Last Tango, Then Paris
You reap what you sow. What goes around comes around. No matter how far you run, you can never truly escape. Everything catches up to you in the end, and when it does, it usually kicks your ass. - Gossip Girl
The season 3 finale Last Tango, Then Paris played up the parallels all the way to the pilot, and we've compiled them as a treat for you. Massive picspam ahead by twistedright and signaturescarf
Spotted at Grand Central Station
"Why'd she leave? Why'd she return? Send me all the deets." - Gossip Girl, 1.01 Pilot
Jenny, Nate, and the morning after
And it was still harmless.
Waldorf-Rose breakfasts
Where Blair tries to ignore that Chuck exists.
Georgina's in trouble
And Chuck and Blair do not care.
Dan and Serena fall asleep in the same bed...
...are (re)awakened,
...and make it on Gossip Girl
Chuck and Serena sibling pep talks
"She's scared, Chuck. Her plan hasn't worked out for her and she doesn't know what's gonna happen next. If you want to be back in her life, make her feel safe. You know what to say." - Serena, 2.19 The Grandfather
"Look, before you go and use whatever line you've prepared, think hard. Nate knows who he loves and what he wants. So unless you can say the same, look him in the eye and tell him that or stop playing games. Courage, ma soeur." - Chuck, 3.22 Last Tango, Then Paris
Serena has the talk
Serena finally goes to her boyfriend after shutting him out from her issues. Also: "nothing" happened between Dan and Georgina just like "nothing" happened between Dan and Serena.
Blair gives the smackdowns
Because no one messes with the people she cares about.
Chuck!abuse vs. Dan!abuse.
"I'm in luck! Two smackdowns for the price of none." - Blair, 3.22 Last Tango, Then Paris
Serena gets caught
With Nate, with Dan.
Missed dates and trashed bouquets
Not to mention one crushing the hopes and dreams of the other.
Dan and Jenny hang out with Chuck
"You're either in for the full ride, or you're out." - Chuck, 2.05 The Serena Also Rises
"If you want to hang with me, you do what I do." - Chuck, 3.22 Last Tango, Then Paris
Chuck and Jenny come full circle
"This begins and ends with Chuck." - Dan, 3.22 Last Tango, Then Paris
Blair and Jenny lose their virginities to Chuck
"You sure?" - Chuck, 1.07 Victor, Victrola
"If you want to leave, now would be the time." - Chuck, 3.22 Last Tango, Then Paris
Blair and Jenny do it in the dark
"Blow out your candle" - Chuck 2.03 The Dark Night
Chuck, Blair, peonies, and I love yous
Blair and Jenny confess their deflowerings
In actual chapels. Eric can totally pass for a priest.
This is the end
Serena chooses Dan over Nate
Chuck and Blair stroll
Before the bombs start dropping.
Chuck falls back in Blair's good graces
Only to screw it up again.
Chuck is about to say it
But gets interrupted. Last year's I Love You is this year's proposal.
Dan defends Jenny's honor...
...and Chuck gets punched for the nth time
Exiled queens
Dealbreakers
"I was sad and he tried to comfort me."
"You needed all that comfort?"
"It just happened."
"Leave me alone."
"Tell me you love me. Everything we've done, all the gossip and the lies and the hurt, will have been for something. Tell me it was for something."
"Maybe it was but it's not anymore."
- 2.25 The Goodbye Gossip Girl
"I thought you didn't love me anymore. I didn't care if I lived or died. Jenny Humphrey was just--"
"Don't say her name! Or anything else to me ever again. This whole night didn't happen."
- 3.22 Last Tango, Then Paris
Humphrey hugs
The lost sheep returns.
Dan and Jenny arrive from Hudson; Jenny leaves for Hudson.
S and B pack for the summer
This year they're both going away. And they are together. Finally!
Bromance calls
Although Nate seems to be the new Chuck, look how Dan perfectly captures his pout.
Blair interrupts Derena
Georgina brings bad surprises
Georgina has a bad habit of showing up with unpleasant surprises.
It seems like it's becoming a season finale tradition.
But this season's particular present? It was totally foreshadowed.
Nate goes Bassian
Chuck gets caught
And blacks out.
Arrival and Departure
If it weren't for Chuck getting shot and Nate having a threesome, this scene would be the perfect closing shot although they've done this before.
Will Jenny return truly reformed, or will she also steal a horse at a polo match in two seasons?
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XOXO, twistedright & signaturescarf