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Psych :: Ghosts (03x01)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Ghosts |
| Episode #: | 03x01 |
| Production Number: | #3_3001 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday July 18th, 2008 |
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Episode Summary |
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Shawn's mom, Madeleine, is in town to do psych evaluations for the SBPD. During her return, Shawn is confused and disturbed by his father's friendly behavior toward her. As if things aren't bad enough, Gus is forced to stop working at the Psych agency when his boss notices that it is interfering with his work at the pharmaceutical company. He demands that Gus quit, lest he be terminated from his real job. However, the company boss has one more case for Shawn and Gus—figure out who's haunting his house and get rid of whatever it is.
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Episode Notes |
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Psych-Out: Shawn and Gus sing "Ebony and Ivory."
| Pineapple Watch: There's a pineapple in the fruit bowl next to where Henry's opening the bottle of wine.
| The Big Adventures of Little Shawn and Gus: Shawn and Gus use a time machine to visit some past events in their lives.
| This episode drew 4.9 million viewers.
| Cybill Shepherd (Madeleine) and Christopher McDonald (Haversham) previously worked together in the 1989 film Chances Are. They played a married couple, Corinne and Louie Jeffries.
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Gus: (on the phone) Where are you?
Shawn: Hiding out in my bedroom. Oh, my God. Holy crap. I just found an entire unopened box of Shrinky Dinks!
Gus: You're hiding in your bedroom because your mom came to visit? Dude, you've got problems.
| Gus: I've got my own problems. I have to go see FrankJim Ogletree.
Shawn: FrankJim Ogletree? Is that a person or a hippopotamus?
| Gus: He's the new regional sales manager, my immediate boss, and a tyrant. They call him the little Pinochet.
Shawn: That's too abstract. Why don't they just call him Jerk Pants or Suck McJones.
| Henry: You want me to give you a hand, hon?
Madeleine: Did you just call me "honey"?
Henry: I did not. I was going to say ... hunchback.
| Shawn: You think you can undo fifteen years of hard feelings with a bottle of Pinot...
Henry: Bordeaux.
Shawn: I didn't even know Wal-Mart had a wine cellar.
| Gus: This is just something I do on the side, a hobby really, like collecting thimbles or, um, raising carrier pigeons.
Ogletree: You raise carrier pigeons.
Gus: No, not at all. That's totally lame. I just said that because I was flustered.
Ogletree: I raise carrier pigeons.
Gus: I'm glad you said that. Because I was afraid to tell you how cool I thought carrier pigeons are, flying around and carrying stuff, coming back. Awesome. (chuckling nervously) I hear that.
| Karen: It has come to my attention, Detective, that you've discharged your weapons in the last four cases you've worked.
Lassiter: Thank you.
Karen: That wasn't a compliment.
Lassiter: I'm just trying to keep the streets safe, Chief.
Karen: The last incident was at a cat show.
Lassiter: Well, let me just go on record as saying that I would never shoot a cat.
Karen: I guess I could find some solace in that.
Lassiter: Unless it was approaching in a threatening manner ... or refused to stop upon my command. I would probably just fire a warning shot to make my point, but that's really a field decision. I can't commit to it at this juncture.
| Gus: What the hell are you doing here?
Shawn: I should ask you the same question.
Gus: I work here.
Shawn: OK, I should ask you a different question.
| Gus: I make forty-eight grand a year, Shawn.
Shawn: What is that, yen? Who needs forty-eight thousand dollars to live?
Gus: I need thirty-two. The other sixteen generally goes to you.
Shawn: Don't be ridiculous.
Gus: I claimed you on my taxes, Shawn!
| (Gus forcibly removes Shawn from the premises, and Shawn goes limp in his arms)
Gus: Don't you dare go boneless on me, Shawn!
| Shawn: I know him. He's the one that built the Polio Dome.
Gus: Polo Dome.
Shawn: That's a much less depressing name.
| Lassiter: First question: where's the bug?
Madeleine: The what?
Lassiter: The bug. (feels under the table) Nothing new in this area. It must be concealed on your person.
Madeleine: I honestly don't have anything on me.
Lassiter: Then you wouldn't be opposed to me patting you down.
Madeleine: Actually I'm very opposed to that.
Lassiter: Would you be willing to submit to a polygraph?
| Gus: How did you get inside the house?
Shawn: Hadewych, housekeeper. She was leaving, so she let me in. Tiny little dollop of a woman. Dutch-Indonesian. Enormous forearms. She made me a pannekoek. It's like a pancake, but it is the size of a manhole cover.
| Gus: Where are your clothes?
Shawn: In the dryer.
Gus: In the dryer?
Shawn: Well, the sauna was a little bit hotter than I was expecting.
| Haversham: Please don't touch anything.
Shawn: I'm sorry, Mr. Haversham, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to touch absolutely everything ... including this naked lady lamp. (touches it) I also might also have to sniff some stuff, possibly lick some things. These Tootsie-Roll Pops come to mind.
| Shawn: You're killing all of my Jujubes.
Haversham: Jujubes are candies.
Shawn: Exactly.
| (the dog jumps up on the window and barks as the three stare out at a ghost)
Shawn: That dog is kind of an a-hole.
Gus: It sees something.
Shawn: Yeah, urine stains on my pants.
| Shawn: (to Hadewych) I'm Shawn Spencer. It's me ... and my partner, Lemongrass Gogoloab.
| Haversham: It was the voice. Something was wrong with it.
Shawn: What was wrong with it?
Haversham: It said ... "Gus."
Shawn: Gus?
Haversham: Just like that.
| Haversham: What's your game?
Shawn: I have two games: Red Rover and lawn darts. We'd need at least four for even the most rudimentary game of Rover, and they don't make lawn darts anymore, too dangerous, but that's not why I'm here
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Cultural References |
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Gus: He's the new regional sales manager, my immediate boss, and a tyrant. They call him the little Pinochet.
Augusto Pinochet was the President of Chile from 1974 until 1990. He was a cruel and oppressive leader.
| Shawn: Dude, I just found a pristine issue of Dynamite magazine, Square Pegs on the cover. Hold on, let me read "Bummers" to you.
Dynamite was a popular culture children's magazine. A regular feature was "Bummers," a compilation of annoyances that always began with "Don't you hate..." Square Pegs was a short-lived sitcom about two outcasts in high school. The issue that they appear in, the one that Shawn has, is from February 8, 1983.
| Shawn: You know who is having multiple dates? Dad. I believe he's up to number eight with his Jekyll and Hyde English girlfriend.
Jekyll and Hyde are characters from the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the story, Dr. Jekyll unknowingly has another personality, Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde is very violent and very unlike the doctor. Shawn is referring to the dual personality that Henry's girlfriend has displayed—she appeared meek and boring but then turned into a sexy minx.
| Lassiter: I answered every question in character as Tom "Gunny" Highway.
Juliet: Who is Tom "Gunny" Highway?
Lassiter: Clint Eastwood's character, in Heartbreak Ridge?
Heartbreak Ridge is an '80s action film starring Clint Eastwood as Tom "Gunny" Highway. Highway is a Gunnery Sergeant who attempts to train a group of undisciplined Marines.
| Shawn: (sipping the Dutch cocoa) It tastes like it was dipped straight out of Willy Wonka's river.
Willy Wonka is a character from the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Roald Dahl. One of the primary features in Wonka's factory is the river made purely of chocolate.
| Henry: I can wear a suit.
Shawn: Which one of the Three Tenors did you borrow that from? Not the dead one, I hope.
The Three Tenors is a trio made up of opera singers Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, and Luciano Pavarotti. Pavarotti died in 2007 from pancreatic cancer.
| Shawn: I'm a psychic, and with great power comes great responsibility...
"With great power comes great responsibility" is a quote that Stan Lee used in his Spider-Man comics, though it first appeared as a narration in Amazing Fantasy #15 as "With great power, there must also come great responsibility."
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Episode References |
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(in a flashback to 1995, Henry catches Shawn and his girlfriend in a car)
Shawn's Girlfriend: (to Henry) It's my neighbor's car. We were gonna put it back.
Shawn mentions in "Pilot" that he has a criminal record from stealing a car when he was eighteen. This is presumably the event he was talking about.
| Shawn: Of course I will come. I just need to cancel a date, but that is not a big deal.
In the last episode, "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead," Shawn made a date with the assistant curator, Sophie.
| Shawn: I dropped my phone while I was solving a very important crime.
While working on the disappearing mummy case in "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead," Shawn accidentally dropped his cell phone and broke it.
| Visual: The newspaper's "Psychic Duo Nab Mummy Imposter"
In "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead," Shawn (and Gus) figure out that the mummy was really just a guy dressed up like one.
| Shawn: You know who is having multiple dates? Dad. I believe he's up to number eight with his Jekyll and Hyde English girlfriend.
Henry started seeing the woman, Susan, in "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion."
| Shawn: I even visited Alice Bundy in prison, get a few pointers.
Alice Bundy is a character from the episode "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast." Alice terrorized a group of sorority girls who accidentally killed Alice's best friend. One of her tricks was making the lights flicker on and off.
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