Written by Doug Ellin, and directed by David Frankel, it originally aired on HBO in the United States on July 18, 2004.

It received positive reviews and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.

The group then engages in a discussion of how bad promo photos can sink an actor's career, until two extremely attractive females walk by and Turtle starts to harass them.

After the girls leave, the group discusses whether or not they should attend their high school reunion back in New York City, and their disapproval of Eric's on again / off again girlfriend Kristen.

As the guys walk up the red carpet and comment on the girls in attendance, Eric tells Turtle to go and make sure that Ali Larter is not sitting within ten rows of Vince.

Ari promises court side Los Angeles Lakers tickets if Eric gets Vince to read the script.

As Turtle describes the girl, Ali Larter comes over and looks very annoyed, and then proceeds to aggressively quiz Eric on Vince's whereabouts.

After dinner Eric passes out watching SportsCenter, and Turtle and Drama wake him up to get ready to go to Las Vegas.

Vince enters the room and takes Eric aside to find out why he threatened Ari and tells him he can't do that.

As Turtle drives off we see a bumper sticker on the back of the car that reads "I ♥ Cock", as E reminds Drama that he's next.

On reading the script, Frankel was concerned that Ferrara was too young for the role of Turtle, Dillon was too old to play Drama, and Grenier was very unlike Wahlberg/Vince.

[1] Ellin's first version of the script had the show beginning at the movie premiere, with no-one liking Vince's acting but none willing to tell him.

Phil Gallo of Variety was critical of the episode, citing what he perceived as a lack of subtext and bland characters.

[4] Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly gave the episode an A−, describing it as "excellent, dirty fun", praising the casting, in particular Dillon and Piven.