Quite possibly. However, the only time anyone made a thing of it on the show was in the pilot, when Josh immediately discerns that something is wrong because Donna brings him coffee, something she's "never" done before. Toby also seems surprised, commenting on this in passing, to which Donna replies, "Shut up." In a couple other episodes, Josh is seen returning to the building holding a Starbucks cup (Bartlet's Third State of the Union), and even pouring his own coffee, notably in Let Bartlet Be Bartlet, Galileo, and Bad Moon Rising, while Donna stands right beside him pointedly not assisting as they continue to banter about the FEC, Josh's bigoted Mississippi jokes, and a phone message from a struggling textile worker, respectively. Of course, Donna did kindly bring Josh coffee to sober him up in Take This Sabbath Day... but it was cold and a day old. It's the thought that counts, right?

In a word... no. The original philately gag in Galileo was a quick, snappy joke: "Philately's fun, Josh." "I'm sorry -- what's fun?" "Philately. Stamp collecting." "Okay, be careful how you say that word, 'cause--" "Can we work?" Because it was just too damn cute, we expanded it to a running joke in A Winning Strategy, and "stamp-collecting" became Josh and Donna's code word for sex while in the presence of colleagues who didn't know of their secret marriage. They're quite fond of finding new and unusual stamps for their lovely collection, a joke that's been expanded into the Mollyverse, where Josh, Donna, CJ, and Evan discuss Donna's pregnancy in terms of "the new stamp" to keep the information from Molly.

On the show, no. In our worlds, yes. The fact that Josh has been living in fear of CJ doing serious damage to his kneecaps first shows up in A Winning Strategy: The Death-to-Romance Thing.  CJ, having stumbled on to the fact that Josh and Donna have been secretly married for some months, explains the long-standing threat to a curious Donna: It seems that, upon meeting Donna back during the Bartlet For America campaign, CJ took Josh aside and warned him that "if you ever hurt that girl, I'll break your kneecaps." Being the fans of Kickass!CJ that we are, we just kept using the line. A Winning Strategy, Exit Strategy, the Partyverse -- wherever you go on this site, you'll find Josh worrying about the state of his kneecaps.

Hints of Josh's big brotherly affection towards Zoey first appeared in The Crackpots and These Women ("You look good!" "You look like death on a triscuit!") and surfaced again in Mr. Willis of Ohio, but have since been dropped, much to our disappointment. [Speaking of disappointment, where the hell has Zoey been, anyway?] Because it's such a lovely idea, we've expounded on the Josh/Zoey friendship both in our Bartlet for America-era stories (The Middle of Nowhere) and in our "current" stories (Relative Strengths; You Sass). This is another dropped thread we'd love to see Aaron pick up again.

Well, yes, but it's never been called that on the show. In fact, Sam irritated us with his response to Josh's questions about Donna pushing him to ask out Joey Lucas in The War at Home, because he was not cooperating with our Sam, who first noticed what he called an "undercurrent" between them during the campaign. Upon further reflection, he decided, in his perfectly Sam way, that a more proper word was "subtext"; purely a creation of A Winning Strategy.

Aside from CJ's observation that Donna's "criminal mind [is] equal to my own" and consequent plea for help (The Stackhouse Filibuster), there are few explicit references to a genuine friendship between the two women. [Though moments like the casual reference to going for yogurt in Enemies Foreign & Domestic imply familiarity, at least.] Donna and CJ have teamed up in our fic for devious purposes (Ryo's CJ's Revenge; Jo's Exit Strategy: Criminal Minds), political purposes (A Winning Strategy: Welcome to the Gynarchy), and personal purposes (Scar Tissue). We've also added some backstory from the Bartlet for America campaign (The Middle of Nowhere; Scenes from I-40) and elaborated on their friendship in the present (Jo's Donnatella & Louise; Ryo's Logical Solutions).

Here's some fun with math -- in the pilot, Donna states that she's been working for Josh for "a year and a half." If we assume the date stamp of the pilot is the date that it aired -- September, 1999 -- then it all works out so nicely! Give or take, Donna started working for Josh in February of 1998. According to Josh, Sam, and Donna herself, she went back to Dr. Free Ride for an unspecified period of time between February and April, which is when she came back to Josh (17 People). Of course, we all know that Donna didn't actually go back to Dr. Free Ride -- whose name, in our little world, is Alan -- but allowed Josh to believe that so she didn't have to get into her reasons for leaving. We also know that she was only gone three weeks; at least that's our story (Middle of Nowhere) and we're stickin' to it.

In our satirical little world, yes. On the show, not so much. [Though if recent developments suggest that Bartlet's challenger for the presidency will be a verbally challenged guy named Ritchie (The Two Bartlets). On the show, there's been a lot of disconnected information about the Senate Majority Leader. Namely, in Let Bartlet Be Bartlet, Josh meets with the leaderships' guys, one of whom is Steve Onerato, who "speak[s] for the Senate Majority Leader." Onerato's boss, whose name we never learn, is the person whom Josh tells to "take your legislative agenda and shove it up your ass" (Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics). The next mention of the Senate Majority Leader is in The Leadership Breakfast, when the deliciously villainous Ann Stark slinks onto the scene to wreak havoc. Although Stark declares "I think we just did" announce that her boss would be challenging Bartlet, his name is never spoken. (Representative Henry Shallick does appear on camera, but he's, well, a Representative not a Senator; therefore, we've characterized Shallick as the Senate Majority Leader's attack dog in A Winning Strategy.) At any rate, we chose Ann Stark's unnamed boss as "our" Senate Majority Leader, dubbed him Gregory W. Baker, and proceeded to satirize the hell out of The Only President We've Got.

Noel did Josh discuss, reference, or otherwise mention nightmares. He does, of course, make a lighthearted remark to Stanley that he hasn't "even told you about my dreams yet!" which could, given the context, be read as an oblique reference to nightmares. Still, his recovery period, as shown in The Midterms, was merely characterized by a sudden, inexplicable obsession with theoretical physics (a notion expanded upon in Ryo's The Theory of Everything). Early in A Winning Strategy, however, Josh begins experiencing nightmares. Our Josh also has nightmares in Scar Tissue, Event Horizon, and Relative Strengths.

Josh Lyman, despite his English surname (which, we theorized in A Winning Strategy, was an anglicized version of Leimonelski), is Jewish (The Pilot). His grandfather was incarcerated at Birkenau (Six Meetings Before Lunch), his father, Noah, died of a pulmonary embolism while in treatment for cancer during the campaign (In the Shadow of Two Gunmen), and his sister, Joanie, died in a fire when he was young (The Crackpots and These Women). The tragic stories of Gavril and Nagida Lyman, and the two children they lost in the concentration camps, and of Josh's maternal grandparents, Eleora and Mateusz Gabrielski, who died before Josh was born, are entirely an extrapolation for A Winning Strategy. Further, the backstory of Joanie's real name -- Jonika -- that's mentioned in Scar Tissue is our creation and a direct result of Ryo's obsession with the aforementioned baby names book.