It'd guarentee him(Obama) loosing the reelection, but I'd love to see him pull a Bartlett from West Wing, and saying... I'm going to stop dragging me feet and do what the fuck needs to be done, fuck it if I don't get reupped in 3 years.

But, I'm actually scared of what'd happen if GOP regained power in 3 years, since the damage they helped cause in the last 8 is going to take 20 to fix =P

West Wing. AWESOME show. Finally got around to watching it.

I can't describe how incredible and funny this show is, while still making you think.

 

I'll third the West Wing love. Might be my alltime favorite show. I know it's left-wing skew isn't particularly subtle, but there's a reason it's first four seasons all won the Best Drama Emmy. I'd give seasons 1-4 all A+ ratings. Season 5's almost as good. I'd give it an A and solid Bs to seasons 6 and 7. It didn't really get canceled as much as reached the end of its line.

I know I'm kinda derailing the topic here, but there are so many great moments in the series. Here's a few of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQWxgnFc1fk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkzLnUNeVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30MOebDSww
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojhg1zTOef8

Okay... I got lost jumping from dozens of West Wing clips. Too many great scenes.

 

Josh telling the civil rights lawyer he'd pay him his 1.7 TRILLION dollars of reperations money, but his granddad dropped his wallet in a concentration camp was awesome. Check that out if you havent. Josh telling the senator to shove the agenda up his ass, as well as the press room fuckup with the secret plan to fight inflation too.

 

Last West Wing moment

"You have an interesting conversational style, you know that?"
"It's a nervous condition."
"I used to have a nervous condition."
"How did yours manifest itself?"
"I drank a lot of Scotch."
"I get sick when I drink too much."
"I get drunk when I drink too much."

Delivered deadpan by Leo was too much, spit my soda out, lol.

 

No West Wing lovefest is complete without Ainsley, the spitfire hottie Republican from North Carolina. The first link is to Midknight's quote; the second is the one where she calls Sam "the master."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUwm6WJRPIQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbuujHCV4UE

Oh, and she gets nekkid in the movie "Breast Men." Sorry for the continued derail.

 

The more I watch, the more awesome Leo is, and Josh reminds me of Rahm, minus the cursing.

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Leo: "Yeah."
Margaret: "I can sign the President's name. I have his signature down pretty good."
Leo: "You can sign the President's name?"
Margaret: "Yeah."
Leo: "On a document removing him from power and handing it to someone else."
Margaret: "Yeah!" (On Leo's look of disbelief) "Or... do you think the White House Counsel would say that was a bad idea?"
Leo: "I think the White House Counsel would say it was a coup d'etat!"
Margaret: "Well. I'd probably end up doing some time for that."
Leo: "I would think. And what the hell were you doing practicing the President's signature?"
Margaret: (leaving rapidly) "It was just for fun!"
Leo: "We've got separation of powers, checks and balances, and Margaret, vetoing things and sending them back to the Hill!"

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Leo: "Well, if there is, let's get rid of it!"

[COLOR=white][COLOR=#919d9d][COLOR=white]Bartlet: "Forgive me, Dr. Jacobs. Are you a MD?"
Dr. Jenna Jacobs: "PhD."
Bartlet: "A PhD?"
Dr. Jacobs: "Yes, sir."
Bartlet: "In Psychology?"
Dr. Jacobs: "No, Sir."
Bartlet: "Theology?"
Dr. Jacobs: "No."
Bartlet: "Social work?"
Dr. Jacobs: "I have a PhD in English Literature."
Bartlet: "I'm asking, 'cause on your show, people call in for advice and you go by the name of Dr. Jacobs on your show. And I didn't know if maybe your listeners were confused by that, and assumed you had advanced training in Psychology, Theology, or health care."
Dr. Jacobs: "I don't believe they are confused, no sir."
Bartlet: "Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination."
Dr. Jacobs: "I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does."
Bartlet: "Yes, it does. Leviticus."
Dr. Jacobs: "Eighteen twenty-two."

Bartlet: "Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, and always clears the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry, insists on working on the Sabbath, Exodus 35:2, clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important, 'cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town. Touching the skin of a dead pig makes us unclean, Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother, John, for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing, while you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tightass Club, in this building, when the President stands nobody sits."


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Bartlet: "Yeah... 'excuse me, Your Eminence, but the First Lady is a little randy, and she says I'm good to go'."
Abbey: "I am a little randy, Jed."
Bartlet: "Good, take your clothes off."
Abbey: "Wh- whatever happened to romance? A couple of cocktails, Mel Torme-"
Bartlet: "Get 'em off."
Abbey: "Okay, I'm going to the bathroom. Where I am gonna change into a special little garment I think you might enjoy!"
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My father (and I, for that matter) adore the hell out of The West Wing. C.J. was my highlight of the show, being the type of White House Press Secretary that I want to see IRL. I also second James Lipton's statement that "Two Cathedrals" is the best hour of television ever aired. Bartlett's rant against God is perhaps the single best scene to ever hit airwaves, and the end to that episode is phenomenal. The whole series is just wonderful.

 

Hell yes, mknote. That speech sent shivers down my spine. He calls God a "feckless thug" and then stamps out a cigarette on the cathedral floor. Powerful stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FScv89J6rro

EDIT: For my money, West Wing and The Sopranos are the two best dramas ever to hit television. Both declined in quality the last two seasons, but the first 4-5 were just incredible.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZy45S78nIY <-- Bradly Whitford doing a sarcastic Anti-Bush commercial. I almost spit my soda across the screen.

 

For those wondering, on BRAVO there's usually a couple episodes almost every day. At 8 and 9 AM, and occasionally at 3 AM. My DVR's almost always got at least a half dozen episodes.

The first four seasons are fantastic. I love how Sorkin kinda got pushed out so he left the show by taking Zoey hostage and sticking them with a Republican president. A nice little middle finger parting gift.

I like season 5 almost as much as the glory years because the Shutdown storyline (and march on the Capitol) was great and the Supremes is one of my favorite episodes. I'd rank that one up there with the best of the early years.

The Santos/Vinick stuff was better than a lot of TV but just couldn't compare to Bartlet and the show's glory years.

Even the quickly thrown together out-of-timeline post-9/11 episode I thought explained the current political climate far better than most news shows and newspapers were doing. Season 3's premiere was bumped a week and instead they made an episode interspersed with phone numbers and places to donate money and donate blood. Some clips:

Why do they hate us? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VatPKqTgzh4
Sam Seaborn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDsY8qCxLHQ
The First Lady http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMdBKB-i3U

And as long as we're breaking out classic bits, it'd be remiss to not mention Leo's guy in a hole story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJ6yqQRAQs

Just because it's funny here's a clip of the cast on Ellen's talk show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znqnCv3hPOk

 

I was over my obsession with the West Wing and now you guys are bringing it back. Totally not fair. That show had one of the best ensemble cast that I ever seen on television. There really isn't one person that I can say that I don't like. And I just adore Leo.

 

Bartlet: Can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?
Charlie: Nothing.
Bartlet: Shaken not stirred will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth.
The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice.
James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it.

President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they just can't add.


ROFL!~

 

I don't look half bad at all! Sadly for Sree though, I'm not blond, nor gay, nor can I dance, so that's not me =)

That'd be Neil Patrick Harris, aka Doogie Howser MD, aka Barney Stinson, the most awesome guy... evah.

And yeah I actually do the same thing with ppl's avatar's.

"What do you call a society where the pizza place you're eating in can blow up without any warning?" "... Isreal."

Awesome

 

Not know NPH? Seriously. Go rent a Harold and Kumar movie. The first one's better than the second but either will work. And swinging us back slightly towards topic, how fucked up is that Kumar's working in Obama's White House?

He'll be in the OEOB (soon as he finishes up that movie with Jed Bartlett), as it's so often referred to on the West Wing. If you thought he already was working for Obama as I did, here's the article about it.