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* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Season 5 opens with Psych's caseload being non-existent, due to Henry being hired by Chief Vick to act as a liaison for the consultants the department uses, including any potential psychic detectives; in reality, Henry likely wouldn't have even been offered the job in the first place, due to a perceived Conflict of Interest, as Shawn is his son, and anyone unfamiliar with how the SBPD works would assume that Psych, a business he helps run, would get preferential treatment; however, because Henry is a hardass, Psych gets purposefully excluded.
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* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Season 5 opens with Psych's caseload being non-existent, due to Henry being hired by Chief Vick to act as a liaison for the consultants the department uses, including any potential psychic detectives; in reality, Henry likely wouldn't have even been offered the job in the first place, due to a perceived Conflict of Interest, as Shawn is his son, and anyone unfamiliar with how the SBPD works would assume that Psych, a business he helps run, would get preferential treatment; however, [[AntiNepotism because Henry is a hardass, Psych gets purposefully excluded.excluded]].
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* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Season 5 opens with Psych's caseload being non-existent, due to Henry being hired by Chief Vick to act as a liaison for the consultants the department uses, including any potential psychic detectives; in reality, Henry likely wouldn't have even been offered the job in the first place, due to a perceived Conflict of Interest, as Shawn is his son, and anyone unfamiliar with how the SBPD works would assume that Psych, a business he helps run, would get preferential treatment; however, because Henry is a hardass, Psych gets purposefully excluded.
** A minor character in the pilot was Martha Allen, a Desk Sergeant who clearly believed in psychic phenomena, and was Shawn's inpsiration to come up with the lie based on the crystals she was wearing; she has one other apperance in the series, and then is never seen again.
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** In Juliet's first appearance, we see a photograph of her parents who Shawn guesses have been together for 30 years (from her reaction, we can assume he's right) and her father does not resemble Frank O'Hara as portrayed by Creator/WilliamShatner in later seasons.
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** In Juliet's first appearance, we see a photograph of her parents who Shawn guesses have been together for 30 years (from her reaction, we can assume he's right) and her father does not resemble Frank O'Hara as portrayed by Creator/WilliamShatner in later seasons.seasons, or her stepfather Lloyd French as portrayed by Creator/JefferyTambor.
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** The interior of the SPBD is clearly a different set as opposed to what we see later episodes, with a largely white color scheme with a large amount of enclosed space, vs the orangeish-yellow open floor plan we see from the second episode onwards; a piece of dialog in an early episode {{Lampshades}} this, talking about a recent renovation.
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* WackyWakeUpGadget: In the episode "Christmas Joy", Shawn claims that in the third grade, he invented a toaster alarm that woke people up by slapping them in the face with a waffle.
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** In "65 Million Years Off", Lassiter is on a hot streak that's been keeping Shawn from getting assigned any cases, and everyone thinks he's cracked when he deduces that a John Doe was killed by a T-Rex bite. Unlike most cases, though, Shawn doesn't have to wait to the end of the episode for vindication, as the victim turns out to be a paleontologist.
* CluelessDeputy: Lassiter is a borderline case: he's very much a competent policeman who's earned his place as the agency's head detective. The biggest problem is that he's the no-nonsense StraightMan while the protagonist is a BunnyEarsLawyer who only succeeds because he's so unorthodox. Lassie is hence the easiest mark for Shawn's antics, which puts him in the unfortunate position of being the dumbest of the core cast.
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* CopsNeedTheVigilante: Shawn usually commits about two dozen serious infractions solving every one of his cases. He usually gets called on it by the people he works with. Only once did it actually screw up a case.
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* CopsNeedTheVigilante: Shawn usually commits about two dozen serious infractions solving every one of his cases. He usually gets called on it by the people he works with. Only once did with, but it actually screw very rarely ends up a screwing up the case.
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* FantasyCreep: {{Downplayed}}. While with a single exception, the series always [[DoingInTheWizard Does In The Wizard]] whenever a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane element comes up, what Shawn and Gus have to do in order to solve cases gradually gets more and more outlandish; compare Season 1, where they have to solve a murder at a Spelling Bee and a Civil War Reenactment, to Season 4, where a SerialKiller forces the core cast to re-enact scenes and scenarios from Creator/AlfredHitchcock films. Season 7 had a full-on double-length MusicalEpisode, to boot.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Every single episode of the show with a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane element lands squarely in the 'Mundane' category, with any and all fantastical elements explained as being either misinterpretation of evidence or a flat-out ScoobyDooHoax. For instance:
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* DoingInTheWizard: Every single All but one episode of the show with a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane element lands squarely in the 'Mundane' category, with any and all fantastical elements explained as being either misinterpretation of evidence or a flat-out ScoobyDooHoax. For instance:
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** The exception to this is in ''Psych: The Musical'', when [[spoiler:Mary acts as a {{Psychopomp}} to Mr. Yang after she's killed. It's left completely unclear if there actually is an afterlife, or if Mr. Yang is having a DyingDream of some form]].
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* WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: Inverted and parodied in the dynamic between Shawn and Gus. Shawn is white, BrilliantButLazy, and leads an elaborate con to convince the police that he's a psychic investigator. Gus is his BlackAndNerdy partner who reluctantly participates in Sean's scheme and cautions against many of his ideas.
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* WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: Inverted and parodied in the dynamic between Shawn and Gus. Shawn is white, BrilliantButLazy, and leads an elaborate con to convince the police that he's a psychic investigator. Gus is his BlackAndNerdy partner who reluctantly participates in Sean's Shawn's scheme and cautions against many of his ideas.
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** Season 1's "Who You Gonna Call?" is about a client of Shaun's believing they're haunted, with inexplicable things happening throughout the episode. It turns out [[spoiler:that the client had dissasociative identity disorder; one of the alternate personalities was a trans woman, the other was a muderous psychopath trying to prevent the second personality from transitioning]].
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** Season 1's "Who You Gonna Call?" is about a client of Shaun's Shawn's believing they're haunted, with inexplicable things happening throughout the episode. It turns out [[spoiler:that the client had dissasociative identity disorder; one of the alternate personalities was a trans woman, the other was a muderous psychopath trying to prevent the second personality from transitioning]].
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* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: http://squirrelassassins.com/
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* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: http://squirrelassassins.com/[[https://web.archive.org/web/20100919150231/http://squirrelassassins.com/ squirrelassassins.com]]
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** Season 1's "Who You Gonna Call?" is about a client of Shaun's believeing they're haunted, with inexplicable things happening throughout the episode. It turns out [[spoiler:that the client had dissasociative identity disorder; one of the alternate personalities was a trans woman, the other was a muderous psychopath trying to prevent the second personality from transitioning]].
** Season 4's "Let's Get Hairy" has the client of the week believe that they're a werewolf. [[spoiler:They were being [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslit]] by his psychologist, who's trying to frame him for murder]].
** Season 6's "Heeeeeres Lassie" is a massive {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheShining'', and has Lassiter fly into a murderous rage, blood dripping from light fixtures, and another apparent haunting. [[spoiler:a serial killer is targeting inhabitants of a specific apartment, giving it a reputation for being haunted]].
** Season 4's "Let's Get Hairy" has the client of the week believe that they're a werewolf. [[spoiler:They were being [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslit]] by his psychologist, who's trying to frame him for murder]].
** Season 6's "Heeeeeres Lassie" is a massive {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheShining'', and has Lassiter fly into a murderous rage, blood dripping from light fixtures, and another apparent haunting. [[spoiler:a serial killer is targeting inhabitants of a specific apartment, giving it a reputation for being haunted]].
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** Season 1's "Who You Gonna Call?" is about a client of Shaun's believeing believing they're haunted, with inexplicable things happening throughout the episode. It turns out [[spoiler:that the client had dissasociative identity disorder; one of the alternate personalities was a trans woman, the other was a muderous psychopath trying to prevent the second personality from transitioning]].
** Season 4's "Let's Get Hairy" has the client of the week believe that they're a werewolf.[[spoiler:They were [[spoiler:The client was being [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslit]] by his psychologist, who's trying to frame him for murder]].
** Season 6's "Heeeeeres Lassie" is a massive {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheShining'', and has Lassiter fly into a murderous rage, blood dripping from light fixtures, and another apparent haunting.[[spoiler:a [[spoiler:A serial killer is targeting inhabitants of a specific apartment, giving it a reputation for being haunted]].
** Season 4's "Let's Get Hairy" has the client of the week believe that they're a werewolf.
** Season 6's "Heeeeeres Lassie" is a massive {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheShining'', and has Lassiter fly into a murderous rage, blood dripping from light fixtures, and another apparent haunting.
