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January 16, 2006

24 Drinking Game

WAS: Who was the guy playing "Mr. Berke" on 24?

It's driving me nuts.

He was the one the First Lady threatened to cry rape on in order to get a security pass.

Answer: It's Taylor Nichols, the main character from Barcelona, and in the other Whit Stilman movies. Thanks to Drew for that. It really was driving me bananas.

24 Drinking Game: I seriously suggest you don't play.

If you drink every time someone doesn't "have time for the protocols," you're going to be hung over the next morning, as well as dead.

The "technical section" alone of this game is lethal:

*Special technical section* Every time… Satellite coordinates are requested, take 1 shot – if they can’t get the coordinates, take another there’s a problem with the database, take 1 shot a file is in the wrong format, take 1 shot something needs to be rerouted, take 1 shot someone uses another person’s computer, take 1 shot

I'd add:

If...

...satellites are repositioned, take 1 shot
...it's going to take "too much time" to reposition the satellite, take another
...and if Jack "just doesn't have that kind of time," finish the bottle

Thanks to Craig.


posted by Ace at 10:06 PM
Comments



Don't you spoil it for me.

Posted by: shawn on January 16, 2006 10:10 PM

I don't know, but whatever it was we were doing recently, it's triggered Google Ads to show nothing but ads for Sex Crime Lawyers.

Posted by: Sortelli on January 16, 2006 10:10 PM

Now one of them says "FREE BABY SAMPLES".

You can't get those at the market where I live!

Posted by: Sortelli on January 16, 2006 10:12 PM

I've got another question. When did CTU start hiring Hobbits!?

Posted by: Danno'68 on January 16, 2006 10:12 PM

Shawn,

It's not a spoiler. IT happens ten minutes in and it's a minor thing.

Posted by: ace on January 16, 2006 10:13 PM

DAGUMMIT! The twist at the end is exactly opposite of what me and friends were hoping.

SPOILERS BELOW

We didnt' want another doomsday scenario....

ok

Posted by: Greg on January 16, 2006 10:13 PM

Better forward the ads to the sex crimes lawyers to the NPR guy. He's going to need them.

Posted by: shawn on January 16, 2006 10:16 PM

Okay, you can talk about anything you want. No one is holding a gun to my head to read this thread. Was episodes 3 & 4 as good as 1 &2? Great explosions in episode 1.

Posted by: shawn on January 16, 2006 10:17 PM

Taylor Nichols. He was in Whit Stillman's films. Main character in Barcelona.

Posted by: Drew on January 16, 2006 10:22 PM

THANK YOU!!!

Posted by: ace on January 16, 2006 10:22 PM

Guest Cast Here--I don't watch the show, but scroll to the bottom and you can look it up.

Posted by: Cal on January 16, 2006 10:28 PM

Guy that gets fleeced and then ditched by his family in "Boiler Room".

$5 please.

Posted by: Bama on January 16, 2006 10:30 PM

thanks bama, but you were beaten, and I didn't see Boiler Room. No $5 for you.

Posted by: ace on January 16, 2006 10:32 PM

Is Ace going to have a radio show tomorrow, I wonder?

(why am I talking like a Joo retiree from Florida? Oy.)

Posted by: Bart on January 16, 2006 10:40 PM

I just have one question, The terrorist leader is in the airport with all the hostages, makes his first cell call to the police and the sgt outside on the detail gets the call? Whats with that?

Posted by: River Rat on January 16, 2006 11:22 PM

I've tried to get "into" 24, but I just don't feel it. It's probably because I don't watch it on weekly television -- I wait for the season sets to come out on DVD, and then watch 'em one after the other. However, watching it that way really illustrates the silliness of many of the plotlines and the "perils of Pauline" nature of the whole thing. (I think the dumbest part was when Jack's daughter is menaced by a frigging cougar. I actually groaned aloud when that fetid little scene played out.)

I prefer Battlestar Galactica, mainly because it's driven by character rather than plot. In 24, all you really have is a plot. The whole show just becomes a parade of "24 conventions" -- which major character is going to die, who the "boss level" terrorist will turn out to be, who the mole is at CTU, etc., etc. It becomes less an episodic drama than a non-interactive video game where Jack has to level up each episode and attain power-ups in order to defeat the boss at the end.

Then, next season he'll do basically the same thing all over again.

Meh. Give me BSG or Monk any old day.

Posted by: Monty on January 16, 2006 11:42 PM

I thought it was exciting at first, but it took too long for Jack to power up to Super Sayan 4 so he could blast Piccolo with the Kamehameha.

Posted by: Sortelli on January 16, 2006 11:44 PM

First, who was giving me a hard time a few weeks ago about there always being a bathroom urinal scene?

Second, when Mrs. Logan walked in on Mr. Burke standing at the urinal, what was the protocal?

Posted by: shawn on January 16, 2006 11:59 PM

Monty, I just added all the DVDs to my Netflix queue to se what all this hoopla is all about.

Netfix is pissing me off, by the way. I've had Serenity and Cinderella Man in my queue for months and still haven't seen either DVD. Now I find out it's a "very long wait" for the 1st disc of season-1 of 24.

Posted by: Bart on January 17, 2006 12:01 AM

You forgot one - "datamine".

I was waiting for someone to demand a data mine on the first guy who got popped in the melon and was leaking hemoglobin all over the floor.

What an odd, cartoonishly interesting show.

As for the bathroom scene, the Mrs. and I were trying to guess when Berke was going to zip up, flush, or wash his hands. He did none of the above, then handed his key-card to the Designing Woman, who put it in her mouth.

My wife was howling in disgust, but that's just the way she rolls.

Posted by: Patton on January 17, 2006 12:26 AM

Extremely simplified rules for the 24 drinking game: Take one shot for each frame of video*.

* In Europe, take an extra 5 shots every time someone in Jack's family is kidnapped since you have the advantage of having only 25 frames per second.

Posted by: kbiel on January 17, 2006 01:06 AM

One could take a shot every time Jack growls a tough guy threat and get good and hammered. My favorite is when he tells the baggage handler/terrorist; "You're going to tell me what I want to know, it's just a question of how much you want it to hurt." I hope Sullivan watched that and fainted.

Posted by: UGAdawg on January 17, 2006 07:32 AM

Once Tony is out of surgery, I'll enjoy feasting my eyes on him and taking a drink whenever he gets that anguished look on his face.

I'll be tanked within ten minutes and ready to comfort Tony Alameda.

Posted by: KevlarGirl on January 17, 2006 08:53 AM

I've just posted my running list of 24 mistakes and plot holes.

Feel free to contribute your own...

Posted by: steve sturm on January 17, 2006 09:01 AM

The nerve-gas bottle's lids were labeled with bio-hazard symbols.

Incorrect labeling.

Also, not one of the terrorists reacted to the blatant
"Flank-2" code use. Incongruous.

Posted by: Joe Mama on January 17, 2006 09:42 AM

"It's driving me nuts"

Short trip

Posted by: Bob N on January 17, 2006 12:30 PM

I'm not sure the "24" drinking game will work; you'll be too drunk to finish watching the episode if you follow the above rules. For example, last night during episode 3, Bill told Chloe (this was before the hobbit showed up to take charge of CTU-LA) that Chloe had violated five CTU protocols. Chloe corrected Bill by telling him that she'd actually violated 26 protocols. By the above rules, if you have to take one drink per protocol violation by a CTU agent, you'd have to down a whole bottle of whiskey right there.

Personally, the thought of "Samwise" being in charge of counterterrorist ops - even on a TV show - is enough to make me want a stiff drink or two. On the plus side, it could have been worse: instead of Sean Astin, they could have cast Elijah Wood as Jack's new boss...

Posted by: Wes S. on January 17, 2006 01:02 PM

I love 24 and wondered how the extreme conservatives here are dealing with an obvious dichotomy between rooting for Jack to kill the terrorists and watching a bumbling, fumbling president that sure looks like he's fashioned after Bush.

The president's character doesn't appear to have a clue, can't make a decision without begging for advice, then when he does do something, it directly conflicts with the advice he's been given. (Except from the guy who's working with the terrorists.)

Just wondered.

Posted by: Mary M. on January 17, 2006 06:17 PM

watching a bumbling, fumbling president that sure looks like he's fashioned after Bush

Logan doesn't resemble Bush at all.

A bumbling, fumbling president that can't make a decision? Jimmy Carter.

Logan obsessing over his legacy ? That's Bill Clinton to a tee.


Besides, if the Logan character truly represents Bush you woul be cheering for his and Jack's defeat in every episode. (sort of like you do in real life)

Posted by: roscoe k on January 17, 2006 07:18 PM

"Fashioned after Bush?!" Mary, I actually thought President Logan looks more like Chucky Schumer than President Bush. Either President Bush, for that matter. And he acts more like Jimmy Carter with a bad case of nerves, to wit:

The president's character doesn't appear to have a clue, can't make a decision without begging for advice, then when he does do something, it directly conflicts with the advice he's been given. (Except from the guy who's working with the terrorists.)

Yep, that sounds like Carter. And a little like John Kerry, too...

Posted by: Wes S. on January 17, 2006 07:21 PM

And as far as "taking advice from the guy who's working with the terrorists" goes, Mary, you do recall which President it was that invited both Gerry Adams and Yassir Arafat over for lunch?

Yep, you guessed it: Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Wes S. on January 17, 2006 07:24 PM

You know who President Logan is supposed to resemble. Think about it.

- Pointy nose.

- Thinning hair, combed straight back.

- Paranoid, indecisive, and reckless.

- Two-syllable, five-letter name, ending in "N."

- Greets crowds with an awkward, stiff-armed, fingers-splayed gesture.

- Residential compound in California.

It's obviously a lefty caricature of Nixon, for cryin' out loud, and the show suffers for that political potshot from the writers/producers/whoever. The politics, the obsession with signing historic accords, and the constant second-guessing based on perceptions of public opinion are hardly hallmarks of Republican Presidential administrations these days.

Posted by: Bebeaux on January 17, 2006 09:02 PM

Do you remember which president had a high-level Soviet spy advising him at Yalta, and to let China fall to the communists?

(The spy appeared before a congressional committee and would have perhaps gotten away except for Congressman Nixon.)

Posted by: Steve O on January 17, 2006 10:56 PM

I knew the people on this blog were thin-skinned, but the responses to my posting about the president on 24 were beyond the pale, and tell me you know little if anything about the writers and producers in Hollywood.

Most of them were small children or not even alive during Nixon's administration and anyone who knows anything about Carter (whether you liked him or not), knows that he was a fanatical micro manager.

And, if you actually think ths guy is supposed to be Clinton, well, that would be no more than wishful thinking.

This guy is Bush. Deal with it.

Posted by: Mary M. on January 18, 2006 11:32 AM

Mary, how about it's no one because it's a TV show?

That's why liberals never get it, every show has to preach the liberal mantra - there has to be some potshot at Republicans. If it's not there and they like the show, they make one up.

The show is basically apolitical. Every side can find something to agree with or argue against.

Honestly, if they were going to make it Bush (or Clinton, Nixon or Carter) they would have made it more obvious. 24 isn't a Animal Farm-type allegory, despite anyone's attempts to make it that.

Posted by: Aaron on January 18, 2006 12:42 PM

This guy is Bush. Deal with it.

Is not. It's me!


Posted by: William Howard Taft on January 18, 2006 01:19 PM

Aaron,
Oh, because it's a TV show..."it's no one"??

Right.

All of the characters we see on TV are actually based on "no one."

They're all just make believe characters, conjured up in the writer's mind because the writers don't know any "real" people.

Like I said: Thin-skinned conservatives can sure dish it out, but boy, when they just don't like people presenting opinions with which they do not agree.

Posted by: Mary M. on January 18, 2006 03:52 PM

Like I said: Thin-skinned conservatives can sure dish it out, but boy, when they just don't like people presenting opinions with which they do not agree.

This is actually partially true - we generally only like it when people bring a fact-based analysis to the discussion. If it's just your opinion, we're not that interested.

Posted by: geoff on January 18, 2006 03:58 PM
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