You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rashique Heish here, way.

And I'm Joshua Molina.

And today we're talking about the Black Vera Wang. It's episode 20 from season 3.

It was directed by Christopher Missyano. It was written by Aaron Sorkin and it aired first

on May 8th, 2002.

Coming up later in this episode, we're going to be joined by a special guest, Mark

Harmon. Here is a synopsis from TV Guide. While CJ, codename Flamingo, gets used to being

tailed by special agent Donovan, the president must deal with a terrorist threat on a military

installation. Meanwhile, the networks are threatening to cut coverage of the upcoming conventions.

Sam receives a copy of a TV commercial attacking the president. And Josh, back from the Helsinki

Summit, gives Don a box of cured mousse meat. And that's not a euphemism. It turns out to

be even more unappetizing than it appears. The euphemism line was for me the rest of it

was from them. I thought so. I hope so. You ate a mousse. No, I don't like eating things

where the cartoon character can talk and you know, patch a plan. That's a great line.

I really like my wife Lindsay's policy when it comes to eating animals. Her rule is she

doesn't eat anything with eyelashes. Oh, nice. I've heard face before eyelashes is a

good distinction. Yeah, anything they can blink coquettishly. Right. So no seal meat

for her, for instance, exactly. Right. Although it may only be cartoon seals that have eyelashes,

I'm not sure. No, I think they have Maybelline lashes really in real life. Fair enough.

Let me ask you something. Which plantage in it do I most remind you of? That's an interesting

question. Do you have a favorite plantage in it? I really don't. Although I'll tell you

if we can jump right into that. It was interesting to me that I'm no Shakespeare expert nor

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