24/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion: A fake passport for Nina Myers in Season 3 is under the name "Sarah Berkeley"- Sarah Clarke's married name (she married fellow cast member Xander Berkeley, who played George Mason).
 * A subtle one is when Jack bites into a terrorist's neck, using his teeth. Gee, when was the last time he could do something like that?
 * Development Gag: The wedding side story in Season 2 was a nod to the original concept that 24 be a comedy about preparing for a wedding.
 * Development Hell: A feature film adaptation of the series has been in the works for years.
 * Executive Meddling: The reason Keeler survives the crash and subsequently disappears was thanks to a network mandate that the writers couldn't kill off a sitting President, as was originally intended in the Air Force One attack.
 * Fake American: Kiefer Sutherland is Canadian.
 * In Live Another Day, Australian Yvonne Strahvohski and Briton Colin Salmon play Americans.
 * Fake Nationality: Many, many, MANY instances.
 * American Dennis Hopper as Serbian Victor Drazen.
 * British Julian Sands as Russian separatist Vladimir Bierko.
 * German Jürgen Prochnow as Russian Sergei Bazhaev.
 * Northern Irish Michelle Fairley as English Margot Al-Harazi.
 * And a short list of Middle Eastern examples:
 * Syed Ali was played by Mexican/Italian-descended Francesco Quinn.
 * Navi Araz was played by Hispanic Nestor Serrano.
 * Habib Marwan was played by Afrikaner Arnold Vosloo.
 * Abu Fayed was played by Greek-descended Adoni Maropis.
 * Omar Hassan was played by Indian Anil Kapoor.
 * Nadia Yassir was played by Mexican/Romanian Marisol Nichols.
 * Hey, It's That Guy! (Quite a few):
 * Sylar used to work for CTU, one of his bosses was Father Intintola.
 * Jack chased after Imhotep (Television Without Pity immediately dubbed him Im-Ho-Terror), a few seasons after that, Doctor Bashir showed up as a reformed terrorist, and Kumar showed up as an unreformed one.
 * Jack's dad is Farmer Hoggett/Zephram Cochrane.)
 * Season 7 piles on the Star Trek by having Worf's brother, Dr. Phlox, Trip Tucker and the President of the Federation show up within 12 hours. Not to mention former franchise heads Brannon Braga and Manny Coto on the production team.
 * For Season 8, CTU has gone pilot crazy and employed Christopher Blair and Kara Thrace. And then to keep them on their toes, Commander Paul Gerald and Leoben Conoy are thrown into the mix as bad guys. Along with Mr Sark.
 * Wayne Palmer's girlfriend is Zoe.
 * And for Season 6(?), Lord Denethor was working in the Russian government as an inside man for the terrorists, showing that he can be a bastard even without Sauron's corruption. Or maybe it was Walternate all along.
 * Scar is an assassin who gets run over by a frickin' BULLDOZER driven by Jack in Season 7.
 * Desmond is a German agent? Desmond? Coulda fooled me.
 * At least Horace tried to sound Russian.
 * That's not all. Guess who is his girlfriend?! Kate Beckett! I think Castle won't write a book about it....
 * Jin was also a CTU agent for a couple seasons there.
 * Meanwhile Dr. Romano is Jack's brother, Samwise Gamgee sacrificed himself for CTU and John Cage got hurt tripping over Erin Strauss' ineptitude.
 * Jonas Blaine was the President. Ensign Ro Laren was his aide and Kasidy Yates was his wife.
 * And Robin Wood was his brother.
 * Dr. Kutner the professional defibrillist is a terrorist?.
 * India's Regis Philbin went into politics, and got elected President of the Islamic Republic of Kamistan.
 * Daniel Jackson started sleeping with a White House aide to steal info for the Russians? Also, one of Ba'al's clones turns up as a sniper in Season 8. Jack does SG-1 a solid and caps him.
 * Obviously Dennis Hopper as Drazen in season one. And who is his son? Why, none but Castiel.
 * And Lou Diamond Phillips is Drazen's jailer. Young Guns reunion!
 * Dr. Carson Beckett does evil deeds for Tony Almeida.
 * Give First Gentleman Henry Taylor what he wants, and he'll go away.
 * In Season 8, Herc plays a cop who engages in police brutality. Big surprise.
 * Oh, and Jigsaw is a corrupt oil baron. I want to play a game! Indeed.
 * And Dessler's brother is Art from part 4.
 * After Renee's crack-up, she's interrogated by an official from the Justice Department named... Alyx Vance??
 * I'm surprised no one's mentioned that Bubba Blue's the head of CTU New York!
 * And Canadians will notice Raj Binder is a terrorist.
 * To non-Canadians, he's Kumar's brother. See above.
 * So what does RoboCop do in his spare time? Oh, become Jack's mentor and tries to kill him multiple times (season 5).
 * Four episodes left in the series, and the audience is still asking if Milton is still stuck in the wall.
 * In the later episodes of Season 8, Jack has to enlist the help of Mr. Blonde.
 * Colonel Young is Michelle Dessler's brother. (Funnily enough, Reiko Aylesworth turns up in SGU in return.)
 * When D. L. Hawkins is forced to play Russian Roulette with Jack, he chooses not to phase the bullet through his head.
 * Thomas Cromwell used to be married to Audrey Raines and Blair Waldorf dated teenaged terrorist Behrooze.
 * Quintus works for McLennen-Forster.
 * Allen Strange is Dubaku's son.
 * Daisy is getting married in day 2. And she's a Patty Hearst wanna-be.
 * John Cage is Pres. Palmer's (the other one) chief of staff.
 * Drama is a mountain man who saves Kim from those damn mountain lions.
 * Cindino is The Mole from Season 3.
 * Hey, It's That Place!: The Russian consulate in Season 6 is the same building that was JAG Headquarters.
 * Hey, It's That Voice! The Japanese dub uses LOTS of voice actors from Naruto for some odd reason:
 * Jack Bauer is Yamato
 * Kimberley Bauer is Yugito Nii
 * Teri Bauer is Misa Hayase from Super Dimension Fortress Macross
 * Phillip Bauer is Danzou Shimura
 * Josh Bauer is Rock Lee
 * Chase Edmunds is Kabuto Yakushi
 * George Mason is Hiashi Hyuga
 * Rick Allen is Sasuke Uchiha
 * Derek Huxley is Sai
 * Jane Sanders is Sakura Haruno
 * Audrey Raines is Konan
 * Hector Salazar is Killer Bee
 * Max is Kakashi Hatake
 * Lucia Garcia (a minor character) is Naruto Uzumaki
 * Melanie is Shizune
 * Krugman is Madara Uchiha
 * Ike Dubaku and Benjamin Juma are Hidan and Kakuzu respectively. (It seems that both of them were reincarnated from being Akatsuki ninjas to African warlords.)
 * Frank Tramell is Akahoshi
 * Carl Benton and Lonnie Mcrae are Shikaku Nara
 * Eddie Grant is Baki
 * Gary Matheson is Raiga Kurosuke
 * Megan Matheson is Moegi
 * In fact, it's easy to say why in Japan nobody hasn't even bothered to consider to call 24 Naruto IN AMERICA, WITH SECRET AGENTS INSTEAD OF NINJAS!
 * Life Imitates Art:
 * Disclosed memos from within the former Bush administration suggest that, if 24's torture methods didn't inspire the initial events at Abu Ghraib Prison and Guatanamo Bay Prison Camp, they at least inspired their justification and continuation to this day.
 * On a less controversial note, the suspects of the Abu Ghraib abuses claimed 24 as inspiration for their tactics, and military intelligence instructors have complained to reporters that they have to drill 24 and its depiction of torture out of the heads of new students.
 * The set of CTU LA also inspired the design of the new Joint Counter-Terrorism Center in Washington, DC.
 * Name's the Same: Both 24 and Smallville have a kickass blonde hacker named Chloe.
 * The Other Marty: Margo, the antagonist of Live Another Day, which was originally supposed to be played by actress Judy Davis. As principal photography began though, Davis was forced to drop out because of family concerns, so the role was recast to Michelle Fairley.
 * Playing Against Type:
 * Chloe is a rare dramatic role for comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub.
 * Same goes for Janeane Garofalo as Janis Gold.
 * Stephen Fry as the British Prime Minister.
 * Real Life Relative: The actors who played George Mason and Nina Myers married between the first and second season, making the interrogation between them in the latter rather interesting to watch.
 * Rumor has it that they toyed with the idea of Donald Sutherland as Jack's father.
 * What Could Have Been: You know who was cast as season 6's Darren McCarthy for a short time, before withdrawing for scheduling reasons? Eddie Izzard. Eddie Izzard.
 * The series was originally conceived as a comedy about preparing for a wedding.
 * The actor who played Kevin Carroll (the false Alan York in the first season), Richard Burgi, was originally cast in the role of Jack Bauer. He would have had that role if they hadn't been able to get Kiefer. Once Sutherland was brought on board, Burgi accepted the role of Carroll.
 * The producers toyed with the idea of casting Donald Sutherland as Jack Bauer's father, Phillip.
 * At one point, Joel Surnow wanted to acquire the rights to The Da Vinci Code in hopes of working it into a plotline for the show's third season, but Dan Brown rejected him. How he would have worked Jack Bauer into a story about Leonardo da Vinci, Pagan cults and Jesus' family is anyone's guess.
 * At one point, Joel Surnow wanted to acquire the rights to The Da Vinci Code in hopes of working it into a plotline for the show's third season, but Dan Brown rejected him. How he would have worked Jack Bauer into a story about Leonardo da Vinci, Pagan cults and Jesus' family is anyone's guess.