# The West Wing Remembered **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484 "2007-12-18T18:55:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484/61 "2007-12-22T13:04:31Z")
I loved it when CJ put that reporter in her place over the procedure on how to overturn a veto. The reporter had made some snide comments about CJ changing clothes a lot, and maybe that’s why she wasn’t as knowledgeable as she should have been. Carol said she would take care of it, and CJ say no, she would. And hoo boy…did she ever! Talk about public humiliation in a room full of your “colleagues!” ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484/62 "2007-12-22T14:56:11Z")
I didn’t become a West Wing fan until 2003- I had never seen an episode, and Bravo was rerunning them. I had just had back surgery, and was not sleeping well. Bravo had an all-night marathon. Before 10 p.m., I had never seen an episode and by 6 a.m., I was an unabashed fan. I have the fist 5 seasons on DVD, but I didn’t like S6 or7 enough to buy them. Some of my favorite lines- Sam: I accidentally slept with a prostitute. Toby: I don’t understand, did you trip over something? Josh: Shut up. Amy: YOU shut up! Leo, who happens to be walking through the room during their flirtatious banter: Oh, God help me some days. ANYTHING that followed Sam saying, “OK, here’s my thing…” CJ, explaining the turkey pardoning process to Bartlett: There are two turkeys. The one that’s the most photogenic gets pardoned, and the other one gets eaten. Bartlett: If the academy awards were like that, I’d watch. Toby: Don’t bring the Yiddish if you don’t know what youre doing. Donna: YOu know what word should be Yiddish but isn’t? Spatula. Toby: Donna… Donna: Also, far-fetched. Oh, I could go on and on… ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484/63 "2007-12-23T06:04:39Z")
Brilliant programme,loved it to death. ---
**Author:** ![brianmelendez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484/64 "2007-12-23T12:18:30Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] I’ll add to the praise. I loved the show, although it was best when Aaron Sorkin was still writing it. But can you imagine how the pitch meeting went when the show was proposed? It’s a miracle that it got made, considering how nerdy it was. [/QUOTE] The success of Sorkin’s movie _The American President_ helped sell the idea to NBC. Some friends are having a _West Wing_ marathon this week: seven seasons in seven days. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484/65 "2007-12-23T17:40:17Z")
Does anyone know if Sorkin has father issues? In both _Sports Night_ and _West Wing_, one of the male characters finds out his father has been having an ongoing affair for years. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484/66 "2007-12-23T17:41:13Z")
[QUOTE=jacquilynne] You’re more dedicated, or more confident than me. Mine probably wasn’t quite long enough to be a full script, plus I know zilch about screenwriting, so it probably wasn’t properly formatted or inclusive of enough non-dialogue things or really very good at all. But it was damned fun to write! [/QUOTE] Thanks. I’ll email mine to you. If anyone else would like to read it, drop me a line, or let me know in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484/67 "2007-12-23T18:35:53Z")
[QUOTE=brianmelendez] The success of Sorkin’s movie _The American President_ helped sell the idea to NBC. [/QUOTE] In Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, they showed a television writer who was pitching an idea for a highbrow show about the United Nations to the fictional network, and was also considering taking it to HBO. I assume that this was also a reference to Sorkin’s pitch for the West Wing to NBC. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484/68 "2008-01-03T13:45:52Z")
For those of you who feel the post-Sorkin seasons were weaker (and I’d probably agree, in general), I highly recommend you go back and watch “Here Today” (7.5), the episode in which Toby confesses to having revealed the code-word classified existance of a military space shuttle Everyone does a GREAT job in that ep, including the wonderful Oliver Platt. And the writing (Peter Noah) is superb. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing-remembered/430484.md?page=3)