Michael O'Neill's performance as Agent Ron Butterfield is to my mind one of the best supporting roles in the whole of West Wing - a show with legions of those.

@seanmcmurphy4744

21 күн бұрын

Agree - so glad you mentioned him! He was just absolutely convincing. The actor just disappeared into the role

@sfan2767

18 күн бұрын

It's an impossible debate between Michael O'Neill's role as Ron Butterfield and John Amos's role as Admiral Fitzwallace. I don't think I've ever seen two people more well suited for a role knock it out of the park more thoroughly.

The first time you watch this and they reveal Josh has been shot. …Dude. Even in the rewatch it gets you

@Vesperitis

19 күн бұрын

Every single time, tears well up in my eyes.

@Josephkerr101

19 күн бұрын

Every time even knowing full well the aftermath

@jvick87

19 күн бұрын

Josh gets shot?! Thanks for the spoiler bro!

@LastRookie

18 күн бұрын

​@@jvick87 bruh, please say sike

@Ashcat724

17 күн бұрын

I watched this clip and went "damn.." and started crying!

Always thought that when Ron shouts “GW” - it meant Gunshot Wound - but apparently it meant George Washington hospital.

I think the president’s limo drive regularly works as a stunt driver! That was a turn!

@partyguy101ify

2 күн бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, the driver of the President's limo trains in maneuvers like that in case of a shooting or other disaster. I think President Kennedy's assassination bolstered that necessity and helped a great deal when President Reagan was shot.

Richard Schiff’s acting at the end is so subtle but superb!

@dirdib69

22 күн бұрын

Yes, that moment when he sees Josh, realizes that the unthinkable has happened - someone has put a hole in his friend. Josh is in shock, but the look on his face is almost an apology for upsetting his friend.

@andrewgundy3045

20 күн бұрын

LOVE HIM

@grantnebel9974

18 күн бұрын

One of Sorkin's talents (and it comes from the theater) is to write pauses in the dialogue or action. He gave Schiff that little moment to react before he speaks.

CJ's shock looking through the shattered car windows is still one of the best shots in the entire series.

Well done guys! It took you only some 300 years to come up with an official channel but as Jed Bartlet would say - Nevertheless, here I am so lets go on with it :)

@johnmh1000

20 күн бұрын

and what's next?

@kelli217

8 күн бұрын

We’re finally living in the 321st century

The reason Bartlett is panicking over Gina not being in the car is that she’s lead on Zoe’s detail. He assumes initially that the only reason she wouldn’t be in the car is that she’s dead or seriously injured

This entire sequence was just so well done and put together with fabulous camera work, acting and editing. Simply outstanding!!

I about cry everytime I watch this scene.

I lived in DC when they filmed this. So intense

The best TV drama series EVER.

I still get emotional when I see this episode. And when Donovan is shot & killed. 😥

Driver has been waiting to use that move

This channel is my new favorite thing

Finally a west wing youtube official channel!

I’ve been waiting for this kind of channel.

@terrygracy8345

21 күн бұрын

It’s a channel I do and don’t need. I love it but damn, it’s going to cost me hours

One of my favorite scenes in the whole series

Yes there is a West Wing Channel, finally, took you guys long enough. Alright what’s next.

I love that stretched limo one point turn! That's some driving

The tough part is that if Ron hadn't been so focused on getting the president to shut up, he would've recognized earlier that Bartlet was in distress.

@partyguy101ify

2 күн бұрын

Actually, if the President had stopped talking, Ron would not have noticed the blood coming from his mouth until the President opened it again. Bartlet's usual rambling might have saved his own life.

The EMT said "I don't think you'll need stitches" instead of "you should get checked for concussion, asap, to be on the safe side." Then she went a briefing where she was overwhelmed and fuzzy-headed - which sounds like mild concussion. And no one noticed! Not even the guy who sees her as the bees' knees! This episode does C.J. no favors.

I’ve always wondered why all those people coming down the stairs didn’t notice a sitting bleeding Josh before Toby did.

@klfjoat

22 күн бұрын

When you get an adrenaline dump in a situation like that, I believe that manifests two ways. 1) The people with ADHD see absolutely everything. 2) Other people get tunnel vision and see only what's in front of them. I've experienced this and I've seen both effects in people. It's wild.

@thekirksiffs5285

15 күн бұрын

they had to follow the script.

Literally *no one* coming down those stairs was scanning everything around them, out of safety, and thus no one could've seen Josh? Come on.

@heddalee

2 күн бұрын

In fact, everyone on the stairs or higher was acting totally nonchalant.

First, Toby's face when he sees Josh is just so well done. You might see some actors overdo it but it's so perfect. Like his mind had to take a second to process what was going on. Second, I've this scene and episode(s) but what is with those people walking towards Toby down the steps. They walk right by Josh and don't notice a guy sitting there holding his chest wound?

@christopherpardell4418

13 күн бұрын

It’s true to life. People in an emergency walk around oblivious to anything but the overall cacophony and panic. The president not even realizing he had been shot. ( Reagan did not realize he had been shot until the car was miles down the rd. ). Nobody Noticed Tom Brady lying on the ground with a head wound until the president’s car pulled away. And josh would not have been the only person who just sat down and stared in shock. I once was present when two people fell 8 stories down an elevator shaft. When we got the door open and saw the condition of the 2 guys, I turned to the people standing near me and told 8 of them, one at a time, “ go call for an ambulance, now!” ( this was before cell phones everywhere) After helping get the inured out of the shaft, I went looking for those people. Not one of them had managed to make it to a phone and put in the call. Several stopped to tell other people what happened. Several stopped to throw up, or just plop down and stare off in shock. Several just wandered about, oblivious.

@kanderson-oo7us

2 күн бұрын

​@@christopherpardell4418 Reagan's press secretary was James Brady, not Tom Brady. But yes, you're right about how people in shock act...

@christopherpardell4418

2 күн бұрын

@@kanderson-oo7us Ah!, right you are

Legit question. How good of a driver do you have to be to drive the Presidential Limo? What are those qualifications I wonder.

@clarkmacgowan5114

16 күн бұрын

My brother-in-law was a cop and I actually got to go with him one day to the Academy where they teach defensive driving. There was a guy there that did protection detail for the governor as well as dignitary who came to town to meet with him. I got to get into a patrol car with him and he showed me some of the Maneuvers he practices regularly. I could hardly walk and was practically crying when we got done. It was terrifying. I mean he was really good, but when somebody puts a car in Reverse going 50 miles an hour and suddenly slams the brakes to where you make a hairpin turn add barrel down the next road going about 100, that'll turn your whole spine to jelly. But he practiced constantly. Which was comforting!

@AmberLynBigelow

11 күн бұрын

Secret service agents literally practice this. Better to be safe than sorry. Pretty sure the history channel did a special YEARS ago about presidential motorcades.

Why is everyone just walking right past Josh? The only one who can see he’s bleeding is Toby?

@clarkmacgowan5114

16 күн бұрын

Toby went looking specifically for josh. The rest of the people are trying to figure out where to go and what to do and maybe they're looking for their own loved ones. And oh yeah, they just been through an incident where over a hundred shots were fired in the president was shot. So no, people are not at their best or most observant.

Okay....then what happened?

I don’t remember this at all

@jeffreysytsma6541

16 күн бұрын

Season 2 Ep. 1, after the last season finale was an assassination attempt and screen fades to black. The President was not the target though.

G tv series OAT

Wow the agents wearing the first airpods 😂

How no one walking past his notice he was shot makes no sense

@tmoore4075

16 күн бұрын

Great episode and scene but yeah. Maybe don't have any extras around there cause I find it hard to believe that after a shooting people wouldn't think to check on a guy sitting on the ground holding his chest.

@clarkmacgowan5114

16 күн бұрын

​@@tmoore4075it's adorable that you think you know what people would do after 100 shots are fired into a crowd that included the president of the United states. Here's a fun fact for you, little girl, people are in Shock after things like this occur. People are also looking for their own loved ones who may have scattered. No, they're not looking at a guy who's sitting on the ground, and how would they know unless they look closely that he had been shot? From the corner of their eyes are going to see that a guy is sitting down, probably assuming that the guy is also in shock and sitting and sitting so he can compose himself.

@tmoore4075

15 күн бұрын

@@clarkmacgowan5114 Cool story, bro. I'll be sure to not question how fake people in a fake world react again. I mean what was I thinking?

Never realized it before but Toby's call out after finding Josh is a bit out of character. Toby is a combat vet that served in Vietnam. His gut instinct would be to shout for a medic, not a doctor.

@seanmcmurphy4744

23 күн бұрын

I thought that was one of the best lines in a show full of great dialog. Even if he was in a combat unit, it's been 25 years. The last thing he expected this evening is to find his best friend dying. He is literally without words a moment, then says the first thing that comes out. Sorkin doesn't write mediocre military cliches.

@casey6556

23 күн бұрын

I don’t think Toby was a combat vet was he? He’s too young to have been in Vietnam Leo was in Vietnam but I don’t think Toby was

@seanmcmurphy4744

23 күн бұрын

@@casey6556 Yeah he was a little too young. Toby was born in either 1954 or 1957, according to West Wing Wiki

@specialk9424

22 күн бұрын

@@seanmcmurphy4744 "Sorkin doesn't write mediocre military cliches." Actually, he's not the best at military writing. I won't go so far as to call any of it cliche, but it's a world he doesn't understand. There are a ton of inaccuracies in A Few Good Men, but it's still an excellent movie. There have been things on West Wing that weren't accurate, like the star field on the flag over Leo's casket being on the wrong side. And, without going and looking right now, I think he may have been carried in the wrong direction. The deceased always travels feet first, and I think they were carrying him head first. Another instance, though it could be attributed to the character, was in Sports Night, when Isaac was telling Dana about his son-in-law's job as a Naval radar officer, he said that "If we were scrambling F-16s off the deck of the U.S.S. Coral Sea", when the F-16 is an Air Force plane, not Navy. The Navy, at the time, used F-14s and F-18s. However, the managing editor of a cable sports show wouldn't be expected to know that, so I can let it go.

@mrchilli5618

22 күн бұрын

​@@casey6556toby was a POW.

Need better lighting too dark.

@annegiorgio5602

21 күн бұрын

It’s night time

@VolatileBullfrog

13 күн бұрын

It's also YT, which is notoriously bad at dark videos.

I never understood why CJ asked if the president was dead. I would think she would ask if the president was alive or if the president was safe or okay. So much about these scenes were like the writers were just trying to write against type. Head scratching…

@seanmcmurphy4744

23 күн бұрын

Her assumption was the president was the target. With that many bullets fired it would be hard to believe they missed.

West Wing was one of the greatest Science Fiction shows ever. Imagine a universe where there is a Democrat President that is both popular and whose policies work.

@milena-cotliar

22 күн бұрын

😂

@yvonnetomenga5726

21 күн бұрын

Clinton administration

@pauldonnelly910

21 күн бұрын

@@yvonnetomenga5726 FDR.

@The_Deaf_Aussie

21 күн бұрын

😂

@terrygracy8345

21 күн бұрын

The real feat was having a Republican candidate that actually made sense AND was believably portrayed.