Hi! I'm new to this sub reddit. I'm sitting in a café and Africa by Toto came on the speakers. Instantly I saw in my minds eye Lester & Jeff performing this in the Buy More. It bought a smile to my face, such a great show! I felt the need to share this with fellow Chuck fans.

This TV series was recommended to me by a friend of mine many years ago, but I only picked it up for the first time in the last few weeks.

I just finished watching "Chuck" for the first time ever, and, if I may, I have some considerations to make.

First of all, I would like to say that I liked it a lot. I really appreciated the mix of the spy and comedy genres, all surrounded and enriched by the love story between Chuck and Sarah. Beautiful, really. I also appreciated all the narrative arcs and subplots, even though many are purely comical and oriented more towards comedy than anything else. But with this I absolutely don't want to complain, on the contrary, it is fine as it is.

Having said that, I can say that I went to read some articles and reviews (without NEVER spoiling me anything), and I am not at all surprised that at the time the critics praised this TV series. There was really a mix of everything for those genres and the characters (along with their respective stories) were characterized very well, not to mention their evolutions as the story went on.

Besides that, I would like to say that the series could have ended very well with the 4th season. It would have been perfect. Chuck and Sarah get married and a happy and bright future is imagined for them together. I have to say, however, that the 5th season, all in all, was there. And I can say that I also liked it. Personally, the final episodes were a bit bittersweet (especially the finale), but the season itself was always exciting. I enjoyed seeing how the couple Chuck & Sarah lived their life after marriage. You know, I am a fan of the narrative expedient "will they/won't they" because it helps to keep the sexual tension between the protagonists high and also make stronger the attention of the viewer. But I'm even more curious to see how the story develops after the two protagonists (after long vicissitudes) are finally together. Seeing how they live their daily lives, the challenges of life, their love, and everything they manage to share together. I also think that this, for the writers of a TV series, is really a difficult thing to do while keeping the viewer's attention and desire to watch high. And I think they did it really well! Sure, the ending is undoubtedly a bit bitter, as I said before, but as I see it, during Chuck's telling their story to Sarah and (after) with their kiss, Sarah's memories returned and, in any case, I think she fell in love with her Chuck again 💚 This is the REAL ending, in my opinion.

I read somewhere and also watched videos where Zachary Levi would have wanted a happier ending for the couple, and that this is what the fans deserve, committing to trying to make a movie about Chuck. I, despite everything, personally agree with him, and, if they do, I will definitely go and see it.

In conclusion, it's a TV series from 2007, and maybe watching "Chuck" in 2024 is a bit anachronistic because, it must be said, since then the world has changed, society has changed, ideas have changed. But in my heart I think that what "Chuck" represented in those years can also be valid for the years to come, even for today, because the baggage it carries with it is made up of a multitude of feelings, emotions and values that as long as there are human beings willing to keep them alive, will never die. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you, Chuck! 💚

What are your fav Jeff Quotes

Even if Ellie didn't say anything in 5.08 Chuck Versus the Baby, her body language would say it all. I love the character growth of the little bearded man.

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Hey Everyone,

Chuck has been my all time favorite show since the first time I watched it, It made me feel a lot and I could really feel the show through chuck, I've rewatched it a couple times after it finished and now I just finished it again after not watching it for 8 years.. but man this show still hits the same spot for me. The Drama, action, comedy and characters are just perfect for me. Unfortunately I don't think there will ever be another sequel on Chuck.

Has any of you ever written a next season for chuck as a Hobby? Or written a chuck movie? If there is any fan material I would love to read it as I'm a big fan.

Thanks in advance!

One of the joys, and frustrations in equal measure, of the show is watching Chuck and Sarah evolve into a real couple. This takes a ridiculously long time, however. One of the reasons is that neither of them knows how to manage a courtship by the normal thing--flirting with each other. Sarah is trained, of course, to do exactly this professionally--but never for real, so much of this is completely new to her (although she does pretty well the first date.) On top of this, she's constrained by her job--protecting Chuck. And Chuck, of course, is hopeless. Every time Sarah practically throws herself at him, he completely misses it (at least until the kiss, and often afterwards as well.) Great entertainment, though.

There's a real world master class in flirting going on right now, between Andrew Garfield and Amelia Dimoldenberg. This has been going on for two years now, and fans (like me) are breathlessly waiting for the next installment. This is also great entertainment, and shows no signs of ending--at least, we're all hoping so. This is all a bit off topic, but great fun nonetheless. Details, including a bit of history, here--enjoy!:

https://www.vulture.com/article/amelia-dimoldenberg-andrew-garfield-flirting-timeline.html

I know there's a mega one with everything on it on YouTube, but I have a more curated one which I mostly listen to. It's largely the key Chuck/Sarah moments, but also has the key Jeffster moments and all the Teddybears tracks in the show because they're peak Chuck:

• Short Skirt / Long Jacket (Theme)
• Cobrastyle (1x01, Chuck meets Sarah for the first time!)
• Skinny Love (2x03, Chuck ‘breaks up’ with Sarah)
• Africa (2x14, Jeffster, but also Chuck cares about Sarah)
• Blood Bank (2x18, first time Sarah goes a bit rogue for Chuck)
• Creature Fear (2x21, motel. 'Nuff said.)
• Team (2x21)
• Down River (3x12, Chuck asks Sarah to run away with him)
• Bye Bye Bye (3x13, Hotel in Paris)
• Holiday (3x14, 🥰)
• Push It (4x13, Jeffster, Ellie gives birth)
• Young Blood (4x13, Chuck proposes)
• Firewood (4x24, practising vows)
• Sinking Friendships (4x24, wedding)
• Devil’s Music (5x01, Teddybears)
• Get Fresh With You (5x05, Teddybears)
• We Are Young (5x08, Sarah does have a family 🥹)
• She Tows the Line (5x11, no emoji can do this justice)
• Take on Me (5x13, Jeffster)
• Cruel and Beautiful World (5x13, Ellie and Casey leave, Morgan tells Chuck to find Sarah)
• Rivers and Roads (5x13 😭😭😭😭)

The playlist originally went straight from ‘We Are Young’ to ‘Take on Me’ and then ‘Rivers and Roads’ but it honestly it didn't really feel complete so I went back and added ‘She Tows the Line’ and ‘Cruel and Beautiful World’. Do you think I've missed anything essential? What's on your Chuck playlist?

(Also before adding to the my playlist I hadn't really listened to ‘Cruel and Beautiful World’ properly, but the lyrics are very very on point for the situation in the show.)

Hi there,

I was going through my old writing and stumbled upon this spec script, set in Season 2, I think, for an episode of Chuck that I wrote long ago. Since the spec is considered long-dead, I figured I'd share it here with people who might enjoy it. I really loved this show and I hope you'll dig this idea that I had for an episode.

https://app.box.com/s/xqo8s9qcfn0u07keajnavd8s83dzanwd

Cheers,

Brandon

I love this show - even how it ends, which I get is contentious.

But there's three things that really stuck out to me on a rewatch - I had forgotten a lot of details in the 12 years since.

It's so horny, in like a pg13 sort of way. It can't go 5 mins without a long shot of Sarah, Carina, or even Ellie (once) suiting up. Every woman in chuck's life is nearly impossibly attractive. I suppose it's part of the James Bond sendup.

The subway sponsorship is egregious to the point of distraction. Even though it was played for laughs, every subway scene is cringe AF.

And finally, the casting is wild and a lot of fun, and I'd forgotten a lot of it. Chuck's Dad is Captain Archer. His mom is Sarah Connor. He faces off against Drax the Destroyer, Ivan Drago, and stone cold Steve Austin in back to back episodes. Superman and kingpin are a part of his coterie of villains. Trinity from the matrix is Jayne from Firefly's girlfriend. Stan Lee and Mark Hamill even show up in s5.

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Just finished watching it.

A show with impossible scenarios multiple times per chapter, cheesy and cliche scenes 24/7, corny action sequences, etc., all which I love and have zero complaints about... but they couldn't give us a happy ending? Damn you josh schwartz, first the oc and now this.

I am so upset lmao. They could have ended it on S5E8 with chuck, sarah and casey going into cyber security and exiting espionage, moving to their dream home and having a baby. But NoOo0o, they didn't want to give us the ending we wanted. Instead, they wanted to risk a "different" ending which for me, totally ruined the show. Aggggghhhhh. Dumb, stupid dark depressive ending, it's almost like the creators are masochists.

I am genuinly upset, its going to take a while to shake this one off. I almost feel depressed.

So there's this anime movie that gave me a similar vibe to the romantic relationship between Chuck and Sarah and maybe some of you guys can appreciate it so I thought I'd recommend it for you all to watch!

The movie is called "Your Name" released in 2016. It is a romantic fantasy movie. Not only is the story beautiful and the music is great, the animation itself is stunning. If you do end up watching it, hope you enjoy.

Based on real events happened 10 minutes ago

I am trying to complete a full rewatch before putting the show on ice for a while. I have fully watched the show 3 times and 86 episodes multiple times.

I decided to buy the DVDs in case it dropped off Prime Video in the UK so I could watch it whenever I wanted but like the title suggests I might have overwatched the show already.

I am currently at Chuck versus the Mask and it is paused at the moment Sarah and Shaw have their chat and has been for about 4 days. I know it is only 4 episodes but the Sarah/Shaw stuff is painful to sit through and it is probably the only time in the show I don't really buy Yvonne's acting I can't fully explain why but it just looks and feels forced.

I think I will try and get to Chuck versus the Honeymooners my favourite episode of the show as it is essentially a 2nd pilot and then step away for at least 6 months

Does anyone know of any o line store that sells chuck merchandise? The only thing I’ve seen online is a site called red bubble. I’ve never used them before and from what I can tell reviews are mixed. Other than eBay I’m not really sure where to look.

My wife has become a huge fan of the show recently and I want to get her some chuck merch for Christmas. Any ideas on where to look would be appreciated.

I always liked this episode because yes at first Casey was all Commando with the agency but then something changed and he became more of a team Bartowski. My favorite part was when Chuck invites him to his sisters rehearsal dinner (as a friend) and as he walks out with cigars he see Sarah and he said I’m going to warm up the Vic (but we all knew what he was thinking. Even though he said many missions ago he wasn’t interested!) we could see that last wall being chipped away! GOOD FOR CASEY!

I have long thought that movies and music have an interesting aspect to them—there’s always a moment, or several of them, that encapsulate the overall piece. I first thought of this this while singing, of all things, the Mozart Requiem years ago, when I flashed (a little humor here) on a section in the middle and thought “This is exactly what this piece is about.” No great insight, probably, and also an oversimplification of something, but it works for me. I think of these as “iconic moments’’—a scene or movement that embodies the whole piece. It works for musical pieces, for movies, sometimes for books, and for tv series, as it turns out.

I have two for Chuck. These are scenes I keep returning to, partly because they are such good scenes in and of themselves, but also because for me, at least, they are what the series is about. I like to think that these are what Schwartz and Fedak had in mind. And occasionally they hit the target exactly right.

The first is at the end of Chuck versus the Cougars, when the two of them are just sitting there discussing cheeseburgers and whatever. What gets me here is that this is exactly right—two people completely and utterly happy simply to be in each other’s company, and that’s all they really want or need. Chuck the show is about how hard it is to achieve and maintain that state of bliss—from time to time it happens, and it’s where things end  up—but it’s a long and bumpy road. This is a foreshadowing of what’s to come. It’s also just a delight to watch—Yvonne and Zach are superb in these sort of scenes.

The second is a bit less obvious. In Chuck versus the Delorean, when Sarah’s father has skipped out on them with the money (and Casey’s cigar,) and Sarah saying that the one thing she has learned from her father is to prepare for disappointment, and that’s it’s her fault. Chuck says ”No, it’s not,” and explains why it’s not—her father’s sins are not hers. What gets me here is the level of trust that manifests itself—Sarah looks both surprised, but accepting, and indeed grateful. Chuck has clearly progressed in terms of his relationship with Sarah—he is comfortable saying the things he says. What we get here is a mature Chuck—not just the Chuck who tells Sarah “I’ve got your back” at the class reunion, but more. At least for now he’s not the self-absorbed whiney guy we see entirely too much of in the first two seasons, and this of course doesn’t go away completely in Season 3. But here we see what he can, and will, become.

I imagine people have their own favorite scenes. That’s good! Now where’s that movie?

Early on the show, Sarah has always gave Chuck words of reassurance, whether he had self doubt, felt like a fish out of water in a world he was put in or else. I do wonder what are the ones you guys' consider the best.

In Chuck Versus the Nemesis, when Chuck and Sarah go to confront Bryce while he’s using Casey’s computer in Casey’s apartment to hack into government assets:

Bryce senses their entry and suddenly turns, whipping up his pistol. Sarah already has hers pointed at him. Stand-off as Sarah moves slowly sideways.

There is a clear moment where Chuck sees all this and makes a decision to step behind Sarah and move sideways to keep Sarah between her and Bryce.

Is this a moment of early-Chuck cowardice, or does he realize that any shot at Sarah would also hit him, given how most firearms (over) penetration works?

Keeping in mind that Chuck had just recently declared that he trusted Bryce, wasn’t sure about Sarah (after Vs the Imported Hard Salami and his confusion about the nature of their relationship), but had obvious feelings for her. He also believed that Bryce wasn’t willing to kill him/The Intersect after their conversation in the elevator.

Thoughts?

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Do you believe in fate?

Without Bryce's intervention, Sarah might have met Chuck during the Omaha operation. She meets Bryce instead, and they have their romance. But Bryce then sends the Intersect to Chuck in a chain of events that ends up putting Chuck and Sarah together anyway.

In the movie Casablanca, when Rick says to his former lover Ilsa: “We’ll always have Paris,” he is referring to their brief romance on the eve of World War II. When he speaks those words to Ilsa in the movie’s final scene, Rick has accepted that he and Ilsa will never be reunited.

Similarly, when Bryce says to his former lover Sarah, "We'll always have Omaha," he is referring to their (brief?) romance on the eve of the Intersect war with Fulcrum. When he speaks those words to Sarah at the end of Nemesis, Bryce is giving her a code phrase to reunite with him, but he'll have to accept instead that he and Sarah will never be reunited.

And Sarah's torn between two men at the end of Nemesis, just as Ilsa is torn between two men at the end of Casablanca. But just like Rick for Ilsa, Bryce is for Sarah the ever-living ghost of what once was.

We also have a reference to Casablanca in 1.12 Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover and 3.09 Chuck Versus the Beard.

3.09 Beard is the friendship episode between Chuck and Morgan and is the mirror of 1.12 Undercover Lover, which was the friendship episode between Chuck and Casey.

As 1.12 was the beginning of a beautiful spy friendship between Chuck and Casey, 3.09 is the beginning of a beautiful spy friendship between Chuck and Morgan.

As Chuck was tied up to Casey and they were about to die, Chuck is tied up to Morgan and they are about to die. In 1.12, Chuck assumed the passive role in the ensuing fight while helping Casey; in 3.09, Morgan assumes the passive role in the ensuing fight while helping Chuck.

As Chuck helped Casey come to terms with his feelings for Ilsa, Morgan helps Chuck come to terms with his feelings for Sarah.

As Casey and Chuck walked together towards Casey’s apartment at the end of the episode, Chuck and Morgan walk together out of castle at the end of this episode, and both scenes are a nod to the final scene of the movie Casablanca, which also featured the characters of Victor and Ilsa.Chuck walking in Casey's shoes.

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And again in 2.04 Chuck Versus the Cougars

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And so it begins again. Yep I’ve spent a few months away from watching the show and now I’m rewatching it again. So let the awkward Chuck begin!

I drink an almond butter banana cacao powder smoothie often and havent found another ingredient to either enhance the flavor or the nutritional value. I should probably go with flax seed, strawberry, avocado but eh. Only want to use natural ingredients. No protein powder.

Looking to see if other Awesome type people around have ideas.

😃