The Goodbye Gossip Girl

"The Goodbye Gossip Girl"
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Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 25
Directed by	Norman Buckley
Written by	Joshua Safran
Production code	225
Original air date	May 18, 2009 (2009-05-18)
Guest appearances
Margaret Colin as Eleanor Waldorf James Naughton as William van der Bilt Chris Riggi as Scott Rosson Jan Maxwell as Headmistress Queller Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen Wallace Shawn as Cyrus Rose Yin Chang as Nelly Yuki Nicole Fiscella as Isabel Coates Amanda Setton as Penelope Shafai Michelle Trachtenberg as Georgina Sparks Dreama Walker as Hazel Williams Sebastian Stan as Carter Baizen Stella Maeve as Emma Boardman Reed Birney as Mr. Prescott Matt Doyle as Jonathan Whitney
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"The Goodbye Gossip Girl" is the 25th and final episode of the second season of the American teen drama television series Gossip Girl.^[1] The episode was written by Joshua Safran and directed by Norman Buckley. It originally aired on The CW in the United States on May 18, 2009.

"The Goodbye Gossip Girl" opens with graduation at Constance Billard and St. Jude's. Everything seems to be going smoothly until Gossip Girl sends a devastating e-mail blast that humiliates the majority of the senior class, prompting Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) to seek out the identity of Gossip Girl. Unfortunately, Gossip Girl further wreaks havoc on the senior class during a party just when Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) and Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) decide to confess their feelings for one another, interrupting them, causing previous issues to resurface between them. Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), and Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) are caught in the crossfire of Serena's war with Gossip girl and Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) faces the prospect of becoming Queen when Blair's minions rebel against her make a bidding war on who will be the next Queen Bee.