Jed and Abbey Bartlet 2x22 - Mrs. Landingham's funeral

[@adangracia3763]

Damn you aaron for killing off the series' classiest character. Mrs Landingham was the best.

[@embott1]

I bet it was her cancer diagnosis. The timing seems right. Later on, when Kathryn Joosten (Mrs Landingham) went on to play Karen on Desperate Housewives, that character died of cancer. Miss Joosten died 20 days after the series finale of DH.

[@davidweihe6052]

Did Mrs. Landingham died before or after Zoe’s kidnapping? That was Sorkin’s last episode. Did she want out of her commitment to TWW twenty episodes in the three seasons that she was “on”?

[@robertsavage3553]

I thank God they cast her. She was perfect for this show.

[@DavidAmodt]

Great episode that helped build this series

[@stevealigheri]

That special sadness you get in cars going to a funeral and then that brief melancholic sadness on the way to the grave. People try distract you like the wife does here but its best to just hold their hand and keep quiet. When the mourners want to talk they'll talk.

[@MearnieToon]

Isn’t she a mourner too? Maybe she was talking because as you say a mourner will talk when they want to talk 😐

[@flyboy152]

@@MearnieToonYes, Abby was mourning Mrs. Landingham, but for Jed, it was much more personal. His relationship with her went back to his school days, and it seems she’d been his primary assistant for decades.

[@stardaggerrihannsu2363]

Rizzo did well for herself later in life.

[@jamihede4440]

Wonderful episode.

[@s.w.chandler6082]

I don't know who was driving, but that's not the way to the cathedral from the White House.

[@TheMauf]

S. W. Chandler nerd

[@tengigeorge-ikoli3688]

@@TheMauf lol

[@John_Henry83]

I loved this episode but the one thing that I always questioned was this.. Unless Jed pulled some strings as POTUS how did she get a funeral in the National Cathedral?? She was just his secretary not a Senator or a Head of state.

[@JordanBahrPian-UkePlayer]

It wasn’t an official state funeral. It was a regular one that happened to take place at the National cathedral, and Bartlet wanted to attend.

[@englishruraldoggynerd]

If you live or I believe work?? in the parish you can get married and have a funeral service in St Paul’s Cathedral in London (not buried though!) so it’s likely that the rules are going to be the same anywhere.

[@noomJ]

Been there. Beautiful Structure

[@dinahanderson]

Loved seeing great actors together, this was The West Wing

[@tobyg9495]

Mrs. Landingham already lost a husband and two sons. Now they are together again. 😇

[@stardaggerrihannsu2363]

No, they are all dead, nothing.

[@michaelhayden725]

But what does Jed have? She was his " big sister", his confident, and his friend. Yes he has Abbey and the girls and his White House staff, by Mrs Landingham had been a part of his life for thirty or forty years.

[@junheceta268]

What do you mean they're together again? THEY ARE DEAD, When you are dead, you are dead. There's nothing.

[@AdmiralSarcasm]

​@@junheceta268where's the harm in allowing people the grace of believing something that gives them peace and harms nobody?

[@Darbobski]

@@AdmiralSarcasm I think that the "harms nobody" part would be true if so many did not feel that it was their religious duty to tell others what they must believe. There are far too many in our country that want to dismiss the freedoms granted by the constitution and make Christianity the only recognized religion. In other words, harm is consistently done in the name of religion and has been for centuries. I think it is understandable why some people bristle at seemingly innocuous cliche. That said, your statement did me no harm and I believe it gave you, and others with the same beliefs, comfort. Just know that you are posting in an open forum, so it will do you little good to get into a debate or ask questions like the one you asked if you are not looking for a genuine answer that may be outside of your personal understanding.

[@kevinkern4661]

The President is not allowed to sit behind the driver.

[@stephencronin1080]

Why

[@kevinkern4661]

@@stephencronin1080 my guess is that his agent is in the passenger seat. But I’m just guessing.

[@cald1421]

Why is that

[@cainster]

@@cald1421 Because someone determined enough can take out the driver and cause the car to crash; but, more importantly, they can take out the driver and take out the President all in one go. With the right circumstances and one hell of a lot of luck. Bottom line, watch any spy movie, or at least a Bond one. Taking out the driver = car crashes. If Prez is behind driver, Prez might not survive the crash, regardless of how armored the car is at the time. It's a safety issue. For Prez, driver and passenger(s).

[@kevinkern4661]

President is not supposed to sit behind the driver

[@AegisNova]

Where should the President sit?

[@richardhutchison3123]

@@AegisNova This thing in the WH needs to sit on the roof!

[@spoda81]

It should be his funeral

[@CorsetLebelle]

President gets to sit where ever the fuck he wants

[@John-Adams]

@@richardhutchison3123 Donald Trump is the best president in living memory.

[@jodavey]

Poor continuity. President would never sit behind the driver. Dont get me started on why Sam isnt at Leos funeral. He was willing to risk disbarment but not go to the mans service?

[@jonmel]

It’s called filming schedules and I hear near the end rob Lowe was not much liked as it was originally not going to be a show Centred a round the president

[@ssansu]

Behind the driver is the safest spot.

[@flyboy152]

Because in the episode right after Leo’s funeral, Josh goes out to LA to surprise Sam. If he’d seen Sam a few days before, the callback to how Josh originally got Sam to join the Bartlet campaign wouldn’t have worked. They should have had Sam say something to Josh about how he was sorry to have missed Leo’s funeral, maybe saying he was out of the country or something.

[@jodavey]

@@flyboy152 that was the following episofe

[@flyboy152]

@jodavey Yes, the episode right after Leo's funeral, not in the funeral episode.

[@adequatebus8280]

Why do we build cathedrals to an idea that never answers a question? -C

[@stephencronin1080]

The people who built it felt it answered a question. Just because it doesn't for you doesn't mean it can't for someone else

[@adequatebus8280]

@@stephencronin1080 as far as we know, Jesus never mentioned cathedrals. cathedrals are a show meant to house and augment the showmen. -C

[@stephencronin1080]

@@adequatebus8280 who says he did?

[@jcs1025]

Love this series, but as a former Catholic myself I was always bothered by Bartlett’s faith. People as intelligent and well educated as Jed and Abby Bartlett would be have been atheists.

[@stephencronin1080]

Lol what a reddit tier comment

[@stonebear]

Go read up on Einstein, sir.

[@jcs1025]

@@stonebear If you are going to come at me you better do your homework first. Einstein’s views on god are ambiguous at best, with most historian’s concluding that he was agnostic and didn’t believe in a ‘personal’ god. He may have been open to a deistic concept of god as prime mover, but that’s very different from religion. Regardless, I stand by my OPINION about a FICTIONAL president and First Lady.

[@capnskiddies]

Is this your way of telling us you consider yourself to be intelligent & well educated?

[@BTURNER1961]

The only thing more asine than the self- righteous sanctimony of some religious folk, is the intellectual snobbery of some atheists. There are plenty of fine intellectual minds all throughout history that have been devout Christians. I put your crap right next to the religious folk telling me that I can't have a moral center because I don't put a Bible at the center of my moral life.