30 Days of TV - Day 12
Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Well, I've probably watched just about every episode of S1-3 of The West Wing at least five times, thanks to Bravo's nightly reruns back when I was in college. And God help me when they did those holiday marathons. I'd be glued to my TV for HOURS. And yeah, I do have all the DVDs and could watch them whenever I wanted, but there's just something about marathons on TV that sucks you in, you know?
Anyway, one of my very favorites of those seasons is "Celestial Navigation." Y'all know what I'm talking about, right? "I HAD WOOT CANAW!" *loves CJ*
But seriously, this episode has some of my very favoritest things ever:
1. CJ has an emergency root canal:
JOSH: What the hell happened?
CJ: I had woot canaw.
JOSH: What happened to your cheeks?
CJ: I had woot canaw.
JOSH: Why are you talking like that?
CJ: I had woot canaw!
JOSH: Yeah, I heard you the first time, I was just amusing myself.
CJ: Wet Sam do it.
JOSH: Sam went to Foggy Bottom.
CJ: What's he doing in Fwoggy Bowtew?
JOSH [laughs]: I just wanted to see if I could make you say 'Foggy Bottom.'
CJ: Josh, pwease be vewy cawefuw. Twy vewy, vewy hawd not to destwoy us.
CJ: The Pwesident needs to be bwiefed on the events of the day.
TOBY: CJ, so help me if you use the words 'Pwesident' or 'bwiefed' again...
2. Josh is snarky with the press:
JOSH: Let me tell you something, mi compadre. You guys have been coddled. I'm not your girlfriend, I'm not your camp counselor, and I'm not you sixth grade teacher you had a crush on. I'm a graduate of Harvard and Yale and I believe that my powers of debate can rise to meet the Socratic wonder that is the White House Press Corps.
DANNY: Okey-dokey.
JOSH: I'm gonna take one question apiece.
MIKE: When was the last time the President has a cigarette?
JOSH: Mike, you sure you want your one question to be that stupid?
KATIE: But he has no plan to address inflation specifically?
JOSH: Twenty-four PhD's and a Counsel of Economy Advisors, Katie. They have a plan to fight inflation.
DANNY: Is the reason you won't tell us about it that it's a secret?
JOSH [sarcastic]: Yeah, Danny. We have a secret inflation plan.
3. There's a secret plan to fight inflation:
JOSH: Tell me what you think I should do right now.
DONNA: Go into your office and come up with a secret plan to fight inflation.
TOBY: Have you fallen on your head?
JOSH: Listen...
TOBY: Have you fallen down and hit your head on something hard?
BARTLET: You told the press I have a secret plan to fight inflation?
JOSH: No, I did not. Let me be absolutely clear, I did not do that. Except, yes,
I did that.
JOSH: I was crystal clear. They said, 'Do you think if the President has a plan to fight inflation, it's right that he keep it a secret?' I said, 'Of course not!'
BARTLET: Are you telling me that not only did you invent a secret plan to fight inflation, but now you don't support it?
JOSH: When you put it like that...
4. The President is grumpy:
BARTLET [woken up after 3 hours of sleep]: Who the hell is this?
CHARLIE: Sir.
BARTLET: And what could you possibly want?
CHARLIE: Sir. I need you to dig in now. It wasn't a nightmare. You really are the
President.
BARTLET: I'm tired, I'm cranky, and my wife's in Argentina. Let's get this over with.
BARTLET: Okay, before we go on. CJ, if blood is gushing from the head wound you just received from a stampeding herd of bison, you'll do the press briefing.
SAM: He's on his way, sir.
BARTLET: Right now?
SAM: Yes, but he won't be here until the day after tomorrow.
BARTLET: Day after tomorrow?
SAM: Yes sir.
BARTLET: Is he coming in from Neptune?
5. Toby and Sam get lost somewhere in Connecticut:
TOBY: We're going the wrong way.
SAM: No, we're not.
TOBY: We're supposed to be going east.
SAM: We're going east.
TOBY: How do you know we're going east?
SAM: The sun rises in the east.
TOBY: It's dark outside!
SAM: Also, that bright star in the northern sky is Polaris.
TOBY: So what?
SAM: I'm using celestial navigation.
TOBY: Hey, Galileo, get off at the next exit and turn the car around.
TOBY: Sam feels we're zeroing in on it.
JOSH: You haven't found it yet?
TOBY: We've been navigating by the North Star, which turned out to be the Delta shuttle from LaGuardia. It's a miracle we're not in Nantucket right now.
SAM: Let me tell you something. If we'd stayed on the Merritt parkway instead of getting off at exit 29 and going east to Greenwich, I don't think we'd have wound up in Bridgeport so many times.
TOBY: Shut up.
6. EDWARD JAMES OLMOS! Who, of course, I didn't recognize at the time, because this was before BSG, but it retroactively makes me excited. :)
TOBY: One phone call, Judge. 'Toby, this has happened. Tell 'em my name's Roberto Mendoza and the President's named me to the bench!'
MENDOZA: They pulled me over because I look like my name is Roberto Mendoza and I'm coming to rob your house.
MENDOZA: My kid was in the car, Toby. They patted me down and they handcuffed me in front of my nine-year-old boy. Then he and his mother got to see them put me in the squad car and drive away.
TOBY: He's also seen you wearing a robe with a gavel in your hand.
MENDOZA: He doesn't understand that. He doesn't know what that is. He understands what the police are because he watches television. That's what he's gonna remember, his father being handcuffed. So America just got another pissed-off guy with dark skin.
Honorable Mentions: BtVS - probably OMWF, "Pangs" through "Hush," Season 5 from "Intervention" on, and several episodes from season 2. I really don't rewatch a lot of shows, despite having the DVDs.
And the rest of the days, for those who want to play along...
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Well, I've probably watched just about every episode of S1-3 of The West Wing at least five times, thanks to Bravo's nightly reruns back when I was in college. And God help me when they did those holiday marathons. I'd be glued to my TV for HOURS. And yeah, I do have all the DVDs and could watch them whenever I wanted, but there's just something about marathons on TV that sucks you in, you know?
Anyway, one of my very favorites of those seasons is "Celestial Navigation." Y'all know what I'm talking about, right? "I HAD WOOT CANAW!" *loves CJ*
But seriously, this episode has some of my very favoritest things ever:
1. CJ has an emergency root canal:
JOSH: What the hell happened?
CJ: I had woot canaw.
JOSH: What happened to your cheeks?
CJ: I had woot canaw.
JOSH: Why are you talking like that?
CJ: I had woot canaw!
JOSH: Yeah, I heard you the first time, I was just amusing myself.
CJ: Wet Sam do it.
JOSH: Sam went to Foggy Bottom.
CJ: What's he doing in Fwoggy Bowtew?
JOSH [laughs]: I just wanted to see if I could make you say 'Foggy Bottom.'
CJ: Josh, pwease be vewy cawefuw. Twy vewy, vewy hawd not to destwoy us.
CJ: The Pwesident needs to be bwiefed on the events of the day.
TOBY: CJ, so help me if you use the words 'Pwesident' or 'bwiefed' again...
2. Josh is snarky with the press:
JOSH: Let me tell you something, mi compadre. You guys have been coddled. I'm not your girlfriend, I'm not your camp counselor, and I'm not you sixth grade teacher you had a crush on. I'm a graduate of Harvard and Yale and I believe that my powers of debate can rise to meet the Socratic wonder that is the White House Press Corps.
DANNY: Okey-dokey.
JOSH: I'm gonna take one question apiece.
MIKE: When was the last time the President has a cigarette?
JOSH: Mike, you sure you want your one question to be that stupid?
KATIE: But he has no plan to address inflation specifically?
JOSH: Twenty-four PhD's and a Counsel of Economy Advisors, Katie. They have a plan to fight inflation.
DANNY: Is the reason you won't tell us about it that it's a secret?
JOSH [sarcastic]: Yeah, Danny. We have a secret inflation plan.
3. There's a secret plan to fight inflation:
JOSH: Tell me what you think I should do right now.
DONNA: Go into your office and come up with a secret plan to fight inflation.
TOBY: Have you fallen on your head?
JOSH: Listen...
TOBY: Have you fallen down and hit your head on something hard?
BARTLET: You told the press I have a secret plan to fight inflation?
JOSH: No, I did not. Let me be absolutely clear, I did not do that. Except, yes,
I did that.
JOSH: I was crystal clear. They said, 'Do you think if the President has a plan to fight inflation, it's right that he keep it a secret?' I said, 'Of course not!'
BARTLET: Are you telling me that not only did you invent a secret plan to fight inflation, but now you don't support it?
JOSH: When you put it like that...
4. The President is grumpy:
BARTLET [woken up after 3 hours of sleep]: Who the hell is this?
CHARLIE: Sir.
BARTLET: And what could you possibly want?
CHARLIE: Sir. I need you to dig in now. It wasn't a nightmare. You really are the
President.
BARTLET: I'm tired, I'm cranky, and my wife's in Argentina. Let's get this over with.
BARTLET: Okay, before we go on. CJ, if blood is gushing from the head wound you just received from a stampeding herd of bison, you'll do the press briefing.
SAM: He's on his way, sir.
BARTLET: Right now?
SAM: Yes, but he won't be here until the day after tomorrow.
BARTLET: Day after tomorrow?
SAM: Yes sir.
BARTLET: Is he coming in from Neptune?
5. Toby and Sam get lost somewhere in Connecticut:
TOBY: We're going the wrong way.
SAM: No, we're not.
TOBY: We're supposed to be going east.
SAM: We're going east.
TOBY: How do you know we're going east?
SAM: The sun rises in the east.
TOBY: It's dark outside!
SAM: Also, that bright star in the northern sky is Polaris.
TOBY: So what?
SAM: I'm using celestial navigation.
TOBY: Hey, Galileo, get off at the next exit and turn the car around.
TOBY: Sam feels we're zeroing in on it.
JOSH: You haven't found it yet?
TOBY: We've been navigating by the North Star, which turned out to be the Delta shuttle from LaGuardia. It's a miracle we're not in Nantucket right now.
SAM: Let me tell you something. If we'd stayed on the Merritt parkway instead of getting off at exit 29 and going east to Greenwich, I don't think we'd have wound up in Bridgeport so many times.
TOBY: Shut up.
6. EDWARD JAMES OLMOS! Who, of course, I didn't recognize at the time, because this was before BSG, but it retroactively makes me excited. :)
TOBY: One phone call, Judge. 'Toby, this has happened. Tell 'em my name's Roberto Mendoza and the President's named me to the bench!'
MENDOZA: They pulled me over because I look like my name is Roberto Mendoza and I'm coming to rob your house.
MENDOZA: My kid was in the car, Toby. They patted me down and they handcuffed me in front of my nine-year-old boy. Then he and his mother got to see them put me in the squad car and drive away.
TOBY: He's also seen you wearing a robe with a gavel in your hand.
MENDOZA: He doesn't understand that. He doesn't know what that is. He understands what the police are because he watches television. That's what he's gonna remember, his father being handcuffed. So America just got another pissed-off guy with dark skin.
Honorable Mentions: BtVS - probably OMWF, "Pangs" through "Hush," Season 5 from "Intervention" on, and several episodes from season 2. I really don't rewatch a lot of shows, despite having the DVDs.
And the rest of the days, for those who want to play along...
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death