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Gossip Girl Travel: The Season Finale Return of the Sweater Vest

May 20, 2008 at 8:35 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Previously: The gang all got back together to save Serena, but they couldn't keep her boyfriend Dan from straying... to Georgina. Also, Serena left some guy to die but it's all OK now! And Lily and Rufus were drawn back together again, on the eve of her wedding to Chuck's father Bart Bass.

Wedding today! Wedding today! And the bride wakes up... in Rufus' arms? Oops. Lily runs after Bart, who compares her love for Rufus to a building he bought a long time ago but thinks he should sell off. Subtle!

But despite an eleventh-hour appeal by Rufus, Lily marries Bart and the Van der Bartsen monolith is created at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, on (naturally) the Upper East Side. Rufus goes on tour for the summer, not bothering to hide his broken heart at all. (By the way, the CW's promos for the new "90210" feature an English teacher who could be Matthew Settle's twin. Do we have room for two guilty pleasures next fall?)

While the wedding goes off without a hitch, another couple is not so lucky. Serena goes to Brooklyn to apologize to Dan, only to find Georgina there--and still denying everything the other Upper East Siders are saying about her. Blair uses Dan as bait to trap Georgina in the park and informs Papa and Mama Sparks of her presence in New York. It's off to reform school for her! (Apparently G. once went to the same rehab as Lindsay Lohan...)

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Gossip Girl Travel: We're the Non-Judging Breakfast Club

May 13, 2008 at 8:50 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Previously: Georgina was evil, Georgina was evil, Georgina was totally evil. Also, Erik Van der Woodsen came out and Serena killed somebody.

This week we got the story behind Serena's 11th-hour confession, and oh boy, show, you have outdone yourself this time! We could never have predicted that the dirty dealings would go all the way back to the pilot. Genius!

So when Serena says she killed a guy, she's exaggerating a little. After the wild wedding at which she and Nate coupled, S. met Georgina at a hotel with their friend Pete. G. had planned to tape Pete and Serena having sex, but before they could, Pete overdosed. Serena called the paramedics while she was leaving, but they couldn't revive him.

S. skipped town and convinced her mom to send her to boarding school to cover up the big secret. But Georgina still has the tape--which includes some steamy footage of Serena and Pete making out--and is trying to blackmail Serena with it. Her plan falls apart when Blair stages an intervention.

Unfortunately this could not stop the kudzu-like evil of Georgina from spreading. Where did this atrocious photo come from? Your answer, after the jump.

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Gossip Girl Travel: Got Your Invite to the Wedding of the Year?

May 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Scarlett and Ryan? Bo-ring. Bret and Ambre? Not gonna happen. Clearly the major celebrity wedding of this season is that of Lily van der Woodsen and Bart Bass, two of the parents on "Gossip Girl."

Now that their wedding website has launched, even those who didn't receive a hand-delivered, card stock invitation to the May 19 fete can laud or mock the couple's choices--like having their teenage children form the entire wedding party. Certainly nothing can go wrong there!

Since both have been married before, the couple decided to hold their nuptials at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, with reception to follow at the Palace Hotel where they both live along with their children. Now the only question is, who will object to this most unholy matrimony and halt the ceremony in its tracks?

Will it be Bart's son Chuck, who has not-so-secretly been lusting after Lily's daughter Serena since he tried to seduce her with a truffle-oil grilled cheese? Or will it be Serena's boyfriend's father, who has carried a torch for Lily since before her four previous marriages?

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Gossip Girl: Now You Know How Vanessa Hudgens Feels

May 6, 2008 at 8:46 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Previously: Serena made nice with Georgina while Blair made nice with her main Yale competition. Boring, weird Vanessa hooked up with pretty Nate. And Jenny's new love interest Asher may make her feel less hatred for Blair. Meanwhile, we hoped for a Cinco de Mayo-themed episode just in time for "somebody" to come out.

So, this is the episode we've all been waiting for, where "someone comes out." Well, if you hadn't read all the spoilers, it was Eric van der Woodsen, who met a nice boy named Asher when he was in the psychiatric hospital. When Asher got out he would still make out with Eric, but he wanted a beard so he picked up sweet little Jenny.

Unfortunately, Jenny only finds all this out at the Upper East Side party she throws with Asher's help--and only because Blair steals Asher's phone and sends all his private texts to Gossip Girl. J throws in the towel and resigns herself to being a Brooklyn outcast, outclassed at last.

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Gossip Girl Travel: He Broke up with Me at a Flo Rida Concert!

April 29, 2008 at 8:30 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Previously, on "Gossip Girl": Jenny got herself in a whole heap o' trouble when, in a battle royale with Blair for social dominance, she stole a friend's mom's made-to-order Valentino. Also, Chuck and Serena experienced family-blending pains and S. got mysterious packages of evil from "G."

Time to take the SATs, lucky juniors! Too bad life always gets in the way of standardized testing. For Serena, it's the resurfacing of an old friend, Georgina ("Buffy" actress Michelle Trachtenberg), who claims her scandalous packages were just meant to make S. laugh, and who wants her to go out like they used to in the week before the big test.

Serena is understandably wary of this new development, which is why she refuses to tell Dan what's going on and instead confides in stepbrother Chuck. When S. tries to exhibit some restraint, G. roofies her the night before her Scantron of Doom, and she misses the SAT. Good thing Chuck thought to hire someone to take the test for her...

Oh well, it's not like anyone else was paying attention to their studies this week.

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Gossip Girl: Hey, Who Turned 12?

April 22, 2008 at 9:00 AM | by egw | 1 Comment

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Previously, on "Gossip Girl": Blair, faced with social exile and the abandonment of both her boys, contemplated fleeing the country, but Serena talked her down, 'cause what's life without frenemies? Also, Serena's boyfriend Dan told her he loves her, and nothing terrible happened! Also, we missed this show for three months and cried in our rooms with nothing but Oreo Cakesters to sustain us, and now we are out of sample sizes. Thank God, we're back.

Jenny's 15th birthday is coming up, and what would be more proper than a drunken revel at Socialista? Trouble is, Jenny has no money left for fancy dinners and she's hocked everything that's hockable, so she decides to steal a red dress out of a lackey's apartment.

When she finds out the dress--a $50,000 custom Valentino--has been missed, Jenny tries to buy it back but can't afford its new elevated price, so she steals it out of the consignment shop... and walks right into a surprise party Blair spitefully organized to show all of J's friends how their new queen really lives. But she wins the crowd back by showing up at Butter on the arm of--no way!--Blair's ex-boyfriend Nate!

That's gotta burn for Blair, who is victimized by her former crowd earlier (yogurt thrown on her head, a table of no-shows at Butter) and has a "Breakfast at Tiffany's"-themed nightmare about a lost Cat. Her best friend-slash-enemy Serena helps her survive the post-Spring Break return to school, but La Van Der Woodson has problems of her own. After the jump, find out what they are...

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Gossip Girl Season Finale: "Have Fun Playing With Yourself"

January 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM | by egw | 1 Comment

We were hoping for a big, big episode of "Gossip Girl" to cap this strike-truncated season, and boy, we weren't disappointed. It was both beautiful and awful--just like Chuck's sweater up there. (Seriously, does someone in the costume department have it in for Ed Westwick? Last week he had a fricking mock turtleneck on.)

Anyways, this was the week that all the remaining secrets shook out of our friends' pockets. Gossip Girl caught Serena buying a pregnancy test, but she actually bought it for Blair, whose season-long dalliances with two men finally made it onto GG as well (thanks to Chuck). Not surprisingly, she is not pregnant, but even the rumor causes lots of fallout for both of them: Nate effectively dumps Blair, Chuck tells her she's no longer attractive to him because she isn't "beautiful, delicate and untouched" anymore (pig!) and Jenny and the rest of her underlings overthrow her as Queen B.

Blair's about to run off to France for the rest of the year, but Serena convinces her to stay and fight in a sweet reverse-"Casablanca" moment.

The Humphrey family B-plot? Rufus accidentally sees the photo of Serena buying the test and attempts to have The Talk with Dan, dissuading him from getting too serious with Serena. "Don't listen to him! He's old and alone," says Jenny, astutely. Dan decides to tell Serena he loves her, but when he finally does, she says, "What?" (Note to the 2.8 boys reading this: Please don't take advantage of a pregnancy scare to do this! First, we've seen this happen in every other show just like you have. Second, we're probably contemplating becoming nuns. XOXO, Jaunted Girl.)

We don't have a Prep of the Ep this week, but we'd like to give a special shout-out to the Super-Close Siblings of "Gossip Girl." So what if Serena's brother Eric listens to her conversations, so long as she can offer sage advice? And Jenny's the one who pressed Dan to tell Serena again that he loves her, instead of just leaving it at "I blurted it out because I thought you were with child." How odd that two fractured families should produce kids who are loyal to each other. Maybe Blair would have been better off with a brother?

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Gossip Girl, Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

January 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Apparently winter break just wasn't enough for our favorite prepsters to get the friskies out. In "School Lies," this week's episode of "Gossip Girl," our heroes are having an illicit pool party at school featuring shots and bikinis (except on Serena, who sports the most awful Mom suit ever).

It's all fun and games till somebody gets knocked out, and two-thirds of the junior class is suddenly on in-school suspension till somebody 'fesses up. Chuck finds the key to the pool and tries to blackmail Blair with it, because she still hasn't completely broken things off with Nate. (He finds Vanessa much easier to blackmail.)

Nate finds the key in Blair's dresser during a "We're Suspended, Yay!" party and tells the stern new headmistress he did it, but she doesn't believe him. Yet Blair finds the gesture romantic and makes out with him anyway.

Meanwhile, Dan's worried about his future.

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2007 Awards: Best Jaunted Map Mashup

December 31, 2007 at 11:00 AM | by Jaunted | 2 Comments

We love tracking the Amazing Race, and this year brought us not one but two seasons. But the mashup that took the interwebs by storm in '07 was our Gossip Girl Map.

All credit due to Cecily von Ziegesar, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage for turning New York City into the character of the show. With Dan, Serena, Blair, Nate and the rest of the team running all around town, we never ran low on places to map. Here's hoping the TV writers' strike doesn't kill the show before we get the chance to plot a few more of Chuck Bass' favorite spots.

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"Gossip Girl", You've Been Naughty This Year

December 20, 2007 at 1:00 PM | by egw | 0 Comments

This is our last episode of "Gossip Girl" this year, and what a long, immaculately accessorized trip it's been. It's a little bittersweet since next year will bring but two more episodes of the show we love--and love to hate.

It's Christmas Eve, and possibly only "Gossip Girl" is getting what she wants this year. Instead of getting hours of doting attention from her runaway father, Blair gets to entertain him and his model boyfriend Roman on an awkward family ice-skating outing. (They could've used our tips!) At least mom Eleanor gets a new rich boyfriend out of it--who promptly sleeps over on Christmas Eve.

Serena and Dan have a competition to see who can come up with the best $50 gift; Serena wins, but Dan wins too, because her gift is hot sex after-hours in Rufus' gallery surrounded by fake snow. But poor Rufus finally acknowledges his wife Allison is a drag on the series and proclaims his love via voicemail to Lily, while she's getting proposed to... by Chuck's dad?!

We may be a little WASPy, but we think there's been a little too much marryin' talk on the show recently, between the attempted selling of Blair and every adult in the series desperately needing that fifth divorce. So we're going to hand this Prep of the Ep to Serena, because despite her sketchy, only-alluded to past, she's become the re-ingenued girl we're rooting for.

Serena's fake snow scene was incredibly cheesy, but in that warm, "Love, Actually" sort of way. She doesn't even suspect Vanessa--whose gift to Dan was entering him in a New Yorker fiction contest, which of course he wins--of having designs on her man. What can we say? We're cheesy and it's Christmas.

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"Gossip Girl" Wintry Mix

December 13, 2007 at 4:30 PM | by egw | 0 Comments

There was no new episode of "Gossip Girl" this week, but judging by this photo taken in the GAP Tidings Truck, the dress-up platform we've spotted in Chelsea, the cast is spending its off time getting closer than the high school kids they play on TV. Blake, Ed, Penn and Leighton may fight on screen, but they're just tickled to chill on a prop couch.

Curiously missing from the above picture is Chace Crawford, who has been spotted with Leighton (Blair Waldorf) all over town in amorous spots like the Beatrice Inn. Leighton claims they're just good friends, and she did attended a Los Angeles charity event, the Teddy Bear Ball, with Chace and Blake. (Besides, we hear Chace was cozying up to Rumer Willis at the GQ Men of the Year party.) Maybe what those nosy viewers saw out on the town was an episode being filmed!

If you have a "Gossip Girl" fan in your life, think about picking her out some clothes as seen on the show from the CW's Website. Once you've dropped from shopping, refuel with the Serena sandwich at the Palace Hotel--yep, the same thing Chuck used to try and seduce Ms. van der Woodson in the pilot. And as for that New York Observer story faulting "Gossip Girl" for enticing non-New Yorkers to move here... Come on! It's not like we all picked up and moved to "The O.C." in 2003--or "Dallas" in 1978.

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"Gossip Girl" Recap: Lonelyboy Versus the Blueblood

December 6, 2007 at 3:30 PM | by egw | 4 Comments

Visit our Gossip Girl Map to check out the sites featured on last night's episode, "Hi, Society."

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Serena who didn't want to go to the ball. When her evil fairy grandmother came into town and said she might be dying (even though she totally wasn't), Serena agreed to go. But Evil Fairy Grandma wasn't satisfied until she had told off Brooklyn peasant boyfriend Dan and tried to buy off Dan's father Rufus to keep his son from her granddaughter.

Serena secretly wants to take off a year after high school and teach in Southeast Asia; in Grandma's version, she has two kids and volunteers with the Nature Conservancy. (As Blair says, "Oh, stop it, you sound like me!") Serena ends up being forced to attend the ball with a newly reformed Carter Baizen, with whom Serena was once involved and was last seen scamming Nate in an illegal poker game.

Nate won't let that slide, especially when Chuck puts it in his head that Carter is Blair's new lover. Of course, Chuck is really her lover, but not for long; Blair ditches her debutante-ball date, Prince Theodore (!), to go with Nate "as friends," and then makes out with him after he decks Carter.

Meanwhile, Alison Humphrey has a gallery opening and Jenny skips it to go to the ball, like we all knew she would.

Boy, we thought Lily van der Woodson was evil until we met her mother, which is why Evil Fairy Grandma CeCe is our Prep of the Ep this week. Not only did she almost jeopardize our perfect young couple, she forced the young, wild Lily to choose between Rufus and her inheritance. With a matriarch like this, who needs moms?

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