The Wrap Party

Episode aired Oct 23, 2006
TV-14
44m

IMDb RATING

8.4/10

387

YOUR RATING

Matthew Perry and D.L. Hughley in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006)

Comedy Drama

Tom gets a visit from his uptight conservative parents, Matt and Simon go out to find new African-American writers for the show, and Cal tries to find the identity of a confused elderly man ... Read allTom gets a visit from his uptight conservative parents, Matt and Simon go out to find new African-American writers for the show, and Cal tries to find the identity of a confused elderly man who wanders into the wrap party.Tom gets a visit from his uptight conservative parents, Matt and Simon go out to find new African-American writers for the show, and Cal tries to find the identity of a confused elderly man who wanders into the wrap party.

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IMDb RATING

8.4/10

387

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Tom (Nate Corddry) says that he has "enough money to buy his father's house four times over and turn it into his ping pong room." Sorkin would later use this same dialogue in his Oscar-winning screenplay for "The Social Network."

Goofs
Tom tells his parents about the night Abbot and Costello first performed the famous comedy sketch "Who's on First?" Although Abbott and Costello made the sketch famous, they did not write it. It was a version of an old vaudeville number that had been around for years.

Quotes
Simon Stiles: I'm livin' in a new house now. You haven't been there. I'm up in the hills, near the Hollywood sign, and from my pool I can see South Central. I saw a murder up close when I was fifteen. Three guys shot a friend of ours 'bout ten times in the chest with 38s. You know it doesn't look like it does in the movies. Ask a homicide cop. It ain't poetry in motion, it's... everything inside comes outta every part of you. Anyway, we spent the next day planning how we were gonna kill these guys who did it. And when it was time, the leader of the guys I ran with, a guy named Donnell, turned to me and said, "You're not going." I said, "Like hell I'm not goin'." He said, "You're not going. You go, and I'll kill you first." Those guys are all doing consecutive life sentences, no chance of parole. They weren't charged as juveniles. Donnell is in a Federal Maximum Security Facility in Minnesota. Every month, I send him the only things I'm allowed to send him, cigarettes and stamps. I can see it from my pool, Matt. And if I don't reach in there and grab as many of them as I can carry, every day, then I deserve get sent right back to it.

Connections
References The Jazz Singer (1927)

Soundtracks
Thinking About It...Baby
Written by Salme Dahlstrom and Mark Partridge
Performed by Salme Dahlstrom

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1/10

This episode is a huge disappointment

Jordan seemed totally out of character. Weak, insecure, dumb. Nothing like what she's been in previous shows. Tom's back story could have been interesting -- how his comedic sense emerged from a life in Ohio under a strait-laced father. Instead, he delivers a history lesson. And of all the cast members to pair up with Eli Wallach, wouldn't Tom, with his appreciation for comedy and comedians, have been a natural? At least he might have explained the Clifford Odets reference that probably sailed over the head of any viewer under 70. Last criticism: At the outset it seemed like the episode was going to set up the three bimbos as a main story line. That fell flat right away, so the trio disappeared. Good riddance. Only Simon's back story, his confrontation with Matt and their interplay at the Improv rang true; that's the only story line that sounded like something Sorkin wrote. The first five episodes hooked me and I will keep watching the show, but this week's show not only wasted my time, it insulted my intelligence.