Perimeter
By Mitch Berg
Jeff Kouba notes something my daughter and I both caught during 24 last night, when Ricky “Doyle” “Silver Pistols” Schroeder ordered CTU to “set up a perimeter!” to stop the escaping Cheng:
*pause so audience can dissolve in fits of laughter* Do we have even one example of a perimeter ever working on this show?
Indeed, in six years, I think the only thing a perimeter has ever done on 24 is earn overtime pay for LAPD/CHP/CTU redshirt extras.
But it occurs to me – there’s a bit of pop culture fame to be seized here. “Set up a perimeter” is the ultimate sarcastic negator!
Think about it:
- “Patty Wetterling set a perimeter on the Sixth District Congressional seat”
- “Al Franken has set a perimeter around Coleman’s Senate seat!”
- “Minnesota Monitor has set a perimeter around journalistic credibility!”
- “Ryan Rhodes’s lower bowel is a perimeter against noxious emissions”
It works.
That is all.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Ricky “Rick” Schroeder, of Silver Spoons fame? He’s one of a handful of Hollywood Republicans.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
“Ryan Rhodes’s lower bowel is a perimeter against noxious emissions”
Among other things. . .
May 15th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
I prefer to call him ‘Flowers’ from his stint on Scrubs.