Parents All Pissy About “Gossip Girl” Threesome Tonight (VIDEO)

By Amanda Pendolino on November 9th, 2009

OMFG! There’s going to be a threesome tonight on Gossip Girl, and a number of parent groups around the country are quite unhappy about it. According to E! Online, the Parents Television Council argues that “impressionable teenagers” will be exposed to, “behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films.” They also claim that the episode will be ”emotionally and psychologically damaging.”

Seriously? It always baffles me when people think sex on TV is so horrible — especially when studies have shown that watching violence is much more damaging to kids. And it’s network television…it’s not like they’re actually going to show much of anything (it’s times like these when I wished I lived in Europe). Sure, I think TV sometimes glosses over the consequences of sex, but let’s all remember that sex is what got us to this planet in the first place.

The funny thing is, while Gossip Girl ruffles parental feathers, it doesn’t arouse a whole lot of Nielsen boxes. Last week, the show ranked 104th, finishing between a telenovela and a Spanish-language talk show. It’s doubtful that this episode will result in a whole lot of teen threesomes when there aren’t really all that many teens even watching! GG isn’t trying to teach kids how to be porn stars…it’s trying to save itself.

Let’s talk about the real issue here, though, who are going to be the scandalous participants? Chuck, Blair and Serena? Dan, Olivia and Vanessa? The titillating promo offers several possibilities: