Landmark TV drama 24 is popping up everywhere lately: billboards, bus stops, pop-up windows, bathroom stall advertisements...

And now, after last weekend's two-night, sixth-season premiere, one can expect Kiefer Sutherland and Co. to launch a multi-media advertising assault that'll leave you exhausted years after Jack Bauer rescues America (again). But perhaps the most enjoyable news about 24 circulating the Web involves the long-lost, Jack Bauer action figure from McFarlane Toys that fell off the radar for unknown reasons. Well, it seems Sutherland came clean and admitted to accidentally setting the mini-Kiefer protoype ablaze during a night of drunken celebration.

Sutherland explains, "They tried to come out with one a couple of years ago and they had sent me the doll for my approval... We took the doll out for a night to have some fun and we'd had some drinks. We sat it on the corner of the table. "We started torturing him around 11 o'clock at night, and, by two o'clock in the morning, we had set him on fire in the parking lot. "We got up the next day and there was just this puddle of wax. His clothes didn't burn, which I thought was pretty cool... and then I got a call the next day saying, 'Did you like the doll?' I said, 'Yeah, it was great.' And they said, 'Well, OK, good, you gotta send it back to us because that was the prototype... It took that guy a year to make it.' "I said, 'Well, let me look for it, I think I left it in the trailer.' This went on for about a week and then I had to just kinda come clean."

A clone of the original toy can be expected on shelves this August.

Jawaman77

Dundalk, MD

November 2006

JAN 16, 2007 10:07 PM

A true Jack Bauer doll would not have melted and could withstand any form or torture!

AndersWolleck

Astoria, NY

February 2003

JAN 16, 2007 10:10 PM

i understand where hes coming from in terms of destroying a doll like that while drunk, but thats a dick move. christ how old is he? 40-something! plus hes canadian oe english or whatever

hey_fukko

Medford, OR

September 2003

JAN 16, 2007 10:11 PM

I'm pretty sure that the actual demise of the prototype is some clever cover up story to fool terrorists into thinking it's safe to bring their prototype action figures out into the open.

maxx

Los Angeles, CA

July 2002

JAN 16, 2007 10:26 PM

It's stuff like this that makes him a hero in real life as well as on the Fox television series of 24, now in its 6th hit season.

StrongMad

Seattle, WA

July 2004

JAN 16, 2007 10:30 PM

hey_fukko said:
I'm pretty sure that the actual demise of the prototype is some clever cover up story to fool terrorists into thinking it's safe to bring their prototype action figures out into the open.

Excellent theory. After all, the "real" Jack Bauer has died at least twice.

wenis

San Francisco, CA

July 2006

JAN 16, 2007 10:33 PM

its not a DOLL!!!

its an ACTION FIGURE!!!!!
JACK BAUER DOESNT PLAY WITH DOLLS.
lol

MrStitches

Brooklyn, NY

November 2003

JAN 16, 2007 10:38 PM

Man, Donald Sutherland would never pull that kind of shit. Further proof that the world has one too many Sutherlands in it.

truthbealiar

Providence, RI

July 2006

JAN 16, 2007 11:47 PM

Okay, that makes me respect that man even more.

Bastardo

Boston, MA

January 2005

JAN 17, 2007 02:38 AM

AndersWolleck said:
i understand where hes coming from in terms of destroying a doll like that while drunk, but thats a dick move. christ how old is he? 40-something! plus hes canadian oe english or whatever

He's Canadian. And you're in charge of celeb interviews?

Big_Slikk

Anchorage, AK

April 2005

JAN 17, 2007 03:16 AM

Kiefer is such a fucking badd ass!

"How are those magets David?"

KMFDMsucks

Burnaby, BC

August 2006

JAN 17, 2007 04:04 AM

This and when he did a flying leap into a Christmas tree makes me proud to have Jack Bauer/KieferSutherland as my hero.

Johnny_Flapjacks

Williamsport, PA

September 2006

JAN 17, 2007 05:10 AM

I can only hope that at the age of 40, I am still having that kind of drunken fun!!

aleksa

Tacoma, WA

April 2006

JAN 17, 2007 05:41 AM

Johnny_Flapjacks said:
I can only hope that at the age of 40, I am still having that kind of drunken fun!!

Exactly.

AndersWolleck said:
plus hes canadian oe english or whatever

I'm confused by the "Canadian or English" remark. Should being one of those nationalities limit his ability to party?

AndersWolleck

Astoria, NY

February 2003

JAN 17, 2007 06:58 AM

The_Bastard said:

He's Canadian. And you're in charge of celeb interviews?

i'm not in charge and he was born in the UK.

earthgodd3ss

Yachats, OR

December 2006

JAN 17, 2007 08:06 AM

I think it's great. So many celebrities are caught up in themselves. This shows he's not an ego-maniac, and that he can laugh at himself. I doubt he would have destroyed it had he known it was the prototype that someone spent a year on.