Havasimy

I've been watching the second season of The West Wing on DVD as well as later episodes that are airing in syndication. I'm also a big fan of Sports Night. Both are Aaron Sorkin TV shows. The West Wing is a really good TV show. Besides enjoying the show on the usual levels, I'm also having fun looking for the connections between those shows. So far, only Joshua Malina seems to have made the main cast of both shows, but a number of the main cast of either shows have been guest stars on the other. Those connections are easy to spot. Then there are the style aspects each show shares, like a lot of the dialogue on both shows is done while walking from room to room, not to mention the inclusion of random facts in dialogue and characters often repeating the same line three or more time in a row. Then there are the less obvious connections, like when an actor does a short, one scene guest shot on both shows. My favorite connections so far, though, is the use of the line "...then you haven't seen Shakespeare the way it's meant to be done". My other favorite connection is the blatant re-use of a subplot. In both shows, one of the top male stars goes to a dinner specifically to talk to a woman he wants to impress. The next morning, while telling co-workers the details of the dinner, it is pointed out to him that he mixed-up two words making him look like a total idiot. He proceeds to spend time fretting on it, trying to convince co-workers, who don't really care, that he knows the difference between the two words he got mixed-up.