Gossip (Desperate Housewives)

"Gossip"
Desperate Housewives episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 20
Directed by	Wendey Stanzler
Written by	John Pardee and Joey Murphy
Production code	320
Original air date	April 29, 2007
Guest appearance(s)
Dougray Scott as Ian Hainsworth Jake Cherry as Travers McLain Jason Gedrick as Rick Coletti Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey Rachel Fox as Kayla Scavo Judyann Elder as Dr. Brody Ben Parrillo as Roger Assante Jones as Mall Security Guard Kylie Sparks as Kim Rachel Winfree as Gossipy Woman #1 Dierdre Holder as Gossipy Woman #2 Pat Crawford Brown as Ida Greenberg Stacey Travis as Jordana Geist Trevor Gagnon as Freddy Billy Unger as Chad Noah Matthews as Little Boy Josh Reaves as Little Boy John Bobek as Tucker Colton Shires as Boy #1 Kurt Doss as Boy #2 Julian Sylvester as Snake Handler
Episode chronology
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List of Desperate Housewives episodes

"Gossip" is the 67th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It was also the twentieth episode of the show's third season.

Edie announces to Gabrielle at her engagement party that she’s been dating Carlos, which doesn’t go down too well. Gabrielle puts a smile on for the rest of the night but continues to be bothered about it underneath. She then confronts Edie and tells her she’s not happy with it, but Edie refuses to stop seeing him. Gabrielle begins to put school girl tactics in motion to get back at her, and tells Lynette and Susan not to speak to her. Edie retaliates by inviting both Lynette and Susan to Travers’s birthday party. She convinces Lynette by ordering twenty pizzas and some pasta, making it good for business, while telling Susan the children will all want a copy of her book. Both think Gabrielle is out with Victor all day, so she won’t find out, but they panic when they see her car pulling up by the party. She says if they don’t leave the party their friendships are over, so Carlos takes action and carries Gabrielle out of the party. She tells him she’s in love with Victor, but he reveals to her he and Edie will never turn into anything serious. Gabrielle realizes he’s still in love with her.

Mrs. McCluskey is the talk of the town after the news spreads about her husband’s body being found in the freezer. She becomes hassled by local kids, who throw eggs at her door, and paint “Witch” on her door too. Lynette also changes baby sitters to avoid her from her children, but Parker continues to defend her and tells Mrs. McCluskey to just tell her motives to make it stop. She goes to Travers' birthday party when they’re cleaning up and reveals her actions. She came home at 2 AM from a weekend away to find Gilbert, her husband, had died. Waiting until morning to call the Funeral Home, she checked his pension plan to see he’d signed everything off to his first wife. Mrs. McCluskey in fear of losing everything, kept his body in the freezer and kept cashing the checks. Lynette then hires Mrs. McCluskey back as her babysitter.

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