While waiting for a double-date, Penny (Casey Wilson) asks Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) if she would consider getting back into the dating game if "her dad was the head of some elite counter-terrorist unit, and he only has 24 hours to..." which is the plot to the show 24, which starred Elisha Cuthbert as the daughter of main character Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) who worked for a counter-terrorist agency.