'Chuck' Saves the Day with Porn

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By Brookie Crawford, published Sep 27, 2007
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Rating: 4.3 of 5
I watched my first premiere of a new fall series last night and I have to say if the rest of the offerings are as good as Chuck, we are in for a great season. I mean what else can you say about a show where the hero saves the day with porn of all things.

In the premiere of Chuck, we meet the series' namesake Chuck (Zachary Levi), a computer geek who lives with his sister Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) and her boyfriend that Chuck refers to as Captain Awesome (Ryan McPartlin) become he's awesome at everything he does. Chuck seems to have one friend, an equally geeky co-worker Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez) who has a weakness for porn.

A supportive sister Ellie is trying to help her brother get over his college sweetheart (or maybe it was just a crush) by hosting a birthday party in his honor full of women. Unfortunately, Chuck is still hung up on this girl from college.

Pretty smart in his own right, Chuck, however, lives in the shadow of his college roommate Bryce Larkin (Mathew Bomer, Traveler, Tru Calling), an accomplished engineering student, track star and gymnast who stole the girl of Chuck's dreams in college and got him kicked out.

Unbeknownst to Chuck, Bryce is a rogue CIA agent who has just stolen the encrypted secrets of the CIA and NSA combined and emailed them to Chuck before being shot and killed.

Chuck then opens the email and is unknowingly inundated with images that contain the secrets of the NSA and CIA. Here's where the real fun begins. Both the CIA and the NSA send operatives after Chuck, whom they think might be a spy or worse.

The CIA sends sexy Sarah Walker (newcomer Yvonne Strahovski) to retrieve the secrets while the NSA sends John Casey (Adam Baldwin, Firefly) to eliminate Chuck. Neither succeed, but both soon discover that the secrets now reside in Chuck's head when he tells them that somehow he knows that a general in town visiting is about to be assassinated. Hilarity ensues as the together the trio stops the bomb using a computer virus on a porn site (discovered by Morgan earlier) to shut down the computerized bomb.

'Chuck' Saves the Day with Porn

Chuck partners with the CIA and the NSA to save the day with a virus from a porn site.

Credit: NBC

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Takeaways
  • Stars Adam Baldwin from Firefly.
  • The pilot will be reshown on NBC Saturday, Sept. 29 at 9 p.m. and on Sci Fi Channel at 11 p.m. on Su
  • Chuck airs on NBC at 8 p.m. on Mondays.
Did You Know?
Bryce Larkin is played by Matthew Bomer who starred in the hit summer series, Traveler.
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I say you guys all suck big balskits, yeah, great this Is awesome ... whooo ...

Posted on 09/29/2007 at 5:09:00 PM

 
I thought the porn virus was a cute way to save the day. Guys everywhere we'll be using it as evidence that porn isn't all that bad.

Posted on 09/28/2007 at 12:09:00 PM

 
Glad you posted here!......I had forgotten about that little bit of information (the porn). Nobody mentioned it on the message boards I looked at after the show but I do remeber it!!!

Posted on 09/28/2007 at 8:09:00 AM

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