"Chuck" Chuck Versus the Tango (2007)

Director:

Jason Ensler

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Chuck" (2007)

Original Air Date:

8 October 2007 (Season 1, Episode 3)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A stolen piece of art is the key for locating a weapon's dealer. Chuck's up for a promotion to assistant manager at work. |

Plot Keywords:

CIA | Secret Agent | Beautiful Woman | Slacker | One Word Title

Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Zachary Levi	...	Chuck Bartowski
Yvonne Strahovski	...	Sarah Walker
Joshua Gomez	...	Morgan Grimes
Sarah Lancaster	...	Ellie Bartowski
Adam Baldwin	...	John Casey
C.S. Lee	...	Harry Tang
Bonita Friedericy	...	General Diane Beckman
Tony Todd	...	CIA Director Graham
Lorena Bernal	...	La Ciudad-Malena
Neil Dickson	...	MI-6 Agent
Grant Thompson	...	Alan Waterman
Ryan McPartlin	...	Devon 'Captain Awesome' Woodcomb
Mark Christopher Lawrence	...	Big Mike
Vik Sahay	...	Lester Patel
Scott Krinsky	...	Jeff Barnes

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Trivia:

La Ciudad's identifying scar changes from a 1" trapezoidal burn in the tango scene to a 3" slash when she reappears in the Buy More plaza.

Quotes:

Alan Waterman: [giving Chuck his card] Well, if you need any help with the job thing, gimme a call. I know people.
Chuck Bartowski: [Chuck has a flash] Insider trading and off shore accounts in the Caymans.
Alan Waterman: [shocked] What did you just say? Do you work for the SCC?
[taking the card]
Alan Waterman: I gotta go.

Movie Connections:

References "The Joy of Painting" (1983)

Third episode of "Chuck" has the title character on his first assignment

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

In this, the third episode of "Chuck", the title character is sent on his first spy mission: go to a cocktail party with Sarah to find a killer of someone who deals in paintings. He's also up for a promotion for assistant manager at Buy More. Agent John Casey, who works with Chuck at Buy More, asks if he knows how to tango. Chuck takes lessons from his sister Ellie's boyfriend, "Captain Awesome". He later finds out he got taught the girl's side. Chuck's Buy More co-worker and friend Morgan offers to help with the Nerd Herd in working with some computers left over from Chuck's rival for promotion, Tang. Unfortunately, he gets locked from inside and is stuck since Chuck, who's at his assignment at this point, has the key. Chuck dances with a woman at the party who turns out to be an assassin. Things start to get hairy for Chuck but Sarah and John are on the way...I don't think I completely got the plot but I enjoyed many of the fight scenes that John and Sarah got into. And when those goons went in Buy More looking for Chuck, I loved the way John beat one of them with a microwave just as he was going to shoot Chuck and the way John beat the other one into refrigerators before putting him into a large ice box! Also loved the exchanges between Sarah and Chuck as to what he'd do if they were on an actual date. The actor playing Morgan may need to dial it down a bit but otherwise this was a good episode.