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A subreddit for discussion of the TV show "Chuck". Open to discussions, theories, and everything Chuck related.

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Chuck out of context video I've made. I was reluctant to post this on the sub because it's random dumb fan content based on the OOC vids on YouTube but I hope you guys don't mind me sharing it here though

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2024/12/04
09:38 UTC

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What's the song that plays in the action scenes?

Whenever it's on an action scene it plays this music but I can't find the name of it anywhere.

5 Comments
2024/12/02
13:54 UTC

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Shaw Vs The Terminator

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2024/12/01
13:52 UTC

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So Levi is riding high, does this mean a new Chuck series is forthcoming?

45 Comments
2024/12/01
05:55 UTC

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Chuck Movie or Mini Series?

Hey y'all,

Second post within an hour, but I'd like to hear your opinions. Ever since finishing the show last night, I have been obsessing over the way the show ended and been looking at everything that Zach has said about a movie. My question is, however, would you most prefer a movie or a mini series if they were to get the funding? I know the odds are against it, so don't bother commenting if its just to say that it'll never happen. I personally am leaning more towards a mini series as it could tie up a lot more of the loose ends that we got out of the main series, make warner bros. a lot more money, and also give us the same kind of episodic/cliffhanger feeling between episodes. I think 4, 1 hour long episodes would be fair and that they could seriously engage audiences worldwide. Lowkey writing down plot ideas even though I know they'd never make the screen just because I haven't had anything to be creative with in a while.

12 Comments
2024/11/28
23:34 UTC

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What to watch next?

Hey everyone, so I stumbled onto Chuck a couple of weeks ago and was instantly hooked. Long story short, I wound up binging the entire series because of how addicting it was and now I have no idea what to watch next. I really like shows like Chuck around the holidays as I get some seasonal depression and can't do as much outside during the winter. Would really love some good recommendations!

40 Comments
2024/11/28
22:07 UTC

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Happy Thanksgiving chucksters !!:)

Currently flipping through the thanksgiving episodes wondered who else was watching our favorite comfort show on this fine holiday🦃🦃 hope everyone’s thanksgiving is delicious and warm💛🧡❤️

3 Comments
2024/11/28
21:29 UTC

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Fun headcanons about the show

Just asking about random lighthearted, wholesome or funny headcanons about the show and the characters if you guys have any.

Will probably share one or two of mine in the comments later if I have any.

19 Comments
2024/11/28
20:52 UTC

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Ellie is the biggest hypocrite

She told chuck many many times to stop being spy, then she starts spying

And

She gets mad at Devon for having a stripper at his bachelor party but has strippers at Sarah's bachelorette party

18 Comments
2024/11/28
11:02 UTC

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What are you thankful for?

8 Comments
2024/11/28
10:29 UTC

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This Thanksgiving, don't forget the PINEAPPLE!

After all these years, I still laugh at this sequence just as much as the first time.

Credit - I lifted the pineapple Nerd Herd logo from a t-shirt design on red bubble.

12 Comments
2024/11/27
23:29 UTC

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what was that song?

I was just listening to Conan podcast and the intro of the song from Chuck playing this game from 8-90s' in Buy More to save his friend came out and I can't remember what it is!😭

12 Comments
2024/11/27
11:10 UTC

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Is anyone else annoyed at all the inaccuracies?

It seems civilians are deaf to gunshots, yelling, and any spy talk AND GIANT DAMN HELICOPTER EXPLOSIONS. Buy more employees commit almost as many crimes as the spies. CIA EMPLOYEES ARE OFFICERS, NOT AGENTS, a show centred around the CIA should know that. The spies do NOT know how to lie. CIA isn't meant to operate on US soil but police and FBI are just fine when they do??? Everyone says chuck is the boss of the buy more, even the actual boss??? Someone goes into a room with only 1 exit and isn't there and no one questions it??? The buy more is empty of employees half the time and customers don't notice???? No one seems to have common sense. Not even mentioning all the technical inaccuracies

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2024/11/26
23:18 UTC

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New Chuck highlight video - Subway

Hello everyone!
We are back at it to make the yearly Chuck edit, lol!

I want to do a compilation of all of the Subway product placements but there is so many, I fear I will miss some of them.

So please comment any you can think of and I will work on putting that together! (Or if there is any resource I can utilize to keep track of them)

9 Comments
2024/11/26
21:54 UTC

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Chuck streaming removed from Amazon and moved to Max?

Did the streaming rights move? I could swear I had Chuck available through Amazon Prime really recently. Thanks in advance.

16 Comments
2024/11/26
16:16 UTC

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Chuck movie?

I don’t think it’ll EVER happen. Yeah sure we want it but like there isn’t really an active fan base as far as I’m aware. Yeah like it was a popular show but I don’t think it’s relevant enough now to get funding and a proper budget. I wish it’d happen cause Chuck is literally the best show ever but like🤷‍♀️

20 Comments
2024/11/25
23:18 UTC

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What our sentence is?

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2024/11/24
15:24 UTC

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Was watching scrubs and found my biggest celebrity crush was on it

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2024/11/23
18:43 UTC

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Yvonne's creative input - Chuck Versus the Suitcase

An interesting bit of trivia from this Apr 6, 2010 article, written just after Chuck Versus the Other Guy aired...

Yvonne Strahovski was asked, "Have you ever had an idea for an episode? What would you like to do if you could write an episode?"

Her response: "I've always had this idea, I've pitched it to Chris Fedak -- to go to Fashion Week or Paris or Milan. I think it'd be a really great setup, to mix the catwalk and the models and have to wear different wigs and things."

Chuck Versus the Suitcase aired Sep 27, 2010.

4 Comments
2024/11/23
13:27 UTC

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Thoughts on a possible return of "Chuck" as a movie

I recently came across a post on this subreddit about a comment written by Zachary Levi on X about a possible return of "Chuck" as a movie, and I wanted to clarify some points that were described to me by someone under my comment at that post, but unfortunately I did not have time to answer back and I can't find that post either. So below are the explanations of these points and my vision of things.

  1. Flopped films: the fact that 2 of his last films were flops is not synonymous with acting decline: many actors in their careers have starred in films that were considered flops, but this does not mean they were considered finished as actors, subsequently demonstrating good acting performances.

 2. Haters: as for the previous point, there are just as many actors who have made haters in their careers, but this certainly has not stopped them. And I still think that if a "Chuck" fan looks at these things, doesn't really want there to actually be a "Chuck" return.

 3. Popularity of "Chuck": I think that a movie or a TV series revival of "Chuck" could be very successful, because although this series did not have mass popularity when it first aired, it was acclaimed by television critics and, moreover, had a fanbase that was able to not allow to cancel the series after the second season, and making sure to continue the "Chuck" project demonstrating a really HUGE attachment to this show. With this action, in fact, over the years it has certainly become a cult series, highly appreciated from the point of view of the genre (unique combination of comedy, action and romance), not to mention the memorable characters and references to pop culture.

 4. Return of the original cast: here I'm agree, I think that can't be a return of "Chuck" without the original cast. It certainly wouldn't be the same and I don't know if I would really like it either. As for whether or not the original cast would accept to return, I think they are actors intelligent enough to understand that they would do it for the fans, putting aside any type of ideological detachment that presumably (because no one is sure of this) divides them. Therefore, I believe that they can all return.

In conclusion, in my opinion I think that if we want a return of "Chuck", we shouldn't do detractor speeches towards Zachary Levi, but, instead, being positive and proactive. I think that if a person considers himself a true fan of "Chuck" would never speak like that, but would continue to hope that there could be continuity, remaining proactive and confident as that great and determined fanbase did that time in the now distant 2009 to save "Chuck".

70 Comments
2024/11/23
12:38 UTC

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Just finished the show, My eyes are in pain…

My husband suggested this show to me and I binged it all within a little over a week. Intense, I know. I loved this show so much and it’s definitely now a favorite of mine. Thankfully he was with me for the last episode, and yes, I was a mess. I found doomscrolling everything Chuck related for the past few hours helped me realize that the ending does suck BUT it does end happy for Sarah and Chuck. I like to imagine Sarah re-falling in love with Chuck and they both live happily ever after. After we finished the finale, we rewatched the first episode again. Did I cry? Yeah. I’m not sure why this show has got me so emotional, but it does. Anyways, great show, my heart and eyes are in pain, and I can’t wait to rewatch it!

26 Comments
2024/11/22
20:52 UTC

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Why are the NSA and CIA working against each other?

I have only watched the beginning of season 1 but I'm so confused as to why two government agencies are:

  1. Working against each other

  2. Openly killing each other and people

19 Comments
2024/11/22
06:30 UTC

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Is that what you really want?

What I like about good fiction is how a thematic thread is woven across episodes and uses key words as signposts.

A nice example of this in CHUCK takes place during the Suburbs-Cole arc.

This arc is introduced at the end of the of Chuck Versus the Best Friend when Morgan says to Chuck, “Look at us. We both have girlfriends. This is is as good as it gets, man.”

“This is as good as it gets” has two meanings. Morgan means that things are perfect and could not get any better. But look at Chuck. His smile turns into a somber realization because he doesn’t interpret Morgan's words that way. He interprets them in the less positive sense that things are not perfect and are unlikely to improve. Why? Because if all he and Sarah can ever be is best friends in their asset/handler spy relationship, this is not good. Chuck wants more.

So, at the beginning of Chuck Versus the Suburbs, Sarah wants to go on a date but Chuck demurs. What’s the point if all they can be is best friends? When they are kind of forced by Morgan to go on a date, Chuck plays video games because, why, that’s what he does with best friends. And Sarah is clearly disappointed. She wants more.

Then they get to play house during a mission, and Sarah as the happy housewife gets Chuck excited because he gets a glimpse of how their relationship can be as good as it gets, but Sarah cools his jets after the mission (just as he cooled hers at the beginning of Suburbs), and Chuck is depressed again. He was right.This is as good as it gets, and it’s not great.

So, at the beginning of Beefcake, he gives up on the relationship.

And this is where the thematic thread below starts, with key words like want and never that act as thematic signposts at the beginning and at the end of the Cole arc. Chuck and Sarah's initial conversation is about what Chuck really wants. Does he really want to break up? Well, he says, since they will never be really together, yes, he really wants to break up. We can see that Sarah is not happy (and chopping up a phallic symbol is definitely a symbolic representation of her psyche and a thematic foreshadowing of that episode, which will not be kind to Chuck for giving up so easily).

Then Cole is introduced, and he shows Chuck what it means to be a man who acts rather than a man who gives up. At the end of the arc, Chuck again reintroduces the key thematic words by saying that removing the Intersect is never going to happen, and Cole summarizes the purpose of his arc for us viewers by encouraging Chuck to never give up if he really wants something (and notice that this "something" is ostensibly the Intersect but really the woman who is intentionally framed between them).

And this conversation with Cole finally helps Chuck learn his lesson and tell Sarah by the fountain that what he really wants is not to give up on the relationship, as he did at the beginning of the arc, but to get the Intersect out of his head and be with her. And Sarah's subtle look of realization at the end of Chuck's fountain speech also closes the thematic thread about what Sarah really wants, which she was never asked during the Cole arc but is nevertheless masterfully explored. She told Cole at the beginning of Beefcake that she likes men to act (and that was meant to sting Chuck who was overhearing her conversation with Cole), and now she also has what she really wants: a man who acts.

It's no surprise that, in his own way Barker really brings BARtowski and WalKER together while essentially appearing to separate them.

This is all done beautifully and subtly, which makes much more rewarding for the viewers to enjoy.

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7 Comments
2024/11/22
04:05 UTC

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Chuck apartment floor plans? (El cabrillo)

Strange question, but have anyone here ever by chance found and/or created the floor plans for chuck/Ellie/awesome's house?

3 Comments
2024/11/21
21:55 UTC

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A Very Awesome Christmas?

The other day I watched A Very Vermont Christmas. Classic Hallmark movie. Is it good? Not particularly. Memorable? Not really. Unpredictable? Nah. However as you may see from the poster, Ryan McPartlin (Captain Awesome) is the male lead.

While it wasn’t perfect, it was great seeing him acting again. He’s just as warm and lovable of a character as he is in Chuck. It’s also crazy how similar he looks, just a bit older.

If you love captain Awesome and Ryan McPartlin it’s definitely worth the watch.

16 Comments
2024/11/21
18:24 UTC

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I used to think Buy More was a legit place and would ask for directions as a tourist in the US lmao

So I came across Chuck when I was 12 during their second season, and since then it’s been my all-time favourite show and I rewatch it pretty much annually. Anyways, fun story (and I’m wondering if this has happened to anyone else lol): since I’m not a US person and grew up in Asia, I thought buy more was a legit store. So when I moved to NYC in 2015 to pursue my undergrad, I was in union square looking for an electronics store to get all the gadgets I needed for my dorm, and legit asked 3 strangers on the street to direct me to “Buy More” hahahaha. They all looked so confused which made me more confused, until the 4th person said “idk about buy more but maybe you mean best buy?” lol. That was when I learned that Buy More is fictional 😅

21 Comments
2024/11/21
05:23 UTC

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Interim Chinatown reminds anyone of Chuck?

Both are about guys in average lives thrust into extraordinary situations. There’s the average best friend. The female handler the lead character is enamored with. Chuck parodies spy dramas, IC kind of does but directly Law and Order.

But tone wise it’s not like Chuck it’s shot darker for example. Also there’s not the workplace comedy aspect that Chuck has. Bear in mind I’m only halfway through episode 2 of interior Chinatown.

4 Comments
2024/11/20
22:51 UTC

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Finally joining the Chuck subreddit!

I’ve never really been a Reddit user but I’m trying to get into it more and the first sub I’m going to join will obvious be Chuck.

Chuck is my favorite show of all time. I used to watch it live when I was younger and then all of the box sets on repeat until it finally came to Netflix where I watched it over and over again until it was removed. I watched it on prime for a few years and now I hope it stays on Max. I’ve seen the show through many dozen times, maybe even 100 or more.

It’s the best comedy drama of all time and it has the best soundtrack of any tv show ever. No matter how much you watch Chuck it never gets old or tiring. The jokes are always funny and the emotional moments just as poignant.

26 Comments
2024/11/20
14:55 UTC

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