Season 1

  • Season 1 Episode 18

    Mr. and Mrs. van der Bass

    Title: Much "I Do" About Nothing
    Air Date: May 19, 2008 at 12:00 AM PDT

    Blair takes matters into her own hands to help Serena with the evil, manipulative Georgina. With Rufus on the brain, Lily prepares for her marriage to Bart Bass. At the van der Woodsen–Bass wedding, the Upper East Side social event of the year, Nate deals with more of his father's illegal idiocy and Chuck and Blair plan a...
  • Season 1 Episode 17

    Blair schemes on her cell phone

    Title: Woman on the Verge
    Air Date: May 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM PDT

    Deeply ashamed of her past mistake, Serena slips back into old habits and gets plastered with some random boys. After Blair, Nate, and Chuck put their differences aside to help her, Serena divulges her secret to them. (Blair already knew, but Nate and Chuck were not yet privy to the scandalous details.) However, she can't bring...
  • Season 1 Episode 16

    Asher Hornsby and Jenny

    Title: All About My Brother
    Air Date: May 5, 2008 at 12:00 AM PDT

    Georgina lets Serena know that she has video evidence of a dark transgression from Serena's past. The manipulative Georgina then befriends Dan and Vanessa under the alias Sarah. What does she have up her sleeve? Jenny's power struggle with Blair continues as they spread nasty rumors through Gossip Girl, and Rufus approaches Lily...
  • Season 1 Episode 15

    Nate Archibald at school

    Title: Desperately Seeking Serena
    Air Date: April 28, 2008 at 12:00 AM PDT

    It's SAT time and Georgina Sparks is back in NYC—which is worse? Serena's world descends into chaos when the evil Georgina shows up at Constance Billard. Dan notices that Serena is preoccupied, but he assumes that it has something to do with Chuck, her soon-to-be step-brother. Georgina pressures Serena into going out for...
  • Season 1 Episode 14

    Jenny joins the elite

    Title: The Blair Bitch Project
    Air Date: April 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM PDT

    Having been recently dethroned as Queen Bee, Blair returns to school with the support of Serena, only to find that she is still on the outs with her old friends. Blair is pissed. Dan visits his mother over Spring Break, and when he returns, his little sister is on the verge of becoming a full-fledged member of the A-list...
  • Season 1 Episode 13

    Serena buys a pregnancy test

    Title: The Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate
    Air Date: January 9, 2008 at 12:00 AM PST

    Gossip Girl reports that Serena van der Woodsen was seen buying pregnancy tests. Gasp! Of course, on the Upper East Side, the scandalous truth is often juicier than the gossip. Everyone—including Nate—learns of Blair and Chuck's affair, along with other salacious details of Blair's love life. The Queen B is...
  • Season 1 Episode 12

    Nate and Blair in the pool

    Title: School Lies
    Air Date: January 2, 2008 at 12:00 AM PST

    Serena, Blair, Nate, Chuck, and the rest of their friends break into the school swimming pool for a night of fun, but after someone nearly dies, the school threatens to expel the ringleader. Everyone agrees to keep silent, but this creates major tension between Serena and Dan: Dan is not ready to take the fall for someone else and risk...
  • Season 1 Episode 11

    Blair Skates in Winter White and Plaid, Season 1, Episode 11

    Title: Roman Holiday
    Air Date: December 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM PST

    It's Christmas on the Upper East Side, and Blair's father, Harold, comes home for the holidays with a very unexpected guest: his boyfriend, Roman. When she learns that the couple has purchased a château in France, Blair cannot hide her disappointment and connives to get rid of Roman forever. Jenny and Vanessa help Serena get the...
  • Season 1 Episode 10

    A Humphrey win

    Title: Hi, Society
    Air Date: December 5, 2007 at 12:00 AM PST

    Serena does not want to attend the upcoming debutante ball, but her high-society grandmother, CeCe, manipulates her into going. Unfortunately, Dan isn't exactly CeCe's idea of a prime escort for her granddaughter. She makes her opinion more than obvious, which creates a rift between the young couple. Nate misses Blair and asks her to...
  • Season 1 Episode 9

    Serena and Dan at Thanksgiving

    Title: Blair Waldorf Must Pie
    Air Date: November 28, 2007 at 12:00 AM PST

    It's a rough Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side. After a fight with Serena, Blair uninvites the van der Woodsen clan to Thanksgiving dinner. Dan asks Serena (and her family) to spend the holiday with his family instead. This creates an uncomfortable situation for Rufus and Lily, who have not yet shared their complicated...
  • Season 1 Episode 8

    "Seventeen Candles," Season 1, Episode 8

    Title: Seventeen Candles
    Air Date: November 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM PST

    Although feeling heartbroken about her breakup with Nate and guilty after her recent indiscretion with Chuck, Blair manages to put on a happy face for her seventeenth birthday party. Dan takes Serena to Blair's birthday shindig in hopes that Serena and Vanessa will bond. Great plan. Jenny brings her mother, Alison, home to the...
  • Season 1 Episode 7

    "Victor/Victrola," Season 1, Episode 7

    Title: Victor / Victrola
    Air Date: November 7, 2007 at 12:00 AM PST

    With sex on the brain, Serena and Dan finally accept that they are crazy about each other—despite their polar opposite backgrounds. Chuck considers investing in a burlesque club called Victrola to make his father, Bart Bass, proud of him. Nate confronts his own father about the cocaine, but his father denies having a problem....
  • Season 1 Episode 6

    "The Handmaiden's Tale," Season 1, Episode 6

    Title: The Handmaiden's Tale
    Air Date: October 24, 2007 at 12:00 AM PDT

    Masquerade Ball, anyone? Dan finds himself caught between two girls when his childhood friend, Vanessa, returns to Manhattan and declares her feelings for him—just as he and Serena are trying to figure out what they mean to each other. At the masked ball, Blair sends Nate on a sexy scavenger hunt, but Nate is distracted by...
  • Season 1 Episode 5

    Kati and Isabel have slumber party fun

    Title: Dare Devil
    Air Date: October 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM PDT

    Serena and Dan go on their first official date, and Dan goes (humorously) too far to try and impress her. The same night, Jenny attends the infamous Blair Waldorf sleepover (in Serena's place) and quickly finds herself engaged in a high-stakes game of "Truth or Dare." Meanwhile, after discovering that Eric is missing from the Ostroff...
  • Season 1 Episode 4

    "Bad News Blair," Season 1, Episode 4

    Title: Bad News Blair
    Air Date: October 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM PDT

    Blair gets excited when her mother, Eleanor Waldorf, chooses her to be the new face of her clothing line. However, Blair's happiness quickly evaporates when Serena unwittingly steals her spotlight—and the show. In the meantime, Serena and Dan plan a first date, and Chuck throws the "lost weekend," an Upper East Side party for boys...
  • Season 1 Episode 3

    Chuck spies and schemes in his limo

    Title: Poison Ivy
    Air Date: October 3, 2007 at 12:00 AM PDT

    The Constance Billard–St. Jude's Ivy Week is here. As representatives arrive from each of the Ivy League schools, the students vie for coveted usher positions. Although Dan desperately wants the usher job with the Dartmouth rep, Nate is given the honor—despite an utter lack of interest in his father's alma mater. After an all-out fight...
  • Season 1 Episode 2

    "The Wild Brunch," Season 1, Episode 2

    Title: The Wild Brunch
    Air Date: September 26, 2007 at 12:00 AM PDT

    It's the day after the Kiss on the Lips party and Serena receives a cold reception from Blair, who has finally discovered the real reason Serena left for boarding school. Serena makes a date with Dan and plans a talk with Nate, and Blair realizes that there may be something to gain by allowing Jenny into her elite inner circle....
  • Season 1 Episode 1

    The "It" girl, Serena van der Woodsen, is back in NYC

    Title: Pilot
    Air Date: September 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM PDT

    Filmed entirely in New York and based on the popular series of young-adult novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl revolves around privileged prep school teens on Manhattan's Upper East Side and an anonymous blogger, Gossip Girl, who provides them with the latest rumors about their highly exclusive inner circle. In the series premiere,...