Jim Treacher at DailyGut.com has an excellent slam of how loopy and left-wing Fox's "24" is becoming with its carbon-neutral push for Season 7.
Six Ways Jack Bauer Will Fight Global Warming:
- Travel from one end of LA to another in 15 minutes on a bicycle.
- Replace power-sucking PDA with pad of Post-Its and No. 2 pencil. ("Chloe, send it to my sticky note.")
- Yelling releases excess carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Interrogations will be conducted via sign language and harsh glaring.
- After torturing terrorist with plugged-in lamp cord, buy carbon offsets to make up for wasted electricity.
- All explosions will be rendered South Park-style with red, yellow, and orange construction paper (recycled).
- Cancel the show because it sucks now anyway.
(I'm doing my part by recycling this post!)
My working theory is that the show's creators have been cowed into making penance to the Left for hanging out with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. Thoughts?
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Jump the Shark
August 7, 2007 - 13:58 ET by P.J. GladnickThe Jump the Shark moment for 24 was when a nuclear bomb went off in the Los Angeles area. That marked the EXACT moment when the show began to slide downhill.
Then they killed off poor
August 7, 2007 - 14:34 ET by Roger the ShrubberThen they killed off poor Edgar.
Er, I mean, Edgah!
Plus, they are running out of enemies. I guess the Chinese will always be around.
On shark jumping
August 7, 2007 - 23:57 ET by UnsaneWas it a "jump the shark" moment, or the moment when they officially went so over the top, that they cannot possibly increase altitude?
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Its official, '24' has
August 7, 2007 - 14:05 ET by Mr. KafirIts official, '24' has jumped the shark. I was wondering how long it would take. Surprised it lasted this long. Of course, they did have a PSA several seasons back by Sutherland telling viewers that very few moslems subscribe to terrorism. CAIR lies, people dies.
Even though season 6 was
August 7, 2007 - 14:09 ET by RosEven though season 6 was the worst one yet I still found it somewhat enjoyable.
Maybe Jack figured out how to torture the globe until it cools?
I think Ill be reserving judgement on this one until I can actually watch the show.
It's not just me! Whew!
August 7, 2007 - 14:53 ET by RedGuyBlueStateIt's not just me that thinks 24 has gone downhill? Thank you!
It's getting WAY too mushy between Jack and (daughter of former Sec. of Defense). There's NO way ANY President would've let Jack go in because he "owe's Jack" anything. (Yes, I know it's just a TV show.) Why did it take until nearly the last episode of the season for Pres. Wayne Palmer to grow a pair?? This is NOT the same show as before. I'm very disappointed.
That being said, I may stop in from time to time to check on Jack's carbon credit consumption. :)
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
-- Fred Thompson as Admiral Josh Painter (The Hunt for Red October)
Half Hour News Hour
August 7, 2007 - 14:07 ET by Casey97Hope they keep up the Half Hour News Hour. That show is great.
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With Democrat revisionist history and liberals guaranteeing the future (global warming, nuclear destruction, etc.) only the future is certain; the past is always changing.
Jack drives a Prius in
August 7, 2007 - 14:15 ET by Chris NormanJack drives a stealth Prius in high speed chases (tested to 100 MPH by Al Gore's son)
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
Interesting take on the
August 7, 2007 - 14:38 ET by DontTreadOnMeInteresting take on the Rush Limbaugh theory, normally I would dismiss such a thing but we are talking about today's liberals who are in favor of hanging Global Warming Deniers.
After an exhausting search
August 7, 2007 - 14:47 ET by Airforce_5_OAfter an exhausting search Jack discovers the real reason for so much carbon being dumped into the air is Cattle Farms. Armed with this information he becomes a vegain and starts a one man war against all Steak Houses in LA.
Riviting TV I must Say!!!!!
The only thing you should feel when shooting insurgents is the rifle recoil.
I still love the show,
August 7, 2007 - 14:48 ET by NewsbusterbrownI still love the show, despite this global warming silliness.
Then, NBB, you should take heart
August 7, 2007 - 15:18 ET by RJThen, NBB, their paeans to GW aside, you should take heart that the producers admitted to Rush at the end of last season that their format was tired and promised a fresh, new direction next season.....
Perhaps Jack gets bitten by a radioactive spider, starts wearing tights, and goes international, fighting shadowy polluters in third-world countries.....
He won't be able to wear a mask, though. Remember the over-the-top emoting he did at the end of last season....gotta be able to do a tight focus on Jack's new (metrosexual?) face.....
Please consider . .
August 7, 2007 - 14:55 ET by FastEd. if we accept the premise that there are more liberals than conservatives and republicans, along with the libritarians and non-committed - then we have to take it as true that they not only exhale more CO2, and that they would also pollute more. Therefore, if this premise is correct, and the following facts are correct, then Jack will be fighting liberals as the only way to stop GW. Daunting task to say the least, considering that the writers are libs, the suits are libs, and then the only solution will be to have Jack come to an early end, or at least be put into a hillarycare facility, never to be heard from again - until the following season, when the scientific consensus rules that there is a Gorebal Cooling occurring.
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
TIC TIC TIC TIC TIC
August 7, 2007 - 15:00 ET by Crash"Peereeviously on-na Twenny-fo."
The hours it takes to make up a day will be shortened. This will save Hollywood from trying to write anything meaningful and keep the sun from warming the planet ... after all, we don't need the sun being that CO2, with the help of us god-like humans can do it without the sun (according to entrenched warming "scientists").
Food for Production Crews
August 7, 2007 - 15:04 ET by GetItRightI also understand that Fox has banned bean burritos from all of their production sites including the set of 24. This will reduce gas emissions from the crew which will in turn reduce globe warming by 1 degree. Lowering the earth's temperature will keep bridges from falling in Minnesota. Its all good. Life is simple.
Thankx to NB'ers, peer pressure I won seasons 1-5 of 24 off ebay
August 7, 2007 - 15:08 ET by upcountrywaterNo tv in my house, I was "forced" to buy as many 24'ss as i could get my hands on. Season 4 my favorite.
How on earth is Jack ever going to carry his "weapons package" on his moped?
Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.
24 isn't becoming lib, it
August 7, 2007 - 15:37 ET by blogonator24 isn't becoming lib, it has always been. It's been a lib trojan horse, putting in all the stuff to woo conservatives at the beginning of each season, only to degenerate into a lib morality fest by the end. They courted the Limbaugh crowd and sucked up to him every chance they got. Now Surnow has done the same with 1/2 news hour. Sure, it's entertaining, but the anchors are lib actors reading off a teleprompter with no sense of true conviction in what they say. In the end, it's just Surnow and lib Hollywood milking conservatives - they've found the recipe that works.
On failing recpies
August 8, 2007 - 00:00 ET by UnsaneThat recipe only works for so long. Other than sports, I have long ago given up on television.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
24
August 8, 2007 - 10:26 ET by longriderblogonator…I
tend to agree with you. I believe certan ones of the Hollywood & TV crowd is silently laughing
their rears off. I hope their not on to something here. It is not written anywhere
that the right can’t be duped occasionally.
RMR What's this? Another
August 7, 2007 - 17:06 ET by RMRRMR
What's this? Another nest of lib hypocrites discovered in Hollywood? Well I am shocked!! Shocked I tell yuh!!!
I love 24 and hope the
August 7, 2007 - 18:45 ET by Darth DutchI love 24 and hope the upcoming season wasn't as crappy as the last, but if they were really interested in making it carbon neutral and making a political statement, they'd change it from "24" to "2". Just do 2 episodes; less carbon footprint.
Dutch
Jack Needs to DIE This Time
August 7, 2007 - 20:28 ET by Special KayFor real. Not some stupid lame-@$$ cover up. Really kill him off this time. AND, get real with the timeline! Ridiculous! I've been to LA - there is no way that timeline holds true. They start out ok, and I think it's cool how they keep up with the clock on my mantle, but towards the end it really falls off.
Maybe kill Jack and bring in Valerie Plame in as his replacement for the next Season?
"Interum faeces et urinam nascimur"
Keiffer wants to die
August 8, 2007 - 02:03 ET by Lame CherrySutherland was calling for his death in the final episode. He wants to be shot once by a lone assassin at long range as he walks away.
When he said it 2 years ago people would have been upset, now no one will watch to care and be glad it is done.
As for Valerie Plame........maybe they should bring in all the democratic operatives and call it This Week with George Stephanopoulos. lol
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I don't watch TV, but I
August 7, 2007 - 23:21 ET by DaMavI don't watch TV, but I heard enough about 24 to buy two seasons worth of CDs and was absolutely delighted. Frankly if they end up switching to Global Warming as the villain it will utterly ruin the show. WTF kind of nonsense is this?
Someone provide an email addy we can complain to please. This is a deal breaker.
I just can't get it out of
August 8, 2007 - 00:09 ET by rob6677I just can't get it out of my head every time there is a post about this. If a TV show wants to go carbon neutered or green, they should just stop making it! We could all turn off our sets for an hour, read a book, teach our kids how not to become the next Paris Hilton, and save on the rising electric costs. I thought Jack Bauer was a dedicated guy?
"I hired you to get some track laid, not jump around like a bunch a kansas city faggots" Slim Pickens
24 New Season Script 2008
August 8, 2007 - 01:58 ET by Lame CherryHour 1. In the opening scene, Jack Bauer is set loose on the "deniers" a new group of ultra terrorists at Newsbusters.
Hour 2.While in route to apprehend Ken Shepperd, Jack teams up with Baboo the arctic penguin to teach children how to spell "evil" in it now is "AMERICA"....even though the arctic has no penguins.
Hour 3. Ken Shepperd outwits Jack and Baboo by taking down his Newsbuster mailbox and puts up an arrow that reads "Ken Shepperd has escaped to Antarctica".
Hour 4. Jack hijacks Rush Limbaugh's plane and tortures him for smoking which is now a high crime while enroute to Antarctica. For some reason though the jet stalls over Texas as Jack filled the tank up with clean burning water.
Hour 5. Jack jumps out of the plane and rides Baboo to safety as now penguins can fly and returns to the secret new CTU base now completely enviro friendly in no computers, no electricity, no building and no employees.
Hour 6. Jack though now being the only person in California as el Presidente Aleartha Gore has outlawed people confiscates all refrigerators to make a gigantic ice sheet to sail to Antarctica to produce global cooling.
Hour 7. With California not having any electricity to make ice, Jack now summons his friends the electric eels to power up the ice making machine and Jack launches his iceberg for Antarctica.
Hour 8. Audrey shows up and is suddenly sane as it is revealed that it was not Chicom torture which made her nuts, but the "deniers". There is allot of Jack Jack Jack and Audrey Audrey Audrey for 28 minutes as Baboo reveals he is really smarter than liberals.
Hour 9. Jack is ordered back to America by el Presidente Gore as he needs the ice for the Guiness Book of Records largest Mint Julip in the world. Jack rebels, beats up the new villians of two 6 year old children selling lemonade.......as killing lemons now is murder as the iceberg now crashes into the Galapagos killing the giant tortoises.
Hour 10. Jack is put on trial. Tortured by Tedward Kennedy in making Jack be questioned by a woman, flushing his Mao book down a toilet which never happened and treating him like a king in prison.
Hour 11. Jack constructs a transporter device out of kleenex, 3 pieces of lint and a paper clip and transports himself out of the court just as the verdict is read. Guilty for tortoise murder.
Hour 12. Jack shoots Baboo as the world is not black and white, but shades of Hillary Clinton colored hair grey and penguins are black and white evil.
Hour 13. Audrey decides like Cheryl Crow that toilet paper must be rationed and feminine materials must be recycled, without water as that is now forbidden and without soap as that pollutes the water.
Hour 14. Jack holds el Presidente Gore hostage with information he found in an egg Baboo laid revealing that Marc Rich was laundering money for Saddam and certain funds ended up in certain president's Swiss Bank accounts. Jack is pardoned.
Hour 15. Jack hijacks a sailing ship to go to Antarctica, but as canvas is a product of farming which uses oil....and as Democrats gave all the Middle East oil to terrorists........America has no oil........and no canvas.......so his ship has no sails to go anywhere.
Hour 16. Jack arrives at a plan to lure Ken Shepperd from his Antarctica fortress by sending him a letter telling him he has won the most coveted prize in the world, The Keith Olberman Lunatic Award. Jack's plan fizzles as paper is now outlawed as it murders trees.
Hour 17. Jack and Audrey are fitted for their carbon footprint shoes, but no one can see them as no humans ever left a carbon footprint.
Hour 18. Ken Shepperd writes a column at Newsbusters exposing how liberal policies are destroying the world. Jack is furious as he can not figure out how Ken Shepperd found an electric cord 15,000 miles long to reach Antarctica, so Jack beats up all the nuns in America as black clothing absorbs heat and nuns are causing global warming.
Hour 19. Rush Limbaugh frees himself and goes on the radio telling the world 24 sucks and Rupert Murdoch is only talking carbon friendly as he knows it is all a joke to dupe liberals in their hipocrazy.
Hour 20. Jack demands a blog at Huffington Post, but no one reads it.
Hour 21. Fox announces with no audience ratings as only Conservatives watched 24 the show is canceled.
Hour 22. Jack wakes up and realizes he is really Donald Sutherland's little twirp liberal boy and has ushered his career into the toilet like the olde man.
Hour 23. Keiffer Sutherland marches on a Ford plant demanding the end to dangerous cars.
Hour 24. Mobs beat Keiffer to a pulp, demand Congress hold hearings on how much money Al Gore siphoned off for global warming like all the huckster globalists did.............and Fred Thompson is elected in a landslide to the office of the President of the United States.
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}}---> Green 24
August 8, 2007 - 04:59 ET by Cool ArrowI'm afraid 24 jumped the shark last season when it capitulated, once again to the "religion of peace" lie and laid it off on the Russians.
So if Jack Bauer jumps over the rainbow rectally impaled on the cranial protrusion of some mythical horse, I'll catch the Clif Notes on the 1/2 Hour News Hour.
24 is disingenuous to a bumkissing fault when it comes to Islamoradicalfascist hatemongers.
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August 8, 2007 - 06:04 ET by Cool ArrowSo you got posts about floods everywhere on your site. So there aren't any more deserts? Sorry I missed that.
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