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24 subplots
24 has undoubtedly jumped the shark. In fact I’m pretty sure it started to go down hill after around season 3. However, due to an unrealistic hope that the show will some day suck less, I continue to watch.
What never ceases to amuse me about 24 is the subplots. That’s right, you know what I’m talking about:
- Kim and her martial arts boyfriend
- Wayne Palmer having an affair with that congressman’s wife (played, for some reason, by Gina Torres)
- Frodo’s life partner and his junkie sister
And let’s not forget this season:
- Dubaku’s relationship with a waitress despite the warnings of her over-protective, slightly crazy, sister
Why do I love the subplot? Because it’s pure cheesy goodness. They crack me up every time. You know that despite how far fetched or seemingly random, they will eventually intersect with the main plot in the strangest of ways. Take Sean Astin’s (Lynn McGill) subplot. His dope fiend sister manages to hook up with a bad guy who’s sole purpose is to steal her brother’s CTU access card. Then the uber bad guys get their hands on the stolen key and a bunch of people die a painful death from toxic gas. This subplot, of course, gives way to perhaps the most hilariously absurd 24 line of all time:
So, we’re all going to die because you were embarrassed?
Classic.
So what’s in store for the waitress and her meddling sister? I can only imagine an unnecessary scene where Dubaku tortures her and mercilessly drags her from her wheel chair. But what is the link? Maybe she is only a waitress part time and the rest of the time she moonlights as a food taster for the President and Dubaku will use her to serve poisoned hash browns to the Commander in Chief! Or…maybe he’s just lonely. Ruthless dictators need love too.
And while I’m on the subject, is it me or does 24 seem way too torture happy this season? I mean damn. Last week Jack seemed awfully anxious to hold an infant baby at gun point.
Jack: Madam president, he’s lying! Let me do what’s necessary and he WILL tell me who let the dogs out!
Funny, funny stuff.
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Top Chef is total bullshit. I’m really tempted to boycott the show. For real this time. Andrew getting sent home because he didn’t “follow the rules” is completely f’ed up. I thought it was beyond unfair when Antonia or Lisa didn’t get sent home when they decided they were above beer and polish sausage and instead made sea bass and chorizo in the improv challenge. But yet they send Andrew home b/c he didn’t use a whole grain? Unbelievable.
I just can not stand Lisa. She is a self-righteous whiny baby who would knock an old lady down the stairs to win. I mean what a fucking hypocrite! She wantonly ignores the rules of the challenge and declares “I don’t cook with beer” and then has the audacity to call Andrew out. And why the hell is Spike still there? Ok, he can make a squash soup but is that really the makings of a Top Chef. And you know what? I like Dale. Sure, he gets far too upset over losing but at least he has talent. Richard is obviously going to win though. And he should. He’s experimental but not as bizarre as Marcel or as annoying as Hung.
I’m telling you, pull this crap again Top Chef and we’re through! I mean it this time.transporter 3 dvdrip
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Following the success of SNL Live the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre put on 30 rock Live. I went to try and get tickets but to no avail. Within the first 5 minutes a seemingly nice guy comes out and goes: Sorry, none of you are going to get tickets, there are no standbys. A few people leave…maybe 4 or 5 but the rest of us (for whatever reason) stay in line. 10 minutes or so later a different guy comes out and yells:
YOU ARE STANDING IN A LINE TO NOTHING! THERE ARE NO MORE TICKETS! PLEASE LEAVE!!
Ha! Well, that was all the motivation I needed to head over to Momofuku for some delicious noodles. However, during the time between the Guy #1 and Guy #2 a lady comes over and is interviewing people for CNN. She’s trying to get folks to talk to her and the girl standing next to me volunteers. It went something like this:
CNN Lady: Didn’t you hear the announcement? Why are you still in line? What are you waiting for?
Girl: Well…it’s one of our favorite shows and blah…
Too funny! But hey, I was still waiting in line too so who am I to talk? The only cool thing is that about 2 minutes after I got there Toofer, Josh, and Kenneth walked by me as I was standing in line. Looked like they were heading off to get some pre-show grub. For some reason I imagined Toofer would be taller IRL.
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So last Wednesday I saw AvenueQ at the Orpheum. It was hilarious, I’d highly recommend it. Before the play started, I was looking through the program and I saw that a woman named Jennie Kwan was doing was an understudy for Christmas Eve. The name and the face looked familiar but I couldn’t place it. Then I read in her bio “Califorinia Dreams, cast regular”.
I knew it! I’d recognize Sam the exchange student from anywhere. And then, like a long lost dream, it all came flooding back:
Surf dudes with attitudes
Kinda groovy
Laid back mood
Sky above and below
Good vibrations
Feeling mellow
Can’t give it up
Don’t waaaaaana stoooooop
Come on now…sing along if you know it!
California Dreams
Don’t wake me up if I’m dreaming
(California Dreams)
Just let me lie here in the sun
Until my day is doooooooooone
That’s right. Don’t pretend like I’m the only one who watched this unoriginal, less interesting SBTB rip-off.
Sigh. Will Saturday mornings ever be the same?
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