Has anyone else picked up on this? That Kiefer Sutherland is the voice behind the new BOA ads on television? We saw one over the weekend and it threw us for a loop. We went as far as to google “Kiefer” and “Bank of America” to confirm that we’d actually heard what we thought we heard.

At first glance it just seemed like a funny and inconsequential pop culture nugget, but then the more we started thinking about it — and the different levels of irony — the more it started to blow our mind. We still can’t figure out what part is most ironic:

• That some Canadian actor is telling us to bank with the “Bank of America”.

• Or that BOA hired a raging alcoholic who just did time for DUI to tell us how to handle our personal finances.

• Or that Jack Bauer cares about our fiscal wellbeing.

• Or that we’ve seen every season of 24 and it took a banking commercial in between innings of a baseball game to trigger for us that Jack Bauer is actually Canadian and how fucked up that is.

Try not to spend all week beating yourself up for answers, because you’re not likely to find many. This a tree fell in the woods sort of situation. We do recommend however spending the week telling everyone how awesome this picture is.

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