the way he says "hmm?" in answer to abby gets me every time. that's the kind of softness, kindness, understanding, and love everyone needs in their life.
23:00 the Admiral's comment about mimes is my favorite type of humor from this show. In passing, off the cuff, and the other characters barely acknowledge it because 1) they are professionals and 2) it is such a casual part of existing in the West Wing. I personally think that was a big contributor to the warmth and ensemble feel of the show: there is so much subtext in that approach to humor. I also think Admiral Fitzwallace got the best of those lines. "Bouncy and more manageable" comes to mind...
I don’t know if it’s in this compilation or not, but I always loved the Ainsley Hayes bit, “…they won’t let me smoke in here, but she can pee in Leo’s closet.”
Well said. I know it was fiction, but I had hoped that we'd have a president like this again. There was Biden and a hope for Kamala. I find comfort in watching the show. It's not. It's just maybe distraction and entertainment. I wish you know who would learn a few things from it. But that's even more a fantasy than the show itself.
OMG, I went to the West Wing after the first DT win, and it gave me the ability to tolerate the four years of aimless distraction and abuse. Now I’m back there again!
I'd like a series set years later, Sam is finally making his run for President. Thing is, in the modern era, if you show an intelligent and capable Republican party, they'd be accused of insulting the current mob; if the Republicans were shown as dim witted and bombastic, they'd be shut down for showing the current Mob. I like to think of the West Wing universe as one that is filled with articulation and educated people. We've been proven that being educated and informed is another way of being called elitist and out of touch.
I like Mia Farrow just fine, she's a very good actor. But I'm glad Sheen was voted down after lobbying for her to play Dr Bartlet, Channing nailed the role.
I like this show a lot but the two characters I really didn't like were Abby & Sam, probably because I've never liked Channing or Lowe. I know... everyone is gonna yell at me... but I always thought they were low-tier, B-movie type actors.
Can we give a moment of TV silence to brave Molly O'Conner ( 2:58 )? She was agent who was ambushed and killed during Zoey's kidnapping in S4E22. Thank you for your service, Miss O'Conner.
It might seem to be a tiny,simple thing to most people...but it's the incidental fragments that I catch. At 5:18, the 'former President Bartlett' is placed into the limo. At 5:20, the limo door closes (you hear the door shut). He is now, officially, the former President of the United States...and President Santos is now the new President. The Secret Service Agent,-in-charge Ron Butterfield, instantly turns from Bartlett....to Santos. "I protected Bartlett....now...I protect you."
Actually, the debate camp was held at the Saybrook Institute for Public Policy in Faith, North Carolina. They may have used the same sets as for Camp David. The note Leo hands Jed is the report of the Israeli attack on Qumar.
Although there were episodes that divided us politically, I believe we can agree this show was one of the best written, produced, directed, and performed in our time.
My Favourite take away from the Killing the Boyfriend or not Killing the Boyfriend is the Frog only had to worry about the Secret Service. Charlie on the other hand got the entire 82nd Airbourne threatening him. I think we know who Jed wants as a future son in law.
@4:20, it's hard to watch this scene knowing how the new writers in later seasons would screw Toby over. One of the things that made this show great was that Bartlett and his staff were like a family, perhaps at times dysfunctional but a family nonetheless. Injecting schisms and scandals to tear them apart is not something you do after years of cohesion purely for the sake of drama.
I would still love to know what kind of law HR 437 was. It had implications for sovereign immunity, civil jury trials, search and seizure AND the quartering of soldiers in private homes?
The editor who cuts these clips for RUclips doesn't know where to cut clips, also he doesn't know what "funny" means. How is Toby's conversation with Will & senator about sanctity of marriage funny? Or Toby's conversation with CJ about staff psychological profile post shooting? Abby & CJ's talk about MS? And if you are making a highlight package of President's humor why are these conversations part of it to begin with?
A lot were at least somewhat comedic. There's a weird way that Sorkin writes, where it's "amusing" that people in those positions do kind of talk that way...with explaining how a domino effect in committee chairs works. Perhaps the Senator discussion, was to fill out the conversation, and was just included. Most were at least good and witty dialogue, though perhaps not funny, as it's not a comedy.
Whoever is running this channel only seems to have 3 hours of westwing they can show, and just keep reuploading the same clips with different names. Half of these clips have nothing to do with Bartlet's sarcasm.
This show was chockablock with things like this you can quibble with. They get aviation stuff wrong all the time, for instance. There’s an episode where the pilot of Air Force One says they’re two miles short of the runway and starting their descent. You’d do that like 100 miles out, not two miles off the end of the runway.
@lekoman Yea. The way the assassination played out was absurdly unrealistic (and was meant to disorient us), and even Josh's PTSD is a story well told, with a framework within the show that makes no sense.
Hmm...assuming that he is talking about Portland, OR...and assuming that the year he said this was 2003...and assuming that the port grossed about as much in 2003 as they did in 2014 (which is the oldest budget numbers I can find), then the port grossed about $216 million. So yeah, that $700 million seems a bit high. But I DID have to make a lot of assumptions.
@@heddalee I think i need to correct myself. When Bartlett said "they are going to loose $700 million a day" I interpreted that to refer to port revenue, which like you said is nowhere close. But if it was supposed to mean the value of goods that pass thru then maybe that might be closer to accuracy? I can't find traffic values for Portland, but Port of LA cargo value was $292 billion in 2022 so...divide that into a daily then adjust for year 2003...ugh, $466 million?
It’s taken me forever to figure this out. Wesley moves to attack Randy, as if she’s Zoe. Molly steps in and protects her by taking Wesley down “like a bag of potato chips “.
It means it is winter and its raining. It is the Pacific Northwest. I do not know what they meant it to mean. In the Pacific Northwest it begins raining on Halloween and it stops sometime in May.
@@tunneloflight Yeah, the question is what they specifically meant by it, not why it's raining in the PNW. Those of us who grew up there know all about it! LOL
Much as I enjoy that the video clip has been extended from the three minute range. At thirty-six minutes, why don't you just air a whole episode? Maybe finding a little middle ground length is in order here.👍😂 These were some great moments from the series!
@@SarahRenz59 The scene would've benefitted from making a gesture in that direction (though I suppose his "now I get why you're telling me this" nods to it.
That said, why would the US government ship that stuff on a commercial cargo boat, *and* fail to keep track of it? The military has its own cargo ships.
Toby was trying to get back together with his ex wife because she was pregnant and he wanted to be in his kids’ lives. I’d call that a justifiable reason.
They lie was he was suffering from MS, l have MS losing your train of thought and forgetting obvious words and balance it’s is pain and difficult to have an adult conversation
While I absolutely agree about Donna, yet I have to disagree about Josh. One does not become deputy chief of staff-and later chief of staff-in the White House by being an “idiot”. Granted, Josh did certain things which could be regarded as stupid, and he had a bit of a short fuse, but he grew up and matured by the time he became Santos’ campaign manager. Indeed, by that time, he was ready to be “the guy the guy counts on”. Contrary to the thinking of some, that comment by Jed was not an insult. Each person has his or her role to play and his or her strengths for that role. Josh’s strengths served him in his role of “the guy the guy counts on”. There’s nothing “idiotic” about that!
Our dry humor here in the UK can often be missed by some Americans but I am completely baffled about how most of this can be called comedic?? If you are all rolling in the aisles, I apologise.
I think the last time we cared about the opinions of the English was before we decided to see if the salt water of Boston Harbor mixed well with the tea leaves of English penny pinchers.
You seem to be confused. Your "dry wit" is just so. It is witty. Your humo(u)r is , well... humorous. But wit and humor are not synonymous. Nor are Brit and Septic "humor"! 😛
"I think we'd lose. - Not in New Jersey" Man, I fucking love this show 😂
"you get my support the same way i get yours, when i agree with you or don't care enough about what you are saying" is a great line
People don’t think of The West Wing as a comedy, but it was so funny! The humor was often dry and subtle- the best kind. Aaron Sorkin is a genius.
@@candacerushing6882 Those throwaway lines are among the best, agreed. I miss that quality writing too.
The Thanksgiving episodes with the turkeys and the Butterball hotline were hilarious!
the way he says "hmm?" in answer to abby gets me every time. that's the kind of softness, kindness, understanding, and love everyone needs in their life.
I LOVE this series. I am disturbed that we STILL struggle with the same issues.
23:00 the Admiral's comment about mimes is my favorite type of humor from this show. In passing, off the cuff, and the other characters barely acknowledge it because 1) they are professionals and 2) it is such a casual part of existing in the West Wing. I personally think that was a big contributor to the warmth and ensemble feel of the show: there is so much subtext in that approach to humor.
I also think Admiral Fitzwallace got the best of those lines. "Bouncy and more manageable" comes to mind...
John Amos was equally impactful as James Earl Jones. R-E-S-P-E-C-T ! x2
Omg yes! I love that exchange about the hair with Fitz it’s great 😂
I love the moment where Ron Butterfield turns his attention from President Bartlett to President Santos.
It was subtle, but so powerful. A fantastic moment.
I don’t know that Andy was ever worth it for Toby..
anyone else watching west wing clips after the 2024 trump win
c'est que c'est
My coping mechanism: binge West Wing over and over again and imagine I am living in a Bartley presidency
It helps me sleep.
@@apotterhead1 exactly! It would be even better if they'd produce a reboot. They could start it off with President Seaborn's first inaugural address
Wishful thinking
An IT guy named Macintosh is just ironic.
That's like a mechanic whose last name is Ford, or a politician whose name is Governor.
I don’t know if it’s in this compilation or not, but I always loved the Ainsley Hayes bit, “…they won’t let me smoke in here, but she can pee in Leo’s closet.”
My family quotes that all the time 😂
Legitimately my favorite line of the series 😂
The gavel. Perfect.
An absolutely wonderfully written show !!!
oh I missed those 7 years of fun, wit and hope.
Well said. I know it was fiction, but I had hoped that we'd have a president like this again. There was Biden and a hope for Kamala. I find comfort in watching the show. It's not. It's just maybe distraction and entertainment. I wish you know who would learn a few things from it. But that's even more a fantasy than the show itself.
I am. Dreaming of what the dream could be. And it’s probably never coming back.
Thanks much. I love these and this peerless diamond of a show.
Missed the scene where CJ gets an egg to stand on end, but nobody’s around to see it
Where was the “Toby’s a good name” scene when Bartlet walks in on a staff meeting high on Percocet?
If only the US had a Bartlett!!
We were pretty close there from 2008 - 2015.
OMG, I went to the West Wing after the first DT win, and it gave me the ability to tolerate the four years of aimless distraction and abuse. Now I’m back there again!
I'd like a series set years later, Sam is finally making his run for President.
Thing is, in the modern era, if you show an intelligent and capable Republican party, they'd be accused of insulting the current mob; if the Republicans were shown as dim witted and bombastic, they'd be shut down for showing the current Mob.
I like to think of the West Wing universe as one that is filled with articulation and educated people.
We've been proven that being educated and informed is another way of being called elitist and out of touch.
I love the West Wing. I have been depressed since the election. I pray for everyone.
Thank you for putting this together!
11:27 jesus these talking during walking scene oners are so insane. i wonder how they shoot that
Very carefully.
“How you doing there joey, gippy” brilliant absolutely brilliant
When you wish drama was a true reflection of American values. Unlike today. A sad day for the world.
Another MSNBC fan🫵boy Duped by Media propaganda and mendacity. Stop clutching your pearls.
I loved this show---still do
I like Mia Farrow just fine, she's a very good actor. But I'm glad Sheen was voted down after lobbying for her to play Dr Bartlet, Channing nailed the role.
She did, and I can’t imagine anyone else in the role either.
Mia Farrow? No way 😮
Only Stockard Channing could get away with "Game on boyfriend".
@@user-eb6xc3fq2m I'm sure Farrow would have carried the role, but Channing *flew* with it. 🤩
I like this show a lot but the two characters I really didn't like were Abby & Sam, probably because I've never liked Channing or Lowe. I know... everyone is gonna yell at me... but I always thought they were low-tier, B-movie type actors.
Can we give a moment of TV silence to brave Molly O'Conner ( 2:58 )? She was agent who was ambushed and killed during Zoey's kidnapping in S4E22.
Thank you for your service, Miss O'Conner.
By far the best President of any country.
Ours days that’s a sci-fi show. A smart honest and decent president.
It might seem to be a tiny,simple thing to most people...but it's the incidental fragments that I catch. At 5:18, the 'former President Bartlett' is placed into the limo. At 5:20, the limo door closes (you hear the door shut). He is now, officially, the former President of the United States...and President Santos is now the new President. The Secret Service Agent,-in-charge Ron Butterfield, instantly turns from Bartlett....to Santos. "I protected Bartlett....now...I protect you."
I remember that the debate camp, likely at Camp David was interrupted by the note that Leo handed him, I just can't remember what it was.
Actually, the debate camp was held at the Saybrook Institute for Public Policy in Faith, North Carolina. They may have used the same sets as for Camp David. The note Leo hands Jed is the report of the Israeli attack on Qumar.
"Bartlet the Inert"
~Sen. Howard Stackhouse
How did the scene from "Tomorrow" highlight President's humour?
Very fair question 😐
Was waiting for the punchline myself.
Was there ever a better show on TV other than maybe…MASH?
Although there were episodes that divided us politically, I believe we can agree this show was one of the best written, produced, directed, and performed in our time.
Me!! Best show ever.
My Favourite take away from the Killing the Boyfriend or not Killing the Boyfriend is the Frog only had to worry about the Secret Service. Charlie on the other hand got the entire 82nd Airbourne threatening him. I think we know who Jed wants as a future son in law.
@4:20, it's hard to watch this scene knowing how the new writers in later seasons would screw Toby over. One of the things that made this show great was that Bartlett and his staff were like a family, perhaps at times dysfunctional but a family nonetheless. Injecting schisms and scandals to tear them apart is not something you do after years of cohesion purely for the sake of drama.
Its not that hard. People's indignation at the shuttle leak storyline is really over the top.
Ex-NASA contractor here so I'm not sure what either of your two arguments are, but I disagree with both of your premises.
13:08 'more of a Federalist than an ideologue'
This burns in 2024.
I would still love to know what kind of law HR 437 was. It had implications for sovereign immunity, civil jury trials, search and seizure AND the quartering of soldiers in private homes?
@@sethbarkley8645 I ate some Frosted Flakes
The editor who cuts these clips for RUclips doesn't know where to cut clips, also he doesn't know what "funny" means.
How is Toby's conversation with Will & senator about sanctity of marriage funny?
Or Toby's conversation with CJ about staff psychological profile post shooting?
Abby & CJ's talk about MS?
And if you are making a highlight package of President's humor why are these conversations part of it to begin with?
P sure it's being butchered by an AI.
A lot were at least somewhat comedic. There's a weird way that Sorkin writes, where it's "amusing" that people in those positions do kind of talk that way...with explaining how a domino effect in committee chairs works. Perhaps the Senator discussion, was to fill out the conversation, and was just included. Most were at least good and witty dialogue, though perhaps not funny, as it's not a comedy.
I wish they had anther season with the new president.
Whoever is running this channel only seems to have 3 hours of westwing they can show, and just keep reuploading the same clips with different names. Half of these clips have nothing to do with Bartlet's sarcasm.
Yeah. Then when someone (ie me) puts together a nicely edited video with all of Lord John Marbury's clips, they object, whining about copyright...
You should definitely start a better channel
A quibble, but the notion that the Port of Portland handles 700 million dollars worth of cargo a day is beyond ludicrous.
This show was chockablock with things like this you can quibble with. They get aviation stuff wrong all the time, for instance. There’s an episode where the pilot of Air Force One says they’re two miles short of the runway and starting their descent. You’d do that like 100 miles out, not two miles off the end of the runway.
@lekoman Yea. The way the assassination played out was absurdly unrealistic (and was meant to disorient us), and even Josh's PTSD is a story well told, with a framework within the show that makes no sense.
Hmm...assuming that he is talking about Portland, OR...and assuming that the year he said this was 2003...and assuming that the port grossed about as much in 2003 as they did in 2014 (which is the oldest budget numbers I can find), then the port grossed about $216 million. So yeah, that $700 million seems a bit high. But I DID have to make a lot of assumptions.
@@rmmyt Portland's port is way too small for 700m a day. I believe that's the daily traffic for the US's largest port, LA.
@@heddalee I think i need to correct myself. When Bartlett said "they are going to loose $700 million a day" I interpreted that to refer to port revenue, which like you said is nowhere close. But if it was supposed to mean the value of goods that pass thru then maybe that might be closer to accuracy? I can't find traffic values for Portland, but Port of LA cargo value was $292 billion in 2022 so...divide that into a daily then adjust for year 2003...ugh, $466 million?
@21:40 Am I wrong or does Ron Butterfield say "Attack, Randy" when it's Wesley attacking Molly
It’s taken me forever to figure this out. Wesley moves to attack Randy, as if she’s Zoe. Molly steps in and protects her by taking Wesley down “like a bag of potato chips “.
If only he was going to be our next president
Bring back TWW to MAX!!!
RIP Fitz.
I have watched this show so many times and have never figured out what "torrential rain in Portland" means. Help please
I came into the comments to ask the same. 😂
Yes I want to know why the rains changed the timetable.
What? It was terrorist code.for an attack somewhere in the PNW. What's not to understand?
It means it is winter and its raining. It is the Pacific Northwest. I do not know what they meant it to mean. In the Pacific Northwest it begins raining on Halloween and it stops sometime in May.
@@tunneloflight Yeah, the question is what they specifically meant by it, not why it's raining in the PNW. Those of us who grew up there know all about it! LOL
Much as I enjoy that the video clip has been extended from the three minute range. At thirty-six minutes, why don't you just air a whole episode? Maybe finding a little middle ground length is in order here.👍😂 These were some great moments from the series!
Wow. I forgot Kate Moss was in this show.
I miss when this wasn't as unreachable a goal as it is now.
I miss the days when intelligence was on the agenda.
Container ships lose containers *all the time*. No one would put extra energy into a single lost container. Also, Zoe is the worst.
I surmise the cargo was sensitive somehow; eg, parts for military weaponry or nuclear reactors.
@@SarahRenz59 The scene would've benefitted from making a gesture in that direction (though I suppose his "now I get why you're telling me this" nods to it.
That said, why would the US government ship that stuff on a commercial cargo boat, *and* fail to keep track of it? The military has its own cargo ships.
5:05, "Make me proud", WHY?
25:39 : he bought a house without involving his wife in the decision?! 😲🤦
Toby was trying to get back together with his ex wife because she was pregnant and he wanted to be in his kids’ lives. I’d call that a justifiable reason.
Why is most of Bartlett's "humor" being rude, condescending, or harassing?
They lie was he was suffering from MS, l have MS losing your train of thought and forgetting obvious words and balance it’s is pain and difficult to have an adult conversation
I am sorry for your situation but not all people with MS have difficulty with conversations. Some do, but not all.
And occasionally balance
A certain Norse god is in here hmmm
Donna was so brilliant, Josh was an idiot.
Donna - agree ✅ Josh - completely disagree ❌
While I absolutely agree about Donna, yet I have to disagree about Josh. One does not become deputy chief of staff-and later chief of staff-in the White House by being an “idiot”. Granted, Josh did certain things which could be regarded as stupid, and he had a bit of a short fuse, but he grew up and matured by the time he became Santos’ campaign manager. Indeed, by that time, he was ready to be “the guy the guy counts on”. Contrary to the thinking of some, that comment by Jed was not an insult. Each person has his or her role to play and his or her strengths for that role. Josh’s strengths served him in his role of “the guy the guy counts on”. There’s nothing “idiotic” about that!
doesn't work
Our dry humor here in the UK can often be missed by some Americans but I am completely baffled about how most of this can be called comedic?? If you are all rolling in the aisles, I apologise.
I think the last time we cared about the opinions of the English was before we decided to see if the salt water of Boston Harbor mixed well with the tea leaves of English penny pinchers.
You seem to be confused. Your "dry wit" is just so. It is witty. Your humo(u)r is , well... humorous.
But wit and humor are not synonymous. Nor are Brit and Septic "humor"! 😛
Classic example of how liberals dialog. Pathetic.
Bro is angry at a tv show, grass deficiency
While trump's dialog has the equivalency of an 8th grade bully.
Yeah. All those multi-syllable words. I can see why it’s so threatening to you.
Some of these episodes have numbers in them too.
Dialogue has an e, and isn't an active verb. No suprise to see right wingers struggle with basic English.
Dumb troll is dumb