Penn State

Chace Crawford may be Gossip Girl’s “designated hot guy,” but Penn Badgley’s untroubled, unassuming, unabashed charisma is what makes him the show’s thinking-girl’s (and -boy’s) object of affection.

A tabloid fixture in the making (because of his rumored off-screen romance with on-screen girlfriend Blake Lively), Badgley’s Dan truly is the moral compass of the show, and thus, the embodiment of the perfect guy for many a fan.

But the preview for tonight’s episode, in which Lively’s Serena van der Woodsen’s frenemy Georgina Sparks spins her web around him, has me thinking Dan’s Lonely Boy persona might be in for a spicing up.

What – you don’t get any of that? Then start watching the show, already.

If Gossip Girl has taught us anything at all it is that, “You’re nobody until you’re talked about.” The show’s something alright – you’re just not talking about it.

So that makes you….

Take a look at right. If anything, do it for Badgley.

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