Gossip Girl Season 1 Episode 16: All About My Brother
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Original Air Date—5 May 2008
Georgina tells Serena that she can reveal a deep dark secret from Serena’s past, but no one is prepared for what Georgina does next. Meanwhile, Blair and Jenny’s power struggle continues when each of them start spreading false and scandalous rumors about each other on Gossip Girl’s blog. Dan sees Jenny’s new beau Asher cheating on her and tells her, but Jenny refuses to believe Dan.
Rufus goes to Lily for advice on how to handle Jenny’s new rebellious behavior. Serena tries to confront Georgina, but she skips town before Serena has a chance. After this, Serena tells Lily and everyone she and Georgina are not friends after discovering that Georgina has been lying to everyone, claiming that she and Serena are still friends.
Gossip Girl Season 1 Episode 14: The Blair Bitch Project
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Original Air Date—21 April 2008
Spring Break is over, and so are all of Blair’s days of hiding away. Finally, after three weeks, she comes back to school, with an unpleasant welcome by Jenny and the “in” crowd, who throw ice cream in her hair. Serena believes that being mean was got Blair kicked out of the “in” crowd in the first place and dethroned “Queen Bee.”
When Jenny asks Blair to meet her at Butter along with all of Blair’s former friends, Serena finds it the perfect opportunity for Blair to show just how nice she is. But the situation goes from nice to sour when Jenny and her friends purposely don’t show up, leaving Blair all alone. Meanwhile, Jenny needs something to wear for her 15th birthday party, and eventually ends up stealing one of her friend’s mother’s dresses in exchange for a $1,200 dress in an exchange shop.
But when Jenny tries to get it back, she learns the red dress is over $8,000. Once again, Jenny steals the red dress, throwing her coat over the dress. She comes home to a 15th birthday party created by none other than Blair, who talked to Jenny’s dad, and made the birthday party as lame as possible. While Jenny’s dad doesn’t realize how lame the party is, Jenny’s friends do, and are about to leave when they find Jenny wearing the red dress. They ditch the birthday party and meet Blair at Butter.
Thinking quickly, Jenny sneaks out and has Nate accompany her to Butter. Jenny’s friends are pleased that Nate, who they are attracted to, is hanging out with them, and “forget” the incident with the dress, leaving Blair friendless once again. Also, Serena adjusts to her new living conditions with Chuck, but when she receives inappropriate gifts, she believes Chuck sent them. But, at the very end of the episode, she learns who really sent them, and it wasn’t Chuck.
Gossip Girl Season 1 Episode 10: Hi, Society
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Original Air Date—5 December 2007
As ‘Gossip Girl’ posts news of the annual Cotillion Ball to take place on the approaching weekend, Blair decides not to go with Nate, but she finds herself being featured in The New York Times and is enjoying her secret affair with Chuck. Serena decides not to go either, so her grandmother, CeCe, shows up to change her mind. Meanwhile, Jenny volunteers for the ball and Lily takes her under her wing. But the night of The Cotillion is the night of Alison’s first art opening, and Rufus and Alison tell Jenny that she cannot attend the ball.
Jenny decides to defy them both by secretly attending the dance anyway. Refreshed by Blair’s newly buoyant attitude, Nate asks her to the Cotillion and she accepts, which makes Chuck jealous. CeCe tells Lily and Serena that she is sick with lung cancer and her last dying wish is to see Serena go to the ball, and she wants Serena to go with the wealthy Carter Baizen. The snobbish CeCe takes an instant dislike to Dan and she approaches Rufus with an offer pay him to convince Dan not to go with Serena.
Dan learns of this and tells Serena that he does not think very highly of CeCe by telling Serena about how CeCe tried to bribe his father to persuade him not to attend. Surprisingly, the skeptic Serena refuses to believe Dan that her compassionate grandmother is a crafty snob, and she ends up going to the ball with Carter… both her and Dan having fallen right into CeCe’s ploy. Also, Chuck manipulates Nate into thinking Carter is having an affair with Blair to provoke a fight with him.
Gossip Girl Season 1 Episode 9: Blair Waldorf Must Pie!
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Original Air Date—28 November 2007
Although it is Thanksgiving, hardly anyone has the holiday spirit. Blair and Serena have a fight once Serena admits that she saw Blair with Chuck; Nate and his family share a strained Thanksgiving meal before Mr. Archibald ends up in the hospital after a suicide attempt; having been uninvited by Blair to the Waldorf Thanksgiving meal, the Van der Woodson family has dinner with the Humphreys and the tension between Lily, Allison, and Rufus is palpable; Blair revisits her bout of bulimia after discovering that her mother forbade her father to join them for Thanksgiving. Through the entire episode there are flashbacks of last year’s Thanksgiving. There is a stark contrast between its joy and the present’s strife.