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Take Out the Trash Day

episode of The West Wing (S1 E13)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7677917 ↗
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"Take Out the Trash Day" is the thirteenth episode of the first season of The West Wing. It originally aired on January 26, 2000. The episode sees characters finalize a hate crime bill and was inspired by the murder of Matthew Shepard. It made prominent the phrase of the same name. Vulture.com ranked the episode number 141 in a list of all 150 episodes. The Daily Beast ranked the episode number 102 in a similar list.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-01-26. The account is most persuasive where Take, Trash and episode can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Take Out the Trash Day” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.