No one is going to say that eating nachos with your mouth isn’t the best way to consume them, but sometimes that isn’t enough. Sometimes the only way you can truly reach true nacho satisfaction is to eat them with your EYES. Metaphorically eat that is, because I’m talking about viewing nacho related stuff to finish off that sweet sweet nacho craving, and no, you do not have a problem thinking this way. Today a 2010 episode of “Chuck”, Season 3, Episode 6, “Chuck Versus the Nacho Sampler”.
Here’s the plot of Chuck. Chuck is a HUUUGGGEEEE nerd, as most jokes will revolve around. He got a spy computer in his brain somehow that lets him do spy stuff randomly, so the CIA shanghais him, but he also has to work in a Best Buy knockoff because this is 2010 and Amazon hasn’t put them all out of business yet. In spy world he works with a mean spy and a hot spy that he has the hots for and it’s all will-they-won’t-they, and in Best Buy world it’s all creeps who are going to have a rude awakening once #metoo gets big in a few years. This sounds like a real hotbed for nachos no? More like nachos… no.
If you’re going to have an episode named after the titular character VERSING a nacho sampler, I would have to assume that he fights a giant pile of nachos at some point. INCORRECT. All he does is share an order of nachos with an asset, and then later throws a plate that some other nachos were on to incapacitate a bad guy. I don’t know about you, but when I watch Godzilla VERSUS Megalon, I don’t expect zero fighting and then at some point Godzilla throws a plate that Megalon was sitting on. That’s bad versusing.
And what even is a “Nacho Sampler” anyhow? I would have to assume that it was a plate with small versions of the many types of nachos that the restaurant happens to sell, a “sample” if you will, but all they deliver in this is a normal pile of nachos. Not the worst looking pile mind you, I eyeballed a few full peppers on the side of that bad boy I would have enjoyed, but Stephen Whitman of Whitman’s Sampler chocolates could have taught this restaurant a thing or two about the meaning of “sampler”.
I don’t think I laughed once at this, and I was even primed with a nice tumbler of Balcones Brimstone. (Balcones, if you’re looking to sponsor a nacho website, I know of one…) Perhaps it fell into the “cute” territory where you make the briefest smile and don’t laugh, but when you go in looking for nachos and they barely get lip service, well, all the Dune jokes in the world aren’t going to turn that around. And of course they made a Dune joke, BECAUSE HE’S A NERD GET IT! Just look at The Big Bang Theory, NERDS ARE HILARIOUS! That’s it folks, close down all the stand up comedy places, we’ve reached the pinnacle of humor. And sadly humor has no place for nachos it seems.