History Series / CHUCK

* TheBeard: For the first two seasons Chuck and Sarah's spy cover involved a fake relationship that had them pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend, which was complicated by the very real feelings they hid from each other (one of them more convincingly than the other). Lampshaded in "Chuck Versus the Beard," by [[spoiler: Morgan, which makes it particularly funny]]. During the third season [[spoiler: the pretend relationship became real]], and in the fourth season [[spoiler: [[{{Squee}} Chuck proposed and they became engaged and then married]]]].

* BellyDancer: The compound in Morocco in "Chuck Versus the Seduction Impossible" had these. Sometime later, Sarah wears a belly dancing outfit to [[spoiler: try to seduce Chuck into eloping with her]].

* FiveTokenBand: The Buy More lot. [[PerkyGoth Anna Wu]] is an Asian, [[BollywoodNerd Lester]] is a twofer (Jewish-Indian), [[BaldOfAuthority Big Mike]], [[TokenMinority Morgan]], and.... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Jeff]], who claims to be one quarter Native American. Lampshaded by Big Mike when he said he couldn't fire Morgan because he was the Buy More's token Hispanic.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Episodes are titled "Chuck Versus [X]". "X" is often a geeky ShoutOut ("[[Recap/ChuckS1E04ChuckVsTheWookie Chuck Versus the Wookiee]]", "[[Recap/ChuckS1E06ChuckVsTheSandworm Chuck Versus the Sandworm]]"). It's always something that's in the episode, even if it occasionally has [[ChekhovsGun little]] to do with the main plot (such as in "[[Recap/ChuckS2E10ChuckVsTheDeLorean Chuck Versus the DeLorean]]") but sometimes is (such as "[[Recap/ChuckS2E05ChuckVsTomSawyer Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer]]", where [[spoiler: listening to Music/{{Rush}} saves the world]].)

* MoodWhiplash: a few episodes take time to move away from the light-hearted spy-fi focus on serious issues, such as the morality of what the agents are sometimes called upon to do in the line of duty (for example, when Chuck [[spoiler: witnesses Sarah cold-bloodedly execute an enemy agent in order to protect Chuck, which leads to a rift between the two for a time; later, when Chuck finds he is required to kill someone in order to become a full agent, this leads to further introspection)]].

%%** Sarah does the same in the fourth season to rescue Mary.

* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: [[spoiler:Decker deprograms Alexei Volkoff, the BigBad of Season 4, from Hartley Winterbottom's mind in "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger", before going on to become the BigBad of the first half of Season 5.]]

''Chuck'' is an action comedy {{spy drama}} series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. It ran for five seasons on Creator/{{NBC}} from 2007 to 2012.

Primarily a spoof of SpyDrama tropes, ''Chuck'''s appeal comes from a mix of sharp writing, well-realized characters with surprisingly genuine emotional lives, and a strong cast. Much of the comedy comes from Chuck's FishOutOfWater nature in the spy world (even the cartoon version of it presented in the show) combined with the contrast between his life as a PartTimeHero and the normal one he tries to maintain with his sister and in his job at the Buy More.

* ClassReunion: [[spoiler:Jenny]]'s, including the now-gorgeous-and-successful ex-loser, and the successful ex-nerd married to the bitter ex-AlphaBitch. But all with a SpyFi twist.