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The president came to a sudden arboreal stop. (I'm going in again.)

'"I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt worship no other god before me." Boy, those were the days, huh?'

Quite possibly the best entrance of any character on any TV show ever

"You answer to me, and you answer to Toby"

S1E5, and a *very* young Nick Offerman is sad about wolves

Bookbag, aged about 6

S1E8: Martin runs through some of his lesser-known films

"Flamingo is on her way"

S1E15: Quite literally the most ridiculous manspreading I've ever seen

S1E18: Over 15 years before Lip Sync Battle premiered on the Paramount Network (née Spike)

You do not want to miss CJ doing The Jackal

I have learned from the excellent @WestWingWeekly podcast that Tommy Schlamme rhymes

S2E1: "Come to Nashua"

I too would put my head in my hands if I had to deal with that pie chart

S2E3: "I wanna see everybody on telephones"

How it was going v how it's going now

S2E6: In which we discover that Bartlet was elected with 48m votes. Biden currently has 81.3m votes. Currently.

S2E8: A great episode. The deference to China was interesting and CJ was amazing as always

S2E10: Yo-Yo Ma is in the West Wing so much he should be in the opening credits (not complaining though)

S2E11: Good times

S2E16: Twenty years ago this episode made me think about maps, and the world, in a new way. God bless that big block of cheese

S2E17: "Stackhouse wasn't supposed to last 15 minutes..."

An honest-to-goodness great episode in which (twenty years ago) I first came across the word 'filibuster'. I've yet to use it in a sentence, but I assume you pronounce it verry slooowly

S2E19: The way they set this up, with the big hammer and the dictaphone that won't stop recording, is just :chef's kiss:

S2E20: Marlee Matlin is great. Pretty sure I learned a v. rude sign off her when she was on Larry Sanders about 20 years ago (it wasn't mado-sasochism)

Mrs Landingham is buying a new car. I *really* wish she wouldn't

Don't!!

FFS

Happy new year

Dammit. Mrs Landingham.

And, despite the hour, as I mount the stairs to fetch the DVD boxset of season 3, I have no regrets

S3E4: yet more evidence that C.J. is a badass

S3E9: Phil Dunphy's first TV appearance

Bonus West Wing fact: Martin Sheen's left arm was crushed by forceps during birth leaving it three inches shorter than his right arm, hence the unconventional jacket-donning technique

S3E10: Maybe it's the Dry January talking but I'm sympathising with Leo pretty hard here

Great show, terrible charts

S3E11: Big fan of Ed and Larry. Or possibly Larry and Ed

S3E19: C.J. has a new bodyguard, and forgive me if I'm reading too much into it, but I think they'd make a cute couple. Can't wait to see them grow old together