The West Wing characters: Joey Lucas (and Kenny!)
“You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven’t gotten through. There are people you haven’t persuaded yet. These numbers mean dial it up. Otherwise you’re like the French radical, watching the crowd run by and saying, ‘There go my people. I must find out where they’re going so I can lead them.’”
From Take This Sabbath Day, Joey was feisty and funny and brilliant - most of which was recognised immediately by Josh (despite his sensitive system) and the President. When we were reunited with the character in 20 Hours in LA, I found myself willing Josh and Joey together despite Donna, which says a lot for the chemistry and talents of Marlee and Brad, to be honest. I think I could have quite happily settled in to the JL/JL pairing (that would have meant neither needed their towels re-sewn). I admire Joey a lot as a character; she’s fearless. I wish she had been a regular, because every time she came back, those were great episodes.
My favourite performance and scene featuring Joey is in The Fall’s Gonna Kill You, when Josh signs ‘MS’ to her and asks her to come up with a way to poll the reaction to the President’s MS without having anyone realize the questions they’re answering. There’s a complexity to the way Marlee acts, and given that she is stripped of a huge part of the communication process, it’s unbelievable the fluidity of the scenes she’s in. Credit also must be given to Kenny. As well as intense emotional moments, Joey also has a hilarious banter with Josh (and some of the other characters too) as seen in episodes like The War at Home, 100,000 Airplanes and The Benign Prerogative (one of my favourite moments is the pregnancy reveal). There is also the tenderness of Mandatory Minimums, in which Josh reveals the story of his Joey Lucas suit (not his regular Tuesday suit).
She’s just a fantastic character, with a great rapport with the ensemble. You can tell that every time she returns, they’re like ‘YAY JOEY’. And damn, the girl’s got sass! I mean, the women on this show are like a congregation of the biggest HBICs in all the land!
The West Wing, 2x22 Two Cathedrals
6 caps —> The West Wing: “Celestial Navigation” asked by pinkand-yellow
From NBC’s “Lost Promo.” (thanks tomfoolery815 for posting!)
(Source: thecrackers-danny, via arbitrarily)
Will: Ever try to pull that Davis cup thing on anyone else?
Annabeth: What Davis cup thing?
Josh: Leo used to tell these tall tales to test how gullible you were? Like how he played Davis cup tennis before he blew out his knee.
Will: How he hustled chess games in Washington Square Park.
Donna: How he was a train conductor.
Josh: Minor League baseball player.
Bartlet: If you were buying it the stories kept getting bigger and better.
C.J.: My favourite was how he almost made the Olympic luge team in 1962.
Annabeth: He didn’t make the luge team in 1962?”
Will: There weren’t any Olympics in 1962
C.J.: Don’t worry about it. I made it all the way to Minor League baseball player.
Josh: Didn’t you think it was kinda weird that after he blew out his knee he played minor league baseball?
Will: I made it to dance instructor.
Bartlet: No, no. That one was true. He taught me to fox-trot.
C.J.: Really?
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“Say, speaking of dead Irish writers…”
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Who’s Bartlet? // The guy behind the curtain, pulling the strings.
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“My dad loves 4th of July stuff, like Jefferson and Adams dying on the same day.”
“Adams thought Jefferson had survived him. ‘Jefferson Lives’ were his last words.”
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SAM: You know anything about chaos theory?
MALLORY: I know it has to do with fractal geometry.
SAM: That’s about all I know too. But it has to do with there being order and even… great beauty, in what looks like total choas. And if we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge. I love Josh like a brother and he’s a world-class political mind but until today, I didn’t know he was smarter then I was. I’ve worked here three years and eight months and until you sit in the room all day, you can’t comprehend the chaos of the Oval Office. I had one good moment talking about the global ripple effect of budget defict, but that was it. The rest of the day was just keeping up. And this was a pretty light day.
MALLORY: One moment is good.
SAM: Oh, I’m not complaining. I’m saying one good moment is great. It’s a golf shot… I’ve got to get back in there. That’s where it’s happening.The West Wing, 4x01 20 Hours in America
Casey: Hey, did you catch the stats in the Philadelphia-Anaheim game?
Natalie: Can you believe it?
Casey: 179 penalty minutes.
Natalie: In a 60-minute game.
Casey: That’s crazy.
Natalie: Not as crazy as Dana coming back from dinner without her panties.
Casey: What?
Natalie: Hmm?
Casey: What’d you say?
Natalie: When?
Casey: Just then.
Natalie: Nothing.
Casey: Dana came back from dinner without her panties?
Natalie: No.
Casey: Why’d you say she did?
Natalie: It’s just an expression.
Casey: You said it’s not as crazy as Dana coming back from dinner without her panties.
Natalie: Well, technically it’s not, Casey.
-Sports Night 2x04 “Louise Revisited”
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