"Chuck" Chuck Versus the Crown Vic (2007)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Chris Fisher

Writers:

Josh Schwartz (creator) &
Chris Fedak (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Chuck" (2007)

Original Air Date:

3 December 2007 (Season 1, Episode 11)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Chuck flashes on a counterfeit bill on a philanthropists yacht. Team Chuck goes undercover to determine what he's up to...

Plot Keywords:

Secret Agent | CIA | Forbidden Love | Spy Spoof | Best Friend

Cast

Zachary Levi	...	Chuck Bartowski
Yvonne Strahovski	...	Sarah Walker
Joshua Gomez	...	Morgan Grimes
Sarah Lancaster	...	Ellie Bartowski
Adam Baldwin	...	John Casey
Mark Christopher Lawrence	...	Big Mike
Michael Wiseman	...	Lon Kirk
Bonita Friedericy	...	General Diane Beckman
Tony Todd	...	CIA Director Graham
David Paluck
Vik Sahay	...	Lester Patel
Scott Krinsky	...	Jeff
Julia Ling	...	Anna Wu
Ping Wu	...	Mr. Wu
Yuriana Kim	...	Mrs. Wu

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Trivia:

When Chuck first sees Casey's Crown Vic, Chuck states that the car is "Shiny". Casey assures him that his car is "Shiny". This is a reference to the series "Firefly" (2002) (also staring Adam Baldwin). In that show, "Shiny" simply means good or taken care of.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Casey is talking about a 'payment plan' to Chuck at the roulette table the video has obviously been reversed. He hands the chips over the table to the left when Chuck was to the right, his shirt/vest buttons overlay the other way, the scar on Casey's left cheek is now on the right cheek and the flower arrangement behind him has moved.

Quotes:

Chuck Bartowski: I said I was sorry, right?

Movie Connections:

References Titanic (1997)

Chuck Versus the Crown Vic is another entertaining episode of "Chuck"

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Okay, this is the last episode of "Chuck" before the Christmas break. Since there's still a writers' strike, only two more new episodes have been filmed so it's hard to tell right now if we'll get an actual full season of this bright new action-comedy. In a nutshell: Chuck, Sarah, and Casey are trying to stop a shipping tycoon from bombing in certain places having found out about his counterfeiting scheme. This guy seems to be way ahead of the game since he makes fools of Sarah and Casey after Chuck ID's one of his boxes and they find nothing to incriminate him. Both of them are taken off the case as a result. After Morgan sends a picture of him and Anna on her parents' ship, Chuck identifies something in the back and warns first Casey who passes, then Sarah who accepts Chuck's prognosis and rushes off to action. We find Casey in his beloved car waiting for them there as they rush to beat the bad guys and Chuck uses a scanning device to direct the flying bomb to Casey's car. Casey's not too happy about that though he seems to like Chuck now. So when his superior tells him on the phone that the new intel is close to being developed and Chuck may not be needed anymore, Casey declares he will do what he is ordered. Is this the end of Chuck? Gusee we'll find out next month...Another entertaining episode of "Chuck". Loved hearing an approximation (to avoid copyright infringement) of the "James Bond Theme" as we see Chuck enter a casino with Sarah and say his alias like James Bond would say his own name when introducing himself. Morgan himself was hilarious when trying to impress Anna's parents especially when he smokes a pipe and mentions Popeye as the person he idolized when he did that! The Buy More Christmas...uh, Holiday party was also pretty funny with the dreidel gambling and Run-DMC's Christmas song playing in the background. Can't wait for the next episode to air. Until next time...