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July 7, 2006

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Thrill Seekers & Hell Raisers
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Thrill Seekers & Hell Raisers

It's a busman's holiday when Ruby's river trip with Gus and Shawn turns deadly after one of the group takes a tumble off the raft.

Aired: 02/02/10

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Shawn stumbles into a situation involving Juliet's ex-boyfriend from college, a mobster who may have been wrongfully convicted, witness protection and a very cold case.

Airs: 02/09/10

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Fake Psychic. Real Detectives. Shawn Spencer has developed a keen eye for detail after being instructed by his police officer father to note even the most minute details of his surroundings. After conning the police into believing that he's a psychic, Shawn opens a detective agency with bestMore friend Burton Guster.

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  • Official Discussion - "Thrill Seekers and Hell Raisers" (Spoilers)

    Fake Psychic. Real Detectives. Shawn Spencer has developed a keen eye for detail after being instructed by his police officer father to note even the most minute details of his surroundings. After conning the police into believing that he's a psychic, Shawn opens a detective agency with bestMore friend Burton Guster.

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  • Henry should appear a whole lot more!

    Fake Psychic. Real Detectives. Shawn Spencer has developed a keen eye for detail after being instructed by his police officer father to note even the most minute details of his surroundings. After conning the police into believing that he's a psychic, Shawn opens a detective agency with bestMore friend Burton Guster.

    4 comments, last one 2 days ago
  • new season 4

    Fake Psychic. Real Detectives. Shawn Spencer has developed a keen eye for detail after being instructed by his police officer father to note even the most minute details of his surroundings. After conning the police into believing that he's a psychic, Shawn opens a detective agency with bestMore friend Burton Guster.

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    10 Perfect

    This show should definitely win more awards. hide show

    This is undoubtedly one of the funniest shows in television history. Shawn Spencer, son of a retired cop, plays a fake psychic when he actually just has a great sense of noticing the details as well as connecting them together to make a plot which he then presents to the police in the most amusing ways. His "partner in crime" is his best friend Gus who often helps him out with a great knowledge of many different (sometimes odd) things. And who doesn't love the relationships between Shawn and Lassie or Juliet? :) It's amazing how they manage to keep the episodes hilarious with unpredictable twists, whether they investigate death of a sea-lion or solving a werewolf mistery. Of course Psych would not be the same without all the references (especially from 80's movies or songs) and awesome guest appearances.
    I've enjoyed every single episode and I'm really glad there will also be 5th season.

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    Psych is the best comedy on television in the last ten years. This is the first television series that I have ever purchased every episode for. I recently bought a Roku player and purchased every episode on Amazon VOD even the ones I already owned on DVD. hide show

    I really think that this show is amazing and has to be the most under-rated show ever. The writers are amazing, the attention to detail is absolutely brilliant at times, like the theme music changing to match episodes and the flash-back scenes of the three main characters explaining how they became the characters they are today. This show should be on the top of the charts and its sad to see that it is not given more credit than it recieves. Also the shows are so funny and lite that you can watch them over and over and still get a kick out of them. Most shows I can't stand to watch a second time let alone just randomly throw one on out of the collection and still be happy with whatever episode comes on.

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    DAMN! hide show

    This show is Legendary. I think its the only thing thats good that comes on USA. I usually watch on Hulu or On-Demand. This show is very good. It has everything, action, comedy, little romance and not too much, and everything else mixed together to create this show. Its also very creative, thats the part that gets me, and I love the jokes. So the show is about Shawn and Gus, who are lifelong freinds and now do their business as some detectives. Gus works in pharmaceuticals, but he is Shawn's partner. Shawn is a psychic(Not really, but he has photographic memory and great observational skills). And they have all sorts of adventures.

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    Shawn has a photographic memory, and remembers every little detail with only a glance. Posing as a psychic consultant for the SBPD, he and his best friend Gus help solve crimes. They also have their own Psychic Detective Agency, ironically called Psych. hide show

    Ever since he was a kid, Shawn Spencer was trained by his father Henry, a retired police officer, to notice every little detail with only just a glance. He has a photographic memory, which is how he remembers everything.

    Shawn and Henry's relationship, or lack thereof, is practically nonexistent. I believe their relationship improves, if only just marginally, after the first episode of the third season.

    Shawn's best friend is Burton "Gus" Guster. To say that they have been best friends since childhood is truly an understatement of the relationship between these two. Even close than brothers, Shawn and Gus's friendship is similar to that of J.D. and Turk from Scrubs. They are inseparable.

    Shawn can solve crimes just by watching the news, and has been calling in tips to the SBPD for reward money.
    Basically, Shawn is falsely accused of being the bad guy's partner, and as much as he protests, he cannot prove his innocence. About to be booked, he claims to be a psychic so as to explain the reason for how he came upon the source of information.

    Now an official psychic consultant for the SBPD, Shawn rents out space for his own Psychic agency, which is ironically called Psych, where he and his partner Gus solve crimes.

    Shawn's way of relaying his information about a case is by having "visions" that the "spirits" are telling him.

    Chief Karen Vick, previously Interim Chief, is the head of the Santa Barbara Police Department. Karen used to be partners with Henry before he retired, and learned a lot from him. She may be strict, but she is also respected. She is not afraid to show who's in charge.
    If she doesn't believe Shawn's claims as a psychic, she's not doing anything about it. He is an asset to the department -- even if they have been solving crimes before without his help.

    Head Detective Carlton Lassiter is a by the book, no nonsense, Irish cop. He doesn't believe Spencer is Psychic. Though he won't ever admit it (while sober), Shawn astounds him.
    Lassiter knows that Shawn is good at what he does. Shawn sees things that aren't obvious to other people. In the fourth season, Lassiter asks Shawn and Gus for help on a case that is out of his jurisdiction.

    His partner Juliet O'Hara is sweet, and basically just the opposite of her partner. However, they compliment each other, and make a great pair.
    It's not certain whether she believes if Shawn is really Psychic, or if she wants to believe, but she is usually the one to "play along" when Shawn has a vision.

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    i love this show. it is a great comedy. the cast cemestry is FUN hide show

    it is a great way to spend a friday night SORT of. well tv wise it is. i like to sit down and watch it. it a great show. humm, other reasons why i like this show is the cast cemestry which makes the comedy even better about the show, plus the show. i also think the show needs more of the police officers from the station. not only that i think it needs more of Liam James. my other opion is that the show needs more of a CSIish ring to it not alot. just anther 1 percent of it. maybe that would spice the show up.

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