I don’t trust anyone who’s unfamiliar with James Bond. I especially don’t trust anyone who chooses to start their James Bond adventure with A View to a Kill. The awesome power of Christopher Walken aside, not to mention the Duran Duran theme song (which is on my iPod’s workout playlist – sometimes I want to pretend I’m in a spy training montage, so shut up), View is just a lame Bond movie.
Although, those Pierce Brosnan atrocities kind of make A View to A Kill better in comparison.
So, this week’s episode, titled “Chuck vs. The Sandworm” has Chuck in cahoots with an escaped government weapons designer whose been kept in an underground bunker since he was a teenager. Lazslo says he just wants to get out, play video games on the pier, watch movies and eat pancakes.
Mmmm. Pancakes.
The federal government says Lazslo wants to blow stuff up.
Chuck, being the trusting geek he is, believes Lazslo and begins to mentor him in the ways of the geek, starting with James Bond movies, which Lazslo says he’s never seen. Out of all the Bond possibilities, Lazslo chooses to start with A View to A Kill.
Hmmm. Curious.
The guy feels a deep kinship with Christopher Walken – really, who doesn’t? – and after a tirade about his misunderstood genius. Lazslo uses the Buy More’s home theater to hack into a military base and start launching missiles.
“Wanna play a game of Global Thermonuclear War?” he asks Chuck.
Wait. Lazslo’s telling me that as a guy who designs spy gadgets for the government, he doesn’t know jack about Bond, but has followed Matthew Broderick’s career closely?
That’s suspicious.
But, Lazlo clearly never made it to the end of WarGames where, when the missiles were aimed, even the computer figured out that the only winning move was not to play. The kid went on to attempt to blow up the pier in Santa Monica and was taken down.
Lazslo was a great villain. I hope to see him again. It was like good geek/ bad geek.
And then, since Halloween is this week, Chuck went to the obligatory costume party with the inevitable hot couple dressed as Adam and Eve, Agent Walker dressed as Princess Leia and Chuck and Morgan as the ass and head of a sandworm.
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