■ GOSSIP GIRL PILOT BEST QUOTES
- Serena: Well, you can't be worse than the guys I do know.
- Rufus: Maybe if musicians got off their blogs and picked up their guitars, the music business would be in better shape.
- Jenny: So we should just be anonymous losers who eat lunch alone and never get invited to parties?
Dan: Works for me.
- Serena: You know my mom, if it's not broke, break it.
- Rufus: Well, you are in my dreams, Lily. And one of them particular occurs finding you in the back of a Nine Inch Nails bus with your shoes in your earrings and Trent Reznor... oh, that happened!
- Blair: Great. So my dad left her for another man, she lost 15 pounds, got an eye-lift, it's been good for her.
- Chuck: Look, easy, Socrates. What we're entitled to is a trust fund... maybe a house in the Hamptons, a prescription drug problem. Happiness does not seem to be on the menu. So smoke up and seal the deal with Blair... 'cause you're also entitled to tab that ass.
- Chuck: You know, if you really want to thank me, I've got a few ideas...
- Gossip Girl: And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell ... you know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl.
- Gossip Girl: Spotted: Serena making an heroic exit from B's party. Too bad for her there is school on Monday. So until next time ... you know you love me, Gossip Girl.
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| ■ GOSSIP GIRL PILOT BEST MOMENTS AND BIGGEST SHOCKERS
- Serena comes back. No one knows why, not even her best friend Blair who hasn't been in touch with her at all.
- Serena actually returned because her younger brother Eric attempted suicide.
- Blair is icy at best when it comes to Serena, and she makes it clear that Serena is not invited to her "Kiss on the Lips" party.
- Chuck tries to take advantage of freshman Jenny, but she manages to send an SOS text to Dan who, along with Serena, comes to rescue Jenny.
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| ■ GOSSIP GIRL PILOT RELATIONSHIP DRAMA
- Blair wants to "seal the deal" with Nate, but he doesn't seem all that into it (especially now that Serena's back.)
- Nate thinks Serena is back for him, but she is quick to tell him he is, in fact, not. That he and Blair are together, and that's how it should be.
- Nate confesses to Blair that he and Serena slept together before she left for boarding school. Blair ends up forgiving Nate, but not Serena.
- Serena, desperate for an excuse to give to her mother about not attending the "Kiss on the Lips" party, tells Lily that she and Dan (who is currently standing next to her) have plans. Thus, Dan gets a date with his dream girl.
- It turns out Lily and Rufus (Dan's father) have a romantic history with each other. Because of this, Lily is not thrilled with the idea of Serena and Dan dating.
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| ■ GOSSIP GIRL PILOT SYNOPSIS
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| | The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan's Upper East Side first learn that Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants") is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives -- from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. No one knows Gossip Girl's identity, but everyone in this exclusive and complicated vicious circle relies on her website and text messages for the latest scoop. Even Serena's closest friend, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester, "Entourage"), is surprised to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. Once the Upper East Side's most notorious party girl, Serena's reasons for returning are mysterious, although they may have something to do with her younger brother Eric (Connor Paolo, "Alexander"). Whatever the reasons, the change in Serena is obvious, especially to Blair, whose friendship with Serena has always been competitive and difficult. | The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan's Upper East Side first learn that Serena van der Woodsen is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives; from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. No one knows Gossip Girl's identity, but everyone in this elite and vicious circle relies on her text messages for the latest scoop.
Everyone is surprised to learn that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. The most astonished is definitely Blair, Serena's closest friend. As Gossip Girl says "Sure they're BFF's but we've always thought that Blair's boyfriend Nate has a thing for Serena." Ouch. Anyway, someone else is back in town and it turns out they're siblings, just come back from a weekend spent with their mother: Dan and Jenny Humphrey, whose middle-background keeps them on the fringes of the Upper East Side exclusive world. But, fresh news... freshman Jenny has been invited to Blair's party, better known as the 'Kiss on the Lips' party, as payment for addressing all the invitations.
While Blair is definitely eager to 'seal the deal' with Nate since they've been dating since kindergarten, the boy looks less enthusiastic. And, even Howie, Nate's father, insists that Blair is right - and rich - enough to be the perfect romantic choice for him and this pressure makes their relationship less than solid. Serena's return doesn't exactly help either, although Serena is quick to tell Nate that he is not the reason she returned, much to his dismay.
Actually, the real reason behind Serena's abrupt return is very different. Her younger brother, Eric, recently tried to take his own life. Fortunately, he was unsuccessful but the attempt landed him in a psychiatric institution... And judging by the smiley Eric, the hospital is definitely a warmer home than the magazine-perfect van der Woodsen estate. Amazingly, no one has gotten wind of this oh-so-delicious gossip... not even the highly informed 'Gossip Girl'. Status-conscious Lillian van der Woodsen chose to hide the shameful news of her son's illness, rather than admit her own maternal inadequacies. Serena confronts Lillian about it but her glacial mother points out: "So it's not like you've been gone doing God knows what with God knows who." Serena swears boarding school wasn't like that but her mother doesn't seem to get her point.
The 'Kiss on the Lips' party is approaching and Serena isn't happy to find out she is "kind of not invited." Yep, it turns out Blair enjoyed being the Queen Bee while Serena was gone and now that she is back Blair wants to make sure Serena understands that things have definitely changed. Serena doesn't seem happy about Blair's behaviour and tells her she wants to talk to her. Later the two girls have a heart-to-heart and manage to bridge the distance caused by Serena's self-imposed exile. Unfortunately their fledgling friendship collapses changes when a guilt-stricken Nate confesses to Blair what happened between him and Serena before she left. Sex, of course. Blair is less than thrilled but she ends up forgiving Nate... But Serena? Not so much.
Lillian buys her daughter a dress for the party, but Serena informs her she isn't planning to go there since she already has plans. With who? Well, with Dan, who conveniently happened to be nearby. When Lillian walks away, Dan starts to get going too but Serena tells him he can pick her up at eight. Dan is quite surprised, but Serena points out that a guy she doesn't know can't be worse than the ones she did know.
Lillian stops by Rufus' so-called gallery art. Rufus happens to be Dan and Jenny's father. It turns out there was something between Lillian and Rufus when they were young. Lillian informs him that her daughter is dating his son; she hopes Rufus is not using her daughter as an excuse to start something, now that his wife left him. Rufus suggests that maybe that's actually her own ploy. Lillian assures him this is just his own dream and orders him to stay away from her life.
It's Kiss on the Lips Party and Jenny can't believe she is actually there. Meanwhile, Dan and Serena are having a nice time. At the party, Chuck, Nate's friend, tries to take advantage of Jenny, who discreetly sends a text message to Dan, claiming she needs help.
Serena and Dan rush to the party. They find Jenny on the roof caught in the clutches of Chuck whose hands are, well, everywhere. Dan punches Chuck and Serena screams at him to never touch Jenny again. As they leave a humiliated Chuck screams a warning to Serena, letting threatening to let the whole school know what happened between her and Nate on that long ago night. Serena, Dan and Jenny take a cub and drive away, under Blair and Chuck's not-very-sympathetic eyes.
As Gossip Girl says "Spotted Serena making a heroic exit from B's party. Too bad for her there's school on Monday". |
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