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Season Four

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• All evening I have been like a small child on Christmas Eve.
• The start of this episode looks like one of Izzie’s timetables.
• Abby has power over how far he can test the constitution? Shouldn't that be the job of well, Judges and things?
• Oh good, another one of Bartlet’s little anecdotes.
• I think the President is overestimating some of his Americans here.
• It wasn’t so long ago the Vice President was trying to persuade everyone he wasn’t in the pockets of big oil, so I wouldn’t get too snippy.
• Well, Soya bean fields isn’t a thing you get to say very often.
• I love the sign that says ‘Bartlet is our President’ either they’re behind the times slightly, or it’s one of the ones that Toby was scribbling on last season.
• Not jeans, but the Tuesday suit and power shades. It’ll do.
• Toby always looks tense.
• Is Toby pacing in the field like that because the President has changed the words again?
• So Toby can't be seen by the President when he has high blood pressure days if he's been speaking. I wonder how that message filters down the chain of command? Is there a note shoved under his door very morning?
• Okay, so being President isn’t bad for Bartlet’s blood pressure, but Toby is? That seems fair to me
• That’s impressive.
• They left the Communications Director and the Deputy Chief of Staff behind? Is there nobody who is in charge of counting people in and out of the cars?
• I expect the Presidential motorcade is instructed to avoid people doing exactly what Josh is doing.
• Why don't they have badges already? Or some kind of official-looking pass?
• She’s doing that already isn’t she?
• How does Donna not just punch Josh?
• Nice to see that Toby's taken the time to find refreshment
• Toby shouldn’t be allowed to harangue members of the public like that.
• And here we have proof that Toby didn't write the muddy hole joke
• Donna doesn’t look like she appreciates being stuck in Indiana with Toby and Josh.
• Margaret really does think Leo is lying... ah, there she is.
• I can't believe he caved over the grapefruit. It’s good to see Leo is so afraid of Margaret he’ll get the joint chiefs to help him out.
• “No offence, Fitz” Glad that Leo hasn’t annoyed the man in charge of all the big guns in the country there. I think Fitz took that as a compliment.
• Why did that man just apologise?
• Go transit workers of Warsaw!
• Ooh, Sam in a jumper, Sam in a jumper! Mmm, his shoulders look nice in that jumper. Why don’t they want Casual!Sam? I want Casual!Sam
• That was a very camp hand gesture from Sam.
• Has nobody noticed the distinct lack of bickering that signals the presence of Toby and Josh? I am really bothered by the fact that nobody has noticed they’re gone.
• If he's Commander In Chief could he just order the military to vote for him?
• That's a soya diesel truck, not a soya diesel car
• Josh is learning about cars. Who will he force this unwanted knowledge on in the near future?
• Toby in a pick-up: The very definition of a fish out of water.
• I think he’s wigging already.
• Oops, Josh just put his foot in it with the big farmer man. It’s good to see Josh hasn’t lost his foot in mouth reflex.
• Do the Republican Navy personnel have to clap as well?
• Is acapella singing part of basic training?
• If it really was nothing, he probably wouldn't have mentioned it to the President either
• Is that the Kent farm in the background?
• I love their hometown blusey background music
• Toby will kill, Josh will just shout.
• Josh genuinely believes that angry boyfriends can make things like that happen doesn’t he?
• Something tells me they’re going to hear that a lot.
• Leo tries to make the meeting with Fitzwallace seem more clandestine by leaving the lights off
• I’m with Leo on the disbelief about the Bermuda Triangle. Yeah, I always wanted to know if the Bermuda Triangle thing was real too
• “These were Seals and Special Ops, they knew what they were doing.” I take it that the general was obviously not referring to the Fringedweller special ops team. Navy Seals right, not just regular ones?
• Somehow I don’t think that the woman that is unimpressed by Air Force One is going to get on with the the President.
• They should consider using that as a slogan.
• He doesn't like loiterers. He doesn't have to loiter himself
• Josh, no! Throwing stones is bad! Nice shot though
• Josh remains smug in his beard unhaving-ness
• Toby is never going to shave his beard but Josh will probably follow his name with "I work at the White House"
• Toby and Josh only ever discuss political strategy a) when they are not in a political environment and b) unless they have some kind of displacement activity.
• I bet he’s just doing it to pick up girls.
• Tyler doesn’t look that intelligent. In the car he seems to be gurning spectacularly.
• Ah, you see, Tyler is in love with a girl called Kiki. He can’t be that bright. He’s letting a girl called Kiki and her friends be very rude to him.
• This was Sam in High School wasn’t it?
• Toby, I think you forgot something.
• Well, if they have killed any they did it off screen
• You’ve got to love Toby and Josh raging independently in the background. Oh, Josh’s off-screen rant when he finds out about the time difference is fantastic. I love the way that you can just pick out various bits of his rant above the other conversations going on.
• It sounds very much like a crime to me.
• What’s the betting that guy never expected to be saying that sentence when he landed the Whitehouse job?
• Sleepy!Sam is almost even more sexy than Casual!Sam
• Oh! That is so mean! I can't believe that worked. I can't believe that Sam told someone that it would work. I love Josh’s bellow into Sam’s answerphone. Predictable, but very, very funny. You can tell Josh has had a lot of practice at that.
• Sam falling out of bed was like me this morning at 5.20am trying to get to the phone before it stopped ringing.
• I love the fear in Sam’s voice.
• Poor Sam. He's supposed to be sleeping
• Finally! We find out what Josh actually does.
• I feel just like that every morning. I bet Sam is still sat there talking to himself 20 minutes later.
• Boy, did he pick the wrong person to talk to about that.
• Trust me, memory is a whole different thing
• These secretary women are awful
• Liberal, elitist, feminists can still be wives and mothers.
• I know that this is the second time that we hear in passing about the general flying the plane, but it just occurred to me to comment. If the President has generals flying his aeroplanes then maybe he really does have them doing the vacuuming in the Oval Office as well.
• I recommend Bruno does not handle the women’s activists.
• Maybe Sam could just carry Margaret around all day.
• That took her a while.
• Foe.
• Why on earth would you want Josh involved in something that requires tact?
• CJ has got back to the White House and she still hasn’t noticed a distinct lack of senior staff? Just wait until she gets out of that meeting.
• Strike one for the waitress. I love this waitress, "Takin' people's order and bringing it to them."
• One look at Toby and already she knows he going to be trouble
• I’m not sure I would eat anything called ‘Dry Rub’. It sounds like a decongestant.
• "In a bad mood for about forty five years." I think Toby knows the feeling
• Ah ha! I spy Josh’s emotional issue of the season.
• Does Donna really have a choice about calling CJ?
• Josh wasn’t the smartest kid in the class, that’s why he doesn’t like this strategy.
• I love the way that Toby passes the buck (or the phone) in the café to Josh, as if to say “You can tell her we’re thousands of miles from where we should be”
• CJ seems remarkably calm about the fact that they aren’t in the West Wing. Or Washington, even. I don't think she's actually realised that they're still in Indiana yet
• And apparently neither has the President. Has he asked why he's got Sam instead of Josh?
• "Rock and roll." I have a mental image of Sam jiving happily in the corner of the Oval Office now
• My God! That’s Jim Robinson from 'Neighbours'!
• None of them could really cope without Larry, or possibly Ed, could they?
• Why introduce Leo with his military title then?
• That was an unexpected prog rock reference from the President
• I really do not know how I have survived the past seven months.

• Does anyone understand the stock market? It always looks like a bunch of random letters and numbers to me. I think that someone in a broom cupboard somewhere is making it all up.
• Who is this man, and why is he stalking American presidents?
• Well, the little nerdy guy just put Bartlet in his place.
• And Bartlet gets his own back with that little Depression swipe.
• What happened in the 1920s? Did someone walk under a ladder?
• I love the fact that the President got weirded out by the little guy and had to run away, and the fact that Charlie was going to tell the little guy the truth is just hilarious.
• Aw, poor Sam, I feel that tired right now. Josh’s life is getting to him.
• Schmutzy? Does that mean creased or dirty?
• If they're worried about Abby being a lesbian, does that mean they think the President may be a woman?
• “You’re annoying, shut up” seems as good a response as any.
• CJ is seriously considering a man who accidentally slept with a prostitute as a role model for Anthony.
• I love Sam narrating himself. He really is one of us.
• Oh, and you can so see why she went to Charlie first
• Oh, and that’s Spanky’s new nickname right there.
• He used to blame Mrs Landingham a lot.
• He’s always had a bad memory, they just weren’t watching for it before.
• I'm sorry, could you say that name again?
• Donna is going to lose it soon.
• Oh there is going to be trouble, I don’t know what it is but there is going to be some.
• Josh doesn't know what fuel trains run on?
• Well done Josh! That was skilful. If I was Toby I would have maintained a dignified silence
• Tyler doesn’t have a girlfriend.
• Oh, that train just had to be going the wrong way. What next? What can possibly go wrong for them? I love Josh's little 'why me' gesture as the train moves out of shot
• I think Nancy should be in charge. CJ wanted to do that last year and no one would let her.
• Oh this is what Leo needs right now, a bickering Head of National Security and Admiral Fitzwallace.
• Leo and Fitz are putting this all down to hormones.
• I like the idea of the White House’s prime enemy being the Joker.
• I like the President's idea of humour. "She wasn't funny, or she didn't think I was."
• A parachute for whom? Was he going to jump or was he going to throw the secretary out?
• Yeah, by the sound of it I wouldn’t hire the lady who worked for the French Embassy either.
• At least the President knows Donna’s worth, although the image of Josh and Toby giving up hope and settling down in the midwest togtether is absolutely priceless. You can just imagine Toby and Josh buying furniture rather than looking at a train timetable. It's the mental image I have of Josh in a frilly apron...
• They don’t have the best record for accuracy.
• Josh must have been a pain in the arse to travel with as a child if he’s this annoying now. Are we there yet?
• Josh is in current affairs withdrawal.
• Toby has a dedicated notebook to write down every time Richie says something stupid, doesn’t he?
• It took me a few minutes to realise that Toby was being sarcastic about Disraeli
• Donna really is stuck in hell.
• Oooh, I could do that scheduling assistant job.
• Code notwithstanding, it must be very embarrassing to have to inform Charlie every time you want to have sex. It must be rather worrying for Charlie who has to know every time the President has sex
• Yup, none of that economic stuff the random man in a suit said made sense to me.
• ‘Bartlet the non-common sense candidate’.
• With a bucket and sponge?
• This is a test right?
• Oh give the crazy lady the job, she’s running rings around the President just like Mrs. Landingham used to.
• Hey! He said she’s strange like it’s a bad thing.
• Yep, that's a good reason alright
• Usually I’m all up for men in costume, but I draw the line at Martin Sheen in tights.
• Aha! He was right, he does have amazing powers of deductive reasoning.
• Does the President expect Charlie to do something about his less than impressive Powers of Ordering?
• The Dow is... Damn, I was trying really hard to remember that.
• Leo gets turned on by food preparation? Suddenly Margaret’s demand for a grapefruit seems disturbing.
• It looks like Donna is the one in charge of carrying the White House charge card. That seems wise.
• Drying off is going to require taking off their clothes. Is Josh sure they don’t need two rooms?
• That’s a very good use of ‘I don’t like Mondays’. Do they get these horrible schmaltzy cover versions recorded specially for inoffensive background music? Killing the Boomtown Rats here, a godawful travesty of The Stones in 'Buffy',
• Shouldn’t this speech be to Congress?
• That speech raised hairs on my arms then, although it could have been from the open window.
• I like Bruno's grudging un-compliment. "Freak."
• Hang on , the President used that "Reach for the stars" bit in Indiana. Sam didn't write it in the car at all!
• Who has she got left to ask? Josh and Toby?
• Oh well done Charlie, that horrible little boy needed a good slam against the wall and a reminder of who’s boss. Charlie is very, very cool. And quite violent. I'm quite surprised that CJ couldn't have disemboweled the little oik herself
• Ooh, dishevelled!Sam in tuxedo. That was a nice present.
• Neither creased nor dirty, so I guess it means sexy.
• Hmm, Malory is back. They do have good chemistry but I’m not sure that I want to see some woman that isn’t me draped all over him!
• I like Malory’s dress.
• Sam speechwriting skills may be top notch, but his acting needs work
• Really? Only as a brother?
• Josh isn’t smarter than you, Donna is smarter than both of you.
• “That’s where it’s happening” - Is it just me, or are they setting up for Sam to leave already?
• Camelot?
• Why is Deana sending CJ photos of Charlie?
• Gurning child.
• Where did Donna get that jumper? There's a poor Indiana State student somewhere shivering in his underwear
• Go on Donna, it’ll do them good.
• Okay, I know this is a serious scene, but personally I’m standing on tiptoes in an attempt to see more of Josh’s arse.
• Does the random man in the bar just approach complete strangers and tell them his life story?
• That poor guy. Long day, flight delayed, and now Josh and Toby surround him and talk politics.
• I like this guys attitude. "It's should be hard, but it should be a little easier."
• Although Toby does get to say “My name is Toby Ziegler and I work at the White House” in a good way.
• Well yes criminals do make things up. They’re criminals.
• I have a weird image of Nancy, Leo, Fitz and Bartlet wearing prison issue shirts and running a protection racket in the exercise yard.
• Where were they going to find a... Thank you Donna
• It’s a good job Donna wore flat shoes today. God, stuck in Indiana with Josh and Toby and in heels. That would be hell. Unless she stole the student's shoes when she took their jumper

• Oh, was that bar guy going to be important? I just thought he was a random bloke that reminded Toby of his duty to the little people.
• Nancy is making a few calls, she’s organising the takeaway.
• Well, call me stupid, but I thought that Israel would be capable of parachute production. It can’t be that hard, can it?
• Is he going to call them all bro?
• They need to kick a few dustbins too
• That makes it sound like they walked all the way
• You could double bluff them.
• What's the President's nickname going to be? Leo’s is Charlie Brown and Fitz is Lucy.
• I think that anecdote from the President about Ellie’s teacher just lost the people in the situation room there. I think he lost them well before that
• I think heat is a perfectly good explanation. People in cold countries are far too busy lighting fires and things to fight.
• Why haven’t they changed Josh’s pictures in the titles?
• There’s a zoo plane? With animals and things?
• Damn, I’d hoped they’d locked her in the cupboard with Mandy and Doug.
• Nice, the crazy secretary lady can outstare Bruno.
• She managed to freak Bruno out. I like her.
• Stackhouse has tried, and succeeded, in hurting the president once already.
• None of my neighbours would know who I am
• Kettle of beans? Surely it’s kettle of fish?
• I bet the divorce settlement doesn’t include Leo’s collection of cookery videos.
• How does she know that's the situation room? Unless it's on that big brass plaque on the door...
• Wow! The sit room has a hand sensor. Cool.
• Well, it’ll be quiet, anyway.
• Leo is so smooth.
• I want an interactive nuclear attack map.
• That was a nasty demonstration from Leo, no one should have to see their home town bombed into oblivion, even if it is a simulation.
• It's not that I find Leo particularly attractive (I'm saving him 'till I'm over 30), but dating him must be the greatest fun
• It's not something that would stick in my mind either
• Oh come on Jordan, this shouldn't be too hard to work out
• Woo hoo! Special Agent Casper is developing a Major Davis like quality.
• Tom Paine wasn’t considered to be worthwhile in 1791 either, so don’t be so quick to judge.
• Bruno should not be allowed near the speeches.
• “I’m just gonna talk a little bit” oh dear, Sam’s worst nightmare, an extemporaneous president.
• Everyone's clapping the fact that they're not doing nearly enough in schools?
• Leo wishes that he could shut Margaret up as effectively at other times.
• Well, Leo has an addictive personality, so it may not be Milosh’s fault.
• I adore potato salad, the secret is good parsley, shallots and Hellmann's mayonnaise
• How freaky would it be to know the situation room computer has a file on you? I think Leo compiled it himself
• 14? Did they really need 14 bullets to kill the Qumari?
• Toby’s got so used to letting Donna organise everything, he can’t navigate the West Wing without her.
• I love Josh when he gets all enthused like this
• Toby’s already there isn’t he?
• Josh and Toby have a moment of brain sharing. The thought of Toby and Josh sharing a brain is quite a scary one.
• She’s training him. Slowly.
• Barenaked Ladies! They rule! But what are they doing at an American voting rally? They’re Canadian!
• Now, I always had Josh down as a Pretenders’ fan.
• No one is ever getting over that, Josh.
• I think that merits a ‘D’oh’.
• ‘Duopoly’, that shouldn’t be a word either.
• You should be able to appeal on the grounds that the judge used made up words.
• Why are flammable and inflammable used to mean the same thing? I’ve always wondered that too, Sam.
• Doesn’t it depend on which sports you consider?
• Hah! She answered yes on the questionnaire! I love this woman.
• Inside the Oval Office would be the best place to do it from
• But then they'd have to explain to everyone what "Egregious" meant
• Debbie's trouble, she should fit in fine
• Schweppes Bitter Lemon, almost as deadly
• The shooting is always going to provide a get out clause for any awkward political discussions.
• Fitz is going to file that information into the ‘whatever’ section of his brain, you can tell.
• We're not a hate group of any kind. I feel you should know that
• I really want the Barenaked Ladies to release another album.
• I think beer should be tax-deductible
• CJ has no idea who the Bare Naked Ladies are does she?
• CJ is loving that moment up on stage.
• The problem with events like Rock the Vote is that you’re preaching to the converted.
• More people wanted kids than wanted jobs
• I knew allergy medicine had a more sinister intent.
• That's what Tobin buys all that Claritin for...
• Margaret wouldn’t let them in the building.
• Unless it’s about... thank you Mr President.
• Seriously, Mr President, don’t try to hide behind the UN Charter. It’s absolutely useless when it comes to actual situations.
• How does Bartlet keep his glasses in his pocket? I tried that and they bent in half when I sat down. And they were supposed to be unbreakable.
• Blink and you miss the whackjob’s victory dance.
• When she was on Buffy she had a bassist with a porkpie hat.
• Donna has a very good point
• No! Stay talking to Donna about football scholarships.
• Oh please, not Amy again. God, could they not have left her in Indiana?
• She’s going to screw President Bartlet and break Josh’s heart. Again. Bitch.
• I approve of Sam in that black v-neck jumper
• Matt’s wife is going to be highly suspicious about what he was doing in that hotel, if strange men keep ringing him.

• Amy on the previews, not a good sign. I want Joey Lucas back
• Oh God, Amy’s is right. I hate it when I can’t disagree with her.
• Did Josh know about all those relationships? Amy only had a relationship with Josh, right? Because that's just gross, otherwise.
• "Abstinence." Someone need to sit Richie and his speech writer down and explain the concept of addiction. Slowly
• It seems that Amy knows Josh very well indeed.
• Shouldn’t he be figuring out how Bartlet can win the election?
• Why don’t the press ever quote CJ when she says things like that?
• I'm a little concerned, between the baseball and the President's DPC(?) speech I think I've understood about 5% of this episode so far
• All Sam’s job is to update the resumes?
• I like how Leo lets Toby have his little rant then gently brings the meeting back to where it should be. It's always best to just let Toby wind down, because he won't really be listening until he's got it out of his system
• Sam has very sexy hair today. My brain has registered that
• The President and the people of Maine, a bitter grudge match there.
• I like Toby’s plan for the additional debates. Yeah, I'm with Toby on the need for the debate on better sentence structure but I'm not sure about the fractions.
• They should make Ritchie tie his shoelaces at the debate, just to make sure.
• Something tells me she’s not doing that tomorrow.
• Self-help boardgames?
• Josh is sending Donna in as a spy?
• Donna is exactly the type of person who goes to those type of things.
• Leo is a friend to Israel? What did he do, exactly, and why can't the president do that in Maine?
• I thought that Josh said that Leo's family was Boston Irish, not Scottish. See, West Wing marathons pay off, you remember all sorts of bizarre trivia.
• Ah, a likeable foreign person. I sense an impending death
• The West Wing Tabloid. Now that I would read, those guys have just the best writers
• Ooh, pissy! Israeli foreign minister.
• Is the packed dining room really the best place for a hushed discussion of important foreign policy conspiracies?
• And none of them are doing it very well.
• That was a wise judgement from Stackhouse, "You of all people shouldn't fly things."  Josh flying a plane? Thank God Stackhouse stopped that one in its tracks. No, I think that Sam shouldn't be allowed to fly anything. Josh comes in at a close second, but then I would imagine that Donna would be with him and wouldn't let him do anything stupid. Stackhouse is so right. Josh shouldn't even be allowed near the cockpit
• Should Josh and Amy be eye-flirting in an important meeting?
• Poor Anthony, he doesn’t stand a chance. If Charlie can cope with the president, one petulant teenager is no kind of challenge.
• Possibly they all go to the Red Mass because they feel they need to be forgiven, if not for the last year then for the one coming up
• Now, Charlie has a copy of the Constitution. Why didn't Toby ask him for a copy the time that he wanted it in "Mr.Willis From Ohio"?
• Ah, how to turn any American boy to the path of righteousness, have him read the Constitution. That'll do it...
• Charlie predicts Sam's behaviour very well.
• You can tell it’s Saturday, no one’s wearing a tie.
• I can see how you'd call Sam "Cupcake".
• No! It’s too early to do this.
• Why? You mean other than the fact they’ll look really funny?
• I take it that Leo has seen one when it was inactive, otherwise he would have just seen a blinding light.
• How tempting would it have been to say ‘Just in front of you sir’?
• That’s it Josh pretend you weren’t waiting for her.
• Oh, she’s going to carry on being right, just to annoy me.
• Is Josh going to ask Amy the baseball question?
• Is Amy trying to be fashionable? Because it just looks like her ponytail isn't on straight
• Donna's just kidding Josh, right? Oh good, that's a relief. Donna is so good at that.
• Mmmm Philosophical Josh.
• Is Josh trying to affect a southern accent?
• More politicians should campaign on the "i before e" rule
• Now he’s ranting, Donna should just jump him now.
• Ooh, look at Leo not answering the question.
• I don't think the President needs to free up a daughter, there must be a secretary somewhere in the West Wing who's willing to personally congratulate Agent Casper. Perhaps the sex-as-a-tactic girl, she seemed enthusiastic
• Uh oh, the White House's conspiracy has just killed the Israeli Foreign Minister. And once again the random foreign person dies.
• Looking silly is never a reason not to do something.
• I think the kid just tore a page at random from the Constitution and got lucky. Charlie shouldn't be happy that the brat wrote rude things on a copy of a legal document, anyway.
• Probably not going to the Catholic ceremony what with him being Jewish
• Seduction through balloon animals? Oh please, someone just push Amy off a cliff. Balloon shapes always look incredibly phallic.
• Do Leo and Sam not get seats?
• I think that if it actually came down to a fight between CJ and Toby, CJ would win. She'd fight dirty.
• Well the difference would be a debate
• I’d be more likely to vote for a president that went postal at a debate.
• Going away anywhere in particular?

• Sam looks at home behind that podium, I think that he spent a lot of time in Debate Club when he was in school.
• I’d love the president to use “Bite me” as a rebuttal.
• If you’re in the position to say ‘I told you so’ to the president, I imagine you’d say it as often as possible.
• CJ wearing flannel is quite disturbing.
• Oh yeah, Sam was impersonating the president. It was quite a good impression though.
• I take it Leo wasn’t volunteering to do a skit there. It's a shame he wasn't doing a skit. That would be worth watching
• That’s an act of war by anyone’s standards.
• Only nineteen minutes and the President wants to kill them already. That’s not the greatest of starts.
• Those army uniforms look out of place for a farm-type setting.
• How come Charlie still has to wear a tie?
• The Situation Room in the White House has a hand sensor, this one just has hay bales. That doesn’t seem very secure to me. This is the new situation room? Talk about you budget cuts
• Do the Secret Service still intervene if the President tries to kill himself?
• Subtle Toby, I’m not sure why you’re doing it, but subtle nonetheless.
• Yay! for the jeans. I’ve missed the jeans. I'm just going to quietly dribble over casual!Sam for a few minutes now
• What makes Josh and Sam think they are in any position to give relationship advice?
• I sense a flashback coming on.
• Oh, that’s bad hair for CJ. Although this will mean that the flashbacks are easier to spot.
• You should pick the people your opponents *do* complain about. They’re your opponents, they’re wrong.
• Nice to see that Sam was always the moral person on the room, even back then
• And we discover why Donna is the only competent person in the West Wing.
• Ahh, the magic radiation word.
• Well, I think we know why they aren’t working there anymore.
• Oh, that Republican guy is winding Donna up about the missile silo. I wouldn't be worried about the missile silo, but the fact that the President has a putting green worries me beyond measure
• They can’t call it that, surely?
• If body language isn't enough, perhaps Toby could employ a really big sign
• Welsh? Why make the nurse Welsh?
• “Not a good out loud word.” I must remember that phrase, I like it.
• Who knew Toby’s nemesis was an 84 year old woman with a plastic cup?
• They shouldn’t be allowed to tease us with the t-shirt like that.
• Ooh, that touch board Joey is using looks like fun.
• I like "unsurprisingly dumb" as an insult
• Who did they go to for these things before Josh was sleeping with Amy?
• Is it wise to have all of these ex-girlfriends/wives in the debate team? What if any of them hold a grudge?
• It’s weird to see CJ looking uneasy in the briefing room, she’s usually so confident.
• Aw bless, she practiced!
• "I can do better" Someone needs to reassure CJ that her first few days aren't necessarily being graded
• What happens on the other 364 days? I think they have to muddle along by themselves
• He could have Apollo 11, it's just that he's got nowhere to put it
• I wonder if he really thought that door was a cupboard door. I bet it is a closet, but Margaret didn’t have the heart to tell Leo once he’d set up his desk.
• I love the bewilderment on the president’s face when he says “Will everyone stop acting strange?”
• That girl does too much exercise.
• Poor Sam, lost even with the map. They need some of those boards with the big red 'You Are Here' arrows on them
• Oh bless, and they never really stopped wandering.
• You know, holding meetings in corridors is a step up from Obi Wan Kenobi being your only hope
• Josh has been shouting that at people all day.
• Have they tried looking for WW159 and then trying the next door along? Not a policy that would have worked in either my school or my university, but it might be worth a try
• I love the idea that nobody can find the meeting room, so they just meet in a spare place. It makes me wonder if there’s someone actually sitting in the correct room twiddling their thumbs.
• Toby gets better at that, thank God.
• The silo's on the tour?
• Poor, poor, naïve Donna.
• He may have been impressive on the first day but Josh has spent the last four years messing up spectacularly.
• Yeah, Josh walked in and got lost
• Oh, we’re going to have fun with Team Toby.
• “I lent voice to thought and that was my mistake.” Another great line to remember.
• Charlie's little relationship advice talks, whilst often making sense, rarely go well
• Wow, Toby’s wife brings new meaning to the phrase “blood-sucking”.
• What the hell is going on? One of them has a passable singing voice, but I can't tell which one
• So a happy camp song then
• Amy, you should really turn off your mobile phone, that’s very rude. A cell phone on a date would guarantee me walking away from that relationship
• Somehow Josh’s knowledge of Sonny and Cher doesn’t surprise me.
• But everyone kills each other in America.
• Oh, this NSA guy has to be Donna’s payback for that taunting she got from Josh. Ah, the first appearance of Evil Genius! Donna. Donna's trick NSA guy is brilliant
• Presumably the real NSA have bugged the office already and are killing themselves laughing at this little scene
• Donna should have taken the days off
• I love the fact that Team Toby has been incorporated into debate prep.
• You can see Leo really hoping for a boatload of macramé there.
• Casual!Leo, casual!Sam, but sadly no sign of casual!Fitzwallace.
• And more to the point, you started it.
• That is the only time Josh calls Leo ‘boss’.
• Ah, and now Josh begins to get it.
• Well done Donna! Now we see that their relationship has been like this from the beginning.
• Oh Josh, this happened on the first day and four years later you still walk right into them.
• Well, that little admission stopped them in their tracks. Toby has been waiting to shut them up with that all day.
• I like the little gesture incase none of them can count up to two
• Well, it needed to be asked.
• Josh's stunned happy grin. You'd think that the kids were his
• CJ is going to make those hats. I want a 'Team Toby' hat so badly

• Why mention Simon in the previouslies? All it does is upset me
• Last week Leo was Jewish
• Steady as she goes is a Naval thing. Don't they allow Jewish people in boats?
• The President has a crisis of confidence? Really? Because that really doesn’t sound like him. The President's having a nutty, it's not totally unprecedented
• Wow, Sam has good hair today.
• Ten words for anything in particular?
• Sixteen years I spent in education, only to find that you can learn everything in three days. She freaks everyone out, what more training does she need?
• Uh oh...
• Toby getting straight to the point there, bypassing all attempts at tact. “What’s wrong with you?”
• You bastards! Poor Toby. I love the fact that the President has nothing better to do right now than wind Toby up so successfully, and that the rest of the senior staff gleefully join in. Wow, when they play practical jokes in the White House they don't mess about do they? That was so mean
• Were those new titles? Or have I been woefully unobservant for the last six weeks?
• Oh dear, Sam and a map. This won't go well. I’m surprised he didn’t go at night so he could navigate by the stars. Oh god, he can't even fold the map
• Oh, ‘Wonder Years’ actress finds work at last.
• That was George
• This place is remarkably like the White House, except that they have actual walls instead of mattresses. Should we ask about the mattress?
• People in California can vote dead people into office? Does the corpse have to attend Congress?
• Don't sugar the pill at all will you Sam? National joke is a little harsh, not enough people knew about the guy in the first place
• Oh God, that was me when I was 11. Except, I got the wording right first time.
• Andi has no real reason to be here does she?
• He’s going to keep trying to sneak that in under the wire.
• Beatrice is fine, but if you name child Bluto it will grow up and kill you, and it would be right to do so
• "Some one better." Way to make Toby paranoid
• And she’s from The Waltons. What is this, employ ex-child stars week?
• The amendment was decided by a fist fight?
• Not for the person who’s dead.
• Sam did recognise that Will was trying to win an election, that's sort of the point and why Will won a tie
• All this fuss over a tie!
• I wonder if Charlie has that exciting ‘I work for the President’ feeling now?
• How did they not know that the President was just going to wear his lucky tie anyway?
• Charlie looks different, has he been bulking up?
• I wonder if the President was suppressing the urge to call Leo 'Dad' there
• That’s a weird tie for Josh, and given the tie theme I sense it’s going to be important.
• Throwing the Swiss at someone, that sounds like a human rights violation.
• I'm glad somebody asked about the ten words, because I had no idea
• Oh, it’s Charlie’s hair, it’s shorter. That’s what it is.
• Charlie appears to be channelling Donna. Okay, Charlie needs to take a deep breath and calm down a little
• I think we should have seen the President setting his own tie on fire
• Not obsessing as much as the people who spent god knows how long deciding which tie the President should wear, only to have their advice completely ignored at the last minute. Charlie’s desperation about the tie is brought about by the fact that he had one job to do during this debate malarky, and he’s managed to stuff it up.
• Donna should have to be the one who tells the President that the tie has nothing to do with his debate performance
• Except that free trade doesn’t do that, it has failed spectacularly in doing that since 1945, and it makes the situation an awful lot worse for the majority of citizens. And, just because we don’t know what else to do, it doesn’t mean we should carry on doing something that doesn’t work... Okay, I’m going to stop now.
• I quite like this crazy Republican.
• This guy's just messing with CJ's head
• Please don't tell me that the President duped the American public about having a second personality called Uncle Fluffy
• Ah! Bra'tac! He’s the ambassador from Chulak, and no one is going to persuade me otherwise.
• For ‘special counsel to the chief of staff’, read, ‘she’s sleeping with the chief of staff.’
• Leo has a brother?
• Bartlet's freaking out about the tie
• Can’t the President just steal Josh’s tie again?
• What in God's name has Abby done to her hair? And that jacket...
• Abby's head will fly off? Please, this is not the time
• Oh well done Abby, that was the right thing to do. Well, it was a bad tie anyway
• Oh look, he’s stolen Josh’s tie again.
• I love the mad 'Bringing Up Baby' scramble to get to the debate on time
• But that’s two words...
• Definitely not Uncle Fluffy.
• I think the sound-proofing in the Oval Office is fairly secure, Leo doesn’t need to whisper.
• Yes! Go Mr. President!
• They're going to make the schools one large room with really high ceilings and no central heating?
• "This is the White House answer service. The President is unavailable at the moment, he's kicking the shit out of Governor Richie. Please leave a message after the scream of pain..."
• He thinks they're both men? He isn't sure?
• I wouldn't be so sure about the hot dog, that's the vegetarian vote lost right there
• I love the fact that Leo can boss the world around buy virtue of the fact that he’s the best friend of the the President.
• Love the ‘godless infidels’ remark.
• It was fifteen actually, but Bartlet still has a point.
• Hopefully not by the pilot.
• That was remarkably gracious for someone who called Bartlet a SOB last year.
• God bless you CJ
• Some of Toby’s tactlessness has rubbed off on Sam here, “I grew up in Brussels.” “Why?”
• Is this Elsie woman going to be taking Sam's job at the White House? Because if she is, then I hate her
• Oh Sam, no, don’t go!
• We love him too and you can’t have him.

• Vote for Bartlet.
• It’s just like Josh to feel that he has to give Voting Practices 101 to the general public. It is amazing how confusing ticking a box can be. Why don't they make it clear what you have to do to vote, put it on a card at the back of the booth or something? Well, I would imagine they do, but getting people to read simple instructions is a lot harder than you'd think
• It’s hard for Josh not to be rude
• Ha! They should have known that Toby wasn’t going to take that practical joke from last week without some kind of retaliation. I just wonder if Toby has retribution planned for everyone who was in on the joke, or if Josh was the lucky one this time
• Josh should take the card, they were very convincing and you never know when a troupe of actors willing to hire themselves out for practical jokes is going to come in handy
• From the look on Josh’s face as he pushed those doors open, he’s going to kill Toby.
• Ooh, Christian Slater’s in this? Such fond memories of him from my early teens. Yeah, me too
• I’d pander to Sam, and it wouldn’t have to be his birthday.
• He’s written an obituary, of course he’s written a concession.
• I like Toby's idea of god, "the whatever high atop the thing"
• Did Toby mean to spit outside the room or outside the building? Because I don’t think you’re supposed to spit in the White House. I hope they have a special place to do that, otherwise it’s just unhygienic.
• Poor Toby, as if the plastic cup wasn’t humiliating enough, he now has to talk about it to the press.
• I think the President was making all that stuff up because nobody would go and look it up.
• Not only is he going to speak to Richie, he will probably pull faces and do a little victory dance for him as well. 
• They can do what to Abby? I don't think that was a word. Is hockling like heckling without the unpleasantness?
• Josh with nothing to do must be driving Donna up the wall if she has to work. Josh needs a hobby he can pursue at times like this. Perhaps basket weaving, or embroidery. With the amount of time he seems to spend with nothing to do he could start an entire cottage industry
• I really can’t believe that Donna would do something as stupid as vote for the wrong party, unless this episode is a nod to the election fiasco in Florida a few years ago.
• She should still get him to sign that one, it’ll be worth more.
• Hmm, the new mad secretary seems to have a lot of power. I admire her. I like her. She’s methodical, patronising and has matching stationary.
• Is Anthony speaking in some kind of code?
• Charlie wisely doesn’t ask about the goat. There is no answer that couldn’t just cause more questions. It's a personality flaw, but I would have to know about the goat
• Poor Josh just rebounded straight off that huge boy. I can’t believe that he didn’t see him. Charlie needs to stop telling people how serious and intelligent the staff of the west wng are. It never ends well
• Is Brad Whitford he only member of the cast who can do a decent pratfall?
• Random cracking of the whip is what administration is all about.
• Why doesn’t Josh just admit defeat to the mad secretary, then sneak into the Oval Office through the door in Leo’s room, or the one from the corridor? He’s going to go through Leo’s office isn’t he? I find it a little worrying that all three of us had that idea immediately, and it doesn't appear to have even occurred to Josh
• I love the idea of Sam being on time by accident.
• Toby is choosing to bring the subject up now because he has Andy trapped in small room unable to escape.
• How the hell does Josh know about amniocentesis?
• Getting her pregnant was the first act of fathering, not fatherhood. It’s not the same.
• Toby goes from his usual verbose self to an absolute idiot. Aw, that’s one of the sweetest things, “ My kids have heads”
• I like the fact they’re sending company for Donna on this fruitless task. Oh bless, he bought her coffee
• That wasn’t much of a walk to the muffin seller.
• Of all the possible combinations she chose banana?
• I wonder if Rob Lowe appreciated the nuance of this storyline? 
• They actually signpost the polling place ‘polling place’?
• Shouldn't Sam have told someone a little more important than Donna about him disappearing to California?
• Setting up line one is all well and good, but the President will just yell out of the door like he did for Mrs. Landingham.
• Note the use of the helpful post-it note, stationary fans.
• I want a person I can call to make calls for me. 
• Ignore the idiot Donna, he’s wearing a bow tie.
• Christian Slater! In a uniform! Being all gentlemanly! I’m hooked. Is it just me or does Christian Slater have an incredibly square head?
• Oh bless his adorable little self, he didn't even ask to see her absentee ballot paper
• Donna cunningly disguises her original question
• I'm quite impressed that Donna knows the shoulder boards of the US Navy
• No fair, they get a lever to pull and we get a pencil on a string.
• "No we're not." Reese quickly distancing himself from the mad woman on the street
• I like Commander though
• He works in the White House, Donna’s luck may be in.
• Run Larry, Run. Toby may be smitten with his kids but he’s still the same grouchy superstitious man that changed all those signs by hand last season. I just love Larry scuttling off down the corridor
• Will Bailey, master of rain... ...and son of Zeus
• Is CJ allowed to just pour herself a drink like that?
• Actually, I think the people in those countries would choose food, electricity and hot running water over democracy, if there was a choice

• Being dead is an advantage in American elections?
• Ooh, poor, sexy, strung out Sam. It must be bad if he can't even focus on cake. Sam, the answer to that question is always “Yes, of course I’ll have cake.” Whatever flavour it is, Sam needs some cake. His blood sugar seems a little low
• Well, that little announcement shut the room up quite spectacularly. Way to break it to your colleagues Sam
• Only Sam could end up running for congress accidentally.
• I would imagine Toby, Josh and CJ will come looking for Sam soon enough. Sam goes looking for Toby, CJ and Josh so that he can choose his own altar of sacrifice
• What’s with the mood lighting? Why does CJ’s office look like a brothel? I'm glad someone else notices the strange brothel lighting in CJ's office
• “It was an Aristotelian confluence of events that could only happen to me.” Poor Sam, I understand his confusion. I know exactly how Sam feels.
• Oh look, the president in seduction mode. He must be such a pain to be married to.
• Just to warn you, the rest of my fringedwellings may be a little sparse, since I keep getting distracted by the brand new, five foot high picture of Orlando Bloom over my television
• “Who’s your Commander In Chief?” I can’t help it, I love that line. Classy, Mr President, really classy. If I hadn't seen Martin Sheen in 'Badlands' I would be far less affected by the 'Commander In Chief' line. I haven't seen 'Badlands' at all, and I loved that line
• Those two have a really odd divorce.
• When Leo whispers political sweet nothings, it’s not attractive, it’s just creepy.
• Does the West Wing have a contract to employ Stargate bit-part actors?
• See, dating senior staff has its benefits, you get advance knowledge of coups from around the world. “There’s a coup in Venezuela” is one of the few excuses I’d accept for someone postponing a romantic evening.
• Oh God, they’re singing again. I love how the whole room has started droning the song in the background.
• Who is this guy?
• Ah, the problems of holding the party at your place.
• CJ is going to break that Whittaker man into little pieces soon.
• Bruno is only really interested in that woman and her breasts.
• Of course Josh already knew about the women.
• Josh sensibly locked his office
• She lured him in there just so she could make him look at that dress. Bitch.
• Josh has Donna radar.
• He is Will Bailey, Master Of Rain and son of Zeus. Do you really think he doesn't know how to have a good time?
• It's the middle of the goddamn night Josh, give poor Will a break. The poor guy, all he wants is to go to sleep and Josh is testing his memory.
• Of course she knows about Sam, she probably saw the national news broadcast that just aired.
• Will just made all of that up didn't he?
• Are they going to tell Sam that they're sending him to California before he has the terrible conversation with the widow?
• Ooh, hello sailor.
• Wasn't he in charge of a submarine or something? Isn't navigation kind of important for that?
• Oh for crying out loud, I don't understand half of what they say in the situation room at the best of times, if I'm going to be distracted by Christian Slater as well... I'm going to be missing out on plot until the end of the season
• Christian Slater gets a nicer office than Ainsley did. See, they don't put Christian Slater in the steam pipe trunk distribution venue.
• Reese doesn't need to do the coup in Venezuela, somebody else took care of that
• “Nancy McNally’s new man in uniform.” Nancy McNally has good taste. Nancy has a regular supply of men in uniform? I want her job. Nancy gets through a lot of guys in uniform.
• “Some other guys” Poor other guys, they hang around the situation room helping to save the world and Leo can’t even remember their names.
• He’s really not that funny.
• “Annette the brunette from Tibet.” CJ just can’t help herself, can she.
• Bruno just isn't having any luck is he?
• If Bruno is no longer an employee, should he still be allowed in the building?
• She’s a nut job, but you have to appreciate her enthusiasm for the shrimp.
• When Donna wants to attract a man she breaks into their office and attempts to fix things. I like her approach.
• Reese has Donna disorientation
• Well, don’t smoke on the submarine then. That seems to be the logical option in the expensive tin can that you can’t open a window in. Bartlet could cut Pentagon spending by preventing certain people from stealing the $400 ashtrays that are essential to the well being of submariners.
• You can tell Leo has seen Abby in her underwear before.
• I always have to warn people when I’m doing maths in my head.
• Okay, blagging on TV is one thing, but actually in the White House?
• I knew CJ was going to have fun with that pollster guy. Have stamped on a pollster, CJ is lighter of heart
• They think Sam's going to lose an election? Who wouldn't vote for Sam?
• They're going to wake Will up again, the poor boy