Stuff Jack Bauer Likes #3 – New Amsterdam on Fox
In 6 days, Jack Bauer has saved the world, been taken hostage, prevented the assassination of a president, helped bring down a corrupt president, been tortured, gave out plenty of torture, defused bombs, weeded out moles, watched many friends die, killed a few friends, witnessed a nuclear blast or two, shot his boss in the head, landed a 727 on a LA freeway, shot down a helicopter with a handgun, almost caused a war with China, reunited with his bastard son, cut off the hand of his daughter’s boyfriend…and in order to keep this post brief, I just to named a few.
When he’s done saving the day, Jack likes to sit back and watch New Amsterdam on Fox.
Surely you are thinking that Jack prefers something a little more low-brow like American Gladiators. No, Jack gets a kick out of the adventures of the immortal New York Detective John Amsterdam.
For those of you who are not familiar with the show (and judging by the ratings, that’s pretty much all of you) John Amsterdam was a Dutch soldier in New York way back in 1642. He saved the life of some Native American girl who in turn put a spell on him that gave him eternal life (until he finds true love). Which makes you wonder why she didn’t just cast the spell on herself and live forever to watch her native land develop into a haven for trust-fund babies and news anchorwomen who like to drop the F-bomb on live TV. Girl, you sold the whole island for a handful of beads, now a 500 sq ft. studio goes for over $2k a month.
So while Jack Bauer has had 6 really bad days, he’s able to wrap things up each season in about 24 hours. Amsterdam has been working on his love issue for going on 366 years! Jack thinks that’s cute. However there is one area that Amsterdam has Jack Bauer beat. During the whole season of Amsterdam…he didn’t go to the bathroom once. Jack admits that holding it for coming up on 400 years is impressive.
Sadly, New Amsterdam was canceled by Fox. This fall, Jack Bauer will have to chill out by checking out the hot Terminator chick or seeing if he’s smarter than a 5th grader.
Other Stuff Jack Bauer Likes
#1 – Cellular Telephones
#2 – Awesome Action Figures of Jack Bauer
Note: This is a blatant ripoff of my second favorite website Stuff White People Like
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That is a pretty cool show. I kinda of like his partner…she’s hot!
My hubby and I decided that either his partner or his new boss were his true love, probably his partner b/c she wasn’t a stereotypical beauty. Too bad we’ll never find out.
EDGE…it WAS a good show, Fox canned it.
It had a good premise and started out strong, but it ended up getting a little silly at the end.
Plus, they lost me when there was a scene where he was supposed to be set in the Prohibition era and you can clearly see the Verrazano bridge in the background. It wasn’t built until 1964.
Oh, see, now you’re just getting technical.
But, yeah, it did get a little silly, but I loved his son. Great character.