# Please don't discuss "24" with me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2001, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773 "2001-11-06T13:54:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/61 "2002-03-13T13:54:12Z")
Woo hoo! That “Aieeee!” turned out to just be a bit of gas. I’ve got everything under control. Now, Montfort, when you watch the last 12 episodes, you are going to start them up at noon, and either watch them straight through, or at least wait until the corresponding time to watch each episode, right? [text cut] I just realized that I made a ridiculous comment above. I was going to ask what I should do, since I live in Indiana, which doesn’t have Daylight Saving Time. But then I realized that I doubt that Jack Bauer will be switching his watch at any point, since it all takes place in one day, and there’s very little chance (well, 2:365) that the day they’re on is a DST switch. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/62 "2002-03-14T10:21:03Z")
Actually, no. I don’t think the show would “work” as well as it does by watching many episodes consecutively. I intend to watch the episodes as soon as the tapes come from the US and I can rip them out of the packaging. Then, I’ll wait patiently for the next tape(s) to arrive… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/63 "2002-03-14T13:33:11Z")
Ho, ho, ho, **Montfort** , you’ve got a surprise coming, as I wasn’t planning on sending you the tapes separately! However, I’ll let you make your case for why I should, then **Munch** and I will caucus. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/64 "2002-03-14T14:13:19Z")
Well, I suppose I can understand that logic - you need time to digest each episode. But here’s my suggestion, take it for what it’s worth (more than lint, less than a Buick): If you’re going to watch each episode on a different day, at least watch at the same “time”. Thus, you’d watch the 1:00-2:00pm episode at 1:00-2:00pm, etc. But my caucus vote is that you can do whatever the hell you want, as long as you keep coming in here and make fun of my VCR. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/65 "2002-03-27T14:50:06Z")
I’ve been watching too much _Match Game_. I almost posted: > [@](#): > > [Gene Rayburn] > **Munch** ’s VCR is soooooo bad … > [/Gene Rayburn] So how go things among the ranks, clubbers? I was out to dinner last night during the CTP (critical taping period), and I almost overslept this morning, so right now I’m operating under the assumption that everything went OK at Chez K. It may just be my imagination, but have the last few episodes seemed to go by much quicker than the first few episodes? It just seems like tape 3 filled up much quicker than tape 1 did. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/66 "2002-03-27T15:42:40Z")
I think you’re right - there was a good streak of consecutive episodes. Only 7 more hours to go! And to prove your point, KtK, I just wrote “9 more hours” above, and had to recheck. I was convinced that we just finished 3:00-4:00pm. Wowsa. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/67 "2002-03-27T16:34:38Z")
(perfectly hideous Spoilers hereby deleted – Ukulele Ike) ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Baroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/68 "2002-03-27T16:55:41Z")
I hereby declare this noble thread spoiled. Let us bow our heads and have a moment of silence. Unless you non-watchers can manage to get amnesia about the spoiler and still remember to tape it every week. Christ, you even said please. **Astorian,** you fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/69 "2002-03-27T17:05:50Z")
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Astorian, pull your head out of your ass. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/70 "2002-03-27T19:02:45Z")
Okay, y’all, we’ll forget about this a lot quicker if we just forget about it. Let’s say we stir up the waters a bunch by posting enough to get us to page 3. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/71 "2002-03-27T19:04:30Z")
I’ll start. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/72 "2002-03-27T19:08:06Z")
There’s also the more severe option of adding The Poster Who’s Name Shall No Longer Be Mentioned In This Thread to our ignore lists. 🙂 No, not **Montfort**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/73 "2002-03-27T19:35:32Z")
For some reason this thread has a lot more posts than I can see. And where in the world did Knead go off to? He hasn’t said a thing in weeks… Just kidding! I wouldn’t put you on my ignore list! Okay, I talked myself out of remembering what I read up there. All I did was say to myself that I’ve seen about 4 or 5 different people on ‘24’ commercials that fit TPWNSNLBMITT’s description, and now I can’t remember whose dog has amnesia. So, how 'bout them Jayhawks? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/74 "2002-03-27T20:24:41Z")
I got nothin’ against the Jayhawks. They make the playoffs this year? ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Baroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/75 "2002-03-27T20:26:35Z")
What really chafes is that **Assheadtorian** was just parroting what lots of other sniveling pricks are saying. Heck, why clutter the board with an original thought, right? Fucking clown shoes. I shudder to contemplate the depths of hydrocephaly on display in the other 1600 posts. While I’m being bilious, this thread sure did suffer in the conversion. To look at it now, it appears that I barely participated. The formation of the 24 club has been 86ed. My personal journey from skepticism to gladhanding - gone. Damn…you…God! ::shakes fist at the sky:: But we must press on, disheartened though we may be. Last night’s episode was absolutely intense. That’s what I love about 24: almost every episode has at least some part where you are yelling at the TV you’re wound so tight. Since we all probably have similar viewing tastes, allow me to make a movie suggestion. You gotta check out _Session 9._ It just doesn’t get much creepier. Or you could not watch it and I could drop vague hints about the plot and state over and over how good it is. 🆒 In the director’s commentary, they mentioned that some new camera technology was used. Me likey. The look of the film was gorgeous. Any movies blown your mind lately? Viva la 24 club! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/76 "2002-03-27T20:34:42Z")
**Moderator’s Notes:** > [@](#): > > Astorian, you fucked up. and > [@](#): > > You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Astorian, pull your head out of your ass. are totally inappropriate remaks for this forum and I know you guy both know better. Do **not** do this again. I don’t care how uspet you are at the time. I ask that you imagine how upset you _will_ be when we boot you from the boards. If you guys have a problem with a post from another member, ask the forum moderator(s) to deal with. This ain’t right. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/77 "2002-03-27T20:36:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Billy Baroo \* > you’re wound so tight… > > Any movies blown your mind lately? You wound tight, **Billy**? I find that hard to beluggleigugiffleabbadahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA! Damn, I almost got that out with a straight face. 🙂 I do know what you mean about the gutting this thread took when the backups were lost, though. The first time we hit three pages was just, well to me anyway, awe-inspiring. Recent movies that have blown my mind? I’ve been seeing a fair amount of mainstream stuff lately, but among those, _The Man Who Wasn’t There_ and _LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring_ were the most visually stunning. Both richly deserved the Oscar for cinematography; sadly, only one can win per year. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/78 "2002-03-27T20:46:56Z")
> [@](#): > > What really chafes is that Assheadtorian was just parroting what lots of other sniveling pricks are saying. Heck, why clutter the board with an original thought, right? Fucking clown shoes. I shudder to contemplate the depths of hydrocephaly on display in the other 1600 posts For your sake, I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that. Stop. Now. Clear? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/79 "2002-03-27T20:50:15Z")
Dictator’s Notes: Y’all listen to the nice moderator, y’hear? I’ve already posted something in **ATMB** to see what can be done. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773/80 "2002-03-27T20:57:00Z")
But, but… You’re right, Unc. The “head in your ass” comment wasn’t appropriate. Apologies to the forum mods and Astorian. It was just fairly incredulous to see a thread with a title pleading that nobody spoil ‘24’ that has been nearly continuously on the front page of “Cafe Society” since September have someone come in and post a spoiler. Is it possible to have that deleted, or would Astorian have to request it? If it’s the latter, Astorian, could you request that post of yours be deleted? And speaking of the spoiler, I just can’t see how a dog coming down with rabies could possibly be integrated into “24”'s story line. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-discuss-24-with-me/91773.md?page=5)