Liveblogging: Gossip Girl’s “Yale” Episode
IvyGate is camped out in the Barnard quad, watching (and liveblogging) Gossip Girl along with a bevy of enthralled Barnard girls. And yes, this is the episode where Gossip Girl decided to film at Columbia and call it Yale.
8:01: It’s starting! Everyone is cheering. This is going to be a long hour.
8:02 Apparently all of the characters are going to visit Yale. Time to pile into their town cars and tell their maids to pack some argyle sweaters in their monogram luggage.
8:03: Oh, snap. Serena just claimed that “Yale is for overachieving bookworms and preppies.” Um…just Yale?
8:05: “I heard Marc Jacobs named a purse after her” –Dorota, the housekeeper, on Serena. Because we can’t all be BryanBoy.
8:08: Chuck Bass wants to bone a bunch of women’s studies majors. A girl in the lounge whoops and yells “Barnard!”
8:09: Apparently Chuck has a very different idea about the "freshman fifteen" than most of us.
Read more, after the jump:
8:12: “There’s nothing like Yale in October” Gossip Girl narrates, as a shot pans Columbia’s Earl Hall.
8:14: “This is like an episode on acid” a girl in the lounge says, laughing, as Skull & Bones kidnaps Chuck Bass.
8:15: OMG NATE IS PRETENDING TO BE DAN HUMPHREY!!! Scandal!
8:16: Blair just kissed her middle-aged Yale interviewer! The lounge collectively gasped.
8:25: According to Chuck, if the Dean likes your answer to his question "which person, living or dead, would you most like to have dinner with?", you get on a "short list" to being accepted. Shhhh, Chuck! Don't REVEAL THE SECRET!
8:28: That lit chick who was totes scamming on "Dan Humphrey" just found out mid-makeout that she was actually snogging Nate Archibald!
8:29: Blair is bribing the Dean's secretary to put her on the list for the Dean's dinner reception with a pair of porcelain cats from a Christie's auction.
8:34: Chuck Bass just bought every Skull & Bones member a threesome with non-English-speaking prostitutes. Guess that's one night when they won't be masturbating in coffins.
8:35: Aaaand Skull & Bones still isn't satisfied. Per one Bonesman, Chuck has to get Nate to agree to "join" the society, since the Bonesman's "family lost our compound in Newport because of his father." The lounge collectively snorted.
8:37: Skull & Bones just kidnapped Dan Humphrey. So, someone please tell me again why Skull & Bones is revealing themselves to kids who, uh, haven't gotten into Yale yet?
8:38: Blair swapped Serena's answer to the Dean's Question!!! "Who is this person?" the Dean asked. "Oh, he's the man she killed," Blair said with a bitchy, amazing smirk.
8:44: Catfight! Blair and Serena are having a catfight!!! And OMFG Serena just ripped Blair's "stupid headband" off amidst cheers from the lounge.
8:45: The sexual tension between Lily and Rufus is ridic! Guess we know what they'll be doing once the kids all go off to Columbia--I mean, Yale.
8:47: The drama never stops! Apparently Skull & Bones didn't want to tap Nate, they wanted to tie him nekkid to a statue...except they got the wrong guy! Poor Dan.
8:49: The real Nate Archibald comes to the rescue! God...why isn't he the one wearing nothing but his boxers?
8:53: While all the seniors are away at Yale, little J is dropping out of high school...and her dad supports it. But, yanno, gotta keep the plot moving somehow.
8:55: Aaaand Blair and Serena stand on the steps of Earl Hall in ridiculous "flapper inspired" ensembles, pouring their hearts out to each other and making up as cheesy music plays.
8:56: OMFG! Chuck planted lipstick cameras on the Bones Whores! Apparently Skull & Bones is now under the control of Chuck Bass. Oh, yesss. Writers, more of this plot, please?
8:57: The Dean just called Serena on her cell to let her know that she'll be getting in Early Acceptance...and Blair will have to wait until regular admission. And with a final pan of College Walk and a shot of John Jay (the girls in the lounge are shrieking), we're out.
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October 13th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Didn’t ‘Nate’s’ dad go to Dartmouth??? Now, all of a sudden, ‘Nate’ is Yale legacy.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
This episode made me want to throw up…I can’t believe Columbia would attach its image to such a disgusting show, but it could be worse. At least the episode didn’t perpetuate endless stereotypes about the school, like it did for Yale. As for Brown, Ouch! There were some heavy insults, but none of which were really untrue. After all, Brown is the most overrated Ivy.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I don’t feel as strongly as the second poster (relax, mate) but I will say this:
For one hour every week or so, I completely and utterly despise my girlfriend. I cuddle with her, unable to talk, unable to break free and imagining myself single and free from the GG ritual.
I can’t imagine doing it surrounded by 39 girls. Jesus fuck.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:52 am
@ace22: Nate’s mom is a Vanderbilt, and apparently they have some clout at Yale. With his dad being some kind of scandalized hedge fund manager I’m not surprised Dartmouth wouldn’t want anything to do with him at this point.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Finally a TV show that captures the true essence of Yale!
October 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Should have filmed at Yale. When panning across what is supposed to be Old Campus yields… well, Columbia, the effect is lost. Should any of these kids actually end up at Yale next season, they’d best film on-site.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:35 am
The actress playing Dorota attended Barnard, class of 2001
October 14th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
The Dorota actress actually attended Harvard as well.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
barnard is not ivy
October 14th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
That’s right. You remember that.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
…really wants to be.
While everywhere else, the Barnard name clearly is not part of the ivy league (and I’m not just talking about sports conference obviously) here at Columbia the line is pretty darn blurred.
- We can take the same classes.
- Some Columbia classes are given there, some Barnard classes are given here.
- ID gives access to the same buildings.
- Barnard is not inside the main campus (across from it) but inside Columbia-ville with other buildings surrounding it and extending well past.
- Transferable credits.
- Apparently you can basically get a degree that’s Columbia/Barnard (though that might be untrue- heard from someone)
- Same flex/dining plans.
- Shared rights to extracurricular groups, etc…
So to sum up: Out there; not an Ivy. In here: Pretty much just another part of Columbia (a la SEAS/CC/School of General Studies)
October 15th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Shut. Up. Seriously.
Are you kidding me?
October 15th, 2008 at 1:47 am
“Everyone knows that only Ivies are the Holy Trinity: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.” – Blair’s word is gold
October 15th, 2008 at 2:47 am
This is plagiarism.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Tools.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Tools.
October 19th, 2008 at 12:14 am
No mention of the weird little shot at frequent filming location Hunter College?