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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- “Mr. President, get in the shower.”
Season 5 Episode 20: No Exit
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Ahh Charlie with the nicely worded “Mr. President, shut up and do what the man tells you” 😂
I love Charlie!
Yes - he stops arguing when Charlie tells him to get in the shower.
Well, the Secret Service wasn't saying it. Someone had to.
Seeing Toby get dropped to the floor by a Secret Service agent, and then helped up by the same agent always makes me chuckle. “Mr. Ziegler…”
Smitty from the Rookie
That agent dropped him like a sack of flour. That's his job.
"We've got an oversensitive, overpriced piece of technology that's overreacting."
Poetry!
"Yes, sir. You'll find written instructions in the shower. Now make sure you scrub vigorously and rinse your eyes."
This was one of my favourite episodes, not just because I love bottle episodes, but because subsequent viewings revealed more and we still don’t know for absolutely certain by the end whether it was a drill or if it was real. The last conversation between Ron and the President really throws you
it wasnt a drill it was charlie if i remember correctly had brought in his mail... fidderer notices at the end that they are not playing with the decon and as has been stated in other episodes constantly telling your staff that people legitimately want to kill them is bad for morale
I also liked that episode because it trapped people together like CJ and Donna that normally may not interact much and maybe been trapped together forced people to have honest conversation with each other.
Yep I love bottle episodes too.
@@ArchAngelWCit’s never explicitly stated who sent it to Charlie though… body language through the episode of Jed and Ron really makes you wonder the whole time on subsequent watches
@@OptimysticPessimyst I think we can safely assume who sent it to Charlie....same type of shitbirds as Roslin just more cowardly
i like how he knocks the guy down then politely helps him back up lol
I don't remember this one at all. Time for a rewatch!
When Smitty was competent!
I must find and re-watch this episode. 🤔
amazing with covid how this is so relateable lol
I have absolutely no recollection of this episode.
I watch these old reruns, that never get old every time I feel like the country is going to hell in a hand basket. This is for sure, one of those damn days. Again...I wish I had never given up my dvd player and my entire set of "The West Wing" discs.
It;s good to see Smitty was a Secret Service agent before he joined the LAPD.
Now I have the box set of the west wing. Watched every episode of the west wing. And I did not know Smitty was a secret service agent.
Smitty getting tough with Toby.. No wonder he got a desk job with LAPD
Funny watching this now, post-COVID, because they gave the president and staff surgical masks vs. N95s.
I didn't know Smitty worked for the Secret Service before his time with the LAPD! XD
Ah this is when Will joined the vice president's staff and became truly insufferable.
Will was one of the bright spots in the post Sorkin era.
@@bladactania well, that's certainly a minority opinion. He was good in the seventh season, once he came back to replace Toby. Insufferable for the prior two seasons.
predictive programming
Late 90s early 2000s and its nasal swabs and face masks, hmmm...
Interesting
Almost like both of those things have existed long before COVID or something...interesting.
is this why Smitty was busted to an LA street cop because he laid hands on a presidential staffer?
Christ I hated Will Bailey
Ww was ahead of its time face diapers😅
I just figured why I never liked Toby. He confused shouting with having a point.
It's called idiots refusing to listen to reason. That's why he is raising his voice, not shouting.
@@sabrewolf4129 His reaqson. Sincerely, Will sounded pretty reasonable in his point of view.
Toby could disagree, but he had no reason to raise his voice or shout. Exchange of opinions between adults requires some decorum.
This is always my favorite take from people who can't think of a good point. "I dunno, that guy who was visibly upset raised his voice a little, what a jerk."
Are you guys adults? Have you only ever spoken in a monotone, even, quiet volume your whole life? One of his former coworkers and trusted friends went behind his back and confirmed a speech that made the President look foolish. Toby is THE authority on communication and public faces in the White House and one of his juniors is acting like they know better and refusing to accept Toby's authority in the workplace. It's like if a head manager was getting backsassed by an assistant team lead.
Of course he's shouting, he's livid. The only point he needs to make is "I'm your workplace superior, I make the call" and Will is refusing that and derailing the argument. Toby's point is that the VP embarrassed the President and made himself look foolish by bringing stilted, boring lecture to a comedic roast. Will knows Toby's correct, so he falls back on "Grrr you're just made the VP didn't tell your joke >:(" when that's never the point, because if he sticks to the actual point he knows Toby's right. That's why Toby gives up and tries to leave - he sees Will is being foolish and doesn't want the argument to devolve into something that would force Toby to take actual action.
@@FriscoCatshark He's livid all the time.
There's this quote from Justified (the TV show).
You meet an arsehole, well, you met an arsehole.
You meet five arseholes in a day, maybe you're the arsehole.
Adults don't shout all the time. Children do.
He couldn't make simple conversation - or read the riot act on Will - without reverting to his old standby.
Ugh these later seasons are not good.
Actually, the episode was about someone (probably the same religious right) trying to kill Charlie again. He brought his mail from home into the office. Maybe that someone hoped he would take it to the WH and in this case they got lucky. But they were still trying to kill Charlie. The writers let that theme go after this episode which was too bad it could have made for a dramatic story later. Missed opportunity.
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