Chuck vs. Nacho Sampler

After a week off I settled down for an hour of comedy goodness and I am pleased to say that I was not disappointed.  Although the dishes that are sitting in my sink unwashed are pretty disappointed.  Oh well they’ll get over it and if not who cares I got to watch Chuck.  So I win.  Unfortunately my stupid dvr got crabby tonight and I missed the first 4 minutes so I spent a good part of the next 15 trying to figure out what was going on.  Luckily for me it didn’t take long and soon I was cruising along in Chuckee goodness.  I thought about writing my typical recap but I felt like changing it up a bit so instead you are going to get a glimpse into my mind’s (watch out it can be scary in there) meanderings as I watch a show.  So Enjoy:

the marriage ref commercials scare me

hey capatin awesome and ellie have directv-i recognize the remote

captain awesome really is a bad liar

poor lana-the creepy nerds are stalking her

ooh a chuck morgan sleep over-that is just weird

casey’s awesome

i really wish i hadnt missed the 1st few minutes-i have no idea what is going on

chuck has to do what with what?

i’m so confused

The Last Man-hell’s yeah!

his name is moosh? huh? nuh uh

hannah/anna-hmm i wonder did anna’s mind get downloaded into hannah’s body?

how can i get a ring phone?

is moosh wearing a member’s only jacket? please say he is

frak off? really? first the last man and now this. i wonder what shows the writers are fans of?

wow that kiss was pathetic-even for fake one standards

wow moosh kinda looks like zach braff-we have now entered the twilight zone

tranqenstein! classic!

minoosh? is that his name?

seriously he looks just like ZB-you have to see it too-

lesson #23 on becoming a spy: dont think

chuck using his spy skills to wrangle vacations for his sister-he can lie for me any day-

not a member’s only jacket-damn i was really hoping it was

it is minoosh-thank goodness that mystery was figured out-it would have driven me crazy

minoosh intersected himself-sneaky little geek that one is

his dad can make an intersect? i really need to watch the 1st 2 seasons

someone please tell morgan only creepy old men from a world that no longer exists wear ascots

first there’s comi-con now there’s weap-con-will wonders never cease

damn minoosh really likes nachos

chuck you meanie pretending to be minoosh’s friend. just for that you are going to be taken hostage by the ring

ok everytime the ring gets mentioned i flash back to LOTR and Greatest Hits-maybe i will start calling it “The Evil Round Thing” group-oh yeah that rolls right off the tongue

ooh casey you went shopping-i wonder if a laser pen can open up cd’s? if so i could use one

no chuck dont shoot the wings off a butterfly

ok so what just happened to make chuck change his mind? did i miss some secret spy wave, nod, or sneeze?

dame those secret messages!

burning an assest-damn that looked like it hurt

poundtown? really? ew

oh no morgan this can not end well

shut up awesome!

so chuck’s becoming a spy? i dont think i like that too much

　

A Farewell To Scrubs: Med School

  It doesn’t seem fair that just as Scrubs 2.0 was coming into it’s own that we have to say goodbye.  I will admit that i was one of the skeptical ones at the beginning.  Instead of being an extending version of Scrubs 1.0 it seemed more of an homage to crazy JD.  What had once been a humorous look at the workings of a hospital it had turned into “What Crazy Thing Will JD Do?”  Over the years the character of JD had gotten weirder and weirder and not in a good way.  He had become a cheesy cardboard cut out of a character I had once loved dearly.  And in Scrubs 2.0 we were gifted with the same character.  Instead he was now a teacher and he was married to Elliott with a baby on the way.  But had our dear JD finally grown up?  Nope.  He was still the same cheesy cutout he had always been.  How disheartening was it to know that after all these years JD, Turk, Dr. Cox, Dr. Kelso, and the Todd were now cartoon characters?  Instead of showing how much they had grown they chose to bring the funny and bring it they did not.

That was until the Newbies began to get more screen time.  Once that started to occur and the veterans were moved to supporting characters Scrubs 2.0 finally began to show a little life.   Oh sure the sound of Lucy’s voice irritated me like no other and Cole’s ghetto speak grated the nerves, but aside from that we granted access to 4 characters that if they had been given more time to breathe and stretch their wings they would have taken the show by storm.  I understand why the first few episodes were Scrubs 1.0 redux.  They had to find a way to keep their old fans from leaving considering they were the reason the show lasted as long as it did.  Unfortunately it might have been this very desicion that flatlined the show from the beginning.  We had seen those characters grow and move on and by bringing them back they were just making a mockery of the past 8 seasons.   The final scene in Season 8 when JD was picturing how his life was going to turn out was a beautiful and fitting way to end the series.  So why bring them back in the ninth.   We had made our peace with their leaving us.  We had said our goodbyes and we were all ready to move on.

Although I am grateful that I had the priviledge to see an actress like Eliza Coupe and an actor like Michael Mosely spread their wings.  I have a feeling this will not be the last we see of these two.  I also can imagine Dave Franco gracing our screens in the future, in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if some show from the CW isn’t trying to woo him right now.  If there is anyone out there who doubts that just take a look at his turn on Priveldged.  He played a completely different character and pulled it off beautifully.  Kerry Bishe is another one who I expect will find her way as well.  The careers are not over for these young actors.  No it’s just beginning.  Hopefully next time they will be able to find their way to a project that they will be able to call their own.

Well class I hope you enjoyed our sessions as much as I enjoyed writing them.  Class dismissed.

Cheaters… almost never prosper

  Just when you thought it was safe to accidently say I love you you get a mocking comment and a door thrown in your face.  Damn Denise sure can be cold and angry when she wants to be.  But in all fairness Drew did know how closed she was to human emotions when he started schtupping her so really the blames on him.  Or is it?  Ok yes he should have told her about his means-nothing-to-me-mistake-of-marriage and yes choosing to say I love you over a breakfast of icing is probably not the most ideal time but come on most truthful statements are proclaimed when said in the moment.  And what did she expect?  I mean really here is a guy that is obviously into her.  Hell in the last episode he came running at brake neck speed when he thought she had been hurt.  Who does that?  Oh yeah that’s right a guy who is love does that or any normal human being who has the ability to feel.  No I am not being too hard on Denise, in fact I have a huge girl crush on her.  Characters like Lucy just tick me off with their whininess.  But hard core chicks like Denise make me just want to stand up and say “Look world a girl can be a bad ass without being a complete combat boot wearing pyscho (no offense intended for all girls who wear combat boots, Stomp With Pride Ladies).  When did we reach the point in society that if you are a girl you must be effeminate and soft spoken at all times to not be considered a lesbian?  Not that there is anything wrong with that (to borrow a phrase from Jerry and George), but seriously people kick ass women come in all ways including soft spoken and hard core.  Oh wow did I get way off track there.  Sorry reeling it back in. 

Ok I am back.  I think.  No I am. 

Lucy? A cheater?  Whoa.  Good girls don’t cheat.  Do they?  Oh yeah they do and for a brief moment they contemplate letting their under-achieving boyfriends take the fall.  Hell why not it wasn’t like any one in that room didn’t believe for a moment that Cole couldn’t have possibly done it.  Cole might be two tokes away from being a full on Spicolli but the kid’s not dumb.  No matter what his dad may have bought I find it very hard to believe that money bought him free passage up all the way up to med school.  Because no amount of money in the world can fix stupid.  And he is not a stupid guy, he only appears that way to better fit our screens.   How wrong is that I wanted Dr. Cox to find out it was Lucy and boot her out of school?  Yeah I know I have said that she is starting to grow on me, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t hope for an anvil to drop out of the sky and land on her, does it?

Here is the thing I am hating about Scrubs Med School right now:  It’s getting better.  Yes I realize what I just wrote and I stand by it.  For one thing abc doesn’t appear to have any plans on bringing it back for another season and for another how can they bring us some awesome new characters and then take them away from us jsut as we start to like them.  It isn’t fair.  Oh sure it is possible Eliza Coupe, Michael Mosely, and yes even Dave Franco will be seen again on our small screens.  But there is no guarantee and it won’t be the same.  I mean who would have thought that a narcissitic cad like Cole would have turned out to be a good boyfriend?  Um..not me that’s for sure.  Or how bout the fact that Lucy doesn’t envoke feeling of deep seated rage in me any more?  Or Turk and Dr. Cox actually getting along and bonding?  I know!  It boggles the mind and with all that the show is still going to end in a couple of weeks.  Do I think Scrubs might get a third shot at life? No.  Do I wish that they would?  Yes.

If  only to see them grow more separate from the original and not to rely so heavily on the veterans.  Because if there is one thing that I have learned over the past two months watching Dr. Turk go all dopey around two lesbians and Dr. Cox throwing his millionth temper tantrum is that it has become stale.  Some bits are better left in the past and not rehashed week after week.  The new class is starting to find their footing and it seems a shame that in the very near future the final bell will ring.

Chuck Vs Operation Awesome

What a great title for this weeks episode dont you think?  Yeah I thought so too.  So thanks to a not so clever preview for this weeks episode we were already aware that Captain Awesome was not killed by freaky killer with syringe (this show has a thing for big ass needles) bt as we learned on Monday he was kidnapped by the gorgeous Angie Harmon.  Man this guy has all the luck.  Figuritevly speaking of course.  Although considering that he was mistaken for Chuck and not Devon “Doctor Extradoneire” Woodcomb I can see why he was freaked out.  To be honest I agree with Casey, I mean if you had to choose between a hapless computer nerd and Captain Awesome who would you think was the spy?  Exactly.  However it does appear that Superman, oh sorry I meant Shaw, knew exactly who Chuck was and had no problem trying to insert himself as the leader of them team.  Too bad for Shaw because as he quickly discovered you have to have a team before you can lead it.  And this is obviously one group who doesn’t do everything by the book.  (If anyone knows where I can get that book please let me know)

Here’s the thing I absolutely love about Chuck; at the end of the first half hour you feel as though you have watched an entire show already.  I know it seems weird but it’s true.  Everytime I am watching the show I marvel how they are able to cram so much into the first 30 minutes without making it seem murky and unintelligible.  The gang converge at where ever they are meeting for that particular episode, they discover the threat, comedy and mayhem insue, and they get their man or woman.  But oh no folks the fun is not over with yet because we have a whole other half hour to go.  Not to steal anything from Chuck, but how awesome is that?  I know, right? 

I don’t quite know what to think about Shaw and what he could possibly mean for the “Get Smart” gang.  He comes off like a jerk, but there was that one moment at the end when he stared at the monitor with stalker eyes and took out what I can only guess is a wedding ring.  By the way writers, directors, or whoever set that scene up you may want to try being a little less obvious next time.  Perhaps a giant flashing neon sign that states “More than meets the eye.”  Hey it worked for the Transformers. 

Who ever would have thought that Morgan would make a decent Asst. Manager or that Lester had a weaker, smaller Tyler Durden hidden inside?  Not me that is for sure.  I would like to dwell deeper into this particular storyline, but alas the first 2 rules of the Buy More Fight Club are not to talk about it.  Sorry those are the rules. 

Special Mention:

Awesome is not only a really bad liar, but a lousy spy as well. 

Chuck is actually a pretty good liar.

Apparently you can fell Superman with a bullet and some Amidarone.

Needles are alot scarier than tranqulizer guns.

Chuck has some of the best car commercials ever.

Using your ability to download abilities to scare off annoying customers: Awesome!

Using your ability to kick the hell out of annoying fellow employee:  Frakking Awesome!

The theme of this episode is of course Awesome.

NBC: The Once and Future King

  NBC has been a sinking ship for a while now.  You could even go as far as to compare them with the Titanic.  Or could you.  I mean let’s look at this from all sides.  As with every major network NBC is going through a bit of a hard time.  Ok it’s more than a bit, but they are not the first ones to go through it and they most assuredly will not be the last.  Can those over at CBS and ABC or even FOX ever say they haven’t been faced with the same issues?  Maybe not on such grand of scale as NBC appears to be on, but they did go through it.  If my memory serves me I believe before ABC struck gold with Grey’s Anatomy and Lost they too were struggling to find their way.  And don’t let the rating wars fool you at one point CBS was viewed to be the place where only those 50 years and older could watch.  It wasn’t until a little show produced by Jerry Bruckheimer came along that it started to see it ratings go higher in the all important 18-49 category. 

Television years should be viewed as dog years.  What is normally one year to us to those who in the television industry it might have well have been 7.  So if you look at it like that NBC hasn’t been on top in a very long time.  When in fact for most of us regular folk it seems like just yesterday that all the best shows wore a proud Peacock symbol.  The West Wing, Seinfeld, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Friends, Mad About You, Frasier, In The Heat of the Night, The Golden Girls, ER, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, and so many others were some of the all time best shows period.  Even today as I type this NBC can still boast to having some of the best produced, written and directed shows on television; namely Friday Night Lights, The Office, and 30 Rock.  So why the sudden rush to say that NBC is a laughing failure?  Can we really say that their decision to put Leno on five nights a week at 10pm was the worse one they have come up with over the years?  I should think not.  Some how over the past 10 years NBC has become the place that is more about ratings than it is about good quality programming and the public knows it.                   

 

It used to be that NBC focused more on the quality of a show they aired than the ratings and with that attitude eventually the general public caught on and the ratings came.  Take Seinfeld for instance it wasn’t until Season 4 that it hit 25 on the Nielsen Charts, but by the time it hit it’s 5th season it didn’t leave the top five until it’s run ended.  If Seinfeld would have aired in today’s world it would have been cancelled before the 13th episode had aired.  And can you imagine a world without Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer?  It hurts just thinking about it.  Or maybe you would prefer to think of a world without Norm and Frasier and Cliff.  Oh yeah that’s right in 1982 Cheers was ranked 75th out of all the shows on the air at the time.  By the time the Series Finale aired the number of viewers rivalled MASH.  So the real question isn’t why NBC is making such bad decisions, but why is NBC refusing to stand by it’s good shows and let them have the room they need to become the next powerhouse?

Maybe it’s because they think in this day and age the average viewer has a shorter attention span and they need to grad us quick before our ADD kicks in and they lose us forever.  Maybe it’s because it seems cheaper to put on a crappy show they know they are going to cancel within a matter of months than to spend money building up a good show that has the chance of lasting for years.  Or maybe they know that even if NBC itself is failing miserably SyFy, USA, Bravo, and A & E are all producing and airing quality shows that are for cable standards hits.  Regardless of the reason one thing is for sure and that is the decision to move  Leno to the 10pm slot 5 nights a week had nothing to do with the decline.  It just didn’t help matters any.  Hopefully by cancelling Leno (no offense Jay I never saw your show so I have no opinion on it one way or another) NBC is showing that they are still in this fight and have every intention of being king once again.  If I were ABC, FOX, and CBS I would watch out because when you having nothing to lose you have everything to gain.  In the meantime NBC, leave Conan alone he is hella funnier than Jay any day of the week.  

Our Stuff Gets Real

  So when they said that JD was leaving the hospital they didn’t actually mean that he was leaving the show because once again he shows up in all his quirky gloriousness.   But unlike previous times he managed to slip in with very little fan fare.  Which if you ask me was a better way to go about it.   The whole JD’s leaving emotional punch was starting to wear thin.  In previous episodes whenever JD was around it felt as though it was the Scrubs 1.0 trying to be Scrubs 2.0 and it just didn’t work.  How were we supposed to take the newer players seriously when the older players were always around?  It also may have been just me but unlike Turk and Dr. Cox and yes even Elliott, JD managed to stick out like a sore thumb among all the new characters.  It was as if we all knew that he no longer belonged there.  Which is outrageous considering the fact that at one time Scrubs could not and would not have been Scrubs without Zach Braff, but as we have seen lately this is no longer the case.  Scrubs can and does go on without him and for the most part it does better when he is not there.  Which is why when I saw JD at the beginning of the episode I felt as though they were taking a step back in time, again.  Luckily I was wrong.  The writers managed to bring JD back in the most unassuming manner possible.  Oh sure he was there the entire time, but it wasn’t as in our faces as it normally is.  The others had a chance to shine and Zach moved through each scene and each player effortlessly. 

Elliott has got to be the cutest most neurotic pregnant woman ever.  I am so glad that even though as a character she has grown so much over the years she has still managed to keep the crazy completely in check.  Now every woman who is about to have a baby goes through that feeling that there is just not enough time in the world to get everything done Elliott just manages to bring an extra dose of crazy to the mix.  Which is great because we as an audience do not know if it’s just her being pregnant or her being her.  Only JD could come up with the a very non-cutesy nickname like Wife Face and make it seem endearing.  Although I am not sure I myself would like to be called that but hey I might change my mind if it was JD the one calling me that.  Then again maybe not.  If there is such thing as a Honeymoon and a Babymoon is it possible there is such thing as a Workmoon or possibly a I-Have-So-Much-Going-On-I-Just-Need-A-Breakmoon?  I’m just saying. 

   Jordan’s back!  I did not realize how much I missed her until she showed up.  I can not stand that character.  I know how can I hate her and miss her all at the same time?  Easy because she alone is a vile, repugnant, sleeze of a woman who spits bile and hatred at everyone she sees, but when she is with Perry (she’s still all those things granted) magical sparks start to fly and she brings a light hearted joy to our beloved Dr. Cox.  In the moment that Jordan walks into any room he is in Perry immediately breaks out into a huge grin and happy eyes.  I chalk that up to the amazingly natural chemistry that John McGinley and Christa Miller share.  This is magic that you just can not fake.  It’s either there or it’s not.  When these two are together you can almost imagine these characters living out their dysfunctional relationship outside of the 23 minutes we see them.  And how appropriate is it that when we finally do see Jordan this season it is because she needs Perry to write out a will so she gets everything?  If this were any other couple I would think that Jordan is a money grabbing bitch, which she is, but since it’s Jordan we know immediately that even though she is all those things she also loves Perry more than herself.  All jokes aside she is his soulmate and for the first time we the audience as well as Dr. Cox had to face the fact that one day these soulmates would no longer be together.  Wow that’s just doesn’t seem right no matter how you look at it.  Well as Dr. Cox pointed out may it be as untimely and inconvenient as they can possibly make it because Jordan and Perry shouldn’t go out any other way.

Today In Class We Learned:

There is such thing as Anime porn.  Scary, but not surprising.

Holy Balls Dr. Cox is the sweet one!  Yeah it was surprising to all of us when we learned that little piece of trivia too, Lucy.  Don’t worry you get used to it eventually.

Cole is not allowed to talk unless he wants to get punched.  (I should instill that rule at work, what a great rule that it)  We learn through pain.

Should the thought of an all beef salad scare me?  Because I have to say it is kinda making me hungry.

A hospital is an awesome place to play Hide & Seek and I now believe that doctor’s all around the country are playing covert H & S games as I type this.

The phrase “Sausage Picnic” should never be mentioned again, ever.

Do Blue Crabs whistle?  Apparently the answer is yes.  You learn something new everyday here at Scrubs.

Chuck vs The Angel of Death

One of two things will happen when I am recapping or reviewing a show; I either become so engrossed in getting the finer points of the action that is taking place that I forget to watch the show (that actually happens alot) or I become so engrossed in the show that I forget to take any notes and my recap is full of holes.  Neither happened with Chuck.  I was able to take notes and enjoy the show.  In fact I enjoyed it so much that I wondered if perhaps I didn’t know how to look at the show from a critical point of view.  Could I really be honest about what I saw?  Or would I end up gushing about it adnaseum?  And then I figured who gives a frak?  One of the reasons I began writing about the shows that I watched is because I was sick of reading the same take on a show over and over again.  I wanted to write simply from a viewers point of view.  So hopefully you will enjoy my write ups on Chuck and if not well let me know and I am sure we can come to a mutual understanding on the matter (she said sarcastically).

I believe just last night I was pondering whether or not Cpt Awesome and Sarah (Chuck’s sister for those like myself who just started watching the show) had a purpose on the show.  And what happens?  Whamo enter a story centered around not only them but my main man John Casey himself.  I swear Josh Schwartz heard my concerns and had a show made specifically for me.  Probably not, but hey a girl can dream.  So somewhere between Season 1 and the end of Season 2 Cpt Awesome found out about Chuck and all the weirdness that surrounds his brother-in-law’s life.  (I really need to watch those Season’s) And instead of being completely freaked out as most any other person on the planet would be Cpt seems to be strangely envious of Chuck.  Because being a doctor/adventure junkie just isn’t thrilling enough.  Well why would it be?  I know that I myself get a small thrill out of trying to make the yellow light.  Maybe not exactly the same thing as being dropped off in a helicopter after doing the “Same old same old.”  But hey we can’t all be doctor/adventure junkies or super spies.  So I will take what I can get.  Was I the only one who was more impressed that Chuck managed to figure out how to hook up the TV in less than 20 seconds?  Now that my friends is skill and one that I could use more than a guy who can seize onto any style of fighting.  I have always said that if you want to win my heart mow my lawn.  

And for those of you who are taking notes, yes I did say seize.  I spent the better part of the show trying to figure out what type of face Chuck makes everytime, for the lack of a better word, he is downloaded with whatever new information he needs just in time to either save the day or wreck it (it all depends on if we are at the 30 minute mark in the show or the 45th minute mark).  I eventually came up with he looks like he is having a mini seizure or perhaps took a big bite of a lemon.  I wonder how long it took Zach to come up with that face? 

  So here we have newlyweds Devon and Sarah moving into their new place (right across from their old one I might add, baby steps)  and settling into what we like to call real life.  Isn’t it strange how on one hand it is quite obvious that they haven’t been married long but on the other hand we are supposed to believe that in a very short period of time the honeymoon is completely over?  Although I guess if you have been with someone for nine years it is probably a very good chance the honeymoon ended way before the wedding.  Hey I’m just saying.   I have to admit that if Cpt Awesome were to walk into my hospital room I probably would feel pretty safe in assuming that either A:  I am on Candid Camera or B:  This guy is gonna save my life simply because his ego won’t allow him not too.  Not that I am saying he is egotisical, he just looks like the type of guy who can do anything.  Probably why they call him Cpt Awesome.  And as it would seem the Premier (of some country I didn’t bother writing the name of) thought the same thing because he was so grateful that Cpt saved his life that he invited him and Sarah to his little suare.  Just to let you know that if I ever get invited to a fancy party by a crazy little man and a bunch of armed guys I will probably faint dead away.  No kidding, dead away.  Femine features, I still chuckle at that one, you know now that I think about it Zach does have very nice soft features.  I wouldn’t go as far as to say femine, but soft. 

So where does the Angel of Death come in?  Well that would be the cuddly John Casey of course.  I swear I am having the hardest time picturing him as the Angel of Death.  Oh sure Adam Baldwin plays tough as crazy nails better than anyone I know (Firefly anyone?)  But the Angel of Death?  I just don’t see it.  I will tell you one thing, right now I am looking forward to watching the first 2 seasons mainly for him.  Even when John is being a total badass he is still so darn cuddly.  Whether he is gleefully looking forward to breaking some bones or hopped up on laughing gas Adam Baldwin has a way of making John that much more human.  I really can not wait to find out more about this guy.  Marathon weekend here I come. 

My only contention with tonight’s episode doesn’t actually have anything to do with the episode itself.  Nope my contention is with the previews for next weeks episode.  Because right after we see Cpt Awesome enter the hospital room with the assasin from the group “The Ring” (on going story arc I assume) who is holding his trusty instrument of murder.  We see Sarah knock on Chuck’s door and give him what I and the rest of the audience at that point can only assume is terrible news about our beloved Cpt Awesome when all of the sudden the previews for next week start to play and there he is alive and kicking with a bomb in his ear (I am guessing they will explain that next week).  So um…WTF?!?!?!  Is he ok?  Is he alive?  Is he dead?  Was it a joke?  Was Sarah telling Chuck his brother in law was taken hostage?  What?!?!?  All I know is that next week they had better explain themselves or they are going to have one pissed off new viewer on their hands. 

Chuck’s a what?!?!

  Well I am either about to embark on a great viewing adventure or will spend the next 19 episodes begging for someone to guage my eyes out with a spoon.  I wanted to start my first Chuck posting a little differently for one simple reason (don’t worry recaps will begin with the next new episode) I have no idea what this show is about.  No I mean it.  In the past 2 seasons I have seen a total of 4 episodes.  So when I say that I have no idea what is going on I really have no idea.  From the little I have been able to gather Chuck Bartowski a computer expert who from the look of things would have been able to do alot more with his life has decided that working for the local Buy More is the place where he belongs along with his fellow Nerd Herd and best friend Morgan (who I am crushing on by the way).  Ah enter his old college buddy Bryce Larkin a top secret spy who has possession of, well I really don’t know what the hell it is, but apparently they call it the Intersect.  Which is this major computer program that gets downloaded into our stars brain and turns him into an assest or liabilty depending on whether you ask John Casey a hard ass NSA agent or sultry CIA agent Sarah Walker. 

Yeah I know it all seemed a little to WTF for me too.  When I watched the first couple of episodes I didn’t have a problem with the show and I thought it was ok, but there were just so many other things on that kept my interest alot more than this show did.  So I never actually bothered to keep up with what was going on.  I could not tell you anything about the first or second season if you dangled a million dollars in front of my face.  Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t because I didn’t like the show.  I liked it just fine, but I didn’t like it enough to care about whether I saw it or not.  And eventually it went from every so often to not at all.  Now I would like to tell you that I used this time to watch another kick ass show, but to be honest other than How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory I can not actually remember what I was watching.  Guess I picked wrong.  Oh well at least now I have an excuse to go out and buy Seasons 1 & 2.  So that’s a plus.  I mean I figure if I am going to start recapping/reviewing the show I should have some clue as to what the hell is going on with it. 

  So here is what I have gathered so far from the little bit of information I have managed to retain over the past 2 years and from the 2 episodes I watched last night:

Chuck is now in training to be a spy because he was downloaded with the Intersect 2.0 (yeah I beginning to think that getting those first 2 seasons is a definite must)

Chuck & Sarah are in love, but Chuck chose being a spy over her (oh damn another will they or won’t they storyline, I really do not like those)

Morgan, Chuck’s best friend for reason’s I have not yet been made aware of, spends his time trying to be the top of Nerd Herd.  The little cutie.

John Casey seems to spend most of his time either begrudgingly protecting Chuck or waiting to inflict pain on whatever Baddie of the Week has been cast.  I am hoping that some where in the first 2 seasons he has a storyline in their somewhere.  Because from what I have seen it is the Chuck & Sarah show and not much else. 

**Before you go and get the pitchforks I would like to remind you that I have not actually seen much of this show and these are merely first impressions and are subject to change. **

Oh yeah and Chuck has a sister who he lived with for 2 seasons, who is now either living somewhere else with Captain Awesome or married to the guy.  I honestly do not know which.  I also haven’t figured out if she or the Captain have an actual purpose on this show or what.  But I honestly couldn’t care less.  Sometimes too many main characters spoils the essence of the show.  Keep it simple I say.

So there you have it my first official Chuck post.  Hopefully you will join me for future episodes and if not I know return you to your regular scheduled programming.

Scrubs: Our Couples

  Oh it is starting to feel like old times.  Watch a show, stay up all night just to write the recap.   I missed these all night cram sessions.  And thanks to Hulu (I love saying Hulu) I was able to watch Our Couples is relatively minor discomfort.  Long story you dont want to know, trust me.  I have to tell you class that I am starting to get a little worried about our show here.  Oh not because it is a bad show.  Quite the opposite.  For the second time in a row I found myself liking the show.  I had thought I hated it except for a few parts here and there.  But then despite all evidence to the contrary it started to get better.  At first I thought it was a fluke occurrance and then it happened again and then again.  So why am I worried?  Well because it appears that ABC has no intention of ordering more than the original 13 episodes.  I admit the idea of not seeing the gruesome twosome that makes up Drew and Denise brings a little tear to my eye.  I am even starting to enjoy Lucy.  Go figure.  Today we are going to talk about the pararells between past Scrubs couples and the present ones.

Cole and Lucy – Totally odd, completely crazy, and absolutely adorable.  Remind you of any other couple we all knew and loved.  At first I was thinking they were more like JD and Elliott, but now that I can look back on this episodes events I am going to go with Carla and Turk.  Disagree if you must but I am holding firm to that.  Lucy has an unhealthy (Equius anyone?) with horses and Turk had an unhealthy obsession with JD.  Ok so the obsession was mutual but Carla did have to compete with JD for her man’s attention and I have a feeling that Ole King Cole is going to be spending many a nights wondering what those horses are saying about him when he isn’t in the room.

Denise and Drew – Hands down this couple is Perry and Jordan 2.0.  They feed off each other’s fear of intmacy or their fear of showng any type of emotion other than sheer disdain for their co-workers and patients.  Their idea of foreplay is tell each other what they don’t like about each other.  Oh and of course dealing out their form of mental justice on those they feel have wronged them.  Who knew mental torture could be so funny.  We even had the yound Perry, oh I meant Drew, dispensing out his own wisdom in the end when he led a confused, heart strung Lucy down the road that led to Cole.  Because as we all know everyone needs someone sometimes.  Yeah I got that from a commercial, but he pretty much said the exact same thing so it counts.

Perry and Turk – The torch has passed my young friends.  When Dr. Cox and Dr. Turk sat across that desk and commiserated over the loss of one of their favorite patients (who by the way has never been mentioned before and I doubt will be mentioned again) I was struck by how short a time ago it was that Perry and Dr. Kelso were always at odds with each other over the needs of patient’s and their need to be right.  In this case Turk one the argument, but lost the war.  For the first time Turk wasn’t just JD’s friend or Carla’s husband.  He was a doctor and Perry knew it. 

I would like to say that Scrubs Med School is coming into it’s own and in a small way it does appear to be trying, but for the most part I feel as though I am watching the beginning of a show that I have already seen before.  And unfortunately I do not see Scrubs Med School lasting long enough to find it’s own voice.  It seems a shame now to look back on what should have been the series finale and know what they turned the show into all because some people do not know when to just let go.

Scrubs: Class is in session

  Well class I hope you enjoyed your winter break, because class is back in session.  Now if you are wondering why I am posting on an episode that aired last week well it would be because I was in the process of moving and not only did I not have access to television, but I also did not have access to the internet.  I know, I know it was hard for me too.  In fact I still dont have cable or satellite hooked up (that happens tomorrow) but thanks to the ingenious folks over at TV Shack I was able to take a gander at last weeks episode.  And I am so glad I did because…wait for it… I didn’t hate it.  In fact I liked it.  I kind of feel like the kid in the Life commercials right now.  If you have to ask what I am referring too you are either really young or are not caught up on your pop cultural references.  Keep up people.  Ok so where was I? 

Oh yeah Our New Girl-Bro.  Raise you hand if you thought that Denise and Turk would make great work friends since the beginning?  Yeah me too.  But still it was quite amusing to see the interview process.  Which leads me to the two mooks pictured above.  If someone can explain their purpose on this show I will give you three gold stars.  Come on that is too good a deal to pass up.  No takers?  Oh well.  Hey Lawrence get rid of them.  Finally after 5 episodes you seem to be gelling let’s lose the dead weight.  There is no point to them and they aren’t even funny. 

Ok now that I got my one gripe of the night out of the way I can move on to the good stuff.  Cole, Cole you were this close to losing me.  You really were.  I mean one can only handle that mindless dribble you spout for so long before the need to fast forward becomes so overwhelming that you must press the button (or the mute button, which ever is easier).   But then like two sadistic angels Dr. Cox and Drew come floating down and trick you into actually behaving like a human being.  I don’t know how long it is going to last (remember I havent seen the latest episode yet) but damn it was nice to watch.  I must admit however that it scares me a little to know that this guy is studying to be a doctor and he can not figure out that the list is in alphabetical order.  They do still teach the ABC’s in school right?  Right? 

  Ok so how freaking cute is a pregnant Sarah Chalke?  Oh now stop I am not one of those freaky people who go all pyscho whenever they see a pregnant chick.  But you have to admit she is down right adorable.  Finally for the first time all season we actually got to see one of our veterans act like she has grown over the past 8 years.  I was really starting to think that wasn’t ever going to happen.  Funny how it was the one who started more screwed up than the rest of them.  Lucy you may want to pay attention to Dr. Reed.  This woman knows a thing or two about crazy.  Though to be fair I don’t know if she ever told her dad she was in the middle of a sexual awakening (Ew!)  but then again the amount of crazy that she has dished out over the years is so massive I may have missed it.  Speaking of crazy broads Lucy did not make me want to pull my hair out by the roots.  Yeah I think our relationship is progressing.  I still wouldn’t care if she left the show and never came back, but I don’t want to jab a pencil in my ear to drown out the sound of her voice.  So I guess you can say progress is being made. 

Hopefully by this time next week everything in my new domicile will be running smoothly and I will actually be able to write a post on the show that most recently aired.  But until that time class is dismissed.