Main stories of the episode
The social side of the characters is revealed when they have a card game in the office, Bartlett’s inane trivia drives them insane
Mandy [remember her!?] Toby and Josh try to pass an appropriations bill without hindrance
CJ swallows her pride and asks Sam to help her understand the census
Barlett asks josh to take Charlie out for a drink which almost resorts in a bar fight
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JOSH Have a beer with me.
CHARLIE What do you mean?
JOSH Tonight. We’ll go to a bar in Georgetown. We’ll speak as men do.
CHARLIE We will?
JOSH Yeah.
CHARLIE Um... What kind of bar is this Josh?
JOSH No... It’s fine.
CHARLIE Okay.
JOSH Great.
MRS. LANDINGHAM Josh, aren’t you a little old to be leering at college coeds?
JOSH I’m a Fulbright scholar Mrs. Landingham. I don’t leer. Also, there’ll be plenty of grad students there.
MRS. LANDINGHAM Oh well. Good then.
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Bartlett makes a speech to Zoey about her safety, which comes true word for word later in series four.
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The nightmare scenario, sweetheart, is you getting kidnapped! You go out to a bar or a party in some club and you get up and you go to the restroom and somebody comes from behind and puts his hand across your mouth and drags you out the back door. You're so petrified you don't even notice the bodies of a few Secret Service agents laying on the ground with bullet holes in their heads. Then you're driven away in the car.
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Token Bartlett trivia spot......... [he teaches us stuff!!??]
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BARTLET There are fourteen punctuation marks in Standard English grammar. Can anyone name them please?
C.J. Period.
JOSH Comma.
MANDY Colon
SAM Semi-colon.
JOSH Dash.
SAM Hyphen.
LEO Ah... apostrophe.
BARTLET That’s only seven. There are seven more.
TOBY Question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces and ellipses
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So now you know!
Things that don’t make sense?
Mr Willis couldn’t be a ‘caretaker Congressman’ article 1, section 2 of the constitution says that when vacancies occur an election is called.
In the Congressional roll call, the names are given in alphabetical order, listen carefully, Andi’s Wyatt’s name is not called [and roll calls stopped in 1999, they now vote electronically]
Hey Ama!
I love these little episode synopsi you've been spoiling us with! Especially love the 'things that don't make sense' section!
Thank you for this and I hope you are planning to work your way through all episodes and seasons!!!
Thanks, good to know someone is reading them!
Will keep on providing them as long as someone is reading them!
Thank you for the info about the impossibility of a "Caretaker Congressman". Nevertheless, I really like the character of Mr. Willis for the same reasons that Toby likes him. He's got integrity, sense of duty, and not afraid to say "I don't know".