Last night's episode of Gossip Girl, "Inglorious Basssterds," was nothing short of amazing, in no small part because it featured amazing things that weren't even related to Chuck and Blair. Such as:

Eric Lives!

Yes. YES! Eric and his not-quite-adorable hair actually got lines last night. Turns out he's been on an Asian hook-up tour to get over Jonathan and is back in town looking for someone new. He does meet that someone, Elliot (Luke Kleintank), in the Waldorf lobby. He asks Elliot to wait for his return, but they miss each other, prompting Elliot to pull a Paul Buchman (sans dry cleaning) and search every floor until he finds Eric in the penthouse. They leave to go have kind of bad hair and be cute and gay, and I love Eric. He even finds time to call Jenny out on being totally stupid. Eric rules every episode he's in, even if he's apparently not going to be Dark Eric like I had hoped.