* Blair is childish! I don’t know why I didn’t see it before her bad behavior around Bree. I’d been looking at her attempts to recreate her high-school dominance just in terms of fear of failure in a new environment, but (provided the writers connect the dots) what’s playing into it at least as much is that she’s just not a grown-up.

* Crazy pathetic cartoonish Georgina is a let-down. Plus, I wanted Georgina and Vanessa to solve their impasse the only way they know how: with lovemaking.

* Holy shit, Chuck giving Blair a massage in black silk pajamas. Me and Charlie, eyeball to eyeball. The man in the black pajamas. Worthy fuckin’ adversary, dude. Worthy fuckin’ adversary.

* Vanessa dropped the Scott bomb on Dan pretty unceremoniously. It was done as part of a funny mix-up scene rather than built up to as a life-changing detonation. Interesting choice.

* I loved Serena’s post-Carter revelation, post-Brooklyn Botanic Garden wedding-failure moping. The Thinker with cleavage.

* The Human Turtleneck stood up for himself pretty nice there as he was hunting for Scott with Lily, I thought.

* “By the power vested in me by having recorded Daydream Nation…”

* MOST of the cast is now officially related. Rufus, Lily, Dan, Jenny, Serena, Eric, Scott, and Chuck. It’s like the Brady Bunch!

* Anyone else catch Carter’s Long Good Friday impression there at the end?

* Shuffling Scott, Carter, Bree, and Georgina offstage in one fell episode. Wow. As my friend Ben Morse put it, every fourth episode of this show is like a season finale. Will they rotate new cast members back in?

* Chuck kissing a dude in the next-week teaser!!!!!!!!!

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