Chuck -- "Chuck Versus The Helicopter" -- 10/01/07
 

"Chuck Versus the Helicopter"

First Aired: Monday October 1, 2007

Looking forward to this episode. Had a blast watching the pilot.

According to this new story. C.S. Lee, who plays Chuck's evil boss at Buy More will now be a recurring character on the show.

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-lo...news-headlines

I'm really liking this show. The Lost nod was a nice touch.

So what was Oceanic flight 815 shot down by?

Sounded like it started to say "surface" like surface-to-air but then it got all garbled. :)

Well, 2nd episode was just as entertaining as the first one. i am really enjoying this show.

Loved the Lost info. Really wish they had said a bit more.

Nice to see that Casey may not be so evil at this point. Don't know about six months from now.

Doug

I have to be entirely honest... Chuck simply is not doing it for me.

Aside from a few geeky references here and there, it just seems to be poorly written. The action isn't there, and the comedy doesn't feel as though it is really working on any level. Plus, I find myself getting annoyed with the character of Chuck.

I don't know. It feels as though there isn't enough there to fill an entire hour. When I first saw the promos for the show, I believed it was going to be a half-hour series. Now, having seen it, my feelings still stand.

Having said all that, I am going to give the show until the end of the month. But, with limited time, something must be actually "good" to warrant my time, as opposed to simply being "eh."

Good episode.

I'm really liking the fun and quirkiness this show brings. Already looking forward to next week's episode.

Loved the Guitar Hero talk and the Oldboy poster :)

Pilot was sharp. This second episode had its moments but overall was a clumsy mess. For a goofy sendup on the spy genre, even the acting was on the poor side.

**Is the picture supposed to look that grainy????

I am enjoying this show so far, watched the pilot and tonights, and its very entertaining. Ya its by no means great, but the characters are likable, and its just quirky fun. The sister is great, and "Mr Awesome" or DR. Awesome or whatever could be a cool character. Good to see Jayne back on TV too. I will stick with it. Plus that blonde chick is smokin' hot, god damn. :drool:

That's exactly what I was wondering; I don't remember the pilot episode looking like that.

I find it pretty amusing.

Aside from Morgan - I'm digging the cast/characters.

I wasn't digging the bangs on Gift-Shop Girl.

I thought this show was going to be good based on the promos and the pilot held my interest pretty well... this episode was just awful though. It was boring and stupid and long and not even remotely interesting. The only compelling reason to watch the show is to see that hot blonde chick, but that's hardly enough of a reason.

The acting was bad, the writing was bad, and the story seems to have nowhere to go - no legs. The nod to Lost was stupid - I can't think of any shows that lasted beyond one season that gave such a nod to a better and more successful show.

The preview for the next epsiode looks like more of the same - exactly the same. They even said it in the voiceover... "tune in next week as Chuck gets into even more whacky adventures and more action and blah blah..." I thought it was a joke, but they were serious.

The plot for this show is that he has secrets in his brain and he has to be on the run without leaving his job at Best Buy's Geek Squad while two government elite agents take up stupid jobs to protect him. LAAAAME! Sorry NBC, I'll watch just about anything - even things that insult my intelligence, but I don't think I can choke this one down anymore.

I predict this show won't go beyond 6 episodes aired... it'll probably be moved to a different night first around episode 4 since this is NBC instead of Fox, but this show sucks. I'm taking it off my DVR schedule. No offense to anyone who likes this show - I like plenty of stuff that most people think sucks.

Chuck was my favorite pilot episode to date, since it came closest to the tone it was going far. Unfortunately it won't take much to push the series into silly nonsense, so I hope the writers can use some restraint. As for Morgan, he strikes me as a nerd Radar ... or is that an oxymoron?

No offense taken. People tend to like different things :)

I liked it. And I will continue to watch. But my feelings are iffy on this ones staying power. The story just doesn't seem strong enough to warrant a full season (let alone hour long episodes).

I kept thinking the same thing all episode long.

I like the show. It's harmless fun and blondie is easy on the eyes.

I thought this one was nearly as good as the pilot and I'm still really digging the show. The comedy and action mix really works for me, I like Chuck's home life (Captain awesome!), work and secret agent stuff... This episode solidified the show for me and I'm totally hooked - my favourite new show.

We're out. Not worth the time. There are so many movies I want to see that I'd rather spend my time doing that than an average TV show.

I also thought it was going to be 30 minutes. There just isn't enough storyline to justify an hour length for the show. In a perfect world, this show would be 40-45 minutes with tighter editing.

In spite of her teeth (from last week), the female lead is growing on me. She looked especially good with pigtails in her undercover costume.

I'll probably still keep watching to see why Chuck got kicked out of Stanford.

I thought it was a fun episode. I'm not watching this with my brain turned on and over-thinking everything. I like Chuck, Sarah and Casey and their exploits have been entertaining so far.

I just rented What about Brian season 1 and I didn't realize that Chuck's hot sister was Marjorie from that show. The new hair threw me off.

the whole thing reminds of those early fox shows where most of the spy stuff was pretty much on the lame side with poor acting to boot.

2 bad.

i am digging it.

I thought about this episode same as the first: the lead character is terrific, the comedic writing is wonderful in the Buy More and "home life" sections, but the action sequences and government conspiracy angle are awful.

If this were a 30-minute comedy about this lead character working at Buy More, I think it'd be wonderful. In the current incarnation though, the whole package comes across as mediocre.

I'll leave it on my season pass for now but certainly won't be a "must see."

I gave this another shot last night and again found myself uninterested after the 1/2 way point. I have to agree that this show just doesn't have enough gas in the tank to fill out 60 minutes.

The blonde secret agent is smokin hot, but after last week's thread I can't stop staring at her teeth - and there's absolutely nothing wrong with them - but I can't stop looking.

And every ep should have at least one gratuitous shot of the sexy nerd-herd Japanese chick.

anyway, this is probably the last ep I watch.

Sarah has Bugs Bunny teeth (her front teeth are huge).

I'd notice her teeth if I could stop staring at the rest of her.

I didn't notice the teeth this episode, but she seemed to be lisping quite a bit in the final scene at the wiener shack. Maybe pigtails make you lisp. Also, I didn't see it in the pilot but a few times this week she reminded me of Julia Stiles quite a bit. Fortunately they were passing moments.

On the show itself, it has a lot of stuff working. The characters are good. The Sarah, Chuck and Casey interplay is working really well.The 'down time' stuff works and I particularly enjoyed the diner scene. Like the usage of the Violent Femmes this week too.

The action stuff is a mixed bag. The Sarah/Casey fight was done well, except for the breaking of the mop handle, which looked completely fake. Something about Adam Baldwin getting hurt makes me happy. On the other hand the helicopter stuff was just horrible. Not only was it unrealistic and included the cheesy "video game" solution, it was poorly shot and didn't create any tension or excitement at all. We haven't actually gotten too much into the government cloak and dagger stuff, but it's giving me a bad vibe from what's been shown so far.

A couple of minor things annoyed me too. The bad GCI of the car stereo converting to the tracker display. They could have bought an off the shelf in-dash pop out video display that would have been much more effective and probably cheaper. Also, at the end Sarah said "Now that the doctor is gone....". How is the doctor gone? Did Chuck kill him in his in his poorly shot struggle? Maybe he escaped after Sarah decided it would ruin her pissy walk off exit to go back and arrest him? Oh, and they could have at least stripped Sarah to her bra for the sweaty torture session. I thought part of the premise established in the pilot would be a gratuitous underwear shot every episode.

Maybe the NBC writers were trying to say that Oceanic 815 was shot down by the "Surface" monster Nimrod. ;)

I enjoyed the pilot, but I was not very engaged by this second episode. I am still going to stick with the show a little longer but I see the premise wearing thin.

I think the biggest weakness if the silliness of the premise: downloaded secrets into his brain? I still don't know what that even means. I wish they would have even bothered to come up with some explanation for that (even a sci-fi one0 but the show just seems to have established that as a fact and none of the characters have even questioned it. So I find that kind of annoying.

Something that bugged me about this episode was when Chuck left dinner, Morgan was still there hanging out at the dinner table. Then the altercation outside of the apartment building and they follow the homing device to the Buy More store and there is Morgan, sitting watching a movie and eating. How did he get there so fast? Why was he still hungry?

They did show him getting up from the dinner and saying he was leaving via the Morgan door. He was probably still hungry since the dinner ended so quickly no one really ate anything.

Missed the pilot, but I heard good things so I watched this one. Probably won't watch it again. Anytime Gift-Shop Girl and her fiance/boyfriend were on screen, the show was brought to a screeching halt. She's a bad actress and he's an annoying one-dimensional character.

And what's the deal with hating on Blonde Spy's teeth? They aren't even bad.

Her teeth aren't that bad but there was a couple of shots last week where it seemed like the camera was focused right on her front chompers and they seemed huge.

I agree that if this was just about the Buy More with all of the same characters (with just the secret agents being...well no secret agents) this would make a great 30 comedy.

As it stands though, I really really enjoy the show. It's interesting to see people have such a mixed reaction to the show, especially since it is probably the most enjoyable I've seen this new season.

With this show, NBC's Mondays are the perfect lineup for my tastes.

jury is still out, no season pass yet

I listened to the TV Guide podcast today and they said the next episode was much better than the first two and they talked to the producer who said ep 3 is going to basically be what the show will be week to week, with chuck going out on missions, where as the first two were more geared towards getting things set up.

I guess now I'm gonna have to give it one last shot. But after Pushing Daisies, the bar is set high...

In the final scene of the episode, I thought it was funny how they made Sarah wear a weinerlicious outfit with a lowcut neckline to show off her boobs, and then she turns around, and she's wearing a different top that covers up her boobs. That smacks of too much pandering for a show that doesn't need it.

This appears to be low priority viewing for me at this point, but I do hope the 3rd episode picks up the pace.

She's really pretty, but you're right in that they don't need to go down that road so far. I've found her character really likable, even when she isn't prancing around the room in her bra and panties (not that I was complaining). She and Chuck have some nice chemistry.

I think the blond spy chick looks like Ben Stiller's wife, Christine Taylor.