Watching 24

Hey, everyone! As I promised before, here is a look at some of my favorite lessons, courtesy of the 24 School House. What were yours? Be sure to comment and let me know! Also, scroll down to the end for a clip of the biggest ‘say what’ moment of the whole series, in my opinion:

NEVER ever fall for the ‘I’m gonna leave my wife’ line. Especially if the guy is a treasonist creep. It’s really bad for your health.

If you’re gonna pull a gun on Jack Bauer, you better be ready to use it.

Before you decide to frame someone for shooting you, you might wanna get their prints on the gun first…

Jack Bauer has no patience for phone calls interrupting him. Telemarketers everywhere, take note! (I really like this one lately. I can’t stop the phone from ringing!)

Just because you’re a terror!boss doesn’t mean you can’t be laid back once in awhile and offer your employees a nice drink to relax them after a hard day of evil doing.

FBI Agents are easily fooled by looping video

The only thing more dangerous than being a believer in Jack from the beginning is being the person who was completely against him and ends up changing his or her mind.

Bad guys are children who need their carrots. (I still wanna know what the writers were smoking when they came up with some of Jon’s lines…)

Ethan’s incompetent, but apparently not evil.

When going into a military-type facility that’s housing biological weapons, it’s totally ok to walk in without face masks or any other type of protection. Not only that, it’s ok to take only a small number of people to pull off a very important mission. (There really isn’t enough suspension of disbelief in the world sometimes, is there?)

After you’ve pulled the ruse? Pretend you were threatened and/or tortured, and you were only saying what you had to to make it stop. (I have to admit, that guy was good…)

Jack Bauer would rather die than have his daughter come around (I think a lot of fans feel the same way). – Well, at least she ended up being somewhat smart and useful towards the end, right?

When blackmailing someone, be sure to make that blackmail as incriminating as possible to you as well. Especially when you’re in a position of political power. (Why that guy never called her out on that, I’ll never know. The fallout and scandal would’ve been pretty devastating for the Taylor White House. Of course, Olivia one-upped that one later….)

There is always a bigger cog waiting in the wings. (This is probably one of the biggest lessons)

Lawyers (especially fake ones) are evil. (Can this ever be stated enough?)

Blood on the face apparently makes people unrecognizable, even to highly trained government agents. (I still can’t figure out how no one realized that was the guy they were after)

It’s no big thing to create a long e-mail, phone, etc. trail implicating an innocent person for an attack that is going to happen in mere hours.

I’ve learned never to trust a shady guy who helped you hire a hitman. He’ll always change the rules on you.

I’ve learned that it’s better to transfer funds to a hitman from your work computer when the Justice department is investigating the murder of a witness than to risk a hitman getting upset with you. It’s not like you’re under secret service protection or anything… (How dumb was that? It’s no wonder she got busted).

I’ve learned that the medical wishes of a patient who was in his right mind at the time he made his wishes known can be overridden by his daughter later on.

Before you destroy the supposed evidence of your wrong-doing, it’s a good idea to listen to it first to make sure it hasn’t been switched on you.

Here it is, courtesy of TwentyFourfans. Enjoy!