The The West Wing, "Lemon-Lyman", and SDMB

[t-keela]

I caught a rerun of The West Wing the other night and in this episode Josh got caught up in a message board. In the show, Donna made a reference to the board and it’s members. Did any of you catch this and if so does it apply to Dopers? Why, what and who?

[Triskadecamus]

This isn’t a fan site.

Well, we are fans of fighting ignorance.

We are fans of Cecil, but even the Great One Himself knows that we come here for other reasons than to discuss aspects of his personal life.

The genre of fan sites is not all that much unlike the description given on the show. Very focused wierdness.

Tris

[MrVisible]

So that there’s some background info on this around…

There is a good overview of the episode, and some answers to your questions, at this site, as well as this classic quote:

“Oh Josh,” C.J. calls out from the other end of the hall. “. . .The Federal Page from the Washington Post just called Carol to confirm that you are the Josh Lyman who posted on an Internet website that the White House could order a GAO review of anything it wants.”
“Without threatening the separation of powers is what I was saying.”
“You posted on a website?”
“. . .C.J., it a crazy place. It’s got this dictatorial leader. . .”
“What did you go there for in the first place?”
“It’s called LemonLyman.com.”
“Let me explain something to you, this is sort of my field. The people on these sites: they’re the cast of ‘One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest.’ . . . I’m telling you to open the ward room window and climb on out before they give you a pre-frontal lobotomy and I have to smother you with a pillow. . . . I’m assigning an intern from the press office to that website. They’re going to check it every night before they go home. If they discover you’ve been there, I’m going to shove a motherboard so far up your ass — What?”
“Well — technically, I outrank you.”
“So far up your ass!” she says raising her voice ominously.
“Okay.”

lemonlyman.com, by the way, is registered to Warner Bros. and just gives a 404 error. Nothing there.

[tavalla]

I love CJ for that quote alone

The Lemon-Lyman episode didn’t refer to SDMB - but you could always take a look at Television Without Pity to find the inspiration for the episode.

And if you find a post from a “Mr Benjamin”, you’re hearing from a certain Mr Sorkin himself.