Firefly fans who ’ve heard that Adam Baldwin rocks the home on Chuck but have n’t yet investigate for themselves should really check out last Nox ’s Baldwin - tastic sequence . Seldom has the Hero of Canton been in such awing comedy form . plunderer ahead !
I had high-pitched hopes when I realized that last night ’s “ Chuck Vs . The Couch Lock ” was going to be a Casey - centric episode . specially after a couple of really underwhelming episode in which we essentially sat through couples therapy with Chuck and Sarah , we call for an extra helping of Casey bouncing off Morgan , Jeff and Lester . Casey ’s usual attitude when face with the amentia of the Buy - More ’s resident trio of swot is to become firm with rage , so stool him really firm was a stroke of genius . But Casey also got some great mirthful tantrum during the parts of the episode where he could move .
So the instalment initiate with an unbelievable flashback to the waning twenty-four hour period of the Clinton Administration , when Casey is leading a gap team on a foray of a bunker in Iran . It ’s a attractively set up homage to the A - Team , which all goes skew-whiff when Casey ’s squad all resolve they want to steal the terrorist gold in that bunker or else of following orders and seal it up . ( You know that Casey ’s team is going to go spoilt when you see that Eric Roberts is one of the squad - members . Why Casey ever trust Eric Roberts is a enigma beyond fathom . ) The bit where Casey cuts out the light source with his knife and then takes out all three guys is saturated beauty . So Casey ’s old squad finally completes the A - Team origin story ( without Casey ) by busting out of a military concentration camp and disappearing into the L.A. underground .

Back in the present day , Chuck is still obsess about regain his mom , and agnize that Casey ’s one-time squad are now working for this season ’s openhanded bad , Volkoff , bunk his prisons . ( Side banker’s bill : I marvel which authoritative TV / movie doer is going to wind up playing Volkoff . ) So Chuck hatches a design to get Casey ’s former team - Paraguay tea to show up : fake Casey ’s destruction , and nab them at the funeral . Of course , it all goes horribly wrong , as funeral - based plans so often do , and the paralytic Casey is lease prisoner by his former squad .
All of which sets up the screaming scene above , as Jeff and Lester rescue Casey , who they assume has done some “ O.G. Kush ” on one of his “ installs . ” Not only do Jeff and Lester enjoy partake some white zin and flirt Magic the Gathering , they sometimes get even wilder than that , going out on “ installs ” that end up with them in some of the finest dumpsters in the city .
It ’s all an excuse for the mates we deal about most on this show — Morgan and Casey — to process out their relationship , include Morgan finally admitting he ’s date Casey ’s girl Alex . ( Will Alex progress beyond being a human prize at some point ? abide tune ! ) Morgan tries to win over Casey by delivering a lovely , if curiously hand- and invertebrate foot - centrical , eulogy at Casey ’s funeral , then has to “ dump ” Alex to keep her away from the most daunting penis of the “ A - Team ” :

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Finally , Morgan come clean-living with Casey , part as a means to shock him out of his paralysis , and they ’re off to Iran to rescue Chuck and Sarah , who ’ve catch themselves captured trying to rescue Casey . ( The bite where Casey recount Morgan , “ We ai n’t talkin ’ , ” was the most Jayne - esque Casey present moment I can remember seeing on this show . Morgan and Casey belong off a delivery mission together was the final layer of awesomeness this episode needed to cap everything off .
Also very welcome , this sentence around : The deficiency of a random client star as “ Greta . ” Not that we ’re not emotional for Summer Glau ’s bout in the spotlight , whenever that happens , but a week off from the Greta thing was pretty welcome .

What else could this installment possibly need to make the beau ideal complete ? Oh , how about Chuck finally confronting the fact that he ’s kind of self - center and redact his supporter into risk to deal with his personal issues , like look for his momma . It ’s great that his first inklings of this get along from being congratulated by General Beckman on his willingness to put Casey in deathly danger , since that ’s the earmark of a really stale - blooded undercover agent .
And of course , you acknowledge that the import Chuck realizes his mom in all probability is n’t really a prisoner , or a shining paragon of paragonitude , and decides to lay off look for her , she ’ll find him . Anybody who did n’t see that twist coming deserves to have Eric Roberts on their squad .
All in all , a welcome to return to top form from Chuck , and now we ca n’t hold off for next week ’s Robert Englund node spot , not to cite the return of Linda Hamilton !

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