Simple.
He eats a Japanese energy nutritional supplement bar – CalorieMate!
TV commercial (high bandwidth)
TV commercial (low bandwidth)
Script (the Japanese bits)
The narrator at the end:
Real Time Balance Nutrition. CALORIEMATE.
(text)Before “before you go.”
Oh my freakin’ gosh.
And here I had always just chalked it up to him snorting a lot of crystal meth during the commercial breaks.
Amusing, but can I take this opportunity to say just how much I hate, hate, hate the herky-jerky Windows Media format.
Grrrr…
Stranger
Alas, the only option besides WMV was RealPlayer. >sigh<
Well, there is the whole “hooked on smack” thing. Suuuuuure he kicked it :dubious:
Pfffffffffffffft. Everyone knows that Jack Bauer is Superman in disguise. Really, people. 
I figured Jack couldn’t sleep because he knows he’s the only competent member of the United States anti-terrorism force.
Maybe because each year or TV season he only has to work for one day. So he toughs it out - big deal.
Yeah, Jerry Lewis does the same, so how tough could it be?
Ran smoothly for me.
Is ‘24’ big in Japan?
Actually he doesn’t anymore. He tapes some segments in advance, since he’s in his 70s.
Yes, sorta. I don’t know if it’s on TV here, but you can rent all the episodes at most video stores. Pretty much everyone has at least heard of it.
I don’t watch the show. Has Jack EVER been shown getting any sleep?
One time in the first season after kidnapping a woman and holding her hostage at a…factory? trainyard? Well, somewhere, he almost dozed off.
Of course that first season started the day at midnight, which means after it ended he had been up for 40 hours or so.
I’ve done that before. Mountain Dew helps a lot.
Does being thwacked in the head and knocked unconscious count?
It’s on late at night (early morning) on regular channels (I’ve caught it occasionally), and I believe they show it at a more sane hour on the satellite channels.
Hmm … yes, I think it would. Does this happen often to our hero?
Shhh, don’t ruin my fun.