Sorry this is late everyone! (I was in the Animal ER with my pup all day yesterday, sadly). This week, we’ll just do a truncated version, and next week we’ll return to our regularly scheduled GG recap programming.

Blair as the Evil Queen

Basically, Serena is a total mess. She’s starting an affair with Tripp, just because she can. You have to remember she is very very bored– no school, no job— and very, very lonely– boyfriend Carter Baizon’s already been gone a week ( a WHOLE week!!).  Essentially the girl has yet to learn about any sort of restraint with that coltish body of hers. Adding insult to injury,  she rushes to Nate to talk about the tension between herself and the young Congressman- for two reasons. 1) as she admits “she doesn’t have anyone else to go to” because girls like Serena don’t have any friends. 2) She’s one of those girls who like to make men miserable. She knows Nate still has feelings for her, so she’s going to torture him by wagging her lusty feelings about Trip in Nate’s face. And Nate falls for it. Boys.are.so.stupid.

Nate’s problem-solving works like this: He wants to get S drunk. S, of course, obliges (because she has nothing else to do). So Nate and S end up at the Brandy Library, where Nate confesses he still has feelings for her, and calls her “beautiful and alive” aka “hot and recklessly slutty.” Serena is so used to compliments she just kind of purrs “aw,” at Nate, kinda like she pities him. Still, when he leans in for a kiss, she doesn’t immediately pull back, and that’s when Tripp walks in. Tripp is ready to get drunk and more than ready to do bad things with S because he found out his wife Maureen was behind the “Hudson Hero” incident. Because of this, he tells Nate he can never trust her again, nor does he ever want to talk to her again. But really, he’s psyched for an out and an excuse to have an affair with Serena. Also to be noted: while Serena doesn’t show her usual overload of cleavage in this ep, she’s rocking some long taupe dragon lady press on nails that are fairly horrifying.

At the Brandy Library

While Dan might have had fun in his threesome, it’s definitely wreaking havoc in its aftermath. When Olivia comes back to the dorm and sees V for the first time since that night, the girls kind of act like kitties in heat. V tells Olivia that she’s got plans with Dan to see Morrissey that night, and Olivia immediately scraps that and says she entered Dan in some sort of short play/cabaret competition for Tisch to get into their playwrite department. When Olivia says to V; “Sorry about Morrissey,” she really means, “He’s mine, bitch.”

So V runs to Dan, and because his love for her is re-kindled after the threesome, he decides to give her the director’s chair for the night so she’s not left out. Really quickly– Blair is using Dan’s play as another effort to rule the school– she’ll play the Queen in the Snow White-inspired play, and hopes to wow everyone by getting them into a private Lady Gaga rehearsal. (The Blair we love and know would never resort to such lackluster child-like games, but it is fun to see Blair playing dress up the whole episode so we’ll let it go). So when Blair, who’s playing the Evil Aging Pop Queen to Olivia’s Rising Snow White Pop Star, finds out that V is going to be involved, she moans “Nooo,” because she doesn’t want their cat fight getting in the way of her performance. It doesn’t–because when Hilary doesn’t show up for her cue because she’s pissed at Dan, Blair shoves V onstage for the kiss between Snow White and the Record Company Prince (Dan).

Gaga does her GG thing

After the show, Blair leads everyone over to the Lady Gaga rehearsal (it’s an amazing, if blase, performance of “Bad Romance” with Gaga working everything she has with only a ladder and a red sheet). Olivia’s there, and she tells Dan she’s leaving to do a movie called “Bitches of Eastwick.” She tells Dan it’s not V who’s necessarily in love with Dan, but more the other way around. V comes up and interrupts (like always) and confirms this– she says she has absolutely no feelings for Dan (although the flashback of her shoving Olivia off of Dan and climbing on top of him during the threesome doesn’t really support that). She then runs to the side of the (most likely gay) play director.

Chuck has a high ranking diplomat staying at his popular new hotel, and he pawns the guy’s son off on Little J for a tour of NYC. Sullenly, Jenny takes a guest-starring Kevin Zeggers around town, and while a lot of people think Zeggers is hot in sort of a B-list Zac Efron way, I have to beg to differ. He appears to be wearing bronzer and he’s shorter than Little J. No thanks. But Jenny soon finds herself intrigued– the guy’s an international drug dealer, and she likes the smell of danger. However, when “Damien” takes Little J to a club for a drug deal, Uncle Chuck Bass comes to the rescue. He takes the ecstacy pill out of Little J’s hand (she looked so pissed) and tells Damien that he and  his dad are out of the hotel and he better not see them again. When Damien retorts, Chuck gets in his face. “I’m Chuck Bass, even Europeans know what that means,” he says. And somehow, of course, it works.

Kevin Zeggers guest stars

When Chuck tells Little J to stay away from “Damien,” he should know better– of course it only makes her like the sleazy drug dealer more.

Next up: Thanksgiving dinner, with Maureen discovering Tripp and Serena’s affair. And next week, too, we promise a much better recap:)

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