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Hey Upper East Siders, Got A Better Spinoff Idea?

Don't do it! Normally we love more of a good thing, but we just can't get behind the planned "Gossip Girl" spinoff as it was revealed to the press this week.

The CW has been fending off rumors about a spinoff of the attention-getting but ratings-challenged show about Upper East Side teenagers, but the race was on after it was leaked that one of the nine major characters would be involved. And they will, just not in this era: The new show, as yet untitled, will feature the characters of Lily and Rufus as they were in their freewheelin' teen years, about which we know that Rufus was a musician, Lily was a ballerina/party girl and (spoiler for this week's episode!) at some point they had a kid.

The benefit of this new series is that a "backdoor pilot" wouldn't really be necessary--we've already heard about their supposedly legendary love affair in the late '80s. The drawback is, we're tired of Lily and Rufus already--even though this week's episode saw them go from about to be happy at last (now that Lily's husband has kicked it) to forever doomed.

Taylor Momsen's Jenny Humphrey was previously considered as the leading candidate, since in the books Jenny goes off to boarding school (and snags a YA series of her own called "The It Girl"). That would have solved what to do with her now that she has dropped out of school, lost her internship and seen her collection destroyed. In the comments, give us your pitch for a "Gossip Girl" spinoff, bearing in mind that Dorota already got her own Webisodes.

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· This Week's Gossip Girl Episode [Jaunted]
· 'Gossip Girl' spinoff in development [Variety.com]
· Details of the "Gossip Girl" spinoff released [FOX News]
· Gossip Girl webisodes to feature... Dorota [Jaunted]

[Photo of Lily and Rufus from last year's season finale: Daemons TV]

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I'll Hold Back Your Hair

Previously: Bart was rushing to reclaim his wifey at the ball, where Blair and Chuck were concluding again that they can't be together and Serena and Dan were reminiscing about their first night together. Lily had just decided to leave him when...

We all mourn in our own ways. While Bart Bass, who had "more towers than Trump, more bucks than Bloomberg," merited both the front page of the New York Journal and the news box on Gossip Girl, he apparently didn't rate a tearful hospital scene. Instead, we dip into the Upper East Side apartments where the grieving is being done, in whatever forms it takes. Lily's mom CeCe is drinking gin with breakfast, Blair is actually eating something (bagels and lox with Cyrus, specifically) and Lily is running a zillion errands, including sneaking off into the park to meet Rufus. "I'm waiting for you this time," Rufus says. "Six months, six years, I'll be here."

And a super-wasted Chuck meets with the private investigator who, if he was in the accident with Bart, escaped with nary a scratch. He's angry at Lily, because "Bitch is the reason my father is dead," but the PI still has one secret left to sell about Lily and the hospital--and before he died, Bart left her a voicemail confirming that he knew.

At the funeral, Dan and Aaron decide to compete over who's better for Serena. Jenny shows up to support Eric (his ex-boyfriend shows later), and Nate shows up to literally support Chuck, who is drunk and throws Dan out and yells at Lily, "Don't touch me, whore."

We don't see the actual funeral, but at the wake, Cyrus decides he can't wait any longer to marry Eleanor (and Jenny happens to be around in time to offer to make a suit for a ceremony the night after). Aaron buys Serena a ticket to Buenos Aires for Christmas but she's not sure she wants to go. (Look, no one turns down a free trip to Argentina. We'd even go with Creepy Aaron.) And Lily slaps Chuck after he says Bart's blood is on her hands.

Before the wedding, Dan finally gets up the nerve to ask Serena not to go to Argentina with her boyfriend, but it's too late--and Serena already knows that Lily's in love with Rufus and feels they deserve to be together. And in this ceremony, there are no surprises... except the presence of this bridesmaid:

DOROTA!!!! Is there anything she can't do?

After brushing off Blair's plea that she loves him, Chuck won the bidding war for Lily's secret after CeCe refused to bid. Lily comes to confront Chuck about it and beg him not to damage her last chance at happiness.

At long last, he decides to burn the report. Thank goodness there are copies somewhere. And... finally! He goes to Blair, not because he's drunk or because someone else has her, but because he knows she truly loves him. But he doesn't stay, for that is the Way of the Chuck.

CeCe goes to see Rufus in Brooklyn and tells him "the real problem" is that Lily needs to tell him the secret before they can be happy. Once he finds out, he tells Dan, "I will never be with Lily." Rufus even goes to meet her in Grand Central Station to say to her, "Just tell me one thing. Is it a boy or a girl?"

We too are in mourning, for this is likely the last new "Gossip Girl" before 2009. Till then, we'll be whipping up some things for our couture lines and looking for Chuck's burlesque club. You know you love us... XOXO, Jaunted.

One-Liners of the Week:

"Nobody's comforted by a tuna tower!" - Lily

"You think I care about your failed attempt at investigative journalism?" - Chuck, to Dan

"I've just spent too much time with Cyrus and I'm turning Jewish." - Blair, on why she feels the need to comfort Chuck

"So I guess the first time we'll sleep together will be on an airplane." - Creepy Aaron (who else?)

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· Two Weeks Ago: You Have A Family That Fights For You [Jaunted]
· Gossip Girl Map [Jaunted]

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Gossip Girl Hiatus Travel: What They're Doing on Their Summer Vacation

We spotted E getting cozy with his TV mom and Little J at the ballet, and now The CW Source reports the "Gossip Girl" cast is taking on more movie projects than their characters take expensive vacations.

Blake Lively has been filming in Connecticut with Robin Wright Penn, but on screen she's in Greece with her three best friends in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" (out in August).

Matthew Settle, who plays her ex's dad, Rufus, is in Austin, Texas playing a bad ex-boyfriend to Joey Lauren Adams in the comedy "The Ex-Terminators."

And mysterious Chuck (Ed Westwick) is filming the dreaded sequel to "Donnie Darko," "S. Darko," in an undisclosed location. Hey, let's go look for him in our seersucker blimp! Martinis for everyone!

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· Multiple Movies for Gossip Girl Group [The CW Source]
· Visiting the Gossip Girl Set [HC]
· Gossip Girl coverage [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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