24: Random observations from the first 4 hours

Last week was the back-to-back 4 hour MEGA premiere of the ever addictive 24. While the show is very entertaining, it's definitely not very 'smart'. I tried thinking of a way to turn these thoughts into a cohesive, readable blog post, but in the true spirit of 24, I decided to just do a little blogo-rreah and dump it all on you at once. Read at your own discretion.

-a NUKE ACTUALLY WENT OFF IN LA!!!
-death count (not including scenes where more than 1 person dies at one time: 4 (jack bite, kid kills neighbour, terrorist kills terrorist, terrorist kills self
-jack kills a man with a single bite to the neck
-jack is tortured just minutes after being freed from 2 years in a Chinese prison
president's sister is arrested
-several allusions to 'tearing up the Constitution', destroying civil liberties, and interrogating innocent people!
-a NUKE ACTUALLY WENT OFF IN LA!!!
-several Toyota product placements? check. accidental Volkswagen product placement
-jb aborts a major terrorist plot by kicking a man through the glass on the LA subway
-plenty of negotiation with terrorists
-several simultaneous terrorist attacks on American soil and the president is chilling out in the oval office with a few close friends. can i get you a coffee mr. president?
-1 great lead off of a terrorist only to result in yet another suicide bombing. man, i hate it when you're about to catch them and they blow themselves up!
-mention of a suitcase nuke? check
-a NUKE ACTUALLY WENT OFF IN LA!!!
-someone asks, 'how many casualties if a nuke goes off in a major American city?' answer turns out to be in the hundreds of thousands! oh gosh, is it going to be that much? dang it! these nukes really are nasty aren't they? GET ME JACK BAUER!
-2 years later and Cloee is STILL constipated!
-% of time all actors combined spend either on a telephone or a cellphone-100%
-2 actors from Harold and Kumar playing lead terrorist roles? check. a 29 year old actor playing a teenager? check.
-offering a terrorist full immunity in exchange for helping 'the greater good'? check. but i have to see it in writing first!
-several scenes in a Socal abandoned factories and/or LA industrial areas? check.
-little mosque on the prairie actor as a CTU agent? check
-reference to something very important happening in 20 minutes when there is 20 minutes left in the show? check.
-reference to 2 offscreen beheadings
-flashbacks to the past 2 years in a chinese prison? 0
-JB vomiting? check'
-a NUKE ACTUALLY WENT OFF IN LA!!!