Chuck
Chuck Versus the Marlin
TV Flash files “Chuck Versus the Marlin” as the last listed hour of season 1 — Chuck (2007–2012) on NBC, season 1, episode 13, aired 2008-01-24, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E13: listed hour 13 of 91 in the Chuck guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 2008-01-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover” (S01E12). Next is “Chuck Versus the First Date” (S02E01).

Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Captain Awesome asks Chuck if he can have Ellie's hand in marriage, and then insists Chuck holds on to the ring until he plans it all out. Chuck decides to lock it in his Buy-More locker, and returns the next day to discover everything had been stolen from the store. Meanwhile, Agent Casey and Agent Walker discover that the CIA has been spying on them in hopes of discovering "the intersect." With Chuck's identity and life on the line, NSA has no other option than to relocate Chuck into a permanent holding cell. Will Chuck lose his family and friends forever?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Chuck Versus the Marlin sit in the Chuck guide?
S01E13 is listed hour 13 of 91 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 13.
When did Chuck S01E13 air?
Chuck Versus the Marlin aired 2008-01-24 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is Chuck an action show or a rom-com?
Nerd-espionage rom-com: government secrets in a slacker’s head, spy assigned as cover, Levi/Strahovski as the real stunt work.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A Buy More slacker downloads government secrets into his head and falls for the spy assigned to him. Chuck is nerd-espionage rom-com — Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski doing the real stunt work — plus the fan campaign that bought footlongs to keep the lights on.
NBC stored government secrets in a Buy More slacker and then watched fandom do the renewal math with sandwiches. Chuck (2007–2012) is Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak's nerd-espionage rom-com: Zachary Levi's Chuck Bartowski, Yvonne Strahovski's Sarah as the real stunt work, Adam Baldwin, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin, Sarah Lancaster. A cubicle guy downloads an intersect. A spy gets assigned to him. The love story is the engine. Five seasons, 91 episodes, and the Finale & Footlong campaign as folklore — fans…
Filed against
- Zachary Levi as Chuck Bartowski
Zachary Levi’s Chuck Bartowski downloaded government secrets into a Buy More slacker’s head — nerd-espionage rom-com, Yvonne Strahovski doing the real stunt work beside him, a fan campaign that bought footlongs to keep the lights on. Spy…
- Yvonne Strahovski as Sarah Walker
Yvonne Strahovski’s Serena Joy Waterford is The Handmaid’s Tale as architecture, not only a cloak — Gilead as a six-season stan war, protest cosplay, June discourse, a 2025 closer for this title. On TV Flash she is the domestic face of…
- Adam Baldwin as John Casey
Adam Baldwin’s Jayne Cobb made Firefly’s Serenity feel like it had a mercenary with a stupid hat and a live round — 2000s catalog space western, then Chuck recasting the muscle as spy-adjacent Buy More weather. TV Flash files him as the…
- Joshua Gomez as Morgan Grimes
Joshua Gomez’s Morgan Grimes kept Chuck’s Buy More human — a slacker downloading government secrets, nerd-espionage rom-com, Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski doing the real stunt work, plus the fan campaign that bought footlongs to keep…
- Ryan McPartlin as Devon Woodcomb
Ryan McPartlin's Devon Woodcomb — Captain Awesome — kept Chuck's Buy More nerd-espionage from floating off the intercepts. Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski doing the real stunt work, a fan campaign that bought footlongs to keep the…
- Sarah Lancaster as Ellie Bartowski
Sarah Lancaster's Ellie Bartowski kept Chuck's nerd-espionage rom-com looking like a family with intercepts — Buy More slacker, spy assigned, Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski doing the stunt work, fans buying footlongs to keep the…