Let's Watch Gossip Girl [warning: some mature content]

[Jinx]

Who Gossip Girl isI think it's funny in one episode in the first episode Jenny is like, "DAN YOU GOOBER LOSER WHY ARE YOU ON GG?" And he's like, "UUUUUH"

[Pumpkin]

Keeping a tally might be interesting, I'll see if I can remember. Speaking of which, let's find our handy dandy teen drama checklist:

Teen Drama Themes:

• Someone will cheat on someone. Usually happens many times throughout the show - Nate and Serena
• There will be a love triangle - Nate/Serena/Blair
• Someone will have a drug problem *drug use has been seen, but no drug problem story line yet
• The parent themes:
  
  • There will be a dead parent
  • There will be an uninvolved/detached parent
  • There will be an involved but bad parent - Blair's mom/Nate's dad
  • There will be a normal parent who will be regarded as a great parent for actually being involved in their child's life - Rufus
  • A parent will at some point become irrelevant
  
  
• There will be a story line involving unknown family members
• At least one character will end the show completely different from the person they started as
• At least one of the main cast will be gone by the end of the show
• Two people will try to declare their love, but will keep getting interrupted
• Two people will be about to start something only to have someone waltz in and become a romantic interest for one of them
• They'll go back to their old high school even though they aren't in high school anymore
• At least one of them will find absurd amounts of success not long after graduating high school
• Their plans to go to colleges all over the country or oversees will fall flat and they will stay in the same area with the same people
• There will be a "loser" who becomes one of the popular kids
• Someone has an STD
• Someone has an pregnancy scare
  
  • Bonus points for an actual pregnancy
  
  
• Someone has an eating disorder
• Someone is a self-harmer
• Someone is sexually assault - Thanks Chuck Bass
• Someone comes out and then struggles with their sexuality
• Someone goes to prison
• Someone attempts suicide (kind of moot because Eric) - Eric :P
• Someone ODs
• Someone has an accident and people think they're dead
• Case of mistaken identity
• A character is mistaken for a prostitute
• A character dates someone who is famous (whether they're real famous or a fake famous character)
• Someone cheats on exams
• Someone is expelled
• Someone is doing something against school rules and is almost expelled, and someone else takes the fall for them
• Someone leaves their phone behind and someone else steals it and pretends to be them

5 in one episode. Not bad.

EDIT:
Make that 6

[Jinx]

Someone goes to prison
Someone attempts suicide (kind of moot because Eric)
Someone ODs
Someone has an accident and people think they're dead
Case of mistaken identity
A character is mistaken for a prostitute
A character dates someone who is famous (whether they're real famous or a fake famous character)
Someone cheats on exams
Someone is expelled
Someone is doing something against school rules and is almost expelled, and someone else takes the fall for them
Someone leaves their phone behind and someone else steals it and pretends to be them

Just some more ideas

[Pumpkin]

Added them in.

Gosh teen dramas are predictable. Just reading the list I could think of examples offhand for GG, OTH, and 90210

[Jinx]

I know, right? I honestly wasn't specifically thinking of GG plot points when I made those up, but I know they all fit (because I've seen 80% of this show).

[Miss Mae]

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She looks like she pressed her eyes against one of those prank telescopes.

[Jinx]

Yeah, I try not to make fun of people's sense of person style (because I don't want people to do the same to me)

but

lol

[Miss Mae]

Never said I was criticising her - there are just some objective similiarities.

[Jinx]

even still

lol

(for the record, i think taylor momsen is gorgeous, even if she isn't really my type)

[Miss Mae]

I agree. I was looking through some of her photos just before when we were talking about her, and dayum. I remember thinking that when I watched the series too - (SPOILER)everyone was criticising her for wearing more makeup and whatnot, and I was like "No, this is working for her, let her be."

[Freya]

I just call her style now racoon eyes or panda eyes would work too. What do you call that?

[Jinx]

Yeah, Alayna

I definitely like her more when she looks more innocent and natural. But like, everyone has their own style. Let people be themselves and express themselves however they want. I know I kind of joke about her, but ultimately I'd like to just let her do her. I would feel pretty sad if people teased me about my hot pink glasses and my (want to do) purple hair and cat-eye eyeliner. She can do whatever she wants, and I applaud her for being herself in the face of critics.

Still, at the end of the day, she's not really my type.

[Pumpkin]

In the wake of the scandalous Kiss on the Lips party, Serena receives an ice cold reception from her friend, Blair.

So Dan and Jenny are talking about how Dan blew things with Serena the previous night.





Dan, a bit slow, agrees to go walk her to the door but bonks his head on the cab and instead decides to leave. Serena looks at him and he waves to her and the cab drives off.

Yep.

Serena is talking about the same thing with Eric.





That's the only logical conclusion. Guy waves at me? He must hate me.

Dan and Jenny continue talking about this because apparently GG can make a 10 minute long scene out of a wave.



But then Dan decides he's going to try and go and get Serena back.



And Serena confesses her crush on Dan.



Blair, meanwhile, is getting ready for the Bart Bass (Chuck's dad) hotel benefit brunch. Yep, all of today's drama will happen in the space of one day.

So she calls her boyfriend who is obviously hung over.



Nate wakes up Chuck who is in bed with two of the hotel staff. They leave and Chuck and Nate get talking about whatever drama nonsense happened last episode.



Serena decides to mend fences with Blair, who was glaring at her the whole time of the party, Nate decides to go see Serena, and so does Dan.

So Dan arrives and gets dirty looks from the receptionist man and sits and waits for Serena who just stepped out to go meet Blair, who is ignoring her calls.

And then Nate shows up to try and meet Serena as well.



Then Nate agrees to wait for her, seeing that Dan is also waiting for her, and Lily is obviously upset that Dan is waiting for her.

Goodness this show.

So Nate and Dan are awkwardly waiting for Serena.

Then Serena shows up at Blair's house and Blair is being a bitch towards her. Then Serena is all like "what's up I thought we were friends again?"



Serena asks who told her and Blair says Nate.



Blair tells her to stay away from her and her boyfriend and her friends.



After Serena leaves, Jenny shows up at Blair's house pretending to be returning some pens.



Jenny does want to know and Blair says they aren't saying anything about her. She says Chuck prefers talking about his conquests and not his victims, which implies he's done this before and PEOPLE ARE TOTALLY OKAY WITH THIS

Then she tells Jenny she can help her get dressed.

Lily and Rufus talk about Dan.



And Rufus says he's the kind of boy she does need. Lily also hints that she's seeing someone, but no one serious.

Then Chuck finds Nate and Dan waiting for Serena outside of the hotel and they of course get in to a fight because why not. Dan tries to punch Chuck again and Chuck wants to fight and Nate hold him back.



This is just... too much drama for one morning.

Blair doesn't like her dress and Jenny loves it and they talk about Dan's cabbage patch kid. Then when she finds out Jenny's brother is Dan and she asks if Jenny is Serena's friend. Jenny says she has nothing against her, but doesn't care if someone else does. Then Blair gives her the dress for her answer.



And Jenny is all like "omgthx"



Well this is promising. I'm sure this won't come back and bite her in the butt.

Dan finally finds Serena and basically asks her out to eat after some long drawn out nonsense.



Then Serena's mom shows up and acts like she will disown her daughter if she doesn't go to the brunch thing. Serena says she would but Dan is literally starving to death. The compromise is apparently her going WITH Dan.

[Pumpkin]

Jenny returns home and attempts to bond with cool dad Rufus. He asks where she got the dress and she tells him.



Then we are FINALLY at the brunch thing and Bart is asking his son about the black eye.



He says its so Chuck can be a part of something that matters some day. Then he tells Chuck to not drink so much in the morning.

Then Dan and Serena show up and everyone is all OMGTHENERVEOFTHEM4RLZ

Nate sneaks a look at Serena to go talk with him in private.



He gives Serena the key to Chuck's suite and invites her up there in 10 minutes so they can discuss things. Afterwards his dad approaches him regarding his relationship with Blair.



I don't even need to point out how ridiculous he is. But I did anyway.

Chuck approaches Blair and asks if she's worried about Nate being around Serena.



Chuck gives Blair a key to his suite (yep) and she approaches Nate for some friskiness.



Of course they just end up finding Serena in the room.



Serena tells Blair that Nate invited her to talk and some bitchy arguing follows with them calling each other unclassy sluts. Blair threatens to tell Dan about Serena's antics.

Outside the party, Dan, looking for Serena, overhears a conversation between Lily and Bart.



Lily wants Bart to see her exclusively.

Lily then notices Dan and tells him to not tell Serena and he agrees to mind his own business.

Blair finds Dan back at the party, and everyone else decides to join in on the drama in some big drama circle.





Chuck spills the beans and Dan is upset. Then Chuck decides to antagonize Dan further by asking about his sister, Jenny.



Dan then pushes Chuck and leaves the brunch.





She says what's in the past is past and if he can't accept her for who she is now, then he isn't the person she thought he was.

Dan goes home and Rufus asks if he found Serena.



Then Dan gives Jenny some advice.



He tells her not to tell them anything.

Blair and Nate decide to stay together.



And Dan goes back to being a loser while Jenny becomes one of Blair's minions, according to Gossip Girl.



And that is all for today!

[Jinx]

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