Sorkinisms II - The Sequel 

I love how on every one of Sorkin’s shows, every single character (whether the President or some low-level janitor) is the smartest fucking person alive, always at the ready with a cutting comeback and possessing a wide array of knowledge across a large body of interests. With a complete command of the English language to boot.

The name obsession with Dana/Danny/Dan/Daniel/Donna/Don and to a lesser degree J names like Jed/Jordan/Jack/Josh/Jim/Jed/Jenna/Jeannie is always hilarious to me.

I love the resume listing one, that may be the most Sorkiny of all the Sorkinisms

You can also add that both Josh Lyman's father and Will McAvoy's father died on the night of the Illinois Primary.

It's almost hard to believe Sorkin has re-used stuff this many times and yet, by any objective measure, he's been super successful.

"What about Mohammad Al Mohammed El Mohammad Bin Bizir?" "He went to Fox." "Fox hired someone with three Mohammads in their name?"

Mohammed Al, Mohammed El, Mohammed bin Bazir - HE USED THE EXACT SAME NAME. Good catch, OP. Good catch.

It is unbelievable how some of these sentences sound so different, based on the actor who says it, and the music that plays in the background.

I'll continue to go on record to say that, while there are flaws in Sorkin's writing, I find these repeatable "Sorkinisms" to be a feature, not a bug.

wow I'm a big fan of Sorkin's work especially West Wing and The Newsroom. What freaked me out the most was the use of Mohammed el Mohammed el Mohammed bin Bazir in both show.

Sorkinisms II - The Sork-quel

Lol, didn't realize the fire in the trash can in Social Network was a self-referential gag.

Not for nothing, but I could write like Sorkin, or Sorkin could write like me. try to write... try to...write. make a billion dollars and turn his house into my private ping pong room...But if I had you'd know. Cos Id have written it.

I have to admit that 'six to five and pick'em' is a fabulous phrase. I should do as Sam suggests and steal it from him outright.

17 people disliked this for reasons passing understand. They did a big thing badly. It's almost hard to believe that they did it.

True Story: Aaron Sorkin's parents were killed by an intact piece of glass.

Every story has been told, every song has been sung and every word has long been spoken, over and over.

While everyone talks about Sorkin and whether he is being lazy or just knows he doesn't need to reinvent the wheel, I'd like to take a moment to give props to the editor of this piece. Just sourcing the cuts must have taken hours. Really cool video.

I found another one only I don't recall the WW-episode it was in but I'm pretty sure it was. In the Steve Jobs movie there is this dialogue: Andy Hertzfeld: We are not a pit crew at Daytona, this can't be fixed in seconds. Steve Jobs: You didn't have seconds, you had three weeks, the universe was created in a third of that time. Hertzfeld: Well, some day you have to tell us how you did it

It's interesting to note that he has a wide range of characters in theory, but then makes them ALL dialog heavy and makes that dialog the same for all characters. Snark before personality.

After 3:36, you should've had LEO: "He thought I was the butler" (when talking about Lord John Marbury BARTLETT: "For first couple of weeks, so did I"

R.I.P.: Josh's father = pulmonary embolism, Will's father = ventricular fibrillation.

This is FANTASTIC!!!! As a huge Sorkin fan who has watched all of the movies and DVDs repeatedly, these are so easy to catch. I am a little surprised he is recycling some things in the Newsroom, but love the show anyway. Thanks for putting this together!!!

Yea "for reasons passing understanding" is almost certainly my favorite Sorkin phrase of all, and one I was honestly surprised wasn't in the first video for how much of a staple it is. I use it plenty myself. Way to pick up the slack :) Another big thing Sorkin uses is one character not hearing another and simply asking "what was that/excuse me/etc", the kind of detail that's left out of most movie and TV dialogue.

He must have really liked Belgium, lol.

'I'm not kidding/screwing around' is another great one. Really enjoyed these videos. Fine work.

You have given me new shows to check out! thank you!

LOVE THESE! I was surprised "It's almost hard to believe" wasn't included in the first one, that's one of my favorite Sorkinisms.

I'm always amazed by editing like this because I know how tedious it can be. Bravo. 👏

The amount of time and effort and skill that goes into these videos is astounding. These are valuable works of scholarship.

I loved when they started with Belgium, I knew what was coming lmao

These bring me such joy! Thank you.

Both of these were so awesome. I'd always noticed a few of these, but you found so many more than I ever imagined. If you ever do another, I know there's some "don quixote" and "I'm in charge of morale here" reuse between WW and Newsroom.

This is beautiful and I would never complain about these. Thank you for this video.

Wow! You must have put so much work into this. Thank you! I love it.

"I'm from the United States of Suck My-" "ALRIGHT" Always kills me

You've just ruined my suspension of disbelief! I can't watch any Sorkin movies or tv shows anymore. Okay, yes I can, but still! Well done.

This is brilliant. Great work!

Great work once again, man.

Being a guy who loves to edit, I appreciate all you do.

I have watched his stuff so many times that I look for these. I love his signature "Sorkisms"

You're doing gods work with this video

I loved it! If people kept track of how often I used the same phrases, I'd have a scary, long list. It makes sense if I was writing dialog, I'd fall back on my own speech patterns quite a bit...

"And I'm never ever sick at sea" is a line from "I am the captain of the Pinafore" from, ahem, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance"!

Revisiting this after watching the trial of the Chicago 7 and hearing the "One egg is an-Oeuf" joke again.

The reach for the stars bits are always the ones that get me the most. Like that one bit in West Wing where Josh is just spitballing ideas and he talks about modern nations competing with science, and competing for who can do the most to advance our collective civilization, rather than who can "win" and be domininant through war, and how there is no real excuse for not doing that. And, just... yeah. Why the hell can't the world work that way?

I'm glad you incorporated Newsroom this time.

Oh God, Rust was right. Time is a flat circle.

Brilliant editing

Seriously, wow. These are nothing short of genius but the part with all the name mistakes deserves a fucking oscar. I want to high-five you until both our elbows drip blood.

Loved every minute of it. Great job in doing this. If comments were beers, here goes yours! Have more like this? For example, with David Mamet? An influence for Sorkin, by the way. Thanks!!

You missed Pete from Moneyball's resume - Yale economics.

Instead of watching what's "better than other stuff" on current tv, this reminds me I'd enjoy way more re-watching my DVDs of WW and Newsroom, where I thoroughly enjoyed every episode -- the banter, drama, excellent acting, fast-paced humor & one-line exchanges, make you laugh & cry, draw you in, make you feel like the characters were really a part of your life. Yeah ... gonna do that.

I love Sorkin, but whoa Nellie, this is extremely well done.

I adore you for this...! The number of times I have enjoyed watching Sorkin shows, thinking to myself 'that was used so-and-so, I remember that from such-and-such', etc... Gather ye rosebuds in particular, stands out very epicly. Love these shows, to bits, but yeah, its funny that he re-uses so much hehe... Some things are just so Sorkin.

What can I say? Man’s got a style and it works!

Not at all disappointing! Thanks for all your hard work editing.

Perfect, thank you so much for posting.

A lot of these "sorkinisms" are obvious recycling of preferred material but some of these seem similar, like getting names wrong, but actually if you watch the shows are used for different reasons in different ways. As for the repeating of certain phrases, english is a language of idioms, time to time, reach for the stars, etc they are used regularly in everyday conversations, one of the things that makes his dialogue work so well is the seemingly natural way people talk, repeating phrases and making points through repetition and cadence.

two phrases I always noticed on West Wing - "a carton of Luckies" and "not to put my head in the lion's mouth"

Again ... brilliant. Thanks!

Fine, I'll watch all these again.

It's almost hard to believe

Great editing once again. I do want to mention that on studio 60 Danny tells Jordan she’s basically a minivan when they are on the roof together. Toby says the same thing to Andy on Air Force One.

I don’t see this tired comedy trope that Sorkin apparently loves: “He’s behind me, isn’t he?” (and he is), after a character has been talking shit about another.

Kevin does it again in part two , almost hard to believe, i would never use them never

Sorkin characters: "I'm never ever sick at sea" Me: "What, never?" SCs: "No never!" In unison: "HARDLY EVERRRRRRRRR"

This was awesome

5:18 Steve Jobs (2015): "You can complain about memory or you can complain about price but you can't do both at the same time."

you are brilliant and I salute you, sir

Another phenomenal edit. Same accolades as my last comment. Though I am just a *little* surprised that your "both at the same time" run didn't end with Toby's "No, I'm disagreeing with you. That doesn't mean I'm not listening to you or understanding what you're saying - I'm doing all three at the same time." But hey, I'm just a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks and senior editor of the Harvard Law Revue (we'll be at Haha's all week).

I say "for reasons passing understanding" all the time... certainly got it from this, but didn't realize it until now.

Thanks for the sequel! Nice touch in overlapping some if them. Now it's harder to choose which one is a fave. (If you're doing part three, please include male anchors having trouble with pants ? - Casey and Dan in Sorts Night and Will in The Newsroom

Congratulations, because Dan Rather noticed this and asked Sorkin about it who said he watched it. In that interview they also talked about our love to see big people fall.

"Abrupt conversation." Please. Also, I love these. Thanks.

Every disappointing sequel has one great moment rivaling even the original. This is one of them.

This is lovely....I just need to remember some of these phrases...

Sad how many of these wonderful actors aren’t with us any more.

WHOMP THERE IT IS

Very clever, to lower expectations there, so we'd love it as much as the first. Well played.

Well, instead of being "raised", the level of public debate in this country has been in the dumpster for 4-5 years minimum....

Almost put them in this one, but cut for time. Maybe Sorkinisms III...Thanks for catching that!

I'd love to see all the ripping on hockey and soccer in the next one

And I’m never, ever sick at sea.

Aaron Sorkin is the best - Period - screenwriter - Period - Ever - Period!

There it is!

Well done sir, well done.

Also, the woman at 4.00 is called Sherry Wexler, and on The Newsroom, the woman of OWS is called Shelley Wexler. Makes me wonder if someone Aaron Sorkin doesn't like has a similar sounding name.

And they never get old!

Thank you.

Sorkin obviously has a lot of talent. One thing that really bothers me about his writing, though, is the fact that all his characters talk in roughly the same way, with the same cadences and the same expressions. That's why these lines can be spoken by any character. David Mamet is the same way.

David Fincher and Sorkin repeatedly clashed during pre-production on The Social Network, with Fincher forcing Sorkin to keep re-writing the script over and over again. I wonder if the flaming trashcan began as the same verbal joke, but Fincher said "no, we need to see the trashcan".

que buenos los video,que presentan sigan por ese buen sendero que magnifica su programacion

Awesome! Sorkin is a writing genius. I think these Sorkinisms are awesome and funny. Shows his personality through his writing. :)

How I gotta re-watch all of season 2 of the newsroom to catch all these

The Don Quixote references though!! That was always so striking to me bc it was brazen in its particularity. Funnily enough, the "quixotic" dialogue between Dana and Jeremy in SN is what made me first fall in love with Aaron Sorkin's writing and that show, but then when it was used again to a far greater degree as a central theme in The Newsroom, it my first reason for disliking his writing and not loving that show! But yeah his pre-occupations with Don Quixote, musical theater and people loving America but not liking Americans are some of my fave recycled Sorkinisms.

what a prolific man...can't believe he directed the social network AND the whoop there it is video

My favorite Sorkinism is "stand in front of a train" and all its variations: "Matt would stand in front of a train for Harriet," "He'd stand in front of a train for any of us," etc.

Thanks for the feedback man. I appreciate the level of detail in your thoughts. I think I stand by the decision to cut so tightly, although it could be loosened in some places. But I do agree that the one-frame blips probably could've been avoided, that was my bad. And I don't not like you...don't be ridiculous, everybody likes you :)

You forgot "Fair point." Love ya, Aaron!