10 July 2009

a gaggle of silverback apes

last night after the jenny lewis - bon iver show, i wound down with my new favourite show, thanks to brikena. the writers of entourage compose some of the fastest, wittiest dialogue on television. what's more is that the central character, vince (vinnie) chase, rarely speaks a memorable line. his agent ari gold, however, tends to live up to his name with the rhetoric he imparts, as illustrated in what i found to be one of the funniest lines ever written:



in case you missed that, ari pleads, "i don't care if it's a porn shoot in which he is gang-raped by a gaggle of silverback apes." the line is pure, desperate hilarity, and referring to a group of silverback apes as a gaggle, a term usually reserved for geese, drastically upped the comedic ante for me. i'm all for expanding the utility of a term, and this usage is certainly cohesive with a broader definition. i'll also admit that i didn't know what a group of apes was called until i just googled it. apparently the appropriate term is shrewdness. thank you, ari gold. thank you.

season 6 premiers sunday on HBO.

2 comments:

  1. Ah, Ari Gold, the making of Entourage!
    In Season 5 when he bitch-slaps Adam Davies, Ari Gold taught me yet another way to view the philosopher Sun Tzi's work.... It's in Episode 3, btw.
    Ah, it's season 6 that's about to premier this Sunday.

    I firmly believe that season 5 took the show to new heights. The gods of creativity were especially kind to Doug Ellin this past year.
    Schrewdness? Cool. Did not know it.

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  2. looking forward to seeing it as much as every other episode i can. ;)

    thanks for the season premiere correction.

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