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Psych (2006) really is just "Hi, we're detectives with the police department, and here's this weird guy who follows us around. No we can't stop him. We like him. Also here's his best friend. We can't stop him either. We tried."
#literally the basis of every conversation they have
Psych – 3.11: Lassie Did A Bad, Bad Thing
Shawn and Gus' friendship is so solid. In the Lying Ryan episode (s3 ep 14 - around the 36 min mark) when Gus no longer wanted to trust Ryan, the way Shawn asks him to believe him is just so genuine, he knows exactly what's going on in Gus' mind... I truly love them.
"Okay, Gus, look I believe Ryan but I understand why you don't. I've maxxed you out in the blind faith department and that's fair. So, you don't have to believe him. Just keep believing in me. Come on, buddy!"
And Gus reverses the car to show that he does believe in Shawn.
Just a minute later, when the bad guys are shooting at them, Shawn tells him to get back to the hospital and that he'll hold them off.
Gus : Hold them off how ?
Shawn : I don't know, I'll think of something, I always do.
Gus : Shawn ?!
Shawn : Just get him out of here he's the one that has to make it!
Gus : I will kill you, Shawn.
Shawn : And I'll give you every opportunity to do that, buddy.
It's the little things like this where you truly see how deep their bond is and how much trust and faith goes into this relationship.
Gus was worried Shawn would get hurt but Shawn tells him to trust him (all while making sure Gus would be safe if he's away from the scene), and Gus does just that. The way Gus threatens to kill him is literally his way of saying 'i know you'll make it out' and Shawn's reply is him reassuring him that he WILL. I seriously just aboslutely love them.
I love how every time we get a Gus focused episode we find out something that both makes complete sense but it also so surprising. It fits with his character so well. He has the appearance of a straight man with his pharmaceutical job and 401k but he’s also the man that believes in curses, demons, and mummies. Got married to a one night stand and my personal favorite, was in an acapella group in college.
these old photos got me sobbing man they were so little im crying why do good things come to an end🥺🥺🥺
cue forever young
the only gripe i have with the psych fandom is that a lot of y’all act like henry spencer is the devil. yes, he was weirdly obsessive about raising shawn to be a detective, and this led to some questionable-at-best parenting moments. but the man is not EVIL.
it has always been clear how much he loves shawn, and he seems to have been very present in his life as a kid. he did his best to raise shawn, mostly by *himself, and set him up for a stable future. he didn’t always go about that the best way, but he had good intentions and he loves his kid. and when shawn is an adult, henry really goes out of his way to help him with psych cases, even though this wasn’t the future henry had envisioned for him.
henry isn’t perfect, but would you really want him to be? i think that would make the show pretty boring. also, whose dad IS perfect?
*(shawn’s mom didn’t leave until he was a teenager, but from what we’ve seen it doesn’t seem like she was as present as his dad was even during his childhood. i have not completed the series, so correct me if i’m wrong on that)
I think Shawn and Gus really set the standard for me of what being a best friend should look like in media.
Is your best friend really your best friend if they don’t unabashedly help you with your shenanigans?
Is your best friend really your best friend if yall are not codependent to the point that people think you’re married and know you come as a package deal?
Are yall really best friends if you can’t call each other in the middle of the night to help cover up your presence at a crime screen?? Would they try to run into a bank to get you during a bank robbery? These are the questions you should be asking yourself.
Remember in Psych when Gus kept having nightmares about Shawn leaving him and then the whole last episode of the series was about Shawn and Gus having to go their separate ways and then Gus was like "actually you're my best friend why would I live anywhere you aren't??" Bc I think about it all the time and how having friends who you love and who love you is the whole point of everything and the best friendship bw Shawn and Gus is one of if not THEE most beautiful and important relationships I've ever watched in media
The Shawn & Gus dynamic in Psych is so subtly yet beautifully shaped by the fact that they cast a naturally deadpan introvert to play the world's most hyperactive attention-seeking detective, then cast a chronic theater kid to play his supposedly boring, reasonable best friend
the running bit of shawn being an excellent shot but entering every single Very Dangerous Situation completely unarmed is so fun because it just contains so many multitudes within it. practical interpretation? has a criminal record & california gun laws are relatively strict. personality wise? silly little pacifist with no sense of self preservation. meta narratively? the main character and he knows it. archetypally? sets him apart from the cops. funniest interpretation? cosmic forces at play in the universe think shawn and his fraudulent psychic schtick are deeply funny. hes actually just too touched by god to ever need a weapon to survive; a spiritually unkillable guy.
collectively we do not give nearly enough attention to “because of you shawn i killed the state bird”. like i wanna hear the rest of that story so bad
I recently started psych and It's okay but what I can't understand is how Lassiter still dislikes Shawn no offense but I think it's getting old. 🥱
Psych 4x08
I completely agree also the fascinatination with Guster's head
pysch is a cool show with comedy and mystery and whatnot but the real mystery/plot/point of interest is the pineapples. I’m just here for the pineapples really.
(Respectfully) move over Burton Guster with your lunatic sidekick Spencer Shawn or something I just wanna see the pineapples
The first moment I saw Lassiter I instantly thought of Mr. BEAN and for them to reference the resemblance in an insult felt oddly validating the only thing that could make it better is if he actually played a version of Mr. BEAN.