So it only took one lecture from his son to make the Captain do the right thing?
Unfortunately no one thought to tell Mama Archibald, who is inconsolable. But Nate's Thanksgiving turns out okay, as he makes up with Vanessa and then gets drunk in a limo with Chuck.
And a million slash writers sighed...
Meanwhile, Blair is dreading the Rose family's restaurant Thanksgiving. When she finds out Cyrus proposed to her mom at Jean Georges the night before, Blair decides the most sensible course of action is to... disappear with Dorota (who has a Blackberry, LOL) and walk around the Upper East Side looking angry. But it all ends up okay, because Eleanor has a special surprise for her daughter...
Hey! It's that gay dad! They even share some pie, which seems curious given how pie brought up Blair's eating issues last Thanksgiving, but whatever.
But over at the van der Basses, it's not the turkey that's stuffed--it's Bart Bass' hair. It's full of secrets! When Chuck and Erik break into Bart's safe, they discover files on all of them...
As well as gold bricks and a satellite phone.
Here's what we now know from the raid: Serena's file is five times as large as Erik's (not a surprise); Erik's not-seen-for-several-episodes-now boyfriend is cheating on him with the captain of his swim team (cliche!), and Lily was institutionalized when she was 19. There's no file shown on Chuck, probs because he has his own Safe of Secrets. Serena passes her file to Creepy Aaron after Dan casually drops the name Georgina around him, but Creepy Aaron (who's decided, at least this week, that he's only dating one girl) declares he doesn't need to know about her scandalous past. Oh, please! We would love to see into that file.
Well, after all that comes out, there's no way the van der Woodsens are going to stay for Thanksgiving dinner. So they go to the place they went last year: Chez Humphrey, made bright again by the return of Jenny.
Jenny has been hiding at Erik's and looking into emancipating herself from her folks. But thanks to a woman to woman talk from Lily and an impassioned speech from Dear Old Dad, she decides to go home. Because it's Thanksgiving! And that's what people do at Thanksgiving, go home.
So everyone puts their past behind them--except Vanessa, determined to get Nate for herself from that underage hussy--and no one has to play tackle football this year. Gossip Girl herself signs off early in this episode, probably because she has to psychologically prepare herself to eat like a normal person to keep up appearances. And so shall we all.
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