First of all, I really liked the Stepford Dudes situation with the Archibalds. Nate’s grandpa helicopters in?! What a pi-yump! He’s like Diddy, yo! Or, like, how I imagine Diddy to be…. Although the clapping when Nate and his grandpa hugged… was…weird…. And I can’t even comment on Nate’s cousin, TRIP! Yowzas. The only name worse than that one is “Topper” aka Tinsley’s husband. THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE!!!

My favorite thing about this episode was the gorgeous pink and green flower arrangement in the front entrance of Blair’s apartment! PRETTY.

Question: Were Serena and Blair shopping for sunglasses in a house?! An art gallery?! A…museum?! What WAS that?

Although I enjoyed the fleeting presence of Blair’s monumental flower arrangement, my compulsive pause/replay nature was lured out of hiding by Lily’s “list”. I spent about 15 minutes working the HELL outta my DVR to find out who was on Lily’s list of love-ahhhhhhhs – no small task, considering that some sections were covered by my DVR commercial eradicatorl/fast forward bar. However, it was worth the effort! I got every last one of those names except for the few that were actually covered up by something onscreen!

Lily’s Dick Parade:
Darius Menard
Hollis Meminger
Steve Krieger
Pierre Elliot
Randy Manion
James Bono
Ben Noble
Justin Pittman
Chris Nelson
Lindsey Hall
Jeffrey Rehlaender
Lawrence Orvieto
Duncan Bryant
Jeff Christiano
Alan Cohen
Trent Reznor
Slash
Rufus Humphrey
Claus Christiansen
Klaus Richter
Bart Bass

The list that she hid from Rufus (original version):
Robert Antalocy
John Henry
Chris Tonkin
Drew Adams
Jason Fesel
Kevin Slack
Alex Gradet
Stephan Rooney
Joe Van Ness
Stephan Georges

The list that Rufus found in her purse (finished/edited version):
Robert Antalocy
Chris Tonkin
John Henry
Chris DeAngelis
Drew Adams
Jason Fesel
Kevin Slack
Alex Gradet
Stephan Rooney
Joe Van Ness
Stephan Georges
C?????? C????? (Hidden by the crease of the paper)
Ryan Coleman
Petro Ortiz (Finally, a non white guy! Now, show me…DEANDRE!)
Ed Sholes
Tom Blancato
Brian Kenyon
John Patterson
Richard Robbins
John Herket
Matthew Simonelli
William ????? (Obscured by Rufus’ thumb)
George ????? (Obscured by Rufus’ thumb)

Rufus, NEVER go into a lady’s purse!!!! Seriously, I only have two Carmexes, a notebook filled with sad thoughts about the world around me and 3 weeks worth of receipts in my purse, but I’d give my boyfriend a SERIOUS purple nurple if he went into my bag without permission!

And then Rufus “apologizes” by making a list of what Lily likes?! UGHHHHH!!! BLECH!!!!! LAAAAAME!!!! Why didn’t he just pop in the VHS of an old grainy home video (name of band featured tonight!) of Lily baking, giggling and fake-pushing him away?!

*wiping vomit from mouth* So anyway, I really like this twist of Blair and Nate getting back together. It could have been really contrived in theory, but that shit was well executed!

And Blair/Leighton showed all her humanity with these five words:
“Nate, don’t forget your jacket.”

Amazing! Beautiful! What a triumph!!!

However, I still wish that whole old man situation was about her temporarily turning into a high class prostitute for kicks:

Maybe daddy will let her in if she lets HIM in….

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