# 24: Season 6: Episodes 1-2 (6:00am - 8:00am) Season Premiere! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959 "2007-01-14T17:41:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/41 "2007-01-15T04:26:21Z")
Actually, Alexander Siddig (Bashir) got pretty good reviews for _Syriana_, if I remember correctly. I hope he lives at least until after lunchtime. And you guys are better than me with the wisecracks - the best I came up with when he escaped was “Jack’s taking a bite out of crime!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/42 "2007-01-15T04:27:34Z")
[QUOTE=Skammer] Good to see Dr. Bashir! [/QUOTE] Can Chief O’Brien be far behind? Maybe the IRA’s entry to Los Angeles. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/43 "2007-01-15T04:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Can Chief O’Brien be far behind? [/QUOTE] Yep. He’ll be playing Chloe’s long-lost father. Poor guy. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/44 "2007-01-15T04:49:04Z")
Peradventure it shall come to pass that Quark will show up selling Chole new servers and work stations. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/45 "2007-01-15T05:09:13Z")
Just thought I’d pop in and say that spoiler-averse _24_ fans should stay away from the Drudge Report until after Monday night’s episode… _grrrr_ How about Avery Brooks as Curtis’ long-lost commando father? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/46 "2007-01-15T05:19:13Z")
[QUOTE=N9IWP] For a warmup: Mary Lynn Rajskup (Chloe) - operating heavy machinery while on cold medicine: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JdD9Or-VLFo/hqdefault.jpg "Mary Lynn Rajskub with Spike Feresten Chole 24") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdD9Or-VLFo) [/QUOTE] I just watched that. She was really cool in that. I like her style of humor. When the FBI guys visited the president’s sister I was thinking maybe they were terrorists in disguise. They didn’t show their badges. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/47 "2007-01-15T05:23:07Z")
The promos hooked me, and I tuned in. I was underwhelmed, sorry to say. Don’t know that I’ll check it out tomorrow night, too. In addition to the other already-known actors mentioned upthread, the Prez’s sister’s boyfriend, the head of that Arab-American lobbying group, is played by the guy who was the White House Chief of Staff in the Geena Davis series _Commander-in-Chief_. He’s got more of an accent in this one, natch. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/48 "2007-01-15T05:41:04Z")
I find it almost laughable that the logo of the Islamic American Alliance (as seen on its computer wallpaper) depicts the name of the organization in connected English letters meant to mimic Arabic script, almost comparable to the slanty-lined English letters used on Chinese food and other “Asian” products. I doubt a prestigious organization representing a group of people would really use a typeface which mocks the language of the own people they represent. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/49 "2007-01-15T05:51:16Z")
I just watched the “scenes from next episode” and I’m pretty sure one of the 100 enemy combatants was Shaun Majumder. That makes the next two hours almost worth watching. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/50 "2007-01-15T05:58:22Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] In addition to the other already-known actors mentioned upthread, the Prez’s sister’s boyfriend, the head of that Arab-American lobbying group, is played by the guy who was the White House Chief of Staff in the Geena Davis series _Commander-in-Chief_. He’s got more of an accent in this one, natch. [/QUOTE] That’d be the esteemed Harry Lennix. I don’t remember them ever having this many ‘name’ actors before. (Still, they’ve killed so many former regulars that Mary Lynn Icecube now gets top billing after Sutherland.) ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/51 "2007-01-15T06:27:42Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] That’d be the esteemed Harry Lennix. I don’t remember them ever having this many ‘name’ actors before. (Still, they’ve killed so many former regulars that Mary Lynn Icecube now gets top billing after Sutherland.) [/QUOTE] Ahhh… Commander Lock from the “Matrix Reloaded” (and Revolutions). I was trying to figure out where I recognized him from. ---
**Author:** ![Elmo\_Lincoln](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Elmo\_Lincoln](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmo_Lincoln)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/52 "2007-01-15T07:03:58Z")
I’m just wondering about what happens when the guys with the U-Haul come back and find a pair of jeans and a t-shirt missing. And a carved up terrorist in the living room. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/53 "2007-01-15T10:04:27Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Don’t know that I’ll check it out tomorrow night, too. [/QUOTE] I obviously can’t spoil it for you, but you really should watch Monday night’s episodes. They are much better than the first two, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/54 "2007-01-15T11:11:30Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] And what was up with Bauer buttoning the top button? [/QUOTE] Yeah, I was thinking he looked like a total poindexter like that. Although admittedly tearing out a terrorist’s throat with your teeth, while shackled, after you’ve already been tortured, does sort of lower the Nerdiness Quotient a bit. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/55 "2007-01-15T12:46:32Z")
Color me underwhelmed. I’ll be sitting out this season of Kumar and The Biscuit. Besides, TV is over for me. It’s all been done. We now have the bestest TV quote/catchphrase of all time: DROP THE COFFEE! ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/56 "2007-01-15T13:00:46Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] And what was up with Bauer buttoning the top button? [/QUOTE] I’m thinking it’s like Jayne’s hat: “Man walks down the street in a hat like that, you know he’s not afraid of anything.” ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/57 "2007-01-15T14:10:13Z")
Is the hawkish Presidential advisor the same actor who plays Larry (? Main character’s mathematician friend) on _Numb3rs_? He seems to bear a strong resemblance to him. ---
**Author:** ![Middlea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Middlea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Middlea)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/58 "2007-01-15T14:18:05Z")
After 11 weeks of terrorists attacks over nearly a dozen, it takes a blowed up bus in LA to raise the threat level to “red”. That, or a poorly-worded newscast. I’m pretty sure the organization the Palmer sister works for has terrorist ties - the computers work too fast for a “not-for-profit”. That kinda speed requires more than grant money. Gees, they even had flat-panel monitors. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/59 "2007-01-15T14:26:32Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] They didn’t show their badges. [/QUOTE] Come now, a quality show like _24_ wouldn’t do that racist, “We doan hava to show you no stinkin’ badges!” routine. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959/60 "2007-01-15T14:37:48Z")
[QUOTE=athelas] Is the hawkish Presidential advisor the same actor who plays Larry (? Main character’s mathematician friend) on _Numb3rs_? He seems to bear a strong resemblance to him. [/QUOTE] As I mentioned above, The Biscuit from Ally McBeal. They’re _all_ played by Pet McNichol. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-1-2-6-00am-8-00am-season-premiere/387959.md?page=4)