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Gossip Girl–Recap Recap: Unless We’re Close to Resolving This, I’m Going to Order Room Service

This week's episode of the Greatest(ish) Show of our Time focused on fairy tales — a possible one for viewers with Vanessa's imminent departure. But with lazy writers and bored actors, the most exciting part of this show is wondering what train will crash next. The truth hurts but we're here anyway, so on to this week's recap of the recap from Polish Pierogi.
Realer Than Blake Lively No Longer Being the Star of This Show
• The love of Chuck's life has been tied up by a murderous psycho with a penchant for fire. The writers have totally lifted a plot from "The Dark Knight" a film they already referenced in the promos. +100 for Chuck finally taking on the role of (Da Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) BASSman! —ASWELLTHEYMIGHT

• Advance +20: Here's to Chuck saving Blair in next week's episode when he will then make her his Evil Princess and they will lord over the Dark together forever. —ELLECAT

• Jack's mind-blowing sex appeal managed to make Raina interesting for one whole scene. Plus 10 because that's real talent. —KDOW3

• Nate wanted a plot line so badly, he was willing to sacrifice sex to get it. +3 (even he knows he's simply become eye candy these days). —AMALA83

• Nate can count his lines on this show on one hand, but at least he's the one that gets to spill the beans to Raina. It really was a pivotal moment for him in a season where he has done nothing but be the guy in the room with blue eyes and bedhead. Plus 5. —JULIEFB

• Nate Archibald is as bad at secrets as Chace Crawford is at acting. Plus 2. —HDHARRISON

• Plus 10 for the return of old friends: Cyrus Rose, Izzie and Kati, Jack Bass, even Vitamin Water. It was like old home week. —EMMYLOSER

• +10 for Cyrus giving a shout out to The Princess Bride ... but Blair actually going through with this wedding? INCONCEIVABLE! —NYCGG4233

• Serena : "Lipstick lasts longer but lip gloss is more fun" Is this about blowjobs or cosmetics? With Serena it could be both +10. —SARCASTICMEOW

• Even Eleanor is giving Lily the convict treatment. Giving a millionaire last season dresses is the greatest of all offenses. Plus 10 —STILETTO33

• Blair to Serena: "Like much else in your life, that apology was underwhelming." +5 because it does seem like Serena has just been dialing it in ever since the whole Juliet-sabotage-free-Ben-affair went down. —LULU_B

• +5 for Raina's Gretel-inspired weave-braid. Very damsel in distress-ian. —BANANARAMA

• "Can we just call the cops? I'm hungry and all you seem to have are olives and hallucinogenic mushrooms" Wow, I never thought I would like Jack Bass so much! Plus 100 —NOCTURNELLE

Faker Than Calling Blake Lively’s Look “Anti-Bored” (could have fooled me, Michael Kors)
• A hostage situation? Really? That's full on Soap territory. No coming back from it. —THOUGHT

• Minus 300 for the whole Blair and the Half-Blood Prince thing. I used to watch Passions when I was thirteen and still I'm shouting GIVE ME A BREAK. Minus a billion. Ugh. —DIAL_M_FOR_MEDIOCRE

• Nate and raina's "love scenes" are like the ones he had with vanessa. boring, stupid, why-am-i-here, did-we-really-have-sex? will he never generate heat with anyone other than blair and serena? dan and chuck don't count. -3 —CRABTREEACRES

• Every ep i think i've come to terms with the heinous killing of the dair storyline while secretly hoping its a fake out and their going to bring it back to the fore before the end of the season. Today i've finally given up hope -1000 —UMLAT1

• How were there all the ingredients for a post-victory threesome between Chuck, Nate & Jack, and yet neither of the Basses made a skeezy comment? It's like I don't even know them anymore. -20 —TRUMPETSTRUMPET

• For all that grace and elegance, Blair runs like a fat waddling duck. -5 —TAMMYXCORE

• Minus 5 for no Dorota scenes! Blair wouldn`t have had the engagement party without her. —SCHEMINGWITHSCONES

• Why was Headmistress Queller's office unlocked during a big event? Almost as ridiculous as Ben being able to text from jail. -5 —HOYAGIRL05

• Dan says he never did anything crazy in high school? Guess he and the writers both forgot about the little rendezvous in the costume closet between Lonely Boy and the English teacher. -10 —HOYAGIRL05

• If Charlie really wanted a life like Serena's, she wouldn't have taken Serena's dress, she would have just gotten Serena's boobs. -10 —BASSINPOCKET

• -20 for a REAL missed opportunity by the props department for not putting Russell Thorpe in a ridiculous wig. The video would have been much more believable had he been in a Hi-Top Fade a la Kid from Kid n' Play. —WAITINGFORCHAIR

• dan and blair, who have been bff and more all throughout the season fail to utter a single meaningful word to each other in the penultimate episode, especially when blair seems to be in dire need of a true friend, just because the writers feel that we have to have an uninterrupted chair showdown before it all ends - for now. minus -10, brought to you by gilt, smart water, and all the nymag chair lobbyists. —ISTANBUL

• Minus five for Blair believing royal families do not engage in sex games and scandals. —TOOMUCH

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The One With All the Episode-Title Formulas

Last night's Community revisited the brilliant paintball episode, but the episode was distinctive for another reason, too: The title broke the show's naming conventions. "A Fistful of Paintballs" doesn't fit with Community's pattern of naming episodes after college classes — "Intro to Political Science," "Beginner Pottery," "Anthropology 101," etc. The only other episode to break with tradition was "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas." And that one was Claymation!

An episode-naming formula isn't new: Seinfeld always went with a terse, two-word "The ___" title (The Puffy Shirt, The Bris, The Raincoats...) while Friends went meta with their "The One With ____" construction. But those were exceptions: Now it's the prevailing trend for a series to come up with some sort of running theme, be it puns, repeating structure, or omnipresent words. Let's take a brief survey of the various formulas currently going on TV.

Gossip Girl's movie puns can veer from brilliant — "The Blair Bitch Project," "Petty in Pink" — to groan-inducing — "You've Got Yale!," "Panic Roommate."

Chuck's "Chuck versus ___" are often about the literal foes he's battling ("Chuck Versus the Ring") but are sometimes about the emotional growth he's struggling with ("Chuck Versus the Three Little Words").

Hawaii Five-0's Hawaiian titles don't follow a convention themselves — "Palekaiko" means paradise, "Ma Ke Kahakai" means shore — but hey, they are in Hawaiian.

Law & Order: Los Angeles uses L.A. neighborhoods — "Silver Lake," "Runyon Canyon" — perhaps to help shed the series' New York origins.

Better With You's "Better With ___" ("Better With a Leather Jacket," "Better with a Cat") is the only naming convention for an ABC comedy.

The Mentalist has "red" in every title, as an allusion to the show's central serial killer, Red John. Sometimes the titles use code ("18-5-4" becomes R-E-D), and sometimes they use synonyms ("Rose-Colored Glasses").

The Big Bang Theory uses fake science terms for its titles: polarizations, paradoxes, conundrums, hypotheses, etc. But they might never top "The Zazzy Substitution," just because it's so zazzy.

Bones's "The [Noun] in the [Location]" structure started out using pretty literal descriptions of the crimes in the given episodes — "The Woman in the Garden" — but has shifted toward a more poetic interpretation, like "The Truth in the Myth."

Grey's Anatomy uses song titles as the titles for its episodes, which is a convention also employed by Degrassi: The Next Generation and One Tree Hill.

Desperate Housewives uses Sondheim lyrics for its titles, and even while the show has floundered, lines like "My Husband, the Pig" and "I'll Swallow Poison on Sunday" have stayed strong.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit uses one-word titles, and somehow managed to go eleven whole seasons before it used "Penetration." Smallville also uses one-word titles but has not used "Penetration." Yet.

T
here are two worlds on Gossip Girl: the Upper East Side where the Waldorf, Bass, Archibald, and Van der Woodsen families live in hotel suites and lavish apartments, and Brooklyn, where the Humphreys live a more bohemian, middle-class life. In honor of these two cultures, we've created two menus for your Gossip Girl–watching pleasure. Pick the meal that suits your group, or channel Rufus and Lilly, and serve a combination of the two menus.

VIP Menu

Ingredients:
Designer clothes, maid and/or driver, daddy's credit card

Preparation:
Discuss party plan with the maid—she'll be doing all the work anyway.

Yield:
Hors d'oeuvres and cocktails for members of this week's "in" crowd

The Menu:
For admirers of S and B, who frequent Manhattan hot spots such as Geisha, Gilt, Marquee, and the Waverly Inn, we've selected an assortment of elegant hors d'oeuvres, such as Truffled Toast with Radicchio and Egg, and Herb-Baked Potato Chips with Crème Fraîche and Caviar. And, since there's no shortage of cocktail drinking on Gossip Girl, we suggest serving Lychee Martinis for an of-the-moment spin on a classic.

Party Tip:
For some added intrigue, plan to send your guests Gossip Girl-style text messages during commercial breaks—the more outrageous the better. And, follow in Blair's footsteps and set a formal dress code.

Gossip Girl Humphrey Family Supper for Six

Pierogies
Turkey Chili
Coffee, Chocolate, and Marshmallow Sundaes
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Humphrey Family Supper

Ingredients:
One former indie-rocker dad, one kid sister, and the manuscript for your latest New Yorker story

Preparation:
Discuss love life with dad, drink coffee, overthink love life, break up with significant other (again)

Yield:
Comfort food to soothe Dan and Rufus's sensitive souls; ice cream for Jenny

The Menu:
If you relate more to Dan and Little J than the uptown crowd, our casual family dinner will be just the thing to eat during the next episode. We start with Pierogies, which Dan and Vanessa like to order at Veselka, a Ukranian restaurant in the East Village, then move on to Turkey Chili, because no one—not even Nate—can resist Rufus Humphrey's "once a year chili."

Party Tip:
The Humphreys are all about family togetherness, so before or after the show, force everyone to play some kind of game like charades or Scrabble.
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Blair (Leighton Meester) was lured to Chuck's (Ed Westwick) new hotel site in Brooklyn by a vengeful Russell Thorpe (Miacael Boatman), after the truth regarding the fire and the death of Avery Thorpe was finally uncovered. Thorpe believes that Chuck was the one who informed his daughter Raina (Tika Sumpter) of what really transpired so is seeking his revenge. Chuck had nothing to do with this however, it was all Nate (Chace Crawford) who finally seems like he has something to do in the latter half of this season other than looking pretty. Blair has a lot to contend with, not only the perilous rooftop situation but with her romantic situation; will she chose the Prince (Hugo Becker) or Chuck? Or neither? I have a feeling that a heroic action by Chuck might swing it his way, though I think it would make sense for Blair to once again end the season single.

Charlie (Kaylee DeFer) is also in an unstable place, this is due to her not taking her medication that is for an undisclosed mental condition and it would seem the the party at Constance is probably not the best place to be when feeling like this. Her behaviour became more erratic in the last episode, first by denying that she was wearing one of Serena's (Blake Lively) dresses followed by her request to Dan (Penn Badgely) when they were hooking up for him to call her Serena. This was wrong on oh so many levels and was an instant mood killer for Dan.

Who would Serena enlist to help her with the Charlie situation other than the biggest meddler of the show and that would of course be Vanessa (Jessica Szohr), who really has perfected her lurking skills this year. This will be the last time we see Vanessa as a regular character on the show as it was announced that both herself and Taylor Momsen (who plays Jenny Humphrey) would not be returning in season 5. This news wasn't a shock, considering Jenny appeared for a brief run of episodes and Vanessa has been reduced to a convenience character. Are you sad to see Vanessa leave?

It wouldn't be a Gossip Girl season finale without the return of everyone's favourite schemer and bad girl Georgina Sparks (Michelle Tractenberg), who we last saw at the beginning of the year shacked up with Dan and pretending that he was her baby daddy. In true Georgina style it looks like she has manipulated her way in to a relationship but is longing for a good scheme. The Constance party seems as good as place as any to reinvigorate this habit and having Georgina as an ally is much better than being the victim in one of her schemes. The return of Georgina also promises some brilliant one liners, diabolical behaviour and some outlandish fashion.

There are some other guest appearances in this finale, including Gossip Girl author Cecily von Ziegesar and live music from The Airborne Toxic Event who have just released their sophomore album "All at Once", and are the musical guest at the Constance party. They join the ranks of other musical stars such as No Doubt, Sonic Youth and Lady Gaga who have all previously appeared and performed on the show.

Will Chuck get to Blair in time? Will Dan ever learn that dating girls who are kind of his family is a terrible idea? Will it be au revoir to Louis? Let us know in the comments below what you think might happen or what you want to happen in the Gossip Girl season 4 finale.

For a look at photos from tonight's episode head here and below there is a triple treat including an extended promo, a preview with commentary from executive producer and writer Joshua Safran and a sneak peak at a scene between Chuck, Nate and Raina.
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On Tonight: 'Freedom Riders,' Finales Galore
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In the first season finale of "Mad Love" (CBS, 8:30 p.m.) a wrench is thrown into the seemingly perfect relationship. The finale of "Gossip Girl" (The CW, 9 p.m.) bring back some old characters and a decision for Blair, but also a cameo from Cicily von Ziegesar, whose books inspired the series. "Hawaii Five-0" (CBS, 10 p.m.) ends its successful season with a showdown. And there's love, revelation and a cliffhanger on the season end of "Castle" (ABC, 10 p.m.).

Once upon a time, on New York's wealthiest and bitchiest side, the Upper East, there lived princes and princesses who floundered around the city in fabulous attire, attending exclusive soirees and biting into unpronounceable delicacies. One day, however, these royals found themselves void of fairies, wearing drab outfits, going to dull events and being too busy tracking down the deceased or getting tied up and possibly set on fire to eat anything. Oh, the events that can transpire over the course of one season of Gossip Girl.

The season finale, "The Wrong Goodbye," airs tonight, and although we have the comfort (or threat) of knowing that Gossip Girl has been renewed for a fifth season, it already feels like we've said goodbye to the characters we loved to hate, au revoir to the gorgeous city lights, adieu to storylines that made any semblance of sense. Kiss Gossip Girl goodbye, say hello to the latest nighttime soap opera.

But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself. Maybe, by some sheer act of God or Georgina Sparks, this show can be salvaged. With just one episode left, perhaps the characters can rise above the ashes (quite possibly speaking in literal terms, here) and be resurrected as the fabulous, dramatic, lovably loathsome individuals they once were (instead of just plain loathsome). That being said, there were some stand-out moments of greatness this season. Let's look back on those, shall we?

15) Summer in Paris

As soon as Gossip Girl returned in September -- in Paris, no less -- we were blessed with outrageous excitement. The show felt fresh in a new atmosphere -- everyone was tanner, cattier and dressed much more expensively. Any vacation that features Chuck Bass as a waiter and Serena being pushed into a fountain is a good one. Not to mention, Blair and Chuck's tearful goodbye at the train station will go down as one of the most beautiful Chair scenes in recent history (not that there are many to choose from.)

"It takes more than even you to destroy Blair Waldorf."
Blair, on her indestructibility and general badassery

14) Trying to prove the characters actually attend college

It was adorable when the writers struggled in trying to prove that anyone went to college, especially since the only justifications they had in showing a college campus were when Serena was sneaking around with her professor or Dan was getting tested for an STD.

"I mean who would lie to Gossip Girl about something like that?"
"Do you really want a list? Because I don't know if I have that kind of time."
Serena and Blair, discussing the likely endless list of suspects who want to take Serena down a peg

13) Siblings join forces to bring down ... their mother

Well, who can even tell whether or not Serena and Chuck are siblings anymore, but watching Serena dress up as Lily (in what is no doubt the most conservative outfit she's worn all her life) and hearing Chuck's inappropriate jokes about how arousing he found the entire ordeal, made their attempt to take down Lily one of the most hilarious moments of the season.

"All I have in my pile are divorce papers, jewelry and artful nudes of my mother in her groupie days."
"Swap piles?"
Chuck to Serena, proving he really has no qualms when it comes to his incest fantasies

12) The amount of psychopaths running around Manhattan

Remember when our naive New Yorkers had to worry about the Georgina Sparkses, Poppy Liftons and Bree Buckleys of the world? Well this season, the guest stars have really upped the Crazy Meter to full-fledged pill-popping insanity, causing the cast to be more flustered and befuddled than you were when you first read 'Bree Buckley' and had no idea who I was referring to. Now, instead of having to deal with simple social-climbing or boyfriend-stealing, the Upper East Siders have to worry about being drugged at masquerade balls or having their identities stolen by crazy cousins. Sure, the plotlines are outrageous, but at least they're more entertaining than the Is-My-Mother-Dead-Or-Not game that Chuck and Raina are so fond of.

"You didn't need to have your cousin make me look like a crazy, jealous bitch to Dan."
"Oh, you don't need any help with that."
Vanessa and Serena, proving that the arrival of psychos really brings out the inner-insanity

11) Georgina pregnant with Lonely Boy's baby!

Well not really, of course, because in the end it all just happened to be one of Georgina's twisted web of lies, but at least we got to see the Queen of Deception one more time before she skulked away, only to undoubtedly strike again in the season finale. This storyline also reminded us that Dan indeed has a heart, as he refused to believe the baby wasn't his -- until he tearfully watched as Milo was taken away from him.

"I know you think I'm crazy -- that I'm a schemer and a liar and pathologically selfish, and that's true! Or it was until Milo was born."
Georgina Sparks, using her baby as a last-ditch attempt to get people to believe here

10) Flashbacks to Serena's oft-mentioned boarding school shenanigans

Downing absinthe, manipulating nerds into doing her homework and trying to seduce her boarding school professor was all in a day's work for Flashback Serena - who is twice as entertaining as Current Serena. Sure, she might not have had the strongest moral compass, but peeking into the dangerous side Serena's always trying to keep under wraps actually made me enjoy her character more. The cherry on top was that the person exposing these salacious stories was Damien Dalgaard -- the very nerd she was manipulating in boarding school to begin with.

"Look, I think I figured it out. OK, Serena had an affair with her teacher because, let's face it, it's Serena and what else is there to do in Connecticut? Then she came to her senses and discarded him like last season's Chanel booties. Then he became a crazy stalker and Serena pressed charges."
Blair, coming up with a logical summary of the life of Serena van der Woodsen

9) Jenny returning more mischievous than ever

After a brutal showdown with Blair and getting deflowered by Chuck, Jenny fled the city to pursue her former self -- the less angsty girl she once was, whose eyes used to be visible beneath all that eye shadow. But when she returned to New York, supposedly reformed, Blair pushed her further over the edge than ever before, causing "Gothic Barbie" to unwittingly assist in Juliet's demented plan of drugging Serena and leaving her for dead. At least Little J got to leave with the satisfaction of knowing she's morally superior to Chuck and Blair. Those Humphreys learn pretension so quickly!

"I thought I could change and I didn't. So I think the best thing for me to do is go. And stay gone."
Jenny Humphrey, speaking in favor of the majority of Gossip Girl fans

8) Juliet finally getting taken down

Juliet may have been one of the most manipulative, dangerous, and destructive villains Gossip Girl has ever seen, so we felt relieved when everyone finally saw her for the fraud she really was and decided to turn on her at the ballet. What made the victory even sweeter was that the Non-Judging Breakfast Club circled around her like vultures as they banished her from Columbia and threatened her if she ever returned.

"How would I ever believe anything you say again?"
"Well you can believe the part where she does her own hair."
Nate and Blair, finally voicing what everyone had been thinking since Juliet arrived

7) Damien Dalgaard. In general.

Everything about this frustrating and enigmatic recurring character seems to leave the audience wanting more, whether he's forcing innocent men behind bars, selling drugs to preppies, pretending to date Eric van der Woodsen, attempting to deflower high school girls, or confessing his father's drug problems. None of the Upper East Siders know if they can trust him, and frankly we don't either. What exactly is behind his mischievous smirk? How did he go from boarding school nerd to bad boy prince in just a few years? Hopefully the writers bring him back -- at least for a while -- to give us another glimpse into the fascinating and confusing life of Damien Dalgaard.

"You say potato, judge says pedophile."
Damien, reciting what should be a new tagline for the show

6) Chuck creating a fake identity instead of working through his issues

How realistic is it that once a New Yorker realizes the life he's leading is a reckless one, instead of actually improving his personality and powering through his issues, he creates an entire fake identity to try and cover up who he is. It was certainly entertaining to watch Chuck roam Paris dressed like Ryan Atwood, serving wine out of barrels and calling himself Henry, but we're glad he came to his senses. Purple looks much better on him than sweat, and at least accepting himself as none other than Chuck Bass let him apologize properly to Blair.

"I'd rather have nothing than be Chuck Bass."
Chuck, boo-hooing about the miserable life of a twenty-year-old millionaire

5) Rachel Zoe getting doused in chocolate

Anyone who knows anything about the fashion industry probably knows who Rachel Zoe is -- and if you know who she is, you probably couldn't help laughing out loud when she accidentally covered herself in a fountain of chocolate at Blair's infamous party. Don't worry, though, Rachel didn't actually consume any of it -- obviously.

"It's Blair's 20th birthday, and I'm still acting like an eighth grader."
Dan, describing the lives of literally every character on the show

4) The Dan and Nate Bromance

Despite their relentless issues in the past (class warfare, love triangles, hooking up with certain under-aged siblings), Dan and Nate's 'friendship' -- wherein they played videogames, wore matching outfits, and ditched their girlfriends to hang out with each other -- really blossomed into full-on chemistry this season. Step aside Eric, there are new gays in town and they're taking over - not to mention, they look better in flannel!

"Yeah yeah, I missed you too ... no hugs."
Nate Archibald to Dan, on homosexuality and his severe case of denial

3) Serena and Blair realize that all B deserves is happiness

It was a touching moment when Blair lectured Serena for taking Chuck's side after everything he put her through, and it was even more touching when Blair admitted that all she wanted was to be happy - to escape the never-ending misery she became accustomed to when she was with Chuck. Serena later apologized sincerely and realized that all she wants is for her best friend to be happy. And just like that, the two are besties again, fighting for each other, against all odds... Well, at least for now.

"Oh! Yes! Because all this elation was nearly meaningless without being able to talk to you about it!"
Blair, on the real reason she wants to be with Prince Louis: to rub it in her best friend's face

2) Dan and Nate make Serena's choice for her

After having the boys wrapped around her finger all summer while she was off gallivanting with numerous French suitors, Serena returned to the city thinking she had the liberty of choosing between Nate and Dan, as if they'd wait around for her all summer. And even though they sort of did wait around for her all summer, at least they stuck it to her by diving into other relationships. For once, the girl who was used to getting everything didn't get the guy(s) in the end.

"It's like choosing between éclairs and Napoleons, they're both delicious!"
"Except Humphrey's a doughnut."
Serena and Blair, comparing tasty boys with tasty foods they stopped eating a long time ago

1) Dair.

Now I know this is up for (a much-heated) debate, and I'm not saying Dan and Blair make the perfect couple or that they're destined to be together. In fact, come series finale, I could care less whether or not they end up together. But you know what they do have together? Fun. Watching them trade insults, bicker back and forth, grin playfully at each other from across the room - it made me actually want to tune in every week just to see where their friendship was going. Gossip Girl felt fresh, the dialogue was witty, and the actors seemed rejuvenated ... which is why I really hope the writers revisit the what-could-have-been relationship between Dan and Blair and give them more time to at least snark about how much they loathe each other. And even if the writers leave Dair behind, a forgotten relic and just another trashed storyline, at least we'll have one reason to re-watch season four.

Do you agree? Disagree? Tell me in the comments below what you miss most about the show. What do you still love about it? And what were your favorite moments?

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A while back it was reported that the beleagured Hotel Chelsea finally had an interested buyer who was not Ian Schrager. But no one knew exactly who this mystery buyer was, until now.

WSJ reports that it is New York real-estate investor Joseph Chetrit, the man who is responsible for the recent turnaround of the Empire Hotel aka Chuck Bass' hotel on Gossip Girl. And despite the presence of long-term tenants, Chetrit is going to keep the Hotel Chelsea a hotel.

Mr. Chetrit intends to keep it as a hotel, upgrading and modernizing it, according to people familiar with the matter. That will likely come as some relief to the hotel's regular tenants and other fans of the 127-year-old property who had been worried a new owner might convert it into condominiums.

Interestingly, Chetrit did the same thing at the Empire hotel where he placed some of the previous long-term tenants into renovated rooms and allowed them to live there rent-free. Did the Hotel Chelsea tenants just totally luck out? Possibly. (But still, no orgies allowed.)

Either way, we're excited to see some new life, and money, pumped into this fading property. We just hope it remains an artist's kind of hotel. That means no Chuck Bass, please.

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Sound Off! Did Blair End up With the Right Guy in the Gossip Girl Season 4 Finale?

by Laura Case
Related: Relationships, Blair Waldorf, Chuck Bass
Arguably, it isn't entirely Blair’s (Leighton Meester) choice. In the end, she finds herself with Prince Louis (Hugo Becker), still engaged and on her way to a royal wedding in November. Kate Middleton, eat your heart out?
Not so fast. Before hopping on the Monaco royal yacht, B sleeps with Chuck (Ed Westwick) — at a bar mitzvah, no less — and almost throws her lot back in with her Dark Knight.

But the true culprit for a failed Chair reunion is Chuck himself, who loves his Queen B so much he wants her to be happy... with a man suitable for the job. In other words, a dude who doesn’t get hammered and punch windows. He knows that the steadfastly loyal, even-keeled prince fits the bill, so he makes Blair’s decision for her. Hold the phone, is ol’ Charles outgrowing his Basshole phase?

Chuck’s reasoning is pretty simple: Louis waited an entire night for Blair, whereas Chuck only stuck around for two extra minutes on top of the Empire State Building. Apparently, time is the ultimate decider.

Or is it? A certain Blair Waldorf may very well be preggers, which could determine her happily/unhappily ever after.

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Gossip Girl Season 4 Finale Cliffhangers: Who's Pregnant — and What's the Deal With Ivy?

Several weeks ago, Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Safran spilled to TVLine, “Every finale is a game-changer, but this one really is spinning everyone off in new ways that will be apparent as you watch it.”

“The road map for all of the characters will be very clear,” he added. “[But] that’s not to say there won’t multiple cliffhangers.”

He wasn’t lying.

In the last few minutes of Season 4, we learn two gasp-worthy tidbits: “Charlie” (Kaylee DeFer) is not who she says she is — no wonder she was able to scheme with the best of ‘em after only a couple days on the UES! — and someone (Blair? C’est possible?) is with child.

If Blair (Leighton Meester) is preggers, who’s the baby-daddy: Chuck (Ed Westwick) or Prince Louis (Hugo Becker)? Or — OMG! — did Blair and Dan (Penn Badgley) do more than just kiss? And if the pregnancy test isn’t Blair’s, whose is it?

Plus, who in the heckers is Ivy, the gal Carol Rhodes paid to play her daughter and get embroiled in UES politics so that she could gain access to Charlie’s trust fund? One thing’s for sure: We’ve got a new troublemaker on our hands, one who has already found a kindred spirit in Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg) — and one who pilfered a few checks from Mama Rhodes. Scary stuff indeed. (Point to ponder: Why did the whole Single White Female act have to feature into her dastardly plan? We suppose Gossip Girl’s answer is always “Why not?”)

GOSSIP GIRL “The Wrong Goodbye” Season 4 Episode 22 – What did you think of tonight’s season finale episode? I was completely taken surprise by the cliffhanger, although I can’t really see Blair being pregnant.

Serena: I thought it was nice of Serena to apologize to Dan and Nate for leading them on. Maybe this will be the start of a new, more mature, Serena? I felt bad for Serena at the Constance ball when everyone seemed so disappointed in her. I enjoyed the scene at the end – do you think Serena might have found a new career in film?

Chuck and Blair: Was Blair and Chuck’s split the wrong goodbye in your opinion? I thought it was romantic when Chuck saved Blair from Russell and they shared a dance (and a little more) afterward. It’s frustrating to me that they keep going after each other and then they decide it’s not meant to be and then one of them inevitably calls it off. I think both of them are in love with the chase more than they are in love with one another. I actually hope Blair ends up marrying Louis since it would be completely unpredictable. I don’t think that she will actually be pregnant, do you?

Nate: I am hoping that Nate is more interesting next season. It’s a shame that Raina went home to Chicago because I liked the two of them together. Do you think Nate was a good friend to Chuck this season? I felt like he was a bad friend but out stupidity, not spite. It was really dumb of him to tell Raina about her father as it almost got Blair killed. It was also not cool of him to date Raina since he was Chuck’s ex. What do you think?

Dan and Vanessa: Dan is going to be so upset when he finds out what Vanessa did. What I want to know is if Vanessa is going to tell Dan what she did or just pocket his checks? Vanessa was probably my least favorite character of the season. After reading Dan’s book, she accused him of wanting into the upper east side more than even his sister. Be that as it may, I feel like Vanessa is just as bad as Dan, if not worse. I hope that next season she finally starts returning back to normal.

Twist: One of the biggest twists of the night is that Charlie isn’t Charlie, she’s Ivy. Say Whaaa? So what was all that about? It looks like Serena’s aunt concocted an elaborate scheme to get some of the family money. I loved that Georgina was on to her. I have to admit, I actually missed Georgina and I hope to see more of her next season.

For me, season 4 of Gossip Girl did not disappoint and was good right up through tonight’s show. What did you think? Please leave me a comment and let me know what you thought about tonight’s episode of Gossip Girl, as well as your thoughts on season 4 and what you hope to see in season 5.