Psych
Psychmight just be one of the good detective shows of all time because it is so different from other whodunnits . The serial publication is part procedural because it does utilize the case - of - the - workweek format , but it ’s also a comedy that found its recess in spoofing other papa polish phenomenon . Many of its right episodes riff on classics likeClue , The polishing , and evenTwin Peaks .
Psychfollows Shawn Spencer ( James Roday Rodriguez ) and Burton Guster ( Dulé Hill ) as they opena psychic police detective agencyas a manner of excuse just how Shawn manages to be one gradation in front of the law on their investigations . As a psychical advisor , he does n’t have to be tied to the rules and regulating of the police force-out , despite being trained in them from a untested age . It offers a neat mix of enigma , drollery , and even find - mob element in its undecomposed instalment .
10The Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable
Season 3, Episode 4
This particular episode borrows aspects from franchises likeIndiana Jonesand adventures likeThe Goonies . It sees Shawn ’s uncle ( Steven Webber ) come into Ithiel Town and drop back him and Gus into a lookup for lost pirate gold .
Is the story a short far - fetched ? Of course . So are many ofPsych’sbest episodes . The show manages to take outlandish plots and sprinkle them with a unique common sense of sense of humour , concealed Ananas comosus , and a real sensory faculty of camaraderie .
Part of the playfulness here is that the episode also provide the audience to see that not all of Shawn ’s family is as strict and straight - laced as his founding father is . Because of the nature of the show , the hearing does n’t get introduced to very much of Shawn ’s prolonged class . His father gets most of the familial storylines . So , see that Shawn and his uncle have the same honey for risky venture shuffling for a fun ride .
Psych ’s eight time of year and three spinoff motion-picture show all boast their fair share of laughs and whodunit , but how do they equate to one another ?
9Heeeeere’s Lassie
Season 6, Episode 11
If there ’s one matter thatPsychbecame known for outside of its self - referential temper , it ’s the show ’s willingness to bid an court to great movies and tv shows in its later time of year . This season 6 episode acts as an homage to bothThe ShiningandGhostbusters , interestingly enough , as the instalment utilise a lot of ocular muzzle from both moving-picture show .
Despite that , the episode is n’t a square court . The show also feature its own storyline that does not really mirror the plot in either movie . Lassiter moves into a unexampled condo , and when he does , strange things start happening , so Shawn and Gus adjudicate to investigate . The episode involves Lassiter ’s new and very eccentric neighbors rather of spook or mysterious entities , because , like everyPsychepisode , there is eventually a lucid account for every hilarious mystery .
8100 Clues
Season 7, Episode 5
There ’s a lot of move parts in the installment , but they all manage to work .
For its centesimal episode , Psychhad to do something really special , like give an homage to one of the funniest murder enigma of all prison term . Aptly named “ 100 Clues , ” the episode is a send - up of the cult comedy classicClue , which was inhale by the board game of the same name . The episode even bring in inseveral actors fromCluewho get to take on roles that make merriment of their original parts in the movie .
Not only does the episode countersink its mystery in a mansion full of suspect , but it also has fun with multiple ending . The episode involves such fun view of the mystery as a panther on the idle , an aging rockstar , and a dead body enshroud in a Deepfreeze . There ’s a slew of move part in the installment , but they all manage to work .
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7Office Space
Season 7, Episode 11
“ Office Space ” might have one of the effective offence tantrum openings in the entire series . When Gus shows up to ask Shawn for supporter in the middle of the night because he stumble across a crime scene , Shawn decides to serve him remove all evidence that he was ever there so he wo n’t become a suspect . What take after is the two of them making every undivided misunderstanding in the book and then undertake to houseclean it all up before the detectives get there to investigate . That is deserving watching the episode alone .
What “ Office Space ” does is permit the audience a glimpse into the world of Gus ’s other occupation . help Shawn with the detective business is something he ’s supposed to be doing in his superfluous time , but now , it might save him from being entail in a criminal offence he did n’t institutionalise since the law-breaking scene is at his place of work and the dupe is his boss . Ted Shawn and Gus have to actually stay multiple steps forward of the constabulary to keep themselves out of hot water and entrance the bad guy wire .
USA ’s show Psych made television account in time of year 8 by doing what no TV serial has done before : broadcast a remaking of one of its own episodes .
Shawn Spencer happens to possess some uncanny powers of observation thanks to his father, Henry, a former police officer who taught his son to remember even the smallest details of his surroundings. When Shawn is accused of committing a crime that he actually solved, he convinces the cops that he’s a psychic – and with the reluctant help of his best friend, Gus, Shawn starts solving cases for a skeptical but increasingly impressed police force.
6Shawn Takes A Shot In The Dark
Season 4, Episode 9
Psychproves that its cast is more than capable of handling the dramatic as well as the comedic .
This is not the lightest ofPsychepisodes , and that ’s part of what makes it so corking . It ’s rare for the show to get darker or more worked up , and when it does , Psychproves that its shape is more than up to of handling the dramatic as well as the comedic .
While enquire a crime , Shawn ends up getting shot . There ’s a existent horse sense of urging when it comes to work the criminal offense since Shawn ’s lifespan is in risk . It also mean thatShawn has to bank on everything his Padre has ever taught him to remain observant and put the piece together even while he ’s bleeding from a bullet lesion .
Shawn might not want to bring in law enforcement because of his own human relationship with his beginner , but this episode make it clear that he could have . He ’s a Johnny who likes to bet outside the lines , but he knows how to do the workplace , even when it ’s his own life on the argument .
5Dual Spires
Season 5, Episode 12
EmulatingTwin Peaksin a show likePsychmight speech sound like a tall order , but " Dual Spires " does it well . That ’s partially because James Roday Rodriguez , who is a vast lover ofTwin Peaks , is one of the writers for the episode . The installment is fructify in a small township where everything seems just a niggling out of the average . Most of the cast ofTwin Peakseven appear in the sequence that homages their original show , and it make for a great love letter to a landmark tv serial .
Shawn and Gus show up in the modest township for a fete only to find that a teen miss has drowned there - but she also looks like the same girl who did in Santa Barbara several years earlier .
The only downside to this episode is that if the person watching is n’t at least passingly familiar withTwin Peaks , the installment ’s laugh wo n’t make as much gumption , and it wo n’t have the same tactile property as a usual episode . That might leave somePsychfans out of the cringle , but it also might give them an exculpation to bulge out watchingTwin Peaks .
4Tuesday The 17th
Season 3, Episode 5
For fans who love classic slasher likeHalloweenorFriday the 13th , this is thePsychepisode for them . Because the episode claim place in the first place at a summer camp that is being fixed up , the nods toFriday the 13thare the most obvious .
This is an installment in whichPsychisn’t afraid to go too far . Parts of the hour are genuinely scary , dissipate from the point of position of the killer , while others are gag - out - loud funny as the book take up a more meta approach shot to horror likeScream .
Shawn and Gus cease up at a summer camp that was pop when they were kid when it ’s being renovated to reopen . There are here and now in which Shawn is ready to reminisce about the good old days , which signify he is slightly distracted from the actual case of the episode , but that ’s part of what makes it so fun .
Through eight season of Psych and three film , Shawn has introduced Gus with fake nicknames . Here ’s every made - up nickname Shawn has given Gus .
3American Duos
Season 2, Episode 1
While this episode play as a travesty of the medicine contender seriesAmerican Idol , it ’s also not a verbatim analog to it . There are judges that fill up special personality types , and there is a serious rival to make it to the top , but there is also a potential liquidator on the loose .
Ted Shawn and Gus go undercover as objector to figure out who is essay to hurt Tim Curry ’s cranky judge . Not only does that think they get up to some absurd wing put-on , but it also intend they are primed to really do in the show . Juliet gets to be their choreographer and she takes it more seriously than the consultation ever would have think .
The last performance that Shawn and Gus do coalesce Michael Jackson and Tears for Fears , and it ’s one of the reasons fans clamored for a melodious episode for eld .
2Last Night Gus
Season 6, Episode 2
… it is the funniest episode ofPsych …
This time of year 6 episode ofPsychis the show ’s take on the same concept asThe Hangover . Centering on the male reference of the show , the chemical group waken up after a punishing night of partying with no knowledge of what happened the night before , include whether or not they might have kill someone . It gives the spotlight to characters like Woody the coroner and really play to the comedic strengths of the cast . It even uses more slapstick than the usual episodes of the serial do .
It also features one of Shawn ’s good monologues as he has trouble with his storage . He ’s always been able to utterly come back clue for cases , so he hat when his “ psychical ” abilities fail him :
I ’m not having any psychic vision , flashback , or recreation flashback , or recreation flashback with new psychical vision . opine you were n’t just a bland , gangly average man ; that you could winkle at someone and light up their world ; that you could make a child think you have return them an deoxyephedrine cream cone without giving them the retinal cone , and then watch them cut off into a beautiful meadow clobber nothing but melody !
A fate of fans see “ Late Night Gus ” to be the bestPsychepisode . It remains the highest - rate episode of the series on IMDb . While it is the funniest episode ofPsych , and certainly one of the best riffs on a picture show the show has done , there is an sequence , or more accurately , one storyline , that is even better .
1The Yin And Yang Trilogy
Season 3, Season 4, And Season 5 Finales
Though so many of the bestPsychepisodes offer their own tailspin on familiar stories , these three episodes are really the bestPsychhas to pop the question . They might be court to classic cat - and - mouse mysteries , but viewers do n’t have to see every Hitchcock movie or read Agatha Christie novels to get the jokes .
The Yin and Yang trilogy consists of three separatePsychepisodes , each a season - ender , that form a complete storyline , so it does n’t seem entirely sightly to divide them . Though the serial publication is known for its standalone caseful , Yin and Yang are the alias ofPsych’smost memorable villainswho crop up and threaten everything that Shawn holds earnest because Shawn is see as the only individual well-informed enough to quit them . He ’s given cryptic messages and cue as the criminals play with him .
While the episodes are still funny , they also allow the cast to dig into their more dramatic sides and show that there can be as much pathos as there can be laughs in the show . The stakes are high as Juliet , Shawn ’s mother , and Gus all end up in deadly peril during the storylines . It genuinely offers the ripe ofPsychmysteries and talent .
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Shawn Spencer bump to possess some uncanny powers of observation thanks to his father , Henry , a former police officeholder who instruct his son to remember even the smallest detail of his environment . When Shawn is accused of pull a law-breaking that he actually solve , he win over the fuzz that he ’s a psychical – and with the reluctant help of his adept friend , Gus , Shawn starts solving cases for a skeptical but more and more impressed police force .
