A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

CHUCK VS. THE RECEDING HAIRLINE MINI-DREDS: Hey, remember back when Alias was on, and everybody loved Carl Lumbly as Agent Dixon, except that every time Dixon went undercover and busted out his ludicrous Jamaican accent you could see that it was just about all Jennifer Garner and Victor Garber and Michael Vartan and Ron Rifkin could do to keep from dissolving into giggles, because, seriously, that accent? That's the kind of thing you forget until, say, Carl Lumbly comes on Chuck as Casey's spy mentor and busts out, what, is that supposed to be a Scottish? or Tibetan-via-Boston? accent, and you can just see Zachary Levi going, oh, man. So even when the show isn't working, like this week with the African-American/Scottish/Tibetan-via-Boston Sensei, it takes a special kind of show to say "we know we're the ridiculous kind of spy show, and to prove we know it, we're going to hire one of the masters of ridiculous spying to play a ridiculous spy."