[This story contains spoilers for Gossip Girl.]
It’s probably safe to assume a You, Gossip Girl and Nobody Wants This crossover wasn’t on anyone’s 2025 bingo card.
Penn Badgley, who stars as Joe Goldberg in Netflix’s You — which releases its fifth and final season next month — decided to lend his voice and narrate a scene from one of the streaming giant’s other hit shows: Nobody Wants This, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody.
However, Netflix isn’t the only thing the two shows have in common. Badgley previously starred on Gossip Girl from 2007-12, while Bell narrated the show. Brody is also married to Leighton Meester, who played the iconic Blair Waldorf.
“Hello, Upper East Siders. You know you love me,” Badgley says in his iconic Joe voice in the video posted on Netflix’s official Instagram account. He continues, “In the finale of Gossip Girl, it was revealed that the very lovely Kristen Bell was lending her voice to my character, to Dan Humphrey, who is the real Gossip Girl — sorry, spoiler alert! I thought I would repay the favor. I’m going to put a little narrative spin on Kristen’s show, Nobody Wants This.”
The scene he narrates is the beloved ice cream date between Bell and Brody’s characters, right before they kiss for the first time in episode two.
“You can’t be serious eating ice cream together,” Badgley says as the onscreen pair are walking on the sidewalk. “I know the friend zone is usually a cold, dark place suitable for frozen delicacies to bury your feelings in by the shovelful but this is torture.”
“It’s tragic, I know, but how can I let you go when I know you might feel the same,” he continues. “Of all the ways to make a woman’s knees weak, I would not have expected handling ice cream to be one of them, but seeing you take charge, your eyes piercing into me makes me certain this undeniable connection can’t be locked away. Makes me certain that what I want isn’t just friends. What I want is Adam Brody.”
Netflix added in its caption, “nobody wants YOU. xoxo, joe goldberg.”
Nobody Wants This has been renewed for a second season, while the final season of You premieres on Netflix April 24.