First of all, the writers of Chuck obviously don’t think the viewers are getting enough titillation from Chuck’s connection to 2 women. Otherwise, why would they come up with such a lascivious double entendre for the title of the latest episode? Another thing, I’m glad I don’t watch NBC all that often because apparently they played that kiss at the end in many of their previews which would have ruined that moment of the episode. Not knowing that moment was coming, made the subsequent realization that Bryce was back all that more powerful. Obviously, if you haven’t seen the episode yet, I’ve just ruined it for you. But you shouldn’t be reading his if you haven’t seen the episode yet anyway so I don’t feel sorry for ya.
Normally, I rattle off the moments that I deemed as “absurd” which were usually somehow related to the use of technology on the show. Since this week the show tried so hard to make it about relationships, let’s recount the humorous scenes that centered around the interaction of men and women.
- After having the head of the CIA (or is she NSA?) comment, “I want to know everything about her before she gets too close!”, the episode cuts to a scene of Chuck and Lou making out like High Schoolers in the Nerd Herd mobile.
- As if that comedic moment weren’t enough, Lou asks Chuck to “come inside” which is immediately followed by Chuck making vague grunting noises in the background as the camera pans to our fearless hero munching on a sandwich.
- Morgan gets thrown to the floor by Ana after trying to lay on a kiss on her because she “preferred” Morgan to Lester.
- Sarah saying “we thought it’d be best for him to date a civilian in case my cover was blown.” After which Casey repeated his earlier point, “Because she got dumped.”
- Casey telling Sarah, “You have a pattern of getting involved with the men you work with.” And as she storms away trying to save Chuck he adds, “Just in case, I’m not interested.”
- Lester marching into the Wienerlicous and asking Sarah to the movies. Sarah immediately jumps onto the counter straddles the wimpy Lester and has him running back to the Buy More quicker than he was able to march in there to begin with.
- Morgan using the Buy More’s PA system to break up with Ana, then immediately try to get her back.
- The most absurd moment(s): Both Chuck and Morgan getting some action in the same episode. Will it ever happen again? All signs point to “No”.
Due to TiVo’s retarded fixation with marking all Simpson’s reruns on Fox as new episodes, I had to sandwich 2 Chuck episodes earlier this week. Chuck is by far my favorite show running on TV right now. It’s ludicrous basis combined with total disregard for what is actually possible for the sake of getting a good comic relief scenario is a something I just can’t pass up.
Let’s do a quick run-down of the absurd moments
Chuck vs the Sandworm
- Lazslo who admittedly has no money, somehow manages to get a network connection with a computer and enough technology on it to hack into an encrypted connection based out of the Buy More theater. I guess a child genius/prodigy can whip something like that up without any resources.
- Chuck somehow fails to notice the glove compartment of his NerdHerd mobile was housing an alternative steering mechanism. Seems like there should have been one or two occasions for Chuck to reach into the glove compartment and notice that there was a massive contraption back there. Guess he was too busy flashing on something when he looked.
- As Chuck gets launched out the side of the car during an escape, the seat belt is completely contained to the chair. Last time I looked, seat belts are always originating in the body of the car and not a part of the seat itself. But hey, the car was designed by some prodigy CIA inventor with knowledge of the latest technology, so as absurd as this seemed to me it may actually be possible.
- Somehow Lazslo manages to drive the NerdHerd mobile underneath the Santa Monica Pier during broad daylight. Don’t know if you’ve ever tried to do that, but some wanna by Chips or BayWatch type would very quickly be over asking “WTF are you doing?”
- As Lazslo tosses Chuck the keys, he somehow pushes the exact button required to enable the self destruct feature.
- And the most absurd moment: Morgan acting like a mature adult. Only on Halloween my friends.
Chuck vs the Alma Matter
- They used a shot of Stanford Stadium that was at least 3 years old, since this is the second year of the new Football stadium and the year before that it would’ve been under construction. Shame, Shame on the producers.
- Somehow the secret agent from Iceland who figured out the letters were encoding the Dewey Decimal System and knew which library to look at (there are *many* libraries at Stanford just in case you didn’t know) didn’t think to look underneath/above where the book was for a place where something of interest may be hidden.
- A guy is walking around in broad daylight with an arrow gun and he can calmly kill his victim with Chuck being the only witness. Maybe not so absurd considering it was set in LA.
- Somehow the professor felt compelled to leave the video that shows why Chuck was taken out of the program on the disc which would lead the heads of the program to know that Chuck really belonged in the program. Seems like Brice and the professor didn’t have all of their bases covered on that one.
- Somehow all of these students from a campus as vast as Stanford show up with *lots* of guns in tow and I’m sure manage not to arouse any suspicion while lots of people are tailgating merrily throughout the campus. If it were Berkeley where they’re going to help protect the tree protesters, maybe I buy it. But at Stanford the privileged putzes would have Daddy hire them some sort of escort for their super secret extra credit curriculum undertaking that would surely allow them that admission to grad school or six figure salaried job. OK, so maybe this was possible too.
- The most absurd moment: At Stanford, some random guy introduces himself to some schmuck sitting on the bench and winds up introducing the schmuck to some girl who is interested in video games and they wind up dating. This (dating) *never* happens at Stanford.
Sadly, with writer’s strike starting what many predict to be a long stretch of re-runs and incomplete TV seasons, this will be one show I’ll miss. Hopefully, it’ll come back in some form once the mess clears up.
So Chuck has to deal with people telling the truth in 
