1x03 The Hungry and the Hunted - Sports Night Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x03

Episode: 01x03
Title: The Hungry and the Hunted
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: N-303
First Aired: Oct. 06, 1998

Season 1 » Episode #03 - The Hungry and the Hunted

Sports Night - 01x03 The Hungry and the Hunted

Summary: Jeremy gets "The Call", which doesn't go quite according to plan. Natalie hopes that a mandatory Black Tie event will bring Dana and Casey together. However Dana meets Gordon, which drives Casey crazy, who subsequently drives Dan crazy.

Who appeared in this episode?

Elliot	played by Greg Baker (II)
Announcer #2	played by Thom Pinto

Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 3: - The Hungry and the Hunted

Jeremy Goodwin: We shot a deer. In the woods near Lake Mattatuck on the second day. There was a special vest they had me wear so that they could distinguish me from things they wanted to shoot, and I was pretty grateful for that. Almost the whole day had gone by, and we hadn't gotten anything. Eddie was getting frustrated and Bob Shoemaker was getting embarrassed. My camera guy needed to re-load so I told everybody to take a ten minute break. There was a stream nearby and I walked over with this care-package Natalie made me. I sat down and when I looked up I saw three of them; small, bigger, biggest. Recognizable to any species on the face of the planet as a child, a mother and a father. Now, the trick in shooting deer is you gotta get 'em out in the open. And it's tough with deer, 'cause these are clever, cagey animals with an intuitive sense of danger. You know what you have to do to get a deer out in the open? You hold out a twinkie. That animal clopped up to me like we were at a party. She seemed to be pretty interested in the twinkie, so I gave it to her. Looking back, she'd have been better off if I'd given her the damn vest. And Bob kind of screamed at me in whisper, "Move away!" The camera had been re-loaded and it looked like the day wasn't gonna be a washout after all. So I backed away, a couple of steps at a time, and I closed my eyes when I heard the shot. Look, I know these are animals, and they don't play bridge and go to the prom, but you can't tell me that the little one didn't know who his mother was. That's gotta mean something. And later, at the hospital, Bob Shoemaker was telling me about the nobility and tradition of hunting and how it related to the native American Indians. And I nodded and I said that was interesting while I was thinking about what a load of crap it was. Hunting was part of Indian culture. It was food and it was clothes and it was shelter. They sang and danced and offered prayers to the gods for a successful hunt so that they could survive just one more unimaginably brutal winter. The things they had to kill held the highest place of respect for them, and to kill for fun was a sin. And they knew the gods wouldn't be so generous next time. What we did wasn't food and it wasn't shelter and it sure wasn't sports! It was just mean!

Season 1 / Episode 3: - The Hungry and the Hunted

Dan Rydell: Newport's gonna put up a challenge, New Zealand and Australia each have new keels, and Japan's looking for an American tactician, maybe even a whole new after guard. Now, interestingly, Italy has developed a new 140% Genoa, but the IRC says it may not meet specs because of a bolt in the back step.
Dana Whitaker: Honest to God, I have no idea what sport you're talking about.
Casey McCall: Dan's talkin' about the rough-and-tumble, livin'-the-razor's-edge, run-till-you-drop, never-say-die world of offshore yacht racing.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CHAR: Dan quotes a poem that includes the line "flung spume and blown spray". When Dana later refers to "blown spume", Dan corrects her, emphasizing that it's "flung spume and blown spray". In fact, the line is "flung spray and the blown spume". Also, despite the mention of Thoreau, Wordsword, Whitman, and Dylan Thomas as possible authors, the poem is actually "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield.