I love that the impact of Josh's outfit is so strong she stops signing and speaks. It's like she went "I need to convey this myself, not through someone else."
Was dating a lovely lady when I lived in Buffalo. Cute, blonde, smart, and deaf. I told her I loved this character on The West Wing. She knew who I meant right away. I knew the alphabet and a few words, but I had a teacher always ready to practice and got pretty good. I was good enough that when we were at the mall and ran into a bunch of her high-school friends (school for the deaf) we were talking and I was doing well keeping up, but at one point I said to slow down using a non-signing kind of the universal “stop” motion. They all looked at each other and rapidly signed. One signed “You aren’t deaf?” “No” I signed. They all smiled and said [Due to your skill] “We thought you were.” I took that as a compliment.
I know that story well. MANY years ago (capitols intentional) I also had a deaf girlfriend who taught me sign language. It's come in extremely useful over the years, and I love the reactions from deaf people (especially children) when they come across some who isn't deaf but can sign. Personally, I think sign should be taught in all schools as a second language. Her mother (who was blind) also encouraged me to learn Braille. This is an interesting point to make since I have relative good eyesight, yet I'm typing this using as Braille Keyboard (It's a geek thing).
1) i understand the feeling when receiving that compliment and won't bother going into why (i'm a life time outsider)--but it sure is a nice feeling, isn't it? 2) I never learned ASL even though i had the opportunity to (truly stupid on my part). Back in junior high we had a deaf student, and the girls in the class all picked up ASL because they realized they no longer had to pass paper messages anymore. Most times when the teacher would turn their back to write something on the chalk board, the girls would lean back in their chairs to be seen by the others and carry on quite the conversation until they heard the teacher stop applying chalk to board.
"Before you leave Mr. President or Prime Minister, I'd like to introduce you to the Deputy Chief of Staff, one of the most brilliant guys in the building" (opens door).
"You have any idea how dumb I looked in there?" "Yes, but not as dumb as you looked when you tried to outsmart the WH Press Corps." "Thanks heaps for that." "Just keeping it real."
Love the way she says: "it's strong, drink it all" and then he lets it all slop out on his singlet. The line "I'm not even listening to you now" is one I've appropriated for my own use.
There is no way a guy so important doesn’t have a spare suit hanging around in his office. People spill things and he works in the White House meeting very VERY important people. Anyone without a spare suit deserves to get fired.
Yeah, also the WH most probably has a wash-machine somewhere... and they have a fitness room, so they have a shower too. But... give a chance to the writers!
When I see an episode like this, I wish that I became very drunk once in my life. As it is, I cut off drinking when I cannot do Calculus problems in my head.
It's always wonderful to have an employee who steps up whenever we fall down. if you've ever had one who failed and remained at status quo, you know what i mean. then there's two idiots in the room. that said, i never had siblings growing up, but when Donna insists, "you have a meeting", i recognize that face.
no. that comes later in the episode. When Joey demands to see the President. "Look crazy lady, you are not going to see the President". Bartlett walks into his office. "Hello Josh". His face drops and he looks like a complete idiot. "Hello, Mr. President"
Gee I dunno there's so many to choose from. I like Josh's "Secret Plan to fight inflation" debacle. That was rich. Or the Lemon Lyman website buffoonery. So many funny Josh moments.
Josh running to meet Toby after his first disastrous press briefing ranks right up there with his funniest moments. Which is incredible, since he has no dialogue until the end.
I’m going to over analyze this. So when you fall asleep at your desk, you are usually upright, with your head turned to one side or the other. Whether this can cause snoring is beyond me but for arguments sake, let’s also assume Josh didn’t get blackout drunk the night before he fell asleep at his desk. When he passed out in his office in this episode he’s on the ground on his stomach which is a different position. Me personally, I’ve been known to snore while sleeping on my stomach sometimes, and sometimes not. Also given the fact Josh was clearly blackout drunk leads me to believe he was in a deeper more comatose sleep then when you sleep at your desk. Think of it as shutting down rather than just getting a comfortable rest. Is this the reason? Probably not, but it’s a possibility that, whole complex, sounds a lot better than, oh the writers just screwed up for a hilarious comic timed scene with Josh
As someone who's literally seeing doctors about my snoring - it can vary from night to night, many factors contribute to it and pretty much everyone snores after alcohol.
Anyone else notices that Josh still smells before he puts the clean clothes on? Why didn't Donna give him a bowl of water and some travel toiletries with the clothes?
You don't wash a suit in the regular washing machine and dryer (unless you want an excuse to trash it rather than Goodwill it). Of course, from now on he will keep at least one emergency suit in his office, like a Barney Stinson or Harvey Specter would.
@@davidweihe6052 Who suggested that it would be with a washboard and a slave singing old minstrel songs? The White House is well equipped for this sort of thing.
