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* '''Lloyd Lee''' (played by Rex Lee) - Ari's long-suffering assistant. Flamboyantly gay, he takes much abuse from his boss, but is extremely competent--he's lasted the longest out of any assistant Ari's had by ''far''. A Sarah Lawrence grad, he helps to humanize Ari upon occasion.
* '''Shauna Roberts''' (played by Debi Mazar) - Vince's publicist, just as foul-mouthed and entertaining as Ari. Her character was originally intended to break up the boys club of the main cast, but has faded over the later seasons, with Mrs. Ari taking up the role.
* '''Mrs. Ari''' (played by Perrey Reeves) - Ari's long-suffering wife. A trust-fund baby and former actress, she is the only character who seems to be able to go toe-to-toe with Ari. Ari's respect for his wife is obvious by the fact that he frequently insists he has ''never'' cheated on her, despite many opportunities. {{spoiler|It is finally revealed towards the end of Season 8 that her first name is Melissa
* '''Sloan McQuiewick''' (played by Emmanuelle Chriqui) - E's on again, off again girlfriend who shows up regularly. Understandably, as she is the daughter of another power agent (Ari's former boss) and heavily involved in charity events that Vince occasionally attends. {{spoiler|She and E get engaged at the end of Season 6, break up at the beginning of
The show, and many of these characters, are based on the [[Real Life]] experiences of Exec Producer [[Mark Wahlberg]] while he was an up-and-coming actor.
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* [[Adam Westing]]: Employs this often, with the likes of Gary Busey, Jeffrey Tambor and Pauly Shore, among others.
* [[As Himself]]: Tons of them, many in long-term plot-arcs. [[Mandy Moore]], Jamie Lynn-Sigler, [[Martin Scorsese]], [[James Cameron]], [[Seth Green]], and many more.
* [[Badass Boast]]: {{spoiler|John Ellis'}} speech to Ari in the series finale. Ari protests that {{spoiler|he's left Hollywood behind and doesn't want to be the head of a movie studio}}, prompting this response:
{{quote|'''{{spoiler|John Ellis}}''': "This is not just about movies, it's about a film division that grossed 4 billion. It's about a television network and 3 premium cable networks. You want a sports franchise? Buy one yourself. Cause there will only be a handful of people making the sort of money you'll be making. And while everyone you know may own the fanciest clothes, and the best cars, you will own the companies that sell them. You wanna know what Heaven really is, Ari? Try being God
* [[Berserk Button]]: Ari's loud and belligerent normally, but the things that will ''truly'' make him angry are double-crossing him, questioning his word or disrespecting his family. A game of oneupmanship resulted in him barging into his former place of work and hunting down Adam Davies (who was going to post an explicit picture of Ari's wife on the Internet) and publicly humiliating him by forcing him to apologize.▼
** Messing with Vince's career will more than likely lead to Drama, Turtle and Eric trying to kick your ass. The same can be said of disrespecting any of the boys' girlfriends and families.▼
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: Vince, after ''Medellin'' fails at the Cannes Film Festival.
** Although he doesn't sport a full beard, Ari definitely has a 5 o'clock shadow of sorrow during the final season when he and his wife legally
▲* [[Berserk Button]]: Ari's loud and belligerent normally, but the things that will ''truly'' make him angry are double-crossing him, questioning his word or disrespecting his family. A game of
▲** Messing with Vince's career will more than likely lead to Drama, Turtle and Eric trying to kick your ass. The same can be said of disrespecting any of the boys' girlfriends and families.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: '''"LLOYD!"'''
* [[Car Meets House]]: Andrew Klein purposely drives his car into his own house to get back at his estranged wife for burning the notes he needed for an important meeting.
* [[The Charmer]]: Vince is too laid back to venture into [[The Casanova|Casanova]] territory, but he sure gets a lot of action.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Ashley, E's girlfriend from
* [[Contractual Purity]]: In-universe, this happens with Vincent.
* [[Creator Backlash]]: In-universe, Vince
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Mark Wahlberg appears as himself during the pilot and
* [[Divorce Is Temporary]]: The last season arc with Ari and his wife. {{spoiler|They don't even get to the divorce
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Ari's "lets hug it out"-catchphrase disappears after the first season. His early bragging about the women he has slept with also clashes with the Ari from later seasons who is fiercely loyal to his wife.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: While shooting the pilot for ''Five Towns
* [[Expansion Pack Past]]: Drama has a story about anyone/everyone in Hollywood, but somehow none of the other guys have heard them before.
* [[Expy]]: The show has several:
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** Johnny Drama is an expy of ''the actor who plays him'', Kevin Dillon. Both are actors who have younger, more successful brothers.
** In one episode Riann Wilson (Dwight from ''[[The Office]]'') plays an internet movie reviewer who is quite obviously based on Harry Knowles from ''Ain't It Cool News''.
** It could even be argued that Vince is an
* [[Flamboyant Gay]]: Lloyd. Contrasted by his [[Straight Gay]] partner Tom.▼
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Vince.
** [[The Lancer]]/[[The Smart Guy]]: Ari
** [[The Big Guy]]: Drama. Though neither Turtle or E are very large guys, they've shown they can fight when they [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|brawled with Seth Green's crew]].
** [[The Chick]]: Drama and E both have shades of this -- Drama is overly dramatic and E has a tendency to get too attached in relationships.
** [[The Load]]: Turtle, [[Character Development|until he gets tired of being a hanger-on in
** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: [[Played With]] with Dom, although Lloyd or Billy Walsh could be considered as one.
** [[Eleventh-Hour Ranger]]: Scott.
* [[Grand Finale]]: Averted by the series finale proper (see [[No Ending]]) for the most part. Vince {{spoiler|is getting married}} but we don't see it and not much changes or is resolved for the gang. Ari gets an ending of sorts {{spoiler|[[The Stinger|until he gets offered a job as CEO of a studio]] and we're [[Left Hanging]] as to whether or not he accepts}}.▼
* [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery]]: In this case, bad. Lloyd has an emotional breakdown when his boyfriend leaves him, causing Ari's entire office to fly into a nightmare because of the horrible timing. Ari's desperate enough to search out Lloyd's boyfriend, who works at a ''shoe store'', to find out what happened. {{spoiler|It turns out that Lloyd was cheating on him. Ari hastily bullshits an alibi together for Lloyd (complete with non-existent "proof" on his cell phone that the boyfriend never asks to see) causing the boyfriend to go [[My God, What Have I Done?]] and patch it up with Lloyd. Ari, for his part, now has ''excellent'' blackmail if Lloyd ever has another pity party}}.
▲* [[Grand Finale]]: Averted by the series finale proper (see [[No Ending]]) for the most part. Vince {{spoiler|is getting married}} but we don't see it and not much changes or is resolved for the gang. Ari gets an ending of sorts {{spoiler|[[The Stinger|until he gets offered a job as CEO of a studio]] and we're [[Left Hanging]] as to whether or not he accepts}}.
* [[Hollywood California]]: Played pretty straight, as we mostly see only the glamorous side of Hollywood.▼
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Vince and E.
▲* [[Hollywood California]]: Played pretty straight, as we mostly see only the glamorous side of Hollywood.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Subverted - A large number of episode names are shared with songs.
* [[Informed Ability]]: We are told Vince is a good actor, though we rarely see him acting. The few occasions we do, it's hard to tell because we have no frame of reference for his performance.
** Comments from various characters seem to indicate that Vince had the talent, but was "dialing in" his performances in earlier seasons. He didn't start buckling down until after ''Medellin'' flopped and he was put through the wringer on ''Smokejumpers'', realizing that he could no longer coast on his name and early success.
* [[Jerkass]]: Ari and his business partner Barbara, along with a lot of [[Take That|miscellaneous studio executives]] that pop up.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Ari Gold actually cares a lot about those around him, and will save many an employee from getting fired by Babs. On top of that, he's clearly devoted to his wife
* [[Mad Artist]]: Director Billy Walsh.
* [[Male Gaze]]: Any scene that takes place at a swimming pool, beach, or strip club will feature lots of gorgeous women and camera angles that focus on their "assets
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Drama, by his (male) massage therapist-- though given the amount of praise he was heaping on the guy, it wasn't hard to see ''why''.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Warners studio head Alan Dale seems to feel this way towards Vince, after he refused to fulfill his contract and make ''Aquaman 2''. However, the only indication we have of the success (or rather, lack of success) of the film is Ari's remark of "It didn't do ''that'' bad!"
** Even though Michael Bay was already replacing James Cameron as director before Vince backed out, and the reason Vince backed out is that he was told they could delay shooting the sequel by six months so he could start shooting his passion project ''Medellin''. However, after Vince and the director come up with a work around, the studio head tells Vince they were never going to delay shooting and that Vince was never meant to come up with a way to do ''Medellin'', Vince refuses to meet with him to discuss the ''Aquaman'' sequel.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: [[Straw Man Has a Point|Whilst he did make some legitimate points about Vince's acting]], Verner Vollstedt's treatment of Vince during the filming of ''Smokejumpers'' (Giving all of his lines to Jason Patric
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Averted because most celebrities are playing themselves. Played straight and then subverted with Ari Gold, who is based on [[Real Life]] agent Ari Emmanuel - Emmanuel purportedly loves Piven's portrayal and has commented that it's not ''nearly'' over-the-top enough. Other Expies for famous types include Harvey Weinstein, caricatured as "Harvey Weingard", played by Maury Chaykin, and Werner Herzog, caricatured as "Verner Vollstedt" played by Stellan Skarsgard.
* [[No Ending]]: For now (depending on whether or not [[The Film of the Series]] actually gets made). The series finale ends with quite a bit up in the air: Vince is getting on a plane to get married to a girl that he just met, E may or may not be quitting and it's unknown how Drama's movie will turn out. At least Ari and Mrs. Ari seem to get a happy ending with them getting back together
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Ari, about 75% of the time.
* [[No Name Given]]: According to the producers, Mrs. Ari never got a first name. Except she does, in "The Big Bang
* [[Old Shame]]: An in-universe subversion; it turns out Drama loves the cult status of what ''should'' be an [[Old Shame]] - ''Viking Quest''.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Turtle, who eventually reveals his name is Sal...but even his girlfriend still calls him Turtle.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: E is frequently the only one in the group to show any common sense.
* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]: Turtle.
* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]: Debi Mazar as Shauna in Season 2, Perry Reeves as Mrs. Ari
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Andrew Klein, sent to rehab.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: The show takes some mild criticism for over-the-top moments that are directly based on the antics of the [[Real Life]] Ari Gold -- Hollywood
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: Jane's Addiction's "Superhero".
▲* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: The show takes some mild criticism for over-the-top moments that are directly based on the antics of the [[Real Life]] Ari Gold -- Hollywood superagent Ari Emmanuel.
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: After a break-in, when the guys decide to arm themselves. Drama comes home with a bag full of loaded guns, and Turtle starts playing with one, at which point Drama grabs it from him and says "Careful, Turtle, that's a loaded weapon!" At which point the gun goes off and blows out a window, prompting the guys to think about getting some professional security.
* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: Ari and E's conversations with each other are usually in this mode by default; in fact it's arguable that sarcasm is Ari's default setting.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: The finale leaves quite a bit up in the air: how Drama's move will go, what happens with E and Sloane, whether or not Vince getting married works out. The most obvious one though is whether or not Ari
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' during a golf game between Ari and an associate.
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Parodied with Dom in Season 3. An old friend of Vince and the boys, they add him to the Entourage under the somewhat bogus title of head of security. Dom then starts trying to give Vince advice on his career, and take over as team chef and Vince's driver. Eric, Drama and Turtle are ''not'' happy with this, and it takes Dom nearly costing Vince his dream role in ''Medellin'' for him to finally be cut loose.
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* [[The Stoner]]: Although all of the main characters like to smoke up, Turtle is by far the biggest pot smoker of the bunch. As Vince's driver one of his unofficial duties is to procure marijuana for the Vince and company. In one episode Turtle enters a video game competition and embarks on a frantic search for weed because, in his own words, he's only good at the game while high.
* [[Stop Being Stereotypical]]: In one episode, Turtle and Drama go looking for Saigon, who would later become Turtle's client, and are told by his mother that he works at a store on [[wikipedia:Rodeo Drive|Rodeo Drive]]. The woman pronounces it "ro-dee-o" and when Drama corrects her, telling her it's pronounced "ro-day-o" she corrects him telling him the first pronunciation is correct in the predominantly-black neighborhood. As they walk away, Turtle tells Drama to stop acting so white.
* [[Take That]]: To many Hollywood and L.A. institutions throughout the series. More often than not, the [[Shout-Out]] is sarcastic and mean-spirited. Later seasons go much further with this - Hollywood journalist Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood blog is mentioned several times by characters trying to intimidate an executive, and various
** In one of the few times that a Take That wasn't by Ari, Vince was ''not'' happy that James Cameron was not returning to direct ''Aquaman 2'', but the studio was courting Michael Bay for the role.
* [[Team Chef]]: Drama, to the point where he buys a condo ''specifically'' for the kitchen.
* [[Team Mom]]: Mama Chase does not show up often, but when she does, it's obvious she sees Eric and Turtle as her sons too.
* [[Three-Way Sex]]
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: Drama's success on ''Five Towns'', Turtle's romance with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, {{spoiler|Lloyd's promotion to agent}}. Drama gets one better--{{spoiler|at the end of Season 6, the network execs decide he's worthy enough to get a starring vehicle}}.
** Turtle's case is more [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] {{spoiler|at least until the end of Season 6}}, as Ferrara and Sigler are actually a couple. Also a case of [[Romance on the Set]], as they did not start dating until after she was cast and they started filming together.
* [[Training
* [[Tsundere]]: [[Matt Damon]]. A scene after the Season 6 finale shows him berating Vince for supposedly not making good on his promise to a charity Damon's spearheading (including telling Vince that every single one of his movies sucks), then turning around and apologizing profusely. Vince and Drama remark during the episode that Damon's very "intense".
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: An entertainment journalist mistakes Billy Walsh and E for a Type II example of this after seeing them verbally snipe at each other during an interview. Actually, they just hate each others' guts.
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