You Were off the Prompter, Mr. President | The West Wing
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Season 4 Episode 7: Election Night
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"Smart people who love you are gonna have your back."
You can face some truly terrible things, under those conditions.
This is one of my favorite lines from the whole series....
It's the President's Team, far more than the President, himself.
@@michaelcoleman9905 Watching this it just occurred to me that this is yet another monumental difference between the two current contenders for the job.
@@meirahand When "drama scripted shows" predict future reality, same with George Carlin in stand up, an literature like The Handmaidens Tale, just to name 1 Book that may be on the "banned book list" like others of classics and from the 80's and forward.
I was diagnosed with MS about a month after this episode. Love this show of support so much.
ok but "The Times They Are A Changing" is an extremely funny song to play for the acceptance speech of an incumbent
Not really. The Bartlet administration (in the WW universe) was instrumental in several changes. Election commission reform, first female Chief Justice, the Bartlett Doctrine, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, banking reform, an Internet Education Act, a hate crimes bill, several trade agreements, and a patient bill of rights bill (authored by Santos).
Kids are dead, kids are dead, happy days are here again. - Sam Seaborn, season 1 on Mandy's choice of song.
The sentimentality and the slight break in the First Lady’s voice when she tells the President “You’ve got lots of nights” is so heartbreaking yet supportive. Their relationship is as hopeful and idealistic as the fictional West Wing staff that is portrayed throughout the show.
And the song signifies changes coming for Bartlett and tracks the changes coming his way in the second term more than that of a victory lap for an incumbent.
They are one of my favorite on screen couples - they even show the fights in a loving believable way
Smart people who love you are going to have your back.
Gets me every time.
Oof, yeah, me too
Abbey Bartlet is what you find under "ride or die" in the dictionary.
What i love about CJ is how much she adores the President! And to think that it all started with Toby paying her a visit and all it took was one question to convince her - Is Jed Bartlet a good man ? And Toby saying yeah with conviction!
Toby does not see the good in people naturally, he is distrusting and looking for the other shoe to drop at all times. Him saying he truly thought Bartlet was good spoke volumes about the man.
Abby is literally the best person anyone could ask for. She and the presidents relationship is the best depiction of a marriage I have seen on television. No doubt because it contained two fantastic actors; Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing. Just one of many reasons why The West Wing in my opinion is the best show ever made.
Except the part where she blamed Jed for Zoey's kidnapping. Writers really did her a disservice there.
@@DrownedInExile True but to me that is her just being a good mom. Their daughter had been kidnapped and in she was trying to grasp at anything to the reason why. She eventually came around though. However I see your point, it was not her brightest moment, but it does a good job of showing her character depth.
@@matthewthomas6123 Except even after Zoey was rescued, and there was no evidence Sharif's assassination had anything to do with it? Abby still told Leo she blamed Jed. He should have called her out. But the whole thing just got handwaved away.
@@DrownedInExileexcept if Jed hadn’t been the President then Zoe wouldn’t have been in danger and kidnapped….. so in a way her logic was right
Time to watch every episode again. Fantastic
He didn't go off prompter, he was just speaking from the heart.
Winning.
Uhh no, he did go off the promoter cause his MS temporarily blinded him
@@mikesmith-gk6fyyou must be fun at parties
@@cmj0929as someone who has MS who also goes blind when I’m crowded hot rooms because I’m overheated, I completely know what’s happening in this scene as did @mikesmith-gk6fy The reason Abby told him it was okay and there were going to be more days like this is because there are more days like this in the following years of his presidency. And yes, experiencing MS symptoms isn’t fun at parties. That doesn’t mean people who have MS, or anyone who is disabled, isn’t fun at parties. We can make adjustments. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
@@mikesmith-gk6fy r/whoosh
I love the 90's uplifting comic relief music at the end of these lol. What different times those were.
"Now it's going to be harder this time.".. "Yeah, I know." Note to myself.
What a superb scene! You are got lots of nights! And smart people who love. you are going to have your back! The screen writers on TWW were at another level! Was Sorkin around when this happened?
Such a great actor, the way she says "you got lots of nights" makes me crack every time. Too many emotions in one look
Thank you for posting this :)
I kept waiting for Christopher Walken to take aim and for Martin Sheen to hold up the baby in front of him.
She knew.
Great scene. Oh, and don't try to lie to your wife!
I like water.
I remember this scene back in the day, strangely the vice president was not on stage
In the show they hated each other
Contrast this to what had to be written for Matt Santos. What should have been a huge celebration, first Hispanic President, was low key because of a real life death.
Vinick was going to win! The death resulted in a re-write as the death of Leo then the loss of the election was too much.
@@jamiestewart48there has been many denials of that. Who knows what the truth is.
It is a bit sad that THIS fictional president is just that. Sure wish America really would be his Dream instead of the chaos we are currently endouring. But then, WHAT DOES NIT DESTROY YOU WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER !
Making America Great Again? Is this who said it first?
We have two right-wing parties in this country, we need a viable Leftist party if you ever want a Jed Bartlett, and unlike the west wing Jeb this one won't turn his back on us an run to the center-right or the far right.
We're currently experiencing one of the most progressive administrations since FDR - huge investments in climate & infrastructure, Billions in student loans forgiven, antitrust actions against major corporations, government forcing lower drug prices, continued protection of the ACA, support for unions. When you get tired of your "centrism" talking points, you should read the news sometime & stop lying about Biden.
Um, I don't want to poop on what you're saying here but Jed Bartlet was very much not a leftist, he was a liberal who believed in free markets with light government intervention. He was an economist before becoming president, and in one episode talked about how it was fine that people were losing their jobs due to some particular industry dying and being replaced by another (I forget the specifics) because the resulting growth would create more jobs than were lost. Truly leftist politics were very unpopular in the US at the time this show was airing, it was very much about the (neo-)liberal fantasy at the time.
I'd actually vote for a dude like Bartlett. I may not agree all the time, but dude seems fairly solid. In real life, I won't vote democrat ever again.
You do you. What I find strange about your comment is that you're watching a show about how democracy works while the US is in an existential crisis - you either vote for democracy or dictatorship. You just wrote that you're happier voting for a dictatorship.
I can promise you one thing, you won't be happy living in a dictator's country: The US will belong to no one but Trump if you vote for him or a 3rd party candidate.
Read the room. Freedom or fascism. Your choice.
And I will never vote Republican.
Funny, I'll never vote Republican ever again, not even for dog catcher.
I used to vote Republican. Never again. At least not for a very long time. Not until the party condemns Trump and the MAGAs for what they are, fascists. If they win in 2024 we may not have another election, not a real one at least for a long time.
So Joe Biden who has actively fought against corruption is a true practicing Catholic is somehow inferior to the four-time proven to be philandering individual who was also been convicted of rape and now 34 different charges has actively incited a resurrection is a election denying scumbag is the guy for you.... I think that speaks more to your character than to that of any ill perceived Democrat. The logic really doesn't make any sense. And it really shouldn't because you're in a cult. But the first step to rehab is recognizing the problem. We are all here to help you.