I don't think there will ever be a TV Series that I will love more than this. The script was crisp, casting amazing and the way it was filmed was really something to behold.
These "Collections" are so valuable to me as a West Wing Lifer! I very much appreciate the time and effort spent in putting together these "Extended Clips" ! I also very much love reading the awesome, hilarious and insightful comments from the viewers! This Channel is My Oval Office! Thank You Everyone Involved! MOO From COW-lumbus, Ohio 👋
I love how Aaron Sorkin made Sam such a nerd. His middle name is Norman. He went to Dungeons and Dragons camp. He's a klutz. He has road maps memorized. He's nuts for dental hygiene. Ridiculous. Adorable.
I watched this when the series first aired in New Zealand. I thought I understood the storyline’s…listening to a number of excerpts, I am starting to wonder if I ever did…or is it just my ageing brain ?! The dialogue is technical, rapid fire, smart, funny, and relentless. How did Sorkin and the writers reach this standard of writing. The actors are superb. Love meeting them again. 🐑🐑🇳🇿🇳🇿NZ
Sorkin researches his shows like this: he finds people who have been there and picks their brains for the framework for legitimacy. For West Wing he hired Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC host who had been an aid to a few political figures and wrote screenplays. For The Newsroom he pulled from conversations with Keith Olbermann who was the character that he used from the real world who had been a lead anchor on several networks. Then he imbues his conversational writing and walk-and-talk stuff and voila, a Sorkin production that seems like he is innately knowledgable but also witty.
Sam really was the moral compass. After he left it didn’t fit right. CJ and Josh and the President kind of sometimes took over the role, but Sam really did have the best heart, uncorrupted by politics, and I love how all the other characters just couldn’t quite stay mad at him and looked out for him. His relationship with Toby was the best
Sam is a wonderful character. Rob Lowe did a study in what might be called "calm manic". He's fidgety, often awkward but rarely loses his cool and when he does look out. Especially love the scene where he fires the two guys who were abusive to Ainsley because she's a Republican. It's a pure white knight moment. He just bulldozes them.
Wow, hearing CJ describe a filibuster sounds so quaint now. Remember when obstruction of legislation actually involved some effort, instead of just whining?
Leo and Sam were my favourite. The show lost something when Sam left and the passing of John Spencer was so sad, I never liked how they moved Leo away from The White House prior to John's passing
He played Toby to perfection. He's curmudgeonly but deeply principled. There's a line describing Winston Churchill, spoken by his personal secretary, which might also apply to Toby, "you can see all of his faults in minutes but you spend the rest of your life discovering his virtues."
Really wish he stayed at the White House as Comms Director with Toby becoming Senior Advisor to the President. Josh Malina could still come in as Deputy Communications Director.
As far as I'm concerned, "The West Wing" represents the finest in TV serial entertainment. It is how the United States government would like themselves to be portrayed with characters that are at the same time moral, knowledgeable and likeable. I obviously know that the totality of the show is fictional but let's for the moment suppose that if you had to choose between the Bartlet administration and a Trump administration, which one would you pick and by how much do you think your loser falls short. Think well about that when you vote in November and vote in a way in which you would be proud in the future.
Rob Lowe went on to play a Senator who married Callista Flockhart's ultra-conservative television political commentator on the series, "Brothers and Sisters". Sally Field played the mother of Flockhart's character as well as Dave Annable, Matthew Rhys, Rachel Griffith, and Balthazar Getty. Field's husband was played by Tom Skerrit, who fathered an illegitimate son played by Luke Grimes and an illegitiate daughter played by Emily Camp. A large family, and I think Sally Field was maybe twenty years older than these other actors, so her being their mother was a bit of a stretch. But Rob Lowe was a gorgeous politician.
For 'Sam Seaborn', it's a huge step up, from his previous job, as a lawyer protecting shipping companies from the consequences of making 'cheap designs'. Now he's 'protecting' the White House, on the daft decisions often made....?
Sadly it seems the more times passes, the less Rob Lowe likes his time spent on The West Wing. I started watching for him and his character. Stayed for everyone. I was upset when Sam left and the way they wrote him out. I still watched because I liked all the characters on the show and especially when they brought on Alan Alda as Arnold Vinick. Was so glad when Danny came back and then at the end when Sam came back too. It's too bad Rob Lowe doesn't (or can't) look back at The West Wing with same fondness as most of rest of us seem to have.
What annoyed me about the 'issue' with Lori is that there *was* no issue. Sam slept with a girl. Said girl graduated from law school. It later turned out she managed to make ends meet and get through law school by being an occasional call girl. Had Lori graduated from medical school would Sam have slept with a (student) doctor? Had Lori graduated from veterinary school would Sam have slept with a (student) vet? Had Lori graduated from flight school would Sam have slept with a (student) pilot? No. There was no issue. All of them should have realized that. Including Bartlett, instead of sending Sam off to the White House counsel's office to find out if he broke any laws.
What if Rob Lowe had stuck around? Will wouldn't have been brought in as a main character, probably only as a campaign operative like Bruno. So would he have become the new Toby instead of Will? Or would they have pushed him higher, maybe put him on the ticket in later seasons? Maybe run him for President instead of Santos?
I hate to say it. But Rob Lowe REALLY (seems to have) messed up. He had one of the greatest roles in US television history. A starring/co-staring role as a brilliant, kind, humble, honorable, funny, immensely likeable man (forget his looks). On one of the most well-written and respected dramatic shows in US history. And somehow - and I am not sure how - he messed it up. Maybe he did not get along with Sorkin. But it sounds - from interviews - more like he let his ego get in the way. He should have - imo - just let his character go wherever Sorkin wanted it to go. And simply said 'Thank you, Sir. May I have another?'. Plus, take whatever pay he got (I heard that was one of his problems) and appreciate the wonderful opportunity he had as an actor. I am not saying Rob Lowe is a bad guy. But I am saying that it is unfortunate that he had such a wonderful role that (apparantly) he did not fully appreciate. ☮
He got bored, he talks about it all the time on his podcast. Wanted to move on with different rolls. He ended up working with Sorkin a few years later in A Few Good Men play, so there is no beef between the two.
@@legolas59687 He never had a role like Sam again though. Which isn't to say he didn't have roles that would have paid him money. Then again many of the cast struggled to move on from TWW and being known as their characters.
@@legolas59687 I read this in an article about an interview from him: 'The actor called his decision to leave the the hit NBC drama “the best thing I ever did” in a podcast interview with Stitcher Studios’ Podcrushed, likening his time there to “a super unhealthy relationship.” Lowe says that he “felt very undervalued” on the show, adding: “I did not have a good experience.” He insists that he “tried to make it work,” but he ultimately compares it to a toxic romance: “I walked away from the most popular girl at school, but I also knew that it was a super unhealthy relationship, and it was the best thing I ever did.”'. Sounds like he was more then 'bored' to me. Especially where he said he: felt very undervalued'. Tells me his ego was the main reason he left. ☮
@@chrisjones658 I had read that when the series was pitched, he was the main focus character and Bartlett was only meant to show up extremely rarely. But because of Martin Sheen, the audience wanted more, pushing the amount of screen time Sam had down, making him less important overall.
@@ScorpiusZA. I think even from the pilot episode, josh is set up to be the most likeable and relatable. Toby being the 2nd. CJ would probably be 3rd. Sam I'd imagine as a character isn't relatable to many. He's far too perfect. And we're routing for Josh from almost the 1st minute to keep his job. Sam is a pleasant fellow, but to use a star wars comparisson, Sam might well be set up to be Luke Skywalker, but Josh is clearly Han Solo, who anyone who's relatively aware of the discourse around SW would admit is the real fan favourite.
It makes sense that CJ basically asks Josh to talk to Toby since he no longer works for the White House there is no legal implications if he talks to him on her behalf.
It bothered me a lot that Josh thought that eliminating a useless, ubiquitous object that no longer serves a purpose to the general populace and only makes profit for the industry that produces it, like the pointless penny, is stupid. He sounded like a jackass there.
It is a pity Rob Lowe pissed all over his part in the show when he left. "Unappreciated, abusive environment" etc, etc. Some folks never know a great thing.
I love how the only people who use the expression 'leader of the free world' are only about 1/6 of the free world, incidentally only about 20% of the world population live in the free world anyway so its really not that impressive at all
On the one hand, I’m always in favor of “more West Wing!”. On the other hand, this collection of clips has ZERO thread. Are you just trying to reframe showing a s***load of clips just so you can? Who needs a subplot commonality or justification for throwing a bunch of West Wing clips for people to watch who can’t see the whole series😢.
I don't think there will ever be a TV Series that I will love more than this. The script was crisp, casting amazing and the way it was filmed was really something to behold.
These "Collections" are so valuable to me as a West Wing Lifer! I very much appreciate the time and effort spent in putting together these "Extended Clips" ! I also very much love reading the awesome, hilarious and insightful comments from the viewers! This Channel is My Oval Office! Thank You Everyone Involved! MOO From COW-lumbus, Ohio 👋
It is our pleasure to put these together! Thanks for being a constant viewer!!
@@TheWestWing Are these clips random throughout the series? Or are they in chronicle order?
I feel the same way. Cheers fellow fan 😊
@@grimtrigg3r Cheers!👋
I love how Aaron Sorkin made Sam such a nerd. His middle name is Norman. He went to Dungeons and Dragons camp. He's a klutz. He has road maps memorized. He's nuts for dental hygiene. Ridiculous. Adorable.
And he was also the President of the Gilbert & Sullivan society in College. And he was not a girl!
@@jfallas Recording Secretary! Possibly even nerdier!
Lol @@JamieFrevele
@@jfallasI loved his philia love (CS Lewis) love for Ainsley.
Well the punchline was that he was played by Rob Lowe.
I watched this when the series first aired in New Zealand. I thought I understood the storyline’s…listening to a number of excerpts, I am starting to wonder if I ever did…or is it just my ageing brain ?! The dialogue is technical, rapid fire, smart, funny, and relentless. How did Sorkin and the writers reach this standard of writing. The actors are superb. Love meeting them again. 🐑🐑🇳🇿🇳🇿NZ
The characters seem to be hyperarticulate. Nobody's that articulate all the time. But they are. And I like it.
Sorkin researches his shows like this: he finds people who have been there and picks their brains for the framework for legitimacy. For West Wing he hired Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC host who had been an aid to a few political figures and wrote screenplays. For The Newsroom he pulled from conversations with Keith Olbermann who was the character that he used from the real world who had been a lead anchor on several networks. Then he imbues his conversational writing and walk-and-talk stuff and voila, a Sorkin production that seems like he is innately knowledgable but also witty.
Sam really was the moral compass. After he left it didn’t fit right. CJ and Josh and the President kind of sometimes took over the role, but Sam really did have the best heart, uncorrupted by politics, and I love how all the other characters just couldn’t quite stay mad at him and looked out for him. His relationship with Toby was the best
Disagree. Toby was the moral compass
Now I have to watch this whole series again!
If you find it, would you let us know? I could use some West Wing therapy right now
Sam is a wonderful character. Rob Lowe did a study in what might be called "calm manic". He's fidgety, often awkward but rarely loses his cool and when he does look out. Especially love the scene where he fires the two guys who were abusive to Ainsley because she's a Republican. It's a pure white knight moment. He just bulldozes them.
❤ At apx 52:00 minutes 🎉
Getting not only clips but hour+ long scene compilations? What an amazing channel this is.
I love Margaret, Ainsley and all the side characters. My favourite is and always will be Toby because he's intelligent and real.
Wow, hearing CJ describe a filibuster sounds so quaint now. Remember when obstruction of legislation actually involved some effort, instead of just whining?
So sad that Sam only had three full season. He was my favorite character on the west wing
I felt that way at the time, but with hindsight Josh has become my favorite.
Agreed wish he was there for long haul, Rob Lowe didn’t like it
I think Rob liked it but others were pushed ahead of him. Like Amy 🤢
Yo, where my Toby heads at.
It was money
Sam was highest paid
And others were fairly low then everyone got a raise except Sam as he was already high paid and he said I will walk
Thank you for this compilation.
I shutter to think how long it took.
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AI
“shutter” 😂
Leo and Sam were my favourite. The show lost something when Sam left and the passing of John Spencer was so sad, I never liked how they moved Leo away from The White House prior to John's passing
Thank you, my favorite show of all time. I own them all.
The disdain and humour of Richard Schiffs line at 8:59 is unbridled genius.
I prefer his confusion at 0:25. "I don't understand, did you trip over something?"
He played Toby to perfection. He's curmudgeonly but deeply principled. There's a line describing Winston Churchill, spoken by his personal secretary, which might also apply to Toby, "you can see all of his faults in minutes but you spend the rest of your life discovering his virtues."
Really wish he stayed at the White House as Comms Director with Toby becoming Senior Advisor to the President. Josh Malina could still come in as Deputy Communications Director.
Never would have happened with Rob Lowe eating so many sour grapes.
As far as I'm concerned, "The West Wing" represents the finest in TV serial entertainment. It is how the United States government would like themselves to be portrayed with characters that are at the same time moral, knowledgeable and likeable. I obviously know that the totality of the show is fictional but let's for the moment suppose that if you had to choose between the Bartlet administration and a Trump administration, which one would you pick and by how much do you think your loser falls short. Think well about that when you vote in November and vote in a way in which you would be proud in the future.
Leo was down like four flat tires.
Yayyyy.. About time!!
I totally don't drink alcoholic beverages, don't smoke, nor do I do drugs.
Rob Lowe went on to play a Senator who married Callista Flockhart's ultra-conservative television political commentator on the series, "Brothers and Sisters". Sally Field played the mother of Flockhart's character as well as Dave Annable, Matthew Rhys, Rachel Griffith, and Balthazar Getty. Field's husband was played by Tom Skerrit, who fathered an illegitimate son played by Luke Grimes and an illegitiate daughter played by Emily Camp. A large family, and I think Sally Field was maybe twenty years older than these other actors, so her being their mother was a bit of a stretch. But Rob Lowe was a gorgeous politician.
Oh man I forgot about this series. That brings back some nostalgia.
All great clips but I really wanted Mallory and Sam together.
You shipped Sam and MALLORY ?
@@jimreily7538 absolutely. I would have been good with Sam and Ainsley too.
How was it shipping when it was clearly telegraphed @@jimreily7538
For 'Sam Seaborn', it's a huge step up, from his previous job, as a lawyer protecting shipping companies from the consequences of making 'cheap designs'. Now he's 'protecting' the White House, on the daft decisions often made....?
They moved the House Whip to the seat next to Sam... It's a cruel world.
Sadly the filibuster rules have changed in the US Congress since this program was created.
Good.
Sam is excited to be here. Rob Lowe, on the other hand...
Sadly it seems the more times passes, the less Rob Lowe likes his time spent on The West Wing. I started watching for him and his character. Stayed for everyone. I was upset when Sam left and the way they wrote him out. I still watched because I liked all the characters on the show and especially when they brought on Alan Alda as Arnold Vinick. Was so glad when Danny came back and then at the end when Sam came back too. It's too bad Rob Lowe doesn't (or can't) look back at The West Wing with same fondness as most of rest of us seem to have.
What annoyed me about the 'issue' with Lori is that there *was* no issue.
Sam slept with a girl.
Said girl graduated from law school. It later turned out she managed to make ends meet and get through law school by being an occasional call girl.
Had Lori graduated from medical school would Sam have slept with a (student) doctor?
Had Lori graduated from veterinary school would Sam have slept with a (student) vet?
Had Lori graduated from flight school would Sam have slept with a (student) pilot?
No.
There was no issue.
All of them should have realized that. Including Bartlett, instead of sending Sam off to the White House counsel's office to find out if he broke any laws.
More US one cent coins have been minted than all of the other coins in the world combined since coins were struck
Source for this fact, please.
Specifically it's the Lincoln cent, which has been minted since 1909.
...and the Royal Mint has been producing currency for over 1,100 years.
anything you say to a crazy person they counter and say you are patronizing them leaving you no option other than to patronize them.
Toby is most natural in his role.
Confused -wholelotta not-Sam here
All good things must end - sooner than later when they get stale and stink
Penny is British in America we have the cent
18:00 "Mr. President, your work-life balance still sucks."
I present to you: Sam Seaborn, the puff pastry
1:00:57 never fails to make me laugh every time I see it.
This is very nice of you, but why is there so many scenes without Sam?
What if Rob Lowe had stuck around? Will wouldn't have been brought in as a main character, probably only as a campaign operative like Bruno. So would he have become the new Toby instead of Will? Or would they have pushed him higher, maybe put him on the ticket in later seasons? Maybe run him for President instead of Santos?
Literally my dream West Wing scenario
Joshua molina was brought in, a sorkin favorite going back to a few good men and sportsnite
Hot tip, please put these in sequential order. ooh my was it hard to watch these as a fan of the show. ick.
Chronological too
Hardly any of the clips are related to each other so chronological order doesn’t make much sense. It’s just a collection of random clips.
@@colinjensen8303, you ever have a fave album that just doesn't hit the same way on random play?
'Zactly!
Are they up to speed,?
You didn't include the scenes where Sam is looking into whether someone's relative was a spy?
I would love to Charlie in action again.. Charlie and Zoey should have there happily ever after
I hate to say it.
But Rob Lowe REALLY (seems to have) messed up.
He had one of the greatest roles in US television history.
A starring/co-staring role as a brilliant, kind, humble, honorable, funny, immensely likeable man (forget his looks).
On one of the most well-written and respected dramatic shows in US history.
And somehow - and I am not sure how - he messed it up.
Maybe he did not get along with Sorkin.
But it sounds - from interviews - more like he let his ego get in the way.
He should have - imo - just let his character go wherever Sorkin wanted it to go.
And simply said 'Thank you, Sir. May I have another?'.
Plus, take whatever pay he got (I heard that was one of his problems) and appreciate the wonderful opportunity he had as an actor.
I am not saying Rob Lowe is a bad guy.
But I am saying that it is unfortunate that he had such a wonderful role that (apparantly) he did not fully appreciate.
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He got bored, he talks about it all the time on his podcast. Wanted to move on with different rolls. He ended up working with Sorkin a few years later in A Few Good Men play, so there is no beef between the two.
@@legolas59687 He never had a role like Sam again though. Which isn't to say he didn't have roles that would have paid him money. Then again many of the cast struggled to move on from TWW and being known as their characters.
@@legolas59687 I read this in an article about an interview from him:
'The actor called his decision to leave the the hit NBC drama “the best thing I ever did” in a podcast interview with Stitcher Studios’ Podcrushed, likening his time there to “a super unhealthy relationship.” Lowe says that he “felt very undervalued” on the show, adding: “I did not have a good experience.” He insists that he “tried to make it work,” but he ultimately compares it to a toxic romance: “I walked away from the most popular girl at school, but I also knew that it was a super unhealthy relationship, and it was the best thing I ever did.”'.
Sounds like he was more then 'bored' to me.
Especially where he said he: felt very undervalued'. Tells me his ego was the main reason he left.
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@@chrisjones658 I had read that when the series was pitched, he was the main focus character and Bartlett was only meant to show up extremely rarely. But because of Martin Sheen, the audience wanted more, pushing the amount of screen time Sam had down, making him less important overall.
@@ScorpiusZA. I think even from the pilot episode, josh is set up to be the most likeable and relatable. Toby being the 2nd. CJ would probably be 3rd. Sam I'd imagine as a character isn't relatable to many. He's far too perfect. And we're routing for Josh from almost the 1st minute to keep his job.
Sam is a pleasant fellow, but to use a star wars comparisson, Sam might well be set up to be Luke Skywalker, but Josh is clearly Han Solo, who anyone who's relatively aware of the discourse around SW would admit is the real fan favourite.
A call girl? What? I have no experience wiith Prostitution, or call girls.
53:35 pretty nice frilly and proportional cursive for a guy on a rampage…yeah…no….
It makes sense that CJ basically asks Josh to talk to Toby since he no longer works for the White House there is no legal implications if he talks to him on her behalf.
Insider trading?
It bothered me a lot that Josh thought that eliminating a useless, ubiquitous object that no longer serves a purpose to the general populace and only makes profit for the industry that produces it, like the pointless penny, is stupid.
He sounded like a jackass there.
It is a pity Rob Lowe pissed all over his part in the show when he left. "Unappreciated, abusive environment" etc, etc. Some folks never know a great thing.
Was he telling the truth
It’s hard to think that he is so liberal on here. And real life he is a trumper.
But Robe Lowe was very much not.
Ah Mandy! The worst character choice ever
I love how the only people who use the expression 'leader of the free world' are only about 1/6 of the free world, incidentally only about 20% of the world population live in the free world anyway so its really not that impressive at all
Mandy - awful character. Pleased she just disappeared - massively annoying.
On the one hand, I’m always in favor of “more West Wing!”.
On the other hand, this collection of clips has ZERO thread. Are you just trying to reframe showing a s***load of clips just so you can? Who needs a subplot commonality or justification for throwing a bunch of West Wing clips for people to watch who can’t see the whole series😢.