I still laugh at the way she “perpendicular parks” her car in the pilot episode though. 
I watched TWW from start to finish and I remember some hububb about Sam’s hooker but damned if I recall the actress. The above poster seems to be implying she was played by Lisa Edelstein, yes?
Yup. The call-girl’s name was Brittany. Sam found out later her real name was Laurie.
That’s backwards, I think. Sam knew her as Laurie, and later encountered her on a “date” and didn’t know who Brittany was.
Yeah, she came as an escort to a congressman or something to a state dinner, and her “trade name” was Brittany. The episode may have been called The State Dinner.
I was trying to find a scene on YouTube, the one during the Stackhouse filibuster, where Bartlet goes on a tear about “You do not mess with the grandchildren.” It was a marvelous scene, and I wanted to send it to someone who just became a new Grandpa. But no luck.
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Re: Mandy, I remember reading somewhere (no idea where, though) that they discovered that the fans just didn’t like her, so they wrote her out of the series. I know that that was definitely true for me - I found her character strident and shrieky and annoying. Obviously, not so off-putting that I stopped watching the show, but my enjoyment of the series definitely went up once Mandy was gone.
I miss Ainsley Haynes
No kidding. She was, by far, one of the best characters on the show. And then CSI Miami called and said they needed an Investigator Barbie, and she was gone. I never got into the replacement character.
Replacement character? Who was that? I dont remember them adding a token republican, except for Matthew Perry’s guest spot.
Cliff Calley may be who Joe is referring to.
I liked Mary McCormack.
I thought the flashabck ep featuring Mary McCormack and John Spencer playing young spies in Cuba was the low point of the entire series.
No, they added a token blonde bimbo…Kristen Chenowith? Something like that.
I liked Cliff Calley, Mark Feuerstein has a way of speaking that makes it sound like anything he says is secretly the most important thing ever. That doesn’t work very well on Royal Pains.
And, FTR, Mary McCormack was a young spie, John Spencer was a same-aged drunken senator or something. I didn’t like it very much either. For anything post-Sorkin, you’re allowed to pretend up to 3 things per season never happened.
Well, to be fair, that’s kinda like life.
I agree in that that wasn’t exactly the best episode of the series, but still liked her character.
I ate the way that characters and plotlines vanish without explanation - I’m on season 5, I still don’t know if Same won or not (I’m guessing not)