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Meanwhile, Nate's Thanksgiving isn't going much better. At dinner it's just Nate, Cappy McDouche and his useless wife because Blair disinivited the family after the breakup. Nate's mom is passive aggressively taunting Cappy for ruining her entire social life until Nate interjects and tells her that being a huge bitch isn't going to help anything. But Cappy isn't too thrilled with his son's defense, and asks Nate to let him fight his own battles. Disgusted with the both of them, Nate storms off, and goes to a nearby park to pout and debate calling either Blair or Serena. This would have been a perfect opportunity to get Chuck in this episode, but no. Realizing that neither one girl will be too happy to hear from him, he gives up and just walks home. When he arrives, his mother bitches at him for a moment about him walking out on dinner, but Nate cuts her off when he sees Cappy sprawled on the ground, unconscious. Anyone else hoping he's dead?

I don't care that it's Thanksgiving, Jim. I need an 8-ball now!

Well, he's not. Nate and his mother are at the hospital and we learn that Cappy took a bunch of painkillers and chased them down with some whiskey. Mother and son begin fighting, with mom insisting that it's not her fault Cappy's a crazed workaholic since her daddy has lots of money and gave her and Cappy everything - the house, the boat, the cars, etc. Hmm, maybe that's exactly the problem, you idiot.

Serena by this point has gone over to Blair's, dealt with Blair's tears, and convinced her to get out of her apartment and away from her controlling mother. Serena takes her back to Dan's, and they walk in on the threesome fighting about the alleged makeout session between Lily and Rufus. Serena accurately notes that there's a weird vibe in the room, and takes Blair with her to find the kids, who are sitting around in a bedroom debating if any of them could be related in ways they didn't know of before. They fill Serena and Blair in on what's going on, and Serena is grossed out while Blair is cheered up that someone's Thanksgiving is worse than hers. No one mentions that Blair and Jenny are supposed to hate each other - yet another plot thread dropped for this Very Special episode. The group decides to sneak out to a diner so they can finish eating.

Who else has business before his majesty, King Dan the Gay?

Back to the parents, Mrs. Humps is insisting that Rufus make a choice between her nasty protruding cheekbones and Lily. She tells him that if he wants a chance of making it work between them, he can't talk or see Lily in any way. Yes, that's the best way to keep your man - cheat on him, then show flagrant insecurity masked behind ultimatums and threats. We don't see Rufus's decision, but rather we see Lily arriving alone at the diner. Dan, Jenny, and Blair excuse themselves, but as Blair's leaving, she quietly thanks Serena and mentions that she's going to talk to her doctor. So it sounds like Blair did tell Serena that she's bulimic and that she had a binge today, even though we never heard that conversation. Strange. Lily sits down and it looks like this dirty little secret won't hurt her relationship with her kids - instead it may just make her Cool Mom.

Blair's back home and she finds Eleanor standing alone in the kitchen. Eleanor apologizes for lying about Gay Dad, and admits that she lied because he had sent her divorce papers that she can't bring herself to sign. Eleanor finally shows some emotion (bitchy does not count) by beginning to cry a little bit about the destruction of her marriage, and Blair reaches up and wraps her in a hug. But Blair has to jump away when the tears leak into Eleanor's circuitry and start making little frying sounds.

Nate goes to Cappy's hospital room, and gently confronts his father on the fact that a Dartmouth man would not be stupid enough to "accidentally" take a whiskey-Vicodin cocktail. Cappy somewhat admits that he did attempt to kill himself, because he feels so useless. With a spoiled, rich wife with a generous daddy, it does somewhat emasculate the husband and make it hard for him to get the self-worth that many men get from providing for their family. At least that's my crackpot psychiatry musings for the day. And now he can add "botched suicide attempt" to his list of failures, right under "being a good dad" and "being a good person."

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