False Advertising

I've lost a lot of respect for Special Agent Jack Bauer. With the release of seasons one and two of "24" on DVD, the truth is finally out there in black and white. On the show they make Kiefer Sutherland out to be some kind of adrenaline-fueled super cop, never sleeping a wink from midnight to midnight as he saves the City of Los Angeles from implacable menaces. But a closer examination reveals that the run-time of the entire season is a mere 999 minutes. Those commercials are tricky things, aren't they, Jack? This works out to 16 hours and 39 minutes of real-time action, leaving more than enough time to save the world and get one's beauty sleep. Just like The Greatest Story Ever Told and The NeverEnding Story II, I've been cheated.