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A [[Prime Time Soap]] starring a bunch of rich kids (and a few middle class kids) ([[Friends Rent Control|sort of]]) from the Upper East Side of [[Big Applesauce|New York]]. Started off as [[Gossip Girl (novel series)|a series of young adult novels by Cecily von Ziegesar]], then made into a television show for [[The CW]] by Josh Schwartz, the creator of ''[[The OC]]'' and ''[[Chuck]]''. There also exists a [[Manhwa]] series by Hye-Kyung Baek.
The novels and show followed the lives of several characters, primarily Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald, Serena van der Woodsen, and Dan Humphrey, who (basically all) become involved romantically even though they are part of different crowds. Blair is the [[Determinator]] queen bee of the Upper East Side, while Nate is (in the novels at least) the stoned [[Prince Charming]]. Serena is a former bad girl, and Blair's mortal enemy/BFF while Dan is struggling to merely get accepted into a prestigious college, owing to the fact that his family doesn't have much money. Add in a wide array of friends and former friends, a [[Love Dodecahedron]] or two, and the narration of the mysterious "Gossip Girl".
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* [[AB Negative]]: Rufus and Dan, but not baby Milo.
* [[Aborted Declaration of Love]]: Happened three times with Blair and Chuck.
* [[Above the Influence]]: Chuck when Blair throws herself at him in
* [[Absentee Actor]]: Ed Westwick (Chuck) was missing from several episodes in
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Nearly every one on the show, but particularly Bart Bass.
* [[Accidental Marriage]]: Subverted when Serena thinks she got married accidentally in a trip to Spain during a drunk night. Fortunately for her, she didn't, although she kept dating the guy.
* [[Adaptational Angst Upgrade]]: Chuck Bass. In the books, he was deprived but seemed quite happy with himself and his life. In the series, he's the [[Jerkass Woobie]]/ [[Butt Monkey]] with a ton of emotional damage.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: In the books, Jenny Humphrey is a sweet, artistic girl whose main appearance anxiety is that she is short, brunette, and busty, unlike her tall, slender blonde idol Serena Van Der Woodsen. Who do they cast to play her in the TV series? Tall, slender blonde Taylor Momsen.
** It's likely that the producers weren't comfortable putting out a casting call for a 14 year old girl with double-D breasts and decided too not even bother matching the character's description from the books..
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** A similar case happened with Dan Humphrey, who was described as shaggy, unshaven most of the time, and kind of "nerdy". In the TV series, he has very short hair and is clean shaven and is portrayed as the "good guy", especially when compared to Chuck Bass
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Jenny, who went from brunette to blonde.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' is based on an 11 (eventually 12 + spinoff) novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar.
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Jenny with the "not letting the cool kids change who I am" thing.
** Vanessa with her attempts to beat Blair at her own game, never
* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]: Subverted. Eric is probably the least
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Blair, despite knowing Chuck is a [[Jerkass]], insists on having a relationship with him
** Lily, especially in her youth days.
** Also, Carter Baizen in
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Very prominent in
** Season 4 sends everyone back to the land of the lonely, with Dan and Nate both pining for Serena, Vanessa feeling unloved by Dan, and Blair and Chuck both believing the other no longer loves them even though the opposite is true.
* [[All Take and No Give]]: Nate and Chuck. Contrary to what one might expect, it's actually Chuck who's the giver and Nate who's the taker.
** Nate is also the Taker to Blair's Giver when they were going out in Season 1. In
** Also applies to Serena and Chuck where he again is the giver.
* [[All Women Love Shoes]]
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** Blair also did it once with Chuck, after Jack's "sabotage brunch".
** Blair does it again to Chuck when she finds out Chuck set her up to sleep with Jack in exchange for his hotel.
** Blair and Chuck mutually do this in
** Pretty much what happened with Serena and Dan once they found out that they shared a brother.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]:
* [[And This Is For]]: Done when Nate's dad is leaving the country, Nate starts to go, then turns around and punches his father, saying, "That was for Mom."
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Both the first and the second time Blair tells Chuck she loves him.
* [[Apologises a Lot]]: Serena's favorite thing to do in the first two seasons was to apologize to everyone around her for everything that had ever happened.
** Chuck also does this a lot in
* [[Arc Words]]: "''Three words, eight letters, say it and I'm yours''.".
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Chuck on a letter from his father:
{{quote|'''Nate''': Aren't you curious to know what it says?
'''Chuck''': I think I can guess. "You're a disappointment of a son. I'd die of embarrassment if I wasn't already. Why do you wear so much purple?"
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Georgina, Chuck, Eric, and most of the parents.
** Dorota went from being a background character with one line every few episodes to having an entire episode revolve around her nuptials.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: Chuck, twice in one episode actually. But, remarkably, [[Draco in Leather Pants|no one seemed to care.]]
** [[Papa Wolf|Rufus]] certainly cared when he learned about his attempted rape of Jenny.
** Jack in Season 2, who doesn't get off so lightly.
* [[At the Opera Tonight]]: The
* [[Author Appeal]]: The constant on-again/off-again relationship between Dan and Serena probably has something to do with the fact that the actors have been friends for almost a decade and have dated in [[Real Life]] throughout the run of the show. Blake Lively and Penn Badgley are notorious on the set for showering each other in public displays of affection immediately after either one of them films a love scene with any of the other actors.
* [[Auto Erotica]]: Blair, Chuck and the limo.
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* [[The Baby Trap]]: Georgina with Dan.
* [[Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch]]: Jenny does this to Blair in "A Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate" in order to become Queen herself, which leads to an [[Escalating War]] between the two.
* [[Bad Guys Play Pool]]: Comically averted - Chuck owns a pool table but the only one who ever seems to play is Nate. Dan has also been shown playing pool in
** Except for Jack, who [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|enthusiastically rubs a pool cue]] while propositioning Blair.
* [[Bargain with Heaven]]: Blair in 510 for
* [[Batman Gambit]]: In
** Chuck attempted one in
** Georgina in
** Jack Bass pulls off a pretty impressive one in
* [[The Beard]]: This has been used several times in the show.
** Dan and Serena after 511.
** Nate and Serena in
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Jack Bass sports one when he returns in Season Three.
* [[Beat Them At Their Own Game]]: In order to avoid having to tell Blair he loves her, Chuck asks her to say it first (knowing she probably can't).
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Nearly every character on the show.
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Jenny in Season 3.
* [[Bed Trick]]: Chuck attempts this with Blair during a blackout, but never gets further than making out. Subverted in that she knows its him all along but pretends to believe it's her boyfriend.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Blair and Chuck.
** In the second half of
* [[Best Served Cold]]: Blair, Chuck, and Georgina are constantly setting new standards for this trope, and it's '''always''' [[It's Personal|personal]].
** In Season 4, Juliet serves up a full-course meal to Serena. Too bad it wasn't actually Serena who had destroyed her brother's life, but Lily.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Used to be Chuck and Blair, although with Dan and Serena no longer an item they've been promoted to alpha.
** Lily and Rufus may also count as this.
* [[Better as Friends]]: Eventually Dan and Serena land on this conclusion.
** So do Blair and Nate in
* [[Better Than Sex]]: Blair describes a take-down as "better than sex." And then immediately has sex with Chuck for comparison purposes...
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Given the [[Love Dodecahedron]] in the show, there's plenty of them, actually:
** Dan, in
** Blair had to choose between Nate (Betty) and Chuck (Veronica).
** Nate had a brief period where he was torn between Vanessa (Betty) and Jenny (Veronica).
** Lily was torn between Bart and Rufus, though which is the Betty and which is the Veronica depends on whether you see Rufus distracting Lily from the "more appropriate" Bart or Bart coming between a couple that has been looking for the right moment for twenty years.
** Serena has had several. Nate (Betty) and Dan (Veronica). Nate (Betty) and Tripp (Veronica). Dan (Betty) and her professor (Veronica).
** Mid-
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Dan, starting near the end of Season 3. In full bloom in Season 4.
** It's not certain if it was the Jenny banishment or the Peace Treaty that broke the camel's back.
* [[The "B" Grade]]: Blair has a B-Grade freakout in season two, leading her to humiliate the teacher who dared give her the grade. Admittedly, this was mainly because a less than perfect grade put her chances of getting into Yale into jeopardy and less about the grade itself, but the trope still applies.
* [[Big Applesauce]]: ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' is set and filmed in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
* [[Big Bra to Fill]]: See [[Adaptational Attractiveness]], above.
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: Bart Bass.
** Gossip Girl (the character) can arguably fit into some kind of Big Brother too.
* [[Big Man on Campus]]: Nate Archibald.
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Chuck and Nate.
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Vanderbilts.
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Blair and Serena scream this at one another during their Cat Fight in "New Haven Can Wait
* [[Millionaire Playboy|Billionaire Playboy]]: Chuck Bass.
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Chuck and Blair.
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* [[Bi the Way]]: In the books, Chuck. And perhaps [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|Serena and Blair]] as well.
** Possibly Chuck in the TV show as well - at least he told Blair it was not the first time he kissed a guy when she set him up to do so.
* [[Blackmail]]: Georgina blackmails Serena in
* [[Bondage Is Bad]]: Blair and Chuck, the two most morally ambiguous main characters on the show, apparently used handcuffs a lot when they were dating. And apparently a bidding paddle can be put to other uses...
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Serena.
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Nate and Serena.
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Blair and Dan.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Chuck Bass. In the novels, he's a depraved obnoxious bisexual nobody wants to be around, and is barely tolerated by people because of his money (and a minor character). It seemed that in the pilot he was to have the same background -save for [[No Bisexuals|his bisexuality]]-, but was instead portrayed as a tortured [[Anti-Hero]] who really does care for his friends and eventually formed the on/off Chair (Chuck and Blair)
** Lily and Rufus were secondary characters in the books, but in the series, they get a lot of attention.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Jenny's desire to fit into the Upper Eat Side leads to this.
* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]: Serena and Georgina pretending to be foreigners.
** Chuck pretending to be Blair's British boyfriend.
*** Which is funny, because his actor Ed Westwick is British.
* [[The Bro Code]]: Mostly averted (neither Dan nor Nate seems to mind that the other is dating their ex), but played straight in
** Strange subversion in the
* [[Burlesque]]: Chuck owns a burlesque club. Blair getting up on stage and dancing for him is what lead to their initial hook-up.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: You'd think that people would learn not to annoy/insult/try to take down Chuck Bass. You'd think wrong.
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Georgina seems to have several round-trip tickets.
** Jenny also returned briefly for a couple of episodes in Season 4.
* [[But Not Too Bi]]: Chuck's experiences with women seems to outweigh his experiences with men by far
* [[But Not Too Gay]]: Eric and his boyfriends act more like best friends than lovers.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dan gets the most dramatic abuse, but Hazel is constantly ragged on by everyone in the show. The only way to differentiate her from the other secondary bitchy girls is she's the one everyone makes fun of. At least until Nelly Yuki becomes one of the mean girls and subsequently takes over the [[Butt Monkey]] position from Hazel.
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** Lily herself does this to Bart in "The Magnificent Archibalds".
** When Jenny leaves the house in order to pursue a designer career and even tries to get an emancipation order from her father.
** Eric gives an epic one to his father when Will comes back in
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Serena to Dan regarding Georgina. See also Chuck, Blair, and those three little words.
** Scott, with telling Rufus and Lily that he's their son.
* [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]]: Chuck, towards Blair.
* [[The Captain]]: Howie Archibald.
* [[Career Versus Man]]: Gender flipped with Chuck, who has to choose between the Empire hotel (and according to his father and uncle), his future as a business man and Blair. He chooses the hotel. But also with Blair, who chooses her career over Chuck in
* [[Carpet of Virility]]: Originally just Chuck, but now Nate and Dan have followed suit.
* [[Casa Lane Parenting]]: Averted. While Rufus Humphrey might be an ex rock star and his wife Allison is an artist who is a [[Missing Mom]], Rufus at least is shown to be the most attentive parent on the show.
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*** Lampshaded by Blair in 02x01, when Chuck asks Blair not to leave with her new boyfriend
{{quote|'''Blair''': Why? Give me a reason - and 'I'm Chuck Bass' doesn't count.}}
** And Cyrus has "Not enough
** Serena says "I should go" so often that it's starting to count as a catchphrase.
* [[Cat Fight]]: Serena vs. Blair. Two memorable ones, actually. Clothing ripping included.
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* [[Character Blog]]: Gossip Girl, of course.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Chuck started out as a depraved attempted rapist and has now turned into some sort of Gandalf, running around offering advice and looking out for the rest.
** Now that he's been de-Blaired he's pretty much reverted back to his early
* [[Charity Ball]]: The characters frequently attend these.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Chuck, Bart and to some degree Blair. Also, Juliet.
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* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Aaron, Cyrus' son and Serena's boyfriend in Season 2. We are told the episode after they headed off to Argentina they they broke up [[Put on a Bus|in flight]].
* [[The Clan]]: The Vanderbilts and, though we are told more than we see this, the Buckleys.
* [[Comforting Comforter]]: When Chuck ditched Blair in the middle of the night in
* [[Coming Out Story]]: The
* [[Conservation of Competence]]: Blair versus all her stupid, stupid minions.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: If Chuck ever loans out Blair's underwear to a pole dancer again, she will start wearing flannel to bed.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Serena.
* [[Coolest Club Ever]]: Chuck's two clubs Victrola and Gimlet.
* [[Cool Loser]]: Dan Humphrey in the first two seasons, until it is revealed that he is actually the biggest Insider of them all. Congratulations, Dan. Now you're king of the Hipsters.
* [[Convenient
* [[Convenient Miscarriage]]: {{spoiler|Blair in 510-11}}.
* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: Chuck when it comes to Blair, more often than not.
* [[Cultured Badass]]: Chuck Bass. Wore suits to kindergarten, developed his taste for single malt at the age of twelve, enjoys both ballet and opera. While he may not physically hurt you, Chuck is likely to make your life a living hell if you cross him.
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Blair Waldorf, even though her father left her and moved to France with his boyfriend.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: When Serena isn't being blackmailed by the girl who was with her when she sort of killed someone, or getting into car accidents thanks to wolves randomly roaming about New York she's probably being conned by her boyfriend. Even the other characters [[Genre Savvy|are well aware]] of her extraordinary ability to end up in these situations.
{{quote|'''Chuck''': If you have a problem with my proximity to Blair, then maybe you should ask Serena not to get herself into so much trouble.}}
* [[Dances and Balls]]: Practically every other episode of the show. Seriously.
* [[Dark Secret]]: Serena has one in Season 1.
* [[Date Rape Averted]]: Three times, all with Bass men. Chuck assaults Serena in the pilot and gets kneed in the balls. Then he tries to assault Jenny, but gets punched in the face by Dan. Finally, Jack Bass tries to rape Lily in the bathroom in Season 2
** As the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4ZW_iBacQ&feature=related Gossip Girl finger puppets] put it: "What is it about [[Attempted Rape]] by a Bass that brings people together?"
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: One episode features Blair having a sex fantasy about Chuck and then telling Dorota she will be down for breakfast once she's "finished something".
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Nate and Bree Buckley.
* [[Dating Do-Si-Do]]
* [[Dead Man Writing]]: Bart Bass.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Blair. Chuck. Dan.
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: Bart appearing to Chuck in "The Debarted".
* [[Death by Childbirth]]: Chuck's mother.
* [[Death Glare]]: Chuck is the king of this trope. Blair isn't half-bad either.
* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: Bye Bart!
**
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Aaron Rose, who played a much larger role in the books.
* [[Determinator]]: Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass. Those two will stop at nothing to get what they want. Which makes things interesting when he wants her and she wants Nate.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In episode 4x09, Jenny couldn't have stolen the SIM out of Serena's phone because it doesn't have one. Thanks to Verizon's gratuitous [[Product Placement]], every phone on the show is CDMA.
* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: See Blair's reaction to Georgina's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trsWEJqGfT8 ''You can tell Jesus that the bitch is back.'']
** Eric says this word for word when Dan tells him he
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Blair's father, who came out as gay.
** Also Serena's father.
** Nate's father after he gets arrested.
*** Averted because he comes back during the fourth season to play a part in the Russell Thorpe storyline, then played straight again during
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Dan, running out on his family and Vanessa when Georgina takes Milo away. Eventually opens up but there's barely any [[Wangst]]ing, even though it was one of those occasions that actually warrant it.
* [[Double Entendre]]: At least 70% of Chuck Bass's dialogue consists of this.
* [[The Drag Along]]: Nate during most NJBC adventures. He would rather leave Chuck to stew in his own vomit than force him to attend Bart's funeral, and he would rather get some coffee than help Serena get back all the money her boyfriend Gabriel stole from their friends.
* [[Dream Sequence]]: Blair is prone to having dreams where she's in one of her favorite movies. Usually they are nightmares.
** Dan also had a couple in the
** Chuck in
* [[Dress Hits Floor]]: In "
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Eric, Serena's brother, was driven to attempted suicide before the show. He's why Serena returns in the first episode.
** Also Chuck almost
* [[The Driver]]: Arthur the limo driver.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Bart is hit by a car offscreen. To add insult to injury, he was on his way to try and reconcile with his wife, Lily, who had been drifting further away from him and more towards old flame Rufus.
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Chuck.
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Subverted. Nate and Chuck use drugs on a regular basis, with no ill effects other than one brief suspension for Chuck.
** Played straight with Jenny in
** Played straight also in the flashback where Serena "kills" a guy.
* [[Drunken Song]]: Chuck gives us a rendition of "
* [[Duel of Seduction]]
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Serena.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Considering that Serena took Blair's boyfriend's virginity, then moved to Connecticut the next day without telling Blair she was leaving, and then ignored Blair's calls, e-mails and letters even though she knew Blair's father suddenly left her mother for another man, Blair forgave her pretty darn easily.
** Chuck and Serena keep doing mean and spiteful things to each other which they rarely
** The whole Indecent Proposal arc of
* [[Easy Evangelism]]: In Season 5, Blair, who was never shown before to even attend church somehow starts to believe in God strongly enough that she is willing to {{spoiler|marry Louis}} because she believes God is against it.
* [[Emo Teen]]: Jenny Humphrey.
* [[Emotions vs. Stoicism]]: Bart and Jack keep telling Chuck he's weak for loving Blair and therefore letting his emotions control him, and that the only way Chuck can become successful is by being stoic. Chuck buys into this completely, telling Blair "
* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: Vanessa used this on Blair in
* [[Enter Stage Window]]: Vanessa in
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Blair has one starring Chuck in
** Dan with Serena (kind of) in
* [[Erotic Eating]]: Serena with some chocolate covered strawberries in an early
* [[Escalating War]]: Any ongoing fight between Serena and Blair. Also Blair and Chuck throughout all of
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Chuck. Mr. Ellis sure was happy to get to kiss him.
* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Captain.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Blair and Chuck, sort of.
** Also happens with Dan/Vanessa in
** Dan and Blair.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Blair's headbands.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Georgina Sparks started out as what Serena could have become; in later seasons, she seems to have become more of an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Blair around about the same time Blair became her main enemy.
** Carter Baizen was an even-more-evil counterpart to Chuck in
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Serena's grandmother, who tricks her into appearing at her Debutante Ball and having paid off Dan's father to stay away from Serena's mother.
** As of "The Townie
* [[Evil Uncle]]: Jack Bass.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The overall plot of Season 4. At first, Juliet seemed to be [[The Dragon]], then the [[Big Bad]]. Turns out, she had very good reason for wanting retribution. She just had the wrong target. Serena didn't destroy her brother's life. Lily did.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]:
* [[Fag Hag]]: Jenny to Eric.
* [[Fallen Princess]]: Blair after some character development (and after she loses her Queen Bee status). Serena, after she comes back from boarding school in
* [[False Start]]: Blair up on the roof in Brooklyn.
** Also appears in the
* [[Fan Service]]: Dan and Nate tend to strut around without their shirts off.
** For those who don't like guys, Serena's breasts are by now considered characters in their own right. Plus Blair's many lingerie scenes.
** Eric and Jenny in
* [[The Fashionista]]: All the girls except for Vanessa.
* [[Fashion Show]]: Several. Though hardly surprising, since Eleanor Waldorf is a professional designer and Jenny used to be into designing too.
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Mention the magic words
* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]: [[The Voice|Gossip Girl]] sometimes falls into this.
* [[Feud Episode]]: Serena and Blair at least once per season.
** Nate and Chuck after the truth comes out about Chuck and Blair. They go from being [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] to having a rocky on-and-off friendship that thus far hasn't returned to its former glory.
* [[First Kiss]]:
** Dan and Serena -
** Nate and Blair -
** Chuck and Blair -
** Nate and Serena -
** Nate and Vanessa -
** Nate and Jenny -
** Chuck and Vanessa -
** Chuck and Jenny - not sure if the pilot
** Dan and Vanessa -
** Dan and Blair -
* [[First Law of Resurrection]]: Evelyn Bass... maybe.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Dan Humphrey in
** Blair Waldorf at NYU in
* [[Flanderization]]: Poor Rufus, what happened to you?
** In late
* [[Flash Back]]: Episode 3.12 features a very well-done flashback to Bart's death.
** In
* [[Flirty Stepsiblings]]: Inverted as Dan and Serena attempt to stay apart when they realize they each share a half-sibling and their parents eventually get married. The books played this straight with Blair and Aaron but the TV Series skipped it.
** Serena and Dan have occasionally kept flirting and considered getting back together though throughout the show's run.
** Chuck and Jenny.
* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: Chuck and Eva.
* [[Foiler Footage]]: This was done at the end of
* [[Foot Popping]]: Blair does this in the
* [[Forceful Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Blair to Dan}}.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Serena - '''{{color|maroon|sanguine}}''', Chuck - '''{{color|orange|choleric}}''', Blair - '''{{color|black|melancholic}}''', and Nate - '''{{color|green|phlegmatic}}'''.
* [[Franchise Zombie]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Chuck (relates to the [[Death by Childbirth]] thing).
* [[Friendship Moment]]: The Non-Judging Breakfast Club, as well as numerous between Blair and Serena. In the last few seasons, Chuck and Nate have more than any other pairing combined.
* [[Friends Rent Control]]: The Humphreys with that Brooklyn loft.
* [[Friends with Benefits]]: Dan and Vanessa attempt this in
** Chuck and Blair try this again in
* [[Full-Name Basis]]: Nelly Yuki.
* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Subverted. Chuck Bass' adoptive mother Lily calls him Charles (and is the only one to do so on a regular basis). She only calls him Chuck when he's misbehaved or when referring to his deviant side.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Dan's attempt at being a chef literally going up in smokes in the background while Olivia talks on the phone.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Chuck and Blair do this from time to time. Vanessa lampshades it in a
{{quote|'''Vanessa''': So you're telling me that Chuck had his dad's company make an offer on the bar in order to get back at Dan? Isn't that a little convoluted, even for you?
'''Blair''': Real estate was just foreplay. Seducing and humiliating you was the ultimate goal.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Blair has thus far called Chuck both "basshole" and "motherchucker".
** A
** The
*** Chuck and Blair again. In
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]:
{{quote|'''Chuck''': If you two want to kiss... it won't count as cheating.
'''Serena''': Creepy, Chuck.
* [[Girl Posse]]: The show plays this one straight (Kati, Isabel, Hazel, Penelope) and subverts it (
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Two of Blair's minions serve as angel and devil when she tries to decide whether or not to destroy the English teacher who put her chances of getting into Yale at risk.
** Blair and Bart play these roles to Chuck, regarding whether or not he should buy the homeless shelter, in "
* [[Good Bad Girl]]: Serena is the epitome of this.
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]: More like Gorgeous ''Modern'' Dress.
* [[Go Seduce My Arch-Nemesis]]: Blair urging Chuck to seduce Vanessa in a
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Don't eff with an effer.
* [[Granola Girl]]: Vanessa to a degree. Also her mother.
* [[Gratuitous French]]: A lot. Blair
** But
* [[Guttural Growler]]: Chuck Bass, Bart Bass and Dr. William van der Woodsen.
* [[Hands-Off Parenting]]: Most parents on the show but Lily van der Woodsen really takes the cake. Except when it comes to Chuck.
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* [[The Hedonist]]: Chuck Bass when he's not with Blair.
{{quote|'''Jenny''': You look like hell.
'''Chuck''': Small price to pay to feel like heaven.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: While he hasn't turned completely good, Chuck sure has mellowed since he [[The Power of Love|fell in love]] with Blair.
* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: The stories aspiring-author Dan writers are all thinly veiled retellings of what has happened in his life so far, all of them focusing on the cultural clash between him and the UES-ers. He doesn't exactly try hard to hide it either - Chuck Bass is called Charlie Trout, for instance.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]:
** Blair and Serena, to the point they dumped their respective dates at prom, and spent the rest of the night together remembering old days. And now in
** Chuck and Nate, at least in
*** Chuck and Nate live together as of Season 3
*** Apparently their actors are a real life example.
** Dan and Nate, since they doodle each
* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen|He/She Who Must Not Be Seen]]: [[The Voice|Gossip Girl]]. The one attempt to discover his/her true identity, at the end of Season Two, backfired spectacularly.
* [[Hide Your Pregnancy]]: Kelly Rutherford in Season Two.
* [[High-Class Call Girl]]: Brandeis.
* [[High School]]: Seasons
* [[High School Dance]]: Every other episode in the first two seasons.
* [[Holding Hands]]: In early
** By the time Chuck and Blair actually begin dating, Chuck seems to have gotten over his aversion. They are often holding hands in
**
{{quote|'''Blair to Dorota''': Now we can date outside the confines of the 7-1-8. We can walk down Madison Avenue hand in hand.}}
* [[Hollywood Driving]]: Tripp, although it's a subversion since he ends up losing control of the car and crashing.
* [[Hollywood Hype Machine]]: The show itself. A lot of jokes are made about how it's the hippest, most talked-about show nobody watches.
* [[Hood Ornament Hottie]]: Blair makes use of this trope in a
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Subverted with Elle. Chuck thinks he's found one of these when he meets her, but she turns out to just be playing him for an escape plan and some cash.
** Invoked with Eva. She was a prostitute but fell in love with Chuck as a person not knowing who he was. She in turn, worked wonders on him and made him a better person. Too bad that doesn't last....
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** Basically, Serena believes that anyone who likes her is good and anyone who doesn't might be bad. Prime example being Carter Baizen. When he was interested in Blair, Serena deemed him public enemy number one and even forced him out of the country. When he was interested in ''Serena'' he was suddenly just misunderstood, and [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|actually a great guy]].
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Chuck.
* [[Hot for Student]]: Rachel Carr, who is drawn to and eventually hooks up with Dan in
* [[Hot Guys Are Bastards]]: Chuck Bass.
* [[House Husband]]: Rufus Humphrey.
* [[How's Your British Accent?]]: "''Blow out your candle
* [[I Am Not My Father]]: Chuck keeps repeating that he's not like his father. Though he can't seem to decide if that's a positive thing or a negative.
* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me]]!:
* [[Iconic Item]]: Chuck's signature scarf.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: All episode titles are a play on names of movies.
** Most of the books are named after or very close to song titles and/or lyrics.
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** She is being an idiot, yes, but she's doing it precisely because her father rejected her this past summer. So while it's still stupid, she has a character-driven excuse.
*** The stuff she does for paparazzi attention is because of her father, yes. Jumping from "true love" to "true love" every other week (especially the whole Tripp affair) is just her being a moron.
** Serena's actions in "
** Not to mention everything involving her father. Seriously, how could she not tell that he was shady and up to no good?
** Ivy seems to have caught the Idiot ball for
* [[If I Can't Have You]]: Chuck puts a dating embargo on Blair after their breakup. Sorry, dating ''fatwa''.
* [[If I Had a Nickel]]:
{{quote|'''Lily''': (''To Serena'') Oh, don't put your dirty package on the table.
'''Chuck''': If I had a dime for every time I heard that...
* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: Serena's [[Brainless Beauty|cunning plan]] to make Jenny dislike Damian in
* [[Improbable Age]]: Jenny, a fifteen year old mini-couturier who is not only supposed to be a lot better than professional designer Eleanor Waldorf, but also able to rival every other professional designer during New York's fashion week.
** Chuck runs a hotel, hosts an election party and has a grand pub opening, all at the age of eighteen (the underage thing somehow not an issue in getting that liquor license) and with no previous experience other than owning part of a burlesque club. And the guy didn't even do well in high school.
** Blair apparently going from Intern to some kind of manager at her fashion magazine within the space of about 2 weeks.
*** And as of the
* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]: Blair argues that Chuck having sex with Vanessa is just as bad as Blair having sex with Jack... with Vanessa standing right next to them.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]:
** Lonely Boy (Dan).
** Little J (Jenny).
** Queen B, or B (Blair), and S (Serena).
** The Captain (Howie Archibald).
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Gossip Girl thrives on these.
** The characters never seem to run out of lame puns on the name Bass.
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* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: Arguably, Serena. She is supposed to be incredibly beautiful, putting everyone around her in the shade, but some feel that while Blake Lively is gorgeous, she doesn't live up to this hype. Of course, this may be a symptom of how beautiful ''everyone'' is on the show.
* [[In Love with Love]]: Nate, who's had more relationships than the other characters combined.
** Serena in
* [[Instant Birth, Just Add Water]]: Pretty much how Anastasia was born.
* [[Interactive Narrator]]: Gossip Girl herself.
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* [[In with the In Crowd]]
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]:
** Chuck at the end of
** Dan in 510 for Blair.
** Blair in 515 for Dan.
{{quote|'''Dan''': Do you really want me and Serena to get back together?
'''Blair''': I just want you to be happy.
**
** Chuck throughout
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: And how!
** Most extremely with Serena, who despite poor grades and zero extracurriculars manages to get into Yale (above Blair, who has perfect grades and loads of extracurriculars) and Brown.
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** Jack Bass.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: While Chuck can really be unpleasant, underneath it all he really does care for Blair. Carter Baizen also seems to be shifting from [[Jerkass]] to this.
** Chuck has actually proven these tendencies towards a lot of characters. Nate, Serena, and Eric being a few.
* [[Just Friends]]: Dan and Vanessa. Some weird version of this where both characters had some unrequited love/feelings for the other when they were younger, and then after they slept together (in a threesome), Dan's feelings have come back.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Juliet, after nearly killing Serena (Season 4), leaves the city free of any pursuits, and even her brother Ben, who helped her to scheme against Serena, finally gets a litteral [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]] (though, to be fair, he never wanted to hurt Serena the way Juliet did).
** Serena
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Bart Bass. {{spoiler|Or not
** Also {{spoiler|Cece}}.
* [[Lady Drunk]]: Cece Rhodes.
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** People calling Dan or Vanessa out on being judgmental.
** Blair being afraid she and Chuck will become boring as a couple, and Chuck saying they can never be boring.
** The occasional
** Nate jumping from girl to girl almost every week - "''Nate Archibald - class whore.''"
** Blair with Chuck's catchphrase in the
{{quote|'''Chuck''': Please don't leave with him.
'''Blair''': Why? Give me a reason. And "I'm Chuck Bass" doesn't count.
** Chuck pointing out how much purple he wears.
** Dan commenting on Jenny's makeup. - "''You look like one of the Incredibles''."
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*** And even Jack at one point lampshades Serena's and Nate's inability to plot.
{{quote|'''Jack''': Were you hoping to catch me in a compromising position? A litte... high school, don't you think? Leave the plotting to the experts.}}
** The [[Limited Social Circle]] of the NJBC is lampshaded in
** Chuck [[Stalking Is Love|stalking Blair]] has been lampshaded twice.
** Nate's [[One-Hour Work Week]] is lampshaded by Blair in season three.
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* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: In-universe, Serena. Every man who passes her way falls in love with her, risking everything from steady relationships to political careers in order to be with her. In fanfiction, however, it's Blair. Fans want to pair her up with anyone and everyone, even with men who have only ever been devoted to Serena.
** Blair is now an in-universe one with a total of three current love interests desperate to have her, including Dan, who had previously only loved Serena.
* [[Let's Wait a While]]: All three male teen leads do this at some point in
** Dan makes Serena wait from episode seven when it is first mentioned, until episode ten. He was a virgin and she was not.
** An ongoing plot in the first seven episodes was Nate putting off sex with Blair, despite her best efforts.
** Chuck tells Blair they should wait and "do it right this time" when they get together in the season finale.
** After admitting her feelings for Dan in
** Also apparently Dan and Blair
*** This was probably also because
* [[Life Imitates Art]]: Despite the endless "It's all about Blair, honest it is" cries from fandom (and sometimes the producers), the in-universe tendency for Serena to outdo Blair became very much an in-real-life thing as well regarding their respective actresses... something the intensely Blair-centric season five did nothing to change
* [[Likes Older Women]]: Nate Archibald.
* [[Limited Social Circle]]: The show nicely avoided this in the first two seasons with everyone but Dan (aka Lonely Boy). In
* [[Lingerie Scene]]: Lots. Usually it's Blair.
* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Blair to Chuck.
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* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Let's see... Blair's parents are both absent most of the time (both actually live in France but her mother comes to New York a few times each season), Chuck's father never paid attention to him and then died, Nate's parents aren't around much either. All three characters are only children. Serena and Eric at least had each other... until Serena left for boarding school.
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: Lily and Rufus' son, Scott Rawson, who was adopted at birth. The knowledge of this is the ultimate breaking point in Serena and Dan's relationship as the fact that they share a sibling is too much for them to look past.
** In
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: Blair.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: In the first season, Dan and Serena were in love, but Vanessa loved Dan who used to love her and Nate (who is involved with Blair, who has a steamy fling with Chuck, who is best friends with Nate) was into Serena. There's also a [[Love Dodecahedron]] involving Dan's father, Serena's mother, and Chuck's father. Yes, really.
** They then add a Vanessa/Nate/Jenny pairing on top of this. The whole thing is Chuck/Blair/Nate/Serena/Dan/Vanessa/Nate/Jenny (who also seems to have a Will and Grace thing for the slightly [[Camp Gay]] Eric). I think.
*** Let's not forget Vanessa and Chuck's one night stand in order to make, respectively, Nate and Blair jealous.
*** It's just getting ridiculous now. From the main characters, the only straight pairings that haven't happened are Dan and Jenny because they are brother and sister, then Dan and Blair. But this last one is being worked on as we speak. Oh, and Chuck/Serena I think. The entire set of pairings that have happened on the show is now something like Chuck/Vanessa/Dan/Blair/Chuck/Blair/Nate/Serena/Dan/Vanessa/Nate/Jenny/Chuck.'
*** Dan and Blair are now together. Wouldn't be
*** Now it's back to Chuck and Blair as of the
* [[Love Epiphany]]: Subverted. Blair realizes "Dan loves me for me
** Played straight in the next episode, where she tells Dan that she "realized my heart belonged to someone else
** {{spoiler|Then a few episodes later in the finale, she "actually" is in love with Chuck. Makes sense
* [[Love Hurts]]: Chuck has loved Blair for five seasons and been miserable for it whenever they're not together. Which is most of the time.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Georgina Sparks. Quite literally.
** Also Jenny in
* [[Love Martyr]]: Blair Waldorf for Chuck Bass. However, she eventually
* [[Love Redeems]]: Chuck became a better person after falling in love with Blair. Then she dumped him and he became a much worse person...
** He spends much of
* [[Love Triangle]]
* [[Lysistrata Gambit]]: Reversed. Chuck refuses to sleep with Blair until she can tell him she loves him. Cue a lot of sexual frustration on Blair's end.
* [[Madden Into Misanthropy]]: Blair after she gets kicked out of Yale.
** Chuck after he loses Blair.
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]: Used several times.
** Juliet tries to make Serena's drug overdose seem accidental in
** Tripp creates an "accidental" car crash in 510.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Blair, for the NJBC members. Chuck sometimes shows [[Papa Wolf]] tendencies.
** Lily won't hesitate to destroy people's lives for the sake of her family's convenience.
* [[Mandatory Line]]: Vanessa.
* [[Man Hug]]: Nate makes a joke about it in
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Chuck Bass.
** Jack Bass. It runs in the family.
** Lily has beaten both Basses at their own game.
* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: Jack Bass.
* [[Manly Tears]]: Chuck, twice. He shows up on Blair's bed, crying, after his father's funeral. He is also shown shedding tears when she professes her love for him again in the Season Two finale, and he rejects her once more.
** Chuck, again, in "The Debarted". This time combining the reasons behind the first two times he's cried on the show.
** Chuck, again, in "The Empire Strikes Jack", when his mom tells him she ain't his mom.
** Still Chuck in the episode, "Double Identity", when Blair tells him she doesn't love him anymore.
** And again in "The Witches of Bushwick", after he and Blair finally look like they're back together for good until she realizes she can't live with being "Chuck Bass's girlfriend" until she is able to make it on her own first.
* [[Matchmaker Crush]]: Chuck spends the first seven episodes of the show trying to help Blair lose her virginity to Nate. Then she gives it up to Chuck instead and he [[Sex Equals Love|falls in love]] with her.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Nate and Lady Catherine.
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* [[Meet Cute]]: Dan and Amanda. Subverted, as it turns out, since she was hired by Chuck who orchestrated the whole thing to mess with Dan and Serena.
** Played straight with Dan and Olivia.
** Jenny and Asher in
** Eric and Elliot.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]:
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'''Dan''': What happened with you?
'''Rufus''': I swam for a while. Till I drowned.
'''Dan''': Oh. Well, thanks, Dad. That's a great story.
** Blair, after Chuck brought her along for an all-night trip to find Georgina, just to get her away from Nate:
{{quote|'''Serena''': It doesn't make sense!
'''Blair''': Feelings never do. They get you all confused. Then they drive you around for hours before they drop you right back where you started.
** Blair's response to Chuck revealing the thought of her gives him butterflies:
{{quote|'''Blair''': Chuck. You know that I adore all of God's creatures and the metaphors that they inspire. But these butterflies... have ''got'' to be murdered.}}
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* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: Those wolves... You know the ones.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Dan and Jenny's mother, though she comes back for a few episodes.
** Chuck's mom, possibly. In
* [[Mistaken Declaration of Love]]: At a masquerade ball in
* [[Mistaken for Cheating]]:
* [[Mistaken for Pregnant]]: In the first season, this is the catalyst for Blair's social downfall. Serena covers for her to buy her a pregnancy test, so she is initially [[Mistaken for Pregnant]] as well, thanks to Gossip Girl.
** Eleanor in
* [[Mixed Metaphor]]:
{{quote|'''Serena''': The second he starts to call the shots these gloves come off and the nails come out. I just mixed metaphors, didn't I?}}
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* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You|Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: When Chuck's supposedly dead mother Elizabeth returns it brings back Serena's issues over her father leaving her, so she goes to Elizabeth to hear why she left, hoping it will be because of this trope. Serena's hopes are cruelly crushed as she keeps offering Elizabeth good reasons for why she might have left, only for Elizabeth to tell her that she left because she didn't want to be a mother, didn't love her baby and had no desire to be a part of her child's life.
* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Dan Humphrey, an aspiring writer who often chronicles the lives of Manhattan's Elite (and of his interferences in said lives).
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Inverted. The [[Estrogen Brigade]] trope describes "an enclave of female fans within a traditionally male-dominated fandom." ''Gossip Girl'' is primarily aimed at women and girls (as is almost anything else from [[The CW]] and/or [[Privileged|Alloy]] [[Pretty Little Liars|Entertainment]]). If anything, [[Ms. Fanservice|Serena]] [[Absolute Cleavage|van der]] [[She's Got Legs|Woodsen]] and/or [[Fan Service|Blair]] [[Lingerie Scene|Waldorf]] are [[Gender Flip|Testosterone Brigade Bait]].
** This troper freely gives Blake Lively the sole credit for keeping him watching the show.
*** This troper freely gives ''Leighton Messter'' credit for keeping [[Even the Girls Want Her|her watching the show]].
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Oh boy Serena... and her breasts. And her legs. And her hair. And her behind. And her...
** And what about Blair? Not exactly lacking in that department.
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* [[Naked People Trapped Outside]]: Jenny's way of [[Attempted Rape|getting back at Chuck]].
* [[Never My Fault]]: Chuck can be this way sometimes. Like when he somehow gets Blair to agree that their breakup was "nobody's fault" even though they broke up because he whored her out to his uncle.
* [[No Bisexuals]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Dan's actress girlfriend Oliva Burke is a mix of [[Harry Potter|Emma Watson]] and [[Twilight (novel)|Kristen Stewart]].
* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: Let's just say the characters are creative with how they wear their school uniforms...
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* [[Not a Date]]: Dan is accused of having a sexual relationship with his new teacher Rachel Carr. Naturally, they decide the only solution to this problem is to go on [[Not a Date]] at a quiet romantic restaurant. Naturally Serena, Dan's girlfriend at the time, accidentally sees them and gets the wrong idea. And gets photographic proof, which Blair then uses to get back at Rachel for putting her place at Yale at risk.
** All of Dan and Blair's movie dates. And coffee and breakfasts meets. That not even Gossip Girl knows. How did that happen?
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Subverted twice with Serena and Dan. In
** Averted with Serena and Chuck when Lily and Bart Bass got married, though given the timing anything other would have appeared forced.
*** Although it was mentioned:
{{quote|'''Chuck''': You know what they say. The family that plays together stays together.
'''Serena''': Ah, incest, the universal taboo. One of the only ones you haven't violated.
'''Chuck''': Well I'm game if you are.
** In the books, Blair and Aaron.
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: The cast seems to live in the part of New York where no one has a New York accent and Chuck sounds strangely [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|British]].
* [[Nouveau Riche]]: The Basses.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Chuck and Nate in the TV
** As of
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Georgina takes out {{spoiler|Poppy}} off-screen.
** Every time Chuck and Blair are about to have a steamy moment in
** Dan and Blair {{spoiler|first kiss}} was freeze-framed in
* [[Older Sidekick]]: Dorota to Blair.
* [[One-Hour Work Week]]: Nate, Dan and Blair sure have a lot of free time on their hands for a bunch of college kids. The only time they mention going to class is when they're talking about ''skipping'' that class. Chuck doesn't seem to be doing much work either.
* [[One-Note Cook]]: Well, three notes, actually. The Humphreys can make waffles and chili and... bolognese. Waiting for the fourth.
* [[One Born Every Minute]]: Serena, who in late Season Two is conned by Gabriel and Poppy.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: The Captain.
** And Gossip Girl.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Dan Humphrey and Eric Van der Woodsen are the Only Sane Man tag-team of the Upper East Side.
** In "Gaslit
*** But lets be fair, he didn't know her back when her overdosing was a daily possibility.
* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: Vanessa and Chuck teamed up to make Nate and Blair jealous.
** Also the whole reason Blair dated Marcus.
** In "The Hurt Locket
* [[Opposites Attract]]: As it is now in mid-
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Ivy in
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Blair is probably worst off, seeing as ''all four'' of her parents have left her and moved to France.
** Chuck has it pretty bad too, with his father having trouble accepting him after his mother died during childbirth. According to
** Nate's dad flees the country, then returns only to end up in federal prison.
** Serena and Eric's father left when they were little, and Lily wasn't around much either.
* [[Parental Issues]]: Everyone. Even the relatively well-adjusted
* [[Parental Neglect]]: Probably the main reason why Chuck acts the way he does is to get ''some'' attention from his ever absent father. His adoptive mother is not much better, having often left Serena and Eric alone to run off with some new guy. Blair's parents do a pretty good job of neglecting her as well.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Dorota is this for Blair. Lily tries to do this for Chuck, but she can barely parent her own kids, so...
* [[Parenting the Husband]]: It really feels like Lily has to do this with Rufus, day in and day out. Especially since he has no job and just mopes around her house, strumming his guitar and wondering where everyone went.
* [[Parent Trap Plot]]: The van der Humphrey children try this when it looks like Rufus and Lily are going to call off their engagement in "Rufus Getting Married". The episode title gives away that it works.
** Lampshaded by Rufus. "I knew I let you kids watch Parent Trap too many times..."
** Serena seems to be trying this again with her mom and dad in late Season 3.
* [[Parent with New Paramour]]: Serena and Eric have experienced this more times than they can count.
** Blair was initially excited to meet her mother's new boyfriend Cyrus but was incredibly disappointed when he resembled Danny Devito more than he did Cary Grant. Although by the time Cyrus becomes her stepfather they have a pretty close bond.
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* [[The Patriarch]]: William Vanderbilt.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: Jenny.
* [[Perpetual Expression]]: Extreme confusion is Nate's favorite state of mind. Fans like to call it [http://gg-beautifuldirtyrich.forumcommunity.net/?t=28816624 Natefusion]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Vanessa and Dan, after he chose Serena.
* [[Playing the Victim Card]]: Jenny Humphrey's favorite activity.
* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Oh boy, were Chuck and Blair hit hard with this in late
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: The second season episode "Valley Girls", which followed a teenage Lily in [[The Eighties]]. The spinoff series didn't get picked up, which makes the episode a bit of an outlier.
* [[Pop Culture Pun Episode Title]]
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* [[Private Detective]]: Several. On speed dial.
* [[Product Placement]]: Vitamin Water, anyone?
** Bluefly.com and [
** Bing.
** Chanel, Tiffany and I spotted a Tally Weijl shopping bag in one of the episodes where Blair and Serena are in Paris
* [[Pun-Based Title]]: Every episode title is a play off a movie title ("''
* [[Put on a Bus]]:
** Kati Farkas was said to have moved to Israel halfway through the first season.
** Georgina Sparks, for almost a full season after she is sent to reform school in the
** Aaron Rose, who went with Serena to Buenos Aires and seemingly never came back. Despite now being Blair's stepbrother, as yet we have no idea what happened to him.
** Marcus and Lady Catherine in
** Jenny was sent to Hudson in the
*** [[The Bus Came Back]] briefly and then [[Put on a Bus|left again]].
** Vanessa was sent to Spain in the
* [[Quick Nip]]: Chuck is fond of this.
* [[Ready for Lovemaking]]: Blair has done this twice for Chuck and also did it for Nate in the first episode.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Nate, Chuck and Serena. The show calls attention to the gender issue involved, in that Serena is called a slut while nobody has anything to say about Nate or Chuck bedding people left and right.
**
***
** Vanessa can also count (and certainly does in the eyes of the fans) given that she's the only girl who's slept with all three male leads.
*** And THAT is the true double standard, lol.
** No love for Blair? Come on, until third season, she has a pretty high sex count on her hands, and certainly seems to be more focused on sex then the other characters.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink|Real Men Wear Purple]]: And sometimes pink.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Blair gives this to Vanessa in "Enough About Eve
** Jack gives one to Chuck in
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Gossip Girl is basically ''[[The OC]]'' <small>IN MANHATTAN'S UPPER EAST SIDE!</small>
** [[Older Than They Think|Older Than You Think]]: The books predate ''[[The OC]]'' by a year and a half.
** With ''Gossip Girl'' and ''The OC'' sharing creators, wouldn't that make ''Gossip Girl'' a ''[[Spiritual Successor]]''?
*** Okay, how about ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' <small>IN MANHATTAN'S UPPER EAST SIDE!</small>
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: Georgina in late
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Dan and Vanessa in
** Dan and Blair in
* [[Remember That You Trust Me]]: Three episodes in a row had this storyline with Chuck and Blair. She tried to get him to open up about the woman he thought might be his mother, he pushed her away, then towards the end changed his mind and came to her for comfort (while
* [[Retcon]]: The Basses have been subjected to this more than any other characters on the show.
** The pilot episode has Chuck mentioning his mother twice, and it's clear that she is alive and in his life. Later on in the season, we find out he lives with just his father, and we don't get to see his mother. In
** Season
** It could be argued that Bart was just perpetuating the lie that Evelyn/Elizabeth was dead, and was actually resentful of the fact that it was because of Chuck that his wife left him.
** The feelings between Serena and Nate in season three. But mainly, Serena's comment in the second half of the third season that she's "waited so long for this". The writers have gone out of their way in the first two and a half seasons to show that Serena ''doesn't'' have romantic feelings for Nate. Then again, it is Serena, so maybe the two weeks that have gone by since she started to like Nate in Season 3
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Blair Waldorf and her friends. Subverted in that Serena is rich but not a bitch, at least if you exclude the start of
** To be fair, Serena tried very hard to be considerate of Dan and maintain a friendship with him, despite still being heartbroken over the breakup, while Dan ''immediately'' started dating again. He didn't behave in any manner that suggested he'd even ''considered'' the effect it might have on Serena until she broke down and called him out on it. She deserves some credit for at least ''trying'' to take the high road at first.
* [[Right Through His Pants]]: The kitchen sex scene between Serena and Nate in
** Also Chuck, whenever he's got a sex scene. This thanks to the actor's odd love of huge, ugly tattoos. It's a little weird seeing Chuck Bass in ''pajamas'' right after he's had hot sex with his girlfriend.
*** [[Older Than They Think|Then again, Chuck was sleeping with girls in his pajamas way back in the first season, before Ed Westwick had any tattoos on his arms or chest
* [[Right Through the Wall]]: Serena and Nate have loud sex in the kitchen right outside Chuck's bedroom door. They are then treated to the sounds of Blair having a very loud orgasm. Nate is [[Brainless Beauty|dumbfounded]] when Chuck calls in the middle of Blair's "performance". Turns out Blair is just reading a fashion magazine, faking a loud orgasm to drive the point home of how you might want to keep your voices down when you have roommates in the next room.
* [[The Rival]]: Carter Baizen to Chuck Bass.
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** Dan: Mrs. Carr, Amanda and Olivia.
** Blair: Marcus Beaton, Carter Baizen and Prince Louis.
** Nate: Lady Catherine in early
** Lily: Bart Bass and Dr. van der Woodsen.
** Chuck: Elle, Eva.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Serena and Blair.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Jenny gives a rousing speech about the end of the Constance Billard monarchy in early
* [[Runaway Bride]]:
* [[Running Gag]]: People (Blair especially) referring to Nelly Yuki by her full name.
** Blair loves her headbands. Nobody else does.
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'''Nate''': Could you find out who she's seeing?
'''Chuck''': Me.
'''Nate''': Yes. Come on man, who better?
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Chuck. Although Nate claims that death by scarf is not that intimidating.
* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: Jack telling Blair he'll only give the Empire back to Chuck if Blair sleeps with him (Jack) may count as this. Subverted though in that Chuck was in on it.
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** There have been times when this has been played straight, however it hasn't always worked as well as the rich character hoped.
* [[Secondary Character Title]]: Gossip Girl herself is a minor character on the show.
* [[Secret Relationship]]: Blair and Chuck for a few episodes in
*** Chuck and Blair also try this for a little while in
** Dan/Serena and Nate/Vanessa both try this in
** Dan and Blair's secret "non-friendship". Which they ended in 4x17. Or did they?
** Nope. Keep going with a secret friendship/relationship until 5x17.
* [[
* [[Serial Romeo]]: Nate Archibald, especially in Season 2.
** Serena from Season Two and onward.
* [[Serious Business]]: Being "Queen" of your high school or college (and yeah, you read that right - ''college'') is ''very'' serious business, m'kay? It would be [[Truth in Television]] if they didn't take it to such unbelievable extremes, but the way they portray it (''everyone'' bows to the Queen, no one dares to defy anything coming out of her mouth, the popular kids are not-jokingly treated as freakin' monarchy, etc...) is just downright ridiculous.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Dorota, though not so much by making verbal remarks as by making faces whenever Blair says or does something she deems snark-worthy. Fans have dubbed this [[Fan Nickname|Dorota's WTF face]].
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* [[Sex Face Turn]]: Juliet came pretty close.
* [[Sexy Man, Instant Harem]]: Chuck.
* [[Sexy Shirt Switch]]: Nate and Serena in
** In
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Most love interests Chuck and Blair have had on the show.
* [[Shaming the Mob]]: After several of the characters try to discover Gossip Girl's identity to stop her increasingly hurtful posts about them, she gets the whole class into one place and sends them all a message that they're looking at Gossip Girl right now: the only reason she's so hurtful to all of them is that they all keep sending her information.
** When Chuck is told he is not Skulls and Bones material, he blackmails the organization by threatening to reveal their secrets.
* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: Chuck Bass. Nothing suits him like a suit.
* [[She
* [[She's
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Just about all the main female characters, but especially Serena.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Dorota for Blair and Chuck. Blair's parents and step-fathers also seem to be on board.
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** Jenny used to be a shipper for Dan and Serena.
** Blair for Serena and Carter, at least once she stops trying to convince Serena it's a bad idea.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Blair, to Chuck: "Who are you? [[House (TV series)|House]]."
** Also, in "Carnal Knowledge":
{{quote|'''Penelope''': This is madness!
'''Blair''': ''(knocking Nelly's book out of her hands)'' No. [[
** Blair to Dan in
** And also in
{{quote|'''Blair to Dan''': Don't go all [[The Notebook]] on me, not now. I need you.}}
* [[The Show Must Go On]]: In "The Last Days Of Disco Stick
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Chuck and Blair subvert this trope ''deliciously''.
* [[Sidekick]]: Dorota to Blair.
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Chuck goes through a period where he can't get it up for anyone but Blair.
* [[Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy]]: Jenny with Nate.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Partially, when Serena seeks into Dan
* [[Six-Student Clique]] Gender variation.
** The Head: Blair.
** The Muscle: Serena.
** The Quirk: Vanessa.
** The Pretty One: Nate.
** The Smart One: Dan.
** The Wild One: Chuck.
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Chuck and Blair waking up in his limo in a late
** Also Chuck and Blair waking up on her bed in the
** Also Dan and Blair at Dan's loft, Season 4.
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: Blair and Dorota.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Jack Bass.
* [[Socialite]]: Lily and Cece. Averted with Blair and Eleanor, who firmly declares that Waldorf women are ''not'' socialites.
* [[So Proud of You]]: Blair frequently says this to Chuck in
* [[Special Guest]]: No Doubt appears as Snowed Out, an eighties band in the flashback episode "Valley Girls".
** Lady Gaga appears as herself in Season 3 episode "
** Cyndi Lauper also appears as herself, in the
** Sonic Youth perform at Rufus and Lily's wedding. Not to mention their lead singer
** Lisa Loeb in late
** Rita, a record exec and Robyn were unceremoniously invited to Blair's birthday party in order to humiliate the Queen B.
* [[Split-Screen Phone Call]]: Dan and Blair.
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* [[STD Immunity]]: Averted. There's even a scene where Chuck and his uncle Jack [[Squick|bond over which medication they've taken to cure STDs]].
* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]: After Blair finds out the liqour license she helped Chuck get for his club opening was a fake, she decides that the best way to save the situation is to call the cops and have them raid the bar. Turns out Chuck has already done exactly that.
** And in another episode, when their original plan goes to hell:
{{quote|'''Blair''': I have an idea.
'''Chuck''': I've already had it.
*** And they proceed to act out said idea without taking one second to talk it through or even compare notes first.
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Dan in the books. Also a massive head scratcher because a) he was clearly shown to be attracted to girls in earlier books and was in love with Vanessa, b) all he did was make out with a guy while in a drunken stupor, c) he quickly dismissed the idea of being bisexual due to [[Rule of Drama]], and d) everyone else did too.
* [[Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss]]. Boy version. [[Even the Guys Want Him|Chuck]] and Mr. Ellis.
* [[Swimming Pool]]: The episode
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: Lily marries Bart Bass and then marries Rufus Humphrey, making Serena and Eric step-siblings with Chuck, Dan and Jenny. This makes Dan and Serena an extreme version of [[Flirty Stepsiblings]] until it's revealed that Lily and Rufus had an illegitimate son years earlier and thus the van der Woodsen's and Humphrey's share a half-sibling.
** Then there's the whole debacle with Charlotte Rhodes. It turns out that Lily's sister Carol hid her daughter from the family (going so far as to hire an imposter, Ivy, to pose as her) because she is actually William van der Woodsen's daughter. This makes Charlie both Serena's cousin and her half-sister.
* [[Team Mom]]: Blair is the [[Team Mom]] of the Non-Judging Breakfast Club. And a [[Mama Bear]] one at that.
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: Dan and Rachel Carr in Season Two.
** Serena and Colin Forrester in Season Four.
* [[Tears of Remorse]]: Chuck sheds a few when Blair lies to him and says his many mistakes have made her stop loving him.
* [[Test Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Dan and Blair}}.
* [[Their First Time]]: Twisted example in the first season. Blair and Nate have been together for a long time, but Blair wants to put off losing their virginity. Nate, however, has already lost his - to Blair's best friend, Serena, an act that is initially suggested to be the reason behind her sudden departure. From the very first episode, every time Blair tries to plan [[Their First Time]] something Serena-related crops up:
** The instant Blair learns Serena has returned, she drags Nate upstairs from a party for [[Their First Time]] - which gets interrupted when her mother announces Serena's arrival.
** Later that episode, Blair plans [[Their First Time]] again, only for Nate to choose that moment to tell her about cheating on her with Serena.
** In the next episode, Chuck gives Blair the key to his suite for her to sleep with Nate, but when they arrive in the suite Serena is already there because Nate asked her to meet him.
** It's hinted during the Masquerade Ball episode that the scavenger hunt Blair sets for Nate will lead to them sleeping together if he finds her before midnight. This breaks the pattern slightly since Serena was the final clue-giver and Nate's distraction actually stemmed from his father (though he still goes to Serena over Blair about it), but still ends up in him confessing his feelings to who he thinks is Serena.
** Hours after they break up, Blair loses her virginity to Nate's best friend Chuck in the back of his limo. A few episodes later, Blair and Nate are back together and they finally have sex with each other, though this reunion only lasts until Nate finds out about Blair and Chuck.
** There's also the episode in Season 2, where Blair, Serena, and Chuck try to stop a younger girl from losing her virginity to the wrong guy, since she only wants to do it to beat "Muffy the lacrostitute" to the punch.
** Season three has an entire episode where everyone runs around trying to prevent Jenny from losing her virginity. It comes off as rather strange that these characters who all lost their virginity before senior year would think it's so horrible that a sixteen year-old might have her flower plucked.
*** That plot line has officially been resolved in a particularly twisted way, with Jenny finally losing her virginity to Chuck of all people, because she thinks everyone hates her and he thinks Blair no longer loves him. Of course, Blair shows up two seconds later to reunite, Chuck leaves Jenny in a hot second, and she realizes that sleeping with him was a terrible idea.
* [[There Will Be Toilet Paper]]: Dan before Ivy Week.
* [[This Means War]]: Chuck to Blair after she makes Eva leave.
* [[Three-Way Sex]]: The Dan/Olivia/Vanessa threesome in
** Also appears to be Chuck's sexual modus operandi when he's not with Blair.
* [[A Threesome Is Hot]]: Dan is mighty proud over having had one with Olivia and Vanessa. Nate and Blair think he's out of his mind.
** To be more accurate: they both know the unwritten rule that the third person has to be a stranger. Neither of them actually has a problem with the threesome, interestingly.
* [[Tin Man]]: Chuck.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Chuck, although Blair seems to take on this role increasingly as seasons progress.
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* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: Nate grows more and more stupid every season. Serena's not exactly gotten brighter over the years either.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]:
** Eric van der Woodsen in
** Louis is taking this way during
* [[Totally Radical]]: Mostly averted, but this line was pretty cringe-worthy:
{{quote|'''Vanessa''': Do you want to get together and download about the epicness last night?}}
* [[Tough Love]]: Bart with Chuck, to the point where Chuck honestly believes his father hates him. Bart even points this out in the letter he leaves Chuck in
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: The Humphreys and their waffles. Blair with her macaroons.
* [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot]]
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** Nate has his moments, once you know his family background.
* [[True Companions]]: The Non-Judging Breakfast Club.
* [[True Love Is Exceptional]]: At the start of the show, Blair was convinced she belonged with Prince Charming Nate. As it turns out her soulmate is Chuck, Nate's polar opposite.
* [[Tsundere]]: Blair Waldorf, but mostly tsun.
* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: Twins find Chuck.
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* [[The Unfavourite]]: Ironically, both with characters who had no siblings at the time: Blair, who thought her mother liked Serena more than her, and Chuck who wasn't even [[The Unfavourite]] compared to someone else.
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: The UES characters. Except for Chuck's trademark scarf. And his sleeping attire of choice, which has had more screen-time than some of the recurring guest stars...
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Vanessa Abrams.
** Briefly [[Victorious Childhood Friend]], then reverted again at the end of
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Quite a few. "Fustercluck", "Bass-hole", "Oh my effing God", "Don't eff with an effer", "Damn that motherchucker"...
** And then there's Serena telling Chuck he's not going to "use Blair as sexual Drano
** "Like a Bass out of hell
** Never forget that Blair wanted to get a "Bass-ectomy" in Season 4
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In Season 2
** Subverted in the
* [[Upper Class Wit]]: Chuck.
* [[Vacation Episode]]: Season
* [[Verbal Backspace]]:
{{quote|'''Serena''': Look B, I understand why you're reluctant to burst your happy bubble but I'm not giving up.
'''Blair''': I'm sorry if unlike some people I haven't been on the pill since I was fifteen.
'''Serena''': Okay I am giving up.
* [[Visit by Divorced Dad]]: Dan and Jenny's mother, and Blair's father.
** Serena's father in late
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Chuck's voice has grown increasingly deeper since the first season. Ed Westwick has by now confirmed the fan theory that he uses a lower voice on the show because it helps him maintain his American accent.
* [[Walk in Chime In]]: Chuck when the rest of the NJBC are discussing his mother.
* [[Wall Glower]]: Chuck in the
* [[Wedding Day]]: Twice, both with Lily as the bride.
** Eleanor Waldorf's impromptu interdenominational wedding in "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?".
** Dorota and Vanya receive a wedding courtesy of Chuck Bass, in an attempt to win Blair back, in "The Unblairable Lightness Of Being
** {{spoiler|Louis and Blair get married in 513
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Chuck Bass.
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Serena and Blair at the very beginning of the series.
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: The way some fans reacted when Chuck tried to be a goody-two-shoes in early
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The end of "The Debarted", let us count the ways: [[Happily Married|Rufus and Lily's]] marriage is in trouble. Wham. Jenny's been dealing drugs for cash. Wham. Chuck's mom might be alive. Wham. Wham. Wham.
** "Victor/Victrola". Ends with the surprise hook-up that marked the beginning of the beyond a doubt most popular ship on the show.
** "Inglorious Bassterds".
** "Last Tango, Then Paris". Dan suddenly loves Serena again! But can't pursue her because Georgie is pregnant with his baby! Chuck takes Jenny's virginity! Then tries to propose to Blair! Then gets shot and might die!
** Season 4 episode 11 "The Townie" is the [[Buffy-Speak|whammiest]] to date. Turns out, neither Juliet nor her brother Ben are [[The Dragon]] '''or''' the [[Big Bad]] of Season 4. Lily is. She destroyed Ben's life, '''and''' sold Bass Industries out from under Chuck.
** Season 5 episode 13: {{spoiler|Blair is married to a life of sorrow with Louis and run away with Dan, emotionally crushed and panicked, Dan didn't reciprocate Serena's feelings (and implicitly choosing Blair over her), Louis is going to make Blair's life a living hell... Oh, and Georgina Sparks may or may not be Gossip Girl}}.
** Season 5 episode 16: {{spoiler|The death of Cece, surrounded by her family, except for her fake (but loving) niece, who has been there for her for months while she was sick, and who was, by her own words, the only person she was feeling safe with. Ivy wanted to stay, but a furious Serena made it pretty clear that it was better for her to disappear, persuaded that Ivy did everything for money, while it's obvious that Ivy came to love Cece a lot. It's really hard to not sympathize with Ivy: her own grandmother died of cancer, just like Cece, and she was denied the right to stay by the side of someone she ended up deeply caring about}}.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Non-living example. Chuck's signature scarf disappears early in Season Two. Just when fans were starting to suspect that someone in the costume department lost it or accidentally destroyed it, the scarf makes a cameo appearance in the Season Four premiere.
* [[What Is This Feeling?]]: Chuck: "''I feel sick, like there's... something in my stomach. Fluttering.''" He admits that having this weird feeling is humiliating. It doesn't get better when Blair tells him that these butterflies must be murdered.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Chuck's action's in "
** Dan gets the treatment in the 4th episode of Season 5.
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: Bart usually takes this stance towards Chuck.
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: The birthday party Serena <s>planned</s> ruined for <s>Jenny</s> her own ego in "Remains of The J" turns into one of these after a disgruntled Jenny texts Gossip Girl with details about a rager at the van der Woodsens.
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* [[Worst Whatever Ever]]: Blair upon seeing hers and Chuck's doppelganger's making out:
{{quote|'''Blair''': This is the worst out-of-body experience ever.}}
* [[Wrong Guy First]]: Blair is really, ''really'' set on Nate being the person she should be with in
* [[Wrote the Book]]: In "There Might Be Blood", Blair claims to have written the book on distracted, self-centered mothers.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Juliet, <s>[[The Dragon]]</s> <s>the [[Big Bad]]</s> the [[Anti-Villain]] of Season 4, wouldn't be able to play the cast against each other so well if she couldn't update her [[Manipulative Bastard|schemes at a mile a minute.]]
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* [[You Are Not Alone]]:
{{quote|'''Chuck''': I don't have a real mother Blair. I never will.
'''Blair''': That doesn't mean you're alone. I love you Chuck. And I will always be your family.
** Then there's this:
{{quote|'''Blair''': What if I lose everything?
'''Dan''': You'll still have me.
* [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!]]: Blair's reaction to finding out Chuck has feelings for her, almost verbatim.
* [[Your Favorite]]: Chuck in the
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