There may not have been a show that took as many wild twists and turns on The CW as Gossip Girl did. It also was a series that helped launch the careers of Penn Badgley and Blake Lively.

is actually one of the best the show has to offer ... The original Gossip Girl teens of the Upper East Side have many memorable quotes, from Blair and Chuck's insults to Dan's wise words.

"Now people are like, 'It's vintage,' " Meester said of the show, which premiered in 2007 and went off the air in 2012 ...