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Gossip Girl S2E12 - A Wonderful Lie
Episode 12 • 3rd November 2024 • Non Judging Breakfast Pod • Mithril Chain Network
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In this episode of the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, hosts Leif and Steve dive into the complexities of Season 2, Episode 12 of Gossip Girl, "A Wonderful Lie." As the Snowflake Ball approaches, the drama on the Upper East Side reaches new heights. Blair and Chuck engage in playful banter over finding each other the perfect date, while Serena and Dan navigate the awkwardness of their respective relationships with Aaron and Lexi. Meanwhile, Jenny's feud with Vanessa takes a malicious turn, leading to a public humiliation at the ball. The hosts explore themes of betrayal, redemption, and the ever-present struggle for identity among Manhattan's elite. They also reflect on the cultural impact of the series and its portrayal of teenage ambition and rivalry.

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Gossip Girl, Snowflake Ball, betrayal, redemption, identity, Manhattan elite, podcast, analysis

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

02:45 Fan Interactions and Reviews

10:30 Discussing "A Wonderful Lie"

15:20 Blair and Chuck's Playful Banter

22:45 Serena and Dan's Awkward Relationships

30:00 Jenny's Feud with Vanessa

38:00 Lily and Rufus Reconnect

45:00 The Snowflake Ball: Drama Unfolds

52:30 Episode Highlights and Reflections

1:00:00 Stock Watch: Characters Rising and Falling

1:05:00 Best Outfits and Fashion Highlights

1:10:00 Predictions and Closing Remarks

Produced by Leif Capicola and Steve Marchion. 


Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

The Gossip Girl Theme Performed By Steve Marchion.

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Leif:

Sounds like Aaron is literally too cool for school

Leif:

dances. That is.

Steve:

Well, I mean, he probably has a restraining order keeping him

Steve:

away from. Keeping him from M300

Steve:

feet from within a school building.

Leif:

Hey, Upper east siders and all you scandal loving

Leif:

listeners out there, you just tuned into the non judging

Leif:

breakfast podcast where the coffee is strong, the

Leif:

waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than

Leif:

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

Leif:

Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn,

Steve:

the, I don't know, Leif. What do we call the season

Steve:

two Gossip Girl newbie on?

Leif:

I think it comes out to. If you know a little something about a thing called

Leif:

lining

Steve:

Well, put me in a dress for all to see

Steve:

and let's go ahead and get started.

Leif:

Sounds good.

Steve:

So here's the deal, folks. Leif has been watching

Steve:

Gossip Girl since it first came out in 2007.

Steve:

And I'm diving in for the first time. And together we're

Steve:

your dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama,

Steve:

romance and sometimes questionable fashion

Steve:

choices of this iconic TV series.

Leif:

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

Leif:

show one episode at a time. We're going to be

Leif:

analyzing all the hidden parallels, obscure

Leif:

references, and of course the couture catastrophes.

Leif:

And we're also going to take a look at some stories from fandom and

Leif:

some behind scenes guys.

Steve:

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

Steve:

breakfast pod, there is always a seat for you at the non

Steve:

judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab your

Steve:

mimosa, cup of coffee or some of Chuck,

Steve:

special medicine and let's get this show going.

Leif:

Okay. Ah, before we get into the episode, we got a

Leif:

little fan interaction here.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Got our first five star review.

Leif:

Very not first five stars. This is our first actual

Leif:

review. We had a few other five stars but they didn't

Leif:

leave actual review. Yeah, this one was from Monica,

Leif:

lpm, who wrote I love this

Leif:

duo. So fun to listen to their breakdown of

Leif:

Gossip Girl. They have such a great

Leif:

dynamic.

Steve:

Thank you very much, Monica.

Leif:

Yes, thank you, Monica.

Steve:

Yeah, we really appreciate it. And I'm curious

Steve:

as to whether that's Monica, a former student of mine that

Steve:

I haven't seen in 20 some

Steve:

years, which is awesome. I guess

Steve:

it would be, I guess it would be 18

Steve:

years since.

Leif:

I write in and let us know.

Steve:

Yeah, talk to us.

Leif:

Also, NJ Flyd wrote about episode

Leif:

202, specifically Gossip Girl outfits. You

Leif:

guys chose the best here's. The worst. Chuck at

Leif:

the cafe wearing a long sleeve button down

Leif:

shirt tucked into shorts and flip flops. I

Leif:

would have to punch him in the throat.

Steve:

I remember that. That's what he was talking

Steve:

to Marcus.

Leif:

Yes, I know. That's what he's walking down the

Leif:

street with Nate as well. Yeah. Yeah, for a while.

Steve:

That was awful.

Leif:

Also, some more cast news since we last

Leif:

recorded. The photos came out from both Jessica Zors

Leif:

and Ed Westwick's wedding.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Not to each other.

Steve:

Not yet. To, to two other people. I know there were

Steve:

some cast members in attendance for Jessica's.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

Yes. So Chase was at Jessica's, who she married

Leif:

NHL, former NHL player Brad Richardson. And

Leif:

Ed Westwick married Amy Jackson, who's

Leif:

British, but acts in mostly Indian films.

Steve:

Okay. Okay.

Leif:

And Kelly, Rutherford was there.

Steve:

I was going to say, I thought I heard Kelly Rutherford was going to his

Steve:

wedding.

Leif:

So she listened. Monica.

Steve:

Okay. Yeah, that.

Leif:

That tracks because. Yeah. Because her kids live

Leif:

in France.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Big fan.

Leif:

also, Jessica's wedding was Nina Dobra. Oh,

Leif:

Vampire Diaries.

Steve:

Okay. Okay.

Leif:

They're best friends.

Steve:

Oh, I didn't. I. Yeah. I don't know. That's another one I need

Steve:

to watch still. I voiced my hesitation on that

Steve:

because I. I feel like I'm gonna watch it wanting

Steve:

Buffy, and I know that it's not going to be. I

Steve:

guess I need to watch.

Leif:

Say the writing isn't as good, but the production value

Leif:

is way, way better.

Steve:

I mean, the bar

Steve:

was not set high.

Steve:

Especially. Especially, like, season one.

Steve:

Buffy, like.

Leif:

And some of the acting is better.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Some, is the same.

Steve:

Yeah. I mean, but not all of them will measure up

Steve:

to Michelle Trachtenberg,

Steve:

who could.

Leif:

Well, I keep getting into fights with Gossip Girl fandom

Leif:

because people that say she's a great actress.

Steve:

No, no. She did dawn pretty

Steve:

well because that's what she does,

Steve:

apparently.

Leif:

So we are here to talk about season two,

Leif:

episode 12, A Wonderful Lie. Original

Leif:

air date December 1, 2008 so, it was

Leif:

right around that holiday season.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Of course, the title is based on It's a Wonderful Life.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jimmy Stewart.

Steve:

Right. Which I only recently saw for

Steve:

the first time because my Jewish wife made

Steve:

me watch it. Watch this iconic

Steve:

Christmas film.

Leif:

Hard to miss back when there's only, like, 12 channels.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. It was in black and white, and young

Steve:

Steve had no time for that. And except

Steve:

for my TV in my room, which was a black and

Steve:

white TV because it was the old family tv.

Steve:

Moved into the playroom, and then I got the

Steve:

playroom So I inherited the

Steve:

black and white tv. No idea which

Steve:

destro I was watching on GI Joe each

Steve:

week. The silver or, the gold head.

Leif:

We go back to the vulture recap. While it was

Leif:

billed as the holiday event for high school seniors,

Leif:

the Snowflake Ball did not feel as

Leif:

festive, as lively, or as crucial

Leif:

as the Gossip Girl big events of the past. The decor,

Leif:

of course, was flawless, thanks to Lily. The sound, thanks

Leif:

to Rufus. Sublime. Blair and Chuck

Leif:

bantered, the mean girls cackled, and

Leif:

everyone made a little dancing motions in their ice

Leif:

violet gowns. But the guests didn't seem to be having

Leif:

fun, and neither were we. Something was off. Everyone

Leif:

was preoccupied. The characters, yes, but

Leif:

also the cameraman, who at one point lost their

Leif:

sense of purpose and drifted away, taking

Leif:

meaningful shots of fuzzy Serena with a focus

Leif:

Dan in the background. Fuzzy Dan with a focus Serena

Leif:

in the background. And at one point honed in on a handful

Leif:

of extras who, quite frankly, had no business

Leif:

representing actual Manhattanites. Did anyone

Leif:

else see that couple tongue kissing? It was worse than November

Leif:

rain. But

Leif:

some well drawn characters and funny dialogues

Leif:

warmed up otherwise might have left us

Leif:

cold. And anyway, next week, Bart

Leif:

officially dies and Chuck does something of a

Leif:

spiteful that causes Rufus to wear a

Leif:

pullover. We can't wait.

Steve:

Yeah. And, yeah, I was. I wasn't

Steve:

sure about the Bart thing. but I kind of

Steve:

guessed. Yeah.

Leif:

I mean, even back in the day, the previews, like, showed

Leif:

the funeral.

Steve:

Yeah. And I. Yeah. Ah. And I saw, like, after

Steve:

I watched the first time, I

Steve:

saw the Even.

Leif:

I told you not to look at it.

Steve:

No, no, I. Well, I mean, it was there. I didn't watch.

Steve:

I didn't see it before I watched it was. I watched it. But

Steve:

then to watch it that second time, I had to go in,

Steve:

and it was. And when I went into HBO Max,

Steve:

it was set up as that's the next episode with

Steve:

that frame right there. So, like,

Steve:

there was, like, no way of not. Yeah, yeah,

Steve:

but I. But, I mean, going into it, the reason

Steve:

I texted you and said, is this the Christmas one? Is because I was

Steve:

being so hyper, careful not to

Steve:

look, that I didn't want to skip ahead by accident.

Leif:

So this episode was written by

Leif:

Robbie Hull. He's back for his second episode of

Leif:

the season. His previous credit was for episode

Leif:

four, the X Files, which is the episode I'm just

Leif:

editing right now. That was the one where, Dan went on

Leif:

a date with Amanda. It was Chuck's plant.

Steve:

Yeah. Okay.

Steve:

Yes. With the hair. And.

Leif:

Yeah, it was an okay episode. But, yeah, she was. She was not the

Leif:

great, greatest actress. It was a good episode, but, yeah, she

Leif:

was a bad actor.

Steve:

She was. Yeah, she was. She was not good. But the rest of it. Because

Steve:

that's the one where Serena shuns Dan.

Leif:

yeah.

Steve:

Yeah. Like, the choreography in that scene was so

Steve:

cool.

Leif:

Patrick R. Norris is back directing. His

Leif:

previous credits include Bad News, Blair, High

Leif:

Society, then the episode after the one we just talked about, the

Leif:

Seren Also Rises, which was the fashion show episode.

Steve:

Yeah. Were they.

Leif:

Well, that was the first fashion show episode of the season. There's

Leif:

two so far.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. This.

Leif:

This was the big, official fashion week fashion show.

Steve:

Right. And that was actually the episode where I

Steve:

felt like they found their feet

Steve:

again. That, like, I felt like the. Well, I guess it was a little,

Steve:

earlier. Those first two episodes were so

Steve:

off the regular vibe of Gossip Girl,

Steve:

and.

Leif:

I think it all came down to being in the Hamptons. That was a big part of

Leif:

it.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once they.

Leif:

But also settling it. Stephanie Savage wrote that one

Leif:

episode is not great.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. But once it settled into

Steve:

New York. And yeah, the episode that

Steve:

Stephanie Savage wrote wasn't great, but that was a ham. That was the first

Steve:

one back in New York, right?

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

The one that we just released. The one that Robin.

Leif:

Yeah. So it's like the one where they're coming back to, They start

Leif:

out in the Hamptons, and they. And they, With the strawberries.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

The infamous strawberry upset the strawberry. So

Leif:

we move into Act 1. Winter in

Leif:

New York. A Gossip Girl checklist to surviving the

Leif:

cold. A cashmere stole for ice skating at

Leif:

Walman Rink. Jacques Pere hot, chocolate for

Leif:

window shopping. The holiday displays. The perfect date

Leif:

to the senior snowflake charity ball.

Leif:

In the school courtyard, Blair and Serena are

Leif:

arguing about the snowflake ball. When Chuck

Leif:

interrupts and sits down without permission.

Leif:

Chuck shoots down a series of potential dates for

Leif:

Blair.

Steve:

I thought this was cute. The Chuck and

Steve:

Blair and Chuck just knowing Blair.

Steve:

And Blair just knowing Chuck. And you see the whole plot

Steve:

of their storyline unfolding right here.

Steve:

Once again, I find that Gossip

Steve:

Girl took a very

Steve:

predictable, cliche plotline and

Steve:

made it fun because there was nothing

Steve:

groundbreaking about this the chair

Steve:

storyline in this, but it was still

Steve:

fun. I still liked seeing them interact in their

Steve:

banter.

Leif:

Sarita gets up when she sees Dan. She chases him

Leif:

down to the hall to show him the gift she got for Aaron. Based

Leif:

on Dan's advice, however, it sounds like Aaron is

Leif:

literally too cool for school dances.

Leif:

That is.

Steve:

Well, I mean, he probably has A restraining order keeping him

Steve:

away from. Keeping him from

Steve:

300ft from within school

Steve:

building. also, Robin is the one

Steve:

that caught the Anna Wintour joke. The.

Steve:

It's like Anna Karenina, but with Anna

Steve:

Wintour. And so she is a designer.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

I feel like Dan admitting that

Leif:

he's actually likes this society things

Leif:

just signaling that, like, maybe they're going to get back

Leif:

together.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

He's almost. He's kind of getting ready to be back together with her.

Steve:

And where he said the thing about, like, the

Steve:

best memories that I have had have been

Steve:

at these events. And like,

Steve:

he edits the part out that the best memories that he's

Steve:

had has been at these events with her. But

Steve:

also, there's always drama at these events

Steve:

that you're involved in. But.

Leif:

Okay, so

Leif:

Jenny is doing penance. The Lost. When Vanessa shows

Leif:

up, Jenny is still wondering why Nate blew

Leif:

her off. Vanessa just plays dumb. Speak of the

Leif:

devil, look who is calling on V's phone.

Leif:

Fuck you, Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah, my note is Vanessa sucks.

Steve:

I'm gonna also say that I felt like

Steve:

this was some of Jessica's best

Steve:

work in this episode. I think that she really acted her

Steve:

ass off. This is also her. Her biggest.

Leif:

No shade of Jessica.

Steve:

Yeah, no shade to her in this. But Vanessa

Steve:

turns up the suckage here and

Steve:

it's just like, yeah, what an asshole.

Leif:

So Vanessa, is crosses paths

Leif:

with Penelope, who has shown up to the loft looking to commission

Leif:

a custom Jenny hemp dress.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Good for Jenny.

Steve:

Yeah. And she plays it perfectly like,

Steve:

you hate me. She's like, yeah, but. And she's like, well, okay.

Steve:

Like, I'm expensive. You're gonna have to pay

Steve:

me like that.

Leif:

So. You bet.

Steve:

You should. Yeah. Yeah. Ought to be.

Leif:

Rufus and Lily are reconnecting after last week.

Leif:

Rufus volunteers his knowledge of sound systems to

Leif:

help Lily with preparation for the ball.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

didn't he already do this in season one?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. well, he did this for the Ivy

Steve:

party. Yeah, for the

Steve:

Ivy. Yeah. But that was Rufus unplugged.

Steve:

This is Rufus, LLC sound system.

Leif:

Well, this is. Yeah, this is. He's not actually performing this way. He's

Leif:

just doing the sound.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Lily has been avoiding Bart, who conveniently pulls

Leif:

up into his limo. Rufus steps aside for them

Leif:

to have the conversation.

Steve:

No heads up, Rufus. Like, not a, Oh,

Steve:

Yo, Bart's here. He's like, oh, I'm

Steve:

out. Deuces.

Steve:

Hey, don't look now, but turn around.

Leif:

I mean, that whole thing, the conversation was basically upsetting. You have to Have a

Leif:

conversation with him.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when he pulls up, he's like,

Steve:

you know, sometimes. I don't know when,

Steve:

I don't know when.

Leif:

I mean, what's she gonna do, like right away?

Steve:

I'm just saying, if I were Lily, I would have appreciated that. Oh, he's

Steve:

here. Instead of turning

Steve:

around.

Leif:

Sarita and Dan show up at the gallery where they

Leif:

overhear Aaron's ex girlfriend Lexi snarking over the

Leif:

art. And Serena.

Steve:

Lexi is first of all a little

Steve:

much. Yeah, she's written terribly. Like,

Steve:

she's just.

Leif:

I think she's, I think she's written exactly how she's supposed to be written.

Steve:

Okay, okay, that's fair.

Leif:

She's supposed to be a little much.

Steve:

Yeah, but yeah, she's a little

Steve:

much.

Leif:

She's a lot for

Leif:

one, one episode character. I thought she was actually kind of perfect.

Steve:

I. I just didn't really love this

Steve:

storyline. I thought the whole we're

Steve:

gonna bang storyline was

Steve:

weird.

Leif:

Why couldn't she just vote?

Steve:

Why couldn't she just vote? I. That was

Steve:

fantastic.

Leif:

Nate and Vanessa are making out in the open. When Nate asked

Leif:

Vanessa to the Snowflake Ball, Vanessa is

Leif:

hesitant because she's afraid Jenny will find out.

Leif:

However, Nate is all about what's in front of him

Leif:

right here, right now.

Leif:

Some rando snaps a photo of them making out

Leif:

and a little too late, Vanessa points out that they're a Gotham girl

Leif:

country.

Steve:

Yeah, Vanessa sucks, you

Steve:

know that you're being shitty like at this point, you

Steve:

know, and because like she's even like, what if Jenny did

Steve:

know? And he's like, well, I wouldn't really care. Okay,

Steve:

then maybe now you tell him.

Leif:

Also, you're not going to like this, but fuck Nate for being

Leif:

hypocritical as always. But because he's submuted, he

Leif:

skates by. But he said, I don't want to

Leif:

get between two friends.

Steve:

Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

M. That's never happened before.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

I felt like the whole. How the whole series started.

Steve:

Well, I mean, maybe that's why he doesn't want to get between

Steve:

two friends, you know, because he got between two friends.

Leif:

No, but he says I, I would never do that.

Steve:

Oh. Oh, yeah, that's what he said. True, true. He does.

Steve:

He does. Again. I would never do that again.

Leif:

Back at the Loft, Penelope is still obsessed

Leif:

with Nate as well is and is

Leif:

trying to get Jenny to spill the tea. However,

Leif:

Gossip Girl is first of them off the mark and gets a

Leif:

blast with a And they both get a glass blast with a

Leif:

photo of Nate and Razor snogging.

Steve:

Yeah. Penelope is so

Steve:

thirsty, especially for Nate. But

Steve:

she, has just been. The Minions have just been

Steve:

thirsty.

Leif:

Yeah. All season.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

And again, I have to say, how big of bitches are

Leif:

they? They can't get boyfriends at all.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Well, although Hazel got

Steve:

one in this episode specifically to

Steve:

work low heights for her, so. They

Steve:

can. But they have. But. But it's not the

Steve:

people that they would be interested in because they're such

Steve:

shitty people. The

Steve:

AV guy working the spotlight is a

Steve:

chore.

Leif:

Sorry, ladies. For those of you hoping to find Nate

Leif:

Archibald under your tree, it looks like he's already picked

Leif:

up his mistletoe mate

Leif:

into Act 2. Back outside the school,

Leif:

Lily and Bart are talking. Bart claims he

Leif:

has already fired Andrew Tyler and will do anything

Leif:

Willie wants to save the marriage. Big words,

Leif:

Bart. If only I believed you. Yeah, well, he doesn't

Leif:

either.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And.

Steve:

And so at, When he's saying all of this

Steve:

instantly. And I know that this comes up later, but

Steve:

my first watch, my thought was, what about the

Steve:

sanatorium report that he asked for? You know,

Steve:

he. Yeah, you know, the thing about the

Steve:

sanatorium. m. Mr. Bass, nobody says

Steve:

that anymore, but, you know, we knew that he asked

Steve:

for that information. Although later, we do

Steve:

see that he may have rescinded that.

Leif:

At the gallery, Aaron and Serena are discussing

Leif:

Lexi. Meanwhile, Dan and Lexi are flirting in the

Leif:

other room. Serena agrees to give Lexi a

Leif:

chance, and Aaron takes her to the dance, to which

Leif:

he reluctantly agrees. Gotta bribe your boyfriend to

Leif:

take you on a date.

Steve:

Yeah, well, I mean, I. Again, he probably doesn't really

Steve:

feel comfortable going back to high schools

Steve:

anymore.

Leif:

Well, if you're gonna date high school girl, you gotta go high school

Leif:

event.

Steve:

Yeah, I know. And, like, her, like, emotional

Steve:

manipulation of. Of that situation, which, like.

Steve:

I'm not blaming Serena. She's the child here.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

I'm blaming the adult who is like, oh,

Steve:

I'm too cool to go to your high school dance. It's like, because he's

Steve:

not in high school, but, like.

Steve:

Yeah, I also, I just

Steve:

thought that Lexi was so obnoxious.

Steve:

Is this where. Where she's, like, talking about the coffee

Steve:

today? And it's like. Like, oh, yeah. Do you have

Steve:

this rare coffee from, like,

Steve:

Indonesia that no one else would have?

Leif:

Like, no, that's actually a really. That's a. That was, like, a thing.

Steve:

Oh, is it? Oh, I didn't.

Leif:

Especially around that time. Yeah.

Steve:

Okay. I didn't I was not aware it's.

Leif:

Really expensive, but it's okay. A high end coffee because

Leif:

that, that.

Steve:

Because I, because like, I like coffee. Like, I, I. Okay. I did

Steve:

not know that was an actual thing. I thought it was some kind of

Steve:

bullshit, but still it's like some kind of

Steve:

bullshit. Like, it is a. It

Steve:

felt like, I'm gonna order something knowing you don't have it

Steve:

so I can shame your little shop for not having it.

Steve:

That's how that moment felt.

Leif:

yeah. It's definitely like a hipster thing.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And. Yeah, but that, that, that's why she's kind of perfect. They're,

Leif:

they're all, you know, all of them are kind of perfect.

Steve:

Yeah, they, it's too perfect.

Leif:

Dan and Lexi walk in and Lexi announces they're all

Leif:

going to hang out together. Have these people

Leif:

never watched a sitcom? There's no way this can possibly

Leif:

end well.

Steve:

Yeah, there's. Yeah. Yeah. What were you thinking?

Leif:

Vanessa shows up the loft like nothing's

Leif:

wrong. While Jenny is fighting back tears and lays

Leif:

into Vanessa for letting Jenny humiliate herself

Leif:

all week. Vanessa announces that she's going

Leif:

to accept Nate's invitation to the ball. She

Leif:

walked away all high and mighty, but little Jay

Leif:

was staring daggers into her back.

Steve:

Yeah, I thought both of them were great here. Yeah.

Steve:

I felt like this was a really great interaction.

Leif:

Very well acted.

Steve:

Yeah. Very well acted scene there.

Leif:

I,

Steve:

You know, you really got both these.

Steve:

And both of them have been done

Steve:

shitty things. And what Jenny did wasn't that

Steve:

shitty. Right. She kissed a guy without telling Vanessa

Steve:

about it. It was shitty to do to your friend,

Steve:

but like, it could have been a lot shittier.

Steve:

Vanessa took the fucking letter and let both of

Steve:

these.

Leif:

They like, Vanessa dated them, for like two weeks and they, they

Leif:

haven't been talking for a month.

Steve:

well, yeah. And it was like she kissed her ex. Her like,

Steve:

pseudo ex. Yeah. And without even knowing

Steve:

there that like why they broke up or why they split.

Steve:

Jenny really didn't do much here. And

Steve:

meanwhile, Vanessa literally got between the

Steve:

two of them and lied to both of them by taking

Steve:

that letter.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

What I did keep in the back of my head throughout all of this.

Steve:

Well, I'll get to that later. It was just like I. They

Steve:

both had these, like. It was a great

Steve:

argument. It was great tension and great conflict

Steve:

and really well acted by both the. Both the

Steve:

actors.

Leif:

Chuck is waiting at Blair's piano as she arrives

Leif:

home. They make another bet, this time to

Leif:

see which one can choose a better date for the Other

Leif:

they treat the rota like property of commiserate

Leif:

value. With a limo.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, they bet. Dorota.

Leif:

Not a good look.

Steve:

Not a good look. I'm also

Steve:

curious as to whether or not Ed was really playing the piano,

Steve:

because I know that he does do music, so I wonder if

Steve:

he can actually play the piano.

Leif:

It didn't look like his hands were moving.

Steve:

No, but you also only saw from here up,

Steve:

which. Which on the light melody he's playing,

Steve:

you may not see a whole lot.

Leif:

I doubt he was playing.

Steve:

I do, too.

Leif:

But in canon, Chuck apparently plays

Leif:

piano.

Steve:

Yeah. Which I do love that. Which it's such a Chuck thing to

Steve:

have in his back pocket. Do we ever see him do that

Steve:

again?

Leif:

Not, that I'm aware of.

Leif:

The piano is always there.

Leif:

Blair's.

Steve:

Yeah. So it's been there the whole time, right? Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And other things might happen on that piano.

Steve:

Oh, I can imagine. They're all gonna fuck on that piano.

Steve:

Someone is. Or they all are. Maybe all at the same

Steve:

time. I don't know. Bunch of blankets on the piano.

Leif:

Yeah. We shift back to the

Leif:

tried and true TV trope of, the Double Date.

Leif:

Lexi is brash, Dan is shy and naive,

Leif:

Serena is snarky, and Aaron is his usual

Leif:

slimy self.

Steve:

This whole thing is so such a

Steve:

trope. Such a trope. But it's also the whole,

Steve:

like, oh, yeah, she sleeps with guys on the first

Steve:

date. Why are you telling your girlfriend

Steve:

this? Like, why are you telling your girlfriend?

Leif:

Because he's manipulating her into sleeping with him.

Steve:

Well, yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

I mean, there's that. What he's doing that.

Steve:

There is that. Which.

Leif:

And it worked.

Steve:

And.

Leif:

Or at least that seemed like it was going to work anyway.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He is so

Steve:

fucking disgusting. I didn't. I didn't fully

Steve:

pick up on that, now that you mention it. It's like, oh, yeah. Like,

Steve:

that's so.

Leif:

Because. What was her immediate reaction? No. Yeah. Oh, let's. Let's.

Leif:

Let's finally do it tonight.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. And it wasn't even

Steve:

an immediate reaction because she, like, went home and, like, talked to

Steve:

Blair and then so, like. Like, it is just planting

Steve:

these seeds without any actual. It's

Steve:

grooming. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Leif:

Not good.

Steve:

No.

Leif:

We get a quick scene of Bart shitting on Chuck.

Leif:

So. More. More. Poor Chuck.

Steve:

Yeah. And, like, once again, great

Steve:

to everyone but his kid. Like.

Leif:

Like, it's like, so obvious where they're trying to make us feel bad

Leif:

for Chuck. It's like.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. When? Whenever they

Steve:

do. Yeah.

Leif:

And.

Steve:

And I do have to say here, Bart,

Steve:

I get why Bart's upset.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Like it is Chuck's fault that all of this. Yeah.

Steve:

Chuck fucked up big time. And up his marriage

Steve:

and like.

Leif:

And well, I mean, by revealing the

Leif:

truth.

Steve:

Yes, but to Bart,

Steve:

Chuck has taken away the woman he

Steve:

loves for the second

Steve:

time.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

So like

Steve:

there's a part of me that, there's a lot of me that feels for

Steve:

Bart because I. As I've said

Steve:

over and over, Bart does

Steve:

these horrendous things.

Steve:

I do believe that they come from a place

Steve:

that he thinks is good.

Leif:

Yeah, I agree.

Steve:

So like I, I always feel for him.

Leif:

Except for with Chuck. He's like purposely tried to be mean to Chuck, but.

Steve:

Yeah, but when it comes to Chuck, he just drills. He just

Steve:

fucking stomps him into the ground.

Leif:

I guess it's just a long history of Chuck being a fucking

Leif:

shithead.

Steve:

Yeah. And I mean like, yeah, he does

Steve:

up a lot. And you gotta also figure like how many

Steve:

times does he had get Chuck out of. How much money

Steve:

has it cost being Chuck Bass's dad?

Steve:

How.

Leif:

How many libraries has he donated?

Steve:

Yeah, how. Yeah, exactly. How many libraries has he donated

Steve:

and how many and, and like how many,

Steve:

you know, things have he. Has he had to

Steve:

sweep under rugs? like how many women has he had? How

Steve:

many women's mothers has he had to pay

Steve:

off?

Leif:

Jenny shows up to deliver the dress for Penelope.

Leif:

The mean girls are plotting revenge on Vanessa and convince

Leif:

Jenny to help.

Steve:

Oh, Little Jay. I mean, and it's such a

Steve:

Jenny thing. Like Jenny is hot tempered

Steve:

and vindictive. You and I have all often

Steve:

said Jenny is one of our favorite characters. Jenny's your favorite

Steve:

character? Jenny's in my top three.

Steve:

But her biggest flaw is that she

Steve:

is angry and vindictive. She will turn

Steve:

and she will go. She will burn the

Steve:

place down when she's mad and she's

Steve:

mad.

Leif:

And yeah, I, will get more into when we get there, but I think

Leif:

the whole thing was overblown myself. But yeah, we'll get to

Leif:

that. Snowflake or

Leif:

snowfake. Either way it's going to be a

Leif:

ball. Blair and Serena are prepping for the

Leif:

ball and discussing seeing your ex with someone

Leif:

new. Serena informs Blair that she hasn't slept

Leif:

with Aaron yet.

Steve:

Blair is fucking amazing in this. Your

Steve:

lame outer burrow double date. And the

Steve:

other one was, going.

Leif:

To take a ride on the lexicoaster.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Guys really hate

Steve:

being surprised by sex.

Steve:

I thought she was fantastic. I loved

Steve:

her in this scene. And I felt like Blair didn't get

Steve:

to really shine a lot in this episode

Steve:

because her plot was so tied to,

Steve:

you know, it was the Chuck plot and that Chuck

Steve:

plot, really.

Leif:

It was the C plot.

Steve:

Yeah. And. And it was. Yeah, it was very minimal

Steve:

throughout the whole thing. I, was. I like

Steve:

that she got this really fun. They. They're always. They

Steve:

always have such fun.

Leif:

And. Yeah, they were actually talking about that on the forums, about how

Leif:

the Chuck and Blair plot was minimum. And

Leif:

they actually were speculating that because after

Leif:

an early episode, they kind of

Leif:

went in and, like, there was a bunch of

Leif:

press about Chuck and Blair and, like, they. They got

Leif:

really popular real fast, like season

Leif:

two. But

Leif:

then they. They kind of speculate.

Leif:

They're kind of backing off. So, like, they don't just dominate the whole

Leif:

show.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

That.

Steve:

That drags.

Leif:

Jenny shows up at the gallery waving the white flag

Leif:

to Vanessa. Jenny offers is his dress as

Leif:

an olive branch with a claim that she stayed up all night

Leif:

making it for Vanessa. Ah.

Steve:

Vanessa, you just got a dress

Steve:

and you're going to try it on. Are you trying it

Steve:

on in a dark room? Like, where are you

Steve:

trying on this dress that there is no lighting at

Steve:

all? Because. Because Iz was in her

Steve:

bedroom under a regular

Steve:

light. That's all.

Leif:

It's only when there's backlighting because they bench that

Leif:

at the end.

Steve:

Yeah. I, just don't see how you

Steve:

don't notice at all.

Leif:

And again, I would wonder what this plot would look

Leif:

like if they did it on Max.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

But, yeah, it didn't sell for me because you

Leif:

didn't really see anything.

Steve:

Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't that

Steve:

scandalous. Yeah. Like, it wasn't

Steve:

especially like.

Leif:

Like today's standard. That's kind of trendy.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What she was wearing would

Steve:

be trendy today. Yeah. People would wear that to the

Steve:

Oscars.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair and Dorota are trying

Leif:

to find Chuck the perfect date. Blair

Leif:

Slut Shames poor Kristen Curran. Dorota

Leif:

Cl quickly realizes that the girl Blair is looking for is

Leif:

just a copy of Blair. But Dorota knows there's only

Leif:

one Blair Waldorf.

Steve:

Poor Dorota. She's just sitting there with

Steve:

her laptop, poring over all of these

Steve:

people doing the matchmaking for Blair

Steve:

and worrying what.

Leif:

Else she might have to polish of Chucks.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Which is really fucking gross.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

So human trafficking, possibly sex

Leif:

trafficking. Doretta.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, Blair is like. Yeah, if you're

Steve:

lucky, that's all. Like, Blair's the one

Steve:

recognizing, like, yeah, this might be a

Steve:

bet that I'm.

Leif:

Not only that Blair has really shown

Leif:

us some growth as without prompting, he calls

Leif:

Serena to check in with her regarding him bringing

Leif:

Lexi to their school dance. Serena does what

Leif:

she thinks is the mature thing to do, and Dan just

Leif:

plays along.

Steve:

Good on Dan for doing this and,

Steve:

And.

Leif:

And not right in front of Lexi, like, waiting a little while and, you

Leif:

know, give her a call. This is cool with you?

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Just you and me talking. Good move.

Steve:

Yeah. I feel like Dan was really grown

Steve:

up most of this episode.

Leif:

This is a great episode for both the Humphreys. I thought Humphrey,

Leif:

man.

Steve:

Yeah, you're right. it was good for both of them.

Leif:

In the next scene, we see Serena's insecurities play

Leif:

out in real time as she lets Aaron know, she picked

Leif:

up a two all night passes to pound

Leif:

town, and he's so fucked.

Steve:

This is where it's so gross that he's like, oh, yeah,

Steve:

okay. Yeah. And just like,

Steve:

God, you fucking.

Leif:

Well played, sleazeball.

Steve:

Yeah, slow game worked for you.

Steve:

Sleazeball.

Leif:

Yeah, I'm totally positive that he

Leif:

reads. He has, the pickup artist on his,

Leif:

nightstand.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Only. Only. It's the only. It's the Barney from

Steve:

how I met your mother version.

Leif:

Jenny is helping Vanessa get, dressed, and it looks

Leif:

like they both want to confess, but neither is able to

Leif:

get their words out before Nate calls Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah, it's funny that.

Leif:

More good acting, like, Because you can see, like, they both kind of wanted

Leif:

to say what they did, but neither could

Leif:

really get it out.

Steve:

Yeah. And it's funny because had.

Steve:

Had Vanessa actually gotten it

Steve:

out, then what? Then Jenny would have been

Steve:

like, the. And she

Steve:

would have been all the more resolved to go through with

Steve:

it. Jenny never learned, did Jenny? Yeah,

Steve:

she did. Tell her. Yeah, she does.

Leif:

Nate told her.

Steve:

That's right. Yeah.

Leif:

Lily is calling Blair's office, and Bart's

Leif:

secretary spills the beans about Bart meeting with Andrew

Leif:

Tyler. We're secretary. this

Leif:

episode, there's some really bad secretaries.

Leif:

This. In the show.

Steve:

I mean, this. Yeah, I was gonna say this series, the

Steve:

secretaries are not going to.

Leif:

Yeah, they just drop. Drop all the knowledge.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Lily sleeps around and finds out more evidence against

Leif:

Bart and decides to go to the ball on her own.

Steve:

Imagine if this is like, a White House drama and they're like, oh,

Steve:

the president, he's in the war room right now discussing,

Steve:

like, we go into Act.

Leif:

3, we get a needle drop. As the third act

Leif:

begins with the ball in full swing. LP and the mean

Leif:

girls are reviewing the plan to humiliate Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah, this is where we learn that Hazel is now dating

Steve:

the spotlight guy. For access to a

Steve:

spotlight.

Leif:

I've noticed the show likes every couple episodes. They. They

Leif:

do, they feature a band because there was like three

Leif:

songs by this band. The Asteroid

Leif:

Galaxy Tour.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

And this was one of them. The Sun Ain't Shining no More.

Leif:

Blair and Chuck flirt as they introduce each

Leif:

other to their respective doppelgangers. However,

Leif:

Blair pulls Chuck aside and leaves their twins

Leif:

to their own devices.

Steve:

Yeah, the teemu. Chuck and Blair come in

Steve:

and.

Leif:

And also for that, that last scene, we had another stunt cast. The

Leif:

other wasn't really as obvious as Time Play. It was,

Leif:

Natasha Lucan, who's a multiple,

Leif:

Olympic champion.

Steve:

Oh, no kidding. That was, that, was that Blair? Was that

Steve:

the.

Leif:

She was like a student at the dance.

Steve:

Oh, that's crazy that

Steve:

she's she's just. Yeah. yeah. Famous enough to

Steve:

make it on the background.

Leif:

She could. She knew someone that could get her on.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Elsewhere, Dan is with Lexi and Serena with Aaron as

Leif:

they all twirl around on the dance floor. Let's see.

Leif:

Lexi lets slip that Serena and Aaron are going to sleep

Leif:

together for the first time. Dan tries to

Leif:

play cool. It was also at this point

Leif:

I started to wonder, how old is Lexi?

Steve:

Yeah, well, Lexi is. His is

Steve:

Aaron's ex.

Leif:

Presumably it's around the same age.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Let us, let us not be called out for the double standard.

Steve:

No. Yeah. Like, is Lousy also a predator

Steve:

here? Like she. Yeah, I actually meant to. I

Steve:

actually did have that thought.

Leif:

Like, like forces her into, into a date at the

Leif:

school dance where her plan is to this. This teenager.

Steve:

To fuck this teenager. And now

Steve:

once again, through that same lens, why would she

Steve:

tell Dan? But here it is. Like, there it is.

Leif:

Aren't they working together?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. It's like, hey, I want to. Hey, I'm going to. I want to try

Steve:

to hit this girl. Hit this, you know,

Steve:

socialite. Do you mind hitting her boyfriend?

Leif:

make her jealous.

Steve:

Yeah, to make her jealous. Like, yeah, sure,

Steve:

but only if it's the first date.

Steve:

Yeah, but like, yeah. And that just makes

Steve:

it all come because I was like, why would you

Steve:

tell this guy? But, yeah, to let him know. Like, yeah, it's

Steve:

safe. You've got the Greene light. Now you can also sleep with an

Steve:

older person.

Leif:

Blair and Chuck bicker for a bit. But the, but the

Leif:

bet is still on?

Steve:

yeah.

Leif:

Pretty nothing scene.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But yeah, spark, sparks, blind.

Steve:

Yeah, I mean Blair and Blair and Chuck are great

Steve:

in every scene they do. Even. Even with

Steve:

nothing. Even when nothing goes forward.

Leif:

The Rufus and Lily spot each other across the

Leif:

room and are drawn to each other like a pair of opposed

Leif:

magnets. Lily tells Rufus she is leaving bar

Leif:

and she doesn't expect anything except maybe a

Leif:

dance, which of course Rufus grants her.

Steve:

She was fucking

Steve:

spectacular in this scene. I loved

Steve:

Kelly Rutherford, the way her

Steve:

facial expressions, the way she approaches

Steve:

Rufus. I did have the note of. Was this

Steve:

her shortest marriage, which I don't think it was. I

Steve:

got the impression that there may have been one that was shorter.

Leif:

One of the Klaus's.

Steve:

One of the Klaus's I think was shorter.

Leif:

So normally I don't watch the closed caption thing, but I had it on for this

Leif:

episode. I tried to catch the line from earlier that I couldn't hear what you.

Leif:

They were saying. So they also like play the lyrics of the songs

Leif:

and closed captions while in the middle of the talking

Leif:

it pops up. I kissed you. I was like, wait, why did Lily kiss? And

Leif:

that's music.

Steve:

Yeah, I noticed that too.

Leif:

And then of course when they danced. So this was the song was

Leif:

a. It was called Breakdown by the band Dear

Leif:

Heart. And when they were dancing the lyrics

Leif:

were, well, I like you, you like

Leif:

me. Seems that we fit so

Leif:

perfectly. You make me feel worthy and

Leif:

I've let you take care of me. Yeah,

Leif:

very good needle drop there.

Steve:

And honestly when I was watching that and I.

Steve:

Because I always watch the captions on, I watch everything with the

Steve:

captions on and I noticed the lyrics

Steve:

playing out the way that the scene

Steve:

did and it was very sweet and it was

Steve:

very. And ah, like I said, the look on her

Steve:

face, how nervous she was to approach Rufus.

Steve:

Her gestures, her eye contact

Steve:

and then breaking it. Everything in that

Steve:

scene and I just was like, I wanted. I was like,

Steve:

I'll dance with you, Lily. Like okay.

Leif:

Dan and Serena catch each other watching Aaron and Alexi

Leif:

dance with each other and decide to share a dance of

Leif:

their own. Dan and Serena have a flippant conversation about them

Leif:

both sleeping with their respective dates for the first time.

Leif:

Serena walks off and Dan goes with Lexi to

Leif:

grab drinks.

Steve:

I am going to miss her

Steve:

so much when she's gone.

Steve:

I loved her reaction.

Steve:

I love, love, love that.

Leif:

Oh yeah. Because yeah, she reacts to her,

Leif:

Lexi telling dad, yeah. And then Dad's

Leif:

like, yeah, sex is beautiful. Especially when you haven't

Leif:

had it for A while.

Steve:

Which.

Steve:

That was so, like, it was so good.

Leif:

But it was such a teenage guy thing to say. Yeah.

Steve:

But it was also.

Leif:

I could totally see myself saying that. Yeah.

Steve:

100. But it was also, you know,

Steve:

Awkward Dan rambling once this was

Steve:

playing out. And, you know, because it

Steve:

was that rambling awkward Dan that

Steve:

we get sometimes. And it

Steve:

was funny and you could tell that he was

Steve:

joking. But also, it was very flippant.

Steve:

Yeah, it was very flippant and

Steve:

probably not good timing, but I think

Steve:

that it really. But it also sets up

Steve:

a great moment later.

Leif:

Vanessa tells Jenny that she is going to break up with

Leif:

Nate. Vanessa walks off to do just

Leif:

that. Jenny goes, to try to cover up

Leif:

Vanessa, but too late. As the Negroes spring to

Leif:

their trap to catch Vanessa in the spotlight,

Leif:

Nate sees that Jenny was involved in the takedown. looks

Leif:

disgusting.

Steve:

So I really liked

Steve:

the scene leading up to this. In this scene, I thought Jessica

Steve:

was really good. Yeah.

Leif:

Where she confessed. Confessing.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. She. I really liked

Steve:

her in this a lot. I

Steve:

thought that the reveal,

Steve:

like, you were. You were. You were alluding to this earlier. The reveal

Steve:

did not really reveal much. And it's not like I'm sitting here saying,

Steve:

like, oh, show me more. I'm just saying, like, for

Steve:

it to be the scandal that they're portraying,

Steve:

it.

Leif:

Didn'T seem people were laughing,

Leif:

but maybe they could have had someone say, like, oh, look at her granny

Leif:

panties.

Steve:

Yeah. Like there could have been anything to really make

Steve:

it something embarrassing.

Leif:

You, look great, Jessica.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And all you can really see was her legs and a little bit of her panty line.

Steve:

Yeah. And she looked great. The other side of that

Steve:

same. The. Despite the reveal. And of course, I

Steve:

feel like a lot of that is CW in

Steve:

08. You know, like, they

Steve:

didn't have today's standards.

Leif:

Again, what would have been on Max would

Leif:

like, you see, like, everything.

Steve:

Well, you probably would have seen at least her nipples. Like,

Steve:

her underwear. Yeah. You would have seen a lot more. Yeah.

Steve:

She probably wouldn't have had a bra on.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And you probably would have seen a lot more. Like, if it was

Steve:

like, on Max or something like that probably would.

Leif:

Have shown from the back with a thong.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Like, it probably would have been, like, really,

Steve:

like, revealing the flip side of this.

Steve:

I thought a lot of the

Steve:

characters are our main

Steve:

characters reactions were

Steve:

really good. Nate's reaction

Steve:

of seeing it unfold and then looking at.

Leif:

They definitely the writing and the acting sold it as being

Leif:

humiliating.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Even though I didn't really get it personally.

Steve:

Yeah, that's.

Leif:

I'm gonna. I'm just gonna go with what the show is telling me.

Steve:

That's exactly where I landed with it. That, like,

Steve:

okay, I'm going to accept that Jenny

Steve:

is a good designer, Dan is a good writer, and

Steve:

Vanessa is embarrassed right now. Yes.

Leif:

This is the most horrible prank ever.

Steve:

Yeah. This is a terrible thing that Jenny has just

Steve:

done. But I did think the acting and

Steve:

directing really and writing

Steve:

saved a lot of it. Saved for the actual

Steve:

review.

Leif:

Poor Vanessa. Even Cinderella was given

Leif:

the courtesy of a stealth getaway. Then

Leif:

again, what's a trio of ugly stepsisters compared

Leif:

to Jenny Humphrey? Looks like it might turn out to be an

Leif:

unhappily ever after for everyone.

Leif:

Go into the epilogue, Nate

Leif:

confronts Jenny about the scheme to mess with Vanessa,

Leif:

who reveals the stolen letter and really lays into

Leif:

Jenny.

Steve:

Nate not tolerating bullying like, I give him. I

Steve:

give him that. I thought he was a little hard.

Leif:

Stole letter just seems so much worse to me.

Steve:

me too. I. I really thought that, too. I thought the

Steve:

stolen letter was worse. I also kept in

Steve:

the back of my head that Chase

Steve:

wanted this. That Chase Crawford wasn't

Steve:

comfortable. We had talked before about Chase Crawford wasn't

Steve:

comfortable with the relationship with the

Steve:

15 year or 14 year old. Yeah, 14

Steve:

year old at this point. And I could see him

Steve:

being like, we need to work this for that to

Steve:

be the relationship and not the Jenny thing. So with

Steve:

that in mind, I get it. But also, I

Steve:

do think that stealing the letter is so much worse.

Steve:

But it's also so Nate to be like,

Steve:

oh, that's the one I want now.

Leif:

And this is probably giving Nate too much

Leif:

credit. But also, Vanessa is just

Leif:

easier because he doesn't have to deal with the Dan situation. Like,

Leif:

he could still be friends with dad if he's dating Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, there's that, too. Jenny

Steve:

is more. Jenny was a, m. More complicated

Steve:

relationship.

Leif:

Chuck and Blair find their dates making out with each

Leif:

other. Blair is disgusted. Disgusted that even their

Leif:

doppelgangers can work it out, but her and Chuck can't.

Steve:

My note here is obviously,

Steve:

like, obviously, these two are going to end up

Steve:

together.

Leif:

They left them alone.

Steve:

The second they left them alone, it's like, oh, yeah, they're gonna make

Steve:

out.

Leif:

Yeah. This. This episode is filled with tropes.

Steve:

Yeah. I mean, Gossip Girl is a tropey show.

Steve:

It throws them in. It often will try

Steve:

to play with the tropes or flip the tropes.

Leif:

But I think, like, the weaker episodes are the ones

Leif:

where they just rely on the tropes. Where they rely on it.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

That's why the date episode from

Leif:

season one.

Steve:

Yeah. That I liked and you hated.

Leif:

Lily is telling Rufus that she doesn't want to hurt Bart,

Leif:

but that she has to end it. Rufus admits to regretting

Leif:

letting her go. On the wedding day, Chuck spots Rufus and

Leif:

Lily sitting together.

Steve:

When she's like, I've always tried to

Steve:

do the right thing. The patience in

Steve:

Rufus is behind his eyes. I'm

Steve:

like, oh, really?

Leif:

You try not to laugh.

Steve:

Yeah. You've always tried to do the right thing.

Leif:

Is that, Is that the case?

Steve:

Yeah. Oh. When you left me for money, that was

Steve:

the right.

Leif:

That was.

Steve:

That was the right thing, Right? Yeah.

Leif:

You could see why Lily's been married as many times.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Bart is riding in a limo with Andrew Tyler, who

Leif:

has found out Lily's secret. Before we

Leif:

can get the reveal, Chuck calls Bart and tells him about

Leif:

Lillian. Rufus.

Steve:

Yeah. And this is where we realized that.

Steve:

That, That he really

Steve:

did fire the guy. So it was like, oh,

Steve:

okay, he did. He did fire him. But this guy clearly

Steve:

has something with that one.

Leif:

Chuck finds Lily and lets her know that Bart

Leif:

is on his way. I like this

Leif:

scene.

Steve:

I thought, Chuck was super mature here, and.

Steve:

And I. I really liked. Chuck was not

Steve:

malicious or vindictive. And Chuck really

Steve:

seemed to have a. I get it. Like.

Steve:

Yeah. Like, I. Because Chuck kind of

Steve:

knows his role in this thing at this point, you know? So

Steve:

I really felt like he was very mature here and

Steve:

very accepting of the situation.

Steve:

but. And he was right. You owe him a

Steve:

conversation. You know, you always. You

Steve:

know.

Leif:

But I just like the. I like the chemistry between,

Leif:

Ed and.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Between Charles

Steve:

and Lillian and Lily.

Leif:

Lillian.

Steve:

Lillian and Charles.

Leif:

Lillian Rhodes, Vanderwitz and Bess.

Steve:

Imagine if she just tacked on that name each

Steve:

time. The new name instead of getting rid of the

Steve:

old one.

Leif:

Yeah. Nate catches up with

Leif:

Vanessa and tells her he still wants to be with

Leif:

her.

Steve:

So this is the. This is where we

Steve:

freaked out, because Vanessa, apparently.

Steve:

I. I'm pretty sure it was tears, but it looks like she has a

Steve:

big snot running down her face, and

Steve:

he moves in and kisses her. And Robin's like. She.

Steve:

Eddie's like, you better not kiss her with that snot on her face.

Steve:

And then he does, and the two of us were like.

Steve:

That was the moment that we were both like,

Steve:

ew.

Steve:

Snot face.

Steve:

You're so sweet for kissing her with that snot face, Nate.

Leif:

Yummy. Jenny watches as Nate and

Leif:

Vanessa get into a cab together. Then

Leif:

Penelope and her posse roll up and threaten

Leif:

Jenny. But little J doesn't fuck around. And these

Leif:

bitches are about to find out.

Steve:

I loved Jenny here.

Leif:

I loved her growth.

Steve:

I loved how she stood up for Vanessa.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And, for a second when she's like, your little friend, I thought she was going to be

Steve:

like, she's not my fucking friend. Like, but she

Steve:

didn't. She was like, she's more of a

Steve:

person than you'll ever be. And it

Steve:

sounds like Jenny might be

Steve:

re. Enrolling in Constance. I,

Steve:

guess, or at least wants to be

Steve:

around them more.

Leif:

Maybe she can hang out with Aaron, wait for them to get out of school.

Leif:

100ft away from the school.

Steve:

100Ft away from the school.

Steve:

That's a really bad idea for Serena because you don't

Steve:

want him then going for the 14 year old.

Steve:

Hey, you like licorice?

Leif:

Are a little licorice, Rick?

Steve:

yeah. Oh, Aaron, are you still on this

Steve:

show?

Leif:

Maybe he's here to stay. I mean, he is Cyrus's, I mean, I guess

Leif:

he's like Blair's stepbrother now.

Steve:

Give me more Cyrus. No. Do you know

Steve:

what? Not enough. Yeah, there's not

Steve:

enough Siren.

Leif:

Too much Aaron. Not enough, sir.

Steve:

Too much Aaron. Not enough Siren.

Leif:

But I mean, he is gonna be player's stepfather, so

Leif:

he might. Is he here to stay?

Steve:

Oh, God, I hope not. He can. There's. There's a whole

Steve:

world. He can travel.

Leif:

He was a major character in the books.

Steve:

Oh, God.

Leif:

He was Player. Step further in the book. Yeah.

Steve:

was he 40 in the books? Was he in his mid-30s in the

Steve:

books?

Leif:

I actually never got to the. Because he shows up in like the second

Leif:

book, I think.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

and I only read the first one. It is pretty

Leif:

bad.

Steve:

Yeah. How long are they,

Steve:

period? It's kind of what I would

Steve:

figure.

Leif:

Yeah. Chuck asked Blair to dance.

Leif:

Blair, acts tough, but lets him out with a little smile

Leif:

when Chuck isn't looking. Yeah, Leighton's

Leif:

acting like just. Just the

Leif:

slightest bit of a smile.

Steve:

Yeah, they're cute. They're. They were very

Steve:

cute. and yeah, I really liked it.

Leif:

Lily gets a call from a restricted number and

Leif:

a disturbed look on her face. We get

Leif:

to reveal, obviously, a couple scenes later.

Steve:

But yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

She gets the news in bars, in an accident, obviously.

Leif:

Dan is trying to avoid being alone with

Leif:

Lexi when Serena rushes up and to ask to speak with

Leif:

Dan alone for a second. Serena apologizes

Leif:

for before, but Dan lets Her know it's

Leif:

unnecessary. However, they don't get a chance to rejoin

Leif:

their dates because Lily rushes up looking for Chuck

Leif:

to let him know that Bart has been in an accident.

Steve:

Yeah. I, ah, really liked the

Steve:

chemistry with Dan and Serena. I thought they were very

Steve:

sweet. Dan doesn't really want to bang Lexi

Steve:

like he does.

Steve:

Sex is meeting Dan. It always

Steve:

has been. And so I

Steve:

really liked that.

Leif:

And also I guess we get to reveal that even though he was hooking up with a bunch of

Leif:

girls, he actually didn't sleep with anyone.

Steve:

Yeah. And we also get the reveal that

Steve:

they only slept together once, which I got the impression it was more than

Steve:

that. He said that was the best night

Steve:

of my life. Unless he's just referring to the first time.

Leif:

Yeah, I don't think there's any confirmation either way

Leif:

on that.

Steve:

Yeah, Yeah. I really liked how that played

Steve:

out. and then I have a big wa.

Steve:

And then, upon second watching, we realized

Steve:

that Bart Bass cockblocked

Steve:

everybody. He cockblocked

Steve:

everybody on this show. Dan and

Steve:

Serena. Nope. Because. Or Aaron and

Steve:

Serena. Nope. Because of that. Dan was already

Steve:

iffy. So now he's going to be there with

Steve:

Rufus and them. He blocked Rufus

Steve:

and Lily. He blocked Blair and.

Steve:

And Chuck. He just blanket cock

Steve:

block. okay. Vanessa and Nate are the

Steve:

ones that he did not.

Leif:

But they're gonna just go off a bang.

Steve:

Yeah, they're just.

Leif:

But yeah, that is the episode. And yeah.

Leif:

So,

Leif:

it's pretty obvious, I guess at this point that Bart's

Leif:

dead.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So tragedy can either

Leif:

bring relationships closer or it can push him

Leif:

apart.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Who's going to get closer and who's going to get pushed apart?

Steve:

I think it'll be weird for Dan and Serena

Steve:

and Rufus and Lily to get closer at

Steve:

the same time, but I feel like

Steve:

it's lining that up.

Steve:

Whereas it'll push Chuck

Steve:

and Blair away.

Leif:

Right when they were. Seemed like they were finally gonna figure out their

Leif:

shit.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, it seemed like that, it looks like that's gonna

Steve:

get pushed away and Blair is going to want

Steve:

to be there for Chuck and Chuck is not gonna want anyone to be

Steve:

there for him. I can see Chuck becoming.

Steve:

I don't see Chuck becoming inconsolable.

Steve:

I see Chuck becoming for one. Chuck

Steve:

just became a multi billionaire. Like

Steve:

so, like I can see this. Yeah. The guy he's

Steve:

always tried to impress and the last words he said to him was

Steve:

that he was disappointment. I feel for Chuck already

Steve:

on this. I think that Lillian

Steve:

Rufus will

Steve:

come together out of this because I feel Like

Steve:

Lily's going to need someone there. I feel like it's going

Steve:

to put a pin in there

Steve:

romantic relationship. But I feel like

Steve:

this is where Rufus is going to be there for Lily

Steve:

because she has no one

Steve:

else.

Leif:

What, about Erin and Serena.

Steve:

I hope this is done. I hope this is this. I hope this

Steve:

is what kills it. I hope that this is what

Steve:

makes Aaron be like, hey, we were supposed

Steve:

to bang tonight. And she'll be like, my

Steve:

stepdad just died. And that, that'll lead to a

Steve:

breakup. That's more wishful thinking than anything

Steve:

else. It's just as likely that she'll be like, I'm so sad. My stepdad

Steve:

just died. Bang me.

Leif:

I mean, step that she clearly didn't.

Steve:

Care about that she didn't care much about the stepdad.

Steve:

But that kind of thing is jarring anyway. Like

Steve:

your mom is now going through some shit. Yeah, it

Steve:

still fucks with your head.

Leif:

I was being flippant like Dan.

Leif:

So let's go ahead and get into some segments. This week

Leif:

in Fandom. We hooked it, hopped into the Wayback

Leif:

Machine and went to the 2008 television,

Leif:

without pity forums. Hello, there

Leif:

Peabody here. And this is the Wayback Machine

Leif:

for traveling through time. And this is my boy,

Leif:

Sherman. Speak, Sherman.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. They are very talkative.

Leif:

One person has said, Josh Schwartz's balls are the best

Leif:

raising.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Aaron and Serena need to be over.

Steve:

Yep.

Leif:

And everyone, was like disagreeing with Blair. Calling him

Leif:

hot.

Steve:

Yeah, I, yeah, he. She did. Blair. I. I

Steve:

actually didn't write it down so I didn't remember to talk about

Steve:

it, but had a 180 almost with Aaron

Steve:

this week. That she was much more like. Well, yeah,

Steve:

like you are. You know what I mean? Like she wasn't.

Steve:

She doesn't. She didn't like Aaron previously.

Leif:

Why they. The main thing that she didn't like was the whole

Leif:

polyamorous thing because she knew that wouldn't work for Serena.

Leif:

She. She knew it wouldn't work for her.

Steve:

I also think that Blair will never like anyone Serena's

Steve:

with. True.

Leif:

And then they were confused on why. Why Vanessa

Leif:

was so, embarrassed when nothing was really shown. So.

Leif:

Yeah, we talked about that a lot as well.

Leif:

Also confused at why Nate forgave V for but

Leif:

not Jenny. They both felt bad for what they did.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, he was a little harsh on Jenny

Steve:

and like I said, I think that that was an,

Steve:

a personal Chase Crawford

Steve:

thing. More than a. More than

Steve:

a writing thing.

Leif:

Fans are, over Rufus and Lily, they don't

Leif:

hate Bart. Yeah, we've kind of been saying the same thing.

Leif:

Bart's not that bad. Except for Chuck. With Chuck.

Steve:

yeah, Bart's terrible with Chuck. And Bart does terrible

Steve:

things. But. But doesn't warlognize.

Steve:

They're terrible. Bart loves

Steve:

in the wrong way.

Leif:

No one cares about Dan. Serena.

Steve:

yeah, I care.

Leif:

I mean, clearly the signs are pointing to them getting back

Leif:

together.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But, yeah, no one wants that.

Steve:

I want that more than

Steve:

anything. I just don't want Aaron.

Steve:

Fair Aaron and Vanessa.

Steve:

Get them both in Brooklyn.

Leif:

Yeah, we'll still see about Brooklyn. Have a move to Queens or

Leif:

something.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

yeah. Get offered something in Paris.

Leif:

No one really.

Steve:

Ah.

Leif:

they really like Jenny standing up to the mean girls. And at

Leif:

the end of the episode, big episode for Jenny in general.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, Jenny was great. Jenny's always

Steve:

great. It also occurred to me that

Steve:

Aaron. They may not survive next summer when Aaron

Steve:

goes off to work at the summer camp again

Steve:

and starts meeting some new

Steve:

12 year old potentials.

Leif:

That's my hand cannon now.

Steve:

Is that he still works in that summer camp. It has licorice

Steve:

rings. You'll be 18

Steve:

one day. God, he's disgusting.

Leif:

Serena's only 17.

Leif:

Didn't wait that long.

Steve:

Yep, yep, you'll be legal one day.

Steve:

No, no, I know the. I can. I, know the loopholes and

Steve:

the laws.

Leif:

As long as we're not in California.

Steve:

That'S a red flag. If they know how old the age of

Steve:

consent is. If they bring it up in a

Steve:

conversation, that's a red flag.

Leif:

Nate is boring at best, a hypocritical

Leif:

douche at worst.

Steve:

I get it. I.

Steve:

I feel like Nate is. Was the

Steve:

golden retriever going for the shiny thing that was in front of

Steve:

him. And I. I'm not mad at Nate. I'm

Steve:

an eight. Stan. yes, he's hypocritical. But

Steve:

they all are at one point or

Steve:

another.

Leif:

And there's more talk of Ed slumming

Leif:

it by being on Gossip Girl.

Leif:

He's just such. Such a great actor.

Steve:

Really? Yeah. Yeah, he's such a great

Steve:

actor. Yell.

Steve:

Say something at normal volume and without me

Steve:

knowing where you're from. Complete

Steve:

a sentence at this vocal

Steve:

range.

Leif:

I actually meant to bring this up at the top of the episode this

Leif:

week on the Gossip Girl subreddit. there

Leif:

actually was a big post about Ed Westwick and

Leif:

how we shouldn't celebrate his wedding because, you

Leif:

know.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I actually saw that.

Leif:

you didn't see that.

Steve:

Yeah, I saw I don't ever read anything

Steve:

in the, in the

Steve:

Reddit, in the Gossip Girl Reddit, but I'll

Steve:

get notifications sometimes. And that one

Steve:

popped up and it was that. Yeah, that like

Steve:

Ed Westwick very well.

Leif:

I was accused by four women.

Steve:

Mm

Leif:

One was I think unequivocally proven as making it

Leif:

up.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then I think he possibly has alibis

Leif:

for one or two others.

Steve:

It.

Leif:

I haven't looked into all the details so I. But

Leif:

yeah, it's not. Definitely not a good

Leif:

look.

Steve:

Yeah. And where.

Steve:

Yeah, there's often the. Where there's smoke, there's

Steve:

fire thing and you know,

Steve:

it's. I, I don't know one way or

Steve:

another, but I.

Leif:

It's not a good look.

Steve:

But it's not a good look. It's not a good look and

Steve:

we will always recognize that here on the non

Steve:

judging breakfast spot.

Leif:

So let's go ahead and get into some episode

Leif:

grades.

Leif:

I don't know, this isn't. It was well directed

Leif:

and there was some good acting. Kelly

Leif:

Taylor, Jessica, you know, they all

Leif:

had some very good acting moments. but yeah, the writing

Leif:

was kind of weak in this episode

Leif:

relying a little too much on the tropes as I mentioned.

Leif:

And so yeah, I gave it a B minus.

Steve:

That's fair. I actually went B

Steve:

plus. I actually broke it down by story,

Steve:

by storyline when I was thinking it through.

Steve:

The Jenny, Nate, Vanessa

Steve:

storyline. Although it didn't really work

Steve:

out despite its flaws, I liked

Steve:

the storyline. The B storyline

Steve:

with Dan and Serena was

Steve:

dumb and gross. Like that one I didn't

Steve:

really care for. But the other two, like the chair thing

Steve:

was predictable, but the Lily thing was awesome. Like I thought that

Steve:

Lily and Rufus were fantastic in

Steve:

this. I gave the episode a B plus

Steve:

overall.

Leif:

Okay.

Steve:

I, yeah, I, I bumped it a little bit

Steve:

because I think, I think mostly because

Steve:

of the Lily stuff.

Leif:

Fair. Let's go ahead and

Leif:

move it to stock watch. Going

Leif:

up. I had Rufus because he was

Leif:

understanding, he patient, everything he could have asked him to be in

Leif:

this episode. He didn't interact with Jenny at all.

Steve:

Yep. Yeah.

Leif:

Blair and Chuck because I mean even though I think it's

Leif:

gonna crash and burn in the next episode, they

Leif:

seem to finally kind of get. Figure their shit out here.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, they ended on, on a plus note.

Leif:

Yeah. And I gave Dan and Serena both stack up

Leif:

because they were, you know, again, they were, they were good exes

Leif:

again. And they, you know, they, they had that one flipping

Leif:

conversation but then they immediately apologized. To each other.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Who do you have going up?

Steve:

All of the same that you had. Rufus, Dan,

Steve:

Serena, Chuck, Blair. I also had Nate and

Steve:

Vanessa going up for them getting together. Vanessa

Steve:

was humiliated, but she got Nate in the end, which Nate

Steve:

was. Nate is quite a prize. All the minions

Steve:

won. I also had Lily going up

Steve:

for leaving Bart,

Steve:

you know, and. And having. And being ready to go

Steve:

back out on her own. And that is who I

Steve:

had going up. Chuck and Blair. I was on

Steve:

the fence for whether or not they actually went up, but I was like, it's

Steve:

Christmas, though.

Steve:

Everybody. Everybody on the brink goes

Steve:

up.

Leif:

So for me, I. The one that was

Leif:

on the fence for me was Vanessa, because like you said,

Leif:

she got. She got me in the end, but

Leif:

I just got to take the show, you know, based on my voting.

Leif:

She would have been going up because the show gave

Leif:

so much weight to that scene. I got to give her a

Leif:

neutral.

Steve:

That's fair. I see the neutral going down.

Leif:

Jenny, because obviously she lost this

Leif:

episode. We love her.

Steve:

She.

Leif:

She has some great scenes. Aaron, because he

Leif:

continues to be a fucking predator.

Steve:

Yeah, I actually forgot.

Leif:

And I had, Lily going down because

Leif:

she's just being a shitty wife, as usual.

Leif:

I, you know, even though she's. The scenes are

Leif:

great. She was being a

Leif:

shitty wife.

Steve:

Yeah. I mean, she's putting.

Leif:

He's putting off the conversation and before

Leif:

having the conversation with Bart immediately going back to

Leif:

Rufus.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, you gotta do.

Leif:

You gotta do the conversation bar first, then go to

Leif:

Rufus.

Steve:

It's fair. It's fair. She was

Steve:

angry. You're. You're. It's fair. I get

Steve:

it.

Leif:

And I also gave Nate a down. Yeah. Because

Leif:

you hypocritical about the whole. I

Leif:

don't get in between friends. And

Leif:

I get. He was hypocritical between forgiving

Leif:

Vanessa and not Jenny, even though they both were clearly

Leif:

felt bad for what they did.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fair. That's

Steve:

fair.

Leif:

Who do you have going down?

Steve:

Bart.

Leif:

I didn't even think of that, but yeah, that's definitely fair.

Steve:

I have Bart, I have Jenny. I'm going to add

Steve:

Aaron.

Leif:

Personally, I don't like to kick a man while he's down.

Steve:

Six feet down.

Leif:

Who's after Bart?

Steve:

after Bart, I had Jenny. I'm gonna add

Steve:

in Aaron. And then the other one I have is the

Steve:

Minions.

Leif:

Ah.

Steve:

Each of them goes down for.

Leif:

Do you want to name them individually or just as a

Leif:

group?

Steve:

Well, Penelope Hazeln is. Yeah, I'll give each of them, a

Steve:

down.

Leif:

And yeah, let's go ahead and move into

Leif:

best outfit.

Steve:

But here's the best outfits from the.

Steve:

Last episode we see.

Leif:

For me it was Blair's red and black

Leif:

Jabot dress. It was by Alice and Olivia

Leif:

and she had the yellow horseshoe belt.

Steve:

She looked like Shazam. When I saw

Steve:

that, I was like, why is Blair dressed like Shazam?

Steve:

That was my first instinct. But it was, it popped.

Steve:

It was it was a really cool outfit, but

Steve:

that was. She looked like a superhero.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

At the same time I had Chuck's tux,

Steve:

the, the sequence tux.

Steve:

I thought that was dope.

Leif:

Well, you got anything to plug this week?

Steve:

I don't other than my TikTok Instagram

Steve:

and that stuff. Steve Marchan M M A

Steve:

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I'm going to plug Rings of Power season two. I

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know first season got a lot of shit and it definitely

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13 oh Brother where Bart.

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Thou

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I only saw the oh brother. I didn't read the whole

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thing. Oh, that's so good.

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Yeah. The Max episode description

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reads, a sudden and tragic event

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impacts the lives of everyone.

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Yeah, that. That title is

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so good, too. Oh, brother, Where Art Thou?

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that was based. Was that, the

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Odyssey? The Odyssey, right. Yeah. I was trying to remember if it was the Iliad

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or the Odyssey, but. Yeah, the odd. Yeah, with

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the Cyclops. Yeah.

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And the sirens.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Well, until next time. Know you love us.

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Xoxo,

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Every time you walk away, run away, you take a

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piece of me with you there?

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Every time you walk away, run away, you take a

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piece of me with you there?

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Every time you walk away, run away you take a

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piece of me with you there?

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Oh, it seems I'm walking right to

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your door

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My heart's still resting looking for

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something more?

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Are you ever gonna see everything you mean to

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me? I'm trying really hard to believe?

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a piece

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of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away or run away, you take a piece

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of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there.

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Never feels right when I'm out here on

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my own

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I left last night and it feels like

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way too long?

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Are you ever gonna see everything you mean to

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me? I'm trying really hard to believe?

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

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of me with you there?

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of m. Me with you there.

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there?

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Come back to me

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smile and you'll make my life

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complete?

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piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there Ah.

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there?

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a piece

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of me with you there?

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there.

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Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there.

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