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"Chuck Versus the Honeymooners" Review

By | April 27th, 2010
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On this week’s Chuck, we’re getting our first taste of an episode of Charah…or Suck…let’s go with the former if we’re going to do a combined first name for Chuck and Sarah’s full out (and real!) relationship. In true “will they or won’t they” relationship tradition, it was met with trepidation from your’s truly. Could Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak defy television history and successfully transition Chuck into a show where their always just “potential” couple becomes a real one?

Find out after the jump, but if you’ve been watching this show all along, you know better than to doubt Fedak and Schwartz at this point.

Synopsis: While in Europe, Sarah and Chuck realize they’re traveling on a train with Spanish spies. Even though they’re all alone, they decide to take on these rogue agents. Of course, this impromptu mission doesn’t go smoothly. Meanwhile, Beckman orders her newest “unlikely” spy team — John Casey and Morgan Grimes — to track down the missing couple.

What Was Good: I don’t even know what to say about this episode but to say I loved each and every second of it. For years there was always the tension between Chuck and Sarah of whether or not they’d get together as a couple ever that sort of brought them down a bit, and now that they have gotten together you can tell that the characters (and even the actors) are VERY happy now that it’s all happened. This episode was joyous, from the early montage of Chuck and Sarah’s room service orders on their French train to the final glorious moments set to Nina Simone in his bedroom in Burbank…it all pretty much floored me.

I was going to write a detailed, professional synopsis, but because of the massive amount of happy it caused in me I’m going to share the nearly delirious notes I took during the episode.

  • Vampire Weekend — Holiday (GOOD MUSIC!) + food montage = awesome
  • So much sexy time
  • Genius at working Morgan into it (dossier features pictures of Morgan eating a sandwich!)
  • “To not be spies”
  • Yvonne Strahvoski did an AWESOME drunk Texan to get out of a fix
  • Loving the not wanting to get out of the spy game bit with the two of them, especially when they find out that they were both in the bad guy’s room
  • Morgan is ridiculously amazing at spy, unbelievably so, but awesome no less
  • Chuck has to buy Justice League before he goes anywhere — awesome!
  • I love Chuck and Sarah’s weak ass plan
  • Morgan overtraveling = great
  • We have a Jeffster appearance!
  • Handcuff fight was superb
  • Morgan took out the perp!
  • Sneaky hot fake Canadian = bad guy!
  • So many double punches!
  • Chuck and Sarah collaborative fight scene = amazing
  • Team Morgan and Casey saves the day
  • Last minute save by the witness protection team!
  • LIGHT AND DAY HAPPY ENDING! SO MAGICAL!
  • General Beckman: “But off the record, it’s about damn time.”
  • So much smiling this episode! Perfect ending!

What Was Bad: For the second straight episode, it’s difficult to find fault with this episode. In fact, the only negative would be some of the more difficult to believe moments (like when Morgan found Chuck in Europe in roughly 10 seconds when the CIA couldn’t find him), but really, even those moments were so entertaining they are impossible to deny.

Overall: Oh man, after a pretty dark season to date (well, for Chuck), this is perhaps the high point in the series for pure, unadultered happy. Seeing Sarah and Chuck together is just perfect, and they clearly are having a blast with it as well. Even better? Fedak and Schwartz are even doing a stellar job of making the Casey, Morgan, Chuck and Sarah team a believably superb one. These past two episodes, in my mind, are perhaps the best back-to-back duo to date.

That’s some serious praise.

God I love this show. Welcome back Chuck.


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