Eight seasons, two movies, and a whole bunch of cases: Here's every episode of Psych, ranked
Photo-Illustration: Vulture and NBC Back in 2006, USA Network executives gathered at their conclave and smoked up the network’s blue-skies with their new show selection: Psych, which follows a “psychic detective” and his best friend who help solve an alarmingly high amount of crimes for the Santa Barbara Police Department. Shawn Spencer isn’t actually divining anything from the spirits, of course.
121. “A Nightmare on State Street” Psych’s penultimate episode was not the time to experiment with “A Nightmare on State Street,” which unfolds as a surrealist horror ode with Gus consulting a dream therapist to address his recent uptick in nightmares. The therapist tries to guide Gus through his lingering abandonment issues with Shawn, but he only makes Gus’s nightmares worse as the duo tries to solve the murder of a gym teacher.
110. “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece” “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece” is another example of Psych being a little too generic in its early episodes. An expensive heirloom ring goes missing from a hotel’s safety-deposit box, and dead bodies start to follow. If anything, the highlight here is Gus’s secret love of safecracking, which births eight seasons’ worth of weird hobbies including coin collecting, ferroequinology, and memorizing area codes and their local periodicals. 109.
100. “One, Maybe Two, Ways Out” The only good thing to come out of this half-baked spy narrative is that it finally brings Shawn and Juliet together. Just be patient. We have to sit through some dumb drama involving global currency certificates and special-ops moles first. “Serious Shawn moment here. I want to be happy too,” Juliet overhears him admitting to Gus. “For some reason, I can’t imagine that happening without Juliet.” They kiiiiiiiiiiss! Yaaaaaay! Nothing will ever be the saaaaame! 99.
90. “Dead Air” Seven seasons of Gus claiming to be a master seducer of ladies is tested when the pair investigate who was brazen enough to murder a shock jock on-air. It’s likely the culprit is less a radio executive than a jealous listener obsessed with the host’s groupie, so Gus gets his own show to lure the stalker out: “The Smooth Storm With a Player Named Gus,” on which he tantializes the airwaves with aural pleasures like “Sit back and chillax with me as I take you on a funky ride.
85. Psych: The Movie The fact that we got this movie at all is nothing short of a miracle, and knowing the full backstory is important to understanding the Hail Mary that went into its production: A week before the start of filming, Omundson suffered a massive stroke that rendered him immobile and barely able to speak.
77. “Juliet Wears the Pantsuit” With Shawn and Juliet in the awkward-aftermath stage of their breakup, Jules decides to get a roommate to make her home a little less lonely. Her plan turns into a Single White Female scenario, however, when the woman she’d decided to live with turns up dead in a field and her second choice mimics every aspect of her identity after moving in.
68. “The Polarizing Express” Shawn gets suspended from the department when he’s caught illegally obtaining evidence, thus willing a Christmas Carol situation into existence after his day from hell. Where would they all be without him, you ask? Henry is a fat slob, Gus gets walked over by his materialistic wife and stepson, Chief Vick has been demoted, Lassie is a tyrannical chief, and Juliet is an overworked officer in Miami.
60. “Pilot” Rewatching the pilot, you may be surprised at the way Shawn is introduced. He’s a slacker, a womanizer, and immensely proud of his 50-jobs-and-counting drifter lifestyle. Not until Lassiter and his junior detective become convinced that the tips Shawn gives to the police mean he’s actually in on the various crimes does he realize he can parlay his talents into a sustainable career, one that also happens to be the childhood dream he and Gus shared.
57. “In Plain Fright” A decade after being forced to close unceremoniously after the death of a child parkgoer, Santa Barbara’s annual “Scarefest” returns for some autumnal fun and lives up to its name when Shawn witnesses a murder during a haunted-house ride. It takes a while for the others to believe it wasn’t part of the ride , until Scarefest executives start to turn up dead or claim they’re being haunted by the dead boy’s ghost.
42. “Gus’ Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy” In the first of Psych’s three Christmas episodes, Shawn gets to prove his worth to Gus’s skeptical parents when they are both arrested as prime suspects in the murder of a neighbor. Years of thinking Shawn was a terrible influence on their son are absolved when he proves the neighbor was a Rear Window–style perv who blackmailed half the street. It’s a great redemption moment for Shawn’s questionable past with an able assist from Gus’s “super-sniffer.
35. “The Break-Up” This is a very satisfying series finale. When Shawn decides to close the Psych business and move to San Francisco to be with Juliet, he leaves a bunch of farewell-message videos for his friends after solving one last case with Gus. The crime may be a bit too on the nose — one half of a BFF business-partner team turns up dead when he decides to “move on” — but all we can think about are those wonderful videos and how far the characters have come.
31. “65 Million Years Off” Desperate to get on a case during Lassiter’s hot streak, Shawn insists that the only reasonable explanation for a dead paleontologist having so many wounds on his body is that he was mauled by a dinosaur. And you know what? He technically was, since a farmer had pushed him into a hole where he was hiding a bunch of gigantic fossils.
24. “Six Feet Under the Sea” Psych silliness at its best: Gus lies to Shawn to get him to attend the open-casket funeral of Shabby, the Santa Barbara aquarium’s beloved sea lion. Shawn’s lifelong affinity for marine creatures works to the duo’s advantage when he determines that the poor animal was shot to death soon after being released into the ocean.
18. “Heeeeere’s Lassie” Lassiter takes advantage of a fantastic apartment deal when he stumbles upon a place that was a suicide crime scene, but after he moves in, the honeymoon phase quickly fades when surreal, Shining-style things start to happen — so much so that he hires Shawn and Gus to snoop around. Luckily for Lassie, his place isn’t haunted, but since this is a Stanley Kubrick homage, the truth is far more macabre.
8. “Dual Spires” Seven Twin Peaks stars reunited for the 2010 episode. Coulson has since passed away. Photos: NBC. Seven Twin Peaks stars reunited for the 2010 episode. Coulson has since passed away. Photos: NBC. Even if you’ve never stepped into the Black Lodge, this Twin Peaks homage is still a strong episode that expertly basks in the sinister and absurd. But for all the Lynch lovers out there, it’s a damn fine treat best paired with a cup of coffee.
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