Hello again. We're down to one week until the Season 3 premiere! Admit it, you're excited. We all are. It's awesome. (Yeah, I used that word. That's how we roll in the Chuckverse!) It looks like I'll make it through all 35 episodes before then, and I'm as shocked as anybody else. Some of my ideas were pretty good, and more than a few sucked big time. But if you can keep coming back for more, that has to be something, right?

Anyway, if you look at the Fulcrum test below, the first 7 questions were actual questions in the episode that we saw on Chuck's testing screen. I decided to add a few. Hope you like it, and please leave reviews.


CHUCK VS. THE FIRST KILL – NONE OF US IS AS SMART AS ALL OF US

PART I – Choose YES or NO for each statement.

1. YES NO You tend to sympathize with other people.

2. YES NO You value justice higher than mercy.

3. YES NO The more people with whom you speak, the better you feel.

4. YES NO You easily empathize with the concerns of other people.

5. YES NO You enjoy being at the center of events in which other people are directly involved.

6. YES NO You avoid being bound by obligations.

7. YES NO You are strongly touched by the stories about people's troubles.

8. YES NO You would choose to do the right thing over protecting a friend.

9. YES NO If you needed to plant a listening device on someone's person, you would be willing to break vows of fidelity to accomplish it.

10. YES NO You've suspected for a long time that your mother has been trying to undermine our government.

11. YES NO You've given more than a moment's thought as to why there are 7 red stripes and 6 white stripes on the American flag and not the other way around.

12. YES NO You feel Charlton Heston's greatest role was spokesman for the NRA.

13. YES NO You found the character of Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H to be a true patriot.

14. YES NO You found the ending to Stripes to be most troubling.

15. YES NO You thought Archie Bunker should have run for New York City Council.

16. YES NO Your favorite professional sport is football, since all of its teams are located in the United States.

17. YES NO You thought they should have let Agent Kujan figure out that Verbal Kint was Keyser Söze in The Usual Suspects.

18. YES NO You think the Austin Powers' movies are documentaries.

19. YES NO You're convinced the government puts something in the water to insure that reality television is cost-effective enough to continue.

20. YES NO You have evidence to prove that the moon landings were staged as a reaction to the cancellation of Star Trek on NBC in 1969,

PART II – Choose the best answer to each scenario

21. You are walking on a college campus, and you encounter a peaceful protest against the raising of tuition and fees. How should you react?

A. Ignore the protest, since you feel college tuition is exorbitant as well.
B. Sign the petition they have in support but do nothing else.
C. Shout over the din that they should consider themselves lucky they can get a quality education.
D. Take pictures of everybody involved in the protest and have them put on a terrorist watch list.

22. You overhear two people talking in a restaurant in a foreign language you don't recognize. What should you do?

A. Nothing: it's none of your business.
B. Try to ascertain what language it is just out of curiosity.
C. Take out your special electronic universal translator.
D. Scream at them to speak English, those Commie bastards.

23. At TGI Friday's, your server asks if you want to be a part of their "Give Me More Stripes" program. What do you do?

A. Graciously accept, since you get free items with it.
B. Politely decline, since you don't frequent the restaurant enough for the effort.
C. Decry that it's another attempt to invade your privacy by the government.
D. Protest their considerable use of the color red as a plot to bring a Soviet-style government to the United States.

24. A stranger in the bar wants to know your opinion of the BCS, the college bowl system that sets up a national championship game. What do you say?

A. Give your opinion and explain why.
B. Ignore the person.
C. Break a beer bottle over his head for asking such a dumb question.
D. Have him dragged to a facility and drug him with truth serum to find out where he faked his college education from.

25. Your wife suggests medication to solve your sexual dysfunction. What should you do?

A. Take her advice to keep the marriage strong.
B. Deny you have a problem.
C. Pretend to take the pill but send it to a lab to see if it is a attempt by radical feminist groups to control the male population.
D. Have your wife arrested for making anti-American statements. "What? It's un-American not to get laid!"