Noël (The West Wing)

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The West Wing episode
"Noël"
Episode no.	32
Prod. code	226210
Orig. airdate	December 20, 2000
Writer(s)	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Peter Parnell (story)
Director	Thomas Schlamme
Guest star(s)	Adam Arkin Paxton Whitehead Gregalan Williams Gary Cervantes Daniel von Bargen Yo-Yo Ma
Season 2 October 4 2000 – May 16 2001
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II The Midterms In This White House And It's Surely To Their Credit The Lame Duck Congress The Portland Trip Shibboleth Galileo Noël The Leadership Breakfast The Drop-In Bartlet's Third State of the Union The War at Home Ellie Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail The Stackhouse Filibuster 17 People Bad Moon Rising The Fall's Gonna Kill You 18th and Potomac Two Cathedrals
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"Noël" is the 32nd episode of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

It is the Christmas season at the White House but Josh is anything but merry. For one thing, the holiday music that Toby insists fill the halls sounds to Josh as though it belongs in a shopping mall. Beyond that, he's being rude to everyone, even raising his voice to the President, something that just isn't done. So Leo orders therapy. Meanwhile, C.J. takes interest when an elderly woman on a tour of the White House loses her composure at the sight of a painting. And the President decides that he wants to sign all his Christmas cards—well, maybe just 100,000 of them—personally. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma makes a guest appearance.