The newly entrust Chuck and Sarah twain meet the CIA ’s most successful marital spies : Fred Willard and Swoozie Kurtz . Oh , and there ’s a Panthera tigris , the Awesomes ’ African adventure , and Morgan posting up on Big Mike .
There ’s an old proverb that goes something like , “ Take a good look at your girlfriend ’s female parent , because that ’s who you ’re gon na be sleep with in 30 years . ” Of of course , you should feel barren to insert the appropriate pronoun — and ignore me as I just made that up . But I think there ’s a kernel of truth there : that looking back to our elders can show us something of a road map for our futurity . And that was the Southern Cross of “ Chuck vs. the Role Models ” : What might Chuck and Sarah appear like 30 year from today ?
They likely wo n’t be quite as coolheaded as the retro-‘80s version of themselves that the episode opened with , utter with all the Scarecrow and Mrs. King pilus . Nor will they do quite as much intra - sheetual soldering — as Morgan put it , after being fluster by a nightie - clad Sarah , “ You ’re having tons and tons of sex . extolment , Warren Beatty . ” They might , however , wait a bit like Craig and Laura Turner ( Fred Willard and Swoozie Kurtz ) — the best agent - couple the CIA has ever produced . Gen. Beckman has assigned Chuck and Sarah to observe the legendary Turners in action at law , swiping some computer gizamawho from a cocktail political party . Meanwhile , Casey ’s got ta put Morgan through an insanely truncated version of basic training . In the Buy More . Because that ’s completely where you ’d train agents with advanced lessons in spycraft like generate a phone figure from a pretty young woman .
Meanwhile , the the Awesomes are in the Congo — or , rather , the Congo part of the Warner backlot — doing their Doctors Without Borders thing . I ’m not gon na talk about that any more until we get to the very end of this , as this whole plot string was a longsighted , toilsome , boring sic up for just one twist . A good twist , to be sure , but the walk up was painfully dull . And the whole Morgan - Casey training schtick was only interesting because it ’s Morgan and Casey , and those two characters together are fun to find out . But not so fun that we ’ll keep an eye on them lollygag around the Buy More . We get it : Morgan ’s not spy material , and no amount of training will make his intersect - less fuck become one .
So , back to the main plot — following the Turners on their party crash foreign mission . Hey , it ’s Udo Kier , play the party host and owner of the target reckoner gizamawho . He ’s been in so many genre productions , he ’s like the creepy - European Mark Sheppard . Once on situation , the Turners careen off the rails : She pop out drinking to a great extent , he ca n’t keep it in his pant , and together they end up writhe in pain on the base . As such , Chuck and Sarah are forced to take on the military mission themselves . Which would ’ve gone ok if not for the tiger .
The tiger , by the manner , made for the most entertaining part of the sequence — and I hypothesize if you ’re gon na bound for a Panthera tigris , it ’d substantially be entertaining — because the data processor gizamawho is around the Panthera tigris ’s neck . And Chuck is hypersensitive to guy . I do so love it when complication ensue . “ I ’m not letting you shoot down a tiger , They are both endangered and regal . ”
And just as Chuck and Sarah leave with the gizamawho , the Turners bushwhack them and pilfer the goodness . Ever the skilled agent , their old shenanigan were just a cover : They were stealing the gizamawho for sale on the black market . fortunately , Chuck and Sarah followed the Turners ’ track of expensive John Barleycorn to their hotel — the only one that makes a well drink with the right cherries — and get the drop on them . Drop accomplish , Chuck and Sarah bring them back to the apartment — why did they fetch the Turners back to Chuck ’s pad when the Grand Ambassador would ’ve been a perfectly satisfactory place to pass on the Turners over to the US Marshalls ? — but just in time for EuroSheppard and his favourite tiger to crash the party .
A warm flash of fisticuffs , and Morgan trapping Sasha in the Awesomes ’ vacate pad , find out a quick resolution of the EuroSheppard affair . The Turners take to retire with their dignity intact , and Chuck and Sarah officially moved in together , so they could share all of that beautiful backlighting .
As for the Awesomes and that cool wrench , the dewy - soft handsome interloper MD — the one that await as if he was gon na be a romantic rival for Ellie ’s fondness — turned out to be a Ring agent who doped Devon with something malarialy lethal . That , and the fact that the natives refer to Devon as “ Dr. Super Fantastic White Person , ” was almost worth the screen door time spent setting it up . Almost . But not quite .
Chuck has become a comfortable pleasure , one that I ’m more than happy to roll with on a weekly basis . I wish the fibre , savor the stabs at activity . But it kinda find like Chuck is taking us for grant , just a little . It earned our love , and has decide it does n’t ask to sour all that hard to keep it . Remember all the things Chuck did to court us in the beginning ? Chuck ’s ceaseless struggle with his dead - end life , the intersect he desire out of his promontory , the young woman he could never have — plus people examine to kill him every week ? That was crackerjack stuff , fulfil with energy and drive . But now Chuck is cool with the intersect , is moving in with the girl of his dream , has a career he loves — watching a show in which the main character already has everything he ever want is kind of boring . Like a really cold marriage ceremony .
Like I said , it ’s comfortable and easy and so I ’ll keep observe — especially if Yvonne Strahovsky continue to be clad all barely — but I require to feel the way I did in the kickoff . When Chuck was attempt so damned concentrated to make me diminish in love .
ChuckTelevisionZachary Levi
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