Just Reminiscing

[meddow]

ishie keeps on going on about The West Wing at the moment which has had me drag out my old DVDs and remember just how much I adore that show. I was just watching The US Poet Laureate, which is probably the wankiest episode of TV in existence. In a plot aimed directly at the fandom we are compared to both The Lord of the Flies and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

_{CJ: Let me explain something to you. This is sort of my field. The people on these sites? They're the cast of 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.' The muu-muu-wearing Parliament smoker? That's Nurse Ratched. When Nurse Ratched is unhappy, the patients are unhappy. You? You're McMurphy. You swoop in with your card games and fishing trips.
Josh: I didn't swoop in, I came in the exact same way everyone else did.
CJ: Well now I'm telling you to open the wardroom window and climb on out before they give you a free frontal lobotomy and I have to smother you with a pillow.
Josh: (pause) You're...?
CJ: (nodding) I'm Chief Bromden, yes, at this particular moment. I'm assigning an intern from the press office to that website. They're going to check it every night before they go home. If they discover you've been there I'm going to shove a motherboard so far up your ass... What?
Josh: Technically I outrank you...
CJ: So far up your ass!}

Since that was particularly aimed at the TelevisionWithoutPity boards, which I was active on at the time, that is my wanking claim to fame. Good times.

It’s okay, Aaron Sorkin. I still love you.

I’m going to finally see An Inconvenient Truth tonight. I’m hoping it will give me a kick up the arse and out of my current apathy towards everything. Goodness knows I need it.