UES

Blair: "The two of us alone in your limo? You're really tempting fate."
Chuck: "I GUESS I DON'T GET WHAT YOU'RE IMPLYING."

Blair: "Dan kinda got in my head, and I'm starting to think maybe we -- meaning you -- are just using our -- meaning your -- little plan as a way of not being together."
Chuck: "Yes. It's all a cunning plan to give myself blueballs. That Dan's really onto something."

They talk about their feelings. You know how they're always having those? Well. Blair's feelings are that she is, once again, being screwed by her storyline -- and that, irritatingly enough, Dan is the only person she knows that's both perspicacious and shitty enough to point it out. Chuck's feelings are more along the lines of how every time something bad happens in his life, a random guest star -- usually his dad or dad-uncle, but really it could be anybody -- points out that it's all Blair's fault. And what he's starting to realize is that yes, they are correct in this conclusion, but only because he lets her fuck everything up all the time. So in order to hate her less, he's got to work on hating her more, until such time as he's just toxic and codependent enough to force her to share the blame for his continuous boring fuckups, and absolutely no more than that. It's a real tightrope we're walking.

SPECTATOR

Sage: "Hey, Nate. Still burning that midnight oil?"
Nate: "Whatever this business is, it won't run itself!"
Sage: "Maybe it could, though. Let's give it a shot. Come downstairs and buy me drinks, so I won't get carded."
Nate: "You remind me so much of myself at your age. Whatever that happens to be. I was always saying that to super-hot old ladies, before their inevitable obsession with destroying Serena kicked in and we forgot we were dating each other and just kind of wandered off into separate storylines. You have no idea how many times that has happened."
Sage: "Well, it won't happen to me. Like all interns at your company that produces nothing and cannot be defined, I am too young to give a shit about Serena. I'm like, Serena Who? and your old ass is all, She used to be somebody."
Nate: "And now she is somebody named Sabrina."

PRADA