A little more bittersweet for this Thanksgiving episode. Only Morgan would induce the full-blown fanservice slow-mo sequence - for a turkey! Rather surprisingly, it wasn’t Bryce Larkin who induced Jill to sign up with Fulcrum though it was he who Fulcrum was after. But I’m sure we all knew that b*tch Jill was just playing Chuck and would break his heart once again. She’s Chuck in the funhouse mirror - a spy, warped, working for the other side. Sarah is the only one for Chuck, even if they can’t really be together.
Kudos to the writers for making the Buy More shenanigans one of the most elaborate Chekov’s gun I’ve ever seen. I never expected that both Jeff’s tripwire and Big Mike’s hatred of thieves would come into play. I couldn’t quite catch what was playing on the Buy More monitors - not the big flock of turkeys but the black and white movie. Anyone know?
I liked it but what really bugged me was Ellie’s test turkeys and tossing out an entire turkey because she didn’t think it was perfect enough. I know she was supposed to be stressed and all but it was just stupid and people on TV wasting huge amounts of perfectly good food has always annoyed the crap out of me.
There’s been too little Chuck/Morgan interaction this season so far. I want them to come up with some cockamamie scheme and do geeky stuff together, and so far it ain’t happening.
I found myself cyncially amused at the Matrix “product placement” near the end. You know, where Chuck’s telling Jill to take the Matrix, because it’s got, blah-di-blah and onscreen navigation and all that? And then they follow it up with having the car capture her.
The turkey thing bothered me, too, along with Ellie “uninviting” Morgan, though she’s redeemed by allowing Jeff and Patel to join them (although I wouldn’t want them at my table–unmannered pups that they are.)
I think Patel is kind of hot and could possibly learn some basic human interaction. Jeff, on the other hand is quite creepy and I often wonder if he has a collection of human body parts in his basement.
Maybe I’ll reach cynical amusement some day - at this point I’m still yelling at the tv, “That’s a FUCKING AD!” That wasn’t product placement - that was a commercial written into the dialogue, like the Jane Seymour Open Hearts bullshit on “My Name is Earl” a couple of weeks ago.
Chuck and Sarah are so sweet together. And Casey rules.
I didn’t mind the product placement, I own a Matrix and I love it. However I did not get the package that includes onscreen navigation and detention mode. With all the times I accidentally press the panic button on my key ring I would have handcuffed myself inside my car by now.
