The glands joke CJ makes is my second favorite moment in the entire series; second only to CJ (again) bursting out laughing in front of Marianne Coatsworth Hayes.
The greatest moment of the entire series is when President Walken is sworn and tells Bartlett he's relieved. Up to that point the United States had been without the real leadership that only a member of the Republican Party, the party of every day Americans, can provide in a crisis.
: "Are you actually taking them, or are you just carrying them around in your pocket?" "You know, carrying them around in my pocket was a pretty big step for me." "You gotta take the pills." --- I love these rapid-fire exchanges.
Toby - When you get visitied in the middle of the night by the Ghost of Christmas Future, don't come running to me. Bartlet: Damn, Toby, 'cause you're exactly who I was going to come running to.
Nearly 18million new jobs. Wages rising at more than twice the rate of inflation. The highest level of home ownership in history. The smallest welfare rolls in 30 years. The lowest peacetime unemployment since 1957. The longest peacetime economic expansion in our history. Almost impossible to even imagine such a scenario these days.
It's actually a running gag of sorts - I seem to recall it being somewhat consistent through the first couple seasons where someone would comment on typos.
I wish there was the scene where Toby explains the actual requirement of the State of the Union address. I’m paraphrasing, but he tells them all “It doesn’t have to be a speech. Legally, a speech isn’t required, We could put a paragraph in the New York Times.” Boy! Don’t we wish that method had never died? Once cameras were available suddenly all the presidents wanted a larger audience than the U.S. Congress.
it's amazing how well this show holds up. Some storylines are spooky right for now. If they would have a Trump character, I can't imagine who would play him.
After every time I watch Trump's press conference on T.V., I have to watch a snippet from West wing for my head to stop spinning. I need this fiction to reduce the suffering inflicted by reality.
@cara golder A lot better than Trump. At least he knows how to act like a President. @KhAoz Don't get on cara golder's case, she's probably a time traveller from the 321st century, and may be a bit shaky on her ancient history, or arrived 30 years late. Over that sort of period, 30 years is pretty close to target.
Ah, the West Wing. Brilliant, witty, thoughtful. Shame how all that got flushed down the toilet in Season 5. And they were just starting to find their feet again in Season 7 when John Spencer died, and that was pretty much the death knell for the series. Still, hashtag BartlettIsMyPresident
I like this cold open a lot. Goes from 0-100 in one second after four minutes of jokes and a walk-and-talk to get you settled in.
"As I stare out over this magnificent vista." Didn't catch that one did you Mr. President?
Rain is hard to foresee, especially when it's right in front of you...! It was a nice prank though :)
"Damn! You know what I forgot to do today? I forgot to feel the President's glands."
The glands joke CJ makes is my second favorite moment in the entire series; second only to CJ (again) bursting out laughing in front of Marianne Coatsworth Hayes.
The Francis Scott Key Key 😂😂😂
@@hippipdip Well that's an entirely different thing altogether!
@@xChemistryFTWx I think it's a foxhunt
The greatest moment of the entire series is when President Walken is sworn and tells Bartlett he's relieved. Up to that point the United States had been without the real leadership that only a member of the Republican Party, the party of every day Americans, can provide in a crisis.
"It's not a hazing. They don't do that. Except...yes, you put olives in my jacket again." Love that episode.
Watching this in October 2020. Definitely got so much stranger. Probably beyond anything Sorkin could have imagined.
: "Are you actually taking them, or are you just carrying them around in your pocket?"
"You know, carrying them around in my pocket was a pretty big step for me."
"You gotta take the pills."
---
I love these rapid-fire exchanges.
"The pound sign is silent?" Love it. Just love it.
LOL!!
Move on, Mr. President
I #personally #hate post #where #every other word has #a #poundsign
"Our country is stranger than it was a year ago." That would definitely be appropriate today. LOL
Starting 2 1/2 yr.s ago......
Think it’s applicable today haha
2020 would like a word 😅
It certainly is.
I totally agree with you.
"Well, you turned me right around on that one, Mr. President."
As we gaze into the vast horizon open to us in 321st century.
WOW that was ambitious of me was it?
LOL.
............and how he stopped and paused for a second before he said "in the 321st".........HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
"The country is a lot stranger than it was a year ago."
And THAT, is more true every year. 🤦🏻♀️
@@MehWhatever99 Especially now in 06/2020
@@Thumbhit1 It doesn't get any better in October, trust me
My favorite speech of all time! "I am gazing into the 321st century..."
I feel the President's glands every day.
He hasn't caught me so far.
If you got the President covered I'll take care of the first ladies glands.
President Robo-Bartlet, truly the leader we need in the 321st century!
Robo-Bartlet! Clap!Clap!Clap-clap-clap!
The only one who could stop the Horus Heresy
Anyone else think a key thing for him, would be to order a clone of Leo he could make VP?
Well Bartlet's right about one thing: The USA is a lot stranger than it was when I was a kid.
Bobby Kennedy once quoted a Chinese curse: “may you live in the most interesting of times.” I now understand why that’s a curse 😂
Toby - When you get visitied in the middle of the night by the Ghost of Christmas Future, don't come running to me.
Bartlet: Damn, Toby, 'cause you're exactly who I was going to come running to.
":The 321st century......wow, that was ambitious of me, wasn't it?
"I'm proud to report our country's stranger than it was a year ago..."
"That's a typo"
"It could go either way"
LOL
lol indeed
As of Nov. 17, 2020 ..... *It's become STRANGER.*
I think we are
Nearly 18million new jobs.
Wages rising at more than twice the rate of inflation.
The highest level of home ownership in history.
The smallest welfare rolls in 30 years.
The lowest peacetime unemployment since 1957.
The longest peacetime economic expansion in our history.
Almost impossible to even imagine such a scenario these days.
Keep your fingers crossed for Trump's first State of the Union. (Not His Inaugural Address; be reasonable.)
Like when Bill Clinton was president?
Comparing Bartlet to Trump... did you even watch this show???
the words trump and reasonable are mutually exclusive.
Teddy KGB it happened! It’s called the 80’s & 90’s!
I cannot remember this episode’s reveal:
President has a bad cold?
Early MS with no explanation?
Tigerman1138 the MS reveal
It was the flu, plus the ms reveal to leo
"She gives me pills, I take them..." Yeah that didn't get anyone in trouble at all later on...
2:27 - "My wife hands me pills, I swallow them with water. Vitamin C, Vitamin B, is it possible I'm taking something called euthanasia"
Euthanasia thats presidential assassination LOL
Uh, everyone's laughing. Shit's going to go down.
"I'm proud to report our country's stranger than it was a year ago." Could go either way
Toby with a moment of humor. Love it.
04:08
I miss this show a lot.
NOW, the country is a lot stranger than it used to be.
Remember the “pound sign”?
the GREATEST show in the h i s t o r y of television.
Ya know, those are some pretty weird typos to make, especially so many of them, and especially in a draft that made it all the way to rehearsal.
It's actually a running gag of sorts - I seem to recall it being somewhat consistent through the first couple seasons where someone would comment on typos.
The pound sign is silent?
I wish there was the scene where Toby explains the actual requirement of the State of the Union address.
I’m paraphrasing, but he tells them all “It doesn’t have to be a speech. Legally, a speech isn’t required, We could put a paragraph in the New York Times.”
Boy! Don’t we wish that method had never died?
Once cameras were available suddenly all the presidents wanted a larger audience than the U.S. Congress.
I think Wilson was the first to actually address Congress in person. Everybody up to then had sent a written note for Congress to read.
No. The speech is profoundly important.
it's amazing how well this show holds up. Some storylines are spooky right for now. If they would have a Trump character, I can't imagine who would play him.
Trump, obviously.
Probably Baldwin. ;)
I love when Bartlet gets sarcastic 😂
This will never not make me laugh.
1:42 never mess with Leopold McGarry. Best moment here.
Leonard
*Gerald
0:30 I like how he pronounces “balanced” as JFK would
Odd that Josh wouldn't know that the President had to be invited. He came from the House. Plot hole.
Zoomer30 He came from the Senate...
Senate. Bartlett came from the house. But yeah, that's the kind of thing he would know.
He was from both, but his expertise was the Senate because he went from the floor to working for Hoynes.
CJ: Damn...You know what I forgot to do today?
Josh: What?
CJ: I forgot to feel the President's glands... 🙄
Lmao 😂😂
After every time I watch Trump's press conference on T.V., I have to watch a snippet from West wing for my head to stop spinning.
I need this fiction to reduce the suffering inflicted by reality.
Yeah, but can Bartlett drink a glass of water with only TWO hands, tho? 🤔😄😅😂
Well you turned me right around on that one Mr. President.
"The people we offend won't be watching the State of the Union" can't be truer today. For me.
So many good lines in that clip.
(Josh) Mr. President.
(President Bartlett) Yes, sir? 2:14
I need to visit this world sometimes to get away from the one we're in now.
Well that was ambitious of me wasn't it?
Reality is your country is stranger these days
This show explained what those two pieces of plastic are next to the podium. I first noticed that them during Reagan.
just wanting to make sure the first nine comments aren't all quotes from the vid everyone's just watched.
"Eagle's down, Eagle's down!"
Liberty's down
And that was the end of the series.
Yeah, they were never going to find his carotid pulse behind his ear on his mastoid bone.
See? That's what happens when you take the damn pills.
Salaries increasing double than inflation?! With 18 million new jobs?How is that possible?
Take the pills Mr. President..
Can I just say, "Sheen for President!"? Why not? He'd be a heck of a lot better than Reagan.
cara golder What decade are you living in again?
@cara golder A lot better than Trump. At least he knows how to act like a President.
@KhAoz Don't get on cara golder's case, she's probably a time traveller from the 321st century, and may be a bit shaky on her ancient history, or arrived 30 years late. Over that sort of period, 30 years is pretty close to target.
Liberty is Down! It sure is!
What's the episode number?
0:15, "roles" s/b "rolls". Another typo. 😂
321st century
LMFAO
Bartlett on the ground was way better than Trump standing up.
What he said at the beginning before the toby thing is what trump did in his first term
luv this show
Does djt ever preread a speech? NOT!!!
Ah, the West Wing. Brilliant, witty, thoughtful. Shame how all that got flushed down the toilet in Season 5. And they were just starting to find their feet again in Season 7 when John Spencer died, and that was pretty much the death knell for the series.
Still, hashtag BartlettIsMyPresident
I have always liked Series 5. Some of my favourite scenes in that series.
Lying thieves
They also spelled "welfare rolls" with an "e."
"As I stare out over this magnificent vista." Didn't catch that one did you Mr. President?
Bot comment or just lazy?