Nunca acompanhei com muita atenção a série de televisão «24» e por isso desconhecia o grau de fanatismo à sua volta. Mas a verdade é que Jack Bauer - a personagem principal, interpretada por Kiefer Sutherland - faz parte do imaginário de milhares (ou milhões?) de pessoas espalhadas pelos quatro cantos do mundo.
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Além do tradicional merchandising, temos também um sem fim de frases acerca de Jack Bauer, todas elas alusivas à sua condição de super-herói de carne e osso. Ora leiam, são bastante cómicas:
If you wake up in the morning, it’s because Jack Bauer spared your life.
If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.
Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
Jack Bauer’s favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
If you wake up in the morning, it’s because Jack Bauer spared your life.
If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.
Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
Jack Bauer’s favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
Jack Bauer doesn’t miss. If he didn’t hit you it’s because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
Lets get one thing straight, the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
If Jack says “I just want to talk to him/her” and that him/her is you… well amigo, you’re fucked.
Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.
When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer fucking hates lemonade.
In grade school, a little boy punched Kimberly Bauer, and Kimberly ran home to tell her dad. That little boy’s name? Stephen Hawking.
Jack Bauer does not sleep. The only rest he needs is what he gets when he’s knocked out or temporarily killed.
No man has ever used the phrase, “Jack Bauer is a pussy” in a sentence and lived to tell.
Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.
Jack Bauer’s family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child. Once.
There is no such thing as the theory of evolution, but only a list of animals Jack Bauer has allowed to live.
If you get 7 stars on your wanted level on Grand Theft Auto, Jack Bauer comes after you. You don’t want to get 7 stars.
Guns dont kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.
Everytime Jack Bauer yells “NOW!” at the end of a sentence, a terrorist dies.
Jesus died and rose from the dead in 3 days. It took Jack Bauer less than an hour. And he’s done it twice.
Jack Bauer could get off the Lost island in 24 hours.
If Jack Bauer was gay, his name would be Chuck Norris.
Longe vai o tempo em que os trekies (fãs de «Star Trek») eram os detentores do título de "os mais fanáticos". Personagens incontornáveis da ficção científica do século XX, como Spock e Captain Kirk, tendem a cair no esquecimento. A luta pela sobrevivência da humanidade já não se faz com armas de laser, nem naves espaciais.
Agora, num mundo cada vez mais tecnológico, os heróis são outros: homens e mulheres aparentemente normais, mas que conseguem, em apenas 24 horas, derrubar um governo, impedir o assassinato de um presidente e mesmo assim chegar a casa a tempo de jantar com a família.
Ao fim de contas, estamos no século XXI.
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