7.02: The Mommy Problem

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this mother of an episode, Alex Graves cranks the style up to 11. We’re introduced to the character of Louise Thornton (played by Janeane Garofalo). We get real-time text answers to our quests from the unstoppable Eli Attie. So get ready cuz, as Steve Miller says, "we go down Carolina!"

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Josh Wilmelina.
0:10.3	And I'm Rishi Keishirwe. And today we're talking about episode two from season seven. It's
0:14.6	called The Mommy Problem.
0:16.0	It was written by Eli Addy. It was directed by Alex Graves and at first aired on October
0:20.9	2nd, 2005.
0:23.0	In this episode, the astronauts who were stuck in the space station have been rescued.
0:27.0	But the investigation into the leak about the secret military space shuttle gets ratcheted
0:31.4	up as a grand jury gets convened.
0:33.9	So nobody's going to emergency, but somebody is going to jail.
0:37.3	Exactly.
0:38.3	This is all bad news for the Santos McGarry campaign, who are also having trouble getting their
0:41.4	message out and projecting an image of Santos that's substantial.
0:45.1	So Josh hires a communications director and together they try to deal with the good luck
0:49.0	or bad luck of Santos getting called up for marine reserve duty.
0:52.6	Very nice.
0:53.6	Substantos.
0:55.2	Exactly.
0:57.0	We may have covered this a little bit before.
0:58.5	I think Richard Schiff mentioned that he was not a fan of the second half of season six
1:03.9	and season seven.
1:05.6	And I feel like you can hear it in his voice just when he says previously on the West Wing.
1:11.0	Haha.
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