The Worst Wing

It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?? YOU STUPID MONKEY! Creating content is helping us stay sane on this, the Christman-prophesied stupidest day in American History. Laura Dern has a killer guest performance and Stu finds himself enamored of this episode primarily because it reflects his day to day existence more so than most. Josh has galaxy-brain Poster Energy. The backstory be...

The show's appeal is revived after a three episode doldrums by the brilliant contribution of Stockard Channing and Mary-Louise Parker to the cast. We get Lord John Marbury back being his colonialist self and let's hear it for the pIRA, fuck you RUC kapo-ass bitches. Solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Read "Armed Struggle" by Richard English it's a great book. Bernie's gonna win. S...

More like... Dick's Will NOT. More like... Dick Swill CROTCH lmao Anyway this is another eerily well-timed episode, centered around almost nothing happening. The fictional town of Hartsfield's Landing is a stand-in for Dixville Notch, which was at the time the town in New Hampshire that voted first. There, with that shitty dumb trivia out of the way I can confidently say that almost nothing about...

We're back on the horse! Fresh episode on board here with a couple of very typical issues to digest. The gorgon of straw-feminism rears its ugly head as Sam struggles with workplace harassment. The ol' Heart of Darkness canard as presented via the administration's press office! Also a surprisingly nuanced and thoughtful depiction of talk therapy, almost 20 years old! The book I did not mention is...

Stu's back from his odyssey to the heartland. Note that in spite of the negative tone of the criticism of the PROCESS and the CIRCUMSTANCES of the Iowa Caucuses in 2020, I had a really spectacular time around an enormous, overwhelmingly loving and caring group of beautiful people. Thank you for having me, and together we're gonna win. Not a lot to say that isn't said in the episode. Thank you for...

One of the best episodes we've ever recorded, maybe because Stu was sober? But we go ham all over the sheer ridiculous and audacious privilege of Toby and CJ talmbout affirmative action, get some film criticism in, observe the potential for ~revolution~ from the ol' ballot box, and more! Everyone, the time is upon us, as I publish this it is 18 days to the Iowa Democratic Primary Caucus, and in 36...

On the eve of things getting real spicy in the Middle East we have returned from a long holiday! To deliver our hot, sizzlin' takes on an extremely bland episode of the West Wing! For some reason we're introduced to Sam Seaborn's ex, who is a reporter for Vanity Fair? Do we ever hear about or from her again? You already know the answer! All the male characters of the administration except for Char...

We're back after Thanksgiving, I hope your various Facebook Uncles and Red-hat In-Laws were thoroughly owned by facts and logic. Today's ep is a real snoozer, wherein Leo basically does the T-pose soldier thing over the sleeping Bartlet Administration, which promptly wakes up and decides to eat the barrage of slings and arrows right in the face anyway. If you don't understand this combination of w...

We're back from an extended scheduling snafu to bring you: a decent episode! Surprise! A completely irrelevant sideplot wraps up tidily at the formidable... investigative skills of Agent Coul I mean Agent Casper while the central plotline revolves around Leo testifying in the congressional hearings about the president concealing his MS from the public. The good news: the sensitive subject of addic...

You're in for a treat this week as we are joined by our very first guest star, a woman who I count as fully half of the inspiration for undertaking this quixotic revisitation of this dumb show in the first place. The Women of Qumar is an obvious attempt at expiation and atonement by Aaron Sorkin for his consistently gross and patronizing portrayal of women in his show's canon. Because he's an inve...

A bit of a rocky road this week, as yet another set of minor plotlines tangles itself into something resembling a coherent storyline, centered around "O NO, IT'S THANKSGIVING!" as a motivator of urgency. That said, this ep also has some of the best, simplest lines written in the entire series, and a comedic performance from Martin Sheen. Clearly a product of its time, the show treads an interestin...

Welcome... to the great Brain Breakening of 2019. Not to be confused with the Timeline Severance of 2015 (known in more common parlance as Escalator Day), or the Doom of 11/9, it's time... for Rich White Feminists to reckon with their ideology vis a vis the convenience of their wealth enabling them to project it! Uh, I guess like we also talk about this episode, which is a typically imperialist, b...

Greetings from a late-night recording session where Dave (microphone corrected!) and Stu just go ham on this dumb show for a while. We abandon any pretense of structure. Primarily because of the sheer quantity of characters and plot twists and arcs gumming up the stupid works of this week's episode, but secondarily because we were drinking. In conclusion: Aww gee shucks golly guys, we just did a l...

Dave joins me from his bathtub or something (technical difficulties on both ends of the call) today to discuss another miserable, do-nothing episode of the Bartlet MS Diagnosis Files. Israel-Palestine politics rear their very ugly American head in this ep as the administration is challenged by a suicide bombing that is neatly tied up in a... convenient fashion that doesn't threaten hegemonic perce...

Time for some uncomfortable and completely deadface Truth Talking, as the administration prepares for the legal shitshow that's about to unfold around their concealment of Bartlet's MS from the public. It's Cliff Calley! He's... dreamy? No... that can't be right. He's... disarming? Sort of, in a weird overconfident peacocking way. He's... acceptable? NOT EVEN THAT, thanks for nothing Ainsley! Biza...

The Bartlet Reelection campaign kicks off in the bucolic Americana-festooned small town that President Dad's family of farmers (?? also boarding school headmasters I guess) calls home. We are treated to another 44 minutes of television narratively distorted by a real shitty flashback gimmick! In case you thought it was not possible to do the time-split thing in an even more incoherent fashion... w...

It's season three time baby! Who knew we'd even get this far, and it's a slog this episode, which is hampered by an intermittent and confusing flashback mechanic. Something happens about RU486 that the show just sails on past like the tobacco lawsuit because heaven help us if we ever dig in on something that might be an excuse for ACTION. So many guest stars grace us with their presence, and yet,...

Over the one years that The Worst Wing has been on the air, we've received dozens of posts from goons who for whatever reason enjoy our content! Thank you for your kind attention and please come join us because we'd love to get a third perspective to bounce off of. This is the thrilling conclusion to Season Two, an episode that is canonical bedrock for people such as: Leah McElrath! Candice Aiston...

Hello, I'm Stu Davidson Tribbs. You may remember me from such classic podcasts as "Boomy Tunes - The Pirate MMO Game Web Radio", and "An Archived Attempt to Rap As The Final Exam For A 100-Level Music Class In College". Tonight we're here to honor the tradition of goon collaboration throughout the decades of evolving Internet institutions. It's our one-year anniversary, entirely inadvertently time...

Good Saturday to y'all, the release day of this episode, Stu having been editing until late in the Friday evening after certain... intoxicating events! Further developments as the administration's lower-echelon but still Powerful members come to grips with the president's diagnosis and their involvement in what is QUITE CLEARLY a conspiracy to conceal his illness from the public. Y'all stay cool,...

A snappy episode for y'all today, a continuation on last week's bombshell revelation that the president's MS diagnosis cannot possibly be kept under wraps and frankly it's a miracle that they've done so to this point. The theme will continue NEXT episode as well, but in these 44 minutes we're introduced to Oliver Platt just absolutely chewing the scenery and reveling in his role as the new, non-Jo...

Are you ready for some STRAWMEN! Today's episode is a pivot around which the central conceit / conflict of the entire series turns, and it's, frankly, quite good. Or... at least half of it is. In true Sorkin fashion what is a very compellingly performed and well-crafted epiphany on Toby's part has been counterbalanced within the script by the most batshit moon-frothing insane misogynist garbage in...

Another episode almost completely bereft of all but the most procedural political maneuvering. We learn about what a filibuster is, children! We also have a completely artificial crisis that is used as a weird hook to dramatically rope Donna into the episode (contractually obligated?) but otherwise a relatively innocuous, light episode of television. Stu was hot and drunk because it's a zillion de...

Check the mustache, I grew it out for you, it lets me brush past ladies in a crowded room, fuck a bus pass now we got an Audi dude, grown up but the crew gettin rowdy too. We in the rec room down in the basement, puts you in the frame for the game or the NASCAR races. Cigar smoke so thick that it stick in your pores, DAMN kids finish your chores! Dripping bile and contempt, Bartlet Admin Operative...

We're BACK! Life... gets in the way. Apologies for the month long absence, we screwed up an attempt to record last week with a guest star that we will SHORTLY reconcile, promise! Reconnecting with the Bartlet family in a painfully awkward and crushing fashion this week, wherein the president has his fee-fees hurt by his daughter DISOBEYING him?? Wha what whaaat? A bizarrely earnest depiction of Bo...