Abso-freakin’-lutely. She sounds tipsy. But I think that’s more of a Mary Louise Parker thing, rather than an Amy thing. I seem to recall thinking that about her before her stint on this show.
Lots of great one liners in this show, we were laughing a lot.
I have to say, when Bartlett said the bit about planting a bag of heroin on the terrorist, I about crapped my pants. I couldn’t believe he actually said something like that. Didn’t seem too Bartlettesque, if you know what I mean.
For what it’s worth, I considered that Charlie was considering Donna for the position. Although I think Charlie in that spot would be good, too. I didn’t see the scenes from next week, so I was unaware of Lily Tomlin. I’m not sure I like that.
The entire IT department of the White House should be fired.
CJ has received a death thread, via email. And after that, they let a Trojan get onto her system? And stay there long enough to allow access to her email? And they weren’t able to trace it back?
As for the Snopes thing, I’d gotten a glurge from someone on this last week, so I checked on Snopes. I bet Sorkin or one of his staff got the same e-mail. It’s weird how tight RL and TV are these days. Speed of communications and all. But the story boils down to this “we” meaning NASA/US Space program, spent $0 on developing a pen for space flight, we also used commercials initially. Since then they have set a detailed standard that could allow that to happen. But Fischer’s company independently developed and designed a pen for space use. I think the guy was a little gaga about the space program, but it was probably also conceived as a marketing gimmick. I still remember the “Use the same pen as the Astronauts use” ad campaign. So it was really just capitalism at work. If the Soviets had developed a pen it would have been tractor shaped, they would have made too many, not been able to get them to market, and made all of them at one huge factory.
Oh, and yes that Barlet/heroin line floored me. Very unBartlet.
Yeah, I heard this on NPR on the drive into work this morning. The dollars were different, but they even went into a discussion about marriage incentives and how children are affected by two family homes, etc. Was like the show never ended last night.
And right you are Bumbazine. Sorkin has this thing about weird relationships that appear to make sense only in his own head and can’t be translated to the screen by the actors he chooses to play them out. If I were Josh, I’d have never looked back after I closed that door at Amy’s house. Given Sorkin’s habit of dropping these relationships when they finally become clear even to him that they can’t possibly work (remember Sam and the prostitute and C. J. and the reporter?) my guess is that Mary Louise Parker is free to look for parts all next year.
I thought Donna handled herself very well at the North Dakota thing…yes, like dropping “North” is going to make people smack their heads and say, “It’s just Dakota now! Boy, now I have to go!!!”
They’re not really considering that in Bismark, are they?
I thought I’d heard rumblings about this, so I just checked it out on Google. Yep, it’s at least come up. Whether or not it’ll happen is another story.
Obviously you have picked up on a subtlety that I did not. I do not remember the context that was said (I need to watch the episode again as I missed chunks of it) but when I heard that statement, nothing struck me as false. If the statement is not false, it is not an urban legend!
Millions were spent on developing the pen. Both space programs used pencils up to that point. Now they both use Fisher pens. They also still use pencils.
I still do not see the urban legend here. Leo used “we” instead of limiting it to “NASA”. That is a much broader, inclusive statement. I took it to mean “the U.S. side of the space race”, not NASA. Mr. Fisher was definitely on the U.S.'s side of the space race. Rabidly so, it seems.
If you are debating the fact that it might have been a useless gesture, then I have to disagree. Disregarding the anecdote about the pen helping Apollo 11 return to Earth, the fact that pencil lead can break and then float around the vehicle creates a hazard that is not present in the pen. Therefore it eliminates a potential hazard for the astronauts and is, IMHO, not unnecessary.
Point being, I still do not see where Leo’s statement was an Urban Legend. Yes, it referred to the UL and makes the U.S. seem silly in comparison to the Russians, but there are a number of things involved with the space program that might seem silly during a cursory look but are like that for a good reason.
Bean Counter, the UL was clearly passed in the way of “We spent all this money on a pen because we thought we needed a pen, and we never even thought of a pencil.”
