'Gossip Girl' recap: Jenny vs. Blair
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Oh, little J., little J. Who would have thought you were such a worthy adversary?
You had your gloriously accessorized moment in the sun, via a well-aimed dollop of yogurt (fat-free, I’m sure).
But one stolen Valentino and a humiliating birthday party later, we were sure you were down for the count. Then out the window you go, ready for another smackdown with the disgraced Queen B.
And you won.
O. M. F. G.
Looks like it won’t be quite so easy for Blair to regain her status as NYC’s No. 1 teen bee-yotch.
Spring Break is over, Upper East Siders, and isn’t life grand?
“Gossip Girl” came back with a vengeance last night, complete with revenge plots, multiple felonies, fuzzy handcuffs and a box full o’ porn.
The hour started out with an anxiety dream of Blair’s: She’s starring in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” again, in the rain searching for Cat. Except Nate/Fred shows up and calls her Jenny. Everyone get the irony?
Back in the real world, Serena has to drag Blair to the first day back at school, telling her everyone will have forgotten about her sex scandal.
Of course, they haven’t—which leads to the Jenny-led yogurt-flinging incident.
Seems that power’s gone to little J.’s head, only she doesn’t have the bucks to keep up with the rich girls. She’s sold her precious sewing machine, among other things, so she can afford fancy dinners and Dolce dresses.
So you know it’s only a matter of time before her plan to fit in with her newfound “friends” goes very, very wrong.
Sure enough, Jenny ends up stealing a custom-made dress from the mother of one of her new pals (Penelope? Hazel? Does it matter? They’re all the same girl with a different designer purse…).
Then she steals it back from the consignment shop she sold it to, once she realizes how much it’s worth and that an innocent maid will probably get fired for her actions.
Meanwhile, Blair is setting Jenny up for a fall, planning an at-home birthday party for Jenny with her dad, Rufus (a.k.a., the dumbest dad on the planet).
Once the other girls sees that J. is poor—because she lives in Brooklyn, ha!—Blair thinks they’ll dump her faster than last season’s It bag.
And it goes better than expected, when they all catch Jenny red-handed in the stolen dress.
But damn, Jenny’s got cojones.
She’s a thief, but her dopey dad pretty much lets her off the hook. (You can’t afford the same things as your snotty friends, so you steal them? Poor thing, let’s have cake!)
Then instead of laying low, J. sneaks out and runs to Nate, who she’s already had the stones to ask for $8,000.
They run off to meet the gang at Butter, where J. essentially pimps Nate out to one of the girls with a mad crush, in exchange for forgetting about the whole dress incident.
Sorry, Blair, your seat at the table’s been taken. Not only does Jenny regain her A-list status, but she does it by using Blair’s ex-boyfriend.
A genius Mean Girl move.
And speaking of Mean Girls, we’ve got another one blowing into town next week.
It seems that the naughty gifts being sent to Serena—the dirty DVDs, champagne and baggie of coke—weren’t from her soon-t0-be stepbrother, Chuck.
(For once, evil C. was falsely accused! I actually felt bad because it seemed he was truly enjoying the family bonding, especially with little bro, Eric.)
The presents were from Serena’s old partner-in-crime, G.
Otherwise known as Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg), she’ll show up next week to cause trouble for S.
And if Chuck’s offering Serena a drink after hearing about G’s imminent return, you know she must be bad news.
Until then, boys and girls….XOXO.
(Photos courtesy of the CW)
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