Eclectica
- Toby claims to drive a 1993 Dodge Dart [1.4] and can name all fourteen punctuation marks in standard English grammar [1.6]. He finds competitiveness so feminine in tall women [4.6].
- Although he has no background or training in the stock market, Toby bought $5000 worth of stock on a whim because he liked the company's web site. In an unrelated coincidence, Toby arranged for Cal Poly professor Theodore MacGregor, a childhood friend, to testify before the Commerce Committee on the future of Internet stocks. This testimony contributed to a subsequent jump in technology stocks and the value of Toby's stock subsequently increased to $125,000. To avoid even the appearance of impropriety, Toby's salary was reduced to $1 for a year and he cashed out his Internet stocks [1.4].
- He has been known to play basketball with the President outside the White House [1.5] and he once played mixed doubles tennis in Florida with CJ against the President and Steffi Graf [1.5].
- Toby has sweatshirt from the City College of New York [1.5].
- A hack writer described Toby thusly: "Toby Ziegler, the prickly, mumble-y Communications Director whose inner bitter darkness spelled the break up of the one marriage we know about" [3.10].
- Although he supports the NEA, Toby is, by and large, not wild about musicals [3.6].
- He enjoys smoking cigars and can blow smoke rings [1.6]. Sometimes Toby is invited up to the Residence for cigars and chess with the President [2.6].
- Toby drinks Jack Daniels, and the bartender at the bar in Manchester that he frequents while on trips to New Hampshire knows his name; he brings her peanuts from Air Force One [3.2].
- When he writes, especially when he writes important speeches, Toby apparently likes to have pie on hand at all times [3.11]. CJ thinks there aren't ten guys in the country who could've written Bartlet's third State of the Union [3.11].
- Toby has a friend who teaches students how to protest. A French citizen, his friend was imprisoned in Indonesia for leading anti-government demonstrations [1.7].
- He claims to have been raised on "Sesame Street," Julia Child, and "Brideshead Revisited" [1.13]
- Toby is opposed to the death penalty [1.14] and organized prayer in schools [2.8].
- The wildlife lobby was nervous about Toby [1.18], who doesn't like to be outdoors for very long [1.20].
- Toby and CJ were friends before working on the Bartlet campaign together [2.2]. When she was thinking of quitting after a major gaffe, he tried -- somewhat ineptly -- to talk to her about it [3.1].
- His ex-wife -- who, according to President Bartlet, wears the pants in the Ziegler family [1.12] -- signed him up for the Benefit Committee for the Childhood Leukemia Foundation without his knowledge. He found out about it by reading it in the paper [2.15].
- In the spirit of bipartisanship, Toby and Republican political operative Ann Stark used to, on occasion, have drinks and debate issues. Then she took a job with the Senate Majority Leader, brought Toby New Hampshire maple syrup, and screwed him over [2.11].
- Toby's idea of a good bet while stranded in the hinterlands of Illinois is that the loser has to follow up every instance of saying their own name with "I work at the White House" [4.1].
- Toby is more in need of a day in Atlantic City than any man Will Bailey has ever known [4.10].
- Toby claims never to have been on a beach before in his life [4.17].
- Josh has been on the cover of George and the front page of the Washington Post, while poor Toby is still trying to make the cover of Jane's Defence Weekly [5.5].
- If Supreme Court Justice Roy Ashland were a religion, Toby would convert [5.7].
