#psych

[imakatperson22]

“Why can’t Eddie and Buck just be friends?”

Because, dear fandom, they have not been set up as just best friends. Intentional or not, the way they have been cinematically filmed and edited, the way they have been written, and the way they have been acted scream romantic/sexual chemistry.

You want to watch meaningful male friendships? Go watch Psych, a show that portrays a best friendship with no romantic or sexual elements and does so quite beautifully.

Go watch Shawn and Gus and then compare them to Buck and Eddie.

I can respect the Tevan shippers who prefer Tommy over Eddie. That’s a matter of opinion. What is a matter of fact is the queer, homoerotic subtext that has been injected into this show between Buck and Eddie.

If you watch this show and don’t see that, I fear media literacy is dead.

[cakeyouareoh]

[arrowheadedbitch]

Okay, I've been having some THOUGHTS

Okay, does anyone know that scene in Psych where Shawn, Gus, and Henry have to buy a car for a case and there's this joke about Shawn not knowing how to haggle and spending all their money on the car?

Okay, so my question is Does Shawn know how to haggle? Either he genuinely doesn't know how to haggle OR he's playing dumb, as we all know he loves to do, and is wasting their money because it's funny to him.

Shawn is very smart but he plays dumb so well that even Gus and Henry often forget he's a genius

So I was thinking this through, rolling it over in my head and, Shawn travelled the world with nothing but the clothes on his back! OF COURSE he knows how to haggle, so why didn't he?

From where I see it, there's 2 options,

1. He didn't realize that cars are one of those things you have to haggle on

But then someone pointed out to me on discord, what about his motorcycle?

NO WAY he payed full price for that thing! And if he haggled for IT then why wouldn't he know to haggle foe a car despite never buying one?

So, this leads to option 2

2. Shawn KNEW he was supposed to haggle but doesn't care about money and likes pretending to be stupid so he wasted their money on purpose for the bit

Gus will wake up in a cold sweat in 10 years with the realization that Shawn did it on purpose and call him at 2am to yell at him about it.

But, what about secret option number 3?

That's right! There's a secret 3rd option:

3. Shawn relies on his OP charisma stat to get things for free when traveling the world, he manipulated and charmed his way into traveling the world, he's never had to actually haggle because his go to is charisma

What I'm getting at is Shawn went "Haha, I'm not doing that in front of my dad, I will pay full price."

Thank you for coming to my tedtalk.

[record-training-very]

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[manboobsupremacy]

shout out to "the head, the tail, the whole damn episode" for being the shassie episode <3

like literally. shawn comes up with the ship name in it and tells lassiter hes never been so in love with him

[fortunatelyfresco]

hey all, my 13-year-old self has awakened inside my unconscious and possessed me to write psych fanfiction

[thespiritssaidso]

random person: horse girl-

my brain immediately: lassie

[-hiddlesdweeb-]

How dare they make their gay little show with their gay little characters and then just leave?? Who am I supposed to form an unhealthy obsession with now...

[couldtransitionsaveher]

SHAWN SPENCER from PSYCH

JUSTIFICATION:

"she would be so silly. she would be a girl in the world being silly. the show would be so fun and idk i feel like it would just improve everything about her. plus it would probably make her happy for like once idk. something about her relationship with her dad would get fixed idk how to explain that tho. she’s babygirl your honor and i love her" - @vampirerodeo779

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[pinazee]

Who ya gonna call? (The DID/trans ep)

Ill be honest i was nervous to rewatch this one but turns out it held up better than i thought. I mean, the worst of it is that the DID person is the murderer but that was such a common tv thing back then for procedurals. Every one had to have a DID ep, even though, as Psych points out, its so exceedingly rare. I get it, its a fun concept, but yeah, don’t make them the violent ones when 9 times out of 10 they’re the victims of violent crimes. I will say though, Psych made sure to include they were getting the help they needed and they really didn’t have to.

But what a cool way to show it though, having the other personalities act like ghosts. It feels very poetic. And to have one personality trans is such an interesting layer on top of it. It really can’t get more complicated than that.

This episode also tells us so much about Lassiter! Hes trying desperately to win back his not-yet-ex wife its kind of heartbreaking. We’re starting Psych right at the beginning of Lassiters downfall. He gets separated, has an “affair” with his partner who gets reassigned because ppl found out thanks to Shawn, and i believe its later implied he lost the promotion to captain because of that affair. And then Shawn comes along and he’s solving his cases. I have to wonder though, since we see in this ep how distracted he can be when he has personal issues, if Lassiter isn’t necessarily a bad detective in the beginning but just going through some shit and missing things. It kind of makes me understand why he’s so hostile to Shawn in the beginning. Not that thats any excuse. Just because you’re having a bad day doesn’t mean you get to shit on other ppl’s. And it was fun to see lassiters and Juliets miscommunication. It was nice to see them easing into their partnership, and allowing friction, particularly:

What was henry going to do if that kid just started wailing on shawn??? Honestly, probably would have tried to teach shawn how to hit back and would’ve got him pummeled.

Its kind of funny that in this ep Shawns all this guy believes in ghosts, hes crazy, when in later eps he’s so excited about aliens and bigfoot haha. I can only conclude Shawn doesn’t really believe in anything supernatural but definitely wants to. I think it would have been better if Shawn didn’t think the guy was crazy right off the bat but maybe had a stalker, or intruder. (P.s were the writers implying Shawn was right from the beginning and they were crazy, or was that just poor wording??)

Sidenote: Shawn just casually spoke german and seemingly understood her response. He probably simply knew enough to impress her, but still. He does this a few times i think in the series where he lets it slip how much he actually knows.

[bootleg-nessie]

Why are they called sociopaths and not “sentimentally challenged”

[arrowheadedbitch]

Shawn: You got me a hat?

Henry: Look, Shawn, I know you're mad at me, so I got you this hat as a peace offering, okay? Now let's-

Henry: Yes?

Shawn:...you got me a HAT?

Henry: Yeah, Shawn, I got you a hat.

Shawn:

Shawn, pissed: You're kidding, right?

Henry: Wha- it's a hat! What's wrong with hats, you don't like hats?

Shawn:

Shawn:

Shawn: Fuck you.

[he-wrote-that-one-song]

shawn and declan should fuck nasty. who said that

[quackery-binx]

I'm currently obsessing over the idea of Shawn speaking French fluently and never telling anyone because "it never came up" and/or "you didn't ask"

Any hc your obsessing over at the moment?

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that actually reminds me of how jules knows spanish and only like 2 people know she can lol

so besides the lassie angst headcanon i told you earlier

jules had really bad handwriting when she was a kid and it turns out it was because she had a minor case of dyslexia and just, didn't understand what they were doing because what do you mean these scribbles make words

jules and lassie planned to come out to each other on the same day but when lassie came out as pan she said, "i already knew that carlton, also i think i like women." and lassie took the rest of the work day off to process that

also lassie and jules are gossip buddies, they tell each other almost everything and when something happens, they are each other's go-to person to talk to

also also lassie really likes murder she wrote and he made jules sit down and watch every single episode because he wanted her to understand what he was talking about when talking about the show

[lassie-face]

I don’t know what this issss