Well, actually, there's only one. The show has to revolve around some sort of party. This fact has been painfully obvious from the beginning of the show but in season 1 they had some early non-party-centric episodes. This season? Not only have they stayed focused on the world revolving around nights out but they even managed a way to fit a party into... a campus visit to Yale. Now that wouldn't seem TOO crazy since a lot of people paint the quad red on their visits but this party was thrown by the Admissions staff. I don't care if that really does happen, Gossip Girl needs to do something outside of the typical plot structure of: get ready for party, head to party, hijinks ensue at party, aftermath of the party, battle lines are drawn so let's hope we don't all cross paths at another party next week.

As for Gossip Girl, the producers also showed no fear of past mistakes by bringing back one of their dumber storylines from last year (the guy Serena killed but didn't really kill but who is still dead but who cares about him). 

With the storylines becoming more and more blase and the kids seemingly headed to college soon, one has to imagine that Gossip Girl won't be lasting too much longer. Maybe another season. Then again, who knows. One Tree Hill is somehow still on.  My new idea for a show is: It's Gossip Girl but with grown ups called "Soiree". It's like Dirty Sexy Money except good. It will be about some well-to-do Upper East Side adults and it will feature a couple of Bride & Tunnel outcasts. I wouldn't mind keeping Chuck Bass in the show and we might add Jenny Humphrey, who can graduate from Little J to Jailbait. (On a side note, it's fun to watch Taylor Momsen grow into a statuesque blonde, slowly dwarfing everyone in her TV family. Pretty soon, she won't be able to wear heels in any seen with Penn Badgley). And yes, those last sentences do make me creepy (but like I wasn't already).