As Blair Waldorf once said, "Thanksgiving always has secrets." Gossip Girl served heaping platefuls of secrets, lies and scandals on Thanksgiving, turning it into a dreaded and even cursed day for the characters. This created even more thrilling holiday entertainment for fans who loved every minute of the juicy drama.

From petty and dramatic fights and secrets being spilled right at the dinner table to alliances being formed to take down antagonists, these episodes packed drama into every single scene. A definitive ranking of Gossip Girl's Thanksgiving episodes follows.

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"The Magnificent Archibalds" Season 2, Episode 11Gossip Girl Season 2

Season 2's Thanksgiving episode is pretty tame. Serena's worried about introducing her most boring boyfriend on the series, Aaron, to her overbearing friends and family. Blair's too preoccupied with the secret information that her mom, Eleanor, and Cyrus Rose are engaged. Dan accidentally reveals Serena's party-girl past to Aaron. The biggest revelation in the episode is that Bart Bass has files with dirt on every single member of the Van der Woodsen family. Oh, and Nate cooperates with the FBI to get his father arrested after he returns to New York as a fugitive, which is the most interesting thing that happens in an otherwise kind of boring episode.

"Blair Waldorf Must Pie" Season 1, Episode 9Gossip Girl Season 1

Season 1's Thanksgiving episode sets the tone for future episodes featuring the best and worst of the holiday in the series. Fans are treated to a split timeline where they see last year's Thanksgiving and the current one. In the past, important revelations about the main characters are uncovered including the fact that Blair battles an eating disorder and Dan and Serena met briefly before the events of the pilot episode. Additionally, Serena and Nate are awfully flirty in the past timeline even though their traitorous hookup at the Sheppard wedding hadn't happened yet. In the present, Dan and Serena are spending their first Thanksgiving together, but unfortunately the momentous occasion is ruined when their parents' romantic past together is revealed and Blair's eating disorder is triggered by a fight with her mother. As far as dramatic revelations go, there aren't many in this debut Thanksgiving episode, making it a bit of a snooze-fest.

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"Gaslit" Season 4, Episode 10

Gossip Girl Season 4

Season 4's Thanksgiving episode is all about Serena. Master manipulator, Juliet, makes it seem like Serena fell off the wagon and overdosed on drugs as part of her plan to avenge her brother, Ben. Worried about Serena's well-being, her friends and family commit her to The Ostroff Center for treatment. Dan is the only one who believes that Serena would never overdose in a cheap motel with a bunch of pills by herself. Serena even believes that she's responsible after Gossip Girl blasts a photo of "her" doing cocaine. Everyone else thinks Serena has reverted to her old party-girl ways, until the end of the episode when Jenny reveals to Blair that her and Juliet's plan to make everyone turn against Serena worked a little too well, and the picture on the Gossip Girl blast was of Juliet in a mask. The best part of the episode occurs in the closing moments when Blair and Chuck team up for one of their classic takedowns to destroy Juliet once and for all. After all, it isn't Thanksgiving without a dramatic ending.

"It's Really Complicated" Season 6, Episode 8

Gossip Girl Season 6

Season 6's Thanksgiving episode comes after a one-year pause of Thanksgiving festivities. Serena and Dan host their first Thanksgiving dinner together as a couple, but it's a disaster. Blair's on a mission to break them up by hatching a plan that gets Serena to invite her ex, Steven, and his daughter, Sage, to Thanksgiving dinner. Chuck wallows over not being able to defeat his evil father, Bart. Dan has secretly written two versions of the next chapter in a serial in Vanity Fair about the friend group, and both are about Serena. The problem is one article is a hit piece and the other is lovey-dovey prose and Georgina crashes the festivities to ensure the right one is published. The biggest revelation comes at the end of the episode when right in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner, Dan's chapter about Serena drops online, and it's a hit piece like the others. The entire group turns against Dan, Serena dumps him, and he's brutally exiled. But in a twist, Dan explains to his dad, Rufus, that everything is going according to plan as the show prepares for its final chapter with the reveal of Gossip Girl's true identity.

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"Once Upon a Time in the Upper West" Season 1, Episode 7

Gossip Girl (2021) Season 1

Taking a cue from its predecessor, the rebooted Gossip Girl's debut Thanksgiving episode dishes out the best drama. Everyone has gathered at Zoya's house for Thanksgiving, but just like on the original show, traitorous lies and scandalous truths are revealed right at the dinner table. Max, Aki and Audrey's throuple is uncomfortably revealed in front of their parents. Max's affair with teacher, Rafa, is also revealed. Aki and Obie are fighting over why they haven't hung out after Obie was outed as bisexual. Julien's dad is engaged to his much younger girlfriend and nobody cares. The most brutal revelation is Zoya figuring out that her half-sister, Julien, and her boyfriend, Obie, slept together. Not to mention all of this happens with the two teachers who are running Gossip Girl sitting directly at the table with them, despite all the characters being oblivious to their identity. The tradition of messy and thrilling Thanksgiving episodes is alive and well in the reboot.

"The Treasure of Serena Madre" Season 3, Episode 11

Gossip Girl Season 3

Season 3 delivers the most iconic Thanksgiving episode of Gossip Girl. The truths just keep coming out at the dinner table aptly set to Jason Derulo's "Whatcha Say." Serena's short-term affair with Tripp is revealed. Blair accuses her mom of being pregnant. Dan and Vanessa fight over his conflicting romantic feelings for her. Eric and Jenny battle over the events of the cotillion that was meant to leave the unlikable Jenny dateless and humiliated. Rufus learns that Lily has been lying to him for months. The most heart-wrenching revelation comes at the end of the episode when Nate finally confesses his resurfaced romantic feelings to Serena, but she chooses to get in a car with Tripp who told his wife that he wants a divorce. This episode's drama might be some of the best in the entire series and not just in Thanksgiving episodes.

To watch all the delightful drama unfold in the Thanksgiving episodes, stream Gossip Girl and Gossip Girl (2021) now on HBO Max.