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Day 1

• Jamey and Nina trade barbs when Jamey complains about having to come in to work.
  Jamey: How long is this going to take?
  Nina: Why, are we interrupting your social life?
  Jamey: At least I have one.
  Nina: Funny.
• When Jack demands that George Mason call Chappelle to cut through some red tape that's slowing down their case, Mason pretends to do so but instead calls the "at the tone, the time will be x" number while calling Jack a sucker under his breath. Unfortunately for Mason, Jack is listening in on the call and decides to tranquilize and blackmail him to get what he wants.
• Villain Ira Gaines has a couple:
  Gaines: Bury your friend.
  Rick: Where?
  Gaines: In the ground!
  • Gaines blackmails Jack into putting an earpiece on:
    Gaines: Now say something.
    Jack: If you hurt my daughter, I will kill you.
    Gaines: Good, that's a nice clear signal.
• This scene is legendary. Jack and George Mason are, quite literally, out in the field. Jack, with Mason behind him, dramatically climbs and leaps over a fence. Mason slowly walks forward and nudges the fence slightly, allowing him to smoothly step past it. The look Mason gives Jack afterwards is absolutely priceless.
• Victor Drazen has one:
  Jack: When does your suffering end, Victor? After you've killed me and Senator Palmer and all the thousands of enemies you have?
  Victor: Yes. Simple, is it not?
• Outtakes for this show are rare but the ones they did release on a TV show years back showed such gems as Victor Drazen forgetting his lines while eating next to Kim, Teri's gun slipping through her pants and a different take of Nina killing Teri.
  Nina: Click-click.

Day 2

• Jack needs to get access to a criminal organization's inner circle quickly, and the only way he can think of is to bring them one of their enemies. His superiors reluctantly give him access to one of the worst criminals they have access to — only for Jack to shoot him dead the minute he sees him, as there is no time to convince the criminal to play along, and Jack believes there is a quicker way to gain the organization's trust:
  Jack: I'm gonna need a hacksaw.
  • Made all the more morbidly amusing by George Mason's shocked response.
• Kim Bauer and the absolute inanity of her side-plots deserve a mention for being some comical juxtaposition next to the serious and actually important main plots of STOPPING A NUCLEAR BOMB, and then STOPPING WORLD WAR III. To sum up Kim's day, she goes from babysitting, to saving the child from her abusive father, to getting arrested, to running into the woods and encountering a cougar, to getting lured into a creepy guy's bomb shelter in the middle of the woods, to getting held hostage in a random store robbery, to going back to the abusive father's house and killing him. Yes, she seriously spends the entire season wasting our time with all of that absolute nonsense.
  • The funniest part of Kim's sideplots is when she brings the child she's babysitting to CTU in the third episode at the absolute worst possible time- immediately before a bomb is about to blow up there.
  Kim: We're safe here!
  *Bomb timer shows on the other side of the splitscreen*
• Jack to Nina:
  Nina: He is gonna put a bullet in my head before I can say hello and then he's gonna turn the gun on himself.
  Jack: We'll make sure he doesn't turn the gun on himself.
• During the 22nd hour, seconds before the helicopter Jack needs is about to land, Ryan Chappelle gets control of CTU again and immediately recalls it, and the pilot just flies right by Jack without landing. The way Jack runs after the helicopter screaming "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! YOU NEED TO LAND RIGHT NOW! DAMMIT!!" is really funny to watch. It was pretty much the crowning moment of the stupidly bad luck he had all day.
• At the end of the season, after spending the whole day pissing on everyone's chips, outright supporting the warmongering in Washington, arresting Tony and Michelle, and generally being an arse, Ryan Chappelle is sitting at Tony's desk after Jack, Tony, and Michelle's efforts have saved the day:
  Chappelle: Tony, that was District Director Vaughn. He's so happy with what we did here today, he doesn't know where to start.
  Tony: That's great.
  Chappelle: So... what's up, my friend?
  Tony: Well, uhh... it's like this. Either fire me, or get out of my chair.

Day 3

• In the first episode, Adam believes that Kim shouldn't be working in CTU and thinks she's only there because of her father. Kim's response to this is nonchalantly locking him out of the system, and she only lets him in again once he takes back his words.
• Episode 10: Chappelle hears a baby (Chase's daughter) in the presence of Chloe's workstation:
  Chappelle: What was that?
  Chloe: Nothing.
  • As he discovers the baby underneath her desk:
  Chappelle: Is this your child?
  Chloe: Yes, and she hasn't been interfering with my work.
• Episode 13: Sherry's "talking" results in Alan Milliken's death.
  Sherry: You're just a little boy, Alan! A pathetic, scrawny, sickly little boy!
• Episode 14: Pretty much the entirety of Tony's interaction with Nina in the interrogation room, starting with Nina's attempted Hannibal Lecture, climaxing at the revelation that her pulse notably spiked when Tony told her that the medical records of the man they were looking for, who she had claimed she'd never actually met in person, showed that he had been treated for HIV, and ending with her calmly answering one of Tony's questions by informing him that his neck has started bleeding again.
• Episode 23: Sherry getting punched in the face. Not quite as funny as Mandy, but she sure had it coming for a long time.

Day 4

• Jack and Audrey have to lay low for awhile at Tony's place, and they can't have anyone who knows that they're there leave the house, so Tony's new girlfriend gets detained when she has to go to work. Jack's usual methods of dealing with people aren't working so well, so Audrey tries to talk things out, girl to girl.
  Audrey: Your boss will have to understand.
  Jen: And what if he doesn't?
  Audrey: I could have him killed.
  • In turn, there's Jack's deadpan reaction to meeting Jen after she yells at him.
  Jack: She seems nice.
• Episode 8:
  Powell: Who are you guys? Police? FBI?
  Tony: Actually, I'm currently unemployed.
• Episode 20: After she has gunned down a terrorist assassin who was trying to kill her with an M-16, Chloe (being Chloe) drops this to one of the medical personnel sent to check and see if she's okay. (paraphrased)
  Chloe: (takes off the device meant to check her blood pressure, frustrated) Look I'm fine, I'm the one who did the shooting.
• Chloe offers to talk with Jack about anything he needs to. Jack reacts with a look of pure horror. Chloe's face after he leaves is all, "Well, that went well."
• Episode 17: Jack manages to sneak underneath an oblivious terrorist. Jack raises his gun upward but, before firing, says "Hey." Terrorist looks down. BANG!
• In Episode 18, CTU apprehends a suspect connected with the terrorist plot. The terrorists find out about this and call "Amnesty Global" to delay the interrogation. Jack Bauer's reaction when he finds out from his boss, Bill Buchanan, about all this is priceless. Especially Buchanan's response to Bauer storming away.
  Buchanan: Ah, Jack! Don't make it worse!
  • At the end of the episode, Jack interrogates the suspect with his usual methods. Afterwards, he calmly says "This'll help you with the pain..." and knocks him unconscious.
• Episode 23: Mandy getting punched in the face. It's a combination of the framing of the shot (namely the entering of Curtis Manning's fist) and Mia Kirshner's facial expression.
• Almost a case of Leaning on the Fourth Wall is master terrorist Marwan's inability to figure out what to do with Behrooz Ahraz.

Day 5

• Episode 1: Martha Logan's first scene.
  Evelyn: You look beautiful, Mrs. Logan.
  Martha: I look like a wedding cake.
  *Dunks her face into the sink to screw up her makeup and hair*
• In fact, before it turns serious, most of Martha Logan's early scenes are darkly hilarious. From threatening a Secret Service agent to have his family eating dog food to bullying a lowly White House staffer into giving her his pass by threatening to scream rape.
• Shari suspecting Buchanan of inappropriate conduct:
  "Did you see the way his hand brushed against my shoulder as he walked away? That's wrong. He shouldn't have done that."
• Chloe tasers a guy trying to hit on her while she helps Jack from a hotel bar. Later, when the guy starts to wake up, Chloe tasers him again while barely looking away from her computer.
• Miles suspects Chloe of stopping the satellite feed (correctly), so he corners her coming out of the bathroom:
  Miles: What were you doing?
  Chloe: Are you kidding? If you really want the details, I'll write you a report.
• When Chloe suggests for her ex-husband Morris to come in to help them with the day's events, Bill expresses incredulity, noting that he didn't think Morris was even on a government payroll anymore.
  Chloe: He's not.
  Bill: What's he doing?
  Chloe: He's selling women's shoes in Beverly Hills.
  Bill: (beat) What?
  Karen: Is this a joke?
• Chloe reaming out Kim's shrink, Landes:
  Mr. Landes: This is a dangerous situation. Tempers are high. So everybody just breathe.
  Chloe: What is with you and breathing? Is that your solution for everything?
• Episode 4:
  Chloe: This Lynn McGill person is really slowing things down.
  Spenser: Yeah, that's his style. I worked with him once before. He usually loses about 20% of his staff in the first couple of days after taking control of a new office.
  Chloe: That many people quit?
  Spenser: No, most of them were fired.
• Episode 9: As Jack drives recklessly to his rendezvous with James Nathanson, a homeless man in the background yells at him to slow down.

Day 6

• The dialogue between Karen Hayes and Tom Lennox after she notices the bruise on his head.
  Karen: Did someone push you down the stairs?
  Tom: No, Karen, I tripped over your ineptitude. And on that subject, welcome back.
• Milo asks Chloe to check Morris' breath for alcohol. Chloe does so by giving him a big kiss.
  Chloe: He's fine.
  Milo: Thank you.
  Morris: Got to love this place.
• Possibly the best part of Season 6 are all the awkward, disbelieving, if-you-weren't-my-boss-I-would-be-facepalming-so-hard facial expressions Tom Lennox makes in regard to Vice President Daniels' affair with his assistant. Then Tom is required to spend the next 40 minutes having to watch Lisa get it on with her other lover.
  Tom Lennox: And... finally, we're done.
• Episode 16: Big Bad Abu Fayed is caught by a group of civilians, and shoots one of them before being overpowered. After Jack comes in and breaks it up, Fayed hilariously tells one of the civilians "I hope your friend is dead!" and then gets promptly kicked in the face by Jack, with a "Shut up!".

Day 7

• Hour 20: Tony Almeida is double-crossed by the person he hired to collect one of the weapons used by the terrorists. The double-crosser is overpowered and dragged to the bathroom for interrogation, where he expires between scenes, with his head propped against the side of a bathtub. In the next scene, the interrogator is seen coming out of the bathroom, freshly showered — with the body still in the same position as before, evidently forgotten by the people in the room.
• Marika and her sister Rosa are having a heated argument about Marika's boyfriend Samuel. Then Jack and Renee smash their way in with guns. The look of astonishment on the girls' faces is priceless.
• The First Gentleman, Henry Taylor, gets drugged and can't speak properly:
  "You killed my son, you killed Rrroger!"
• Episode 11: Jack is in the middle of interrogating a government official who's working for the terrorists, when the president calls and, despite his efforts to justify his actions, she orders him to stand down. Jack's responds by tasering the phone.
• John Quinn's gigantic Oh, Crap! reaction when Jack flips over the trailer he's in with the backhoe of a bulldozer.
• The FBI has tracked down a suspect whom they inform Jack is ex-SAS. Jack Bauer says, with complete focus, "Does he have a family?". Everyone in the room shoots him a look that's a combination of "You wouldn't" and "Oh God, he will." Jack then calmly says that he's ex-Special Forces, so he won't break unless they target his family. It's a morbid scene, but the look everyone gives Jack Bauer is priceless.
• Episode 20:
  Tim Woods: The doctors are surprised [Hodges] pulled through.
  Allison Taylor: That's because they never met the son of a bitch.
  • Directly afterwards, the secretary calls to report that Agent Walker and Jack Bauer are on the line. The president tells her to put it through before she can even finish.
• Episode 23: When Tony and Cara are pursuing Jack. Jack goes into one of the sections of the warehouse and Tony attempts to follow him in. He is stopped by Jack shutting the rolling steel warehouse door. Tony responds by lifting it with a stacker lifting machine. It makes Tony seem as if he's some sort of unstoppable force.

Day 8

• Watching two not-very-bright characters trying to rob a warehouse with assistance from a Voice with an Internet Connection is hilarious. They start to panic when the codes don't open the door, only to find out they were at the wrong door. "3101. This is 3110." Cue the most impatient and priceless "OMG you idiots" expression from Dana Walsh.
• Episode 22, when a cocky Charles Logan spots a renegade Jack Bauer, armed with an assault rifle and wearing a body suit (complete with blast shield face mask and Kevlar). Logan's 'oh shit!!!!' expression said it all, but his exasperated cries of "IT'S JACK BAUER!" made an already amusing (and completely badass) moment downright hilarious. The annoyed expressions on the Secret Service agents' faces are are just as funny. They're clearly thinking "I have to face that to protect this asshole?".
  • That was quite possibly one of the greatest moments in 24. Logan nearly in tears was just the icing on the cake!
• In the first episode, Jack's deadpan reaction when yet another new CTU director refuses to listen to his advice.
  Jack: I hate this place.

Live Another Day (Day 9)

• At the end of Episode 3, Jack realizes he needs a diversion in order to enter the US Embassy. So he discreetly shoots some unlucky protesters in the leg and screams "THEY'RE SHOOTING AT US! THEY'RE SHOOTING AT US!" It works, and it makes for a darkly hilarious final scene.
• After Adrian apologizes for screwing over Jack:
  Adrian: You don't need to keep reminding me of it.
  Chloe: Actually, I do. I'm thinking every day for the rest of your life.
• Day 9 is darkly meta-funny when you think about it. In this season, people actually do the things they need to do. Examples follow:
  • When Morgan finally gets the evidence about Al-Harazi's drone hijacking plot, his boss connects her to the chief of staff, who connects her to the president, who orders all US drones to be grounded right away. You won't see this in the other seasons.
  • Nearing the end of episode 6, M15 officers interfere just when Jack's arms dealer is about to plug in the virus that will allow the good guys to track the bad guys. It looks like this whole episode will amount to naught and we'll have to wait another week to see what other play Jack can come up with... But no, at the end, Jack manages to hit the enter button. Really.
  • When Steve Navarro is discovered to be a mole, he tries to escape by telling a security guard to lock down the building. Jack then doesn't even try to reason with the guy, and just knocks him out.
• Morgan injects herself with prophynol so that Jack's contacts can't interrogate her. Turns out they have drugs that can wake her up anyway. The Oh, Crap! on Jack's face is priceless.
• While trying to evade a missile launched from a drone, Jack forgoes the badge in a Flashed-Badge Hijack and just punches a civilian and takes his vehicle without saying anything!
• President Heller secretly agrees to Margo Al-Harazi's demand and gets Jack to take him to Wembley Stadium to be killed. First, Jack takes out his tracking device in his arm. Heller winces in pain:
  Heller: "Yikes! Ow!"
  • Later, a Secret Service agent sees them sneaking out. While Heller tries to make an excuse, Jack comes from behind and punches him out. Heller is taken aback:
  Heller: Jeez, Jack!
• Simone has vital information but is in a coma due to her injuries, and waking her up could kill her. With time running out to stop Heller from sacrificing himself Jack tells Kate to wake her up in the charming way only he can:
  Jack: The only way we can stop this from happening is to find Margot, fast. So wake the bitch up.
• Stephen Fry's marvelous reaction when Heller returns from his attempt to sacrifice himself to end the terrorist threat, and tells the Prime Minister he's sure he would have done the same for America. Earlier in the same episode, he says nothing can cause people to panic like the instruction to remain calm, which was a reference to the famous British 'Keep Calm' posters from WW2, which have attained Fauxtivational Poster status lately.
• If you're a Game of Thrones fan it was fun for a change and less traumatic to see Michelle Fairley and her son share the fate of Catelyn Tully Stark and son in the GoT episode featuring the (in)famous :Red Wedding" now that they're both villains!
  • Also that she was thrown out of a high window like another of her onscreen children in the very first episode of ''GameOfThrones''.
  • And that her daughter Simone looks a lot like Sansa Stark!
• Heller being introduced to Belcheck:
  Heller: So what's your name?
  Belcheck: Belcheck.
  Heller: 'Belcheck' what?
  Belcheck: Just one word. Like Madonna.
  • And when Heller asks Belcheck to take him back to his hotel, he refuses under orders from Jack and Heller pulls rank by saying he's the President of the United States, Belcheck smiles and says:
  "I'm not an American citizen and this is not America." (locks the car doors)
• On a meta level, it's pretty hilariously awesome to see the villains be defeated because they're the ones setting up a perimeter for once.