Last Night's Gossip Girl: Please Define "Guerilla Fashion Show" in 20 Words or Less

In honor of both Gossip Girl and Election Day, I wore a Blair outfit to the polls:

There were also tights involved, but I had a hard enough time positioning my MacBook sideways to try to deal with accessories. But the whole thing is silly anyway since Blair wouldn't be caught dead in thrift store clothes.

On to the episode!

Perhaps it's a sign of our generational differences that when Little J. announced she was throwing a "guerilla fashion show" everyone at my viewing party cupped our ears and croaked, "Wha--?"

So what is a guerilla fashion show? This, apparently:



Please discuss.

Also, thanks to Shoshi for pointing out that "Agnes" is none other than The O.C.'s Kaitlin Cooper, i.e. The Marissa Who Could. As in, could be interesting, could make reasonable fashion choices, could appear on screen without causing me to burst a blood vessel, and could survive all four seasons.

Once more, for old times' sake:




Conventional wisdom says that Dan is up, Little J. is down, but I am firmly rooted in the "Dan is the most irritating character on Gossip Girl" camp. Why?

1. His unparalleled self-righteousness. (Though at least the show seems to acknowledge it now. The writers practically taped a sign on his back this episdoe that said "hypocrite" when he defended Nate to Vanessa, then called Nate a man-whore to his face after he found out about THE KISS.)

2. His "khuh.. you wish" writing successes. (This month in The New Yorker: David Sedaris, John Updike, Vladimir Nabakov, and... oh! Dan Humphrey!)

3. His disappointment at not seeing such already beyond-the-realm-of-human-reason success repeated. (Can you imagine approaching a professor, asking him to read some stupid love story by a high schooler you don't even know, and THEN begging him to promise said high schooler certain acceptance? Shudder.)

Overall "There Might Be Blood" was almost as much of a dud as the last ep. I hate seeing Blair flounder around at the mercy of Chuck and Serena's benevolence. (Though, as usual, she had some great one-liners, and the new Danless Serena, by comparison, borders on the divine.)

According to next week's teaser, here's what we have to look forward to:

--Jenny moves in with Agnes. Hipsters, cameras, sex, syringes... oh my!

--Dan writes an expose on Bart Bass for Vanity Fair. Eyeroll, sigh. At least Chuck will be there, wearing outfits.

--Serena gets dangerously cozy with Aaron the Emosogynist. Thanks to Chris & Jessica for coining that yes! term. Speaking of which, here's the Daily Intel on the new Trouble With A Capital "T":

Sure, we suspected the various women answering Aaron's phone and kissing him and getting on his motorcycle could be signs that he was trouble — but this is television, and often there's an explanation for that sort of stuff: He could have been running an outreach program for Ukrainian sex slaves, for instance. However, we knew for sure Aaron was trouble when we heard him say this line: "I could explain who Tamara is and why she was at my apartment last night, but the fact is, you feel something or you don't. If you're looking for an excuse to keep us apart, that's fine." This deft undermining — rather than giving the girl what she asks of him (an explanation), which would, as he perceives it, give her the upper hand, he flips it around by making her call into question what is wrong with herself that she needs one. Aaron = Classic emosogynist. Which is so realistic. Plus 10.

YES. During the above scene I actually yelled through the television at Serena to stay away from this guy. Cecil the Caterpillar gives me the willies extraordinaire.

Phew. I think that's all I can muster this week. I'm sure there are dozens of observations I missed so please comment below!

And one last word to the kids out there: Stay. In. School.