Dawn finally rises after the night from hell with some good news, new beginnings and new additions for some of the cast and crew of the show.Dawn finally rises after the night from hell with some good news, new beginnings and new additions for some of the cast and crew of the show.Dawn finally rises after the night from hell with some good news, new beginnings and new additions for some of the cast and crew of the show.
- Herb Sheldon
- (as John Carpenter)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe title of this episode "What kind of day has it been," has been used as an episode title on every show Aaron Sorkin has created. At first he used it as the title for the season one finales of his shows, as it was with his first series, Sports Night, as well as with his second series, the West Wing. Here, however, as the show was canceled it doubled as the title of the first season finale but also, unintentionally, the series finale. For Sorkin's series after this one, The Newsroom, he opted not to use "What kind of day has it been" as the title of that show's first season finale but he did select as the title of the show's planned series finale at the end of the third season.
- GoofsTom says that the military was sending F-14 Tomcats, a Navy plane which had been retired from service in 2006, from Bagram Air Base, an Air Force installation, to attack the terrorists who abducted his brother.
- Quotes
Danny Tripp: I just stood in Jack's office and said, "Screw friendship, screw honor, screw patriotism." That's how I talked about myself. And then I added, "We just lost the franchise." That's how I talked about Matt, who would stand in front of a train for any of us, including you while you're screwing Luke. He's been threatened by the Network, compromised by me, brow-beaten by you, heart-broken by Wes, and he's still standing up. Why am I quitting? Cause they're gonna start shooting at him and I'm gonna be standing next to him when they do. You're a talented girl, have a good show this week.
- ConnectionsReferences Sports Night: What Kind of Day Has It Been? (1999)
In the years that have past Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has kind of been the forgotten classic.of Aaron Sorkin sitting in the shadow of The West Wing then the lesser but more popular 30Rock (a pale imitation but with an obviously lower budget) This final episode isn't really what the show deserved but so often great tv shows can be to far ahead of the curve for there own good If this were on the air today in the climate of what's going on in 2023 it would be so on the money it'd most likely be the spectacular success it deserved to be but it was never to be Instead of a cliff hanger leading into a second season we got this plus the previous 3 sub standard episodes running out the clock on a show that should have been much much more.
- malcolmjohnston
- Jan 9, 2023