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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** [[Adam Baldwin]] is playing a patriotic version of his ''[[Firefly]]'' character, without the greed, the beard, and the disregard for authority. It's also hard to ignore that their initials are identical, which may or may not be intentional.
** Casey has said lines [[Adam Baldwin]] has used before -- as Jayne in ''[[Firefly]]''.
{{quote|'''Casey''': You are starting to damage my calm, Chuck.
'''Casey''': Shiny!
'''Casey''': We're just happy to be doing good works. }}
::: He also threatened to remove Chuck's "man parts"; in ''Firefly'', Jayne once threatened to show River his "man parts" if she kept insinuating the femininity of his name. :
** In "Chuck Versus the Fear of Death", [[Adam Baldwin|Casey]] asks [[Summer Glau|Greta]] what kind of "[[Firefly|crew]]" she used to be on.
** There's also a mention of ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''. Animal Mother's line "Flush out your headgear, new guy." was also used by Casey at one point.
** The first thing Scott Bakula says to Ellie? [[Quantum Leap|"Oh boy."]]
** Emmett yelling "[[Arrested Development (TV series)|No touching!]]" at the hordes of Tyler Martin fans.
*** Speaking of Tyler Martin, he's pretty much what [[Lost|Charlie]] might have become if Locke hadn't helped him kick the drug habit.
** In "Chuck Versus the Three Words,", Morgan says that Carina is not some girl, but "basically a Swedish supermodel." Which is exactly what Mini Anden is in real life. (Youyou may have seen her as the former face of Armani Code.).
** [[Superman|Brandon Routh]] as Agent Shaw has donned glasses that look suspiciously like ones Clark Kent would wear.
** In "Chuck Versus First Class,", Hannah sees a character played by [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] and tries to guess his profession-- "A professional wrestler, maybe?"
** In "Chuck Versus the Mask", Hannah (Kristin Kreuk) mentions how handsome she thinks Shaw (Brandon Routh) looks. In that same scene, Chuck retorts with "Sure, if you're into the strong, Superman-y type of guy" - A twofer, as [[Superman Returns|Routh previously played Superman]], and [[Smallville|Kreuk previously played Clark Kent's first love]].
** Chuck constantly referring to Dr. Leo Dreyfus in "Chuck Versus the Tooth" (as played by [[Christopher Lloyd]]) as [[Back to The Future|"Doc.".]] {{spoiler|He then gets Chuck [[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|committed to a mental asylum]].}}.
** "Chuck Versus the Anniversary" - Harry Dean Stanton as a [[Repo Man]] and [[Dolph Lundgren]] dropping several of his ''[[Rocky IV]]'' lines.
** "Chuck Versus the Cubic Z" includes an [[Actor Allusion]] between two of its guest stars, as {{spoiler|Stacy Keibler and [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] have a brief reprise match}}.
** In "Chuck Versus the Aisle of Terror,", Robert Englund shows up as a man who can make people have [[Nightmare On Elm Street|"nightmares they can never wake up from."]]
** In "Chuck Versus the Leftovers,", Mary Elizabeth Bartowski (played by Linda Hamilton) tells Chuck and Sarah to "[[The Terminator|Come with me if you want to live.]]"
*** There's a scene in "Chuck Versus the Last Details" where a captured Mary Bartowski is doing pull-ups in her cell.
** Sarah, {{spoiler|undercover for Volkoff.}}. With black-dyed hair and a catsuit. "[[Mass Effect|I love a good suicide mission.]]"
** Volkoff, as played by [[Timothy Dalton]], has one. As it turns out, {{spoiler|he once worked for [[MI 6]].}}.
** Of course, they couldn't have [[The Matrix|Carrie-Anne Moss]] as a guest star and not feature at least one [[Bullet Time]] scene. (Itit happens in "Chuck Versus the Frosted Tips.").
** In "Chuck Versus the Hack Off", a scene featuring Carrie-Anne Moss is segued into a laptop running a ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' [[Matrix Raining Code|code]] screen saver.
* [[Ascended Fanon]]: Morgan's [[Fan Nickname]], "The Beard", gets referenced several times, most notably in the episode title "Chuck Versus the Beard".
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In "Chuck Versus the Last Details," Morgan [[It Makes Sense in Context|pretends to attend a meeting as Ettore La Barba]]. "La Barba" means "[[The Beard]]," which is also a [[Fan Nickname]] given to Morgan.
* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Zachary Levi (Chuck) directed "Chuck Versus the Beard" in seasonSeason threeThree, "Chuck Versus the Leftovers" in seasonSeason fourFour, and "Chuck Versus the Hack-off Off" in seasonSeason fiveFive.▼
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: The [[James Bond]] franchise as well as shows like [[The OC]] and [[Smallville]] all exist in the Chuck universe yet they never notice the likes of Rachel Bilson, Kristin Kreuk and Timothy Dalton walking amongst them.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: The third and fourth seasons have suffered somewhat from pacing issues, most of which can be attributed to the network holding off on ordering anything beyond the initial thirteen episodes until well after they are plotted out (which is why the thirteenth episodes of both seasons are [[Wham! Episode|wham episodes]]; they were also designed to be [[Grand Finale|Grand Finales]] meant to end the show). The third season, while picked up, was given an additional six episodes as opposed to the standard nine, and as such required some condensation of the arc storyline into a shorter season. The fourth season has had the opposite treatment, where it has been given an additional eleven episodes as opposed to the standard nine. [[Cursed with Awesome|Oh, no.]]
** Perhaps the biggest: Chuck & Morgan are huge ''[[Star Wars]]'' fans & Casey's familiar enough with the series to {{spoiler|torture Morgan by having him watch ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' first & then spoiling that Vader's the father of Luke & Leia}}, but none of them notice that they're stealing a vase from Luke freakin' Skywalker at the start of season 5.
** You can't learn anything about being a spy from [[Spies Like Us|Chevy Chase]], even if he was Roark
▲* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Zachary Levi (Chuck) directed "Chuck Versus the Beard" in season three, "Chuck Versus the Leftovers" in season four, and "Chuck Versus the Hack-off" in season five.
* [[Expy]]:
** Most of the more competent non-main character spies have at least some measure of Bond in them (the rest by and large trend toward MiB [[Shout-Out|Shout-outs]]):
*** Cole Barker is Daniel Craig's Bond;
*** Roan Montgomery is Sean Connery's Bond;
*** Bryce is Brosnan's bond;
*** And even Charles Carmichael seems to be based on Roger Moore's Bond (though when he does his Bond impression, it's using Connery's accent).
*** And [[Timothy Dalton]] plays a Bond Villain.
** Casey's old team is an evil version of ''[[The A-Team]]''.
** In "Chuck Versus the CAT Squad", the all-female CAT Squad, Sarah's old team, is obviously based on ''[[Charlie's Angels]]''.
* [[Fake American]]: Yvonne Strahovski is Australian, and briefly [[How's Your British Accent?|uses her real accent]] while Sarah is masquerading as an Aussie.
** Strahovski is actually Polish-Australian; English is her second language. Of course, Sarah spoke Polish in at least one episode.
* [[Fan Nickname]]:
** Yvonne Strahotski.
** Fans also christened Morgan "The Beard", which stuck.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** [[Scrubs|Gift Shop Girl]] (after dyeing her hair black) is Chuck's sister.
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** Volkoff is [[James Bond]] and [[Doctor Who|Rassilon]].
** [[Reaper|The Devil]] is Volkoff's lawyer.
** The character "Greta" is [[Attack of the Show|Olivia Munn]], [[Firefly|River Tam]], [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like]], and [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|Stacy Keibler]].
** [[Superman Returns|Superman]] is Daniel Shaw.
** [[Smallville|Lana Lang]] is Hannah.
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** [[Crusade|Captain Gideon]] is Sarah's dad, while [[Babylon 5|Captain Sheridan]] is Devon's.
*** Which makes Chuck's ''[[Tron]]'' poster all the more interesting.
** Chuck has to battle noted HITG Richard Burgi (''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]'', ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', ''[[24]]'') to save Sarah. He's also the guy who insulted [[Firefly|Jayne]] and his cunning hat. ("That hat makes you look like an idiot.").
** [[Supernatural (TV series)|Crowley]] ([[Mark Sheppard]]) is the Director of the Ring.
** [[Mass Effect 2|Miranda Lawson and Kal'Reegar]] are Chuck's protectors.
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** Casey's former unit featured [[The Expendables|Munroe]]/[[The Dark Knight Saga|Sal Maronia]] as the leader, [[Batista]] as [[The Big Guy]] and [[Avatar (film)|Dr. Norm Spellman]]/[[Bones|Colin Fisher]] as the resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
** [[Smallville|Green Arrow]] needed protecting from his brother in "Chuck Versus the Bearded Bandit". Guess it wasn't a job for Superman...
** Anyone paying attention to NBC's advertising knew that [[Community|Abed]] was going to show up in "Chuck Versus the Hack-off. Off". {{spoiler|Not touted at all? [[Actor Allusion|Shirley]], as a Buy More greenshirt with the hots for him.}}.
*** Keeping with ''[[Community]]'' references, the same episode features Kick-Puncher as a prison inmate.
*** Also: [[Freddie Wong]], as [[The Danza|Freddie]], a fellow hacker.
** Casey Hendershot, [[Deadliest Warrior]] expert, appears twice as a mook. An Iranian villain from "Chuck vs.Versus Thethe A-Team" was (ironically) the lead IDF simulation actor.
* [[I Knew It!]]:
* [[No Export for You]]/[[Screwed by the Network]]: In the UK, and waiting for the start of Season 5? You'll be waiting for a while - Sky decided they didn't want to purchase the rights to show the fifth & final season of the show, and it's not likely someone else will purchase the rights for ''just'' the final season since Sky still own the rights to (And show, for that matter) the first four seasons. [[Replacement Scrappy|But it's okay, because Sky have several new shows that they're sure you'll enjoy]].▼
** Who is Orion? {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Stephen Bartowski]]}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Chuck/Shout Out|So many, we had to give it its own page.]]
** In Season Three, even Morgan knew {{spoiler|Shaw lived. Come on, he was shot and fell in a river}}.
* [[Truth in Television]]: As in the plot of ''Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer'', many old arcade games do indeed have a "kill screen" where achieving a high enough level or score can generate bugged levels or cause other unusual effects. However Missile Command is actually ''not'' one of them, and merely loops back to the beginning when a certain point is reached.
* [[McLeaned]]: {{spoiler|Bryce Larkin, [[Killed Off for Real]]}} at the end of Season Two when he [[White Collar|had a pilot picked up elsewhere]].
** This can be excused, however, if one takes the designer at his word when he says that only he can access the Missile Command kill screen, and that Rush's Tom Sawyer is the "pattern of the universe." The game possibly requires following a particular pattern to access it, which only he knows (and is synced to Tom Sawyer...somehow).
* [[No Export for You]]: Want the show on Blu-Ray? You'll have to import the releases from America.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Maybe for Diane Beckman. The NSA's (unnamed in the episode) representative in the pilot was played by Wendy Mackenna, who was replaced by Bonita Friedericy from Episode 2 onwards. [[Word of God]] is undecided if they're the same person.
* [[Screwed by the Network]]:
** Rather, "Screwed By The Writers Guild of America" in Season 1 - ''Chuck'', whilst not being a major hit, was a surprise hit for NBC and subsequently received a full season order. Unfortunately, this came during the strike and production on the season wasn't resumed when the strike ended.
▲** [[NoSeasons Export3 forand You]]/[[Screwed4 byboth thereceived Network]]:13 Inepisode the UKorders, andbefore waitingreceiving fora full season order later on. The problem is that this only happened whilst the startintended ofseason Seasonfinale 5?was You'llin beproduction, waitingleading forto the seasons having a whilesomewhat -disjointed feel ** In the UK, Sky decided they didn't want to purchase the rights to show the fifth &and final season of the show, and it's not likely someone else will purchase the rights for ''just'' the final season since Sky still own the rights to (Andand show, for that matter) the first four seasons. [[Replacement Scrappy|But it's okay, because Sky have several new shows that they're sure you'll enjoy]].
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** According to [http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2008/09/chuck-chuck-vs-first-date-i-used-to-be.html a discussion Alan Sepinwall had with the creators], they were originally going to try and hire [[Chuck Norris]] to play a major villain (most likely Leader from "Chuck Versus the Gravitron") in an episode that could only be titled "Chuck Versus Chuck.".▼
** Apparently Devon (Captain Awesome) was supposed to be a limited character who was supposed to turn out to be an enemy operative towards the end of season one. However his popularity led to the idea being dropped and Awesome becoming a series regular. The idea was recycled into Jill and re-recycled into an arc in season 3 where The Ring ''thinks'' Devon is the resident spy in the Bartowski family.▼
** The way Seasons 3 and 4 were picked up by NBC, with an initial order for 13 episodes, followed by a back 6 and back 11 (respectively) picked up when already in production, affected the way the storylines unfolded. Had the full season orders been made from the start, the first half plot would have extended over the full season instead. The back episodes of both seasons would have then formed the foundation of Seasons 4 and 5, respectively.
▲** According to [http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2008/09/chuck-chuck-vs-first-date-i-used-to-be.html a discussion Alan Sepinwall had with the creators], they were originally going to try and hire [[Chuck Norris]] to play a major villain (most likely Leader from "Chuck Versus the Gravitron") in an episode that could only be titled "Chuck Versus Chuck."
*** Related to this, Fedak and Schwartz would have explored concepts like Chuck without the Intersect in Season 4 more thoroughly (though this did get to be examined in Season 5).
* [[You Look Familiar]]: The actor who played Yuri the Gobbler had also played one of La Ciudad's goons.
** Chuck allows Jill to escape at the end of Season 2, complete with a diamond engagement ring used for part of the cover, and her fate is never addressed for the rest of the series. Word of God is that she would have been brought [[Back for the Finale]], but they ran out of time and money for it.
* Truth
▲** Apparently, Devon (Captain Awesome) was supposed to be a limited character who was supposed to turn out to be an enemy operative towards the end of season one. However, his popularity led to the idea being dropped and Awesome becoming a series regular. The idea was recycled into Jill and re-recycled into an arc in seasonSeason 3 where The Ring ''thinks'' Devon is the resident spy in the Bartowski family.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [https://chuck-nbc.fandom.com/wiki/Home The Chuck Wiki]
 
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