One thing that's always bugged me about "24" (no spoilers)

[kay1864]

They never ask people to stay late. Yeah, I know that every season is a one-day crisis, so most of the critical personnel are expected to work a 24-hour shift, but it'd be a little more realistic if they'd have Bill Buchanan / George Mason / whoever make a quick balcony announcement that "second shift personnel are coming on board, but critical team members, since we're in the middle of a crisis, you'll have to stay until we resolve this".

Just one line in the script would bring us back to reality <snort>, and would give a little jolt to us the viewers, that wow, these people are up WAY past their bedtime.

There's never any recognition that they're working 12, 16, 20 hours with no fatigue. We had that one time in the first season that Jack almost nodded off in that office, but other than that, it's supposed to be completely normal for CTU to work 24 hours straight? Jack and Curtis, they're physically active, running on adrenalin, but people sitting in front of a computer screen just can't function well after that long.

C'mon 24 scriptwriters, throw me a bone here!

/rant