Josh Lyman's Video Club Membership Card

A small, credit-card–sized token of thin plastic or stiff paper bearing a printed club logo, membership number and a faint handwritten name. Edges show light wear and pocket creasing; the surface catches office light when Josh fingers it. Characters handle it casually — Josh tucks it among other personal items, its ordinariness grounding a moment of private decision.

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3 moments

S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women

The Big Cheese and the Green Card

A small, personal video-club membership card is invoked by Josh as the mundane anchor next to which he plans to stash the evacuation card—an act that dramatizes how ordinary life collides with extraordinary privilege.

Before: In Josh's wallet or among his personal items.

After: Implied to remain in Josh's wallet with the green evacuation card placed beside it.

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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women

The Green Card: Exclusion Delivered

A trivial video club membership card is invoked by Josh as the casual companion for the evacuation card, rhetorically minimizing the gravity of the protection and illustrating how he will tuck a life-saving privilege alongside everyday, harmless possessions.

Before: Already in Josh's wallet or mental inventory of pocket items.

After: Referenced as the neighboring item in Josh's wallet once he decides to conceal the evacuation card there.

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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women

The Green Card — Josh's Quiet Reckoning

Josh references and uses his Video Club membership card as a mundane marker to slide the evacuation card into his wallet, an attempt to normalize and hide the emergency item among trivial personal possessions.

Before: In Josh's wallet or pocket, an ordinary personal token.

After: Remains in his wallet alongside the newly inserted evacuation card; used rhetorically by Josh to downplay significance.

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