Operation Midnight Climax | The West Wing
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Season 5 Episode 10: The Stormy Present
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That's a hell of a lot of talent in one room
Agreed, but whenever I watch Cromwell, all I can see is Archie Bunker's pal 'Stretch' Cunningham!!
Which room?
Yes, they, in the movie were on Air Force One in one of the conferences rooms.😊
Congratulations to the person who had the bright idea to put James Cromwell, John Goodman, and Martin Sheen in a scene together. Talk about horsepower.
@@GrAmHero And Harve on Little House on The Prairie. Had he not done Babe (and he was not their first choice) and gotten such great notices for it (an Oscar nomination, I believe), he would have been relegated to being a run of the mill bit part actor the rest of his career (crap like the dad in Revenge of The Nerds). After Babe, he did L.A. Confidential and was great in it, and his career just flourished thereafter. Just shows how many great talents likely never see great success simply because they did not get the right break. It took Cromwell into his late 50s to hit the big time.
Literally predicting the Arab Spring 6 years early.
That was a great touch with Goodman"s character that he was a tad eccentric and needed his dog with him. And the affection he and Jeb showed each other was quite the contrast from where they were before Walken stepped in as president.
Huh? We never Saw Goodmans character until he showed up to step in as POTUS..
Maybe after been president even for a short time Walken got new appreciation and respect for Bartlett and what he goes through every day,
@@aph1976No question. As I recall when Jeb took back the presidency he told Walken how appreciative he was and he would be happy to campaign for him and Walken said something like "I appreciate that but I am not sure how well that would go over in my district."
Walken surprised everyone by being a good President and not taking advantage of the situation despite political differences.
@@dirdib69 Actually he only surporised the Staff. Pretty sure Jeb and Leo knew it was gonna be fine
C.J? C.J i thought that was you! it's ned....ryerson?
ned ryerson?
bing!
Beautiful, love the reference!
His success comes from the conjoined triangles of success
CJ left before hearing about the conjoined triangles of success.
Tobolowsky is great in anything
Also
He was in a band in the early 70s in Texas
They were doing some recording in a studio,
They needed an extra guitar player so they grabbed a kid who was hanging around the studio
It was a teen age Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Loved him on Deadwood as the Commissioner who liked bubble baths.
I think the weirdo at the end was played by Wayne Duvall who does a great job here.
In the office for a week to 10 days, known as President xxth for the rest of US history. Pretty amazing.
He was acting president, so he doesn't get added to the list. Jed treats him like a former President, but the history books won't.
@@andyh4518 Yeah, Cheyney and Kamala have been Acting President as well.
And not that Walken (excuse me - PRESIDENT Walken) would have cared, but he wouldn't get a library either. :)
@@andyh4518 Maybe someday we will find out. Far as I know, there are no rules about this.
@@andyh4518 Martin Sheen was acting president.
Now I see Ewan Roy when I see Cromwell, and sometimes Zephram Cochrane.
Dudley Smith or the farmer from “Pig”
Thank you for this scene of the show.😊
CJ realizes they have social security numbers and medical records, dude says something about measuring personality traits by a person's stride, and she's immediately distracted, and leaves the room like the invasion of privacy isn't important anymore.
That stride thing is slightly alarming because my iPhone measures that and collects the data. The facial identification to unlock the phone. How much time did Apple and DARPA spend together. That dude just described an iPhone that didn’t exist until 20 years later.
@@grt49er A few years back an instructor in a security class mentioned that there's a room somewhere that you enter by walking down a 50 foot corridor. There's a bunch of cameras analysing the way you walk, and if the system doesn't like you, the door won't open. He didn't say it, but I suspect the doors at BOTH ends don't open until an armed guard can escort the person to an interrogation room.
"D. Wire Newman" is such a good name for a President.
The two former presidents really remind me of jimmy carter and bush
1:08 Man, imagine if the dog had been called Donny. Talk about a missed opportunity.
Newman seems like a composite of both Jimmy Carter & George HW Bush.
Can you say Apple Watch and Face ID? (“I’m fine. You’re fine. We’re all fine.”-Doctor Strangelove)
Nice touch at the end when CJ suddenly notices the not-dashing weirdo is gonna have a direct view of her “gait” as she leaves so she stops to check if he’s “scrutinizing”…. yeah. Excellent scene. In all the ways. (Oh the New World Order stuff was good too.)
Air date: January 7, 2004
Thank you. The iPhone hadn’t yet been invented!!!! (Scrutinizing Machine!)
Time flies
All that stuff he was talking about in our phones and apps, or has the potential to be so in vr. We have donated our privacy willingly for a shiny toy with lights and sounds.
I say this with everything with Joh Goodman in it, needs more John Goodman.
This scene foreshadowed the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
This is season 5 which was broadcast September 2003-2004, so the US had already been in Afghanistan for 2 years and Iraq for 6 months.
I'm pretty sure both were in full swing by the time this episode aired. As much as I like tis episode, it wasn't prophetic, it was describing what was going on at the time.
@@Bazookatone1it did describe the Arab Spring, however...
It was written after the iraq and afghanistan invasions.
Holy shit. They got the guy from Babe!
How prescient. And 3 great actors making it seem so real.
Steven Tobolowsky!
President Newman! Amazing!
It's all about that gait.
They really can identify people about their gait.....don't know about "knowing if they're a crook" or not.
I love seeing the three Presidents together, each holding their own and Bartlett holding the middle between the two others.
The only thing you can tell from my gait is whether my back is bothering me that day or not.
Tobolowsky at his best!
Glad to see Walter getting into politics
This clip was hardly about Midnight Climax.
Bing!
50% of DARPAs project ever develop a PHYSICAL (somrthing you can see/touch) result. 50% of THOSE reach a protype stage. 75% of the protypes will ever see FILL SCALE tests (scale models are good enough).
So..less than 5% of EVERYTHING DARPA 'makes' will of any use to anyone for anything.
Prophethic
Can we get some clips from the real seasons please?
Although I enjoy the dialogue, I never was a fan of Sorkins relience on stereotype for his secondary characters.
I think these scenes aired in season 5 when Sorkin was no longer writing for The West Wing.
I'd never seen this episode all the way through. Glad I didn't miss much. The scene with Cromwell, Goodman and Sheen was fine. The "comedy" plot with Tobolowsky was ass.
After Sorkin left as writer, the B plots were frequently subpar, especially in season 5.
Fat John Goodman was better
It’s weird but true.
Sorkin's contempt for supposedly "fringe" ideas made parts of this series age really badly. The constant sneering at things that became mainstream within an embarrassingly short time was irritating then and downright ridiculous now. He's much too taken up with "Look how clever I am!" It got old pretty fast (along with the pseudo-Hawksian fast chatter).
You do know that this is a season 5 episode and Sorkin left at the end of season 4, don't you? Perhaps he used telepathy to call his script ideas in, or telekinesis to write using someone else's keyboard?
@@Paul_Harper Dude, I'm talking about stuff that was going on from the beginning. Nice try at pretending you don't know that.
@@Serai3 - then you can cite examples, can't you? Either that or admit that Sokin's skill at writing dialogue that sounds exactly like convincing intelligent people talking sense irritates your RNC sentiments.
Working on many occasions "humanized " the other so that other viewpoints could be seen and shared. But if West Wing had been going on during the Trump Era...well..nobody is that talented!
1:56 No, you are not the 'only' superpower left. This says so much, about what is so very wrong with that concept - and the arrogance - associated. India is the oldest nation known... and according to ancient Sanksrit writings, had 'superweapons' that could wipe out an entire city.
The idea or implication that India is a superpower is adorably delusional.
@@josephmanno4514 So says the person who conveniently ignores the Sanskrit texts. I also never said that India was a superpower, I said that they were the oldest nation known. The ancient Sanskrit writings... they had superweapons - Brahma weapons - that could wipe out entire cities. The information from that, is waaaaaaaaaaaay too close to our understanding of nuclear weapons - but from thousands of years ago?
@@VerilyVerbatim so you’re just rambling then? You brought up superpower and then went on about India. You may not have directly stated you believe India is a superpower, but you implied it with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
Regardless, the US is the only superpower left. Not exactly reassuring with the direction they’re headed…