Gossip Girl Bart

The Big Bass is dead! Funerals are always good soap fodder, and this one doesn’t disappoint: Chuck runs around screaming insult and getting drunk. Blair tries to comfort him, but he resists her maternal side. Lily and Rufus want to be together and Rufus says he’ll wait for her.

I like that Blair and Cyrus are getting close, I think Blair is basically a family girl, who likes big thanksgivings and lavish Christmasses. Serena going all grieving daughter I thought a bit dodgy, because her mom was married to Bart for all of fifteen minutes and most of those minutes were rather unpleasant! Aaron has got to go. I thought Dan was a boring conceited, well, bore, but Aaron is much, much worse. Plus he desperately needs to shave. Who’d have thought I’d be longing for the days of Darena? I’m curious about the missing baby: would it be anyone we know? Could be Nate….. Or Aaron! Yikes. Jenny designing a bridal ensemble for the great Eleanor Waldorff I thought highly unlikely, silly even. But then I think the whole Jenny-story line should be scratched asap. Can’t she go and live with her boring mum?

I thought the final scene with Blair and Chuck was sweet, they really should get it together, though that would, of course, kill the series. Maybe in the very last episode?

btw: Chace and Taylor? Together? GG is starting to look a lot like a dating show for teens… That’s the third couple getting together!

oh well, no more GG til 5th of January!

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Harry & Derrick

In 1998 millions of people tuned in for Das Abscheidsgeschenk, (the farewell gift), the final episode of Aus der Reihe Derrick. The show was well known for its non violent content and lack of bloodshed. Generally, the bad guys would simply confess their crimes to the warm listening ear of Stefan Derrick. Still, people around the globe wanted to know whether Derrick would also survive the final episode or whether maybe, finally, one of the many criminals he’d put away over the years would try to get their revenge. In the episode, Derrick lives to run Interpol.

281 episodes of Aus der Reihe Derrick turned Tappert into a cult figure. The slightly stooping, polite police inspector and his trusted sidekick Harry solved crime like gentlemen. The fact that in later years Tappert had to wear more and more elaborate toupets and a girdle that made it impossible for him to even sit down naturally only added to his charms.

The only German actor to have fanclubs throughout the world and recently a discoteque named after him in The Netherlands, Tappert made tv history.

Last weekend, Horst Tappert died at the age of 85. Luckily, this is not really the end, because the series has been in reruns for years and even today for instance in France In France L’inspecteur Derrick and Harry are still solving crimes. Harry, hol schon mal den Wagen!

Balthazar as Tommy

The siblings are all trying to wiggle out of Thanksgiving but everybody’s afraid to tell their mom. Then baby Elizabeth suddenly gets ill and has to have a liver transplant. Only her biological father can be a donor. But who’s her daddy? Kevin or Justin?

Liked it! I’d kinda forgotten about the brother-being-the-sperm-donor-thingy. Cool. So if you don’t want to know who Lizzie’s dad is stop reading NOW!

Soooooo…. Kevin’s the dad. That must be so hard for Tommy! And Scotty! And Justin! Cute kid btw. And Balthazar Getty can actually act! I am not BG-fan, check out Seven worst celeb boyfriends but he looked the part of troubled father and I found myself oddly moved when he broke down. Excellent ep!

Lovely, loving scene between Kevin and Scotty in the hospital. Thumbs up!

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Must be something in the water at the HIMYM set, because only a month after Alyson Hannigan announced her pregnancy, Cobie Smulders, aka HIMYM’s HOT Robin, has stated she too is going to have a baby in the spring.
Series cocreator Craig Thomas commented on the fertility boom on the set:

“Everyone’s tremendously excited by all the impending motherhood here at How I Met Your Mother. We’re all so happy for Cobie and Aly, who will undoubtedly be amazing moms!” said Thomas. “And now, a public service announcement: If you’re trying to start a family, please come visit the set of How I Met Your Mother. Just come by and hang out for a day or two. We can’t legally guarantee anything, but by the time you leave, you will almost certainly be pregnant.”

I for one hope we”re not going to have an influx of babies on the show, because, let”s face it, babies are BORING in sitcoms and would keep the gang from what they do best: hang out in bars.