After weeks of checking and re-checking our DVR to make sure everything was set to record, last night we finally had the opportunity to mercilessly mock the premiere of CW’s newest teen sensation, Gossip Girl. And after finally seeing it, we discovered it was equal parts amazing, habit-forming and tragically unrepresentative of Upper East Side adolescence.
“My friends last night were shocked when I told them that all the prep school kids really did take the public bus to school,” confesses one indignant Trinity alumnus.
And that’s just the beginning. To learn more about the disconnect between fact and fiction, we thought we’d call up our favorite prep school brats once more to re-explore the snooty world of the upper upper middle-class. The reviews, anecdotes and crazy misconceptions, told in the communal we (so as to preserve anonymity) after the jump.
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Unlike those fancy “television critics” who’ve somehow “obtained a copy of the Gossip Girl pilot a week ahead of schedule” and “actually watched it” we’re still completely in the dark as to what crazy misadventures the show will explore.
But if there’s one thing we do know, it’s the world of snotty New York private schools, an exclusive sub-culture reeking of self-entitlement and designer perfume, whose distinguished alumni include the likes of Paris Hilton and Brittny Gastineau.
And though we’re almost ashamed to admit it, we actually attended one such institution and found that its predominantly white student body did, in fact, embody certain quintessential stereotypes.
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