Hey everyone! I just have to say that I appreciate you all so much. A lot of times I'll come on to Reddit and see something funny that one of you wrote and it brightens my day. I also love that we can all quote the show; that one of us can type a quote from a scene, and so many others jump in and add the next line after a quote. You're my people and I love you all!

“How come we don’t have anyone as funny as you back home?” “Because you killed them all.”

Feels like Sorkin could see into the future lol

I was watching “Stirred” tonight and in the subplot, Hoynes takes his name off a bill so that it can pass. Leo tells him that he deserves his name on the bill and Hoynes says “I got my name on other stuff.”

I think of the times we live in and how some people refuse to do anything unless they get their name on it. Man, the number of times I wish that we lived in this. Best fantasy TV Series ever.

I think such statements will now come with an asterisk and a disclaimer.

Our current admin thinking they're slick burying casualty updates in the trash.

There's no other series in the history of TV that would include that line of dialogue.

God, I'm sorry, I love this show!

She goin to Riyadh or Tehran?

Ben Yosef, Israeli Foreign Minister, is first introduced in S4.E4, "The Red Mass", and his character is significant to the plot arc of season 4. On my current rewatch, I just noticed this though in S2.E17, "The Stackhouse Filibuster": When eating dinner with the president, Leo is on the phone discussing a G-8 meeting in Tel Aviv with someone named "Ben". Same person? Just a coincidence? Who's to say.

Josh and Gov. Bartlett when Josh’s father passed

Josh meeting Joey Lucas about the MS poll

Josh and the DeKalb County DA about the kid who fled to Italy

Is there some symbolism there that I am missing

I have been binging ER on Netflix, having faded out of watching it "live" the first time round. There is a phenomenal-but-not-surprising cross-over of TWW and ER cast members, and it's been a lot of fun (a) spotting them and (b) noticing mannerisms and habits that the actors had in both roles. Jorja Fox especially has many very recognisable traits, even her walk!

I am up to S6 now, and Arnie Vinick has recently arrived in his medical alter-ego!

They overlapped in broadcast, although ER came first:

• ER: Sep 1994 - Apr 2009
• TWW: Sep 1999 - May 2006

(I hope using AI just for the table below is permissible, rather than me doing it manually. Source: IMDB)

Having eaten at the Oval Room once in the early 2000s, it has never made sense to me that it would be CJ’s favorite restaurant. They tried hard to be a nice white tablecloth restaurant and succeeded in that regard, but the food wasn’t particularly delicious and there was nothing particularly special about it aside from its proximity to Lafayette Park and the White House from my experience.

(Shown here: La Bise, which replaced the Oval Room and lasted less than five years in that location.)

Just watched Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (S1 E21). In the episode, the White House shifts around the Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia to Bulgaria, and the Bulgarian ambassador gets the boot for an affair. This leaves the ambassadorship open, and they appoint an FEC member to that post, thus creating the opening for a 4-2 majority on the FEC.

My question is: Why would it be fait accompli that he would take the ambassadorship? Because it is such a cozy, do-nothing post? Out of service to the party or the President, assuming he is a Democrat? Legal obligation? It seems to me that such a tiny ambassadorship would be a demotion for an ambitious bureaucrat, and presumably the bureaucrat in question would be worried about becoming known as the guy who helped the President take on soft money by playing musical chairs with the FEC. Not that anything came of it.

John Spencer’s acting amazes me so much in this episode. I watched it when it first aired with my brother and both sat on the couch of my apartment and didn’t say a word.

It was my standing date with my “little” brother. I rewatch to remember him now that he’s gone.

I love and miss you Phil. Stroke at 37. I appreciate this show for helping me mentally joke with him, if that makes sense.