What About Bob? (Entourage)

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“What About Bob?”
Entourage episode

Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 33
Guest stars	Martin Landau DJ AM Edward Burns Dante Basco
Written by	Brian Burns
Directed by	Ken Whittingham
Production no.	311
Original airdate	August 20, 2006
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"What About Bob?" is an episode from Season 3 of the dramedy television series Entourage.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Plot
2 Significance
3 Trivia
4 Quotes

[edit] Plot

Drama, visibly nervous due to a long monologue he is going to film for his pilot that day, enters the kitchen where the rest of the gang is eating breakfast. Turtle recommends he masturbates to ease the stress, but Drama ignores him and leaves for the shoot. E also leaves, having a meeting with Ari and Bob Ryan and a studio director to pitch the Ramones project. Turtle, upset that he lost his managing job with Saigon, convinces Vince to take him shoe shopping.

At the studio meeting, Ari is upset that E invited Bob Ryan. After a conflicted strategy session where obvious rifts appear between Ari and Bob, they pitch the idea to the studio exec. At the set of his pilot, Drama is not only nervous, but the director announces that he has changed the monologue on Drama unexpectedly. Vince and Turtle go to the shoe store, where an extremely rare shoe line designed by legendary graffiti artist Fukujama is being sold. After Turtle reveals to Vince that he brought Vince along to cut to the front of the line, Vince refuses to cut but promises to Turtle that he will buy Turtle the shoe.

The studio meeting goes badly, and Ari blames Bob. Ari tells Bob that he is going to Disney next, and invites E to ride with him, only to go to another studio instead. Bob does not answer his cell phone in time, so is not informed by E that Ari double-crossed him. Drama, now really shaken, emerges from his trailer right before the shoot to hear that the director is now going to change the monologue from being delivered on foot instead of sitting down. Drama retreats to his trailer in a panic and grabs a bottle of lotion and a copy of Maxim and retreats to the bathroom, but does not know that he still has his microphone on.

Vince and Turtle, waiting in the back of the line, are told that there are no shoes left in the store. They run across town to another store but don't make it in time. Ari and E emerge from the studio, exuberant about the studio's reaction to the project while Bob seethes alone in his car. Drama delivers the monologue perfectly, and the director reveals that he was listening in to Drama beating it in order to get a screen capture of Drama being embarrassed.

The episode ends in the car, as they drive to an unknown destination while E is patched into a conference call with Ari and Bob. Bob, furious at E and Ari for cutting him out of the loop, reveals that he sold the project to Warner Studios specifically to exclude Vince. Vince stops the car in front of a small shop, in which Turtle is sent in with $20,000 cash. He meets Fukujama and is given a pair of shoes designed specifically for him while the news is broken to the rest of the guys.

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[edit] Trivia

Drama begins filming on Ed Burn's pilot, "The Five Towns." Five Towns is a neighborhood in Nassau County, New York where actor Ed Burns was raised as a teenager.
Drama's monologue ("..It's not the same anymore. It's different now. It's not just happenin over there...") in the pilot he is filming is lifted directly from the Rob Weiss film Among Friends.