Last night’s episode of Entourage was another filler episode that didn’t really serve to advance the season-long story arc in any significant way. Like most filler eps, this one had the boys together for most of the program, plus there was a B plot featuring the latest happenings at Ari’s agency. Anyway, here’s my recap of “Gary’s Desk.”

Vince/Eric/Drama/Turtle: Eric wants people in the business to start taking him seriously, so he decides to change things up a bit. His first move is to rent a tiny office so that he can get work done away from the guys. But the place is so small and cramped that when he shows it to the guys, they all give him shit about it, especially since he’s using a fold-up table instead of a proper desk.

Vinnie decides to get Eric a real desk as a present. Instead of going to an Office Max or a regular furniture store like the rest of us would, he wanders into an antiques shop and sets his sights on the desk that was used by Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. When Vince learns that Robert DeNiro also once owned the desk, that seals the deal. He wants to buy it despite the $42,000 price tag.

But the salesclerk comes back and tells him that she made a mistake: the desk has already been sold to Gary Busey. The boys then head to Gary’s house to try to convince him to sell them the desk. He’ll do it only if he can paint Drama, which in Gary’s messed up universe, consists of throwing paint at Drama’s head and chest. Drama complies, and the boys get the desk.

Problem is, it’s way too big to fit in Eric’s office. So what does Vince do? He goes and rents new office space that’s big enough for the desk and for the four of them so they can still spend their days together.

Meanwhile, Eric wants to get the word out around town that he’s Vince’s official manager so people don’t have to keep calling Ari to confirm things. He tries to put an ad in Variety, but they won’t run the ad without Ari’s confirmation. He then gets Shauna (Vince’s long lost PR manager) to hook him up with someone at Variety, who ends up writing a full feature on Eric. The angle of the story was Hollywood’s “new nepotism” and talked about how a bunch of nobodies like Eric were trying to make it in the biz just because they’re friends with a star.

Ari: Ari was trying to prep his agency for an impending visit from client Mary J. Blige, but ran into problems with twin employees Jeff and Jim. They’re at each other’s throats, and Jim’s demanding that Jeff be fired. Ari tells them to work it out, but they continue their bickering, which eventually escalates into a full-on brawl in the conference room. When Ari sits them down to find out what happened, he learned that Jeff slept with Jim’s wife. Instead of firing Jeff, he waits for some reports from accounting to see which agent has earned the most money. Seeing that it’s Jeff, he fires Jim instead.

This comes back to bite Ari in the ass when it turns out that Mary J. Blige really liked Jim because of all the personal attention he gave her. When she learns what Ari did, she leaves the agency and takes her business elsewhere.

My Reaction: While there were a couple of laughs in this episode (all courtesy of Ari, of course), I was mostly bored. Although I actually like the idea that Eric should have an office and try to be officially associated with Vince in the eyes of other industry players, I didn’t think this point warranted an entire episode. Plus, I was hoping for some sort of follow-up regarding the British girl from last week, but we got nothing on that.

This was not a memorable ep at all; let’s hope next week’s is better!