Chuck

[murdoc]

'Sometimes my password is a random word from Vogon Poetry'

So predicatable, so easy to enjoy though. Usually the first show we watch off the PVR every week.

[HaemishM]

The shower scene was pure poetry in motion.

[Tannhauser]

Another show chock full o' hot chicks.  I enjoyed Chuck's sis leaning over the table and giving us all a reason to be thankful.  Yes the show is predictable but it's fun as hell.  Morgan bores me but where is his hot girlfriend?  I miss that lil minx.

[Jeff Kelly]

I just caught up with the last Chuck episodes (I feel a bit ashamed that I liked the Tom Sawyer episode so much) and I'm sorry.

I mean I really really tried not to but I love the show and can't wait for the new eps. This of course means that Chuck will be cancelled before its time or start to suck like all shows I really liked in the last few years.

I'm really sorry guys and I apologize in advance for any inconvenience that this might cause.

[Jeff Kelly]

The thing I really noticed in the last few episodes is the sheer amount of product placement going on in Chuck. In a very clever way I have to admit.

That one of the main sets of Chuck is a fictional electronics store helps obviously but it also offers the production crew a way to incorporate advertising and product placement into the show without it being blatant and/or annoying wich I kinda admire.

Just like the clever way they put Sprint advertising in one of the last Heroes episodes.

Chuck vs. the Sensei wasn't one of the best episodes but more than made it up with the Awesomes oh and Casey obviously.

[Riggswolfe]

The best line this season was part of a text message. "Unleash the Casey."

Heh. This show keeps getting better. In fact, if there is a silver lining to Terminator moving to Friday it's that I think these two shows are going for the same audience. Maybe some of the Terminator viewers will migrate over to Chuck.

Also, I love how they keep showing us a scantily clad Sarah.

[schild]

I didn't like this last episode. Also, the best line was "I wasn't hatched." Though Unleash the Casey was good.

[Ookii]

This show, like Dexter, needs to have a character that knows the other person's secret.  Or at least get to the point where they become suspicious of their actions.

I think the sister fits well for both shows.

[schild]

I'd prefer a serial killer operate in complete secrecy. The angle of the first season was OK while the second season was merely interesting. I couldn't make it through the third season.

Chuck has 2 people that know the secret. Why does the sister need to know? She seems like a blabbermouth anyway, it wouldn't be a reasonable choice for the writers to make her suddenly useful.

[Riggswolfe]

I keep waiting for Morgen to find out about what Chuck's really up to. Also, Ned was arrested at the end, but doesn't he also know Chuck's secret?

[HaemishM]

I keep waiting for Morgen to find out about what Chuck's really up to. Also, Ned was arrested at the end, but doesn't he also know Chuck's secret?

AFAIK, he does know, or at least he could reasonably be able to infer it by the way the Fulcrum agent ushered Chuck out of the Buy More.

Good episode, which sets up some interesting story ideas for the second part of the season. I think Chuck shouldn't be at all surprised that Sarah capped the cop guy at the end. He's flashed on her before.

[Riggswolfe]

Good episode, which sets up some interesting story ideas for the second part of the season. I think Chuck shouldn't be at all surprised that Sarah capped the cop guy at the end. He's flashed on her before.

That part was a little weak. He knows her job isn't petting kittens. The guy knows his secret and was going to kidnap him. What else does he expect? I'm hoping she eventually tells Chuck off when he confronts her about it. "He was threatening to make your life and the lives of everyone you love hell!"

I liked how the episode was a sort of switcheroo. It went from pathetic, bumbling guy who Chuck wants to help and who accidentally shot Casey to a pretty intelligent setup by Fulcrum. It also helped with my first thought "so this guy just randomly crashes into this Buy More? Didn't they have any spy stuff to do this week?"

[Tannhauser]

Very well-written show with the switcheroo.  I loved Fulcrum's plan!  Nice to see the bad guys go after the good guys.  Were they doing a homage to Die Hard with that fat black cop?  The cast really seems to be jelling in my mind.  Awesome decides to be awesome and Morgan, who is the real hero, gets shiat on.  Chuck, Casey and Sara good as usual.  Good to see romantic tension back between Chuck and Sara. 

This show has found it's legs and I think it can go several seasons.

[Fordel]

That part was a little weak. He knows her job isn't petting kittens. The guy knows his secret and was going to kidnap him. What else does he expect? I'm hoping she eventually tells Chuck off when he confronts her about it. "He was threatening to make your life and the lives of everyone you love hell!"

I'm not sure it was so much a "Oh God what did she do" kind of thing, but rather a "Fuck, we ain't ever going to be normal and happily ever after" thing.

[Evildrider]

That part was a little weak. He knows her job isn't petting kittens. The guy knows his secret and was going to kidnap him. What else does he expect? I'm hoping she eventually tells Chuck off when he confronts her about it. "He was threatening to make your life and the lives of everyone you love hell!"

I'm not sure it was so much a "Oh God what did she do" kind of thing, but rather a "Fuck, we ain't ever going to be normal and happily ever after" thing.

Thing is he didn't hear the whole conversation, he just heard the guy giving himself up.  Not the threats that he leveled at Chuck.

[Riggswolfe]

  Were they doing a homage to Die Hard with that fat black cop? 

Yes. Same actor. Same character name. Heck, he was the same rank and eating twinkies. It wasn't just an homage, they've pretty much established that John McClane exists in their universe.

[schild]

I don't know if Die Hard is geeky enough for this show. How come none of you have said that it was Carl Winslow?

[Riggswolfe]

I don't know if Die Hard is geeky enough for this show. How come none of you have said that it was Carl Winslow?

Because he introduces himself as Sgt Al Powell while eating a twinking and talking on his radio to someone in a hostage situation?

[schild]

I don't know if Die Hard is geeky enough for this show. How come none of you have said that it was Carl Winslow?

Because he introduces himself as Sgt Al Powell while eating a twinking and talking on his radio to someone in a hostage situation?

Oh, I got all that. But you know, CARL WINSLOW! NERDS/GEEKS >_>

[Jeff Kelly]

I don't know if Die Hard is geeky enough for this show. How come none of you have said that it was Carl Winslow?

Because it's rather obvious

[schild]

I don't know if Die Hard is geeky enough for this show. How come none of you have said that it was Carl Winslow?

Because it's rather obvious

Family Matters was broadcast in Europe?

[Evildrider]

Family Matters was pretty damn popular.  Why?  I have no idea.

[Reg]

Because everyone loves Alex P. Keaton!

[Jeff Kelly]

Family Matters was broadcast in Europe?

African American comedy shows (am I pc enough?) were huge over here. 'The Cosby Show' and 'Family Matters' were at one point even more popular than 'Friends' and have both been rerun to death in the last ten years. But we have a curious taste as far as sitcoms are concerned anyway. The german TV station that got the rights to 'married with children' for example even offered Fox to pay for the production costs if they agreed to produce another season after it was cancelled (true story).

Edit: spelling and grammar, also Fox naturally never even considered the offer.

[schild]

You gave me another reason to like Germans today, Jeff. I'd offer all of you (ALL OF YOU) a beer for that, but I know you'd take me up on it and I just can't afford that.

[Tannhauser]

Al Bundy was a God!  Since Chuck occupies the Die Hard universe (or vice versa), maybe we can see Bruce Willis appear at some point?  He and Casey would hit it right off.  LA would run red with bad guy blood!

[schild]

Talking Heads bit was awesome.

[Trippy]

I loved the dog.

[schild]

I loved the dog.

Yes.

Also,
"The PTA won't stand for that." Hur!

[Riggswolfe]

If I had any disappointments in this episode it's that the villains were pretty much brain fried and/or killed at the end. Raise your hand if you'd like Jenny McCarthy to be a recurring character?

[schild]

Raise your hand if you'd like Jenny McCarthy to be a recurring character?

No.

Edit: I'm not saying she'd be bad, just that no, I don't really want to see her as a recurring character. I'm also not exactly sure if I like Chuck having all of well, without being too spoilerish, all of the new stuff in his head.

[Trippy]

I'm also not exactly sure if I like Chuck having all of well, without being too spoilerish, all of the new stuff in his head.

That's a reoccurring plot device they use to make sure the information in his head is "current". Bryce did the same thing to Chuck with those glasses at the end of one episode.

[schild]

I'm also not exactly sure if I like Chuck having all of well, without being too spoilerish, all of the new stuff in his head.

That's a reoccurring plot device they use to make sure the information in his head is "current". Bryce did the same thing to Chuck with those glasses at the end of one episode.

Updating secrets is one thing. Updating them with
secrets that are  is another thing altogether.

[Evildrider]

Remember that the test only seemed to have info about what went down in the last episode.  We haven't seen the effects of what the full thing has on him yet.

[Riggswolfe]

I actually like the plot development honestly. Though it removes a source of tension from the show potentially.