Chuck - Comic-Con Report
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Posted Jul 28th 2008 11:30PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Chuck, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
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There are only so many hours of television I can fit in a day, so I'm
picky and particular about what I watch. Chuck is one of those shows
that I watched early last season, I liked it, but for reasons I can't
think of, it didn't make the cut. Seeing as it was good enough and is
clearly popular enough to have a second season, with the first season
DVDs out in a couple of months, I may have to do some catching up and
find a way to fit it in.
This session was great for fans of the show, as the first five minutes
or so were filled with a video montage of scenes from next season.
I'll describe some of those scenes in my summary below, but I'll start
them off with SPOILER in case you don't want to know.
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This was another panel moderated by Kristin dos Santos of E!. Those on
the panel included Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, with stars Zachary
Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua gomez, Sarah Lancaster, Ryan McPartlin
and Adam Baldwin.
Among the highlights from the season two footage (SPOILERS!):
* John Larroquette will be in, I believe, several episodes.
* Tony Hale of Arrested Development will be a new boss for the
guys at the Buy More.
* Melinda Clarke will be on the show.
* There are at least two occasions where Chuck and Sarah kiss.
* One scene shows Chuck being dropped from a building with
apparently no way of being saved, Sarah and John looking on in shock.
* There's a scene with a "Wheel of Misfortune" (Howard Stern
reference?) and a cage match between to characters in the back room of
the Buy More.
* Nicole Richie gets in a shower fight with Yvonne's character.
And for some non-spoilery stuff:
* Next season will get more into the mythology of Chuck and why he
was given the information he has and more of the story behind it.
* There will be a "same sex kiss" next season, but it wasn't clear
if they meant female or male (though the way they joked and reacted,
it may be male).
* Schwartz said the season finale is "insane."
* We will meet "the Awesomes" next season.
* Jill and Grace will be back next season.
* Tally another for a possible 'Outsourcing Award' nominee with
Australian Strahovski. Levi was asked to impersonate an Australian,
but he instead said he'd impersonate Yvonne. He said whenever there's
a vowel in a word, just say every vowel. So instead of "no" it's
"naeiou."
* Will anyone find out Chuck and Sarah are spies? "Probably not."
* Mark Christopher Lawrence (Big Mik) was in the audience, about
two rows in front of me. An attendee asked if he'd be getting a love
interest, so Schwartz said, "what do you think Big Mike?" He responded
with yelling, "OK!"
* Will Chuck go back and get his college degree? That will be
addressed by episode five of next season, though they reiterated
"addressed."
* The show returns September 29.