You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishikesh Your Way.

And I be Joshua Molina. Today we're talking about Season 2, Episode 5. It's called, and

it's surely to their credit.

The Tell-A-Play was by Aaron Sorkin, the story by Kevin Falls, Ampritsand Laura Glasser.

It was directed by Christopher Mizziano and it first aired on November 1st in the year 2000.

At the very beginning of this episode, I've got something pre-beginning. Oh, okay, let's go.

Previously on The West Wing features a shot of Brad Whitford as Josh Lyman being pulled out of the ambulance.

And it reminded me that somebody commented that Josh is brought out of the ambulance head first,

and that this is not traditional. And that normally an injured person is put into an ambulance head first,

and that's what would be pulled out feet first. And so I did a little research.

And indeed, I think that it tends to be that you put a patient into an ambulance head first

because one, the oxygen equipment is kept at the front of the vehicle. Right.

So if it's needed, the patient's head ought to be there. It's less nauseating generally to travel head first.

Fewer bumps. Right. And then the danger of a rear end collision makes it more dangerous for the patient's head to me in the back.

Now, maybe I'm even going to say inevitably somebody will explain to me why with gunshot victims,

they're sometimes put in feet first or something like that. But I'm going to say that that person

whoever commented out there made a good point. And I think for dramatic purposes with that great overhead shot

that Tommy talked about. Right. The ER shot. Yeah, exactly. Josh has pulled out head first.

Yeah. Otherwise, you got to delay the dramatic moment of seeing his face.

Right. Open up the doors and suddenly Josh is shoes. Josh feet.

What were you going to say when I so rudely interrupted you?

I like when Josh and Donna are disagreeing with each other about the principles of yelling.

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