I know I'm not the only one getting sort of obsessed with the show. Okay, much obsessed. Post your craziness here...

YKYOWCW any mention of the name Chuck makes you smile... (okay, lame but it's a start.)

YKYOWCW... Any use of the word awesome makes you grin like a loser.

YKYOWCW - You inadvertently start referring to the chain electronics/appliance store as “Buy More”.

YKYOWCW... you are carefully trying to calculate EXACTLY how bad other NBC shows have to do in order for Chuck to NOT get canceled.

YKYOWCW... you make mental notes throughout the day on who you will be turning into Chuck converts over the next couple of weeks.

YKYOWCW... when you decide you want to be Chuck for Halloween, even though no one would get it. Stare in the mirror and realize you're way too short. Hair's just about the right length, but just doesn't have enough curl. Seriously consider getting a perm. Decide against that but wonder if there's ways to make your hair curlier. Consider buying black Chucks. Wonder where the closest shoe store is. Think about buying a black tie. Wonder which of your female friends you could convince to wear a Wienerlicious costume.

YKYOWCW....the word awsome has suddenly invaded your everyday vocabulary.

YKYOWCW you love the costume idea and though you are not white, or blond you would totally go as CreedogV‘s Weinerlicious date if you weren’t already spoken for.

YKYOWCW when you give a list of hair products to help give CreedogV the curly look. (Garnie Fructis and Pantene have lines of products that sculpt your hair into curls).

YKYOWCW you've realized that you could BE Chuck for Halloween, because you've got the white short-sleeved shirt, the grey tie, the black slacks, the Converse Chucks, and (God help me) the pocket protector (though in my defense, it was purchased for a previous Halloween costume), and the only problem is that you have an Army regulation length crew cut (damn my military upbringing anyway).

YKYOWCW... you've made posts in the Media thread that contain links to actual Chuck-related media... (Seriously, I never do that!)

One word, dude: "wig". ;-)

YKYOWCW you know that since you need new shampoo anyway, you're going to be buying one of these, even though you live in a house full of guys.

Alas, shootingstar, it is not to be. If I were really going to go through with this (the Wienerlicious girlfriend; I'm totally still doing the Chuck thing), I already have my lovely lady picked out.

YKYOWCW... you are contemplating deleting everything else from your DVR so you can hang onto your HD Chuck episodes for a bit longer.

YKYOWCW ... you finally get around to showing a new ep to your friend, and she already knows all the important dialogue, 'cause you've been giving impromptu enactments of whatever scenes made you laugh or cry.

Sarah: [on screen; whispering] It's Lisa. My middle name is Lisa.

Friend: oh! Hey. You did that for me the other day.

Me: [blush]

YKYOWCW ... yesterday - a particularly stressful day at work - you calm yourself with "Don't .Freak. Out!" numerous times.

mswyrr, That's funny - did your friend like the show?

Aw, that's okay CreedogV. We'll always have sizzing shrimp.

Yeah. She thought it was fun, but she was a little weirded out by the level of my obsession. She doesn't get into shows like that. Some poor, unfortunate souls are born without the fannish gene! ;)

YKYOWCW...

White, short-sleeve button-up shirt: $28
Gray tie: $25
White Converse Chucks, bought online: $25
Speedy shipping: $9
Them still arriving 4 PM on October 31: Sadness until 4 PM
Badge Holder: $5
Time spent designing badge and pocket protector: 2.5 hours
Shampoo & Conditioner bought in hopes of making your hair curlier: $9
How much curlier your hair really got: a little bit
Number of people at your college: 12,000
Number who dressed up just because it was Halloween: maybe 40

Spending the day blissfully dressed as your favorite new character: Priceless

There are some things that money cannot buy.
For everything else, they're fandom obsession.

YKYOWCW you're considering putting up a personals ad on Craigslist comparing and contrasting yourself with Chuck Bartowski as a reference point for your intended audience. *sigh*

For a fictional character, I feel like I understand him very very well.

YKYOWCW you're having a dream about having to go into work on Monday evening (which I generally have off) and IN THE DREAM, you're trying to figure out how to make sure you don't miss Chuck.

Part of last night's dream was me messing up recording Chuck. Oh, Chuck, you've got me hook, line, and sinker.

YKYOWCW your wife says she may have to catch up on the episodes she missed, "just out of self defense".

I think she was only half teasing :)

YKYOWCW... when you spend hours going to through everything that has to do with chuck on youtube.

YKYOWCW... when you refer to your father by saying "He has a geographical intersect in his head..." because my dear dad knows absolutely everything about Central Europe...

YKYOWCW...

You ask your architect to include a "Morgan Door" on the blueprints for your new house! And I mean SPECIFICALLY by that name, not the more mundane name for that conveyance the rest of the boring world uses!

YKYOWCW you hold the Telxon at work like a gun (ala Casey), awesome is in permanent rotation in your vernacular (and your 35), you look at the microwave in the breakroom and consider tossing it at someone's head so you can say, "Now that's what I call moving merchandise", you now refer to the back seat of your vehicle as the prisoner containment area and you engage the child safety feature, you shout out Nerd Herd everytime you see a new VW bug, you wish you had YS's bod so you could dress up as the weinerlicious girl, and you have a new found appreciation for sandwiches.

YKYOWCW you are reading Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and when Covey mentions moving the "fulcrum" you say, out loud, "Oh my god, Bryce Larkin!" Not, "Oh my god, Chuck", but Bryce. Then you laugh out loud at your own silliness. Fulcrum = Bryce Larkin forever and ever, amen.

YKYOWCW you read your first ever fanfic - and bookmark it.

YKYOWCW you walk into Best Buy to buy Super Mario Galaxy today and have this odd feeling that everyone is wearing the wrong color shirt, and nearly ask the first salesperson you see if Chuck Bartowski is working today.

YKYOWCW -- you pass by a Crown Vic in your neighborhood, notice the tags (83 VIC) and get a huge dopey grin on your face. But then you are sad, because it's not an '85. Sorry, Casey.

YKYOWCW - You are amused by the fact that you received a message from someone at work who happens to be named John Casey.

(I so gotta get over this amusement before it screws up my productivity.)

...After some bad lob search news you think, "at least I have Chuck on Thursday..." and your mood immediately changes for the better.

...Your hubby has an interview set for the Jan 24 and you take it as a good sign because it's the same day as two new Chucks.

...People on another forum are discussing Rachel Bilson and all you can think is, "She's not that bad. I mean, Chuck liked her..."

YKYOWCW all you do durring school is whip out the notebook and write stories about sarah and chuck, or even draw little hearts that have 'CS' in the middle. (it's not like my name starts with a c or s and the guy i like's name starts with the opposite. i'm an 'n')

YKYOWCW:

*you've pre-ordered the DVD, and still want to enter contests to win it. There will be contests, right?

*A Toyota Yaris seems like a cool car (Pam on The Office has one, but it's blue)

*when you're talking about Alec Baldwin, you have to think twice before calling him "Adam."

*you tap the soda can like Casey

*you call shiny jewelry "blang"

Hello everybody!
This is a little thing I like to call 'You know you've gone too far in Chuck Land when...'
So, pretty much, you know when you've gotten too obsessed with the show when you [insert crazy thing here].
Got it? Good!
It's just a purely random thread that OriginalC thought of! Thanks!

You know you've gone too far in Chuck Land when you're dressed up as Sarah Walker on the set of Chuck so that you can make out with him during one of the make-out scenes...

Your turn!

(Kayla, we're soooo cool!)

Oh yes we are

You know you've gone too obsessive when you jump onto the stage at Comic Con yelling out that you're the number 1 fan and anyone who objects will get shot with a paintball gun

Water gun, Kayla, water gun. Or Airsoft gun. ;-)

ETA: Okay, I get the paintball thing now, fangirl. Apologies.

You know you've gone too far in Chuck Land (or is that Chuck World?) when three pages on a discussion thread are filled in three minutes by polarized Charah factions, and as you read them, you find yourself formulating a detailed platform and thinking of a suitable position statement.

ETA:

I take very little credit for the thread title. It was inspired by a combination of an exchange on the Chuck fanfic forum by those silly monkeys Natty and Kayla and the long-time existence of a TWoP thread titled You Know You're Obsessed With Firefly When... (my other obsession).

Okay, so I take some credit. But only if it comes with ff.net hits.

You know you've gone too far in Chuck Land when...
You can't remember the pertinent "monkeys" quote from Firefly because it's been pushed out of your head by a bazillion Chuck quotes.
e.g. "I need pants!"

You're definitely too far in Chuck land...
when every time you turn a corner, you try looking around like a spy-a very bad one.
OR when asked where you want to go for lunch, the only place you can even think of is Weinerlicious or that new place she's going to work
OR when you go inside a Best Buy, you half expect to see Chuck at the counter.
OR you start comparing every guy you meet to Chuck, and so far none of them have gotten close to his standard (although this can happen by watching only one episode)

YKYGTFICL when...
If you want to say something about Best Buy you really have to stop to bite your tongue not to blurt out "Buy More" and then struggle to remember the real name. And blue and yellow just don't seem to be the right colours.

YKYGTFIC when...
You stand by the phone for hours waiting for that call to say they want you on the show
The only thing that can cure your bad mood is a Charah story.

You know you're too far in Chuck Land when... you and another fellow Chuck fan have pages and pages and pages and pm after pm after pms of conversations all about a) the definition of 'fluff' and 'angst', b) "Chara cred," c) Shipper regulations and d) how to bend the regulations but still keep it Chara all at the same time...

Hehehe, Bill. He. He. HE!

YKYGTFICL when...

You find yourself daydreaming about dating Sarah.

YKYGTFICL when...
you get invited to your sister's wedding but complain that you're going to miss Chuck (this one's totally made up)

You know you've gone too far in Chuck land...

when you're disappointed that Morgan, not Casey, shares your fondness for grape soda.

YKYTFICL when...
you're starting to think that working at a department store is really not a bad career.

YKYOWCW:


You dream a full-length episode in your sleep. In said dream, Chuck and Sarah are on the run in Australia with Casey there as well. For reasons only hinted at vaguely in the dream, Chuck is only safe if he and Sarah pretend to be a married couple. Sarah even makes a fake marriage license at the airport while they are on the run. Dreams ends with 'to be continued' feeling but with Chuck, Sarah, and Casey safe from the bad guys and Sarah secretly enjoying that she has to fake being Chuck's wife.

(And this all came about from having watched 'First Date' and realizing the extent of my Chuck withdrawal.)

YKYOWCW you've actually called a Geek Squad member a "Nerd Herder."

Hee!

YKYOWCW ... you can't wait for the weekend to be over because there is a new Chuck!
YKYOWCW ... you are kind of annoyed that your parents wanted to keep the s1 dvds to finish them, because you want to watch them again. For the 10th time. Even though you have all of season 2 on the Tivo.
YKYOWCW ... you are actually watching Chuck in real time, because you can't wait 15 minutes in to be able to forward through commercials.

YKYOWCW:

Your band name on Rock Band is The Intersect.

Your nickname for your coed slow pitch softball team is "Nerd Herder." At least my nicknames have a theme, a couple of years ago it was "Mathlete."

YKYOWCW:

You're convinced that the people who built your townhouse community must be Chuck fans because one of the house models is named the 'Devon' and it's located on Morgan Hill Rd.

Also...you're physically incapable of passing the 'Devon' without whispering 'Awesome' under your breathe.

YKYOWCW ...

As you walk into Red Mango, you think ... Red Mango, Pink Berry ... ooo, I get why they call it Orange Orange!

When visiting Pasadena, you have to really bite your tongue and not ask where the Buy More is.