24, Season 6, Hour 14

Okay, folks, at this time of the year, the Monday and Tuesday editions are going to be devoted to musings on the latest episodes of 24 and American Idol. If you are watching one or both, you and I will be having a lot of fun. If you are not in the audience, deal with it.


And now....7:00:00 PM, dank, dank, dank, dank.

• Has anyone noticed that Powers Boothe has no neck. I still would prefer him as VP over Dick Cheney.
• So, there was the big reveal that Audrey Raines was killed in a Chinese automobile accident. But are we sure that she was China at the time? There are Chinese automobile accidents daily in Ralphs' parking lots all over Southern California. By the bye, I am not connecting with this news of Audrey's demise. I've heard that Kim Raver has been shooting for episodes later in the season.
• Has anyone understood a single word that Morris has said all day/season?
• Does Ricky/Rick/Whatever Schroeder realize that he is playing a doomed part now that he is going out on Field Ops as Jack's wingman? Those roles are not open-ended. They all wind up dead. The only one who didn't get zipped up into one of those CTU body bags is Chase from Season 3. But he had his hand whacked off by a fire axe. Also, Ricky/Rick/Whatever playing a rascist? But his best friend on Silver Spoons was that little Black tapdancer.
• The cliffhanger from the previous episode was former President Logan coding blue in an ambulance after his wife stabbed him in the shoulder with a knife she had just used to slice up a kiwi. But we saw nothing of either in this episode. Unusually sloppy for 24 not to address that at least with a single mention last night.
• Like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the annual CTU mole hunt shows up on schedule. Nadia has been raising highbrows since Hour 1. But that is too damn easy. Who the hell does the background checks at CTU? They, too, should be fired....along with Sandra Bullock's script reader. (See previous post).
• When they showed the nuclear drone flying over San Francisco, I thought I noticed the lights from SBC Park, where the Giants play. So, I am thinking, if it crashes there with a lot of black and orange radioactivity, not so bad, right? I wonder how nuclear leaks counteract with steroids.

7:59:59 PM....dank, dank, dank, dank.

Dinner last night: A turkey burger from the Cheesecake Factory.