Hello Kitty! or Lying and Tigers and Sarah – oh my!
Chuck Vs The Role Models was brilliant from the outset. Although not too familiar with Swoozie Kurtz, I knew that the inclusion of Fred Willard should be really good – everything I’ve seen him in has been great.
We got the opening scene based on the opening credits of Hart to Hart, of course, most of us had seen it a dozen times, but that didn’t make it any less awesome. In fact the whole pre-credits bit was a hoot and a half!
The episode was pretty much a stand-alone, apart form the last few minutes in which we find out that a Ring agent has poisoned Awesome and that something larger is afoot. Over all it was light with elements of drama with some brilliantly comedic moments from the unlikely teaming of Casey and Morgan. I loved the choice of music for his subversion test: more indicative of his perception of his abilities than of his actual ability.
Once again, Chuck’s ability to see the best in people and bring that out helped resolve a situation. In the beginning they may have had their jaded versus fresh views of each other – “Dear God, it's us 30 years ago," "Sarah, that's us in 30 years!" but in the end the Turner’s saw in Chuck and Sarah something that they had lost sight of over the years, that despite their differences they still loved each other and that was the important thing.
Morgan may not have had much success on his aptitude tests. He did almost pass one, but I wouldn’t really brag about that. Sure, he can name the guns, but Chuck was right to want to keep them away from him in the apartment as he’d be likely to kill someone other than his target. He may be the worst candidate the Casey has ever trained, but he put his life on the line to ensure Casey’s safety. As the big man himself says, “How many Marines you know go up against a Bengal tiger unarmed? You have to be a complete idiot.” Then again, as General Staal said in an episode of Doctor Who, “the bravery of idiots is bravery none the less”.
I did like the intercutting of Morgan and Chuck in their missions to steal something from around the neck of a sleeping giant, and the fact that Big Mike and a tiger sound very similar when taking a nap! Who would have guessed that Big Mike could help out in some way on a spy mission?
It intrigues me that Awesome has yet again been targeted by The Ring, this time in Africa. Initially we were meant to believe that they operated in decentralised cells, and that Sydney’s death would have prevented the misinformation of Devon’s status as a spy from getting to any other cells. Then he was targeted again in Vs The Beard, this time as a diversion, but surely this means that The Ring either believe him to be an agent, or know he is connected to Chuck. Either way, I feel a storm is coming.
Both this week and last week have been really fun episodes. I think that now the ‘will they, won’t they’ angst is no longer an issue, there can be a lot more focus on the balance between the comedic side and the dramatic side which the show combines, for the most part, brilliantly. Also the fact that Sarah is now comfortably with Chuck, it gives Yvonne the chance to do more of the light stuff which she had little of for the first two and a half seasons.
Next week is Chuck Vs The Tooth, an altogether more dramatic offering that guest stars the legendary Christopher Lloyd. Great Scott!
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