The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – HBO

Created by Armando Ianucci

Theme music composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams and Christopher Willis

• 001. Fundraiser – 4/22/2012
  • Vice President of the United States Selina Meyer has decided to make the Clean Jobs Commission her legacy – with the help of her staff: Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky), personal aide Gary Walsh (Tony Cole), Director of Communications Mike McLintock (Matt Walsh), and personal assistant Sue Wilson (Sufe Bradshaw). The staff is constantly at odds with White House liaison Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons). Selina attempts to gather support for a filibuster reform bill, but only a handful of Senators show up at a gathering because one of her staff members sent out a Tweet pushing coin starch utensils instead of plastic, angering both the plastic and oil industries – who have a good portion of Senators in its pocket. Selina seeks help from Senator Hallowes (Kate Burton) who is rather cold to her and comments that she was “hoisted by her own retard” – a comment that Selina repeats during an uncomfortable speech, much to the chagrin of the Mental Health groups. She also manages to steal Dan Egan (Reid Scott) from Hallowes’ staff. He had dated Amy in the past and is rather unscrupulous, but Selina needs his candor and effectiveness. Amy also mishandles the signing of a condolence card for Senator Reeves who passes away. She accidentally signs her own name instead of forging that of the VP. Gary is forced to retrieve it from Jonah, but only gets it on the condition that he arrange a date with Amy. Will Love is Phillip Dorsey. 10/18/14

• 002. Frozen Yoghurt – 4/29/2012
  • The VP’s task force for the Clean Jobs Commission is going to be green lit, but the White House asks that the announcement not be made until the President returns from South Africa the following week. This presents Dan with the unpleasant task of keeping hostile Washington Post reporter Leon West (Brian Huskey) at bay. Selina asks to meet some common folks, so it is arranged for her to visit the Super Scooper “Frozen Yoghurt” shop owned by Anthony Holland (Brent Jennings) and his elderly mother Maria (Geraldine Waters). Her visit is delayed when she has to report to the Situation Room at the White House when the President begins experiencing chest pains. Jonah tries to butter her up, thinking she may become his new boss, but soon the crisis is averted, and she asked to stand down. Meanwhile, Gary has been asked if he’d be willing to take a bullet for the VP, so he jumps in front of a sneeze coming from Eric (Dan Franko), the assistant of Senator Andrew Doyle (Phil Reeves), who says he will support her filibuster bill if she will keep oil off the Clean Jobs task force – to which she agrees under pressure. Gary ultimately becomes sick and eventually is it passed onto the VP, as she finally makes it to the now-unenthusiastic proprietors of the Yoghurt shop. After her weak photo-op, she can hardly make it to her limo without pooping her pants. 10/18/14

• 003. Catherine – 5/6/2012
  • As Selina celebrates her 20th year in Washington with a party at her residence, she faces turmoil as a reporter prints that there is a rift between her and the First Lady. She is also caught between factions as Senator Doyle strongly advises Selina not to put ex-oil man Chuck Furnam (Eddie Jones) on the task force, and oil lobbyist Sidney Purcell (Peter Grosz), who doesn’t consider him ‘oily’ enough. Their strategy is to tell Doyle that they’re appointing Purcell, which causes Doyle to then beg for Furnam, and let be Purcell be an unofficial advisor. Meanwhile, Selina’s daughter Catherine (Sarah Sutherland) visits her mom to help pick out a family dog, and gets irate when Selina’s diva ego compels her to change the name of an upcoming hurricane named “Selina”. They reconcile until Jonah forces them to nix the plan to get the dog because the First Lady is getting one. Mike fakes having his own dog to get out of performing tasks. 11/16/14

• 004. Chung – 5/13/2012
  • Amy and Dan attend a book signing of Governor Danny Chung (Randall Park), whom Selina starts to fear will seek the Vice-Presidency during the President’s second term. Her staffer Scott finds out that Chung was not born in America and is thus ineligible to run. Jonah tells Selina that during her upcoming Meet the Press interview she is not to push her filibuster reform, but rather immigration reform. Meanwhile, Senator Doyle pulls his support of the filibuster reform, so Amy and Dan court Senator Bill O’Brien (Brad Leland), and promise that with his support, the Veep will oppose immunity to illegal immigrants who have been in the country for more than five years. After her interview, she is still wearing her mic while discussing Chung with Sam Finnigan (Ron Perkins) and mentions that he was ‘not an American.’ A crane crashes on a ship which takes the focus off her blunder temporarily, but soon it is broadcast while Selina is visiting the crash victims in Portsmouth, Virginia. Chung announces that his parents were American citizens when he was born. Scott is fired. Several of the staff members start finding out about Selina’s love affair with a man named Ted Cullen (Andy Buckley). Azhar Khan is the sound guy. 11/16/14

• 005. Nicknames – 5/20/2012
  • Dan goes on a fact-finding mission to gauge the support level of the President for the Clean Jobs Bill by pretending to be friends with Jonah and going out to bad restaurants and thrash metal concerts. But Selina is blind-sided when the President scuttles the bill in favor of pushing the Fiscal Responsibility Bill. Dan suggests getting a Senator to add the meat of the Clean Jobs Bill as an amendment to the other bill. Although she desperately wants to, she decides not to be attached to that sort of disobedience. However after working discreetly with Dan, Senator McCauley pushes the amendment, but Selina, acting on Amy’s advice, votes it down. Dan abandons Jonah as a friend since he wasn’t privy to the President’s stance on Clean Jobs. Later Jonah announces that the President has assigned Selina the task force on obesity, a job she despises. Meanwhile, Selina has snickering Secret Service agent Martin Collins (William L. Thomas) re-assigned and becomes obsessed about finding out what nicknames bloggers are giving her. Mike attempts to write jokes for Selina’s speech for the Firefighter’s Association. Selina and her staff give up a trip to Paris. Jonah reveals that he is fructose intolerant. 12/26/14

• 006. Baseball – 5/27/2012
  • Selina kicks off her Healthy Eating Initiative with a group of fast food industry leaders (two of whom are played by Barry Shabaka Henley and Kevin Heffernan) at Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles. Gary is excited that this will give him a chance to impress his father with the baseball team photo op. Selina confides in Amy that she might be pregnant. Everyone is temporarily quarantined in the park due to a gas main leak, made more miserable since there is only vegan food in their room. Gary is outside the park searching for a pregnancy test so he misses his photo op. Mike is confronted by Leon West about Selina’s firing the smiling Secret Service Agent. When Mike reports to Amy that the press is saying that she’s repugnant, she thinks he says ‘pregnant’ so there is a push to get the pregnancy test performed quickly. Selina also demands that Ted get her an engagement ring. Since Selina is quarantined, Amy and Dan have to stall and entertain a classroom of elementary students where Selina is supposed to be. Selina becomes increasingly frustrated with lip-reading photographer Ken (Patrick Fischler) who continuously touches Selina’s arm. She finally gets to the school, where she quickly takes a pregnancy test, and lets the class sing her a song … during which Gary reports to her that she is indeed pregnant. Ken’s photos turn out terrible. Orioles Jake Arietta, Tommy Hunter, and Jim Palmer play themselves. Marc Unger is Sean. 12/26/14

• 007. Full Disclosure – 6/3/2012
  • The media is swirling about the incompetence of Selina and her staff, with pregnancy rumors and criticism of her firing secret service agent Collins for smiling. Privately Selina has had a miscarriage, and also fears that Ted is going to break up with her. Mike goes to see Collins, but the press gets wind that Mike says he was grinning like some ‘ape’. Amy suggest giving the press full disclosure to all of the staff’s correspondence, but censors some of it before releasing it. The press latches on to Ted’s many visits to the Residence, and Jonah is embarrassed about emails that reference getting him a cake or hat shaped like a penis for his birthday.  Selina threatens to fire either Amy, Mike, or Dan, and the three of them conspire on a ‘suicide pact’, that if one is fired, they all walk. Meanwhile Gary sets up his house as a place for Selina to discreetly meet with Ted, and then she has Gary break it off with him on her behalf. Gary finds out from Sue that he had purchased the pregnancy test while wearing his staff tag and that is how the media found out. Gary tries to resign, but Selina tells him that she knew all along and refuses his resignation. Selina forces Amy to come up with a plan and prods her toward claiming that the pregnancy test was hers and this is why she was in the state of mind to re-assign the secret serviceman. 2/14/15

• 008. Tears – 6/10/2012
  • Selina and her staff travel to Cleveland, Ohio to endorse Congressman Roger Furlong (Dan Bakkedahl) at a Democratic fundraiser. With her disapproval rating at 66%, Furlong and his staffer Will (Nelson Franklin) ask Selina to pull her endorsement because she is toxic. This causes her to meltdown and cry before throwing Furlong out of her hotel room. Amy and Mike decide that her crying during a local televised interview might humanize her and improve her ratings. They feed the reporter a few things to trigger her tears, including that the President is playing golf with Governor Chung, and soon she is crying again … which actually boosts her ratings, making Furlong reconsider having her endorse him. Back in D.C., Selina promotes Dan for arranging the endorsement, but soon the reporter is claiming she was manipulated into making Selina cry. Furlong marches into Selina’s office and reads her the riot act, threatening to arrange a congressional hearing to expose the fact that Dan got Senator McCauley to push the Clean Jobs bill. Dan is immediately demoted privately, but since he has already issued a press release about his promotion, he is able to keep the title. Selina nearly breaks down in tears again. 2/14/15

SEASON 2

• 009. Midterms – 4/14/2013
  • Selina’s party does poorly in the midterm election and loses the House of Representatives, despite the fact that her campaign trail did will, showing that her visits performed .9 percent better than the President’s. She discusses playing a larger role in the administration with the President’s Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty (Kevin Dunn), but he refers her to returning strategist Kent Davison (Gary Cole), with whom she has had bad experiences and who routinely undermines her. Meanwhile at the request of her sister Sophie (Mary Catharine Garrison), Amy visits her father (Patrick McDade) who she believes had a stroke, but it turns out that it wasn’t very serious and was more of a power play with her sister. Gary, who can’t stop talking about his new girlfriend Dana (Jessica St. Clair), can’t find Selina’s lipstick because Dana accidentally took it, so Amy picks it up and is accused of desiring Gary. Roger Furlong loses the Ohio Governor election, and since the party loses the House, he can no longer launch the Congressional investigation on Clean Jobs. Selina has it out with Kent in the Oval Office and depends more respect and an active role, and accidentally hits him in the eye with her lipstick which smears on the Oval Office carpet. The President notices how she tracked in the midterm campaigns and gives her more responsibility on Foreign Policy and then has her do interviews on the morning shows after a night of no sleep. Mike struggles with debt by trying to sell his boat on eBay. Lisa Robbins plays Amy’s mother. 3/23/15

• 010. Signals – 4/21/2013
  • Selina wants to attend a National Security meeting about a hostage situation in the Middle East but has agreed to attend a pig roast with the North Carolina Pork Board for Jonah’s U.S.HAY! project. When the signals that Selina uses to get out of conversations get exposed in The National Enquirer, she tries to come up with new ones while flying on Air Force Two, on which Jonah is excited to fly. Selina’s daughter Catherine writes a film analysis on 5 Broken Cameras which is sympathetic to the Palestine nation. Selina sends Mike via helicopter to retrieve her daughter and her new Iranian boyfriend Rahim (Walid Amini) to negotiate her giving an apology. While conducting interviews about her daughter’s paper at the pig roast, she is seen on camera with a rotating pig behind her, which would be offensive to the Israelis, so Jonah tries to crouch in front of it on camera. Catherine agrees to apologize if she can spend the two days after Thanksgiving with Rahim’s family, but Selina later asks Mike to run a check on Rahim’s family. Sue throws Roger Furlong out of the office when he rudely demands an audience with Selina to discuss a Senate run. Dan joins a Pilate’s club to get closer with Kent Davison, but Kent ends up quitting. Selina figures out the signals leak came from Gary’s girlfriend Dana, and the new signals do not work getting her out of boring conversations at the pig roast. Selina is forced to video conference for the Security meeting but has hat head from the cowboy hat that Gary had her wear. Selina tells Gary that he has disappointed her. 3/23/15

• 011. Hostages – 4/28/2013
  • Selina wants an aggressive stance in rescuing the hostages from Uzbekistan, but has to contend with Kent’s advice to the President to take his time. Sue testifies at a hearing on government efficiency and uses the buzzword ‘robust’ – which is also used by Selina while she and Secretary of Defense George Maddox (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) address the Marine Corps Base at Quantico – causing both Selina and Sue to share headlines. When the President finally gives the go-ahead for the rescue mission, Selina lobbies for it to take place on January 6, which would be when Sue is scheduled to return to the second hearing so that she will fall out of the public’s eye. Sue’s bumbling replacement secretary Cliff (Craig Cackowski) tells her that this date would be okay, but she later realizes that there is a Senators swearing-in ceremony that she has to attend on that date. On the 6th she rushes through the ceremony to rush to the tactical mission, which is successful. The attention is taken off Sue. Selina later feels terrible when a marine who was going to be rotated out on the 8th loses his leg during the mission. Pete Burris is Colonel Jeffcoat. Remy Auberjonois is Vince Hessler. Ken Arnold is Neil. 6/18/15

• 012. The Vic Allen Dinner – 5/5/2013
  • Mike and Dan work on a song for Selina perform to poke fun at new Speaker of the House Jim Marwood (David Rasche) at the Vic Allen charity dinner. After Kent release of the situation room that makes it look like Selina is tweeting during the rescue, she decides to change the parody song to 50 Ways to Win in Denver to the tune of Paul Simon’s 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, which not only makes fun of Kent, but also pokes fun at European countries. Jonah, who now has a West Wing parking space to the chagrin of Mike and Dan, likes the song so much that he posts it on Tumbler and Reddit, causing a negative backlash from European leaders. Kent borrows Mike to work on demographic program because they both are interested in sailing, and Selina agrees to it so she can go to Europe and act as the POTUS’s behalf for the Helsinki Agreement. The backlash however promises to make the trip miserable, and when Selina finds out that Jonah is the one who released the video of her song, she throws him off the plane… and takes away his parking privileges. Meanwhile Selina takes Gary to lunch to show how much he is appreciated, but she nearly is driven crazy by his girlfriend Dana. 6/18/15

• 013. Helsinki – 5/12/2003
  • Selina gets an icy reception when her team arrives in Helsinki, Finland to finalize a trade agreement thanks to her song parody. Dan looks to Mike for advice on how to charm the press but keeps running afoul of snide British reporter David Wickford (Ian Martin). Selina also can’t seem to get along with the Finnish Prime Minister Minna Häkkinen (Sally Phillips), and ends up getting groped by her husband Osmo (Dave Foley) while they are smoking together. Back in D.C., Mike enlists Jonah for help on the project he is working on for Kent, and finds out that Kent is trying to do damage control when it is leaked that the President lied – and Selina unknowingly supported the lie – about one of the hostages taken in Uzbekistan actually being a spy. Mike makes it worse when he accidentally sends an entire file surveying how people would react to finding out that the President lied to them. Selina and the team leave Helsinki and she gives a stern warning to Osmo that she is going to destroy him. 8/18/15

• 014. Andrew – 5/19/2003
  • Selina works with House Majority Leader Mary King (Mimi Kennedy) to try and avert an economic shut down. The talks are stalled when Mary has an allergy attack in Selina’s office and has to continue at Catherine’s birthday party at the National Gallery of Art. Selina also has to contend with Catherine’s father Andrew (David Pasquesi), who still seems to have a hold on her amidst their rocky relationship. Selina and Mary come to an agreement at the party, but because Selina had to quiet the music so that they could talk, the party clears out. Selina and Andrew try to make it up to Catherine by taking her out to eat, but they alternate between flirting and fighting, while trying to keep cheery faces for the press, who thinks that Selina used their phony relationship to help get votes. When Selina finds out that POTUS is not going to approve the economic agreement so that he can blame it on Congress and take the focus off the hostage spy situation, Selina gets angry and makes a gesture toward Andrew, a photo of which quickly gets put on Twitter. As they drive home, Andrew gets out of the car and is followed by Selina; Catherine is left behind with her cake to watch them make out with each other. Meanwhile Amy brings Selina’s fundraiser Ed Webster (Zach Woods) to Catherine’s party, which makes both Dan and Jonah jealous. 8/18/15

• 015. Shutdown – 1/2/2013
  • With the government shutdown in effect, Selina furloughs Dan and Sue. Gary arranges to have Selina’s garbage picked up by a private agent, but Selina freaks out about what might be found in her garbage. Gary bribes Jonah, who needs help from Selina to get a passport to head to London, to search the dump for her trash. Gary has to offer the head of the dump Joe Walker (Delaney Williams) that the V.P. will pay him a visit at the dump. Meanwhile a black bear kills a Minnesota man and Selina is indirectly blamed since there were no park rangers on site because of the shutdown. Selina tries to negotiate with Speaker Marwood, but he will not work with her since she has been hung out to dry by the President. Dan tries to schmooze Sidney Purcell for a job with the oil lobbyists. He then gets called to head to Minnesota to meet with the widow of the man who got killed by the bear. He doesn’t make her feel any better, so Governor Chung swoops in and seizes the opportunity. Selina meets with Roger Furlong to call him off from spreading all of her dirt, and implies he will have a position with her down the road. Selina gets irritated about touring the waste plant so she calls back Dan and Sue and furloughs Mike and Gary. Selina has Dan get her on the show First Response to try and get her image restored.  11/14/15

• 016. First Response – 6/9/2013
  • Things go from bad to worse as Selina is bombarded with curveball questions and situations as she participates in an interview by Janet Ryland (Allison Janney) for the TV show First Response. During the course of the interview with Selina, Andrew, and Catherine, Selina is informed that an email from Andrew to a lobbyist promising ‘access’ to the V.P. has been circulating on a political blog, she finds out that Catherine is a vegetarian even though the family is preparing chicken, and Jonah announces that the government shutdown is over even though Selina is unaware of it. In addition to this, she is hit with questions about the hostage and spy situation and Catherine’s boyfriend Rahim. Meanwhile Amy goes head to head with the show’s producer Cody Marshall (Ptolemy Slocum) and loses her cool. On Dan’s advice, she turns the interview around in the end by taking responsibility for the hostage/spy situation – even though she actually had no idea – and apologizing to the American people. 11/15/15

• 017. Running – 6/13/2013
  • Selina’s popularity soars from her interview, while the President’s office deals with rumors of a whistleblower and a mystery candidate within the party for the next election. Selina heads off to a donor’s luncheon, with plans to make her own Presidential bid in six years. On the way she runs through a glass door and badly cuts her face. The anti-depressants that she is on, combined with the St. John’s Wort that Gary gives her makes her high, promising to buy Mike’s boat and to attend Gary’s parent’s wedding anniversary. Ben Caffrey sends Jonah to convince Selina to talk to the press to say she is not the mystery challenger. As Selina participates in a Fun Run, the news breaks that the Judiciary Committee is discussing an impeachment vote against POTUS when Schmidt from the State Department agrees to testify against him. Jonah tries to get word during the run with instruction for her how to respond, despite contradictory instructions from Kent and Ben. Her response to the press is ambiguous, but privately she tells Amy that there is no way she is going to run alongside the President in the next election. Selina reneges on her promises to Mike and Gary now that she has sobered up. Meanwhile both Dan and Amy show up separately to a Danny Chung Veterans speech, with aspirations of possibly working for him if he makes a Presidential bid. 1/12/16

• 018. D.C. – 6/23/2013
  • With the imminetnt POTUS impeachment proceedings underway, Selina tells her staff that she plans to not to be his running mate in two years, but plans to run for President herself in six years, and that they should start looking for other jobs. Dan quickly jumps at pursuing a job with Governor Chung, Sue tries to get a job with Kent Davison, Mike looks to work with Roger Furlong, and Gary commits to going into business with Dana with D&G Cheese. When Selina goes to announce her intentions to POTUS, she is intercepted by Ben, who tells her that POTUS does not intend to run in two years, hoping that this will wipe away the impeachment proceedings. Furlong corners Selina about running with him in six years, and is told the news… which leads him to angrily take that information to the press. Selina attends a school science fair, and delivers a speech that Dan has plagiarized from a speech he had previously written for Chung. While at the science fair, Selina finds out that the President has reversed his position about running for fear of looking like he was run out office, and leaves abruptly. Dan burns his bridges with Chung with a barrage of insults before he hears about the President’s reversal. Gary tries to talk Dana into letting him stay with Selina, and offers a meeting with her, which is squashed when the President shows up to meet with the Veep, just as Selina is at her wits end and the office is filled with chaos. He talks to her privately and when she emerges, she tells her staff that the President still plans not to run after all so her election is back on. She ends the day by giving some of the Science Fair students, whom Jonah brought back to her office, a tour of the White House. 1/12/16

SEASON 3

• 019. Some New Beginnings – 4/6/2014
  • Two months after the President first confided to Selina that he won’t be seeking re-election, Selina courts Iowa caucus members by doing a book signing in their state for her new book Some New Beginnings: Our Next American Journey. Meanwhile back in D.C. her staffers attend Mike’s wedding to reporter Wendy Keegan (Kathy Najimy). Mike and Wendy insist that everyone put their cell phones in a container, but no one can stick to it. When Secretary of Defense Maddox announces that he is resigning, the staffers scramble to their cell phones, and Jonah, who has been operating the D.C. gossip site WestWingMan, immediately posts a photo of the commotion. The fact that Selina’s staff are thrown into an uproar by this indicates that they are concerned that Maddox will be running for President, which tips their hand that she plans on running. This infuriates Kent, who identifies Jonah as the mystery blogger and fires him because this will now force the President to announce his intention not to run. Back in Iowa, Selina gets bored with the book signing, and contending with her book tour assistant Richard Splett (Sam Richardson). She meets up with Ben and they attend the funeral of short congressman Rick Cowgill with the intention of courting Bill Erikson as Selina’s future campaign manager. Bill has already left the funeral, but Selina gives a rousing and humorous eulogy, which she later re-uses as an over-the-phone speech for Mike’s wedding. Dan takes the credit for re-tweeting Jonah’s post, and asks if he can be Selina’s campaign manager, but she cuts him off without an answer. Kevin O’Rourke is Blake Stewart. Lee Armstrong is Cowgill’s nephew.  Christopher Moynihan is Maddox’s adviser. 3/24/16

• 020. The Choice – 4/13/2014
  • While is Selina is taking part in a drug bust on Baltimore Harbor, she finds out that POTUS has reversed his position on abortion, now taking a pro-life stand. Selina realizes that she can’t make a strong statement without angering pro-choice advocates or appearing to not back the President. Gary, in attempt to be more than a ‘bag-man’ and more of an adviser attempts to illustrate the various stages of pregnancy using fruit. As Selina bounces between pro-lifers like Michael Cunningham (Bob Cusack) and Cardinal Branzini (Michael Salconi), Gary attempts to stall the head of Planned Parenthood Rachel Hortonthall (Meredith Holzman), which gets her quite upset. Kent gets Selina a spot on Good Morning America for the next morning, but Maddox beats her to making an ambiguous statement in the middle of the night. Dan has a meltdown as they try to decided on what Selina will say, and gets sent home by her. Selina ends up referring to her book to make her own very ambiguous statement. Meanwhile Jonah visits Mike while he is still honeymooning and offers him a position in his new consulting firm Ryantology, which is abruptly refused. Jonah’s video blog gets him a spot on MSNBC to comment on what Selina’s reaction to the abortion statement will be, but Jonah is too afraid to comment after Dan shoves a burrito in his face and threatens him prior to the taping. Selina is introduced to her new campaign headquarters and is introduced to the annoying Kelly (Dana Powell), and finds out that Amy has hired Richard to help as well since Selina gave him a rave review on the book tour. Kent appears to be flirting regularly with Sue. Gary accepts his fate as a bag-man. Eugene Young is Jonah’s helper Reggie. Sheri Elliker is MSNBC anchor Andrea Tandy. Benjamin Cook and Nikolas Krieger are Mike’s new step-sons Walt and Randall. 3/25/16

• 021. Alicia – 4/20/2014
  • As Jonah tries to woo a citizen named Alicia Bryce (Tracie Thoms), a well-known universal child care advocate, for his webcast, Amy also recruits her to stand with Selina as she makes her announcement for her Presidential candidacy. Selina is actually recruiting a smattering of people to represent different causes, but during her announcement rehearsals, Andrew Doyle pressures Selina into dropping child care in favor of the elderly by threatening to not show up with other Democratic senators, to which she nearly has a meltdown…but ultimately accepts the terms. This leaves Mike with having to deliver he bad news to Alicia, and when she gets angry, Mike calls her a ‘cow’ in front of Jonah, whom he had recently had escorted from the press area for not having proper credentials. Mike bets Jonah not to run with the story and even sings the song Goober Peas at Jonah’s request, only to find that Jonah plans to run the story anyway. Selina corners Doyle in front of Alicia into getting Doyle to agree that she should mention health care in her speech. Alicia refuses to be interviewed about Mike, and Mike has Jonah escorted out again. Meanwhile Selina tries to get Dan to speak to the producers of Saturday Night Live to get them to curtail making fun of her, but it backfires and they do another skit… which prompts her to join the show for the skit. Selina is at odds with her daughter Catherine when she wears the same dress as Selina to the announcement. Edwina Finley Dickerson is Alicia’s friend Dee. Anais and Mirabelle Lee are Alicia’s daughter Halo. 6/25/16

• 022. Clovis – 4/27/2014
  • While visiting Stanford University in Silicon Valley, Selina is chastised publicly by a woman named Cassie Langley (Lindsey Kraft) for flip-flopping her stance on fracking, which is quickly picked up by Jonah’s Ryantology video blog. Selina and her staff then visit Clovis, a multi-million dollar tech company in Palo Alto , where they are given a tour by the CFO Melissa Conners (Mary Grill) and the disrespectful and flighty Craig Jergensen (Tim Baltz). Meanwhile Dan asks Ben for advice on how to get Selina to name him as her campaign manager, and Dan suggests leaking a news story about Governor Chung’s military unit torturing a man during the Iraqi war, information that Dan promptly leaks to Jonah. Craig offers to buy Ryantology for more than four million dollars, which makes Jonah ecstatic. Melissa offers Amy a job at Clovis at an enormous salary, but Amy later declines the offer. Selina participates in a Town Hall on the Clovis campus, but when Craig is asked to make sure that the Ryantology story on Selina’s fracking is not showing behind her, Craig turns to asking for government tax breaks. Kent negotiates looking into the tax breaks if they play the Chung torture story instead. Selina denies the torture allegations against Chung, but says “Chung” and “torture” so often that the words are linked together in a word cloud behind her. Craig rescinds his offer to buy Ryantology after Chung releases Pentagon evidence that no torture had taken place. Gary struggles with shoulder pains, and employs a male massage therapist, which Selina mistakes for a gay lover. 6/25/16

• 023. Fishing – 5/4/2004
  • With Selina’s campaign underway, ex-Major League Baseball coach Joe Thornhill (Glenn Wrage) joins the race. As Dan and Amy continue to compete for the job of campaign manager, Ben arranges for Selina to meet with savvy strategist Bill Ericsson (Diedrich Bader) in secret to take over the campaign. She also visits with George Maddox to see if she can dissuade him from running for the presidency. Everyone is surprised to find Jonah at his home working for him. After fishing together, they end up offering each other the VP position, to which Selina responds that she’s rather be shot in the face. Meanwhile Mike and his wife Wendy are planning in vitro fertilization, and consequently Mike has to masturbate frequently while at work. Amy hosts a dinner for her colleagues to try and earn their support for her being the campaign manager, but ends up throwing them all out when she finds out from Ed that Jonah’s uncle is Jeff Kane, a powerful political player in New Hampshire who apparently controls the senior citizen vote there. She gets word to Selina, who asks Dan to get Jonah back on their side but their conversation quickly digresses to a fight. Ericsson suggests that Selina fire her entire staff, which she plans to do, but then he tells her that he is going to represent Thornhill in the race. Selina ends up making Dan her campaign manager, and the two tell each other secrets that might come up in the race. Dan suggests to killing a dog as a kid, and she confesses to she set her ex-husband’s car on fire. Amy responds to Dan’s new job by getting drunk with the rest of the staff. They all end up attempting to throw Mike’s expired sperm at Jonah’s door. 9/18/16

• 024. Detroit – 5/11/2014
  • Selina heads to Detroit with her staff and Catherine for the a national job summit to announce the creation of 7000 jobs with the local Turville Industries. When a shooting occurs across town, Selina makes an off-hand comment to the Finnish Prime Minster Minna Häkkinen who is giving the keynote address that the country has too many guns, which Minna then leaks to Jonah, thiking he is part of her staff. The staff becomes irritated that Selina has brought along personal trainer Ray Whelans (Christopher Meloni), whom she later confesses to Amy that she is sleeping with. Dan is well aware of the affair, as he arranged it to keep Selina from sleeping with Andrew, who is also present at the summit. When Selina arrives at the summit, she is accosted by a protester (Matthew R. Staley), who gets punched in the face by Catherine before the Secret Service tackle him. The staff, plus  Catherine and Andrew, who is also in town, find out about her affair with Ray. Catherine punching the assailant is used to neutralize the gun comment, and she accompanies Selina to a gun show where they see Catherine as the hero, and wear t-shirts with her face on it. Mike arranges a photo op through Jonah of Maddox and Selina shaking hands, but the photographers get a photo that looks as if Maddox is helping Selina down the stairs. As Selina is getting ready to make the jobs announcement, Andrew tells her that he has heard that the jobs will be temporary. Selina’s speech is substituted with a Q&A with Minna as the moderator, who tries to be helpful by getting Selina to announce the jobs, while Selina attempts to squirm around… but ultimately has no choice but to verify. 9/18/16 

• 025. Special Relationship – 5/18/2014
  • Selina and her staff visit London so that she can participate in the 100th anniversary of World War 1. Dan’s duties as campaign manager are causing him to pound Red Bull to keep going. He asks Sue to arrange a meeting with Prince Charles. At a reception given by the Deputy Prime Minister Peter Mitchell (Darren Boyd), he is blatantly condescending to Selina. She later visits a pub and unknowingly creates the catchphrase ‘Daniwah’, misunderstanding the public’s cheering for her to drink the ale ‘down in one.’ She wears a giant hat suggested by Ray to the World War 1 ceremony, and further enrages Mitchell by meeting with the German Chancellor in the Lady Chapel about the Transatlantic Security Organization. Mike is proud of the speech he writes for Selina, but is furious when she begins taking advice from Ray on how to change it. Amy strikes back at Dan by posing as a British informant and feeding Jonah the story that Ray once wrote a blog proffering that fat people are paying for past-life sins. This is brought up at the press conference for Selina and Mitchell, and she bumbles her way through it. Dan has a panic attack and is taken to the hospital by Amy. Selina fires Ray and Dan, and gives Amy the job as campaign manager. Gary breaks a tray full of the Queen’s China. Ben is called back to Washington when he learns that the First Lady has attempted suicide. Justin Edwards is Rob from the Daily Mirror. Rebecca Gethings is the Bank of England lady. David Schaal is the landlord. Colin Stinton is the U.S. Ambassador. Dan Mersh is the car park guard. 12/9/16 

• 026. Debate – 6/1/2014
  • Selina gets a new short haircut that everyone except for Buster hates and a recurring eye twitch, just before her first primary debate at the University of New Hampshire with Joe Thornhill, George Maddox, Daniel Chung, and Representative from Nevada Owen Pierce (Paul Fitzgerald). Dan returns to the fold after his time in recovery, sporting a new beard that Selina demands he shave. Selina rehearses her debate execution with three of her main points being “Reaffirm, Reform, and Renew.” Selina’s staff stands on the sidelines and critiques everyone’s performance in the debates. Pierce comes across as bumbling, making several failed jokes and comes in last place. Selina comes in second to Thornhill who performs surprisingly well with his baseball analogies, despite the fact that Selina attempts to discredit him by bringing up an extra-marital affair that he once had… which falls apart when he confesses it on his own. Maddox is distracted by Selina’s eye-twitch and performs poorly, causing Jonah to try to and make up with Dan. Chung is cut short by Thornhill and comes in right down the middle. Selina forgets the third R – Renew – and instead uses the world Repel, which ends up gaining her support. Gary accidentally lets it slip to Wendy that Ray had picked out Selina’s wardrobe in London, and then Mike lets it slip about the situation with FLOTUS, causing her and Mike to argue about what news stories she is supposed to use. Andrew Leeds is Jackson, who Amy brings on board to create some zingers in her speeches, and whom no one likes. 12/10/16

• 027. Crate – 6/8/2014
  • With Selina’s poll numbers dropping drastically against Thornhill, her team struggles to help make her more ‘folksy.’ Kent comes up with an idea to have her deliver her speeches from on top of a crate. Jonah meets with Bill Ericsson looking for a job in Thornhill’s camp, offering senior staff members, but Ericsson denies him. Jonah asks his mother Nancy (Nancy Lenehan) to help him by talking to his Uncle Jeff, but she botches it. Journalist Quincy Carter (Nicholas Wyman) finds out that the crate actually cost $1200 to make, so Selina agrees to do an interview with him, which proves to be incredibly awkward. He ends up leaving his phone behind and records Selina mocking folks who donate just a few thousand dollars to her campaign, quickly publishes it, and causes havoc in her campaign leading to a meltdown and quitting the campaign. While Selina is meeting with refugees Fadi (Isaac Dean) and Alida (Nayab Hussain), Kent shows up and tells Selina that the President needs to spend time with his wife and is planning to resign. This causes Gary to get a nosebleed with excitement which leads to him and Selina breaking down in a laughing fit in the restroom. The news spreads to the thrilled staff and they head back to D.C., leaving a disappointed Gary behind at the refugee center. Jonah watches the events unfold on TV and has a meltdown. 3/20/17

• 028. New Hampshire – 6/8/2014
  • As President Hughes steps down from office, Selina and her staff revel in the excitement. Selina tells Kent to fire Leslie Carr, and then convinces Ben to be her Chief of Staff. Mike initially hits it off with the press, but Dan is told by Kent he will be fired unless he can do damage control regarding the press finding out that the story about the Governor Chung torture story leaked from their team. Dan offers Jonah a spot in the White House if he will issue a statement that he originally reported the story based on reading it on the internet. Kelly and Richard return to the Meyer campaign. Trouble begins to arise when Mike bumps into a lamp as Selina takes the oath of office, Gary gives her shoes that squeak during her address, and Selina finds out that removing Leslie Kerr from state has freaked out the Iranians. She realizes that she had actually meant Leanne Carr, and heads back to New Hampshire to campaign. While touring a firefighter equipment factory, Selina finds out that her oath was invalid because she missed part of the world ‘preserve’ when Mike bumped the lamp. She gets a local Justice of the Peace to administer her oath again in the factory. She ends up coming in third in the primaries behind Chung and Thornhill, despite using Jonah’s uncle Jeff Kane to secure the elderly vote. Jonah butts heads with Dan on his new position. 3/22/17

SEASON 4

• 029. Joint Session – 4/12/2015
  • Selina makes her opening speech to the joint session and right at the beginning, her teleprompter goes blank. They flash back to 24 hours earlier as Dan, Mike, and Director of Communications Jim Owens (Zak Orth) work on President Meyer’s speech. As Mike juices, and they all try to figure out the identity of staffer Leigh Patterson (Jessie Ennis). Jonah goes to work for Vice President Andrew Doyle to be his White House spy. Jonah is bedeviled by Doyle’s Chief of Staff Teddy Sykes (Patton Oswalt) who keeps grabbing his testicles. Selina tries to finagle a few billion dollar defense tax cut with the Joint Chiefs of Staffs to fund her Families First initiative, and they end up giving her a 50 billion dollars to scrap an outdated Cold War program. Joe Thornhill’s campaign manager Bill Ericsson quits his campaign, which causes Amy to fear that he will take her job. Gary gets distressed that he is no longer a crucial to Selina’s life, and resorts to watching her in the West Wing from the “FLOTUS window.” As the speech comes together, the president’s staff learns that by scuttling the military program, the job losses involved might cause her to lose the Family First bill vote. As the staff tries to change the speech to reflect the changes, her screen goes blank, and she is unable to read her hard copy because Gary has taken her glasses, she wings it for a while, then reads an old version of her speech where she in fact announces that they will be investing ten billion more dollars to the submarine program. Selina is furious with the staff now that she no longer has her funds for Families First. Ross Degraw is the Joint Chief. Michael Pemberton is Dexter. 9/27/17
• 030. East Wing – 4/19/2015
  • As the press celebrates the fact that Selina has outlasted William Henry Harrison’s presidency, and everyone gets used to Mike’s new dyed mustache, Selina prepares for a visit from the Israeli Prime Minister Ben Heim (Seth Barrish). Gary tries to spruce up the room for a State Dinner and removes the only paining in the White House that was painted by a Native American, and orders the decorator Patty (Michaela Watkins) to spruce up the floral arrangements and decor. Richard causes Amy to be late to a campaign meeting and fears that she is losing her job to Bill Ericsson, but Selina actually gives Bill Jim Owens’ job. Meanwhile the public polls indicate that Catherine is hated by the public, so Kent helps her work on her image by having her visit with Girl Scouts. The Israeli visit is overshadowed by removal of the painting, so they concoct a story that it is out being cleaned. Dan takes Jonah with him to talk to congressmen to court votes for the Families First bill, and Jonah overshadows Dan by lying to them and making promises he can’t keep. Dan gets revenge by appointing Richard to be Jonah’s staff. Selina is furious with Gary for the painting incident and for giving her the reputation of overspending. She reams Gary, who ends up fighting back and reminding her what he did for her on Labor Day. Although it isn’t revealed what had happened, it causes her to apologize to him. He gets her some of the William Henry Harrison cake and the make amends. Selina fills the White House with Native American paintings. Amy Wilson is Congresswoman Angstrom Winslow Corbett is a reporter. 9/28/17
• 031. Data – 4/26/2015
  • During an televised interview, Selina mentions an HIV-positive little girl in Alabama, and based on the information she gives, internet users are able to identify her. When Catherine is photographed vaping in the papers, Selina asks the press to back off her. The press is however more interested in the data breach that identified the girl. Selina is most interested in finding the culprit and firing them, so she assigns Dan to fire someone as a scapegoat. Jonah and Richard visit a balloon salesman (Dakin Matthews) to decorate for a Presidential rally, and then inadvertently play the Police’s Every Breath You Take to open the rally. When donors to Selina’s Families First campaign begin pulling out because of the data breach, Selina addresses the press, but the rally fireworks drown out the sound. Dan randomly fires a White House aide named Leigh Patterson but the press won’t let up, so Dan suggests Jonah. Before he can fire him, Richard informs Dan that a campaign mailer was directed to recently bereaved parents, indicating someone from the campaign used the information from the same data breach. Ben volunteers to resign, but Selina changes the strategy and wants Dan to resign. As Selina reads to kids at the Easter Egg roll, Mike is about to address the press with the information that Ben is being fired, but Ben quickly has him change it to Dan. Meanwhile Catherine decides to begin an anti-bullying campaign, but Selina insists that she drop it because it will sound as if Selina bullied her. John Harrington Bland is Lyle. Karl Bury is the girl’s father. 5/14/18
• 032. Tehran – 5/3/2015
  • While visiting the Middle East, Selina visits Iran and arranges the release of U.S. reporter Leon West. Meanwhile Doyle stands in for the President back home for a presentation from the Rainbow Jersey LGBTQ sports community, although Doyle doesn’t know what the Q stands for. Dan looks for a job with the lobbying firm PKM even though he is asked by Sidney Purcell to stand against the Meyer agenda for the clients. After Dan is released, Selina lets it slip that her Israel stay was extended by a day, so West concludes that he was held by the Iranians for an extra day so the President could get her photo op. Amy finds out that Kent had been polling for other Vice-Presidential candidates and freaks out. Jonah overhears this and tells Teddy, and leaks a story that the VP is dissatisfied. In order to keep Leon from talking to the press, Air Force One takes off with him on it, leaving Mike and Gary behind in Tehran. They try to barter a ride back by trading their illegal alcohol when the back up Air Force One is out of commission, but wind up stuck there. When Bill asks Jonah what has been happening in the VP office, Jonah tells everyone that Teddy has been touching him inappropriately. Bill and Kent come up with an idea to ‘infect’ the VP by making him aware of the data breach. After Dan and Amy debate on CNN, Dan and Amy share a near-romantic moment, but Dan only asks for White House access. Ben struggles to stay awake after taking Ambien, and falls asleep when Selina tells him that she’s bringing in a new Senior Advisor named Karen Collins (Lennon Parham). Upon Selina’s arrival home, Catherine tells her that she has gotten engaged to her lobbyist boyfriend Jason (Michael Torpey), news Selina doesn’t take kindly. Mary Joy is Mrs. West. Chagmion Antoinne is the CNN moderator. Navid Negahban is Abbas. 5/14/18
• 033. Convention – 5/10/2015
  • During the national party convention, Doyle decides to drop off the ticket due to poor polls, just as Selina finds out that her competitor Senator O’Brien’s running mate is going to be the nearly perfect New Mexican senator Laura Montez. She sees this as a chance to find a better running mate, and insists that Doyle claim he has prostate trouble, which he only agrees to when Ben threatens to expose the fact that Teddy has been feeling up Jonah. As Mike talks to a reporter (Lauren LoGiudice) about Doyle’s prostate, Doyle fires Teddy for his harassment of Jonah. Selina starts with Danny Chung but he declines, then moves on to George Maddox but she changes her mind after asking him. Desperate searching for someone to run with, Selina briefly considers the bungling Owen Pierce. All the while Amy is ready to blow her stack because the new aide Karen is driving her crazy, and Selina is ignoring her suggestion to choose Senator Tom James (Hugh Laurie), with whom she once had a brief affair. Unable to take it any longer, Amy has a meltdown and tells Selina she is the worst thing that’s happened to the country, and quits. Selina ultimately goes with James, and then fires Karen. Tom James accepts the nomination, after teasing Selina and making her think that he isn’t going to. Meanwhile Dan and Sidney tries to sell the services of PKM to a zucchini executive named Ian (Dan Jenkins), by name dropping some of his contacts, but can only get Jonah and Richard on board since everyone else is at he convention. He loses credibility however when Jonah is unaware that Doyle drops out. Dan then attempts to get Amy to come to the meeting, but then they find out that she too had parted ways with the President. Sue monitors the fate of a death row inmate in Louisiana, who only half-dies. Catherine nervously prepares her speech for the convention, planning to introduce her boyfriend Jason. 12/26/18
• 034. Storms and Pancakes – 5/17/2015
  • On the campaign trail, Selina gets to get a little annoyed by her running mate Tom James when all of the newspapers seem to be praising him and ignoring her. Unable to ever get the last word, Selina orders Mike to try to get the word out that she is a visionary for choosing him. Selina also brings up to Tom their brief affair from twelve years earlier, but he doesn’t seem to remember. Meanwhile Amy is furious at Mike for his press conference indicating that she is unstable. Dan brings Amy to work with Sidney Purcell, but has trouble getting over her bitterness toward the White House. After a meltdown, she spends seven minutes at a spa with her sister, she returns and is able to secure a client named Paul (Brad Morris). Purcell then gives Dan’s major clients to Amy. With everyone out on the campaign trail, Ben becomes bored. Jonah too is dissatisfied working for Doyle now that he plans to resign from the Vice Presidency. Jonah thinks he is on a job interview with Ruth Forrester (Janet Anderson) and her lawyer (Talia Thiesfield) at Senator Wilkie’s office, only to find out that she and a group of women want him to assist in a class action lawsuit against Teddy for his sexual assault. He storms out when he realizes that he looks like all of the women in the room. At a pancake brunch in Connecticut, Selina tries to be more charming and humorous with Congressman Edgar Hausman (Chris Kies) and his wife Beatrice (Victoria Vance), but she is once again upstaged by Tom James. Ben is excited when a storm heads toward North Carolina, so that everyone will have to return to D.C. instead of going to North Carolina. Tom however suggests that they head to North Carolina to be in the midst of the storm. North Carolina Governor Cecile (Carolyn Mignini) doesn’t want to request a state of emergency, but Tom suggests that it will keep O’Brien away from the emergency, so they offer Cecile some federal funds. The storm however veers south toward Florida where O’Brien and Montez already are. Louise Benjamin from Cabinet Affairs shows up for a meeting with Jonah and distresses him because she looks like him. Selina and Tom visit an egg plant that has received almost no damage from the storm, so her ‘Presidential visit’ returns to being a campaign visit. 12/26/18
• 035. Mommy Meyer – 5/24/2015
  • Mike laments to Wendy the difficulty of his job, including the fact that the press has dubbed the Families First Bill as the Mommy Meyers Bill. As Selina celebrates her debate victory against Bill O’Brien, they find out that there has been a mass shooting in Pittsburgh by an ex-Marine. The White House is forced onto a lockdown when an intruder attempts to assassinate Selina, but the situation is quickly diffused. Mike is filmed ducking behind his podium as he addresses the press, a clip which quickly makes the internet. Jonah and Richard work the Tom James Town Hall event, which quickly goes sour when James expresses sympathy for the Pittsburgh shooter. Selina is rushed away from the press before she can be asked about James’ statements, leaving Mike with egg on his face when he can barely muster a response. James is able to recover with an apology, and while Jonah and Richard congratulate him, they let is slip about the data breach involving targeting families with dead children. In order to get more info out of them, James invites them back to the White House for Friday night drinks, where he reveals to all that he advocates legalizing drugs. He also forces Mike to tell him about the data breach. Selina invites her old law school friends Deborah (Mo Gaffney), Sarah (Patricia Kalember), and Anna (Suzy Nakamura), but their conversation goes south when it gets political and Deborah criticizes the Family First Bill, and is capped off when another intruder forces another lockdown. Meanwhile Dan and Amy lobby congressmen at an American Concrete Federation Convention, a job which entails wooing Senators with hot young female lobbyists. Graham Winton is Aidan Grant. George Ludden is Congressman Martin. 12/24/19
• 036. B/ill – 5/31/2015
  • Gary is sent by Ben to recruit Amy and Dan to help lobby congress members to vote no on Selina’s Families First bill, thinking that it will damage her chance for re-election. Selina herself is suffering from the flu as she watches the proceedings, abuses her voice memo feature on her iPad, and attempts to help Tom rehearse for his VP debate. Kent and Bill send Jonah and Richard to lobby for the bill, assuming they will screw it up and lose votes as well. They visit Congressman Moyes (Tom McGowan), who already feels that the bill makes no sense. However when Moyes is also visited by Amy and Dan, bringing along the information, but encouraging him to vote no on the bill. Moyes realizes that President Meyer wants it to fail, and decides to vote yes. Gary is petrified that he will be implicated in the scheme, while Mike struggles to not be in the loop so he doesn’t have to lie to the press. When it becomes clear that Amy and Dan expect money for lobbying, everyone including the President and VP fear that the money trail could lead to them. Jonah and Richard and Dan and Amy all visit Congressman Owen Pierce (Paul Fitzgerald) in the hospital where he is attending to his mother to lobby him. Pierce slips out of the room, and they track him down in the Sackler Gallery gift shop and bring him to the White House, where he is offered an ambassadorship to Paris, although Selina is asleep and doesn’t agree to it. He agrees to vote it down, and consequently the bill fails in congress. However Moyes threatens to go to the floor for an official investigation into why the President killed her own bill. Still sounding sick, Selina goes to the press and promises to put together a new streamlined bill. Bob Sorenson is the doctor. Xavier Wolf is Gary’s nephew. Selenis Leyva is Governor Ramos. Melanie Nicholls-King is Ms. Bennet. Ethan Phillips is Mr. Wallace. David Beach is Mr. Rakes. Juliet Adair Pritner is Mrs. Brewer. Phillip Chorba is the nurse. 12/25/19
• 037. Testimony – 6/7/2015
  • Selina’s administration is brought before the House Judiciary Committee looking into whether the they lobbied against their own bill. Senators Wallace, Brewer, and Rakes ask hard-hitting questions, while Senator Bennet, who is friends with Selina, attempts to divert questions away from the issues at hand, instead focusing on Jonah’s molestation account, and also drive a wedge between him and Amy and Dan by bringing up the document they kept on the shared drive called ‘The Jonad Files.’ Fired office girl Leigh Patterson is brought in and blows the whistle on the data breach of the Families First bill. Meanwhile Dan is offering up everything so that he is given immunity, but everything he spills are things already spilled by Leigh. Gary is initially point to as the one who orchestrated the payoffs to the lobbyists, but his ineptitude clearly shows when is brought in to testify. Selina gives a deposition and when the subject comes up about her daughter’s fiance being a lobbyist, she claims they have broken up. Sue is brought in and mentions voice memos, which leads to Mike being brought in to talk about them. He claims he has erased all of them, but they are able to retrieve them from the cloud. Most of them however are from when Selina had the flu. When Richard joins the Jonah during the investigation, he accidentally lets it slip that Dan had come to fire Jonah as a scapegoat of the data breach. In the end, Tom James fingers Bill Ericsson, as does Gary, Catherine, Amy, Mike, Richard, Dan, and Jonah. Bill testifies that he is innocent and has been stabbed in the back. Selina continues to claim innocence, and encourages an investigation of Bill Ericsson. 4/6/20
• 038. Election Night – 6/14/2015
  • As Selina and team square off against Bill O’Brien in the Presidential race, Dan and Amy join CNN commentator Greg Hart (Scott Adsit) and pundits Matty Curtis (Neil Casey) and Sally Davenport (Orlagh Cassidy) for live coverage. Matty is egomaniacal because he has called so many races in the past, and Dan takes delight when he keeps calling the wrong states. Jonah and Richard man the Meyer-James Rally in Baltimore. Selina invites her friend Karen to sit with them as well, and she drives everyone crazy. Bill continually laments about his future in prison. Selina experiences many ups and downs as she wins and loses states, but when Pennsylvania is called in O’Brien’s favor, she calls him to concede. However Mike gets word for Dan just in time that it has been called prematurely, and she has actually won there, so she doesn’t make the concession. Amy leaves the live coverage in the middle to join Selina as she awaits results. Sue leaves her friend (Susan Kelechi Watson) to take Amy to see her. As Tom begins to think they might win, he asks Selina if she will let him be Treasury Secretary in addition to V.P., which annoys Selina. Meanwhile Jonah struggles to keep the folks at the rally entertained, telling jokes between the band Band of Horses (themselves) playing. As more results come in, everyone realizes if that if West Virginia goes to Selina, she and O’Brien will tie… which will lead to an election in the House. And if that is a tie as well, then the Senate appointed V.P. will become President. Selina breaks down crying in Amy’s arms, her eventually tells her to pull it together. Karen gives Tom the okay and address the rally, which severely irritates Selina. She follows him into the rally and overtakes it, introducing everyone on her team. It is announced that Selina has won West Virginia. Privately Tom offers her the spot of Vice President if it comes to that. Spencer Trinwith is the sound man. 4/6/20

SEASON 5

• 039. Morning After – 4/24/2106
  • With a stress pimple growing on her face, Selina addresses the country about the tie in the presidential race. Catherine requests to make a film about the tie for her thesis for her film class at Vassar, and although Selina gives her permission, she instructs her staff not to let her record anything that shouldn’t be. Mike announces that he and Wendy are planning to adopt a baby from China and that he is going to get in shape. Bill shows up to work as if nothing had happened, and is immediately fired by Ben and told that if he surrenders quietly, Selina will give him a full pardon. In the background, Catherine’s video camera is rolling. The head of the Secret Service Keith (Nigel Gibbs) assigns Selina new lead agent Marjorie Palmiatti (Clea DuVall) because she resembles Selina from the back, much to the displeasure of Selina. As Selina plans to start working the house for their votes, she finds out that Nevada, which had been awarded to O’Brien may have been within a half percent, meaning that it may be eligible for a recount. Only Richard seems up on recount law, so Selina appoints him as the recount specialist and tells Jonah that he is now working for Richard. Jonah is furious so he hires his own assistant Cliff. Selina addresses the nation about the situation in Nevada, but because of the massive pimple on her face, the stock market begins plummeting. She is irritated that none of Gary’s fixes worked on her pimple so she brings in Dr. Abernathy (Todd Aaron Brotze), but Gary is vindicated when the doctor tells her that she can’t wear makeup on it for several days. She also offers the job of Economy Czar to Tom James, and although he refuses to take it, Selina tells the press that he’s accepted. Although Amy acts as if she doesn’t want to go to Nevada to oversee the recount, she gets irritated when Selina interviews Candi Caruso (Morgan Smith), an up-and-comer. Finally Amy is forced to eat crow and tell her she wants the job, so Candi’s interview is abruptly ended. Dan can’t seem to get a commitment from Greg Hart for a return to CNN, and he is fired by Sidney Purcell. Amy and Richard’s team head for Carson City, Nevada and she calls Dan and invites him to come help. As Selina’s popularity wanes, she attempts to hold a symposium on race, but much to her surprise and irritation finds that there are only white people represented including Dr. Weisglass (Andrew Thacher), Sam O’Keefe (Nick Fontaine), Elisa Burke (Ursula Whittaker), and Franklin Washington (Stephen DeCordova). Ben tries to gather some black faces including Sue, but when Mike is in the stairwell trying to get steps in and accidentally sets off an alarm, secret service agents point guns at Sue when she enters the room. At that afternoon’s press conference, Mike ignores questions about race but announces that Bill Ericsson has been arrested, and also blames him for the chaos at the symposium. Wayne Wilderson is Wayne. Evan Arnold, Ross Mackenzie, and Deb Hiett are White House reporters. Bonnie Bentley is Emily, Brendan Caleb Calton is the TV tech, Nick Clifford is the event coordinator, Megan Grano is Donna with the press. Matthew Gulbranson and Brian Michael Jones are Secret Service agents, G. Maximilian Zarou is the hotel manager. 7/18/20 
• 040. Nev-AD-a – 5/1/2016
  • As Catherine continues to attempt to film the proceedings and China has hacked into the White House employee files, Selina and her team find out that Bill O’Brien has recruited former Secretary of State James Whitman (Harris Yulin) to head up his recount his recount team. Dan suggests that they bring in his old mentor Bob Bradley (Martin Mull), an old timer who has served in numerous administrations. When Selina is asked to drop by a brunch to thank campaign volunteers, she assigns it to Tom, and she takes over his banking task force meeting. Mike continues with his dieting by drinking a cleansing juice that barely keeps his blood sugar up. Meanwhile in Nevada, the Secretary of State Buddy Calhoun (Matt Oberg) explains the ground rules to both recount teams, that if the recount sample shows a difference of one percent or more – in this case 512 votes – there will be a recount of the whole state. Bob Bradley arrives and advises Amy and the team via video conference, and then mentions that it is good to see Sue again. Since he hasn’t worked there since the 1980’s, everyone starts to wonder how old Sue is and tries to get clues as to her age. Amy’s team reviews paper votes and sets out on foot to canvass houses where the vote was questionable. Soon Jonah’s new boots start to hurt his feet and he can barely walk. Selina kicks Tom out of the bankers meeting and she circulates the room talking to Eli Park, Elizabeth Moorehouse (Emma Jacobson-Sive), and mostly Charlie Baird (John Slattery), with whom she becomes quite flirtatious. Bob Bradley sends in Roger Furlong and his assistant Will  to assist, but he immediately makes Tracy (Heather McPhaul), one of the vote counters break into tears. Selina asks Dan to bring Charlie into the White House and they sleep together in the Residence. Selina later finds out that Charlie went straight from Selina to meet with O’Brien for an interview to be on his cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. Amy’s team achieves their goal and Nevada announces a recount. Tom immediately sucks up to Selina again, which leads them to believe that he thinks that Selina is going to win Nevada. That night Amy and Dan almost go into her room, but find that Amy’s sister Sophie is in there, having brought Amy’s clothes to her. Catherine spills Mike’s cleansing drink and fills it with water, causing his blood sugar to drop while he is addressing the press and can’t formulate any answers when he is asked by Charlie Baird. Later in Carson City, Amy and Dan drink in the hotel bar, and Amy heads back to her room hinting for Dan to join her. However he is interrupted by Sophie, who mentions she might be able to get him a job at CBS and take him back to her room. Amy spends her evening alone texting Dan to come have a nightcap with her, but her texts are inadvertently going to Ben’s phone instead. Andrea Savage is O’Brien’s running mate Laura Montez. Cormac Bluestone is a D.C. reporter, Jon Barinholtz is an O’Brien aide, Louise Bennett is the CNN Newswoman. Gil Glasgow, Bob Rumnock, and Carolyn Wilson are election officials. Hazel Anne Raymundo, Jim Titus, and Sarah Siadet are reporters. Coco Leigh is the voter whose husband died. 7/18/20
• 041. The Eagle – 5/8/2016
  • Although the public is embracing her relationship with Charlie, Selina gets into trouble when she accidentally tweets a demeaning tweet about O’Brien when she meant to send it privately to Charlie. To cover for this, they decide to blame it on China’s hacking, and then go so far as to administer sanctions against China for it. Bob “The Eagle” Bradley continues to assist the team with the Nevada recounts, and Selina confides in him that she sent the Tweet. Dan and Amy discuss the fact that he slept with her sister Sophie, but she notifies him that Sophie works for CVS pharmacy, and not CBS. Amy finds Bob staying late at night in the closet in the Carson City office where they are working on counting the ballots, and tells Selina that there is something strange happening with him. During the meeting with James Whitman, Bob fails to make sense and winds up leaving the room and getting in a cab, an obvious victim of Alzheimer’s disease. When Selina gets word of what is happening, she is delayed from arriving for a benefit for the American Museum of Natural History, so Gary sits at the table with Charlie and his guest Howard (Tim Ryan) and others. With Bob out of the picture, Selina tells Amy to put Richard in charge. Although he seems more interested in talking about Robert DeNiro movies, he somehow manages to find out that there a large number of uncounted ballots discovered in Washoe County. They are found so Selina sends Karen to see the Nevada Supreme Court and plead their case to the judges (including Rose Abdoo and Mike Hernandez) for an extension to count the ballots. The Chinese retaliates with their own sanctions against America including the stoppage of all American adoptions of Chinese babies, which nearly destroys Mike as he delivers the news to the press. Bob the Eagle is given an office deep in the White House basement where he has to cell phone reception.  Keith Sellon-Wright is the O’Brien lawyer. Warren Sweeney is Chairman Steve O’Brien with museum. Chris Game and Erica Vittina Phillips are Maitre D’s. P.J. Brown is Phil. Jill Donnelly is Will’s wife Mary. Janelle Froehlich is the stewardess. 11/3/20 
• 042. Mother – 5/15/2016
  • While Selina is addressing the Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm, she gets word that her mother Catherine Calvert Eaton (Shannon Welles) has suffered another severe stroke that may be life threatening. Selina has a strained relationship with her and finds it to be an inconvenience to travel to Silver Spring, Maryland to be with her, but soon finds that it gives her a double digit raise in approval ratings. In the Nevada Supreme Court, Karen manages to convince them to extend the count deadline. The entire office comes with her and sets up an office in the hospital, as well as Catherine, Selina’s ex-husband Andrew, and his new girlfriend Monica (Lauren Bowles), with whom Catherine’s relationship make Selina uncomfortable. Selina finds out from Dr. Miripuri (Sarayu Blue) that her mother doesn’t have long to live, and she will need to sign the DNR papers, which causes Catherine to break down with wailing cries. Meanwhile Mike and his wife Wendy meet with surrogate mother Debralee (Meredith Hagner) and they pretend to be religious in order to get Debralee to carry their baby. Amy gets Jonah, Richard, Dan, Cliff, and Will to rally picketers to demand the recount in Nevada. After Selina spends some time with Gary in the chapel, for which she mostly prays to become the first woman elected President, she has the doctors pull the breathing tube on her mother. Selina is surrounded by everyone when her mother passes… except for Catherine, whom she forgets to tell. Catherine is inconsolable, but Selina cannot stop laughing with glee that the court agreed to continue the count in Nevada. That night they meet with Selina’s mother’s lawyer George Huntzinger (Brian Doyle-Murray) who alludes to the fact that the estate with goo to Catherine. Debralee hears about the DNR situation with the President, and backs out of being a surrogate. When Ben delivers the bad news that the recounts are favoring O’Brien, Selina orders Karen to reverse course and ask the Supreme Court to stop the count. Qatari ambassador Mohammed Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Jaffar (Usman Ally) meets with Selina at the funeral and brings a message from China that if they ease the sanctions, everything from human rights to climate to change is on the table. When she finds out that she lost Nevada, Selina is so upset by the turn of events that she sobs when delivering her mother’s eulogy and has to call up Catherine to play the Tim McGraw song that Selina hates. Roger Negendank is the priest. Livia Trevino and Treisa Gary are election officials. 11/3/20
• 043. Thanksgiving – 5/22/2016
  • Selina goes through the motions of pardoning two turkeys named Drumstick and Cranberry. Dan winds up with a green badge thanks to a security screw-up, which doesn’t allow him access to the White House dining area, and causes him to be the ridicule of Jonah when he brings his mother to see the White House. Dan is also assigned to Tom James while he is short-handed as the negotiate with Congress on a vote. Selina finds out that Sue got married a year ago. She tries to connect with her Secret Service Agent Marjorie, but Marjorie seems cold to her. She also disappoints Catherine to tell her that she can’t make it to Thanksgiving dinner at her house. As Selina heads into an appointment with Dr. Abernathy for some work on her eye bags, which yields huge black eyes on her face, a salmonella outbreak occurs across the country. Because of Selina’s appearance, Kent and Ben have to engage Vice President Doyle to make a statement about the outbreak. Selina makes her calls to the Senators, including Bill Jaeger (Seth Morris), who tries to giver her advice about the outbreak. An elderly congressman named Harry Sherman contracts salmonella and dies from it, which may leave a favorable opening that the White House team can use. Mike gets good news about a potential surrogate, so he arranges to meet Wendy in the hotel room where the turkeys were staying. When she starts to feel sick, he worries she might have caught salmonella from the bed. As Dan starts to feel like a glorified errand boy for Tom James, he notices that James seems to be pushing an inordinate number of Sidney Purcell’s clients in interviews. He confronts James about it and offers his assistance, but James brings up Dan’s nervous breakdown, so Dan takes the information to the White House staff. Ben goes to Doyle to ask him to make a statement about Sherman, but he insists on seeing Selina. He agrees to make the statement if she’ll consider him as the next Attorney General, so she agrees. Dan stops by Amy’s parents house where the family is having Thanksgiving to get her opinion on the Tom James situation, and although her mother is kind to him, his father (Jim O’Heir) berates him for sleeping with both of his daughters. Jonah’s uncle Jeff Kane (Peter MacNicol) tells Ben and Kent that Sherman’s widow plans to run for his seat. He however has plans for his nephew Ezra, but since he is in Afghanistan, so he wants to use someone else to play dirty to defeat Sherman, and sacrifice his own name in the process… and that person is Jonah, who wholeheartedly accepts the proposal. Selina heads to the South China Sea to feed Thanksgiving tofurkey to the troops, wearing her sunglasses… and gets the new about Jonah while on board. Dean Austin is the Captain. Exie Booker is a Secret Service Agent. David Weisenberg is Dr. Robert Weinberg. Jonathan Bray is White House security. Kathleen Mary Carthy is the Poultry Association Woman. Drew Dayton is Jordan. Kelly Mumme is Deborah. J. Anthony Pena is the stage manager. Gita Pullapilly is the news anchor. Ke’andra Samone is Cassie. Jean Villepique is the New York Time reporter. James Wong is Jim with the press. 2/22/21
• 044. C**tgate – 5/29/2016
  • With the Dow Jones down over 3000 points, the White House is preparing for a bailout, but can only afford to bail out two of the three major banks, one of those banks being Charlie’s bank EM Wheelright. Selina can’t decide on the two because there will be massive fallout if she bails out her boyfriend’s bank, but Tom James insists it is the right one to bail out for the economy’s sake. She keeps going back and forth between EM Wheelright and Paulsten-Berheim, and Charlie assures her that their relationship won’t be affected by her choice. Meanwhile Catherine keeps trying to get time with Selina to talk about the relationships she’s had with boys, but they keep getting interrupted. Jonah sets up campaign headquarters in New Hampshire and brings in a focus group to give feedback on his campaign video. No one in the room likes Jonah, and several of them make fun of his head and body shape, causing Jonah to burst in and throw a tantrum, all while Catherine is filming it. Amy convinces Dan to be Jonah’s campaign manager since he will be perceived as a genius if he leads him to victory. Politico reports that one of Selina’s staffers called her the c-word, so Selina puts Amy in charge of finding out who did it. Amy thinks that she is the culprit, but one by one, she realizes everyone had said it at some point. Selina forces her to fire three staffers, which the press starts to have a field day with. Eventually Selina simply confirms that everyone had done it. Mike tries to find someone to go to Hansong Korean Barbecue with him to use his Groupon. While Jonah is campaigning in a diner, Dan finds out that his opponent Judy Sherman’s (K Callan) campaign manager is Bill Ericsson, as Jonah loses his temper again. He also learns that Mrs. Sherman had been Jonah’s second grade teacher. As Selina looks for opinions on who to bail out from her friend Karen, Kent and Ben put a stop to it by having her get out her frustrations by calling and yelling at Dan and Jonah. When no one seems to like Jonah during his campaign speech, in his anger he starts bashing Selina and turning around their opinion of him. Selina makes the final decision to bail out Charlie’s bank, but when Gary validates her decision by telling her to go with the one she loves, she changes her mind at the last minute. When Charlie finds out that his bank wasn’t picked, he storms out on her and tells her that Politico was right. Catherine finally gets a minute of Selina’s time and tells her that she is now dating someone on her staff… her Secret Service agent Marjorie. Mike picks up his Korean Barbecue and is told they don’t accept Groupons. While there, he sees Tom James eating with Sidney Purcell and Jim Marwood. Jamie Denbo is the focus group leader. Todd Jeffries, John Ross Bowie, Alison White, and Karen Malina White are focus group members. Lindsay Burdge is a reporter. Lauri Hendler and Jay Pennick are hecklers. Arvin Lee is the Korean BBQ host. Murphy Dunne and Jamie Donnelly are the couple in the background in the diner. 2/22/21
• 045. Congressional Ball – 6/5/2016
  • Selina lobbies to make sure that on-the-fence congresswoman Penny Nickerson (Stephnie Weir) will vote for her as President in a Senate tie-breaker. Meanwhile, Jonah continues to gain points as he campaigns on a platform of slamming Selina. The Hill’s 50 Hottest Staffers list comes out, and Amy is irritated that she’s not in there, while Candi Caruso is #17… and Gary is #21. He starts to get a big head and is patronizing to Amy, but then she finds out from Candi that is is actually her fiancé Gary Welch who is supposed to be on the list. Jonah sends Richard to video tape Judy Sherman, but Richard accidentally stops the video when he is filming her having a meltdown. Mike’s surrogate is pregnant, and he is looking for another job as Director of Communications with the NHL. However he later finds out that Paul Graves’ (Phil LaMarr) assistant Jim Owens, who Mike had been ordered to fire previously, ended up with the job. Catherine and Marjorie ask Selina not to politicize their lesbianism, but Selina passes the head of the Gay & Lesbian Caucus Connie DiBenedetto (Concetta Tomei) off on them. After securing the vote of Paul Graves by promising his the job as Secretary of State, Selina finds out that both Nickerson and Bill Jaeger  have been lobbied by Tom James to abstain from voting in House Presidential tie-breaking vote so that the vote reverts to Congress, who he believes would name him as President. Selina dances publicly dances with Tom James, then takes him off privately and reams him about what he’s up to. Their argument heats up, until they wind up sleeping together… which is seen by a traumatized Gary. She also speaks privately to Nickerson and Jaeger, who has brought a prostitute named Nadia (Maria Zyrianova) with him, and pulls out all of the stops to threaten them, until they both bend to submission and offer their support. Joan campaigns at a bowling alley, where Jonah works behind the counter with a girl with Down Syndrome named Polly (Lauren Potter). Teddy Sykes shows up with Bill Ericsson and taunts him. Jonah goes off on a tirade against Teddy, telling him he is of a lesser species and needs to be wiped off the face of the earth. The tirade is filmed, and when it is shown on the news, it appears as if Jonah is yelling at Polly. Troy Evans is the Congressman from Bozeman. Rod McLachlan is the head of the press corp. Michael Edwin is Congressman Baxter. Phil Hawn is Congressman Baines. Terrie Snell is Mrs. Griffin, who wants Gary to meet her daughter. Dave Anthony is the Channel 9 reporter. 6/18/21
• 046. Camp David – 6/12/2016
  • As Jonah begins fumbling his chances at the New Hampshire primaries and falls 20 points behind the widow Sherman, Selina heads to Camp David with Catherine and Marjorie, ostensibly for a family Christmas weekend so that Andrew and his girlfriend Monica can meet Marjorie. While Catherine is getting investment advice from Andrew, Selina meets with her staff to discuss the real reason they are there, a meeting with Chinese President Lu Chi-Jang (Tzi Ma) to discuss lifting sanctions against China in exchange for the Chinese building plants in Ohio and North Carolina. The Finnish Prime Minister Minna Häkkinen also comes along to help broker the deal, and advises Selina to slam her hands down and walk out of the meeting if the Chinese won’t agree to the terms. Catherine and Marjorie present Selina with a Christmas gift, a pen used in the 1907 Second Hague Convention. When Andrew gives Marjorie a first edition Gertrude Stein book, Selina tells Marjorie that her gift is stuck in security and is coming soon. She also tells her family who spot the Chi-Jang and his assistant, Premier of the State Council Zhang Shengxi (Raymond Ma) and entourage, she tells them that they are the kitchen crew and chef. The Chinese present Selina with gifts, including a silk robe from the Qing Dynasty. Selina reciprocates by giving them the pen that Catherine gave her, and then likewise gives the robe to Marjorie. Meanwhile, Jonah winds up in the hospital when he shoots himself in the foot during a CNN interview in the woods. However this works to his benefit, because it triggers a sound bite from Sherman in which she says that ‘guns can be dangerous’, outraging the NRA lobby. Chi-Jang starts to become puzzled by Selina’s family’s behavior when Catherine explains her food needs to him, and then sees Marjorie kissing Catherine, mistaking Marjorie for Selina since she is wearing the robe. During the negotiations, Selina rushes out when she sees Andrew giving Catherine more financial advise, and insists that she is better suited. Minna later tells her that the Chinese have really been crippled by the sanctions, and are willing to open discussions about freeing Tibet. She thinks this is a major legacy and could earn her the Nobel Peace Prize. The Chinese do insist that his information leaks, and threaten to release damaging emails if it does. Selina also finds out that Jonah won the elections when Sherman concedes, and Jonah assures her that he’ll deliver the vote to keep her President. Meanwhile, Mike gets addicted to Chinese nicotine gum, and finds out that his surrogate is pregnant with twins… and that his Chinese adoption has been approved. Lee Chen is the female translator. Tony Lam is Xaio Jintong. 6/18/21 
• 047. Kissing Your Sister – 6/19/2016
  • The episode is the documentary Kissing Your Sister: The Story of a Tie that Catherine has producing for the last several months, chronicling the road to the House of Representatives vote to appoint the next President when the electoral college between Selina Meyer and Bill O’Brien. Along the path, she accepts a dinner invitation from Marjorie, although she maintains she’s not a lesbian… until she finally realizes she is. The relationship has a challenge when Marjorie doesn’t want her parents (Caroline Redekopp, Phil Levesque) to know that she has a girlfriend, and they break up because of it. However, by the night of the House count, Marjorie returns to Catherine and tells her that she told them and wants to be with her. Sue refuses to consent to be on camera. Mike can talk about nothing but his impending adoptions that is on, then off, then back on again. Selina notices all of Mike’s screw-ups and plans to fire him, which is known by everyone on the staff except Mike himself. He is even oblivious when he walks in on Selina interviewing his possible replacement, Wayne. Now that Jonah is a member of the House, he plays a crucial role in voting for Selina on the floor. However, he has spent the night with a woman and woke up not knowing where he is, so he sends an S.O.S. to Richard to come and find him and get him to the Capitol. Along the way, he reaches every possible burden from Richard crashing the car, to a run-in with Capitol security, to not being able to find the House chambers. Others like Tom James, Bill Ericsson, Kent, Gary, Roger Furlong, Andrew Doyle, Dan, Amy, Richard, Ben, Ben’s wife Joyce (Sumalee Montano), and Kent – along with his Anjos De Inferno biker’s club – add commentary as well. On the day of the vote, three states abstain, which brings her total to 22 and O’Brien’s to 25. Since neither can win with the 26 majority, this means that Tom James will become President when he is voted in by the Senate. Selina won’t even be able to run in four years since she’s facing someone from her own party. She comes up with a plan to have Jonah vote for O’Brien to bring him to 26 votes and the Presidency. That way she will be able to run again in four years. However, Jonah doesn’t get the message in time and votes for Selina. Once he gets the message, he tries to change his vote, but everyone is clearing the room by then. Selina sullenly realizes that she will no longer be President. A tour guide brings a group into the Red Room where Selina is sulking, so she keeps her chin up and takes pictures with the tourists. LaVonne Rae Andres is Marjorie’s grandmother. Saginaw Grant is Marjorie’s grandfather. Sybill Harris is Tamara Lipton. J.P. Manoux is Congressman Clarence Clark. David Joyner is the Congressman clerk. Meryl Hathaway is a reporters. Polly Humphreys is Congresswoman Hayes. Damone Paul Jackson is Congressman Sefton. Troy Vincent is Congressman Cotterill.  Mauricio Ovalle is El Cabeza. 11/9/21
• 048. Inauguration – 6/26/2016
  • With Tom James’ likely presidential bid on the horizon, Mike vows to the press that she will never agree to become the Vice President. At the same time, Tom is inviting Selina to become his Vice President, and she vehemently refuses to even consider it. However, she does begin to think about her legacy and thinks that freeing Tibet might earn her the Nobel Peace Prize. When she meets with Ambassador Al Jaffar, he tells her that the Chinese are nervous about freeing Tibet now that she is out of power. She then tells him that she is in fact going to be Vice President and that Tom James is not in good health. The Chinese President then agrees to meet with her to discuss it. She then comes crawling back to Tom to tell him that she will accept the Vice Presidency. Meanwhile, Jonah takes his residency in his new office in the Rayburn Building, but when he tells Richard to staff the place with hot interns, Richard brings in all hot males. When Jonah sees how well one of them makes Cappuccino, he decides to keep them. When he begins roughhousing and playing football in the office, he gets a verbal lashing from Roger Furlong. He also gets hit in the testicles while playing and winds up in the hospital. The Senate begins voting on how to elect President between Tom James and New Mexican Senator Laura Montez, and much to everyone’s surprise, the race is much closer than expected, and winds up as a tie. Vice President Doyle casts the tie-breaking vote for Laura Montez. He had masterminded the whole deal so that he could become the Secretary of State. Gary has a meltdown at everyone on the staff for not supporting Selina along the way. Kent and Ben hear that someone from the staff is going to be kept on by President Elect Montez, and wonder who. Charlie Baird is tapped to be Secretary of the Treasury. Catherine’s documentary on her hard drive goes missing. Selina gets drunk the night before the inauguration, and has Richard keep her company until she passes out. Hungover the nest morning, she awkwardly hosts Montez and her family and staff for tea in the Red Room. Mike brings in his surrogate mother as well as his new child Ellen, who he finds out is not actually three, but six. Selina’s cabinet all drop off their White House security badges, but Mike can’t find his. Dan co-hosts the CNN commentary with Greg Hart. As Montez takes her oath of office, Selina stands behind her dazed and drops her phone. As President Montez gives her speech, Hart breaks the news that Montez has already broke red a deal with China to free Tibet. Selina says goodbye to her cabinet as she boards Marine One. As she’s waving goodbye, she pulls Amy on board. Within minutes, the helicopter has engine trouble and has to land. Selina and the others disembark in the rain. Dan gets an offer for a job from CBS. Jonah asks out Dr. Walcott (Abbey McBride), who is examining his testicles, but she tells him she is married. Sue is the staffer that remains with President Montez. Bob Bradley runs into Montez in the White House and calls her Selina and tells her that they found the missing ballots in Nevada, and that she won the state… and the Presidency. Ben takes Joyce to Disney World where he asks her for a divorce… but she declines. Jessica Chaffin is Congresswoman Gellardi. Hector Hugo is Alejandro Montez. Noel Tessler is Catarina Montez. Brando and Owen McKenzie are Alonzo and Jorge. Robert Arce is Senator Summerlin. Alan Brooks is Senator Lowell. John Bozeman is Senator Nelson. Melvin Caldwell is Senator Murray. Kate Comer is the secretary. Nico Evers-Swindell is Colt. Leslie Fleming-Mitchell is Senator Willis. Monnae Michaell is the Senate clerk. Sean O’Pry is Brady. Frank Rich is the Chief Justice. Yoshi Sudarso is Mason. Sterling Sulieman is Storm. Rick Overton is Montez’s guest in the Red Room, Congressman Spencer. 11/9/21

SEASON 6

• 049. Omaha – 4/16/2017
  • On the one-year anniversary of Selina’s historic election loss, she appears as a guest on CBS Good Morning, where Dan is now acting as one of the show’s hosts. Selina, after going through a period of seclusion, playing Backgammon with Gary, and getting back together with her ex-husband Andrew,  is now slowly working on her memoirs, while missing her book deadlines. Since Catherine received all of the inheritance, she now has her mother on an allowance, even though it is actually Marjorie who controls all of the money for her. Meanwhile, Mike is staying at home and taking care of children, while feeding Selina details from his diary about her presidency. His wife Wendy forces him to ask her for pay, so she invites him to work for her… but won’t give him any pay on the book until it is published. Amy is working on the Nevada Governor campaign of Buddy Calhoun, as well as having an affair with him. However, neither he or his staff members care for Amy’s brash style of digging up sexual dirt on his opponent. Congressman Jonah Ryan is now completely bald and purportedly has cancer. Dan is about to get promoted to become the co-host of anchorwoman Jane McCabe (Margaret Colin), but when he sees how explosive she is toward everyone, Dan decides to purposely blow his chance by having Jonah on as a guest. When he catches Jonah shaving his own head, he realizes that Jonah is lying about his cancer, although Jonah maintains that he did have it and lost his hair initially, but now that it is in remission, the cancer helped boost his poll numbers. Dan instigates a fight with Jonah, and causes him to have a meltdown on camera before the interview even gets underway. Dan thinks this will kill his chance of being named as a co-host, but his co-worker Stevie (Paul Scheer) assures him that the incident made excellent TV. Selina plans for a trip to make an appearance in Omaha, but the reason she wants to go there is because it is nearby Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she wants to attend the Madison and Monroe dinner where she can announce that she once again plans to run for President. After she reveals this to a completely-shocked Gary, she gathers Andrew, Catherine, and Marjorie together to run it by them. Although she tells them that if any of them object, she’ll cancel her Presidential plans, she refuses to budge even when Catherine breaks into tears and begs her not to run. She also invites Ben, who is working for Uber, over and asks him to along with her on her Omaha trip, but he figures out her plan quickly, and declines to be part of any potential campaign, citing the fact that she doesn’t have the party support nor the donors. He is also getting ready to leave Uber and work for Jonah, like Kent is currently doing. She tells him that it was merely hypothetical anyway, and decides to just go to Omaha and Omaha alone. Sara Amini is Selina’s new secretary. Jack De Sena is Ben’s co-worker  Aidan at Uber. Dean Li is the Uber exec. Victor Pagan is the homeless guy outside Selina’s office in the Bronx. Leila Joe is Mike’s adopted daughter Ellen. Kyra Locke is the flight attendant. Wayne Alon Scott is the sound guy at CBS. Vincent Talxeira is a Secret Service Agent. Abby Wall is an Uber employee. Anne Lane is one of Buddy’s assistants. 4/30/22
• 050. Library – 4/23/2017
  • Selina attends the opening of former President Stuart Hughes’ Presidential Library and Museum, where she runs into former President Stevenson (Robert Pine). She feels snubbed when the former Presidents and President Montez pose for a picture without her. After her visit, she decides that she wants to open her own Presidential Library, and wants Yale to be the location. Meanwhile, Jonah is tired of not getting any respect from his peers, and Ben and Kent convince him that unmarried congressmen always rate lower than married ones, so they start looking for potential mates for him… and coming up with only four potential dates. Selina sits for her official Presidential portrait by a female artist named Helen Wright (June Diane Raphael). During the session Catherine and Marjorie break the news to Selina that they are going to be parents, but are currently in the phase of looking for a sperm donor. When Yale denies Selina the chance to host the Presidential Library, Selina decides to switch it up to her undergrad alma mater Smith College, so she goes to see the dean Regina Pell (Amy Brenneman), who claims to have had a one-night stand with Selina when they went to school together. Selina is also confronted for past indiscretions by an activist student named Renee Holt (Chelsea Laden) On their way to her library fundraiser, she hears a message on Andrew’s phone from the painter Helen, which alludes to the affair she is having with Andrew. Gary becomes so livid that he attacks Andrew in the car, before arriving at the fundraiser. Selina immediately fires Helen, but the press reports that Helen was a victim of the over-sexed Andrew, so Selina gets a bad rap for her retribution. Renee tries to pull the plug on the project, but Selina makes a pass at her to get her back on board… only to be told by Renee that she’s in a committed relationship. Jonah has dates with the first two girls (Lizzie Prestel, Erica Rhodes) on the list and both walk out on him and claim they’re going to the restroom before exiting the restaurant. Dan tries to stay in the good graces of Jane McCabe, and even does a story on the Coney Island Polar Bear Club and runs into the freezing cold water, only to be criticized by Jane. In retaliation, he interrupts Jonah on his most successful date with a girl named Crystal (Rena Strober) and tells her that Jonah is a sex maniac who serves his women roofies, then offers to take her home himself. Amy unleashes a sex scandal against Buddy’s chief opponent Hoyt Steptoe (Bo Foxworth). Buddy again takes issues with these tactics, but it isn’t long before he’s embroiled in his own scandal, and he is caught drunk driving by a female officer (Rachael Seymour), whom he tries to expose himself to. In the light of Selina’s new controversy, it seems Smith College is pulling the plug on agreeing to host the library, so Selina tries to hit on Regina, only to be told that she is in a committed relationship. However, it is suggested that Selina might regain sympathy if she rehires Helen. She comes back to resume work on the painting, but when Selina gets wind that it is a hard no on using Smith, she throws Helen out again. She also throws Andrew out of the house, just as he was moving his stuff back in. Buddy tries to win his base back by publicly praying that he’ll learn to be more respectful of women. Catherine and Marjorie try to show their support for Selina after she was treated so poorly, but they quickly lose it again when Selina suggests it might be a bad time to have a baby. Makeda Declet is Denise. Dwayne Colbert and Michael A. Echols are the movers. Alexis Matthews is the protestor. 4/30/22
• 051. Georgia – 4/30/2017
  • Selina and her team are sent to the Republic of Georgia by Secretary of State Doyle to oversee the free and fair election of their president, with the tyrannical incumbent Murman Shalikashvili (Eugene Alper) being challenged by a reformer named Nikolai Genidze (Stephen Fry). She and the team are accompanied by a military officer named Oleg Patradze (Peter Banifaz). No one makes Mike a reservation at the Tbilisi Grand Hotel, so he is stuck without a room. He and Gary also accidentally vote in the election, and get their thumbs dyed green as is customary to prevent voter fraud. Jonah is also sent to help oversee the election along with other members of the House. When Selina sees him, she threatens to ruin him for his role in the House vote. Likewise, Jonah threatens to ruin Richard for being a traitor, although Richard is genuinely pleased to see him. Jonah tries to make dinner arrangements with other members of the House, but they all blow him off. He later confronts them, and they say they were just hazing him, then invite him to go party with them… before all getting into the taxi and leaving him behind again. Selina meets with Murman, who offers to donate 10 million dollars to her Presidential Library. She questions the other to try and find loopholes so she can take the money. Back in New York, Dan conducts an interview with Buddy Calhoun and Amy on CBS This Morning, where he repeatedly shows the footage of Buddy exposing himself to the female police officer. Amy claims on air that she prefers not to think of the politics, and confesses that she is happiest when she and Buddy can sit on the couch and watch Downton Abbey. This statement later leads to Buddy withdrawing from the race and announcing that he plans to Amy… who is nowhere to be find when he tries to bring her out for the audience of his supporters. Doyle tells Selina to back Genidze in the election, and that she should take her lead from the UN Envoy for Election Monitoring Minna Häkkinen. She continues to drive Selina crazy with her blunt strangeness, then takes her to see Genidze in his humble home. She also admits to being crazily attracted to him, despite the fact that Selina finds the scabs on his face gruesome. While they are visiting, Genidze offers to up the ‘bribe’ – aka museum donation – to $15 million dollars. Selina finds out that although he lives humbly, he is really a rich man who owns a lot of businesses in Georgia. Catherine and Marjorie meet with Dan, and he immediately agrees to give them his sperm for their baby. After Jonah is shunned by his peers, he agrees to go out to a nightclub with Richard, but they wind up in a Nazi establishment and have to bid a hasty retreat out of there. The election fraud becomes clearly obvious when Murman is winning by more votes than there are people in the country, and Selina plans to announce that Genidze should be the proper winner… but then Murman offers her $20 million donation for her library. She then is prepared to say that Murman is the rightful winner, and convinces Minna that she should recuse herself because of her feelings for Nikolai. On the way back home, Selina and her staff learn that before Murman can be sworn in, he is arrested by Oleg Patradze, who turned out to be running a coup against the government. Doyle is forced to publicly thank Selina for helping oust Murman, as well as exposing Genidze as a corporate oligarch, rather than the reformer. Selina receives her Georgian lari donation, which after the coup amounts to less than a a half-million dollars. Silvia Busuioc is Bill Jaeger’s date. David Douglas is the CBS stage manager. Eduard Osipov is the hotel desk clerk. Russo Shanidze is the Georgian newscaster. Aleksey Solodov is the father thrilled to meet Selina. 8/27/22 
• 052. Justice – 5/7/2017
  • When Selina attends the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Tenny, Mike makes an unsolicited comment that there is no truth to the rumor that President Gomez plans to nominate Selina to be his replacement. This then starts the rumor that she is on the short list. Meanwhile, Amy finds a location of Selina’s Presidential Library in Eastern Shore, Maryland, but she needs $5 million dollars for a down payment. Meanwhile, Dan starts to charm his co-host Jane, and she starts to fall for his charm, leading his director Stevie to speculate that they are having an affair. Selina meets with Sherman Tanz (Jonathan Hadary), a private prison magnate who was convicted of tax fraud and pardoned by Selina, about donating the $5 million, but he wants to have an advocate in congress for for-profit prisons. Selina’s sweating and back pains start to make her think she is going through menopause, so she calls in Dr. Abernathy, and find out that she may have had a minor heart attack, causing Gary to actually have a heart attack, and they wind up in the hospital at the same time. Dan meets with the fertility doctor (Susan Chuang) with Catherine and Marjorie. Dan is on the verge of getting them to agree to a threesome, when the doctor informs them that Dan’s sperm has low motility. The ladies then find out about Selina’s heart attack – causing Catherine to laugh out loud – and they head to the hospital. When Catherine finds out that Gary has no family to take care of him, she insists that he move into their Brownstone. The rumors about Selina being nominated for the Supreme Court gets stronger, so Dan decides to cover it on the show. Dan gets irritated with his makeup girl (Chasty Ballesteros) who keeps bronzing him too heavily. Selina has Gary keep serving her at the Brownstone, but he overdoes it and collapses again. Selina feels bad and brings him leftovers in bed, and then falls asleep next to him. Gary pretends to be asleep and puts his arm around her. Selina gives Tanz to Jonah to be his advocate, but Jonah forgets to set his clock forward and winds up being an hour late to his meeting. Tanz gets irritated and writes him a check for a one cent donation. Jonah is then two hours late for a Maple Syrup Lobby meeting, and when Kent and Ben tell him to smooth it over with the union leader, Jonah goes on a tirade about Daylight Saving Time in front of numerous cameras on him. Selina finds out that she wasn’t nominated for the Supreme Court position, and it winds up being former President Stuart Hughes. Selina, now with no illusions about leaving a new legacy as a Justice, gets with Tanz again to see about his donation, but now Tanz says he can’t fully fund it because he is going to put his money into Jonah Ryan, thinking that after his crazy outburst, he will be perfect to do his bidding. Tanz’s men present Jonah with a bill to present to the House that will not only eliminate Daylight Saving Time, but also support for-profit prisons. Ivar Brogger is Dr. Ron Addis. Diana DeLaCruz is the ER nurse. Tisha French is the ICU nurse. Chau Long aka Chaz Kao is the intern. Bella Shaw is the CNN anchor. Laura Niemi and Harry Zinn are CNN pundits. 8/27/22
• 053. Chicklet – 5/14/2017
  • During a visit to Tampa, Florida to celebrate National Volunteer Week, Selina is annoyed with the potential location of her Presidential Library at American University. She then becomes even more agitated when she learns that her figure at the New York City Madame Tussaud’s wax museum has her standing next to Gerald Ford. Back at her office, she nearly reaches meltdown level and some of her staff and Catherine suggest therapy. Meanwhile, Dan gets upset with all of the news coverage implying a sexual affair between him and Jane McCabe. Mike is finally able to corner Selina and get her to buckle down and start writing her memoirs. Once they get into it, Selina starts having fun and getting along with Mike, and they stay up all night working. She agrees to sign a reference for his daughter to get into the exclusive Harper Day School. When Gary arrives that morning, he is clearly jealous that Mike and Selina are getting along so well. At a public appearance at the D.C. Jewish Community Center, as Ben and Kent coach Jonah on how to act, Jonah meets Sherman Tanz’s wife Lia (Ilana Kohanchi aka Ilana Guralnik) and daughter Shawnee (Mary Holland), and winds up getting them mixed up. After Shawnee insults Jonah, he responds by blasting her for underestimating him, and thus begins an affair between the two of them. Ben and Kent spend their time coaching Jonah how to vote, but he is easily swayed if Shawnee wants him to vote differently. Amy gets Madame Tussaud’s to move Selina’s wax figure, so she is bowing with Chinese President Lu Chi-Jang, but they discover that patrons keep posing as if they are having sex from behind. Marjorie and Catherine take Richard to collect his sperm for their child, but Richard has never masturbated in his life, so he has no idea what he is doing. As Mike and Selina continue to work on the book, Mike starts to suspect that Selina’s father was having an affair. Selina gets furious at the inference, but he manages to talk her into meeting with her Uncle George (Brian Doyle-Murray). He gives even more information and tells her that her father died on top of his secretary. He also tells her that her father sold her horse. She and Mike get drunk and return to the barn where the horse used to be kept and begin destroying it with a bat and racket. Selina gets into her car and drive it through the barn. Dan finds out from Jane that it is her planting the stories about their supposed affair, just to appear young and relevant to the public so the much-younger anchor Brie Ramachandran (India de Beaufort) doesn’t get her job. Selina decides that she’s like to use her mother’s house for her Presidential Birthplace and Library, even though Catherine had been planning to live there with Marjorie and her family. Amy tells her that Sherman Tanz is all-in for funding it but wants a letter of recommendation to get his son in the Harper Day School. Selina has Mike turn over the application that he had been working on for his daughter and signs it for Tanz’s kid instead. Catherine sees her therapist Dr. Diane (Susan Isaacs) to talk about her mother ignores her and is told by her that Catherine still has the same complaints she’s had for the last fifteen years. She also insults Catherine’s sweater. Amy has Selina’s wax figure placed on a balcony encased in glass next to President Truman. Nirmal Isaacs is the newsstand clerk. 12/11/22
• 054. Qatar – 5/21/2017
  • Selina attends the funeral of Crown Prince Nasser bin Hamad al Gani in Doha, Qatar, and as she makes the rounds, Gary warns her to steer clear of warlord Colonel Omar al-Saleh (Ernest Thomas), but he manages to photo bomb her. She also runs into Chinese President Lu, who pretends to not speak English. She also sees and flirts with her old friend Mohammad Al Jaffar. Later, Catherine and Marjorie try to Skype with Selina to tell her that they are expecting a baby and she is going to be a grandmother, but Selina is distracted that her photo with Omar al-Saleh has made the front page of the newspaper. To counter the bad international press from the photo, Selina chooses to meet with Nyaring Ayun (Nicki Micheaux), a Sudanese women’s right activist. Jonah meets with his committee and in addition to his obsession with fighting Daylight Saving Time, Jonah suggests that they name themselves the Jeffersons. Later, Roger Furlong comes to see Jonah to secure is vote on a DOT appropriations bill, so Jonah offers to vote for it in exchange for an invite to dinner at Furlong’s house. Shawnee also wants to come along, and she informs Jonah that they are engaged. Over at CBS, Dan gets smacked in the butt by Jane again and he tells the producer that it amounts to sexual harassment. Selina arrives in Sudan and meets with Nyaring for a photo op. She is informed that there is an issue with her plane, so Jaffar sends a plane to pick her up and bring her back to Doha. Jaffar tells her that Sudan has many natural resources that China would like to get their hands on. She winds up spending the night with Jaffar in his palace. Dan is visited by human resources representative Roberta Winston (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) to discuss his complaint about Jane McCabe. Jane comes in during the discussion and makes things much worse for herself, leading to her getting fired. As Mike struggles with his phone’s roaming charges and a hellacious sunburn, Selina researches mineral rights in Sudan. Although Selina questions the impact of dating a Muslim, she returns to Jaffar on his yacht and gives him an update on the deal she is brokering with China to trade arms for minerals. Selina notes that President Lu is now speaking English again. He agrees to give Selina Tibet instead of giving it to President Montez as part of the deal. After the deal, Selina sees on TV that Montez is in Sudan, also meeting with Nyaring Ayun. However, she is criticized in America for doing anything to address the women’s rights issues that Ayun is fighting. Selina decides to return to Sudan in order to do so herself. During Jonah’s dinner with Furlong, he notes the difference that he behaves when his religious wife (Beth Littleford) is around. He then tells Furlong that he wants a new office instead of the one of the fifth floor. Furlong cusses him out when his wife leaves the room, but ultimately moves him down three floors. Selina returns to Juba, South Sudan to see Nyaring Ayun and tell her that unlike President Montez, she will speak on behalf of women’s rights at the Arab Conference on Human Rights in Doha. While she is reviewing this, Richard mentions that Catherine is having a baby, which is the first time she has actually heard it. Jaffar pulls Selina aside and tells her that Colonel al-Saleh is in attendance at the conference, and in fact is one of the sponsors of the event. He tells her that too strong of speech against him might scuttle the deal they brokered, including her getting credit for Tibet. Selina is then forced to go off the teleprompter and water down her speech to the point that it is benign. Selina visits Jaffar’s palace and finds out that the deal is off because al-Selah didn’t think Selina was enthusiastic enough. Jaffar also tells her that they have to break it off because his father objected to her being white. Jane McCabe announces her departure from the CBS Morning Show on the air. Deanne Bray is Kent’s date Julie. Eugene Cordero is Dan’s co-worker Buzzy Kanahale. Julia Farino is the British reporter. Dori Mizrahi is Muhammed Amid. Ayanna Tihun is the Sudanese child. 12/18/22
• 055. Blurb – 5/28/2017
  • Selina is thrilled with the introduction that President Montez wrote for her White House portrait unveiling. Meanwhile, she also meets with her publisher Greg Morehouse (Michael Hitchcock), who tells her that if she doesn’t include her presidential years in her autobiography that they are going to need their advance back, since it currently ends with her going off to college. She had hoped to hold onto the Presidential years in future volumes. Jonah is going through Jewish conversion classes with his fiancé Shawnee and gets annoyed by the rules of the religion as relayed by the rabbi (Phil Abrams) and fellow student Nikhil (Mayank Saxena). Mike and Selina comb through her notes to add to her memoirs, but when Catherine and Marjorie stop by after their baby’s wellness check and say they don’t want to know the sex, Selina considers using their affair in the book. However, she then realizes that her own sex life might be more interesting, and she confesses to Mike and Gary, who already knows, that she slept with Tom James in the White House. Over at CBS This Morning, Dan and Brie are told by Stevie that audiences view them as having no chemistry even though they are actually sleeping together. Selina goes to see Tom, who is also writing a book called Investing with a Conscience for which Selina has already written a recommendation blurb, to give him a heads-up that she might be mentioning their affair in her book. He begs that she does not release the information as he has re-married and is having a baby. She tells Mike that it is going in the book anyway. Jonah is ticked off that he wasn’t invited to Selina’s portrait unveiling, so he gets with his Jeffersons group and tells them it is time to do something to get President Montez’s attention. He suggests ending Daylight Saving Time or cutting government waste. Selina calls Morehouse to tell him that her book is going to be explosive, but he directs her to watch CBS This Morning, where Dan is interviewing Tom James, who confesses that he slept with Selina and that the details will be in his upcoming book. Selina nearly cancels the portrait unveiling after this, but Gary reminds her of the President’s glowing speech and the fact that Jackie Kennedy managed to hold her head high during her husband’s philandering. Jonah and the Jeffersons rush to the House floor to vote know to raising the debt ceiling, despite the please and warning of his advisors and fellow congressmen that it will shut down the government. Selina and her staff show up at the White House for the unveiling, only to see an old female butler (Ameenah Kaplan) and Chief White House Usher (Bill Lee Brown) taking all of the fine dishes out of the ballroom and replacing things with cheap food and drinks, all thanks to the government shutdown caused by Jonah and the Jeffersons. Selina immediately grabs Tom and takes him to a private room to read him the riot act. The fight becomes heated and almost leads to another sexual encounter. He tries to keep a cool head, but Selina knows he is crazy about her, and admits that she was crazy about him as well. They are only interrupted when Tom’s pregnant wife Alethia (Crystal Hayes) comes into the room. President Montez doesn’t have time to deliver the glowing speech about Selina because she has to deal with the shutdown. Selina also cuts her speech short because she’s disgusted that the artist included the chair on which she slept with Selian’s husband, and then added a waddle to her neck. Montez’s assistant John Corbin (Jayk Gallagher) rushes Selina and her staff out so that they could furlough the employees. Jonah addresses the media and admits that he shut down the government because it needed to be shut down. D’Arcy Carden is the congresswoman who asks the President if she is alright because she is with Jonah. Michael C. Alexander is a Secret Service agent. Palma Lawrence Reed is the House clerk. 5/29/23
• 056. Judge – 6/11/2017
  • Selina and her team arrive in White City, Alabama to visit Gary’s family for his 40th birthday. She meets Gary’s mother Imogene (Jean Smart), who thinks that President Meyer and Gary are an item, and father Judge (Stephen Root), who tells Selina that he didn’t vote for her. Meanwhile, Mike visits with Leon West to try and apply for a job with The Washington Post. On the 23rd day of the government shutdown, Jonah and the Jeffersons continue to rally against Daylight Saving Time during a press conference. Dan does a feature called Life on the Streets, Tears in the Gutter on CBS This Morning, which prompts Stevie to tell Dan that the station needs a bigger story and orders Dan to get an interview with Jonah. At breakfast, Selina puts Richard in charge of the Presidential Library, and tells Amy to help Mike finish the book. Catherine and Marjorie go on a HERstory tour of Southern female writers and the place where they committed suicide. Mike can’t find the diary that chronicles every day in the White House, and thinks he made have left it in a truck stop on the way driving from Birmingham, so he and Amy take off to find it. Mohammed shows up at the house to see Selina, and she asks him if he can have his friend, oil man Quartie Sturges (Toby Huss) done a few million to her library, since other donors are dropping out of the project. Jonah strings Dan along about doing an interview with him, but finally agrees to do it if they can party together like they used to. Jonah also manages to get a meeting with President Montez, and she agrees to Tanz’s demand to give him deregulation of the payday loan industry, tripling of the private prison tax incentives, and the sentencing reform rollbacks for the mentally ill. She will however not give him the elimination of Daylight Saving Time. Qaurtie is reluctant to donate to Selina because he thinks she is a snob, so she invites him to come to Gary’s party. She tries to talk Gary into making the party less fancy and they hire a jug band to play the music and put up lawn jockeys and Confederate flags. Mike and Amy visit the diner, but he only finds his jacket in the restroom. He then thinks that he left it at security at the airport, so they head there. When Selina hears the way Judge speaks to Gary, she encourages him to stick up for himself, but he relates a story about how Judge made him feel like a man when they went hunting, and Judge made Gary think he shot a squirrel that he missed when the recoil of his rifle knocked him out. Dan encourages Jonah to accept the offer from Montez, but Jonah refuses and fires him. Quartie shows up to the party and brings along many of his redneck friends. Selina and Quartie spar with words for a bit, but the Selina gets up to deliver Gary’s birthday wishes and adopts a Southern accent, talks about Southern Maryland as if it were the deep South, and worst of all, repeats Gary’s story about shooting the squirrel as if it were her own. Gary’s feelings are hurt, but all Selina can do is ask Gary if she can borrow Judge’s bourbon since they’ve run out. When Judge sees him getting the booze, he starts hounding him and calls him ‘nail buffer to the lady president.’ Gary finally reaches his boiling point and lets Judge have it in front of all of the guests and calls him a big bully. Selina believes that Judge his having a homosexual affair with his friend and hopes that Gary will bring that up, but it is never mentioned. Marjorie catches Selina eating meat since there are no vegetarian options and tells her that she doesn’t know who she is anymore. After a night of partying together, when Dan and Jonah arrive at the CBS Morning Show, Jonah announces that he’s giving his interview to Jane McCabe. Before the interview gets underway, Jane breaks away to the White House where President Montez announces that the shutdown deal has been reached thanks to former-Jeffersons member Clarence Clark who has renamed the group the Libertonians, which causes Jonah to have a meltdown on air. Mike finds his house keys and his diary at the airport, but on closer observation, they realize that the diary is actually Leon West’s, implying that Leon now has Mike’s. Richard tells Selina that after her speech, Quartie is going to donate to her library. On the way home, Selina and Gary start at a BBQ restaurant, where Gary gives her the silent treatment. She tells him that politicians steal stories all of the time and that he should be honored. He ultimately apologizes. Back in his office, Leon West ignores a call from Mike. Kristen Marie Kelly and Andrew P. Ralston are Gary’s friends Beth and Brian. Venk Potula is Officer Brown at the airport. Lynn Favin in Leon’s assistant. Lawrence Neumeister is the party guest who says, “Who’s Gary?” to Gary.  5/29/23
• 057. A Woman First – 6/18/2017
  • Selina and Mohammad return from a trip to Catherine’s brownstone, only to find out from Marjorie that Catherine is on bedrest due to her incompetent cervix. The first copies of her book A Woman First: First Woman arrive, and Amy finds a typo in the first sentence. Amy sets her up for an appearance on The Tonight Show. Over at Jonah’s new office with low ceilings that cause him to bang his head constantly, he is upset that he isn’t mentioned in the book. Shawnee tells Jonah that is support is way down after the shutdown, and her father tells him that he’s pulling support from Jonah. Shawnee decides to stay with Jonah, even though it will mean she is cut off. Dan spends his last morning on CBS This Morning and is replaced by Jane McCabe and moves on to podcast webisodes. Amy informs Selina that The Washington Post is running an expose on her presidency, and it is all based on Mike’s diary that fell into the hands of Leon West. She is crucified in the article as all of the truth about her administration comes out. She quickly tries to cancel her appearance on The Tonight Show, but then agrees to go on. Jonah tries to get back in the graces of the Libertonians by starting a basketball league, but they already have a league and throw him out. Kent offers to play HORSE with him, but when he makes the first shot, Jonah fires him, much to Kent’s pleasure. Selina meets with Leon West and offers up sex with Amy to him to keep quiet on his expose, but he walks out of the meeting. As Selina gets ready for her appearance on The Tonight Show, Amy comes into her dressing room with even more bombshells that are being revealed due to Mike’s diary. This time she decides to cancel appearance by telling the intern Bethany (Leah Huebner) that Catherine has had an emergency with her pregnancy. Selina and Mohammad retreat to a hotel and plan to take an extended vacation to Europe, but then she hears on the news that among all of the embarrassments in Mike’s diary, was the fact that it was Selina and not President Montez who negotiated to free Tibet from the Chinese. This rejuvenates Selina’s political life, and Jane McCabe grills Leon West about all of his criticism of President Meyer. The Dean of Yale calls to tell Selina that there is now renewed interest in building her Presidential Library at the school. Ben, Kent, and Dan all meet up for drinks and consider going back into the consulting business, but Dan opts out since he believes he belongs in broadcasting… until he sees one of his webisodes playing in the back of his cab. Jonah gets his circumcision complete, but when Jonah’s Uncle Jeff stops by the hospital to tell him that he’s pulling Jonah off the congressional ballot and replacing him with Jonah’s cousin Ezra. After Shawnee hears this, she decides that she and Jonah should call of the wedding and slow their relationship down, which leaves Jeff enveloped in hysterical laughter. Selina goes back on the Tonight Show to make up her visit. As she’s walking onto the set, Richard tells her that Catherine has had some bleeding and is heading to the hospital. Due to her prior cancellation, the show’s host (Adam Scott) gives her a hard time and has a group of children (Ella Jay Basco, Elliot Decker, Sawyer Mosteller, Melany Ochoa, Ruby Matenko) read bad reviews of her book. Abbey McBride is Jonah’s doctor, Dr. Walcott. 9/30/23
• 058. Groundbreaking – 6/25/2017
  • Six years earlier, Senator Selina Meyer gives her concession speech in Cleveland on Super Tuesday, but vows that the world has not seen the last of Selina Meyer. In the current day, Richad comes to see Jonah at his mother’s house to give him a pep talk and play video games. Over at Jaffar’s hotel in New York, he presents Selina some family jewelry to celebrate their anniversary. The press surrounds them, and Leon West asks her about the Whispering Sand wellness Center in Sedona where she stayed just after losing the election, where she was heavily medicated. There she was visited by Catherine and Marjorie and her ex-husband Andrew. Over at Catherine’s brownstone, Selina gets a look at the model for her Presidential Library, which is shaped like a vagina. Amy delivers the news that they discovered at the groundbreaking that the library is situated on the site of Yale’s former slave quarters, which Selina wants to keep secret. However, Marjorie tells Catherine before they can stop her, and she immediately wants to put a stop to the building. Flashing back six years just after Selina had become Vice-President, she goes to visit President Hughes, but Ben keeps her out of the office and offers to show off her office across the street, where she will not do anything except continue to be a woman. She meets Jonah for the first time, who has just become a West Wing intern. Selina thinks he is a cute match for Amy, and Ben tells him to get away from him and stay away from him. In the current day, Jonah goes to see Tanz about getting him restored to his office, but Tanz says he’s only buying Senators and Presidents these days. In a flashback from 16 years ago when Selina was running for the Senate, she greets the public at the Carson County Fair in Maryland. Just after Mike tells her that they are out of money for TV ads, Selina catches Andrew on their campaign bus having sex with one of their donors, Sally Newfeld (Emily Rutherfurd). Selina threatens to tell Sally’s husband about what she just witnessed, and then makes her write a campaign check for $250,000. In the present day, Ben, Kent, and Dan meet with Danny Chung as consultants. They also give Amy a quick interview, but as soon as she mentions speaking to Selina, they tell her she is out. At the Meyer Library Groundbreaking at Yale, Amy presses Selina for an answer as to whether she or Richard is in charge of the library, but she blows her off to talk to the President of Yale Jim Caldwell (James Downey), who tells her that they need to reconsider the location of the library due to the slave quarters. Catherine’s water breaks before they can leave Yale. Twenty-four years earlier at the hospital, Catherine is born. There she meets the candy striper Gary Walsh. She takes one look at the baby and decides she wants to run for Congress. After Catherine’s water breaks, she is taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where the baby boy has been born. Selina wants to name the baby Richard so they can call him Little Richard. Selina tells the press that she would rather not have a library than build it on the back of slaves, then blames Amy for that mess. Leon West is there and once again asks her about Whispering Sands, so she makes an announcement about the mental health issues in the country, telling him and the world that both her mother and daughter have suffered from mental health issues. As Amy and Selina return to their headquarters, Selina confesses that she leaked the information about the slave headquarters because only former presidents have libraries… and she is running for president again. Amy is shocked to find Ben, Dan, and Kent at her office, along with Mike. Ben tells Selina that she has one thing left to do, a think that she is resistant to. After having one last tryst with Jaffar, she tells him that she can no longer have a life with him She weeps as she leaves his hotel room. Later she finds herself back at the Madison Monroe dinner in Council Bluffs with her entourage, including Leon West, who is now her speechwriter. As Amy and Dan are walking in, she tells him that she is pregnant with his baby. Over in Franklin Pierce High School in New Hampshire, Jonah Ryan announces his exploratory committee for his run as President of the United States of America. Morgan Walsh is Catherine’s nurse. Camila Greenberg is Selina’s Nurse Sandra. Reef Karim is Dr. Sengupta. Ron Michaelson is Mayor Walker, Alex Tortora is the photographer. Doua Moua is the questioner. Manny Martinez Hernandez is the paparazzo. 9/30/23

SEASON 7

• 059. Iowa – 3/31/2019
  • Selina plans to make the announcement of her presidential run in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but her plane lands at an empty airport in Cedar Falls instead. After this colossal screw-up, Selina insists that they go on a fact-finding mission to see what could have gone better during their last campaign. Amy assembles a thick autopsy book full of suggestions, but since most of them point the blame at Selina, she quickly discards the idea. Selina decides to bring in Keith Quinn (Andy Daly) as her campaign manager to take Ben’s place, but when he arrives, she realizes that he’s not the same guy she thought he was. She begins avoiding him and holding meetings without him present. Buddy Calhoun, Tom James, and Jonah Ryan all announce their candidacies for president. Jonah now has a new wife, Beth Ryan (Emily Pendergast), and stepson Clay (Sloane Letourneau). Beth is seemingly more popular with the crowds than Jonah. Since Jonah’s mother Nancy was once married to Beth’s father Lloyd Hennick (John Carroll Lynch), this technically means that Jonah has married his stepsister. Catherine is suffering from post-partum depression and is getting annoyed with Selina using Little Richard as a tool for her public appearances. After a mass shooting in Spokane, Selina has Leon put together a statement with the standard thoughts and prayers. Selina does a meet and greet with the Mayor of Lurlene, Iowa, where the mayor happens to be a dog named Biscuit, who Selina mistakenly feeds chocolate to and sends into a coma. A reporter (Deb Hiett) confronts Selina on her ‘thoughts and prayers’ Mike is now a member of the press working for BuzzFeed magazine. When Dan meets Mike’s new boss Kim (Montana Roesch), they hit it off. Press reporters (Kiva Jump, Eliza Shin) finally catch up to the fact that Jonah married his stepsister so he is rushed out of a meeting with firefighters before they can press for details. Amy suggests that Selina announce her candidacy on the spot where she announced her first one, the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony. The entire team heads to Adams, Massachusetts where they all stay in a Hampton Inn. Amy finds that her room is adjoining Dan’s, so they talk about her pregnancy. She lands on having the baby, and Dan has mixed feelings about becoming a father. He tells her they need to keep the door closed between them because he plans on having Jonah’s boss Kim over. When they arrive at the birthplace location, they find that the stage, tents, and audio-visual equipment hasn’t been set up. Nick Spooner (Jimmy Tingle), the owner of the tent company, talks to Selina about how much he hates that hoity-toity people like her can walk all over the working class like him. They also hear news that there has been a mass shooting at a mall in Phoenix, which comes as good news to Selina as this will give her an excuse to cancel her announcement out of respect for the victims. Jonah and Beth go onto CBS This Morning where Jane McCabe talks to them about their marriage. With Jonah’s mother and Beth’s father coming on the show as well, they rekindle the spark between them, much to Jonah’s dismay. Selina on the spur of the moment to announce her candidacy to the presidency to the reporters, using the words of the tent man Nick Spooner. Still, Selina decides not to pay the bill to Spooner again. After Jonah’s TV segment, his relationship with his stepsister raises his poll number by 3% among white males. Rhea Seehorn is Tom James’ Deputy Chief of Staff Michelle York. Jully Lee is Buddy’s wife Leslie Calhoun. Allen Rueckert is the reporter questioning Jonah. Rick Scarry is the guy who thinks it is time for new blood. 2/3/24
• 060. Discovery Weekend – 4/7/2019
  • Selina attends the annual Discovery Weekend retreat in Aspen, Colorado, where a wealthy music producer and political donor named Felix Wade (William Fichtner) will decide what Presidential candidate will receive his backing. During the opening night square dance, Selina learns from Amy that a Grand Jury is opening an investigation into the Meyer campaign funds, with Andrew being the primary target. Selina assumes she will be getting Wade’s support, but when she sees Tom James at the event, she realizes she has to fight for it. After Selina meets Wade’s young friend Eddie Axler (Charlie Hall), she discusses Wade’s closeted homosexuality with her team. Amy begins suffering the pangs of morning sickness and vomiting constantly. Selina is annoyed because she thinks Amy is trying to get attention, but when Gary finds out that she’s throwing up, he reports that she has bulimia. When Mike’s old boss Kim is fired for sleeping with Dan, Mike becomes the new deputy senior editor of BuzzFeed. When Selina sees Tom having breakfast with a young black senator named Kemi Talbot (Toks Olagundoye), she wonders if she might be a viable running mate for him… or, at Ben’s suggestion, herself. Amy sneaks a photo of Tom’s weekend schedule so that they can keep an eye on him and keep him away from Wade. Meanwhile, Jonah is interviewed at a New Hampshire Union Leader Editorial meeting where reporters (LeShawn Banks as Derek, Heather Olt) question him about accusations that he made inappropriate advances to staffers. When Selina finds Tom and Felix together again, she sends Dan in to try and lure Wade out. However, his two young friends Eddie Axler and Lance Williams (James Bristow) poke fun at him for aging out of Wade’s interest zone. When Amy gets ready to throw up again, Selina confronts her about the bulimia, but Amy confesses that she is pregnant with Dan’s baby. Wade finally has time to take a walk with Selina, and he asks her to speak at the Marshmallow Roast event. Jonah meets with a staffer named Amanda White (Heidi Gardner), who Jonah thinks is complaining about his inappropriate behavior, but she really wants him to sign an agreement to never tell anyone that they had ever dated. Even though their dinner together was business-related with other people, Jonah doesn’t want to sign it because he wants credit for dating a hot woman. Just before Selina’s marshmallow speech, Tom corners her and tells her that he loves her and can’t stop thinking about her, which is enough to throw her up so that she completely blows the speech. After the speech, Selina rips Tom for what he did, but Tom tells her that he had a heart attack. Selina confesses that she too had a heart attack, and as they begin confessions to each other, they wind up making out in the kitchen. Dan confesses to Amy that the aging comments really bothered him and starts thinking that maybe he needs to give up all of the affairs and think about settling down. However, when Amy goes to talk to him about raising their baby together, she finds Dan in bed with a cater waitress. She immediately calls the clinic to arrange for a divorce. Selina offers to shake things up with Wade by telling him that she’s thinking about announcing her running mate early in the game before the Iowa primaries. When she introduces Kemi Talbot as her running mate, suddenly Wade becomes very interested in her again. While Jonah is speaking at a Merrimack Ladies Tea Club event, they seen a CNN news bulleting of a reporter (Suzy Nakamura) interviewing Amanda White who accuses Jonah of completely appropriate behavior and insisting that they never dated. A #NotMe movement begins from other women claiming they never dated Jonah Ryan. Amy spies Tom making out with his Deputy Chief of Staff Michelle York and immediately tells Selina. Mike overhears Selina mention that Felix Wade is gay and immediately reports it on BuzzFeed. After this is reported, Felix moves Selina from his table at the Farewell Dinner and Square Dance to a table with his daughter and his driver. Selina lambasts Tom for his affair with Michelle, assuming that he is getting Wade’s backing. However, it is now Kemi Talbot who Wade is backing for a presidential run. Jill Basey is one of the elderly women at the tea. Casey McDougal is Kelly, the organizer at the marshmallow roast. Danielle Demski and Ajay Vidure are reporters asking Jonah about his lack of affairs. Charlie Fagan is the square dance caller. Rick Kumazawa is the event server in the kitchen who interrupts Selina and Tom. 2/3/24

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