#zoe bartlet

[astrid-delacour]

[bestwwquote]

Welcome to Best Quote from The West Wing!

Inspired by all the polls about best quotes from different media/hottest actors from different media I wanted to do one for one of my favourite pieces of media The West Wing.

RULES:

1. It has to be a quote. There are some great unsaid moments but the competition is 'best quote' so it needs to be something someone said.

2. It can only come from the TV show 'The West Wing' that aired from 1999 to 2007. Interviews are not allowed, and anything from 'A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote' that was NOT already in the episode 'Hartsfields Landing' doesn't count.

3. Yeah I already have the end of 'Two Cathedrals' in here.

[madlori]

West Wingin' It

No TV show has ever successfully been able to use "New York Minute" as background music and this show is no different. It's too bombastic and cringe. It's always intrusive. They just want the lyrics "somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail." This show even used it as the episode title. The song itself blows.

Bartlet really is kind of awful to Ellie, his middle daughter, in the previous episode. It's a sharp contrast to how he is with Zoe.

I keep forgetting about some of these guest stars. Felicity Huffman!

One of the things that has NOT aged well about this show is the casual misogyny. In what universe is it supposed to be cute and charming for Sam to tell Ainsley that people think she was hired because she's a "leggy blond sex kitten?" And then Bartlet repeats it! Also Emily Proctor is tiny and not leggy. And earlier in the series when Leo tells Hoynes that CJ didn't tattle on him because "she's a good girl." GROSS, LEO. They do a lot of commenting on various womens' beauty but never for the men despite the fact that literal Rob Lowe is there. They do it when Matthew Perry shows up, if I remember, and I guess there's some swooning over Lord John. It just hits different.

That being said, the scene of her doing the bossa nova in a bathrobe in the Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue is pretty cute.

Despite this being not a great episode, it features my favorite Big Block of Cheese Day scene, namely the Cartographers for Social Equality.

[mageiathea]

Fuck it, TWW headcanons that will probably never make it into my fic universe:

-Sam actually does go down to the California 47th to tell Will to drop the campaign, but Josh goes with him and refuses to let Sam run. (At this point Josh is secretly planning Sam's whole ascension to the WH, and running now is NOT part of the plan.)

-Hoynes doesn't get caught cheating, remains VP, and eventually becomes President. It all comes out during his second term, though.

-Let CJ have some fun with Simon Donovan before he gets killed off, FFS.

-Toby actually becomes CoS after Leo has a heart attack, and Sam gets promoted to Director of Communications. Sam brings in Will as his deputy, and is absolutely loving the fact he can just tell Will to deal with whatever he doesn't want to deal with. Jed and Toby have even more epic drama a la "17 People and "The Two Bartlets." Josh whines about not being promoted.

-Toby never leaks anything.

-The kidnapping of Zoe Bartlet fails because that's just too stupid.

...I have so much more.

[bestmothertournament]

Abbey Bartlett (Mother of Elizabeth, Ellie + Zoe Bartlett) - Recommended by unseenacademic who said "a badass, mom, grandma and first lady".

Wanda Maximoff (Mother of Billy and Tommy) - Recommended by evie7common. Badass mom willing to do anything to protect/get her children back.

[marchdadness]

these are dads from the west wing! vote for your favorite, or the one you think is the best, or the hottest, or whatever! the winner will be entered into a poll tournament with 63 other fictional dads.

[carnelian-pimpernel]

I'm binge watching the west wing and I can't keep bothering my mom with my thoughts so I'm keeping them safe here.

(it's mostly just my reactions to certain quotes)

(ik some things before I should bc my mom showed me like ten minutes of a season 6 ep before just telling me to start from the beginning)

I wasn't expecting them to pull the MS card this quickly. Sobbing crying throwing up

Oh my god THE HOTEL DOOR

The bit about how Donna has to open Josh's hotel door for him transitioning into her seeing him do it on his own WHEN THEY'RE ESTRANGED

The DRAMA

THE JACKAL 😂😂😂

NOT ZOE KISSING CHARLIE IN THE BULLPEN

Wait. Why does CJ end up as the chief of staff

WHAT HAPPENS TO LEO

Let Bartlett Be Bartlett

Fucking. King SHIT.

I love Josh so much

Josh and Charlie make my soul happy

Joey Lucas can bite me

"I'm not sleeping with Al Keefer anymore" GIRL OH MY GOD. JUST OUT THERE IN PUBLIC ?!?!

"are you mad I went on a date or are you mad it was with someone from the same division as the Yankees"

"...honest to God I'm not sure"

COMEDY

ZOE'S AGENT IS LOOKING NERVOUS WHATS GOING DOWN

I love the president trolling CJ so much

Josh falling out of seat .5 seconds after Charlie calls him one of the smartest people in the world? *Chef's kiss*

The president's secretary is my favorite character

IS ZOE ABOUT TO GET SHOT BY A NAZI AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

WHERE IS JOSH

NOT MY BABY NOOOOOO

The president, josh, oh my god

Love that this flashback just, COMES UP with a sudden random ex-fiance for Sam

Josh laying there dying

The Outro: 😄😃🎺🎶😁

Sam quit his high paying job bc JOSH SMILED AT HIM I AM. GOING. TO. CRY.

I don't like Danny rn and I am PREEMPTIVELY upset that she doesn't get to stay with Mark Harmon's character.

Like dude. SHE JUST GOT SHOT AT. SHE HAS A CONCUSSION. maybe cut her a little slack?!?!

CJ falling into the pool I am screaming 😂😂😂

CJ is a better person than me bc idk if I could go from 500k a year to 600/week

They were aiming for Charlie?!?!!

SAM SAVED HER LIFE OH MY GOD

Two of you shooting two guns and you couldn't hit one guy???? Were you firing blindfolded????

Y'all's aim fuckin SUCKS

Love that Donna got her job by just. Showing up and starting

"I may have been overstating a little" MOOD

He gave her his lanyard 😭🥹😭🥹

SAM SAVED CJ'S LIFE OH MY GOD

I am sobbing

"why not I saved your life?" askehdjidbdidbdjdhisi

Toby thinking it was his fault and Secret Service Ron reassuring him I'm 😭😭😭

"your husband is a real son of a bitch Mrs. Bartlet" lmfaooooo

Why is this show so good at EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTERS

The scene where Josh wakes up in the hospital 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Jed patting his head :(((

Love that this show was like HEY. when people get shot at, there are PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES.

GO JOSIAH GO !!!! WHAT A KING!!!! INCREDIBLE

CJ bought Josh pajamas 🥹🥹🥹

I really hope this Ainsley chick puts her shitty misogynist boss in his place

Even if it would most likely involve embarrassing Sam

"Please, Please, God let them not be watching"

"Toby come quick, Sam's getting his ass beat by a girl"

LMFAO

I just saw a minor spoiler. Does Josh die?!?! If Josh dies I will murder someone

HER FULL NAME IS DONNATELLA?!? incredible

Cj being punished for making fun of Notre Dame is so good

Josh is JEALOUS and he's being a DICK about it

The Reverend is an.... interesting character

Mrs. Landingham ROASTING the president, I love

🥹😭😭🥹🥹😭🥹 the president giving Charlie his heirloom kniiiiife

These two idiots are about to light a fire in a decorative fireplace aren't they

LMFAO forgetting the president in a seating chart. Classic

These idiots lit a fire in a decorative fireplace

LEON VANCE ?????

One of these times when they say "they'll know what it means" I really want the person on the other end of the message to be like "??? No?? I don't???"

If Jed and Abbey get divorced I am OUT

"all you ever had to do to make me happy, was come home at the end of the day" *tearing up.jpg*

Welp, that's my thoughts for now. There will be more and that is a threat.

[girl4pay]

imo bartlet’s craziest who yells moment is after they have to hit zoe’s panic button at the bar and he says he’s going to up her security and she’s like… exceedingly justifiably upset that her dad’s job is once again encroaching on her personal freedom and that her capacity to have like… normal young adult experiences is being suffocated and he fucking LOSES IT WITH HER and goes on a massive long rant at this tiny seventeen year old who’s literally just had a shitty scary experience about how she’s the nightmare of the nation because she dares to want to like… go places and have friends when he’s the president as if he didn’t literally do this to her? like as if he didn’t completely overturn her life and throw her into an international spotlight making her a potential target and then he’s yelling at her for being selfish because she’s upset he’s forcing more protection on her? literally and explicitly because he wouldn’t be able to do his job properly if something happened to her??? this seventeen year has had the responsibility of sacrificing her life and freedom because he—grown adult who has elected to assume enormous power—might not be able to manage himself?? and she didn’t even get a say in it??? and he’s YELLING???

it’s within a couple of episodes of Leo keeping Sam at work to fuck with Mallory because he’s decided she’s pissed at him about the divorce as well and that ep like Truly sells me on the filter thing because that whole mini arc proceeds as if it’s completely obvious that Leo’s right and she’s being pissy and unreasonable and you see their conversation at the start of the ep and she literally does NOTHING there’s nothing At All to indicate she’s even slightly off with him in any way but so much to indicate he’s off with her and it’s like… like i cannot believe it was anything but him cribbing directly from some conversation he actually had with a woman where he’s like ‘SEE! see what women do see how two faced and catty they are!’ and there’s literally nothing there except his own projected guilt AND THEN bartlet gets involved like ‘stop being so hard on your dad’ WHY can’t any of these old men take responsibility for their own actions or feelings when it comes to their daughters someone should have started a class action suit for the daughters of bartlet white house staffers

omg i literally skip that scene every time bcus it makes me genuinely nauseous when he yells at her. and when mallory says congratulations and leos like oh you said it with a tone…most accurate unpleasant shit dad interactions ever. the scene that prompted that post was the one where the gay man hosting a fundraiser tells bartlet he should come out as against a gaybashing bill and bartlet literally screams that he lives in the ‘real world’ while the gay man lives in the world of ‘adolescent temper tantrums’. WHILE THROWING A TANTRUM. it’s crazy aaron sorkin is alive and breathing w that little self awareness

[shegottosayit]

In the first season when Bartlet goes off on the same senecio with Zoe that happens seasons later always gives me goosebumps. The kidnapping really got in my head as a kid

[donmarcojuande]

The Bartlet daughters, Zoe (Elizabeth Moss), Ellie (Nina Siemaszko) and Liz (Annabeth Gish) in the episode ‘Abu El Banat’

[xfilesposterproject]

The West Wing - In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen, Part I & Part II prints

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[msmarycrawley]

hi i made a thing

it took me like 2 hours lol so i hope you like it and if you don’t that’s okay because it was fun to make

[fangirlfromthenorthcountry]

I’m rewatching The West Wing again because I enjoy living in an alternate reality where President Sam Seaborn is endorsing Senator Charlie Young-Bartlet as his successor.

He’s decided to retire after one term to spend more time bickering with Ainsley.

Charlie and Zoe will make the cutest fictional first family with their kids Dolores Deborah and Little Jed.

Josh and Donna have retired happily in northern Minnesota, Donna’s homeland, and are confident in Lou, Ronna and Otto to steer the ship.

Toby and Andie continue to be on again off again, although the routine is wearing thin as the twins graduate college.

CJ and Danny are raising their kid happily and she definitely brought roads to rural Africa.

Arnie Vinnick is super old and still being awesome.

And Abby Bartlet never stopped being amazing for a single second.

[maraczeks]

tww s5 thread pt 18

[thebreakfastgenie]

Thoughts on what Zoe Bartlet does with her life post TWW?

Oooh this is so hard. I think about this a lot actually. I see Zoey as majoring in either English or French or something like that, or maybe double majoring. I'm not sure what she does later... I don't see her ever getting into politics, but I could see her potentially running the Bartlet Foundation. Or maybe some other non-profit. I don't really see her in academia. Also I definitely think she marries Charlie, and they probably have one or two kids eventually. I like to think she stays close to Josh and CJ, and she probably becomes pretty close to Donna too. I don't think she was ever as close to Sam, Toby, or Will, but I like to think they stay in touch and everything too.

[hesamatador]

It’s a little bit bizarre and kind of dark I guess, but this head-canon hit me during a bit of a rough patch, that about 6 months after Josh and Donna get together is the first time he ever sees her have a panic attack and that’s the moment that he really gets why President Bartlet invoked the 25th after Zoe was kidnapped because he’s sat there, trying to calm Donna down and it suddenly hits him like a ton of bricks the absolute and complete insanity of whoever made him the second most powerful person in the world. Because in that moment, he realises, with startling clarity, that he would close US borders, send out marines, deploy the army, carpet bomb continents and start world wars if it would only stop the tears from running down Donna Moss’s cheeks.

it’s ridiculous and barbaric and unreasonable and true.

And it completely freaks him out, because he suddenly has this memory of the whole Gaza disaster and shouting “we need to kill them” right outside the Oval Office. And he just gets it. Everything that Bartlet did that night makes complete sense to him now. He understands why the President could hand over power to a republican because the alternative was letting the whole world be shot to hell at his own hands, and not giving a damn about it, because he’d do just about anything to help the people he loves most. I dunno, something about this just felt very Josh.