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Gossip Girl S2E01 - Summer, Kind of Wonderful
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Hey Upper East Siders and all you scandal-loving listeners out there! Welcome back to the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, where the coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than ever. Join Leif, your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran, and Steve, the newbie diving into the Upper East Side for the first time.

This week, we dive into Gossip Girl season 2, episode 1, titled “Summer, Kind of Wonderful.” Original air date: September 1, 2008.

Summary

In this conversation, the hosts discuss the events of Season 2, Episode 1 of Gossip Girl, titled 'Summer, Kind of Wonderful.' They delve into the complexities of Nate's secret affair with an older woman, Serena's fake relationship with Nate, and the resulting drama that unfolds. Blair's attempts to make Chuck jealous with her new boyfriend James, who has a surprising secret, add another layer of intrigue. The episode also highlights the struggles of Jenny in the fashion world and Dan's summer escapades, including his unexpected reunion with Serena. The hosts analyze the character dynamics, the writing, and the directing, and they share their predictions for the upcoming season. They also discuss the fashion highlights and give their episode grades. The hosts encourage listeners to join the conversation on social media and announce the upcoming episode review.

00:00 Introduction and Discussion of Nate's Affair

07:41 The Fake Relationship Between Serena and Nate

10:15 Blair's New Boyfriend James

21:20 Chuck's Jealousy and Heartbreak

25:38 Jenny's Struggles in the Fashion World

29:27 Dan's Summer Escapades

32:22 Dan and Serena's Reunion

57:06 Analyzing the Writing, Directing, and Acting

59:54 Fashion Highlights and Podcast Recommendations

01:06:26 Looking Ahead: Season Two Predictions

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Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

The Gossip Girl Theme Performed By Steve Marchion.

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Steve:

Yeah, I'm just gonna bring. Yeah, I'm just gonna come stay at your place and

Steve:

bring my. My boyfriend and fucking your

Steve:

bed.

Steve:

You mind if we fucking the

Steve:

loft, where you're gonna come home and sleep?

Steve:

Okay, I'll change the sheets.

Leif:

They didn't change.

Steve:

They didn't change the sheets.

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

Leif:

waffles are freshen, and the gossip is hotter than

Leif:

ever. My name is Leif, and I'm, your seasoned

Leif:

gossip girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, your newbie, your

Steve:

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

Steve:

the new kid on the block in gossip girl terms?

Leif:

Well, Steve, we're off to season two, so I think

Leif:

you're ready to be upgraded to minion status.

Steve:

Oh, wow. That's. That is,

Steve:

joyous now that Blair seems to be getting right

Steve:

back on top. So, it's a good time to be,

Steve:

moving upward.

Leif:

Sounds good.

Steve:

Yeah. Take that, Jenny.

Steve:

All right, so here's the deal,

Steve:

folks. We have

Steve:

a whole podcast we're doing here. Here's the deal,

Steve:

folks. Leap is a gossip girl veteran,

Steve:

and I'm diving in for the first time. And we,

Steve:

together, we're your dynamic duo, bringing you all

Steve:

the romance, drama, and

Steve:

sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

Steve:

iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

That's right. Each week, we'll be going through one episode

Leif:

at a time, taking a deep dive. we're going to analyze

Leif:

all the parallels, obscure references, and,

Leif:

of course, the couture catastrophes. And

Leif:

also we're going to take a look at some of the behind the scenes gossip and some

Leif:

stories from fandom along the way.

Steve:

And since we're all about inclusivity here at the non judging

Steve:

breakfast pod, there is always room for you at the non

Steve:

judging breakfast table. So please

Steve:

grab a cup of coffee or a mimosa or some of

Steve:

Nate and Chuck's special medicine, and let's get into

Steve:

this episode.

Leif:

By the time you guys are listening to this, we'll probably have already gone on our

Leif:

second trip. But, we just, as of the recording,

Leif:

had our first yak life trip of the season.

Leif:

That was fun. We had a new record. 36

Leif:

paddlers with 35 boats.

Steve:

That's awesome.

Leif:

Exciting. Yeah. Up on the upper Delaware river,

Leif:

and I was, right on the border of New York and

Leif:

Pennsylvania. So one side river is New York, one side is

Leif:

Pennsylvania, and there's a couple

Leif:

of friends of the pod there, we had Shannon, who was

Leif:

a guest in episode 17, and I found

Leif:

out my other friend Will is actually a listener. So shout

Leif:

outs to Will.

Steve:

All right, nice. Thanks, Will.

Leif:

Shout out to Will.

Steve:

yeah, we actually play d and d with some of the other

Steve:

folks that were there. I was really excited because

Steve:

I, killed Dan this week

Steve:

in our d and d game. And it's,

Steve:

you know, as a dm, I, don't ever really

Steve:

set out to kill people, but it's so satisfying

Steve:

when it happens. And, you know, I had a.

Steve:

I had a gollum just grab him and

Steve:

then grind the shit out of him, and he got

Steve:

free, and they were all excited when

Steve:

he landed the killing blow and killed the thing,

Steve:

and then it exploded into shrapnel and

Steve:

basically just eviscerated him. He made his

Steve:

save.

Leif:

So, another thing. So after I got back from my trip and I was

Leif:

super tired on Monday, I tried once again

Leif:

to fill a gap in my teen

Leif:

drama knowledge in,

Leif:

920. I've never gotten past, like, the 10th

Leif:

episode.

Steve:

Oh, really? The original?

Leif:

Yes, the original.

Steve:

Oh, wow.

Leif:

And, yes, I watched, like, three episodes.

Leif:

And thank God for

Leif:

blatant Meestro. Pam Badgley, Blake

Leif:

Lively, Ed Westwick, Chase Crawford, Kelly

Leif:

Rutherford, Taylor Mumpsey. Cause the acting is

Leif:

so bad. It's so bad. Not a tuna.

Steve:

I remember when 90210

Steve:

1st aired, I

Steve:

watched the pilot.

Leif:

Yeah, I did watch an episode here or there when it

Leif:

was on, and I just never really got into it. I was a little too young

Leif:

for it at the time.

Steve:

Yeah, I was the exact

Steve:

right age for that show. That was. That was

Steve:

like the. The early nineties

Steve:

when I was in high school and really was the target

Steve:

audience for it. I. I remember my

Steve:

friend and I, every time

Steve:

Kelly would come on screen, we would

Steve:

do the, the Lenny from Lenny and

Steve:

squiggy, where he would bite the inside of his

Steve:

hand because we both thought that she was

Steve:

a pretty lady. and you also.

Steve:

And you also had Tori spelling, who, like, in a sea

Steve:

of bad acting, was the

Steve:

vortex that made everybody

Steve:

else, like, look better. Yeah, she was

Steve:

the vanessa of that show. And

Steve:

Andrea, who, like,

Steve:

narc. What are you doing here,

Steve:

Narcisse? Why is this 40 year old at, this

Steve:

beach pit?

Leif:

They were all 40, but she.

Steve:

She was, like, legit. She. They were all in their twenties, and she

Steve:

was in her thirties and also was the one that

Steve:

really looked, like, older than the rest of

Steve:

them.

Leif:

So we are here, to talk about gossip girl today.

Steve:

Oh, that's right.

Leif:

Season two.

Steve:

Season two.

Leif:

We made it.

Steve:

Yeah, I'm. I'm really

Steve:

thrilled. I'm thrilled we

Steve:

made it. I'm excited to

Steve:

talk about the episode, too.

Leif:

The, Caesar premiere is titled

Leif:

Summer kind of wonderful.

Steve:

Yes. is this our first Corey's

Steve:

reference? It's a

Steve:

Corey movie. Corey Haim and Corey

Steve:

Feldman. I feel like there may have been another

Steve:

one in there. Was there a lost boys one or something like

Steve:

that?

Leif:

Yeah, there's the lost weekend. That wasn't the episode.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah, I think this might be the first one.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, the quarries. I loved

Steve:

this movie.

Leif:

I've never seen it.

Steve:

Oh, I. Yeah, this was one of those.

Steve:

I saw it. But then also, it would

Steve:

just be on all the time, like one of

Steve:

those random Sunday afternoon movies.

Steve:

So I've seen this movie

Steve:

not in its entirety, over and over

Steve:

again, but, like, in bits and pieces.

Steve:

I've seen it in its entirety several times.

Leif:

So the original air date was September

Leif:

1, 2008. Nothing really

Leif:

special about that date, but, yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Television without pity. Episode description

Leif:

reads awkward. Doesn't just

Leif:

describe the tortured syntax of the episode title.

Leif:

Serena's playing Nate's beard once again while wailing

Leif:

for Dan to come back and tell her exactly who to

Leif:

be. Blairs coming close to embarrassing

Leif:

herself trying to make Chuck jealous. It's

Leif:

working. Dan once again shows up somewhere

Leif:

awesome, uninvited and most awkward

Leif:

and fantastically awesome of all, Jenny and Eric

Leif:

get to party with. Wait for it.

Leif:

Tinsley Mortimer. Fuck, yes.

Leif:

You know I o m f g x o x o

Leif:

u. Gossip girl.

Steve:

It's a very enthusiastic,

Steve:

endorsement for Tinsley Mortimer,

Steve:

who was made fun of in the previous season. Yes.

Leif:

And her acting was not too greatness.

Steve:

No, it was terrible.

Steve:

Robin flipped out, though, because Robin

Steve:

recognized who she was immediately.

Leif:

Episode written by Josh Saffron.

Leif:

Previous episodes from season one were 17

Leif:

candles, high society and woman on the

Leif:

verge.

Steve:

If, I remember correctly, that's b a b. When we both

Steve:

gave the same, like, b plus

Steve:

minuses.

Leif:

Yeah, the first two were. We were right on the line.

Leif:

B plus is an a. And then,

Leif:

you did a b, and I did a b minus for women on the

Leif:

verge.

Steve:

Okay. Yeah.

Leif:

I did not write down what Shannon gave that episode of.

Leif:

I think it was a b. Yeah, I think it was

Leif:

directed, by J. Miller Tobin,

Leif:

who, previously directed Poison ivy and Blair

Leif:

bitch project. Of course. Poison

Leif:

ivy, past episode of the season.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then we actually did this, apparently, like, Blair

Leif:

bitch project even beat. You gave it a b plus. I gave it a b.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah. And that's the one that.

Leif:

That first episode after the writers strike.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Okay,

Steve:

right.

Leif:

That was after, you know,

Leif:

everything came out with. Yeah. Chuck and

Leif:

Nate. And then Blair

Leif:

was, you know, a ruined woman. Yeah.

Leif:

At 17.

Steve:

And it was also. It was also

Steve:

where Georgina started sending messages

Steve:

to Serena.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So we got our.

Leif:

And we got the big tonal shift there.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But, yeah. Still a decent episode.

Steve:

Yeah, it was, except, yeah.

Steve:

Yeah, it was the last one before she showed

Steve:

up.

Leif:

So the episode begins, as always, with a

Leif:

gossip girl monologue. Unlike the

Leif:

rest of us, sex, lies and scandal never take

Leif:

a vacation. Instead, they take the Long island

Leif:

expressway and head east to the hamptons.

Leif:

Some would say summer is the busiest season.

Leif:

Think Park Avenue, but with tennis whites

Leif:

and bain du Soleil. The players

Leif:

change, but the game remains the same

Leif:

as Gossip girl monologues. We see Nate getting hot and heavy

Leif:

in a car with a mysterious older woman. We find out

Leif:

that this relationship is secret, and Serena is

Leif:

covering for Nate. Seems like the woman is the one with

Leif:

something to hide.

Steve:

Yeah. I mean, Josh Schwartz, way to

Steve:

kick the season off with statutory rape.

Leif:

Technically, it's legal.

Steve:

And, you know, because this whole scene, you have

Steve:

that intro that you're like.

Leif:

But, yes, it is.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

As we find out later, it is very uncomfortable.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. And at first, you have the, It

Steve:

was funny. Cause at first it was like, that's not

Steve:

Serena, is it? And then it's like, no, it isn't.

Steve:

And then I was like, kinda old. Well,

Steve:

but that's par for the course.

Steve:

That was my thought was like, she does look older,

Steve:

but, like, who? Like, how many people have been

Steve:

cast in this show that are like, well.

Leif:

I say it was Hollywood. Yeah. You have to be

Leif:

between 20 and, like, 32.

Leif:

And then you play everything from

Leif:

15 to 40.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly. And,

Steve:

you know, especially when we were just talking about

Steve:

Andrea from 90210, and we were. And,

Steve:

like, what's his name? That was Jenny's

Steve:

boyfriend at the end. Yeah. Asher, who

Steve:

looks like he's 25. So to me, it was like,

Steve:

oh, yeah. Well, this is probably just some

Steve:

teenager.

Leif:

That may be a college girl or something.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly.

Leif:

yes. but then we see Chuck is lounging on the

Leif:

beach, apparently back to his old self. He

Leif:

convinces his three companions to go top us on what looks

Leif:

like a public beach. And Chuck gets a

Leif:

blast about Blair coming home from France. Chuck

Leif:

momentarily appears to have heart before

Leif:

returning, being gross. Serena, alone walks by, looking

Leif:

disgusted by Chuck.

Steve:

As per usual, he's

Steve:

Chuck bass. I mean, it

Steve:

was yeah. Chuck being

Steve:

everything we've, we've expected him to

Steve:

be. So he was just Chuck being

Steve:

Chuck.

Leif:

Next we see, we find a not so

Leif:

lonely boy macking with a cute, random girl in a

Leif:

bookstore. Dan is preparing for his future

Leif:

job when he changes his name to Joe Goldberg

Leif:

Evangeline. A bookstore? What would you. Where you see that

Leif:

before?

Steve:

actually, I don't know the reference.

Leif:

You haven't seen you?

Steve:

No, I haven't. I do know. I know that he was in it,

Steve:

but, no, I have not actually seen you.

Leif:

You really need to watch that.

Steve:

Okay, well, I'll get on that.

Steve:

it was also just, where did this

Steve:

Dan come from? who, like, had no

Steve:

friends. Nobody knew him, nobody talked to him. That

Steve:

was the whole funny thing about him, was that he was

Steve:

a nobody, and now he's just like.

Steve:

But again, it was like, you know, you get out of that

Steve:

relationship and then you start opening up.

Leif:

So, I mean, and there is

Leif:

kind of a truth to that. In high school.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Once you date the one hot girl,

Leif:

it can open the floodgates.

Steve:

Yeah. Well, and you get that confidence, after

Steve:

dating someone for the first time,

Steve:

there's one of two feelings after a breakup, and

Steve:

there's either you get

Steve:

the, wow, that really sucks, and

Steve:

I'm never going to have that again. But then

Steve:

there's also that. No, I'll have something else

Steve:

down the line. And when you're in high school, it's a

Steve:

lot harder to recognize that.

Leif:

And Dan spent the summer interning for a famous

Leif:

author, but he is suffering from writer's block before he can go home to

Leif:

work his piece, we see Dan kiss a completely

Leif:

different girl.

Steve:

Jacques. Yeah, he's total

Steve:

player now. Like, all right,

Steve:

Dan.

Leif:

Yeah, he learned from Chuck, I guess.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. And, yeah,

Steve:

he. The exact kind of behavior that

Steve:

he has. Well, of course, Chuck also

Steve:

had other behaviors that upset Dan.

Leif:

Yeah, everything's consensual, so.

Steve:

Yeah, exactly.

Leif:

He's single. It's free to do what he wants. At, Eleanor

Leif:

Waldorf's design, little J is being put through her

Leif:

paces by Eleanor's second in command, Laurel.

Leif:

Laurel scored a best outfit in her lone episode

Leif:

in season one, courtesy of yours truly. And

Leif:

Jenny tries to put her designs forward, but Laurel just

Leif:

laughs in her face. Look out, little J.

Leif:

The mean girls in the real world might be worse than the ones in

Leif:

Constance.

Steve:

Like, so. So, yeah, Laurel was a complete

Steve:

asshole. you know, she was really shitty

Steve:

toward Jenny. But also, what

Steve:

the fuck were you thinking bringing

Steve:

your designs to?

Leif:

Like, you're like, well, I mean, she is an

Leif:

intern. I mean, that's. I would think that's kind of something

Leif:

an intern would do. You know, you try to

Leif:

learn to. I mean, honestly, working for free, you

Leif:

should be getting something out of it.

Steve:

Yeah, I just kind of figure, like, my.

Steve:

My notion of unpaid

Steve:

internships like, that are, like, you're

Steve:

sewing hems and, like, sorting buttons like

Steve:

they had her doing and not. You're like, you're not

Steve:

here. Like, you're here to learn not

Steve:

to get. Not to get

Steve:

somewhere at the same time.

Leif:

I think this was pretty close to the same time

Leif:

when the devil wears Prada came out. So, like,

Leif:

the bitch fashionista stare at

Leif:

all the rage then.

Steve:

Yeah, and I get that. And, I mean, they've laced that

Steve:

throughout this from. From the start. You know,

Steve:

Eleanor is not. Is not a pleasant

Steve:

person, you know?

Leif:

Or.

Steve:

I shouldn't say that, but she is a very in

Steve:

command person when she is in

Steve:

charge, and I. You know, Laurel was

Steve:

shitty. I also just kind of was

Steve:

like, you know, jenny, you just made a

Steve:

dress at home on a sewing machine, and you expect,

Steve:

like, somebody who's, like, really high in the fashion

Steve:

industry to wear it to a major event. I thought that

Steve:

was a little, lofty.

Leif:

This is where just, like, with dad's writing, when we see

Leif:

little snippets of it, we have to

Leif:

suspend this belief. We have to just accept that

Leif:

Jenny is, like, this genius designer.

Steve:

That's fair. That's fair.

Leif:

So back at the loft, Jenny gets to work

Leif:

on her button assignment, and she and Dan

Leif:

discuss dinner plans. Allison's in town,

Leif:

but thankfully, we don't see her. Jenny asks

Leif:

about the big breakup, and then Dan leaves to get

Leif:

food.

Steve:

Yeah, they're all, Alison's at South

Steve:

Pacific. And, yes,

Steve:

thank you for not making a cameo.

Leif:

But good that they explain that the kids are just

Leif:

living by themselves all summer.

Steve:

Rufus isn't just on tour.

Leif:

Yeah, but the real reason. They probably just didn't want to pay the

Leif:

actress to come back.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Back at the Hamptons, Serena calls Chuck

Leif:

out about prepping for Blair's return.

Leif:

Serena thinks he has no chance with

Leif:

Blaire. Chuck comes back with a burn. That about

Leif:

Serena being alone and in a fake relationship,

Leif:

that's got a sting.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. And I also

Steve:

love in this that. Well, first of

Steve:

all, Chuck's hair is

Steve:

awful.

Leif:

I thought it was much better this season.

Steve:

Oh, I thought it was awful in that swing, that

Steve:

scene where it was, like, all slicked down and, like,

Steve:

I. Yeah, I actually hated

Steve:

that. But I also love that he

Steve:

sees right through Nate and Serena. Like.

Steve:

Like, he's. And when we also know Gossip girl

Steve:

sees through it, too, because gossip girl had even

Steve:

said, like, yeah, they're so hot and

Steve:

heavy. Why is she always alone and he's always Mia?

Leif:

Blair arrives on the bus. What?

Leif:

WTF? Smiles, knowing they had

Leif:

Chuck and her as her new boyfriend exits after

Leif:

her. Oh, poor Chucky. Ain't karma

Leif:

a bitch? We know Blair Waldorf is

Leif:

Chuck.

Steve:

Does that, like Batman sling off the

Steve:

screen, too?

Leif:

Oh, yeah. this is definitely the season of,

Leif:

Batman for. For Chuck.

Steve:

He is vengeance.

Leif:

everything he says from now on is pretty much all

Leif:

whispers. The rest of the series,

Leif:

he just whispers. And it's the. It's the COVID

Leif:

of the bridge taxi. Because, he did slip up, like, once or twice

Leif:

in season one.

Steve:

Wow. I. You know, I never actually picked up on

Steve:

it.

Leif:

So that is the end of the first act, and we move into act

Leif:

two. Blair and Serena are poolside discussing

Leif:

Serena's lack of summer romance. Blair is bringing the

Leif:

quips. A hot lifeguard is the legacy kleenex.

Leif:

Use once and throw away. And the

Leif:

only thing lamer than dating Dan Humphrey is.

Steve:

Morning.

Leif:

Dan humphrey.

Steve:

Yeah. Robin actually loved the kleenex

Steve:

analogy. She, cracked up with that. She

Steve:

also loved the. The sitting shiva

Steve:

reference. And she said the reason you're

Steve:

still sitting shiva, for Dan

Steve:

Humphrey, is that you haven't found somebody to get over

Steve:

him.

Leif:

Chuck walks by, and Blair instantly switches gears

Leif:

to talking about her new boyfriend Jane's.

Leif:

We then find out Chuck has the rando from the

Leif:

finale, fired. Sounds like James is coming

Leif:

to family dinner. Blair says she has to pick

Leif:

up something from Nate first. I recognize blair's

Leif:

skinny face when I see it.

Steve:

It's funny because I can't help but think that

Steve:

this dude from the season

Steve:

finale just got fired

Steve:

because the. The message boards were

Steve:

like, no, this dude stupid. And so it's like,

Steve:

well, shit, I guess Chuck's gonna have him

Steve:

fired, and he's gonna introduce Blair to someone else.

Leif:

Yep.

Steve:

Also, a little bit on. On

Steve:

Leighton Meester and her acting, we. We

Steve:

talk about it all the time.

Steve:

She's. Blair is really

Steve:

bad at pretending and really bad at

Steve:

being awkward. And

Steve:

to me, it's one of those acting tricks. It's

Steve:

actually a lot harder to do

Steve:

in that kind of moment to

Steve:

be a good actor and then acting

Steve:

badly. It's sort of like

Steve:

a singer trying to sing out of key. Or

Steve:

like the scene in the jerk where Steve Martin

Steve:

can't. Can't keep time

Steve:

to intentionally be off

Steve:

beat or off time is actually

Steve:

more difficult than actually keeping the

Steve:

rhythm sometimes. Or so like this.

Steve:

This is just another one of those display of acting

Steve:

chops where her bad acting is

Steve:

actually really good acting.

Leif:

M. Yeah,

Leif:

shut. Rufus is on the tour

Leif:

bus talking to Jenny. They are worried about Dan.

Leif:

Rufus tries to encourage Jenny in her fashion

Leif:

career, and Jack Jackson catches a stray in the

Leif:

process. Rufus, suggests reaching out to

Leif:

Eric for help getting. Getting into the white party.

Steve:

Yeah. It was also nice that Rufus

Steve:

did a little bit of parenting here. You know, it was nice

Steve:

to see. I felt like it was the old Rufus

Steve:

again, being, like, the good dad,

Steve:

even from a distance. And, like, it's

Steve:

funny because you almost get the sense that they're getting more

Steve:

parenting from him on the road than they are from

Steve:

Alison, who's there, who's

Steve:

fucking the.

Leif:

The neighbor still?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Who's. Who's, like, out on a

Steve:

date with her boyfriend that she is still

Steve:

with.

Leif:

That's cr. Like, was he living there with

Leif:

them? That's kind of weird. I don't know.

Steve:

I had that thought. Like, is he. Does he also have his own

Steve:

place? Because, like, if I'm Rufus,

Steve:

right? And, like,

Steve:

yeah, I'm just gonna bring. Yeah, I'm just gonna come stay at your

Steve:

place and bring my. My boyfriend and fucking

Steve:

your bedev.

Steve:

You mind if we fucking the loft,

Steve:

where you're gonna come home and sleep?

Steve:

okay. I'll change the sheets.

Leif:

They didn't change the sheets.

Steve:

They didn't change the sheets.

Leif:

Dan walks into a bar to meet with his boss,

Leif:

who proceeds to fire Dan after he continues to make

Leif:

excuses about night writing his story.

Steve:

I love that Dan gets that taste of the industry, too,

Steve:

that both Jenny and Dan, who

Steve:

had these, who both have

Steve:

a fantasy of working in

Steve:

these high pressure,

Steve:

you know, type of, type of careers where Jenny wants

Steve:

to be in the fashion industry and Dan wants to be a writer.

Steve:

And now they're both getting a taste of what that really

Steve:

means. And it is, shut up and

Steve:

do your job. And it is,

Steve:

do your job or you're not going to have one. M.

Steve:

which, of course, like, the shut up and do your job aspect

Steve:

of Jenny. We know how that plays out, but

Steve:

that is a lot of what the fashion industry

Steve:

is going to be. That's, you know,

Steve:

what internships often are.

Leif:

And it is, I think it's good setup for what's going to come

Leif:

from the season for both. Eric takes a call from

Leif:

jenny. Eric makes her squirm for a minute before

Leif:

forgiving her and agreeing to help.

Steve:

Speaker one. I love this. I loved this

Steve:

reconnection. I love how eric played it. I

Steve:

love how it just felt so true to

Steve:

who Eric is. He's just. And, you know, I don't

Steve:

have a lot of friends, and so I need every backstabbing,

Steve:

lying one that I can have. Like, he said that.

Steve:

How do you deliver that line with so much love?

Steve:

Is. Is so. It was

Steve:

so great. And I really loved that reconnection.

Leif:

I also did like seeing him with, hanging out with Chuck and Nate as

Leif:

well.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. I loved eric's

Steve:

presence in this episode. Yeah. The later

Steve:

scene with them, is fantastic.

Leif:

The lifeguard shows up to pick up Serena

Leif:

in a chimera. Ew.

Steve:

Not ironically, an

Steve:

unironic camaro.

Leif:

Serena reminds Blair to keep up Nate's cover

Leif:

story that he and Serena are dating.

Leif:

So let's get into this cover story.

Leif:

I don't get it. Are, all three of them hanging out for some

Leif:

reason? Why do they need this cover

Leif:

story?

Steve:

Yeah. Why? Yeah. Like,

Steve:

Nate. Nate. I get Nate needing a cover

Steve:

story to keep off of the back of.

Steve:

Like, he's dating a married woman, but,

Steve:

like, Serena.

Leif:

But they're not dating. They're just fucking.

Steve:

But they're just fucking. Yeah.

Leif:

They're not together anywhere else.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. It is just a secret

Steve:

hookup.

Leif:

So why do they need to cover? Yeah, it makes more sense for

Leif:

Serena. Cause she doesn't wanna get hit on constantly right

Leif:

now.

Steve:

Exactly. She would be. And the fact

Steve:

that only one dude hits on her, and it's this lifeguard

Steve:

who she could not give a shit

Steve:

about. She is so not

Steve:

interested in this date.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And it's funny because I feel like this

Steve:

date was only written in to

Steve:

have them talk about the Nate

Steve:

relationship and the Nate, you know,

Steve:

shoe front, this whole thing. And I say that

Steve:

because later on, they definitely have a continuity

Steve:

error where Serena talks about how

Steve:

great, James was

Steve:

at brunch that Serena wasn't at.

Leif:

I missed that. Speaking of Nate, is

Leif:

once again getting hot and heavy with the older woman from

Leif:

before. How much older and how married is

Leif:

she?

Steve:

Too old and too married is my note.

Leif:

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

But, yeah, we. We start to get inklings of the, This

Leif:

is probably someone that's much older and

Leif:

probably in a relationship.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

So. Guy.

Steve:

Well, I think at this point, they. Oh, no. Yeah.

Steve:

Ah, I guess they haven't said it out loud yet.

Leif:

At dinner, Chuck is interrogating Blair's

Leif:

new bow. Eric and Cece call him out.

Leif:

But he responds to tip in typical Chuck

Leif:

fashion. Hey, everybody. Grandma's back. When

Leif:

Chuck sees the heart on Jane's sleeve,

Leif:

he gets up to leave, clearly distraught.

Leif:

Chucky boy.

Steve:

Aw, Chuck

Steve:

has feelings. I actually have two notes

Steve:

on this scene. the first is that, the way

Steve:

that Chuck tries to subtly weaponize

Steve:

homophobia when he's like,

Steve:

you know, you. So how was Harold and,

Steve:

oh, what's his boyfriend's

Steve:

name? Like, really felt like he

Steve:

was trying to, like, oh, let's see how this dude reacts

Steve:

when we bring up. And of course, James is like, oh, yeah,

Steve:

they were great.

Leif:

What was he weapon? I thought he was just trying to fish

Leif:

to see if he knew the name.

Steve:

Oh, I see. I saw it as he was trying to fish to

Steve:

see if he would have a reaction to the gay

Steve:

parents. That was how I read that.

Steve:

But I, That might just be.

Leif:

Yeah, I don't really get that, but it's possible. to me, it was more he was just

Leif:

fishing to see if he was there.

Steve:

That makes sense.

Leif:

He was, like, checking up on Blair's story.

Steve:

That tracks. The other thing that I want to say about this, and

Steve:

this might be something that you were going to tell me earlier,

Steve:

but I felt throughout this entire episode

Steve:

that Lily was unavailable. And

Steve:

Cece was written for Lily. Yes.

Leif:

And Cece, ah, is way out of character.

Steve:

And Cece is entirely out of

Steve:

character. And just. Welp, I had a whole change of heart because

Steve:

I survived cancer, which. Okay, like, I'll take

Steve:

it, but that. But the entire thing,

Steve:

like, needed Lily.

Leif:

Like, yeah, so I'm

Leif:

pretty sure this is when she had her kid.

Leif:

Okay, but this is, like, the first half. Many times

Leif:

throughout the series, where she just kind of disappears

Leif:

for real life reasons, usually to do with the kid.

Leif:

apparently it was a very messy divorce, and the guy lived in

Leif:

England.

Steve:

And I remember you.

Leif:

Vicious custody battle going on.

Steve:

And it's such a shame because, like, man,

Steve:

again, it was written for Lily. You can see

Steve:

it all over the place, and she would have fucking killed

Steve:

it. And Cece doesn't. Yeah, Cece

Steve:

is just not good in this.

Steve:

I have a later note on her, but we'll get to that

Steve:

later. Yeah.

Leif:

Just doesn't fit her character.

Steve:

No, not at all. Does she revert back to old

Steve:

Cece later on? Like, is this

Steve:

who she is now, or does she

Steve:

go back to being an asshole when Lily's around?

Leif:

She definitely goes back to being asshole, but

Leif:

she's a little more. She's definitely softened out

Leif:

from her first appearance, but she definitely reverts

Leif:

more. She goes back more to character.

Steve:

I would assume that it's one of those things that

Steve:

when Lily's there, she goes back to her old character, and when

Steve:

Lily's not, she's written for Lily.

Steve:

But we'll see. We'll keep an eye on

Steve:

that.

Leif:

Blair follows after him. Looks like we know

Leif:

Blair had to get what Blair had to get from

Leif:

Nate. Chuck is devastated and walks away again.

Leif:

Blair hides her tears. This are just

Leif:

fucking idiots.

Steve:

They are. They are. But this fucking scene.

Steve:

The colors, like, the color

Steve:

palette of this scene, the green,

Steve:

the green background with the pink

Steve:

across the, behind Chuck and the

Steve:

water behind Blair and the way that they

Steve:

shot it with the. The close ups

Steve:

to really catch their. Their reactions and then

Steve:

these broad shots of this

Steve:

beautiful outdoor

Steve:

little garden area, I

Steve:

just. I was blown away, and it's a very

Steve:

emotionally powerful scene. Like, I got. I

Steve:

got wrapped up in it. It was really good.

Leif:

Yeah. Very good chemistry

Leif:

still.

Steve:

Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was,

Steve:

unbelievable.

Leif:

Back of the table, Blair grabs the heart pin from Jane's

Leif:

sleeve, an obvious plant, as he wasn't even aware it

Leif:

was there.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, I didn't feel a thing. Neither did

Steve:

I. Oh,

Steve:

man.

Leif:

I love Blair's lines.

Steve:

Yeah, that. It was such a good

Steve:

line, and it was so. It

Steve:

seems like such a throwaway, but she

Steve:

just fucking stuck the landing so

Steve:

well.

Leif:

Nate and his lady friend are basking in the

Leif:

afterglow when her husband gets home early, and Nate

Leif:

is forced to run out of the house in only

Leif:

underwear. Serena and her date almost

Leif:

hit him as he was crossing the street. Nate

Leif:

is busted.

Steve:

She's clearly done this before.

Steve:

Yeah, she clearly has an escape

Steve:

route. She

Steve:

was way too calm.

Steve:

Okay. It is a code. Husband, I'm going to need you

Steve:

to choose either through the window or, was the

Steve:

other option under the bed m or the closet or something

Steve:

like that. And, like. And, you know,

Steve:

she just went into, like, husband returning

Steve:

protocol mode, and. And

Steve:

Nate was like, what the fuck?

Leif:

Sarita and Blair are walking down the street, and she

Leif:

admits she doesn't even like James. That and that

Leif:

Chuck ruined her summer mother.

Steve:

Chucker. And that chuck

Steve:

bastard. Yeah. I love it.

Leif:

I love it. Chuck bastard also.

Steve:

Yeah. This is where. This is where the scene where Serena

Steve:

compliments James, where

Steve:

Blair calls James boring to Serena,

Steve:

and Serena's like, well, at brunch the other day, he

Steve:

was great. He was talking about this and this, and he said

Steve:

all. And I was like,

Steve:

lar, you weren't at brunch. You were

Steve:

on a date that you two already referenced earlier in

Steve:

the scene.

Leif:

Nate and Chuck are walking down the same street, and Chuck

Leif:

says he is avoiding Blair and the white party and going back to

Leif:

the city early.

Steve:

Aw.

Leif:

yeah, he thought he was going to get Blair right away.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And then the two sets of best friends just happened

Leif:

to bump into each other. Serena questions Nate about

Leif:

the affair, while Chuck questions James

Leif:

backstory. Now Chuck has his scheming

Leif:

face on.

Steve:

Mmm. yeah,

Steve:

I love it. Like, what college does he go

Steve:

when he and blair get into the bickering over Bristol college George

Steve:

stuff?

Leif:

Briston. Georgetown.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, it was so great. And then he's like,

Steve:

eric, you were there.

Steve:

And then like, okay, we gotta see what we can find on

Steve:

him.

Leif:

And I do some research during junior.

Steve:

Yeah. And I love how Eric just does.

Steve:

Like, I love how Eric is like.

Leif:

What else is he going to do?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, I would like. That was his attitude. Like, yeah,

Steve:

sure. Fuck yeah, I'll do this.

Leif:

yeah, I love. At the end of the scene,

Leif:

chase gives us a little eye roll. Like, he's like, oh, my God.

Leif:

What are you doing, Chuck?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Like, let him do comedy. Let him do,

Leif:

comedy.

Steve:

Yeah, please. Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Dan is bitching to his dad about getting fired.

Leif:

Rufus knows all about writer's block and the Vander

Leif:

Woodson woman.

Steve:

Yeah. Like, oh, it took me twelve years to finish

Steve:

a song. that's not what

Steve:

your kid needs to hear right now, though.

Leif:

Like, wow, at least it's only been a couple months for him.

Steve:

Yeah, but just like, imagine being

Steve:

like, hey, I wanna. I'm an aspiring writer.

Steve:

And then your dad, who is, like, a

Steve:

professional writer of a different sort,

Steve:

is like, yeah, once I had writer's block for twelve years. It's

Steve:

like, shit, am I gonna have this for twelve years?

Leif:

well, he remembers what

Leif:

uncorked that writer's block for his dad. So he's

Leif:

like, I have an idea.

Leif:

Back at Cece's house, nate, Chuck and eric are playing

Leif:

polo and discussing the holes in James backstory.

Leif:

Eric has gotten as far as he can, so Chuck calls

Leif:

his personal PI.

Steve:

He has a PI on speed dial.

Steve:

Yeah. I love Chuck and

Steve:

eric's relationship, and I just love

Steve:

how. How eric is just

Steve:

all in. Like, oh, you want me to do some digging on this

Steve:

random dude? Sure, bro. Like, I'm here

Steve:

for it. And I also love, like, he,

Steve:

like, you know, they're hanging out with Nate.

Steve:

I love that Nate and eric are hanging out now because of

Steve:

this. I love eric having friends, you

Steve:

know? Yeah.

Leif:

It is nice to see him doing much better this season.

Steve:

yeah.

Leif:

He did much better than he was in the first season premiere.

Steve:

Yeah. Especially at this point in last season, he was in much worse

Steve:

shape.

Leif:

So good to see.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Serena and nate have a conversation about his

Leif:

affair, and Nate is fucking dumb.

Leif:

it's pretty sad when serena has to mansplain to

Leif:

you.

Steve:

Yeah. I love the serena and nate

Steve:

friendship. I think that they are just really

Steve:

sweet together. I love how they

Steve:

interact and how they're just there for each other. I think it's

Steve:

sweet.

Leif:

Blair gets text from Chuck announcing that he's coming to

Leif:

the white party after all. She looks like she is

Leif:

smelling a foul, older odor as she invites James

Leif:

to the white party.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

She was about to break up with.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

And. And it was funny for one more night.

Steve:

Yeah. And he was also about to

Steve:

confess to her. Yeah. As well.

Steve:

That, like, had he just talked, but. But also,

Steve:

had he told her then, I think that would

Steve:

have had a very different impact on where

Steve:

they ended up.

Leif:

Yeah. You know, but also, like, if Blair was going to

Leif:

break up with him now, like, what was her plan for when school

Leif:

started?

Steve:

Yeah. Yes.

Leif:

I guess he wanted to. He was keeping them

Leif:

around because Chuck was specifically coming to the party to confront

Leif:

about lying about, Princeton. Georgetown.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Dan arrives in the Hamptons via the jitney and

Leif:

hops in the nearest cab. Dan's on

Leif:

the scene. Finally.

Steve:

Yep. Yeah. Good

Steve:

job, Dan.

Leif:

Yeah. And that is the end

Leif:

of act two. We move to act three. The white

Leif:

party is popping off thanks to some not so

Leif:

clever product placement.

Leif:

so, yes, as Josh Schwartz discovered in

Leif:

his second, batch of shows. So he did this

Leif:

show and Chuck at the same time.

Leif:

You can get some money for, product placement.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

a lot of subway on Chuck, and we have

Leif:

vitamin water all over the place here.

Steve:

Yeah. It was catered by vitamin

Steve:

water, pretty much like.

Leif:

Well, yeah, the vitamin water white party.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And there's stacks of them.

Steve:

Yeah. and

Steve:

also,

Steve:

Laurel, when she was ripping apart Jenny's

Steve:

dress was like. And that's eggshell.

Steve:

And this party, there is a lot of off white

Steve:

in eggshell.

Leif:

Most of it's off white.

Steve:

Yeah. Like, tons of people are wearing things that

Steve:

matched what Jenny was wearing.

Leif:

Jenny arrives with Eric and gets a

Leif:

WTF stare from Laurel.

Steve:

Wait. Oh, yeah.

Leif:

It's like, bitch, what do you. Why do you care if she's there?

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Why. Why do you care?

Steve:

Yeah, I actually think I have that as a note later on, too,

Steve:

like. Like, are you security?

Leif:

Are you security?

Steve:

Yeah. Why is this such a big deal to you? And, like,

Steve:

when she does confront Jennie, which we'll talk about, but, like, that was

Steve:

my way.

Leif:

And looked the. At the list.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. She, like, did race. Like, it took.

Steve:

She. It would upset her so much that she took

Steve:

time out of her. Of her enjoyment at this

Steve:

fucking party.

Leif:

yeah. Catherine makes a snide comment

Leif:

today, and Nate just asked Serena to get him

Leif:

drunk.

Steve:

Yeah. She was mad that

Steve:

Nate was there, and she just, you know, you tried.

Steve:

Are you trying to get me a divorce? And

Steve:

Nate wants to get drunk? Yep.

Leif:

Why are we doing this story?

Steve:

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

Leif:

Cece is getting ready for the party when who knocks on

Leif:

her door? Daniel Humphrey, that's who.

Leif:

Dad helps her put on her pearls. Cece is a

Leif:

changed woman. Is now playing Cupid for Stan and

Leif:

Serena.

Steve:

Yeah. She's all about this relationship that she

Steve:

was absolutely all against for

Steve:

many reasons the last

Steve:

time we saw her.

Leif:

Yeah. You didn't want her to stop her

Leif:

from being with the advocates for happiness. Yeah,

Leif:

that had nothing to do with her happiness.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Nothing.

Steve:

yeah. And again, this whole

Steve:

scene just felt like they needed Lily, and they're,

Steve:

like.

Leif:

Definitely ready for Lily.

Steve:

Oh, shit. Well, how are we going to have

Steve:

Cece take him to the party? Well, we'll just

Steve:

say that cancer made her nice.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair is becoming

Leif:

more and more transparent. Her attempts to use James to

Leif:

make Chuck jealous. Even James finally gets the

Leif:

hint and walks away.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Where are you? Screwed up. Took it too

Leif:

far.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. And again, this is Layton being

Steve:

great at bad acting, too.

Leif:

Laurel confronts Jenny about the being at the

Leif:

party. She is still being a total bitch to Jenny

Leif:

for no reason. Then Eric sets Jenny up

Leif:

for the alley oop slam by bringing over

Leif:

socialite Tinsley Mortimer, who

Leif:

absolutely loves Jenny's dress.

Steve:

Yeah, so. So Robin gave an audible squeal when

Steve:

Tinsley, mortal Mortimer came over. But, like, we

Steve:

were just saying about Laurel, like, it's one thing to be an

Steve:

asshole at. At work, right? Where, like, you are the

Steve:

boss and it is your job and, like, you are under pressure and,

Steve:

like, you were more of an asshole than you needed to be, but it was

Steve:

kind of understandable in a situation where you're

Steve:

at work, but, you're not at work. Like, what do

Steve:

you give a shit so much that you're wasting your party?

Steve:

Time to go look at the guest list and to also

Steve:

be like, and how do you know

Steve:

somebody that would be at this party?

Steve:

It's like I go to fucking Constance.

Steve:

I go to a fucking rich Upper east

Steve:

side school. You don't think I don't don't

Steve:

know anybody at that fucking school. I

Steve:

dated Ash Ashton.

Steve:

I dated Asher. What's his

Steve:

name? Yeah.

Leif:

yeah. Well, over the top from Laurel.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

James calls Blair out for using him.

Leif:

Chuck is sitting in the shadows and steps in as James

Leif:

walks away. Blair is still too hurt

Leif:

to make things work.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. And this is where James just lands

Steve:

a crit on. On Blair, too. Where

Steve:

isn't this where. Where he turns to her and is like,

Steve:

Was this all about, like, am I really boring,

Steve:

or are you just so obsessed with yourself that you just didn't

Steve:

take the time to learn anything about me? And it was

Steve:

just like, you could just see her just

Steve:

like, I just get stabbed in the gut and just

Steve:

like, oh, fuck. And then.

Steve:

And then for Chuck to immediately be like, see, we

Steve:

belong together. You're just like me. And it's like, no, I'm

Steve:

not.

Leif:

Nate and Serena are still talking about the affair.

Leif:

Serena starts making out with Nate to make Katherine

Leif:

jealous. Unfortunately for Serena, Katherine

Leif:

isn't the only one who gets jealous. At the ruse, Dan

Leif:

conveniently arrives just in time to witness the

Leif:

guests.

Steve:

It's so, like, it.

Leif:

It's, like, so t drama.

Steve:

And it's so. It's like the steamroller.

Steve:

Like, it's like the steamroller and Austin powers

Steve:

where you see this happening for, like,

Steve:

you know, 30 yards away.

Steve:

It's like, wow, they're going to start kissing,

Steve:

and then I doubt Dan's going to see

Steve:

that, even though it doesn't mean anything.

Leif:

yeah. Back from commercial break. Dan

Leif:

is back to judging Serena, but get some instant

Leif:

karma when the two young ladies he was macking with back

Leif:

in act one show up and call him out right out in the middle of

Leif:

the rant. His rant arena.

Steve:

Yeah. He's a real dick, especially

Steve:

when he slut shames her. Yeah. When

Steve:

she's like, I'm surprised, and he's like, well, I'm

Steve:

nothing. And, like, I will

Steve:

say the one point where.

Leif:

I hate how Serena just, like, goes, like,

Leif:

goes along with it.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one

Steve:

thing where I understood where Dan was coming

Steve:

from is the point of

Steve:

you can't tell me why. And it's

Steve:

always a. There's always something you can't tell me, and there's

Steve:

always another reason behind things, but

Steve:

also, like, get over it,

Steve:

Dan. Like. Like, shut up about it. Yeah.

Leif:

Stop being a fucking judge, Rachel.

Steve:

Dick. Yeah. And stop being a fucking hypocrite.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Like, so,

Leif:

Dan was definitely being a dick, and. But

Leif:

I will say those other girls

Leif:

didn't really have much leg to stand on because they were

Leif:

there with other dates, too. So it's like, clearly there was

Leif:

not a monogamous relationship.

Steve:

Right, right.

Leif:

And did Dan deserve to have them throw their

Leif:

drinks on that nice seventies suit?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well,

Steve:

and. And also to that point,

Steve:

like, why would Dan

Steve:

be surprised to

Steve:

see Serena and Nate hooking up?

Steve:

Dan knows what's on the gossip

Steve:

girl message boards, and if she. He doesn't,

Steve:

Jenny does.

Leif:

maybe he's been not paying attention.

Steve:

This summer, but do you think Jenny

Steve:

wasn't? You think it was never brought up that,

Steve:

hey, it looks like Serena and Nate are dating each other.

Steve:

I feel like it was way too public for Dan

Steve:

not to know.

Leif:

I feel like Jenny would have not told him

Leif:

if he was purposely, like, being,

Leif:

like, staying out of it. I feel like Jenny

Leif:

would not have said anything.

Steve:

I don't know because I feel like Jenny was also really trying

Steve:

to get the info on. On stuff,

Steve:

you know, he was.

Leif:

But, she likes to get the info. She doesn't give the info.

Steve:

Yeah, that's true. I'm just. I just

Steve:

find it difficult to believe.

Steve:

I mean, yes, there are reasons that he wouldn't have known and he

Steve:

wouldn't have seen it, but I just feel like the

Steve:

way that gossip girl is used in this

Steve:

that he should have.

Leif:

But, you know, he is a loner. He's,

Steve:

Well, but he. But he wasn't.

Leif:

But these are not upper. He's, like, hanging out in Brooklyn

Leif:

now with the writer chicks. The writer

Leif:

groupies.

Steve:

Yeah. Fair.

Leif:

yeah. In the quiet

Leif:

hall. In a quiet hallway, Katherine and Nate begin making

Leif:

out. What is with Nate? And letting the mother figures

Leif:

walk all over him? I'm sure doctor Freud would have

Leif:

something to say on this subject. Maybe they are setting up

Leif:

Nate's season six storyline to be a

Leif:

tragedy in which he kills his dad and fucks his mom.

Steve:

Yeah, I'd watch that.

Leif:

Yeah. Well. Well,

Leif:

not really, but. Well, yeah, I'd read about

Leif:

it.

Leif:

Serena is helping Dan wash the vitamin water

Leif:

out of his. Out of her grandfather's vintage suit.

Leif:

Dan admits he was trying to chuck the pain

Leif:

away this summer. Serena can't resist

Leif:

the Dan in a muscle tank, but, right at what did

Leif:

it better, though?

Steve:

like, it's a cute makeup scene. But

Steve:

why is it, though?

Leif:

Hold on.

Steve:

Hold. Well, it's cute.

Steve:

Like, they're kind of talking, and they're cleaning

Steve:

the thing, and they're going back and forth.

Steve:

But, like, I was also like, why? Why are they

Steve:

getting back together? And my only guess is

Steve:

that the message boards over the summer were like, why the

Steve:

fuck did you break them up? But,

Steve:

like, why are they getting back together? Like,

Steve:

the breakup was going to bring

Steve:

about new stories and new.

Leif:

But I feel like the show is also telling us that

Leif:

it's not the right time for them to get back together.

Leif:

Like, they're getting back together, but they didn't talk through their

Leif:

issues at all. It's clearly still just a

Leif:

physical attraction thing. It's like, like I

Leif:

said, when he takes off his shirt, she's

Leif:

like, ready to

Leif:

go.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Also, this is where

Steve:

I have the other note that Cece is

Steve:

practically a muppet.

Steve:

Like, she just looked like, she reminded me

Steve:

of the. Of the dark crystal muppets.

Steve:

The way that she just kind of, like, is

Steve:

she, like, turned and she had this, like, turn and walked

Steve:

off screen, and, like, it was, like,

Steve:

so muppet esque, but, like.

Steve:

But, like, creepy muppet esque.

Leif:

And it was like,

Leif:

I like the actress play Cece. I just think her. She

Leif:

was written out a character this episode.

Steve:

Yeah. And I think that it made it, and I think

Steve:

that she played the other Cece

Steve:

better. I think she played Cece

Steve:

great. I didn't think she played Lily very well.

Leif:

Blair, apologizes to James. He admits his

Leif:

fake backstory. At the same time, Chuck is

Leif:

finding out the truth from his PI. James is

Leif:

actually Marcus, a real british

Leif:

lord. this is the most ridiculous

Leif:

scene ever.

Steve:

I. So before he

Steve:

confessed in. In the earlier thing, when he's like,

Steve:

I have a secret I need to tell you, too. To

Steve:

Blair. When they were discussing the whole college thing,

Steve:

I turned to rob and I said, he's a british

Steve:

lord or a prince or some fucking shit like

Steve:

that. Boom.

Leif:

Yep. But,

Leif:

unfortunately, I think his american accent's a little better than his british

Leif:

accent. The actor is actually american.

Steve:

Yeah, well, yeah, but,

Steve:

like, that changed.

Leif:

Mid sense was so ridiculous.

Steve:

I was there laughing. Yeah, it was so

Steve:

bad. And

Steve:

just so, like, yeah, this guy's

Steve:

gonna be a fucking prince, isn't he? Or some

Steve:

stupid fucking

Steve:

any. And he's, I'm assuming, gonna

Steve:

be around at least for another episode, because the

Steve:

episode, next episode title I did see.

Leif:

Yes, he's gonna be around for a little bit.

Steve:

I'm okay with that.

Leif:

But that is the end of act three, so we move

Leif:

into the epilogue. Jenny shocks

Leif:

Solaro with her loyalty Jenny turned down

Leif:

an offer from Tinsley to continue working at Waldorf

Leif:

designs.

Steve:

Yeah, little, j takes

Steve:

the high road.

Leif:

But why?

Steve:

Why? Like, I

Steve:

mean, it seemed like you had something

Steve:

that. I don't know, I just felt like she didn't really

Steve:

owe anything to Eleanor at this point because

Steve:

they shit on

Steve:

her, you know, like, go where

Steve:

you're appreciated and where they actually respect what

Steve:

you're doing.

Leif:

But I I don't really. It was part of

Leif:

that Parsons internship program,

Leif:

so maybe that means something. I don't

Leif:

know.

Steve:

Yeah, I feel like it was played off to

Steve:

be like, Jenny takes the high road sort of thing. Like,

Steve:

Jenny. Jenny's gonna forgive Laurel, and

Steve:

Laurel's gonna learn a lesson, you know, like.

Steve:

Like. And really, I,

Steve:

might, like. I was kind of like, fuck Laurel in this

Steve:

situation.

Leif:

Chuck admits to Blair that he was scared and begs

Leif:

her to stay with him, but he can't emit those

Leif:

three words, eight letters. Blair gets

Leif:

in the car with Marcus, and they drive away.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

this is another one of those, like, just super

Steve:

well shot scenes. The directing and.

Steve:

And the acting and that especially, like, the

Steve:

face acting. The up m close. Close shots are

Steve:

just. They capture just so

Steve:

much. and. And again, the

Steve:

chemistry between Ed and

Steve:

Leighton or Layton. again,

Steve:

just. It just. It was a heart

Steve:

wrenching scene. And when she goes and gets in the car,

Steve:

it's like you feel for Chuck even

Steve:

though he fucks up. Like, he's.

Steve:

He's in his. He's in his bed of his own making,

Steve:

but you feel for him.

Leif:

Nate gets a note from Katherine as she is

Leif:

leaving with her husband. Looks like the fair

Leif:

is still on.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, meet me at a

Steve:

hotel.

Leif:

So guess that story's

Leif:

still happening, too.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was

Steve:

like, oh, that was my thought, too. Like,

Steve:

this is still going to have. This is still going to go on.

Leif:

Apparently, Dan is finally writing his

Leif:

story by a beachside campfire as Serena walks

Leif:

up with an unsure look on her face. So I'm

Leif:

not sure if that was intentional or if that was just Blake cabbing

Leif:

gas.

Steve:

Yeah, I didn't. I had that

Steve:

thought. So the first time I'm watching, I was like, she's

Steve:

going to turn and walk away, and he's just going to be sitting there all alone.

Steve:

and why? And then she doesn't, and I'm like, oh,

Steve:

okay. They are going to get back together, but why?

Leif:

Because they're 17 and they're

Leif:

extremely attracted to each other,

Leif:

which definitely tracks.

Steve:

And I do believe. My

Steve:

instinct is saying that the message board that Josh

Steve:

Schwartz is love affair with the

Steve:

message boards may. Must have played a

Steve:

role somewhat because I believe you said

Steve:

that, like, at the end of the season,

Steve:

at our last episode, that they. The

Steve:

message boards were like, why did they break up? Like, dan,

Steve:

you idiot. And so I wonder if

Steve:

there was some fan.

Leif:

Yeah, I guess we'll see.

Leif:

We'll see.

Steve:

But I just feel like a lot of this.

Leif:

I mean, do you think they're going to last?

Steve:

I feel like they will for a little while, anyway. I feel

Steve:

like putting them back together like this. I

Steve:

feel like. I feel like

Steve:

I give them to at least the midseason finale.

Steve:

Like, halfway through the. Through the season, if not

Steve:

longer.

Leif:

Chuck is drinking away his sorrows alone

Leif:

at the bar.

Leif:

Yes, this is the feeling. This is a season of sad

Leif:

Chuck.

Steve:

Bat Chuck.

Leif:

Yes. Serena and Dan embrace on the

Leif:

beach as fireworks go off and fell in love

Leif:

without you by motion picture soundtrack plays

Leif:

for the final time as the screen goes to

Leif:

black.

Steve:

I should have said, I'm best man.

Steve:

yeah, I kind of feel like it kind of left us

Steve:

back where we were in season one.

Leif:

Yeah. They still have not resolved any of their

Leif:

issues.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. I feel like. I felt like there

Steve:

was such resolution at the end of season

Steve:

one, and there was also.

Steve:

And there was resolution at the end of season one, and

Steve:

this shake up of Dan and

Steve:

Vanessa and Serena and Nate, and

Steve:

I didn't want the dan and Vanessa thing to happen.

Steve:

Apparently, Vanessa wanted the dan and Vanessa thing to happen,

Steve:

but then realized that Dan wanted the dan and

Steve:

whoever in Brooklyn thing to happen, and Vanessa

Steve:

wasn't having it. Yeah.

Leif:

Yeah. yeah. So we heard about Vanessa, but, yeah, thankfully,

Leif:

she was not on screen.

Steve:

Yeah. Sweet. Yeah, we had

Steve:

off screen Allison and Vanessa, and

Steve:

honestly, ladies, your best performances.

Leif:

So besides, I see you're saying mid

Leif:

season breakup for, dance arena.

Leif:

What else we got? Chuck and blair. What's going to happen with

Leif:

them?

Steve:

Eventually. Eventually,

Steve:

Marcus is going to have to realize that for

Steve:

all that he can give Blair, her heart is

Steve:

somewhere else. Like, I feel like that's where that is going

Steve:

to end up, and so it'll end up with

Steve:

Chuck and Blair. M again.

Steve:

I still kind of want Vanessa and Nate to happen.

Steve:

We have to have a Vanessa. I think

Steve:

that she's definitely where she.

Leif:

Was at her best.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. I can

Steve:

tolerate her. I can tolerate Vanessa when

Steve:

Georgina Sparks is around or when

Steve:

she's with Nate, but they seem to happen at the same time,

Steve:

so.

Leif:

But please get rid of Catherine.

Steve:

Yeah, that. Come on. Like, why are we.

Steve:

And then, like, I'm. Maybe.

Steve:

Maybe that now we're in 2024 and

Steve:

looking back at, like, the.

Steve:

The number of. Of, like,

Steve:

teachers and male high

Steve:

school students, like, female teachers or, like,

Steve:

the. Where you

Steve:

hear that on the news, and there. There was the

Steve:

time where it was where the

Steve:

guys would make the jokes of, like, oh, ha.

Leif:

Ah ha.

Steve:

Lucky. Like, man of my teacher, whatever. But,

Steve:

like, if you really think about that shit, it's

Steve:

traumatizing. And, like, it really can, like,

Steve:

have huge, fucked up,

Steve:

long term impact on. On a. On a

Steve:

young kid like that. And I feel like

Steve:

this show doesn't have the.

Steve:

The. Doesn't have the

Steve:

weight to. Doesn't have the strength to carry

Steve:

that weight.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

You know, I feel like this needs to get wrapped up

Steve:

quickly before it gets creepier and

Steve:

grosser.

Leif:

Yeah, well, we'll see how that

Leif:

goes. So that is it for our

Leif:

episode this week in

Leif:

fandom. We went back into the wayback

Leif:

machine to take a look at the television without the pity

Leif:

forums. We got Dan is still a

Leif:

jackass, but prettier.

Steve:

Okay. Yeah, there's a little better.

Leif:

How old is Marcus?

Steve:

Yeah, I mean, once again, like, Marcus

Steve:

definitely looks like he's

Steve:

at least late twenties. Yeah.

Leif:

I mean, he was saying he was in college, but then at the end,

Leif:

he's like, no, I don't go to school.

Steve:

Not actually in college. I'm not

Steve:

actually in college. No.

Leif:

Unsure about Cece's 180,

Leif:

as we talked about, as kind of odd.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Dan and Serena getting back together won't

Leif:

last.

Steve:

Yeah. I also feel like, why get them back

Steve:

together? Just to break them back up? Which is why I said, even

Steve:

if it doesn't last, I think it will at least

Steve:

last until, like, that mid season

Steve:

finale. Yeah. Christmas episode.

Steve:

or big episode around then.

Leif:

Can't get enough of Chuck and Blair.

Leif:

Yeah. As we talked about, they had the

Leif:

episode.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

And Eric. They're happy. Eric's

Leif:

happy.

Steve:

Yeah. like we said, like, you know, it's just

Steve:

I love that little guy. He's such a great guy to root for,

Steve:

and he's such, like, a lovable

Steve:

character who. Who is also

Steve:

just one of those super sincere kids who doesn't

Steve:

judge people by anything other than what's

Steve:

in front of them. It's like he's, like, a smarter Nate,

Steve:

you know?

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

And a more. And a more, Like,

Steve:

yeah, yeah. More perceptive, empathetic, and

Steve:

more empathetic. That's the word I'm looking for.

Leif:

So moving on to grades. It's the

Leif:

first episode of the season, so you get to go first.

Steve:

All right. Well, I gave this one.

Steve:

I'm going to actually give it a. I gave it a b

Steve:

plus, and I was. That was shaky even there.

Steve:

I was, I started at an a and then just kind of started, like,

Steve:

listing my. The things that bothered in it started

Steve:

dropping the score there. There is

Steve:

great directing in this episode. I

Steve:

think the director got great performances out of

Steve:

the. Out of the cast. I feel like the

Steve:

shot choices and the. And

Steve:

the general, like, directorial

Steve:

choices were really good, but

Steve:

there was some really predictable and

Steve:

sometimes weird writing. The cc

Steve:

thing is one of the big pieces that I

Steve:

think kind of held the episode back. And

Steve:

again, like, I thought it was weird to get Dan and Serena

Steve:

back together, especially if the idea is to get

Steve:

together, get them together just to break them up again,

Steve:

and especially if they break up over all the same dumb

Steve:

shit. Why are we. I

Steve:

hate when a season two of a show is a season

Steve:

one redo.

Leif:

I mean, I get it, but it definitely

Leif:

makes sense for teenagers to do

Leif:

something like that.

Steve:

Yeah, it does, but.

Leif:

But we don't. We don't want to see it.

Steve:

Yeah, but, like. Yeah, I. Like,

Steve:

I taught it. I taught middle and high

Steve:

school long enough that, like, I. Yes, I recognize

Steve:

the reality of it, and it's boring there, too.

Steve:

It's boring in real life, too.

Leif:

So I have very similar thoughts, but I

Leif:

actually went, a bit lower. I'm gonna give it a c

Leif:

plus.

Steve:

Cool. Yeah.

Leif:

The directing was okay. The acting was

Leif:

good in some scenes, but it was

Leif:

okay overall. And the writing was

Leif:

just mediocre.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

The c plus, I can't argue that.

Steve:

Like, I think that's a fair grade. but I. You know, and

Steve:

I also kind of felt like. I feel like

Steve:

after the writers strike, I started getting a taste of what

Steve:

Gossip girl not.

Leif:

I think this episode on the positive,

Leif:

it did do some good setup. I think it

Leif:

set up some stuff for the season.

Steve:

Yeah. Although I think some of the stuff it

Steve:

set up is also sort of, like, you know,

Steve:

they, like, some of the things that it does set up are, like,

Steve:

the nate thing, you know, and the,

Leif:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Stock watch. Who do you got going up?

Steve:

All right. Going up. I feel like this was a

Steve:

very up heavy episode.

Leif:

Oh, really? I was the opposite.

Steve:

Really? I have. I have most people going up

Steve:

by the end of this episode. I have most of them going up.

Steve:

Actually, I had Blair going up because now shes

Steve:

dating a prince. Dan and Serena

Steve:

going up because they got back together. And good for

Steve:

them. And Dan can write again. And good for

Steve:

them. Jenny going up because shes gotten

Steve:

some of the respect to Laurel and she got offered a job

Steve:

from Tinsley Mortimer.

Steve:

Marcus because he landed Blair

Steve:

cece for not being a complete and total fucking

Steve:

asshole for now, Rufus

Steve:

for some solid road parenting.

Steve:

And as much as I. Well, you know what? No, I'm going to take

Steve:

that one out. I'm not going to give Nate an up

Steve:

because Nate.

Leif:

Ah. So for me, the only ones I had going up were Eric and

Leif:

jenny. Eric. Eric has some friends

Leif:

now. And Jenny got back with Eric and, you

Leif:

know, full one over on her boss and

Leif:

impressed Tinsley Mortimer.

Steve:

I actually meant to have Eric too. I didn't write it

Steve:

down, but I would. I also had Eric going up because

Steve:

Eric, like you said, was just fucking awesome.

Leif:

I almost was going to give Dan going up because he got

Leif:

laid a couple times and. And also got back together with

Leif:

Serena, but then I just realized that was my damn bias showing

Leif:

through. And he was a total douchebag in this episode.

Leif:

And getting back to Serena is obviously the wrong move

Leif:

here.

Steve:

That's fair. That's fair.

Leif:

Who do you got going down?

Steve:

I had, well, Chuck

Steve:

start. Chuck starting the season

Steve:

in the negative again because he just kind of lost

Steve:

everything.

Leif:

Laurel.

Steve:

Laurel stock went down because laurel was an

Steve:

asshole and got, shown up by little jay.

Steve:

Catherine. Her stock is going down

Steve:

for being a pedophile

Steve:

and mister catherine for being married to a

Steve:

pedophile who's cheating on it.

Steve:

That's all we. That's all we have of his name. We don't know

Steve:

his name yet.

Leif:

yeah, it would feel more flat.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Mister Catherine. Is that

Steve:

it? Yeah.

Leif:

For me, I had Blair going

Leif:

down because she is with

Leif:

a prince or a lord, but she doesn't really love

Leif:

him. And she just acted like a fool

Leif:

this whole episode. Oh, yeah,

Leif:

Chuck, obviously you mister sad man. All

Leif:

episode. He's going, way down. Dan,

Leif:

for. Yeah, like, like I said before, he's just a total douche all

Leif:

episode. And he shouldn't be getting back together with Serena now because they have not

Leif:

worked through their issues. Yeah, Serena for the

Leif:

same reason. Fair

Leif:

Marcus going down because

Leif:

she failed your test and then you still fucking got with her.

Leif:

What? What do you think,

Leif:

katherine?

Steve:

She said something to me that no one else

Steve:

would ever say to me.

Leif:

Yeah, him. And they m need to see the same therapist.

Leif:

I think

Leif:

they like those domineering women.

Leif:

Katherine. And nothing needs to be said there.

Leif:

She's going down well.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

in more ways than what.

Steve:

Yeah, clearly Nate. Yeah.

Leif:

Because he's just back to being exactly where he was in

Leif:

season one.

Steve:

Yeah. I should have had Nate going down, too, if I didn't say

Steve:

that I originally had him as going up. And I

Steve:

don't know where I think that I meant to write eric, but I put

Steve:

Nate.

Leif:

And then also I have Laurel.

Steve:

Yeah, Laurel sucked.

Leif:

Who do you have your best outfit?

Steve:

I. It was. That

Steve:

green scene was so,

Steve:

like, so impactful to me. I have

Steve:

probably Chuck's suit, but I really listed it as

Steve:

a pair with Chuck and blair, the two of

Steve:

them, because I felt like that whole color.

Leif:

Palette, you want to give them both a half point.

Steve:

Yeah, I'm going to give both Chuck and Blair a half point

Steve:

because I felt like they both really,

Steve:

I felt like that

Steve:

complete visual is what made those outfits.

Leif:

Okay. So, yeah, the fashion

Leif:

was actually one of the best parts of this episode for me. Yeah, there were

Leif:

several. Great. I liked Blair Blair's floral

Leif:

dress when she was riding the bike. I liked Blair's Marc

Leif:

Jacobs, scallop dress at the party. Nate,

Leif:

Nate's the look, his party look was the one I would most want to wear

Leif:

myself with, like, the relaxed sweater and just the white

Leif:

t shirt and pants.

Steve:

I had the thought when I saw him in that outfit, I was

Steve:

like, that's probably like a

Steve:

$500 t shirt and, like a

Steve:

$1200 sweater.

Leif:

It looked really comfortable.

Steve:

It really did. But I had the same thought. Like,

Steve:

that's exactly what I would want to wear. And that's probably

Steve:

like, that's probably like, yeah.

Leif:

But in the end, I had to give it to

Leif:

Serena's Oscar dollar at the white dress. Yeah.

Leif:

It was from the 2008 collection, like a

Leif:

theta style.

Steve:

What I thought was really funny when I was watching this the

Steve:

second time, I flashed back to the last

Steve:

episode, the season finale with much ado

Steve:

or much I do about nothing. Where

Steve:

I gave Lily's dress

Steve:

the nod for the fashion, for the best

Steve:

outfit of the week. And you were like, yeah, I just

Steve:

don't really like white dresses that much. Then the

Steve:

next episode, it's like an entire white party.

Steve:

I was like, well, you're going to have to pick.

Leif:

Yep.

Steve:

Although they're, you know, like you said those other

Steve:

outfits and, and like you said, this episode

Steve:

was just very visually

Steve:

appealing and I felt like they really captured

Steve:

that a lot. I feel like that's this

Steve:

show, though. I feel like this show does a lot to

Steve:

be visually appealing. Yeah. And not just, you

Steve:

know, these pretty actors, which there are

Steve:

definitely a lot of pretty actors,

Steve:

but they just really make every

Steve:

scene something to draw your eye

Steve:

and something to stand out.

Leif:

Anything you want to plug or recommend this

Leif:

week?

Steve:

I can't think of much other than

Steve:

my Twitter or not my Twitter, my, TikTok,

Steve:

and my Instagram. Steve dot Marshan.

Steve:

M a r c h I o NDA.

Steve:

And aside from that, you know, I

Steve:

did start watching the, sympathizer on

Steve:

HBO, and that's a neat

Steve:

show. It's a Vietnam

Steve:

spy era or Vietnam era

Steve:

spy thriller of a north

Steve:

vietnamese spy who is in

Steve:

America. And it's. It's a really cool.

Steve:

It's a really cool story.

Leif:

Try and check it out. for me, I started out.

Leif:

I actually finished, X Men 97.

Leif:

Really, really liked it. Definitely recaptured the

Leif:

feeling of my youth. I was definitely a nineties kid watching

Leif:

the X Men series.

Steve:

I love how his will was like a fucking

Steve:

St. James Bible.

Steve:

When they bring out Xavier's will and it's like this

Steve:

fucking, like a tome.

Steve:

Yeah. Who has a

Steve:

bound will?

Leif:

I just really hope they. They're gonna go and they're gonna do

Leif:

the onslaught story, because I know they could never really do that

Leif:

in live action.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But it. It's not very popular, but I liked

Leif:

it. It was near the end of my comic collecting run.

Leif:

but, yeah, it's. It's. It happens after

Leif:

Wolverine gets his adamantity and ripped out by

Leif:

Magneto. And then

Leif:

Xavier, wipes Magneto's mind, but

Leif:

part of his, like, the evil part of him gets into

Leif:

Xavier and then creates this super being

Leif:

nice and.

Steve:

Like, destroys the whole Marvel universe

Steve:

again. Yep.

Leif:

Anyways, you can follow me on

Leif:

Instagram at hot capicola. You can follow the

Leif:

podcast at nonjudging breakfast pot

Leif:

on TikTok, Instagram, and threads

Leif:

on Twitter. We are.

Leif:

You can also find us on Facebook by searching for

Leif:

non judging practice pod. We have a page and a group

Leif:

where you can join the discussion. And we also

Leif:

now have a Reddit so you can find us

Leif:

R nJB pod.

Leif:

And I think we're gonna have a discord soon, so keep your eyes out

Leif:

for that.

Steve:

Oh, nice. And also, if you

Steve:

are following along and want to share something with

Steve:

us, please send us an

Steve:

email@nonjudgingbreakfastpodmail.com.

Steve:

dot. We'd love to hear from you. We'd love to

Steve:

share your thoughts of what we're doing on air,

Steve:

and we'd love to, be in touch with you

Steve:

more. Also, if you're watching this and you're enjoying

Steve:

it, or even if you're not enjoying it, please, like, follow

Steve:

and subscribe. And more than anything, please

Steve:

tell a friend and listen together on long car

Steve:

rides. Just, spread the word about the

Steve:

non judging breakfast bond.

Leif:

And we will be back next week to talk about season

Leif:

two, episode two, never been

Leif:

Marcus. The max episode

Leif:

preview reads, nate learns the downside

Leif:

of an affair with an older woman.

Steve:

I think it's really funny when the title and the

Steve:

description actually don't. Don't m

Steve:

match up. Yeah. Because

Steve:

clearly something else is going on in this episode.

Leif:

Also, I used the max episode descriptions,

Leif:

which, yeah, were written way after the show came out, so

Leif:

they're not afraid to drop spoilers in them.

Steve:

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And I

Steve:

actually tend not to read them. I hear

Steve:

you read them when we're here, but I don't read

Steve:

them when I'm, I often. I see the episode titles

Steve:

usually because you can't help but see.

Leif:

Well, until next time, you know you love

Leif:

us. Xoxo. take care.

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