Entourage: Let's Blog It Out

We love Johnny Drama's meltdowns. We laugh every time. We're supposed to do such things. That's how the show is designed.

And a drunken Drama teetering on the edge after his breakup with Jacqueline is altogether fantastic to watch unfold.

But at some point, you have to feel bad for Drama. We've all been there. We've all been crushed by a significant other at some point in life. It hurts. It stings. It sucks.

In honor of our love for the character that is Johnny Drama, I've decided to whip up a few ideas that may help Drama get over his pain:

1) Fly to France and sign Jacqueline's friend's cast, then get caught by Jacqueline making out with the friend on her couch.

2) Get absolutely loaded, then go to the nearest pet store and "Tweet-Chirp" his way through the store until security escorts him out.

3) Have Shauna strategically place a few outrageous sex scandal stories in the various celebrity tabloids and blogs.

4) Bring back Cassie!

5) Get Billy Walsh's phone number from Vince and place that call.

These are just a few quick thoughts as I wait for my plane to Vegas. While I'm betting $5 on red at the roulette table to start the trip, share your ideas of how to help Drama cope with the absence of Jacqueline.

Longtime Let's Blog It Out readers might recognize the historic maneuver I'm about to pull. Or maybe not.

Either way, we're about to award this week's Best Printable Line to a group of unnamed characters, aka a bunch of extras.

We know this is groundbreaking and might greatly effect the race for the Big Knish, but it was just too perfect a scene to let go without permanent praise. Plus, there were no curses in this line, and every other line in the BPL running including one of those no-no words.

The fellas go to bail out Johnny Drama from county jail. As Drama is walking out of his cell and down the hall to sign out his belongings, a group of inmates start yelling "Victory!"

It was a truly genius moment in what was a good setup episode for future Sunday night bombs. And while you may be disappointed in that BPL selection, let me ask you this: Did you laugh harder at another line (that didn't include cursing)?

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There's a reason Jeremy Piven has won three straight Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy.

It's because Ari Gold is a genius role, and could arguably go down as this generation's all-time favorite TV character.

His dustups in marriage counseling scenes are legendary. His battles with studio heads are classic. And his verbal sparring matchings with E could be a pay-per-view special.

This week's Ari Gold Mine came early in the episode when Ari, E and Vince were walking to their first general meeting with studio heads. Ari and E went back and forth at an escalating pace, creating curse words that a) I can't write here and b) never even thought of saying in real life.

God bless Ari Gold. And for the love of Pete, can someone at the "Entourage" office please get cracking on a "Best of Ari Gold" DVD. I'm fairly certain it would sell quite well, especially at Christmas time this year.

(P.S. Mr. Ellin: I don't even want any of the proceeds from those sales. Just make it happen and I'll gladly purchase it. Seriously. I won't even think about downloading it illegally.)

The morning hangover scene to start the episode rang a few bells in my rolodex of life experiences. No doubt you felt that same sting of a morning gone wrong after a night that went so right (or so wrong).

But it was another alcoholic endeavor that scored this week's Writer Props. It's also extremely subtle, and may not have even been done intentionally. But, it was a perfect inclusion by the show's editors.

Toward the end of the show, a drunken Johnny Drama is seen drinking even more airplane bottles of booze in the back seat of an SUV at the airport.

He's pretty much a hapless soul, drunk and distraught over losing his French paramour Jacqueline. On his sleeveless Hawaii T-shirt, if you look closely, there's a booze stain near his right pec.

Again, it's subtle, but so is Writer Props. Why give this props? Well, think about the last time you were drinking to numb the pain of life gone astray. Odds are, somewhere in between drinks 12 and 16, you looked down and saw the remnants of drinks 6-8 on your shirt.

Heck, I've got part of a coconut margarita on my Jets T-shirt right now.

Virgin Group Founder and Chairman Sir Richard Branson is joined by the boys of Entourage at the launch of Virgin America's new JFK-Las Vegas route on Sept. 4, 2008.

On the plane, or a scene from "Busey and the Beach?" You make the call!

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Genius scene. Perhaps even worth starting the conversation of Best Ari Gold scene ever.

The public calling out of Adam Davies in his own building. The -----slap. The explanation of the -----slap. The apologetic Davies. The exertion of Ari's male dominance.

No doubt that was the Ari Gold Mine for Episode 3. I've watched it roughly 43 times while nursing myself back to health the past two days. God bless DVR! God bless the AGM!

Anyone get the feeling this has Joshie Award written all over it?

An Ari Gold-dominated episode will always produce memorable quotes and rarely produce solid candidates for the BPL. This is the world we live in.

Yet, Ari still found a way to deliver this week's Best Printable Line.

Agent / antagonist Adam Davies sent two male strippers to the Miller Gold Agency. They handcuffed Ari to his chair in a meeting room, turned on the male stripper music and began to do their thing.

A furious Ari Gold, with man flesh all up on his custom-made suit, screamed out:

"Lloyd, you speak their language, make it stop."

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I'm guessing there are quite a few women in Los Angeles, on college campuses across the nation, and in every city, town and community in the U.S. that are upset with the fellas around them this week.

See, the guess here is that every dude is out and about calling women "hozies" this week after hearing Johnny Drama invent the word in Episode 3.

A "hozie" is part ho' and part floozy, Drama explained.

It may not be the most non-male chauvinistic part of the show, but it's a pro-bro show and a classic Drama moment. And it has Writer Props written all over it.

It's 4:58 a.m. and I just finished my first watching of Episode 3 of "Entourage."

However, it's 4:58 a.m. and I can barely function, the result of a Sunday afternoon, evening and night at Yankee Stadium for the final game.

So, I ask of thee dear readers, allow me this one week of delay as I bask in the glory that was remembering all the moments I spent at Yankee Stadium, baseball's cathedral and America's version of Rome's Colosseum.

I'll have all the goodies up between Monday night and Tuesday morning, I promise. And I think it will take me quite a few rewatchings to determine the Ari Gold Mine for this week. The man is an Emmy Award-winning genius!

As if we Entourage folks didn't already know the brilliance that is Jeremy Piven playing Ari Gold.

But alas, winning gold statues is always a good thing, so we salute Piven on another Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. Lloooooooooooooooyd!

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It was Saturday morning, minutes after 10. Inside one of the 832 Hudson News stores at Penn Station in New York City.

Some dude (me!), walking with a purpose, navigated his way toward the back right magazine stand and grabbed the October 2008 issue of Playboy. This dude (again, it was me), walked uncomfortably toward the cashier, gave him the money and quickly asked for a bag to put the magazine in.

See, purchasing porn (whether, it's softcore or not) on a Saturday morning is just weird. Maybe if I was still wearing Friday night's clothes and hadn't slept save for 25 minutes slumped against a pillar in Penn Station after missing the 5:10 a.m. train, it wouldn't have felt so awkward.

But I slept in a bed Friday night and showered early Saturday morning. So am I just a sick perv?

Well, maybe, but not because of this story. I was in Penn Station on Saturday morning because I was picking up two tickets to the final game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night. Yep, I'll be there.

And this, six paragraphs in, brings me to my point. I bought the "classy" softcore skin mag because I had gotten word that Kevin Connolly was the 20 Questions interview subject this month. And seeing how I'll be in the Bronx saying goodbye to the world's most important and well-known sporting arena on Sunday night, I didn't want to leave my readers without something fresh to digest after this week's episode.

(The BPL, AGM and all our other goodies will go live Monday around lunchtime. Sorry, but dude, this is the last game at Yankee Stadium, America's Roman Colosseum. Surely, you can appreciate that.)

The interview by Ashley Jude Collie is solid. Connolly is honest and forthright, per usual. There is some new insight into the world of "Entourage" and the actors who play the characters we love to quote every Monday morning (and beyond).

My favorite is Question 5:

PLAYBOY: If we're to believe TMZ, you're out on the town every night. What is your typical evening like?

CONNOLLY: Cocktails and dinner first, then I'm like everyone else: I go to clubs and chase girls.

An investigative study of the magazine's Web site on Sunday morning (on my work computer, no less! Hey, it's for work, right?) has me believing that the Connolly interview won't be available online for free until the next issue comes out. In the meantime, you can purchase the article at newsstands or online to read the interview. It's a fun, quick read. Perhaps some creative Googling will help, too.

On a sidenote, there is also a little Web extra called the 21st question. BPL rules prevent me from linking to it directly, but if you go to the location bar in your browser and type in the name of the magazine followed by what we call .com and then follow that with a /21q, you won't be disappointed.