Chuck Versus the Three Words
- Episode aired Jan 10, 2010
- TV-PG
- 43m
IMDb RATING
8.3/10
1.4K
YOUR RATING
Things are turned upside-down when Carina pays a visit with her fiancé. A lie told by Morgan complicates matters.Things are turned upside-down when Carina pays a visit with her fiancé. A lie told by Morgan complicates matters.Things are turned upside-down when Carina pays a visit with her fiancé. A lie told by Morgan complicates matters.
Ryan McPartlin
- Devon 'Captain Awesome' Woodcomb
- (credit only)
Sarah Lancaster
- Ellie Bartowski
- (credit only)
Jesse Heiman
- Fernando
- (uncredited)
Michael Kawczynski
- Skip
- (uncredited)
Brian Oerly
- Andy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen saying goodbye to Sarah, Carina says in Swedish "jag kommer att sakna dig kompis," which means "I'm going to miss you, pal." Sarah answers in Polish "stesknie sie za toba tez", which means "I'll miss you, too". (The Polish bears some light English accent, but is nearly flawless overall, thanks to Yvonne Strahovski's growing up as an English-Polish bilingual.)
- GoofsBig Mike mentions that the Japanese language has no word for the word 'no'. This is not true. In fact, Japanese has many words for 'no', but every instance of 'no' is context based, as is most of the language.
- Quotes
Carina: And Casey will pose as my father.
John Casey: Check your math, sister. I'll play your brother.
Carina: That's a bit of a stretch, Colonel.
Chuck Bartowski: Yeah, Casey. Uh, I think you have dungarees that are older than Carina.
- ConnectionsReferences Play Misty for Me (1971)
Featured review
gets annoying
Stumbled upon Chuck by coincidence and mostly enjoyed the first two seasons. But two episodes into the third season, the show unfortunately starts annoying me very much.
Starting with the general premise of Chuck becoming "a spy" when everything he wanted until S2 was to get rid of it and get Sarah. That's a complete reversal of his character. The lame excuse: Important people told him he could change the world.
Which brings me to point 2: The naive approach towards secret services, especially CIA. I get it, it's an American Show, ofc they are the good guys and where would the world be without it. But buying into this whole "we save the world" when in fact CIA and others are a really big and well documented source of political problems in the world (escalating wars, toppling of governments, drug and arms trafficking) is just ridiculous. I am really tired of this trope. Even within the logic of the series Chuck should have noticed that they are liars by profession so someone telling him "he can save the world and make a difference" is so laughably bad.
And that leads to point 3: Chuck's naivity/immaturity. And here it gets really annoying. It was already a bit much of him feeling the need to talk with Sarah about them in S1 and 2 in the most critical of situations. It was oftentimes painful that the writers let him talk on and on while he just should have shut up by common sense. But in this episode it finally gets super ridculous: Is the character now so incredibly stupid that they are in a time critical situation and he wants to have a private talk? Did he leanr NOTHING over the past years and in his spy-training? Come on.
There is really a lack of creativity showing to evolve this show and the characters. Instead it's just repeating a proven concept that gets boring. And the annoying aspects as mentioned above are ruining the suspension of disbelief very thouroghly.
I'm still giving it a couple of episodes more. But am not expecting much of it. Shame.
So the rating is more for the direction and premise of the series ; the episode in itself was ok.
Starting with the general premise of Chuck becoming "a spy" when everything he wanted until S2 was to get rid of it and get Sarah. That's a complete reversal of his character. The lame excuse: Important people told him he could change the world.
Which brings me to point 2: The naive approach towards secret services, especially CIA. I get it, it's an American Show, ofc they are the good guys and where would the world be without it. But buying into this whole "we save the world" when in fact CIA and others are a really big and well documented source of political problems in the world (escalating wars, toppling of governments, drug and arms trafficking) is just ridiculous. I am really tired of this trope. Even within the logic of the series Chuck should have noticed that they are liars by profession so someone telling him "he can save the world and make a difference" is so laughably bad.
And that leads to point 3: Chuck's naivity/immaturity. And here it gets really annoying. It was already a bit much of him feeling the need to talk with Sarah about them in S1 and 2 in the most critical of situations. It was oftentimes painful that the writers let him talk on and on while he just should have shut up by common sense. But in this episode it finally gets super ridculous: Is the character now so incredibly stupid that they are in a time critical situation and he wants to have a private talk? Did he leanr NOTHING over the past years and in his spy-training? Come on.
There is really a lack of creativity showing to evolve this show and the characters. Instead it's just repeating a proven concept that gets boring. And the annoying aspects as mentioned above are ruining the suspension of disbelief very thouroghly.
I'm still giving it a couple of episodes more. But am not expecting much of it. Shame.
So the rating is more for the direction and premise of the series ; the episode in itself was ok.
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