Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Tyler McCall, Gossip Girl historian, and we're rewatching
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Speaker 1: getting into another Gossip Girl rewatch, season two, episode seventeen. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a crazy one. Perfect student Blair Waldorf gets
Speaker 1: expelled and has a plan to take down her teacher,
Speaker 1: the infamous Rachel Carr. I also totally forgot about something
Speaker 1: insane and probably illegal that happens with Dan and miss
Speaker 1: Carr when I couldn't believe it why I was watching,
Speaker 1: So we definitely have a lot to unpack. If you
Speaker 1: can't read but tween the lines there, well just watch
Speaker 1: the episode back. To offer her expertise and emotional support
Speaker 1: is Gossip Girl historian Tyler McCall. Tyler always has great
Speaker 1: things to add and honestly may know the show better
Speaker 1: than anyone. She's a great fit for this episode and
Speaker 1: going to fill in any gaps from fashion to relationships
Speaker 1: to the wacky storylines. All right, let's jump right in
Speaker 1: Tyler McCall. Everyone, Hello, Hi, how are you doing so well?
Speaker 1: I When that countdown goes down, it's like, even if
Speaker 1: I know and where it's happening and we have a time,
Speaker 1: I'm still like, oh my god, I got five seconds,
Speaker 1: you know. I know. It's like, oh, I'm not ready yet.
Speaker 1: I know. I'm like, I'm not ready. I'm like, did
Speaker 1: I watch the episode? A very same thing where I'm like, ship,
Speaker 1: did I watch the So? How have you been? I've
Speaker 1: been really good? Thank you? How are you? Um, I'm
Speaker 1: doing well. I'm loving having you back. The fans are
Speaker 1: loving having you as much as I am, just because
Speaker 1: you just know the show so well and your input
Speaker 1: so great and do you just have a real ease.
Speaker 1: I like to feel like I get super excited and
Speaker 1: I'm like, but I also think that's because I've never
Speaker 1: watched this show. Yeah, to get into it for the
Speaker 1: first time, which is very exciting. Uh huh. So everyone,
Speaker 1: we have Tyler McCall here back to do the rewatch
Speaker 1: of season two episode seventeen, Carnal Knowledge, which is based
Speaker 1: on the nineteen seventy one film starring Jack Nicholson and
Speaker 1: Candice virgin Bergen Bergan Bergen. Okay, amazing. I have not
Speaker 1: seen that film, so I should probably check that out.
Speaker 1: So also, okay, this episode, this episode really stuck out
Speaker 1: to me in a way. Yeah, this was a really
Speaker 1: wild episode for me. I mean it's a really it's
Speaker 1: a really wild episode. I mean it is um. Like Also,
Speaker 1: even when the episode begins, like Blair just wearing the
Speaker 1: red jacket while she's doing like is a community service, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you look fierce girl, fierce, And I have
Speaker 1: a question for you. It's a fan question that came
Speaker 1: in if you were doing community service, what would you wear?
Speaker 1: And what would Vanessa wear? And what do you think
Speaker 1: Serena would wear? So I mean, realistically, I would end
Speaker 1: up wearing just my normal like girlfriend collective sweatpants, activewear
Speaker 1: because I'm just too practical. I wish I could say
Speaker 1: that I would do something really fun, um, but I wouldn't. Uh,
Speaker 1: But I like that, like for something like that, I
Speaker 1: think practical and kind of hitting it on the nose
Speaker 1: of what it is, I think works in that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah, it feels more appropriate, it
Speaker 1: feels right. Sure, Yeah, what was Vanessa Air? I feel
Speaker 1: like Vanessa Okay, so Vanessa had like a really cool
Speaker 1: sneaker collection. I feel yeah, so I feel like like
Speaker 1: a cool gene with like one of her really cool
Speaker 1: pairs of sneakers and like a really interesting jacket. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like it would be practical but still fun, right,
Speaker 1: I agree, Serena would be like full Naomi Campbell wearing
Speaker 1: Dulce and Gabana to do community so you know, it
Speaker 1: would be like legs out hair tease, like it would
Speaker 1: be a full on moment. For sure, it's the moment,
Speaker 1: But do you also feel like it's like fitting for it,
Speaker 1: but like extra, Like it's definitely like you can move
Speaker 1: and do community service in it, but it's extra because
Speaker 1: it's Serena exactly. Yeah, it costs but thousand dollars, but yeah,
Speaker 1: but it works. Yeah, okay, well I like that. But also,
Speaker 1: speaking of fashion, you have recently left Fashionista and now
Speaker 1: you're a freelance writer. Yeah. I said that is a
Speaker 1: question when I knew that, Um, well, that's awesome. How
Speaker 1: are you feeling good about that? I feel like change
Speaker 1: is always a little bit like scary, but in a
Speaker 1: good way, because we're like it's definitely a little scary.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was at fashionis staff for ten years
Speaker 1: a little bit over ten years total, and I love
Speaker 1: the team, I love the site. It just felt like
Speaker 1: it was time to try something new. So I'll still
Speaker 1: be writing about fashion. Um, I'm not going super far.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to do more writing and hopefully branching
Speaker 1: out a little bit more into like celebrity and pop
Speaker 1: culture writing. UM. I have a couple of personal projects
Speaker 1: I wanted to start working on. Um. But I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm excited for you. I think you did
Speaker 1: such a great, wonderful job there. Um. But I do know,
Speaker 1: like yeah, shifting into something or adding something new, or
Speaker 1: taking what you're doing and putting it out there somewhere
Speaker 1: else is always exciting and fun. But like change again,
Speaker 1: like I said before, even if it's a great thing,
Speaker 1: is always a little bit um scary. But I think
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. So I think that's awesome. Girl. Thanks, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll be. I'm not worried about you, not one bit.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Um Yeah, Okay, so let's dive in. Here's
Speaker 1: where we left off. Blair found out that she was
Speaker 1: waitlisted at Yale, while Serena was accepted, Blair decided to
Speaker 1: get revenge on the new teacher who gave her a bee,
Speaker 1: and Chuck teamed up with Lily to save Bass Industries
Speaker 1: from Uncle Jack. Miss Carr exposed Blair's plotting and got
Speaker 1: her expelled from Constance. Ms Car. Okay, you're all right, anyone,
Speaker 1: when anyone wants to like line up with Blair, I'm
Speaker 1: like a careful girl. Um. And then here's the episode
Speaker 1: we're going into. In retaliation for not playing by the
Speaker 1: unspoken rules of Constance Billard, Blair hatches a plan to
Speaker 1: bring down her teacher Rachel. After Chuck wakes up in
Speaker 1: a hotel and only has a minor recollection of what
Speaker 1: happened the previous evening, Nat and Vanessa try to help
Speaker 1: him fill in the missing pieces. Meanwhile, there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on with Dan and Rachel, and that's where we
Speaker 1: are for this episode. So this episode is so wild,
Speaker 1: and we know that Blair is given to tention last
Speaker 1: time from for hazing Miss Car. So the episode starts
Speaker 1: with her like we were just talking about picking up
Speaker 1: trash in the park, so well her having to Rota
Speaker 1: pickup trash and park. That's what we're getting to but
Speaker 1: also it's it's Central Park and she's in like a
Speaker 1: beautiful red like is it was it a pea coat?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I mean she looks fierce, she looks amazing.
Speaker 1: The color is just like popping in beautiful and wonderful.
Speaker 1: And then yes, we cut to she literally has de
Speaker 1: Roda doing it and it's just talking on the phone
Speaker 1: to Serena. Yeah, I mean talk about not learning a lesson,
Speaker 1: talk about like she does not give two ships, not
Speaker 1: not even remotely. No. I always wondered, like de Rota
Speaker 1: puts off with so much. I mean, and I love Dorota,
Speaker 1: but she puts up so much from Blair, Like can
Speaker 1: you imagine it's not your job to pick up trash
Speaker 1: because your charge has detention or whatever, you know, not
Speaker 1: at all, and she like does it. And and the
Speaker 1: cutest thing about de Roda she she loves Blair so
Speaker 1: much and has such a big heart for her, so
Speaker 1: she she does these things with and for her from
Speaker 1: a good, great place. And I also think deep down
Speaker 1: Blair really loves and respects de Roda as well. But
Speaker 1: she just knows that she kind of can be bossy
Speaker 1: because de Rota allows it, not that she can that's
Speaker 1: actually not it's not right because de Roda kind of
Speaker 1: like goes with it. She Blair gets away with it exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then her you know, when her dad comes, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I didn't realize this is the last
Speaker 1: time we see him until season five. Wait really yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh that, I mean, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: But im Harold. I love Harold totally. He's just so cute.
Speaker 1: And that dog handsome I mean, I mean, and we
Speaker 1: never see Handsome again. I know right now, I know
Speaker 1: I want to Handsome spinoff. Do you have a dog,
Speaker 1: by the way, No, we just have a cat. Well
Speaker 1: that acts like a dog. But um, how long have
Speaker 1: you had the cat? We've had her so sam my
Speaker 1: husband adopted her before we started dating. So uh I
Speaker 1: think nine years now, Oh my god, yeah, which apparently
Speaker 1: is elderly for cats. I didn't realize. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: her vets said. That's which is crazy to me because
Speaker 1: she's going to live another twenty years. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: If he asked me, um, well, I just this dog
Speaker 1: pops up on the screen and I get like super excited,
Speaker 1: and then you kind of forget about the dog because
Speaker 1: it's just so like sporadic. But yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I don't think we see Handsome for ever ever again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he just disappears to France with Harold and never to
Speaker 1: be seen or heard from again. I mean he just
Speaker 1: goes like Handsome goes to France with Harold. I love that.
Speaker 1: That's like a spinoff show in itself. I know it
Speaker 1: would be so cute, like a little animated series or something. Right,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Anyways, Okay, so now Blairs having to
Speaker 1: do this so that she can get back on track
Speaker 1: with school and with getting back into Yale. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about doing the community service because she keeps
Speaker 1: just kind of I don't want to say, barking up
Speaker 1: the wrong tree. But sometimes it's like what you're saying,
Speaker 1: like she's not learning her lesson, she can't get out
Speaker 1: of her own way. Yes, yes, yeah, that she should
Speaker 1: just leave it alone because she has what she wants.
Speaker 1: But she won't. No, she will not. We know that.
Speaker 1: How about first, when she goes up to the girls,
Speaker 1: she's like, I made friends with the family of squirrels,
Speaker 1: Like I'm just like girl I was, because I'm also
Speaker 1: picturing Blair like sitting in Central Park like talking to
Speaker 1: a squirrel, like yeah, and it's funny because it's like
Speaker 1: we know that she likes to go and feed the ducks.
Speaker 1: It's just it's such a funny situation to put her in.
Speaker 1: It's totally the five am detention or whatever. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's too much, Okay. So we then go to Dan
Speaker 1: and Miss Carr are hanging out and Dan has been
Speaker 1: showing Miss car his stories at the coffee shop before school,
Speaker 1: and she's like very into them. Um. They bond over
Speaker 1: being outsiders compared to the students at Constant who are
Speaker 1: very rich and self absorbed. Um. And then in walks
Speaker 1: Serena and it's like, oh, you two, you guys are
Speaker 1: hanging out, and Miss Carr says Dan is an excellent writer.
Speaker 1: When Serena walks in here, I mean she doesn't expect
Speaker 1: to see them. But also that's it's an awkward thing
Speaker 1: because it's their teacher. It's so weird. It's odd. It's odd,
Speaker 1: it's inappropriate, it's inappropriate, like it is, I mean the
Speaker 1: conversation if that was like outside of the school where
Speaker 1: people that you are all around and work with, and
Speaker 1: it's your other students and friends are around you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, It just doesn't feel as inappropriate. But
Speaker 1: because you guys are like by yourselves outside of school,
Speaker 1: off the school grounds, it seems weird, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's not like they're in its horrible
Speaker 1: conversation about like what she looks in her under like
Speaker 1: looks like in her underwear, But this is it's just
Speaker 1: them meeting outside of school. That's is inappropriate. It's and
Speaker 1: also it's just there's so much weird about about miss Carr.
Speaker 1: It's weird to me that Dan and Serena both call
Speaker 1: her Rachel. They both call her by her first name,
Speaker 1: which like maybe rich kids do that. I never would've
Speaker 1: done that in a million years. I'm trying to imagine
Speaker 1: calling like my high school senior English teacher by her
Speaker 1: first name, and I like, I literally don't remember what
Speaker 1: it is because I only know her last name. You know, right,
Speaker 1: It's absolutely really odd because I'll tell you what. I
Speaker 1: run into teachers now in my mid thirties and I
Speaker 1: still call them by their I'm like, Mr Hannis, how
Speaker 1: are you you know what I mean? I know what
Speaker 1: his first name is. My mom calls by his first name.
Speaker 1: He had me in eighth grade. I mean, this was like,
Speaker 1: you know, so many years ago, and I would still
Speaker 1: call him Mr Hennis or Mr Pugh, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And now I bet. I mean, some of
Speaker 1: my teachers now are are fully retired, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, it's not like they're still teaching even
Speaker 1: and I would still be like that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: So yeah, exactly, Oh my goodness. Um, okay, So this
Speaker 1: whole situation is is I don't know, and I feel
Speaker 1: like I don't think Dan was trying to go there.
Speaker 1: I think it's more on miss car to be on
Speaker 1: absolutely a hundred percent Okay, all right, she should she
Speaker 1: should definitely know better, like she's the adult in this situation.
Speaker 1: And it's also like she's bonding with Dan complaining about
Speaker 1: her students, which is also really unprofessional, even if her
Speaker 1: students are horrible, which by and large they seem to be.
Speaker 1: They're like bonding over complaining about these people, which is
Speaker 1: also just everything about it is just so weird one
Speaker 1: hundred present. Um, So that's going on, and then we
Speaker 1: move on to Chuck wakes up. We can't tell right away,
Speaker 1: and then we soon learned that it's a hotel room
Speaker 1: and he's having these flashbacks from a party, um and
Speaker 1: it seems, you know, kind of like smoky and dark
Speaker 1: and there was things happening. And then he notices how
Speaker 1: tattoo on his wrist while he's in this hotel room
Speaker 1: of symbols from from the party, and he calls Nate
Speaker 1: and he basically has he wants Nate to come and
Speaker 1: meet him because he can't figure out, like he can't
Speaker 1: put the a little together of where he was the
Speaker 1: night before and it was an ultimate private gentleman's club
Speaker 1: and Nate and Vanessa show up and there at this house.
Speaker 1: What were you thinking at this point? Like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this storyline, this whole storyline is so out of I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot about it because it's so out of
Speaker 1: left field. Well, because I wanted to ask you too,
Speaker 1: like I know you haven't I know you haven't watched it,
Speaker 1: but like, when you're filming this, do you know, do
Speaker 1: you remember anything about what that storyline was or you
Speaker 1: just kind of well, you know what's funny while watching this,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, watching this episode, I'm like, this kind of
Speaker 1: feels like a eyes wide shut situation. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember that movie with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 1: This kind of feels like that, like with the mask
Speaker 1: and it's all secretive, and then he makes a Chuck
Speaker 1: says something along those lines like later on in the episode.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, that is what they were trying
Speaker 1: to do. Um, So certain things like click with me,
Speaker 1: like I remember, you know, playing the piano with Chase
Speaker 1: or Nate Vanessa in that house. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that house was listed for like thirty eight million, six
Speaker 1: hundred fifty thousand dollars, like that was an insane house.
Speaker 1: That always that all this is insane, Like you have
Speaker 1: to be like a billionaire to even have a house
Speaker 1: like that. And we're not even just talking millions. We're
Speaker 1: talking like you know what I'm saying, yeah with the
Speaker 1: bait um. And then they see this family photo on
Speaker 1: the piano and Chuck says, the woman holding the baby
Speaker 1: was there last night, right, And I'm like wait what.
Speaker 1: So things are kind of coming back to him, but
Speaker 1: for me, it was really seemed shady to me, to
Speaker 1: be honest. Yeah, it's so it's so weird, and it's
Speaker 1: such a like he's trying to track down this woman
Speaker 1: who he can't really remember anything about that is obsessed
Speaker 1: with and it's like, how do you even know? He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I had the best night of my life,
Speaker 1: but he can't remember it, which, like I mean, for Chuck,
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense right, right, it's very often having
Speaker 1: those kinds of nights. But it's coming off of all
Speaker 1: this drama with Uncle Jack and like his dad dying,
Speaker 1: and so I feel like they're trying to kind of
Speaker 1: help transition Chuck out of grieving the like grieving for
Speaker 1: his dad and all of that drama, and they're using
Speaker 1: the storyline to kind of get him back on track.
Speaker 1: It's just so interesting. I had forgotten all about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So anyways, that's all going on there, and then we
Speaker 1: get back to school and Blairs there and she's talking
Speaker 1: with the minions and all of a sudden, there's a
Speaker 1: no phone policy. Yeah, she's trying to get the minions
Speaker 1: to help her take down this car and they don't
Speaker 1: want to because they've seen that people are staring to
Speaker 1: get punished. But then it turns out Miss Car has
Speaker 1: helped initiate a no phone policy, and that's that's a
Speaker 1: no go for any of them. Yeah, there's like how
Speaker 1: Hazel says something like this is I worse nightmare. Like
Speaker 1: they basically are acting like the oxygen is being taken
Speaker 1: from them, like they can't breathe. She's just sitting in
Speaker 1: the corner of the bathroom kind of texting into thin air,
Speaker 1: and she's like, is a scandal still a scandal if
Speaker 1: you can't text about it or something like that, and
Speaker 1: it's like they're not well because they can't get their
Speaker 1: gossip girl fixed. No, and here's okay, so miss car
Speaker 1: doing this, whether she was behind it or there's like
Speaker 1: a part of me that feels like that's not completely
Speaker 1: wrong either, you know what I mean. I don't think
Speaker 1: the phones need to be taken, but they're definitely needs
Speaker 1: to be like rules like no texting nor being on
Speaker 1: during class. Yeah. Oh, I mean I remember when I
Speaker 1: was in school, which was like a million years ago
Speaker 1: relatively speaking, you couldn't have phones in class. No, I
Speaker 1: don't know how you connatrol it now, and it's like
Speaker 1: their whole life is on that. Yeah. I just think
Speaker 1: there has to be boundaries or like a balance, Like
Speaker 1: I understand like kids nowadays and in high school need
Speaker 1: you know that that is everything that's there how they
Speaker 1: look up things. That's how they get the music, that's
Speaker 1: how they watch TV. I mean, it's that there's so
Speaker 1: many things, and I understand that. I'm just meaning like,
Speaker 1: if you're going to be at school for eight hours
Speaker 1: a day and there's no boundaries with your phone, like
Speaker 1: you're not you can't be in two places at once,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? You know that when you
Speaker 1: sit at dinner with a friend and they check a text,
Speaker 1: they're checked out for a second. That's why I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times too, at dinners and stuff, I
Speaker 1: think it's rude to have phones. But that's just me like,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna spend time to try to catch up
Speaker 1: with someone like be yeah, you put the phone away,
Speaker 1: I mean take it out to get a photo for sure,
Speaker 1: But then that's like also, have you ever done that
Speaker 1: where you put the phone in the middle of the
Speaker 1: table you can and the first person to reach for
Speaker 1: theirs has to get the bill? I haven't. I've heard
Speaker 1: about that. Have you done that? We've done it many times.
Speaker 1: It's fun and it makes it kind of funny, but
Speaker 1: it's also great because you may not have to pay
Speaker 1: for dinner a few times exactly or you may. I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: that's my that's you know, that's Brad. I gotta get
Speaker 1: it so or you put it in in the first
Speaker 1: person's phone to go off, which is like, oh, that's trickier.
Speaker 1: You can't control that exactly. So I don't know, okay,
Speaker 1: but there's fun little things to do so people aren't
Speaker 1: on their phones. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, so Blair is like,
Speaker 1: I'm taking down this car, like, this is what's happening?
Speaker 1: Who's with me? Like, and Derota shows up all incognito,
Speaker 1: like coat, sunglasses, with their head dressed still on, and
Speaker 1: she gives Blair a purse with phones in it, and
Speaker 1: Blair wants to use them to dig deep to find
Speaker 1: out Rachel's past, and she's basically like mother Teresa, like
Speaker 1: they can't find anything. Yeah, and which is like a
Speaker 1: tough spot because that's where Blair like thrives. She gets
Speaker 1: one little thing and she like can run with it.
Speaker 1: So when they're like she's basically mother Teresa, I thought
Speaker 1: for sure they were going to get dirt right there
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. Yeah. Well, I mean, first of all,
Speaker 1: how I can never get over whenever I watched the
Speaker 1: scene that Derota delivers all these cell phones and louis
Speaker 1: utan purse. I mean, they're funny to me. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you're expecting them to dig up dirt because that's what
Speaker 1: Blair is best at. And then yeah, of course when
Speaker 1: they can't find anything, she's like, it's time to make
Speaker 1: something up, right, Yeah, which is you know, not an
Speaker 1: ideal situation, not a good thing for her to do.
Speaker 1: And this is what we were talking about earlier, where
Speaker 1: it's like she has what she wants and she should
Speaker 1: just leave well enough alone, and she just can't because
Speaker 1: she can't let this person. Blair can't let somebody else
Speaker 1: have the upper hand. No, she can't, and she will
Speaker 1: do anything, including why we learned a lot about that
Speaker 1: in this episode. Yes, so they find that that, like
Speaker 1: there's nothing they can do, and um, when Blair noticed
Speaker 1: is Dan and Miss Car in the hallway, she goes
Speaker 1: to text gossip Girl Lonely Boy and Miss Car. Yes,
Speaker 1: she says Mary Kay laterno er, Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was such a big thing. I
Speaker 1: think it happened. I can't remember how although as when
Speaker 1: it happened, but it was such a big story. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I know she pleaded guilty Basically, she was an
Speaker 1: American teacher who pleaded guilty for two accounts of felony
Speaker 1: second degree rate and it was her sixth grade student. Yeah,
Speaker 1: doesn't they had a baby to get didn't the ultimately
Speaker 1: get married and have a baby together. I didn't really
Speaker 1: know where it went, but now I really need to
Speaker 1: know that. But I know that was like the thing
Speaker 1: because it was super I mean, the teacher was having
Speaker 1: an affair with her sixth grade student, which is like
Speaker 1: super in insane and inappropriately crazy. Yeah, okay, so here's
Speaker 1: Blair saying lonely boy in miss car and and throwing
Speaker 1: in mary kay. I mean, like to compare that situation
Speaker 1: to that is like really crazy when she saw them
Speaker 1: in the hall talking to each other exactly. But it's
Speaker 1: very Blair to just ramp up the drama to some
Speaker 1: for sure. So I don't know. She even says something
Speaker 1: when the truth fails you, you have no choice but
Speaker 1: to abandon it makes something up idiots like that's what
Speaker 1: she looks and says, and I'm like, wow, but that's
Speaker 1: like really going far, far far. She also delivers one
Speaker 1: of my all time favorite Blair lines in that scene,
Speaker 1: which is um something like once again, the universe has
Speaker 1: proven anything you can do, I can do better. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, wait Blair, Yeah, anything you can do I
Speaker 1: can do better? Isn't that how exactly? Yeah? I love it?
Speaker 1: Um Well, Dan sees the blast and as Dan heads
Speaker 1: to the courtyard, everyone is high fiving him and he
Speaker 1: wasn't sure why. He also, I find it funny because
Speaker 1: he sees the blast on Jenny's hand, which written out
Speaker 1: on her hand, which is very funny, very old school
Speaker 1: way of classing around rumors. Oh my god, that's how
Speaker 1: he finds out because he's like looking all around like
Speaker 1: why is it? They're like whispering things and high fiving him.
Speaker 1: And then Jenny comes and sits with him, and it
Speaker 1: says is lonely boy giving a certain new teacher more
Speaker 1: than just an apple? And Dan says he and miss
Speaker 1: car would that would be absurd, but Jenny says he
Speaker 1: needs to convince Serena, and Dan asked who would do
Speaker 1: something like this to Miss Carr and Serena realizes that
Speaker 1: it's Blair, that Blair is the one behind it, and
Speaker 1: Dan finds Blair in the ladies room to say he
Speaker 1: knows that she sent the rumor to Gossip Girl. I
Speaker 1: also feel like I see that scene happened quite a
Speaker 1: bit like Blair and Dan, where he knows it's her,
Speaker 1: he confronts her. She doesn't really lie to Dan. She
Speaker 1: kind of is just like, well, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: don't you feel like that's happened quite a bit? Yes,
Speaker 1: I love the Dan and Blair dynamic. That the topic
Speaker 1: of much debate, I think, Um, but I really love
Speaker 1: the Dan and Blair dynamic because they're just antagonizing each
Speaker 1: other all the time, totally understand each other in a
Speaker 1: way I couldn't agree more. They understand each other. They
Speaker 1: going at each other, but they're also both coming at
Speaker 1: it from totally different ways. Like Dan's trying to tell
Speaker 1: the truth and rationalize, and She's kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: it is what it is and this is what I
Speaker 1: need and I don't care, and like how are you
Speaker 1: going to tell me? So that it's like they're both
Speaker 1: arguing or doing this kind of uphill fight, Yeah, from
Speaker 1: two different ends. But like in her mind she's a
Speaker 1: hundred percent right and in his mind he's doing the
Speaker 1: right thing. Does that make exactly? Yeah? And it also
Speaker 1: always puts serena kind of in the middle. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess it's every other Serena and Blair a fighting, but
Speaker 1: it always puts Serena kind of in the middle of
Speaker 1: like defending her bus friend or being on her boyfriend's side.
Speaker 1: And like this is extra complicated because she and Dan
Speaker 1: are in kind of a weird spot totally all of
Speaker 1: this where they're like not really talking as much or
Speaker 1: hanging out as much. But also like I think that
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the time she takes Blair's side,
Speaker 1: even if she's good with Dan, which is kind of
Speaker 1: why I'm always like, Wow, Serena really is a good friend.
Speaker 1: And then I have to also go back and like
Speaker 1: it's crazy because I thinks she's such a good friend
Speaker 1: to her. And then I'm also like, but she like
Speaker 1: went and slept with her boyfriend in the beginning of
Speaker 1: the show. But but yeah, I do think that she
Speaker 1: has put in a situation many times, but I feel
Speaker 1: like she kind of always kind of has Blair's back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's prepared for Serena to take Blair's side, so he
Speaker 1: knows about it. He saw the blast on Jenny's hand.
Speaker 1: Because they don't have phones, they can't there's a no
Speaker 1: phone policy, and then Serena finds Rachel outside at the
Speaker 1: coffee truck. As Rachel is noticing that everyone's looking at her,
Speaker 1: she mentions like, I feel like I have spinage in
Speaker 1: my teeth because people are staring. She's like, but I
Speaker 1: went to the bathroom and checked and it's not. And
Speaker 1: Serena kind of explains to her, like what's going on,
Speaker 1: which is when she has to explain what it is
Speaker 1: like when you have to explain what gossip Girl is
Speaker 1: to someone new on the show, It's always funny to
Speaker 1: me because I'm like, this girl has zero clue, no
Speaker 1: idea what's going on, And of course it sounds like
Speaker 1: such a ridiculous thing to it sounds ridiculous, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: to truly not know why everyone's staring at you, what's
Speaker 1: going on and it's because of Gossip Girl, and Serena's
Speaker 1: breaking it down for you. But you did a no
Speaker 1: phone policy before that. Why did she do the no
Speaker 1: phone policy? Because exactly because if she didn't know what
Speaker 1: was happening with Gossip Girl, maybe she thought they were
Speaker 1: just all texting each other too much, like we were saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: like maybe it was a texting. It's also so interesting
Speaker 1: because it's Serena's explaining Gossip Girl to Rachel and she says,
Speaker 1: um something like we at least we think she's a girl,
Speaker 1: or we think it's a girl because they don't know
Speaker 1: who gossip Girl is. And like, this is one of
Speaker 1: those situations where it's really funny to watch the showback
Speaker 1: for me knowing that at the end Dan is Gossip Girl,
Speaker 1: because there are times like this where you're like, this
Speaker 1: truly is psychopathic behavior that Dan would publish this own
Speaker 1: blast about him sleeping with his teacher, Right, it's very
Speaker 1: funny to me to think about that. It's like, and
Speaker 1: also how do you do it? Because he didn't have
Speaker 1: a phone. It's just it's funny to think about, right,
Speaker 1: this is true. But also like when people can give
Speaker 1: a tip to Gossip Girl, he's going through it and
Speaker 1: deciding what goes on or what doesn't. Right, So even
Speaker 1: if yeah, so what are you doing? You know? This
Speaker 1: is what I mean. It's very funny to watch because
Speaker 1: I don't often remember like it's you know, I get
Speaker 1: caught up in the storytelling as it is, But sometimes
Speaker 1: you're watching it and you're like, oh right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I just I'm like curious as to why she wanted
Speaker 1: to know phone policy unless this is all maybe the
Speaker 1: you know. In two episodes we find out that she
Speaker 1: did know and whatever and this was a whole plan,
Speaker 1: but she it doesn't feel like that right now. All right,
Speaker 1: Ms Carr, you just needed the kids to pay attention.
Speaker 1: We can get behind that. Meanwhile, Uck meets with the
Speaker 1: realtor selling the building. He remembers that the club was
Speaker 1: in and he bribes her with the Bass industry connections,
Speaker 1: and she kind of says something along the lines of, well,
Speaker 1: I could leave a file out, you know, like go
Speaker 1: get a drink this realtor, and Chuck goes through it.
Speaker 1: He calls the family number and asked to speak with
Speaker 1: the nanny. He leaves a message which leads the nanny
Speaker 1: her name is l which I love that name, to
Speaker 1: meet up with him. She tells Chuck she was at
Speaker 1: the party to meet Bart and she drugged Chuck when
Speaker 1: she realized that she had the wrong Mr. Bass and
Speaker 1: left him at the hotel room to keep him safe.
Speaker 1: She was afraid what will happen if the group finds
Speaker 1: out that she let an outsider in and tells him
Speaker 1: not to contact her again. It's so dramatic. It's so dramatic.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you drugged someone, a teenager, You drugged a
Speaker 1: teenager and left him at a hotel room, and I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I mean she says, like, oh, I took
Speaker 1: over another girl's client list, and I I didn't realize
Speaker 1: bart was dead, which is you know fair. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know she hasn't live in the city full time.
Speaker 1: Maybe she missed the headlines, but yeah, she accidentally invited
Speaker 1: a teenager to their gentleman sex club, right, Outsider, Well,
Speaker 1: can we also talk about like it's not even a funny,
Speaker 1: laughing matter, But like Chuck, he got drugged and he's
Speaker 1: just like moving past it. I'm like, how do you
Speaker 1: what if there's something you don't know that happened? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? There is there's things you don't remember,
Speaker 1: and you're just like looking at this girl thinking it's okay,
Speaker 1: Like that's not okay. Yeah, he's just so obsessed with her.
Speaker 1: He's just so obsessed with finding her because he thinks
Speaker 1: that they had the best night ever together. But he's
Speaker 1: only remembering, he's remembering what he wants to remember. I
Speaker 1: guess maybe yeah, I mean that's just yeah. And then
Speaker 1: we got Blair over here in the head mistress's office
Speaker 1: and she's getting expelled. They're based calling Blair out, and
Speaker 1: then they also say that they have a witness. Basically
Speaker 1: when they said that, and they turned back to the
Speaker 1: room to see who's going to walk in. For some reason,
Speaker 1: I thought it was Serena. Oh interesting, I was thinking
Speaker 1: Serena was walking in and I thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be Penelope. Oh yeah, No, it was Nelly Yuki.
Speaker 1: But I I don't know why. I'm like, just because
Speaker 1: Nellie show timid and scared and wants to fit in.
Speaker 1: I was like, why would she do that right now?
Speaker 1: Because she knows she's gonna go now. I think because
Speaker 1: she didn't want to lose Yale because she was on
Speaker 1: the wait list. I think, yeah, yeah, I don't remember now,
Speaker 1: but yeah, she's They said that Dan knew to put
Speaker 1: pressure on the weak link, which turns out to be Nellie.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember. I think it's earlier in
Speaker 1: this season when Jenny tries to start an uprising against Blair, right,
Speaker 1: and she like recruits Nelly at one point. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I feel like Nellie is kind of the her loyalty
Speaker 1: is easily changed, I think. And it's not like Blair
Speaker 1: is super nice to her anyway, No, but I just
Speaker 1: didn't expect that when she walked locked in of course. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and then back at home, Blair's talking with her with
Speaker 1: her dad and he warns Blair that miss Carr has
Speaker 1: a legitimate case for slander if Blair really did do this,
Speaker 1: and Blair said that she did, but it was because
Speaker 1: it was the truth, and her dad is you know,
Speaker 1: he's looking at his daughter and he wants to support her,
Speaker 1: and you want to believe your kids, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. She he was giving her the opportunity to
Speaker 1: be honest with him. You give your children, I want
Speaker 1: to say. I mean, Bowie is just starting to talk,
Speaker 1: so she hasn't been able to lie to me yet,
Speaker 1: but you want to give them the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt that they're being honest with you, and there's a
Speaker 1: respect there. So you know he's going to support her.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna get his lawyers involved to defend Blair,
Speaker 1: which in this case I would have probably I'd probably
Speaker 1: do the same thing, because he's literally looking at her,
Speaker 1: giving her a time to be honest and she decides
Speaker 1: really not to. Yeah. And also, I mean, Harold lives
Speaker 1: in France most of the time, so he doesn't really
Speaker 1: I think, have an understanding of how Blair is, you know,
Speaker 1: in the same way that like Eleanor does, like he's
Speaker 1: not privy to her her scheming. No, he's not. And
Speaker 1: and they do think even you know, that's that's his
Speaker 1: little girl, Like you still want to you still probably
Speaker 1: like want to believe that she's telling the truth even
Speaker 1: if you can. But I do agree, I don't. I
Speaker 1: do not think I think he really truly believes her
Speaker 1: in this moment. Yeah, I just feel like right in
Speaker 1: that moment, I'm like, oh, Blair, that you have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to just be honest and you're and he will
Speaker 1: still love and support you. But she can't. She just
Speaker 1: can't let it go. And then Serena goes to meet
Speaker 1: Miss Carr at the park and asked her to reconsider
Speaker 1: the expulsion and Rachel just won't do it. It's like
Speaker 1: not an option. Um, and do you know what like
Speaker 1: in Rachel's defense, Miss Car's defense, like I don't know
Speaker 1: what to call her now, I'm like a Rachel. I
Speaker 1: mean She's like, Blair posted a rumor that threatened you know,
Speaker 1: miss Car's future, So I can understand where she's having
Speaker 1: a hard time to like take that back, but I
Speaker 1: do again. Here respects Serena stepping up to the plate
Speaker 1: for her best friend and being the homie that she's being.
Speaker 1: But Miss Cars saying, like, the sole purpose of Gossip
Speaker 1: Girl is to allow people to post terrible things about
Speaker 1: each other, and everyone in the episode keeps being like, well,
Speaker 1: Blair's futures on the line here, like, you know, Lily
Speaker 1: says it, Serena says it, and I'm like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: she created this for herself. She literally decided to make
Speaker 1: up a rumor, you know, insinuating that these two are
Speaker 1: sleeping together when they weren't um, which is very damaging
Speaker 1: to to the teacher and damaging to Dan. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and people are like, but Blair's future, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: see funked up. I think it's such a for me
Speaker 1: watching this episode, and it's been a little bit since
Speaker 1: I've seen it it, but it's interesting to me because
Speaker 1: it's sort of predates this conversation that I think that
Speaker 1: we've been having in recent years about like quote unquote
Speaker 1: canceled culture and how that affects teenagers right where it's like,
Speaker 1: should a teenager be permanently again quote unquote canceled? Like
Speaker 1: should they have to lose their college entry or whatever
Speaker 1: because they did something stupid when they were a teenager? Um,
Speaker 1: And like those are all conversations that we're having now
Speaker 1: that we definitely we're not having when this episode aired. Absolutely, Like,
Speaker 1: to me, that's really interesting about this whole Like, but
Speaker 1: what about Blair's future. It's like, yeah, she almost destroyed
Speaker 1: this woman's teaching career by starting this rumor that she
Speaker 1: was leaving with a student. Well, and Dan's involved here too,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then that the trickers on.
Speaker 1: It's like a domino effect. But I do see what
Speaker 1: you're saying, Like, if we were doing this podcast while
Speaker 1: this was airing, people weren't having these conversations they it
Speaker 1: would be like, right, yeah, it would be so much
Speaker 1: I think. I don't want to say more simple, but
Speaker 1: it's just it's just a different conversation that we're having today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just watching it. I'm just like, I don't understand
Speaker 1: why everyone keeps saying that about Blair. Well, because they're
Speaker 1: all rich and entitled in this car isn't right? But
Speaker 1: I mean she really really was put on blast and
Speaker 1: a rumor that threatened her future, Like she wasn't wrong.
Speaker 1: When she's explaining that to Serena, I was like irritated.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Blair, piss me off. I'm like, that's not right,
Speaker 1: it's not cool. Because also I was looking at it
Speaker 1: like if miss Carr was my daughter, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: who is this girl that just lately made up something
Speaker 1: that's like taking you down? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And then I'm looking at it like for a school
Speaker 1: like Yale, do you want to accept a girl that's
Speaker 1: just willing to like throw anyone under the bus about
Speaker 1: something that's not even accurate or correct? Right? I don't know? Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm like a Blair fan. I just
Speaker 1: was like very upset with her in this situation because
Speaker 1: it's like Claire does things that are very hard to defend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then she'll like in one in the next scene,
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll be like, but we love her and
Speaker 1: she's amazing and can do no wrong. Yeah. Um oh,
Speaker 1: do we even get to Okay, they're sitting and talking
Speaker 1: and then Serena sees her date book, right, and so
Speaker 1: she snoops into that. She finds information in this date
Speaker 1: book and later goes to see where miss Carr, who
Speaker 1: Miss cars with, and yeah, done, done done. Who do
Speaker 1: you think she's with? Guys? I mean, of course, she's
Speaker 1: of course with Dan, and it looks like they may kiss.
Speaker 1: It looks like they may, but she did not see
Speaker 1: them kiss. So for her to take the photo and
Speaker 1: assume and do all of that I think is really
Speaker 1: wrong too. Yeah, it's just sometimes Serena is so insecure
Speaker 1: and especially insecure about her relationship with Dan, and instead
Speaker 1: of just talking to Dan first of all about what's
Speaker 1: been going on anyway, but also seeing him with Miss
Speaker 1: Carr and assuming that they're about to hook up or whatever, um,
Speaker 1: she takes it straight to Blair, which is gonna She's
Speaker 1: gonna take it and run with it. Blair says something
Speaker 1: to like, this is the smoking gun that I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for. When the picture and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you two Because of course she's going to go do
Speaker 1: something with that. That's what she needs to back up
Speaker 1: her thing. And we know she's not afraid to lie
Speaker 1: about it. So she's doing that. But honestly, Serena wasn't
Speaker 1: the wrong too, because here's someone said something to me
Speaker 1: years ago, like you can't assume things because when you
Speaker 1: assume things, you have it in your mind a certain
Speaker 1: way that they may not be. So when you find
Speaker 1: out what actually went down or what's going on and
Speaker 1: it wasn't, once you assume, you're going to be let down.
Speaker 1: And I always remember that, I thought that advice was
Speaker 1: really good. So Serena assuming that that's what happened is
Speaker 1: really making She's just adding fuel to the fire right
Speaker 1: now because she assumes something which is not fair, which
Speaker 1: again isn't fair to anyone involved, including Serena, especially because
Speaker 1: like she's also at this point, she's i mean friends
Speaker 1: with Ms Carr, like friendly with Ms car and she
Speaker 1: calls her Rachel. Let's be honest, they all call her Rachel.
Speaker 1: I'm very confused, right still, Um, yeah, she like calls
Speaker 1: her Rachel and they talk about assignments together and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. I mean, they also have been meeting outside
Speaker 1: of school, so it's like, I don't know, she could
Speaker 1: have just she could have walked in, she could have
Speaker 1: done anything, but it would have made for less interesting TV.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, yeah, gosh, this episode. Man. And
Speaker 1: then at the parents Committee meeting, Harold shows up and
Speaker 1: meets Lillian Rufus and he's there to represent his daughter
Speaker 1: since Blair's being scapegoaded, and Rufus says that Dan is
Speaker 1: being slandered, and you know, at this parent meeting, Lily
Speaker 1: takes their side and Blair shows up, even though the
Speaker 1: meeting is closed off to students, but like, if anyone's
Speaker 1: going to walk in there, of course it's Blair. And
Speaker 1: she tells Queller to check her email that there's a
Speaker 1: photo from that Serena took and here we are. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Lily takes Blair's side in this like what we
Speaker 1: were just talking about, like this is Blair's future, and
Speaker 1: again I go back to, well it is, but she
Speaker 1: got herself into this mess and very I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say easily, but but I am Blair. Easily could have
Speaker 1: just said, you know what, it was dishonest or I
Speaker 1: was mistaken and it's not right, and and that could
Speaker 1: maybe help clear this up a little bit, but she
Speaker 1: just keeps taking it one step further. Then she gets
Speaker 1: a picture that again Serena assumes something and pushes it further.
Speaker 1: But meanwhile they're all going off of something that they
Speaker 1: don't know for a fact. Dan straight up told Serena
Speaker 1: wasn't happening. Blair literally has no leg to stand on
Speaker 1: even with this picture exactly. And I mean, the thing
Speaker 1: that I think it's really interesting two here is that
Speaker 1: Blair isn't gossip Girl, right, Like Blair sent in the
Speaker 1: tip that she didn't publish it, and I don't think
Speaker 1: they quite understand how gossip Girl works. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: you publish this thing, right, But like a lawyer would
Speaker 1: a lawyer would have cleared this up immediately and be like,
Speaker 1: well Blair didn't publish it. Whoever published gossip Girl published it,
Speaker 1: so she can't be punished, you know. Instead, we're going
Speaker 1: through this the hard way. But you know, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is true though, And and with that ms Car gets
Speaker 1: fired because we don't have a lawyer here to explain
Speaker 1: and break this exactly. Um, And Serena's texting Dan to
Speaker 1: meet her at Constance a s a P. And Dan
Speaker 1: tells her he didn't kissmas Car or Rachel. I didn't
Speaker 1: kiss Rachel. But it's too late. The Parents Committee meeting
Speaker 1: has ended with miss Car being fired, Blair is allowed
Speaker 1: back at constance. Dan confronts Blair about it and he
Speaker 1: admits it, which I was like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: forgot this moment. I remember this in the script which
Speaker 1: her dad overhears, and for me, I was kind of
Speaker 1: pumped about that because she had the opportunity to tell
Speaker 1: him and here he is fighting for her and she's
Speaker 1: you know, so I was kind of pumped he overheard that.
Speaker 1: That was a big moment for me. She loves her
Speaker 1: her dad is clearly her favorite parent, right. I think
Speaker 1: she and Eleanor have kind of a complicated relationship, but
Speaker 1: she really idealizes Harold. She go home, and so to
Speaker 1: have Harold be so disappointed in her and and see
Speaker 1: her for who she is, right Like, this is kind
Speaker 1: of Blair at her worst, Like this is who she is. Um,
Speaker 1: it's kind of I think it's an important moment. I
Speaker 1: think it's important for Blair for sure, and like important
Speaker 1: for Harold. It's really heartbreaking because she's she really does
Speaker 1: love her dad so much and is she does doesn't
Speaker 1: want to disappoint him, but can't help herself, can't stop scheming. Know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I was, Yeah, I was happy you overheard it.
Speaker 1: And and in this moment, Dan asked Serena why she
Speaker 1: was so ready to believe the worst, and Serena said
Speaker 1: she thinks a part of her wanted to believe the worst.
Speaker 1: And they decided it's really over, so they're there there
Speaker 1: again again. Yeah, it's one of those moments that's happened
Speaker 1: several times where he's just like Serena, but why and
Speaker 1: and she's honest. She's like, I just she never really
Speaker 1: lies to Dan. I mean when they finally get to
Speaker 1: the point where it's where this where there's so many
Speaker 1: things on fire going on, she'll be honest with what
Speaker 1: she really thought. And he's just always like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just felt like I was disappointed in these girls
Speaker 1: this episode. I know things happen all the time, but
Speaker 1: I'm just like, for sometimes it's hard not to be
Speaker 1: disappointed in them. It's like, you guys are acting ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you feel what I'm saying though, Like, there's so
Speaker 1: many things that have happened, But like I told you
Speaker 1: in the beginning of this episode, for some reason, this
Speaker 1: was hitting me in different days. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's because here's a moment in these kids live
Speaker 1: where they're trying to get in these really really hard
Speaker 1: schools to get into. They've all worked really hard, their
Speaker 1: parents are trying to support them and be there for them,
Speaker 1: and then they're just like playing with fire and it's
Speaker 1: pissing me off. I'm like, don't be overprivileged and rude
Speaker 1: and like trying to so selfish and self absorbed that
Speaker 1: you don't care that you're recklessly like making up rumors
Speaker 1: and assumptions and doing things to people. Like I was pissed, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like you know, kind of ruining people's lives, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, to fix it exactly. And this was
Speaker 1: at a time too where I feel like nowadays, if
Speaker 1: something goes on, you can kind of go on a platform,
Speaker 1: or you can speak for yourself or say something if
Speaker 1: it felt out of line or you know, something in
Speaker 1: in that world where at this point it was kind
Speaker 1: of just rumors and people couldn't back themselves up, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like if this happened now and
Speaker 1: this was absolutely not ruined, Dan and Rachel didn't hook up,
Speaker 1: they could maybe speak for themselves and come up and
Speaker 1: be like hey for everyone, that just got that blast
Speaker 1: that's incorrect, like we have not you know. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they can't defend themselves no, And I'm not saying on
Speaker 1: a platform you can completely defend yourself nowadays, it's still
Speaker 1: there's so many things that go into it. But I
Speaker 1: feel like there's just people have more of a voice today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, there's so many other outlets, yeah,
Speaker 1: that you have that you can kind of keep being
Speaker 1: more on top of that for sure. Well that's all
Speaker 1: going on. Miss cars fired. Yeah, so they fired Mrs
Speaker 1: carr Um and we have to check back in with
Speaker 1: Chuck and l So Chuck is still on this mission
Speaker 1: to find her. So he finds in his dad's safe
Speaker 1: a box of invitations from the Secret Club, like past invitations,
Speaker 1: which I'm fascinated the bar even kept those at all.
Speaker 1: But that's another point. But what do you mean kept him?
Speaker 1: He doesn't he kept all these invites there, see invites?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you burn them? Burn? Um? I thought you
Speaker 1: meant like kept him, Like I'm like, he's he's died,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't. Maybe he was would have burned them,
Speaker 1: but he liked maybe even he was too late. This
Speaker 1: is why you burn things as soon as you read them. Okay,
Speaker 1: I see that feeling, you know. Okay, I'm like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? Okay, I'm thinking if I'm thinking like
Speaker 1: a dastardly rich man, I'm turning those as soon as
Speaker 1: I right. But maybe maybe I'm wrong. Who knows. I
Speaker 1: also don't have like a locked safe in my own right, um,
Speaker 1: but no, I see what you mean. Okay, yeah, get
Speaker 1: rid of him. So he's looking at these invites and
Speaker 1: he gets a call from the father of the kids
Speaker 1: that La is the nanny four, saying that l had
Speaker 1: called them from Grand Central but never got off the
Speaker 1: train in Greenwich and they're worried about her. So now
Speaker 1: we're getting the vibe that like this secret club is
Speaker 1: real bad well bad, and like I was like, you
Speaker 1: don't want I didn't want this to come back, and
Speaker 1: like count Bart like he's gone. We like liked he
Speaker 1: said in the you know what he was trying to
Speaker 1: do that he trusted you know, Chuck to take over
Speaker 1: bast Industries even though they had such a strange relationship.
Speaker 1: That meant a lot when when when Chuck heard that,
Speaker 1: like there was things that like came up after he
Speaker 1: passed that kind of like put him in a different light.
Speaker 1: So when this came up, I'm like, no, don't come
Speaker 1: back to like haunt part Bass. Yeah, poor Bart, well
Speaker 1: not poor Bart. He's a terrible nurse. But just when
Speaker 1: you think that he's going to get like a redemption,
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. And then it's like here you go,
Speaker 1: what would you do if you found that? Like what
Speaker 1: if you went in your parents safe and found invitations
Speaker 1: to a secret it's basically a secret sex club. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point it's clear it's like a
Speaker 1: secret sex club. I don't know. I imagine finding that
Speaker 1: out about your parents. I mean, I know Chuck and
Speaker 1: and Bart had like a very different relationship than like
Speaker 1: I have with my parents, and I released, Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what I would make of that.
Speaker 1: I just wouldn't go snoop. If I had a dad
Speaker 1: like Barbass, I would just leave his things alone. But
Speaker 1: I but imagine in Chuck situation, like he doesn't remember
Speaker 1: everything he was drugs. So I think he's trying to
Speaker 1: like put pieces of the puzzle together. That's true, He's
Speaker 1: trying to He's trying to solve this mystery. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's a lot, it's a lot. And
Speaker 1: then we get to head MRSS. Color is at the
Speaker 1: penthouse talking to Lillian Rufus, and Rufus says, Rachel never
Speaker 1: should have met a student. She didn't even teach after
Speaker 1: school off hours, and that is correct. Rufus, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: she didn't even talk about that. She doesn't even teach Dan,
Speaker 1: So why is she hanging out with Dan at all?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't. I didn't really know that until
Speaker 1: Rufus said that as well, Like they didn't shine light
Speaker 1: on it or didn't you know, they didn't show us
Speaker 1: in him in class with her or without. They just
Speaker 1: didn't really touch on it. So I kind of assumed
Speaker 1: she was his teacher. But that's super odd that she wasn't.
Speaker 1: Even more so, by the way, Lily is also like
Speaker 1: she's the head of the parent council. Yeah, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I thought you would want to know, So I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Lily is the head of this. Rufus's son is in
Speaker 1: the middle of this like scandal going on. Her daughter's
Speaker 1: best friend is the one who kind of created it all.
Speaker 1: Her daughter added fuel to the fire. She's in the
Speaker 1: middle of it. She gets to have like decision making
Speaker 1: power basically, yeah, but I'm like, how more in the
Speaker 1: middle could you be with all the people involved in this, Lily,
Speaker 1: you know exactly? Yeah, I don't know. And Queller says
Speaker 1: that the board doesn't have enough proof to fire Rachel,
Speaker 1: so she'll be here for the rest of the semester.
Speaker 1: It's so, yeah, it's such a typical like rich person Quagmire.
Speaker 1: I feel like where it's like they don't want to
Speaker 1: get sued and they don't want the attention of getting sued.
Speaker 1: It's not even that they don't want Rachel to sue,
Speaker 1: they just don't want the press of being sued by
Speaker 1: a teacher her wrongful termination, right, or this just getting out.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it got as far as as, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the lawsuit. I don't know. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: this is wild this all episode. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: because then I like, also look back at it, they
Speaker 1: don't have enough proof. But then it's like the proof
Speaker 1: you had, you were willing to do this, you were
Speaker 1: willing to you did fire her, you literally did fire
Speaker 1: her not that long ago, and then you unfired So
Speaker 1: what do you mean what proof the assumption that Serena
Speaker 1: had exactly. And now, of course Dan comes through and
Speaker 1: wants to take responsibility for the situation. But like we
Speaker 1: said before, is he is he to blame Tyler? No?
Speaker 1: I mean no, right, like yes and no, but like
Speaker 1: ultimately no, you know, he's not the adults. He's eighteen.
Speaker 1: I mean they say that he's a teen. But Mrs
Speaker 1: Carr slash Rachel is the person with authority and power
Speaker 1: in that situation who should really know better. She really should. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and before we even like, Serena goes to see her
Speaker 1: and she talks about the essay, and Miss Carr say,
Speaker 1: is something like the unexpected irony of what Serena's essay
Speaker 1: ended up being about, like new observations about the world
Speaker 1: around her. Oh yeah, and I thought that was that
Speaker 1: was brilliant, Like here you go, like here's your essay,
Speaker 1: but you just did a whole thing about basically what
Speaker 1: you just did, you know what I mean? Like I
Speaker 1: kind of there was like a moment before Miss Carr
Speaker 1: says that to her, she's she tells her that she's
Speaker 1: the only teacher that ever expressed any interests in her
Speaker 1: and that she had ruined it, which yeah you did, Serena.
Speaker 1: I was like happy when when she said that, and
Speaker 1: she's like yep, and the iron and the unexpected irony.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, thank you. This is what I've been
Speaker 1: going through this whole episode. And then also when Blair
Speaker 1: and her dad are talking and she said, well I
Speaker 1: was right and he said, no, you were lucky, and
Speaker 1: they have this conversation and he says something along the
Speaker 1: lines of about what school she wants to go to.
Speaker 1: It's not about that, it's what kind of person you
Speaker 1: grow up to be. And I was like, boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1: That's also what I was talking about this whole episode.
Speaker 1: It's not okay to just like because you were you
Speaker 1: know right, No, you were lucky, Blair, and it was
Speaker 1: rude and it was dishonest and it wasn't right and
Speaker 1: it's not cool and you need to learn from it.
Speaker 1: And Serena, you two yeah exactly. It's like, like you said,
Speaker 1: stop making assumptions about the world. And also, you know,
Speaker 1: in Blair's case, like stop trying to force things to
Speaker 1: go your way constantly. That's not how the world works. No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. And soon once you're out of this like
Speaker 1: little Upper east Side world, like the real world will
Speaker 1: bite you in the butt. Girls. You can't be acting
Speaker 1: like this, yep, um okay. So then Dan and Rachel,
Speaker 1: he wants to make this right, so he shows up
Speaker 1: at Rachel's house to apologize. He says that the hug
Speaker 1: was widely inappropriate and he doesn't know what came over
Speaker 1: him at that time. And Rachel kisses him and brings
Speaker 1: him inside, and she says, I don't teach Dad anymore.
Speaker 1: I know, such a bad idea. Even if you don't
Speaker 1: teach a constance anymore, you're still what like years which
Speaker 1: he's still like eight years older than the student, right,
Speaker 1: it's oh my god? And well, and then Serena is
Speaker 1: calling Dan and leaving a message at this time apologizing,
Speaker 1: saying she wants to forget the whole miss card thing,
Speaker 1: that it ever happened. But Dan and Missed are happening,
Speaker 1: are having sex in this moment at this time, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, and the song with a Heavy Heart is
Speaker 1: going on. But let me okay, So now, Tyler, this
Speaker 1: is what's so messed up. This is what's up now.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, we're Blair and Serena really that off?
Speaker 1: I know? Well, like that's like Blair says when Serena
Speaker 1: shows her the picture, She's like, wow, I must have
Speaker 1: picked up on a vibe and like she's not totally wrong, right,
Speaker 1: Like there is a vibe happening this episode between Dan
Speaker 1: and Rachel. I mean, she's still lied, she still made
Speaker 1: it up. She was not right. But I'm saying this
Speaker 1: is why I'm like with fuming at times of this episode,
Speaker 1: like screw you guys, that's messed up. Blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And then we get to thirty seconds left
Speaker 1: of the show and they're having sex, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe learns or we know weren't wrong. Yeah, well well,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Anyways, I'm also going to hand you
Speaker 1: off the Gossip Girl quote. So this is the closing
Speaker 1: Gossip Girl quote. They say every action has an equal
Speaker 1: and opposite reaction, and once something is set in motion,
Speaker 1: it can't help but build momentum. One thing is certain
Speaker 1: on the Upper East Side, what goes around comes around
Speaker 1: XO x O Gossips Girl. Yes, that was fun. That
Speaker 1: was super fun. That feels very powerful. All in all,
Speaker 1: I just feel like this episode for some reason really
Speaker 1: hit me in a different way but then then again
Speaker 1: at the very end when they're getting it on, I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe I had no reason to be so so it's
Speaker 1: so upset. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, Um, what is your do
Speaker 1: you know in season two? Like, what's your favorite episode
Speaker 1: of season two? Oh? Is that a really good question? Well?
Speaker 1: I love the I love the opener, the Hampton's episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so good. I can't believe that we're still on
Speaker 1: the same season. I can't even because of the writer's strike.
Speaker 1: It goes on so much longer, because it makes up
Speaker 1: for like it's twenty five episodes instead of twenty two
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, I do remember that because we were
Speaker 1: filming a lot longer than the eight or nine forever.
Speaker 1: But when you just brought up the Hampton's I cannot
Speaker 1: believe still from this episode because that is the same season.
Speaker 1: It's insane. Yeah, I love I love the episode. The
Speaker 1: next episode after this too, where they do the play
Speaker 1: the Age of Dissonance. Oh my god, it's a really
Speaker 1: fun one. I haven't seen it. I can't wait. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's it's really really fun. They kind of
Speaker 1: really go off script. Really Yeah, Oh my god, you're
Speaker 1: gonna enjoy watching it. I can't wait. I just like
Speaker 1: this episode and season one are my two favorites, so
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to pick like one favorite. Yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I want to get through it and then I can
Speaker 1: maybe pick going back. But even now going back, I
Speaker 1: can't like separate which is which to me, it's like
Speaker 1: it's been a long movie. It's a long yeah, exactly, Well,
Speaker 1: especially if you're watching it kind of all at once
Speaker 1: is a rewatch. But yeah, it's fine. They bring like
Speaker 1: the next episode, they bring Carter Basin back, like it's
Speaker 1: just it's that's awesome. Um, well, I appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 1: Did you want us to look out for anything right now?
Speaker 1: Um no, I don't have any. You know, I have
Speaker 1: a lot of freelance stories I've picked up that are
Speaker 1: in the words. Yeah, well that's exciting. But I'm just
Speaker 1: out and about. I'm just on the internet, you know.
Speaker 1: You go, girl, just surfing? That exactly amazing, Tyler, What
Speaker 1: more can I say? You always bring another little flavor
Speaker 1: to these rewatches. Thank you so much for joining me
Speaker 1: and being there for the ups and downs and weirdly
Speaker 1: inappropriate student teacher relationships, and for you listeners catching next
Speaker 1: week for another Gossip Girl rewatch. Make sure to like,
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Speaker 1: you want to see in the upcoming episodes. You're all amazing,
Speaker 1: have a beautiful day, and I'll see you soon. XO
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