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Leo walks Ainsley Hayes to her office space in the West Wing and then Lionel Tribbey comes down for a surprise visit
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@mynos 3 жыл бұрын

I love the way Emily Proctor tells the story of how John Spencer helped her rehearse the walk and talks by rearranging the furniture around his pool so she could be more comfortable during filming. It was lucky to the point of being stochastic that so many talented professionals who are also excellent people came together to make the West Wing. On a related note, Aaron Sorkin has frequently admitted that the biggest mistake he made w/ the show was not forcing the studio hire Emily Proctor full time. So that tells me the show could have been a full time Emily Proctor level of even better than it was.

@glenndallas7171 7 жыл бұрын

One of many scenes that shows what a class act Leo is. He talks about them being under siege, Ainsley confesses that she wrote one of the articles that attacked him, and he just brushes it aside while helping her find her office. Wonderful stuff.

@travisjohnson6676 5 жыл бұрын

I believe this kind of stuff happens rarely in the real world.

@johnmatteson9112 4 жыл бұрын

@@travisjohnson6676 In today's day and age, you're probably right. But we need more of things like this.

@christopherpardell4418 4 жыл бұрын

Travis Johnson it’s actually amazing. When you elect an intelligent president... he surrounds himself with intelligent people, and most of them behave like this. When you elect a moron, or a tool... he surrounds himself morons and tools and you get petty backbiting, liars and charlatans. Both obama, and George HR Bush had administrations marked by competence, intelligence and civility in the west wing staff.

@starguy321 3 жыл бұрын

He knows it’s the game. He’s not judging her as an adversary anymore, he’s respecting her as a colleague because he knows they want the same things

@oneirishpoet 3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherpardell4418 yes but sadly the Bush Jr and Trump administrations were full of the latter (ie; morons, charlatans, grifters, and thieves)

@geniusfollower 5 жыл бұрын

Ainsley is one of the best things to happen to this show.I really wanted to see more of her.

@kereminde 4 жыл бұрын

Alas, the actress got an offer for another show, and this one didn't want to outbid - as I understand it.

@marcopl17 4 жыл бұрын

She went to csi

@lancer525 3 жыл бұрын

We all did. We can only hope she eventually came back to the White House, but this time as First Lady, during the Seaborn Administration.

@MatsThyWit 3 жыл бұрын

I like her as a character bit I thought she was ultimately one of the long list of characters that just got dropped because they never actually had anything to do. Like Mandy. Ainsley at least gets remembered and reappears to verify she existed, though.

@nath-wp7xp 3 жыл бұрын

Aaron Sorkin said his greatest regret when he was in charge of the show was that he didn’t give Ainsley a permanent role in the show.

@Transitfan93 2 жыл бұрын

I love how Leo was so kind to Ainsley who wrote editorials criticizing him

@steampunker7 4 жыл бұрын

I love the way the bit with Tribby is shot. John's already a tall man but the way he's framed with Ainsley he initially looks menacing and overwhelming with the POV looking up at him like he's a scary ogre. But as they converse it subtly but gradually moves to a more "eye to eye" perspective between, even when she's sitting and especially when he's in the doorway. It's like they're finding common ground as she displays her fortitude (weathering his grumpy attitude), her conviction (not backing down about H.M.S. Pinafore), her earnestness (the "What can I do?" bit), her intelligence (remembering what the trouble with the Rockland Memo was) and her perceptiveness (noting that Bartlett is too moderate for him.) By the end you can tell she hasn't won him over yet but despite himself he's got a growing respect for her and his "Well not speaking in iambic pentameter would be a good start" comment comes off more the low level snark he operates at with everyone than a questioning of her ability. As great as Ainsley's dynamic with Sam was I do so wish we could have seen more of her and Tribby together.

@therealMuNansen 3 жыл бұрын

Good catch. You work in the industry? Most people don't catch this kind of thing.

@steampunker7 3 жыл бұрын

@@therealMuNansen I should be so lucky. Nah. Just a long time movie geek who's got too much time on his hands. XD

@albertgaspar627 3 жыл бұрын

there are too few times when standing up to the office bully and showing you are as smart as they are, pays off with grudging respect. it usually doesn't happen this quickly, tho :) I'm sure in reality, a Tribby would have mentioned her age as another reason to assume "earnestness" is really just "resume padding".

@werewolvesdeathmetal 3 жыл бұрын

Just love the expression on her face when she says "I feel a sense of duty" and surprises herself by realising that she does, in fact, feel a sense of duty.

@bovnycccoperalover3579 5 жыл бұрын

One of the few shows to treat its viewers as intelligent and educated.

@glynnzitkus8823 3 жыл бұрын

Sorkin has said he feels bad about the Ainsley character, he felt he so many people to write for and just couldn’t fit her in the correct way to use her...she was a breath of fresh air for a couple of episodes, like the 2nd time she meets the president!!!..lol

@googoo-gjoob Жыл бұрын

"Ainsley... dont you want to work at the White Hose?" "Oh, only since I was two"

@theenigmaticmrwu 7 жыл бұрын

I bet she'd have the last laugh in the winter time when everyone else was freezing and her steam pipes were nice and toasty.

@Izandaia 7 жыл бұрын

She was, in fact, nearly burning. And everyone else was comfortable.

@mikeclark3223 6 жыл бұрын

It's The White House. I'm pretty sure they have a pretty reliable central heating system... of which the Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue is a vital part.

@jamietodd2560 6 жыл бұрын

Mike Clark Symbolic. Just like her "office", Ainsley is hidden away, but they are both important to the smooth functioning of the building.

@gonzoincognito4636 6 жыл бұрын

You should really have Fresca

@FlintF 5 жыл бұрын

... With a touch of?

@Downunder_Son 9 ай бұрын

Leo "I wonder what else we've got down here?"🤔 Ainsley with a straight face "Bats?" 😆😆😆 💖💖💖

@jerrybobteasdale 6 жыл бұрын

That was the most top drawer TV show that I ever watched.

@spiros7m 6 жыл бұрын

Ainsley was one of my favourite characters. She had so many great qualities and values and she was such a sweet person. It's nice to see a "good" republican in a series about democrats. It doesn't balance things out of course but still it's nice. I liked that every once in a while we had a republican that was the hero. All of them shared some similar values, values that democrats sometimes lacked.

@kereminde 4 жыл бұрын

And sometimes there were Democrats who were behaving badly, sometimes even the main cast would do things which were . . . questionable. The show, for the time I was watching it, didn't have paragons of virtue in the roles - they had people trying to do their best.

@Ozzy_2014 4 жыл бұрын

A valid point lost on many. Cheering on a party like itsva sports ball game. My team good the other guys bad. If you had a heart/morals/brains you'd see things my way. We're angels you're devils. You don't have values can't do any good we can do no wrong. Sound familiar? Guess what there are 7 moral values not just fairness and equality. There is self reliance, self responbility, honesty etc. Everyone finds their own balance of the 7 virtues. Where you place the most emphasis shapes you're view of the world. A decision you'd never agree with need not be immoral or stupid or wrong. It might be but it doesn't need to be.

@pblogger9065 2 жыл бұрын

The show was much more about work than issues.

@linzzyy 5 жыл бұрын

two of my favourite characters

@Downunder_Son 9 ай бұрын

2 of my favourite characters ever in anything.

@Magnuspsp 3 жыл бұрын

Ainsley was great. Such a like-able person. I believe she left this role for the starring role in CSI Miami. She was great it that show too. It was nice they had her in a brief scene at Leo’s funeral. If memory recalls her character was replace by another great character played by Matthew Perry

@paulbeauregard1598 2 жыл бұрын

she was too good for the series

@kharnt.betrayer2946 2 жыл бұрын

What I get from this scene is that even the White House has storage areas where they don't entirely know what's kept there and they just stick a desk in it and call it an office to cover the fact that they've got messy areas.

@user-lf5uw9nx7h 6 ай бұрын

Sorkin is total genius. Leo is archetypal rock. More like him please. ❤❤❤❤

@jefglemonds8551 4 жыл бұрын

LEO what a character

@adventurefuel5172 Жыл бұрын

I love that little pause before the “thank you”. As it clicks that, I work in the White House.

@zerotolerance5581 5 жыл бұрын

It's sad that only in a 20 year old political TV show can we see people with opposing viewpoints working together. Because you sure don't see it now.

@crucisnh 4 жыл бұрын

Zero, it doesn't exactly help that far too many Dems are so foaming at the mouth rabid that on the very day after the election, they were already demanding the Trump be impeached, despite the fact that he wasn't even in office yet and therefore couldn't have committed an impeachable offense. The only "crime" Trump's guilty of was defeating The Chosen One, Hillary, in 2016. But in the eyes of these insane nutjobs, anyone to the right of Stalin or Fidel Castro or Che Guevara is a "na zi". When you're dealing with that sort of insanely rabid opposition, do you really expect to see people of opposing viewpoints working together? I wouldn't. Hell, even the Dems can't seem to work with each other since the 2018 elections.

@dave29123 4 жыл бұрын

In the show the president was a scholar who "likes smart people who disagre with him". There hasn't been that type of person as the real President in many decades.

@cryofpaine 4 жыл бұрын

@@crucisnh Trump is a criminal. He couldn't even take office until he settled the fraud lawsuit against him for Trump U. Multiple allegations of sexual assault (one of which he all but confessed to with his "grab them by the pussy" remark - which matches the circumstances of a lawsuit from 10 years prior to that interview). Unpaid contractors (more fraud). We knew what kind of person he was before he took office. His every act since has only proven us right.

@shihoblade 4 жыл бұрын

@@crucisnh Not sure you are getting the original comment's point. You hear "people with opposing opinions working together" and your first thought is "those other guys who think differently are bad" then you are the very problem being discussed.

@crucisnh 3 жыл бұрын

@@shihoblade There's a difference between merely thinking differently and being a communist. One is acceptable, the other is not. Secondly, there's a difference between thinking differently and acting differently. When W got elected back in 2000, the Dems couldn't even let him have the traditional honeymoon period. Then in 2016, when Trump got election, the Dems couldn't even let the ballots get cold before they started demanding Trump be impeached. Why would any republican willingly set differences aside with people who are such scumbags that they won't even allow someone of the other party the traditional honeymoon period at the start of new presidency and instead just start attacking?

@jamesgoines7663 3 жыл бұрын

You are here to serve the President.

@jeffreysmall8902 6 жыл бұрын

Think she got screwed most be nightmare in summer she can block out the noise but not the heat .

@joelcrow 3 жыл бұрын

She's already in the shelter...alarms go off, she can just sit patiently at her desk until the team arrives to join her.

@Blackwater_House 3 жыл бұрын

Lucky girl, My First Government Office was 1028 and it didn’t have any Windows either.

@gigasrex 7 ай бұрын

With the number of stairs they went down, that office is in sublevel 3 at the very least. I keep forgetting how deep the White House office complex goes.

@matej.m.rejsek8537 Жыл бұрын

"..you left a 7 figure income." my.. times were so quaint then.

@Raziel21 6 жыл бұрын

It's Ann Coulter, if Ann Coulter were 10 times smarter, 50 times funnier, 200 times more decent, and a thousand time more pure of heart.

@wchase62 6 жыл бұрын

So, the opposite of Ann Coulter. The character of Ainsley and the real Coulter are each portrayed as blondes and are also carbon-based lifeforms. But beyond those similarities......;)

@chloee.6495 6 жыл бұрын

wchase62 yeah that’s what I never got, everyone always says her character what somewhat based off of Ann Coulter, but the only similarities are long blonde hair and being a republican. She talks like a Sorkin character: fast paced yet still thoughtful in her word choice, which is entirely opposite to Ann Coulter, who speaks like a political pundit: louder, more brash, and less careful with her words in service to the larger message. As well her positions have a traceable logic to them that I don’t see with Ann Coulter, Ainsley always made a solid, logical case on an issue (like her stance on the ERA) so even if I disagreed with her fundamentally, I could always see her point, and understand her thought process, which I don’t really see from Ann Coulter in her TV appearances (at least not presently, to be fair this show came out when I was very young and politics was much more civil then, so it’s possible Ann Coulter was too).

@rcslyman8929 4 жыл бұрын

Hey... Ann Coulter called it for Trump, when every other Republican on TV was rolling along like Trump's candidacy was a publicity stunt.

@imcallingjapan2178 4 жыл бұрын

@@rcslyman8929 Sure, she wrote a book called In Trump We Trust. Great judge.

@rcslyman8929 4 жыл бұрын

@@imcallingjapan2178 Doesn't invalidate the point. No one was saying Trump. Everyone thought his campaign was a joke. I'm pretty sure even Trump thought his campaign was a joke until he won the Primary.

@mrBasketcase69 4 жыл бұрын

She reminds of Data .....

@imcallingjapan2178 3 жыл бұрын

Data if he was from the Mirror universe

@villainouschrisk2709 4 жыл бұрын

go watch the episode with Mathew Perry and that office looks different. they changed it.

@baylinkdashyt 3 жыл бұрын

Not quite. She's down the stairs, turn right through the door. He's down the stairs, turn left into the anteroom.

@larrysmith2638 2 жыл бұрын

@@baylinkdashyt That would be different.

@azitula 4 жыл бұрын

“Why don’t you join the navy”....

@dec9164 2 жыл бұрын

Miss her "interesting conversational style"!

@JB-xl2jc 2 жыл бұрын

Iambic pentameter eh?

@heisdeadjim Жыл бұрын

@@JB-xl2jc I learned iambic pentameter from this show.

@djcfrompt Жыл бұрын

Lucrative practice in Chicago? I thought he was a DA in Manhattan!

@michaelmiller4105 4 ай бұрын

He was the DA before taking the lucrative job. Then got asked to serve again. He just really enjoys public service.

@pauldockree9915 2 жыл бұрын

Was Lionel related to the.West Wing's desiganated survivor? Same surname? Roger Tribbey.

@larrysmith2638 2 жыл бұрын

No, Sorkin was just lazy about names. And episode titles. And dialogue. And physical blocking.

@onichan9710 Жыл бұрын

No matter how crappy of an office, it's still in the White House.

@Tarotgal8205 3 жыл бұрын

Well, okay then

@sketin 4 жыл бұрын

4:55 he farted

@JB-xl2jc 2 жыл бұрын

A sense of doodie

@gonzoincognito4636 6 жыл бұрын

Omg someone please see this comment - at 1:50 (though you’ll want to start it a few seconds earlier so you can hear the lead-up) you can hear someone fart. “I’m working in the SPTDV?” “No you’re working in your office” “Well...”. **FART SOUND** ...” thank you... for the help” Someone please confirm or deny this!?

@boatrat 6 жыл бұрын

Haha Yes... I mean, NO, it was not a "fart" sound. It WAS a... noise... of some sort. Mechanical/plumbing/ventilation type physical noise. A steam-valve squeaking or some metal thing temperature-expanding/contracting... some duct part moving in an air-draft... something like that. There's that sort of minor background noise behind the scene generally, pumps/fans etc. But yes, something did a "squawk" right then that seemed a humorous punctuation.

@downunderrob 6 жыл бұрын

I certainly a noise. And it kinda, sorta did sound like a fart. But I can neither confirm or deny that it was a fart.

@downunderrob 6 жыл бұрын

Gonzo Incognito I just heard the exact same noise in another clip. It's a pipe.

6 жыл бұрын

It was a bubble of gas percolating through what used to be your brain.

@gonzoincognito4636 6 жыл бұрын

Seán O'Nilbud that’s very likely