Here’s this week’s Smartmom from the award-winning Brooklyn Paper. It was written before Dan and Serena’s date. Last week, He too her slumming to a bar with a pool table in Brooklyn. She LOVED it.

Close your ears. Smartmom is about to admit something that may shock you.

She and the Oh So Feisty One were big fans of “The O.C.,” the now-cancelled nighttime soap opera about a group of Orange County teenagers and their families.

Last year, lying on the green leather couch on Thursday nights watching a cast of sexy actors including, Peter Gallagher (swoon), Adam Brody (tepid swoon), Benjamin McKenzie (triple swoon), Rachel Bilson and Micha Barton, was a high point of their week — and a great time for mother-daughter bonding and beyatching.

Some parents might think “The O.C.” a strange show to watch with a 10-year-old. And Smartmom would have to agree. Teen sex, drugs, and nasty behavior are woven into just about every episode.
But hey, it offered Smartmom many opportunities for OSFO-appropriate sex and drug education.

“Too much information,” OSFO would say when Smartmom went into too much detail about …

While the show may not be recommended viewing for a 10-year-old, Smartmom knows quite a few Park Slope moms, who make time for shows like “The O.C.,” “Gossip Girl” and “Desperate Housewives.”

Seventh Avenue Mom told Smartmom: “I can’t watch TV anymore and the news is so depressing.” She explained that shows like “The O.C.” are a nice break from real life — and the reality of current events.

When the show was cancelled, Smartmom and OSFO pined. In the weeks after, they even rented DVDs of the first two seasons.

So when they heard that Josh Schwartz, the creator of “The O.C.” was working on a new series, sort of an “O.C.” about the Upper East Side private-school crowd, they were, to say the least, ecstatic.

Last summer was not really a summer so much as a countdown until the beginning of “Gossip Girl” or “GG” as OSFO likes to call it.

Finally, on Sept. 19, “GG” made its debut. Sad to say, the first episode did not deliver the goods. They found themselves wishing that the writers had just transported Ryan, Marissa, Kirsten, Sandy and Seth to the Upper East Side. It was hard to get used to a bunch of new, good-looking actors bopping around the city in yellow cabs rather than going to the beach in swanky sports cars.

Smartmom is glad to report, however, that by episode three, she and OSFO are beginning to grow attached to the upper-crusty, Upper East Siders. They love the fact that the show’s unseen narrator is a blogger. (Dumb Editor note: Bloggers?! How about a show about cool, hip, sexy young newspaper editors? After all, TV is fantasyland anyway.)

But even more fun is that the coolest characters, Dan and his sister, take the subway to school and they don’t fit in.

And they live in Brooklyn.

Supposedly “middle class,” Dan and his family live in groovy Williamsburg. His dad, a former rocker, now owns a trendy art gallery and sends his kids to the best private school his new money can buy.

Dan’s dad, who is handsome in a New York artist sort of way, also has tons of back-story with the mother of Serena, the show’s social butterfly. Her mom is a snotty beyatch who was once a rock groupie.

Best of all is the show’s depiction of Dan’s Brooklyn lifestyle. The sprawling loft he lives in with his family has brick walls, art haphazardly hung, electric guitars and furniture from Design Within Reach and West Elm. It looks just like Smartmom’s apartment except she doesn’t live in a million-dollar loft (and can’t afford Design Within Reach).

Of course, Dan’s family isn’t really middle class, they’re just FUNKY Brooklyn folk with more than enough moolah.

Brooklyn Dan is the coolest, smartest, and most ethical character in the show (sort of the Seth of this show in “O.C.”-speak). Unlike the rich, Manhattan kids, who go to the best colleges on the legacy plan, he really reads books and THINKS.

Yay, Brooklyn.

“Gossip Girl” has class warfare up the wazoo as Dan is often picked on for his outer-borough roots.

Therein lies the biggest irony of all: the show is being filmed in Brooklyn Heights (a poor man’s Upper East Side) and DUMBO (a rich man’s Williamsburg).

Last week’s episode used Packer Collegiate, on Montague Street, as a stand in for the private school the kids attend. A snooty cocktail party scene was also filmed there (it looks really nice by the way).

So, who says Brooklyn ain’t as classy as the Upper East Side? The only prominent Manhattan location one week was the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park.

Addictive script. Class warfare. Silly, sexy characters and a Brooklyn subplot. What’s not to love?

So you better not call Smartmom or OSFO on Wednesday nights between 9 and 10 pm. They’ll be watching “Gossip Girl” and they don’t want to miss a minute of it