Accent aside, you recognize the type if you've ever had an idiot talk to you about current events. I wouldn't mind seeing that character again.

I vaguely remember a scene toward the end of Season 1 where Jack had to sit around and wait, like, 10 minutes for somebody to meet him or something. He started to doze off and, as a result, something terrible almost happened. Like I said…vague.

Nothing says "intelligent" and "forward thinking" like completely dismissing something because That Guy That Made That Other Thing That Sucks is involved.

Next week on 24: Jack, finally able to relax, watches an entire episode of House.

His name is Sue. Case closed.

Well that's my point. She's been too distracted to sabotage CTU (which makes me wonder why the terrorists feel like they need a mole in the first place—CTU did a fine job of sabotaging itself). We haven't seen her do anything to help the terrorists (except argue against Chloe's ideas), but we haven't seen her do…

At least the pointless ex-boyfriend subplot now makes a little more sense, from a storytelling standpoint. We assumed Dana was being distracted from doing her job, but she was actually distracted from her moling duties, a twist that, presumably, couldn't have been (relatively) realistically hidden for so long…

I'm already excited about the sequel…

We don't know that Jack didn't have a kid in the original timeline, we just know that Jack didn't know he had a kid (or, at least, didn't have a relationship with him).

Those clever Russians
"Oh no, the power went out! It must be that German guy we've been torturing! Henchman #1, go to the fuse box, the single most likely place for him to be hiding out. Meanwhile, the rest of us will be in different part of the building, entirely out of earshot."

You know that white screen with all the text after the credits?
Kind of fascinating this week. Here it is (copied and pasted from http://www.chucklorre.com/i…

Makes me think of an Inventory I've always wanted to see (unless it's been done, in which case I'd appreciate a link). Something like "X entertaining twists on irritating cliches." The scene in question, of course, had no entertaining twist, which is why it was so irritating.

Thank you, wookiee, for summing up everything that irritated me about that storyline in one NewsRadio quote.

I'm calling it now
The last Classic Tonight Show Moment will be the first Classic Tonight Show Moment, from, like, a week ago.

That was the highlight of the episode. Sort of a senile version of MST3K.

Here's a variety of disparate Ferguson thoughts:

I don't know about anybody else, but I stopped watching Conan on real TV when he took over the Tonight Show. To me, it's a tough call between him and Letterman, but when I'm sitting around watching TV at 11:35 I go with Letterman every time because I know that if Conan does anything interesting, I can watch it…

These are some interesting comments—I've always thought Paul Shaffer doesn't get enough credit for being really funny. I'm not sure I can articulate why I think he's funny, but it seems like he mostly jumps in on jokes that weren't all that funny to begin with. Something about the way he takes everything so…

I will not pay to see either of these movies
I would, however pay up to $8 to see a Rowdy Lucky biopic.

I liked the (perhaps unintentional) comment this episode made on how different couples can deal with innocent flirtation in different ways. Phil wasn't genuinely upset, but still saw it as something his wife shouldn't be doing, whereas to Mitchell and Cameron it was no big deal. Dan Savage would be proud.