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In trying to forget Blair, Chuck went on a sexual tear with a different girl every night, including a hot--but modest!--flight attendant:

Anyone know what airline this is?

He finally decides that the only thing to do is to sleep with Blair one more time "to clear the pipes." Serena: "You can not use Blair as sexual Drano!"

As much as she won't admit it, Blair may need a little, hmm, pipe cleaning. Just like with Nate last season, she and Marcus haven't had sex yet--but this time he's the holdout: He calls her his "delicate little flower" and is stuffy and British. (Really, his escape line is, "The tea's getting cold.") And somehow his stepmom knows about this, which is creepy.

But all that happens... before the Blackout OMG! Which was a little "Grey's Anatomy" for our taste, and also suggests the show takes place either in 2003 or the near future (yikes!) But, hey, the drama when the lights go out!

At the party, Blair pleads with Marcus to sneak away with her to her room. But guess who comes by instead... the Chuckster. When the Lord catches them together, he storms out but Blair dares him to prove that he has passion for her in measure with Chuck's. So Mr. Bass goes home unhappily with another random girl, trying vainly to reenact last year's sex-in-the-limo scene.

So is he a gay, a virgin or a cold fish? The jury's still out.

Vanessa finally confronts Nate about all the sneaking around and last-minute cancellations. She tells Nate he has to end things with the Duchess--before the Duchess confronts her and shows her the anvil she's holding over the boy's head: He splits, she tells the FBI where his dad is hiding. Maybe not such a great thing to blurt out in a moment of passion.

Meanwhile, in Eleanor Waldorf's atelier, Jenny has just been fired from her internship for speaking her mind when the power goes out. Magically, Eleanor comes around on the opinionated little sparkplug and insists on keeping her around. It's hard to be lonely!

And, en route to the party, Serena and Dan get stuck in an elevator where they are forced to talk about their problems. And this time, it's really over. We're not exactly sure what happened, it got really dusty in our rumpus room all of a sudden there. But Dan and Vanessa retreat to Brooklyn to lick their wounds. It's hard to be bi-boroughsexual!

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