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** Also the other creator, Robert Cochran, is a registered Democrat.
** What's more, Keifer Sutherland (who's also an executive producer) is the grandson of Tommy Douglas, former head of Canada's New Democratic Party and the man who crafted Canada's single-payer Universal Healthcare system, and is an NDP advocate within Canada.
** Also, the number of former ''[[Star Trek]]'' (particularly ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'') actors who appeared on the show dramatically increased since Brannon Braga and Manny Coto joined on as executive producers. [[Peter Weller]] in particular has appeared in three Coto-produced shows (''[[Odyssey Five5]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'', and now ''24'').
** There are some conservatives who consider the character of Jack Bauer to be a farce, rather than a tribute. He's precisely what they ''don't'' want to be perceived as.
** Yet in Season 4, torture was depicted as an effective way to demonstrate a suspect's culpability or innocence. And the way they handled the issue of Heller's son being gay.
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* [[Development Hell]]: A feature film adaptation of the series has been in the works for years.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] (Quite a few):
** [[Heroes (TV series)|Sylar]] used to work for CTU, one of his bosses was [[The Sopranos|Father Intintola]].
** Jack chased after [[The Mummy Trilogy (Film)|Imhotep]] ([[Television Without Pity]] immediately [[Fan Nickname|dubbed him]] Im-Ho-''Terror''), a few seasons after ''that'', [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Doctor Bashir]] showed up as a reformed terrorist, and [[Harold and Kumar|Kumar]] showed up as an unreformed one.
** Jack's dad is [[Babe|Farmer Hoggett]]/[[Star Trek: First Contact|Zephram Cochrane]].)
** Season 7 piles on the ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' by having [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Worf's brother]], [[Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)|Dr. Phlox]], [[Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)|Trip Tucker]] and [[Star Trek VI|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 [[Wing Commander (Filmfilm)|Christopher Blair]] and [[Battlestar Galactica|Kara Thrace]]. And then to keep them on their toes, [[Wing Commander (Filmfilm)|Commander Paul Gerald]] and [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Leoben Conoy]] are thrown into the mix as bad guys. Along with [[Alias (TV series)|Mr Sark]].
** Wayne Palmer's girlfriend is [[Firefly (TV)|Zoe]].
** And for season 6(?) [[Lord of the Rings|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 [[Fringe (TV)|Walternate]] all along.
** [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Scar]] is an assassin who gets run over by a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|frickin' BULLDOZER]] driven by Jack in season 7.
** [[Lost (TV)|Desmond]] is a German agent? ''Desmond?'' [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent|Coulda fooled me.]]
*** At least [[Lost (TV)|Horace]] tried to [[Lzherusskie|sound Russian]].
** That's not all. Guess who is his girlfriend?! [[Castle (TV)|Kate Beckett]]! I think [[Castle (TV)|Castle]] won't write a book about it....
** [[Lost (TV)|Jin]] was also a CTU agent for a couple seasons there.
** Meanwhile [[Television Without Pity|Dr. Romano]] is Jack's brother, [[The Lord of the Rings|Samwise Gamgee]] sacrificed himself for CTU and [[Ally McBeal|John Cage]] got hurt tripping over [[Criminal Minds (TV)|Erin Strauss']] ineptitude.
** [[The Unit (TV)|Jonas Blaine]] was the President. [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Ensign Ro Laren]] [[Put Onon a Bus|was]] his aide and [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Kasidy Yates]] was his wife.
*** And [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Robin Wood]] was his brother.
** [[House (TV series)|Dr. Kutner]] the professional defibrillist is a terrorist?.
** [[Slumdog Millionaire|India's Regis Philbin]] went into politics, and got elected President of the [[Qurac|Islamic Republic of Kamistan]].
** [[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|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 [[Easy Rider|Dennis Hopper]] as Drazen in season one. And who is his son? Why, none but [[Supernatural|Castiel]].
*** And Lou Diamond Phillips is Drazen's jailer. [[Young Guns]] reunion!
** [[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Dr. Carson Beckett]] does evil deeds for Tony Almeida.
** Give [[Storm of the Century|First Gentleman Henry Taylor]] what he wants, and he'll go away.
** In Season 8, [[The Wire|Herc]] plays a cop who engages in police brutality. Big surprise.
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** And [[Canada, Eh?|Canadians]] will notice [[This Hour Has 22 Minutes|Raj Binder]] is a terrorist.
*** To non-Canadians, he's [[Harold and Kumar|Kumar's]] brother. See above.
** So what does [[Robo CopRoboCop]] do in his spare time? Oh, become Jack's mentor and tries to kill him multiple times (season 5). {{spoiler|But even he falls prey to Jack Bauer's prowess. Next up, Chuck Norris.}}
** Four episodes left in the series, and the audience is still asking if [[Office Space|Milton]] is still stuck in the wall.
** In the later episodes of Season 8, Jack has to enlist the help of [[Michael Madsen|Mr.]] [[Reservoir Dogs|Blonde.]]
** [[Stargate Universe (TV)|Colonel Young]] is Michelle Dessler's brother. (Funnily enough, Reiko Aylesworth turns up in [[Stargate Universe (TV)|SGU]] in return.)
** When [[Heroes (TV series)|D. L. Hawkins]] is forced to play [[Russian Roulette]] with Jack, he chooses not to phase the bullet through his head.
** [[The Tudors|Thomas Cromwell]] used to be married to Audrey Raines and [[Gossip Girl|Blair Waldorf]] dated teenaged terrorist Behrooze.
** [[Gladiator|Quintus]] works for McLennen-Forster.
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** [[Dead Like Me|Daisy]] is getting married in day 2. And she's a Patty Hearst wanna-be.
** [[Ally McBeal|John Cage]] is Pres. Palmer's (the other one) chief of staff.
** [[Entourage|Drama]] is a mountain man who saves Kim from [[Trapped Byby Mountain Lions|those damn mountain lions]].
** [[Con Air|Cindino]] is [[The Mole]] from season 3. {{spoiler|[[Reverse Mole|Or Is he?]]}}
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] The Japanese dub uses LOTS of voice actors from [[Naruto]] for some odd reason:
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** Gary Matheson is [[Keiji Fujiwara|Raiga Kurosuke]]
** Megan Matheson is [[Noriko Shitaya|Moegi]]
*** In fact, it's easy to say why in Japan nobody hasn't even bothered to consider to call [[Twenty Four|24]] [[Naruto]] [[Recycled in Space|IN AMERICA, WITH SECRET AGENTS INSTEAD OF NINJAS!]]
 
* [[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.
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** 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 [[Real Life Relative|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 Dada Vinci]], Pagan cults and [[Jesus]]' family is anyone's guess.
 
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