The West Wing - Wesley Police Station

[3113cj]

HEY! FUCK! We found it!

[bsgtrekfan88]

Fun Fact - The news paper that has Toby on it- - - there is a clipping of it hanging in Toby's office that his father looks at in season 4/5 I believe. :)

[thewaitingape]

Yeah Rob, leave this show for Dr. Vegas.Smart move.

[frankrizzo51]

Toby: Shut up.

[jillhbaudhaan]

fucking awesome writing, scene, acting

[pippinfett]

@jillhbaudhaan Seriously! Has anyone seen a show since with this quality writing? I haven't!

[bornbillsmith]

I sometimes wish I could speak to people that way and know that they will listen

not out of fear but because they have no choice.

[grobangirl1990]

This is my favorite episode!



[TheFrogger15]

When that cop looked up after seeing Toby's picture, Toby should have said "yeah..That's me asshole.

[drbayoms]

@0:52 translation: I'm not fucking around Fife, get off your ass and get your boss.

[MoRo07]

I LOVE, LOVE Celestial Navigation. One of my favorites.

[exp9r]

I love this episode!



[dukestt]

I have every episode, who wants me to upload some and see how long it lasts.

[ionabuss]

2 dislikes? Why would you dislike this? Favorite episode, celestial navigation.

[crazedmongoose2003]

@ionabuss The two cops

[cshubs]

"Two lawyers walk into a police station..."

[arbitterm]

I think Sam snuck in an F-Bomb there.

[elementalpuck]

That is just awesome. Before I die, I want to be able to say, you better get that ...it will be the Governor of Connecticut.

[Aristodama]

The arrogance of power fully demonstrated in this scene. Two ordinary Americans, trying to do their job, get assaulted with the full weight of the Federal Government's Executive. What is good about that, ho is this inspiring? This is the strong bearing down on the weak, and enjoying it. Even back in the days of Hamurabbi, people knew that was wrong. (read the epilogue).

[Praiosrondra]

@Aristodama

a) The cops didn't just do their job. They made a mistake, a mistake which unfortunately usually doesn't have bad consequences. But this time they ran out of luck and it HAD bad consequences.

b) The "strong" weren't abusing their power. They used it to do the right thing. The only difference compared to a regular cop-lawyer interaction is that Sam and Toby don't have to threaten the cops with using the courts (= the power of the state), since they already have that kind of power.

[jalindquist]

@Aristodama : It must be awful to live in Connecticut if a peace officer's job is to detain people for Driving While Hispanic.

Even if it is, they ought to have the full weight of the federal government fall on them.

[grumpytosnowwhite]

@Aristodama HAHAHAHAHA idiot. They're just concerned with getting Mendoza out, since they know for a fact he wasn't drunk. Also, they're a tad pissed at the cops because it's fairly obvious Mendoza was targeted as a hispanic, even though they don't have proof.

[captnswing]

@Aristodama :If the Police had been just "trying to do their job", Justice Mendoza would never have been arrested in the first place - You might spare a thought for ordinary people (in real life) who aren't lucky enough to have the Cavalry arrive and save them from bigotry and arrogance. Anyone can end up on the receiving end - One day, it might even be YOU...

[nicklebackfan]

The look on the faces of those police officers was priceless! They were seeing their careers flash before their eyes.

[golfnut1220]

@nicklebackfan Don't waste your time, nick....Srd is not worth it. Just let him continue in his Fox News induced semi vegetative state completely devoid of logic, reasoning or empathy. And get a good laugh whenever he goes on one of his right wing tirades. He's just parroting Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. He really doesn't know any better.

[lordhargreaves]

haha

[giftedgiggsy]

god i love sam and how articulate he is, every sentence owns the person he's talking to

[Srd1126]

Typical arrogant liberal the way he talked down to those cops.

[golfnut1220]

@Srd1126 Have you ever been stopped by law enforcement simply because of the color of your skin? I have. The tone used on these racist police officers was totally warranted. They stopped a Supreme Court Nominee because he LOOKED like trouble and then tried their darndest to violate his constitutional rights. Happens all the time. But in your narrow Fox News driven Universe, it doesn't. I am not even sure why I am trying to educate you....On second thought, just keep watching Fox.

[Srd1126]

@golfnut1220 I've been stopped by cops for behavior they wanted to check out. When that happens you answer "yes, officer, no, officer." You don't come off with an attitude that because you are black, brown, polka-dot, etc that you couldn't have been doing anything wrong. Just like that smartmouth professor in MA who said "your mother" when asked to show ID after someone saw him breaking into his home. Had he politelyu showed ID it would have been over. You are very racist towards whites.

[golfnut1220]

@Srd1126 Thanks. I really needed that laugh. Fox-ites crack me up. I see that you have learned the rules very well: 1) Blame the victim. It must be their fault somehow. No law enforcement officer ever responds out of their own bigotry and 2) Accuse everyone else of bigotry. If you can accuse everyone else of bigotry (even if there is absolutely no documentation or proof of said bigotry) the accuser gets to feel better about their OWN bigotry. Ahhhh, Hannity and Beck have trained you well.

[Srd1126]

@golfnut1220 1. If a cop pulls someone over and the person smart-mouths first thing then it is indeed their fault; 2. The left are the ones who cry "racism" when someone even mentions the term "blacdk hole" or "niggardly." I'm watching Hannity right now as a matter of fact--I like intelligent TV.

[nicklebackfan]

@Srd1126 Those cops deserved the smack-down they got in this episode. They should be fortunate that their precinct wasn't sued for millions of dollars or that they didn't lose their jobs. Cops that behave this way don't deserve their badges or uniforms.

[Srd1126]

@nicklebackfan Cops that behave like what? Doing their job? While I realize we even have a real POTUS that thinks all cops are racist, the truth is the oppisite. Too many minorities think everything is racism and don't realize the cops had a valid reason to stop them. Then they get smart-mouth and force the cops to escalate it. Just look at that professor in MA last year for an example.

[cjrubbish]

Little too smarmy

[Blackhawk145]

Toby's face at 1:06 is simply priceless

[DeltaComp]

I seriously miss this show.

[Reqrezentin]

@DeltaComp

Watch, The Wire, The Sopranos or Breaking Bad and you'll be just fine.

[captnswing]

@Reqrezentin Yeah, The Sopranos was a brilliant show, but The West Wing, at it's best, was THE best :)

[Kasino80]

@DeltaComp good thing the dvd's been invented

I have it on practically everyday

[crazedmongoose2003]

maaaannn imagine how shit scared the cops felt hahahaha

[ReX342]

And TODAY it becomes relevant again as the West Wing writing is played out on the media.

[gagothesith]

REX342

> TODAY it becomes relevant again as

> the West Wing writing is played out on the media.

Huh?

[ReX342]

you're lagging 7 months behind. I assume I was referring either to the black professor who was arrested for being in his own house or the latino supreme court judge.

[gagothesith]

1 The real-life Sotomayor was never treated like a criminal for being Latino.

2 The character Mendoza was not mistaken for someone who was breaking into a car/a house which turned out to be owned by him.

[ReX342]

as far as you know :p

No, seriously, I have no idea what I was referring to over half a year ago.

[gagothesith]

NP

Have a good weekend.

[airdriver]

I think they could have stretched this out for a two part episode by extending Toby and Sam's trip to Conneticut(sp?). Toby had some classic lines during that trip.

"We've been navigating off the north star which turned out to be the Delta shuttle from La Guardia. It's a wonder we're not in Nantucket."

[grumpytosnowwhite]

Great, great episode. Toby pwns. Sam = awesome.

[HotPiratesWench]

this is one of my favorite episodes of all time.

celestial navigation, sam is the best.

[jimbobjimminy]

Celestial Navigation = best. episode. ever

[beeb1421]

i thought "two cathedrals" was the best.

[nicklebackfan]

@beeb1421 The West Wing is so awesome and so much better than anything else on television that it's hard to pick one episode over another. But "Two Cathedrals" was one of the better episodes, as was "Celestial Navigation".

[LuxLisbon79]

Toby looks like such a badass in this scene!

[bigrob981]

are you idiots really argueing the legal points of a traffic stop...on a television program.

anybody that thinks racial profiling does not exhist....needs to go on a ride-along with the local PD.

anybody that thinks its wrong....also needs to go on a ride along with the local PD.

there is a real world out there, shut off the computers and check it out.

[bronxbomber428]

racial profiling is wrong a lot of the time. there are certain times when it is ok. but pulling someone over because of their race is not ok....at all....maybe you need to have your head examined.

[Technosquid]

What is it exactly that Sam says when Toby spots the police station? I always thought it sounded like "Hey! F*@K!"

[SoapStar4Life]

Me too.

What does he actually say??

[theforeman118]

Look.

[alfirin737]

I think it's "Hey! Look!" ;)

[Billy24Luke8]

In Australia almost every time you get pulled over by the police - whether its a routine stop, road worthy check, speeding, running a red light or simply a random stop - you get tested for alcohol. Nobody claims, thinks by saying no its a massive stand 'against the system'. Its simply good road safety. I think Americans need to get a life sometimes.

[pbl1]

we have lives. if you want to be a sheep, move to new zealand.

[MJStone1974]

I would assume that given he was a nominee as a supreme court judge who plainly knew his rights, that he was making a point by not taking the test. if for no reason to highlight the waste of time racial profiling is.

[crazedmongoose2003]

Technically Australian citizens have far less rights than American citizens. Our major current defense is that we're pursuant to the UN Declaration of Human Rights which is pretty weak compared to their Bill of Rights.

All in all, I don't know what I'm talking about and you probably know even less than me so we should both shut up.

[Prod1Kh]

No, no, no. Our rights are clearly spelled out in the constitution. We have three of them. The first is the right to religion. The second is the right to free trade between states. The third I'll let you look up...

But never let it be said we have no rights, because those rights are written in the constitution, the original constitution that proclaimed the federated commonwealth of Australia in 1901.

Not in some afterthought "Bill of"...

[crazedmongoose2003]

I know, right to trial by Jury. (and also right to vote and just compensation from the Commonwealth for properties taken).

That's far from comprehensive compared to the UN declaration of Human Rights and very far from what most people would have in mind when they think intrinsic and inalienable human rights.

[Prod1Kh]

I know, I love how the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with colony/state rights in comparison with the new Commonwealth than they were with the citizens...

[crazedmongoose2003]

But a lot of things were just assumed to be honest. Like the fifth amendment was already an assumed centuries old common law right when our constitution was written. So it's not like we ACTUALLY have less rights than Americans.

[twoac]

This is one of my favorite scenes from the whole series.

[david13721]

You kept stats on how often he got pulled over? Did he get tickets? I know folks of all races who get stopped a lot. Why? Because they can't drive well and they commit violations.

[NoirMusic]

While I disagree with david13721, and disagree with racial profiling, I am pretty sure this scene qualifies as Obstruction of justice. He was charged with a crime, wrongly it's true, for it to be a just outcome he should be found innocent by the court. As it is they used political power to force an elected sheriff to drop charges. Two wrongs don't really make a right. Now the sheriff can't be prosecuted for perjuring himself

[david13721]

Ah yes ... the white police are the enemy and all minorites stopped by them must be innocent. Getting old.

[NoirMusic]

Well being white and from a white neighborhood in suburban CA I can tell you that the 1 black family in our neighborhood made more money them my two programmer parents and so when their son Will drove home in his sweet 16 Lexus he got pulled over at least once a month. The crime? Driving while black...it IS getting old, maybe it is time for the police to stop doing it.

[sunnchilde]

"You should get that, that's going to be the Governor of Connecticut."

haha! That great.

[theshark1]

I wish they would have shown the line where Sam explains to the Sgt that Mendoza couldn't have possibly been pulled over for driving drunk because if he would have "consumed enough alcohol to blow .10 he would be dead right now." (Based on Mendoza's health condition.)

[SuperFantastich1884]

is that sgt mcnamara?

[aknowneemus]

i love it when the phone rings.

"that's gonna be the gov. of connecticut"

[JT4000]

what season was this, i've watched all seven seasons but cant remember which one this is from.

[Kelseyshuan]

1st season.

I can't say for sure but it's like episode 16 or something.

[DontPanicYet99]

@Kelseyshuan celestial navigation

[72Isaacblue]

@Kelseyshuan 15

[cortalis]

it's from the episode celstial navigation from season 1

[PeterFormaini]

@JT4000

Season 1 - Episode 9 - THE SHORT LIST.

[PeterFormaini]

@JT4000

CORRECTION!!! SEASON 1 - EPISODE 16 - CELESTIAL NAVIGATION! (I was a bit too hasty before!) :D

[star3132]

@JT4000 name of the episode is Celestial Navigation

[ahopper1985]

@JT4000 Season 1, Episode 15: Celestial Navigation

[karlhansbraut]

@JT4000 "Celestial Navigation", season 1 episode 15. :)

[lemonNlime1000]

@JT4000 its called celestial navigation

[shapiror]

@JT4000 It's Season One, Celestial Navigation

[preischl8]

@JT4000 it's from Celestial Navigation. S1E15.

[LettersForFriends]

@JT4000 Its in Celestial Navigation. Good Episode!

[Lookstwice]

best tv show...ever..well Dead Like me..comes close to...

[largetalons22]

Sam was the best character!!

[americaneagle1967]

who tha hell watches the westwing cocksucker lol..

[psatm]

Well since HeeHaw and Dukes of Hazzard are off the air, I guess you don't have much left to watch, do you hillbilly? You ignorant rednecks crack me up.

[jokr8790]

Oh yeah, DWH, I was a criminal defense lawyer in Connecticut for many years. There's a identical offense, also well known in certain areas, DWB-Driving while Black.

[mgkish742]

He was pulled over for "driving while being hispanic"

[toyt100ota]

Why was the judge arrested? I missed this episode

[vintagefish921]

It's been a long time but i think it was because he was a couple miles over the speed limit and they pulled him over. That's usually not enough to arrest someone but the arresting officer was racist and the judge was hispanic. Or something like that.

[skudplayr]

He was driving perfectly and just got pulled over for no reason. He refused the breathalyzer because he knew he wasn't drinking or doing anything wrong. He has a liver problem so that if he even drank enough to be over the legal limit he'd be dead. So he obviously was just pulled over for being Hispanic.

[yesmissjones]

"Shut up"  Hahaha