"Leo, wouldn't this time be better spent plotting a war against a country that can't possibly defend itself against us?" "We can do that later, Toby. Right now I'm talking about President Andrew Jackson." Technically, so was Toby.
"As long as I got a job, you got a job. You understand?" "If you were in an accident, I wouldn't stop for red lights." "Ran INTO the fire." Chills every time.
Wonderful scenes all. Alas- my favorites scenec(out of hundreds) is from "He Shall From Time To Time". President Bartlet advises the Ah Secretary what to do if he is the sole survivor- "do you have a best friend? Is he smarter than you? Would you trust him with your life? That's your Chief of Staff" (as Leo overhears). It brings tears to my eyes.
5:30 The Jackal is the fucking best lmao Sorkin: We had a a tendency to shoot very late Friday nights and early into Saturday and on Friday nights Allison's trailer became a nightclub, dubbed 'The Flamingo' after C.J.'s Secret Service code name. Janney: It's so hard to really do anything important when you're waiting around to shoot. You can't seriously try to read a book or do anything, so we would play these silly games. One night we were being completely silly and I was learning words to songs to lip-sync them and Richard would be my back-up. Sorkin: I was working on an idea for an opening for the next script and I wandered into The Flamingo around midnight to find Allison mid-Jackal with Richard sitting off to the side, smoking a cigar and playing an air drum. I just stood there for a second and then said, "We're doing this", went back to my office and wrote the opening. Janney: I loved it! I was so excited that he did that for me. But we actually had to reshoot it. We shot it twice because I, of course, did it as Allison and I was really getting into it. He said, "No, you have to do it as C.J. and she's not as good at doing it as you are!" Even though she was known for it at a silly college thing she did or whatever. So we had to reshoot it with me being a little more unsure of myself. I actually I did it again on a talk show recently, The Arsenio Hall Show. I'm also known to pull it out at parties."
Was actually thinking of this recently and how did sorkin decide and even find this song and have cj lip sync it. Like pulling two rabbits out of your writers hat
When they first were creating the story of The West Wing, the story was supposed to be more strict to following the lives and jobs of the senior staff of the White House. It did that and did it well. However, when Martin Sheen did that awesome monologue in the first episode, against the religious people who wouldn’t talk against a Christian fringe group, they realized the president would need much more screen time and story like than was planned. Martin Sheen did so good that had to alter the storyline to include him more often.
"You know, John, there are places in the world where it might be considered rude to comment on the physical attributes of another man's wife." "My god.... REALLY?" Lord John Marbury was one of my favorite characters in the show. The British Wit combined with British Wisdom, advising America.
this is such a fantastic compilation! basically contains all my favourite little bits, the funny, the sweet, the powerful, the brilliantly memorable! which is impressive as there’s so so many of them in the show.. thank you for making this!
the way she could deliver a line with just a ton of sensuality and sexiness, and that look she would give whomever she was talking to, and she'd get like really quiet and talk more, and.... sorry, it just got really hot in here. gotta open a window brb
Is it weird that I know the quotes of each scene at the first image ? Or is it a testament of how good the show was ? Aaron Sorkin sure has a gift to make the dialogues singing.
Still, after all these years, the best written show on TV, ever. Can't imagine what it would have been if they kept to the original plan and made Sam the leading character...
I think I'd still agree with this, only thing to add is we finally got around to watching Breaking Bad, it became a family-after-Sunday-dinner thing. First season it's still getting up to speed, essential but if it doesn't feel *that* good, well, just wait. The show's best stretches can hold their own with anything I've ever seen, and I mean anything. It had seasons that were flat-out riveting and some of its episodes are just unrivaled. The writing is *superb*, the actors were all born for their roles, the surprises will at times leave you slack-jawed, awash in the holy sea of surprise and inevitability. Never once felt cheated. Perfect? No, there were some weak spots, basically a few bumps. Very few.
I genuinely use "stand there in your wrongness and be wrong", "It's going to be an unbearable day", "Ginger, get the popcorn" and "well, you go girl" all the time.
"If you were in an accident I wouldn't stop for red lights" that wasn't even directed at me and I fell in love with her. How in the absolute hell Josh wasn't absolutely floored, I have no idea.
My favorite line is from the first state of the union: Bartlett: This is a typo, right? It’s supposed to say stronger? Sam: What does it say? Bartlett: I’m happy to report that the country is a lot stranger than it was a year ago.
Love this video, but why did you make me cry again? Thought this was a happy video. "the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight" watched this more than 8 times the whole series this still gets me.
I think it's "when did HE write that last part", talking about Bartlett. Sam is a good and dedicated writer, but it's ultimately Jed who is the voice when it counts.
@j.r.6427 Absolutely not. Bruno knew that Sam had written it -- he was running the campaign and pretty much knew what size underwear the Senior Staff wore. He also knew that presidents don't, as a rule, write their own speeches.
- No, no "however", just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it. - It's like there's nothing you can do about that joke. It's coming and you just have to stand there. - Of course I wrote a concession, what do you.. you want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?
9:38 it’s that little pause … just this *one* second. This story gets me - every - single- time. More than 20 years later, I still haven’t come across a tv series which even comes *close* to TWW.
Sure there were far fewer peak moments after Sorkin left, but I'm surprised to see so few from seasons 5-7. Especially after CJ and Margaret started spending more scenes together, there were some fantastic and quotable lines. Plus Lily Tomlin.
I quote all the time "I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that INSERT THING HERE" and of course "I drink from the keg of Glory"
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The funniest part of this video is trying to figure out how most of these make their way into a conversation as a reference 😂
"Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong" is a very common thing in my marriage.
And in case you hadn't figured it out... It's because I'm the Jackal!
Its easier than you would think.
"There is literally no one I don't hate right now."
- applicable in literally any situation
@@pBlackcoatMine too. LOL
"Leo, wouldn't this time be better spent plotting a war against a country that can't possibly defend itself against us?"
"We can do that later, Toby. Right now I'm talking about President Andrew Jackson."
Technically, so was Toby.
That’s the joke haha
"As long as I got a job, you got a job. You understand?"
"If you were in an accident, I wouldn't stop for red lights."
"Ran INTO the fire."
Chills every time.
I send that clip about "i've been down here before i know the way out" whenever they need me. :)
The Time for American Heroes speech always makes me tear up. No matter how many times I’ve seen it.
Agreed on all of these. Best show ever ❤
I wish I had a West Wing friend I could quote back and forth with.
What are you doing? Now we're both in a hole!
Every Thanksgiving I send a text to two of my friends with all my favorite quotes from Thanksgiving episodes. It’s a long text.
Me too!
The president came to an unwanted arboreal stop
@@petervrabcak5597 the tree just happened to be in the way… lol
“I’m seriously thinking about getting a dog,” is possibly my single favorite line from The West Wing.
Toby Toby Toby Toby.
I like how everything's chronological except that "Mrs Landingham, what's next?" gets a special spot right at the end.
“Are you talking to me during the jackal? Never talk to me during the jackal!”
That’s me when watching the West Wing
I loved the Leo "down in the hole speech, and then later when Josh repeated it back to him"
Me too. I tell that story to my friend some times. Whenever they're in trouble, I jump to their side because of this story.
"You wanna tempt the wrath of the whatever high atop the thing?" 😂 Perfection. 👌🏻
7:40 that you go girl astonishes me everytime
Ikr 😂😂😂
When Donna says she wouldn’t stop for red lights is the best come on line from her to Josh
I still think that that's the episode they should have gotten together.
That was the line where you know they're meant to be together. Like that just oozes love
Wonderful scenes all. Alas- my favorites scenec(out of hundreds) is from "He Shall From Time To Time". President Bartlet advises the Ah Secretary what to do if he is the sole survivor- "do you have a best friend? Is he smarter than you? Would you trust him with your life? That's your Chief of Staff" (as Leo overhears). It brings tears to my eyes.
And the toilet handle jiggle.
@@cynthiahigginbotham9940 Absolutely!!!!
My wife is a budding screenwriter. I bought her Aaron Sorkin's Master Class training...
The screwed-up teleprompter speech from the opening to that episode is also comedy perfection
“You did it above my head and you did it behind my back!”
“Quite the contortionist… am I.”
The DELIVERY
Who said this?
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Mary Louise Parker was a gift to an already unbelievable cast. I'm so glad they kept finding ways to bring her back.
Jed reaches for a champagne glass, and Marbury just ignores him.
5:30 The Jackal is the fucking best lmao
Sorkin: We had a a tendency to shoot very late Friday nights and early into Saturday and on Friday nights Allison's trailer became a nightclub, dubbed
'The Flamingo' after C.J.'s Secret Service code name.
Janney: It's so hard to really do anything important when you're waiting around to shoot. You can't seriously try to read a book or do anything, so we would play these silly games. One night we were being completely silly and I was learning words to songs to lip-sync them and Richard would be my back-up.
Sorkin: I was working on an idea for an opening for the next script and I wandered into The Flamingo around midnight to find Allison mid-Jackal with Richard sitting off to the side, smoking a cigar and playing an air drum. I just stood there for a second and then said, "We're doing this", went back to my office and wrote the opening.
Janney: I loved it! I was so excited that he did that for me. But we actually had to reshoot it. We shot it twice because I, of course, did it as Allison and I was really getting into it. He said, "No, you have to do it as C.J. and she's not as good at doing it as you are!" Even though she was known for it at a silly college thing she did or whatever. So we had to reshoot it with me being a little more unsure of myself. I actually I did it again on a talk show recently, The Arsenio Hall Show. I'm also known to pull it out at parties."
If someone read this and wasn't immediately filled with joy, then to quote CJ: "I can't believe we're the same species."
Was actually thinking of this recently and how did sorkin decide and even find this song and have cj lip sync it. Like pulling two rabbits out of your writers hat
That was Allison doing it badly?
@@MaxMckayful Apparently yes lmao. She's a national treasure.
The mistake was reshooting the scene. The final product is cringey.
" You wanna make out with me, don't you?"
" Well, when don't I?"
I never tire of watching this jewel of a tv series.
That, "If you were in an accident I wouldn't stop for red lights," is so damn good.
Never tire of it. It’s my go to when I need a pick me up
Sam looking around confused when no one else was going on Leo's list other than him was hilarious. Great video!
I, myself, am 4'11", and I yearn for the day when I walk alongside Allison Janney. We're going to look awesome.
Whenever I talk about a group of people in almost any context, I am tempted to add the phrase “and by night they solve crimes” at the end.
Also, “I’m gonna [whatever] so [whatever] you will quite simply be dead” makes its way into -many- conversations somehow lol
Me too!!!!!!!
Lord Marbury never being able to correctly call Leo by his name will never not be funny!!!
I thought you were the butler
GERALD!!!!
my favorite -- "you want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?"
“TURN AROUND AND SPIT”
"These things have a half life."
6:14 The unit got over it 🏳️🌈
“Gerald old sock” 😂😂
"When did you write that last part?"
"In the car"
"...freak"
"...ran into the fire. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight." Fucking poetry.
"I don't understand, did you trip over something?"
😂
"There's a way to be a person" makes its way into my conversations far too often.
"Tempting the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing" gives me LIFE.
I also use "Maybe not so much for you with the talking."
I truly adored Donna/Janel during the run of this show. What a teriffic actor.
this is some of my favourite GIF's you're just missing "what in god's name is happening right now!"
Loved this show, so much. I would include Pres. Bartlett's phone call with the Butterball hotline. 😂
Edit: And Donna wanting her money back. 😅
Absolutely; the Butterball holiness needs to be here!
Hotline!
Oh yeah the Butterball Hotline thing was amazing
"I gotta get better at the names."
"Phil Beharned!"@@cureholder
Martin Sheen made this show possible. We had to believe he was worth it for all of the others to work that hard .
"The streets of heaven tonight are too crowded with angels..." I'm not religious, but wow, that's quite a turn of phrase, delivered powerfully.
I might be a WW addict when I know most of these lines by heart. Naturally, most of these are from the first four years, the Sorkin years.
The best years!
Oh I think it's time for my yearly West Wing marathon.
I just finished mine a couple months ago. Should’ve waited, now I want to do it again!
I've been streaming it and watching it continuously since 2016. At least 3 episodes a week.
It’s a terrible thing. I would regularly come back to the WW to get my spirits up. Next thing I know, I’m two seasons in.
"The people on this sites they are the cast of One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest" That sounds so right
"What Josh doesn't know is, these people didn't take their medication today."
When they first were creating the story of The West Wing, the story was supposed to be more strict to following the lives and jobs of the senior staff of the White House. It did that and did it well. However, when Martin Sheen did that awesome monologue in the first episode, against the religious people who wouldn’t talk against a Christian fringe group, they realized the president would need much more screen time and story like than was planned. Martin Sheen did so good that had to alter the storyline to include him more often.
"And the chemical abbreviation for table salt is N-A-C-L."
“ It’s not that I don’t know how it’s just that I haven’t learned yet”
someone should show every politician the scene where cj rips josh about social media. sorkin really had some foresight.
"So far up your ass!"
i have NEVER seen such a good west wing comp i will be watching this for DAYS ty ty ty
"You know, John, there are places in the world where it might be considered rude to comment on the physical attributes of another man's wife."
"My god.... REALLY?"
Lord John Marbury was one of my favorite characters in the show. The British Wit combined with British Wisdom, advising America.
Add Paxton Whitehead’s delivery!!!!! Bernard Thatch needed his own spin-off show!
The Dada of Dada cracked me up 😂
Butter butter butter butter butter
It's been so long since I watched this show and I forgot how much i adore Leo and Toby
this is such a fantastic compilation! basically contains all my favourite little bits, the funny, the sweet, the powerful, the brilliantly memorable! which is impressive as there’s so so many of them in the show.. thank you for making this!
Couldn’t of stated any better. My sentiments exactly!
Great compilation... I would have added - "Have I displeased you, you feckless thug?!" From Two Cathedrals..
That's the best Bartlett scene
Daus impacce
and Maps for equality is one of my faves :D
Mary-Louise Parker was, at that time, the most attractive and intoxicatingly beautiful woman in the history of TV....
This is the most spot on UA-cam comment ever.
Saw her from the front row in Proof.Unforgettable.
Always had a crush on Janel Moloney when this was on. She still looks good, but not like she did 20+ years ago
100% agree. But that title now belongs to Keri Russell (The Diplomat)
the way she could deliver a line with just a ton of sensuality and sexiness, and that look she would give whomever she was talking to, and she'd get like really quiet and talk more, and.... sorry, it just got really hot in here. gotta open a window brb
Is it weird that I know the quotes of each scene at the first image ? Or is it a testament of how good the show was ? Aaron Sorkin sure has a gift to make the dialogues singing.
Me too. We are not weird, just devoted.
I love how most of the quotes were before sorkin left bc it’s just so true
"As long as I got a job, you got a job." Totally chilling. Reminiscent of Jeremy Renner's "Whose car we gonna take?" in "The Town."
Don’t know how this came up on my feed, but I appreciate it! I loved this show.
“*I’M* MARION COATESWORTH-HAY!”.
It's a key. Francis Scott Key. It's the Francis Scott Key key.
“I’m Toby Ziegler… I work at the White House.”
The phrase "internet website" cracks me up everytime!
My favorite west wing is “Josh Lyman is gesticulating wildly”
“….the streets of Heaven are to crowded with angels….” too terribly true
No "however". Just stand there in your wrongness, and be wrong, and get used to it.
I had forgotten how much I liked Timothy Busfield as Danny Concannon on this show!
Before this show I only knew him from "Thirty Something"
I just started showing West Wing to my sister, and I’m glad to say she is loving it. I’ve seen it all, and just finished season 1 with her
Still, after all these years, the best written show on TV, ever. Can't imagine what it would have been if they kept to the original plan and made Sam the leading character...
For me, it's second best...Sorkin's Newsroom is in my opinion the best
I think I'd still agree with this, only thing to add is we finally got around to watching Breaking Bad, it became a family-after-Sunday-dinner thing. First season it's still getting up to speed, essential but if it doesn't feel *that* good, well, just wait. The show's best stretches can hold their own with anything I've ever seen, and I mean anything. It had seasons that were flat-out riveting and some of its episodes are just unrivaled. The writing is *superb*, the actors were all born for their roles, the surprises will at times leave you slack-jawed, awash in the holy sea of surprise and inevitability. Never once felt cheated. Perfect? No, there were some weak spots, basically a few bumps. Very few.
I swear I have a permanent crush on CJ. Smart became the new sexy and I haven’t looked back since.
“No one invited you”
“ITS GOT MY NAME ON IT!”
😂😂
Gerald!
I genuinely use "stand there in your wrongness and be wrong", "It's going to be an unbearable day", "Ginger, get the popcorn" and "well, you go girl" all the time.
so many to love... i've used so many of these in real life - especially the babies with the hats!
Toby is my spirit animal.
I just love him so much.
Imagine how different 8:30 would’ve gone if Sam’s next line was, “Toby, I’ve _never_ seen you laugh.”
I drink from the keg of glory, Donna gets said any time I manage to accomplish something haha
i actually FORGOT until watching this video that my common thing to say "you did a whole thing there all by yourself" is from this show
Danny Concannon my total perfect man.
"If you were in an accident I wouldn't stop for red lights" that wasn't even directed at me and I fell in love with her. How in the absolute hell Josh wasn't absolutely floored, I have no idea.
The West Wing is the show which made it's actors who their absolutely best.
The Jackal - Janison was so good at it that told her to mess up a bit.
Ok fine I'll watch all the episodes of the West Wing again
Time to watch this series again.
I wish there were more episodes with the Admiral. Great actor and great relationship between the President and the Admiral.
My favorite line is from the first state of the union:
Bartlett: This is a typo, right? It’s supposed to say stronger?
Sam: What does it say?
Bartlett: I’m happy to report that the country is a lot stranger than it was a year ago.
What a GREAT show. Love it!
They're all about duty
Oh joy, a very personal Wingnut compilation! Mine mostly make me cry.😢 My favourite scene is the debate - "... can we have it back please."
I voted this up in less than a minute. Liked the video collection immediately.
Love this video, but why did you make me cry again? Thought this was a happy video. "the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight" watched this more than 8 times the whole series this still gets me.
Bruno: When did you write that last part?
Sam: In the car.
Bruno: Freak.
I think it's "when did HE write that last part", talking about Bartlett. Sam is a good and dedicated writer, but it's ultimately Jed who is the voice when it counts.
@j.r.6427 Absolutely not. Bruno knew that Sam had written it -- he was running the campaign and pretty much knew what size underwear the Senior Staff wore. He also knew that presidents don't, as a rule, write their own speeches.
- No, no "however", just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.
- It's like there's nothing you can do about that joke. It's coming and you just have to stand there.
- Of course I wrote a concession, what do you.. you want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?
Josh, Toby, Leo and C.J. were the best characters ever.
Yep, my faves ❤❤❤
9:38 it’s that little pause … just this *one* second.
This story gets me - every - single- time.
More than 20 years later, I still haven’t come across a tv series which even comes *close* to TWW.
If I did a video of all the bits I reference it would go on for at least 10 hours!
I like this video but I love this concept more. Someone needs to do this for more shows! For myself and my partner it’s Community and Archer right now
"I hate them with the heat of a nova." That's intense.
THis is a great collection... thanks with all the work
Sure there were far fewer peak moments after Sorkin left, but I'm surprised to see so few from seasons 5-7. Especially after CJ and Margaret started spending more scenes together, there were some fantastic and quotable lines. Plus Lily Tomlin.
I miss shows like this. Smart, fast paced, well acted and written, fun but can be serious...
Do some reaearch, Andrew Jackson's 2 ton block of cheese was pork barrel spending, both years he did it the govt, bought it from an old friend
Not true. It was a gift from a supporter who was a farmer in upstate New York.
This is a great compilation, some make me laugh hysterically and some make me cry.
6:11 Noticed the episode was directed by Laura Innes, also known as Kerrie Weaver in E.R.
I quote all the time "I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that INSERT THING HERE" and of course "I drink from the keg of Glory"
"it's like there's nothing you can do about that joke...it's coming but you have to just stand there." i use it regularly
How horrible for you. I didn’t realize that it WAS a joke for months. Of course, people say that about my attempts at humor, sometimes.
And the first kiss between Josh and Amy is exhilarating . . . but any kiss with Mary-Louise Parker would be so by definition.
Love the West Wing. So many moments to pick!