This weekend marks the anniversary of first discovering The West Wing, 4/10/08. I found the 101 reasons before I had finished the series, I stopped myself from looking at it till I was done, but started taking notes for my own list. Any that are exactly the same are either by accident or necessity.
There is a slight Josh, Donna, C.J focus I must admit, because I just love those three. But I've tried to include the important things. -However some are just a little crazy, cause..well...that's just me.
This is a list that I'm sure will grow. It's been a lot of fun making it. Enjoy.
(and yes, after months of working on it, I realise the additonal irony of publishing this on Janel Moloney's birthday)
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The West Wing is One of the Best Shows Ever Because.........
1. of Gail the Goldfish and her decorative fishbowl decorations
2. They 'Walk and Talk'
3. Josh falls down...a lot
4. C.J. falls down
5. Joshua can't tie his own bow-ties
6. They wear fancy clothes
7. Margaret will almost always cheer you up
8. Josh's dimples are too adorable
9. Leo is the cutest/sweetest oldish man ever
10. Bartlet is his own man
11. Bartlet can't remember names...until the very end
12. Leo's 'Big Block of Cheese Days' aka Total Crackpot days are hilarious, but will also move you
13. They go all out at Christmas
14. You’ll wish you had parents like Leo, and The Bartlets
15. CJ gets called ‘Flamingo’
16. Toby and his rubber ball
17. The First Lady says ‘Jackass’ a lot
18. It doesn’t matter which is Ed and which is Larry
19. Donna is not only Josh's assistant...she's also his bellhop
20. There is a lot of alcoholic drinking, and eating…(particularly cupcakes, donuts, cookies…in Ainsley's case anyways)
21. They play poker
22. They wear hats
23. It can make you like people you thought you wouldn't
24. The music is really catchy and will have you making your own soundtracks.
25. There is quite a bit of singing
26. They cross timezones...which gets a little confusing for some.
27. C.J thinks Josh is really very sweet sometimes
28. Donna wants her money back
29. CJ was faking it with the President regarding the Census
30. Josh, Sam and Toby are 'da men'
31. Leo gets called 'Gerald'
32. The President gets high on painkillers
33. There's more than 1 kind of goldfish
34. The President sneaks out to go shopping at Christmas
35. We will never know what Josh wrote...but it a totally 'aww'-worthy scene
36. Josh has a delicate system
37. Josh wears yellow waders
38. C.J. had a 'whoot canaw' aka a root canal
39. Celestial Navigation will teach you that Josh should NEVER be allowed to do the press briefings
40. Josh's invention of a secret plan to fight inflation
41. Donna has sensitive alabaster skin (CJ too)
42. Donna, like Salvador Dali, has distinctive penmanship
43. C.J. does 'The Jackal'
44. You should never talk to Toby during 'The Jackal '
45. Mandy thinks they should get a Panda Bear...or two..(cause the other one would get lonely)
46. Josh wears a Joey Lucas suit...aka his regular Tuesday suit.
47. C.J was wrong...they went up 9 points, not 5
48. When Donna says "hit with what?" (not to mention the look her face), your heart aches
49. C.J. fell into the pool
50. Margaret practiced the President's signature just for fun. But C.J's is a little more complicated
51. They bring the Yiddish...and you know what word should be Yiddish, but isn't...Spatula..and also far-fetched
52. Josh is just lucky
53. C.J. bought Josh PJ’s that were a tad too big
54. Ainsley calls Sam 'The Master'
55. Donna and Leo talk clothes
56. Sam’s idea for an adventure series about Pilgrim Detectives
57. C.J. and Donna turkeysit Eric and Troy
58. Leo's story of a guy in a hole
59. Yo-Yo Ma rules (and according to Yo-Yo Ma, Donna rules)
60. Sam and Josh need supervision
61. Donna never gave an explanation for why she had her name written on her underwear
62. Josh never needed a reason to be holding women's underwear before
63. Josh relaxes by standing against the wall...behind doors
64. CJ and Ainsley sat in wet paint and couldn’t wear their pants
65. Ainsley blames it on the Bossa Nova
66. Joey Lucas saw right through Josh and Donna
67. Donna is impervious to being fired…amongst other things…
68. of Lunatic Mapmakers
69. Sam's the Man
70. Josh's mother sent him shoes
71. Leo doesn't do casual clothes...
72. 17 People will make you 'aww' a lot (but its okay cause Janel's an 'aww-er' too)
73. Donna wouldn't stop for red lights
74. Donna confesses...
75. Toby and Sam are the Batman and Robin of speech-writing
76. You will miss Mrs Landingham, even though Two Cathedrals is a beautiful episode
77. Bartlet IS The President
78. When Josh was 4 he wanted to be a ballerina, cause he liked the word
79. Amy calls Josh ‘Special J’
80. Amy makes balloon animals
81. Amy almost hit Josh over the head with a water balloon
82. Josh forgot where his mother lived
83. C.J. threw a basketball through a window
84. C.J. and Charlie have a prank war
85. Sam knows he looks good in a tux
86. C.J., Amy and Donna get boozy with The First Lady
87. Donna struck gold finding LemonLyman.com
88. Ginger was hoping the tape was porn too
89. 20 Hours in America is one of the most amusing episodes ever, bless the cotten socks of whoever thought it would be fun to strand Josh, Donna and Toby in Indianna
90. They don’t need some sort of condensed Readers Digest Index of all human knowledge, they usually just use Margaret
91. ‘Schmatsy Pants’ is a most excellent nickname
92. Abbey cut the President's tie in half like a crazy person
93. Toby messes with Josh on Election Day
94. of Donna's invalid ballot, which leads to yelling at strangers on the street
95. C.J.'s office is 'the house of the rising sun'
96. Will can control the weather
97. Donna doesn't care about the kind of cake...it's CAKE!!!
98. Amy gambles on Election day.
99. Josh calls Donna ‘Gracie’, ‘Ethel Mertz’, and ‘Lulu’ all within a couple of minutes
100. Donna's endearing stories
101. Will was one of them
102. Danny plays Santa
103. The First Lady took C.J. shopping and got her drunk...hence the goat.
104. There was a goat named Ron in Will's office, as well as bicycles
105. Will gets called a bunch of names...but Sancho, and Ted aren't even remotely close to WILL
106. Will broke the window...twice
107. Every girl should have 5 guys in tuxes and bow-ties throw snowballs at their window
108. Communists look exactly like non-communists
109. Charlie and Toby got arrested in California
110. Amy almost set the table on fire
111. C.J. put olives in Will's pocket as a hazing
112. Marion Cotesworth-Haye of Marblehead is a very funny name…and CJ can’t keep her cool
113. Josh messed with Amy on her first day as the First Lady’s Chief of Staff
114. Josh is the only one Donna thinks is handsome
115. C.J.'s reflexes were catlike.
116. Joe Quincey looks like Ainsley Hayes apparently...well according to Donna
117. C.J. made an egg stand on its end
118. They have stalker birds
119. Amy and Donna had beer
120. Donna gets Josh
121. Charlie and Zoey dig up a bottle of champange
122. Babies come with hats
123. Margaret doesn't go home until Leo goes home, and doesn't sleep till he sleeps
124. Josh's birthday is not for him, its for the rest of them
125. Donna never should stop letting things get to her
126. Toby was drinking and singing aboard Air Force One
127. Jed and Abbey would rather spend the weekend with Leo than go to his ex-wife’s wedding
128. They hang out with Muppets
129. Donna is there because she's invaluable...Ryan is not.
130. Debbie sprayed Josh in the face with water
131. Cats and Cookies = getting both choices on the Supreme Court
132. Access showed the rest of the world just how awesome C.J. Cregg is!
133. Josh didn't stop for a beer and was right where he needed to be
134. Josh is weak and he knows it
135. C.J. jumped off the cliff
136. Josh crashed a SUV into a Prius
137. Toby has a watchable quality
138. C.J. and Annabeth are from totally different species
139. Annabeth just needs to duck a little in order to walk under a cabinet drawer, rather than go around it
140. Josh hides out in Toby's office because he has a bad temp
141. Annabeth always has a date
142. Annabeth gives out chocolate candy hearts for Valentines Day
143. Everyone knows you don't engage a chicken...except Donna evidently
144. Amy fights cold with more cold…and does it wearing a funny funny hat
145. Santos, Cliff, Donna and Operation Sleepover on the Hill
146. Will and his rubber ball
147. Matt and Helen Santos are adorable
148. Ronna won most pathetic
149. Kate and Will had a candelit dinner at his desk
150. Will was left in charge of Ellie's wedding
151. Josh and Donna's first kiss made many many fans squeal with almost 7 years of glee...the 2nd was just a bonus!
152. The Cold is the cutest ep ever...lots of a adorable-ness
153. Kate and Will are a really cute couple..even if they are bad..really bad..at it
154. Election Day p1 and 2 are SO good, even though you'll cry
155. of Leo McGarry
156. As much as you like Vinnick, you would have been crushed if he had won
157. C.J. likes to 'tart it up' for a funeral
158. Sam comes back in the end
160. Josh found his guy and made him President
162. Donnatella is the little aide that could...and got her own fancy office
163. C.J. and Danny live happily ever after (with a baby girl apparently)
165. Things turn out good for the gang in the future
166. You may not see them all the time, but the assistants rock!
167. Above all, there is no one you respect more than President Bartlet and his staff.
While I didn't feel that every point needed a picture...feel free to suggest any idea you have
Sources - All screencaps included are from,
http://www.screenmusings.net/
http://www.leavemethewhite.com/vitahuset/index.php
-any others were made by me.
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Carlie
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