Entourage: "The Dream Team" OAD: 7-15-2007 *spoilers* [Text View]

terpfan1980

07-15-2007, 10:26 PM

deli99

07-15-2007, 10:36 PM

Entourage is starting to hit it's stride again. Ari is up to his tricks and chicanery, and Vince is again a hot property.

E vs. Billy is also proving to be pretty fun and we're headed for even more fun in that regard thanks to Ari selling the Dream Team package.

Classic Ari: "This is not good news. Good news is when your wife agrees to eat box for your birthday. This is great news."

I had to pause the Tivo.

spikedavis

07-16-2007, 01:37 AM

I have to say that I am getting really tired of Billy. I really hope they write him off soon.

Charlutz

07-16-2007, 06:54 AM

I like Billy, but in typical Entourage fashion, they don't know when they have too much of a good thing. They overused Ari for a while, now it's Billy. They've already done the E v. Billy thing. Let's move on.

montag

07-16-2007, 07:24 AM

"I'm Bugging Out!!!"

"Smoke, Smoke, Smoke"

:D

busyba

07-16-2007, 12:09 PM

Did y'all catch the serious man-hands on Constance Zimmer? Yikes!!! :eek:

Looks like Debi Mazar is off the opening credits now and Perry Reeves (Mrs. Ari) is in her place, (although neither one of them was on the show this week :)).

mqpickles

07-16-2007, 02:12 PM

I loved the Medellin trailer (I know they showed it before, but I missed it). And I thought it was pretty funny that before the show they had a trailer for the trailer.

Good episode. The lunch scene with Elvis Mitchell was fantastic.

tem

07-16-2007, 02:19 PM

Billy ruins every single scene he is in. Give me Drama (whom I normally can't stand) instead of Billy any day.

fliptheflop

07-16-2007, 02:42 PM

We got good news!!!!!!!!!!! Oh we got bad news involving Billy...NOOOOOOO. We got good news!!!!! OH now we got bad news again. They gotta get off this kick their on.

DevdogAZ

07-16-2007, 03:02 PM

I have to say that I am getting really tired of Billy. I really hope they write him off soon.
+1 I'm really tired of him and his antics.

Other than him this was a pretty good episode, though. Loved Ari and Lloyd. And Drama going to such lengths just to appear younger to his cast and crew was great as well.

charlief1975

07-16-2007, 03:26 PM

The trailer makes me want to read:
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Pablo-Mark-Bowden/dp/1903809487/ref=pd_bbs_1/105-7061151-5040459?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184613895&sr=8-1

montag

07-16-2007, 03:29 PM

We got good news!!!!!!!!!!! Oh we got bad news involving Billy...NOOOOOOO. We got good news!!!!! OH now we got bad news again. They gotta get off this kick their on.
Your username and this post go work well together. :D

marksman

07-16-2007, 06:19 PM

I have to say that I am getting really tired of Billy. I really hope they write him off soon.

I am on the Billy is tiring me out bandwagon, but I thought in this episode he was really funny.

The fight was good, the Suits Suck t-shirt was good, the huge Medellin tattoo on his back was good.

So he has gotten a pass for me this week, as I thought it was good.

Joeg180

07-16-2007, 07:31 PM

Agree on the Billy comments. Loved how Vince was the voice of reason.

Bananfish

07-16-2007, 07:53 PM

Who leaked the trailer on the Internet?

I've got a feeling it was Vince. He was awfully positive when he told Billy "I just know it wasn't Eric," which leads me to believe he grabbed a copy from Eric's computer and leaked it himself, believing it would create buzz.

Other possibilities are Eric (obviously), Billy himself and maybe Ari (though I don't know how he would have got a hold of it). I suppose Turtle or Drama could have stolen it and leaked it too. Then again, it could just be someone from Cannes or from Billy's staff. But I've got a feeling we'll find out it was one of the major characters.

midas

07-16-2007, 08:14 PM

Who leaked the trailer on the Internet?

My thinking is that it's the dude from last week. Was his name Harvey? I just think it's his way of getting even.

Rob Helmerichs

07-16-2007, 08:57 PM

My thinking is that it's the dude from last week. Was his name Harvey? I just think it's his way of getting even.
Except leaking the trailer helps the movie--the only person who wouldn't want it out there was Psycho Billy. So it had to be somebody who wanted to build buzz for the movie.

phox_mulder

07-16-2007, 09:13 PM

Maybe I'm remembering the sequence of events wrong, but here goes.

Billy gave Eric a DVD of the trailer.

Didn't Eric show it to Ari, or leave it in Ari's office?

Therefore, it was either Ari or gay assistant guy (forgot his name right as I typed it) that posted it on YouTube.

phox

dswallow

07-16-2007, 09:22 PM

Entourage is starting to hit it's stride again.
The previews for next week, if they're at all representative, seem to indicate that the stride not only has been lost, but it's been killed, burned, buried, forgotten, dug up by bears, and scattered all over the hillside. Hopefully someone creating previews simply decided not to spoil the show for a change. :)

midas

07-16-2007, 09:54 PM

Except leaking the trailer helps the movie--the only person who wouldn't want it out there was Psycho Billy. So it had to be somebody who wanted to build buzz for the movie.

But does it help it? If it did, don't you think Eric would have already done it? I seriously doubt that if it was Eric that he'd deny it if he thought it was going to help.

Besides, Harvey (if that's his name, is just too good a character to not continue to somehow be involved in this. They need him in more episodes.

Rob Helmerichs

07-16-2007, 10:20 PM

But does it help it?
Well, everybody on the show raves about how wonderful it is (when they showed it after this episode, I wasn't impressed--Vinnie looks ridiculous every time he appears--but I guess in the Entourageverse it's wonderful).

And I don't think E is the type to leak it-he would just try to convince Billy to let it out. It can't be Harvey, because again, leaking the trailer only helps build buzz for the movie, and when he comes back, he'll be out to kill it. My money's on Ari. Or Lloyd, under Ari's instructions.

MasterOfPuppets

07-16-2007, 11:25 PM

I like Billy.
Really like Drama.
Excellent episode. :up:

drew2k

07-16-2007, 11:28 PM

dswallow

07-16-2007, 11:31 PM

Did anyone recognize Robert Prosky heading down the escalator at the mall as Vince and E went up it? I wonder if someone owed him a favor ... or he owed a favor to someone.

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors3/Prosky_JM9185958_150x200.jpg
I noticed the character and noticed there was some emphasis on him so figured there was meant to be some nod towards him for some reason, but didn't know why or who it was.

anom

07-16-2007, 11:39 PM

I noticed the character and noticed there was some emphasis on him so figured there was meant to be some nod towards him for some reason, but didn't know why or who it was.

Was that definitely him? They needed to show an old person to make the joke work. I don't know why Prosky would be making a cameo like that. He seems to still be working semi-regularly, according to IMDB.

drew2k

07-16-2007, 11:42 PM

Was that definitely him? They needed to show an old person to make the joke work. I don't know why Prosky would be making a cameo like that. He seems to still be working semi-regularly, according to IMDB.I would swear that it was him.

marksman

07-17-2007, 12:43 AM

My thinking is that it's the dude from last week. Was his name Harvey? I just think it's his way of getting even.

Yeah my first thought was Harvey. He had the trailer, and perhaps he thought it would hurt the movie, although not sure why since he made an offer on the film based on the trailer.

mqpickles

07-17-2007, 10:58 AM

Well, everybody on the show raves about how wonderful it is (when they showed it after this episode, I wasn't impressed--Vinnie looks ridiculous every time he appears--but I guess in the Entourageverse it's wonderful).I don't think he looked any more ridiculous than Nicole Kidman or Charlise Theron playing ugly for an Oscar. This kind of makeup seems to have two main uses these days: to turn black men into black women for comic effect, and to make a pretty white girl ugly so she can be taken seriously. Vinnie isn't a girl, but he is awfully pretty, and would probably have to wear ugly make-up/prosthetics to ever get a chance at a statue.

Rob Helmerichs

07-17-2007, 11:13 AM

I don't think he looked any more ridiculous than Nicole Kidman or Charlise Theron playing ugly for an Oscar.
The big difference is they looked real. He looked like a guy wearing very silly make-up.

Chibbie

07-17-2007, 02:41 PM

NoThru22

07-19-2007, 10:28 AM

gay assistant guy (forgot his name right as I typed it)
http://www.bustedtees.com/bt/images/BT-lloyd-gallery-1260.jpg

smak

07-19-2007, 07:09 PM

If Billy is based party on a real life director, like some of the characters are, I really REALLY want to know who it is.

-smak-

Sirius Black

07-19-2007, 07:32 PM

on the season 1 dvd they reveal who billy is based on in one of the extras.

hanumang

07-19-2007, 08:35 PM

Yeah, Billy is 'based-on' Entourage Writer/Producer Rob Weiss (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731146/).

He's supposedly the dude that wrote the Kevin Smith jibe (re: Aquaman 2).

edc

07-20-2007, 02:08 PM

Rob Weiss

He's supposedly the dude that wrote the Kevin Smith jibe (re: Aquaman 2).

No "supposedly" about it :) There was another Smith jibe the last time we saw Harvey not-quite-Weistein.

That guy (Weiss) can hold a grudge about some silly, ancient stuff ("Amongst Friends" and Shannen Doherty).
Perhaps the Walsh charicature isn't that far off the mark.