Entourage

Busey and the Beach

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired 8/22/04

Episode Summary

The boys begin their day at Ari's office. They pair off: Drama prepares to meet his potential new agent and drags Turtle with him while Eric & Vince attend a special meeting. The "meeting" is basically an ego-booster for Vince where a roomful of agents try to entice him with potential projects. Drama discovers that his situation is an entirely different story when he finds his new agent answering his own phone in a cubicle. When he explains that it's going to be hard to find new jobs, an angered Drama storms out with some, ummm, dramatic parting words.

Later, the boys attend Gary Busey's art opening where they bump into aspiring agent Josh Weinstein. They leave the opening with an invitation to a hot beach party and go out with a bang, thanks to Turtle. Emily lets Ari know that he should be a little nervous about the whole situation.

At the beach party, a dejected Drama meets another old actor friend who is a waiter for a catering company. Turtle confronts Gary Busey with some interesting results. When Eric lets Ari know about their disapproval, Ari leaves his kid's birthday party to have an honest conversation with the pair. After things are settled, Ari lets Drama in on some somewhat surprising news.moreless

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Johnny "Drama" Chase
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By cavanagh15, Jul 06, 2007 Report Abuse

I think that this was the best episode of Entourage yet, with Drama and Ari having some explosive scenes that really showed the best side of each of there characters. I liked how drama stood up for himself in the first coupld of minutes of the episode, not taking the "lets get you back into the game" comment very well from the guy who Ari sent to help him out. In the end the guy hooked him up, but the scene with Drama was still really good. Ari stole the show in this episode though - with the best scene so far in the entire series. Getting notified that he was going to lose a client, he proceeds to crash a party from the guy who is going to take them and then get his clinet back - all with a great use in his language and posture. Without a doubt one of the best scenes in HBO television histroy, but the entire episode was really good from start to finish.moreless

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This is such a classic episode, Ari's rant is amazing.

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By tdakoo, Sep 11, 2006 Report Abuse

This is a great episode if only for the fact that Jeremy Piven goes on a big long rant about Josh Weinstein. He is hilarious adn that whole sequence was great. I love how you got ot see that Ari was a little nervous about the possibility of losing Vince to Weinstien, it shows he actually has a heart. Plus I love how his wife totally controls him, he leaves his kid's party all pissed but his wife tells him when to return and he gets all defeated and agrees. So funny.

I alos loved all the stuff with Johnny Drama and how he was so down about his career, that maybe four episodes of Pacific Blue wasn't going to carry him through life. But it all changed in the end when his new agent got him some auditions and he didn't have to be a waiter after all.moreless

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Ari is human after all. Can you see my teary eyes?

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By Stijbeta, Jul 17, 2006 Report Abuse

This has to be my favourite episode thus far, if we look at it from a neutral perspective, and not from a testosterone point of view. Even though this one scores high on the trouser snake top ten as well.

Ari is an ass. Atleast, that's what we think when he sends Johnny to some assistant posing as an actor. The writers did a great job on this one, because honestly, nobody wants to have a douchebag of an agent appearing in every episode for the rest of the serie. When Ari tells Johnny he wasn't fooling around and he got Johnny some auditions, that's when everyone goes "Aww, that's so nice of you, Ari!". Let's hope he keeps the nice behaviour up, for the sake of the show.

On a small sidenote, after seeing this episode, and adding to that the previous one with Yoko Ono, I have reached a conclusion.

Vincent, is a tool.moreless

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- The scene when Ari asks Vince if he wants to go to a Lakers vs. Wizards game was later recut into a commercial for High Definition Plasma TVs (with some additional new footage of Turtle speaking to the camera about how he likes the plasma TVs). Edit
- Ari tells everyone he doesn't steal clients, but in the second episode he tries to steal Jessica Alba from her agent. Also, in the episode "Talkshow," Ari tries to lure Sarah Silverman in a similar manner. Edit
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- "Peace Frog" by The Doors. Use of The Doors music for a television show is a difficult task and rarely is permission granted. However, The Doors manager Jeffrey Jampol admits the use of the song was perfect and was "impressed by the energy and attitude of Entourage." Edit
- Location Credits: "Chilling on the beach" Topanga State Beach 18700 Pacific Coast Hwy Malibu, CA. 90265 Edit
- Music Credits "114," "Trio," "Chuck Justo," "Bossa" and "Piano Lounge" by Joseph Vitarelli "Tiny Little Fractures" by Snow Patrol "Bring the Pain" by Method Man "Crossin' Da Line" by Damian Valentine "Don't Say Nuthin'" by The Roots "Peace Frog" by The Doors Edit
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- Gus: Shrimp puff? Drama: The fuck d'you say? Gus: Shrimp puff? Drama: Oh. No, I'm good. Edit
- Busey: You worked craft service on Lethal Weapon 1 didn't you? Ari: I certainly did not. I used to represent you. Remember? Busey: I know you. You are a gut maggot with no guts. Ari: You're gonna spin off this planet. I love it! Edit
- Drama: I just got offered a job. Eric: Nice buddy! Drama: Yeah, as a fuckin waiter. Turtle: I don't know Drama, that's a lot of responsibility. Maybe you should try out busboy first. Drama: Hey, eat shit Turtle! Edit
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