The TV Addict 

I really miss this show. Really, really miss it. I have all the episodes on DVD and I periodically watch it again from beginning to end. They could announce that they were restarting it this fall in the middle of the Santos administration and it would be a season pass on my TiVO in nothing flat.

I can’t believe you didn’t mention CJ and The Jackal!

My all time FAVOURITE moment is when the white house was shot at and they put the president in lock down in the oval office. He wanted to know where Charlie was and that somebody better find him, and then Charlie bursts into the room. Best moment ever. The relationship between Bartlett and Charlie is still my favourite on tv.

I only vaguely remember the shots that KDD is talking about, but I do remember Bartlett being concerned about Charlie in that scene and Charlie running into the room. I agree that’s a great moment and a great relationship.

I also really like the passing on of the Thanksgiving knife to Charlie I also like when Charlie gets into a confrontation with his girlfriend over her not revealing to him her new job in the press corps, and Charlie exclaims his loyalty to Bartlett, “He’s not just the President,” basically implying that Bartlett is like a surrogate father (or potential future father-in-law if he and Zoey ever got back together).

I also like the episode in which Bartlett’s Multiple Sclerosis (sp?) is first revealed, particularly the confrontation between Toby & Bartlett, some of which I almost have memorized.

When Donna is in the explosion in Gaza and then transfered to Germany for surgery, Josh goes out of his mind. Leo tells Josh, “If there’s some place else you’d rather be, everyone would understand.” He says he’s okay, changes his mind 2 seconds later, grabs his backpack & laptop, and he’s — gone. For the rest of the episode, no one even asks where Josh is. They just all know. Josh & Donna, another great relationship.

They just showed these repeats recently on Bravo, but I like all the episodes regarding Bartlett’s Israel-Palestine peace talks, Leo’s heart attack, and C.J. becoming Chief of Staff.

Zoey’s kidnapping was a little hokey, but I like how it gave Bartlett the excuse to use the 25th Amendment and temporarily turn the Presidency over to House Speaker Glenallen Walken (John Goodman), since he hadn’t found a V.P. replacement for Hoynes yet.

I also like the flashback to Bartlett’s campaign in which he openly & honestly admits to a dairy farmer that a policy of his hurt his farm. “Yeah, I screwed ya. You got rogered but good.” He then followed up saying he took the action he did so that the price of milk wouldn’t be too high for parents to buy for their kids.

One of the best stand-alone episodes was the one in which Toby figures out how to fix Social Security.

I wish I remembered more details about it, but I remember Two Cathedrals, the season two finale, being a major episode.

Same China episode… I love the symmetry between Josh & Donna. As soon as she quits, he stops hesitating, goes to Texas, and enlists Santos as a presidential candidate. He wasn’t just holding her back; they were keeping each other in place. As soon as one broke free, they both did. Nice!

The Bartlett for America napkin scene gets me every time. So touching. We need more TV shows like the West Wing.

As the foremost WW expert on the whole Internet, allow me to present the real 10 best moments of the show (in no particular order):
-Mrs. Landingham’s speech about her dead sons, In Excelsis Deo

-CJ meets Marion Cotesworth-Hay, Privateers

-Ainsley and Leo first meet and play verbal Cat and Mouse, In This White House

-Josh has an attack while Yo-Yo Ma plays, Noel

-Leo talks about not understanding people who can only have one drink, Bartlet for America

-The President calls the Butterball hotline, The Indians in the Lobby

-Abby has the band play O Canada for Donna, Dead Irish Writers

-CJ meets with the Cartographers for Social Equality, Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail

-Sam says it right, Galileo

-Bartlet kicks ass in the debate, Game On