Chuck Vs The Balcony

I’ll have a bottle of the one with the stork on the cork and the stable on the label, please.

Credit: NBC

 Chuck returned triumphantly last night after what seemed like an age, well, it was several weeks anyway. For me it was a strong episode; just the right amount of funny, goofy, action-packed, heart-warming and heart breaking that is sure to make this one of the season favourites for most.

 Chuck was back to being far more like the Chuck we grew to love in the first couple of seasons. Of course, he was still able to kick ass with style, especially when fighting whilst holding the wine glass.

 Chuck aiming for the perfect proposal was the main plot of this episode and even Casey got to put in his two cents on proposing, words which cut right to the heart of it and put into perspective all of Chuck’s obsessing over the mythical ‘perfect proposal’.

Morgan played quite a big role in this episode, co-ordinating the sub-mission(s) with some amount of efficiency. He has morphed into quite the go-to guy, having had his skills as ‘The Magnet’ used in Phase Three, and now his planning and strategizing (undoubtedly gleaned from his hours of Call of Duty experience) put to use.

 If I were going on a mission, I’d want Morgan to be involved. When he plans for everything, he really does plan for Everything! – Tide to Go sticks?

 I loved the fact that Casey had as much investment in the proposal as Morgan did. Put those two together and fun always happens.

 Actually, it seems you can put Morgan with pretty much any character and it will be a great scene.

 The pace really picked up when Sarah took control of the proposal sub-mission. She knew how important it was to Chuck, and it being important to him, made it important to her. I doubt that she knew, when she said that she would do anything to bring down Volkoff, how quickly General Beckman would put the ‘double agent’ plan into motion.

 I can imagine there were a few moist eyes at the end of the episode when Sarah revealed that she was following in Mama B’s footsteps and had to leave to take down Volkoff from inside his organization. That makes, by my count, 4 attempts that Chuck made to propose, and a grand total of zero actual proposals made.

 Rewinding a bit from that, Sarah used her ingenuity to play the role of ‘silly drunk blonde’ in order to help Casey out of a fix in the wine cellar. It’s nice to see that the writers are more open to giving Yvonne more humourous scenes now that Sarah has grown as a character and let her hair down, so to speak.

 Another highlight of the episode was the first Jeffster performance of the season. After initially not wanting to meet his arranged bride, he quickly changed his tune and tried to impress her with his ‘Saskatchewan Hinjew’ parlour, hastily rigged up in the HTR. When that backfired he had a moment with Ginsana (sp?) that came across as quite sweet and told her he would reveal his true self. Alas, his at times manic and wild eyed, rendition of ‘Is This Love’ by Whitesnake inevitably scared her off. Can we blame her?

Next episode: Chuck Vs The Gobbler – Sarah gets a new look as she infiltrates Volkoff Industries and Ellie and Awesome talk baby names!