Chuck
Chuck Versus the Goodbye
TV Flash files “Chuck Versus the Goodbye” as a desk essential hour — Chuck (2007–2012) on NBC, season 5, episode 13, aired 2012-01-27, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E13: listed hour 91 of 91 in the Chuck guide, last listed hour of season 5. It aired 2012-01-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Chuck Versus Sarah” (S05E12). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Chuck Versus the Goodbye”. Chuck Versus the Goodbye is the closer after the footlong campaign — nerd-espionage rom-com billed, fandom as the reason a fifth season exists.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Chuck enlists his family, friend and some unexpected allies as he races to stop Nicholas Quinn from destroying everything Chuck has built over the past five years.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Chuck Versus the Goodbye sit in the Chuck guide?
S05E13 is listed hour 91 of 91 — last listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 13.
When did Chuck S05E13 air?
Chuck Versus the Goodbye aired 2012-01-27 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…