My favourite was "Nancy McNally is waiting and she's already had her bath"

Nope. The best line is "petty thieves". SOB's who didn't even get allowances. SOB's who were merely 'pets' to daughters who couldn't find a "father".

Nah - it’s “ *They •Say•* Daughters *Look* for Their Fathers.” •GLARE•

I have had there tea it’s very nice in a small glass

What I want to know is how did that look after he said that did not cripple him.

Right up there with "If the Oscars were like that I'd watch." and "It's an entire generation beyond HEY LOOK YOUR SHOELACES ARE UNTIED!" and "Zoe, I work in a building with the smartest people in the world."

@@thisisme2476 good choice

I'd like to bath with Nancy McNally

"I'll tell Liz."

This show has so many great lines it's hard to pick a single one as the best

*Both my parents were a-holes...and so am I to some extent* ( *Had my very own 'Mommy Dearest'* )

since public consumption of alchohol is banned in Egypt I think strong Tea was the best they could offer in sympathy.

My father was the only boy out of 6 to see 12. He had 5 sisters who lived into their adulthood with 2 living into their 90's and his oldest sister to 101! His father died when dad was 10 and after he was grown, until he married, he lived with his mother and grandmother. He married my mother who was one of 4 girls. They had 2 daughters. He worked in an office with a dozen women. He called his life 'swimming deep in the Estrogen Ocean'.

😄

Gin helps. Just saying

You are a good man Shan!

I started to catch on after watching the entire series for the 10th time.

@@John_May. I noticed when I was watching the show week-by-week when it orignally aired in the early 2000's.

My first clue was that I wouldn’t miss a new episode just a few hours after giving BIRTH! “Yep, baby’s healthy, mama’s healthy. Now, y’all go away...it’s West Wing night!!”

John May ...I feel better. I thought I was bad for watching it 5-6 times thru; this and “The Newsroom.”

He'd be better than the current one in the actual position.

Marc Barlow 114 wpm? That's gotta be a typo! 😂

Brian, lots of us type over 110 a minute.

@@galacruse2318 As someone who types 25 wpm on a good day, I am in awe!

over 100 can be done, but it takes practice.

*I can reduce any amount of information spoken or written into a single paragraph or in many occasions a single sentence* ( *Political discourse is 'easy-peazy'..."Play nice and share"* )

You do know that when Sorkin was on the show he had a writing staff, he didn't write the whole show by himself.

@@joemckim1183 Of course. But a master cook has a lot of kitchen staff, but at the end he decides what the menu will be, which ingredients will be used, how all will taste and look, and in the end he decides if the dish will go out to the guests. He oversees the whole process. And this what the job of the chief writer for a show like this one looks like.

@@AgaPadar You still have to admit that TWW even after Sorkin left was still better than most of the dreck on TV.

@@joemckim1183 Dreck? Don't you mean, Donald Dweck?

@John James Yes. Yes, I do.

Don't leave us hanging! How accurate is this scene? 😃 [full disclosure: I am the only daughter]

Would you like some tea?

Don't they act together in Grace and Frankie

You'd have a funny look on your face too if someone brought up the prospect of CJ belly dancing.

@@Dafmeister1978 I would have a smile on my face if I heard that.

Mine are 14 16 and 20 ...I've been drinking tea for years

@@christopherweber9464 Man, you’re still IN IT! Lol!

They say daughters look for their fathers

I mean Zoey LEFT Charlie and he was about as dedicated and devoted as they come so yeah, I'd say so.

She got over her bad boy phase and started up with the fruit fly guy.

@@gene8172 how do you know fruit fly guy and the guitar player with the purple van aren't the same person?

ArtemisScribe Good point. That’s entirely possible. He did play with a band, Schrodinger’s Cats, a while back.

ArtemisScribe But, then again, her and the fruit fly guy only dated for a year before getting married.

@@gene8172 true, but they also screwed up the timeline for Liz's daughter who is 12 in episode 1 but still in high school in the final season. They mess up sometimes. I can see them messing up Ellie's timeline easily. She was a tad neglected.

Madam Secretary was pretty dang close.

Robert Chandler true that two grown up daughters

Is this click and clack? lol

Well, Obama happened two years after the show ended...

It wouldn't work. This is a very idealised and unrealistic way of running a country. Nice to dream though.

@@MrBraddles3128 Unrealistic? It's not hard to imagine smart people working with integrity to run the country.

@@liman42 The key word there being "imagine".

@@MrBraddles3128 From what I've heard the model for The West Wing was the Clinton administration. Clinton is a Rhodes Scholar and had some very smart people working with him. So did Obama. Their staffs were well qualified for their jobs and I'm sure the conversations were interesting and informative. It's only idealistic in that Barlett is a genius with a good heart and not the stereotypical craven politician. And that's exactly what we need right now.

Only 1 t. BARTLET. ur not a true ww fan

The french guy she dated when she got kidnapped.

Yeah, any smidgen of respect he might have had for that rich twerp vanished at that point. Since the Jean drugged Zoe, he's lucky he wasn't thrown in jail for the rest of his life. In gratitude, he goes and trashes Zoe in the press. Dick.

He's a white guy from New England and her boyfriend is a pompous entitled son of a french diplomat. Of course he's gonna call him a from behind his back.

@@KiplingKat7 Drugging Zoe was the least of his actions. The consequences almost led to a war. "Dick"? You're too kind.

As the father of three daughters, thank you for clarifying that. Maybe I'll make it a bumper sticker, after I learn how to drink tea of course, (which I'm not a fan of). XD

There tea is black and sweet

For those of us in the cheap seats, is that pronounced significantly differently than the way the President says it?

or Walid al B'naat would also be acurate

your Arabic translation is a little bizaare because Arabic is written right to left... however your script goes from left to right!!!

I mean, you had to be asking yourself "how the hell are they going to follow *that* act?"

It's Apu not Abu

@@badrinarayanan4192 I don't think so. Apu is the proprietor of the Kwik e Mart in The Simpsons.

It's pretty common Arabic name.

It was the Presidential Personal Person that she wouldn't tattle on. Season 4 Ep 2, which was 20 hours in America ( part 2) was the name of the episode.

He actually hired her mainly because during all the commotion with "wanna dwink of wa wa" guy and after he chased her almost to the exit door, she remembered a bunch of obscure market report stuff someone said in the oval. The way he hired her by looking at someone and just pointing at her while she looked confused was a great ending to the scene.

dumbo. Bartlet. 1 t!

@jimmyfly If you're talking about Trump then not really. He's a small minded, small handed, red headed, troll.

Jimmyfly ask 800,000 unpaid workers if they would rather have Obama or Dump in the WH.

@jimmyfly evidence please?

@jimmyfly OK. Post a link to a document or a website with the recorded calls.

Don't speak much, do you? As someone who has done professional voiceover work for over 30 years, I assure you, even the very best of the best mispronounce a word from time to time. It happens. I know a lot of other voiceover actors who wish they were as good during the rest of the week as you think you are on Sunday.

Especially because he in no way wants the job.

Quoting Douglas Adams. It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I doubt that as he is speaking written dialogue, Bartlett is a character.

The man's a great actor, but speaking frankly, Charlie and Emilio are trainwrecks, and it evidently has a lot to do with their father being a drunk. He's certainly aged well, but never forget that actors are malleable and deceptive creatures by nature. Also, don't forget that the same man who played President Barlett *also* played President Stillson in The Dead Zone.

pbdye and an aide in “The American President.”

Vice-President

J-F Bradley So what did he mean by that ? Kill him ? Or that Hoynes still belongs to god ? ------------------------------------------------- Its all blatantly based on The Book of Job . Did ye see that ? Literally word for word . Job was the gods (the worlds) most loyal of gods servants on Earth . By implication , that the US President is the most righteous of gods people - so righteous that god tested him by instructing satan to test him with affliction (MS) , attacks , and the death of his wife , then his daughter ......at which point Job (and the President) confronts god directly , one to one . Thats why hes shown speaking Latin ; an exclusively religious language that generally ,only Priests know. Its a great scene , but not for entertainment .

He was saying that he wouldn't run for President again and that he would let Hoynes run instead, but after the scene where he talked with Mrs. Landingham's "ghost" he decided to run again anyways. That and he got the MS long before he decided to run for President. And his speaking latin was explained by him being a devout Catholic earlier in the season.

He meant to say, if you're not pleased, then I give up. Hoynes will be his preemptive successor.

@@RegentPrime Re Latin. Also he considered becoming a priest until he met Abby.

umm.... which president in recent memory has written his own speeches? Every single thing any career politician says is written and orchestrated in advance.

Touche

whistlerbrk Ignoratio elenchi

lol ok

Trump's words can't be written because he can't read.