Chuck

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Chuck Versus The Sizzling Shrimp

Car. Casey notices a "bogey" approaching them from behind; he and Sarah get weapons ready -- but it's just a delivery of sizzling shrimp for "Mr. Carmichael." Heh, love the callback to the name he tried with La Cuidad. Casey informs Chuck that the idea behind a stakeout is to remain inconspicuous. Chuck: "Hello! That's why I used an alias!" Hee. It's no dumber than most of the shit Sydney Bristow pulled, anyway. The three of them then see a limo pull up, and from inside the restaurant emerge a bunch of goons with an older guy in a wheelchair. Casey tells us that the guy's name is Ben Lo Pan, and he's a local businessman big-shot who owns half of Chinatown. He's also the guy who played the maitre d' on Seinfeld who told Jerry he'd have a table for him in "about ten minutes" on four hundred separate occasions in the same evening. God, I love that guy. Okay, fine, his surname is also a shout-out to the character, David Lo Pan, that the actor, James Hong, played in Big Trouble In Little China. I still like my reference better. ["I just want to add that James Hong has 318 credits in his IMDB profile, going back to 1955. That represents an average of a little more than six appearances per year, or a little more than one every two months, year in and year out, for more than fifty years. And in many cases, one of those 318 credits is actually a set of two or four or eight appearances on one show, meaning that in reality, he's probably been showing up somewhere on screen something like every six weeks since fifteen years before I was born. In case you think he might be slowing down now that he's 78 years old, he's already rung up seven 2007 credits, so he's right on target. Holy longevity, dude." -- Miss Alli]

Chuck

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