Did any one watch “Chuck” last night? What did you think about the episode?
I thought it was nicely done, we got to see Sarah in a bikini, I don’t think I can ask for more from this show.
I’m glad that Morgan finally got to do something other than ride on Chuck’s coattails. Who knew that Anna’s parents were rich muckety-mucks? (Why is she slumming at the Buy More, anyway?)
The mixture of anger and dismay on Adam Baldwin’s face, as he gazed on the remains of his precious Crown Vic, was absolutely priceless.
I never thought I’d be envious of a Weinerlicious countertop, but seeing how often Agent Walker jumps on it…
Good plot movement. They put the Bryce saga on hold, the Intersect 2.0 is near completion, and the Buy More crew got character development: Big Mike, Jewish gambler guy, Anna, Morgan, and alcoholic egg-nog Jester hat guy.
“If Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Guns”
'Twas great.
The subplot o who Sarah would pick got a resolution, in a way. Casey ot some great lines, Morgan and Anna got enough screen time, but not too much, and the over all mystery of the Intersecrt was brought back as a cliffhanger for spring or next fall.
I’ve said it before and I’m repeating it - they’ve got such a great ensemble, the showrunners can go in any direction and still keep it interesting.
Casey got some good lines. But I found the introduction of his prized car, just to get it blown up, a little weak of the writers.
Anna is now reminding me of Amy from Futurama for some reason. 
Sad that the next show won’t be until January. I guess the network wanted to stretch the limited number of shows they have in the can.
Jim
I hadn’t really paid attention to the title of the episode, so when the scene where Casey was lovingly washing his car came on, I didn’t think it was anything other than a brilliantly oddball character moment. I was a little disappointed when it got blown up at the end. I kind of got the feeling that Casey’s love of Crown Vics was something that we will never, ever hear about again, that it was a throwaway bit to advance the plot of this one episode. I am eager to be proven wrong about this.
I’m getting a bit tired of those “Whoa, say that again in English” moments. Numb3rs has the same thing - typically a jumble of complete gibberish, followed by a request for translation and then a painfully condescending analogy:
Nerd: We can track the homicide Gaussian curve by a binomial analysis of the game theory set using a Wein displacement inverse over an asymptotic waveform-
Cop: Whoa, can I have that again in English?
Nerd: Well, imagine you have a ball. You bounce it.
Cop: Okay.
Nerd: The killer is the ball.
Cop: Oh, I get it!
It appears to me he isn’t really Jewish, just pretending to be. He gets the Dreidel and holidays wrong.
More annoying is that what he said was complete nonsense. They did the nonsense “enhance the image” cliche, but he backed it up with nonsensical technical jargon.
Geeks are a core target audience of this show, right? So you think they’d hire a geek consultant or something to get the technobabble at least sounding like something remotely plausible.
The whole missile scene was so extremely silly - but the action in this show is exaggerated and cartoony, so I can’t really nitpick. What I found funny about it is that during Chuck’s flash (I frame by frame them sometimes), there were various pages from an instruction manual for firing a shoulder fired recoilless rocket, with instructions on clearing a backblast zone. So when they actually have the bad guy fire the weapon, he’s in an enclosed little hallway - exactly the sort of thing the manual in the flash warned against - because you’d be burnt to death by the exhaust of the rocket if you actually did that.
Of course that whole weapon was silly - it was an unguided rocket, but even if it wasn’t none of the man-portable guided rockets target via GPS. And then it comically flew around very slowly for several minutes.
So new episodes in January? Does that mean they have more of them filmed, but they’re spreading out the schedule?
It seems like the geek consultant was out sick this week. Normally the technobabble is of higher quality and the script contains some geeky throwaway reference or two (you are likely to be eated by a grue.) Perhaps with the looming writer’s strike, they didn’t have time to polish the draft.
Still looking forward to next season, though.
This episode featured my favorite moment to date… Morgan’s “There I was, there I was, there I was… in the Congo” line, straight from the bad-date Bud Dry commercial from years ago, which I often quote myself.
I like that about him. It’s like he’s thinking, “If people know I’m Indian they’ll think I’m a terrorist so I’ll go with something safer and more familiar but which they really know nothing about and I’ll play on their ignorance to get special treatment and their money when we play dreidel.”
Didn’t Morgan once say that Big Mike couldn’t fire him because he’s the Buy More’s only Hispanic employee? How could a business in LA with more than three employees only have one Hispanic?
I loved the episode, even though it did have more of the WTF moments than some of the other episodes. And though I’m a straight female, I’m rather disappointed to have seen so little of Ellie in this one (was she in it at all?) The Anna/Morgan stuff was cute, but dumb, but cute.
Dumb but cute, like Anna and Morgan.