Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Laughing Gas is the Best Medicine
By DeAnn Welker | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.30.2009
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.So, my TiVo went crazy and only recorded the second half of this episode, but I've tried to piece together where it all started. Apparently, Awesome had a bachelor party, which was attended by Chuck, the Buy More gang, and Casey. Also, one Tricia Helfer, who we will call Agent Cylon (TM mizenkay), is in attendance. Her role is to find out if Sarah's breaking protocol with her relationship with Chuck. Her other role is to be Awesome's stripper. So, she strips and people take pictures. Awesome tells her he isn't interested, though, because he loves Ellie. He also is possibly drugged, because he wakes up the next day not remembering anything -- and minus his hospital key card. (Agent Cylon used her handy dandy tranquilizer gun to knock Awesome out and steal his key card, and the whole Bachelor party was basically a ruse to get the key card away from him. -- Angel) The card has been used, in the meantime, to plant a bug in one of Interpol's most wanted (or the friend of one of Interpol's most wanted).
Agent Cylon gets Sarah fired for caring too much about Chuck, then Agent Cylon and Casey have some soft-core gun porn before he tells her that Sarah's the best partner he's ever had and he disagrees with Agent Cylon's assessment. Ellie's worried about what happened that would cause Awesome to not remember anything and lose his key card. So she goes to ask Morgan, who says he can't tell. She sees Jeff and Lester looking at pictures, though, and is not happy. When the bad guys come for Awesome, because he's their friend's doctor, Chuck pretends he's Devon Woodcomb. He gets taken to a bank vault to remove the bug, but since he's not a doctor, he obviously can't. Luckily, Sarah stops by to say goodbye, sees his phone, and she, Casey and Agent Cylon go after him. While they try to open the vault, Chuck and the bad guy inhale so much nitrous oxide that they get high and happy, and the bad guy gives up the location of one of the world's most wanted. It's very funny. Afterward, Chuck tries to sneakily return Awesome's key card, but Ellie catches him and thinks he's covering for Awesome. She not feels betrayed by her fiancée and her brother. Oh, and Awesome totally almost finds out Chuck's a spy. Agent Redhead even hides from him. Twice. Oh, and Sarah finds Chuck's dad. We don't quite see him yet, but the preview totally gives away who he is. Lame.
Oh, and not to worry. I'll get to watch the whole episode on Hulu to write the full weecap.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!We open with Chuck walking into his apartment courtyard. He senses something is suspicious, but can't seem to put his finger on what. His porch light is flickering. That must be it. Nope. Three masked vigilantes come up behind him, slip a hood over his head, and drag him off. Luckily, John Casey is totally the spy we know he is, and he comes out with his gun and tells them to drop Chuck and take their masks off. Uh, not exactly vigilantes. It's Jeff, Lester, and Morgan. Casey's as confused as we all are. Chuck freaks out that they would do this to him, and Morgan says it's a practice run for Awesome's bachelor party -- which they aren't even invited to. Lester thinks this is the best way to handle not being invited. And Jeff thinks bachelor parties are a mythical place. Probably because he's never been invited to one. Casey thinks they're all crazy, so he sprays them with a hose. Chuck goes to bed.
Only not really. Inside, he's still studying his new Intersect materials when he hears General Redhead's voice. (By the way, I know I have been calling her Agent Redhead, but since she's a General, I'm going to give her the respect she deserves: General Redhead.) He looks at his phone, but she's not there. He looks past his feet, and she's on his TV, or fancy computer monitor. She apologizes for invading his personal life, and he wonders if she means at this moment, or in general. She ignores that and asks if his situation with Sarah has gotten too complicated and is therefore affecting his work. He says no, that Sarah's just a delight to work with. General Redhead shows Chuck a bunch of clips of him telling Sarah how much he likes her, giving her the charm bracelet, etc. General Redhead says her job is to determine if their relationship is hurting their job performance, so she's going to have to do a 49-B. He'd like to know what that is, but too late. She's gone.
Awesome wakes Chuck the next morning with a blender full of green slime. Chuck thinks he'll pass on that. He asks Awesome if he'd like to go camping for his bachelor party, or if he'd rather have something more traditional. Ellie comes in to show Chuck a returned wedding invitation that she sent to their dad. Chuck says he'll keep looking, but she tells him not to worry about it. She says she trusts Awesome completely, so she doesn't care what happens at the bachelor party. They kiss, and she "ew"s his healthy colon beverage and leaves. Awesome asks who "General Beckman" is. I reply, "General Redhead," but Chuck sort of freaks: "What?!" Awesome nods toward the monitor, which still says "General Beckman conference terminated 2:22." Chuck says it's top-secret video game stuff. Awesome assumes General Beckman must be Morgan, so he asks Chuck who he is. Chuck says he's Special Agent Carmichael. The monitor says the name is recognized, and General Redhead appears. Chuck sees it, but Awesome doesn't. He does like Carmichael, though.