Where In The World Is Chuck Bass?

January 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM | by egw | Comments (2)

Previously: Bart Bass kicked it, making Chuck angry, Blair ready to say "I love you," Serena conflicted (but still jetting off to ~~Brazil~~ Argentina (thanks, eagle-eyed tipster!) with Aaron) and Lily and Rufus alone again after the revelation that they had a kid (!).

It's a new year! But the whole crowd is falling back into its old ways. Blair is getting manic about social conquest--this week, being accepted into the exclusive Colony Club. After breaking up with Aaron on the plane to Rio, Serena and Dan are back together. Jenny is back at Constance Billiard, hopefully with a backbone this time, and Chuck Bass evidently spent the hiatus smoking hash with Thai hookers.

"I looked in his eyes and I couldn't see him any more," Blair says about Chuck, who upon his return to school is immediately caught smoking on school grounds and suspended. So maybe Uncle Jack Bass (guest Desmond Harrington) can help! When he doesn't act fast enough to prevent Chuck from glorying in his billion-dollar inheritance, Blair visits him at his Season 1 burlesque club Victrola (love it!) but can't rouse him from a "Jim Morrison downward spiral."

Serena and Dan are trying to find out why their parents, who were so close so recently, aren't speaking any more. A proposal gone wrong, perhaps? Dan cuts to the chase by digging in his dad's messenger bag--of course Rufus has a messenger bag--and finding the map of the adoption agencies he visited. Then Dan asks Chuck (his Victrola party went live on Gossip Girl) and Chuck knows the truth! "How Dickensian," saith he. When Rufus begs Dan not to tell her, he acquieses. And somewhere, Rufus and Lily go off to meet their collective past.

After a showdown with the mean girls at Pinkberry (GENIUS!), Jenny finds herself hauled to the principal's office when they get their parents to call and claim they've been bullied. Jenny counter-strikes with former minion Nelly's dirt on the club, only for them to ask her to be their queen -- something our little Brooklynite has no intention of being. As Penelope (the Constance girl with the eyebrows) puts it, "You're telling me this was just a good deed? Oh my God I'm bored."

These girls are actually nicer than the Colony Club witches Blair entertains though, a pair of snotty ladies in argyle still gossiping about Serena being in Page Six. (Dudes! That was like eight episodes ago!) For once, Blair thinks maybe not being top of the world might be better. Speaking of... Chuck's party ends with him on a rooftop practically poised to jump while declaring to the heavens, "I'm Chuck Bass! Who cares. Blair and Uncle Jack go after him and, finally, she can talk him down.

Really, this stranger is going to go toe to toe with Blair? Oh, he is in for something all right.

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Oh man, every time they were in Pinkberry, I had to shout "Pinkberry!!" at the screen. Then I lost focus trying to figure out which location.

is the Gramercy one, but I haven't actually been to that particular locale so it's just a hunch based on filming reports. Which begs the question, why would they be that far south, but oh well. Great place for a showdown though, especially since the show "Chuck" has been using a faux-Pinkberry store (down to the weird overpriced knickknacks) for weeks.

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