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Entertainment Weekly has inconclusive definitive proof that this is "24's" last season. The show needs a U.N. Secretary General, and talent agencies got this casting call: "These are the final episodes, so if some of your name people would like to do something on the show, this is the time for them to do it." This can only mean that Dana is going to go bonkers and kill everyone because she's on the verge of being outed as a dirty redneck. Or it could meanthat NBC will pick up the show and replace Kiefer Sutherland with Jay Leno. (I just made up that last part about Leno.) Whatever happens, I want Stephen Root to join the cast full-time to kill terrorists with a red stapler. But if it does end, please let Jack Bauer eat for the entire final hour. He deserves it.
Last night, "Family Guy" paid homage to "Tootsie," and if that sounds like a weird premise for an episode, it is. But, it did allow for a few silly non sequiturs, and of course, a lot of borderline-offensive ones. You've done it again, Seth MacFarlane! Let's talk about the episode after the jump.
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Lots of boy-girl trouble on "24" last night. Dana and Cole's stupid relationship is on the rocks. President Hassan's wife thinks he's a dummy, but maybe he's not so dumb after all. Their daughter's tryst with a terrorist has hit a little bump in the road. Now who's stupid? "I told you so" always helps a marriage on the rocks. Renee's giant fivehead wasn't around for an entire hour, but you could just tell Jack was daydreaming about it. Maybe not, but who really understands the depths of the human heart until a suicide bomber blows one up? Time for the Fugheddaboudit Fact-Check, after the jump!
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"24" is officially "Grey's Anatomy" with guns and torture. The whole nuclear destruction thing is just a backdrop for the love lives of troubled CTU agents and backstabbing Kamistanis. How about some terrorism and dirty politics that don't culminate in an eyeball-to-eyeball stare and a pregnant pause that has you waiting for a sloppy tongue-kiss? Although, there isn't anything more romantic than professing your love right before the world explodes. Read the full recap after the jump.
continue readingJack Bauer has survived jumper cables, stabbings, bullets, kissing Nina Myers, Russian mobsters, heroin, Mexican drug lords, and mad cow disease. But a ruptured cyst (allegedly) has sidelined Kiefer Sutherland and halted production of "24." Jack needs to save Kiefer immediately -- even though he's not an American. According to the Associated Press, Sutherland will have surgery and shooting should resume next week. With about six weeks left in production, there is not expected to be any delay in the airing of episodes.
Play the Jack Bauer Quote Game after the jump!
On Sunday night -- while you were watching the Olympics, probably -- "Family Guy" tried to nose its way into the headlines by airing an episode with many lazy jokes about mentally handicapped people. That's bad enough, but then producers went one step further, as you'll probably be hearing about on Fox News: The show made fun of Trig Palin, Sarah Palin's baby with Down syndrome. As you might imagine, the other non-sequiturs were secondary to that one, but there were (a couple of) funny moments. Let's look and grade all of them, after the jump.
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Just because CTU has lost track of Jack Bauer doesn't mean that he is in any kind of real trouble. He's Jack Bauer! Besides, it's not like CTU has been paying close attention anyway. Dana is busy fooling around with some crazy redneck while Cole and Arlo are all like, "What's up with Dana?" And Hastings is incompetent. He just does whatever covers his butt at that particular moment. Some of this is fakery. But the rest? Fugheddaboudit. Read the full "24" recap after the jump.
continue readingYou'd think that, in the first thirteen episodes of "Glee," Sue Sylvester made enough enemies to last most fictional characters a lifetime. But the show's producers evidently don't agree: the news just hit that the latest high-profile guest star to join the show is Molly Shannon, who'll play a McKinley High astronomy teacher/badminton coach who, naturally, clashes with Sue, because everyone clashes with Sue. Though Michael Ausiello's write-up on the casting doesn't say whether Shannon will sing, she has plenty of experience in putting on a show. Above, see a sketch featuring Shannon as her classic "Saturday Night Live" character, high school student Mary Katherine Gallagher, as she tries out for a talent show, which suggests that "Glee" should be right in her wheelhouse; after the jump, more evidence that Shannon should be able to handle whatever the "Glee" producers throw at her.
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Russians and Kamistanis have trust issues, just like Jack Bauer. If your mother tells you she loves you, check with another source, because you can't be too careful with nuclear annihilation, world peace, and Jack's retirement on the line. Read the Fugheddaboudit Fact-Check for last night's episode of "24" after the jump.
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The worlds have collided! I wasn't expecting the inter-dimensional storm to get cooking again so quickly on "Fringe," but here we are on the precipice. As great as this episode was, part of me wishes that they didn't crack open The War until after their late-season hiatus, the next episode not airing until April. The two month layoff is going to be extra agonizing because WHAT JUST WENT DOWN WAS AMAZING. There have been a few significant highlights this second season -- the premiere, "Momentum Deferred," "Grey Matters" -- but this episode takes the cake, priming things for what's sure to be a fantastic final three episodes. The full recap is after the jump.
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