99 Words About … The final season of NBC’s ‘Chuck’

It's (hopefully) the only series ever saved by a sandwich.

But eventually, all good things -- even those rescued from cancellation by rabid, Subway-loving fans who rallied around a promotional tie-in -- must come to an end.

Shortened seasons. Tacked-on episodes. Last-minute reprieves. More aborted swan songs than Tchaikovsky.

Over the past five years, the nerdtastic spy drama "Chuck" (8 p.m. Friday, KSNV-TV, Channel 3) has confronted its mortality more often than Lindsay Lohan.

So it feels right that the lovable underdog is going out on its own terms.

Thirteen more episodes and it's absolutely, positively the end of "Chuck."

Probably.

-- CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE