Fun eppy!! No spoilers below, just thoughts.

- Loved the the nods to Lethal Weapon and Crank (just one part for Crank).
- Nice to see Sage's Facebook pic was for the show...now I wonder if we'll ever see his green polished toe nails.
- And for Shawn, the "he used THAT reference" moment was for "The Lair of the White Worm"...I felt I went back in time (yes literally) when I heard that line.
- Loved the ending
- I love the "flubby sound" Shawn makes when the Chief asks if folks want psychological help.
- Oh and love the Baskin Robbins reference.
- Loved Loved LOVED Lassie
- Loved Jules - take charge, girl!
- Loved the psychouts.
- Loved the actor that plays "The Party Crasher" in the movie "The Hard Way" (that's all I will say on that!)

Edit: and I loved Gus in this eppy....Shawn was close to being a bruthah when he ran at the sound of the water sprinkler. But he was a little slow running away from Lassie. He gotta work on that.

And as Chelsa pointed out, loved the "get in the interview" scene. Too funny.

Now you know when I watch it again I'm going to see something else.

I don't think you need to put spoiler tags on it if the entire thread is about the episode.

Aww! Poor McNab!! Atleas he had a bigger part in the ep...

Also whenever Shawn was on the eliptical(is that right spelling wise? elipticle? elipticol? yeah, Eliptical seems right)...I thought maybe he was playing a joke on Gus, I definitely didn't see the Jules thing coming haha

Ooh I remember what else I was gonna say earlier. . .

"KNOCK IT OFF!!!"

I was laughing for like 2 whole minutes after that. In fact I'm cracking up now just thinking about it.

You sound just like Shawn.

I didn't think it was a joke, but I didn't really think that it was the real thing. The killer just didn't have that much style. However, ditto on the Jules thing.

YES....hilarious!!!!

as always i'll post my reviews later.

just dropping in to let you know that all of my screencaps will be posted here!

right now (@12:20) there are only clips up to the credits. i'm posting approx every 20 caps at a time.

so if u want double-gun toting lassie, the pics are already up.

Hahaha that was my point to sound like Shawn

Really enjoyed this episode, probably my favorite of season 4 so far. Loved:

the reference to Chuck Knoblauch and hitting Keith Olberman's mom(huuuuuuuuge baseball fan)

I don't like all that Toni Robbins motivation stuff... I prefer his brother Baskin.

KNOCK IT OFF!

Extended intro!

The entire cordless phone thing.

Gus being in bed at 6:45

Panicking after the sprinkler

They should call it the "sucks." LOVE Lassie zinging Shawn.

Oh and I like how Shawn was the "salt' and Gus was the "pepper". And a little nod to Hudson Hawk with knowing how long it took to sing a song (happy birthday in this instance). Could be a coincidence since only four people saw that movie and two of them were me and my brother.

This episode was great I loved the note from Jules

totaly agree with u i loved this eppy i am a first timer on this psych board but i have been watching psych since the beggning and i love it all hense the screen name lol very good epsiode i loved it the eyeltpicalty machine remind me of an old epsiode of family matters very good epsiode shawn was veryy funny as usal and gus was right there by his side tooo funny very good epsiode yea and shawn looked very sexy all sweaty in this epsiode lol

btw how cute were gus PJs tooo cute lol and i guess we will see it again in a future epsiode and they used the long version of the song i love the long version

Hi people I'm back I have so many screen caps they in the 2 locations below

Shawn has the yips part 1

Shawn has the yips screen caps part 2

and more highlights

and more

Nice caps! My review is done, but I'll wait until the morning to post it since it's pretty late and hardly anyone is online.

Okay, I had to post this before I go to bed...

and I would like to add

Just wanted to say this: I feel pretty proud of myself. After initially freaking out, thinking "oh noes, it's like Shawn's in Speed" (which they later referenced, which was awesome), I said to myself "OK wait, Juliet was talking about motivation earlier... I'll bet this is just some sort of cruel joke to keep him on the machine". And then it was Juliet all along. ::high-fives self::

No, wait, I lied, wanted to say one more thing - when Juliet offered to work out with Shawn, one-on-one, which would basically mean she'd be his personal trainer, and then he TURNED HER DOWN, I wanted to slap him upside the head. You don't say "no" to that, stupid! ::facepalm facepalm facepalm::

Aw crap, one more thing (I know, I'm still a liar). When was the last time Shawn did a really elaborate omigod-I'm-having-a-vision act? Like leaping around a room or shaking his leg or doing the tango with someone, etc? His psychic moments have lacked pep this season, it seems... or were there peppy moments and I just missed 'em?

This episode was awesome, but the camera panning around Shawn during this scene was hands down my favorite part!!!

Man, Bill and Kell. They're quite the team, aren't they? Kell seems to be notorious for writing a kick ass Lassiter as well as all things food related. That being said, I'm going to credit pizza chili cheese fries to Kell, if it was Bill's idea, my apologies to you good sir.

The one major thing I think we all can appreciate is the fact that this episode did have a very serious foundation, but they were able to make light of the situations at hand. It really goes to show how much of a hybrid (as James likes to call it) this show really is. They obviously never fail to find humor. Not only that, but they honestly threw me for a couple of loops tonight, I won't lie. I was so caught up in how intense and fast paced the episode was moving along that the voice inside of my head that thought the little Speed stunt was completely outrageous (in a good way ), was muted. This episode had me transitioning from laughing so hard to freaking out from the magnitude of the events taking place, even if it was simply a mysteriously placed phone, underneath an elliptical no less. Only on this show, I swear.

I'm putting this out there now; my favorite part of the entire episode could possibly be the cordless phone runner.

Happy Birthday to Buzz. Too bad it was a total bust.

I'm a huge baseball fan, so I enjoyed seeing the entire SBPD in their baseball attire. Also, it was nice to see them all outside of the station being social with one another.

"They should call it the sucks." HA!

Shawn was so frantic. Although, if I realized a patron had a gun and was endangering the lives of my friends and innocent bystanders, I'd be panicked trying to get the attention of the crazed gun happy head detective, too.

"Police! Freeze douchebag!" Greatness. Tim shooting two guns. I'm not sure I can say much more. Tim was obviously on cloud 9 with a scene like that. Anyone who has watched his interviews or seen the Comic-Con panel can attest to that.

Stab in the Dark oddly reminded me of shot in the dark

"Fact, you say that word again I'll punch you in the face."

After Henry's initial reaction in the station after the shooting, I was a little sad to see them not expand on that little exchange later in the episode. It's totally understandable, though, because there was so much other stuff going on. I enjoyed the panic that we saw from Henry, though. Not to mention the fact that Shawn decided to eat a banana after a traumatic incident just had me rolling. "Big ol' papa monkey."

I really dug the fact that they stepped aside from the madness that was about to ensue in the episode and made the hole so the Chief could offer counseling to anyone who wanted to seek it. I just thought that that was a real moment where all the characters stepped away from everything and they examined the psychological perspective of them after the fact.

I liked Shawn restaging the crime scene…
"Did you want to scoop out the last lesbian?"

26 seconds to sing Happy Birthday?

I thought the scene with Shawn recreating the shooting was amazing. The fast pan of the camera coming up alongside of James then around his shoulder to the back of his shirt falling onto his number was great. I absolutely loved that. It was edited nicely too with the flashback right before the pan and they actually had the 'Happy Birthday' voice over going. That was my favorite scene in the entire episode. And the lighting was wonderful. All and all, I thought the direction and cinematography throughout the entire episode was gorgeous.

Did anybody else love the fact that Lassiter hesitated then reluctantly answered the phone when Shawn called? The call that saved his life, no less! By the way, that crash was pretty crazy.

"You asking Shawn the psychic or Shawn the guy who worked a couple afternoons at a Meineke?"

"Lassie, the frozen yogurt guy is out front, do you want to get one? Oh wait, you can't" What an ass, lol. Although I like how Tim completely nailed James with his mitt.

The idea of Lassie being sequestered inside of the department is hilarious.

The transition from the station to the Psych office was awesome.

Okay, again with the cordless phone. Hilarious, but why the hell didn't they just use one of their cell phones to call Luigi's?

"London Finance Times and Dog Fancy." Quite the diverse taste, yes?

Thing in the box with the guy in the thing translates to confession. I personally thought that bit was hilarious.

I appreciated seeing Lassiter so emotional involved in this case. For obvious reasons he was, but I liked hearing him plead his case to the Chief about the outcome of the trial eating him up for three years. Also, the slightest hint of remorse on Lassiter's face when they realize that Buzz was on the case as well. I thought that was a good little addition from Tim.

Poor concussed Buzz. Poor Buzz all around.

"Oh god, I would kill to be on a toilet right now."

That scene started to bring a nice little friendship love moment to the surface but was halted with Shawn admitting he took even more money from the department.

Maggie looked like she almost took a spill because she rounded that corner in the Psych office so quickly. She's got some hustle.

"What kind of sick trainer have you been working with?!" Shawn is right, though. That was a nice little strategy to relieve some of the tense building up, though.

"We're idiots." Shawn's exercised rattled brain totally misinterpreted that one.

I like how James slid under the railing when the sprinklers came on.

What the hell was Buzz doing up and walking around if he has a severe concussion?

"Shawn, you might want to let this go."
"What IS this thing??"

Nice callback with them moving the table. Like Steve said, whenever they have to lift anything, it's the heaviest item known to man.

Shawn is freaked out by tassels. That's a new one.

The scene with Lassiter being interview with Shawn and Gus playing their game with camera time was hilarious. I'd read that in the sides however long ago, so seeing it acted out was great.

"KNOCK IT OFF!"

"Wait for iiiiit."

Elliptical as a ladder, pure genius.

"This is charging. This is not. What's wrong with you?"

That was a pretty dramatic scene in the cemetery. Lassiter reminded me of a hostage negotiator during that.

"I'm not gonna lie."
"SINCE WHEN?!"

Poor Shawn, that throw was horrible, but Lassie taking him down was awesome. And he was in cuffs. I won't lie, Lassiter was pretty bad ass this evening.

Oh, the Jamaican accent is back!! And jerk chicken, that one went away for a little while.

Intense, hilarious, absolutely ridiculous, all the things that make Psych, Psych. Another amazing episode in the books, no doubt. Thanks to the writers, cast, producers, and crew for another wonderful ride.

Great wrap up as usual! Just one thing, you mean "nailed" James with the mitt, right?

“Lassie, the frozen yogurt guy is out front, do you want to get one? Oh wait, you can’t” What an ass, lol. Although I like how Tim completely named James with his mitt.

i would just like to point out that this line right here made me laugh so hard, for some completely unexplainable reason....

Chief: Mr. Spencer, if you dont have anything to help this investigation, than you can just shut the hell up!



i love that woman.

I love when Henry was worried and he asked Gus what he did right after and he said called my family and then henry asked what Shawn did and he goes "he ate a banana" hahaha that line was brilliant

I agree with BTC. Great wrap up as usual, Kristen. And I totally forgot that Lassie hit Shawn with his mitt. That was awesome!

Oh yeah, sorry! I went back to edit it. I apologize, I was a little under the weather last night.



That was one of my favorite parts. First Tim throws Winky Cutto at Dulé in the Psych Out, now the mitt at James. They sure do like to attempt to physically harm each other on this show, don't they?

Great recap sarcasmlove!



Yes. I also think that the Psych office looked particularly inviting this episode. The lighting was sublime. I just wanted to curl up on the couch.


They could have used just a tiny bit of exposition to explain this.
Gus: Shawn, call Luigi's on your cell phone.
Shawn: Does anyone else have trouble with the iphone not holding a charge?
Gus: Why am I not surprised. You know I am not going to use my work phone! Juliet?
Juliet: The Chief is really cracking down on personal calls. Sorry Gus.
Gus: Well, I guess it's Doritos (or whatever the line was).
Shawn: You say that like it's a bad thing.
Done and Done.

I think Sage Brocklebank is excellent as Buzz. The character has stayed consistent since the pilot. I so hope he gets an episode to break-out at some point. Happy 30th McNab!

Bill and Kell have torn it up this season! This episode was especially tight. Yay! you guys.

Shawn was kind of a horse's ass about his pizza chili cheese fries. I swear they are setting us up for a crisis. He hasn't always been this cranky to others, has he? I mean other than Lassiter and his dad.

Continuing this season's roll, this episode rocked!

first, i agree with basically everything that everyone said. when i rewatch it w/o capping maybe i'll think of something else to add.



better yet, why not use a cell phone to call the cordless phone and find it?

I guess in this case the quote is true "it's fun until someone gets hurt. then it's freaking hilarious."

That's what I do when I loose a cordless phone. I never lost a phone "up inside" of an elliptical machine, but I don't have to "get up in there" as much as JimmyJam likes to do.

Oh and no worries, SarcasmLove. I knew exactly what you were sayin'. I hope you feel better!

I loved this episode. I like how people were talking about how much of a hybrid this show can play, and pull it off amazingly. I also have a new favorite quote from this episode. It's not exact, but something like "I ate a banana, because it reminded me of you, you old papa monkey" I thought that was hilarious.

He looks like such a mischievous little boy up to no good in that. This episode has sealed my love for Lassiter. It's been happening for awhile now, but that episode definitely completed it. I loved that Lassiter finally hit Shawn. He's been threatening since season one and now he finally did! When he first threw whatever it was (his glove?) I immediately thought of the quote "If I find you anywhere near this case I will throw every book I can find at you."

I love this show.

Edit: Where was the pineapple? I was too busy caught up in all the action that I forgot to look for it.

I know it's a little early in the run, but judging by what I've seen so far, Season Four is my favorite.
I've not yet seen a single episode that I haven't wanted to watch again (Thanks to COMCAST On Demand, I've seen every episode of this season at least twice). 'Shawn Has the Yips' was another fine episode, balancing the serious with the funny while giving us more depth of character.

I love that Lassiter is the kind of cop who'll wear two guns to a simple *baseball* game; perhaps as a little nonverbal intimidation directed at the opposing team? I know if I were a stylist facing a stern-faced, heavily armed Lassiter, I might be a little off my game.

As has been true in the past, the writers gave us a nice blend of serious and funny. Just as we were getting all worried after seeing Buzz blown up, he shows up looking funny as hell with only one eyebrow, topped off with some LOL dialogue.

Usually when I see an episode of Psych that I particularly enjoy, I start wondering who wrote it. This is one of the few times when I wanted to know who directed it. I wish to send a virtual warm fuzzy to Tawnia McKiernan for a fine directing job. Others have mentioned particular shots that they liked, so rather than repeat let me say that I loved it all.
The editing was excellent, contributing to the never-a-dull moment pacing and comedy relief whenever the action threatened to become too serious.

My only nit to pick was that once again Shawn's barbs teetered dangerously close to being mean-spirited. I love the character of Shawn, but I'm glad that Juliet made him run his ass off on the elliptical. The whole scene with the SPEED theme may possibly be my favorite. I went from worried (but not overly so, because I found the idea of death by exercise machine to be inherently funny), to LMAO when an exhausted Shawn fell off the machine and out of frame at the end. Again, nice directing touch there. We didn't need to see the actual fall to LOL at the way the scene ended.

Thanks to all involved for another fine episode.

I posted this in the Tim O. thread too because I am an unabashed TIManiac, but here are my thoughts on Shawn Has The Yips.

Personally I think Yips is my favorite episode now, with Lassie Did A Bad Bad Thing in 2nd...speaking as someone who watches the show through Lassie-colored glasses. High-Noonish was great too, but Lassie had less screen time in that one, or it seemed so to me. Yips and Bad Bad have it all (for me), a major focus on Lassie, high comedy and action scenes and overall great writing/pacing, and Yips takes all of those things to the next level, IMHO--Lassie's zinger at Shawn, then the 2-gun fireworks, then Lassie stuck in the station, then the TWO break down the door scenes, then the TV interview and scream at Shawn and Gus. And to top it all off the scene in the cemetery. The drama of that scene...Tim's acting...that scene is one of the best of the series so far as a dive into drama while still keeping the spirit of comedy in the background, topped only by An Evening With Mr. Yang. I do think Yang was probably the best episode of the series, but my bias for Lassie makes the Lassie episodes my favorites. And Yips absolutely went above and beyond. I'm so loving the evolution of the characters and their relationships, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the season!

im not positive but i think this is the pineapple (behind the clock)

If it weren't for this screenshot, I wouldn't have noticed that Jules is parked *across* from her labeled parking space and clearly someone else is in hers! (I did noticed Shawn and Gus too Lassie's parking space in the first viewing...)

Wonderful review as always Kristen

Though I find i funny that I had a completely different read on above mentioned scene. I took it that Lassie really wanted to answer the call... but was reluctant to take his eyes off the road and reach for the phone (which, honestly, is not a very safe or responsible thing to do while driving!).

Yes, triple post... I apologize...

But re: finding the cordless phone via calling it/whatever...

Okay, I don't know about you guys, but every cordless phone I've ever known of has basically a "Find" feature on the phone... where there is a button on the base of the phone that you push to cause the phone to ring, just for the very purpose of being able to find it. Are you guys familiar with this?

Regardless, it was a great runner that tied in nicely to the suspense

Omg.... I LOVED this eppy! The seriousness and the comedy blended so well, and there were sooo many great lines. I meant to write down my favorites, but I was just so tired that I completely forgot. So this is going off memory.

The beginning was absolutely amazing. Lassie and his two guns... that was epic, I tell you. XD.

I love concerned Henry. "He ate a banana." I think that was my favorite line, just because the delivery was perfect and the expression on his face... lol.

Shawn and Gus competeing to see who could get in the interview more, HAHAHA!!! That was hilarious.
"KNOCK IT OFF!"
LOL.

And BUZZ! I was so glad to see more of McNab in this eppy. He's just so great

Argh, I'd write more, but I was really tired last night, and I can't remember much. I was actually falling asleep on the commercials and telling my sister to wake me up when it came back on. XD.

oh yeah, that too! hahah. well, like gus says later "we're idiots" they clearly didnt think about it.

and i FINALLY finished my screencaps! again, they're not as pretty as captjack's cuz i dont have HD.

but there are 127 of them! 127!! no wonder why it took so long! lol
here they are.

thank you great pics

and great reviews folks and i don't have anything to add i just agree with all

Only I was so angry with Lassie when he hit Shawn with mitt because I felt sorry for Shawn i know that was hilarious moment but I'm just huge fan of Shawn and I don't want that anything bad happen to him so I really don't know how I'm gonna watch episode when they shoot Shawn

lol i just noticed gus' pj's

One of my favorite episodes, my fav this season!

Great reviews all, and thanks for the screencaps!

Couple of things I noticed about this episode:

~Gus's aim has gotten better since Mira - he got the ball to the plate and near his intended target!

~The pizza chili fries thing, to me, went a little past funny (and toward annoying)

~Lassiter's response to the word gun..Pavlovian!  Not so sure about him opening fire in a crowded restaurant, but I guess for the guy who would think about shooting a cat, nothing is off limits!

~Lassiter doesn't change out of his baseball uniform until 26:44, after everybody else (on a side note, I laughed seeing him in the hotel in his baseball gear with the gun strapped to his thigh; Juliet's b-ball t was covered and she was wearing jeans) 

~As was mentioned earlier about worried Henry.. was waiting for another scene between them.  Jeez, Shawn is so inconsiderate (don't get me wrong I love Shawn, but he drives me mad sometimes)

~As soon as Shawn looked at the Petrovich file and kinda zoomed in on the picture of the dead kid and his father, I knew it was the dad (c'mon, it's Psych, of course it's not going to be the obvious one).  I thought he was checking out the build of the dad and comparing it to the bad guy.  When Juliet left, I thought he was going to reveal the truth to Gus and let the cops chase a bad lead. Huh.

~And the elliptical/Speed scene! Just hilarious all around

~Buzz and the explosion...He told the officer to go inside while he got his mail, and I was thinking, Yay we get to meet Mrs. Buzz! 

Lots more but these were actually the main ones.  Season 4 just keeps getting better and better, can't wait for next week!

Agreed. They could've cut some of that to give us more Shawn & Henry.


To me, the scene pointed out the difference between Gus' relationship with his Dad and Shawn's relationship with Henry.
Just a couple of episodes ago, in 'He Dead,' Henry couldn't tell Shawn that he loved him, despite Shawn giving him more than one chance to do so. No doubt Gus has heard those words many times from his own father.
As far as the eating the banana comment, remember that everyone at Shawn's table had already been served their food except Shawn. They were ready for dessert (birthday cake). Shawn was hungry, especially after the calories he burned with the adrenaline rush before/during/after the shooting.
Besides, bananas are funny.
"Banana: A yellow fruit. Also, a kind of pudding. A delicious pudding."

yea shawn sweaty is super hotttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, for those of you who haven't seen this episode yet, here is a download link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C8XFSSKC

I would have to say that this episode seems to be the most daring in the everything dept. A great story written and some great effects. The plot and acting was off the hook. I think the stunts in this one, blow away the season opener to the moon. What was up with the fake ski and poof off the trail and they were in front of cars? THAT was one of the lamest scenes ever !!

This episode was amazing and hilarious. duh.


Oh and I'm in love with Buzz McNabb. (:
hahaha

hey guys i am back, i have been gone so long , big transitional phase


yeah it was a great episode , but i thought Juliet did was messed up !! it was funny but to think all along it was the phone stuck in there and it was something motivational to get him to exercise

hey here is a good question , what happened to Buzz's wife ? she was not even mentioned !