"Destination Unknown" "I Want a New Drug" "Mirror in the Bathroom" "I Melt with You" "Dancing with Myself" "Stand and Deliver" "52 Girls" "I Hate the Rich" "Blue Monday" "The Safety Dance" "Just Can't Get Enough" "Prom Theme" "Doot Doot"
Original air date
May 11, 2009 (2009-05-11)
Guest appearances
Brittany Snow as Lillian "Lily" Rhodes (flashbacks)
Krysten Ritter as Carol Rhodes
Matt Barr as Keith van der Woodsen
Andrew McCarthy as Rick Rhodes
Shiloh Fernandez as Owen Campos
Ryan Hansen as Shep
Caroline Lagerfelt as Celia "CeCe" Rhodes
Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen
Cynthia Watros as CeCe Rhodes (flashbacks)
Yin Chang as Nelly Yuki
Nicole Fiscella as Isabel Coates
Abby Pivaronas as Veronica
Amanda Setton as Penelope Shafai
Zuzanna Szadkowski as Dorota Kishlovsky
Dreama Walker as Hazel Williams
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"Valley Girls" is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of The CW television series Gossip Girl. The episode served as a backdoor pilot for a potential Gossip Girl spin-off series set in the 1980s, entitled Valley Girls. The episode was directed by Mark Piznarski and written by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (this was the first episode of the series since "Much 'I Do' About Nothing" to be co-written by Schwartz). It was filmed on location in New York City, New York and in Los Angeles, California. References to elements of 1980s popular culture were heavily accentuated in the episode, which the producers hoped would bridge the generation gap between the characters and audience. "Valley Girls" aired on the CW in the United States on May 11, 2009 and was viewed live by an audience of 2.31 million Americans. Although the episode received generally positive reviews, the spin-off series was not picked up.
"Valley Girls" provides insight on the mysterious past of character Lily van der Woodsen (played by Kelly Rutherford as an adult and Brittany Snow as a teenager) through a series of flashbacks to her life as a teenager in the 80s. After getting kicked out of boading school, Lily runs away from her wealthy parents to live in the San Fernando Valley with her sister Carol Rhodes (Krysten Ritter), the black sheep of the family. In the present, Lily's daughter Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) rebels against her mother and decides to stay in jail as a statement, while her classmates prepare for the Prom. The episode introduces the main cast of Valley Girls as guest actors.
social dialect and accompanying vocal features, best associated with Valleygirls, though elements of it have spread to other demographics, including men...
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2018, Rolling Stone released a video Bowling directed for the Death ValleyGirls' song "Disaster (Is What We're After)". The video is four minutes of...
hit 1982 single "A Million Miles Away" which was featured in the movie ValleyGirl. The band was formed in Paramount, California in 1978. They recorded...
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and one song, "ValleyGirl", co-written with his daughter, Moon Zappa, then a teen, who provided the spoken monologue mocking Valleygirls, including phrases...
actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role in the 1983 film ValleyGirl opposite Nicolas Cage. She is also regarded as a scream queen and known...
President of the Directors Guild of America. She has directed such films as ValleyGirl, Real Genius and Rambling Rose. Coolidge was born in New Haven, Connecticut...
box office. Snow appeared as young Lily Rhodes in Gossip Girl, in the episode "ValleyGirls". On January 17, 2011, Snow began appearing as a series regular...
starred in the musical films La La Land (2016) and ValleyGirl (2020), the romantic drama films Forever My Girl (2018) and All My Life (2020), and the action...
appearance on the television series Gossip Girl, playing a fictional band called "Snowed Out" in the episode "ValleyGirls". They performed their cover version...
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and The Seduction (1982), after which she played Julie’s mother in ValleyGirl and Yvette the Maid in the 1985 comedy Clue. Camp has continued to have...
Carol Rhodes in an episode of The CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl, titled "ValleyGirls," broadcast May 11, 2009. The episode was a backdoor pilot for...
films, mostly playing roles as offbeat teen girls. She appeared in many comedy films, including 1983's ValleyGirl as Suzi Brent and The Outsiders as Cherry...
She dedicated her award "to all the little girls who want to be a superhero; I'm just a half Chinese girl from the southside of Chicago." In 2019, Bennet...
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