History Series / Psych

** When the initial investigation starts to heat up, Sissy laments that she had let Jason talk her into participating in the camp. Billy admonishes her for questioning Jason, saying the phrase "you of all people" before getting cut off. [[spoiler: This alludes to the fact that Sissy is Jason's fiancee, the final Reveal at the end of the episode.]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[http://www.japadog.com/location_En.html Japadog is a real chain of Japanese inspired hot dogs]]. Amusingly enough, they aren't available in Santa Barbara but they are available in Vancouver where the show was filmed.

* CriminalMindGames: The Yin-Yang Killer in the episode "An Evening with Mr. Yang."

* TheyFightCrime: As silly as the premise is of "guy pretends to be psychic, people buy it, so he makes a living at it," that's the premise here. It is parodying TV psychics who in their turn are based on real life "psychics" who make a living of it, including being hired by the police.

* PoisonousFriend: Gus's parents see Shawn as this to him. Given that Shawn is a lazy, irresponsible jerk who frequently mooches off of Gus and gets the both of them into trouble, it's hard to disagree with them.

* AndThatsTerrible: Every character shows great contempt at the mention of a drug dealer who sold a teenage athlete the drugs he overdosed on. The characters never show this much contempt, even at people who have attempted to kill them.

** Nigel St. Nigel in "American Duos" is a would-be case of this; he manages to survive the episode, but the fact that he's a hyper-critical, snooty, disdainful and arrogant [[TheMeanBrit British asshole]] means that finding who wants to kill him isn't particularly easy, since there's a list of suspects practically queuing up.

** S4-E7, S6-E13 - The Boyz II Men acapella version (the episodes feature Gus' college a capella group.)

* CuteBruiser: In the episodes Juliet is in straight combat she is shown to use brute force a lot more than most Action Girls. [[spoiler:Takes it UpToEleven in the movie after some karate lessons, kicking Allison Cowley's ass.]]

** Taken UpToEleven in the film where [[spoiler:Shawn wears Gus' Hagrid costume to search a fence's stash.]] Still PaperThinDisguise, though.

* ShooOutTheClowns: The season ending episodes since the first one.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The beginning of every episode involves Henry teaching young Shawn a valuable lesson about crime-solving. Sharp viewers can often solve the mystery well before the end of the episode by applying this lesson to the clues Shawn finds.

* AbsenteeActor: Creator/MaggieLawson and Kirsten Nelson remained in the opening credits throughout Season 8, but they were missing in multiple episodes. Shawn, Gus and Lassiter are the only main characters to appear in every episode of the series.

*** Averted in the season finale, where Shawn, knowing that it's going to be his last case, chokes:

*** Also averted in "Feet, Don't Kill Me Now", Lassiter introduces Gus by his full name. Gus's reaction makes him ask what's wrong, to which Gus says that he's not used to being introduced by his real name.

* AbusiveParents: Although it's made ''very'' clear throughout the series that Henry loves Shawn dearly, some of the flashbacks (or real-time references to Shawn's past) are rather worrying. For instance, Henry taught young Shawn how to escape a locked car trunk... ''by locking him in a car trunk''[[note]]And then he got ''mad'' when Shawn followed his instructions and kicked out his tail light![[/note]]. Adult Shawn is also upset by the fact that, when he was eight, Henry hid Shawn's Easter eggs by burying them five feet underground. Henry claims that he left loose dirt to indicate a fresh dig to make it easier. Shawn points out that this fresh dig was hidden under a ''camouflage tarp'' covered with ''bricks'' and ''broken glass''. On a more amusing note, there's still two he hasn't found.

*** Also averted in one episode, where Gus is with Lassiter instead of Shawn; he's thrown when Lassiter introduces him by his proper name.
*** In "Feet, Don't Kill Me Now", Lassiter introduces Gus by his full name. Gus's reaction makes him ask what's wrong, to which Gus says that he's not used to being introduced by his real name.

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* [[DreamWithinADream Dream Within A Dream Within A Dream Within A Dream]]: Happens in one of the "Psych Slumber Party" marathon commercials. It starts with Juliet's dream about her and Shawn being alone... which is in Shawn's dream about him with a giant stack of pancakes... which is in Gus's dream about Pluto being made a planet again... which is in Lassie's dream about Shawn finally giving up the Psychic Detective business.

* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: Marlowe seems to have transformed into this since her incarceration (combination of types D and F). It's paid off handsomely: she won the respect of quite a few of Santa Barbara County's most vicious female criminals (even remaining friends with one of them after her parole) and is now an accomplished fighter [[BadassAdorable who can perform jumping kicks and break people's noses]]. Through it all, she remains (or at least tries to make people believe she remains) a sweet, slightly goofy girl who is quite comfortable allowing Carlton to think he needs to protect her.

* ThisBearWasFramed: This is a somewhat regular thing, where it seems like once every few seasons there is an episode where an animal is falsely accused of being "the killer" and in danger of being "put down" for it (in one it was a panther, another the trope-naming polar bear, and in still another a shark), but the series sleuths uncover evidence that a person did the killing and then covered it up by making it look like a death by animal attack.

* NWordPrivileges: Played with. An eyewitness questioned by Shawn and Gus in a recent episode is a white man who speaks with a very pronounced Thai accent. They [[MistakenForRacist accuse him of mocking Asian-Americans]], but he explains that he was adopted and raised by a Thai family, so in a sense he ''is'' Asian-American - and, incidentally, that "offensive accent" is how he actually speaks.

** Shawn giving Gus an absurd pseudonym. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a recent episode where Shawn introduces Gus to a convicted killer using their full real names.

** Creator/JamesRoday's role in the 2005 remake of ''Dukes of Hazzard'' is referenced (and derided) by both Shawn and Gus in the season 8 episode "Cloudy... with a Chance of Improvement".

* AmazonianBeauty: Heather Rockrear, Allison Cowley's hench woman from the movie, as played by Wrestling/CharlotteFlair.

* RaisedCatholic: Shawn and Gus both apparently, judging from the fact that they go to Confession at the end of one episode (unless, of course, Fr. Westley is an even worse priest than we thought).

* DescendedCreator: Producer ''Creator/CarlosJacott'' plays roles in two episodes and in the movie.