Friday Five: Best Cat Fights

Mel’s Note: Cay brings us this week’s Friday Five, and I can’t believe I didn’t think of it first!

I’ve always been drawn to shows with strong female leads, especially when those women could hold their own with the guy,s mentally and physically. Indeed, some of my favorite shows over the years reflect this preference – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias and Chuck all feature strong women capable of taking out an opponent (or two, or the undead) single-handedly. Chuck has proven to be particularly full of strong, kickbutt females. Obviously we have Sarah Walker, but we also have Carina and the rest of the C.A.T. squad, Anna Wu and a dozen other women on the sides of both good and evil that have graced the screen since season 1.

I thought it would be fun to rank my favorite fights involving the lovely ladies of Chuck and, just to make sure that the guys don’t zone on us this week, I figured that I’d do “cat”  (or should I say C.A.T.?) fights!

Top Five Chuck Cat Fights:

1. Sarah versus Smooth Lau (Best Friend, S2) – This has got to be one of the best fight scenes of all time! After Sarah gets ambushed in the garage by the TRIAD member, the two of them fight it out inside a luxury car using various parts of the car as weapons.  A seat belt and a CD will never be just a seat belt and a CD again. Seriously epic!

2. Sarah versus Heather Chandler (Nicole Ritchie, vs the Cougars, S2) – This fight had it all – high school rivals, pretty dresses, high heels….and a locker room full of showers! While we always root for Sarah, all of us who didn’t have much fun in high school were really pulling for her here to knock the snot out of “the mean girl” from high school that made her (our) lives miserable back then. After knocking her out (by throwing a knife to knock over a Cougar head which falls on her), Sarah then has to walk back into the gym full of her classmates, soaking wet, barefoot, and bloody, to accept her crown as “Reunion Queen”. Go Cougars (gotta love the choice of mascot, too)!

3. Sarah versus Carina (Wookie, S1) – The first time we meet Carina, she breaks into Sarah’s room and Sarah takes her on using a bar of soap in a sock as well as a vase as a weapon. They destroy most of her room (poor goldfish!) until Sarah realizes who she is fighting and they decide to work together.

4. Sarah versus Lizzie the schwarma girl (Marlin, S1) – This is one of the few fights Sarah hasn’t won. She and Lizzie duke it out in the Weinerlicious over Big Mike’s marlin, which happens to have both Ellie’s engagement ring and a radio receiver/recorder that may contain Chuck’s secret identity hidden in it.  Lizzie gets away with the Marlin and locks Sarah in the freezer. Later on, they duke it out again on the roof and Sarah finally prevails.

5. Sarah versus Zondra ( C.A.T. squad, S4)  – As Sarah and Zondra concentrate on pounding each other in the gym in Castle while accusing each other of being a mole, they both realize a minute too late that neither of them was the one who betrayed the C.A.T. squad on that fateful mission. Amy joins the brawl, knocks Zondra out and attempts her escape. With some help from Chuck, the C.A.Ts manage to bring down Amy in the Buy More with the cord from a curling iron.

Can you guys think of any I missed? What were your favorites and why?