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The West Wing Weekly

4.14: Inauguration: Part 1 (with Danica McKellar)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Inauguration: Part I is the first part of our two-part series about a two-part series of West Wing episodes. Josh and Hrishi dig up fun facts about presidential bibles, and cast a critical eye on CJ's flirting and Josh's mean sass about Jack Reese. They also talk with Danica McKellar (@danicamckellar) about how a character named Tracy became Elsie Snuffin.

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0:00.0

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

0:09.6

And I'm Joshua Molina.

0:11.3

And today we're talking about Season 4's episode 14, it's called Inogeration Part One.

0:17.0

That's right, a two-parter. This part was written by Aaron Sorkin, based on a story

0:22.6

by Michael Oats, Palmer, and William Sin. It was directed by Chris Messiano, and it first

0:27.8

aired on Feh, Brewery 5th in the year 2003.

0:32.0

Coming up later in this episode, we're going to talk to Danica McKellar. Here's a little

0:36.4

synopsis. We open on The Inogeration, Danny Digs in on Assassination. CJ Tempts him

0:42.5

with flirtation, Hutchinson's filled with indignation.

0:45.7

That's as far as I got. Oh my God, people, Rish is losing it. I wanted to do it in the form

0:51.7

of a sinkane, but I ran out of time. And I had the idea about three minutes ago. That's

0:56.8

what I came up with in three minutes. I thought that entire subplot would have been

0:59.4

funnier if the guy was handing down decisions in the form of Limericks.

1:03.8

Here's a real synopsis. In this episode, the president's about to be inaugurated, but

1:09.9

first, we cut back six days earlier to find out how the administration has arrived at the

1:14.0

decision to announce a new doctrine for the use of force. It involves Will Bailey finally

1:18.6

speaking truth to power, and Jack Reese being asked to put his head in the lion's mouth,

1:23.4

and then the lion's mouth closes. Plus, Charlie's on a mission to find a Bible for Potus.

1:28.6

And Danny and CJ continue their cat and mouse game around truth assassination and their

1:32.6

own flirtation. That's when I started to realize I could make this thing rhyme.

1:35.8

This is doable. So that was a renopsis. It was. Yeah, that seemed too good to have been

1:40.0

found elsewhere. I didn't do it in Trocake, Tetrometer, or a sinkane or anything. So,

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