banana. i mean, it s one banana, michael. what could it cost, $10? you never actually set foot in a super market, have you? you assumed the audience was as smart as the writers. what have you got there? don t be afraid to make eye not going to beat myself up over that. it was so clever. and more meta than just about any show that s ever been on television. your average male is in perpetual state of adolescence. that s the show. you could break all these rules and have a lot of characters on a comedy who were extremely unlikable. there are a lot more important things than jokes in comedy. jokes aren t the most important thing in a comedy. what s the most important thing? the character. take control. the body. all that. busy? yeah, keeping up morale.
based on mark wahlberg s life, and the appeal of the show is not so much about show business. it was these four gaze who were like lifelong friends who could [ bleep ] with each other and say horrible things with each other, but be tight and be good friends. they want to throw 4 million at you. are you kidding? are you smiling? yeah, i m smiling. can you hear me smiling? you got my bald thing with men. they drive that way in tiananmen square? he became the break out character. willing to be truthless, also a family man with a line in the sand. and you don t know where that line in the sand is which makes him a morally much more interesting character. i read an article in the times, the new york times, not you read the times? no. you read the new republic? i ve heard of it. i was reading it. it s interesting. what it says, you don t know what the [ bleep ] you re talking about. so this is their big idea? people? i think human interaction is overrated, but this
revisit them. there s no better hook. i m going to watch a little bit more. 24 was set to debut in november of 2001. the pilot climaxes with an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in mid-air. fox orders this. fox schedules it. 9/11 happens. suddenly this show which seemed like this goofy thing, kifa sutherland chasing after terrorists becomes the timely show on television because that is all anyone in america could talk about after september 11. the name for the series comes from the idea that it s 24 episodes in a season. each episode is one hour in a day, and jack bauer just has the worst days. we are running out of time. pull the trigger. please don t make me do this. i know how hard it is for you. if you care about me at all you ll pull the trigger. i can t.
you are never going to meet someone that s going to say to you, you know, i was watching the bachelor last night, i loved it. but i wish i was watching a great drama. karen. i thought you d never ask. don t call it a guilty pleasure it s a pleasure. it could be a reality show, documentary. whatever it is. great tv comes in many forms.
united states, without putting social security front and center, is like running for president of the walt disney corporation by saying you re going to fix the rides at epcot. i think what made it different than the shows i worked on was the richness of character and words and thoughts and images aaron sorkin wrote. i would love people to think i m as quick and clever as the characters i write. but utd be disappointed if you met me. josh, six pages on english is the national language. meetings don t take place sitting down and talking to people. the social studies paper josh donna look at the memo. i gave you what you asked for. don t snap at me. so we knew that was the essence of the show, this movement. what s wrong with everyone today? the challenge of doing that is, number one, lighting. what was the question? if you look at that set on the wrest wing, there is a lot f glass. glass is reflective. so there were a lot of technical