S2.E10

Noël

Name: Noël
Genre: Drama
Released: 2000-12-20
Duration: 43 min
Rating: 9.4
Cast: Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney

Episode aired Dec 20, 2000
TV-14TV-14
43m

IMDb RATING

9.4/10

1.8K

YOUR RATING

Adam Arkin, Purva Bedi, and Bradley Whitford in The West Wing (1999)

Drama

Josh speaks to a psychiatrist about the events of the last three weeks: Toby hired musicians for the foyer, an Air Force pilot disobeyed orders, Yo-Yo Ma performed at the White House, and Jo... Read allJosh speaks to a psychiatrist about the events of the last three weeks: Toby hired musicians for the foyer, an Air Force pilot disobeyed orders, Yo-Yo Ma performed at the White House, and Josh managed to cut his hand quite badly.Josh speaks to a psychiatrist about the events of the last three weeks: Toby hired musicians for the foyer, an Air Force pilot disobeyed orders, Yo-Yo Ma performed at the White House, and Josh managed to cut his hand quite badly.

IMDb RATING

9.4/10

1.8K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Thomas Schlamme
Writers
- Aaron Sorkin(teleplay by)
- Peter Parnell(story by)
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Trivia
Yo-Yo Ma plays a cello piece. Instead of miming the motions of the song to recorded music, however, he actually played the song for each take. According to director Thomas Schlamme, this amounted to playing the song about 45 times.

Goofs
In the flashback scene, while Toby is talking to Josh about the quintet playing in the lobby, he mentions how for the last two Christmases, he has been accused of having no Christmas spirit around the White House and that he's decided to be different this year. The Bartlet Administration has only been in office since January of the previous year, so they only would have been in the White House for one Christmas so far.

Quotes
Leo McGarry: [after Josh finishes an intensive therapy session set up by Leo with a trauma therapist, Josh walks past Leo in a nearby hallway of the White House] How'd it go?
Josh Lyman: Did you wait around for me?
Leo McGarry: How'd it go?
Josh Lyman: He thinks I may have an eating disorder...
Leo McGarry: [bemused] Josh...
Josh Lyman: ...and a fear of rectangles. That's not weird, is it?
[pause]
Josh Lyman: I didn't cut my hand on a glass. I broke a window in my apartment.
Leo McGarry: This guy's walking down a street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep, he can't get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, "Hey you, can you help me out?" The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up "Father, I'm down in this hole, can you help me out?" The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. "Hey Joe, it's me, can you help me out?" And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, "Are you stupid? Now we're both down here." The friend says, "Yeah, but I've been down here before, and I know the way out."
[pause]
Leo McGarry: Long as I got a job, you got a job, you understand?