Gossip Girl: Open Thread • It is hard to tell if you guys are even watching this season. Whatever, I ain't care. ASHER ROTH LOVES COLLEGE. In any case, I have not been able to watch this week's very special episode (Tyra Banks! Hilary Duff!) yet (it's weird that that aren't any TVs in LA, you'd think there would be at least one TV), but you guys should feel free to discuss it here.
Posted at 1:45 PM in Teen Soap Operas
Tags: Gossip Girl
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This felt like a filler episode used to introduce us to Hillary Duff, Vanessa's new (vampire movie-star!) roommate. They also had a bit part for Tyra and she champed at the bit.
Next week: Rufus & Lily make it legal- shenanigans ensue.
Score = 0
i thought this was the episode where a bunch of beautiful, vacuous people bitched a lot, took drugs, and had sex behind each others' backs. maybe that's next week?
Score = 4
Thank you! I thought it was supposed to be about spoiled teens getting coked up and wrecking sports cars, going to clubs, getting in catfights & whatnot. Not college social climbing and art auctions. Borrrring. This thing should be as campy as True Blood but it's not. The only one who's really going there is the poor man's Joaquin Phoenix, Chuck Bass.
Score = -2
Please don't give up on Gossip Girl, Gabe. It's sure to get worse!
Score = 5
Maybe it was the red wine I was drinking, but I felt like last night's episode got us back to old GG territory finally! I have been unimpressed by the past few weeks, what with the whole Serena-as-Marissa thing, i.e. the not going to college, everyone should feel so sorry for the broken, lost poor little rich girl. But! She seems to have snapped out of needing her father so much? And was Carter even in last night's episode?
I was glad for new characters/sotrylines bc really all of these children have slept with eachother enough for a show that runs in primetime. And Georgina and Dan are terrible, together and apart, but especially together.
Tyra Banks was laughably horrible as an actress who wants to be respected. Good on you CW.
Ok,now, back to being a 26 year old with a real job.
Score = 10
Gabe you can't stop. The only thing that keeps me watching this show is so I have a context for your recaps. If you do anything to jeopardize my Gossip Girl viewing you'll in turn be jeopardizing my last excuse for getting drunk at two in the afternoon.
Score = 10
please do ur blog ur hilarious i look forward to reading what u say about this episode especiallly since the duff and tyra were there too!
Score = 1
When did Lily and Rufus get engaged? I must have been drinking too much during..i mean, missed, that episode.
Score = 3
Also? Rufus impersonating Lily made me Lots of Love! The one and only time I wasn't rolling my eyes up so far inside my head I wanted to pass out when he was on screen! See also (previous): red red wine.
Score = 4
Score = 2
just because you threw us a measly open thread pity party for us GG survivors doesn't mean you avoid giving us a recap. it wont feel like i've watched the episode until a screen grab collage of rufus doing lily impressions.
Score = 3
It's so weird how every famous person bumps into a cast member of Gossip Girl, and every red carpet event (apparently Sotheby's now is considered a red carpet event) has at least one of them invited, which of course means the whole rag tag bunch, even the ones from Brooklyn, will magically be there. It doesn't seem contrived at all! Why should it, when there are only 36 residents in the entire city of New York?
Score = 4
not enough headbands.
Score = 1
I spent last night as I have spent every other Monday night this season: wishing Serena would finally go to brown, and take that one bitch who is particularly bad at acting (which, for this show, is saying something) with her.
Score = -1
I hate Jenny but I must say that I was patiently waiting to see what happened when she started school. I was a bit upset that it didn't get more of a plot.
Also I get the whole Blair loves Chuck thing but I kind of miss the old Chuck. Even though it was disturbing I enjoyed him checking out Jenny at the movie premiere.
Best part of the night thought was the I'm Chuck Bass... I'm Blair Waldorf convo. It was insanity!
Score = 2
What a small world New York City is. One "famous vampire actress" shows up and in one day, dates Dan, lives with Vanessa and helps get Serena a job -- all separate and unrelated events!!!!!
I love GG's spin on "you can't go home again, Blair" but I even more love that Chuck no longer has to know the answer to anything because the answer to everything is "I'm Chuck Bass."
You should try harder in school because I'm Chuck Bass. Cancer is cured because I'm Chuck Bass. Sinister glance + headband + vampire movie + coffee shop divided by I'm Chuck Bass = LIFE.
But seriously the best: Dan and "Kate" run into each other at the premiere and paparazzi start taking her picture and Dan holds up his hand in front of his face and says, "Oh, hey now. What is all of this?" Perfect. PERFECT.
Gabe, I haven't watched Gossip Girl until you've recapped it. Come back.
Score = 3
The answer to everything has ALWAYS been "I'm Chuck Bass." It's the only part of the show that has ever been consistent. And if someday the answer will be something other than "I'm Chuck Bass," John Cusack will drive a limo through an earthquake that turns into a Air Force One and Arnold will be President and everything will be terrible. Oops, it already is!
Score = 1
I am not watching this season.
Upvote me on account of that is awesome.
Score = -5
Heh heh heh!
I KNEW I would get downvoted! I was downvoted because I'm glad I don't watch Gossip Girl! That's the best! Whoo! That's so awesome.
Score = -1
I will actually cry if you stop writing GG recaps. And that would not be pretty. Please don't make me do this.
I actually hearted this week's episode. Tyra Banks smeyezing all over the place, Chuck Bass loving someone being the one thing that makes them worthwhile, Dan Humps wants Hilary Duff's normal-looking arms, Rufus being Lily's bitch...
Score = 1
please get a los angeles television or deputize someone to take on the sacred duty of hilariously recapping this trainwreck.
Score = 2
i didnt know the gossip girl cast was so solid and GOOD at ACTING until hilary duff stepped in and showed them all that normal looking girl arms dont make a good actress. hilary duff and vanessa = roomies? = worst conglomerate plot story as of yet.
in other news CHAIR is going STRONG and i love it. 'i am chuck bass'? SMITTEN.
Score = 2
tyra banks made chace crawford look oscar worthy. the funniest thing is that we are supposed to believe that tya and hilary's character were starring in a movie that could change their careers (for the better).
Score = 1
agree. do we REALLY need another fictional fictional halocaust movie. REALLY TYRA BANKS's CHARACTER, you will distract the nazis the only way you know how, by SINGING?
Score = 0
Yes, I noticed Hillary's arms too. They were very fleshy and normal looking. The whole cast is stunning, I find it hard to believe that Dan found Hillary to be shockingly beautiful.
Score = 3
first of all gabe, how dare you. second, next weeks ep is called "Rufus Getting Married," i'm already waiting in line in front of my tv.
Score = 3
That's it Gabe. I live in L.A. and I have a television. No more excuses.
And it is wrong that all the Blair/Chuck scences make me go "awww" and that they are the only 2 people I root for anymore.
Score = 2
Please do ur post for this last episode, ur always so funny!
Score = 0
Gabe you have to recap the episodes. You make GG bearable. Don't give up, you can squeeze them out. I know because "I'm Chuck Bass and I Love You".
Score = 2
You don't get to cop out of a recap! Just because you're the boss of something doesn't mean you can just slack off whenever... oh, wait... anyhow, back on topic- Just Do It. Probably not what nike had in mind, but still, i need to know how bad the parenting rates this season. i can't judge lily and rufus, it's too hard to rate the randomness!
Score = 0