Psych 5x6 - 5x9
I finally watched the new Psych ep this morning, and I was...underwhelmed. /o\ There were things I loved! Anyway, I'll get to commentary on that soon, but first I want to catch up on the last four eps from season 5, which I rewatched last week to get myself excited about my show coming back. A little bit of a mixed bag, but lots to love!
Psych 5x6: Viagra Falls
Okay, first of all, let me just say: this has episode has Mr. Carl motherfucking Weathers in it. Carl Weathers! Okay, kiddies, it's time for another installment of Aral's Stories About Childhood and Her BFF, M. So M and I liked to play Rocky. We would hang balloons from the clothesline in the backyard to use as our speed bags, and for a heavy bag, we had a stand-up inflatable Fred Flintstone with sand in the bottom to keep him upright. We would put on a special cassette we made with "Eye of the Tiger" and "Maniac" on repeat to keep us pumped up, and we would work out, jogging up and down the porch steps, and punching the balloons and Fred. Then we would have boxing matches, and we would put mini-water balloons in our mouths to bite down on during the fight, so we could spit blood. Pretty ingenious and also kind of badass for eleven or twelve year olds, right? And Carl Weathers, well, Carl Weathers was Apollo Creed, and he was BAD. ASS. Sometimes we would each be pretending to be fighting him, playing Rocky ourselves, but sometimes M would get to be Rocky, and I would get to be Apollo Creed, and that was okay with me because, duh, he was super hot and badass even if he was the "bad guy." I ♥ Carl Weathers! I ♥ him as himself, on Arrested Development! And now I get to ♥ him in Psych!
And now the actual episode. :) Oh god, I think I totally know what this episode is going to be. It's going to be "Shawn and Gus glimpse their future growing old together," in the form of two retired SBPD partners! I hope I hope I hope!!!
Ahahaha, Gus knows when the "Home Town Buffet" restaurant closes, of course he does, oh god, I bet he takes his grandmother there or something, BECAUSE GUS TOTALLY GOES TO LUNCH WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER I KNOW HE DOES, but he secretly loves it, too! Gus, snottily: "What? It closes at eight, Shawn." ♥♥♥Gus♥♥♥ And Shawn knows Gus loves it, and he may roll his eyes, but he would not have Gus be any tiny bit less ridiculous. N'AAWW I MISSED THESE GUYS.
All right, so Carl Weathers is Boone, and Peters is William Devane, ah, from all kinds of things. Spending some guest star money again in this ep, yay!
Oh, Jules&Lassie! In their matching sunglasses! ♥♥them♥♥ too!
All right, guys, I'm going to get maudlin, but it's just. Like sometimes when I'm watching this show, I think, god, what if I had never started watching this? What if I didn't have this source of joy and silliness in my life? What if I had never followed
ciderpress's recommendation and decided to check it out?? How sad! It's just so awesome! It makes me so happy! How was I not watching it all those several years before I finally got a clue?! *sigh* And Psych fans, Gus/Shawn fans, you guys are pretty rad. Yep yep yep. Good times, and how tragical it would have been had I not ever found this source of delight.
Malarkey, shenanigans, and tomfoolery: the big three. Heee!!
Of my fucking god, I had to watch that first scene between Gus and Boone in Chief Vick's office like a zillion times. I can't stop laughing! Carl Weathers is SO AWESOME. Dulé Hill is SO AWESOME! Together, they are hurting my tummy with their awesomeness!!!
Gus and Shawn's riff on peaches is also full of such hilarity that I am forced to rewind multiple times due to being unable to stop laughing. Whaatt?? {{{THIS SHOW}}} That was freaking amazing.
And then Gus's "cometh in peace" face is just...GAAAAHHHH HOW SO HILARIOUS ALL THE TIME DULÉ HILL??? So creepy!!!
Hee! Does Gus look a little like a young LaWanda Page? I can kinda see it.
AHAHAHA SHAWN ASSURES US GUS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO "PUSSYFOOTS" DUE TO HIS BUM KNEES AND ACHILLES HEEL AND GUS IS ALL NO SHAWN I HAVE TWO ACHILLES HEELS!!! AHAHAHA HOW ARE THEY SO SO SO ALL THE TIME???
Peters calling Shawn "Ricky Nelson" and then insisting on calling him "Rick" never stops being funny to me.
And I also love that Gus and Shawn are doing this entire scene with Boone and Peters whilst carrying delicious snacks. They are darn well going to finish those snacks! A little police work isn't going to get in the way of that!
Yay, finally commenting on the absurdity of their "private" conversations when they turn their backs to the room and whisper! ♥
N'aaww, failed fist bump because they're feeling all awkward about Boone and Peters as their aging future selves.
"I know my loafers, Shawn! And I won't apologize for it!" Guuuuusssss!!!
HOMG!!! They're making "I can't do this with you right now" into a thing, a Gus/Shawn thing, and seriously is there any other way to read that besides in a relationshippy way???
Ooh, feisty Juliet is pretty kickass! I ♥ lady cops!
Nice! The Straight Story reference! God, I love that movie. Never thought there would be a David Lynch movie that my grandmother would truly love.
Heeeee, rolling up the windows in the blueberry when Boone and Peters approach the car! God, Dulé Hill and Carl Weathers are making me giggle uncontrollably. And then negotiating with Boone and Peters over what fruit they can all be together. WTF?! But Shawn and Gus making fun of Boone and Peters and imitating them is ADORABLE.
Um, yeah, Shawn wants his own live-action Billy Zane action figure...a hot dude with awesome guns of his very own, basically. Oh, Shawn. Shawn, Shawn. *sigh* And he's all "we" about it with Gus, like really he wants the hot dude for bothof them, of course. *nubbles Shawn idek*
N'AAAWWWW!!! Shots ring out! Gus dives out of the way--no, seriously, like a hilarious ridiculous LEAP into the air, OH GUS--and Shawn hunkers down! Shawn, immediately: "Talk to me, Gus!" Gus, offscreen: "I'm okay!" Shawn, kinda urgently/relieved/desperate: "All right!" Gah, it's just not translating in text, it was all in their voices. Oh, {{{{Gus/Shawn}}}
Yes, Shawn, we all could have guessed you've been fired from many, many jobs. :)
"This is my partner, Control-Alt-Delete": new favorite?
Gus and Shawn barking in the bushes outside the house where the guy has a hostage?? Hilarious and weird and hilarious and ridiculous and also hilarious!
Yeaaaah, Juliet. Nice takedown of that perp.
Aaaaaah, the cheesy grin on Shawn's face and Gus's thumbs up! Looooosers, and I love them!!!
Ah, nice, Shawn gets the seal of approval from one of Henry's old buddies/idols. And AHAHAHAHAHA Boone's creepy offer to become Gus's surrogate father if he has no parents! Gus is so awesomely deadpan when he politely declines!
All in all, I really adore this episode. It's not, like, in the pantheon of godlike episodes (like High Top Fade Out, say) or anything like that, but it is good times.
***AHAHAHAHAHA, did you guys see the USA crossover ad with some guy from that show Royal Pains and Gus the creepy, overly aggressive pharmaceutical sales rep?? SO AMAZING. Dulé Hill is SO AMAZING!!!***
Psych 5x7: Ferry Tale
Aw, kid!Shawn and kid!Gus duct-taping themselves together! I'm...kind of surprised that M and I never did that, to be honest. But, whaaaaaaatttt??? THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT KID. THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT KID!SHAWN. YOU CAN'T JUST DO THAT GUYS THIS IS NOT BEWITCHED. I LOVED THAT KID. >:( Carlos McCullers II just gets better and better as kid!Gus, though. I mean, I'm sure this kid will be fine, but. I really liked the first kid!Shawn!
Heeeee!!! Gus knows just how to handle Shawn, and I fully believe Shawn loves to be handled. GOD I ADORE THEM.
Okay, Shawn and Gus amongst prisoners and white hippie environmentalists ON A BOAT should be awesome. I really, really wanted this episode to be better than it is. And it's Saladin K. Patterson and Kell Cahoon writing it! So much promise! It has its moments, but. *sigh* Not among my favorites. I shall try hard to concentrate on the good!
Oooh, dirty tricks, Shawn! Totally manipulating Gus into seasickness to get away from the hippies!
And, yay, Chi McBride as Craig, the prisoners' guard. Love that guy!
"The head peel is my fourth greatest fear, Shawn!" AW GUS.
My god, I'm getting off on Shawn ~tending seasick!Gus like this, half-carrying, almost cradling him, uuuugggh, it's so gooooooood!!!
You know, the way Gus calls Shawn out for being offensive in various ways and often for saying/doing something specifically racist really does have the cumulative effect of producing a counter-narrative against the grain of the white POV that's always at the center of the story in mainstream tv. It's more of a counter-narrative than we usually get on tv at all, and that's what I usually end up coming back to, even when this show has its problematic episodes or moments.
Heeeee, Shawn knows Gus has a radio voice, a cell phone voice, and a white dude voice. 1) Of course Gus has all those voices! 2) Married! *G*
Yay, I love that Vick is doing the negotiating and is in the field! I have missed her!
Ahahahaha!!! Gus and Craig and Shawn are hilarious together and in all various configurations!
Whoah, Shawn got kicked in the face! Um, ouch! Geez! I want Gus/Shawn post-ep hurt/comfort fic, stat!
Gus's running list of alternate choices keeps being funny to me. Oh, Gus. So, so, so eternally pissy. *adores Gus*
I...don't have a whole lot to say about the humor about the whiny, white environmentalist hippie dudes. Some of it was definitely funny. The story about teaching the "natives" in the Amazon how to compost or whatever? Yeah, I know those dudes, for sure. I snickered! I mean, believe me, I know from hippies, and there are plenty of ways to make fun of white hippie environmentalists that are hilarious and true, PLENTY, but some of this stuff was just...not that for me. "I voted for Obama!" Really?
Ahahaha, Craig, to Lassiter after being insulted by him: "I'm about to kick your Ichabod Crane-lookin' ass, that's what!" Yes! Nice! It's kind of hilarious to see Lassie be so much smaller than someone. Chi McBride rocks in that scene.
Aw, no, Craig! And then not in the blueberry! Totally didn't call that.
Nice, though, Shawn and Gus are totally masters of the three-legged race! Oh, shit! Best cinematography EVER on their epic tumble! And yes, yes, I did get a thrill from seeing Gus's arms wrapped around Shawn like that as they rolled down the hill. If they're going to give it to me, I'm sure as fuck going to take it!
OMG, I will never ever ever tire of Gus in charge, and Shawn ~following the candy bar, metaphorically or not. Heh.
Psych 5x8: Shawn 2.0
So they said on Twitter that Skyler Gisondor is staying as kid!Shawn, so I guess I'll have to get used to him. I've got nothing against him specifically, and I actually feel kind of bad being grumpy about it--he's just a kid! who wants an acting job!--but it's just that I liked the other kid. Just 'cause they're kids doesn't mean you can switch them out all willy-nilly like that. *sigh*
Gaaah, that opening sequence of Shawn's various forms of debauchery was AWESOME. His junk food, junk booze, junk literature stupor was so fantastic!!! Oh, me and Shawn, man. We could totally hang out.
Gus bought Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! on dvd! Of course he did!
Ahahaha, Shawn totally has an embattled relationship with his regular barista. Of course he does!
Yay, Nestor Carbonell as Declan Rand the criminal profiler! Totally love that guy!
Huh, I don't remember "said the liar." Is that a thing that any of you grew up with??
Lassie's light blue shirt is freaking me out!
Gus is cracking me up in the background being all smug about Shawn's crash-and-burn when he asks out Juliet.
Ah yes, the Curt Smith version of the theme song. *sigh* It's very '80's, all right! Here's the thing about Curt Smith for me right now. I will say this about Tears For Fears. When I heard "Shout" when I was 12 or 13 years old, it sounded different than anything anyone else was listening to in rural Pacific Northwest in the mid-1980's, and it felt good to me and sounded good to me, and that was a part of the beginning of me staking out a different kind of identity from my rural, conservative, Christian, straight, country and top-40 loving peers. I will always have a warm feeling about TFF for that. But Curt Smith currently appears to be kind of a douchebag, and that just is what it is. It's cute to see the Psych PTB and James Roday geek out over him, and I can enjoy their enjoyment while still thinking he's a dick.
Aaww, Gus has to explain to Juliet that Shawn sometimes "overenunciates when he gets uncomfortable." And Shawn is so adorable overenunciating as he denies it! God, they're so cute!! OTP! Okay, I hope they continue to play with Shawn's overenunciating thing because it just keeps on being funny.
As always, yay Woody the coroner! Best choice for recurring guest role ever!
I don't know, Shawn's competitive thing with Declan is feeling forced or contrived to me.
Whoah, Catherine Bicks is Andie from Dawson's Creek, i.e., Crazy Rich White Girl, familiar in the genre from the segment of YA literature about young middle/upper-middle class white girls struggling with mental illness. See also: quirky, "wild" waif-like mentally ill love interest in many white boy film geek's fantasies. It's the exotic crossed with the damsel-in-distress that gets fetishized in both variations. Bummer that Meredith Monroe is kind of indelibly that character in my mind. [Note: I have much compassion and empathy for actual middle and upper-middle class white girls who are suffering from serious depression, anxiety, self-harm, eating disorders, etc.. It's mostly the gross fantasy construction/fetishization of them in white male-driven narratives that creeps me out.]
Okay, really, Juliet? Secretly almost holding hands with Declan on the job? Really?? Yeeaaahhh. I don't know, I like Juliet best when she's being kickass and professional.
Ooooh dear, Gina is back.
I don't know man, Gus is never hotter than when he's just not having it.
I am really loving Nestor Carbonell in this role. His thing about how rich he is was really funny.
And there's Curt Smith. I mean, he totally does fine! It is pretty funny to have him just singing TFF songs in the background. The writers use him well. And James Roday is pretty adorable playing Shawn all crushed out on him. Being fans of real people instead of characters is just complicated, man. They can let you down!
Okay, seriously? Shawn tells Woody his wife is sleeping with her personal trainer, and Woody's response is that it's okay: "I approved that one." Nice! Way to slip that in there, guys!
Aaaagh!! Gus broke up with his girlfriend of eight days, and Gus and Shawn could have been dates! But, oh god, Gina instead. Oh, Shawn. I need that "Son I Am Disappoint" macro.
Psych 5x9: One, Maybe Two, Ways Out
They seriously got Franka Potente for an episode of Psych? Seriously?? Well, all right then! Damn. I find her just so incredibly, ridiculously hot. Like, okay, Run Lola Run wasn't the best movie ever in the history of movies, definitely overhyped, but it was clever in its way, and she was FREAKING AWESOME in it.
Oh god, Gus and Shawn eating ice cream cones together! Why is that pushing all my buttons??? It just is.
Fuck, Franka Potente is still so hot! SO HOT!
And Gus has "the ankles of a stallion." OH GUS. And then he won't drop his ice cream cone! Yay!!! The way Dulé Hill runs with the cone in his hand is completely adorable.
Tommy Howell!!! Or, as he prefers it professionally, C. Thomas Howell, as Driggs. He will always be Tommy Howell to me because that's who he was in Bop, 16, Teen Beat, and all the other magazines I read when I was 12 years old, and he was in The Outsiders. And so Tommy he shall always be. Sorry, guy!
Aw, Gus trying to keep the Psych office from being destroyed by Nadia's spy practices. Always so practical, my dear Gus!
Oooh, Juliet slept over! Good for her! Deal with it, Shawn, you can only dick someone around for so long. Especially if you're totally gay for your BFF to whom you are completely and thoroughly MARRIED.
Jon Gries as Strabinsky is totally familiar to me, but not from anything specific. Yet another That Guy for the Psych guest star archives.
Is Corbin Bernsen Candian? He just said "literally" in the Canadian way. Just looked him up and he's totally not. Huh.
Hee! Even Lassiter is kind of won over by Declan. Too bad for you, Shawn.
And speaking of Lassie, I love how he smiles when Driggs puts him on point because he knows "the guy with no life" is the one for the job.
Oh my god, I desperately want an icon of Shawn and Gus in the peep hole of Strabinsky's hotel room door. That would be perfect!
Oh please, the bit with Shawn talking about his feelings when he's wearing a wire, so Juliet hears all his secret innermost BFF-only thoughts...yeah, whatever. C'mon, show, shit or get off the pot, as they say. I don't hate Shawn/Juliet, I really don't. I just wish they'd either keep it light in tone, or deal with it. I get frustrated with the endless ambiguity, partly because as is so often the case, I want better for Juliet and don't want her to put up with Shawn's lack of ability to deal with life. Maggie Lawson does a great job with that scene, though. She really gets to me even when I kind of want Shawn to shut up. So I guess we'll see what they actually do with it now. *sigh*
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Psych 5x6: Viagra Falls
Okay, first of all, let me just say: this has episode has Mr. Carl motherfucking Weathers in it. Carl Weathers! Okay, kiddies, it's time for another installment of Aral's Stories About Childhood and Her BFF, M. So M and I liked to play Rocky. We would hang balloons from the clothesline in the backyard to use as our speed bags, and for a heavy bag, we had a stand-up inflatable Fred Flintstone with sand in the bottom to keep him upright. We would put on a special cassette we made with "Eye of the Tiger" and "Maniac" on repeat to keep us pumped up, and we would work out, jogging up and down the porch steps, and punching the balloons and Fred. Then we would have boxing matches, and we would put mini-water balloons in our mouths to bite down on during the fight, so we could spit blood. Pretty ingenious and also kind of badass for eleven or twelve year olds, right? And Carl Weathers, well, Carl Weathers was Apollo Creed, and he was BAD. ASS. Sometimes we would each be pretending to be fighting him, playing Rocky ourselves, but sometimes M would get to be Rocky, and I would get to be Apollo Creed, and that was okay with me because, duh, he was super hot and badass even if he was the "bad guy." I ♥ Carl Weathers! I ♥ him as himself, on Arrested Development! And now I get to ♥ him in Psych!
And now the actual episode. :) Oh god, I think I totally know what this episode is going to be. It's going to be "Shawn and Gus glimpse their future growing old together," in the form of two retired SBPD partners! I hope I hope I hope!!!
Ahahaha, Gus knows when the "Home Town Buffet" restaurant closes, of course he does, oh god, I bet he takes his grandmother there or something, BECAUSE GUS TOTALLY GOES TO LUNCH WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER I KNOW HE DOES, but he secretly loves it, too! Gus, snottily: "What? It closes at eight, Shawn." ♥♥♥Gus♥♥♥ And Shawn knows Gus loves it, and he may roll his eyes, but he would not have Gus be any tiny bit less ridiculous. N'AAWW I MISSED THESE GUYS.
All right, so Carl Weathers is Boone, and Peters is William Devane, ah, from all kinds of things. Spending some guest star money again in this ep, yay!
Oh, Jules&Lassie! In their matching sunglasses! ♥♥them♥♥ too!
All right, guys, I'm going to get maudlin, but it's just. Like sometimes when I'm watching this show, I think, god, what if I had never started watching this? What if I didn't have this source of joy and silliness in my life? What if I had never followed
ciderpress's recommendation and decided to check it out?? How sad! It's just so awesome! It makes me so happy! How was I not watching it all those several years before I finally got a clue?! *sigh* And Psych fans, Gus/Shawn fans, you guys are pretty rad. Yep yep yep. Good times, and how tragical it would have been had I not ever found this source of delight.
Malarkey, shenanigans, and tomfoolery: the big three. Heee!!
Of my fucking god, I had to watch that first scene between Gus and Boone in Chief Vick's office like a zillion times. I can't stop laughing! Carl Weathers is SO AWESOME. Dulé Hill is SO AWESOME! Together, they are hurting my tummy with their awesomeness!!!
Gus and Shawn's riff on peaches is also full of such hilarity that I am forced to rewind multiple times due to being unable to stop laughing. Whaatt?? {{{THIS SHOW}}} That was freaking amazing.
And then Gus's "cometh in peace" face is just...GAAAAHHHH HOW SO HILARIOUS ALL THE TIME DULÉ HILL??? So creepy!!!
Hee! Does Gus look a little like a young LaWanda Page? I can kinda see it.
AHAHAHA SHAWN ASSURES US GUS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO "PUSSYFOOTS" DUE TO HIS BUM KNEES AND ACHILLES HEEL AND GUS IS ALL NO SHAWN I HAVE TWO ACHILLES HEELS!!! AHAHAHA HOW ARE THEY SO SO SO ALL THE TIME???
Peters calling Shawn "Ricky Nelson" and then insisting on calling him "Rick" never stops being funny to me.
And I also love that Gus and Shawn are doing this entire scene with Boone and Peters whilst carrying delicious snacks. They are darn well going to finish those snacks! A little police work isn't going to get in the way of that!
Yay, finally commenting on the absurdity of their "private" conversations when they turn their backs to the room and whisper! ♥
N'aaww, failed fist bump because they're feeling all awkward about Boone and Peters as their aging future selves.
"I know my loafers, Shawn! And I won't apologize for it!" Guuuuusssss!!!
HOMG!!! They're making "I can't do this with you right now" into a thing, a Gus/Shawn thing, and seriously is there any other way to read that besides in a relationshippy way???
Ooh, feisty Juliet is pretty kickass! I ♥ lady cops!
Nice! The Straight Story reference! God, I love that movie. Never thought there would be a David Lynch movie that my grandmother would truly love.
Heeeee, rolling up the windows in the blueberry when Boone and Peters approach the car! God, Dulé Hill and Carl Weathers are making me giggle uncontrollably. And then negotiating with Boone and Peters over what fruit they can all be together. WTF?! But Shawn and Gus making fun of Boone and Peters and imitating them is ADORABLE.
Um, yeah, Shawn wants his own live-action Billy Zane action figure...a hot dude with awesome guns of his very own, basically. Oh, Shawn. Shawn, Shawn. *sigh* And he's all "we" about it with Gus, like really he wants the hot dude for bothof them, of course. *nubbles Shawn idek*
N'AAAWWWW!!! Shots ring out! Gus dives out of the way--no, seriously, like a hilarious ridiculous LEAP into the air, OH GUS--and Shawn hunkers down! Shawn, immediately: "Talk to me, Gus!" Gus, offscreen: "I'm okay!" Shawn, kinda urgently/relieved/desperate: "All right!" Gah, it's just not translating in text, it was all in their voices. Oh, {{{{Gus/Shawn}}}
Yes, Shawn, we all could have guessed you've been fired from many, many jobs. :)
"This is my partner, Control-Alt-Delete": new favorite?
Gus and Shawn barking in the bushes outside the house where the guy has a hostage?? Hilarious and weird and hilarious and ridiculous and also hilarious!
Yeaaaah, Juliet. Nice takedown of that perp.
Aaaaaah, the cheesy grin on Shawn's face and Gus's thumbs up! Looooosers, and I love them!!!
Ah, nice, Shawn gets the seal of approval from one of Henry's old buddies/idols. And AHAHAHAHAHA Boone's creepy offer to become Gus's surrogate father if he has no parents! Gus is so awesomely deadpan when he politely declines!
All in all, I really adore this episode. It's not, like, in the pantheon of godlike episodes (like High Top Fade Out, say) or anything like that, but it is good times.
***AHAHAHAHAHA, did you guys see the USA crossover ad with some guy from that show Royal Pains and Gus the creepy, overly aggressive pharmaceutical sales rep?? SO AMAZING. Dulé Hill is SO AMAZING!!!***
Psych 5x7: Ferry Tale
Aw, kid!Shawn and kid!Gus duct-taping themselves together! I'm...kind of surprised that M and I never did that, to be honest. But, whaaaaaaatttt??? THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT KID. THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT KID!SHAWN. YOU CAN'T JUST DO THAT GUYS THIS IS NOT BEWITCHED. I LOVED THAT KID. >:( Carlos McCullers II just gets better and better as kid!Gus, though. I mean, I'm sure this kid will be fine, but. I really liked the first kid!Shawn!
Heeeee!!! Gus knows just how to handle Shawn, and I fully believe Shawn loves to be handled. GOD I ADORE THEM.
Okay, Shawn and Gus amongst prisoners and white hippie environmentalists ON A BOAT should be awesome. I really, really wanted this episode to be better than it is. And it's Saladin K. Patterson and Kell Cahoon writing it! So much promise! It has its moments, but. *sigh* Not among my favorites. I shall try hard to concentrate on the good!
Oooh, dirty tricks, Shawn! Totally manipulating Gus into seasickness to get away from the hippies!
And, yay, Chi McBride as Craig, the prisoners' guard. Love that guy!
"The head peel is my fourth greatest fear, Shawn!" AW GUS.
My god, I'm getting off on Shawn ~tending seasick!Gus like this, half-carrying, almost cradling him, uuuugggh, it's so gooooooood!!!
You know, the way Gus calls Shawn out for being offensive in various ways and often for saying/doing something specifically racist really does have the cumulative effect of producing a counter-narrative against the grain of the white POV that's always at the center of the story in mainstream tv. It's more of a counter-narrative than we usually get on tv at all, and that's what I usually end up coming back to, even when this show has its problematic episodes or moments.
Heeeee, Shawn knows Gus has a radio voice, a cell phone voice, and a white dude voice. 1) Of course Gus has all those voices! 2) Married! *G*
Yay, I love that Vick is doing the negotiating and is in the field! I have missed her!
Ahahahaha!!! Gus and Craig and Shawn are hilarious together and in all various configurations!
Whoah, Shawn got kicked in the face! Um, ouch! Geez! I want Gus/Shawn post-ep hurt/comfort fic, stat!
Gus's running list of alternate choices keeps being funny to me. Oh, Gus. So, so, so eternally pissy. *adores Gus*
I...don't have a whole lot to say about the humor about the whiny, white environmentalist hippie dudes. Some of it was definitely funny. The story about teaching the "natives" in the Amazon how to compost or whatever? Yeah, I know those dudes, for sure. I snickered! I mean, believe me, I know from hippies, and there are plenty of ways to make fun of white hippie environmentalists that are hilarious and true, PLENTY, but some of this stuff was just...not that for me. "I voted for Obama!" Really?
Ahahaha, Craig, to Lassiter after being insulted by him: "I'm about to kick your Ichabod Crane-lookin' ass, that's what!" Yes! Nice! It's kind of hilarious to see Lassie be so much smaller than someone. Chi McBride rocks in that scene.
Aw, no, Craig! And then not in the blueberry! Totally didn't call that.
Nice, though, Shawn and Gus are totally masters of the three-legged race! Oh, shit! Best cinematography EVER on their epic tumble! And yes, yes, I did get a thrill from seeing Gus's arms wrapped around Shawn like that as they rolled down the hill. If they're going to give it to me, I'm sure as fuck going to take it!
OMG, I will never ever ever tire of Gus in charge, and Shawn ~following the candy bar, metaphorically or not. Heh.
Psych 5x8: Shawn 2.0
So they said on Twitter that Skyler Gisondor is staying as kid!Shawn, so I guess I'll have to get used to him. I've got nothing against him specifically, and I actually feel kind of bad being grumpy about it--he's just a kid! who wants an acting job!--but it's just that I liked the other kid. Just 'cause they're kids doesn't mean you can switch them out all willy-nilly like that. *sigh*
Gaaah, that opening sequence of Shawn's various forms of debauchery was AWESOME. His junk food, junk booze, junk literature stupor was so fantastic!!! Oh, me and Shawn, man. We could totally hang out.
Gus bought Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! on dvd! Of course he did!
Ahahaha, Shawn totally has an embattled relationship with his regular barista. Of course he does!
Yay, Nestor Carbonell as Declan Rand the criminal profiler! Totally love that guy!
Huh, I don't remember "said the liar." Is that a thing that any of you grew up with??
Lassie's light blue shirt is freaking me out!
Gus is cracking me up in the background being all smug about Shawn's crash-and-burn when he asks out Juliet.
Ah yes, the Curt Smith version of the theme song. *sigh* It's very '80's, all right! Here's the thing about Curt Smith for me right now. I will say this about Tears For Fears. When I heard "Shout" when I was 12 or 13 years old, it sounded different than anything anyone else was listening to in rural Pacific Northwest in the mid-1980's, and it felt good to me and sounded good to me, and that was a part of the beginning of me staking out a different kind of identity from my rural, conservative, Christian, straight, country and top-40 loving peers. I will always have a warm feeling about TFF for that. But Curt Smith currently appears to be kind of a douchebag, and that just is what it is. It's cute to see the Psych PTB and James Roday geek out over him, and I can enjoy their enjoyment while still thinking he's a dick.
Aaww, Gus has to explain to Juliet that Shawn sometimes "overenunciates when he gets uncomfortable." And Shawn is so adorable overenunciating as he denies it! God, they're so cute!! OTP! Okay, I hope they continue to play with Shawn's overenunciating thing because it just keeps on being funny.
As always, yay Woody the coroner! Best choice for recurring guest role ever!
I don't know, Shawn's competitive thing with Declan is feeling forced or contrived to me.
Whoah, Catherine Bicks is Andie from Dawson's Creek, i.e., Crazy Rich White Girl, familiar in the genre from the segment of YA literature about young middle/upper-middle class white girls struggling with mental illness. See also: quirky, "wild" waif-like mentally ill love interest in many white boy film geek's fantasies. It's the exotic crossed with the damsel-in-distress that gets fetishized in both variations. Bummer that Meredith Monroe is kind of indelibly that character in my mind. [Note: I have much compassion and empathy for actual middle and upper-middle class white girls who are suffering from serious depression, anxiety, self-harm, eating disorders, etc.. It's mostly the gross fantasy construction/fetishization of them in white male-driven narratives that creeps me out.]
Okay, really, Juliet? Secretly almost holding hands with Declan on the job? Really?? Yeeaaahhh. I don't know, I like Juliet best when she's being kickass and professional.
Ooooh dear, Gina is back.
I don't know man, Gus is never hotter than when he's just not having it.
I am really loving Nestor Carbonell in this role. His thing about how rich he is was really funny.
And there's Curt Smith. I mean, he totally does fine! It is pretty funny to have him just singing TFF songs in the background. The writers use him well. And James Roday is pretty adorable playing Shawn all crushed out on him. Being fans of real people instead of characters is just complicated, man. They can let you down!
Okay, seriously? Shawn tells Woody his wife is sleeping with her personal trainer, and Woody's response is that it's okay: "I approved that one." Nice! Way to slip that in there, guys!
Aaaagh!! Gus broke up with his girlfriend of eight days, and Gus and Shawn could have been dates! But, oh god, Gina instead. Oh, Shawn. I need that "Son I Am Disappoint" macro.
Psych 5x9: One, Maybe Two, Ways Out
They seriously got Franka Potente for an episode of Psych? Seriously?? Well, all right then! Damn. I find her just so incredibly, ridiculously hot. Like, okay, Run Lola Run wasn't the best movie ever in the history of movies, definitely overhyped, but it was clever in its way, and she was FREAKING AWESOME in it.
Oh god, Gus and Shawn eating ice cream cones together! Why is that pushing all my buttons??? It just is.
Fuck, Franka Potente is still so hot! SO HOT!
And Gus has "the ankles of a stallion." OH GUS. And then he won't drop his ice cream cone! Yay!!! The way Dulé Hill runs with the cone in his hand is completely adorable.
Tommy Howell!!! Or, as he prefers it professionally, C. Thomas Howell, as Driggs. He will always be Tommy Howell to me because that's who he was in Bop, 16, Teen Beat, and all the other magazines I read when I was 12 years old, and he was in The Outsiders. And so Tommy he shall always be. Sorry, guy!
Aw, Gus trying to keep the Psych office from being destroyed by Nadia's spy practices. Always so practical, my dear Gus!
Oooh, Juliet slept over! Good for her! Deal with it, Shawn, you can only dick someone around for so long. Especially if you're totally gay for your BFF to whom you are completely and thoroughly MARRIED.
Jon Gries as Strabinsky is totally familiar to me, but not from anything specific. Yet another That Guy for the Psych guest star archives.
Is Corbin Bernsen Candian? He just said "literally" in the Canadian way. Just looked him up and he's totally not. Huh.
Hee! Even Lassiter is kind of won over by Declan. Too bad for you, Shawn.
And speaking of Lassie, I love how he smiles when Driggs puts him on point because he knows "the guy with no life" is the one for the job.
Oh my god, I desperately want an icon of Shawn and Gus in the peep hole of Strabinsky's hotel room door. That would be perfect!
Oh please, the bit with Shawn talking about his feelings when he's wearing a wire, so Juliet hears all his secret innermost BFF-only thoughts...yeah, whatever. C'mon, show, shit or get off the pot, as they say. I don't hate Shawn/Juliet, I really don't. I just wish they'd either keep it light in tone, or deal with it. I get frustrated with the endless ambiguity, partly because as is so often the case, I want better for Juliet and don't want her to put up with Shawn's lack of ability to deal with life. Maggie Lawson does a great job with that scene, though. She really gets to me even when I kind of want Shawn to shut up. So I guess we'll see what they actually do with it now. *sigh*
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