By Mark La Monica
Forget all this talk about low pressure fronts meeting with high pressure fronts and the inconvenient truth behind the melting of glaciers.
The real source behind this summer heat wave that suffocated Los Angeles and San Diego last weekend and is in the process of paralyzing the Northeast today is the energy sent into the atmosphere by Johnny Drama's classic meltdown in Episode 8.
One scene after another, something went wrong for Drama. And we laughed each time. Drama is coming dangerously close to being the fourth noun considered from the rarefied status of "Inherently funny."
Those positively charged Dramalecules from the parking ticket meltdown combined with those from the Starbucks meltdown to form a serious heat wave of hilarity this week. And lucky for Drama he was kicking indoors, where the weather couldn't adversely affect the Ed Burns pilot script he sent through the uprights after showing up late for an audition.
Lawyer friend Steve called it perfectly Monday night when he said, "All I gotta say is Johnny Drama is Falling Down."
Of course, I had yet to see the episode when he said that to me, so I did the noblest thing possible: I hung up on him. But he's right. Drama pulled a Michael Douglas in the movie "Falling Down." If you haven't seen that movie yet, stop reading, go to Netflix and move it to the top of your queue now!
Drama doesn't resort to violence and destruction during his mental breakdown the way Douglas did in the movie, but that's why "Entourage" is a cable sitcom and "Falling Down" is a dramatic movie that just so happens to be hilarious, too.
We've all had "one of those days" and "one of those weeks" and "one of those years." The daylong versions are so much more painful. Everything goes wrong twice. Then we hit the breaking point, erupt like mad men and women and eventually the natural order restores itself.
Drama goes crazy trying to get this pilot. He predictably falls all over himself en route to the audition. He shows up late and never meets Burns. Then he gets a phone call from Burns telling him he got the part. Natural order restored.
In Season Two, Drama took a golf club to Point Break's hood. He still landed the role he had just auditioned for and was excited a few episodes later when he found out that little anger meltdown wound up on "Celebrity Justice." Natural order restored.
Just another case of Drama being Drama.
Comments (4)
Great show, save for the "celebrity" cameo from that douchebag Ed Burns...That being said, it's perfect casting, as someone of Drama's skill level is exactly at Eddie's.
I loooove Ed Burns. I also happen to hate Drama. Entourage would be absolute and complete perfection if he just disappeared..or maybe didn't have any stories surrounding him and also never talked. He just grates on my nerves. I'm a Turtle fan all the way!!
I think that the true quote of the week also went to ARI but i thought it was when he was talking to loyd when he told him to not answer any phones unless it was.......dont totally remember the line but thats just what i was thinkin...
Out of the entire group, Drama is the guy I'd least like to be friends with. But to say the show would be better without him is going too far. He's the second best actor of the group behind Piven and his character is representative of a lot of actors ---- over the top and self absorbed to the point of high comedy. This show wouldn't be nearly half of what it is without him.