Gossip GirlYou’ve Got Yale
Original Air Date: 19 Jan 2009
Victoria - TwoCents Reviewer
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Chuck is on a mission to dethrone his uncle. Blair is on a mission to destroy a teacher. Nate and Vanessa keep playing out their rags to riches love story. Dan and Serena try to out whine each other and Lily and Rufus make out in public. So much gossip, slow little opera...
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Chuck is on a mission to dethrone his uncle. Blair is on a mission to destroy a teacher. Nate and Vanessa keep playing out their rags to riches love story. Dan and Serena try to out whine each other and Lily and Rufus make out in public. So much gossip, slow little opera...
ReplyDeleteEveryone has their own agenda this episode, but somehow they all still have time to take in the opera- apparently a “tradition” this time of year for the Upper Eastsiders.
Chuck really wants to kick his uncle out of his dad’s business but al his efforts, including tranny hookers and blow, don’t work. He’s so desperate he goes to Lily for help and after some thought she remembers that she and Bart were going to adopt each other’s children. So she has a lawyer fax over the papers Bart already signed. All Chuck has to do is sign and his legal Guardian (and the person who gets to run Bass Industries) is Lily Bass. So he signs and Uncle Jack goes complete psycho and attacks Lily in the opera bathroom. Chuck saves her. And later she tells Chuck all she wants is him as a son. Awe. Now if only Chuck thought he deserved to be loved. Although he does ask to move back in.
Blair doesn’t get in to Yale. She gets waitlisted. Serena gets in. Dan gets in. Blair – waitlist. Before she can wage a war against whoever got her spot, Serena declines. Blair gets in. But she’s furious at a teacher who gave her a B so she makes plans to mess with her. Teacher gets messed with and gets even and it puts Blair back on Yale’s maybe list. Of course rather than grow emotionally and/or mentally she tells Dorota it’s Black Ops time. Seriously? How much more maniacally evil can B get?
Dan and Serena spend the episode whining to each other and anyone who will listen about going to different schools and their parent’s boinking. The writers of Gossip Girl should offer some cheese to the audience to go with all the whine. In the end, they seem to be about to call it quits again. Dan is ignoring Serena’s call in order to chat up a teacher. Yeah. A teacher. And the only reason it’s not creepy is because the teacher looks younger than Serena. And has smaller boobs. Seriously – what is with Serena’s boobs and the wardrobe people’s incessant need to put a “teenager” in dresses cut down to the belly button?!
Nate and Vanessa have what are supposed to be cute moments involving his re-acquired money and her lack of it. She buys them opera tickets in the nose bleeds but they end up in his family’s box seats anyway. Other than the granny with the sinus issue that Vanessa sat next to, there’s not much going on here. Yawn.
Oh and Jenny and Eric... they pop up with their newly minted Brother-n-Sister act for one scene when they help Rufus learn about opera.
Over all, not the best of episodes. Although it did have some stellar fashion. Whose Opera gown did you like best? (I loved Blair’s) Leave your two cents about the episode and the dresses in the comments!