes, we forgive them.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, you just. You're just okay with

Steve:

him paying or being paid by me

Steve:

for sex so he can save his family?

Steve:

You're okay with that?

Leif:

What is wrong with this lady?

Steve:

Ugh.

Leif:

No.

Steve:

one told her no as a kid.

Leif:

Blair is waiting in her room when Chuck enters and

Leif:

imitates Marcus Saxon telling Blair to blow out her

Leif:

candle. Chuck and Blair begin to get

Leif:

steamy in the dark.

Steve:

The brit doing the

Steve:

american doing the brit. My one note is

Steve:

it must have been really difficult for him to do a

Steve:

shitty british accent to try to sound

Steve:

like Marcus. Yeah. My other thing about this,

Steve:

and this is a, buffy thing, I went to a

Steve:

panel, for. At a. At a comic book

Steve:

convention years ago, and there was a buffy panel, and James

Steve:

Marsters.

Leif:

You didn't realize he was american, did you?

Steve:

No, I did. I did know. So Spike was

Steve:

on this panel, and I got in line, and I

Steve:

said one of my favorite Buffy

Steve:

moments was when the american guy was

Steve:

pretending to be, who was acting as a british

Steve:

guy pretending to be an american guy. And he's

Steve:

like, I'm a friend of Xander.

Steve:

I love that scene so much. And I got to

Steve:

actually tell him that to his face.

Steve:

I also asked Amber Benson what it was like to have her name

Steve:

on the credits on her last episode,

Steve:

but I've always wondered. That is such

Steve:

a. Like, I've always been like, what a dick move of

Steve:

Joss Whedon to, like, not give her an

Steve:

opening credit until.

Leif:

Your shirt at the atelier Eleanor is

Leif:

really opening up with Jenny about her

Leif:

insecurities. Jenny returns the favor by opening up to the

Leif:

Eleanor. She talks about how one of Eleanor's dresses

Leif:

inspired Jenny to take up fashion in the first place.

Steve:

Yeah. And, yeah, this was the one that I was thinking of where. Where

Steve:

they really. Where she. Where she lays that

Steve:

out. That, like, And she's like, you don't have to, like,

Steve:

tell me these things. She's like, no, like, you're. You're the reason I'm

Steve:

here. Yeah. Like, which also,

Steve:

if you think about it, really explains

Steve:

we didn't know that beforehand. And it really gives a lot of

Steve:

background as to why she turned down,

Steve:

what was her name in the other episode?

Leif:

Tinsley Mortimer.

Steve:

Tinsley Mortimer. Why she turned down Tinsley

Steve:

Mortimer's internship. Yeah.

Leif:

In the elevator, things are heating up with Dan, but not

Leif:

in the sexy way. Like, last week, they finally admit

Leif:

that they forgive each other for their sins, but Dan's issues are

Leif:

going to prevent them from working as a couple.

Steve:

They had the time to sit and

Steve:

discuss. Yeah.

Leif:

They were forced to finally, finally work it out.

Steve:

Yeah. And they. And that was my thing is

Steve:

that, like, for one, I felt like the catalyst was kind

Steve:

of dumb. Like, the. Tell the people

Steve:

that the name of the person in the

Steve:

elevator because she lives there, but, like, they could

Steve:

have worked it out and they decided to

Steve:

just not talk and just,

Steve:

like, ignore it. And that bothered me because there was.

Leif:

That period of they both knew is not

Leif:

right.

Steve:

And that's why.

Leif:

That's why they didn't want to talk.

Steve:

Yeah. I don't know. I feel like there was.

Steve:

I feel. I feel like if Dan wasn't such a pretentious

Steve:

dick, there was anything.

Leif:

They're both who they are, so it's just, they are not right at this.

Leif:

At least at this time.

Steve:

Yeah, I get that. But also, like, I think Dan's an idiot.

Leif:

Oh, yeah, he's definitely an idiot. He's

Leif:

judgmental.

Steve:

Yeah. If Dan could get over his shit, like you

Steve:

said in. In. In your.

Steve:

In your scene by scene, like, if Dan could get

Steve:

over his shit, then they could work

Steve:

it out.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

It's Dan just being too wrapped up

Steve:

in his own judgmental shit.

Leif:

Nate is looking for Vanessa, but finds Katherine

Leif:

instead. The lights come back on and it

Leif:

looks like Nate is still trapped.

Steve:

Yeah. I don't think I even had a note for this

Steve:

because they just. Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Just end the story already, please.

Leif:

Marcus enters players river to fight. Find, her getting hot

Leif:

and heavy with Chucky boy.

Steve:

I mean, she looks guilty. Yeah.

Steve:

And it also makes me realize Chuck doesn't get punched

Steve:

enough.

Leif:

Yeah, he should get punched more.

Steve:

Yeah, like. Like, it should be, like, an episode

Steve:

activity, like the weekly punching of Chuck,

Steve:

but. But, it was nice to see him get punched.

Leif:

Although Marcus looked like deranged.

Steve:

Marcus look like what?

Leif:

You look deranged.

Steve:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I I believe that

Steve:

that was because the guy playing Marcus is not

Steve:

a very good actor. Yeah, but that.

Steve:

That could be me.

Leif:

But, yeah, he looked, like, super sweaty, and his eyes were, like, all

Leif:

sucking in and, like.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Just looking sickly almost.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So that is the end of act three. We move into the epilogue.

Leif:

Blair tells Marcus that she thought Chuck was

Leif:

him. Chuck claims Blair knew exactly who

Leif:

it was. And then Marcus steps in and punches

Leif:

Chuck and storms out.

Steve:

Well, my bad. That's where you get punched.

Steve:

Yeah, but it doesn't get punched enough.

Leif:

Blair follows after him, and Marcus demands

Leif:

the truth in front of all the guests. Blair admits that

Leif:

she did know his chuck, that it was Marcus just wasn't

Leif:

making shit happen. Marcus is

Leif:

having his manhunt challenge immediately rises to the bait

Leif:

and plants a big, fat smooch on Blair.

Leif:

Chuck is forced to look on in defeat.

Steve:

So, I mean, it's another Chuck scheme

Steve:

backfiring. Yeah, because it only pushed

Steve:

them closer together. But also, like, couple of

Steve:

things that just. First of all, the fact that Blair

Steve:

was like, you need to have sex with me now at this

Steve:

party. And he was like, let's not

Steve:

at this party right now. And she's like, no.

Steve:

And then, like, well, I get the.

Leif:

Sense that this has been building up, but, yeah, it

Leif:

kind of showed that it's, you know, she's been antsy for, like, a week

Leif:

or two now.

Steve:

Yeah, we do get that impression. And, like, you know,

Steve:

the whole, like, chuck pushing it over the edge thing

Steve:

by their whole encounter, the whispering,

Steve:

but for it to end with him being like,

Steve:

okay, I'll show you. And I'm going to just make out with you right here

Steve:

in front of all these people. And it's like, it was

Steve:

such a.

Leif:

Nineties, early 2000 macho type thing.

Steve:

It really was.

Leif:

And you're gonna challenge my manhood?

Steve:

Yeah. And, like, okay, I'll show

Steve:

you how passionate I am. And it was like,

Steve:

yeah, yeah, I didn't buy it. Like,

Steve:

Chuck. It didn't look like it. It looked like

Steve:

you're backfired. But, just give it a week.

Leif:

Nate catches Vanessa just as she is leaving.

Leif:

Vanessa tearfully tells Nate that he should be with

Leif:

katherine. Katherine slips Nate a hotel

Leif:

card and tells him to meet her tomorrow.

Steve:

I really felt for Vanessa and Nate in this scene,

Steve:

too. Like, vanessa really looks

Steve:

upset and really looks hurt, and I

Steve:

felt for her and all, but, like, with Nate, like,

Steve:

really? You want me to be with her?

Steve:

Okay, I

Steve:

guess. Vanessa says I should keep being with you for

Steve:

the money. Like, come on. Come on,

Steve:

chase. You're better than that.

Leif:

Jenny is getting ready to leave now that the power is

Leif:

back. Good dad. Rufus shows up, date in tow,

Leif:

to pick up jenny. Eleanor reinstates jenny

Leif:

and immediately puts Jenny, Rufus, and Rufus date

Leif:

to work.

Steve:

Robin even pointed out I wasn't supposed to mention her name

Steve:

again. I told her I'll give her a second shout out when she starts watching the

Steve:

show.

Steve:

but, she pointed out that, like,

Steve:

everyone is Eleanor's gopher too.

Steve:

Like, can your dad just go pick us up some takeout?

Steve:

And, his friend here, if she can get the drinks and if, just,

Steve:

like, sending people out for food that you just

Steve:

met.

Leif:

Yes. Ah, it extends to other people later in later

Leif:

seasons, too.

Steve:

I thought it was so great, and I felt like,

Steve:

again, it felt. She

Steve:

sells it, though. And if Eleanor Waldorf

Steve:

turned to me and said, hey, I need you

Steve:

to go get me chinese food, I don't think I could say

Steve:

no.

Leif:

The power is back on, and Dan and Serena

Leif:

are saying goodbye. It looks like the OG

Leif:

golden couple is not meant to be.

Leif:

Dan just needs to get over his issues, because as we see

Leif:

the door close, Serena declares that she loves

Leif:

Daniel.

Steve:

Yeah. And, like, Dan, you're just

Steve:

as fucking dumb as the end of season one. And,

Steve:

like. And really, it was like, what was

Steve:

the purpose of this little three episode

Steve:

epilogue? Why did you put us all through this

Steve:

again?

Leif:

Yeah, it should have just moved on.

Steve:

And honestly, I'm not. I I'm

Steve:

not completely sold that this is done,

Steve:

because I feel like it sometimes takes them

Steve:

three episodes to break up in this show.

Leif:

Yeah. Well, of course. The next episode is called the x

Leif:

Files. Chuck has Ann Markley in the back

Leif:

of his limo, eager, for round two. She seems

Leif:

ready to go, but Chuck rises. He only wants to be with

Leif:

Blair. Oh, Chuck.

Leif:

Now stop being a sex pass and be a decent

Leif:

person.

Steve:

Yeah, and also fucking rude.

Steve:

My note there is fucking rude.

Leif:

Yeah, she was just trying to get her not.

Steve:

Yeah. And he's like. And he's like, oh, I am all

Steve:

better, just not for you. Like, oh, you

Steve:

dick.

Leif:

You, can at least go down on her.

Steve:

Yeah, like, make it worth her while.

Leif:

Back in Brooklyn. Dan investor. Bemoaning their

Leif:

respective failed relationships, Vanessa reveals

Leif:

Catherine threatened to reveal the captain's locations of the

Leif:

FBI if Nate leaves her. Is Nate's dick

Leif:

actually the fountain of youth? Surely there are other.

Leif:

There are other attractive young men in New York that would be all too

Leif:

happy to sleep with Katherine. Why is she so

Leif:

thirsty that she has to resort to

Leif:

bribing and blackmailing

Leif:

teenagers? Note the pluralization of

Leif:

teenagers now.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes. She's now

Steve:

blackmailing multiple teenagers. And,

Steve:

like, yeah, you know, she might

Steve:

turn in Nate's dad, but what about, like, the

Steve:

sex trafficking and soliciting of a minor

Steve:

that she's doing? Like, she. You've got stuff on

Steve:

her, too, Vanessa. And also, please don't do

Steve:

the damn Vanessa. I, keep seeing it coming

Steve:

like this fucking freight train.

Leif:

I like this scene, though. I thought it was a good friendship scene.

Steve:

I, thought it was a great friendship scene. I'm worried about it getting

Steve:

romantic. I just feel like they were definitely.

Leif:

Hot and sweaty together.

Steve:

Yeah. And they're all gonna fuck.

Leif:

And why wouldn't they? They all look great.

Steve:

Like, why wouldn't any of them? Why don't they all

Steve:

just have a big cess tuple? Yeah. And just

Steve:

call it a day.

Leif:

Yep.

Steve:

Just. Just live in a, big fucking

Steve:

beach house together and make the most

Steve:

beautiful babies. All of them. Yeah.

Leif:

But that is our episode. So, any

Leif:

predictions?

Steve:

I guess that's a little more small.

Steve:

It's a little more Chloe from small

Steve:

bill.

Steve:

Anyway, predictions? the Dan Vanessa

Steve:

ship seems like it's coming closer. I keep

Steve:

feeling like they're trying to set that up.

Leif:

So, any guesses on what's

Leif:

going on with Marcus? Why he doesn't. Why

Leif:

he doesn't like to have sex with his girlfriend?

Steve:

the fact that you had brought up. Did

Steve:

you bring up his dad? Like, maybe that she knows it? Cause

Steve:

his dad's like that.

Steve:

but, you know, I. There's the.

Steve:

The thought of, is this. Is he an asexual

Steve:

character? Like, is that a thing that they're going to bring

Steve:

into the show and discuss? That would be

Steve:

cool, but I feel like it's probably some kind of

Steve:

royal snobbery or some kind of stuff like

Steve:

that. Or maybe he doesn't want to go to jail

Steve:

as, like, a 32 year old sleeping

Steve:

with a 17 year old.

Leif:

It's New York. It's all good.

Steve:

It's New York.

Leif:

It's even. I think it's 16 in

Leif:

Pennsylvania.

Steve:

It is. Well, it is,

Steve:

but there are certain like, other

Steve:

caveats to that, like police and,

Steve:

like, teachers and certain, like,

Steve:

professions that it is actually still, like,

Steve:

illegal lords.

Steve:

That's why I brought it up, because it is

Steve:

typically things where it is positions of

Steve:

power that make it

Steve:

illegal. But this also doesn't seem like that's, like, a

Steve:

profession. Like, he's in a position of

Steve:

power, but I feel like it's one of

Steve:

those positions of power that would make it

Steve:

disgustingly easy to get

Steve:

away with doing this, which,

Steve:

like, unity. Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Let's go ahead and get into some segments

Leif:

we're gonna go to this week in fandom. jumped into the

Leif:

wayback machine to check out the television without pity

Leif:

forums, and I'm here with my boy Steve. Say hello,

Leif:

Steve.

Steve:

Hey, what's up, everybody?

Leif:

Not. Not a rocky aboical fan.

Steve:

Not a what?

Leif:

Rocky aboical fan.

Steve:

Not really. Like, a little bit, but, like,

Steve:

not. Not much.

Leif:

Yeah, that's the line from the, Peabody.

Leif:

Hello, there. Peabody here.

Steve:

And this is the wayback machine for traveling through time.

Steve:

And this is my boy Sherman. Speak.

Steve:

Sherman. Hello. Good boy.

Leif:

Oh.

Steve:

Oh, bye. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

So in the forums, chuck and

Leif:

Blair are fire. Like.

Leif:

Yeah, they were, they were wet in their panties

Leif:

on the forums for Chuck and Blair.

Steve:

Yeah, I get it.

Leif:

I mean, like, the scenes were sexy.

Steve:

Yeah. And he sure can whisper.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

Very inevitably.

Leif:

Very talented. Whisper that.

Steve:

Very odd, talented, inaudible whisperer.

Leif:

Get good with his mouth.

Steve:

Honestly, it is such a great. It is such

Steve:

a cliche, but such a great, like,

Steve:

where you have the guy whisper

Steve:

into the ear and the woman, like,

Steve:

visually note, like. Like it because, like.

Steve:

Because the thing is, is that no man actually knows what they're

Steve:

saying when they're doing.

Leif:

Like.

Steve:

Like, we're all like, whoa, that guy pulled it all.

Leif:

More vibes from Rufus of Vanessa.

Leif:

Yeah, we noted that. Yeah, well,

Leif:

Marcus has a bad accent and no chemistry with Layton.

Steve:

Yep. Zero chemistry. Terrible accent.

Steve:

Yeah. I think that the no chemistry was by design,

Steve:

though. I feel like it is because

Steve:

they're trying to make this

Steve:

non passionate, this passion

Steve:

free relationship. I'm. That that might

Steve:

have been by design.

Leif:

Majority of the people were happy about Stanis arena breaking

Leif:

up.

Steve:

Dumb. Majority of the people are dumb.

Leif:

They're clearly not working.

Steve:

I know, I know, I know. But I feel like. But I'm

Steve:

mad.

Leif:

And they were never work. They were never going to work.

Steve:

I know, but I still. I'm mad that

Steve:

Dan can't grow up. Let me have

Steve:

that. Let me have that.

Leif:

The problem started before they even started dating, though.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

It's because he put her on a pedestal

Leif:

and then couldn't make sure that she was not that person.

Steve:

Yeah. Yep.

Leif:

But, you know, he's a teenager. He'll learn. Hopefully.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

People actually like Vanessa for once.

Steve:

Yeah. She was. She. She was great in this

Steve:

episode as a human being and as a

Steve:

person. Her acting was

Steve:

on par for Vanessa, but, like,

Steve:

which, not to shit on her acting, I think that she

Steve:

just always plays Vanessa, you know? But, like,

Steve:

I thought that her. She was really well written this

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

They were definitely all swooning over

Leif:

Chuck, and no one was really buying the

Leif:

nervous penis storyline.

Steve:

Oh. You know, I mean,

Steve:

I think that makes so much sense for a Chuck

Steve:

storyline. Like, I think that, And,

Steve:

yeah, I find it to be completely believable.

Leif:

He's 17.

Steve:

Yeah. But they also don't really portray them as

Steve:

teenagers all the time. Right. Like, they make

Steve:

them have grown up problems

Steve:

a lot.

Leif:

Yeah. I don't really buy it.

Leif:

When I was 17, a slight breeze got me

Leif:

there.

Steve:

Yes. I mean, you're not

Steve:

wrong.

Leif:

I just move it around that. Those silk boxes

Leif:

I'm sure he wears.

Steve:

Yeah, I know. Yeah.

Leif:

I'd be hard constantly.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

And then also much more positive about

Leif:

Jenny's storyline this season compared with last season.

Leif:

Yeah, I agree.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

I like her being ambitious in a

Leif:

career oriented rather than being. Trying to be a mean

Leif:

girl.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Dan stock continues to plummet.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But they were impressed with Penn's acting.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

I did think the season with him and Serena were really,

Leif:

really good.

Steve:

Yeah. No, yeah. No, both did a really good job.

Leif:

More positive than negative for chair. But a few people are

Leif:

already anticipating it, dragging out, like, Seth and

Leif:

summer from the OC and becoming stale.

Steve:

That's fair.

Leif:

A few people were negative towards and even

Leif:

slut shaming Blair.

Steve:

I I can see it. I can see

Steve:

it. Especially. Especially then. Especially, you

Steve:

know, twelve years ago.

Leif:

And so it's kind of interesting.

Leif:

This is the same kind of thing. They got her

Leif:

dethroned in season one, getting caught hooking

Leif:

up with two guys.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. But this time she was very

Steve:

public about it. Yeah.

Leif:

You know, it doesn't seem to be any repercussions either.

Steve:

Yeah. I mean, we. Although we have not seen

Steve:

anything after that.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So. But, yeah, it did seem

Steve:

very much like everyone, it seemed like

Steve:

everyone was like. Yeah, we get it. Blair, he's a dud.

Leif:

Now, a couple people seem to think something's

Leif:

going on between Marcus and Katherine.

Steve:

I've had that suspicion in the

Steve:

previous episode, the fact that she always chases

Steve:

away the girlfriends. Right. And the fact that she always,

Steve:

like, gets in the way and that he doesn't

Steve:

like how she is around them, the fact that she is a child

Steve:

predator. Those things both kind of lead

Steve:

me to say, like, maybe she made a pass at him

Steve:

at some point, and he was like, no,

Steve:

because why does she know that he

Steve:

doesn't have sex? I

Steve:

feel like.

Leif:

Is there any chance that he's gay?

Steve:

I think that's possible, too. I just feel

Steve:

like they already did that. You know? I.

Steve:

That was one of my thoughts, especially a

Steve:

couple minutes ago when you asked.

Leif:

Like, but they did with Jenny.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And this show loves to parallel itself.

Steve:

Oh, it does? Yeah. I mean, because I

Steve:

also had that thought, too. I just wouldn't think that

Steve:

they would want to go back to that well already.

Steve:

That was the only reason I didn't. But then again, I think maybe I.

Steve:

Sometimes I give this show too much.

Leif:

We do. We do know, like, Eric likes those, older

Leif:

looking, taller guys.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, the. Eric likes those 30 year

Steve:

olds.

Leif:

That is it for the forums for this week, so let's go

Leif:

ahead and move into some episode grades.

Steve:

All right. I think I go first.

Leif:

Yes, you are first.

Steve:

All right. Yeah. Let's do some episode grades.

Steve:

First of all, I gave this one a, solid b.

Steve:

I thought it was a good, solid episode.

Steve:

I enjoyed it a lot more. It was my favorite

Steve:

of season two so far. I, like you said,

Steve:

I feel like it had its place among

Steve:

season one episodes, except for the.

Steve:

The only thing that's out of place is

Steve:

the soap opera storyline that we didn't

Steve:

have quite that level of soap opera in.

Steve:

In season one, but, like, I found the

Steve:

Dan and Serena stuff annoyed me. Like I said,

Steve:

the. The little j. And I Eleanor

Steve:

seems predictable but amazing,

Steve:

like, cliche, but so well done. This

Steve:

show can work a cliche that is something that it has

Steve:

done a m few times. The whole

Steve:

Nate, Vanessa Catherine thing is gross, but it's

Steve:

still intriguing and

Steve:

engaging. and chair. Being chair.

Steve:

I don't like it when Catherine gets the best of Blair. I don't like

Steve:

it when she gets Blair on her back heels.

Leif:

This is Blair now.

Steve:

what?

Leif:

This is Blair now?

Steve:

Yeah. Just on her back heels.

Leif:

Well, not necessarily that, but she's. She's all. She's always

Leif:

feeding on insecurities that they really are going to play that

Leif:

up going forward. She's. She has these

Leif:

insecurities, and she. She's clever,

Leif:

but she's not the smartest person in the room.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

She's. She does not. She's vicious and

Leif:

she'll go to any lengths.

Leif:

And she's definitely clever and she is smart, but she's

Leif:

not the smartest.

Steve:

Yeah, that's fair. But, yeah,

Steve:

overall, solid b.

Leif:

So I thought this episode, great directing, the use

Leif:

of the blackout as a set piece was great. I think it

Leif:

worked really well.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Then we also had great acting. Both the

Leif:

sarita and Dan scenes and Eleanor and Jenny

Leif:

scenes were both standouts.

Leif:

And I thought the writing was, you know,

Leif:

outside of the Catherine and Nate

Leif:

stuff, that that's the only thing. It really brought it down, so I actually gave it an

Leif:

a minus.

Steve:

That's fair. I don't think that's a. I, think that is a

Steve:

fair grade. Yeah.

Leif:

Let's go ahead and move the stock watch.

Leif:

What do you got going up?

Steve:

All right. Going up. for one, I was really torn

Steve:

on Vanessa because she kind of loses out in the

Steve:

end. But I felt like she was just such

Steve:

a good, empathetic person that I had

Steve:

Vanessa going up. I had

Steve:

Jenny and Eleanor both going up because

Steve:

they both, in both

Steve:

performance wise and as characters, they

Steve:

both had growth, like

Steve:

visible growth in one episode. So

Steve:

both of them, I had Rufus going up. Rufus

Steve:

got. Rufus is dating. Good job, Rufus.

Steve:

Get way to get back out there. But that's all that I had going

Steve:

up.

Leif:

for me, I definitely had Jenny. she, you know, started

Leif:

off looked like she was going to get fired, but, you know, obviously pulled

Leif:

through in the end and had some good bonding with

Leif:

Eleanor. Eleanor, also, she. She

Leif:

got good bonding with Jenny. And we got some more

Leif:

layers to her. Like we got roman holiday. So I like

Leif:

that Rufus, like you said, he's

Leif:

dating. And, I by far the best parent because he's the only parent

Leif:

that actually cared about his kids at the blackout.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

The only one to actually check on this child.

Steve:

Yeah. Who went out in the blackout to find his

Steve:

kid.

Leif:

Yes. and then I also had dance

Leif:

Renee going up because I think

Leif:

they needed to have this happen. And they just,

Leif:

you know, they were treading water for the past two

Leif:

episodes and now they're finally out of

Leif:

this and they can move on to, hopefully they could be

Leif:

friends and, you know, still remain in the same orbit

Leif:

because otherwise we got the two shows. Yeah, we

Leif:

got. So we gotta kind of figure out a way for them to

Leif:

still interact.

Steve:

Which they've been really good at so far with every other

Steve:

ex relationship.

Leif:

But that. That's it for going up for me and you got going

Leif:

down.

Steve:

I have both of them going down, and I feel like the

Steve:

breakup sends them down, and they got to go down

Steve:

before they go up. I feel like they've kind of hit a rock

Steve:

bottom here, too, which is much better than, like, a Chuck

Steve:

rock bottom. I have Laurel going down because.

Steve:

Fuck you, Laurel. Yeah.

Leif:

I didn't even care enough about her to.

Steve:

I just. I actually had her more as an

Steve:

afterthought, but I wanted to make sure to

Steve:

knock her down because. For being so shitty to

Steve:

little j. And then I had Nate and Katherine, both

Steve:

of them both going down because, God,

Steve:

she's important. Eight.

Leif:

Poor fucking for me. Chuck,

Leif:

he loses this episode big.

Leif:

Blair because she. She's humiliated

Leif:

and acts a fool. Marcus because

Leif:

he got cuck. Nate obviously is still

Leif:

getting raped.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Catherine being a rape.

Leif:

And I gave Vanessa because even though I

Leif:

liked her performance and I liked. I understood, I felt

Leif:

bad for her. She clearly lost this episode.

Steve:

yeah. And it's funny, I think that I really

Steve:

like that she got an up and a down because I

Steve:

really felt like both things happened

Steve:

to her. Yeah. That there was character growth and

Steve:

some great stuff, but also, she lost in the

Steve:

end. And I also am glad that you

Steve:

gave Blair, Chuck,

Steve:

and Marcus the down because I didn't think

Steve:

it was quite enough to send them down, but I

Steve:

got it. And, like, I think they. Yeah. So I

Steve:

think that I, like. I'm actually really happy with today's

Steve:

stock watch.

Leif:

Well, that is it for stock watch. who do you have for best

Leif:

outfit?

Steve:

But here's the best outfits from the last

Steve:

episode we seen,

Steve:

Chuck's pajamas. I thought those were just

Steve:

fucking dope, and I want to wear them.

Leif:

So I felt bad for Vanessa voting you're down,

Leif:

so I'm going to give her the best outfit. I thought overall, she had

Leif:

a couple of good outfits, but the one I gave it to

Leif:

was the flower print maxi dress, from the

Leif:

Jovic Hawk

Leif:

2007 collection. And she also had,

Leif:

like, the necklace with, like, the hoop, and I had two red

Leif:

stones that kind of, like cranberries that kind of worked well

Leif:

with the flowers.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very cool.

Leif:

That is it for segments. Let's go ahead and move

Leif:

into plugs. Anything plug recommend this

Leif:

week?

Steve:

I. Would recommend watching. I think

Steve:

I brought it up before, but I would definitely recommend watching the

Steve:

sympathizer on, on Max.

Steve:

It's a show about a, north

Steve:

vietnamese spy

Steve:

during the fall of Saigon and the

Steve:

end of the Vietnam war, and it's just a

Steve:

really cool spy

Steve:

show intrigue. Fun

Steve:

watch for me.

Leif:

I am going to go ahead and recommend book

Leif:

smart. I know I'm a little late on this one. It came out in

Leif:

2019. It is a, teen

Leif:

coming of age movie. I think it's best

Leif:

described as super bad for Gen Z.

Leif:

so yeah, it's very funny. Good to see that they are still

Leif:

making like broad sheet teeny comedies.

Leif:

So I really enjoyed that. So if you're a fan of super, I definitely

Leif:

recommend it.

Steve:

Yeah, I'll check that out.

Leif:

And you can follow me on social media at

Leif:

ah, hot capicola on Instagram. You can

Leif:

follow the podcast at ah, nonjudging breakfast

Leif:

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Leif:

and on Twitter. We are at NJB pod.

Leif:

We also now have a website. You can find us at

Leif:

nonjudging breakfast pod.com. nonjudging

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breakfastpod.com and there you can find links to our

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Reddit and discord servers.

Steve:

Yeah, and you can feel free to follow me on

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Instagram and TikTok at Steve

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And also if you want

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to get in touch with us and send us an email, we'd love

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to hear your thoughts. We'd love to hear your suggestions and read them

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on the air. Our email address is

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also tell your friends what you're listening to and get them

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to listen to the non judging breakfast pod with

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Leif:

Yeah, give us a review on iTunes. It

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definitely helps with visibility a lot. We will

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be back next week to talk about season two,

Leif:

episode four, the X Files. The

Leif:

max episode preview reads, vanessa learns

Leif:

a scandalous secret and enlistsenhe Blair's

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help.

Steve:

Yeah, I love

Steve:

the idea of a Blair

Steve:

Vanessa team up. I'm here for

Steve:

that because, like, for

Steve:

Vanessa to go to Blair, it says a

Steve:

lot, but also the fact that, like,

Steve:

blair loves the challenge and Blair loves the

Steve:

scheme.

Leif:

So, I mean, the secret has to be what's going on with Marcus,

Leif:

right?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I figure it has to be.

Steve:

And yeah, I, think it has to be

Steve:

the, the katherine Marcus

Steve:

thing. I'm really excited for this

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

we will be back next week. Until next time. You know you

Leif:

love us. Xoxo.

Steve:

Take care.

Steve:

Every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away run away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

oh it seems I'm walking right.

Steve:

To your door.

Steve:

My heart's still resting looking for

Steve:

something more

Steve:

are you ever gonna see everything thing you mean to

Steve:

me I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

never feels right when I'm out here on

Steve:

my own

Steve:

I left last night and it feels like

Steve:

way too long

Steve:

are you ever gonna see everything you mean

Steve:

to me? I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away, run away you take a piece

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you.

Steve:

There.

Steve:

Come back to me

Steve:

smile and you'll make my life

Steve:

complete

Steve:

every time you walk away I run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away, run away take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away, run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away and run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

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