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In the future, please check the other pages of the thread (unless it ends up being a 100 page thread or so) to see if your question has been asked. I'm trying really hard to answer everything I can, though my time to spend online is limited. Sorry to be a pill, but I worked really hard on this one.

- CK

Thanks CK, we try to encourage people to look through the existing threads before posting but you'd be surprised at how many times someone will simply start a new thread or drop a post into a thread asking something that has been asked and answered before. I appreciate your linking in the response.

JD/Forum Moderator

Anytime. We all make mistakes, after all.

I'll try to keep up with these things & link back to the response when possible. My only regret is that I don't have more time to give - I'm the local elementary's PTA President & it seems to be eating my life whole. Oh well, there are worse ways to spend time.

Thank you, JD, for the acknowledgement. It's wonderful to know you're watching out for all of us.

- CK

I loved the Bondian scene in this episode. Very good stuff. The beach scene was really cool and reminded me of The Spy Who Loved Me.

They board game is made up or a real board game with a different name (I hope).

But i want to know more than ever now!

The board game in the show is a fake but I managed to find out that there is another board game almost like it. It comes with dry boards and dry-erase markers but the questions are on a dvd rather than cards.

The Newlywed Game DVD Edition

On Amazon

There is an older version of the game too and that comes with question cards but I'm not sure if it has the dry-erase boards and dry-erase markers.

The Newlywed Game

On Amazon

Hope that helps.

hahaha Newlywed hmmmmm what does this say about Chuck and Sarah in the future....

I liked the scene with Casey on the bed in this episode... XD

From NBC Universal Media Village

CHUCK

CHUCK VERSUS THE WOOKIEE

12-29-2007 8:00PM

DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND-Chuck (Zachary Levi) faces an unusual task, when Sarah’s (Yvonne Strahovski) hot colleague from the CIA shows up requesting help for a mission. Morgan (Joshua Gomez) tries to get Chuck to set him up with Sarah’s new friend. When Chuck finds out that a million dollar diamond hidden in a Malibu mansion is being used to help fund terrorists, he must help these two beautiful women steal it back. Chuck is finding out that Sarah’s job of living a double life, which she is all too good at, is really preventing him from getting to know who she really is. Also starring Adam Baldwin, Sarah Lancaster, and Ryan McPartlin.

Show Cast: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strzechowski, Joshua Gomez, Adam Baldwin, Sarah Lancaster

Just a quick observation. Its been noted on several occasions that Yvonne Strahovski is a fluent polish speaker her use of her native tongue in this episode however indicated otherwise.

Nearing the end of the episode during the exchange Sarah and Carina have preceeding the ensuing fight scene. Ivonne utters a sentence which sounds like polish.

"...rzuczasz .... jak babuska..." I'm currently at work and unable to rewatch the episode to get the exact sentence, but it sounded like she perhaps said " ciosy zucasz jak babuska" roughly transltated to 'you throw punches like grama' If that's the sentence she uttered and if it was infact in polish then the pronounciation sounded very slurred and americanized.

I'm merely curious if the americanized pronounciation that was a product of the the character/actor's prevelant use of English during the course of production or perhaps Ms.Strahovski has suffered from linguistic atropy. After years of disengagement from her cultural roots.

~phrosty

edit: or perhaps it wasn't polish at all and i'm just reading too much into it.

I've heard elsewhere that it was indeed Polish in that scene, but I personally couldn't even begin to comment whether it was Americanized or not. Now if they spoke Korean or French, I would be able to tell you.

Impressive. However most of the time, the kind of lingual mastery required to notice slight nuances and inflection differences is reserved for native speakers. Or persons who have spent a great deal of time living in the country of said language.

The real challenge (read: pain in the a$$) in the nuance and pronounciation of polish, and all slavic langauges really comes in those damned sharp s,c,z,dz,u, and accented a(ou)e(eu) etc. That kind of cultural and linguistic frustration I know first hand. ... disregard the tangent.

Catrina (Swedish) "If I throw you the key are you going to drop it?"

Sarah (Polish) " only if you throw like your mother"

Thanks for the translation! I was wondering what they were saying there exactly. Now it makes perfect sense in terms of how that scene played out.

NBC cancelled the 2 episodes they had for 12/15/07 & 12/22/07. Anyone have news if this one has also been cancelled?

I keep wondering how Carina found Sarah in this episode. After their fight scene, they each asked the other which cover they were using, so she obviously didn't know to look up "Sarah Walker" in the white pages. I know that when they were over at Chuck/Ellie's appt earlier they made it appear that someone was outside watching them. So then I thought maybe she had looked up Casey and happened to stumble on Sarah next door and follow her home, but she seemed kind of surprised to see Casey the following morning. So....how did she know where to find Sarah?

Well, the whole operation sounded like a joint operation between the NSA/CIA and the DEA, so I'm sure Carina's higher-ups talked to Sarah's higher-ups and got Carina the intel on where to find Sarah.

It is possible, I suppose. My issues with that would be that a) I would have a hard time believing that the CIA would release that info to a "competing" agency without at least giving the agency a heads-up and She (Carina) apparently didn't know the cover name that Sarah was using. I would think that if she was sent there she would have had the name of the person she was seeking out.

Maybe it's to protect Sarah's cover? Since Carina knows Sarah previously, she can make eyeball contact and find out Sarah's cover directly.

Just a note for those people trying to catch a rerun of this episode, my local NBC network according to my dvr will not be showing this episode after all. Instead it will be showing dateline NBC on Saturday 12/29/07, so you may want check your local areas.

I believe I read that one or more of her parents is Polish-born, so she grew up with the language, but in Australia surrounded by Australians, so she probably speaks it with a bit of an Aussie accent. Her birth name is Strzechowski, but it's spelled more or less phonetically here in the States.

May have been answered before and I apologize if it has, but what's that game that everyone is playing at the beginning of "Chuck versus The Wookie?"

Thanks

Just a Reminder, this episode is on tonight on Scifi so tune in if you can!!!

^^^ Yes, every viewer counts.

VBARKLEY, after watching this episode again for the 50th time (j/k) I am now wondering even more if Carina is Sarah's sister. Reasoning:
1) In the game they were playing at beginning of epi. Sarah was talking about how she and her sister were got a bad sunburn.
2) When Peyman (Mr Wookie) caught them checking out his diamond, Carina tells Peyman that Sarah is her sister and Chuck is their brother.
3) Carina hugs Sarah as if they are really close and at the end of episode.

Now after saying all that Carina did invite Chuck back to her room if they survived so would a sister really do that to her sibling... who knows....

well anyway, just sayin....

cbart

I can understand your reasoning...but if that were the case we would see that she would be a reoccuring guest, which I did not see in any of the written material. We do see that for Bryce, Lou, and some of the other guests. Would she come back again....? Possibly, but I don't see her as a regular guest.

Now the sister thing has been introduced...which probably is legit, and I wouldn't be surprised to see her show up some how. I can see a scenerio where her sister gets into trouble and Sarah needs to bail her out. Or they happen to run into Sarah's family thus possibly comprimising her cover.

One thing we do know, at least is being hinted, Sarah has had little contact with her family. During the "Nemisis" episode she tells Chuck that she hadn't celebrated Thanksgiving in a few years.

They will develop this more somehow...they need to break through her exterior and make her more vulnerable so that this thing between her and Chuck can further develop. Based on the ending...she is wants this come out...she is struggling with wanting to be real.

One final thought. Her and Carina may have had a lot in common in the past, living the fast life, living for themselves. But losing Bryce and then meeting a guy like Chuck has definetly challenged her value systems. The tremors are only beginning in this girls life.

Are we sure Sarah has a sister?

uhhh no

For all we know....she was born in a labritory.....test tube baby....


Just being funny

I hope Sarah wasn't lying about having a sister; that she doesn't have to cover herself that much, but I'm not sure...

I understand.

I our minds are ultra-active because we want to try and figure this thing out.

I for one have probably spent we to much time on this.

Maybe Sarah isn't a woman.

Again...all things are possible...she could be a bionic droid....

The only way for us to find out...is if she reproduces. Only humans can do that.

From certain scenes, I think it is pretty safe to say she is a woman.

I love Carina she is so funny and evil I love her. I would love if she comes back went Chuck and Sarah are in a fight. She probably make it worse and end up fixing Chuck and Sarah problem. I just love it went someone is evil. I don't know why maybe it's just me but don't you love it.

Maybe she was a man who had a really good sex change operation. Or maybe Sarah is a transvestite.

What are you saying Carina is a guy ewwwwwww.

Rick, honey, um, I think it's time for you to check into rehab....

What in the world?????

Whoa... okay...uh...

Ya that was really random.

Ah Rick, you make me laugh! Sarah is about the opposite of those things, I do love a bit of sarcasm, though insulting Sarah... shame on you!

I know that it is hard to believe, but sometimes I like to make statements just to get a reaction from other people, and maybe get the posts flowing. I am having a real good time on the romance part now. From the 1st time I saw her I have never thought that Sarah was a guy. My mia culpa. But you have to admit, it did get some reactions.

^^^ Thanks, now I know you are just looking for a reaction when you say that Chuck's mom is alive and the father is dead! You really don't mean it!

No, I truly believe that Chuck's father is dead and that his mother hit the road. But I do bring it back up every now and then because it always getes a reaction.

I was just wondering Rick why you think Chuck dad is dead and his mom is alive. I am not judging but just want to know.

In the Pilot when Ellie was talking to Chuck just before he left on his date with Sarah, Ellie told Chuck that he was aces. Chuck replied "A dad quote, I'm impressed". By his tone of voice and the fact that Ellie quoted him in the first place lead me to believe that both Ellie and Chuck both had fond memories of him. When getting dressed to go to Bryce's funeral in the "helicopter" episode Chuck told Ellie that he was wearing his dad's suit and Ellie told him that she was sure he wouldn't mind. During the Sizzling Shrimp episode, Chuck was telling Sarah about their "Mother's day". He said that his mother left them and their father was there but not really there, so they celebrated the day their mother left them and they learned to depend on each other. Since it seems pretty cold to me to celebrate the death of their mother every year, I beleive that Chuck was telling the truth and their mother left them.

oh cool Just wanted to see your side of the story. (Dad is gone and Mom is dead.)

You're on the right side, Dora!

Yes, welcome to the good side Team Awesome