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5/1 was a great episode. I loved everything that happened from Lisa/Maggie/Jim, to Will and his bodyguard (Terry Crews proved to be great as a minor character, apart from being a stud), Will being high, the airplane scenes! Just perfection all around. Loved the twist at the end where Jim asks Lisa out again.

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Thanks a ton! I will stick with it and watch Sports Night as well and then Studio 60 will be last. I vaguely recall a channel airing Sports Night reruns because I remember Felicity Huffman! And, I vaguely remember Studio 60 because it was on NBC but I never watched and didn't know it was a Sorkin show. Thanks again for the recommendations Toups!

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Also, I cannot stop laughing when Will asks that one dude to throw him the remote and he just clearly misses the mark and throws it off the balcony.

Then Kaylee's interpretation of The Rock's tweet... that he was coming back to lay the Smackdown on Triple H.

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Great episode. I love Will so much. He is so self-aware even if he cannot stop himself from subtly lashing out at MacKensie. I am rooting for he and Charlie to stick it to Leona with Reese's illegal wiretapping activities.

I feel for MacKensie. She still loves Will, but he cannot forgive her. Her ex-boyfriend is a dope. The last scene where she asks for a sign was hilarious.

These people who are so desperate for celebrity that they would say anything to get on tv are pathetic.

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Wow what an amazing episode. Might be the best one yet. From the Charlie/wiretapping story, to Sloan trying get word out about not raising the debt ceiling will be a disaster.

The part about Will saying there is no psychiatric emergency rooms, that's not true. The hospital I work for has one.

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I really like the minor characters and enjoy it when they get some airtime.

1.8: The Blackout - Part 1: Tragedy Porn

Mackenzie: Alright, to give us a crash course on how best exploit this tragedy, and to erase all boundries as what should be used as entertainment, I've enlisted the help of amaster of the dark arts.

Don: I understand am needed.

Neal: Sloan.

Sloan: How was the mood in there?

Neal: It's not good but let me ask you something. For the sake of the story, how would you feel about me going on the internet and saying vicious things about you that might get an argument started on misogyny.

Sloan: What kind of vicious things?

Neal: I don't know. Something about the way you look.

Sloan: Like what?

Neal: I'd be making it up.

Sloan: What would you be making up?

Neal: It wouldn't be true. It'll be something along the lines of, "She screwed her way to the top and she's got a big ass."

(Sloan shoves Neal into a wall)

Sloan: Listen to me, Sampat!.....Do I?

Neal: Of course not.

Sloan: Okay.

Neal: I can do it?

Sloan: You can not. If you want, you can say I made it to the final round of the K-to-6 regionals in the Scripps Spelling Bee.

Neal: That's not going to happen. You know, lots of guys like women with big....

(Sloan shoves Neal into a wall again)

Sloan: Do they really? Nevermind. I don't know what you're talking about. I have my own problems.

Martin: Jim.

Jim: Yeah.

Martin: I got a woman on the phone who she says she's got some tweets from Anthony Weiner and wants to talk to us.

Jim: What are you telling me for?

Martin: Seniority.

Jim: Well, I'm handing her off to the next most senior person -- Kendra, take the Weiner girl.

Kendra: Gary, take the Weiner girl.

Gary: Tess.

Tess: Tamara.

Tamara: We were hired as interns the same day.

Tess: I was hired in the morning, you were hired after lunch. Take the Weiner girl.

Tamara: Please don't make me take the Weiner girl.

Tess: Respect the seniority.

Tamara: Who do I have seniority over? (looks around) Maggie!

(Maggie waves her arms/hands like a magician disappearing)

Maggie: Can people still see me?

Martin: Line 5.

Lonny: You really can't just drop in a doctor.

Will: What if it's an emergency?

Lonny: You go to the emergency room.

Will: They don't have psychiatric emergency rooms.

Lonny: They should....you'll be a good reason why.

Will: Well, you caved for the money. I'm kind of disappointed.

Dr. Habib: I didn't cave for the money. You're getting the sessions you paid for. You seem like you're in pain.

Lonny: He is.

Will: He said in pain, not a pain.

Lonny: Oh, nevermind.

I can't believe they even have agents.

That's great. I had no idea those exists. There definitely should be one in hospitals.

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Why the heck do I love this show? It's from Aaron Sorkin, the overrated writer from the West Wing!!! But by golly I do.

Tonight's episode and the preview from next week's season finale just has me wanting more and more. I haven't really enjoyed cable dramas in awhile, but The Newsroom and Political Animals are so good that I cannot miss an episode.

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Last night had me rolling SO much! I can't do my Quotables yet since I'm at work and maybe Toups might do the ones I really liked. I have to rewatch when I get back home.

Oh man, Jim had me rolling with Lisa & Maggie. His reaction to that $11,000 dress was so funny!

Jim: Guess how much these pants cost?

Maggie: $30.

Jim: Yup, and they look just as good as the $40.

Or something like that but I could not stop laughing. And when he asked if Lisa and the customer were back there kissing... because if he were him and he was a girl that's what he'd do. I can't get over my love for this man!

Ok, I'm a little confused... were they insinuating that Lisa knew Casey Anthony from school? Also, why was Baby Killer written on Lisa's place of employment? I missed these two points and if anyone can help me out it'd be greatly appreciated.

I howled with laughter when Mac was talking to her ex and saying that WIll struggles and then out comes Will struggling to put his feet in his pants.

Mac: "Will someone help will put his pants on?!"

I am quite sad that next week is the season one finale! I'm not ready for it all to end. Oh, and I am so interested in seeing how that all plays out because I didn't understand Mac & Jim's interaction when she asked him about Lisa. I was guessing that she was trying to tell him to go and try again and then Don starts out by saying he might not have been there for Lisa but Maggie so now I am all types of confuzzled.

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1.9: The Blackout - Part 2: Mock Debate

Mackenzie: What time does the sun set tonight?

Neal: 8:37

Will: Why in the world would you know that?

Neal: One of those things.

Jim: Miss, I'm just a random heterosexual guy from off the street and I think that dress looks great on you. Don't even look at anything else. Buy that dress and wear it out of the store.

Lisa: He's just a....don't worry.

Maggie: It would've meant more if you said you were gay.

Jim: Why is that?

Jim: You know what these pants cost me?

Maggie: 30 dollars?

Jim: That's right. And they looks just as good as the ones that cost 40 dollars.

(hears laughter from the change room)

Jim: You think they're kissing in there?

Maggie: Do *you* think they're kissing in there?

Jim: If I was a woman, I'd spend the whole day kissing other women. I don't understand gay men or straight women.

Maggie: You know you're talking out loud, right?

Neal: I used a link from your wikipedia page detailing your rise from small town stripper to big time financial news reporter.

Sloan: My wikipedia page doesn't say that.

Neal: Check again.

Sloan: You're going to see an emotional response on my face and a physical response directed at yours.

Will: I'm sorry, this is his partner, Greg Brady.

Tate: Tate.

Mackenzie: Are you sure about that?

Brian: Yes, I'm sure about that.

Mackenzie: You know what I like about Will? He's not absolutely sure about anything. He struggles with things. He's never certain he's right and sometimes he's not but he tries hard to be. He struggles with things.

(Will hops out struggling putting his pants on and falls)

Lisa went to high school with her. "Baby Killer" was written because she was pro-choice: "I'm saying that there's an un-discussed, an unappreciated cruelty enforcing a child to be born to a mother who doesn't want the child and isn't capable of raising the child."

I didn't understand the context of the poem either but I think Mackenzie was telling Jim to go to Maggie and tell her about his feelings for her? What I didn't get was the whole Don-flower-Jim-signing-the-note-thing. What did that mean?

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One of the women that Don has been seeing when he and Maggie are on a break sent him flowers. Jim signed for the flowers and saw the woman's name so he gave them to Will to keep in his office so Maggie would not see them. Maggie does not know that Don has been dating other women when they have been apart.

I had a brief power outage in my neighborhood so I missed the last 10 minutes. I am going to have to try to catch this episode again.

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As stated Maggie didn't know that Don was seeing other women while they were on their breaks. Jim signed for the flowers and had Will hold onto them. Jim went to Maggie's apartment to tell her about the flowers, but both Lisa and Don incorrectly thought he was there to see Lisa.When Don realized why Jim was really there, he told Maggie everything.

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What a great finale! Simple triumphant, yet sad at the same time. I love that Will found his inner strengthen and couage to go on. I am even okay with him not telling McKenzie what he said in the message although I was hoping that Nina would send Mac the message. Will, Charlie, and McKenzie conning Leona and Reese was great fun.

So Sloan has a thing for Don. Eh. If she is smart, she will get over it. I am tired of the Lisa/Jim/Maggie/Don quadrangle now. Maggie and Jim are determined to be unhappy for no good reason.

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