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Happy New Year to all from the Gossip Girl Insider staff. We hope your spirit is renewed as you begin 2010. We also hope you aren't too hung over today.

Did you make any resolutions this year? Ones you plan on keeping for a day or more? What do you think the Upper East Siders would resolve to do?

Here are some New Year's resolutions we came up with for the Gossip Girl gang. Submit your own in the comments and we'll add them to the list!

Rufus Humphrey: Get a job; Get a new haircut; Get my balls back; Lose some weight; Become the Sexy Brooklyn Dad I used to be

Lily van der Woodsen: Occasionally try being honest; Find a motherly bone in my body; Sleep with my actual husband.

Chuck Bass: Track down that woman, she may be my mother; Get my scarf back; Marry Blair. Open the perfect club.

Eric van der Woodsen: Reconcile with Jonathan; Follow through on plan to make Sawyer queen; Establish my own rule.

Blair Waldorf: Less NYU plotting, more role playing; Get drunk and do something stupid; Hang out more with the NJBC.

Serena van der Woodsen: Be less conservative with my outfits; Read a book.

Jenny Humphrey: Get on top of the school ... and Nate; Stop selling drugs.

Daniel Humphrey: Have more threesomes; Wear more flannel; Keep on giving high-fives to strangers.

Nathaniel Archibald: Emote; Act like I'm actually attending Columbia; Track down Trip and punch him again; Stay with Serena.

Vanessa Abrams: Stop sucking (and falling in love with people I just met).

Georgina Sparks: Return for revenge on B; Make Dan love me!

Dorota: If I have a boy, name him DANdy; Make Blair pay for the wedding.

Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, we're grateful for you visiting Gossip Girl Insider all year long, and wish you the happiest of holidays.

We hope you have an enjoyable day, and that you got everything you hoped for in your stocking. Which got our staff members thinking ...

Here's an open-ended, holiday-themed question:

If you had one Gossip Girl wish (big or small, jokingly or very seriously) what would it be? Leave a comment below and share with us!

ROMAN HOLIDAY: The holidays bring out the best in us ... usually.

Is Gossip Girl as good or better than it's ever been? Your votes in our weekly surveys seem to suggest it might be - or at least it's heading that way.

In "The Debarted," we have a new winner for best episode ever, according to the polls we put up immediately after each Gossip Girl episode airs.

So far, all 12 episodes this season have received generally positive reviews, but "The Debarted" and "The Treasure of Serena Madre" rate highest.

Our surveys aren't exactly scientific, but they do show trends.

Do you agree with this assessment? Chances are many of you do - it's your votes we're basing this on. Either way, tells us what you think!

Check out the results of polls we put up for the last seven episodes (and click here for a similar breakdown we did of the first five this season):

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Looks like Eric could be getting a new boyfriend on Gossip Girl.

At least that’s the conclusion EW draws - and we'd have to agree with - based on casting calls for the role of Elliot, an attractive, upscale, scruffy 16-year-old.

He lives in Eric’s building, and the character is possibly recurring!

Also being cast? Keith van der Woodsen.

Seen briefly in the '80s spinoff-that-wasn't episode "Valley Girls," Keith is now in his early 40s. He's listed as "a handsome, charming commercial director, Serena and Eric’s paternal uncle, preferably blonde, guest star."

We're guessing the "uncle" bit could be just to throw us off. The show has been building up to bring Eric and Serena's father on the show all season.

Then again, maybe it is an uncle and the dad will be cast later.

Jonathan dumped Eric. Will he rebound with Elliot?

Who do you think should play Elliot? Or Keith? Are you excited for what these new characters might mean for Eric and Serena? Comment below!

At the very end of Monday's "The Debarted," we saw Chuck Bass visiting his father's grave on the anniversary of his death. But he wasn't the only one there.

We were led to believe that the mystery woman who exclaimed "Charles!" was in fact his mother, who is in fact alive. Where can we expect this to lead?

EW's Michael Ausiello has the latest in his column today ...

Q: Who was she the woman standing over Bart's grave on Gossip Girl?

A: First off, the grave stalker has a name, and it’s Laura Harring (The Shield). Second, yes, she will reveal herself to be the Bass family matriarch when Gossip Girl returns in March. Something about this makes my impostor antennae go up though. Call me a whore for stunt casting, but if and when Chuck’s mom returned from the dead, I always imagined producers would go for a big name. Who’s with me?

Laura Harring will play the mother of Chuck on Gossip Girl.

Andrew McCarthy, iconic teen movie star of the ’80s (Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero), is getting back to his roots by directing an episode of Gossip Girl.

McCarthy, who will direct an episode set to air in the spring, says the Gossip Girl cast is different than the '80s youngsters known as the Brat Pack.

“They are much more savvy than we were,” McCarthy says.

“We were just a bunch of dumb kids running around.”

McCarthy, an unabashed Gossip Girl fan who you may remember played Lily's father in the ill-fated Gossip Girl spinoff pilot at the end of Season Two, is excited to get behind the camera to direct the steamy show in the present day.

“We have a nice episode, all sorts of juicy little things happen - the normal Gossip Girl juicy things,” McCarthy says, although he won't elaborate.

“I can’t give you much, except there is a 9 1/2 Weeks kind of thing going on in one story,” he says, referring to the 1986 drama starring Mickey Rourke athat chronicled an affair between an art gallery assistant and a businessman.

McCarthy’s episode will air when the show returns in 2010.

Below are excerpts from New York Magazine's reality index of Monday's Gossip Girl, a column we excerpt from Tuesday morning that's always a treat.

We posted our official guide to "The Debarted." Now, some highlights from NY Magazine's very thorough, very funny and borderline insane analysis:

• Blair: "You, Chuck Bass, are not your father." Chuck: "I know." Aww. No he doesn't, but Plus 1 for the sentiment.
• Please, billionaires like Lily Bass don't go to co-op meetings. Rufus would have been going from the star, in her place. Or, like, Eric. Or Vanya. Minus 3.
• Chuck: "Today is a day like any other." Except he's wearing a somber black suit, not some ridiculous paisley clown outfit. Plus 2, because everyone mourns, even Chuck - even though obviously he'd try to lie about it.
• S: "Maureen, you have no right to be here." Actually, Serena, you have no right. Minus 2, because even a natural-born home wrecker would know that.
• Maureen has a kick-ass Mercedes roadster. Clearly it was Trip's baby, and clearly she drove it to make him antsy. Well played. Plus 3.
• A car crash... silence... music coming tinnily out of the speaker. Minus 10 for extreme cheesiness, and that there are no wolves in Nassau County.

• We weren't buying Vanessa's obliviousness to Dan being in love with her, after the threesome, the Snow White kiss and the introduction of his New Face last week. But maybe she's just pretending not to. Plus 2.
• While Chuck would obviously have fantasies about his dad belittling him, it's unlikely he would see visions of Bart all sunburned and mystical, forcing him to scream "LEAVE ME ALONE" like an actual crazy person. Minus 5.
• Serena walks out of the country house with baggage and no car in sight, just planning to "find a cab" in bumf--k Nassau County. She's amazing. Plus 5.
• Nate would not be so awesome about encouraging Dan to date his ex. Minus only 1, because against all odds, Nate is becoming our favorite character.
• Serena: "I risked everything to be with Trip." HA. What did she risk? Her PR job? Her reputation as a non-floozy? Her career in politics? Bless. Plus 4.

The final episode of the calendar year just aired, featuring a blast from the past and a whole lot to look forward to in the future. What did you think?

In our opinion, tonight's episode, written by executive producer Stephanie Savage, was one of the series' best to date. Just amazing stuff from Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester and Chace Crawford (yes, Chace Crawford) and great stories all around.

But we want to hear from you! Did you love tonight's Gossip Girl? Did it live up to the hype? Was it disappointing? Confusing? Will it tide you over for a while?

Enlighten us with your impressions of this evening's Gossip Girl by leaving your comments and voting in our poll below. Did you like the episode? If so, why?

Blair always knows best when it comes to Chuck.

What did you think of "The Debarted"?

Below are excerpts from New York Magazine's reality index of this week's Gossip Girl, a column we post and link to Tuesday morning that you've gotta read.

We posted our official guide to "Treasure of Serena Madre." Now, some highlights from NY Mag's very thorough, very funny and almost sane analysis:

• You'd think people would use online recipe boxes in this day and age, but of course Rufus would use handmade index cards. Plus 3.
• Why are Eric and Jenny sitting next to each other listlessly? They'd be sitting listlessly in different corners of the room. Minus 2.
• Serena's holiday tradition is f*%king up Thanksgiving. Plus 1.
• Nate Archibald is totally wearing a Humphrey special. Minus 2, because he would never cave to the faux flannel.
• Blair suggests that "Chuck can shop for sweaters with Harold and Roman" in Paris. Plus 1, because that would explain a lot.

• Please, like Blair would come around to Tripp and Serena. The man looks like the skinny gay version of Mr. Potato Head. Minus 5.
• Vanessa's mom has only appeared on the show a few times, and while most of her lines have been way over-the-top, Gabriela's particular brand of selfish selflessness is pretty well done, so Plus 5.
• Tripp claims he told Maureen immediately and said that he was going to divorce her, but not because of Serena? No. Even Serena would know that was a lie, and she would want it to be because of her. Minus 4.
• On Serena and Tripp again: She's 18 years old! He's a congressman! Get it together, Swimfan. This relationship is going somewhere bad. Plus 5.
• Maureen would have abandoned that effing coat! She's rich! And just got dumped! In front of a bunch of teens and people of mixed race! Minus 5.

The 11th episode of Season 3 just aired, featuring more Thanksgiving drama on the UES than even we saw coming - and it's our job to see it coming!

Did you love tonight's Gossip Girl? Did it live up to the hype? Was it disappointing? Confusing? Did you find "The Treasure of Serena Madre" boring?

We want to hear what you think!

Share your thoughts on all of this evening's Gossip Girl by leaving comments and voting in our poll below. Tell us if you liked the episode and why!

Oh, that Chuck Bass look.

"The Treasure of Serena Madre" was ...