Hey There Gasmii!
I just want to thank you all so much for choosing me to be your new Gossip Girl recapper! I am so excited, and I intend to put my best foot forward so that I can provide you all with an acceptable (and hopefully humorous) take on one of my personal favorite shows. This week we have pain and heartache all around, but luckily Halloween is just around the corner, and as everyone knows, chocolate cures anything and everything. More, after the jump!
We are first introduced to the main plot of this episode, through one of Blair (whom I like to refer to as "Queen Bee)'s dreams. Er, should I say "nightmares"? It's a warped reenactment of All about Eve where Vanessa is Eve, and is being awarded with a trophy for Best Freshman Activist, or something equally as ridiculous, and Queen Bee is Margo Channing. You know, Vanessa looks damn good in this nightmare; she's wearing an actual dress that doesn't consist of some appalling, brightly pronounced pattern, and her accessories don't look as though she secretly raided the Hannah Montana costume closet. We also see that she seems to have had a visit from the wonderful Weave Fairy, because her extensions are in check at the moment. Nice.
Queen Bee awakens in a panic, obviously haunted by the idea of a well put together Vanessa. She recounts her nightmare to a silk-robed Chuck (or "King Bass") who points out that All about Eve is not a Hepburn movie. Blair is troubled by the fact that she was Bette Davis. She is NEVER Bette Davis, she is always Audrey Hepburn. What could this mean for our dark-haired heroine? Is her subconscious telling her that her time in the spotlight is almost up? King Bass assures her that although her nightmare represents her obvious reservations about her place in NYU social scene, one day she will hold the school in the palm of her hand.
We then cut to Nate speaking on the phone to a councilman about his cousin Tripp's campaign for Congress. In the background we see Serena walking through the hallway searching for him. One might question why none of the staffers ask her what the hell she's doing there, but I'm sure that they've all learned to stay silent about the various scantily clad girls entering and exiting the offices, and they've also learned to feign ignorance unless they're offered a very large sum to go public with what they know. Sigh. If politics were a person it would be a dirty old bastard.
"Yeah...I wouldn't worry so much about that..."
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Comments (7)
Good recap, especially the observations about the switching Toast leaders. I love that everyone calls Vanessa WonderWeave (TM). At the same time, Jessica S has gorgeous hair, but for some reason, either because she's from 'downtown' or because she's a hippie, the makeup artists deliberately give her the worst hair styles that make it look absolutely fake. Have they ever dealt with textured hair? Even so, considering Vanessa has spent almost two years with upper eastsiders and is now on her first year of college (when girls start to discover makeup), you'd think they'd stop giving her those terrible hairstyles. Even a 12-year-old can flat iron better than what they give her -
1 of 7 | Posted by anicho01 | Posted on October 26, 2009 10:28 AM
Okayyy, not even done reading the recap yet, but just had to stop to profess my love for you and this show. Love love LOVE that you hate Dan, LOVE the Kristen Stewart comment, and above all, LOVE the fact that you noticed what a slutty, slutty dress Serena was wearing. Okay now back to business...
2 of 7 | Posted by dudeIrock | Posted on October 26, 2009 7:25 PM
Okay, finished now. Loved the rest of the recap too. Why the hell were Lily and Rufus at the dinner/toast? Whaaaa-? And I miss Eric, when will he get a storyline? Although, he'd have to get in line behind Nate....
3 of 7 | Posted by dudeIrock | Posted on October 26, 2009 7:43 PM
Before I read this recap, I was a bit disappointed that I didn't enter the auditiongasm for GG.
But after reading your recap (&& laughing my ass off), I am SO happy I didn't enter.
Your recap is amazing. I laughed so hard and you hate the same people I hate, so YES!
Great job!
4 of 7 | Posted by stranger1011017 | Posted on October 26, 2009 11:21 PM
Thanks so much everyone!!!
5 of 7 | Posted by Rocksmiles | Posted on October 27, 2009 11:27 AM
I was cracking up when you said that the reason Vanessa's dad didn't show is because they don't know what her ethnicity is!
I was so confused the whole time about why Rufus and Lily were at the freshman dinner, I figured they went to support Vanessa.
I didn't read the GG books...tell me all of Chuck's secrets!
6 of 7 | Posted by winks523 | Posted on October 28, 2009 1:40 PM
>>Does somebody want to start a "Bring Back Eric" campaign with me? He seriously needs to be in more than one scene an episode. It will be great! We can have Nate head it up...
I nearly fell off my chair laughing! Love the subtle (and not so subtle) humor in your writing. Where does Nate gets all this free time to be running political campaigns and dating CW tv rejects? Isn't he suppose to be going to Columbia? I agree, he should go back to doing what he does best, looking pretty...or try and hook up with Jenny again. But then again, standing next to her and the ghoulish make-up would only increase the hotness factor.
7 of 7 | Posted by martiny59 | Posted on October 29, 2009 2:10 PM