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Ground Chuck: Under Siege 3: Sexy Territory

Apr27
2010
Leave a Comment Written by Seth Finck

Think This + Mr and Mrs Smith after they had the big fight and made up

We open on  a creeper with a knife on the train. Sarah opens the door, slightly disheveled. Turns out Sir Creepsalot was  just delivering room service and asking if Sarah requires anything else when Chuck noses in to let them know they are doing JUST FINE. Looks like they’ve been AWOL in the bedroom awhile, probably playing Boggle or Yahtzee, or both. Sarah says “We can’t just run away like this” but Chuck wants to because everyone else is moving on. They both agree to quit the spy life and Sarah tosses Chuck’s phone out the window! I don’t know why that was necessary. I mean now they can’t call anyone!

Yup, DEFINITELY Boggle!

Back in Burbank, the General wants Casey to use Morgan to find Chuck since they’ve known each other for so long. Casey enlists Morgan’s help as Awesome arrives to do the same thing because he and Ellie are having a going away party and they want Chuck to be there. Jeffster weasels its way into a gig at the going away party.

Back on the love train, Chuck and Sarah have emerged from their “alone time.” They are enjoying some delightful pastries when some unsavory characters join them in the dining car. Before they can sink their teeth into Danish, Sarah’s got a hunch and Chuck’s got a flash. They make a half-hearted toast to their non-spy lives. Really heartfelt guys. I’m sensing a quick turn to Under Siege 2: Dark Territory here.

Before you can say negligee, our favorite couple is lying next to each other lying to each other.  They both want to “get some air” to gather intel on the shady passengers. Sarah ducks out and finds the baddies conveniently down the hall. She jimmies the lock with a “Do Not Disturb” sign which is just really against the entire idea of NOT disturbing. She checks his passport and finds a little black book with names and numbers when she hears someone at the door and heads to the bathroom to hide. In come the Chuck’s famous Chucks, he sees the same black book when HE is interrupted and tries to hop in the bathroom to hideaway, but Sarah has the door locked. He looks to the window and jumps out just in time for Juan the Terrorist to come in with his henchmen. Sarah flushes and plays drunk hot girl to get out of the room. Thank goodness for her classy taste in lingerie. Chuck is on top of the train and flashes to flip back inside to beat Sarah back. Back to bed the happy couple goes. And Sarah comes clean. They decide to pull the classic “one more mission.” Definitely Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.

In Burbank, Morgan and Casey are in Castle, having no luck finding the happy couple. Morgan breaks eventually uses his “knowledge of the subject” to find where Chuck and Sarah are. And just like that, they’re headed to Europe on the Government Dime. On the plane Morgan has a hilarious freakout about plane crashes:  “The only reason the plane stays up is because I’m rooting for it, and if I’m asleep, I’m not rooting for it.” The Odd Couple land and board the train with Morgan using a disguise as one of our friendly neighbors to the north, a Canadian.

Back on the love train the happy couple work to gather some supplies, cuffs from a punk rocker, pills from a figure skater. Soon after, Sarah’s drunken southern girl is spilling the drinks of Juan the Terrorist and Co. Chuck pulls the old pills-in-the-sparkling water trick and the dynamic duo wait for their plan to take effect. BUT Casey shows up. He is ready to haul them in and cuffs them despite their protestations. And just then the henchmen conk out and Juan the Terrorist takes off. Chuck and Sarah apologize and coldcock Casey and chase Juan who is heading back to his room. Sarah and Chuck get divided by door and Sarah kicks ass one-handed then lets Chuck in. They end up on the bed right as Casey chases them down. They tell him about the baddie in the bathroom.  He opens the door and tranqs Juan. But the darts don’t affect him and he takes off again. Bounding through the train, he’s eventually derailed by a body check from Morgan, who had just been shot down by a hot Canuck.

In Burbank, Jeffster is rehearsing at the going-away party and the blow an amp, and say Chuck could fix it. Ellie flips out. Looks like tonight we’ll be serenaded by Jeffster UNPLUGGED! This is like the reverse of Dylan going electric, very similar cultural significance.

Once the terrorist is cuffed, we find out that he had turned and was going into witness protection and the two guys they drugged were Interpol agents. And then finally we have our bad guy girl, the Hot Canadian who dissed Morgan.

Chuck calls Beckman and from the sound of things, did so COLLECT, because she is not happy. She demands they deliver Juan and then immediately return to Burbank.  Team Bartowski take turns watching the captive iIn a coffee house. Morgan and Casey ask how the two of them could leave behind the spy life. They both say they choose each other over spytimes!

At Ellie and Awesome’s party, Jeffster sings “Leavin’ On A Jet Plane,” and it is actually pretty amazing. Ellie is getting smashed and is then invited to say a few words…TOAST CLIFFHANGER.

Chuck and Sarah head out while Morgan and Casey meet agents to hand over Juan, BUUUUUUUUT the agents are bad guys. Morgan outs them with some Lake Como tourist jargon. But they have the place surrounded. Whoops. At the train tracks, Chuck and Sarah are trying to decide whether or not to leave the spy game.  HURRY UP, someone is going to get you while you take all this time making stupid decisions. THEN the Interpol agents who they knocked out surround them and ask what they did with their prisoner. Told ya so!  Chuck and Sarah are cuffed AGAIN and the Interpol guys say that their second team was killed en route, so they are suspicious. Chuck and Sarah realize this means Casey and Morgan are in trouble, they double punch the Interpol idiots and get armed. Meanwhile at the coffee shop, Morgan and Casey are tied up, in what appears to be novelty size rope, while hot fake Canadian questions Juan.

The Maple is the Most Devious of All the Syrup Producing Trees

Chuck and Sarah crash a Vespa into the shop and Chuck flashes so they can kick some ace like some sort of deadly pairs skating team. They really ARE a dynamic duo. Morgan and Casey do their own tandem butt-kicking.  Once everyone is knocked out due to all of the tandem fighting, Juan drops the knowledge on Chuck and Sarah. Neither of them wants to quit. They get together and reverse their earlier pact and then they smooch, Morgan smiles, Casey gets a little sick.

Back in Castle, Casey gives Morgan some props for being actually useful. Morgan wants to do a little monologuing in favor of Chuck and Sarah as spies, but Beckman shuts him up. Chuck and Sarah both try to take the blame for going AWOL. Beckman calls them out and Chuck tries to tell her that they’re dating. Sarah finally gets it out and Beckman reminds them to not let it get in their professional ways, but also it’s about damn time. Chuck remembers about Ellie and Awesome leaving and rushes home. He sees some footage of her toast where she laments his not being there and is getting real emo when Ellie returns.  They share a cute little goodbye and Sarah shows up to show Ellie that Chuck won’t be alone.

Sarah and Chuck rest on the bed to “Feeling Good.” Which seems pretty right on, they’re feeling good and I sure was at the end of this episode. How did you like seeing Chuck and Sarah go at it TOGETHER? The only thing that was a bit unreal was that they couldn’t tell the other wanted to stay in the spy life. I mean come on, they’re so in love, they should be a little more attuned to each others’ feelings, right?  I thought Sarah’s defeat of Juan while the door divided her and Chuck was one of the better action sequences of the show and her wardrobe tonight was FABULOUUUUS!  OK, so what do you all think of the newly minted super spy team? Will this leave Casey on the outs? And WHEN is Jeffster going to go on tour?

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