Calling all WingNuts - West Wing Appreciation thread here! Potential SPOILERS!

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It's been a while since we had a WW thread so here we go again!

Be warned, if you've not watched the whole series, you may come across spoilers.

So, favourite episodes/quotes/characters?

For me, favourite episodes: Two Cathedrals and The Supremes, plus numerous others!

Quotes: too many to mention! Bartlett's monologue in Two Cathedrals; Josh and CJ going head to head on many occasions; Toby's "Did you trip?"

Characters: all of them! Except Mandy

I'll take you on Middlings

How about a rota??

Marking place. I couldn't join in with the old WW threads as I was still watching. Have now watched the lot but can't remember half the stuff that went on.

I hated Mandy too. At the risk of being kicked off the thread, am I the only one who never quite got Toby?

But I'd love a dinner party with Josh (especially Josh. With this lovely forearms.), Donna, CJ, Leo, well all of them really. I'd let Toby in though as it would be unfair to exclude him.

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CJ and the map people is one of my favourite bits too. Just researched it - I love Professor Huke!

Oh and I always had a rational urge to give Danny a good haircut and beard trim.

Yes Danny always did have a bit if the "Noel Edmonds" about him

Researched = rewatched

That would be a bit odd.

'am I the only one who never quite got Toby?'

YES!!!!!!

I love Toby. We called our dog Toby in his honour. Just got a new puppy and called him Sam. So we have toby and Sam. So tempted to get two girl dogs so we can call them bonnie and ginger I could watch he episode where Toby organises the funeral for the veteran again and again.

I also love the presidents rant at Zoe about why she needs security. Then a few series later the scenario he describes actually happens when she's kidnapped. Fabulous writing.

mmm, I found Toby irritating on first watch and then fell for him the second time around

mardy it's great isn't it... CJ's mind is literally blown!

"Oh & season one when Sam hugs Leo & Leo says 'boy did you get that wrong ' "

It was Josh who tried to hug Leo after a scolding for saying that POTUS would get a bump in the polls if the pilot who was shot down (somewhere) was rescued to the VP.

We watch ww from start to finish at least once a year, just in th background usually or in bed. I think of it as comfort television. may start again tonight. I love the early funny episodes- big block of cheese day. cj and the maps and the next year cj wih the wolf highway. POTUS on painkillers. Watch again and again the one with yo yo ma and stanley. Ooh and when josh is hungover and joey arrives ...

I watched that one last night cookie , I love Joey Lucas, yet another strong female character.

The speech the Rabbi gives Toby about the death penalty is great piece of writing:

Toby: The Torah doesn't prohibit capital punishment.
Rabbi Glassman: No.
Toby: It says, 'An eye for an eye'.
Rabbi Glassman: You know what it also says? It says a rebellious child can be brought to the city gates and stoned to death. It says homosexuality is an abomination and punishable by death. It says men can be polygamous and slavery is acceptable. For all I know, that thinking reflected the best wisdom of its time, but it's just plain wrong by any modern standard. Society has a right to protect itself, but it doesn't have a right to be vengeful. It has a right to punish, but it doesn't have a right to kill.

This thread has inspired me. Friday night = WW and curry. Hurrah! Now, which episode (or series ...)

Ah yes the top secret plan to tackle inflation. Poor Josh.

D0nna, that reminded me of Toby doing the press briefings: 'On a scale of one to ten – ten being C.J. and one being a chimp throwing feces – where do I rank?'

I watched In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen last night. The part where Toby finds Josh always chokes me up

Oh, I need to rewatch from the start. DH and I do every year usually. We usually start at some time around now when there' soothing on tv. He's resisting so far this year, so I may have to ramp up my campaign a bit.

Time for a rewatch in the autumn I think: but has anyone linked yet to the Seventeen People deconstruction? It's fantastic...

quietbat everything I know about the US political system is thanks to WW