And you just so happened to stop watching at the end of season 4, or you noticed something changed?

Sorkin was the creator, writer and executive producer. But he left the show at the end of Season Four.

I don’t know the Aaron Sorkin delineation. I thought the whole thing was his creation.

Well, a bit exaggerated, but how can one pick a favorite episode out of 150 of a show that is among your favorites? It’s about as crazy as picking out your favorite song or favorite movie.

The POTUS shooting was a great episode! I’ll just mention a episode or two that are up there. I’m not even a huge Mark Harmon fan but the episode where his character rapped up CJ’s stalker and he officically was no longer on her detail and he left to buy flowers, was it? And was shot by the corner store robbery guy. And they played Rufus Wainwright’s Hallelujah, yeah? I’m just going off memory and not going to research everything for accuracy…that was really a SAD episode and very moving. CJ is one of my favorite characters from the show and I’m a misogynist.

Zoey Bartlett’s kidnapping and John Goodman’s Speaker of the House assuming POTUS was 2 or 3 episodes I think. There’s lots of great episodes.

I don’t even like Rob Lowe but I came to like his character in the show! The end season or two was very different because of so many changes in the Bartlett Administration. Leo died. CJ was CoS. Sam left.

Oh, Mrs Landingham’s funeral was a great episode. Bartlett cleared the cathedral and was in Latin, was it?

Clearly, you know a lot more about the production than I do so pardon my amateur references. I’m not sure why I never researched the production. I guess it just never came up.

Spoiler alert!!I haven’t seen the whole series, just the Aaron Sorkin years. (I literally was about to write Aaron Spelling, and caught myself.) But not to worry, I’m watching the whole series for the first time in tandem with the West Wing Weekly podcast.

What’s your favorite episode? When I watched the pilot on its original run, I didn’t even like it. (In hindsight, I just didn’t like Moira Kelly. Turns out I wasn’t alone.) I ignored the show after that, but a year later, I found myself in a hotel in a strange town with nothing to do. I saw In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, and I was sitting there crying over characters I didn’t even know. Sorkin actually said they treated the episode as something of a second pilot because they, like a handful of other shows in those days (Buffy, 90210), understood that sometimes a good show needs more than one chance to hook its audience. I was a diehard watcher after that until Sam left the show, and then the appeal began to fade for me. He wasn’t even my favorite thing, but he was the canary in the mine.

Oh goodie. As I started to read your response I was getting sad and disappointed. Yes, too many people post stupid fucking GIF’s of stuff they have NO IDEA about. I’m happy that you’ve seen it! YAY. I’ve seen all 156 episodes a dozen times. Remember Leo’s first heart attack at Camp David? The drama! Everyone leaves and he’s just laying on the ground.

Sometimes I just use use a gif because it says what I want it to say, and I have no idea what it’s from. Quoth Bartlet to Leo: “This is not one of those.”

I’ll be glad when the fucking beard obsession goes away. Boring. Next!

I love Toby Ziegler and the show is among the best TV shows ever created. Especially refreshing when you need reminded of how The West Wing should appear.

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First this would have been so hot if you let them fuck, but second… you could not have let Kurt wear a less sexy pair of underpants! I thought you had wardrobe for such things! Is Chaosmen really in this much trouble because I am scared!?