Chuck
Chuck is an American action comedy spy drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck Bartowski, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded email from an old college friend now working for the CIA. The message embeds the only remaining copy of a software program containing the United States' greatest spy secrets into Chuck's brain, leading the CIA and the NSA to assign him handlers and use him on top-secret missions. Produced by Fake Empire (known as College Hill Pictures, Inc. during the first three seasons before folding afterwards), Wonderland Sound and Vision, and Warner Bros. Television, the series premiered on September 24, 2007, on NBC, airing on Monday nights at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. Central. The opening theme song is an instrumental version of "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" by the American rock band Cake.
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| Opening theme | "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" (Instrumental) by Cake
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| Country of origin | United States
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| Original language | English
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| No. of seasons | 5
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| No. of episodes | 91 (list of episodes)
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| Running time | 40–46 minutes
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| Original release | September 24, 2007 –
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![Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Yvonne Strahovski, Zachary Levi, Kaley Cuoco - TV Guide Magazine Cover [United States] (18 April 2011)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/3/m/3mixghtftn3dtn.jpg?skj2io4l)
![Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski - Scifinow Magazine Cover [United Kingdom] (June 2011)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/5/6/56kzhfb49eakfk9.jpg?skj2io4l)
- In the beginning of the episode "Chuck Versus the Couch Lock", three men show up to John Casey's funeral and proceed to provoke his body to make sure he's dead. This is a reference to the 1963 movie Charade, in which the same three methods are used to wake up another dead man at his funeral.
- Chevy Chase is mentioned by Chuck when watching a film. He also played the role of Roark.
- Although the Buy More sells the latest home electronics, the TV in the break room is a 1985 Hitachi.
- In Chuck: Chuck Versus the Gobbler (2011), Yvonne Strahovski says, "I love a good suicide mission.", which is likely a reference to her character Miranda Lawson in Mass Effect 2 (2010).
- The character of Chuck usually wears Converse Chuck Taylors, often simply referred to as "Chucks".
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