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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: General Beckman approves of Chuck maturing as a spy to the point of putting his Casey as TheBait for a mission, which causes Chuck to be ashamed of himself, especially when the plan fails and Casey teammates successfully capture him.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: General Beckman approves of Chuck maturing as a spy to the point of putting his Casey as TheBait for a mission, which causes Chuck to be ashamed of himself, especially when the plan fails and Casey teammates successfully capture him.
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* FriendlessnessInsult: Morgan and Casey's already difficult relationship worsens when Casey learns that Morgan is dating his daughter Alex. When Casey tries to bully Morgan into dumping Alex, Morgan refuses and goes as far as telling Casey that he's really upset because the only people who showed up at Casey's (fake) funeral where the ones who actually wanted him dead.
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* TheBrute: Tim Isaacs is the hand-to-hand combat specialist of Casey's old team who are now villains.
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* FriendlessnessInsult: In "Chuck Versus the Couch Lock", Morgan and Casey's already difficult relationship worsens when Casey learns that Morgan is dating his daughter Alex. When Casey tries to bully Morgan into dumping Alex, Morgan refuses and goes as far as telling Casey that he's really upset because the only people who showed up at Casey's (fake) funeral where the ones who actually wanted him dead.
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** Near the end, Mackintosh tells Casey that if he'd let them take the gold, [[Film/DieHard2 "we'd be on a beach, earning twenty per cent."]]
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'''Chuck Versus the Coup D'Etat''' is the fourth episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'''s fourth season.
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'''Chuck Versus the Coup D'Etat''' is the fourth fifth episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'''s fourth season.
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* PunnyName: The former member's of Casey's special forces are all named after electronics brands: Packard, T.I. and Mackintosh.
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'''Chuck Versus the Coup D'Etat''' is the fourth episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'''s fourth season.
Casey fakes his death to lure his former team out of hiding,
Chuck must decide what he's willing to sacrifice in order to find his mother.
Morgan tries to gather the courage to tell Casey about his relationship with Alex.
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* AndIMustScream: Casey's paralyzed body is taken by his former teammates and he's fully aware but unable to do anything as they plan to saw off his arm.
* BadassInDistress:
** A paralyzed Casey is kidnapped by his former teammates.
** They later capture Chuck and Sarah and hold them hostage to lure Casey.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Casey's former teammates have hunted him down because he locked a uranium vault full of gold with his fingerprints.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Morgan has to rudely send Alex away when Casey's former teammates come to Morgan's house to look for Casey, making her think he's dumping her. Later Casey says Morgan did it because he [[ParentalMarriageVeto forced him too]], causing her to forgive him.
* CellphonesAreUseless: After he's drugged the second time, Casey attempts to call Chuck to tell him he will hide in a dumpster. But since he couldn't see right, he ended up calling ''Jeff'' instead. HilarityEnsues.
* ChekhovsGun: Chuck gives Casey another syringe with the drug to make him look dead "just in case" the first one doesn't work. This ends badly for Casey as he's stabbed with the syringe by Kyle after the first dose ran out.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Tim Isaacs is the hand-to-hand combat specialist.
* DangerousDeserter: Casey former team are deserters that ended becoming dangerous agents for Volkoff Industries.
* FakingTheDead: Chuck comes up with a plan to fake Casey's death to lure his old rogue teammates out of hiding, since they need his fingerprints to unlock a uranium vault full of gold. But they anticipate it's a trap and steal his body instead.
* FloorboardFailure: Casey teammates bomb the floor under his coffin in order to escape his fake funeral.
* HandicappedBadass: Casey manages to escape his old teammates while under heavy sedation.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Casey issues one to Morgan regarding his relationship with Alex.
-->'''Casey:''' You break her heart, I break your ''everything''.
* ImpairmentShot:
** Happens to Casey after he's stabbed with the syringe with paralyzing drug.
** Also happens to Morgan after he electrocutes himself along with the bad guys.
* InformalEulogy: Since Morgan knows it's a fake funeral, his eulogy to Casey sounds very informal.
* InternalReveal: Sean reveals to Chuck that Frost isn't a prisoner in Volkoff, but that she works ''for'' Volkoff as TheDragon.
* LonelyFuneral: The only people that show up to Casey's fake funeral that don't know it's fake are his old teammates that hate him.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Casey forbids Morgan for dating Alex at first, but changes his find after Morgan's quasi-HeroicSacrifice. Casey also gives this as an excuse to Alex for why Morgan "dumped her" earlier.
* PowerTrio: The villains form one, each one with their own specialty, with Casey being TheLeader back when they were a 4 man squad.
** CloseRangeCombatant: Tim Isaacs is the hand-to-hand combat specialist.
** DemolitionsExpert: Kyle Packard is the special weapons expert.
** TheEngineer: Sean [=MacKintosh=] is the electronics expert.
* RageBreakingPoint: Devon tells Morgan the best way to awaken someone who's couch-locked is to make them angry. So Morgan decides to tell him he's been dating Alex. It works.
-->'''Casey:''' ''[lifting Morgan via NeckLift]'' [[IllKillYou I Will Kill You]].
* ShoutOut
** When one of the villains is going through the mailboxes in Chuck's apartment complex, it is revealed that Casey's neighbor is named ''[[Series/TwentyFour Bauer]]''. Back when ''Chuck'' and ''24'' first aired, the shows were indeed "neighbors," since both aired on Monday night.
** ''Series/TheATeam''.
--->'''Casey:''' I had them court-martialed. Of course, they promptly escaped the maximum security stockade...\\
'''Chuck:''' ...to the Los Angeles Underground, where they survived as soldiers of fortune.\\
''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Chuck:''' Like the... ''Series/TheATeam''. You never have... have you ever seen the ''Series/TheATeam''?\\
'''Casey:''' I ''was'' the ''Series/TheATeam''.\\
'''Chuck:''' Ah.
** The funeral scene in the same episode also seems to reference [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFhD7dnqEbg this scene]] from the Creator/CaryGrant & Creator/AudreyHepburn movie ''Film/{{Charade}}'', where a group of four people agreed to steal gold when part of the OSS in World War II. When one of them died, the others at his funeral each tried to make sure he was dead. One sneezed on him, one held a mirror to his nose, and the other (in the exact same manner as Chuck) stuck a pin in him.
* TrackingDevice: Chuck puts one on Casey's body before drugging him, but Casey's old teammates find it and put the tracking device on a stray cat, rendering it useless.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Kyle Packard, Tim Isaacs, and Sean [=MacKintosh=] (Creator/EricRoberts, Wrestling/{{Batista}}, and Creator/JoelDavidMoore), who were members of Casey's Clinton-era special forces team that turned rogue and are now Volkoff agents.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: General Beckman approves of Chuck maturing as a spy to the point of putting his Casey as TheBait for a mission, which causes Chuck to be ashamed of himself, especially when the plan fails and Casey teammates successfully capture him.
* WhamLine: The episode ends with Chuck getting a phone call:
-->'''Frost:''' Hello, Chuck. It's your mother.
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Casey fakes his death to lure his former team out of hiding,
Chuck must decide what he's willing to sacrifice in order to find his mother.
Morgan tries to gather the courage to tell Casey about his relationship with Alex.
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* AndIMustScream: Casey's paralyzed body is taken by his former teammates and he's fully aware but unable to do anything as they plan to saw off his arm.
* BadassInDistress:
** A paralyzed Casey is kidnapped by his former teammates.
** They later capture Chuck and Sarah and hold them hostage to lure Casey.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Casey's former teammates have hunted him down because he locked a uranium vault full of gold with his fingerprints.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Morgan has to rudely send Alex away when Casey's former teammates come to Morgan's house to look for Casey, making her think he's dumping her. Later Casey says Morgan did it because he [[ParentalMarriageVeto forced him too]], causing her to forgive him.
* CellphonesAreUseless: After he's drugged the second time, Casey attempts to call Chuck to tell him he will hide in a dumpster. But since he couldn't see right, he ended up calling ''Jeff'' instead. HilarityEnsues.
* ChekhovsGun: Chuck gives Casey another syringe with the drug to make him look dead "just in case" the first one doesn't work. This ends badly for Casey as he's stabbed with the syringe by Kyle after the first dose ran out.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Tim Isaacs is the hand-to-hand combat specialist.
* DangerousDeserter: Casey former team are deserters that ended becoming dangerous agents for Volkoff Industries.
* FakingTheDead: Chuck comes up with a plan to fake Casey's death to lure his old rogue teammates out of hiding, since they need his fingerprints to unlock a uranium vault full of gold. But they anticipate it's a trap and steal his body instead.
* FloorboardFailure: Casey teammates bomb the floor under his coffin in order to escape his fake funeral.
* HandicappedBadass: Casey manages to escape his old teammates while under heavy sedation.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Casey issues one to Morgan regarding his relationship with Alex.
-->'''Casey:''' You break her heart, I break your ''everything''.
* ImpairmentShot:
** Happens to Casey after he's stabbed with the syringe with paralyzing drug.
** Also happens to Morgan after he electrocutes himself along with the bad guys.
* InformalEulogy: Since Morgan knows it's a fake funeral, his eulogy to Casey sounds very informal.
* InternalReveal: Sean reveals to Chuck that Frost isn't a prisoner in Volkoff, but that she works ''for'' Volkoff as TheDragon.
* LonelyFuneral: The only people that show up to Casey's fake funeral that don't know it's fake are his old teammates that hate him.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Casey forbids Morgan for dating Alex at first, but changes his find after Morgan's quasi-HeroicSacrifice. Casey also gives this as an excuse to Alex for why Morgan "dumped her" earlier.
* PowerTrio: The villains form one, each one with their own specialty, with Casey being TheLeader back when they were a 4 man squad.
** CloseRangeCombatant: Tim Isaacs is the hand-to-hand combat specialist.
** DemolitionsExpert: Kyle Packard is the special weapons expert.
** TheEngineer: Sean [=MacKintosh=] is the electronics expert.
* RageBreakingPoint: Devon tells Morgan the best way to awaken someone who's couch-locked is to make them angry. So Morgan decides to tell him he's been dating Alex. It works.
-->'''Casey:''' ''[lifting Morgan via NeckLift]'' [[IllKillYou I Will Kill You]].
* ShoutOut
** When one of the villains is going through the mailboxes in Chuck's apartment complex, it is revealed that Casey's neighbor is named ''[[Series/TwentyFour Bauer]]''. Back when ''Chuck'' and ''24'' first aired, the shows were indeed "neighbors," since both aired on Monday night.
** ''Series/TheATeam''.
--->'''Casey:''' I had them court-martialed. Of course, they promptly escaped the maximum security stockade...\\
'''Chuck:''' ...to the Los Angeles Underground, where they survived as soldiers of fortune.\\
''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Chuck:''' Like the... ''Series/TheATeam''. You never have... have you ever seen the ''Series/TheATeam''?\\
'''Casey:''' I ''was'' the ''Series/TheATeam''.\\
'''Chuck:''' Ah.
** The funeral scene in the same episode also seems to reference [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFhD7dnqEbg this scene]] from the Creator/CaryGrant & Creator/AudreyHepburn movie ''Film/{{Charade}}'', where a group of four people agreed to steal gold when part of the OSS in World War II. When one of them died, the others at his funeral each tried to make sure he was dead. One sneezed on him, one held a mirror to his nose, and the other (in the exact same manner as Chuck) stuck a pin in him.
* TrackingDevice: Chuck puts one on Casey's body before drugging him, but Casey's old teammates find it and put the tracking device on a stray cat, rendering it useless.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Kyle Packard, Tim Isaacs, and Sean [=MacKintosh=] (Creator/EricRoberts, Wrestling/{{Batista}}, and Creator/JoelDavidMoore), who were members of Casey's Clinton-era special forces team that turned rogue and are now Volkoff agents.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: General Beckman approves of Chuck maturing as a spy to the point of putting his Casey as TheBait for a mission, which causes Chuck to be ashamed of himself, especially when the plan fails and Casey teammates successfully capture him.
* WhamLine: The episode ends with Chuck getting a phone call:
-->'''Frost:''' Hello, Chuck. It's your mother.
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