I just started watching in September and I’m still at season 3 but I love this show, so much so that I included a scene for my English presentation.

My high school is asking for our senior quotes for yearbook this week and I really want to add a quote or a reference from the show for my quote.

I want it to be so obvious that it’s from TWW, because no one my age knows/watches this show, I also want it to be funny/maybe not so serious. Preferably without any mention of congress because I’m up in Canada and I don’t think a direct reference to the American government will hit as hard given the current times..

I’m also debating on using “what’s next” as a quote, but I don’t know if I should use “What’s next?” or “Okay, what’s next?” And I also don’t know if I should quote Bartlet saying that. If I do, do I use “President Bartlet” or “President Jed Bartlet” or “President Josiah Bartlet”?

Any advice would be awesome!!!

Hey so, I have watched the show like several times . I know in the flashback Josh goes to Sam’s office at Gage Whitney on the way to Nashua.

I know both studied law but Josh went to Harvard and Sam went to Duke. Did they get acquainted in their college days via inter college fest / moot court competitions and went onto become good friends as they shared common values and ideologies?

There is also the age gap. Josh is senior ( I don’t know by how much ) to Sam so I am not sure about my inter college meet up theory :)

Or was it at annual conventions held by the Democratic Party ?

I am genuinely curious !

Please don’t get too serious and start fighting in the comments ! This is all made up! None of this happened in real life . This is a fictional show . Let’s remember that :)

I'm not talking specifically about story arcs (though there are some great multi-episode arcs) but more just about a grouping of episodes that are all just downright excellent on their own! A few of mine just from the first few seasons:

S01E10-12: In Excelsis Deo, Lord John Marbury, He Shall from Time to Time

S02E08-10: Shibboleth, Galileo, Noel

S02E16-18: Somebody's Going to Emergency..., The Stackhouse Filibuster, 17 People

S03E08-09: The Women of Qumar, Bartlet for America

I intentionally tried to exclude a lot of the "lead up to the season finale" groupings... although there are some great ones, some of them (like the end of S02, S05, S06) are focused on a single story arc for the purposes of this question.

So on my last rewatch, I sort of casually tracked this guy. He plays a secret service agent who seems to be on Bartlet's detail. As far as I can tell, he only speaks once in the whole series - in the second scene of season 2 episode 1. But he appears in most of the episodes of the series. Pretty interesting to have a background actor have close proximity with the series lead for 7 years and only speak once. One wonders if he became friends with Sheen or others!

Anyways, I can't really figure out who he is despite the fact that a bunch of agents are listed and you assume he would be credited since he spoke: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745639/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm

"The Steakhouse Filibuster" is a different story when you have a child having problems because they're on the spectrum

Was it spelled "Everything But" or "Everything Butt"? They both make sense.

Thought it was one of the cleverest moments.

I never watched West Wing when it first came out, but must say I've enjoyed binge watching it. The show has aged well. The technology may have changed, but the core issues remain much the same, the characters were very well written and the acting was excellent. I say all this as a rather conservative fellow. Once in awhile I found myself yelling at the tv, but usually the opposing viewpoints were presented fairly and the arguments were thought provoking.😆

Observations:

i wish they had kept Ainsley for the full length of the show. Her character provided some nice counter arguments.

The Josh character was rather obnoxious - I didn't know whether to be happy for Donna finally getting her man or feel pity that she did.

It was nice to see the cast reunited at the end of the show.

Leo was my favorite character. I could disagree with a man like that, but still respect and like him. I wish we had real politicians like him.

What I love about this scene is - CJ asks if Jed Bartlet knew about CJ and instantly found out Toby was lying but her face lit up when she says - McGary wants me?

I am guessing Leo was very well known in the party and everyone knew him for the great principled man he was?

What a scene!

Is it just me, or does anyone else, on their seventh rewatch of this series in a single year, still skip the shooting episode, or at least the final few scenes, because it’s just too heart-wrenching to watch?

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.

“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

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!

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

SPOILER

is there any underlying theory here that Zoey’s disappearance was staged by Leo and/or President Bartlett exclusively to try to boost approval ratings?

Leo’s emotions during the dark parts of this are shown seemingly more than the president’s. In this episode we see the president’s family get so emotional about her disappearance, but never the President. Was this all a ploy just to get a new VP???

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.

She goin to Riyadh or Tehran?

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.)