If you could call a TV character and wish him or her a Merry Christmas, would it really be Jack Bauer?
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- December
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OK, this has got to be one of the goofiest self-promoting surveys. Ever.
EMBARQ (I’ve never even heard of this company!) surveyed 1,000 Americans who they’d want to call up and invite to join them around the dinner table this holiday season, on their cell phones of course. In return, EMBARQ is giving its customers (current as well as new) unlimited minutes throughout the entire month.
So, 11 percent of the respondents, when offered the following fake characters, chose Jack Bauer, our tortured (and torturing) hero (anti-hero?) of 24 over the following: Susan Mayer of Desperate Housewives, Larry David of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Stewie Griffin of Family Guy, Claire Bennet of Heroes, Michael Scott of The Office and Nancy Botwin of Weeds.
A little unclear, however, was where McDreamy, Dr. Derek Shepherd of Grey’s Anatomy fell in  20 percent of female respondents chose him, but EMBARQ didn’t note where Shepherd fell in the overall lineup.
But this is my question: What happens when Jack is sitting at your dinner table and your kid brother covertly takes out one of those laser pointer thingys and starts pointing it at the turkey, the mashed potatoes, the Christmas tree?
Jack freakin’ wrecks your house, that’s what. He gets your kid brother in a headlock, shoots him in the knee and demands, “WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR? TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!”
Before everything is straightened out, you have a crippled brother, a wrecked dinner and possibly a house blown up.
But, I guess, you would have a heckuva holiday story to share with your friends.
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on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 11:46 am by Amy Vernon.
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