It’s the Holidays, ladies, so I don’t have the time, (nor, I’m sure do you!) for our normally scheduled Gossip Girl recaps. So let’s move forward with the most important points about the episode which begins with Serena and Tripp’s accident and then circles back through the proceeding 12 hours.

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Lily should wear her hair down more often.  She looks great in the thin cashmere sweater and flat bejeweled necklace.

Rufus sure upgraded fast from Brooklyn flannel to Park Ave husband zip cashmere sweaters. He is even gaining weight in his jowls from too many bonbons—when Lily asks him if he can go to the co-op meeting for her, he says he has the time, which obvs drives Lily crazy, cuz she’s all “I thought you would say that.” Rut row! Resting on your laurels is going to be your fastest way out of this marriage. Man up and get busy Rufus!

When Rufus does go to the co-op meeting like Lily’s lackey he meets a crazy lady who talks about her husband boffing his yoga instructor. We get it– pretty soon, Rufus is going to be boffing her.

Somewhere in the country in Long Island, Tripp and Serena are holed up hiding from the world, and Serena is hanging out in a really fabulous black silk nightgown that unfortunately goes great with her long blond tousled hair. Tripp is leaving under false pretenses—what he’s actually doing is rushing to see Maureen. What a tool, this guy didn’t even last 15 minutes into an episode after Serena “left everything” for him. When he meets up with Maureen, he looks like he’s headed to an interview to intern at “Horse and Hound.” Maureen is wearing a pill box hat that nods to Jackie O, but this lady is NO jackie, even though she later tells S “I’m Jackie, You’re Marilyn,” when she confronts her. Basically, Maureen is like, “I’m keeping you,” and Tripp has no backbone so he’s all like, “ok.” WEAK.

Little J is being a total B at school, and how she’s prancing about with a new bag—“Even the wait list is still waiting,” she says, and for some reason all the little Constance brats are color coordinated, like power rangers. I prefer it this way– I can’t be bothered with their names either, so now they’re just Purple, Blue, Pink, etc. The mole Eric sends in (a dead ringer for a mini Vanessa) who is wearing all green—tries to make J nervous that she got the bag too, but Jenny doesn’t take the bait. Jenny is all “I have designer dibs on everything.” She is a monster! Turns out Kevin Zeggers (the rich kid drug dealer) is hooking her up with the bags, AND she’s been doing a lil dealing on the side– she likes the rush. OK, color us…. mildly interested in this lil J subplot.

When Nate and Dan meet at the coffee shop and Nate’s tapping away at his computer, I’m so befuddled, I swear he must  just be playing Battleship. I have NEVER SEEN him on a computer before. He looks as legit as I did in typing class in 4th grade. On another note,  Nate should open his own 1-900 tipline. All he does is play phone therapist these days. Since when did he become the voice of all reason? That’s Uncle Chuck’s job.

Speaking of Uncle Chuck, he’s wrestling with the ghost of his father, Bart Bass, on this one year anniversary of his father’s death. Bart keeps showing up in his thoughts, and our tv screen, incredibly tan and over-the-top mean. And Chuck is drinking whiskey out of a stemless wine glass. Wrong, just wrong. Eventually, when the gang wants him to go to the hospital to be with Serena, he tells his father to leave him alone and returns to the darling Chuck we all know and love.

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Still pre-accident, listless Serena decides to call NATE from her gilded cottage  after Tripp leaves– because she’s bored. She makes all her disastrous decisions out of boredom. Anyway, they’re laughing like he didn’t just profess his love on the sidewalk and then watch her speed away in a limo with his nerdy skinny-fingered married cousin. Which he did just last week. Anyway, she’s calling because she’s looking for something to do and she knows he knows the Van der Bilt family cottage well. Then she says something inane about how she likes Fitzgerald over Hemingway–  but her delivery is so lifeless you get the feeling that Blake Lively was like “um, line? No way Serena knows who… ok forget it.” But she sure looks great in her riding pants. Too bad there’s no camisole under that plunging open sweater situation she’s wearing.

Maureen shows up at her cottage house and Serena is all “Maureen you have no right to be here.” Exqueeze me? You’re the 4 day old mistress… did you get in a car accident and hit your head? Oh, not yet. Well maybe when you do it’ll knock some sense into you.

OK… so then S and Tripp get in their car accident, with Serena dressed up like she’s one half of Bonnie and Clyde, and when Tripp realizes HE’S fine but she’s hurt, like the real man he is he calls Maureen for help, who tells him to put her in the driver’s seat and get the h-e- double hockey sticks out of there. And, now we have a nod to Chappaquidick! GG wants us to know, the Van der Bilts are the Kennedys. Got it.

At the hospital, Nate realizes what Tripp has done, and he tells Tripp to stay away from her, and then he punches Tripp, and it’s beautiful.

Meanwhile, Dan, who’s trying to pretend he doesn’t love Vanessa, ends up kissing this drama student after she shows him her performance art sex tape– she seems bat sh*& insane, and reminds me of a roommate I once had in the east village, who performed with baby turtles. But Dan soon scoots out of her room and joins  the conga line of Vanessa, Blair, et all head to the hospital–  in this scene, the GG gang resembles the 90210 gang more than ever.

Blair’s at the hospital is adorable in her adorable dressed-in-the-dark outfit consisting of a plaid scarf, hounds tooth jacket and pjs. She hugs S and S is all “You were right about this one.” Um, EVERYONE was right about this one. Blair sure got home from Paris fast, huh.

So Chuck is obviously really grieving, and the hospital is a really hard place for him, he has a flashback of his dad dying and I get really sad for him, because he starts to cry. I hate hospitals, too, Chuck. And he tells Blair he’s been pushing her away, and then she holds him and it’s just the best.  She’s all “you carry people, you carry me, you’re becoming a man in a way that your father never was.” And Chuck kinda says goodbye to his Dad in his head, at least the unlovable, mean parts about Bart Bass. It’s amazing. I LOVE these two! Start your own spin off already!

Jenny and Eric make up in about .4 seconds, so I don’t buy that. He’s all “Youre a total B,” and shes like “You’re an even bigger B!” And then they some how resolve all issues.

Maureen gives Rufus Serena’s letter, and it definitely has way too much dirt on Lily– which drives him to have a drink that night with the crazy rich lady from the building.

Dan tells V he loves her at the hospital, and she tries to brush it off  that he’s only saying it because Serena’s accident scared him about his own life. But I personally think she doesn’t want to get hurt by Dan again. Thoughts?

Nate watches over Serena as she sleeps, and she is SO LUCKY to be waking up to that lil angel face! I am loving Nate again, but DON’T want him with Serena. Still, we’re headed down that road so I’m just going to have to brace myself.

The last scene is Chuck taking roses to his father’s grave, and he sees who we can only guess is his mother crying over the tomb stone.

Also, fashion update: Serena’s amazing coat from last ep: it’s an “Adam Double Breasted Car Coat.” Isn’t it gorgeous? But don’t look at her face in this picture, it’ll drive you nuts.

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