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About the show
- Schedule
- Mondays, 9 p.m.
- The CW
- Cast
- Blake Lively
- 'Serena van der Woodsen'
- Leighton Meester
- 'Blair Waldorf'
- Penn Badgley
- 'Dan Humphrey'
- Ed Westwick
- 'Chuck Bass'
- Chace Crawford
- 'Nate Archibald'
- Jessica Szhor
- 'Vanessa Abrams'
- Taylor Momsen
- 'Jenny Humphrey'
- Connor Paolo
- 'Eric van der Woodsen'
- Kelly Rutherford
- 'Lily van der Woodsen'
- Matthew Settle
- 'Rufus Humphrey'
- Zuzanna Szadkowski
- 'Dorota'
- Creators
- Josh Schwartz
- Stephanie Savage
- Based on the novels by Cecily von Ziegesar
- Executive Producer
- Josh Schwartz
- Stephanie Savage
- Leslie Morgenstein
- Bob Levy
- Joshua Safran
- Debut
- September 19, 2007
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Watch Gossip Girl Season-Six Bloopers
So many goofy faces.
Seth Cohen Is Dating Blair Waldorf
Does Chuck know?
Mexican Gossip Girl Coming to TV
¡Bueno!
Gossip Girl Insiders Pay Tribute to — and Quibble With — the Reality Index
“Why did you never see Scott again? Did you honestly want to see Scott??”
Gossip Girl Recap Recap: XOXO, Dan Humphrey
The final recap recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Gossip Girl Reveals Gossip Girl
You know you love me.
Gossip Girl Recap Recap: The Orange Has Fallen
There's only one more after this! Sad.
Gossip Girl: A Farewell Ode to the Craziness
Good-bye, fashion show sabotage.
Kim Gordon Just Couldn’t Keep Up With Gossip Girl
"There were other TV series competing for my attention."
In Memoriam: TV Shows and Characters We Lost in 2012
Grab the tissues!
Gossip Girl Recap Recap: NJBC Is Back
The viewers were finally pleased with an episode — for the first time since roughly three seasons ago.
Gossip Girl Recap Recap: Nobody Puts Monkey in the Corner
The biggest target of the week was the frozen-faced Mrs. Bass, who gained an army of enemies.
Gossip Girl Recap Recap: Berries Double-Dipped in Chocolate and High School Memories
Commenters were overwhelmingly unimpressed with the writers’ decision to regurgitate and taint season one’s best Derena material.
Gossip Girl Recap Recap: A Diamond in the Rough
Commenters’ attraction/repulsion to Dan's greasy slick-back debut was split relatively evenly.
Recaps
Ep.10 - New York, I Love You XOXO
Gossip Girl Series Finale Recap: I Guess That Means It’s All Over Now
Pressler and Rozvar, together one last time to discuss the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.09 - The Revengers
Gossip Girl Recap: Blair Waldorf and Her Bitches
On the Upper East Side of Gossip Girl, there are no random acts of kindness.
Ep.08 - It's Really Complicated
Gossip Girl Recap: This Will Be the Best Thanksgiving Ever
Thanksgiving on Gossip Girl is always a disaster, but they keep trying, because what else can they do?
Ep.07 - Save the Last Chance
Gossip Girl Recap: Since When Did You Start Spiking Your Chamomile?
Can one ever really know another person? On Gossip Girl and in life, we have learned that one cannot.
Ep.06 - Where the Vile Things Are
Gossip Girl Recap: Your Dark Side Is Showing
Blair tries to behave "more like Grace Kelly, less like Grace Jones."
Ep.05 - Monstrous Ball
Gossip Girl Recap: He’s an Adult and He Treats Me Like One
Let's be honest: No one is an adult on Gossip Girl.
Ep.04 - Portrait of a Lady Alexander
Gossip Girl Recap: Seriously, Dad, Gross
The mothers of Gossip Girl are flighty and self-absorbed, but it's the fathers who have left the deepest scars on our Upper East Siders.
Ep.03 - Dirty Rotten Scandals
Gossip Girl Recap: Mind, Body, and Scheme
Last night's Gossip Girl opened with a scene we've seen many times before.
Ep.02 - High Infidelity
Gossip Girl Recap: This Will Rock the Upper East Side
As you probably know from last night's episode of the Show of Our Time, our recapper appeared as herself.
Ep.01 - Gone Maybe Gone
Gossip Girl Recap: With Age Comes Wisdom
And so begins the Last Season of the Show of Our Time.
Ep.24 - The Return of the Ring
Gossip Girl Recap: I’d Hoped You’d Outgrown Such Behavior
In some ways, it’s like we’ve gone back in time on the season-five finale.
Ep.23 - The Fugitives
Gossip Girl Recap: Daddy Sang Bass
In the second-to-last episode of the second-to-last (we think?) season of the Greatest Show of Our Time, everyone had a plan.
Ep.22 - Raiders of the Lost Art
Gossip Girl Recap: No One Can Keep a Secret
Like Eyes Wide Shut, but with cuddling.
Ep.21 - Despicable B
Gossip Girl Recap: It’s Not Who’s My Mom, It’s Who’s My Dad
New York's Approval Matrix makes a star cameo in this week's episode.
Ep.20 - Salon of the Dead
Gossip Girl Recap: From Hapsburg to Williamsburg
Mason jars. Pork buns. Pickling festivals. GG goes Brooklyn.
Ep.19 - It Girl, Interrupted
Gossip Girl Recap: It Is Your Destiny to Be Gossip-Worthy
It would be beneficial to all of the characters on Gossip Girl if they began looking at their world from a Humphrological perspective.
Ep.18 - Con-Heir
Gossip Girl Recap: There’s Only One Blogger in This Town Who Matters
Last night, we returned from our monthlong hiatus to find a world that has been turned upside down: The Van Der Woodsens have been exiled to Brooklyn.
Ep.16 - Cross Rhodes
Gossip Girl Recap: ‘I’m a Sadist, Not a Masochist’
"We have feelings, but we can suppress them, stomp them out like bugs."
Ep.15 - Crazy, Cupid, Love
Gossip Girl Recap: ‘Oh No. This Is Very Bad Plan.’
“Have a good day!” “I doubt that.”
Ep.14 - The Backup Dan
Gossip Girl Recap: Gossip Girl Knows You Better Than Your Own Mother
“Your family cannot control mine."
Ep.13 - G.G.
Gossip Girl Recap: Jesus Owes Me One
“If I ever cried, I’d be moved to tears."
Ep.12 - Father and the Bride
Gossip Girl Recap: There’s a Fine Line Between Surveillance and Stalking
"It's like a Henry the Fourth kind of structure, a Falstaff thing, but he’s addicted to the drunken revelry of the West, so it’s set on a cattle ranch ... ”
Ep.11 - The End of the Affair?
Gossip Girl Recap: We Used to Be Your Priority
The deus ex machina is actually ... Deus. Oh Lord.
Ep.10 - Riding in Town Cars with Boys
Gossip Girl Recap: If You Decided to Be That Person, Own It and Never Look Back
"The last time I saw you concentrating that hard, you were looking at the instructions on how to assemble a hookah."
Ep.09 - Rhodes to Perdition
Gossip Girl Recap: What Is It That You’re Searching For?
Chuck is doing yoga in a dress shirt and tie.
Ep.08 - All the Pretty Sources
Gossip Girl Recap: You Can Always Be Your True Self With Us
“Casual? Jeans? Evite?"
Ep.07 - The Big Sleep No More
Gossip Girl Recap: You Know, You May Be an Evil Genius
“Without the pressure of me on top of you all the time — so to speak.”
Ep.06 - I Am Number Nine
Gossip Girl Recap: No More Games, No More Secrets
Ha, as if.
Ep.05 - The Fasting and the Furious
Gossip Girl Recap: The Kennedys Are Rolling Over in Their Graves Right Now
High drama on the High Holidays.
Ep.04 - Memoirs of an Invisible Dan
Gossip Girl Recap: Turns Out the Only Thing Ridiculous Is Me
Nothing is worse than being omitted from Dan's book.
Ep.03 - The Jewel of Denial
Gossip Girl Recap: Everyone Goes Off the Rails at Some Point Around Here
Welcome back to the land where everything sparkles and everyone has nervous breakdowns.
Ep.02 - Beauty and the Feast
Gossip Girl Recap: I’d Hoped Denial Would Last Longer As a Coping Mechanism
A plague befalls the Upper East Side.
Ep.01 - Yes, Then Zero
Gossip Girl Recap: The Zip Codes May Be Different, But the Douchebags Are the Same
On last night's season-five (FIVE) premiere, some things grew and changed and some things stayed the same.
Ep.22 - The Wrong Way
Gossip Girl Recap: Maybe We’re Growing Up After All
On 'Gossip Girl,' everything grows, except the length of Serena's skirts.
Ep.21 - Shattered Bass
Gossip Girl Recap: From Well to Hell
That could describe the plot, or the show itself.
Ep.20 - The Princess and the Frog
Gossip Girl Recap: Everyone Knows That With Princes Things Escalate Quickly
Will the Upper East Side get a royal wedding?
Ep.19 - Petty in Pink
Gossip Girl Recap: Your Monitor Is Showing
Botox, handies: Welcome back to the Upper East Side.
Ep.18 - The Kids Stay in the Picture
Gossip Girl Recap: All I Ever Wanted Was a Simple Fairy Tale
Alas, like the centuries-old folklore from which the popular Disney stories originally derived, fairy tales on the Upper East Side are more complicated.
Ep.17 - Empire of the Son
Gossip Girl Recap: Your Precious Little Legacy
Three fathers disappointed in last night's episode — one did so from beyond the grave.
Ep.16 - While You Weren't Sleeping
Gossip Girl Recap: I Always Knew You Read Too Much Shakespeare to Be Sane
Last night's episode was like an ether flashback and a neurological disorder all at once.
Ep.15 - It-Girl Happened One Night
Gossip Girl Recap: No One’s Going to Forget Tonight
Family values are a little bit different on the Upper East Side.
Ep.14 - Panic Roomate
Gossip Girl Recap: A Woman Always Remembers
Except when it comes to her own mistakes, of course.
Ep.13 - Damian Darko
Gossip Girl Recap: We Should Make This a Drinking Game
In its fourth season, 'Gossip Girl' has developed a Shakespearean rhythm.
Ep.12 - The Kids Are Not All Right
Gossip Girl Recap: I Wouldn’t Want Someone Like You, Wanting to Be Like Me
Our weekly Reality Index returns from winter break.
Ep.11 - The Townie
Gossip Girl Recap: Somewhere Between a Marlins Jersey and the Absolute Truth
Several truths were revealed on this week's episode of 'Gossip Girl.'
Ep.10 - Gaslit
Gossip Girl Recap: Once Upon a Time, Thanksgiving Was My Favorite Holiday
As is their tradition, the show drives us crazy with things that are hopelessly unrealistic, and at the same time includes details that make it uniquely true to life.
Ep.09 - The Witches of Bushwick
Gossip Girl Recap: This Isn’t Exactly My First Masquerade Party
But on the Upper East Side, just you've experienced something before, doesn't mean you can't fall for it again.
Ep.08 - Juliet Doesn't Live Here Any More
Gossip Girl Recap: Single White Trash Females, United
The gang takes down Juliet.
Ep.07 - War at the Roses
Gossip Girl Recap: A Good Party Gives People What They Don’t Expect
You know what they say, if a piano is mentioned in the first act, somebody's going to get off on it in the third.
Ep.06 - Easy J
Gossip Girl Recap: Not Quite Sure What Just Happened There, But It Seemed All Bad
Our weekly reality index.
Ep.05 - Goodbye, Columbia
Gossip Girl Recap: I Almost Forgot How Much I Used to Enjoy Your Pie
Love and anger on this week's episode of 'Gossip Girl.'
Ep.04 - A Touch of Eva
Gossip Girl Recap: Everybody Leaves
Love hurts, even when you're Chuck Bass.
Ep.03 - The Undergraduates
Gossip Girl Recap: How Do We Know What Matters If Gossip Girl Isn’t Around to Tell Us?
Our weekly reality index for The Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.02 - Double Identity
Gossip Girl Recap: It Takes More Than Even You to Destroy Blair Waldorf
This week's recap of The Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.01 - Belles Du Jour
Gossip Girl Recap: We Make Our Own Fairy Tales
The first reality index of the fourth season of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.22 - Last Tango, Then Paris
Gossip Girl Season Finale Recap: Dorota’s Water Wasn’t the Only Thing That Broke Last Night
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.21 - Ex Husbands and Wives
Gossip Girl Recap: All Angst All the Time
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.20 - It's a Dad, Dad, Dad World
Gossip Girl Recap: ‘I Didn’t Get High, I Got a Yeast Infection’
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.19 - Dr. Estrangeloved
Gossip Girl Recap: Unclench
Our weekly reality index for the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.18 - The Unblairable Lightness of Being
Gossip Girl Recap: Even Good Love Goes Bad
Our weekly reality index.
Ep.17 - Inglorious Bassterds
Gossip Girl Recap: Love Is a Battlefield
Our weekly reality index for the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.16 - The Empire Strikes Jack
Gossip Girl Recap: Does the Second Chance Ever Have a Chance?
Our weekly reality index for the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.15 - The Sixteen-Year-Old-Virgin
Gossip Girl Recap: Two Legs Close, And A Heart Opens
Our weekly reality index.
Ep.14 - The Lady Vanished
Gossip Girl Recap: Turning Over a Leaf From the Trust Tree
This week's reality index for the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.13 - The Hurt Locket
Gossip Girl Recap: Is Love Going the Way of the Clog?
Apparently, it is.
Ep.12 - The Debarted
Gossip Girl Is the Jackie and You Are the Marilyn
And Trip is both Jack and Teddy Kennedy.
Ep.11 - The Treasure of Serena Madre
Gossip Girl’s Heart Pumps Secrets and Gin
Just like Grandma CeCe! Our weekly show recap.
Ep.10 - The Last Days of Disco Stick
A Little Bit of Danger Makes Gossip Girl’s Life Worth Living
This week, Jenny and Serena live on the edge.
Ep.09 - They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?
Gossip Girl Is the Last Person in New York Who Still Thinks You Matter
Try not to take it too personally.
Ep.08 - The Grandfather: Part 2
Gossip Girl Loses Her Moral Compass
Serena and Blair are at each other's throats in a way they haven't been since the first season.
Ep.07 - How to Succeed at Bassness
Gossip Girl’s Mask Is Becoming Her Face
It's Halloween, but the masks our characters are wearing aren't just festive strips of silicone donned for a night of carousing.
Ep.06 - Enough About Eve
Gossip Girl Fastens Its Seatbelts
What was true to life about this episode, and what struck us as faker than a Photoshop of a politician holding a giant cherry-red bong?
Ep.05 - Rufus Getting Married
Gossip Girl Finally Gets Out of Its Maid Outfit
What rhymes with Sonic Youth and is also music to our ears? Truth, friends. And that was what we heard a lot of on last night's Gossip Girl.
Ep.04 - Dan de Fleurette
Gossip Girl Remembers Who She Is
For the first time this season, we found ourselves actually listening to what Gossip Girl herself was saying, and were happy to see that she had a role to play.
Ep.03 - The Lost Boy
Gossip Girl Makes a Bid on Love
And guess what? Even at Sotheby's, it costs less than $8,000. Read all about it in our episode recap.
Ep.02 - The Freshmen
Gossip Girl’s Heart of Darkness
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time: The College Years.
Ep.01 - Reversals of Fortune
Wild Gossip Girls Can’t Be Broken
The recap of the season premiere of the third season of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.25 - The Goodbye Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl’s Georgina Ex Machina
Our reality index of the season finale.
Ep.24 - Valley Girls
Gossip Girl Always Tries to Make the Movie in Its Head Resemble Reality
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of our Time.
Ep.23 - The Wrath of Con
Gossip Girl Explains It All
This week's episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time imparted several important lessons.
Ep.22 - Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gossip Girl Gets Us Where We Want It
Finally, an episode worthy of our Monday nights!
Ep.21 - Seder Anything
Gossip Girl Matters
Our weekly reality index: with a special guest star!
Ep.20 - Remains of the J
Gossip Girl Faces a Dilemma
If a woman has thousands of dollars worth of hair extensions and doesn't make an effort to groom them, do they really exist?
Ep.19 - The Grandfather
Gossip Girl Has a Personality Crisis
It's time for our weekly episode recap!
Ep.18 - The Age of Dissonance
Gossip Girl Changes the Seasons for Us
Unfortunately, it does not quite melt our hearts along with the snow. But who cares? Our episode recaps are back!
Ep.17 - Carnal Knowledge
Gossip Girl Meets Stanley Kubrick
Our weekly reality index returns, just in time for an extremely upsetting episode.
Ep.16 - You've Got Yale
Gossip Girl’s World Is the Only World That Matters
Are you in it? If not, you can get into our weekly recap.
Ep.15 - Gone with the Will
Gossip Girl Notices It Has a Penis
This week's episode had us doing mental pirouettes.
Ep.14 - In the Realm of the Basses
Gossip Girl Catches Us When We Fall
Or, you know, before we fall. Or after we metaphorically fall. Whatever, our episode recaps have returned!
Ep.13 - O Brother, Where Bart Thou?
Gossip Girl Takes Us Through the First Two Stages of Grief
Our weekly reality index.
Ep.12 - It's a Wonderful Lie
A Chilly Night in ‘Gossip Girl’ Country
Our weekly reality index of the most important show that you pretend you aren't watching.
Ep.11 - The Magnificent Archibalds
Gossip Girl Is Where We Belong
It's Thanksgiving already! And there's lots to be thankful for in our weekly 'Gossip Girl' recap.
Ep.09 - There Might be Blood
Gossip Girl Gets Its Muff Stuffed
Oh jeez, where to begin? It's our weekly episode recap!
Ep.08 - Pret-a-Poor-J
Gossip Girl Leaves Us Writhing in Excruciating Pleasure
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.07 - Chuck in Real Life
The Secret Life of Gossip Girl
Our weekly reality index of the only show we've ever liked before it became cool.
Ep.06 - New Haven Can Wait
Gossip Girl Gains the Freshman Fifteen
Fifteen POINTS, that is.
Ep.05 - The Serena Also Rises
Gossip Girl Allows Its Light to Shine
‘Gossip Girl’ attacks the city at its very heart: Fashion Week. We tell you what was real and unreal.
Ep.04 - The Ex-Files
Gossip Girl Tosses a Nairtini in Our Faces
An epic recap of an epic episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.03 - The Dark Night
‘Gossip Girl’ Gets Even More Lynchian Than Before
In which we overanalyze the blackout, the outfits, and the terrifying small children that participate in the latest episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.02 - Never Been Marcused
Gossip Girl Is Royally Pimpin’
Our recap of the second episode of the second season of the Greatest Show Ever.
Ep.01 - Summer Kind of Wonderful
Gossip Girl Says ‘Chuck You’ to True Love
It's the return of our exhaustive, obsessive, and unattractively loving recaps of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.18 - Much 'I Do' About Nothing
‘Gossip Girl’ Ditches Us the Morning After
We tally up the points that made the season finale of the Greatest Show of Our Time real, unreal, or maybe just annoying.
Ep.17 - Woman on the Verge
‘Gossip Girl’ Gives Us the High of Our So-Called Lives
Let's face it, this episode rocked. Our recap is within.
Ep.16 - All About My Brother
‘Gossip Girl’ Blows Our Minds
And that's not all. You'll have to see it — or read our recap — to believe it.
Ep.15 - Desperately Seeking Serena
‘Gossip Girl’ Blinds Us With Color, Evil
In which Michelle Trachtenberg is the Marcia Cross of the Greatest Show of Our Time, returning from a mysterious absence to ruin everything and everyone.
Ep.14 - The Blair Bitch Project
The ‘Gossip Girl’ Recaps Returneth!
In which we calculate the reality index of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.13 - A Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate
In Which We Finally Say Those Three Little Words to ‘Gossip Girl’
We've realized our relationship with Gossip Girl has followed a path not unlike Dan and Serena's.
Ep.12 - School Lies
‘Gossip Girl’ Takes Us Back to the Future
It was kind of a refreshing change to get vodka in plastic cups and an impromptu party at the school pool.
Ep.11 - Roman Holiday
A Very ‘Gossip Girl’ Christmas
Our mind-shatteringly detailed guide to what in this week's episode of Gossip Girl could pass for real-life New York experience, what seemed kinda fake, and what really put the "Jesus Christ" back in our Christmas.
Ep.10 - Hi, Society
‘Gossip Girl’ Says, ‘Granny, Get Your Gun!’
Drunk with power (and Tanqueray), Grandma CeCe stole the shit out of this episode.
Ep.09 - Blair Waldorf Must Pie!
‘Gossip Girl’ Gives Us the Thanksgiving We Always Deserved
Who writes this show? Former members of the Children of God?
Ep.08 - Seventeen Candles
‘Gossip Girl’ Threatens All of Its Great Loves
"I performed in a speakeasy and surrendered my virtue to a self-absorbed ass."
Ep.07 - Victor/Victrola
‘Gossip Girl’ Exceeds Our Expectations … Again!
Our Einsteinian comparison between the real, the unreal, and the crap that made us groan out loud to our gay friends in the living room.
Ep.06 - The Handmaiden's Tale
‘Gossip Girl’ Makes Us Color-blind
Our highly calibrated point system of... um... points.
Ep.05 - Dare Devil
‘Gossip Girl’ Gets Lost in New York
Isn't it weird when a show's writers forget their own plotlines? Isn't it weird we're paying such close attention?
Ep.04 - Bad News Blair
‘Gossip Girl’ Embraces Friendships, Reality
And that's what this recap is all about, right? Realism!
Ep.03 - Poison Ivy
‘Gossip Girl’: There Are Only Eight Colleges in America
Our vaguely researched, but mostly completely subjective, guide to what in this week's Gossip Girl was as fake as Melania Trump's face, and what could pass for real.
Ep.02 - The Wild Brunch
‘Gossip Girl’ Goes Straight to the ‘O.C.’ Place
In case you forgot, on the second episode of Gossip Girl, otherwise known as Statutory Rape in the City, the anonymous narrator really drums it in that this show is based in Manhattan, more specifically Upper East Side.
Ep.01 - Pilot
‘Gossip Girl’: The Most Important Show of Our Time
Last night's giddily awaited premiere of Gossip Girl did not disappoint.