The Everyday American Hamburger | The West Wing 

"You've been working on other stuff too, right?" By Josh is priceless

"In a crisis, people should feel like soldiers, not victims." Wow, I really appreciate that line.

"Something we've never worried about before, we're wondering when the next case is going to happen." That reminds me of something.

Each line better than the next. People don’t speak like this. But it is something to aspire to.

"I don't blame this woman for suing me. I'm not a king, and I don't think the law should treat me like one." Hmmmmm... (stares intently at SCOTUS)

Perfect timing for this clip.

I miss the days when hamburgers were everyday 99¢ things.

I'm not a king, and i don't think the law should treat me like one....................umm....yeah.

CJ's speech at the end, that's why she qualified for Chief of Staff later on in that hurricane episode as well

Imagine living in a time when you would expect people to act in their own best interest when faced with a public health crisis.

I like the tick tock of the clock there at the end. Subtlely emphasizing the urgency of the issue. Such a great choice in either editing, directing, writing, whatever inspired it.

Sovereign immunity... LOL

Grand Jury Drycleaning: Suits Washed, Served, Pressed, and Dismissed 😂😂😂

Sorkin might have exaggerated the public's response to a case of mad cow's disease here a little bit 😅

"I think they can hear you, they're standing right in front of you..." Not sure why that line gets me like it did

I look at this and I look at how it's actually happening in Washington, and all I can do is shake my head.

President Bartlet: So paint a picture for me, would you? Leo: I like the little things, the way a glass feels in your hand, a good glass, thick with a heavy base. I love the sound an ice cube makes when you drop it from just the right height. Too high and it'll chip when you drop it. Chip the ice and it'll melt too fast in the Scotch. President Bartlet: All that's left is personal behavior and bad luck, and I'm not responsible for either one. Leo: The problem is, I don't want a drink, I want ten drinks. President Bartlet: Alright, that's what we'll do then.

Now imagine these guys chuckling while they discuss the dire scenario...real life, right now. Except it ain't beef, it's poultry.

"The law doesn't treat me like a king, although for the moment i wouldn't mind" well clearly Bartlet should've put Roberts on the bench.

CJ is great but this scene really illustrates why I love her.

Mad Cow and Foot and Mouth disease were great for Australian farmers. As a disease free country the Japanese would pay through the nose for our Beef and you couldn't pay them to eat American. Who at the time were the other big exporter to Japan.

And none of that panic happened when it did. Kudos to the FDA.

In the current political climate, liberals would shun beef products like they were toxic, while conservatives would vigorously defend their right to eat tainted beef. The actual chance of getting mad cow disease from consuming beef products would be lost in the commotion.

For all of Leo's bluster about how doomed the beef industry is and the knock-on effect it'll have in the rest of the economy, this plot line literally never comes up again. Maybe it means that the test was a false positive after all, but they sure made this crisis seem important... for exactly one episode.

Our citizens get all crazy about one potential infected cow or one case of a home falling into a sinkhole or a kid being buried in a hole in the sand at the beach, but they go “meh” at the latest mass shooting by an AR15. Often it is the same ones who sue the next person who are the ones who don’t want to take responsibility for themselves.

Clearly SCOTUS disagrees with Sorkin take on how a president should be treated under the law.

Is there no US Department of Agriculture that would handle something like this?

I don't know what it is, but CJ looked exceedingly attractive here.

This is beginning to sound very familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it..... 🤔

Bartlett was wrong about car deaths. Unsafe road design was in the DNA of traffic engineers for decades, and has never been seriously addressed.

Why wouldn't the USDA handle this?

What are the “99 cent” things?

I like the decision at the end. Lower level - not Lawmaker level. It was a family thing. Possible ancestry. How on earth did it become a genetics thing? Oh one last thing the current President of The Heritage (sic) Foundation - you will not win. Kevin Roberts in one case at least. Equilibrium is mentioned in this VT's script. 3 minutes 40 seconds in. The Equals and Come Back. Asked and answered. Retained and coherent.

Love West Wing and the people that created it. Of course it is all fiction, as most great story telling is. But for a moment, if you will, imagine any moment during his Presidency in which Donald Trump would have had an exchange like this with his closest advisors.

Pork burgers!

Watch 3:07 with the US COVID response in mind.

2:30 Well that line ages well in this the year of our nightmare 2024...

THe American hamburger is actually a Danish invention. Since 1895, Louis' Lunch in New Haven, CT . But hey call it American, if you want.

Law Suits and Drycleaners. A joke then. A Man took his tan suit into a Washington DC Dry Cleaners and it was returned to him as white and watered. Okay. Half a bad joke. I am not saying it didn't make sense. I am fed up with chunks of time being chopped off of our time waiting for the small compensation of saying WE TOLD YOU SO!

This show would be so different today with the latest Supreme Court decision.

i eat Beef everyday. Its great for the human body

...and then we got Covid!!

Toby and C.J. are both right and both wrong (shout out to Bruno).

Imagine if this was the Trump administration and it was something more serious....like a pandemic.

CJ was absolutely right.

This clip had Donald Trump written all over it but he would have done the exact opposite.

Tĥe Trump administration has convinced me CJ was wrong.

hmm..covid..hmmhmmm

Antivaxxers should watch this.

Trump is a joke

Vegetarians should watch this episode

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If this were to happen here today....the left would be ecstatic! They would LOVE to be able to outlaw beef!!!!