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** On a less controversial note, the suspects of the Abu Ghraib abuses claimed ''24'' as inspiration for their tactics, and military intelligence instructors have complained to reporters that they have to drill ''24'' and its depiction of torture out of the heads of new students.
** On a less controversial note, the suspects of the Abu Ghraib abuses claimed ''24'' as inspiration for their tactics, and military intelligence instructors have complained to reporters that they have to drill ''24'' and its depiction of torture out of the heads of new students.
** The set of CTU LA also inspired the design of the new Joint Counter-Terrorism Center in Washington, DC.
** The set of CTU LA also inspired the design of the new Joint Counter-Terrorism Center in Washington, DC.
* [[Name's the Same]]: Both 24 and ''[[Smallville]]'' have a kickass blonde hacker named Chloe.
* [[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.
* [[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.
** Rumor has it that they toyed with the idea of Donald Sutherland as Jack's father.
** Rumor has it that they toyed with the idea of Donald Sutherland as Jack's father.

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  • Actor Allusion: A fake passport for Nina Myers in Season 3 is under the name "Sarah Berkeley"- Sarah Clarke's married name (she married fellow cast member Xander Berkeley, who played George Mason).
  • Development Gag: The wedding side story in Season 2 was a nod to the original concept that 24 be a comedy about preparing for a wedding.
  • Development Hell: A feature film adaptation of the series has been in the works for years.
  • Executive Meddling: The reason Keeler survives the crash and subsequently disappears was thanks to a network mandate that the writers couldn't kill off a sitting President, as was originally intended in the Air Force One attack.
  • Fake American: Kiefer Sutherland is Canadian.
    • In "Live Another Day", Australian Yvonne Strahvohski and Briton Colin Salmon play Americans.
  • Fake Nationality: Many, many, MANY instances.
    • American Dennis Hopper as Serbian Victor Drazen.
    • British Julian Sands as Russian separatist Vladimir Bierko.
    • German Jürgen Prochnow as Russian Sergei Bazhaev.
    • Northern Irish Michelle Fairley as English Margot Al-Harazi.
    • And a short list of Middle Eastern examples:
      • Syed Ali was played by Mexican/Italian-descended Francesco Quinn.
      • Navi Araz was played by Hispanic Nestor Serrano.
      • Habib Marwan was played by Afrikaner Arnold Vosloo.
      • Abu Fayed was played by Greek-descended Adoni Maropis.
      • Omar Hassan was played by Indian Anil Kapoor.
      • Nadia Yassir was played by Mexican/Romanian Marisol Nichols.
  • Hey, It's That Guy! (Quite a few):
  • Hey, It's That Place!: The Russian consulate in Season 6 is the same building that was JAG Headquarters.
  • Hey, It's That Voice! The Japanese dub uses LOTS of voice actors from Naruto for some odd reason:
  • Life Imitates Art:
    • Disclosed memos from within the former Bush administration suggest that, if 24's torture methods didn't inspire the initial events at Abu Ghraib Prison and Guatanamo Bay Prison Camp, they at least inspired their justification and continuation to this day.
    • On a less controversial note, the suspects of the Abu Ghraib abuses claimed 24 as inspiration for their tactics, and military intelligence instructors have complained to reporters that they have to drill 24 and its depiction of torture out of the heads of new students.
    • The set of CTU LA also inspired the design of the new Joint Counter-Terrorism Center in Washington, DC.
  • Name's the Same: Both 24 and Smallville have a kickass blonde hacker named Chloe.
  • 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.
    • Rumor has it that they toyed with the idea of Donald Sutherland as Jack's father.
  • Shout-Out: As mentioned before, we've got Star Trek alumni on the production staff now. In season 7, two suggestions to replace departing members of Taylor's administration were Rick Berman and Bob Justman, who were also longtime Trek staff.
    • In an episode of Season 1, Milo gives his computer password as "foothill94022", a reference to a community college where Michael Loceff, the episode's writer, teaches online classes.
    • Season 8 has an assassin named Davros. Of course, he's not nearly as effective as his namesake- but then, he fucked with Jack Bauer.
    • Jack breaking out a pair of pliers and a blowtorch to use on Pavel seemed to be a reference to Pulp Fiction.
    • In a reverse shout-out, the Department of Homeland Security launched a surveillance technology development program aimed at protecting airliners from terrorist missiles. It's called "Project CHLOE", because the then-Director of DHS is a fan of 24.
  • What Could Have Been: you know who was cast as season 6's Darren McCarthy for a short time, before withdrawing for scheduling reasons? Eddie Izzard. Eddie Izzard.
    • The series was originally conceived as a comedy about preparing for a wedding.
    • 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 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 da Vinci, Pagan cults and Jesus' family is anyone's guess.
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