Even Jack Bauer Can’t Pronounce ‘Nuclear’
Posted December 4th, 2006 @ 02:14pm by Erik J. Barzeski
It's not "nucular!"
And is it just me, or does CTU LA get infiltrated every season?
Posted December 4th, 2006 @ 02:14pm by Erik J. Barzeski
It's not "nucular!"
And is it just me, or does CTU LA get infiltrated every season?
Posted 04 Dec 2006 at 2:18pm #
Well, yeah, but think about it this way, the only thing they're showing us is the time around when CTU gets infiltrated. For instance, in the three years between Seasons 1 and 2, CTU wasn't infiltrated, because they didn't show it to us.
Posted 04 Dec 2006 at 4:52pm #
Season 2: best infiltration ever. Explosives rule.
Posted 04 Dec 2006 at 7:43pm #
Well, they must be running out of things to blow up by now... Heh, Jack Bauer has saved the world how many times now?
Posted 04 Dec 2006 at 10:32pm #
That's why they've moved to New York for the upcoming season.
Posted 24 Jan 2007 at 3:09pm #
ok they werent not infiltrated in season 3, they dont go to new york in season 6, and who cares how you say nuclear!!!
Posted 16 Mar 2007 at 1:20am #
Yeah, it's strange, I am watching old season 2 episodes and the current season 6 episodes. KieferBauer has pronounced nuclear properly (new-clear) two times so far in season 2. In the more recent episodes he says "nucular." Whatbeupwiddat?
Posted 02 Apr 2007 at 9:06pm #
I think the powers that be at Fox (conservative, pro-Bush) ask Bauer to pronounce it nucular to say, "If Jack Bauer says 'nucular', then, hell, so can our president." Think about it...just...think about it.
Posted 23 Jul 2007 at 4:55am #
It's obvious that 24 has a strong propagandistic inclination, using TV drama to socialize the viewing public into accepting torture and blatantly extra-legal tactics as an essential ingredient of no-nonsense foreign policy, and generally violating the Constitution whenever needed ... whenever Jack Bauer feels like it. Jack Bauer's stupid mis-pronunciation of nuclear as nukular can only be seen as another tactic of the dumbing down of public intelligence to the level of non-President George Dumbya Bush. Bauer's ignorant mis-pronunciation helps provide propagandistic cover for an ignoramus Commander-in-Chief who has led the most corrupt, inept, and catastrophically unintelligent "presidency" in US history.
Republicans thrive on degrading standards wherever they gain influence -- lowering standards for air and water pollution, toxic emissions, public well-being, forests, oceans, rivers, voting technology, corporate accountability, torture, civil rights ... whatEVER they touch, they degrade. 24 colludes in the degradation on a weekly basis.
Posted 12 Dec 2007 at 3:13am #
Season 6, episode 3.
Known Terrorist: "Nuclear"
Bauer immediately after: "Nucular"
Funny how it's the terrorist who gets it right.
Posted 21 Feb 2010 at 6:24pm #
"Funny how it's the terrorist who gets it right."
well they do say that the US's education system has been in decline for awhile now...