Hour 16 (9-10 p.m.): A One-Armed Russian Walks Into a Bar…

A fine episode, indeed, with a delightfully shocking ending.

A few observations:

1. Once again, Noah “I eat live bunnies for breakfast” Daniels...


...solidifies his reputation as the Vilest, Most Satanic Vice President Ever...


...perhaps beating out even Charles Logan...


...Andrew Johnson...


...or even Spiro T. Agnew...


(who deserves a certain amount of disdain for his name alone).

2. I kept expecting Tom Lennox to announce, "To prove that President Palmer is 100% healthy, HE WILL DANCE FOR YOU! DANCE, MR. PRESIDENT, DANCE!”


3. Loved the Milo/Nadia conversation: “Milo, let’s put it behind us.” “Okay, but before we do that, can we put some tonsil hockey behind Chloe's desk?!”


4. Not likin’ Little Ricky one bit:


“I’m sorry we got off to a ‘bad start,’ Nadia.” So, “bad start” apparently refers to that horrible ten minutes when he was pumping her full of sodium pentathol and crushing her trachea.


5. A little-known clause in the 25th amendment stipulates that if a cabinet vote ends in a tie...


...TUG O’ WAR, BABY!

For some reason, I picture this tie-breaking activity involving Condi Rice kickin’ major butt...


...while Dick Cheney is forced to sit out with minor chest pains.


6. So, Doyle reads the Koran all of a sudden and we're suddenly supposed to feel sympathy for him?


Big deal. Noah Daniels probably knows Scripture like the back of his scaly snake-like hand...


...but that doesn't mean we have to invite him to our son's bar mitzvah. Geez!


7. If you ask me, Buchanan and Karen need a big break…AT THE BUFFET OF LOVE!


8. So, Lisa “Another Blonde from Another Failed TV Series” Miller is willing to commit perjury for VICE President Daniels. Is there a May-December romance we need to know about?


Ewe. Obviously that bee-yatch got “zapped” by an alien, if you know what I mean (wink, wink).

9. The whole “I’ve been taping you” scene between Daniels and Lennox was superb. He better watch his back, though. I now respect Tom Lennox again, for growing some ballz...


...in spite of his deciding a long time ago to appear onscreen like this.


10. I expect Daniels will spend the remainder of the season hiding behind doors or around corners and jumping out at President Palmer wearing a really scary mask, in hopes of sending him into cardiac arrest.


Nothing ruins a State dinner like a defibrillator.


11. Have you noticed this show has an amputation fetish?


(an inventory photo taken from CTU's last field-op)
How many limbs and appendages will be lost before someone intervenes?! I keep expecting the Bobbitts to make a cameo.

12. What a shocking ending! Wayne Palmer loses his marbles...


...and launches the nuke anyway!


Wat up wit dat? Apparently, his girdle was on too tight.


That, or that useless government doctor mistook this stuff for adrenaline:


Next week:

In yet another example of egregious miscasting, this guy makes a cameo as the Malaysian ambassador to the U.S.;


this guy goes into hiding during the Easter holiday;


and during his hunt for his one-armed Russian, Jack drops by Forest Lawn...


...not only to talk to the funeral director about certain upcoming arrangements...


...but also to “check out” the facilities.