Gossip Girl - 1x08 - "Seventeen Candles"

Another winner!   This week on Gossip Girl: 

Numerous Waldsen moments, funny!Blair, sad!Blair, happy!Blair, cute!Blair ... sexy!Serena, flirting with girls!Serena, caressing Blair's face!Serena, adorable bumbling!Dan, pretty oh so very pretty!Vanessa, flirting with girls!Vanessa, Chuck so much awesome from Chuck ... and mercifully very little Nate around Blair though he still managed to make her cry.  They also found someone besides Chuck that Nate can have screen time with and not make me want to claw my eyes out. 

( Commentary behind the cut ... beware the spoiler )