Chuck Versus the Anniversary

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Chuck and Morgan try to find Chuck's mother, while Sarah and Casey investigate a Russian operative.

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  • 4.0 - Strong start. **SPOILER ALERT**

    10
    "Perfect"
    By mmmshuddup, Nov 05, 2011
    I really enjoyed the season premiere after having waited all summer. I feel it lived up to its expectations.. No Capt Awesome but that's ok. Also, no Big Mike nor Jeffster...that seemed odd to me. Still a nice new vibe coming and I feel like this is going to be a very intense season!

    Apparently Chuck's mom is a bad a** haha.. Nice appearance from Linda Hamilton and Dolph Lundgren as well. I'll never be able to look at him and not think of Ivan Draggo though. :D Anyways I see no need to breakdown the whole plot here as you will have to watch for yourselves.

    Keep it alive Chuck fans! It's up to us to keep this show going strong so we can be assured that it will return for a 5th season!moreless

  • Loving 4.0 **Have a few spoilers**

    10
    "Perfect"
    By SamuelLang, Feb 16, 2011
    This episode will break you! XD

    What a way to start the new season of chuck 4.0, Fast comady, New characters and a few new suprises on the way, thats what this programe needs to grab more viewers and stay on the air and this episode did just that "hopefully".

    Chuck and Sarah are more loved up then ever but with a new misson they apart alot. The buy more is back with a new boss? and we get to see Chucks mother for the first time and she Kicks Ass 'Terminator' style.

    Great start to season 4.0 and i cant wait till next weeks episode.moreless

  • Chuck is back with a head still full of the Intersect 2.0. He's unemployed, living with a knock out girl friend who's a spy. He's also on a mission to find his Mother, Sarah Connors.moreless

    7.5
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    By lonejafa, Feb 11, 2011
    I'm thinking people have been far too genourous with this show. It's trying too hard to find a way to keep our interest. Viewers have become very TV savvy when it comes to being "played" or catching show writers trying to formulate the right plot. We know the recipie: Throw in a maze, find his mysterious Mother. Throw in some relationship issues with a girlfriend or his sister or his best friend. Throw in a double life and identity crisis - Is he Bartowski playing Carmichael or the other way around. Add some high tech gadgets. A pinch of 'secret organisations'. A bit of humour...and viola!

    Is it me or has Chuck aged 10 years since last season? His hair has gone from geeky drop out in season 1 to mid 30 something. This makes him and Morgan seem immature and inept than lively and carefee. Turning the BuyMart into a CIA hub seems like a stupid idea. Really? In the middle of Burbank? Ellie pregnant seemed predictable. Throwing in the iconic name dropping was OK here and there - but now it's become as subtle as slapstick 'pie in the face'. When I see the 'Repo Man' or 'Rocky' "in-jokes" they seem forced and not so clever. Because I know that his Mother (Linda Hamilton) is bound to make some Terminator reference "Come with me if you want to live..." "I'll be back..." - word to the wise 'please don't'. I'm still hanging in there. This could be the 'jump the shark' season - well Superman Shaw came close.moreless

  • Give thanks to TPTB!

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    By iamApollo, Dec 07, 2010
    Way to start the season off with the distinct feel from the first epidode of the first season!

    Chuck really started off strong, and ratings aside, it is all the fans could ask for. It is a terrible shame that NBC, in their infinate wisdom, decided not to promote the show as heavily as they did for the season 3 premiere, because this episode would have been worthy of the hype.

    It was well paced, good plot, very funny and light-hearted. Everything Chuck is known for.

    Let's get down to it shall we?

    Chuck as Morgan:
    Still the best bromance on the air. Definitely better as spies together than apart. Actually they are more funny together than good spies, but it is all good!

    Sarah and Casey:
    Don't mess with these two folks. They have guns, knives and parachutes. Also they are certified badass.

    Sarah and Chuck.
    S*xting anyone?

    Ellie and Awesome:
    Yay for Ellie. Awesome was absent this episode, and i am sure some laughs were missed with him.

    Buy More:
    Is back baby! It is all shiny and new, with gadgets and Beckman!

    Buy More Crew:
    AWOL. How will Big Mike, Jeffster and the other fit in to the shiny new store?

    Chucks Mom:
    Linda Hamilton. I need not say more.

    Warm and Fuzzies anyone?

    This review came all the way from New Zealand, so enjoy!

    :)moreless

  • I loved it, but I think it should have been called: "Chuck vs. the Public Transportation!" :-)

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    By scottnvini, Dec 07, 2010
    It's great to see the team together again on the small screen. The repo-man situation was hilarious, but the subsequent use of public transportation was also a believable real life yet funny consequence for that situation. The Jury's still out for me as far as the new Buy More goes although you definitely can't complain about the scenery!!! (I mean Jeff and Lester were funny but please, no complaints here on that change), I think the "NEW" Jeff and Lester will also have some comic moments:
    Hot CIA Girl: Would you like a tour of the store?
    Morgan: Yes I would. Should I hold your hand? Hot CIA Girl: NO you should NOT!
    The whole Morgan sexting thing was also hilarious and OMG I'm still smiling over Sara's kicking the bad guys butt, while still strapped to a chair and the subsequent stretch to reach the dropped phone and texting with her toes. I personally don't know why Chuck couldn't have waited a couple more minutes to finish the file download before popping the EMP and killing the power to the building, but hey it was in the script, but again, the public transportation get away was hysterical! Linda Hamilton kicking butt at the end was perfect! I mean come on she took on the Terminator I think she can handle these clowns ,LOL, and does. Go Sara Conn-na' All in all looks like a great start to a new season! Thank you network for keeping our favorite show going and keep up the great work ! I for one will keep watching! :-)moreless
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    • Featured Music: "Howlin' For You" by Black Keys (Accompanies the various sexting-related scenes) "We're Here To Save The Day" by The Constellations (Chuck and Morgan arrive at the new-and-improved Buy More) "In Response" by Peter Wolf Crier (During shooting at the Volkov living building) "Generator First Floor" by Freelance Whales (Chuck tells Casey and Sarah what's up with the search for his mom and then as Chuck talks to Ellie in the courtyard)

    • Goof: When Chuck and Morgan are on a commercial flight to Moscow as well as Sarah and Casey are being abducted on a private jet there is a map of Europe shown. • The map is incorrect with position of two countries. Czech Republic is mislabeled as Austria and Slovakia is mislabeled as Czech Republic. • The shape of the real Austria is incorrect because Austria and Slovenia are shown as one country on the map. • The shape of Croatia is incorrect because it is shown as two countries on the map. • The shape of Serbia is incorrect because Serbia and Montenegro are shown as one country on the map.

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    • Sarah: Well, he made a promise to his sister. Chuck doesn't want to be a spy and have to lie about it too. Casey: Your boyfriend needs big boy pants. He's a spy. He's good at it. Sarah: I know, Casey. You miss him too. Casey: What? I don't miss him

    • Chuck (to job interviewer): Snatch me up! I'm 100% snatch-able!

    • Sarah: Where are we? Casey: Ugh. Desolation, frostbite. It must be Russia.

    • Sarah: No lying, that was our rule. Chuck: In all fairness, I was just, you know, keeping a secret. I wasn't lying. Sarah: New rule: no secrets, no lies. Chuck: Starting now. Sarah: Starting now.

    • Sarah: Have you ever been in a long-distance relationship? Casey: No. I either leave or they die.

    • Casey: Good to have you back. Chuck: Oh, I'm not staying. Sarah: I think he misses you. Chuck: Oh, I know he does. Casey: Grr.

    • Morgan: I get it, I know. You promised her you weren't gonna be a spy, you know? So she clearly cannot know about our little rogue spy team that we're gonna start here outside of the government, secret to the spy world, team of two, army of one, highway to the danger zone, live free or die hard... Chuck: Buddy? Morgan: Yeah. Chuck: This is not the opening of a TV show. This is real life.

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    • The interview scene with Chuck is at "Vandalay Industries". This is a reference to a Seinfeld episode called "The Boyfriend" where George tells the unemployment office he is close to getting a job with "Vandelay Industries". The spelling in this episode is off by one letter.

    • Harry Dean Stanton playing a repo man is an allusion to the 1984 movie Repo Man where he played the same role.

    • Sarah and Casey have been captured and Marco (Dolph Lundgren) leans into Casey and says "I must break you." That line is an allusion to Captain Ivan Drago's (also played by Lundgren) "promise" to Rock Balboa in Rocky IV. Chuck, Morgan, Sarah and Casey are in the server room when Marco says on the radio "If you die, you die", which is an allusion to the Drago's statement "If he dies, he dies" in Rocky IV.

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