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** Well, it ''was'' a [[IncrediblyLamePun Stealth Bomber]].

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** Well, it ''was'' a [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} Stealth Bomber]].
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* In "Chuck versus the Ex," a ''[[TooDumbToLive two-way wiretap]]''? Seriously? Why would...[[WhatAnIdiot if somebody in the van sneezed]]...''[[StupidestThingIveEverHeard WHY]]?''

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* In "Chuck versus the Ex," a ''[[TooDumbToLive two-way wiretap]]''? Seriously? Why would...[[WhatAnIdiot if somebody in the van sneezed]]...sneezed...''[[StupidestThingIveEverHeard WHY]]?''
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* Shaw [[spoiler: doing a FaceHeelTurn, it doesn't make sense as he should know the Ring set it up so that his wife died. Understandably, he's angry at Sarah but that shouldn't of meant he all of a sudden decides to work for the Ring. ]] The way it happened just seemed rush and comes off a bit of a wall banger.

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* Shaw [[spoiler: doing a FaceHeelTurn, it doesn't make sense as he should know the Ring set it up so that his wife died. Understandably, he's angry at Sarah but that shouldn't of have meant he all of a sudden decides to work for the Ring. ]] The way it happened just seemed rush and comes off a bit of a wall banger.
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** Shaw knows everything about Chuck so he knows that Chuck doesn't kill not even the the ring.

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** Shaw knows everything about Chuck so he knows that Chuck doesn't kill not even the the ring.

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** She IS a Bartowski. It's possible she really is just that good to pass med school and become a board certified neurosurgeon in that time.

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** She IS a Bartowski. It's possible she really is just that good to pass med school and become a board certified neurosurgeon in that time.time.
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* In "Chuck Versus the A-Team", the premise of the episode is the new team of Intersects, and Chuck becoming obsolete. The thing is... Chuck is the only one with a governor. And Stephen J. Bartowski, the creator of the governor, is dead, so no more can be made. So how can new Intersects function? Wouldn't they overheat just like Chuck? And for that matter, how is Shaw still kicking around without a governor of his own?
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* So it's been mentioned that Ellie is 3 years older than Chuck. It has also been established that Chuck started at Stanford in '99, which would mean that Ellie started her pre-med undergrad in '96. This means she graduated med school in 2004, but by the time the series starts in 2007, she's a ''board certified neurosurgeon''? Doesn't neurosurgery residency training last upto 8 years?

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* So it's been mentioned that Ellie is 3 years older than Chuck. It has also been established that Chuck started at Stanford in '99, which would mean that Ellie started her pre-med undergrad in '96. This means she graduated med school in 2004, but by the time the series starts in 2007, she's a ''board certified neurosurgeon''? Doesn't neurosurgery residency training last upto 8 years?years?
** She IS a Bartowski. It's possible she really is just that good to pass med school and become a board certified neurosurgeon in that time.
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* In Chuck vs the First Fight, Mary gave Chuck the name of her [[spoiler: MI6 contact, Gregory Tuttle, later revealed to be Volkoff]]. My question is why would she do that when she knows who the guy really is?

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* In Chuck vs the First Fight, Mary gave Chuck the name of her [[spoiler: MI6 [=MI6=] contact, Gregory Tuttle, later revealed to be Volkoff]]. My question is why would she do that when she knows who the guy really is?
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** Also because the exact opposite happened, as in she blurted it out to a guy she most assuredly didn't love.

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** Also because the exact opposite happened, as in she blurted it out to a guy she most assuredly didn't love. And Chuck only knew because he happened to overhear that conversation. So him saying "you told me your real name because you love me" would have 1) meant Chuck tacitly suggesting Sarah loved Shaw at some point and 2) been a barefaced lie.
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** Also because the exact opposite happened, as in she dished it out to a guy she most assuredly didn't love.

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** Also because the exact opposite happened, as in she dished blurted it out to a guy she most assuredly didn't love.
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** Also because the exact opposite happened, as in she dished it out to a guy she most assuredly didn't love.
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** Well, by the time the Ring is a thing, the Intersect has been upgraded from "MagicalDatabase [[NeuroVault implanted in an agent's mind]]" to [[UpgradeArtifact gives an implanted agent any skill they need on demand]]. Seems pretty valuable to me.

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* By the end of the series, the premise of ''Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer'' really becomes problematic. Later seasons establish that Chuck is a pretty bad-ass hacker in his own right. In fact, by Season 5 we've learned that he's a near-legendary figure, the Piranha, in hacker circles. He's able to break into the CIA, random criminal organizations, the BUY MORE, and even hack a complex virus's code within ''seconds''. And yet the only way he can pull the arming codes for a nuclear weapon out of a game of Missile Command is to play the game and get to the kill screen? Video games, even early arcade cabinets, are ultimately just programs and coding, and can be hacked just like any other computer or application. So why didn't Chuck put his Piranha skills to use and just hack a Missle Command cabinet to find the codes?

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* By the end of the series, the premise of ''Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer'' really becomes problematic. Later seasons establish that Chuck is a pretty bad-ass hacker in his own right. In fact, by Season 5 we've learned that he's a near-legendary figure, the Piranha, in hacker circles. He's able to break into the CIA, random criminal organizations, the BUY MORE, and even hack a complex virus's code within ''seconds''. And yet the only way he can pull the arming codes for a nuclear weapon out of a game of Missile Command ''Missile Command'' is to play the game and get to the kill screen? Video games, even early arcade cabinets, are ultimately just programs and coding, and can be hacked just like any other computer or application. So why didn't Chuck put his Piranha skills to use and just hack a Missle Command ''Missile Command'' cabinet to find the codes?



*** Missile command is NOT a complex program. Even if he had to go through line by line it wouldn't have taken more than a couple hours. If he had time to find and retrieve a specific Missile Command unit, he had enough time to go through the code. Plus, come on, it's not like he was operating in a void! 10-20 people working on it at the same time could have combed through the program in minutes.

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*** Missile command ''Missile Command'' is NOT a complex program. Even if he had to go through line by line it wouldn't have taken more than a couple hours. If he had time to find and retrieve a specific Missile Command unit, he had enough time to go through the code. Plus, come on, it's not like he was operating in a void! 10-20 people working on it at the same time could have combed through the program in minutes.


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*** The problem is the KillScreen in ''Missile Command'' isn't even a true kill screen (and IRL ''Missile Command'' is one of a number of cabinets that really doesn't have one). It's a special part of the game the programmer deliberately hid in the code that requires following a specific pattern to access. It's not just garbage thrown up when a buffer overflows, if it was, it couldn't ''specifically'' greet Morimoto when Chuck successfully access it.
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*** A KillScreen is not part of the game's code; it's garbage that the game throws up on the screen when a buffer overflows. And without knowing the right number to cram into that buffer, or if other game variables might affect the image, he has no way of getting the game to throw up the right garbage.
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** It may be a bit blink-and-you-miss-it, but they do show Casey flicking a switch to mute the outgoing line when Jill first places a call. That was the setup of the whole joke - Chuck didn't flick the switch. Of course, there's still no point whatsoever for having a two-way tap, so the gripe is at least partially justified. But they did have the means to make sure sneezing is not an issue.

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