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Gossip Girl: Who Chooses Trip?

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Written by April Yorke   
Tuesday, 01 December 2009 15:10

Obviously, no one in their right mind. But dear Serena never had a right mind to begin with, so naturally she told Trip they needed to stay away from each other, made out with him in a elevator, apologized to his wife for causing trouble, managed to get the upper hand on her mom, and eventually ran off with Trip in a limo while wearing a cat suit with black lace down the middle so that her ample cleavage got enough air. Because if there's one thing Serena does at Thanksgiving, it's fuck everything up.

All of this, plus the following:

  • Dan confirms that CeCe's heart runs on "secrets and gin," giving viewers new life goals.
  • Dan realizes that he does indeed love Vanessa, so Gabriella (the formidable Gina Torres) decides to try her hand at parenting for the first time and tells him to stay way if he's unwilling to commit to something serious. Hilariously, how her daughter might feel about Dan is never a consideration for either of them.
  • Eric's full out evil involves texts like, "We have to strike now" and eating a big bite of pie. Enjoying desserts on holidays is like enjoying the fruits of the Devil every other night of the year.
  • Chuck tries to mend the current Waldorf rift by selling Blair out to Eleanor, explaining that he bought that particular champagne because Blair told him to. Both ladies studiously ignore him. 
  • Chuck also advises Nate to tell Serena how he feels, threatens Serena and Trip, calls Nate out on stealing from him, and eventually ditches Blair (and sweater shopping with Harold and Roman!) for a heartbroken Nate. Aw, Nathaniel is his true love.
  • The new Empire-based Bass Cave has a motorcycle is decoration. That's even better than Logan's suit of armour.

For yes, indeed, yet another episode ends with a heartbroken Nate. Poor guy confessed his feelings to Serena and begged her to stay, but, as mention, she drove off with Trip instead. While it will doubtless turn out next week that Trip is crazy and Nate will be entirely justified in once again punching a family member in the face,* it would be hard to make the right choice with two Vanderbilts giving you the glad eye.
*I just wondered when he would finally punch Grandfather in the face, but I realized that Grandfather is probably a boxing champ who would wipe the floor with Nathaniel.

Updated: ZOMG! I forgot to mention Rufus's sweater. Back in season one (and two?), Rufus used to sit around his Brooklyn loft wearing a ladies' off-white roll neck sweater with wood toggles and absently strum his guitar. Since moving in with Lily, the sweater has been mercifully absent (one assumes that Lily has Vanya deal with it). Last night, however, Rufus officiated over Thanksgiving dinner in a navy ladies' roll neck sweater. Where does he keep finding these things? How did Lily let this happen?

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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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