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Recap / The West Wing S 04 E 06 Game On

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  • Actually Pretty Funny: Leo tells Toby the President's having a "crisis of confidence" about the upcoming election debate. Sure enough, when the staff assembles in the Oval Office and begins firing practice questions at Bartlet, he stumbles, meanders and generally gives incredibly unimpressive answers—until Toby blows his stack. Immediately the other staffers dissolve into laughter, and Toby realizes the whole thing was a prank set up by the President. But Toby doesn't even care, he's just happy that Jed is ready for the debate.
  • Take That!: Jed's rambling, incoherent answer to the question about his daughter being murdered was one to Michael Dukakis, who had given a similarly ineffective answer to the same question when he ran for President in 1988.

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