"Previously on the West Wing" spoken by Josh
Five days before the New Hampshire primary, a desperate Josh must find a way to get his trailing candidate, Congressman Santos, into the local newspaper's debate between the two front-runners, Vice President Russell and Hoynes, or face extinction -- until they gamble on staging their own debate. When Santos brings in savvy Amy Gardner to prep him, Josh clashes with both his ex-girlfriend and his candidate over the listless campaign.
Summary
Opening
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Quotes
- CJ Cregg: Didn't you teach that girl not to engage a chicken?
Trivia
- Freedonia is the mythical country in the 1933 Marx Brothers film "Duck Soup". In this episode, Santos complains that political discourse has fallen so low that when one politician was asked recently about the "situation in Freedonia", he claimed he was "studying it". In the 1960's, Woody Allen, while working for the TV show Candid Camera used Freedonia as a practical joke by asking passersby what they thought of the bid for independence for Freedonia. A similar situation had happened in real life. In the 1990s, a satirical magazine called Spy pulled a practical joke, in which they got several Congressional members to issue statements condemning the ethnic cleansing in Freedonia. [1]
Cast
Starring
- Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg
- Joshua Malina as Will Bailey
- Janel Moloney as Donna Moss
- Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman
- with Jimmy Smits as Matthew Santos
Special Guest Stars
- Mary-Louise Parker as Amy Gardner
- Gary Cole as Bob Russell
- and Tim Matheson as John Hoynes
Guest Starring
Co-Starring
- Ivan Allen as Roger Salier
- Joe Egender as Santos Volunteer
- Jay Brazeau as Mackey Lowell
- Gabe Cohen as Studio Manager
- Joe Ochman as News Director
- Reg Basco Hernandez as Russell Aide
- Wesley Harris as Moderator
- Kevin Hare as Chicken Bob
- Sterling Jarvis as Secret Service Agent
- Mark Joe Packer as Technician
- Paul Clark as Reporter
- Laura DeCarteret as Reporter #6
- Saida Rodriguez-Pagan as Reporter #5
- Krista Sutton as Reporter #1
- Micheal Rhoades as Reporter #3
- Hamish McEwan as Reporter #2
- Erin Gooderham as Reporter #7
- Jonathan Walker as Reporter #8
- Jerry Levitan as TV Producer
- Wendy Haller as Woman #1
- Kevin Bundy as Man #1
- Shari Hollett as Woman #2
References
"The West Wing" Freedonia (2005)
The West Wing: Freedonia