As i’ve posted previously, the 400th episode of The Simpsons (or was it 399th?) will be a 24 parody called “24 Minutes” starring Kiefer and Mary Lynn
Anyway, a brief clip from it has surfaced on the web. The episode airs this sunday on Fox in the U.S. and i’m sure a U.K. airing on Sky One can’t be far behind.
“24 Minutes”, … done in 24 style complete with multi frames and nerve-wracking ticking. Guest stars Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub will play their Monday night alter egos, Jack Bauer and Chloe O’Brian. Seems like Springfield Elementary has set up a CTU of its own. Yes the educational mecca of Springfield for lo these last 18 seasons now runs a Counter Truancy Unit, manned by CTU agents Bart and Lisa Simpson. Set up by Principal Skinner, the CTU faces uncertain times as rumors of a stink bomb to be detonated during a school bake sale has everyone on edge. Or, as “on-edge” as a cartoon character could be.
It airs this sunday in the States, not a clue about a U.K. airing, though i’m sure it can’t be too far behind.
“With its chirping phones, chronic inter-office sniping and dozens of stressed-out, computer-bound workers, “24’s” Counter Terrorism Unit sometimes comes across as a high-tech version of the British cubicle comedy “The Office.”… …Right there in the thick of all the sniping and the technobabble is computer whiz Chloe O’Brian, who’s not quite as clueless as “The Office’s” David Brent, but then again, she’s certainly not overly concerned with buttering up her colleagues…
…”A lot of people think that she’s so annoying, but she’s usually right. And nobody listens to her,” Rajskub says of her character…”