You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi K. Sherway.

And I'm Joshua Molina.

And today we're talking about episode 21 from season 7, Institutional Memory.

This episode was written by Debra Khan. It was directed by Leslie Linka Glatter.

And it first aired on May 7th, 2006.

And in this episode, as the Bartlett administration reaches its final days,

Will Kate and CJ all say, okay, what's next?

That's right. And I think the final phrase of this episode is, what else?

I was like, Danny, oh, so close.

But it's like, I guess it's like a trademark issue.

I had to say something substantially different, even if it's in the same vein.

This is so much like the end of a TV show where you start obsessing, you know,

trying to relish things in a way you really can't. But it's hard not to go,

yeah, it's the last time we'll do this. We're going to do our last, what's next in about an hour and a half.

Well, that's one thing that I was thinking about while watching this episode.

It's really nice that the show knew that it was ending, you know, and made these moves to have

closure for the series itself, because it means that while we're doing the final episodes of

our podcast, some of the feelings that they're talking about and exploring in the show mirror

things that I'm feeling about the end of this show. That wouldn't happen necessarily with a TV show

that got canceled or ended more unexpectedly. Right. Now, you're absolutely right. We are

wrapping up a podcast about a television show that itself was wrapping up that depicted the

wrapping up of an administration. Exactly. It's getting very meta here. Yeah, it is. I want our

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