The CW’s “Gossip Girl”, has all the backstabbing, snarkiness, and drama that rich, hot, Upper East Side teenagers can drum up, whether its Blair Waldorf planning her latest scheme to become the Queen of NYU or Serena van der Woodsen capturing her latest male prey. But we have to also give props to the hot guys of this show including Dan Humphrey, (Penn Badgeley) who really is the archetypal NYU student, with his intellectual curiosity and self-importance, Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) who adds sensitive vulnerability to the spoiled rich kid whose father’s financial woes caused him to re-think his own path, and of course Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), who manages to make evil manipulation so fun to watch.

Oh wait, one more. Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle) who has a distinguished laid-back nature and is the father figure that all of us wish we had. I mean, he’s corny with his conversations with his kids, but he can still pull off a zingy one-liner. Nice.