US POET LAUREATE

[Lemon Lyman]

From NBC:
When the President (Martin Sheen) is overheard making a disparaging comment on an open-mike about the potential Republican nominee, C.J. (Allison Janney) does damage control for days after while Toby (Richard Schiff) tries to finesse the newly named poet laureate (Laura Dern) from speaking out against the United States' lack of support for a land-mines treaty. Elsewhere, Sam (Rob Lowe) recalls Republican White House legal counsel Ainsley Hayes (Emily Procter) from vacation to help spin the administration's response to Bartlet's gaffe; Josh (Bradley Whitford) is both repulsed and intrigued by the fact that he has his own fan-based Web site -- LemonLyman.com.

I like this episode for obvious reasons, this is pure comic genius stuff for Donna and Josh. It also has Ainsley back a character who I have to admire turning down a promotion as she hasn't earned it. It also shows a different side to Toby, which is explored further in series 4.

[sig007]

I thouroughly enjoyed this episode,

When Abbey got them to play the national anthem of Canada and Jed walked in on it i almost wet i laughed that much....

a very good josh and donna episode as well. well worth staying up till silly o'clock for.

[spike]

This may explain the lemonlyman.com thing:

From www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=4&story=3118&limit=all&sort=

Previously on Television Without Pity: West Wing writer/creator Aaron Sorkin showed up on the boards one day and engaged the posters in conversation. Things went well until he got into an embarrassing fight with one of his own writers on said boards and the press picked up on it. Sorkin apologized and then disappeared for a while from TWoP. He returned one day to find that some fans (and our recapper) had grown a bit more critical of the show and were finding flaws in the way it presented conflicts, particularly regarding Muslims and feminists. Aaron posted defensively that people were taking his "little show" too seriously and that was just trying to entertain, not make any sort of political statements. Then he disappeared again.

[Flamingo]

Yeah, i heard about that. I think my favourite part in the epi had to be Bartlet singing and I think Iam gonna call charlie charlie chuckles from now on

[madcap]

I think that this is possibly the most light hearted episode so far in S3, and that made it all the more enjoyable. Loved the references to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest for the web site.

Plus it had Laura Dern in it.

[DarkHoarse]

Yep, another very fine episode: after an uncertain start to S3 every episode from Bartlet for America onwards has been of a high standard. I particularly liked the cheeky little revelation at the end.

And for first-timers: next week's is very good as well, and you may even start liking the least likeable recurring character a little bit more...