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The American President
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The American President is a 1995 romantic drama movie directed by Rob Reiner (in his first film after the infamous North) and written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Michael J. Fox, and Martin Sheen. These days it is most noted for being basically a dress rehearsal for Sorkin's later TV series The West Wing, which included a number of the same actors, albeit in different parts.US President Andrew Shepherd (Douglas), previously the governor of Wisconsin and a widower/single father, is on top of the world as the movie starts. His poll numbers are excellent, and together with his staff, which includes Chief of Staff A.J. MacInerney (Sheen) and Lewis Rothschild (Fox), he is planning to pass a major new crime bill. However, things change when he meets Sydney Ellen Wade (Bening), an environmental lobbyist who has been hired to push for new legislation. After the typical Meet Cute, Shepherd asks her out, and they begin dating, which of course draws major media interest.This also grabs the attention of Senator Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss), who has an eye to challenging Shepherd in the next election, and wants to use his relationship with Sydney to drag the President through the mud. This calls into question Shepard's previous "family man" reputation and his professional judgment as the "most powerful man on Earth."The film also stars David Paymer as Deputy Chief of Staff Leon Kodak and Samantha Mathis as Personal Aide Janie Basdin.Features typically strong dialogue from Aaron Sorkin and good performances all around, particularly from veteran leading actors Douglas, Bening, and Sheen. | |
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Can't Believe I Said That | |
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Can't Believe I Said That: When Janie tells Shepherd his cousin can't make it to the State Dinner, Robin asks if he's going alone. | |
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Sexy Shirt Switch | |
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Sexy Shirt Switch: An unusual example is Wade dressed in one in a manner evoking Ready for Lovemaking, rather than after the fact. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Shepard is clearly based on then-current President Bill Clinton; a young, charismatic, and moderate Democrat who previously served as Governor of a Midwest state (Arkansas for Clinton, Wisconsin for Shepard), while Rumson is based on Senator Bob Dole, a Kansas Republican Senator who was Clinton's 1996 opponent. Lewis Rothschild is based on George Stephanopoulos, who was, at the time, too young for the responsibilities given to him in the Clinton administration but, nevertheless, took everything on with passion. | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong: Sydney attempts to console her boss Solomon about her date with Shepherd by claiming it was a one time thing with zero attachment. Of course in that very same instant a staffer walks into the office with a gift basket and a note that Shepherd wrote personally. This is also right after her boss tells her that the time it takes to go from a major power player to a cocktail-party joke can be clocked on an egg timer. | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: During her initial meeting with A.J. MacInerny, Sydney Wade verbally tears into President Shepherd for his refusal to give her environmental group's cause as much support as they want. Midway through her rant, Shepherd quietly enters the room and stands behind her, introducing himself only when she finishes ("Let's take him out back and beat the shit out of him!"). Later, though, when she apologizes to him, he takes it all in stride, reminding her that being viciously criticized like that is all a part of his job as President. | |
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The Creon | |
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The Creon: A.J. implies he is one when Andrew angrily demands to know why throughout his political career, A.J. has never sought office and has always been one step behind him, content to work as a loyal advisor. | |
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The Klutz | |
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The Klutz: In Leon Kodak's first scene, he has an Offscreen Crash involving a big ficus plant. Then he walks into the Oval Office and almost knocks over a lamp. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: Senator Rumson chooses to focus entirely on the moral implications of Shepherd dating Sydney while serving term as the President, hoping that the ensuing mudfight will allow him to swing the next election in his favor. This is despite the fact that drawing attention to the very clear ethical problems with a relationship between the President and a lobbyist would not only have stuck better, but would have allowed him to keep the high ground in his campaign. | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase: In an unscripted (in-universe) speech savaging Bob Rumson for using Sydney to smear him, Andy turns Rumson's catchphrase around. | |
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Ridiculously High Relationship Standards | |
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Ridiculously High Relationship Standards: Syndey has a touch of this when she balks at her budding relationship with the President. Her sister responds: "Sydney, the man is the leader of the free world. He's brilliant, funny, handsome. He's an above-average dancer. Isn't it possible our standards are just a tad high?" | |
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Fashion Hurts | |
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Fashion Hurts: Lucy is helping her father put on a bow tie for the state dinner and he complains that it's too tight: | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: Presidential rival Bob Rumson ends all of his campaign speeches with the same cheesy line. | |
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Contractual Purity | |
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Contractual Purity: An In-Universe version where Shepard and Wade try to experience a relatively normal, adult relationship but the massive media attention skews it to where Wade is a "whore" and Shepard is taking her as his mistress. Shepard explains the trope as such in his final speech. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: President Shepherd regarding his relationship with Sydney. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Shepherd temporarily loses his faith when the chips are down and he makes a deal which will screw over Sydney and her environmental lobby pursuits. This is after months of being harassed about his relationship by his political opponent. He finally snaps when he is confronted by Lewis. | |
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Sarcasm-Blind | |
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Sarcasm-Blind: Shepherd's aide Janie is going over his daily schedule with him. She mentions a meeting with American Fisheries and that they'll be giving him a 200-pound halibut. | |
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Burning the Flag | |
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Burning the Flag: Bob Rumson attempts to smear Shepherd with a picture of Sydney burning an American flag during a late-'80s anti-Apartheid demonstration. | |
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Ambiguous Syntax | |
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Ambiguous Syntax: This comes up when the President's press secretary is trying to strategize the President's new relationship. | |
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Mistaken for Prank Call | |
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Mistaken for Prank Call: Shepherd's first attempt to talk on the phone to Sydney Ellen Wade goes badly, with her thinking he is a colleague trying to give his best Andrew Shepherd impression. It also happened to him when he tried to get flowers for Sydney. He tried calling the florist, only for said florist to hang up after he stated he was the President of the United States. Then, on his way to a fundraiser, he happens upon the shop of the florist he called, and gets out of the car to buy flowers as an apology to Sydney for canceling their date that night. Said florist is on the phone, and when he tries to get her attention, she blows him off, then does a Double Take. He asks her if she was the same florist he called earlier, and she faints at the realization that she hung up on the President of the United States. | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Shepherd announces his plan to go to Sydney's house and do whatever it takes to win her back: | |
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Parent with New Paramour | |
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Parent with New Paramour: Andrew is a widower with a 12 year-old daughter. | |
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Dance of Romance | |
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Dance of Romance: Shepherd and Sydney dancing at the State Dinner provides the poster image. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: When the amount of coverage starts to heat up, Sydney goes to the White House, telling her sister that she plans to end their relationship. She ends up consummating it instead. There's also a point in the montage where someone expresses concern about what impact the relationship is having on Lucy—while we see her playing an instrument and her father and Sydney applauding her. | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Sydney nearly walks through the wrong door into the President's private office after their first meeting. Her sister finds this endlessly amusing. | |
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"Shut Up" Kiss | |
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"Shut Up" Kiss: Sydney gives one to Andy when he won't stop nervously talking as she's Ready for Lovemaking. | |
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Emotional Regression | |
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Emotional Regression: Shepard has been out of the dating loop for a long time, so his attempts at learning about Sydney come across as high school-ish. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: A quite literal example. Andy interrupts a press conference at the end of the film to improvise a speech directly calling out Rumson and his cadre for attacking Sydney to smear him. He also mercilessly lays into Rumson about trying to turn his ACLU membership into a liability (and ripostes it into Rumson's lack of membership being a liability), and into Rumson being a demagogue in general. | |
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Dramatic Thunder | |
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Dramatic Thunder: When Shepard's approval rating is dropping and he briefly loses faith: | |
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555: Averted when President Shepherd gives Sydney the White House's phone number as 456-1414. Dialing that number after the 202 area code belonging to Washington D.C. actually does connect you with the White House's receptionist. | |
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It also happened to him when he tried to get flowers for Sydney. He tried calling the florist, only for said florist to hang up after he stated he was the President of the United States. Then, on his way to a fundraiser, he happens upon the shop of the florist he called, and gets out of the car to buy flowers as an apology to Sydney for canceling their date that night. Said florist is on the phone, and when he tries to get her attention, she blows him off, then does a Double Take. He asks her if she was the same florist he called earlier, and she faints at the realization that she hung up on the President of the United States. | |
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Sarcastic Confession | |
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Sarcastic Confession: Not done on purpose, but when Shepherd introduces himself over the phone to Wade she doesn't believe him. She then proceeds to mock him, figuring he was a friend pulling a prank. Shepherd then gives her the White House number where the operator is ready to connect her call in order to convince her. | |
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Friendly Address Privileges | |
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Friendly Address Privileges: Defied: A.J. consistently calls Andrew "Mr. President" even when they're alone, despite them having been the best of friends for years. When Andrew calls him out on this once, he delivers his reply in the form of a Shout-Out to Dr. Seuss. | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies: An inversion as it's Sydney who proposes they stay away from each other until after the election is over so as to not hurt his re-election chances. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: After Andrew and Sydney consummate their relationship, a montage follows of the media pouncing all over the pair, as their dating starts dropping his approval numbers and Rumson begins to gain momentum by dragging their relationship through the mud. | |
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Code Name | |
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Sorkin later recycles the Code Name for The West Wing mid-season 1 (before, it's Eagle). | |
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Meet Cute | |
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Meet Cute: Sydney and the President meet for the first time while Sydney is viciously laying into the President at a lobby meeting. Unbeknownst to her, the President had just walked into that meeting from behind her to hear the whole thing. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: The climax is Shepherd delivering one of these at a press conference. And an awesome one at that. | |
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Think of the Children! | |
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Think of the Children!: Of course some pundit tries to paint Andrew's daughter as a victim, when really she likes Sydney and has encouraged her dad to pursue a relationship with her all along. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Shepherd's second attempt to call Sydney after the first try was Mistaken for Prank Call results in this for Sydney. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: It's a film written by Aaron Sorkin, so needless to say, EVERYONE is this. | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
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Fiery Redhead: Sydney is red-headed and a fiery top-level lobbyist that gets White House access. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: A rare PG-13 film with three of them. | |
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Faint in Shock | |
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Faint in Shock: The florist when Andrew drops by in person. | |
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Xanatos Gambit | |
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Xanatos Gambit: How Shepherd rationalizes his deal with Sydney to A.J. If Sydney fails (as Shepherd initially expected her to), they move in with their softer bill and look like heroes. If Sydney succeeds, they pass a harder bill without having to most of the heavy lifting. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: The opening cast roll ends with "and Michael J. Fox as Lewis Rothschild". | |
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You Can Always Tell a Liar | |
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You Can Always Tell a Liar: Sydney says Shepherd has a look when he's holding something back. And of course, he's doing it while not telling her he's failing on his end of the agreement with the GDC. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: A.J. teases the President with some Dr. Seuss while playing pool. | |
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The Chains of Commanding | |
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The Chains of Commanding: Shepherd orders a missile strike on Libya's State Sec in retaliation for their involvement in an attack that leaves 22 American soldiers dead. When his advisors suggest playing this up to paint him as a strong leader who can make hard decisions in a time of crisis, Shepherd chastises them for making the suggestion, reminding them of the human cost of his decision. | |
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All Women Love Shoes | |
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All Women Love Shoes: Lucy seems to think so; before the State Dinner, she tells her father that complimenting a woman's shoes is a good date move. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Lewis gives one to Shepherd, but he has a good response to it. | |
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Sex for Services | |
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Sex for Services: Bob Rumson implies during a talk show appearance that Sydney may have traded sexual favors for votes. | |
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StrawmanPolitical | |
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Strawman Political: Bob Rumson, GOP candidate, is only seen gleefully taking money from wealthy donors, joking callously with political higher-ups and smearing the President while he campaigns. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Most of the major characters are embryonic versions of the cast of Sorkin's The West Wing, which makes watching it an interesting experience for fans of the show. For instance: Andrew Shepherd = Jed Bartlet A.J. = Leo Robin = C.J. Lewis = Josh Leon = Toby Mrs. Chapil = Mrs. Landingham | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: The Hate Sink is given to Senator Rumson, but Sydney’s boss Leo is actually the worst person by far. First he asks Sydney if she’s sleeping with the President. He says he’s just doing it to prepare her for the Media Circus which will be coming (and he is correct), but it’s still incredibly inappropriate, and likely illegal, for him to even ask her. Then to top it off he fires her after the President shelves the Environmental Bill she’s busted her ass to secure the votes for even though she 100% did exactly what she was paid to do! | |
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Verbal Backspace | |
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Verbal Backspace: Shepherd does this while trying to find a way to rein Lewis in. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Andrew has a very difficult time being President and personally buying flowers for Sydney. He finally manages it by having the roses picked from the White House garden. | |
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American Title | |
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American Title: The American President | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Shepherd is a fan of doing this in an attempt to make a joke. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Sydney shows up late for a holiday gathering and complains about getting stuck on DuPont Circle again. Towards the end of the movie, Shepherd wants to drive to Sydney's house and try to win her back after their huge argument, but A.J. doesn't like the idea: | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: You'd be hard-pressed to find a more accurate portrayal of the day-to-day workings of the White House. The sets would be re-used for The West Wing. | |
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