I had a dream, I had an AWESOME dream that there were two good 24 episodes in a row, AND IT CAME TRUE!
This episode really rocked. A few observations.
1. In my last post, I joked that Marcos locked himself in a hyperbaric chamber, but in fact, it really WAS a hyperbaric chamber! I kept waiting for the Elephant Man's bones to fall out of a cupboard.
It also looked like it needed a mini-fridge.
2. Don't Shaggy and Denny make a lovely couple, seen here on the CTU crack demolitions team?
Denny doesn't look bad in those pink boots, actually. By the way, I just realized that Freddie Prinze, Jr. played Fred in Scooby Doo, not Shaggy. My bad, but "Shaggy and Denny" is so much fun to say, let's keep it that way.
Anyhoo, back to 24, Shaggy and Denny are grasping what every couple learns early on in any relationship. On the outside, "Smiles, everyone!"...
...while below the surface, it's a putrid quagmire of fear, mistrust, dread, silence, and guilt.
Did I just say that out loud? Sorry, didn't mean to project.
3. Meanwhile, on Discreetly Draped Loins of Admiration, Kamistan's only officially sanctioned daytime drama, after surviving looking at each other's naughty bits in a lily field in the middle of a dangerous lightning storm...
...Kayla and the Stud from Constantinople start talking sexy, discussing such erotic things as their really overdone vaguley British accents, how to seek asylum in America, and living as political refugees. Tarin mentions that he won't be able to afford her the lifestyle she's used to. As in all romantic B-movies, she replies, "I don't care about any of that."
Hey, Kayla, talk to us after six weeks of eating Ramen noodles and waiting tables at Waffle House.
That is THE least-Muslim hairstyle I've ever seen. Great disguise!
4. After poking fun at Mare Winningham and her granny panties (complete with breezy cotton panel) last week...
...I have to say that the scenes between Elaine and Marcos, as well as Jack's subsequent cold-blooded threats, were some of the best-acted scenes of the entire series since Day One.
Mare's take on a terrified, desperate mother was spot on. Riveting and quite moving.
5. In true Jack style, Jack (seen here taking a power nap) once again proves his immortality...
...by surviving Marcos' typically unsurvivable yet sadly unpreventable explosive metamorphosis from religious zealot to lots of spaghetti sauce.
I will miss the guy from the TV show Fame. By the way, did I mention how much I enjoyed it when Jack relentlessly tickled the guy from the TV show Fame to get him to talk? He tickled him so hard, his nose bled. Jack takes his tickling VERY seriously. Fun times.
6. It was also very nice to see Stephen Root join the cast as Bill Prady, DiCaprio from Gangs of New York's parole officer. He is such a great character actor. I last saw him as hapless vampire Eddie Gautier on True Blood.
He's going to make Denny so uncomfortable, she'll probably start hissing her words through gritted teeth again, just like Kirk Douglas.
Now, had she been wearing this outfit all along, DiCaprio from Gangs of New York, BBQ Shrimp, Arlo, AND Chloe might've all left her alone.
My only hope is that Stephen Root will still be a vampire and turn the entire cast into the undead. Then the ratings will go up.
Geez, Magic Dummy looks really, really bad as a zombie. That's her with the long hair.
7. I KNEW THE STUD FROM CONSTANTINOPLE WAS A BAD GUY (seen here with a strange notch in his eyebrow)! I KNEW IT!
Of course, I have no way to prove my prescient suspicions as I've not mentioned them before, but I just didn't trust him (in my head, at least, which is how I am with most people). Besides, since we're only in Hour 11, something had to go awry, didn't it?
8. What? No Magic Dummy this episode?
There. All better. There's nothing quite like a woman in love, is there? Just look at her!
Next week, BBQ Shrimp runs down the hall, yelling "SECURITY!"
Last time he looked, his leftovers from Red Lobster were there, right behind the enormous head of cauliflower.
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