Западное крыло The Debate (1999–2006) watch online HD

The Debate was advertised as a "live presidential debate" and was actually telecast live twice, once for the East and West coasts, with limited commercial interruption. It was also one of the few times actors were allowed to go "off script."

This is the only episode of the series in which none of the original main cast appeared.

The heckler in the audience who calls Vinick a liar is executive producer Christopher Misiano.

The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Multi-Camera Sound Mixing for a Series or Special.

Congressman Santos's defense of the term "liberal" is a paraphrase of Kennedy's 1960 NY acceptance speech.

The episode was shot "Live" so the TV-debate would have the same live debate "flavor" that the real debates have. This is most notable in the quality of the image on screen, which is more crisp, than the image of the other episodes, which is actually shot on 35mm film

Matt Santos mentions a quote he made about having voted for a bill before he voted against it. This is a reference to John Kerry's infamous gaffe in which he commented that he voted for a spending bill before he voted against it.

This is not the first time Alan Alda has ad-libbed as a TV character. When he played Hawkeye Pierce on Чёртова служба в гoспитале МЭШ (1972), an episode called Чёртова служба в гoспитале МЭШ: The Interview (1976) showed the characters being interviewed by a war correspondent. The questions were scripted, but most of the replies were spontaneous.

"Previously on the West Wing" spoken by C.J. (Allison Janney).

Although the debate episode was done twice, only the West Coast version appears on the Season 7 DVD, and the parts with Ellen DeGeneres were edited out.

This episode contains the fewest main cast members of any episode at two. Before this episode, Западное крыло: The Long Goodbye (2003) and Западное крыло: Message of the Week (2005) have been tied with three. It also has the smallest overall cast for any episode at seven.