Entourage is really doing whatever the hell it wants in these last few episodes. It's even given up on giving context to its numerous name-drops and celeb cameos. The one thing it seems to be getting right on its way out is taking the focus away from Vince. He's always been the glue of the group, but in a sticky, musty Elmer's glue sort of way. You're glad he's there, but you don't want to deal with him any more than you have to. Luckily, this episode we got to focus on just about everyone besides Vince.
Johnny's finishing up recording with Andrew Dice Clay for their new animated series Johnny's Bananas, a.k.a. Family Guy with apes, and as testing approaches Clay asks E to be his agent and can't seem to stop hanging around with the Vincent Chase crew telling sob stories about his crappy apartment and smelly cat. E's busy dealing with Sloane, so Scott takes over and gives Clay a deal without even thinking about it. Testing comes back and the show does really well and we finally get a reason for Clay hanging around like a social leech this whole time: he wants to convince Drama to walk because the show isn't paying them enough money. Can't we just not blow up Drama's spot for once? Nope, that's not how this show works. Granted, Drama does have Vince and Billy Walsh's TV movie coming up, though Vince can't spell and Billy's talking about how he's going to form the dog's personality in the script. These are not good signs. That Drama getting an Emmy talk has got to be a joke.
Turtle's having issues with his girlfriend, the Avion girl. He can't get ahold of her and being that he's the new Turtle, he's ready to dump her instead of waiting around for her to call. But he waits a little. He's still Turtle, after all.
E starts out the episode with a "fuck you" voicemail from Sloane, so he goes over to her house to get his stuff, assuming that's what the voicemail is about. It turns out when he was yelling at her "full" answering machine during Vince's party, he somehow, magically left a two-second "fuck you" message for Sloane. They clear this up and say they're sorry by having sex. Of course, because it always has to be difficult with these two, Sloane immediately leaves afterward, but later calls and says she's sorry and that she's moving to New York. I know they have to drag out the Sloane and E thing since it's the last season, but didn't we just do this last season...and the season before...and the season before?
Finally, Ari finds out his wife has been going to Flay's -- a restaurant she hates -- and he knows it's because of this mystery person she's dating. At first, Ari thinks it's a waiter, so he name drops every AMC show he can think of and makes sure Lloyd screws up the guy's Mad Men audition. Only it turns out that Mrs. Ari isn't dating the waiter, she's dating Flay...Bobby Flay. And this show just jumped out of my very, very wide plausibility net. There really is no ceiling on celebrity cameos and it's pretty obnoxious, but then again it's the boys' last hurrah.
What did you think of the Bobby Flay twist and Andrew Dice Clay hanging around the whole time? Is there such a thing as too many celebs on Entourage?
Johnny's finishing up recording with Andrew Dice Clay for their new animated series Johnny's Bananas, a.k.a. Family Guy with apes, and as testing approaches Clay asks E to be his agent and can't seem to stop hanging around with the Vincent Chase crew telling sob stories about his crappy apartment and smelly cat. E's busy dealing with Sloane, so Scott takes over and gives Clay a deal without even thinking about it. Testing comes back and the show does really well and we finally get a reason for Clay hanging around like a social leech this whole time: he wants to convince Drama to walk because the show isn't paying them enough money. Can't we just not blow up Drama's spot for once? Nope, that's not how this show works. Granted, Drama does have Vince and Billy Walsh's TV movie coming up, though Vince can't spell and Billy's talking about how he's going to form the dog's personality in the script. These are not good signs. That Drama getting an Emmy talk has got to be a joke.
Turtle's having issues with his girlfriend, the Avion girl. He can't get ahold of her and being that he's the new Turtle, he's ready to dump her instead of waiting around for her to call. But he waits a little. He's still Turtle, after all.
E starts out the episode with a "fuck you" voicemail from Sloane, so he goes over to her house to get his stuff, assuming that's what the voicemail is about. It turns out when he was yelling at her "full" answering machine during Vince's party, he somehow, magically left a two-second "fuck you" message for Sloane. They clear this up and say they're sorry by having sex. Of course, because it always has to be difficult with these two, Sloane immediately leaves afterward, but later calls and says she's sorry and that she's moving to New York. I know they have to drag out the Sloane and E thing since it's the last season, but didn't we just do this last season...and the season before...and the season before?
Finally, Ari finds out his wife has been going to Flay's -- a restaurant she hates -- and he knows it's because of this mystery person she's dating. At first, Ari thinks it's a waiter, so he name drops every AMC show he can think of and makes sure Lloyd screws up the guy's Mad Men audition. Only it turns out that Mrs. Ari isn't dating the waiter, she's dating Flay...Bobby Flay. And this show just jumped out of my very, very wide plausibility net. There really is no ceiling on celebrity cameos and it's pretty obnoxious, but then again it's the boys' last hurrah.
What did you think of the Bobby Flay twist and Andrew Dice Clay hanging around the whole time? Is there such a thing as too many celebs on Entourage?
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