# A pre-emptive 24 rant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448 "2003-02-25T18:28:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/1 "2003-02-25T18:28:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/2 "2003-02-25T18:30:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/3 "2003-02-25T18:47:20Z")
How the hell can you do a show about **one day**?? Dumbest. Premise. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/4 "2003-02-25T18:50:24Z")
:rolleyes: thanks for the input. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/5 "2003-02-25T18:53:15Z")
Hey, we’re nothing if not helpful 😃 ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/6 "2003-02-25T18:53:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/7 "2003-02-25T18:54:13Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/8 "2003-02-25T18:59:42Z")
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_. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/9 "2003-02-25T19:06:38Z")
What is “24?” And none of those too cute, “It’s 2X12,” kinda things. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/10 "2003-02-25T19:12:14Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/11 "2003-02-25T19:14:14Z")
Thanks Trion 😃 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/12 "2003-02-25T19:19:18Z")
It’s a [TV show](http://www.fox.com/24/). ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/13 "2003-02-25T19:30:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/14 "2003-02-25T19:43:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/15 "2003-02-25T19:46:01Z")
How much of a geek am I? I’m disappointed that Trion beat me to it! Blast!!! ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/16 "2003-02-25T19:47:24Z")
I’m not. Her whole part is too damned contrived to allowed to survive. Or the character, really. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/17 "2003-02-25T19:58:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*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. \*\* If Jesus really loved me, Kim would have been “menaced” by that damn mountain lion. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/18 "2003-02-25T20:08:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Carnage \* > \*\*How much of a geek am I? I’m disappointed that Trion beat me to it! > > Blast!!! \*\* Sorry there **Max**. I’ll let you get the next one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/19 "2003-02-25T22:59:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*Thanks Trion 😃 \*\* 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: 😛 Fenris, Rant critic. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448/20 "2003-02-25T23:13:31Z")
**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.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-24-rant/157448.md?page=2)