MacBauer

With every season of 24 that comes and goes, I’m perpetually disappointed by one obvious plot line they’ve thoughtlessly avoided. Wouldn’t it be the twist of all twists if it was revealed that Jack Bauer’s real father was actually, dum dum duuuuum MacGyver!? MacGyver would be summoned for duty by CTU after being released from government service a decade prior due to an undercover operation that inevitably went sour. Amnesia ensued and MacGyver lost any memory of his son, Jackson, who lived with his mother throughout the peak of MacGyver’s paperclip/string/straw/duct tape rescue missions. It’s not until the two rendezvous at the climax of an international nuclear bomb scare and realize their father-son kinship. Upon this realization, a series of fist fighting and gun slinging proceeds which ultimately results in the MacBauer team saving the world from itself yet again. Duct tape and Jack Bauer’s fist eat terrorists for breakfast.

There’s even a striking resemblance between the two.  And don’t the MacGyver producers owe us some sort of closure?  I mean, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if MacGyver was actually my own father.  Maybe that’s where my affinity for drinking straws initiated…