History Series / Entourage

** Vince and Drama are very loosely based on the experiences of Mark Wahlberg and Donnie Wahlberg (Donnie had also been a famous, albeit as a singer rather an actor, whose star was in decline by the time Mark's was on the rise as a Hollywood leading man. And much like Drama, Donnie later had his career renewed by starring in crime dramas on tv)

** It could even be argued that Vince is an Expy of Mark Wahlberg, since the series premise is loosely based on Wahlberg's experiences as an up-and-coming movie star.

* DivorceIsTemporary: The last season arc with Ari and his wife. [[spoiler:Eventually Ari realizes that it's not Ari himself that she wants the divorce from, but the fact he has become an absentee father and husband because of his career. When he finally figures it out, he ditches work and she takes him back without then even getting divorced.]]

--> '''[[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.

* CatchPhrase: What if I were to tell you that Bob Ryan has one? Is that something you might be interested in?

* DivorceIsTemporary: The last season arc with Ari and his wife. [[spoiler: Eventually Ari realizes that it's not Ari himself that she wants the divorce from, but the fact he has become an absentee father and husband because of his career. When he finally figures it out, he ditches work and she takes him back without then even getting divorced.]]

* ForeShadowing: At the premiere of ''Queens Boulevard'' the director claims "This is my fucking ''[[Film/TheDeerHunter Deer Hunter]]''". And it's a big critical hit. But after he made ''Film/TheDeerHunter'', Creator/{{Michael Cimino|Director}}'s career [[HeavensGate didn't go so well]].

* SequelHook: The finale leaves quite a bit up in the air: how Drama's movie will go, what happens with E and [[spoiler:Sloane]], whether or not Vince [[spoiler:getting married]] works out. The most obvious one though is whether or not Ari [[spoiler: takes the gig as CEO of the studio]].

An ''Film/{{Entourage}}'' movie was released on June 3, 2015 and served as a grand finale to the TV series.

* ForeShadowing: At the premiere of ''Queens Boulevard'' the director claims "This is my fucking ''[[Film/TheDeerHunter Deer Hunter]]''". And it's a big critical hit. But after he made ''Film/TheDeerHunter'', Creator/MichaelCimino's career [[HeavensGate didn't go so well]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Johnny Drama is filming his first scene in a new television pilot. However, as the director keeps making his monologue longer and more difficult, Drama starts to have a panic attack. However, remembering advice that Turtle gave him earlier, he proceeds to release some stress. Of course, Drama being [[ButtMonkey Drama]], he [[IsThisThingStillOn forgets to turn off his microphone and the whole studio crew hears him]].

* EnforcedMethodActing: In-universe; while shooting the pilot for ''Five Towns,'' Drama needs to have some shots taken of him looking embarrassed, but he can't figure out how to do it convincingly. So the director comes over and informs him that, earlier in his trailer, Drama had his mic on while he was, um, [[ADateWithRosiePalms relieving some tension]], and that everyone on the set heard him in the act. ''That'' gets the expression the director was looking for.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Vince
** TheLancer[=/=]TheSmartGuy: Ari and E both qualify as both of these.
** TheBigGuy: Drama. Though neither Turtle or E are very large guys, they've shown they can fight when they brawled with Seth Green's crew.
** TheChick: Drama and E both have shades of this -- Drama is overly dramatic and E has a tendency to get too attached in relationships.
** TheLoad: Turtle, [[CharacterDevelopment until he gets tired of being a hanger-on in season 6]].
** TheSixthRanger: PlayedWith with Dom, although Lloyd or Billy Walsh could be considered as one.
** EleventhHourRanger: Scott

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: While the show has no problem with butts, Topless women are often only seen from the back or with ShouldersUpNudity from the front.

** In another episode, Vince and the gang attend a pool party at a mansion attended by several gorgeous women. Turtle and Drama end up having sex with some of the girls there. It's later discovered that the house is actually a high-class brothel run by a famous Hollywood madame (based on real-life Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss) and the girls Drama and Turtle hooked up with where very expensive prostitutes. Thankfully, the Madame feels bad about the misunderstanding and doesn't charge the guys for their "entertainment."

* NoPeekingRequest: In "Stunted", one of Turtle's employers, Alex. arrives late for work and without her uniform shirt, so she asks him to turn around and not peek while she and her co-worker exchange shirts.

** Debi Mazar as Shauna in Season 2, Perry Reeves as Mrs. Ari and Rex Lee as Lloyd in Season 4.

* NoNameGiven: Ari's wife goes almost the entire run of the show being known only as Mrs. Ari. We only find out her given name in one of the very last episodes of the show, when [[spoiler:Bobby Flay calms her down by telling her, "Melissa, it's okay."]]

* BerserkButton: 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. [[spoiler: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; he attempts to blackmail a school principal when his son is rejected from kindergarten due to Ari's volatile behavior, and he menaces a thirteen year old boy after perceiving the kid to be a risk to his daughter.]]

* ButtMonkey: '''"LLOYD!"'''

* CreatorCameo: Mark Wahlberg appears as himself during the pilot and season 6.

* CriticalDissonance: In-universe, ''Five Towns'' received harsh reviews from critics when it debuted, but audiences loved it.

* DivorceIsTemporary: The last season arc with Ari and his wife. [[spoiler:They don't even get to the divorce.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Vince and E.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: 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!"

* NoPeekingRequest: In "The Butler's Son Did It", Will tells Carlton, Jazz and Frederick [[note]]The son of the family butler, Geoffrey.[[/note]] to turn around and cover their ears while he goes into his secret stash to pay the pizza delivery guy. Frederick takes a peak however and tries to steal Will's cash just as everyone else leaves, but Will arrives back and catches him red-handed.

* RatedMForManly: This show has been described by some as ''Series/SexInTheCity'' for guys, except instead of cosmopolitans in New York it's beer and weed in Los Angeles.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Drama's success on ''Five Towns'', Turtle's romance with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Lloyd's [[spoiler: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]].

* UglyGuyHotWife: Alluded to in-universe. Ari jokes that Sloan should be Vince's date to the ''Aquaman'' premiere because she's way too hot for Eric.

* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Turtle.

** Also happens with Mandy Moore; her handlers fear that her good girl image will by tarnished if she dates Vince, who is a known womanizer.

* NoNameGiven: According to the producers, Mrs. Ari never got a first name. Except she does, in "The Big Bang," when [[spoiler:Bobby Flay calms her down by telling her, "Melissa, it's okay."]]

HeelFaceTurn: In the early episodes Ari Gold was a straight-up {{Jerkass}} (albeit an entertaining one), but as the show went on he became more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

** Some of the fake movies are clearly based on real ones. ''Aquaman'' is clearly based on how ''Film/SpiderMan1'' almost went (James Cameron was attached to direct it for ages) and ''Aquaman 2'' is based on how ''Film/SpiderMan2'' almost went (Creator/TobeyMaguire came close to dropping out and Creator/JakeGyllenhaal was asked to replace him if that happened). ''Medellin'' is based on ''Film/{{Gigli}}'' (unpronouncable title, career-derailing movie) and ''Film/SouthlandTales'' (acclaimed indie director's follow-up that premieres at Cannes to mass walkouts and declared an overlong, self-indulgent, incomprehensible disaster, and ends up barely getting released).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: 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.

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: 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 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 MyGodWhatHaveIDone and patch it up with Lloyd. Ari, for his part, now has ''excellent'' blackmail if Lloyd ever throws another pity party]].
* HeelFaceTurn: In the early episodes Ari Gold was a straight-up {{Jerkass}} (albeit an entertaining one), but as the show went on he became more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler:The series finale ends with Vince flying to Paris to marry a woman he's only been on a single date with. We won't know how well it turns out until TheMovie.]]

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: 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 MyGodWhatHaveIDone and patch it up with Lloyd. Ari, for his part, now has ''excellent'' blackmail if Lloyd ever has another pity party]].

* IAmTheNoun: "I am Queen's Boulevard."

* NoEnding: For now (at least until TheFilmOfTheSeries is released in June 2015). The series finale ends with quite a bit up in the air: Vince is getting on a plane to [[spoiler:get married to a girl that he just met]], E may or may not be [[spoiler:quitting]] and it's unknown how Drama's movie will turn out. Ari and Mrs. Ari seem to [[spoiler:get a happy ending with them getting back together after he quits his job and taking a trip to Florence... until John Ellis gives Ari a call telling him he wants him to take over as CEO of his studio]].

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Turtle, who eventually reveals his name is Sal...but even his girlfriend still calls him Turtle.

** Turtle's case is more RealLifeWritesThePlot [[spoiler:at least until the end of Season 6]], as Ferrara and Sigler are actually a couple. Also a case of RomanceOnTheSet, as they did not start dating until after she was cast and they started filming together.

* MyGirlIsASlut: In the seventh season, Vince begins dating real-life porn star Sasha Grey.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[StrawmanHasAPoint 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 and forcing Vince to constantly reshoot scenes to the point where Vince had done '''everything''' that had been asked of him) lead to Vince going over his head to Dana Gordon who ordered him to film the movie as scripted. Vollstedt then tried going over Dana's head and barged into a board meeting which ''completely'' backfired on him as the studio cancelled the movie. However, the footage of Vince filmed for ''Smokejumpers'' wound up winning him a role in Creator/MartinScorsese's ''[[Film/{{TheGreatGatsby2013 Gatsby]]'' and led to Vince's career revival.

** Some of the fake movies are clearly based on real ones. ''Aquaman'' is clearly based on how ''Film/SpiderMan1'' almost went (James Cameron was attached to direct it for ages) and ''Aquaman 2'' is based on how ''Film/SpiderMan2'' almost went (Creator/TobeyMaguire came close to dropping out and Creator/JakeGyllenhaal was asked to replace him if that happened). ''Medellin'' is based on ''Filmn/{{Gigli}}'' (unpronouncable title, career-derailing movie) and ''Film/SouthlandTales'' (acclaimed indie director's follow-up that premieres at Cannes to mass walkouts and declared an overlong, self-indulgent, incomprehensible disaster, and ends up barely getting released).

** Some of the fake movies are clearly based on real ones. ''Aquaman'' is clearly based on how ''Film/SpiderMan'' almost went (James Cameron was attached to direct it for ages) and ''Aquaman 2'' is based on how ''Film/SpiderMan2'' almost went (Creator/TobeyMaguire came close to dropping out and Creator/JakeGyllenhaal was asked to replace him if that happened). ''Medellin'' is based on ''Filmn/{{Gigli}}'' (unpronouncable title, career-derailing movie) and ''Film/SouthlandTales'' (acclaimed indie director's follow-up that premieres at Cannes to mass walkouts and declared an overlong, self-indulgent, incomprehensible disaster, and ends up barely getting released).