25th Anniversary Special: And the Winner Is... | The West Wing
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- A special thank you to all the fans of “The West Wing” as we celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary today!
We held a poll asking you, the fans, to vote for your favorite episodes in each season. Here are the results!!
Season 1 Episode 10: In Excelsis Deo
Season 2 Episode 22: Two Cathedrals
Season 3 Episode 10: Bartlet for America
Season 4 Episode 1: 20 Hours in America - Part 1
Season 5 Episode 17: The Supremes
Season 6 Episode 17: A Good Day
Season 7 Episode 22: Tomorrow
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The Veteran's burial/Christmas episode, captured here in the cemetery and in the WH, remains among the most classically, beautifully orchestrated television footage I've ever seen. Still brings this comfortable atheist to tears.
me too
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IIRC Sorkin had to get permission from the DoD to film at Arlington, and when he asked for a description of how the ceremony went, the DoD/Arlington provided a real marine honour guard & chaplain. I've also read that one of the unnamed attendees was the superintendent of Arlington, but I don't know if that's true.
Same here 😢
Creased me up in tears. Bought back a horrible but perfect memory. My darling husband was killed I'm action 9the Dec we buried him on the 23rd. He was 37. I'm a Brit but Danny was a Yank. A rebellious colonial as I used to tease him and I was an imperial red coat. Brilliant representation of the sad fate of many vets we need to change
Mrs Laningham going for her boys always makes me cry.
When she says [talking about her boys being under attack] "You know, at a time like that, you have to think a boy really needs his mother" I lose it every time.
I can count on one finger the number of times an actor's line reading has floored me so to the extent that I still remember it 25 years later, and that's Richard Schiff's "I'm a very... powerful person".
Brilliant, isn’t he? He nailed Toby from Episode 1. Complex, flawed, funny, brave, fiercely intelligent and humane.
“We can only hope”, as his retort to Bartlet was pretty splendid too!
This entire scene leaves me sobbing almost every single time
The way he winces at himself as he desperately tries to NOT say that he's powerful. It's perfect.
"Toby, if we start pulling strings like this you don't think every homeless veteran will come out of the woodwork?"
"I can only hope so."
Man, that's so good.
Aside from getting through the Bush2 years and wistfully using RUclips to live through the orange one, I've been wishing for a show that comes anywhere near how Fantastic the repartee is in the dialogue written by One of the Greatest Collections of Writers Ever Assembled on a TV show.
The West Wing really understood how to do a Christmas episode.
Aaron Sorkin is the best writer of our generation. And, the way each of these actors delivered their lines and embraced their characters was amazing. The chemistry was apparent from the very start.
Interestingly, Sorkin mostly set the tone - he stopped writing episodes fairly early on. Some of my favorites were written by Lawrence O'Donnell - now on MSNBC.
@@pdoylemi Wow that is interesting, I did not know that…..probably why I enjoy Laurence O’Donnell the most on MSNBC. Thank you.
@@vickischlegel2309
I got curious and did a little checking and found he was a bigger part of the show than I thought:
"In his "former life," O'Donnell was a legislative aide and later senior advisor to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, and thus brought a wealth of first-hand experience to his political storytelling.
O'Donnell was one of the most prolific writers on the program. At the end of Season 2 he guest starred as President Josiah Bartlet's father in Two Cathedrals. O'Donnell started as a executive story editor in season 1, a co-producer and producer in season 2. He returned to the program in Season 5, serving as a consulting producer through the end of season 6 before being promoted to executive producer for the final season."
I binge watch this show every summer. I truly consider it one of the greatest series in the history of television. The writing, the acting the cinematography were all excellent. The character dynamics and relationships pulled you in week after week.
I watch it at least every election season to take my mind off the real life drama. Tonight I'm a little over half way through season 2. I never get tired of it.
I thought I was the only one obsessed with TWW. I'll be starting my 5th viewing soon.
This is the kind of writing and filmcraft that the world deserves. I still rewatch to this day. Brilliant show, amazing cast and fantastic crew to set this right. Cheers West Wing and I guess all the rest of us Wingnuts!
I don’t realize how much I miss West Wing until I see things like this… then I’m like OMG I miss West Wing!
‘Best television show ever
Toby Zeigler, despite his many flaws, is a man of immense honour and respect.
It’s why I hated how his character arc ended.
@@jdunk2010Yes, I really dislike that. I wish that story arc did not happen.
This was my go to TV show during the Trump years. I absolutely needed to see, even if it was a fictionalized version of an administration that had some level of sanity, it was soothing to my soul. This was one of the best TV show in history. I never get tired of watching this show and watch it almost every year if possible. There are not enough words to say how much I love this show.
Same here
I have been watching the West Wing since the tragic election. I pray for everyone.
I watched it over and over for four long years. The aspirational nature of how it portrayed public service always gave me hope things would get better. I hope it can do that same the next four.
Its insane that Martin Sheen never won an Emmy for this…..
Gandolfini kept winning for the Sopranos. But I agree.
@@blackspider1405 It's a crime, I agree.
Insane!!!!
Whaaaaaaat? How is that even possible?
@@cpluvsniners70the Emmy voters have the knack of voting for the same person for a lot of years in a row despite the show or actor having an down year in terms of quality
From other comments, the Marine honor guard, burial detail, Navy chaplain and the rep from Arlington were all real, donated by the National Cemetery. Just breaks my heart. I need to do more for our forgotten veterans. This was an amazing clip.
Arlington cemetery officials were so moved by the script that they granted complete access to the production - that’s a real honor guard as well.
IMO, the best tv production. Grateful for the ability to rewatch the series annually and enjoy it anew each time.
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Was late to TWW and bought it to binge watch back in 2016 then sent it (at great expense ) to a friend. Now, watching this I have loved it again so much I've ordered another box set. If only real gov was this sane and compassionate. Fingers crossed it might be soon. 🌊🌊🌊
The White House Staff lining up in formation during the singing of "The Little Drummer Boy" always starts the waterworks. This is a small but important detail in this episode.
@@dee_dee_place Just what I meant by classically beautiful, yes! The balance achieved with what you describe with staff, meshed with the soldiers at Arlington, is powerful, like some of the finest Western architecture and poetry. It's astonishing.
Chills watching the first four minutes. Chills and tears.
‘We’re still in NATO, right’
That line hits a lot different in October 2024
Over the years Toby has steadily risen the ranks to being my favourite character
Years later, still the best show ever made IMO ❤
Best show ever!!!
West wing got my crying in da club over here.😢❤
Best television ever. The writing, the characters and the story will always make this the best television in history.
The best series in decades!
Will never grow old.
Most moving scene from any TV show ever! I cry every time I see it.
A masterpiece, and a timeless show
The best show and cast to ever be on tv
Great opening. One of my favorite episodes.
"I can only hope, sir." Powerful line in a powerful scene.
This is my all time favorite TV show.
And as a super fan proud to call myself a West wing "Wingnut"
And the best comedy on TV.
There are so many memorable scenes, I am putting together retrospective of all the best scenes on order from S1 Ep 1 to the season finale. It's at least a couple of hours long, about 140 scenes. While doing the research to make sure I got the order right, I found a lot of research on the back story on many of the scenes. Including CJ singing "The Jackal" Jed receiving the Argentine and then the UK ambassador. And Jed's quip about how much he hated golf. The live presidential debate between Jimmy Smits character and Alan Alda's character and the appearance at the Al Smith dinner. Plus the genesis of the "Walk and talk." Leo interviewing Ainsley was like an Abbot and Costello routine.
And Ainsley meeting the president-
The first time, Jed goes into Ainsley's office and she dancing. Jed says I thought I wandered in the White House Disco. Ainsley wants to meet the president in more dignified circumstances. She is waiting for him in Leo's office. But she has to pee. She goes into a closet, thinking it's a washroom. Then the president walks in and asks where is she. Someone answers she's in the closet. She has to pee and thought it was a bathroom. The president retorts, "She can pee in Leo's closet, but I can't smoke in the White House." I still break up with laughter or get a tear in my eye thinking of those scenes.
And the producers had researchers on the staff to find topics on page 27 buried with the real estate ads that should be on page 1 to "raise the level of debate."
With recent overwhelming Israeli strikes on Hamas and Hezbollah, it reminds of the episode about "Civis Romanas."
Because the episode in the 3rd season about the efficacy of drug treatment vs drug enforcement, there was a referendum on the 2002 state ballot about applying seized drug assets to treatment or enforcement. II voted for treatment
The best TV show ever! When it first began, I was in DC visiting a friend who had moved there and as we were walking near the National Mall we had to stop to not interfere with a TV scene being shot there. I hadn't begun watching TWW yet and my friend explained what show it was. I now know it was a scene with Toby(Richard Schiff) and C.J.(Allison Janney). I started watching the series and loved every minute of it. I then bought the entire series on DVD and watched it entirely again, and then again with a friend and a few years later again. After watching these clips, I may have to start over yet again. I never tire of the series.
40yr vet, the opening brought tears .
Thank you for your service.
Yet another great part of The West Wing❤
The funeral for the homeless Veteran gets me every time. 😭
Thank you for that! Not to seem ungrateful, but - not including the monologue in 2 Cathedrals was a surprising choice (though I'm sure one you struggled with. Lol)
My only problem with the Two Cathedrals line-if you’re going to show the Toby thing, fine, but don’t cut it before the payoff line!
Mrs. Landingham inviting herself with Toby is the real deal for me
One of my favorite episodes ❤ I've just started rewatching it for the umpteenth time...I'm on season 2
Everyone who served should be given a proper send off
Might be time to rewatch......
This was one the best written show on tv. I watched every episode.
Omg shout-out to adorable, sleep-deprived Sam Seaborn in his casualwear, just checking on the Southern Governors business.
I love The West Wing, and this is my favorite episode. I weep every time.
With so many incredible moments, there's simply no way you can pick all the best ones in just a little over 30 minutes.
We totally agree! But we're also biased so...
When you see Mrs. Landingham's expression on her face when she tells Toby she'd like to come too... Man, you can just see the depths of sadness in her eyes over her two boys.
Cannot watch that funeral with "Little Drummer Boy" playing without completely losing it.
My uncle got a Purple Heart from WWII. Very quiet response at his funeral - maybe the family just wanted it that way. Used my father's military gravestone as part of my case for the Chinese WWII replica medal…
In Excelsis Deo turns me into a blubbering idiot EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
Toby's finest hour.
And when Mrs. Landingham goes WITH Toby.......😇🥹
😭😭😭
The DOD liked the story line so much, every person in uniform was an active duty military person. Richard Schiff said he was in tears during every break during the shooting of the episode.
At 6:30 I almost expected him to say “Will McAvoy is a great anchor and Charlie Skinner would be fun to work with. We’d love to have you at ACN”
The good old days.
'Toby if we start pulling strings like this, you don't think every homeless vet is going to come out of the woodwork... I can only hope sir.'
And then a few seconds of silence... all with the Little Drummer Boy playing in the background. Powerful scene? I cry every time I watch it.
People say it's just a tv drama... a fictional representation.
Yes, it is... but I still want it to be true... so I'm voting this November.
The line that's stuck in my head right now... the one I'm editing for effect right here is this...
'I don't like that guy from Florida with the weird hairdo... I'd like for all Americans to retain their right choose... and all the other rights they are threatening to take away.
So... I'm voting for what's her name... the one married to Doug Emhoff.'
🙂 VOTE in NOVEMBER
Amen
Gosh, how I loved this show. I need to rewatch every season, just to savor the great writing. I can't remember if they tackled naming a replacement VP after Leo died. Seems like Santos would have named someone.
I've been binge watching the show
Leo Mcgarry asking his lawyer out for lunch during his hearing is an absolute baller move.
Mrs. L...Knowing the previous scenes. I cry.
Forgot the best line of the series “What are you thinking about?” “Tomorrow…”
Also forgot the monologue in Two Cathedrals (and my personal fav part of 20 Hours in America - Josh and Toby losing their minds about time zones)
@@seanscott2677”We changed time zones? WE CHANGED TIME ZONES????”
Heart breaking!
The good ol days.
An excellent selection of episodes though you started with what I consider the best episode, the ex marine funeral
You are never an ex-marine
@@jcatikno1655 Okay a non serving or retired marine
RIP John Amos.
"You made it - you're still here." As a doctor, she'd been managing his illness thru the governorship, waiting for that to be finished... Then he says he wants to be POTUS. 🙄 The sheer terror of praying every day that the stress of the job wouldn't end her husband. 😳
I love/miss Toby!!
Both my dad and stepdad had military honors funerals. After all this time I still ugly cry with the military funeral scene.
Missing Bartlet's "Two Cathedrals" speech...
@1:30 I love how Bartlett is simultaneously trying to tell Toby off and appreciating what he's done.
Answer B. It really hurt Josh and Toby. They wanted to fight.
Blu-Ray box set release next week on Oct. 1st. Should look better than streaming on Max since you don't have to worry about the compression of streaming services.
Not to mention the decision of cowardly executives to censor and edit things
Such a small thing but if you listen carefully when they get out the car at the inauguration the band are playing Semper Fidelis in the background.
Quite right too.
I’ve just realised there was a fire burning in the mural room while the choir is singing- but there is a much later episode where Sam and Josh are trying to light a fire but the flu was welded shut many years before, and the fire alarm meant Charlie had to wake the President
I was at my father's military funeral in may 1967. 8 months later I was in Vietnam. I wonder if my son will attend mine.
She misses her boys.
That scene always haunted me. Old enough to remember some of those whose family members did not return. And some who did. They just died on the installment plan. So something in that scene haunts me. Which i think Mr Sorkin wanted to.
Nothing infuriated the extreme right of the GOP more than the ethical integrity of 'The West Wing'; and yet it drove the far right further right. I am not sure what the answer is, but I know it is not found in the extremes. For me, it is no surprise that so many are rediscovering 'The West Wing'; I only hope that this time we are not just entertained, but learn from the series.
The people that need to learn don’t watch this brilliant show
Semper Fi
Vote Bartlet.
They left out the best part, the legal sparring between the two SCOTUS nominees.
I don't think there is a show, before or since, that uses music, especially sung music, to the emotional effect TWW did.
Jed handing over to Matt😭
A quite extraordinary piece of tv the veteran scene.
Not enough Alan Alda here. He was exceptional. As was everyone. I was worried about Jimmy Smits I have to say.
2:05 Ahhhh Mandy. Forever making a point about the unimportant when something important is happening. The character mistake of the show. Oh ok, and Amy "don't talk to me" Gardner 😡 and Angela "let's state the obvious" Blake.
Leo we hardly knewyou
I love "The Supremes" episode, and I wish President Obama had followed a similar course when Justice Scalia died.
McConnell shanked that possibility.
@@jamescox4231precisely
How is this an anniversary special? This is just clips. I wish a proper special could have been done with current interviews from the actors. I wish we could have seen the panal from the Paley Center.
Eggly Bagelface.
Was that Glenn Close?
Yes.
In Season 5, not in the last episode
Oh yes
Mystery script moment - what the hell does ‘can I help you?’ mean at the end of Sam’s mini-rant at 5:07
That must have been a typo that got accidentally filmed, right? I’ve turned it over in my mind 100 times and I have never been able to make sense of that line. Was it meant for another character asking if they could help Sam bring it up again?
17:55 future Supreme Court justice says ‘Li-bary’ 😆
He would not have received a 21 gun salute. More likely a 3-gun or 5-gun.
I wish they would have turned on their desk lights a little more on this show. It is so annoying to watch on the web and not be able to brighten the screen.
YOU CANT TELL ME THERES A SPECIAL THAT ISNT A NEW EPISODE
Can you imagine a wife and white house keeping the crippling disorder of the President from the American people?
So Bartlet only served 1 term
He was reelected, so he served 2 terms.
@@jd-zr3vk I thought so. These clips are way out of order, showing the dialogue about whether or not to seek re-election at the end of his 2nd term
@@michael_horsley IIRC the meeting with Leo about running the first time was a flashback episode in the middle of the reelection campaign. I may be wrong on that one. One thing is sure, Bartlet was already president at the start of the show.
Great show, bad policy and bad writing not based in any reality.
Why Felonious Trump doesn’t understand armed forces commitment
should have never pardoned Toby.
18:13. I get the impression that if she had to, she could name the other eight members of the committee, anticipate their questions, & had responses ready for all of them.
13:58 - I wonder if this was scripted, so brilliant.
1:24 A preview if TFG wins.
I’ve just realised there was a fire burning in the mural room while the choir is singing- but there is a much later episode where Sam and Josh are trying to light a fire but the flu was welded shut many years before, and the fire alarm meant Charlie had to wake the President
I’ve just realised there was a fire burning in the mural room while the choir is singing- but there is a much later episode where Sam and Josh are trying to light a fire but the flu was welded shut many years before, and the fire alarm meant Charlie had to wake the President