39,327
edits
Chuck/Shout Out: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
prefix>Import Bot (Import from TV Tropes TVT:ShoutOut.Chuck 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:ShoutOut.Chuck, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 23:
* The Christmas 2008 episode contains a shout-out to ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' when Reginald VelJohnson guest stars as Sgt. Al Powell of the Burbank Police Department. There's also a shoutout to ''[[Groundhog Day (Film)|Groundhog Day]]'' with the hostage holder, "Ned Ryerson" (spelled differently on the show than in the movie).
* Several shout-outs to ''[[Casablanca]]'': "We'll always have Omaha." It's Ellie's favorite movie, as well.
** "Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover" contains a bunch for ''[[Casablanca]]''. Cynical lone wolf Casey reopens an old wound when he unexpectedly encounters his old flame ''Ilsa'' and finds that she's about to marry ''Victor'', the movie plays in the background at the [[Buy More]] when Ilsa comes to meet Casey, and at the end, after Ilsa leaves on a plane, Chuck says, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." (see [[Whole
* Chuck keeps {{spoiler|the documents given to him by Orion}} hidden in an issue of ''[[Ex Machina]]''.
* On more than one occasion, the team has deployed a GLG-20 listening device, a shout out to ''[[Spies Like Us]]''. Another such shout-out was when Chuck, pretending to be a doctor, had an extended "Doctor"-"Doctor" greeting with a villain doctor. Emmett Millbarge is a cross between the names of the two spies in the movie.
| |||