S5.E20

No Exit

Name: No Exit
Genre: Drama
Released: 2004-04-28
Duration: 42 min
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney

Episode aired Apr 28, 2004
TV-14
42m

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7.9/10

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Lily Tomlin and Reed Diamond in The West Wing (1999)

Drama

When a bio-hazard alarm goes off in the White House, the staff are locked down where they are - forcing them to have conversations they would have otherwise avoided.When a bio-hazard alarm goes off in the White House, the staff are locked down where they are - forcing them to have conversations they would have otherwise avoided.When a bio-hazard alarm goes off in the White House, the staff are locked down where they are - forcing them to have conversations they would have otherwise avoided.

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Trivia
The title is a reference to 'Huis Clos', the 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre, which is most often translated into English as "No Exit". The premise of the episode is similar to the play's - in both works, several people are confined to rooms they are unable to leave and as a result have sometimes painful conversations that they would not otherwise have had. Toby and Will's conversation refers to the play without naming it, and Will repeats its famous line "Hell is other people."

Goofs
The VP would not have a speaking role at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. Even if he did it would not be a humorless speech about politics.

Quotes
Abbey Bartlet: You know what this life style does to the body? The minute your system senses stress, it releases a hormone that constricts blood vessels, contracts the heart muscles, stimulates the adrenal gland. You stay in this state for not a hundredth of the time you and I have exisited like this, and the vessels begin to shred. The heart permanently constricts. The intestines, the immune system, shut down. Relieving those conditions is the one responsible course of action I can take. I am sorry it is not a course of action that's available to you. Bit if you think you're going to talk me out of it with some VALLEY OFTHE DOLLS cautionary tale, you have picked the wrong girl.