Abu el Banat

Act 2

Debbie: Any word from Ellie?

Charlie: She's running an experiment on viral load reproduction and she hopes to wrap it up in time for the thing tonight.

Thing = family dinner


Act 2

Will: You know how this thing polls? 48% of Americans consider it a right. 46% of Americans consider it morally reprehensible. It is the definition of a lose-lose issue.

Thing = issue of legalizing assisted suicide


Act 3

Josh: He's resilient. Which isn't such a bad thing in a candidate.

Leo: He's gonna show up at dinner popping champagne corks and the President's going to be stuck delivering the news in front of the guy's wife and mother-in-law. You have to go back and tell him no.

Thing = quality


Act 3

Doug: [holds up son's baseball glove] Here we go. Is that the greatest thing you ever saw? Can't even get my thumb in there.

Thing = object


Act 3

Doug: It's a nepotism thing, isn't it?

Josh: That could be part of it.

Thing = concern


Act 4

Bartlet: "The speaker can convince most people of most things and himself of almost anything." Doug came up with that?

Things = opinions/positions on a subject


Act 4

Elizabeth: You couldn't give him the courtesy of five minutes? It's one thing to delegate my car loan or Ellie's MCATs to your staff, but my husband?

Thing = act/behavior
Posted by Philateley at December 3, 2003 10:28 PM