I heart Jack Bauer

Okay, I've decided to jump on the "24" blogging bandwagon. I've been reading elsewhere in the blogosphere about the upcoming "24" season premiere and since it's a date this household has been waiting for, well. . .here is my post about "24".

My husband and I first met Jack Bauer in season three. We rented a DVD with four episodes on it and I think went back the very next day to get the next four episodes. It didn't take long for us to get hooked. I've read about the "Just One More" phenomenon that accompanies Jack-watching and we have succumbed to it as well. One episode of Jack Bauer isn't enough. I like my Jack in many doses. I found myself saying many times after the end of an episode, "Just One More?!!!" And so it went as we finished season three and then moved on to 1, 2, and 4. Then we got TV so we could watch season 5 each week, and let me tell you, that was a killer! Only one episode at a time? Serious? How can I only watch Jack one episode at a time? But we did, because we love Jack Bauer!

Obviously, this isn't a show for children. We would watch the seasons we rented late at night after the kiddos were in bed. But when we watched it on TV at it's regularly scheduled time, I'm afraid that our kids got a few glimpses of Jack here and there. Usually because we were so enthralled with watching that we didn't notice that our daughter and snuck (not a word, I know) out of bed and was watching on the stairs behind us! Whoops! Anyway, needless to say, she's seen enough of Jack to know he's one cool guy.

We got two fish for Christmas last year. They went without names for months because, well, I don't know why. Anyway, finally, one day I said to Emma, "Emma, what should we name the fish?" She thought for a minute and then without blinking, promptly replied, "Kya and Jack Bauer". And so we named our fish Jack Bauer. He eventually died, not living up to his namesake, but he was a goldfish so that's okay. He actually lived for a good nine months and I think that's pretty long for a goldfish.

And finally, for those of you who love Jack Bauer too:

Basic Truths About Jack Bauer

• Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
• If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.
• If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life.
• Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
• If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Jack Bauer says its beef. Then you better believe it's beef.
• Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
• 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
• Let's get one thing straight: the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
• Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
• Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
• When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer hates lemonade. Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.
• Osama bin Laden's recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.
• Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.
• Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
• When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.
• Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.
• Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says something then you better do it.
• Jack Bauer won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstong it wasn't a big deal. He thinks yellow wristbands are gay.
• When Jack Bauer pees into the wind, the wind changes direction.
• Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
• When Google can't find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.
• You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.
• Jack Bauer can get McDonald's breakfast after 10:30.
• When the boogie man goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Jack Bauer.
• In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the heck have you done with your life?
• Jack Bauer killed so many terrorists that at one point, the #5 CIA Most Wanted fugitive was an 18-year-old teenager in Malaysia who downloaded the movie Dodgeball.
• In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.
• What color is Jack Bauer's blood? Trick question. Jack Bauer does not bleed.
• Guns don't kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.
• If Jack and MacGyver were locked in a room together, Jack would make a bomb out of MacGyver and get out.
• People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.
• Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.
• Jack Bauer has been to Mars. That's why there's no life on Mars.
• Superman's only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having a weakness.
• When Batman is in trouble, he turns on the Jack Bauer signal.
• It took Jack Bauer two minutes to beat a confession out of OJ.
• Jack Bauer's family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child. Once.