ChuckChuck vs. The Seduction
Original Air Date: Oct 6, 2008
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com
Chuck and Casey are carpoolers? As the two arrive for work Casey explains that there was a “technical problem” with the Intersect 2.0 and Chuck better get used to being the only Intersect for the foreseeable future. Chuck, who is after all a tech support guy, offers to help out. That is until he finds out the “technical problem” was the Candyman mixing it with love and making the world go BOOM.
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Original Air Date: Oct 6, 2008
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com
Chuck and Casey are carpoolers? As the two arrive for work Casey explains that there was a “technical problem” with the Intersect 2.0 and Chuck better get used to being the only Intersect for the foreseeable future. Chuck, who is after all a tech support guy, offers to help out. That is until he finds out the “technical problem” was the Candyman mixing it with love and making the world go BOOM.
That leaves Chuck stuck at the Buy More, where there’s a new banner adorning the storefront. Under New Assistant Management! That ought to bring in tons of new customers. Assistant manager Lester is letting his newfound power go to his head. Hopefully that new banner will come in handy later in the show.
Chuck is bumming, but Morgan reminds him that no matter how bad his job might be, he gets to go home to Sarah – who arrives in a slow-motion, low-cut, acrobatic dream sequence complete with Huey Lewis soundtrack. (Is Josh Schwartz trying to revive Huey Lewis’ career singlehandedly or are his songs in the public domain now?) Either way, I could watch this “Sarah enters the Buy More” script direction over and over and over. But, I digress.
Sarah is there on business and she drags Chuck next door to the Fro-Yo shop that’s been retooled as a secret CIA/NSA headquarters. I guess the Wienerlicious people weren’t too keen on the idea so they had to go. Inside, General Grandma fills us in and we meet Sasha Banacheck (Melinda Clarke, The O.C. – but who I like to think of more as Lady Heather/CSI). Apparently the real cipher (see last week), is being shopped around by this beautiful but deadly former KGB operative. Only one agent has ever been able to get close to Banacheck -- Roan Montgomery (John Larroquette/Boston Legal/Night Court). Montgomery is a James Bond type, who, these days, doesn’t worry if his martinis are shaken or stirred as long as they are plentiful. General Grandma wants Chuck to track him down and Casey and Sarah to pull him out of retirement to help go after the Banacheck Black Widow.
Chuck reluctantly reads the Montgomery file and his Intersect flashes on an ever-so-convenient home address for the former super spy. If the Intersect can pull up home addresses for super former agents wouldn’t the government be trying just a tad harder to rebuild this thing? You’d think they might have a back up cipher in Area 51 or something. I’m just sayin’. Anyway, Chuck tracks Montgomery down, but he’s sleeping one off underneath his couch while the flight attendant he’s picked up is about to take off.
Back home, Captain Awesome (have we heard him speak this much before ever?) is in the doghouse because Ellie wants a romantic evening but since they are doctors they can never find the time.
Over at Casey’s place, the spies try to explain to General Grandma that Montgomery is a drunk and is going to be no help in trying to track down Banacheck. Upstairs however, the former super agent is having a shower and a cocktail before he steals one of Casey’s suits and glides down the stairs for a reunion with General Grandma (Diane? I guess these two have a past). Montgomery explains that the only way to get close enough to Banacheck is to seduce her – but Chuck has to be the man for the job because she’ll peg Casey as a g-man right away. Let Chuck’s martini training begin!
At the Buy More, Cap’n Awesome is looking for Chuck to get some advice about romancing his sister (creepy), but settles for Morgan – who loves Ellie and would, of course, jump at the chance to help his arch rival in impressing the woman he loves.
Chuck’s Sarah kissing, martini drinking training is over and it’s a good thing too because The Black Widow Banacheck is going to be in the bar of a swanky hotel downtown. Isn’t that where all top secret government technology black market sales go down? So, with a little help from an ear-piece microphone with Sarah and Montgomery outside in the support vehicle, Chuck manages to weasel his way into Banacheck’s hotel room. She doesn’t just slip into something “more comfortable”, she also slips the cipher around her neck on a chain. She goes in for a kiss, but instead, talks directly into the ear-piece to agent Montgomery. It’s a trap! Chuck makes it to the balcony with the cipher and Montgomery tells him to grab a bed sheet and tie it around his waist and jump, but he doesn’t have a bed sheet so he tries to climb but ends up falling like six stories onto a couch. Casey and Sarah didn’t get so lucky and end up getting captured while Montgomery takes off in the support van. He must have run out of gin.
Lester tries making the Buy More gang spin the wheel of doom. Think The Price is Right showcase showdown only the prizes are getting to clean out the diaper changing station or do store room inventory or big money, big money no whammies you’re fired. Everyone ends up quitting after Morgan’s spin gets him fired.
Banacheck wants to make a trade, the cipher for Casey and Sarah. Montgomery thinks Chuck is just going to get everyone killed and get the cipher back into the wrong hands. Chuck has some time to think about it, while Lester explains that everyone quit and he needs Chuck’s help to get them all to come back. There’s a labor negotiation in the back room, while Big Mike enjoys his box of “manager’s only” donuts. The gang agree to come back for two hour lunches, unlimited rest breaks and Lester has to spin the wheel of doom. Guess who gets diaper duty?
Montgomery has had some time to think on his own, he see’s that Chuck is determined to risk his life to rescue Sarah (and Casey) so he suggests they come up with a plan that doesn’t involve everyone getting killed.
Cap’n Awesome and Ellie’s Morgan-planned date is a disaster of course.
They send a Nerd Herd redshirt to the rendezvous with a cell phone for Banacheck. If she wants the cipher back, she’s going to play by Chuck’s rules on Chuck’s home turf. The new rendezvous will be at the Buy More. Big Mike would be pissed if he knew half the stuff that went on in that joint.
At the Buy More, Chuck’s is explaining how it’s going to go down, he’s hiding and broadcasting himself on the store’s bank of televisions as Banacheck’s goons spread out to search the store. There’s a very funny scene where Chuck is laying out the plan (Casey and Sarah leave the store then Chuck will tell her the location of the cipher) when one of the goons kicks in the door where Chuck is broadcasting. He gets chased up onto the roof while Casey and Sarah start fighting off the bad guys. Montgomery ends up stepping in right before Banacheck is about to take out Casey and Sarah. Casey manages to get away but Banacheck takes Sarah hostage. Chuck swings off the roof with Lester’s assistant manager banner wrapped around his waist and saves the day.
The next day, Big Mike arrives to see Lester’s banner has been reduced to a sign reading “New Ass Man” to which he responds “I aint new.” Classic! General Grandma tells the gang that they can now rebuild the Intersect and Chuck asks her for some assistance in romancing up his apartment for his sister and her fiancé while the two are at work. They come home to find it and Ellie thinks it was all the work of the Cap’n who’s now out of the doghouse and off the living room couch.
Montgomery is off to Dallas to visit his flight attendant friend, but he has some final words of wisdom for Chuck. He advises that Chuck take a bottle of wine, a single red rose and a white dinner jacket over to Sarah’s because he’s obviously in love with her. Chuck does just that, but guess who answers the door? Bryce Larkin.
Ok, let me just say....LOVED IT!!!
ReplyDeleteGod, I'm getting totally hooked on this show.And let me just say, if you were a female Jeff, you would have spent more time on the totally romantic kiss that Chuck and Sarah had. But that's ok, it's just a guy -thing.Now, what the heck is up with Brice coming back? Your thoughts?
Only time will tell about Bryce. And I kinda skipped over the awesome kiss because I was already over by 300 words and I didn't want to get in more trouble.
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