The West Wing: Trivia, Questions (Here Be Spoilers)

[Fiderer]

Also admiration and swooning. If you haven't watched all 7 seasons, read no further!

Two Cathedrals - have watched it several times and only just realised last night that Mrs Landingham was driving back to the WH as Bartlet wanted to tell her about the MS.

I love the scenes with young Mrs L and Jed.

Why "two" cathedrals though?

Snuffy. Always hope thats a nickname..

Only when led by the hand

Nearly Celestial. Try harder.

I can't remember the son in laws nickname and it's really annoying me!!

Have to go to bed now....

I'll post I'd I remember in the middle of the night.

The fruit fly guy xxxxx

beginnings - it is. Studio 60 was good (and if you look around on YouTube you can find virtually the whole series ) but highly confusing - Bradley Whitfield plays a character called Danny, Timothy Busfield (Danny) plays a character not called Danny, Matthew Perry fortunately is called neither Chandler nor Joe Quincy, Allison Janney plays herself in one hilarious episode, and Sarah Paulson plays a character based on Kristen Chenoweth (Annabeth Schott "bang bang").

Sorkin might as well just have put himself in it as a cunningly disguised screenwriter called Baron Corkin.

You lot were busy!

Got most answers right - but am also stumped on the son-in-law.

I liked the way Ainsley ate what she wanted without any of that "Oh mustn't" rubbish. To Sam, "Did you bring your lunch from home? I brought my lunch from home. I ate it already." "I want to be on that team - they have the Kung Pau (?) chicken."

I did think of this thread as also being a great quiz opportunity.

Here's one: what are you not allowed to do in Indiana but are positively encouraged to do in New Jersey?

Son-in-law = Doug or the fruit-fly one Ellie married? I read the question as a nickname for Doug, Jed and Abby clearly didn't think much of him.

Celestial, you are my favourite episode, btw :) If ever DH and I are driving around trying to find a place and then find we always have to say "or we could just pull in AT the Westley police station..."

Tribpot, LOL @ Baron Corkin :) The Danny thing always used to confuse me with Sunset 60 too.

Have you seen Brad Whitfield lately? I used to have a huge teensy crush on him but now he looks like Des Lynam!

Composer = W G Snuffy Walden, or similar.

And I didn't have to Google - its just one of those names you remember!

Just sliding in here,

Any ww threads give me a warm glow :)

Every time dh and I watch another season, there's at least one episode where I think 'hmm, must have missed that particularly brilliant one last time around'

I always think I prefer the older episodes, til I get on to the newest ones and they're just so damned clever!

Donna still irritates me though. Sorry

My question again, in case in got lost in my drivel post:

What are you not allowed to do in Indiana but are positively encouraged to do in New Jersey?

Fiderer, is it simply 'talk like that', in reference to Josh telling the congressman to shove his legislative agenda up his ass? (And cue the utterly hilarious 'victory is mine, victory is mine, great day in the morning people, victory is mine' speech).

The son-in-law's nickname - presumably we are talking about Doug, as poor old Fruit Fly Guy never really makes an impression.

Can't remember Doug's nickname but I always at the episode where CJ and Kate Harper plot to set Special Ops on him: "Make him look like a tragedy she can cry over."

tribpot - yes I like Ginger and Bonnie.

The "Victory is mine ... drinking from the keg of glory" speech was in an earlier episode (Post Hoc Propter Hoc I think) when he trumped Mandy, wasn't it? Because he somehow got HR (I assume) 443, whatever it was, to stay in committee until after the mid-terms.

She knew they'd be gloating in the WW. God she was annoying. Considering there was pretty near perfect casting for 7 seasons, odd that she was so wrong.

I am studiously avoiding doing anything this morning apart from posting on here!

I wonder if Mandy just seemed so wrong because she was axed without any real conclusion to her story. I found her extremely irritating and I didn't really understand what she was there for (sort of spin doctor? But wanted to do work for a Republican candidate as well?) but she might not seem so jarring if she had actually been written out.

Celestial, you're my favourite episode too! I just love Sam when he's being all huffy at the desk sergeant

I can't recall the Indiana/ new jersey question.....?

Here's a trivia fact ( sorry if it was said upthread) - W Snuffy Walden also did the music for Thirty Something - also starring Danny ( real name escapes me momentarily) and Senator Rafferty ( Mel Harris / Hope) who Toby puts into the race against Santos

Ooh, I see the answer now!

I think 'victory is mine' speech is in a Mandy epi, too. Thank heavens there aren't too many of those.

Also, talking of characters that didn't stay the course. Whatever happened to Angela, who was brought into negotiate the budget after Josh did something bad (like losing Tom Skerrit to the Republicans)? (Cue Leo's great line 'I should take you out behind the shed and whack you with apiece of 2 by 4')

Danny is Timothy Busfield of course! smug look on answering own question

I tried thinking more magnanimously about her character on re-watches of S1 but she does jar. Her "I've got a PhD and I'm cute" speech is one I always skip over.

Re the lack of conclusion, I wonder if as Aaron Sorkin saw the character wasn't working out, she just had fewer storylines and therefore we never saw her on TV shows or any results of her allegedly wonderful media consultancy skills.

Do love the scene where Josh tells her to go to Toby about the panda bears and Toby is still happy after his Day of Jubilee (Mendoza). There's a lot of silliness about the names, Dim Sum/Lum Lum/Ping/Ling then Toby loses his happy glow and says:
"Then get us two regular bears, a bucket of black paint, a bucket of white
paint, bam, bam, next case."

Yes, the writing was brilliant even in the early days.

I thought I heard that the rest of the cast simply didn't get on with the actress and the cast dynamic wasn't right so she simply didn't get her contract renewed? Seems unlikely tho as in a cast that huge with so many great names there's bound to be someone who doent play well with the other children and so you'd expect they'd just get on with it?

"2 cathedrals - church vs state. Bartlet's Catholicism vs his duties as a President." Thunk - see that now, thanks Hassled. How wonderful that your ds wants to be Sam a speechwriter.

You may have to keep him away from that OlivaMN when he's older. Surprised she hasn't posted. Always thought she has a red buzzer going off in MNTowers when The West Wing is mentioned

gettingalife - I wondered that too.

I was watching the "Manchester" episode in the barn last night. Bruno (prefer his hair longer) Gianelli, "We will work hard. We will work well. We will work together. Or so help me, mother of God, I will stick a pitchfork so far up your asses, you will, quite simply, be dead."

I have to go to work now, and instead of thinking "WWLD?", I'm going to repeat that.
Often.

Morning, Fiderer

Don't you go singing "The Jackal", CJ, or I'll be late for work.

I have emails to send regarding the daily Senior Staff meeting.

Ahhhh this thread is just fabulous. Making me all nostalgic. Want to go and watch them all again from the beginning now. May have to invent phony excuse and leave work.

Too many favourite bits to list. Josh being an 'outdoorsman' when they are all sitting on the steps in second series after shooting for some reason has been in my head for a few days.