Gossip Girl

Episode 17 – Empire of the Son

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Ben’s (guest star David Call) mother (guest star Marsha Dietlein Bennett) comes to town, forcing issues to the surface between Ben and Serena. Russell Thorpe (guest star Michael Boatman) is determined to destroy Chuck’s family legacy, but he risks alienating his daughter, Raina (guest star Tika Sumpter), in the process. Billy Baldwin returns as William van der Woodsen, Lily’s ex-husband and Serena and Eric’s father.

Episode 16 – While You Weren’t Sleeping

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Eric turns 18; Blair stretches herself too thin; Serena must choose between Ben and her family; Lily and Chuck’s relationship remains icy.

Episode 15 – It-Girl Happened One Night

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With Russell Thorpe poised for a takeover attempt of Bass Industries in order to liquidate the company as his final twisted revenge against the late Bart Bass, Chuck makes one last-ditch effort to save his family’s company. Meanwhile, Blair is given a challenging assignment at W Magazine with the promise of a possible promotion. Serena struggles with her feelings for Ben.

Title comes from the 1934 film It Happened One Night.

Episode 14 – Panic Roommate

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:31:24 +0000

Blair enlists Nate’s help to win over her high-strung boss, Epperly, at W Magazine. Damien stirs up more drama on the Upper East Side when he begins playing Eric and Serena against each other. Also, Chuck finds himself torn between business and pleasure with Raina.

Title comes from the 2002 film Panic Room and the 2011 film The Roommate.

Episode 13 – Damien Darko

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Blair is ecstatic to land an internship at W Magazine to further claw her way up the ranks to be a ruling CEO, but Blair’s egosticial thrill quickly fades when she finds out that Dan has secured one of the coveted positions as well. Meanwhile, Chuck may have finally met his match with Russell Thorpe, and his daughter Raina, when they announce that they are both plotting to take over Bass Industries, and to oust Chuck following the takeover. Serena tries a reconsiliation with Ben after his release from prison. Also, Nate receives alarming news about his father’s business prospects when he learns that the Captain and Russell are working together for some nefarious purpose.

Title comes from the 2001 film Donnie Darko.

Episode 12 – The Kids Are Not Alright

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:29:44 +0000

A former associate of Chuck’s father, Russell Thorpe, along with his crafty and headstrong daughter Raina, return to Manhattan from Chicago with some unfinished business for our Upper East Siders. Serena and Chuck join forces against Lily to try to prevent her from selling Bass Industries to a potential buyer. Dan feels left out of Serena’s life when she is divered to help Chuck, as well as find a way to get Ben released from prison. Meanwhile, Blair realizes that her mother, Eleanor, may be her key to becoming a future CEO. Also, Nate worries that his father, The Captain, is having a little too much fun after his release from prison and is not taking his parole seriously.

Title comes from the 2010 film The Kids Are All Right.

Episode 11 – The Townie

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Blair and Dan team up with Damien to find Juliet in her Connecticut hometown, while she returns to New York for a confrontation with Serena. Meanwhile, Nate struggles with allowing his father back into his life when the Captain announces that his parole has been granted. Also, Rufus and Chuck learn Lily is selling Bass Industries, and Serena also learns that Lily is partly responsible for Juliet’s brother being sent to prison. One Week Later, Nate leaves town to be with his paroled father for the winter break, while Chuck leaves for New Zealand to meet with his uncle hoping to find a way to stop Lily from selling his company. Serena creates a plan to help get Juliet’s brother, Ben Donovan, out of jail.

Title comes from the 2010 film The Town.

Episode 10 – Gaslit

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Lily, Rufus and Eric find themselves at the hospital for an overdose from Serena. Vanessa tries to frame Jenny for Juliet’s actions, threatening her relationship with her family. Meanwhile, Nate attempts to help his parents put the past behind them and reconcile. After successfully clearing her agenda, Juliet makes a departure, as well as Vanessa in fear of potential vengeance from Blair.

Title comes from the 1944 film Gaslight.

Episode 9 – The Witches of Bushwick

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Serena learns that she has until the end of Chuck’s Saints & Sinners Masquerade Ball to choose between Dan or Nate. Meanwhile, Blair sets her sights on becoming the new face of Anne Archibald’s Foundation for Girls, but her relationship with Chuck may be problematic. Elsewhere, Jenny joins forces with Juliet and Vanessa to take down Serena.

Title comes from the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick.

Episode 8 – Juliet Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:21:38 +0000

Serena continues to resist temptation with her professor Colin, while Vanessa joins Juliet’s scheme to try to bring down Serena with photos taken of her and Colin in a romantic embrace.

Title comes from the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

Episode 7 – War at the Roses

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:01:39 +0000

Blair is caught off guard at her 20th birthday party. Worried that Chuck and Blair might return to their vindictive games, Serena and Nate make the warring exes sign a peace treaty.

Title comes from the 1989 film The War of the Roses.

Episode 6 – Easy J

admin — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:21:18 +0000

Jenny returns to New York for a job interview with Tim Gunn, while Blair is doing her best efforts to send Little J back to Hudson. Serena learns that Colin (guest star Sam Page) is actually her college professor, which puts their relationship in grave danger.

Title comes from the 2010 film Easy A.

Episode 5 – Goodbye, Columbia

admin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:14:12 +0000

An anonymous Gossip Girl blast starts a very damaging rumor about Serena, saying she has an STD. Juliet sabotages Dan and Vanessa’s relationship. Chuck threatens Blair’s chances to become the powerful businesswoman Martha’s (guest star Marilyne Barrett) new assistant.

Title comes from the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus.

Episode 4 – Touch of Eva

admin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:12:33 +0000

Nate suspects that Juliet is keeping a big secret from him and decides to confront her. Meanwhile, Blair successfully plots to make Chuck and Eva break-up, which leads to him declaring war between them. Dan finds himself torn between his feelings for Serena and Vanessa.

Title comes from the 1958 film Touch of Evil.

Episode 3 – The Undergraduates

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:56:06 +0000

Blair is in for a few big surprises on her first day at Columbia; Serena becomes suspicious of Juliet (Katie Cassidy); worried about Dan, Rufus decides to take matters into his own hands.

Episode 2 – Double Identity

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:59:09 +0000

Serena and Blair run into a different Chuck in Paris. Juliet suggests that tricking Vanessa to be with Dan might be the right thing to remove Dan from the Dan-Serena-Nate triangle. Rufus learns that Dan isn’t Milo’s father after he checks Georgina’s and Milo’s blood test. Serena convinces Blair to talk Chuck into returning to Manhattan.

Title comes from the 1944 film Double Idemnity.

Episode 1 – Belles de Jour

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:55:57 +0000

Serena and Blair enjoy summer vacation in Paris trying to take their minds off of home. Chuck is recovering after being found and healed by Eva. Meanwhile, back in New York, Eleanor helps make arrangements for Fashions night out at the Van Der Woodsen apartment and Dan and Nate prepare to face Serena.

Title comes from the 1967 film Belle de Jour.

Episode 22 – Last Tango , Then Paris

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:24:47 +0000

In the third season final, Rufus finds a final punishment for Jenny when she sends a Gossip Girl gossip bomb involving Dan and Serena non-existent tryst, creating troubles for their relationships. Meanwhile, Dorota and Vanya welcome their baby. Elsewhere, Georgina returns to the Upper East Side from her enforced exile in Europe with a surprise for Dan. Blair gets delayed when Dorota goes into labor and accompanies her to the hospital while Eleanor and Cyrus are also there to lend moral support. As a result of being delayed, Blair misses her date with Chuck.

A broken-hearted Chuck, mistakenly thinking that Blair doesn’t love him anymore, finds a lonely Jenny, as they spend the night together. Afterwords, a guilt-ridden Jenny confides in Eric about her meaningless tryst, who then tells Dan. Chuck is then in the middle of proposing to Blair, when Dan comes and punches him, and Blair immeidately finds out that Jenny and Chuck slept together.

At the end, Blair and Serena leave for Paris while Dan is left by himself. Jenny hits rock bottom and is exiled to a boarding school on the Hudson. The last scene set in Prague shows two thugs stealing a ring that Chuck was going to give to Blair; he struggles and ends up getting shot and left to die in the alley.

Title comes from the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris.

Episode 21 – Ex-Husbands and Wives

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When things get tense between Rufus and Will, Serena chooses to stand behind her father, making Rufus feel like an outsider in his own family. Jenny and Chuck team up to try to find out why a psychiatrist claims that Rufus had sex with her, while Blair joins forces with Dan and Nate to find out more at what Will is hiding. After many failed attempts, Chuck makes one last grand gesture to reconcile with Blair, hoping she will finally accept the fact that they are destined to be together.

Elsewhere, Jenny deliberately witholds information from everyone conserning Will’s intentions, and the later shares information with Will that may ultimately destroy Lily and Rufus’ marriage.

Title comes from the 1992 film Husbands and Wives.

Episode 20 – It’s a Dad, Dad, Dad World

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:21:52 +0000

Will’s return to the Upper East Side continues to stir up problems for Serena, Lily and his long-standing rival, Rufus. Meanwhile, Serena and Jenny’s relationship is strained as a result of Jenny’s deception over Nate. Blair spends time on the Columbia University campus and realizes where she truly belongs.

Also, Dan learns that Vanessa has been keeping yet another secret from him when she informs him that she has decided to leave town for more international activist work in Haiti. Elsewhere, Chuck struggles with the idea of Lily’s sickness while he continues to try to make up with Blair.

Title comes from the 1964 film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Episode 19 – Dr. Estrangeloved

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:20:44 +0000

When Lily’s ex-husband, Dr. William van der Woodsen (guest star William Baldwin), shows up unexpectedly in Manhattan, Serena finally gets the reunion she has so desperately wanted with her father, but the circumstances turn out to be far from ideal when Will reveals a secret of Lily’s failing health. When Serena and Nate continue to have relationship issues, a scheming Jenny is more than happy to be a shoulder for Nate to lean on.

Meanwhile, Dan finds out that he didn’t get accepted into the Tisch writing program and Vanessa admits she may have been somewhat responsible by aquiring the spot that Dan wanted in the first place.

Title comes from the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove.

Episode 18 – The Unblairable Lightness of Being

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Chuck offers to throw a wedding for a very pregnant Dorota who insists that she and Vanya have a traditional wedding before her parents arrive from Poland and find their daughter pregnant and without a husband. Dorota asks Blair and Chuck to be part of the ceremony and walk her down the aisle while Blair’s mother, Eleanora, and her stepfather Cyrus also step in to help out.

Meanwhile, Serena tells Nate she is having breakfast with the Humphreys when in reality she’s secretly meeting up with Carter Baizen. Also, Rufus discovers that Lily has been lying to him about her whereabouts. In this episode, Leighton Meester’s song “Your Love is a Drug” is featured.

Title comes from the 1988 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Episode 17 – Inglorious Bassterds

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:38:32 +0000

Chuck and Blair are faced with the most difficult decision they have ever faced as a couple when Jack tells Blair that she has to sleep with him for Chuck to get the hotel back. Blair decides to go do it, then Jack tells her Chuck organized it. Meanwhile, Serena plans a surprise birthday party for Nate, but Jenny does her best to sabotage Serena’s efforts by keeping Nate away and tries to make a move onto him.

Elsewhere, Dan and Vanessa’s new relationship hits a bump in the road, when they have to evaluate each others’ work.

Title comes from the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds.

Episode 16 – The Empire Strikes Jack

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:14:16 +0000

Chuck finds himself once again at odds with Jack Bass when Chuck learns that his mother, Elizabeth, is in fact a con artist in love with Jack and she betrays Chuck by having him sign ownership the hotel over to Jack. Meanwhile, Eleanor (guest star Margaret Colin) puts Blair in charge of making sure her latest fashion show is a huge success with an important client.

Rufus attempts to get Jenny back on track by volunteering to have her help with Eleanor’s fashion show, but the opportunity takes a big turn for the worse when Jenny learns that her old friend-turned-bitter enemy, Agnes (guest star Willa Holland), will be one of the models, and who seeks revenge against Jenny. When Jenny is drugged and left by Agnes at a gentlemens club, Jenny calls on Nate to rescue her. Elsewhere, Dan and Vanessa announce their newfound romance to everyone and try to have a real date when Vanessa tries to cook dinner at the Humphrey loft.

Title comes from the 1980 film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

Episode 15 – The Sixteen Year Old Virgin

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:11:38 +0000

Despite being grounded, Jenny continues to secretly see Damien who tells Jenny that he wants to have sex with her. Meanwhile, Lily tells Rufus the big secret she has been keeping from him even though she knows it’s a huge risk. Dan and Vanessa explore a new stage of their romantic relationship. Serena and Nate have an argument about their past events.

Also, Chuck is forced to make an extremely difficult decision about transfering ownership of his hotel to Elizabeth when a lawsuit is served against him by female employees for sexual harassment and his devious uncle, Jack Bass (guest star Desmond Harrington) returns to New York with an agenda.

Title comes from the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Episode 14 – The Lady Vanished

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:02:55 +0000

Rufus and Lily grow more angry and suspect of Jenny’s relationship with Damien in which Jenny decides to rebel by revealing Damien’s drug dealing profession. Meanwhile, Chuck confides in Blair, Serena, and Nate about his investigation into the mysterious woman, Elizabeth Fisher, who may or may not be his mother.

Elsewhere, Dan and Vanessa struggle through the awkwardness of dating other people when they attend a college beach party with their respective dates. Also, Serena makes a decision regarding finding her father after having a talk with Chuck’s mother.

Title comes from the 1938 film The Lady Vanishes.

Episode 13 – The Hurt Locket

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Now back together, Nate and Serena decide to explore the boundaries of their new relationship. Meanwhile, Blair suspects that Chuck is having problems forgetting about the mysterious woman he saw at his father’s grave. Serena asks to accompany Damien to a State Dinner but is unaware that he needs her help with a drug exchange. Things are complicated when Jenny and Nate crash the event and she inadvertantly aquires Jenny’s coat with the contraband stash sewed into it.

Elsewhere, Vanessa and Dan attempt to move past the awkwardness of Dan’s confession of love. Also, Rufus returns from a ski trip and tries his best to avoid Lily whom he suspects was unfaituful.

Title comes from the 2009 film The Hurt Locker.

Episode 12 – The Debarted

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:16:13 +0000

On the first anniversary of Bart Bass’ death, Chuck wrestles with the dilemma of following his conscience, or that of his father. Serena runs away with Trip where they hide out at his cottage on Long Island. But thanks to Nate, Serena begins to suspect Trip, who has been keeping contact with his wife, Maureen, despite his claims that he intends to divorce her. During Trip and Serena’s drive back to New York, an argument between them brings a terrible tragedy when Serena is seriously injured in a car accident and Trip flees from the scene.

Back in New York, Dan and Vanessa attempt to navigate their newly complicated friendship when Dan seeks a new potential relationship with one of Vanessa’s friends. Elsewhere, Eric and Kira make work his plan to dethrone Jenny. Also, the relationship between Lily and Rufus deteriorates even more when he discovers the letter from Serena’s father.

Title comes from the 2006 film The Departed.

Episode 11 – The Treasure of Serena Madre

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:12:57 +0000

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side if there wasn’t a serving or two of some major drama for the holiday. Blair suspects her mother, Eleanora, has been keeping a big secret from her, but it turns out to be something else entirely. Vanessa is supposed to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, but has a fight with her estranged mother and shows up on Dan’s doorstep.

Meanwhile, Rufus learns that Lily has been lying to him about her mother, Cece (guest star Caroline Lagerfelt) and of her whereabouts for the summer. Chuck tells Nate that he has some potentially damaging information about one of their friends. Jenny learns that Eric was behind her very public embarrassment at Cotillion and can’t pass up a chance to get even. Serena is put in a very awkward position when her mother invites Trip and his wife Maureen to join them for Thanksgiving dinner at their penthouse.

Title comes from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Episode 10 – The Last Days of Disco Stick

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:09:17 +0000

Hoping to impress the elitist theater kids at NYU, Blair sets her sights on landing a private concert with the hottest musical performer of the year, Lady Gaga. Dan and Olivia sign up to write and star in a school play, based on an idea by Blair and directed by Vanessa which leads to more quaralling between all involved. With Blair out of the picture, Serena turns to Nate to help her get through a difficult situation when she begins falling for Trip despite the fact that is he still married.

As a favor to Chuck, Jenny agrees to hang out with Damien (guest star Kevin Zegers), the son of an ambassador who is staying at Chuck’s hotel, but the experience proves to be a lot more intriguing than she expected.

Title comes from the 1998 film The Last Days of Disco and the song “LoveGame” by Lady Gaga, who also makes a cameo and performs “Bad Romance”.