Location

Shea

Crowds weave through booths laden with handmade quilts, pottery, and wood carvings at Shea, where a craft show draws families and vendors under open-air tents or echoing halls. UN diplomats clog the parking lot with unticketed vehicles, horns blaring amid vendor calls and foot traffic. Bartlet seizes this chaos in his Oval Office rant, blasting elite impunity that leaves locals circling for spots while blue-helmet plates flaunt exemptions. The site sharpens his comic fury, turning everyday gridlock into a jab at global perks.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S4E10 · Arctic Radar

Winners Want the Ball: Bartlet on Discipline and Double Standards

Shea (the craft show) is named as part of Bartlet's fantasy of where towed diplomats would end up; the image serves to lower the diplomats from status to embarrassed civilian shoppers — a comic leveling of privilege.

Atmosphere

Playful and mortifying; the idea of elite discomfort produces laughter and camaraderie.

Functional Role

Comic metaphor that punctures tension and humanizes the President's anger.

Symbolic Significance

Represents humble public life as corrective to diplomatic aloofness.

Open-air vendors, crowds Domestic, small-scale imagery

S4E10 · Arctic Radar

Parking‑Ticket Diplomacy: Bartlet Breaks the Tension

Shea (the craft show) is invoked as part of Bartlet's outrageous envisioning of where diplomats' towed cars might end up — an ordinary, slightly humiliating public space that undercuts diplomatic immunity.

Atmosphere

Conjured as lively, ordinary, and slightly embarrassing for elites.

Functional Role

Comic touchstone that helps normalize the imagined punishment.

Symbolic Significance

Represents regular civic life intruding on privileged international actors.

Vendors and crowds Horns and the texture of a flea-market atmosphere

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S4E10 · Arctic Radar

Winners Want the Ball: Bartlet on Discipline and Double Standards

President Bartlet explodes at what he perceives as a gendered double standard in the Navy's handling of the Vicky Hilton case, storms into Leo's meeting to hurl historical examples (Eisenhower, …

S4E10 · Arctic Radar

Parking‑Ticket Diplomacy: Bartlet Breaks the Tension

During a fraught Oval Office exchange about whether the White House should intervene in a Navy disciplinary case, a UN call interrupts. Bartlet deliberately takes the line and launches into …