Jack Bauer smiled. Wow. But that wasn't the only thing that made people's eyes pop out of their heads last night on the premiere of "24." The show is set in New York City this season, but was filmed in Canada with a liberal amount of green screens. Can they trick even the most discerning New Yorker into believing they are really in The Big Apple? (Note: New Yorkers never call the city The Big Apple.) Fugheddaboudit! 

First off, this exterior of the Chelsea Hotel doesn't even look close to right.

It's too clean. And what's with the balconies? Nope, bad job there. It's like they Photoshopped the hotel sign onto some ridiculous Canadian building. At least that's what I thought as I was searching for all things fugazi. I was sure that was not the Chelsea, but...um...it is. Oops. 

Here's something else they got right. CTU's Arlo Glass does a little "surveillance" of New York City's rooftops and finds this city gem. A good pair of binoculars can provide any New Yorker with the same kind of fun for hours.

The main tools the show used to create the New York vibe were taxis, hot dog vendors and the orange and white chimneys that vent steam from manhole covers.

And they went a little crazy with the vendors and manhole chimneys. C'mon, not every shot, okay?

I've never seen so many parked taxis in Manhattan. Every chance the show had, they put them on the curb or in random alleys.

Sidewalks in New York are pretty crowded, but Jack never once takes a shoulder from a passerby or has to weave around jerks obnoxiously strutting three-wide. This makes it even harder to understand why it takes him so long to go from W. 18th Street to W. 21st Street. "24" is real-time, right? It takes him 15 minutes to go three blocks, and that's a stretch even while lugging a dying man.

Here's an unforgivable mistake: a parking attendant sees Jack patching up Victor Aruz's bloody shoulder and calls 911. New Yorkers do not get involved in other people's problems! Here's another unforgivable mistake: the cops show up in like five seconds.

And I know Jack is a pretty badass dude, but killing two evil guys holding automatic weapons with one swing of an ax was a little much. Then again, the Mets could use someone with a swing like that.

After the CTU helicopter blows up, there's one siren in the distance. First of all, there is always a siren in the distance in NYC. At all times! A helicopter blowing up rates at least two sirens.

This is also hard to believe: New York CTU Director Brian Hastings is a devious clown. But I guess we just have to fugheddaboudit all this fugazi. More important things are happening, like Jack trying to save Kamistan President Omar Hassan from an assassin in the next 23 hours. Peace in the Middle East!