Its time for a catfight on the catwalk, or at least Blair (Leighton Meester) seems to believe so. Her drama with Serena (Blake Lively) has gone too far for comfort; Serena is stealing the girls at school away from Blair's rule and now hanging out with happening socialites like Poppy Lifton and ignoring sacred 'BFF' traditions with Blair.

But, let's go back to how we got here -- Serena and Blair haven't exactly been on the best of terms, even way back to the show's beginning (last fall, before the writer's strike). The girls' friendship has been estranged ever since Serena's leave of absence to boarding school and after Blair found out that Serena and Nate (Chace Crawford) had slept together while he and Blair were still an item. Ouch, if that doesn't put someone on bad terms, I don't know what does. But somehow, despite both of the girls' flaws, they managed to find a way to somewhat be best friends again. Everything, though, is a competition when it comes to Blair, even if it means sabotaging her mother's fashion show at Fashion Week…she needs to stop Serena from being on top.

No one was excluded from Blair's wrath. Poor Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) was already skipping school to work her tail off as an intern for Eleanor Waldorf (Margaret Colin). Unfortunately for Blair, Jenny is her mother's new little pet project and her star worker. Blair sees the need to "teach Jenny a lesson," the lesson she obviously didn't learn last year (to stay away from Blair), and goes to her father Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle) for vindication. She squeals that Jenny has missed school for the past two weeks. Rufus calls the head mistress and, low and behold, finds out Jenny will defiantly not be returning to the Constance Billard School for Girls. But it's not just skipping school that upsets Blair. Eleanor asked her daughter to arrange the seating chart for the fashion show, and Jenny changed it to help bring more media attention. This change involved Serena and new friend and tabloid star Poppy to sit in the front row. So, if Blair can't destroy the show from the outside, she must destroy the show from within. She takes Jenny's job of controlling the models and tells them to go home. Eleanor is now left with no one to model her designs…except for the fabulous, model-thin socialites like Serena and Poppy. Foiled again! So, still in the "Serena must be ruined" mind-set, Blair takes Jenny's after-party dress and gives it to Serena to wear on the runway. Blair's mother is shocked and appalled that Serena is not wearing one of her designs on the runway; luckily the dress (designed by Jenny herself) is a smash hit with the paparazzi and Eleanor takes the credit. Even though Jenny was the star of the evening, despite Blair's dramatic antics, her father was still upset and wanted her to quit the fashion internship. Doesn't look like Jenny is any better when it comes to listening to parents than Blair. Blair's manipulating and conniving ways ended with her and Serena becoming total "frenemies." Serena will no longer worry about outshining Blair…but Gossip Girl simply reminds us that the brightest stars are the first to burn out.

Despite the magnitude of Fashion Week in New York, there were of course other dramas happening on the Upper East Side. Chuck's father, Bart (Robert John Burke), was back from traveling. This pleased Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford), until she found out he dug up some dirt on his new wife. He said it was in precaution to protect the family, but something he showed her was far from appealing. It looks like she might be running back to Rufus, after all.

And last but not least, a new "bromance" was kindled between Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Dan (Penn Badgley). Dan, still trying to come up with writing samples for his college application, decided to step out of his comfort zone and live a night like Chuck Bass, drugged and drunk. His writing mentor had suggested he write something different than the life of a sheltered kid from Brooklyn, and it sure was different, or at least implied that it was different than any other "Dan" night. Chuck left him on the side of the road drunk and without shoes and forced to find his way back to Brooklyn. Oh Chuck, the things he does for his own amusement. He was initially skeptical of the whole outing with Dan in the first place; Chuck bluntly asked him if he was gay. (Maybe that's some good foreshadowing since I hear that in the Gossip Girl books Chuck Bass is, in fact, gay). Dan didn't give up, though, even after losing his shoes. His writing mentor urged him to write more about this "Charlie Trout" character he created; he needed to find what made him tick. So, back to the bar it was. Chuck decided he'd be better off in the company of a prostitute than Dan; however, Chuck picked the wrong girl to offer and Dan wound up coming to the rescue and punching the girl's boyfriend in the face. This landed both Chuck and Dan in jail - not so good to have on that college resume.

It was in jail, though, that Chuck blurted out his big secret of why he's so angry all the time. It all stems back to daddy issues, as any good Freudian psyche would know. Chuck's mother died in childbirth and he feels that his father hates him because of it. But after being released from jail first, Chuck stumbles across Dan's manuscript in his belongings. "No one ever uses Chuck Bass," he yells and then storms away, leaving Dan in jail and saying his mother actually died in a plane crash. What's the real truth? I guess we'll have to tune in next week to find out.

Story by Beth Wickman

Starpulse contributing writer