You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi Kei Shereway, and I'm Josh

Wilmelina. Today we're talking about celestial navigation. It's season one episode 15.

At first aired on February, I hate saying February. I really can't wait until we're out. I think

we've got two more episodes and then we'll get into the episodes that aired in March of 2000.

But this one aired in February on February 16th, 2000. Do you not pronounce the first

R is that this secret? You just called February? Exactly. Really? Can't bring myself to do that.

It first aired on February. That doesn't sound right. February 16th, 2000. And then the event.

It was written by Aaron Sorkin and the story was by D.D. Myers and Lawrence O'Donnell.

And it was directed by the fabulous Christopher Missyano. And this episode was submitted as one of two

for Alice and Janney's Emmy win for the season. And coming up later, we're going to be talking to

former real-life White House press secretary Jay Carney. But first, let's talk about the episode.

Josh, what did you think? First thing I noticed was the previously on this episode. Right?

It's a who's who. Exactly. It's all the characters. Have we had this before? And I've just not

noticed it. We've never had this before, but we are going to have it again. Okay. It is really just

everyone saying, hi, I'm Sam. Hi, I'm CJ. Hi, I mean, it's crazy. And most of them are also saying

what their titles are. Obviously, it's meant to. It's like saying, hi viewers. You may not have watched

previously, but here's our cast of characters. I'm Leo Leo, Bobio, Benana, FFF. It's weird.

Really weird. I like when that happens because it's an indication that for the most part,

this is going to be a good standalone episode. Ah, good point. They aren't referencing a lot of

previous plot points. Right. They're saying you don't need to know a lot of plot. You just need to

know who the characters are. This is also a first, besides the who's who we get the first example

of the West Wing playing with time. Ah, yes. It's the first non-linearly told episode.

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