Pilot 

While computer nerd Chuck is forced to his birthday party, his old roomie at Stanford does spy stuff and sends Chuck an email, that changes him forever. CIA sends agents to find him and he has his first date in years.

Director:

McG

Writers:

Josh Schwartz (created by), Chris Fedak (created by)

Stars:

Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez

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
Wendy Makkena	...	National Intelligence Director
Tony Todd	...	CIA Director Graham
C.S. Lee	...	Harry Tang
Jim Pirri	...	Father
Dale Dye	...	General Stanfield
Matt Bomer	...	Bryce Larkin (as Matthew Bomer)
Ryan McPartlin	...	Devon 'Captain Awesome' Woodcomb
Vik Sahay	...	Lester Patel
Julia Ling	...	Anna Wu
Scott Krinsky	...	Jeff Barnes

Storyline

Chuck is a computer geek who gets a computer full of information zapped into his brain...information that contains secrets that the federal government desperately needs to keep in Chuck's head...and keep Chuck, himself, intact. In the opener Chuck meets a woman who agrees to go on a date with him, but she's one of the government agents who's interested more in his head than his body.

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Plot Keywords:

defusing bomb | speech | nail gun | warehouse store | car crash | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

This episode won the 2008 Eddie Award for "Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television". Plus, it was nominated for the 2008 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Main Title Design" and for the Casting Society of America's 2008 Artios Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Casting-Television Pilot-Comedy".

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Goofs

In the car chase scene the front number plate on the Nerd Herd car gets broken, then in the next cut it is fixed, then broken and then fixed again.

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Quotes

[First lines]
Chuck Bartowski: Morgan, this is a bad idea.
Morgan Grimes: Well, we can't stay here, Chuck.
Chuck Bartowski: I'm uncomfortable with the plan.
Morgan Grimes: Plan? What plan? This is survival.
[knock knock]
Morgan Grimes: It's her! We've been compromised. I'm a ghost!
Chuck Bartowski: Morgan, you can't leave me like this. You can't do this to me, man!
Ellie Bartowski: [opens bedroom door] Chuck? What're you doing?
Chuck Bartowski: Uhh, escaping?
[...]

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Connections

References Batman (1989)

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Soundtracks

On Sale Now
(uncredited)
Performed by Daniel May

User Reviews

the pilot

It is a great start for a TV show and it will make everyone hung to the show and wants to watch more of it

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 September 2007 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

College Hill Pictures Inc., Wonderland Sound and Vision, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color