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Top 5 Shows I Wish More People Watched | 03. | Sports Night
It was an Aaron Sorkin show that lasted two seasons before being prematurely cancelled [and the first “grown-up” show I watched as an 11-year-old when my parents let me stay up past my bedtime]. It’s smart and funny and you do not have to like sports to like the show. And I promise the laugh track goes away after a few episodes. This is my favorite comedy ever and I don’t see that ever changing.
Agreed; excellent show. I still think “Eli’s coming” when things are going bad. I loved this show, I’m mad it’s not streaming anywhere. But you can buy it on Apple TV, Prime or Kudo, if you’re inclined to give it a shot. And you should be. I just don’t want to rebuy it bc I know I have the dvds somewhere. Here’s some examples of the Sorkin-quoting gold.
Isaac: Exaudio, comperio, conloquor. That’s a Latin phrase that translates “To listen, to learn, to speak.” Those words are carved into the stone arches that form the entrance to the undergraduate library at Tennessee Western University. This afternoon, an extraordinary young man named Roland Shepard made what had to have been an excruciating decision. He said he wasn’t playing football under a Confederate flag. Six of his teammates then chose not to let Shepard stand alone. And I choose to join them at this moment. In the history of the South, there’s much to celebrate. And that flag is a desecration of all of it. It’s a banner of hatred and separation. It’s a banner of ignorance and violence and a war that pitted brother against brother, and to ask young black men and women, young Jewish men and women, Asians, Native Americans, to ask Americans to walk beneath its shadow is a humiliation of irreducible proportions. And we all know it. Tennessee Western has produced some outstanding alumni in the past hundred years. People of wisdom and vision. Strength and compassion. One of them is Luther Sachs. Luther Sachs owns Continental Corp. Which owns the Continental Sports Channel, which you’re watching right now. Luther Sachs is a generous alumni contributor to Tennessee Western, with a considerable influence over its chancellor, Davis Blake, and its board of trustees. Luther, you’ve got a phone call to make. You’ve go to call Chancellor Blake, and tell him to take down that flag, or he can stop looking for your checks in the mail. You’ve got to put these young men back in a classroom. And I mean pronto. These boys are gonna make you proud one day, Luther. I challenge you to do the right thing. Not an unreasonable request to make of a man whose alma mater declares, “Exaudio, comperio, conloquor.” “To listen, to learn, to speak.” In the meantime, God go with you, Roland Shepard, and you six Southern gentlemen of Tennessee. God’s not done with any of you, yet.
Remembering this is 1999, when ‘heritage not hate’ was the party line, so to speak.
Isaac: It’s taken me a lot of years, but I’ve come around to this: If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you’re smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
Natalie: Two guys have ascended five miles into the sky. They walked up a wall of ice, and are preparing to knock on the door of Heaven itself. There’s really no end to what we can do. You know what the trick is? Dan: What? Natalie: Get in the game.
Jeremy: How can it be raining at Indian Wells Isaac: Maybe it’s the rainy season? Jeremy: [patiently] Indian Wells is desert, Isaac. If deserts had a rainy season they’d be called something else Isaac: Fair point.
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