I have a few (in order of how much they IRRITATE me):

Anyone (especially those who have never seen it) saying ANYTHING remotely bad about the show or it's characters or any season (Season 6 especially)

Anyone in an article misspelling the names of the characters (ex. Toni, Terri, Terry, Meyers, Buchanon, Bawer, Chang, Viktor, O'Brien, Dressler, Sherri, Polmer, Styles, list goes on...) Don't know why it bugs me so bad but it does.

Dismissing the show and labelling it (ex. that torture show)

Saying anything bad about Kiefer Sutherland, ever! (I now hate you Freddie Prinze Jr)

The show not being on big lists online (100 best shows of the 2000s, best shows ever, 50 top action shows of 2000-2009 etc.) or it being really low on those lists or being called poorly written, etc. It's the best written, best acted show ever, no exceptions!

Probably there are others, but these irritate me so much, whenever I see this or stuff like it. 24 is the best!

My biggest pet peeve ever is 24 not being truly recognized for being the ground-breaking and innovative show that changed the face of television as we know it. That includes not being put on big lists of best shows ever, or like you said being very low on the list. The biggest example of this injustice is in 2010 when both 24 and Lost were ending their initial run and had their series finales - there were specialty magazines about Lost ending but not 24. Entertainment Weekly put out a regular issue but it was basically all about Lost. They took up 90% of the cover, while a picture of Kiefer was in the top corner the size of my thumbnail. 100+ pages and ONLY TWO were dedicated to 24.

24, a TV show with a longer tenure, MORE Emmy nominations (and wins!), and at least 24 didn't have a series finale that was almost universally hated by fans and critics alike. So why the preferential treatment? Critics loved both shows. Fans loved both shows. I can't deny that while I despise Lost, it was a "big" show during that time so it's understandable they'd want to memorialize it. This is 110% unfair to 24 though. By doing this, Lost is deemed as more worthy and will be more missed than 24. Any passerby wouldn't even know that 24, an iconic show every year it was on, was ending its run. But you'd sure as hell know that Lost was.

I saw this kind of unfairness in the media ever since Lost came around. If you want a special issue of a show, make one just for that. It's been done before. But to put it in a regular issue and not even give the time of day (pun intended) to 24 just enraged me, and still does to this day (hence the paragraphs-long rant).

While the FPJ thing was annoying, rude, and hurtful; he's the exception to the rule in that nobody really says anything bad about Kiefer. If it happened more often, I'd be more upset by it. But he really deserves the praise he gets in media and from co-workers.

Another pet peeve would be the easy dismissal of 24 as torture porn (ha!), right-wing propaganda (again HA!), and boring (biggest HA! ever) by so-called "critics". The pilot of 24, first airing in 2001, holds up extraordinarily well when compared to other TV shows. 24 has lasting power, and anyone who can't see that is literally blind.

I couldn't agree more! 24 defines binge watching and changed television, NOT Lost, Breaking Bad or Sopranos.

I tried Lost, trying to like it. For four episodes I waited, not addicting at all. The finale was hated. 24...finale was not. Longer running, better written, more popular...everything. It took LESS than one episode on the other hand to get me irreversibly hooked to 24.

FPJ is a great actor, but I'm NOT happy about his comments, but I'm proud of others for standing up for Kiefer.

24 was the PERFECT balance. It's not super liberal and propaganda filled, especially with the LGBT stuff like today can be, but it isn't super right wing either, especially 6, 7, 8. It's NOT unnecessarily filled with propaganda. Ends justify the means in this show, torture isn't even a mainstay of the show. The characters and real time and the plot are. You must be dead or I don't even know, a pathetic boring person to ever think that think that 24 could possibly be boring. 24 has ruined for other shows because they are super boring in comparison, including Lost, NCIS and related show I may have once liked, but they pale in comparison to 24. 24 is the greatest show that has or will ever hit television or streaming services.

I definitely agree in that 24 has ruined other shows for me. I can't stick with a serial drama anymore these days because almost every single one bores me to tears! Many serials lose their way and I find it very difficult to care about the characters. In fact, now that I think of it only two of my top 10 shows ever are serials. 24 has just ruined (though in the very best way) television for me. I find it hard to care about other dramas, especially in the way I do 24.

I know! I don't watch very many serial dramas (or a bunch of shows since 24) because they bore me, because I'd rather be watching 24 and they are way too boring. My top 5 are 24 (obviously), Grimm (distant second), Prison Break (one of the few good serials) Hawaii Five 0 (later version, very distant fourth), Flash or Psych (very distant). As you can see all of them are very distant from 24, since no show compares! Only 2 or 3 of my top 10 are even serialized (one is sometimes that way, sometimes not) and you are totally right, IT IS hard to care about the characters! I would rather re watch 24 any day, then keep watching (for the first time) any of the shows I enjoy. Thank you 24, you have made me very picky on my shows and ruined me for most (in the best way possible!)