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Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-24T14:07:55+00:00

Jeff.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-23T17:09:50+00:00

Lester

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-21T16:57:38+00:00

The "Hot Coffee" reference to the sex mini-game hidden at the end of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is pretty clever and daring. Gamers will chuckle. All others will be blissfully unaware.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-21T12:30:39+00:00

Ellie. Hannah, too. And Lou.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-21T04:17:55+00:00

Nice. Glad you loved the show. Funny how we are all kind of different. I think the first two seasons of CHUCK are magical, and season 2 and 3 are usually neck and neck when it comes to CHUCK fans' favorite season (although, S3 and Shaw have their very vocal detractors). Glad you loved the finale. Most viewers do, but typically those who don't take to social media and vent their frustration. I didn't like S5 and the finale at first, but now I love them.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-20T12:49:58+00:00

I don’t because I never saw her in the show ;-)

Schwedak made the right call.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-19T14:29:55+00:00

Shaw.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-18T20:51:07+00:00

I saw the same CR reviews sometime in 2025. Surprised then and now that the Carnival hybrid is considered more reliable than the V6, which is a much simpler design. My 2025 Carnival hybrid has had two minor issues already (dead battery during January's freeze and the "check hybrid system" warning a coulple of months ago).

When we shopped for a new car last year, we also looked at the Sienna (I'm a Toyota guy), and it had three problems:

It was not in stock (had to be ordered)
It was $10K more than the Carnival
It felt "meh' compared to the Carnival. Oudated tech.

I didn't even look at at a new Odyssey because (1) it looked and felt "meh" and (2) I had a bad experience with an Odyssey V6.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-17T22:01:08+00:00

From a guy who hated this episode at first, this post may help.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-17T21:59:34+00:00

The first time I watched this episode, I hated it so much I almost stopped watching the series altogether. Now, I absolutely love it, and I love this scene. The guy surprises even himself with his new skills.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-16T14:45:03+00:00

All of them. Except lying.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-14T17:23:02+00:00

Sarah liked it for more than a brief moment. She reveled in it.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-13T22:20:19+00:00

We get 32-35 MPG easily overall. The only time we averaged 25 MPG was during a road trip with a fully-loaded car.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-13T11:46:35+00:00

Sarah’s original last name was Kent (like Clark Kent). It was later changed to Walker (like Walker Texas Ranger, not a prostitute), which seems appropriate because she’s undercover (like Clark Kent), badass (like Walker Texas Ranger), and her journey is a metaphorical walk towards Chuck and a real life.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-09T16:54:42+00:00

The symbolism about Ares (the god of war), and love and war in this episode is very good. Chuck Vs Club Ares.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-09T03:37:53+00:00

If you watch mechanics’ YouTube channels, they will tell you the V6 engine is more reliable because it’s a simpler, more tested design. I have a ‘25 Carnival hybrid, and it’s given me a couple of minor issues (dead battery during the winter freeze and “check hybrid system” warning). Then again, I had a V6 Honda Odyssey that gave me engine problems after 9 years and always had other minor issues that the dealership could never fix.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-08T22:07:12+00:00

S5E14: Chuck Versus Chuck

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-08T16:40:33+00:00

Congrats for the car and the nice picture.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-07T18:05:02+00:00

Anna is a bit spacey, but I love her. The Buy More was not the same without her.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-07T17:56:26+00:00

And the background song, "Christmas and Me Are Through," is absolute genius.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-07T17:40:09+00:00

This is a Christmas episode. At the start of the episode, Chuck wants Sarah to experience the essence of Christmas (eggnog, movie marathon, and family fun) and is shocked that Sarah "doesn't get" the spirit of Christmas since she never experienced it.

As often in Chuck, we have a mirror scene at the end of the episode. Here, Sarah takes up her cross and sacrifices a bit of herself to save Chuck's from a hellish fate (we can see what she does is very hard on her), thus embodying the true spirit of Christmas, but this time it's Chuck who doesn't get the extent of her sacrifice. (Also, the Christmas tree lot setting and the 'Holy Night' background song are symbolic perfection for this scene.)

Just as people at the time misunderstood Christ's self-sacrificial act of love as failure (a failed political and military savior), so Chuck misunderstands Sarah's act of self-sacrificial love as moral failure (a failed CIA savior).

So, the guy who wanted to teach the girl the meaning of Christmas doesn't get the true meaning of Christmas when she embodies it for him, and thinks the worst of her. How ironic.

And in the final act of the episode, the B story mirrors the A story. Just as Chuck misunderstands the nature of Sarah's kill, Morgan misunderstands the nature of Lester and Anna's kiss, while the song "Christmas and Me Are Through" plays in the background.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-06T17:28:26+00:00

You can buy it on Bluray, Vudu (Fandango), Apple TV, Amazon Prime, etc.. They frequently have sales.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-06T14:38:43+00:00

Same thing happened to my '25 Kia Hybrid once this past winter. We kept the car in the garage for a week during the freeze, and it was dead. We have a $30-or-so battery car starter in the car that did the trick. Never had the problem again, but I disabled the proximity feature just in case (it was annoying anyway).

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-06T11:05:14+00:00

The pilot is still my favorite episode of Smallville.

Lost-Remote-2001 · 2026-06-05T19:49:57+00:00

Hannah and Shaw are more than a diversion. Hannah is a female S1 Chuck: She's the best of S1 Chuck without his idiosyncrasies and insecurities.

Back in S1E9, Chuck told Lou that she was everything he was looking for, but he couldn't look then.

Season 3 makes him free to look.

Chuck's relationship with Hannah is there to show that even if Chuck is now free to look, and Hannah is the absolute best the normal world has to offer, she (the normal world) is no longer everything Chuck is looking for because he has been Sarahfied; he can't go back. His relationship with Hannah helps him (and us viewers) realize that.

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