Bartlet's Satirical Ouija Board

Bartlet hurls this spectral Ouija board into hallway chaos, its imagined wooden expanse etched with alphabet arcs, numerals, YES/NO decrees, and occult flourishes begging a planchette's slide—staffer wilts under the demand to pair it with a magic wand for projection precision, the prop's eerie glow fueling Bartlet's savage dismissal of fiscal fog without a single touch.

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Purpose

Satirical spirit consultation to deride unreliable ten-year economic projections

Significance

Ignites Bartlet's biting wit, humanizing his frustration with bureaucratic overreach and puncturing the staffer's earnest push amid escalating tensions

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When this object appears and how it's used

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S2E16 · Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail

Bartlet Sarcastically Dismisses Ten-Year Projections

Bartlet invokes this imagined Ouija board as satirical counterpart to projections, its spectral alphabet and planchette evoking absurd prophecy; the demand wilts staffer earnestness, injecting witty absurdity that humanizes impatience without physical manifestation in the corridor clash.

Before: Conceptual and non-existent in physical form

After: Ordered for hypothetical retrieval alongside projections and wand, persisting as rhetorical device

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