6 TV Shows With Crazy Real-Life Repercussions

24 has always had a thing for torture scenes. In the first five seasons of the show, there are 67 of them and it's usually the good guys who are doing it.

Jack Bauer's love for forceful extraction had a massive influence at military schools in the US, convincing budding troops that torture is a viable method of interrogation.

The problem was so widespread at one institution that its dean, Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, requested a meeting with Fox executives to complain that a large portion of his lessons had become convincing his students that Bauer's methods should never be used in the field.

24 was a smash hit among students at the US Military Academy and many of its students were keen to know when was the appropriate time to shoot a suspect in the limb or break their fingers. The answer, of course, was never, but the Brigadier frequently found his teachings contradicted by CTU's finest.

Finnegan isn't the only educator to speak out against 24's terrorism penchant. Professor Gary Solis, who teaches wartime law at West Point, was forever explaining to his students how Jack Bauer would be the biggest war criminal who ever lived if he was real. In a sense, 24 has become part of the syllabus at this institute.