Chuck -3x15 -"Chuck vs. the Role Models"-Discuss/Grade <SPOILERS>

[the Dagman]

Welcome to another Chuckday.

All the Chuck and Sarah shippers should be enjoying the long wanted pay off for all the angst of two and a half years. The nerd won the girl and became a full fledged spy. No confidence issues last week at all. Intersect flashing almost on command.

So you know they're going to try to screw things up for him somehow. You just know it has to happen. No way they let them stay this happy without fighting to keep it.

Spoiler: On this Chuckday's episode

Chuck and Sarah are mentored by a married pair of CIA spies who happen to hate one another. Fred Willard and Swoosie Kurtz guest star.

Relax, put your feet up. Grab a Meatball Special and enjoy the show.

 

[elaithin]

Not as good as other recent episodes, but still solid. Looking very much forward to next week, though.

 

[the Dagman]

Did everyone forget this was still on?

I don't think this episode was up to the level of the last few. I find that bringing in Fred Willard to almost any show brings it down a notch as it is. That combined with the spy story being rather bland would have reduced this episode down to a Chuck rating. Except for the stuff with Morgan and Casey. Morgan has taken over Chuck's old spot as inept member of the team, complete with most of the comedic chores that spot entails. Those two brought it back up to a Big Mike rating. And seeing that Devon and Ellie haven't actually been written out of the show solidified that Big Mike rating. (I knew that if Devon starts going places like the Congo that the Ring would only be more convinced he is a spy.)

 

[Caliburn24]

Hilarious opening dream.

After that the rest of the episode was pretty bland. Just your normal Chuckian spy-op with a little domestic angst from Sarah that we all knew would work itself out by episode's end.

Obviously just more filler after their initial 13 episode order got completed.

Hopefully they can muster something better for the last few episodes. So far everything just feels like a Post-Shaw coda.

Rumor was that if this episode did alright in the ratings it would lock in a fourth season for Chuck. Hopefully we'll know tomorrow.

 

[Yoda]

That one was just ok. It was nice to see Team Awesome still existing in the show, they had me worried. No Jeffster always hurts. 'That guy' showing up was annoying, judging from the previous comment he's called Fred Willard. Whatever he is, he does suck. Did he used to always be on Leno or something? Full Metal Jacket reference is win though. And so is Sarah's trip to the fridge. Just a 'Chuck' rating for me.

 

[Sheep]

While Casey trying to train Morgan was entertaining enough, Fred Willard and Swoosie Kurtz did absolutely nothing for me so I give this episode an average. I see what the writers were trying to do with the parallels between Chuck/Sarah, Ellie/Awesome, Morgan/Casey () and the Turners, but the Turners absolutely blew chunks which pretty much killed what the writers were going for.

 

[Darth_Daver]

The thing that immediately flashes to my mind about Fred Willard is how he was in one of the worst episodes of SG-1 ever (Family Ties, three eps before the end...), and one of the reasons why it was so awful. And I loved season 10, and accepted Vala, so I didn't went into that episode hating it...

This episode was good, although not as good as most of the recent ones. Morgan and Casey is gold.

 

[Sakrysta]

I finally got a chance to see this last night. For the first half of the episode, my thought was, "What in the world have they done to Sarah?" She was just acting really weird.

Through the whole thing with the Turners, I kept thinking their behavior was an elaborate set-up plan. When it turned out they were really the caricatures they were portraying, and traitors to boot - well, I think I'd have been angry if I hadn't been so annoyed.

Morgan and Casey were just super. I'm loving that combination.

Amazingly, I was most engaged with the Devin & Ellie story line. I was disappointed that they are leaving Africa so soon. I would like to have seen Ellie have more opportunity to discover what she's capable of. Those little character moments were a tease that was cut off too soon for my liking. And I kinda hate that the other doctor was a Ring operative. I liked him until he was evil!!!

So, this ep was about half 'n' half. The Chuck/Sarah story fell down flat, but the side characters brought up the slack. And no, I don't think that's a mixed metaphor at all.

 

[O'Dib]

All the tiger action was pretty well done, I thought.