We Got Ourselves a Conspiracy | The West Wing

[@AndreAFirenze]

Once again, simply, the best show ever seen on tv. And still 25 years later it is.

[@RichRacc]

The Coulson jokes are about to go through the roof, I just know it. He did a great job though in all seriousness playing this part.

[@SithTomato]

Casper was a friendly ghost…agents of shield disappear like…ghosts…hmm…that means that Casper is an THIS INFORMATION REDACTED !!!

[@TheCoolProfessor]

IKR? Who knew all this time he was secretly working for S.H.I.E.L.D?

[@retroguy9494]

'Let the record reflect that minority counsel has nodded his head up and down so as to indicate an affirmative response.' 😂

[@jcpahman77]

You laugh but until the early 2010's my mom was a medical transcriptionist for orthopedic surgeons, one of the phrases that went into almost every chart after a patient visit was "the patient verbalized understanding". Written records of proceedings like this often look silly but it's the best way to avoid liability later down the road.

[@randystolz]

But I'm "waiting in the tall grass..."

[@retroguy9494]

'This is why people hate us....because of this THING!'

[@stvdagger8074]

If they have S.H.I.E.L.D. on the case, you'd think that it was some alien weapon, not a Molotov Cocktail.

[@bored1ca]

Coulson was working incognito and his briefing to the President was using coded words that only the President and director of S.H.I.E.L.D would know.

[@sobecin]

I watched that whole series from beginning to end. Coulson did an incredible job of blending in with the FBI, I had no idea it was shield the whole time.

[@SithTomato]

Great cover identity, there, Agent Coul…I mean, Casper

[@q00u]

@@SithTomato Using the same initials is how they catch you

[@WilliamLucas-hy8mx]

Martin Sheen is 5'7" of beautiful AF

[@kifacorea]

Eh?

[@derrickstorm6976]

What does any of that mean lmao

[@retroguy9494]

Well, women don't call him 'the silver fox' for nothing you know!

[@Bum_Hip]

I had the pleasure of meeting, and conversing with him several times. He frequented an establishment I worked at near his home close to Santa Barbra. All I can say is as wonderful of an actor as he is, he is an even more impressive human being. Friendly, generous, and humble. He made my week whenever I had the good fortune of seeing him.

[@retroguy9494]

@@Bum_Hip May I assume that the 'establishment' was a restaurant?

[@CMT_-tt4iv]

The only thing I don’t like about Aaron Sorkin’s writing, or at least his earlier work, is that he likes to make the joke that the opposite to being brave is being a woman. He does this a few times over the series. And every time it sticks out and feels so out of place.

[@imcallingjapan2178]

In this case, I think it was about the typical role of a woman in FBI operations, not about the right or wrongs of that

[@WillBensonNY]

It’s 100% with me in that it is very much a “real” way that men of that time spoke. I have a lot of friends who would “rib” someone in that way. It’s not right today but feels natural for those characters

[@geoffrose9647]

@@WillBensonNY It very much feels like something Josh would say to try and be "among the boys" and that Donna, CJ, Dr. Bartlett, or Mrs. Landingham would later smack him for.

[@jpjordan90]

I heard it more as a general comment on job opportunities than a jibe at women

[@RichRacc]

@@geoffrose9647 Yeah, probably.

[@shermanthedog1374]

Why was everything so dark? Was it just to hide the smallness of the sets? In real life every location in the series is lit up like a NASA lab.

[@carriew5106]

It was filmed 20 years ago... no LED lights then

[@kevinschultz6091]

This was an issue in the West Wing, actually. It got dark (literally, visually) after the first few seasons. I really started noticing it when Sorkin left, but in looking back on it it seemed to have creeped in a year or so earlier.

[@Tiger74147]

The interiors in general are so dark and depressing and suffocating I can barely stand to watch it. I would've hated to work in it.

[@blackcat4859]

@2:45 what is not going to happen?

[@danthompson011]

There is a member of Congress on the committee that knows Leo was drunk the night of one of Jed's presidential debates while he was running for President. The guy is going to bring it up to embarrass him on national television -- Josh and Sam were working on a way to get the Congressman Gibson "out of the room" so he doesn't get the opportunity to bring this up. The President understands Josh is trying to do something, anything to spare Leo of the national embarrassment but sadly they are unable to stop the line of questioning. Thankfully -- the Republican committee chair understands Leo's drunken night has no bearing on the President hiding his MS from the public and calls for a recess for the holidays, sparing Leo from answering.

[@blackcat4859]

@@danthompson011 ah yes, I remember now. Thank you for the elaborate explanation.

[@bigkahunauk1]

Blacks in your state, not Afro-Americans? 😮

[@andrewgundy3045]

Huh?

[@Gredddfe]

That stuck out to me as well. Maybe it was a more common expression in the early 00's.

[@MightyBiffer]

Afro-Americans would stick out more. No one uses that term. And I doubt that anyone ever has.

[@bigkahunauk1]

@@MightyBiffer As a non-American I found that term baffling and brazen. I mean there’s no way Bartlett would say the whites in your state. Furthermore a non-white demographic being treated simply by the colour of their skin with the implicit notion that they vote homogeneously is outdated.