Which gossip girl episode is the best

In season 1, we see Little J become a mean girl in her quest to get in with Blair and her popular crew on the steps of the Met gala. Serena takes this opportunity to not only wear a graduation cap tassel in her hair, but also to decide that Gossip Girl has to go down. The result? Serena and co.

In this episode, it becomes increasingly clear that while Blair may have been the top dog in high school, people at New York University could care less about sushi parties, limos to Butter and her incessant scheming. This is a great episode because, for once, the roles are reversed, with Dan finally being the popular one. Yes, you read that correctly: Lizzie McGuire has a threesome in this episode!!!

The fact that this occurs, as well as the musical build-up to the moment when the trio decide to take the plunge featuring a confusing sensual cover of T. In case you were wondering, at the time in , this was a scandal with a capital S, with the Parents Television Council boycotting the episode and calling for it to be removed. And the season 3 Thanksgiving episode is no exception.

Always stirring the pot. After running away with her married BF, Tripp van der Bilt, Serena and said boyfriend get into a car crash, with Tripp calling and leaving the scene.

Come for Nate punching his cousin out and the start of his relationship with Serena, and stay for one of a few very rare scenes of Blair and Chuck supporting each other. But movies? Chuck is being sued for sexual harassment, big surprise. Jack makes a de rigueur apology for trying to rape Lily by claiming he was on a number of substances, including meth. Serena comes up with an unbelievably stupid plan to break them up and is like, Nate?

Why would you think calling Rufus would work? You make no sense! Why would you have a problem with drug dealers? So, she is sad and listens to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Ah, more problematic consent politics.

Nate, a minor, is extorted for sex. Blair, also 17, wants it rougher from her presumably adult boyfriend. Fun for the whole fam. The dresses in this episode are a lace dream. Nate and Juliet get back together and break up again. Dan is…involved in that? As is Vanessa? He thinks that his cousin statutorily raped one of his students, but instead of telling her what he knows and asking if she needs help, he quits his job to be with her.

Men are useless. Juliet kidnaps Serena, which I feel like she could have done earlier and saved us all the headache. At least we get more of Anne Archibald, queen of deadpan desperation.

Moving on. Lily and Chuck play the pretend-to-fight-to-trick-your-common-enemy game, a game that is played on GG again and again and yet delights me every time. Meanwhile, Nate takes Raina ice skating, even though Raina has a meeting with Ivanka Trump what is this plot. And then there are a thousand twists that include drugs, blackmail, and payments, and it ends with Blair falling asleep on Dan.

And then Blair is in Paris and Chuck is in Dubai. She might be the dumbest person alive. After not answering anyone's texts all summer, Serena is flabbergasted, offended even, that people have come looking for her. How could they have tracked her down? She went all the way from Manhattan to Poughkeepsie. Oh, and the name she uses to conceal her identity?

It's like half a sound away from Serena. Dan gets slapped twice at this wedding, so it's a good one. Also, Ivy has moved in with Rufus and ends up seducing him ick. She really needs a throat lozenge or a cup of tea or maybe just some hot water with lemon and honey? Because, sweetie, you sound so scratchy.

Everyone is trying to keep their terrible relationships going. Looking at you, Ivy and Rufus. But also, Serena and Stephen. And of course, Dan, who is still somehow in love with Blair. Dan can apparently send Vanity Fair any chapter he wants, any time he wants, which is not how freelancing works.

But with five more episodes to go, are we really going to quibble with something like that? Dan, you need to be in communication with your editor about deadlines, topics, themes, and drafts. The social team needs time to prep. And Serena and Blair have one last fight because they have to. What does Serena do all day?

She's not in school, she doesn't work, and she has no hobbies, skills, or even interests. Chuck gets Blair into Columbia, which is nice of him. And The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 's Rachel Brosnahan has a line about pills! I think someone is poisoning my stepmom.

Where do I start? With the definition of cancer…". Serena has to know why Dan and Blair are hanging out and involves Charlie in this investigation. And even though Blair decided just an episode ago that she prefers Chuck to Dan, now she prefers the prince to them both and has to stage a kiss with Dan to help the prince, natch.

There is way too much talk of kissing and crushes. This episode takes place in middle school. It's Thanksgiving, and Dorota is knocked up! Beyond that, this is kind of a convoluted mess of people finding things out without really doing anything. At least it focuses on the main characters and their families instead of random love interests or contrived events. Serena chooses Tripp over Nate because she is incapable of making a rational decision. Eric and Jenny fight, Vanessa and her mom fight, and Serena and her mom fight.

The iconic " Whatcha Say " plays. And did anyone else catch Eleanor's lawyer's name? It's Lionel Tribbey a. John Laroquette's lawyer character on The West Wing. Do you want another post just about West Wing references and crossovers on Gossip Girl? Answer in the comments! There are no comments; please send your response by carrier pigeon or telepathic vibration. She also pushes Serena into a fountain, which is stupid, but wet Serena is funny.

I wish she had more screen time. Those are plenty of dramatic arcs, but the MOST dramatic arc that starts in this episode is that we meet Juliet. She re-tags her worn designer clothes, which tells us that she's deceitful and, even worse, poor. She also has one of those boards covered in newspaper clips and string that only crazy people in television shows have. I do not like Juliet. This begs the question: Did you really love that girl or change for her at all? Guess not because in his quest to destroy Blair, he enlists the other woman he has hurt the most in the world, Jenny Humphrey.

Everyone else is busy getting tested for STDs and freaking out about it, which, way to spread stigma. And Juliet coolly and calmly masterminds a plot that breaks up Dan and Vanessa and possibly will get Serena expelled. Is it a little odd to date your step-sibling?

Besides, at this point, all of the couples in question have had sex. The line has been crossed. Quick story: During Welcome Week at NYU, a girl asked me where a person could go to see a movie because she was under the impression that New York, a city known for its plays and musicals, had no movie theaters.

She thought there were no movie theaters in the whole city. The return of Nelly Yuki and Poppy Lifton! Dropped by his publisher, Dan decides to post all his gossip on The Spectator. Chuck is still investigating Bart. Misunderstandings and fashion sabotage. Ah, yes, the plot of being a cater waiter at a party your friends are attending never gets old.

Rufus, your impression of Lily is ridiculous. Jenny, starting a punk rock trend at school is ridiculous. Tyra Banks, your performance is ridiculous, and your movie-within-the-show performance as Josephine Baker!!!

Nate, your love of vampires is ridiculous. Blair, your obsession with high school is ridiculous. Serena, your entitlement is ridiculous. But most ridiculous of all is how Lily blames Rufus for Serena not going to college. It should! Missed opportunity. A I absolutely believe that Nate has been in love with Serena his entire life because I believe Nate's been in love with every woman he's ever met his entire life. I do not, however, think he or his cousin Triptopher have much chemistry with Serena.

B Of course Blair wants to be friends with the Tisch kids. Everyone should want to be friends with Tisch kids. Go Bobcats. C Lady Gaga performs, weirdly, not at the end of the episode. Instead, the end of the episode is the performance of a terrible-seeming take on fairy tales which brings us to D Dan and Vanessa and Lizzie McGuire.

He realizes his feelings in a kiss. E Jenny wants to sell drugs now. Has Jenny ever taken a drug before? And Dan, who was in love with Serena for two years, is trying to help Nate keep her. Rufus and Lily are having troubles when are they not? Meanwhile, Jenny is super good at selling drugs.

She has always been a damn liar. The writers finally let Vanessa and Chuck have scenes together—the actors were dating at the time—but it makes no goddamn sense for the characters. Poppy Lifton is back and was nice enough to bring Armie Hammer. Dan gets a fan letter from someone. It's the brother. I hate this plot. Jenny has a birthday party and is a dick about it. Serena is a dick because she forgot how fun being a dick is? None of this makes any sense, but at least Dorota got a boyfriend.

Damien is Chuck without his soft side: totally amoral. Meanwhile, Dan and Blair are working at W. I would love to have seen them actually work together at the internship instead of compete for it, which would have given the characters a real reason to spend time together. Oh, but the best part of this episode?

There is a character named Epperly. Is this an episode about who got into Yale? About what that means for Serena and Dan? About Ms. About the fact that apparently Rufus and Lily have very loud sex? About Bass Industries? About Jack trying to rape Lily at the opera seriously, what is with the Bass men and boundaries? You have to admire a series where half the episodes take place at parties and half of those parties are themed parties and half of those themed parties also involve a bet with sex as the prize and the winner is declared at midnight.

This episode features some pretty awkward Guitar Hero product placement and some even more awkward acting. I don't know if the actors were given the script the night before or if the coffee ran out at craft services or what, but the acting in this episode is just bad.

What's notable here is the start of Nate and Jenny's endless courtship who doesn't root for two good-hearted simpletons?

Also, say what you will about Blair being a diva, but crying at your own birthday party is a time-honored tradition among a certain set of tightly wound women. There's a lot of pressure. Lotta twists, lotta turns. Then he forgives her. But, Blair, why would you want to be a bridesmaid? I appreciated the French farce of the Seder, even if catering-based plots are somewhat cliche seriously, they come up in every sitcom.

Also, I really want to buy into Blair and Nate—but as we saw in the My Fair Lady opening, Blair uses relationships to define herself and figure herself out. She seems like an awful girlfriend, actually. I wish we had seen more of the delightful bitchy waitress Dan is paired up with at the Seder. The apology itself is pretty mediocre, but at least he promises not to live in the same place as her. That's a good thing; but if seeing him is triggering for her, maybe he shouldn't be in her life every single day?

Just a thought. Trying to trick someone into violating their parole is a pretty par for the course GG plot, as is Chuck mixing business and pleasure with Raina.

This episode is going in so many different directions. Serena pushes Blair into a cake. Less annoying is the staged drowning to get Tripp elected. Thank God Vanessa was filming! A vanilla episode. It literally takes place at a sleepover where they try on clothes. But it's Blair who steals this episode with her imitation of a pill addict. Weird Blair is the best Blair. Blair is acting out some kiddie version of melodrama by hiring her dad's boyfriend's ex to come lure said boyfriend away from said dad in a quasi- Parent Trap attempt to keep her family together for the holidays.

Dan and Serena don't know what to get each other for Christmas because this is the Disney Channel, I guess. Blair thinks Vanessa is being duplicitous in helping Serena, but none of them do anything about it. Let's focus on the good things: the Constance a Capella group, of which I cannot get enough, Blair's ugly pom-pom'd hat, lots of turtlenecks, Eric, a pure soul who is also very funny, Dorota's holiday-themed apron, Serena and Dan having sex in the snow room for the first time?

Serena's dress is cute, though. Remember those? The important things here are the introduction of Agnes, a character with too much personality, and Aaron Rose, a fuckboi. However, both serve important functions. Aaron is related to Cyrus, without whom we would all be lost, and Agnes is the evil mastermind behind Party Jenny, the truest Jenny to ever Jenny.

I don't like when the characters are being duped; I like when they are doing the duping. Still, they found a way to make a financial scam not boring. And Gabriel is so skeevy. That's a couple we can all get behind. The Nelly Yuki plot is funny and very high school, but did they have to go with the Asian nerd stereotype? Thus begins the endless talk of "old Serena" versus "new Serena," who constantly reverts back to "old Serena," which makes me think that there is only one Serena and she possibly has an undiagnosed mental illness.

So much has happened in such a short amount of time. Dan thinks he has a baby with Georgina, Blair and Chuck reunite for a fleeting moment before she realizes she must let him go, and then Blair meets a member of the royal family of Monaco at a museum while staring at a painting. She then gives him one of her Roger Vivier heels to find her with. How can you not love this show? We're not in the Upper East Side anymore! Dan and Blair have left Manhattan and are trying to find out what really happened when Serena was in boarding school.

This episode has it all: Dan and Blair being an unlikely amazing duo, flashbacks to Serena's wild past in boarding school, a glimpse into why Juliet actually hated Serena, and answers to all the questions we've had in the past few episodes. Upper East Side meets In this juicy episode, Serena is interning on a movie set: a full-blown working gal. Nate pretty much does nothing in this episode but look beautiful, as usual, until he meets a very hot older woman how did they get Elizabeth Hurley on this show?

Again, how could you not love this show? You know what that means. A high-school themed party. His new friend is Lola, who is actually Serena's real cousin who Fake Cousin Charlie is trying to impersonate. Blair tries to get Serena and Dan back together, but turns out that Dan actually just wants Blair and decides to kiss her instead.

Georgina records the whole thing and Serena is in shock and betrayed. Basically the same plotline from every season before that involves Blair, Serena, and someone else. So much has happened since season five. Serena is dating Matt from 7th Heaven. His daughter, who is in high school, is dating Nate again, why was this okay? Bart Bass who died in a previous season but is revealed to be very much alive actually dies after trying to attack Chuck.

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