Jason Unger

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10
Hanging Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Hanging Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I've been nervous lots of times.

9
Elaine Dickinson: There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

8
Ted Striker: I flew single engine fighters in the Air Force, but this plane has four engines. It's an entirely different kind of flying altogether.
Rumack, Randy: [together] It's an entirely different kind of flying.

7
Rumack: What was it we had for dinner tonight?
Elaine Dickinson: Well, we had a choice of steak or fish.
Rumack: Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.

6
Elaine Dickinson: Would you like something to read?
Hanging Lady: Do you have anything light?
Elaine Dickinson: How about this leaflet, "Famous Jewish Sports Legends?"

5
Captain Oveur: You ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before.
Captain Oveur: You ever seen a grown man naked?

4
Joey: Wait a minute. I know you. You're Kareem Abdul-Jabar. You play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Roger Murdock: I'm sorry son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.
Joey: You are Kareem. I've seen you play. My dad's got season tickets.
Roger Murdock: I think you should go back to your seat now Joey. Right Clarence?
Captain Oveur: Nahhhhhh, he's not bothering anyone, let him stay here.
Roger Murdock: But just remember, my name is ROGER MURDOCK. I'm an airline pilot.
Joey: I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try… except during the playoffs.
Roger Murdock: The hell I don't. LISTEN KID. I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.

3
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

2
Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

1
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious… and don't call me Shirley.

BONUS
Man in Taxi: Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes; but that's it!

(via IMDB)

"24" will be getting a two-hour movie that prequels Season 7 this fall, the Hollywood Reporter is reporting.

The movie, designed to bridge the two-year gap between Seasons 6 and 7, is targeted to air in the fall, leading to the January return of the real-time drama. On Wednesday, "24" producers began securing the show's core cast members for the film.

I guess Fox didn't listen to my idea for National 24 day, but this is pretty big news.

So, now that there is SOME news, let the speculation begin…

- Will it be a two-hour "real-time" affair? Or will it stray from 24's standard time model?
- Is this the 24 movie that was supposed to come out? Or is that still happening?
- What will the prequel bring that we don't already know about Season 7? Most of the times, the prequels on the DVDs don't do much at all for the season.

Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely looking forward to it. But is this just a way to "apologize" to fans for the lack of Jack Bauer in 2008? Or will it actually mean something to the show?

You'd think that I'd be really happy that the format war is over. I wasn't buying into either format because I didn't want to waste the money on a useless product.

Now that it's over, I've considered jumping in with a PlayStation 3. It makes the most sense, since it is the cheapest player, is most ready for spec upgrades, and plays games too (including Rock Band).

But honestly, there's nothing on Blu-ray I want to watch.

The predicament here is that the movies available on BD are a mix of titles I could have (or did) buy on DVD years ago and new movies that, well, suck. I'm not re-buying my movies just to see them in real high-def, and I'm not buying junk just to have some Blu-ray discs.

The only title that I really want in HD is Heroes - Season 1, which is only available on the dead format. (Speaking of which, there is a horrible lack of TV shows on Blu-ray. One season of Lost, Sopranos, Smallville and Prison Break … give me more. Now!)

Sure, if the format war was still going on, that doesn't mean that there'd be anything worth watching. But Blu-ray won because it had the content studios.

I'm just waiting for them to deliver.

PS. Planet Earth is probably the only other title I'd buy, but I got tired of watching it on cable when it first aired.

Let's hope it's more Raiders of the Lost Ark and less Temple of Doom.

(via Gizmodo)

Great. Just what we need — another set-top box.

Netflix and LG have announced that they're bringing movies from the Internet to your HDTV … with another box that has to sit in your media cabinet.

(You can hear the excitement now.)

How many companies have tried to do this? MovieBeam? Vongo? VUDU? Akimbo?

You get the point. No one has succeeded in an on-demand movie service before, right?

Wrong!

The cable and telco companies do on-demand right. You've already got their box. They already have the wires. The interface sucks, but it's easy enough to use, with instant startups and no down time.

According to Hacking Netflix (via Dave Zatz), this isn't going to be the only Netflix-branded set-top box. In fact, Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO) says he wants Netflix content in a lot of boxes.

"Our model is that we don't want one Netflix-branded box, we want to see 100 Netflix-capable boxes. We want to be embedded in high-def DVD players, Internet games, dedicated set-top boxes, a wide range of options, not all instantly. This is the first one, a great proof point."

Here's a suggestion: go with the cable companies. Yes, no one likes them, but everyone likes the convenience it affords.

Look at TiVo — they're rolling out software for Comcast boxes. They had a great product that the cable companies undercut in price and convenience. So, they adapted.

Netflix, your movie by mail service was revolutionary. But video-on-demand isn't.

Instead of trying to succeed where others have failed, take your position in the new digital market — as a content provider — and go to the place that needs a fresh face.

Netflix content and cable box convenience would work. I'm not going to go and buy a new box, but if you provide me the content on the box I already have, it's a winner.

You're going in the right direction, but you're starting off in the wrong place.