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He's too busy selling Old Glory Robot Insurance. EDIT: Old Glory Robot Insurance

Getting back on topic.... What a crack intelligence service we have. This story is as impressive as the one about "covert" agents checking into hotels under their real names so that they'd qualify for VIP points or whatever (same thing with frequent flyer miles).

Yeah, because people hate ensemble shows (*cough* LOST *cough*).

I know, but no death could do him justice at this point. They've made Jack Bauer too powerful, almost God-like, to the point where I can't see any villian they introduce being able to kill him off. Just let Jack ride off into the sunset after killing dozens and dozens of people over a few days time. 24 probably would benefit from being an ensemble cast instead of a show with a star anyway.

I think that's 3 years in a row for that rumor. I like the one better about Edward Norton joining the cast as "John Bauer." His IMDB profile has that listed (or did a week ago).

A billion people here, a billion people there....

Easy. No one's going to ask them about it. Who's going to ask? Chris Matthews? Jack Cafferty? Greta Van Sustern? Seriously, the story is old news in about 2 hours and we can finally get back to the missing girl in Aruba. It'd be great to have reporters to ask intelligent questions, but we don't. All that matters is we got a few headlines reading "Bush lets Arabs control America". By the time the truth about this thing reaches most people (if it ever does), it's ancient history.

Talk about a "warm front".....

Eddie Murphy did it as a joke too. So did Dave Chapelle. Whatever. Am I the only one who thinks it just doesn't work? You can't use makeup to make a white person look like a black person. What they end up looking like is a white person painted up to look black. Same thing happens when you try to make a black person look white. It never works! Also, there's no reason to watch this show since we already know the final episode will be filled with mundane interviews about how much everyone learned. "Wow, it was really different than what I thought it'd be." Yeah, amazing. P.S. Where does Michael Jackson fit into the whole "never been done before" thing?

I didn't think it was possible to be this indifferent but here we are. Around the Horn? Does anyone watch that show?

I doubt Chucky cares or understands.

...that Congress is braindead? It's been official for a while now.....

Good, because I hate Arabs.

Or maybe you can. How much crap did the fans give the team when they weren't signing players left and right leading up to this season? Where are those fans now? The front office built a team that is tearing up the league. If this is what they could get for their 3rd goalie, then alright.

It takes less than a week and a half to realize you're doing business with ARABS! Once they came to terms with that, I'm sure there wasn't much else they needed to know. (Sorry to borrow CTM's running joke, but that's basically what this entire thing boils down to.)

That's an important point. I'm glad Congress noticed too.

That's probably the best description of the show I've heard thus far. Completely terrible and very entertaining. Again, the exception is season one where we had Ira Gaines and his crazy eye twitch as the main villian for the first 13 episodes, and Dennis Hopper and his two crazy sons as the villians the rest of the way. You have to love when they get to episode 20 every year and whoever the hell the villian is at that point is proud of his (unnecessarily overcomplicated and ridiculous) plan. What the hell kind of plan has 300 steps, could be stopped at any point over 24 hours, and requires terrorists of at least 3 distinct nationalities/backgrounds to take part in it?

and Bill is so smart he's falling for it hook, line, and sinker.

Sometimes it is, but the weird part is that it's only funny when he's trying to be serious. Keith Olbermann is about as legit as the nutball conspiracy theorists on public access TV here in Austin, TX. And his ratings are just about the same.

Exactly. The violence and overall mayhem makes it enjoyable, even if you have to slap your forehead at least once an hour.

Hey, I love 24 but every now and then a plot hole comes along and hits me in the face like a 2x4. This season in particular is full of them and the quality has suffered because of it. Basically the show is just a means of letting Jack Bauer teleport all over Los Angeles all day killing and torturing people. And I'm good with that, but the writers need to try a little harder to make sense. Season one will always be the best because that's when they actually used the "real time" format. I don't see why it would take that much effort to sketch out the plot for all 24 episodes before they start filming.

Plus Sandra Bullock wears tight pants.

I don't think it is. Remember, the whole point for these guys was getting the nerve gas to Moscow. This whole attack the U.S. thing is their retaliation for getting double-crossed by their guy in the Logan administration. Of course, this is an incredibly stupid move plot-wise because how is Robocop/Jack's old boss going to know anything about the terrorist backup plan that they're clearly coming up with as they go? Guess the writers are coming up with this stuff as they go too.