Chuck Versus the Best Friend 

While helping a depressed Morgan spy on Anna, Chuck flashes on her boyfriend; Jeff and Lester beg Ellie to hire them to play at her wedding.

Director:

Peter Lauer

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
Ryan McPartlin	...	Devon 'Captain Awesome' Woodcomb
Mark Christopher Lawrence	...	Big Mike (credit only)
Vik Sahay	...	Lester Patel
Julia Ling	...	Anna Wu
Scott Krinsky	...	Jeff Barnes
Sarah Lancaster	...	Ellie Bartowski
Adam Baldwin	...	John Casey
Bonita Friedericy	...	General Diane Beckman
Jennifer Jalene	...	Smooth Lau
Jack Yang	...	Jason Wang
James Kiriyama-Lem	...	Ambassador Mei Sheng
Andrew C. Lim	...	Joe Lucky

Storyline

Chuck would like to help buddy Morgan win back Anna, who now dates flashy Jason Wang. Alas, a flash shows he's part of a triad, so the general orders him to make friends with Jason so the team can spy on them, discovering a plot against the Chinese ambassador. To Chuck's despair, Morgan's safety isn't even a priority. Awesome promised Ellie, in his half of the wedding preparations, to book a band, but takes pity on eager nerd herd losers 'Jeffster' (Jeff and Lester).

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Plot Keywords:

man wrapped in a towel | ambassador | reference to condoleezza rice | to do list | locked in a car trunk | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

Morgan reveals that Anna's middle name is Melinda.

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Goofs

Sarah engages in hand-to-hand combat inside of a parked car. She hits the steering wheel progressively harder in order to set off the airbag. Nothing can be hit inside a vehicle to set off an airbag.

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Quotes

Jeff: Does it shock you that 80% of my encounters with women have been without their knowledge.
Chuck Bartowski: Honestly, I'm more surprised by the other 20%

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Connections

References The Legend of Zelda (1986)

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Soundtracks

Wannamama
(uncredited)
Performed by Pop Levi

User Reviews

A perfect blend of comedy, action and emotion

Season 2 is by far the best season and this episode is one of the highlights.

The opening of this episode is superb. Mixing great music, comedy and action and the pace carries on through the episode with a few really good stunt scenes.

We get to see Jeffster for the first time, we see how deep the friendship of Chuck and Morgan is, and we see just how much Sarah cares for Chuck (and Casey for Chuck too! ). I had a few tears at one point.

There are also, as usual, many pop culture references, movie quotes, etc.

Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 February 2009 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

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

Technical Specs

Runtime:

44 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1