The Goodbye Gossip Girl (18 May 2009)

Gossip Girl decides to liven things up at the Constance Billard and St. Jude's graduation by sending out a shocking and damaging email blast in the midst of the commencement ceremony, ... See full summary »

Director:

Norman Buckley

Writer:

Joshua Safran

Stars:

Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Blake Lively	...	Serena van der Woodsen
Leighton Meester	...	Blair Waldorf
Penn Badgley	...	Dan Humphrey
Chace Crawford	...	Nate Archibald
Taylor Momsen	...	Jenny Humphrey
Ed Westwick	...	Chuck Bass
Jessica Szohr	...	Vanessa Abrams
Kelly Rutherford	...	Lily van der Woodsen
Matthew Settle	...	Rufus Humphrey
Margaret Colin	...	Eleanor Waldorf
Jan Maxwell	...	Headmistress Queller
James Naughton	...	William van der Bilt
Connor Paolo	...	Eric van der Woodsen
Chris Riggi	...	Scott Rosson
Wallace Shawn	...	Cyrus Rose

Storyline

Gossip Girl decides to liven things up at the Constance Billard and St. Jude's graduation by sending out a shocking and damaging email blast in the midst of the commencement ceremony, stirring Serena to come up with a plan of attack. The Mean Girls; Nelly, Isabel, Penelope, etc, challenge Jenny to throw her hat in the ring to succeed Blair as Queen Bee next year. Meanwhile, Lily and Rufus finally makes amends meet and get engaged and move in together. With Blair's blessing, Jenny becomes the new queen. Chuck finally admits his love to Blair and the two reconcile. As the summer draws near, Nate decides to go on the backpacking trip with Vanessa. Georgina returns to town having recovered/re-stole all of Dan's money, and she also requests Blair for a roommate at NYU. Carter Baizen also shows up and reveals to Serena where her biological father is. In the end, Serena is going to Brown, Blair, Dan, Vanessa, and Georgina are going to NYU, and Nate is going uptown to Columbia, and Lily and ...

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Plot Keywords:

upper east side manhattan new york city | manhattan new york city | new york city

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 May 2009 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Silvercup Studios East, Long Island City, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

17th Street Productions, Alloy Entertainment, CBS Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

42 min 42 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Blair's speech to Jenny about being queen involves mentioning how Anne Boleyn (a once Queen of England) thought only with her heart and got her head chopped off. Though this is historically questionable, it seems that Blair was referring more to herself than the sixteenth century Queen. Blair thought with her heart alone and tried to have both Nate and Chuck in the first season. She then got dethroned by her friends because they didn't like her cheating on Nate.

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Quotes

Chuck Bass: I was a coward running away again. But everywhere I went, you caught up with me, so I had to come back.
Blair Waldorf: I want to believe you, but I can't. You've hurt me too many times.
Chuck Bass: You can believe me this time.
Blair Waldorf: That's it?
Chuck Bass: I love you, too.
Blair Waldorf: [They kiss then Blair breaks it off] But can you say it twice?
Chuck Bass: [Kisses] I love you.
[Kisses again]
Chuck Bass: I love three.
[Kisses]
[...]

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Connections

References Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

User Reviews

Like the title, it is time to say Goodbye to our most loved series.

Okay I'm kidding, most of our series are meeting their finale stage and don't seem to be coming back. Gossip Girl is not falling into this category as it was picked up for another season.

In fact Gossip Girl did say Goodbye ...to high school.

'The Goodbye Gossip Girl' marked the end of high school and the beginning of college, for Gossip Girl as well. Which could also mean that Gossip Girl is a part of the Serena, Blair, Dan...etc year group.

As for College...

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Serena is off to Brown

Dan...NYU

Vanessa...NYU

Blair... NYU

Nate...Columbia

and Chuck, well he's all going to be all independent and take over his father's business.

This episode dealt with Gossip Girl and an attempt to discover her true identity, something I felt should have been dealt with throughout this season and not in the final episode.

This episode was fairly okay, although there were some questionable cliffhangers which felt like it was just poked into the ending.

I might be in the few, but I didn't really follow the Blair-Chuck storyline, I liked them much more before they became all lovie-dovie towards each other. I have to admit though, that final scene between them was beautifully done.

I felt that Nate was a little soft by not acknowledging the fact that Vanessa slept with Chuck. Especially seeing that Chuck slept with Blair and Vanessa (both his girlfriends). I expected him to show a little emotion towards it. Everything was just dismissed there. Even him agreeing to go backpacking with her, a little acknowledgment would have been appreciated. Maybe it might be picked up next season.

I used to follow Lily and Rufus in the beginning, but now something has changed between them, ever since they got together. It was more interesting when Lily and Rufus had that distance from each other.

I still look forward for next season, I might not have been impressed with this installment much, but it was far better than last season's 'Much 'I Do' About Nothing' finale.

Lexa

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http://lexabuti.blogspot.com/

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Three and a Half out of Five Stars

Grade C+

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