West Wing with a side order of Cheese

Having not watched a full episode of West Wing in quite some time, I was thrown off by the ridiculous cheesiness of this line, spoken by Danny to CJ, toward the end of tonight's episode:

"So I was thinking that when I jump off the *cliff, and you get pushed off the cliff, maybe we could hold hands while we fall"

(*keeping in mind the cliff in mention is a proverbial one..)