Psych Season 3 Episode 14

Shawn: Bingo.
Gus: Don't say "Bingo."
Shawn: Cranium.
Gus: Now, I'll play some Cranium.

Cranium is a board game created in 1992, which is marketed as "The Game for Your Whole Brain." Gus views himself as more cerebral and grown-up than Shawn. He would be up for Cranium over Bingo.

"Lyin' Ryan": Hey, you guys want lunch? You know I own a restaurant downtown. Actually, it's not all mine. I co-own it with Mike Ditka. You guys eat wild game, dontcha?

Mike Ditka was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988. He does own three restaurants, two in Chicago and one in Pittsburgh, although they do not feature wild game. His official web site also features links to clothing, resorts, records, cigars, wine, and food products.

Gus: Shawn, we are treading on thin ice right now.
Shawn: Yes. But I'm about to do a double axel with a salchow and finish with a sweet little camel-toe.
Gus: You mean camel spin?
Shawn: I've heard it both ways.

Shawn spins Gus's pessimistic metaphor into a positive reference to competitive ice skating. Axel jumps are quite difficult, requiring years to master. A salchow normally follows a "three turn," not an axel.

Lyin' Ryan: (running from gunfire) Serpentine. Serpentine. Zigzag. Hide in here.

This is a reference to the classic 1979 Arthur Hiller film, The In-Laws, starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. In the referenced scene, Vince Ricardo (Falk) instructs the hapless Sheldon Kornpet (Arkin) to run in a serpentine pattern to avoid being shot.

Shawn: Let me guess: there's a bomb on a bus and if it goes below 50mph the whole thing is going to explode.

This is a reference to a 1994 Jan de Bont film, Speed, starring Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock.

When Shawn sees the picture of Ryan and his former Busch Gardens co-worker he says that he thinks he is Koko B. Ware. Koko B. Ware is a former WWF wrestler who would come down to the ring with a macaw on his shoulder.

When Shawn questions Tom at the hospital, he asks if Tom had ever been a member of "Treadstone", then changes his mind and tells the patient not to answer. Treadstone is the fictional arm of the CIA which originally employed Jason Bourne of The Bourne Identity.