Can you even really call this a parody? Your eyes don't deceive you, they decided to toss in the previously skipped episode 2 here. Impressions: I guess I can see why they skipped it. It was a 24 parody where one of them was supposedly threatening to assassinate the president, but again, I use the word […]
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