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Found Footage: That sinking, gonna-need-a-new-phone feeling

What other recent TV show (Big Bang Theory aside) has given geeks as much cred as Chuck? The hourlong spy-dramedy returned with first-run episodes this week, but promptly threw a wet blanket on our enjoyment by... well, just look. No matter what Andy Ihnatko's experiments demonstrated, I don't think a pile of white rice is going to fix this.

Past episodes of Chuck have featured an all-knowing classic Mac, a thinly veiled dig at our favorite iCEO and a weaponized G5 tower, much to our delight. We've been loyal fans, NBC, but we must protest the wanton cruelty shown to an innocent smartphone in this scene: it's brutal, it's damp, and it will not stand.

[Apologies to our international readers for the US-only Hulu clip. Once there's a geographically agnostic version of the video available, we'll link to it.]


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MikeN

Chill out guys, like most of us tech heads, seeing a gadget on a show we watch is neat, and when someone does something to it or with it, it's always fun to share.

Here is one. Last night on house , House was using a CradlePoint Router with knobs modded on it as a radio to listen to a bug he planted. It says express card and USB right on the side.

I'm not promoting house just it's cool to be able to be such a geek to spot the tech and share it with outers.

give the guy a break.

January 12 2010 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SSteve

No problem. I dropped my iPhone 3GS in a swimming pool a couple weeks after I got it. I pulled it out within ten seconds and let it sit on a hot dashboard for an afternoon. Now it works fine. Well, almost fine. The Wi-Fi reception is really weak.

January 12 2010 at 11:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe

Yeah, this post really should have been more about Lost. Here, I've written a replacement article for you:

In case you missed the previous six thousand episodes of Lost, the best TV show ever for some reason, here's what happened: Episode started with thirty-four people on screen talking. Then there was a flash of light, or a whooshing sound, and someone traveled in time. The guy that used to be a good guy and turned into a bad guy just did something to help a good guy who had a flashback, into the future, where some girl was about to die. Somebody else remembered something horrible, and then magic happened! Then someone popped out from behind some bushes with a gun, and they had a weird conversation about who was lying about something. The other thirty-three characters also had complex interactions and nobody knows who is on who's side, but then there's some more time travel. And someone else got magically healed, the end.

January 12 2010 at 9:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe

Personally, I think "you fail at" comments are more "full of fail" than articles posted to a successful blog. At least the post took some effort and managed to get an audience. Your comment, on the other hand, is a whiny internet user whose demands have not been met, for free, immediately. You took the least amount of time possible to translate your thoughts into words, settling for "you fail at." Fantastic.

January 12 2010 at 9:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mistress

That poor, poor iPhone! What did it ever do to her??? It didn't deserve to die so young!

January 12 2010 at 6:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Montana Leet

@ABCNEWSER: I hate cats. So I say... Keep the comment system the way it is! :-D

Those last two sentences of yours though made me chuckle. Not every day you hear threats of throwing iPhones at cats.

January 12 2010 at 4:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
chris worrell

Please can you avoid using hulu - us international readers are unable to view it...

January 12 2010 at 3:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Farris

Forgive me for feeding the troll, but ABCNEWSER gives the rest of us LOST fans a bad name.

GTFO ABCNEWSER. Now.

January 12 2010 at 12:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jtb

Ethan Larson, please respect the bloggers and other readers of TUAW. Your comments are getting out of hand.

January 12 2010 at 12:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tired_

Oh please...it was in a case!

January 12 2010 at 12:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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