Gossip Girl #4 - Page 45

Boomer · 23-01-2012

^ Good question...Wasn't Lily trying to find her, and then the real one showed up? Confusing right now...

catherine88 · 24-01-2012

Look at this!
Kaylee DeFer ~ "Gossip Girl" set / NYC, January 23

celebutopia

Boomer · 24-01-2012

Recap!!

Just like real New Yorkers, Gossip Girl characters are a tenacious bunch. Last night, Chuck Bass proved he would stop at nothing for his true love Blair, even if it meant lurking embarrassingly in the doorway of Juicy Couture store on Madison Avenue. Serena persisted in carrying on her fake relationship with Dan in hopes that it would turn into a real one, despite Dan’s blatant and insulting disinterest. And randy Father Cavalia, who is in New York for reasons unclear, will do anything to stop Louis from marrying Blair in order to keep his job as the “spiritual flack” of the royal family of Monaco. Because he ... loves the church?
As always, only some aspects of what was once known as The Greatest Show of Our Time mirror reality, and it’s up to us to sort the true-to-life from the just plain crazy. Behold: our weekly reality index!

More Real Than a Penis Cake Being the Bouche De Noel of the American Bachelorette Party

• Serena is obsessed with Dan, but still makes him come to Manhattan for coffee — and pay for it. Love is only worth so much on the Upper East Side. Plus 1
• Serena’s plans for Blair’s bachelorette party are for dinner at Le Charlot and “kir royals and Kiki de Montparnasse at the St. Regis.” Then while they’re hanging around in lingerie after a big meal, they can circle each other’s fat, just like the old Constance Billiard days! Plus 2
• Beatrice thinks bachelorette parties involve licking crème fraîche off of strippers. Aw! Cute little French people. Plus 2
• Nate bought “cab ads” for Serena, but Plus only 1, because (a) It’s commonly known as “Taxi TV” and (b) If Nate really knew what he was doing he would have gotten Cat Greenleaf to interview her on “Stoop Talk.”
• Blair confesses she pressed the closed button on a door when a woman was running toward it. “She was wearing too much perfume,” she says. “Diddy called it 'Unforgivable' for a reason.” Plus only 2, because while we’re glad Blair’s wit is coming back, she would never recognize the smell of a fragrance sold at Walgreen’s.
• Nate asks Chuck if he followed Blair into the church. “Of course not,” he responds. “I didn’t want to risk blowing my cover. Or bursting into flames.” Plus 3
• “Your ideas are brilliant.” “Obviously you light up every room you walk into.” “Publishers see you as Jennifer Egan or Chad Harbach.” Oh, agents. Plus 3 and Plus another 2 for Dan totally buying it.
• Serena blithely capitalizes on the nickname and notoriety bestowed on her by Gossip Girl by naming her column “S by S,” at the same time talking constant smack about “taking down” the gossip blogger who made her famous. If we were Gossip Girl — and MAYBE WE ARE — we’d want to take this bitch down a notch, too. Plus 4
• “There are a couple of worlds I’m drawn to,” Dan tells his publishers. “One of them is a modern western, but it’s like a Henry the Fourth kind of structure, a Falstaff thing, but he’s addicted to the drunken revelry of the West, so it’s set on a cattle ranch ... ” Plus 10 for the most awesomely pretentious novel description since “He was a man who was born with a dog’s head ... ”
• Dan: “I was thinking I wanted to stretch on this one.” Jonathan Karp: “Then take a yoga class!” Good one, Jonathan Karp! But “Can I hit pause?” wins for the most dismissive line of 2012. Plus 5
• Nate, the editor of a major publication, has only, like, four e-mails in his in-box, and three are from Gossip Girl. Plus 2 because this is, after all, Nate, and nobody’s asking him to make any decisions.
• Beatrice takes Blair’s bachelorette party to Panchito’s, where they do shots, dance with guys with goatees to Brilliant. Plus 7
• Plus 5 for trivia questions that tell us important background information, like that Lord Marcus’s favorite song was “Where Do Broken Hearts Go,” and Carter Baizen once wore Blair’s underwear to Picholine.
• Nate has read through all of the Spectator archives, and the meanest thing they’ve printed under his editorship was a headline wondering whether Christina Agueliera’s belly was a “baby bump or Mexican munch.” And that is a REAL QUESTION. Plus 2

Total: 51

Faker Than Waving Around the Cash You Accepted for Attempted Murder in the Street
• Blair doesn’t notice the priest she’s talking to has a thick French accent and smells like FCUK cologne. Minus 2
• I’m sorry, but it’s just completely impossible that Serena could have gotten into my mom’s closet and stolen her Halloween sweater from 1985. Minus 1
• Coffee in hipster Brooklyn isn’t “half the price,” now that everyone’s serving brands like Intelligentsia. Minus only 1, because if Dan and Serena had gone to Blue Bottle, waiting for a cup of drip coffee would have taken up half the episode.
• Where did Blair’s sudden extreme hatred of Father Cavalia come from? It’s true he looks more like a porno actor in a priest suit than an actual man of the cloth, but she didn’t seem to notice that when they met at the Feast. Minus 3
• Does the Princess of Monaco have to wait in line at Ladurée like everyone else? We think not. Minus 2
• Serena is able to upload the text of an e-mail onto the Spectator site with the click of a button. Hell of a CMS those people have. Minus 2
• Also, how has no one on this show set a password on their computer? Minus 5
• Serena has hidden comedic and literary talents? No. Minus 10
• “You’re never going to leave the church for me, we both know it,” Beatrice says to Father Cavalia. Because obviously this man is deeply religious and would never consider letting down God. Seriously? This plotline is a thing that is happening? I can’t even. Minus 5
• So, wait, Serena just doesn’t show up to her best friend’s bachelorette party and that’s cool? Minus 9
• Minus 25 for the blatant rip-off of the Sex and the City episode where Carrie gets caught with a joint in front of a bar.
• So having Nate fake-fire Serena and sending a video of it to Gossip Girl, then using Serena to coerce Trip into making a quasi-confession that he tried to have Nate killed while Nate and his Grandfather listen in from the other room turns out to be Nate’s Grandfather’s idea. If we’re not mistaken, Old Man Archibald has proven to be the biggest schemer on this show. Someone put a headband on this man and call him Queen Bee! No, just kidding, this whole plotline was absurd. Minus 10

Total: 75

Weird plotting and continued religious tomfoolery tipped this episode into the realm of the fake. Next week: Will Blair and Louis get married, or will the wedding be interupted by Chuck, Father Cavalia, or GOD HIMSELF?

NYMagazine

Ievut · 24-01-2012

Didn't it seem weird to you that Dan was complaining about coffee prices even though since his dad married Lily, he became loaded?

misspistol · 25-01-2012

Plus he's meant to have been a best seller and has optioned the movie rights to his book. And he seems to be living in Brooklyn rent free...I guess all his money goes on flannel shirts.

cloudyshambles · 25-01-2012

I think it's a positive thing that he sticks to his roots? I mean $8 for a coffee is ridiculous, especially if you only have to walk down a few blocks and get it for much less... just shows he's being realistic imho.

cloudyshambles · 25-01-2012

another photo recap

in one of the pics you can actually read Serena's column and it's really not funny at all

Psylocke · 25-01-2012

I'm beginning to enjoy Gossip Girl again now that it is turning into a parody of Blake Lively's real life

The column made me laugh because it's so awfully written. Oh dear.

Niusity · 25-01-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by jemina

Is Chivy gone for good?

Quote:

Originally Posted by catherine88

Look at this!
Kaylee DeFer ~ "Gossip Girl" set / NYC, January 23

I've seen her name among the titles in Father and the Bride and I was like WTF?

The only thing I'm looking forward in GG is Blair's wedding. I'm so tired of the never lasting Serena's-drama.
Oh, and those recaps are amazing!

mordant · 25-01-2012

@ Serena's blog. I can understand why Rufus was laughing - it was so terrible.

"Wah! Why is all this happening to me?! Because of GOSSIP GIRL! But now she's gone and I have my Brooklyn Boy."

Niusity · 26-01-2012

Is it only me or the actress who portraits Beatrice kinda looks like Charlotte Casiraghi' sister?

valeryblack · 27-01-2012

Serena's column is awful. bring GG back

btw, I don't really get why she "disappeared". I mean, nasty things have happened before because of her. but it is unlikely that EVERYONE stopped sending her info at the same time.

Boomer · 27-01-2012

^ I never figured that out, either- but then, I guess logic only goes so far on the Upper East Side...

ibizahippie · 27-01-2012

Haha yeah Serenas column was pretty bad and boring, I don't get what the ridiculous Rufus was cracking up over

Dan needs a haircut. And I hate Charlies character. I hope she won't stick around 'til the end.

Boomer · 30-01-2012

Nah- can't be...just can't be!!

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Boomer V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Caught between the moon and New York City Gender: homme Posts: 22,220	Recap!! Just like real New Yorkers, Gossip Girl characters are a tenacious bunch. Last night, Chuck Bass proved he would stop at nothing for his true love Blair, even if it meant lurking embarrassingly in the doorway of Juicy Couture store on Madison Avenue. Serena persisted in carrying on her fake relationship with Dan in hopes that it would turn into a real one, despite Dan’s blatant and insulting disinterest. And randy Father Cavalia, who is in New York for reasons unclear, will do anything to stop Louis from marrying Blair in order to keep his job as the “spiritual flack” of the royal family of Monaco. Because he ... loves the church? As always, only some aspects of what was once known as The Greatest Show of Our Time mirror reality, and it’s up to us to sort the true-to-life from the just plain crazy. Behold: our weekly reality index! More Real Than a Penis Cake Being the Bouche De Noel of the American Bachelorette Party • Serena is obsessed with Dan, but still makes him come to Manhattan for coffee — and pay for it. Love is only worth so much on the Upper East Side. Plus 1 • Serena’s plans for Blair’s bachelorette party are for dinner at Le Charlot and “kir royals and Kiki de Montparnasse at the St. Regis.” Then while they’re hanging around in lingerie after a big meal, they can circle each other’s fat, just like the old Constance Billiard days! Plus 2 • Beatrice thinks bachelorette parties involve licking crème fraîche off of strippers. Aw! Cute little French people. Plus 2 • Nate bought “cab ads” for Serena, but Plus only 1, because (a) It’s commonly known as “Taxi TV” and (b) If Nate really knew what he was doing he would have gotten Cat Greenleaf to interview her on “Stoop Talk.” • Blair confesses she pressed the closed button on a door when a woman was running toward it. “She was wearing too much perfume,” she says. “Diddy called it 'Unforgivable' for a reason.” Plus only 2, because while we’re glad Blair’s wit is coming back, she would never recognize the smell of a fragrance sold at Walgreen’s. • Nate asks Chuck if he followed Blair into the church. “Of course not,” he responds. “I didn’t want to risk blowing my cover. Or bursting into flames.” Plus 3 • “Your ideas are brilliant.” “Obviously you light up every room you walk into.” “Publishers see you as Jennifer Egan or Chad Harbach.” Oh, agents. Plus 3 and Plus another 2 for Dan totally buying it. • Serena blithely capitalizes on the nickname and notoriety bestowed on her by Gossip Girl by naming her column “S by S,” at the same time talking constant smack about “taking down” the gossip blogger who made her famous. If we were Gossip Girl — and MAYBE WE ARE — we’d want to take this bitch down a notch, too. Plus 4 • “There are a couple of worlds I’m drawn to,” Dan tells his publishers. “One of them is a modern western, but it’s like a Henry the Fourth kind of structure, a Falstaff thing, but he’s addicted to the drunken revelry of the West, so it’s set on a cattle ranch ... ” Plus 10 for the most awesomely pretentious novel description since “He was a man who was born with a dog’s head ... ” • Dan: “I was thinking I wanted to stretch on this one.” Jonathan Karp: “Then take a yoga class!” Good one, Jonathan Karp! But “Can I hit pause?” wins for the most dismissive line of 2012. Plus 5 • Nate, the editor of a major publication, has only, like, four e-mails in his in-box, and three are from Gossip Girl. Plus 2 because this is, after all, Nate, and nobody’s asking him to make any decisions. • Beatrice takes Blair’s bachelorette party to Panchito’s, where they do shots, dance with guys with goatees to Brilliant. Plus 7 • Plus 5 for trivia questions that tell us important background information, like that Lord Marcus’s favorite song was “Where Do Broken Hearts Go,” and Carter Baizen once wore Blair’s underwear to Picholine. • Nate has read through all of the Spectator archives, and the meanest thing they’ve printed under his editorship was a headline wondering whether Christina Agueliera’s belly was a “baby bump or Mexican munch.” And that is a REAL QUESTION. Plus 2 Total: 51 Faker Than Waving Around the Cash You Accepted for Attempted Murder in the Street • Blair doesn’t notice the priest she’s talking to has a thick French accent and smells like FCUK cologne. Minus 2 • I’m sorry, but it’s just completely impossible that Serena could have gotten into my mom’s closet and stolen her Halloween sweater from 1985. Minus 1 • Coffee in hipster Brooklyn isn’t “half the price,” now that everyone’s serving brands like Intelligentsia. Minus only 1, because if Dan and Serena had gone to Blue Bottle, waiting for a cup of drip coffee would have taken up half the episode. • Where did Blair’s sudden extreme hatred of Father Cavalia come from? It’s true he looks more like a porno actor in a priest suit than an actual man of the cloth, but she didn’t seem to notice that when they met at the Feast. Minus 3 • Does the Princess of Monaco have to wait in line at Ladurée like everyone else? We think not. Minus 2 • Serena is able to upload the text of an e-mail onto the Spectator site with the click of a button. Hell of a CMS those people have. Minus 2 • Also, how has no one on this show set a password on their computer? Minus 5 • Serena has hidden comedic and literary talents? No. Minus 10 • “You’re never going to leave the church for me, we both know it,” Beatrice says to Father Cavalia. Because obviously this man is deeply religious and would never consider letting down God. Seriously? This plotline is a thing that is happening? I can’t even. Minus 5 • So, wait, Serena just doesn’t show up to her best friend’s bachelorette party and that’s cool? Minus 9 • Minus 25 for the blatant rip-off of the Sex and the City episode where Carrie gets caught with a joint in front of a bar. • So having Nate fake-fire Serena and sending a video of it to Gossip Girl, then using Serena to coerce Trip into making a quasi-confession that he tried to have Nate killed while Nate and his Grandfather listen in from the other room turns out to be Nate’s Grandfather’s idea. If we’re not mistaken, Old Man Archibald has proven to be the biggest schemer on this show. Someone put a headband on this man and call him Queen Bee! No, just kidding, this whole plotline was absurd. Minus 10 Total: 75 Weird plotting and continued religious tomfoolery tipped this episode into the realm of the fake. Next week: Will Blair and Louis get married, or will the wedding be interupted by Chuck, Father Cavalia, or GOD HIMSELF? NYMagazine

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cloudyshambles backstage pass Join Date: Nov 2008 Gender: femme Posts: 721	I think it's a positive thing that he sticks to his roots? I mean $8 for a coffee is ridiculous, especially if you only have to walk down a few blocks and get it for much less... just shows he's being realistic imho.

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cloudyshambles backstage pass Join Date: Nov 2008 Gender: femme Posts: 721	another photo recap in one of the pics you can actually read Serena's column and it's really not funny at all

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Psylocke V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2009 Gender: femme Posts: 10,031	I'm beginning to enjoy Gossip Girl again now that it is turning into a parody of Blake Lively's real life The column made me laugh because it's so awfully written. Oh dear.

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Niusity backstage pass Join Date: Nov 2010 Gender: femme Posts: 634	Is it only me or the actress who portraits Beatrice kinda looks like Charlotte Casiraghi' sister?

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valeryblack windowshopping Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Vienna Gender: femme Posts: 47	Serena's column is awful. bring GG back btw, I don't really get why she "disappeared". I mean, nasty things have happened before because of her. but it is unlikely that EVERYONE stopped sending her info at the same time.

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Boomer V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Caught between the moon and New York City Gender: homme Posts: 22,220	^ I never figured that out, either- but then, I guess logic only goes so far on the Upper East Side...

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ibizahippie front row Join Date: Apr 2011 Gender: femme Posts: 208	Haha yeah Serenas column was pretty bad and boring, I don't get what the ridiculous Rufus was cracking up over Dan needs a haircut. And I hate Charlies character. I hope she won't stick around 'til the end. Last edited by ibizahippie; 27-01-2012 at 12:37 PM.

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