# 24: Season 4: Episodes 1-2 (7:00am - 9:00am) Season Premiere! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960 "2005-01-10T00:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/1 "2005-01-10T00:49:36Z")
_24_, Season 4, Episode 1-2 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM SEASON PREMIERE SPOILERS AHEAD! Here we go again, folks! Season 3 threads [1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=220002) [2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=221380) [3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=222709) [4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=224017) [5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=225274) [6](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=226621) [7](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=228098) [8](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=229589) [9](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=233364) [10](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=234768) [11](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=236885) [12](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=237968) [13](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=239159) [14](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240183) [15](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=241649) [16](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=248269) [17](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249575) [18](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251669) [19](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=252057) [20](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=253222) [21](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=254435) [22](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=255627) [23](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256792)[24](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=258060) Season 2 threads [1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=141661) [2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=142720) [3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143761) [4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=144882) [5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=146280) [6](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=147635) [7](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=149356) [8](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150854) [9](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154843) [10](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=156343) [11](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=160583) [12](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162262) [13](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163850) [14](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165404) [15](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=167046) [16](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=172344) [17](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174079) [18](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=175707) [19](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177496) [20](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=178804) [21](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=180544) [22](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182018) [23](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=183597) [24](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185081) Season 1 threads [1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97572) 2 [3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100175) [4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101350) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [15](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103851) [16](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104854) [17](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106093) [18](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107360) 19 [20](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109991) [21](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111266) 22 [23](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115233) [24](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116289) ---
**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/2 "2005-01-10T01:05:58Z")
Jesus Maud JarJar made it back for another season and hasnt changed a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/3 "2005-01-10T01:20:44Z")
Grrrr… 20 minutes in and they’ve already pulled out the “super-hacker” cliche. Some computer geek who can look at hex dumps on the screen and interpret it in real time, and figure out what it does. a. No one down loading code ever spools the output to the screen. Who the hell wants to look at 20 megabytes of unreadable gibberish scroll by? b. No one can read compiled code as if it were text. c. Compiled code does not retain comments. At least if they’re going to attempt to baffle us all with technobabble, at least have the stuff on the screen make sense. Show us script code instead of a meaningless screen dump of numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/4 "2005-01-10T01:26:43Z")
Guess Palmer was a one-termer. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/5 "2005-01-10T01:48:23Z")
:eek: Once again, Jack takes control and gets the answers! Note to self: NEVER become acquainted with Jack, in a good or bad way! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/6 "2005-01-10T01:50:15Z")
Explosions at the beginning AND end of the first hour. Groovy. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/7 "2005-01-10T01:51:22Z")
Do we really need a “Previously on 24…”? We JUST WATCHED IT, frcryinoutloud! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/8 "2005-01-10T01:53:32Z")
Well, there’s quite a few openings on the Secret Service now. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/9 "2005-01-10T02:02:42Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Well, there’s quite a few openings on the Secret Service now. And at some LA-based software development house as well. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/10 "2005-01-10T02:05:59Z")
Jack Bauer is “Mr. Provisional Reinstatement.” How many times has he been provisionally reinstated now? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/11 "2005-01-10T02:06:41Z")
Fixed title-_my_ Fox affiliate was showing cartoons from 7am to 9am this morning. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/12 "2005-01-10T02:08:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Fixed title-_my_ Fox affiliate was showing cartoons from 7am to 9am this morning. 😛 Uh, the title refers to the episode title. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/13 "2005-01-10T02:10:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Fixed title-_my_ Fox affiliate was showing cartoons from 7am to 9am this morning. 😛 Am I being whooshed? Episodes 1 and 2 take place at 7am and 8am, respectively, in _24_-time. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/14 "2005-01-10T02:13:05Z")
> [@Dewey Cheatem Undhow](#): > > Am I being whooshed? Episodes 1 and 2 take place at 7am and 8am, respectively, in _24_-time. I don’t think Czarcasm knows that. It’s just a coincidence that the hours match the title (albeit 12 hours off). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/15 "2005-01-10T02:15:10Z")
Damn. It looks like Debbie is the new Kim. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/16 "2005-01-10T02:16:35Z")
Well, I reported the post so someone can clean it up. Of course, the hours only line up if you’re in the Central Time Zone… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/17 "2005-01-10T02:27:51Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Damn. It looks like Debbie is the new Kim. I dunno. TerrorKid’s girlfriend is filling the role of stupid teenage girl nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/18 "2005-01-10T02:28:19Z")
> [@Dewey Cheatem Undhow](#): > > Well, I reported the post so someone can clean it up. Of course, the hours only line up if you’re in the Central Time Zone… _Re_-fixed the stoopid title. **AAARRRGGGHHH!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/19 "2005-01-10T02:36:36Z")
Also, it appears that SecDef’s hippy son is trying to take the Annoying Character crown from Chloe. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960/20 "2005-01-10T02:46:19Z")
> [@Dewey Cheatem Undhow](#): > > I dunno. TerrorKid’s girlfriend is filling the role of stupid teenage girl nicely. Wait, Debbie _is_ TerrorKid’s girlfriend. I suck at remembering character names. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/283960.md?page=2)