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I am just barely out of teenhood myself, and I am disgusted that the CW would blatantly advertise this OM3 garbage, much less actually incorporate it into a plot. What is especially upsetting to me is that the producers and writers for this show are obviously older than the target audience and feel comfortable putting this stuff on the air. While I am not opposed to people having whatever kind of sex they want, this show REALLY puts the pressure on girls to skank out.
i think it's ridic in the first place (gossip girl in general) but for the parenting group to make an uproar IMHO makes it more intriguing for teens.
I think it's up to parents to do the parenting not a television show!
There has always been inappropriate television shows but parents knew how to restrict their kids from watching it! And Gossip Girl has never hidden that it includes (drinking, drugs etc.)
@D.Marie - I think it's admirable that you don't let your girls watch this stuff!
I've only watched a couple episodes of this show and I think this would be a little much. It's obviously a desperate attempt to boost ratings, but if the show/writing/acting was a little better, they wouldn't need to do these silly stunts.
Thanks Mrs. Martin: We just want them to be kids and enjoy being kids. What do so many kids feel the need to grow up so fast? I agree that the parents need to do the parenting and there are so many parents out there who need to get their heads together and reach out to their kids and dont let them grow up so fast...have dinner together and ask them about their day. Turn off the phones, ipods, video games, etc and be a family and go outside and take a walk together. We love taking them to the park and taking walks and scrapbooking together. Im a lucky gal to have a great family unit with my soon to be husband and his kids!
@D.Marie I agree with you 100% - I think some people don't realize how much that stuff matters and that they think everyone/thing else (school, tv, videogames etc.) will parent their children for them!
I watch the show...sad to say. I was in college when it first aired and was surrounded by sorority girls who grew up reading the books (I never even heard of them before). Anyway I was appalled by the sneak peak onto this weeks episode. I can't believe they would put such a topic into a teen centered show. Frankly a lot of the subject matter of Gossip Girl is way to old for it's targeted age group. It actaully reminds me of Sex and the City or some other shows, that were too hott for main stream TV, with all the sex, lies, drinking and drugs!
Yeah and even Sex and the City thats on tv now...the reruns...has cut out some of the Sex parts that were on HBO!
Exactly. Some of the parts they have cut out are bordering what is being written into the scripts of Gossip Girl...insane.
Honestly to me, the CW is all about shock value this year (and last) Have you seen the promo prints for Melrose Place and 90210 (the new "hump" day, etc) I do watch GG and Im ok with it though I think its unnecessary as well. Its at a 9pm hour so its after "kids" TV and it does have the parental disclaimers. I agree with others that its up to the parents to monitor what the kids are watching. I used to watch Bevery Hills 90210 and Melrose Place (sometimes) with my mom and other than the occassional really bad moment when she would make me leave the room, it was fine.
Stopped watching the show after the first season....I did like the books, but they are completely different from the show...the show isn't even based on the books anymore. Anyways...good for those parents who don't let their teens watch it.
I agree with some PPs - if a show is inappropriate, it should be up to the parents to regulate what the kids watch.
Gossip Girl shows premarital sex regularly. What is so much worse about a threesome? I don't get it.
I don't watch Gossip Girl, but I know when I was MUCH younger than 13 my mom let me watch shows like Melrose Place and 90201 (the originals). I turned out just fine. Didn't have sex til I was 17 (and even then didn't start having it regularly til I was 18). I've never done drugs. Didn't start drinking regularly til college. It's not the responsibility of the TV show or the network to parent other people's children. I'm sort of sick of parents blaming outside forces for "corrupting" their children.
I don't think it's a problem for high schoolers to watch it... I mean, it sets really unrealistic standards, but it is about uptown, right??? Geographically realistic. I think it's a good idea for parents to watch it with their kids and make it a learning experience... like, "so, child, you see, people in this world are actually fake and shallow.... but if you have money, nobody cares what you're like... good luck out there, kiddo!"
To me, the show is so outrageous and over the top that the upcoming threesome isn't that surprising...
And if I were watching the show with teenagers, we would have had lots of conversations about the fantasy/hyperbole/drama in every single episode, so they'd probably be saying, "yeah, Mom, we get it already, we shouldn't act like Chuck Bass." 
I watch Gossip Girl regularly, and it's not like the show has ever tried to hide the fact that it features drugs, sex, alcohol, etc. It honestly doesn't surprise me much that they would have a threesome in it. I agree with the others that the parents need to be the ones to parent the kids - not CW! If the parents feel it's inappropriate they shouldn't let their kids watch it. End of story.
I think a teenager's level of sexual activity is much more influenced by what their parents teach them rather than by what they see on tv. In my personal experience, my mom was very thorough with my sex ed but put more limits on the violence in movies/shows we were allowed to watch rather than sex. As a result, I wound up not even kissing a boy until I was 17 and didn't have sex until I was 20. My best friend did not get the same education - abstinence only and no racy tv or movies (but violence was ok) - and she started having sex when she was 15. It's definitely up to the parents, not the media to teach values.
I think saying its up to parents to decide what they will allow their children to watch is all well and good in a perfect world. But we all know there are plenty of parents out there who are not involved in their children's lives enough to know what they're watching. I agree with D.Marie that it seems wildly inappropriate to have a plot line in a show that is incredibly popular with teens about a threesome.
I am really sick of this rampant sex everywhere. My husband and I were watching football preview stuff this morning and it seemed like every other commercial was for Viagra or Cialis. The kids that have the most trouble growing up are the ones whose parents aren't there to make choices for them. There is no need to expose kids to crap like this. It doesn't advance society.
I started watching GG when it first aired, and a threesome is totally in line with everything else they've been showing. I agree that this show probably is for someone a little older than high school (I was in my last year of college when I started watching), but that doesn't mean it can't be on TV. If parents have a problem with it then they should get involved and not let their kids watch it. It's not the CW's responsiblity to raise kids, it's the parent's. There are certain things that are not allowed to be showed on tv, but anything other than that would be censorship and almost positively a violation of first amendment rights. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it can't be on tv. If you don't like it, don't watch it. If you don't want your kids to watch it, then don't let them. But no need going around and creating a bright line rule about what can be shown on tv or not, IMO.
I agree with mskalinin in that a lot of parents don't get involved with their children and don't take the time to teach them proper values and moniter what they are watching on TV. However, this is the exact reason I don't think that these watchdog groups should try to pull TV episodes and such.
Do you really think that a teen whose parents allow them to watch GG and wouldn't care about a threesome on the air care what else their kids watch? I'm sure these kids have seen much worse on HBO and probably Cinemax, since I'm sure these parents have not taken the time to put a parental block on them.
I don't know, I guess I just think that the kids who are already disadvantaged by having parents who don't give a crap about them or how they are being raised really don't need so much exposure to these types of indecent behavior on network television. HBO etc are paid extra, and for me the line is there. You can get ABC, CW, etc on the antenna or QAM for free.
For the record, I was raised in an uncensored household, but I was lucky in that my parents took the time to watch things with me and explain and talk about situations and my perceptions of them. My favorite move at age six was Terminator, which had plenty of violence and a pretty graphic sex scene. I didn't have sex until 21, while most of my friends, many of whom were forbidden to watch rated R movies, were having sex by age 14-15.
I think its naive to say that not exposing kids to violence or sex will save them from bad choices. But I also think its naive to say that anything goes and its the parents' job to decide what their kids should and shouldn't watch. Lots of parents just aren't doing their jobs, and we're left with a generation of depraved children having sex and drinking at age 11, committing crimes in middle school. What's so wrong with putting better role models out there?
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So I dont watch Gossip Girl but Ive seen it a few times. I just read theres going to be a three some on the show but some Parenting Group is trying to get CW to not air the episode. My thoughts....its a little much for CW. Three somes should be left to channels like FX, HBO, Showtime, etc. CW is a channel a lot of teens watch and Gossip Girl is a very popular show with teens. I dont think its cool to be putting this idea of a 3 some out there with teens. Yes teens know about them and they know about sex and its the parents who should allow or not allow their kids to even watch Gossip Girl. But we dont need to be putting it in their face like this. My fiances girls are 12 and 14 and we dont let them watch this kind of stuff. They watch Hanana Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, The Foodnetwork, Say Yes to the dress!! Teens who are already allowed to watch shows like this are the ones parents have to keep an eye on. They drink, get into drugs, date boys who treat them like dirt, get pressured into having sex.
Cant we just let them be kids? What happen to playing with barbies and not worrying about sex until they were 18 or older? Now there are 13 and 12 yr old girls having babies. I couldnt imagine my soon to be step daughters watching a tv show that had a 3 some on it. What has happened? And you cant tell me there arent 13 yr old girls who watch this show.
What do you think Hive