A pre-emptive 24 rant

The BBQ Pit
#1

Dear City of Chicago:

I will warn you once, and I will warn you thusly:

Do not pre-empt 24 tonight. DO NOT DO IT. I don’t give a fucking iguana’s throat fan what the early mayoral election returns are. There’s nothing you can tell me between eight and nine that you can’t tell me at 9:01.

Do not SHRINK THE SCREEN TO RUN A SCROLL.

Do NOT break in and ‘join 24 already in progress’

Do not do it Channel 32. DO NOT.
SHE HULK NO WANT 24 PRE-EMPTED. PRE-EMPTIONS FOR ELECTION RETURNS MAKE SHE HULK ANGRY.

Watch it.

#2

You do realize, of course, that somewhere deep in the IT bowels of a Chicago media conglomerate there is a fanboy staring at your post, becoming very angry at your She-Hulk impersonation, and starting the process of pre-empting it entirely.

#3

How the hell can you do a show about one day?? Dumbest. Premise. Ever.

#4

:rolleyes: thanks for the input.

#5

Hey, we’re nothing if not helpful :smiley:

#6

I think they should have picked up right where the first one left off. I’m sure 12 one hour episodes of Mr. Sutherland sleeping would have drawn in the ratings.

#7

Q.E.D., just who were you asking about this and why?
jbj, out of curiosity, have you been able to keep up by catching the new episodes on FX? I think that’s pretty handy of them.

#8

rhe·tor·i·cal (r-tôr-kl, -tr-) adj.

  1. Of or relating to rhetoric.
  2. Characterized by overelaborate or bombastic rhetoric.
  3. Used for persuasive effect: a speech punctuated by rhetorical pauses.

:stuck_out_tongue:

#9

What is “24?” And none of those too cute, “It’s 2X12,” kinda things.

#10

First of all, jarbabyj, you have my best wishes for a completely unblemished hour of “24” tonight. I love the show too and would hate for it to be pre-empted.

However, as a member of The Fenris Squad of Comic Book Nit-Pickers, I need to point out that She-Hulk doies not talk that way. When Shulkie goes green she does not get stupid.

That’s all. :slight_smile:

#11

Thanks Trion :smiley:

#12

It’s a TV show.

#13

If Elisha Cuthbert has a significant role in tonites episode, AND she is wearing a bra, there will be a piece of fruit thrown at my TV.

Do I get an “Amen” people?

#14

Well, sort of an Amen. I mean, if there’s a chance of her being ‘sexually menaced’ by Kevin Dillon, I’m willing to put up with her being in the episode.

#15

How much of a geek am I? I’m disappointed that Trion beat me to it!

Blast!!!

#16

I’m not. Her whole part is too damned contrived to allowed to survive. Or the character, really.

#17

If Jesus really loved me, Kim would have been “menaced” by that damn mountain lion.

#18

Sorry there Max. I’ll let you get the next one. :wink:

#19

But she is one hell of a sexy asskicker, so I found the Jarbaby’s portrayal of the character nuanced and apt.

And hot. Yow! :eek: :stuck_out_tongue:

Fenris, Rant critic.

#20

Fenris, I thought for a split second there that you were talking about Kim, the know-nothing, do-nothing, get-myself-in-trouble -constantly-in-really-stupid-ways character from “24”.

(Q.E.D., putting smileys after all your posts doesn’t make them any more appropriate or wanted in this thread. You don’t like “24” - go start your own rant.)