“Ginger, get the popcorn!” One of Toby’s best lines!

"Toby! Come quick, Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl!" "Ginger get the popcorn." Amazing

Love that the host just laughs when Ainsley asks if she overreached. "You clearly don't actually need any more advice from me, at ALL."

Watching Josh running or prancing through the room is the FUNNIEST thing ever and what makes these few minutes of the West Wing one of the best

Mark Gottfried: "Is Sam Seaborn lying?" Ainsley Hayes: "Lying is an awfully strong word." Mark Gottfried: "Do you---" Ainsley Hayes: "---Yes. He's lying..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ainsley Hayes: "And we should tell the truth about this. Textbooks are important. And for no other reason than they'd accurately place the town of Kirkwood in California and not Oregon..." ~BOOM~

At The West Wing Fan Convention in 2017, Kim Webster (Ginger) showed up a day early to the opening ceremony carrying four shopping bags filled with small bags of popcorn and announced "I brought the popcorn!"

"My show's not the place for you to become a star," he said to the woman about to get a job offer from the White House.

3:43 is Sam's patented "This is bad on so many levels" face.

Josh and Toby. You got to love friends who relish in your embarrassment. Toby’s line; “Don’t forget the popcorn!” Legend.😂

To see Toby RUNNING out of his office is hilarious.

One of the greatest aspects of TWW is it on occasion showed everyone in the Bartlett administration we're familiar with getting beat, humbled or humiliated. Truly great stuff!

"I'm sorry, did I overreach?" Superb.

This is one of my favorite Josh and Toby moments all time, I'm not sure there is a scene where Toby is more excited than this one.

I can still remember when this was a fresh episode and me and my parents and sister were busting out laughing at this scene. 🤣

I love the shot at the beginning of the debate where you see Ainsley is on a pillow. She's an awesome character.

This segment made me a fan of the show. I work nights, and for a while TBS, I think it was TBS, would re-run 2 episodes in the middle of the day. I watched it every day it was on. Great show.

Oh how I miss this show.

When I was a child and watching the west wing, Ainsley Hayes was one of my favorite. And I was shocked when I was watching CSI...

I loved this show & scenes such as this are 1 of the many, many, many reasons why.

The glee in Josh's voice was palpable 😂

probably my absolute favorite scene from The West Wing UPDATE - Actually, this is the most fun but In Excelsis Deo is magnificent

Sam's getting his ass kicked by a Republican, who happens to be a well informed patriotic blond. "Sorry Sam"

"... about to vote on President Bartlett's 1.5 billion dollar education bill." The good old days when a billion dollars actually meant something.

LOL...and it's all true in real life as well, the president works for the Teacher's Unions.

2:32 Watching this back, you realize she's picking up on his "Kirkwood Oregon" mistake

Ainsley Hayes! Up against a wow! stellar regular cast of characters on a wow! great series.Maybe my most favorite character of the entire series..

The best part about Sam is how he doesn't harbour resentment; he recognizes Ainsley as an equal and defends her.

Damn I love that girl!

Kirkwood, Oregon I think they know EVERYTHING. That bloke Mark Gottfried was in Happy Days. Big fan. Over Under.

“Toby, come quick! Sam’s getting his ass kicked by a girl. “Ginger, get the popcorn.”

Ainsley was the funniest character on TWW. This scene and the one meeting The President the second time from Leopold’s cupboard always make me laugh out loud. Although my favourite episode was the one they broadcast on the first run in the UK S1E18 Six meetings before lunch, before it got edited. The jackal etc

“You’re wearing my shirt, Gordon.”

No-one else pick up that they use the ITN News theme at 1:45? A major evening news programme in the UK.

I love the defeated looks on the guys' face.

Wow Jefferson Darcy MOONLIGHTING!

Get the popcorn! Love that.

The theme tune to that show is taken directly from ITN's News at Ten 😂😂😂

Can’t say “Sam’s getting his ass kicked by a girl” anymore. Because that would be mansplaining or something.

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I guess even liberal Democrats can be sexist and chauvinistic - who knew? (I’m referring to the host, just FYI)

Classic. I miss this show. Always hated when Rob left. I wanted to see him become President.

I’m sorry, did I over reach.

Outstanding...

Ainsley Hayes is what you’d get if Tomi Lahren learned some common decency

Is that the British News at 10 theme I hear?

They should have never taken Ainsley off the show, Matt Perry had no chance to fill her shoes.

Hey, it's Jefferson. I guess he's too old to be a gigolo.

kinda funny\sad to hear a debate about 1.5 billion dollars... when we are throwing away trillions these days...

I love this show, I love the characters, but particularly in its early years it was extremely patronising towards female characters. And anyone who says otherwise is flat out lying :D

She wiped his ass.

Glorious Godfrey?

back when i could stand to hear a republican spout their talking points.

Ainsley Earhardt??

Chapo brought me here

This scene contains almost everything wrong with the bad West Wing episodes. The characters aren't really characters, their traits come and go as Sorkin needs. (The so easily foreseeable intro: the mild mannered woman who's never done television doesn't get nervous, the lights blaring into her face, producers running around everywhere, the fact that she's on television - in fact it's SAM who has done this a million times, a comms director for a brilliant WH, who gets flustered?? The woman turns out to be brilliant. Of course. Who couldn't see that coming? Ugh. Gag. Then the worst part - the show within the show. As if Sam Seaborne isn't IMMEDIATELY gonna fire back with, "Excuse me, let me just contradict your stream of venal nonsense, with the truth. You can say your bill, and being vetoed let's now refer to it in the past tense, contained billions of dollars for anything. It contained money for whatever the community, aka parents, wanted to spend it on. By the same logic you could argue it contained money for new classrooms. New buses. New suits for the principals. Who's better placed to choose a textbook, the person who is qualified to use it, who has studied for at least 3 years to use that book, or any other book, the person who'll be referring to that book every day as they TEACH, or, a parent who believes evolution is wrong ? Who, like the teachers in Kirkwood Missouri (and yes, Kirkwood is in Washington, nor Oregon, as I originally stated, although I can see how you'd be confused, all blue states are the same to you, right ?) banned the use of any textbook containing even the MENTION of the word evolution, instead having all those books destroyed. 25 million dollars went to the author of "alternative" textbooks teaching "intelligent design", a widely debunked theory with no credibility in the scientific community. Who suffered ? The kids. You have the gall to call me a liar when you're sitting here, rattling off one dishonesty after the next. Where did you go to school ? Kirkwood Washington or Kirkwood Missouri ? Do you believe children should be taught intelligent design ? Do you believe, as your bill allowed, and made explicit provisions for, the banning of any textbooks referring to evolution?" -- It took me 2 minutes to come up with that, and I'm typing on an iPad that I'm unfamiliar with. Seaborne is an Ivy Leaguer, one of the most brilliant debaters and interlocutors on the show, and just to introduce this "smart Republican woman" new character, they make him all tongue-tied, and browbeaten at the end, instead of utterly fired up as the Sam in every episode we've seen prior has been, when the heat is on ? -- I'm no Sam Seaborne. But even I'm better than THIS Sam Seaborne. This is like watching a Steven Seagal movie. Everything set up, it's so obvious what's going to happen. Junk food TV. Why did they include stuff like this ? It's Sorkin at his absolute worst. Sorkin without his writing partner, or anyone else to hold him back. And then more pain is inflicted upon the poor viewer when Toby - TOBY of all people, not Josh - says "get the popcorn". Popcorn? This is a serious discussion about a series issue being televised. It could have severe implications for the White House who Sam is there representing. But nah it's all good, it's giggles and fun ! Popcorn ! When it was good it was great but when it was like this, it was awful. I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out than ever watch this again. I'm desperately trying to erase it from my memory, or perhaps I'll pretend it was a parody. Bevause that's how it plays out. Like a parody.

3:58. Come quick

Still a 😂 !!

ECU

Sam's face 3:41 😂😂😂

“Like text books”? Text books are rented to each student for two semesters. When a student loses a (or plural) text book[s], in Texas, they don’t get to proceed to the next grade until the family has paid for every lost text book. Text books do not come out of the teachers’ pockets. Text books are bought with taxes allotted to the “Independent School District”; and the liability is passed to the parents or gaurdians of the student. It has been that way for longer than any currently-living human has been alive. Sales tax was never meant to affect the buyer. Sales tax was implemented to slow down the gains of the rich and wealthy. However, the wealthy added it to the sale so that poor people would pay their taxes for them. The same passing of taxes exists within the public education system. If you don’t see this already then there is, simply put, no way of showing you. You either get it, or there is no hope for you, nor your children. ... maybe their children, but I still doubt even that.

Ginger. Pop. Corn. You really want it? Seabourne? I laffed uproarioulsly Ah but first do no Harm. Laura Ingraham. 😅 Really? Okay..😮😅😅😅

Is he supposed to be Chris Cuomo?

Sams getting his ass kicked by a girl. Tisk tisk Mr. Lyman. NOW will take away your free refrigerator magnets for that one

Ainsley was such an underutilized character. I believe Sorokin cut out the character entirely because he hated having a popular character on the show that was a republican.

They used that character wrong. She’s basically a democrat by the end. Strong philosophical arguments from a character as smart as Tobby.

This scene would've worked much better with Josh. Sam being cut off every time was highly unbelievable and took me out of it. Felt cheap.

Sign of the times: "getting his ass kicked by a girl" is a misogynistic phrase implying that females are less of a threat than males, and therefore that getting beaten by one is more embarrassing than getting beaten by a male. I LOVE this show, but wanted to make that clear.

Is it me or is this scene sexist in how she is treated and the dialogue?

I never liked the "by a girl" bit, not then and certainly not now. I love this clip and Ainsley is arguably my favorite side character, but it shows a lack of respect that doesn't look good on Josh or Toby.

If not for the fact that "Capital Beat" is spelled wrong. It is "Capitol Beat"; hence the image of the Capitol building in the TV show logo. I guess even back in the 1990's NBC executives were illiterate.......

I love this scene, but Josh’s comment is incredibly sexist.