YMMV / The West Wing S 04 E 02 Twenty Hours In America Part Two

• Hilarious in Hindsight: During his speech in response to the bombing of the swim meet, Bartlet inspires the nation with "but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless." Then, at a conference in October 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May included the following in a speech: "It is when tested the most that we reach deep within ourselves and find that our capacity to rise to the challenge before us may well be limitless." What's funny is: in the very same episode that was plagiarized, Aaron Sorkin implicitly gave her permission to plagiarize it with Sam's line:
  Sam: Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
  • Which, for maximum irony points, is paraphrased from T. S. Eliot ("Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.").