Blair Waldorf Must Pie!

Season 1, Episode 9, Aired
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The Humphreys and van der Woodsens share Thanksgiving!!!
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''Dan invites Serena and her family to spend the holiday with his family, creating an uncomfortable situation for Rufus and Lily. The children are unaware of their complicated romantic past. Meanwhile, Blair's freaks out when she learns that her father isn't coming home for Thanksgiving. Nate spends the holiday with his family, but their awkward dinner quickly goes from bad to worse.moreless
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    8.0
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    By Canogaparkcindy, Mar 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    Gossip Girl surprises us all with the best installment of the season. When I heard that Gossip Girl wouldn't be narrating the episode, surely, I was quite bummed, and I did not think this episode would be that great, but I was completely wrong. This episode had amazing interactions from the whole cast. You even end up sympathizing with characters you didn't care much for in the past, or that just have been barely introduced (Dan's mom).

    We also found out something very eventful: Blair has an eating disorder. I loved how subtle everything was for the past nine episodes, who knew it would build up too something like this? Definitely a great pay off and the flashback scenes with Blair in the bathroom was just fantastic. Also all the scenes from the Thanksgiving of the past year were quite clever, and it was just an awesome tie in too current events.

    The closing scene always manage to salvage an entire episode, I have once said, and things really were no different here. We got a heartwarming close-out scene, and I'm sure everyone began to respect all the characters, and makes you realize how great the entire cast really is. The most impressive episode of Gossip Girl yet, hopefully they keep it this way.moreless

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  • Thanksgiving in the Upper Eastside

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    By samantha_x, Jan 11, 2011 Report Abuse
    I loved this episode, it's probably one of my favourites. I think it really gave us a better idea of who the characters were and who they've grown to be and I really enjoyed that aspect of the episode. I like that its finally been revealed to their kids that Rufus and Lily have had a relationship, it definitely bought some humour into the episode. I also like that we can see the relationships the Upper Eastsiders had with each other only a year ago when most of them hardly knew each other. The episode ended on a good but somewhat corny note which was quite a surprising but a nice change.moreless

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  • A very revealing episode, the best of the show so far.

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    By JBentham, Sep 08, 2008 Report Abuse
    I loved this episode. Lots of storyline development and character development and the usual Gossip Girl touch with the hilarious scenes here and there.

    Loved the flashbacks of the episode which showed how last year's Thanksgiving was for the main characters. Well, there's a huge contrast between past and the present, that's for sure.

    I really loved that Nate and his father connected in this episode . I didn't care for Nate but this episode really developed his character and also made me care for his father. Loved that.

    Also Blair is more and more "nicer", in a way, Im starting to understand her a bit more and more. I was pleasently surprised how well the "parents" storyline was handled(and partially concluded). I wasn't a fan of that for a long time but it seemed to have a nice pay off. Loved the lunch scenes, so awkward they were good.

    The ending was also great with the montage, jumping between past and present... honestly it was really well done, the best series of scenes the show has done thus far in my opinion. Especially how Balir and her mom finally had a HONESTLY happy moment.

    I'm not really liking Alison Humphrey and to be honest with you I don't think she will stay on the show for much longer. She just seems to be the kind of character who pops in so she can mess up our main character's lives a bit and once that's done, just go away. One thing I missed was Gossip Girl's narration but well... you can't have it all.moreless

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  • Thanksgiving at the Upper East Side!

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    By celine09, Jun 18, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode was great! With the flashbacks and all. And the whole Lily coming over for Thanksgiving dinner. I liked how it revealed stuff from the past, like Serena was always drunk, Blair was bulimic, Harold met Roman at thanksgiving dinner and such. I thought that Gossip Girl was some sort of a light, feel-good show or something. But the whole hospital scene where The Captain ODs I guess was like something from OTH. It's not meant as an insult or something. I love OTH, and I love that scene because it made me realize that GG is really a drama. In this episode, they concentrated more on family ties. Blair and her mom dealing with the divorce, the Humphrey family, Lily and Serena and Erik, it was great. I loved the witty dialogs, lol. Like, when Dan said, "I'm adult-napping you!" I replayed that part for like 50 times 'til I got bored but I laughed for hours :D Also the part where Lily, Erik and Serena went to Chinatown and Erik said that "they could starve in a fragrant hotel room" hilarious stuff!moreless

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  • Serena and family join the Humprhey's for dinner. Allison and Lily's past hatred for each other is revealed

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    By jamjavajunkie, Mar 31, 2008 Report Abuse
    The music selection was really good in this episode. I was a little unhappy to see Ed Westwick not in the episode . It was a difficult jump from the last episode to this one to the next one because it left so much about Blair and Chuck unexplained. This is directed by Mark Piznaki from Veronica Mars fame. He did a very good job directing this. the one thing i did not like was the whole Dan and his mom talk about his dream girl. It just didn't seem quite right if you ask me. I thought the whole blair coming to the Humphrey's home was hilarous when she saw Dan's cabbage patch doll and she recognizes it instantly, Leighton Meester is a wonderful actress as blair exactly the person you would visualize playing Blair if you read the Gossip Girl series before. Over all this was a excellent directing and acting job with a wonderful script.moreless

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    • The flashbacks are set one year before. Serena and Blair were seen together around the upper east side. Serena was supposed to be at boarding school Edit
    • Lillian van der Woodsen owned a horse named Rosewood. Edit
    • Lillian van der Woodsen, Serena and Erik's mother, cannot cook. Edit

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Rodinná krize (Family Crisis) Edit
    • This is the first holiday episode. This certain holiday was obviously Thanksgiving. Edit
    • Original International Air Dates: India: December 28, 2007 on Zee Cafe Australia: February 12, 2008 on FOX8 Norway: February 20, 2008 on TVNorge Latin America: February 28, 2008 on Warner Channel Denmark: April 20, 2008 on Kanal 4 Philippines: April 29, 2008 on ETC Sweden: May 20, 2008 on Kanal 5 The Netherlands: July 15, 2008 on Net 5 Turkey: November 11, 2008 on CNBC-E Greece: November 15, 2008 on Star Slovakia: December 21, 2008 on Markiza Hungary: February 22, 2009 on Cool TV Germany: June 13, 2009 on ProSieben Czech Republic: November 14, 2009 on Prima Edit

  • Quotes

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    • Serena: (while drunk) Ohh, pie...
      (looks at the pie on the road)
      Dan: More like road kill now but uh, better it than you right? Edit
    • Dan: (about Rufus and Lily) I think it is fairly safe to assume that they have had sex. Edit
    • Eleanor: Blair, he left us Blair: No mom he left you Edit

  • Allusions

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    • Lily mentions Jane's Addiction. Jane's Addiction was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. Edit
    • The Flashback episode should have been in 2006, it being 'a year before'. Yet while The Humphrey's are eating Thanksgiving dinner we see a poster of the film 'Zodiac' in the background of their house. Zodiac was not released until mid 2007. Edit
    • Episode Title: Blair Waldorf Must Pie! This is a reference to the 2006 film John Tucker Must Die which co-starred Penn Badgley (Dan Humphrey). Edit

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