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Season Five

Go To Episode

• Is Toby living in the dream house?
• It’s very light outside for 2am.
• Three am? How insane is Toby?
• Aw, he’s got the State of the Union on video. Although I have the 1997 election on video, and I didn’t even have any part in that.
• Josh has a truly horrible bedspread
• Poor Josh, he was woken up for two words. Josh was woken up for that one question? I’d be very angry if that was me.
• Toby has everything he needs - post-its, highlighters and coffee. I would have taken the jug
• Toby, just because you’re awake doesn’t mean everyone else has to be too.
• I still love the fact that the President has his own timezone
• You can always tell it’s going to be a good episode when Toby has A Plan.
• Well it’s hard to resist Toby when he’s right.
• I love the idea of the press running amok, somehow I get the mental image of CJ standing on her podium shrieking for help.
• Declare a war on acronyms, that’ll be something for the press to deal with.
• Should Toby be discussing this outside?
• It’s Will! It always cheers me when Will appears.
• The Secret Service joke was funny
• In what strange world could anybody possibly be bored by the thought of Gary Cole in cowboy boots?
• Aw, perky girl is crying.
• Is the clippings girl still around?
• She’s obviously not doing that well Toby.
• Toby talks to her, and he has trouble talking to the President politely.
• Oh no! Josh vs Toby!
• I had this exact conversation with my mother.
• If I worked a few doors down from the dateline, I’d have to waste some time by hopping over it a few times each day.
• Shooting fish, even in a barrel, sounds incredibly difficult
• Look at CJ melt into goo.
• CJ just experienced the world’s only cabbage based chat up line.
• I wonder exactly how Carol will create that diversion? There are only so many ways of doing it while keeping your dignity intact.
• I could do with a far left hand. It would make reaching for drinks easier
• I love CJ trying to punish the journalist. “I’m looking for a donor.” I think it’s moments like this that CJ lives for.
• Does Gail have brussels sprouts in her tank?
• “I’d have the walker brigade picketing my house. Slowly.” I have the most amazing mental image of a gang or irate senior citizens on a protest march now. Don’t mock walking frames. I have more injuries from walking frames than anything else. I have *scars*
• It’s been a while since we’ve had one of Charlie and Bartlet’s bizarre conversations.
• CJ has a cabbage with a heart in it! CJ received a Love Cabbage. Will CJ have to declare that cabbage as a gift? Only if it cost more than $20 which, for a cabbage, seems unlikely
• That resigning thing isn't going to happen, right? Tell me that isn't going to happen
• Jumping off a pier is a good start though.
• Of course there’s such a thing as an invisible legacy.

• Phone calls at 3.16am are never good, if only because you have to get up to answer them.
• President of the most powerful nation in the world or not, I’d still unplug the phone.
• I bet the people in the club don’t have cool cards like we do.
• One of these days it’s going to be Luxembourg, and we’ll all look stupid then.
• It’s amazingly arrogant to assume they know everything about terrorist capabilities: The fact we don’t know what they’ve got is the most significant part of terrorism.
• No, my worst nightmare is the one with the room with no doors.
• Oh yeah, geeks. This is the sort of meeting that they used to give to Sam, isn’t it.
• I think the nametags were a very thoughtful gesture.
• Leo has to deliver Nuclear Intelligence 101. Although, it is hard to understand their dismissal of the Vice President as thick if they don’t tell him anything.
• That’s probably not a very funny joke around CJ, given that she was very nearly killed by her last stalker.
• Horny comes from sheep and deer and things, which grow them when they are
• I think Leo would be an excellent couples terrapin
• That was awfully rude of Josh to the people that are about ten times smarter than he is.
• If they don’t give Will something important he’s just going to investigate the nuclear test.
• If Toby's moved up to senior counsel, and Will is working for the VP, then who's actually doing the speech writing these days?
• Moral restraint: What a load of crap. It had nothing to do with morals and everything to do with the fear of reciprocation.
• I think that Taylor Reid is going to get his comeuppance.
• Or the room where you create all the problems, depending on how you look at it.
• She still has her name tag on!
• You can afford posh surroundings when you’ve got a stack of Nazi gold in your bank vaults, too.
• The Iranian has a point, the Americans are hardly the ones to take the moral high ground here. I like it when the ambassadors grab the moral high ground.
• Yeah, where’s my jetpack? Jet pack/easily available porn: Jet pack/easily available porn... I really can’t decide. I'd rather have the jet pack. I can write my own porn
• Notice that Danny isn’t brave enough to come and taunt CJ in person.
• “I’ll mop the floor with him, smirk first!” I think she’s angry now.
• There is no room in the United States in which you can talk about the UN.
• Democracy and representative democracy are very different things.
• Well Josh, if you ask a physicist a silly question you’ll get an incredibly detailed and scientifically correct answer.
• It's never that easy to focus a telescope
• Can't the President just pretend he has to go to the bathroom?
• Bingo Bob comes through!
• I really don’t think I’d want to be one of the people dropped on Mars and told to make my own fuel home.
• Wow, a rare sighting of Josh at home. I thought Josh was going to have bare feet then...
• Is she allowed to just leave a very expensive piece of equipment on a random man’s doorstep?

• That’s an odd collection of previouslies.
• E4 need to decide if they're showing this in widescreen or not. Everyone on my TV is all squished up
• Christ, you’ve got to be brave to be in the armed forces.
• I guess you had to be there to get that joke.
• My god, stop the irritating revolving camera around Leo, it’s making me sea-sick.
• Is a humanitarian like a vegetarian? Only with humans?
• I bet the President enjoyed hearing that. Apart from Bartlet, I assume?
• "Sandy" has just got her nose pierced and is dating a musician
• They could paint the wolfhound in if he wanted
• I bet if it was a nude he'd do it. Now I’m stuck with an image of naked Martin Sheen, and it’s not pretty.
• Do the crew know they in Korea?
• Flying ‘planes in their air space is an act of war too.
• I’m not sure even I would want to be confronted by Josh and Toby first thing in the morning.
• Take the lifetime supply of wings!
• “I’m going to reach down and rip off his puny little face!” CJ is really gunning for this guy now, that crack about her height was the last straw.
• She mends his shirts as well?
• Josh is really going to have to suck up to Donna now.
• You mean that they drop for 38000 feet without a parachute? Bloody hell, I hope they give them rubber underwear too.
• Six am? There’s a six am now? And this guy spends it playing squash? Mad, I tell you.
• How about "stay at home parents?"
• Oh, come on they're walking round a greenhouse! Highlander faked a more convincing Vietnam
• Ah! It’s a flashback, that’s why it seemed so out of character.
• I’d like a TV show in which they put celebrities through witch trials. My money is on Britney Spears.
• Isn't the UN for treehuggers too?
• They couldn't have predicted the sun rising?
• “If you go down to the woods today...”
• This would be much more tantalising if I cared who Ben was
• Donkey wrestling? Who won?
• Finally, CJ fights back!
• Once again, Debbie manages to blindside the President with a random statement. The President and Charlie agree never to discuss that piece of information.
• Ah, this is why Josh hates interns.
• Pointless photocopying is the job of all interns and work experience students. I love Josh’s random Xeroxing assignment. I have similar things that I give to my pupils when they annoy me.
• This how must be getting more lowbrow, they translated the President's Latin
• Isn’t the point of ‘Sweet Land of Liberty’ that they didn’t have to sing ‘God Save The Queen’ anymore?

• And a crown. I'd want a crown
• Is this like the secret plan to fight inflation? Because that didn’t turn out so well.
• What’s the point on going on a show like that? It’s not one that’s ever going to turn out well for the guests.
• Why doesn’t CJ just reach over and clip Taylor Reid around the back of the head?
• At least they have a meeting room. We have to have ours in the carpark.
• Which VP aren't they concerned about?
• Somehow I don’t think that a day with the Base Closing Committee is as bad as suicide-inducing as a Radiohead concert. I'd rather do the cost-benefit analysis
• Look at the subtle bullying of the intern by Josh.
• I don't know. How fast can the average mayor move?
• I love the Bostonian accent.
• I *so* want to see the images going through Toby's head right now. "We've got to make bras or first line of defence!"
• Toby is fighting the urge to let the bra-burning just take place, just for the sheer fun of it.
• I’m not sure Ed or Larry are the slightest bit interested in bras.
• I like Donna and Ryan just making it up as they go along.
• “Am I in it?” CJ’s paranoia has just lifted a notch.
• That’s so true about Prep-schools.
• Josh just wants to talk about bras.
• Oh sneaky! We like Greg.
• Private schools don’t necessarily give you a better education. They just charge you for it.
• Yeah, what Charlie said.
• Seven in five days is a record to be proud of.
• Maybe they could just put Ryan on a lead.
• That’s another thing prep-school teaches you.
• I love Charlie’s geeky excitement at meeting the mayor.
• A bra war sounds quite fun.
• I admire this mayor.
• I think Hoynes is probably literate enough to write it himself
• He came onto her? Go CJ! You tell him.
• If it was ten years ago, how did a senator from Texas meet a PR consultant from California?
• CJ and Hoynes? There are fanfic writers out there who wouldn't have come up with that pairing
• Tell her a bra export joke. That'll cheer her up
• That's Toby's concerned face
• Hang on, how does Toby know about this?
• Oh, she actually slept with him? I have slightly less respect for her now.
• They took the elevator to his room, right, they didn't just have sex in it?

• I do  like the way they've put a picture on the desk incase we've forgotten who Ellie is
• Toby never sounds that comforting.
• Toby shouldn’t be allowed to sleep.
• Toby recognises CJ's perfume?
• Strict scrutiny should be a pick-up technique, or at least a pick-up prerequisite
• Was that man offered the office of Dean, or did the university offer him the Dean? Because I think there’s a distinction there that should be made.
• “Long time.” It’s about to get longer, too, although I do admire CJ’s attitude towards dating.
• I like CJ’s approach. Ben looks a little bewildered though.
• Carol is inordinately happy there.
• Ryan has a special late walk?
• “That or he’s dead now too.” Josh and I are on the same wavelength tonight.
• Please tell me hat-knitting isn't as essential skill for a First Lady
• Sesame Street! Muppets! A West Wing/Muppets crossover! Does life get any better than this? I think they should make Oscar the Grouch interview Toby.
• Just one lunatic at the moment. I like the idea of hiding under the duvet as a political strategy
• I don’t know if Debbie is being sincere or not, but I would like to state for posterity that I count it amongst my life ambitions to meet Miss Piggy. I never really liked Kermit or Miss Piggy.
• Yes, it’s exactly that.
• Here’s Will’s “Yes, Ma’am scene”. Will only comes by to tell jokes now. Doesn't Will have anything to do in his own office?
• See, I could Google things for a living.
• I like it that the perky secretary can beckon Toby back and forth with impunity. Did she just beckon Toby? She can't do that!
• Poor, poor confused Ben. This Ben plot is starting to get really annoying
• Here we go...I love it when the President goes postal, you can hear it a mile away.
• That’s not a very inventive title.
• That’s surprisingly sage advice from Toby
• Although, that’s exactly what Mandy got put ion the cupboard for.
• “I’ve got Muppets in two minutes.” I want to be able to say that.
• Someone, somewhere must have a screencap of Big Bird and CJ together. I need it for a LJ icon.
• CJ is possibly the only person to have her day ruined by Big Bird.
• Hang on, was this whole thing engineered by Bingo Bob?
• As much as I love pensive!Will, I’d like to see him get to do something else.
• What happened to Ryan?

• I really don’t see how this week’s show can top last week’s superlative effort.
• They can’t appoint anyone called Rommel.
• Akimbo should be used more.
• Josh starts to wonder exactly how often Donna does that with his ‘phone calls.
• Is Toby allowed to take calls on Leo's phone?
• It’s only a party if there’s cake.
• If she was window dressing, then they wouldn't have hired such as well known actress
• Josh looks smitten.
• They sent flowers to the wrong place! Let's just hope it was a tasteful bouquet
• Ryan’s alive! I feel disappointed we don’t get an explanation as to where he was. Oh dear Ryan, that’s a pretty stupid mistake to make. Is there a point to Ryan, incidentally? I thought that he was going to have a storyline or a role to play in someone else’ story, but no, he just wanders around the bullpen.
• I'm not sure being subjected to an ass tattoo check should be part of the vetting process. I’d like to be able to do a background check so detailed I knew where people had tattoos.
• It’s nearing the Season Finale; do not go to the Middle East!
• Josh just takes that new ‘we hate Asians’ policy in his stride.
• Looks like the President is still awful with names.
• Rena dealt very well with meeting the President. What that her first time?
• Well, just look at CJ! Someone got laid last night...
• It’s the Doctor! He seems to be making a lot of sense.
• Glenn Close is ace. Elect her.
• “I love her mind! I love her shoes!” Ringing endorsement from Josh there, although perhaps sharing a little too much information about his fashion choices.
• I want to be vetted by the FBI, MI-5 just doesn’t seem enough anymore.
• Well, that shut them both up.
• I think that’s more up to her than CJ.
• I love it when the President gets worked up about something. Go on, put her on the shortlist!
• Leo's "Okay..." implicitly followed by "You're all going to leave now while I talk the President down from the insane mental ledge he's just climbed on to..."
• One day, Donna is actually going to carry out one of her threats and then Ryan will be sorry. We should see Donna trying to staple his mouth shut.
• Of course he wants a cookie.
• You don’t have to have cats to be a cat person.
• Look, Donna saves the day again. Please tell me they don't solve the Supreme Court situation based on a story about Donna's mother's cats?
• Is Toby reading a menu?
• “Trip him.” I love the tiny things about this show.
• Of course it matters how moderate they are.
• They really shouldn’t argue there.
• I love the idea of ‘indoor voices’.
• Debbie doesn’t have any plants to use that on, so she must keep it specifically for this purpose.
• You have to admire any person who chooses to display the flowers commiserating them on their own death.
• So is Ashland resigning or not?
• I think that if Andy won’t marry Toby again then he could do a lot worse than the perky secretary.
• Please tell me Toby is going to be babysitting while Andy's away
• How many cookies did Donna’s mother make?
• Now that was funny.
• He never said he was hiding *well*
• I love the “If. If!” of Toby’s little speech.
• Would he still have his underwear on? That makes quite a bit of difference.
• That's not Elvis, that's Maurice Williams
• Debbie should ration her sweets to people who aren’t throwing her things around.
• Shouldn’t the sound proofing in the Oval Office be better than that?
• Have we ever heard the President say "Bloody" before?
• I have a very weird image of Donna’s cats wearing robes and wigs.
• Don’t give Josh alcohol for god’s sake.
• Where do I know Ryan’s uncle from? Has anyone else seen Dharma and Greg? Was he Greg’s father?
• Josh is going to be making Donna test his food from now on.
• I love the fact that Debbie is probably right and that the President has forgotten the secret signal.
• Look, there goes Josh and his delicate system. Should you get drunk in the West Wing?
• I don't fancy Senator Adam's chances of out-drinking CJ
• I love Josh’s secret signal.
• His hair might hide the horns though.
• I hope Molly treasures that gift when she grows up. I also hope that Toby gets something cool for Huck as well, because otherwise there will be tantrums.

• The West Wing, brought to you in giddy vision
• I think the format of this show is going to impede my fringedwellings.
• At the moment, CJ just talks to Ben on the phone all day.
• Nice close up of the doughnut. Mmm, doughnut. Ooh, I have some of those.
• Oooh, I feel like I’m in an A-level history lesson, and that’s a good thing.
• I'm not sure there is an "ordinary" day in the West Wing
• Well, daily newspapers that don’t cover national or international news.
• That isn't just constant coverage of the actual building, is it?
• Is it necessary that we know she does that in her pyjamas?
• They don’t have the name plaques on the door, they’re on the wall to the right. It’s bad that I know that isn’t it?
• Look, there goes Margaret! There's not enough Margaret.
• It’s nice to see everyone in proper light for once.
• I do like the style of this episode, you can almost believe that it's a real documentary.
• I don't think admitting that they often mis- or simply don't inform CJ makes her seems all that much more credible
• 14 young aides we’ve never seen before.
• "...issues on gay issues..." Did that sentence really just come from a communications specialist?
•  Gail! A Gail sighting!
• CJ should get more chairs in her office.
• Brief glimpse of Agent Casper! Sorry, I’m contractually obliged to say that.
• Is that the first time Carol's been given a surname?
• They’re actually pictures of little Allison Janney!
• That was an awfully inappropriate joke to make. Hmm, I think it's the wrong audience for the "Is the Pope a Catholic?" Gag. If anything, they're just going to look blankly and say "Um, yes."
• The interviewer's not very perceptive, CJ clearly spoke about her mother in the past tense throughout that conversation
• Won’t CJ mind Josh revealing that on television?
• I don’t think Donna meant agile in that way.
• This conversation would probably be easier if Carole just asked when the President is next available.
• The President shouldn’t be allowed out without a leash.
• Has Josh's office always been directly opposite CJ's?
• I think the ineloquent communications guy has a very elevated opinion of his job
• Looks like CJ was dead on with the twenty minute prediction.
• Was the dog a particular threat to national security?
• Josh is right, the new hair is a definite improvement.
• Any guy holding his own family hostage has the potential to shoot his own dog.
• The reason why the FBI man won't do that again is because he's been fired.
• Scouts! I don’t know why that’s so amusing.
• Agent Casper looks good up there
• Leo said hello to Gail the Fish!

• Ah, a post-hiatus recap
• It's Will!
• 200 tractors sound fun.
• Will would look incredibly cute in a straw hat
• No one should look forward to Brussels.
• Josh is terrified about what might be in his office
• Is no one going to ask if they should be done in Malaysia for $1 a day?
• Yes, but the world is unlikely to starve because a horologist went out of business
• Larry and Ed know just how to ruin Josh’s day.
• CJ’s not letting go of that soundbite anytime soon.
• Josh has a long-buried abacus trauma somewhere in his past
• Does Will just wander alone around the west wing hoping somewhere there will be a meeting he can contribute a fact to?
• There hasn't been a point to Ryan at all, has there?
• Who writes up the chalkboard for Josh?
• I like it when Josh demands his charts.
• It's Belgium, there may be chocolate
• I wonder how long they can go without actually talking to each other.
• Oh, Debbie hates the new woman now.
• I’m not sure putting your chair in front of it is sufficient.
• Josh really didn’t need to hear the phrase 3.3 million then.
• That’s exactly what Free Trade does.
• I wouldn’t have put Josh down as a free-trader.
• Would you gobble hors d'oevres if they were greasy?
• I want CJ to draw that diagram.
• I like to think I would have made that tractor joke is Josh hadn't got there first
• I don't think Leo does either of those things
• Now that’s just showing off.
• Bartlet has an amazing ability to pick arguments with people who aren’t allowed to argue back.
• Uh oh, Josh and Donna are headed for a meltdown.
• I want to see wild bison on stilts!
• It’s only free if you have a lot of money.
• If I were Ben, I wouldn’t be happy with that look.
• I'm sure there's a drill-bit joke I'm missing
• Ah! I knew Josh wasn’t a free-trader.
• Oh CJ. You should’ve checked his pockets first.
• I’m going to use the ‘completion as a human being’ speech on all my annoying coupled friends.
• Doesn't that collection of things usually come with a handbag?
• Well, it’s only not working for Josh. Hah, Josh cracked first. Wimp.
• I bet Josh is regretting being so mean to intern boy now.
• The little guys couldn't afford her
• Is CJ rebuilding the Press Room?
• Gavel. Or big hammer
• Has the Bartlet administration switched sides whilst we weren’t looking?
• Evil!Leo's back. Leo really has been replaced by a pod person this season hasn’t he?
• Where's Josh going to get a tractor?
• Defending free trade is one thing, but justifying it by pretending you’re doing it for the benefit of the third world is just stupid.
• Breathe...Canute not a Viking...breathe...suppress historical detail... I always wonder how surprised Canute would have been if it had
• A passport is one of Josh’s more bizarre gifts. Oh Josh, how sweet! Something bad's going to happen to Donna on that trip isn't it?
• Yep, wordless farewell shot- something *really* bad is going to happen to Donna
• I'm usually against E4 showing the "Next Week" previews, but that one had Will in a tuxedo!

• There’s something incredibly funny about those three crammed into a limo together.
• Comedy and hayfever... Such a fine line
• Tuxedo!Will. Will's wearing a tuxedo! Which, okay, I knew was going to happen but it's still lovely
• Will happily just takes the flowers.
• Oooh, wavy lines of unknown significance.
• If it was an allergy she'd swell up more
• Did she just smack the President?
• Poor Debbie, allergies *and* Anthrax.
• We can’t even get someone to come and do our carbon monoxide check.
• He’s a pissy press man.
• Will brought Toby flowers!
• I wouldn’t put it past Abbey to put a nicotine filter in, actually.
• Why are there boxes of water outside Josh's office?
• So close and yet so far, Josh.
• How horrible would it be stuck in a room with ranting Toby?
• Hadn't perky sidekick girl moved into that office?
• Ha! CJ camping!
• I want to hear the Latin as the national language speech.
• Although, that’s because his wife is a doctor.
• Eew, sneezing in a mask. She sneezed in the mask! That's truly disgusting
• Will took his bow tie off...
• Look at Will fringedwelling Toby. That’s brave.
• There's such as thing as an agribusiness joke? I studied agribusiness for three years and I don't remember a single joke being involved
• Ow, Toby, you really shouldn’t argue with the Secret Service man. Toby! They manhandled Toby! That was one of the funniest moments on television. I bet Will paid the agent to do that.
• He has to have a shower in front of Ron?
• Couldn’t they just shout through the doors?
• Oh Josh, that was so predictable.
• Sasquatch was my Dad’s nickname for me when I was younger.
• Will is enjoying this too much.
• There are presidential tracksuits!
• Should Abby be allowed to wear big shiny lumps of jewellery to the clinic?
• She should have said it was cold medicine
• Seventy seven hours, wow.
• What do you do when you need to go to the toilet? Weeing in front of CJ is one thing, but the deputy security adviser?
• Why are Will's flowers allowed to leave the office but Will isn't?
• Yeah Will, but you have to admit, it was one hell of a win.
• Pitch a tent by starlight? You’ll still be arguing about who should have brought the tent pegs by dawn.
• It's a bacteria
• I'm quite worried by the fact there's a world of unknown pathogens
• He kept that plague thing right to the end.
• Have they tried breaking the glass and climbing into Toby's office? At least there's a couch there
• I think that I like Kate.
• Boggle is a great game.
• I would love to play Risk with the President of the United States.
• You never get involved in a land war in Asia! Has The Princess Bride taught you nothing?
• Toby left a Sam For Congress sticker on the notice board
• Leo pretending to be Clarissa is very disturbing.
• Do you think that Abbey makes the Secret Service men hand out the lollypops?
• They have internet access! I could cope with a lock down.
• They need the internet to figure out that Plague is contagious?
• CJ and Donna are skating on some very thin ice. I love Donna/Josh, but it was about time someone called Donna on that.
• Actually, it’s probably a good thing that Toby doesn’t have launch codes or invasion privileges.
• More troops should be sent into 7-11s. If only to buy crisps.
• Keeping a husband in a bunker seems like a great plan.
• Do the first family really do their own washing-up? That's the first duty I'd be ordering the Secret Service to take over
• Abbey’s really Dr. Happy today isn’t she?
• Hmmm, I’m sensing a Leo health storyline.
• Josh has had his shirt undone, and I didn’t notice.
• I've never seen the point of drills that people know are drills
• Charlie's never recycling anything ever again
• Perhaps they just shouldn't let people mail-order deadly bacteria
• They did get a free tracksuit out of it.

• Ah, suitably ethnic music; we must be somewhere foreign.
• They sent Congressmen to the Middle East? How’s that supposed to improve matters?
• Is it wise for Fitz to be announcing to everyone he’s in the US Navy.
• How is Donna’s alabaster skin coping?
• Donna’s a fast mover isn’t she?
• See! I said this would happen. Donna! Donna go boom! Holy crap! I knew that was going to happen, but it still leapt in the air and yelped.
• Don’t just take her picture! Ring an ambulance!
• They can’t go back in time now!
• Josh hasn’t seemed to work out, he’s free not to open the e-mails.
• Andi really will hassle him from 6000 miles away.
• Was that an attempt at a Minnesotan accent?
• Oh, Josh!
• "Just as coma-inducing..." On the plus side, there seems to be pastries
• He quoted Aerosmith!
• What kind of accent is Jason Isaccs aiming for here?
• He’s a nice photographer. I will allow him to buy Donna drinks.
• They’re allowing Donna to meddle in international relations unsupervised?
• They're repeating The O.C.  on Mondays? That means Smallville's going in this slot doesn't it... I'm not sure if I can cope with having it and both series of Stargate on the same night
• Donna sounds very articulate in these e-mails, I think Josh was unnecessarily mean.
• The West Wing is the only show that would even attempt to use the Middle East problem as a backdrop, and it’s doing a fantastic job of it.
• Ashraf Mansur? That's the name of a fictional detective
• I like that Josh has to number his globalisation headaches.
• Please don’t show Josh any pictures of Donna in the car
• Toby's crying! Erm, I might possibly be crying. I’m more upset about Donna than I was when Josh got shot, and we actually saw his guts.
• Look at Toby waving back!
• Fitz! I like Fitz. No! Who else will needle the president?
• God has a lot of explaining to do.
• “Go away!” I do like Toby’s way of dealing with idiots.
• I’m not sure Toby should be writing that speech. He doesn’t seem very calm.
• Do they know it was definitely Palestinian?
• There’s a very good reason it’s always a woman in this role.
• What was she instructed to drop?
• Josh should get an update on her cats, she’s bound to want to know.
• All bleeding issues are dire!
• Leave him alone!
• It’s a very accurate assessment though.
• Josh cuts straight to the point there - “We kill them!” I think you should be allowed to abandon your personal politics when the woman who makes your coffee just got blown up.
• Go Josh, just go.
• Josh is going to be really embarrassed when he realises Leo knows he’s in love with his assistant.
• Can Josh arrange a flight to Germany all by himself? I’m surprised Josh can find his bag without Donna.
• Donna! How could you sleep with the photographer? He’s just so...sleazy.
• She’s writing an e-mail to Josh after she’s just had sex with that guy!? God, woman, I’m all for obsessing over Josh Lyman, but at least wait till you’ve had breakfast.
• You have to love any army that decided to go with purple berets
• Josh looks very un-rumpled for a man who's just come off a transatlantic flight
• Josh! You had one of those, you really ought to know what it is.
• Josh really doesn’t cope well with the graphic description. There’s something very funny about the doctor being more worried about him than the bomb victim. Perhaps they should give Josh some medication before they let him in to see Donna.
• What if Kate doesn’t want to go where he’s going? Is someone going to give her a lift back?
• She’s looking well considering she just got out of surgery.
• Fitz has a life outside the Whitehouse! Well, up until a few hours ago anyway.
• Fitz's widow has the same ship picture that Leo has on his office wall
• "A sailor's wife..." That seems strange, you would have thought, outside of wartime, that being in the Navy was inherently more dangerous. They play with just as much hardware, and soldiers don't have to worry about drowning

• It’s not long enough to be Tolkein. Tolkien would’ve said it with Elven Poetry.
• I like the tasteful rainbow colour scheme of the first news service
• She’s a very emotional ambassador.
• Well, he didn’t do it any differently.
• Yay! A random flashback
• Ooh, a Versailles jab.
• Should the President and Leo be yelling top secret things in the hallway like that?
• I'm oddly fond of the idea of giving international terrorists lines
• Say something Josh.
• Aw, she wakes up and immediately starts to nag him. Donna tells him when to shave?
• I think you need to be a little more specific Josh.
• It would help if Bradley Whitford actually had stubble at this point.
• Oh Josh, so squeamish.
• Are you allowed to use a mobile in a hospital like that? You’re not allowed mobile phones in hospitals!
• He doesn’t have to do anything. He’s the President.
• Oh you can tell that Bartlet and the baseball is going to be funny
• Don’t make Donna watch that!
• Maybe Josh should just eat the food himself. How nauseous do you have to be to turn down German cake?
• Horrid ringtone
• Oh Josh, get yourself together.
• Stop snogging Donna!
• Kate is a good balance for Alternate Reality!Leo.
• Shouldn't there be another Admiral in the situation room now Fitz isn't there?
• It damn well should be his priority!
• What were they doing with the papyrus?
• Of course there’s no long term, if no one bothers to think about it.
• Turn the damn TV off!
• Oh, watch the manly men dance around the subject. Just come out and ask him, Josh.
• This is such an issue
• But the reason they give you the clicker is so you think it works more than once. No, you can actually click that a lot and a lot of drugs will come out. Honest.
• God Josh, that’s the last thing she needs.
• Order lunch?
• They’re using Josh in an incredibly sensitive diplomatic mission.
• Donna is having to work from his hospital bed
• Yeah, that’s how Josh would say it, but sadly that’s how Ana does it too.
• It's *dangerous*
• “Shall I switch cabs?” Josh is now lost in his James Bond fantasies. Josh so desperately wants to be a private investigator.
• I think it was the “your wife” that convinced Bartlet. I bet Charlie actually phoned the athletic department.
• Josh is so bewildered.
• Well, that was just rude
• Any decent marksman would just aim at his head, so the vest isn’t going to help.
• “Not a word, Ziegler.” This going to make a great anecdote in Toby’s autobiography.
• There are far, far worse things he could do, one of which is Leo’s suggestion.
• Hey look, he’s doing it!
• Arrgh! Donna!
• Of course it’ll be the most dangerous.
• Oh crap.
• That is a fantabulous cliff hanger. I’ve been pretty impressed with this season, considering the bad reviews it got. Although, a bad episode of the West Wing is still a million times better than anything else. I think this year has been less complex and with fewer plot-lines per episode than previous seasons- I've certainly found it easier to order all of your fringedwellings without having to watch the episode three times- but it's still been very good indeed