Chuck (TV series)

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Television series
German title Chuck
Original title Chuck
Chuck Logo.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2007–2012
Production
company		 Warner Bros. Television
length 42 minutes
Episodes 91 in 5 seasons ( list )
genre Action series , dramedy
Theme music Short Skirt / Long Jacket - Cake
idea Josh Schwartz ,
Chris Fedak
music Tim Jones
First broadcast September 24, 2007 (USA) on NBC
German-language
first broadcast		 June 19, 2009 on SRF two
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Chuck is an American television series developed by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak . The series started on September 24, 2007 on NBC , the series ended on January 27, 2012 after 91 episodes. The German-language free TV premiere took place on June 19, 2009 on Swiss broadcaster SRF Zwei . The first broadcast in Germany was on August 22, 2009 on ProSieben .

The title-giving main character Chuck is a computer expert. One day he receives an email from a former college friend. This contains a database that is encrypted in images and operated by the CIA and NSA . Chuck involuntarily stores all the data in his brain and is henceforth the only source of this top secret information. The series combines typical elements from the action and comedy genre.

The television series is set in Burbank, California .

content

prehistory

Chuck Bartowski once attended the prestigious Stanford University as a young student , but was de-registered there for alleged examination fraud. Ironically, his roommate and best friend Bryce Larkin had accused him of stealing the solutions to an exam beforehand. Bryce also got together with Chuck's girlfriend.

Four years later, at the beginning of the series, Chuck works in the “Nerd Herd” computer department of the fictional electronics store “Buy More” (a parody of the “geek squad” of the real electronics store Best Buy ) in Los Angeles with his best friend Morgan Grimes. Chuck lives with his sister Ellie (a doctor trying to find a new girlfriend for Chuck) and her partner Devon in an apartment.

season 1

Bryce, now an agent of the CIA , had destroyed the database server of the CIA and NSA , the Intersect, on his own and - shortly before he was shot by John Casey - had given his former fellow student the only copy.

When Chuck opens the e-mail, he involuntarily notes the countless encrypted images and from then on becomes the sole source of all intelligence information for the CIA. But he can only call up certain information from his subconscious through visual stimuli such as faces or symbols.

The CIA agent Sarah Walker and the NSA agent John Casey are hired to take care of Chuck's security from now on - and thus of the secret database in his brain. While John is now also employed at “Buy More” as a camouflage, Sarah works across the street from the electronics store in a restaurant, the Wienerlicious, and gives Chuck's new girlfriend. With Chuck's help, weapons and drug dealers can be arrested. Chuck struggles with the fact that he cannot tell Ellie and Morgan. He would also like to have an honest relationship with Sarah. He also learns that Sarah was the partner and life companion of Bryce until Bryce destroyed the database without her knowledge.

As the season progresses, it turns out that Chuck, like Bryce, should be recruited for the CIA. Bryce wanted to save the good-hearted Chuck from the dangers and so faked Chuck's expulsion from the university. In addition, he did not break away from the CIA, but acted in the belief that he works for a secret sub-organization called FULCRUM. He was kept alive by that same group as he was believed to be the source of the database.

season 2

The second season comprises a total of 22 episodes. The "Team Chuck Bartowski" continues its fight against FULCRUM. In the course of this, Chuck meets his ex-girlfriend Jill Roberts, whose FULCRUM identity is later revealed, and his father, who was himself a CIA agent under the name Orion . Chuck's father is arrested by FULCRUM and forced by computer software millionaire Ted Roark, owner of Roark Instruments (RI), to build a new Intersect. Instead, however, he develops a computer that deletes existing Intersect data. Chuck sees the pictures when Roark and dozens of FULCRUM agents watch the film.

The battle with the "ring", as the responsible organization calls itself, reaches its climax when Ted Roark arrives at Ellie and Devon's wedding. So that the camouflage is not blown, Chuck pretends to have forgotten the rings for the wedding, which is why "Jeffster!" Plays as a time delay, but triggers the fire alarm. There is a dream wedding, which Chuck organizes spontaneously with the help of the CIA, and a showdown with the ring. Chuck meets Bryce, who admonishes him to destroy the too strong Intersect 2.0 and then dies. Chuck downloads the Intersect, destroys it, and is surprised by agents of the ring with Sarah and Casey in captivity. He "flashes", suggests the members of the ring k. o., and concludes by saying "Guys, I can Kung Fu " ( Guys, I know kung-fu. ) the scale from.

season 3

The third season, with a total of 19 episodes, was broadcast from January 10, 2010 in the USA.

With the new Intersect in mind, the CIA has high hopes for Chuck and creates a training program for him. He therefore declines Sarah's offer to start a new life with her, but fails to train. The CIA releases him and he finds himself on his couch with a container full of cheese balls. After Ellie and Devon have moved into the apartment across the street, Chuck lets Morgan, who has returned from Hawaii, move in. Finally, Chuck, Casey and Sarah begin as a team to solve missions and meet the ring expert Daniel Shaw and the president of the fictional Latin American state "Costa Gravas", an allusion to Fidel Castro and Cuba . Devon also helps here, who briefly wanted a life as a spy, but is mistaken by the ring for a CIA agent and is to be tested as a double agent. As cover, Chuck and Casey work with Morgan in "Buy More", which is again run by Big Mike after Emmett Milbarge was shot by a killer who was looking for Chuck. Big Mike appoints Morgan as the new "Assistant Manager", who subsequently has to fight provocations and bullying by Lester and the staff, but finally gets this under control with the help of Casey.

Shaw takes over the leadership of the team and sends Chuck on his first solo mission in an airplane, where Chuck fights for a key to the ring and also meets Hannah. Hannah appears shortly after at Buy More and starts to work there because she has fallen in love with Chuck. At the same time, Morgan and Chuck's sister Ellie become suspicious of Chuck and Devon and try to uncover the secret. They discover Chuck together with Hannah. Emotions also develop between Shaw and Sarah. After Hannah and Chuck started a relationship, Chuck ended it after a short time, realizing that he still loves Sarah and doesn't want to lie to Hannah any more.

For one episode, it appears Casey sided with the ring, but in the end it turns out that they blackmailed him by threatening the woman he loved before his life at the NSA. During this mission, Casey finds out that he has a daughter of hers. After Chuck and Sarah Casey helped, he - because General Beckman could not ignore that he was capable of something like this - released and declared a civilian.

Because of the problems with his feelings for Sarah and because he can't really talk to anyone, Chuck loses his skills. He only regains this after he has inaugurated Morgan, when a unit of the ring took the CIA facility under the "Buy More" and both were captured. Chuck defeats the enemy agents and can now speak openly to Morgan again as he used to.

Shaw declares Chuck ready to take his final true spy final exam. During this mission, in which Chuck is supposed to expose a "mole", Chuck tries to get closer to Sarah. The final part of the test, called the "scruple test," involves killing the previously exposed CIA agent who was selling information to the ring. Chuck can't bring himself to this. Casey, who was following Chuck, shoots the victim from a hiding place. From Sarah's angle it looks like Chuck fired the shot. She, shocked by this experience, decides to cut all romantic ties to Chuck, as the boy she fell in love with would never have been able to pull the trigger. But since Casey told Chuck that he should hide his role in the murder because he was not allowed to do so as a civilian, Chuck cannot solve the situation.

Shaw gets closer and closer to the ring and decides to act as a double agent and to go with a tracking device to the position of the ring leader in order to mark it for an air strike. Once there, however, it turns out that it did not appear there in person, but as a hologram. The leader shows Shaw a surveillance video that reveals Sarah to be his wife's murderer. Meanwhile, Chuck has decided to save Shaw from this suicide mission. He succeeds: a few seconds before the air strike occurs, he can bring Shaw out of the building.

Later Daniel goes on a mission with Sarah. Meanwhile, Chuck reveals that Shaw knows that Walker has his wife on the conscience. Fearing that Shaw would have joined the ring in revenge, he orders a huge task force, including tanks, stealth bombers, and loads of infantry to get Sarah out of there. Shaw shows Sarah the surveillance camera footage and suspects that the ring had put Sarah on his wife. The task force arrives when Shaw forgives Sarah, and it turns out that Shaw never intended to hurt Sarah.

Casey now confesses to Sarah that he and not Chuck killed the source, whereupon Sarah falls in love with Chuck again. Sarah has to go on another mission with Shaw to France. Chuck believes Shaw will take the opportunity to avenge his wife. Together with Casey, he follows Sarah and manages to save Sarah just in time; he shoots Shaw, who then falls into a river and is believed to be dead. Casey captures the ring leader and is reinstated as an agent, and asks General Beckman to give Morgan a bigger role in Chuck's agent life. He now takes part in Chuck's operations at times. Now Chuck and Sarah get together and decide to get out of the agent life and start a life together, but soon they realize that they much prefer to be spies and return to Los Angeles.

Chuck now begins to get Intersect flashes in a dream and is even admitted to a psychiatric clinic for a short time, but released again because the chief doctor realizes that Chuck has no psychological problems with the Intersect; but he is sure that this will happen sooner or later. Chuck dreams that Shaw lives on, but hides it.

Meanwhile, a CIA agent who secretly works for the ring persuades Ellie to contact her father, who comes immediately. He realizes that Chuck has downloaded Intersect 2.0 and decides to give him one of his inventions, the Governor, to keep his mind free from the Intersect.

Shaw now returns and, despite objections from General Beckman, manages to convince the generals in a vote that Chuck is not suitable as an Intersect, which is why the project is canceled. Chuck realizes that Shaw is now an intersect himself. While Sarah and Casey are arrested, Chuck manages to escape with his father. They try to save them with the help of Ellie, but their father is shot in front of their eyes and Chuck is captured. Shaw relieves Chuck of the governor, which is why Chuck painfully loses mental strength every time he flashes.

Ellie, Abgefahren (Awesome) and Morgan manage to free the three spies, and Ellie now finds out about Chuck's double life and asks him to end it as soon as they have captured Shaw.

Chuck, Sarah and Casey set a trap for Shaw and manage to arrest all of the ring leaders, but Shaw escapes. Alone without a ring, Shaw installs C4 in the Buy More and it comes to the final showdown between Chuck and Shaw. A flashback explains that Chuck apparently accidentally downloaded an Intersect prototype once as a child and that his father had told him that "he is special" . Chuck defeats Shaw, but can't bring himself to kill him, so Sarah knocks him out. Morgan accidentally activates the C4 and the Buy More explodes.

Chuck gets out of the spy life as he promised and now receives a message from his dead father. He says it's time Chuck found out more about his family. Chuck finds his father's hiding place and discovers a box containing data about his mother. The third season ends with a quick look at Chuck's mother, who had to go into hiding years ago.

Season 4

On May 14, 2010, NBC confirmed that the series had been extended to include a fourth season of 13 episodes. The season began broadcasting in the US on September 20, 2010. On October 19, NBC ordered eleven more episodes, making the fourth season 24 episodes.

Season 4 mainly revolves around the search for Chuck and Ellie's mother Mary, who, without their knowledge, has worked as the right hand man for the criminal Russian arms dealer Alexei Volkoff for years. As the season progresses, more and more details about the background of Chuck's family and the relationship between Chuck's family and Volkoff are revealed. In addition, Chuck and Sarah's relationship is developing rapidly.

After a series of unsuccessful, manipulated job interviews, Chuck and Morgan enter the newly built Buy More , which now turns out to be a fully developed CIA base under the management of General Diane Beckman. This forces Chuck to rejoin the CIA. The search for his mother Mary (aka Frost ), whom he pursues without the knowledge of Sarah and Casey, leads Chuck and Morgan to the Moscow headquarters of the armaments company Volkoff Industries , where Sarah and Casey also happen to be prisoners. After escaping from headquarters, Chuck tells Sarah and Casey about finding his mother and asks her to help. Sarah finds a source that says Chuck's mother was smuggled undercover at Volkoff Industries , but was exposed and captured there.

As Morgan's ideas for improving the camouflage of the new Buy More lead to his being named the new manager, Sarah slowly begins to feel at home in her and Chuck's apartment. Another encounter with her old high school classmate, Heather Chandler, also shows her that she has changed and is no longer the cold spy she was before she met Chuck.

Chuck's search for his mother comes to an abrupt end when she contacts him and tells him that she had been smuggled in as an undercover agent at Volkoff Industries to destroy the organization, but got into it too deeply. She risks her disguise as she must now, with Chuck's help, prevent the sale of a dangerous chemical weapon. Casey checks her story, but finds out she was lying and Mary's mission ended years ago when she defected to Volkoff. Sarah and Casey arrest Mary, leading to Chuck and Sarah's first relationship fight. Without her knowledge, Chuck speaks to his imprisoned mother and learns that her MI6 contact , Gregory Toddle, has records confirming her story. Chuck meets with Toddle, but both are captured by Volkoff's men. After their escape and the collection of the data, in which Toddle was apparently shot, they go to Orion's old base to read out the data on Mary's mission. Mary Chucks deactivates Intersect there, after which Toddle arrives and identifies himself as Alexei Volkoff, the criminal CEO of Volkoff Industries . He and Frost, who is apparently his right hand, tie up Chuck and Sarah and destroy Orion's base. Before that, however, Mary gives the two a chance to escape.

The next episodes deal with Chuck's attempt to repair the intersect, which he ultimately succeeds in. Chuck's marriage proposal on the balcony of a chateau in France fails when Sarah is arrested by the CIA to establish her identity as a double agent. She lets herself be smuggled undercover at Volkoff's to free Chuck's mother. For fear of losing his fiancée to Volkoff after his mother, Chuck devotes himself to the destruction of Volkoff Industries from now on . Thanks to a sophisticated plan by Chuck, the team finally succeeds in smashing Volkoff's organization and arresting him. The end of this arc marks the birth of Ellie's daughter and Chuck's marriage proposal on the hospital corridor.

Volkoff Industries comes back into focus when Alexei's daughter Vivian, who previously knew nothing of her (criminal) legacy, is hunted down. A former business partner of her father wants to usurp her legacy and use it to rebuild Volkoff Industries under his control. Vivian initially cooperates with the CIA, but when she is promised and then refused a meeting with her imprisoned father for her cooperation, she turns to a new mentor: her father's former lawyer, whom she is building on the legacy of Volkoff Industries on behalf of Alexeis should.

Meanwhile, Casey secretly takes over a new team consisting of two spies equipped with the Intersect. After a mission in which "Team Bartowski" proves to be superior, the CIA entrusts Chuck with all aspects of the new Intersect program as director. In the selection of promising candidates, there is an attack on "Castle", which, as it turns out, was commissioned by Vivian Volkoff.

This has meanwhile taken over the company of her father and, embittered by the betrayal of the CIA, takes a criminal route. She continues the development of a handgun by Volkoff Industries , the "Norseman", which can recognize and kill certain individuals within a crowd through traces of DNA. Meanwhile, Ellie, who continues to work on her father's computer, has found a record that is about an "Agent X". This CIA agent is said to have been programmed with a new identity with an early version of the Intersect in the 1980s. However, something went wrong during his mission and programming took control. The agent forgot his real identity and from then on believed himself to be his cover identity. It turns out that this agent is none other than Alexei Volkoff, whose real name is Hartley, who worked as a scientist with Chuck's father for the CIA. Given the explosive nature of this discovery - the CIA accidentally created one of the worst criminals in history - the team decides to keep this information to themselves and leave it alone.

A short time later, Chuck and Sarah's wedding approaches. During a pre-wedding dinner, Vivian and the "Norseman" carried out an attack on Sarah, which, however, failed and only seriously poisoned her. When Chuck and Casey try to break into a CIA facility to ask Volkoff about an antidote, a CIA agent named Clyde Decker steps in. Volkoff has already moved him to another location and refuses to help the team. While moving Alexei, Decker extracts the faulty intersect, reverting Volkoff to Hartley. This is freed by Chuck and agrees to help him find the antidote. When Chuck and Hartley try to break into Volkoff Industries , Hartley gets cold feet and flees. Chuck then surrenders, who has no other plans left, and begs Vivian for the antidote. Hartley returns and explains to his daughter how he became the man she knew as a criminal, but who is now looking for a way to meet his daughter. In return for blank identification documents that enable Vivian and Hartley to start over, Vivian gives Chuck the antidote. Chuck saves Sarah against further resistance from Decker, whereupon the entire team is fired by the CIA and Chuck's Intersect is neutralized.

The season ends with Chuck and Sarah's wedding. As a wedding gift, Hartley will give them the entire Volkoff Industries fortune , $ 877 million, which the team will use to set up their own private security company, Carmichael Industries . Morgan accidentally downloads a new version of the Intersect supposedly from General Beckman.

Season 5

On May 13, 2011, the broadcaster NBC Chuck extended a fifth and final season with 13 episodes. Morgan joins the team because of his new skills gained through the Intersect. This is now establishing Carmichael Industries, an independent espionage company. Although Morgan is not yet working professionally, he saves the team several times. Chuck, initially plagued by self-doubts as to whether Carmichael Industries would stand a chance as Intersect without him, regains his self-confidence after having mastered dangerous situations without the help of the Intersect and relying on his natural abilities, especially his technical know-how . However, Decker, who neutralized Chuck's Intersect, wants to prevent Carmichael Industries from succeeding by all means and has all accounts frozen. However, you can keep the company afloat by financing through the Buy More. The competition from the larger security company Verbanski Corp and its managing director Gertrude Verbanski, an old love-hate relationship from Casey's earlier days, is also a problem for Chuck's small security company. The competition leads Morgan, who feels underchallenged as Intersect, to join Verbanski Corp and abandons Chuck, Sarah and Casey. Sarah declines an offer from Verbanksi because she continues to believe in Carmichael Industries.

Every flash or zoom , as Morgan calls it, to stand out from Chuck damages Morgan's brain a little more, resulting in memory loss and personality changes. By terminating his friendship with Chuck and switching to Verbanski, Chuck, Sarah and Casey discover what is wrong with him and try to find a solution with the help of General Beckman. Carmichael Industries had previously hired them for an order, which suddenly stabilized the company's financial position. They now learn from her that the Intersect did not come to Chuck via "official" channels as assumed, but was sent to harm Chuck.

Devon diagnoses Jeff Barnes with poisoning. This is due to the fact that Jeff slept in a broken trailer for years and inhaled exhaust fumes. Without these fumes, Jeff is a completely different person. Insane actions by the Buy More workforce, in which he was previously happy to participate, are far from the now sensible Jeff. Still the freaky nerd, Lester feels like he's lost a friend and decides to re-expose Jeff to exhaust fumes against his will in order to get old Jeff back. When he almost kills Big Mike, who was in the room with Jeff, during this action, he comes to terms with the new situation and the two remain friends.

After Beckman has conveyed the news to Chuck that Morgan is now on the CIA's hit list due to the display of his Intersect skills, which was probably largely caused by Decker, the Intersect is removed and Morgan "cured". The gaps in memory and also the existing order to murder Decker by an elite killer remain. When Casey learns that the kill assignment now includes him and his daughter in addition to Morgan, as she could identify the killer, he unceremoniously brings the killer and his team down. For the act he is put in jail by Decker, where he meets Lester, who has to answer for his emissions campaign. Casey refuses a breakout suggested by Chuck and Sarah. He also makes enemies among the prisoners because he does not want to join any group. However, as the situation escalates and inmates beat him, Lester protects him by exploiting his position of power as the prison's network administrator. Decker contacts Chuck and Sarah and blackmails them with Casey to help him get a computer supervirus called "Omen".

The relationship between Verbanski and Carmichael Industries is increasingly developing into a partnership, which is mainly due to the love affair between Gertrude and Casey. After Team Decker hands over the virus, it becomes clear to those involved that Decker will continue to use it. When Decker threatens to blackmail Chuck with the virus, Gertrude kills him. After explaining the situation to Casey and helping him break out of prison, Gertrude goes into hiding for the Decker murder.

Beckman, who continues to trust the team, clears up the now fugitive Casey, Chuck and Sarah about a conspiratorial group within the CIA that apparently has its own goals and to which Decker belonged. When the conspirators bring Ellie and Devon into their power to swap them for the Omen virus, Beckman and the others have the opportunity to capture and question a member of the group. This exposes the conspiracy and rehabilitates Chuck, Sarah and Casey. However, since Chuck acts unauthorized out of fear for his sister and does not listen to Beckman's advice, the conspirators manage to set the virus free on the Internet beforehand.

Shortly thereafter, it turns out that Shaw is behind it all: he is still an intersect and has been freed from prison by the virus. He brings Sarah under his control and holed up with her as a hostage in the base. He asked Chuck to get a special disk from Decker's office in the CIA building. While Chuck tackles this mission with Beckman's help, Jeff and Lester find out that the Omen virus is able to compress all information from infected systems and send it to a recipient. Shaw would like to upgrade his Intersect with this data. Chuck manages to disable Shaw's Intersect and overwhelm him. Back behind bars, Shaw plays his last trump card by confronting Sarah with a part of her past, "the baby in Hungary", which she doesn't even want to talk to Chuck about and which she wants to sort out on her own.

Chuck, Casey and Morgan can convince Sarah to hire Carmichael Industries at least like a normal customer to support her without any further background knowledge. It turns out that on a previous mission, contrary to her orders to move an infant into the care of the CIA, Sarah placed the infant with her mother. When her former management agent, who received the corresponding tip from Shaw, now finds out the whereabouts of the child, Sarah's mother is also in the line of fire. With Chuck and Casey's help, Sarah ultimately manages to keep the child's whereabouts a secret.

Throughout the season, Sarah and Chuck consider giving up being an agent and turning to a bourgeois life with their own house and child. When her decision was made and the decision to convert Carmichael Industries into a technology company, she caught up with Morgan's past. Due to his memory lapses, this is not of great help in the search for further Intersect glasses, which he secured and hid on his own. To make matters worse, the new, smart Jeff finds out with Lester that Chuck and Sarah have an agent base under the Buy More. Since they entrust this to Morgan, the team manages to erase their memory by means of a gas, but this is only brief before the process has to be repeated.

When Morgan's team treads old paths and finally finds the glasses, a new agent named Nicholas Quinn, who works on his own account, demands the Intersect glasses for himself. When the team refuses to hand over the glasses, he kidnaps Chuck. Although the glasses are a flawed specimen, like the one that damaged Morgan's brain, Sarah uses the glasses to save herself and Casey when they are surrounded by Quinn's mercenaries in a hopeless position. Quinn, who has since brought Chuck to Tokyo, is followed by Sarah and Casey. In one go they can overpower him and free Chuck, but Quinn's people take Alex, Casey's daughter, hostage. Morgan and Devon, rushing to rescue Alex, are overwhelmed. In the meantime, Jeff and Lester are snooping around again to uncover the espionage secret surrounding the Buy More. In an act of desperation, Casey lets them in via cellphone and free Alex. After she had to flash frequently in Japan, Sarah already feels significant side effects of the defective intersect and is finally kidnapped by Quinn.

Quinn knows about the mistakes of the Intersect and causes Sarah to flash until she has completely lost her memory. He then indoctrinates them that Chuck is an enemy who needs to be monitored and killed. With the help of Casey and Chuck, who want to destroy the last Intersect, she penetrates the Intersect room of the DARPA in order to load the Intersect onto glasses. When Quinn gives her the order to kill Chuck, she hesitates. The story turns into a fight between Quinn and Chuck for Sarah's trust. The CIA wants to kill Sarah because she is a threat. Sarah finally seems to believe Quinn's story after noticing that Chuck took off her glasses in the Intersect room when he was trying to convince her of their time together. When she gets the glasses back from Chuck and wants to kill him, she remembers a detail from their life together and hesitates again. At this moment, Quinn faces Chuck and Sarah personally in order to take the glasses and kill Sarah as the last intersect besides him. When he shoots Sarah, Chuck throws himself into the bullet. Sarah is now certain that Chuck was telling the truth, also because Casey gave her her own video diary about the original Chuck mission. However, she decides not to want to be with Chuck anymore and to bring Quinn down on her own for revenge.

Chuck, who reacts passively-depressively at first, is persuaded by Morgan, Ellie and Devon to look for Sarah in order to possibly create a new beginning with her. The search has barely begun when Sarah in turn comes to the Buy More to visit the base. There she would like to get information about a device called a "key", with which it is possible to suppress the side effects of the defective Intersect. Chuck supports her as much as he can and tries at the same time to awaken her memory and to win her affection again. He is only moderately successful in both. When Chuck's mother shows up and provides more detailed information about the "key", Ellie realizes that it should be possible to use it to reconstruct Sarah's memories, since the version of the intersect modified with the key is permanent and not just brief Flash provides. But it doesn't come to that, because Chuck is forced to use the Intersect to defuse a bomb and bring Quinn down. Jeffster, who now finally know about the processes under the Buy More, have another big appearance and then get a record deal in Germany. Morgan and Alex make up for good and Casey decides to give the love for Gertrud a chance.

The final scene shows Sarah and Chuck on the beach explaining Morgan's theory that one kiss could restore all memories. The episode ends with the kiss, and with it the season too. It remains to be seen whether the memories will be restored.

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Cast of Chuck at Comic Con 2010 in San Diego :
Mark Christopher Lawrence , Scott Krinsky , Vik Sahay , Ryan McPartlin , Sarah Lancaster , Adam Baldwin , Yvonne Strahovski , Joshua Gomez

main actor

Surname actor Season German synchronization
Charles "Chuck" Irving Bartowski (Charles Carmichael) Zachary Levi 1-5 Tobias Nath
Sarah Lisa Bartowski (Walker) (Sam Lisa) Yvonne Strahovski 1-5 Sonja Spuhl
John Casey (Alexander Coburn) Adam Baldwin 1-5 Tobias Kluckert
Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Fay Woodcomb (Bartowski) Sarah Lancaster 1-5 Antje von der Ahe
Morgan Guillermo Grimes (Cobra or Michael Carmichael) Joshua Gomez 1-5 Bernhard Völger
Dr. Devon Christian Woodcomb (Captain Awesome) Ryan McPartlin 1-5 Robin Kahnmeyer
Michael "Big Mike" Tucker Mark Christopher Lawrence 1-5 Tilo Schmitz
Lester Patel Vik Sahay 1-5 Dirk Stollberg
Jeffrey "Jeff" Barnes Scott Krinsky 1-5 Hans Hohlbein
General Diane Beckman Bonita Friedericy 1-5 Helga Sasse
Anna Wu Julia Ling 1-3 Esra Vural

supporting cast

Surname actor Season German synchronization
Langston Graham Tony Todd 1-2 Ingo Albrecht
Bryce Larkin Matthew Bomer 1-2 Christoph Banks
Harry Tang CS Lee 1 Sven Plate
Carina Miller Mini Andes 1, 3, 4 Eva Michaelis
Lou Rachel Bilson 1 Kaya Marie Möller
Emmett Milbarge Tony Hale 2-3 Klaus-Peter Grap
Dr. Jill Roberts Jordana Brewster 2 Melanie Hinze
Dr. Woody Woodcomb Bruce Boxleitner 2 Joachim Tennstedt
Honey Woodcomb Morgan Fairchild 2, 4 Katharina Koschny
Ted Roark Chevy Chase 2 Reinhard Kuhnert
Stephen J. Bartowski Scott Bakula 2-3 Gudo Hoegel
Daniel Shaw Brandon Routh 3, 5 Tim Knauer
Hannah Kristin Kreuk 3 Marie Bierstedt
Alex McHugh Mekenna Melvin 3-5 Rubina Kuraoka
Mary Elizabeth Bartowski (Frost) Linda Hamilton 4-5 Joseline Gassen
Alexei Volkoff Timothy Dalton 4th Lutz Riedel
Vivian McArthur Volkoff Lauren Cohan 4th Susanne Geier
Gertrude Verbanski Carrie-Anne Moss 5 Martina Treger
Nicholas Quinn Angus Macfadyen 5 Peter Reinhardt

Episodes

particularities

  • Each episode title begins in English with the words "Chuck Versus ..." and in German with the words "Chuck versus ...".
  • In numerous episodes echoes of well-known film soundtracks such as B. James Bond , Indiana Jones , Star Wars , Rocky or The Blues Brothers .
  • Chuck wears Converse shoes called " Chucks " most of the time .
  • In the second episode of the first season, Chuck quotes during a flashback in a trance: "The crash of Oceanic 815 ...", a reference to the television series Lost , in which the survivors of the crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 stranded on an island.
  • In the tenth and twelfth episodes of the first season there are numerous allusions to the film Casablanca .
  • In the fifth episode of the second season, a character named Farrokh Bulsara appears. This was the real name of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury .
  • The eleventh episode of the second season pays homage to the first part of the Die Hard series . In addition to the appearance of Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell, his role in Die Hard, and the fact that the episode takes place at Christmas just like the first two Die Hard films, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" is repeated again and again. alluded to, an important musical theme in Die Hard.
  • In the twelfth episode of the second season, Chuck mentions an IG-88 grenade to General Beckman. IG-88 is a bounty hunter / assassin droid in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back .
  • Chuck's last words at the end of season two: "I can do kung fu." are the same ones that the main character Neo uses in the film The Matrix after learning martial arts in a similar way through a computer program.
  • The beginning of the first episode of the third season pays homage to The Big Lebowski . Chuck wears the typical outfit of the "dude", consisting of shorts, undershirt, sandals and bathrobe - he even grows a full beard. The whole thing is accompanied by the song "Just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in)" from the film's soundtrack.
  • In the second episode of the third season, Morgan Carina compares with a Swedish model what the actress Mini Andes actually is.
  • In the fifth episode of the third season, Hannah taps that Hugo is a professional wrestler, what the actor Steve Austin actually is or was.
  • In the seventh episode of the third season, Chuck searches a museum for an antidote for Shaw and Sarah, which is hidden in one of the numerous antique vases. The sequence is a reference to the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , in which Indiana Jones has to choose the holy grail from numerous chalices in order to save his father's life.
  • In the ninth episode of the third season, Big Mike and the other employees, during their "revolution" against the supposed emissaries from upper buy-more management, recreate the famous photo from World War II of American soldiers flying their flags Japanese island of Iwo Jima hoist.
  • The intro sequence in episode 15 of the third season is based on the intro of the television series Hart from the 80s. Morgan slips into the role of Max, the housekeeper of Jonathan (Chuck) and Jennifer (Sarah) Hart.
  • In season four, Vivian McArthur Volkoff travels to Volkoff Industries to investigate her past. After she has placed her medallion on the pedestal of the horse statue, a door opens and a transparent card appears with the number sequence 4815162342. This is also an allusion to Lost, where these numbers appear again and again in different contexts.
  • In the second episode of the fourth season, Lester and Morgan quote the scene from the first "Star Wars" film when Obi-wan Kenobi passed a checkpoint with the sentence "These are not the droids you are looking for" smuggled.
  • In the tenth episode of the fourth season, a reference to Die Hard can be found when Morgan sticks a pistol on his back with adhesive tape.
  • In the second episode of season five, Morgan shoots a stun gun at an enemy who is waving his gun around wildly. This is a reference to Indiana Jones who kills an opponent in a similar scene.
  • In two episodes of the fourth season there are allusions to Linda Hamilton's role in Terminator 2. She says the words "Come with me if you want to live", which the Terminator says to John Connor. In another episode, she does pull-ups on a vertical bed frame in a cell, just like in the mental hospital from the Terminator film.

Awards

Overall, the series has been nominated and awarded several prizes, here the most important: (Awards in bold)

DVD publications

United States

  • The first season was released on September 16, 2008.
  • The second season was released on January 5, 2010.
  • The third season was released on September 7, 2010.
  • The fourth season was released on October 11, 2011.
  • The fifth season was released on May 8, 2012.

Great Britain

  • The first season was released on August 18, 2008.
  • The second season was released on October 5, 2009.
  • The third season was released on October 25, 2010.
  • The fourth season was released on October 3, 2011.
  • The fifth season was released on October 15, 2012.

Germany

  • The first season was released on November 6, 2009.
  • The second season was released on October 15, 2010.
  • The third season was released on September 23, 2011.
  • The fourth season was released on April 13, 2012.
  • The fifth season was released on November 9, 2012.
  • The complete series was released on June 28, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chuck: Series start on August 22nd at ProSieben Serienjunkies, accessed on July 30, 2009
  2. ↑ Updated: NBC Gives Supersized Pickup to 'Chuck' & Back 9 for 'Chase' . TV By the Numbers . October 19, 2010. Retrieved October 19, 2010.
  3. ↑ Chuck: Season 5 secured - but it will be the last (update) . Serial junkies . May 13, 2011. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b German dubbing voices on serienjunkies.de
  5. ↑ a b voice actor in the German dubbing index
  6. ↑ Chuck - S03E05 - Chuck against the First Class, from time stamp 00:12:35: "I'm thinking professional wrestler, maybe."
  7. ^ "Stone Cold" Steve Austin: Bio .
  8. ↑ Steve Austin's wrestling career