A Very Glamorous Christmas

It's the most wonderful time of the year here at the Blogulator! Tonight's episode of Gossip Girl delivered a seasonal episode full of drama and glam, and I have to say, it might have been the most entertaining holiday episode of a teenage weekly drama series since the O.C.'s Christmukkah episodes.

The episode began with that weird choir singing "Santa Baby," which, I have to say, is probably one of the worst Christmas songs ever written. Some other Christmas songs I hate:

The Twelve Days of Christmas (so annoying)

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (especially the Pedro the Lion version, "let's whine about Christmas")

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (it's totally depressing. who wants to be depressed on Christmas?)

Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel (I find the melody to be creepy)

At any rate, Gossip Girl, despite using one of my top five most hated (and possibly number one most hated) Christmas managed to deliver a bang up episode.

Spoiler alert! We knew that Blair's dad is gay. we get it. But did we expect him to bring his French partner home for the holidays? No, sir! What a situation.

The best part of the episode was that Serena and her boyfriend (I can never remember his name...the "poor" one) decided to give each other meaningful, rather than expensive, Christmas gifts, so they set a price limit of $50. But, of course, you cannot get a decent gift for $50! Everyone knows that. This is why I try to set my spending limits somewhere around 10k when shopping for my friends. In the end, Serena gives him the gift of snow (it hadn't yet snowed in New York because, as Qualler said, they filmed this episode before winter), and he gets her a Christmas tree. It warmed my heart almost as much as the O.C. Christmukkah episode season two in which the gang revives Lindsay's Christmukkah spirit by decorating her home.

Rating: Cast of Frasier

The series taking America's Next Top Model's place during the interim, Crowned, has the most ridiculous theme song. Ever. EVER. But moving on...

This episode featured a swimsuit competition. Hooray! There is absolutely nothing I would rather do than be judged in a bathing suit with my mother. I someday hope to have a daughter, and I hope that she and I can also parade in our bathing suits and be judged on our figures and style choices.

One mother actually said that another mother "has the most atrocious figure." Her daughter chimed in, saying "she definitely has a mom look." Hello! She's a mom! Women in their 50s should not look like women in their 20s. It really frightens me that I often cannot distinguish between mother and daughter.

This episode of Crowned also showcased the moms and daughters bashing another mother's nose. One mom ended the conversation saying, "If I had that big old humpity hump in my nose, I'm not gonna try to think I'm beautiful."

Now, this might sound like I'm complaining about the show, and I suppose in many ways it goes against most things I stand for: beauty pageants, reality television, old ladies in their bathing suits, etc. However, the drama is outrageous (truly, truly, truly outrageous!) and I'm completely hooked. It isn't America's Next Top Model, but it will certainly do as a replacement before they begin the next ANTM cycle.

Rating: Content Kitty.

Hooray for Wednesday night television! Hooray for Christmas and for mothers and daughters competing side by side. And, more than anything, hooray for the child which will be born to Jamie Lynn Spears!

Happy Holidays everyone!

This entry was posted by Unknown, on Wednesday, December 19, 2007. You can leave your response.