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Meanwhile, in a car across the country in another decade, Lily, Carol, and the douche twins drive to some party while the girls have a heart to heart.

Carol: Fanny packs, Rubik's cubes, MTV, music videos!

Lily: What?

Carol: I'm reminding everyone we're in the 80s.

Lily: You're poor. You're supposed to be rich.

Carol: I don't want to be like Mom and Dad.

Lily: You abandoned me!

2009 Lily goes over to see Rufus and it turns into a therapy session. He inspires her to forgive her mother and her daughter as well as continue to pursue who she really is. Dr. Ruf is filled with so many insights like, "Our mistakes are ours alone to repeat...or correct." He really should start his own greeting card company. Maybe he'll have the time to do so since he and Lily are taking time apart.

1980s Lily and friends crash the party of some high falutin' music video director. This guy filmed their band's music video then raised his fees and is now holding the music video hostage. Because I'm sure the video is that good. Although I'm not sure how crashing the party is gonna help. DBF Owen is in charge of watching Lily. She heads for the bar to loosen up.

Serena and Dan make it to the prom. B embraces S, makes a snide remark to D, and then everyone dances like little kids at a wedding reception.

80s flashback! Lily learns how to do tequila shots with D-bag and they dance around to more 80s music. Carol is outside confronting the jerk music video director who happens to be...wait for it...Keith Van Der Woodsen. As in the future dad of Serena? Carol confronts him. Turns out they slept together even though he had a girlfriend. Her options for getting the music video back are a) pay him the money b) sleep with him again.

At this point Lily and Tweedle Dee and Dum are outside defending Carol. They start to leave, defeated, until Van Der Woodsen's girlfriend starts talking smack. Then all hell breaks lose and everyone starts swinging punches.

Back at the boring prom, Blair yells at Chuck because she caught him with a bunch of prom ballots and assumes he's set her up to lose. Little does she know he was up to something else. We wait with baited breath as the students are about to announce Prom King and Queen.

Blair and Nate won! "How?" you ask. Chuck voted for her 150 times.

Oh, and it turns out Chuck sabotaged all those other things (the messed up dress, etc) because he was creating the perfect night for her just like she planned in her scrapbook years ago. Barph. He even hands Serena a big ol' key to pass on to Blair. It's to the penthouse at the Plaza. I think we're all supposed to be rooting for Chuck at this point.

If this is the 80s, everyone's hair should be much, much bigger. Take teen Lily's mug shot for example.

Not nearly big enough.

And by the time she calls her mom from jail, the hair dressers gave up on the 80s theme completely.

Although, what they lack in big hair, they make up for in big phones.

Then they have the same mother-daughter conversations that Serena and Lily have had repeatedly. I need to find myself. I'm trying to be a good mother. Don't ruin your reputation. I don't want to be you, Mom. Moral of the story: we're all doomed to become our parents. Thanks, Gossip Girl. Now I'm depressed.

Lily takes her Rufus therapy to heart and flees to her mother's hotel to forgive her and hug her. They keep using the word "destiny" which is ridiculous. My mother and I have never had a conversation where we used that word unless we were talking about Destiny's Child and those talks are few and far between. Anyway, Lily and her mom give each other backhanded apologies. They embrace and you can almost hear the stone chipping away from their hearts. Or not.

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