Bad Moon Rising (The West Wing)

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Bad Moon Rising
The West Wing episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 41
Written by Aaron Sorkin (teleplay)
Felicia Wilson (story)
Directed by Bill Johnson
Guest stars Oliver Platt
Emily Procter
Jacqueline Kim
Robert Curtis Brown
Kathryn Joosten
NiCole Robinson
Scott Lawrence
Michael Mantell
Eric Stonestreet
Scott Atkinson
Jossie Harris Thacker
Production no. 226219
Original airdate April 25, 2001
Season 2 episodes
  1. In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I
  2. In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II
  3. The Midterms
  4. In this White House
  5. And It's Surely to Their Credit
  6. The Lame Duck Congress
  7. The Portland Trip
  8. Shibboleth
  9. Galileo
  10. Noël
  11. The Leadership Breakfast
  12. The Drop-In
  13. Bartlet's Third State of the Union
  14. The War at Home
  15. Ellie
  16. Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail
  17. The Stackhouse Filibuster
  18. 17 People
  19. Bad Moon Rising
  20. The Fall's Gonna Kill You
  21. 18th and Potomac
  22. Two Cathedrals
List of The West Wing episodes

"Bad Moon Rising" is the 41st episode of The West Wing.

[edit] Plot

The President tells White House Counsel Oliver Babish of his MS. Babish advises the President to tell the world and gear up for a fight. The President learns that Zoey told Charlie of his condition so that he could watch out for signs.

Josh and Donna discuss the merits of bailing out Mexico with American tax dollars. One of the oil tankers for which Sam set up a litigation shield crashes into the coast of Delaware.

[edit] Title

The title, Bad Moon Rising, is a reference to the name of a Creedence Clearwater Revival song from 1969.

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