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Bartlet's Priority List

Bartlet pitches this during Oval Office banter, suggesting color codes via crayons or markers to rank tasks while handwriting thank-you letters to Charlie. The verbal sketch amuses Charlie and reveals Bartlet's craving for structure, but Leo's arrival shelves it.

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S4E9 · Swiss Diplomacy

Penmanship, Levity, and the Pivot

Bartlet's joking reference to a 'priority list' (color coding and stickers) is an invoked organizational prop: it exposes his craving for small-order systems and functions as comic relief and character exposition rather than an actual tool.

Before: Conceptual only—Bartlet mentions it as a gag; no physical list is produced.

After: Idea is shelved as Leo reorients the room; no material change to the physical space.

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