Vicious Strumpet

Toby making Sam turn around and spit on election day so as to prevent the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing remains one of my all-time favorite little WW moments. It's such a throwaway moment, but it makes the episode for me. I think one reason I always enjoyed Richard Schiff's portrayal is that he never sounds like he is racing to keep up with Aaron Sorkin's dialogue. In the hands of a lesser actor, Sorkinese is just...too much. Too much verbiage spewing all over the place in some mad, headlong rush to get all the words out before the scene ends (Newsroom, I'm looking at you). But there's such restraint and deliberateness in the way that Richard Schiff plays Toby. I never think that it's an actor reciting lines of dialogue; I just buy that this is the way Toby speaks, and having watched plenty of Aaron Sorkin shows, that's actually quite an accomplishment.