First let's tally the egregious product placements. I counted one million and three.1 Cole Haan
1 Tiffany's (2 if you count Blair's favorite movie being Breakfast at Tiffany's just shortened to "Tiffany's")
1 Coach
1,000,000 Vitamin Water (Kudos to Little J, who did her best to sound natural when ordering the "Rescue" flavor.)
Now some superlatives:
Best New Alliance
Chuck and Eric
Best Pop Culture Reference
Jenny: "Last year they even turned away Jack Johnson!"
Rufus: "Sounds like a party with taste."
Best Gossip Girl Line
"Ain't karma a bitch? We know Blair Waldorf is."
Best Non-Gossip Girl Line
Intern Jenny's Devil-Wears-Prada boss, when waving away Jenny's design: "Eggshell gives me a migraine."
Runner-up:
Serena: "Oh, God. The lifeguard's got a Camaro. And not in an ironic 'I have a Camaro' way."
(What exactly does it look like to ironically have a Camaro, Serena?)
Most Overwritten Line
"All I could see was that Chuck Basstard."
(Second only to: "Damn that Mother Chucker!")
Best All-Around Scene
Chuck trying to keep Blair from leaving the White Party
(Blair: "Give me a reason. And 'I'm Chuck Bass' doesn't count.")
Best WTF Moment
Serena/Nate kiss
(...as in, WTF does Serena's head look like it's attached to a rubber band?!? You're going to HURT him!!!)
And finally...
Character You Most Wanted to Throw the Remote Control At
Dan Humphry
(Geez, Dan, how about giving somebody else a shot next time?)
I bought so many Vitamin Waters after this episode.
*UPDATE: A.V. Club clued me in that Nate's married lover is none other than Madchen Amick from Twin Peaks! I feel pretty dumb for not noticing, but you know what the quality's like on YouTube.
2 comments:
I'm staying off the Gossip Girl wagon. I worry that I'll get sucked in. I don't know. I feel like maybe I got guilty pleasured out on The OC (Another Josh Schwartz creation). I stuck with The OC from its hip magazine-cover first season days to its low-rated season four. Am I wrong to see Gossip Girl as a less warm-hearted The OC?
*reply to above comment*
In my opinion, Gossip Girl is far superior to The OC because it revels in this decadent, self-referential New York socialite/media world that the OC could never touch. I mean, Jay McInerney? Tinsley Mortimor? One-half of one percent of GG's audience knows who these people are, and I really appreciate the show for these insular shoutouts. Sure, The OC never lacked pop culture references, but they were insubstantial hipster references garnered from a quick glance at Pitchfork. GG, on the other hand, borrows as much from Edith Wharton as it does from Brenda Walsh.
Also, GG has no Marissa Cooper.
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