Continuity Nod / Psych

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• Shawn and Gus dig up a dinosaur skeleton in "65 Million Years Off". In "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead", the dinosaur skeleton is shown in the museum with a plaque bearing Shawn's name and photo. In yet a later episode, a photo of Shawn and Gus from the latter episode in an article about the psychic detective agency lands Gus in hot water at his regular job. Also used as the reason why one client chose Shawn's agency in an episode. Brought up again in "Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger".
• Also in the museum episode, a very spooked Gus is buying charms and talismans (talismen!) and says, "Now I just need to find someone to loan me a cat. Do you know McNab's number?" Shawn gave McNab the cat he was using to pretend it was helping him solve a case more than a season and a half earlier.
• In the aforementioned episode where Gus nearly loses his job, Shawn attempts to save him by pulling off a Zany Scheme involving a very elaborate "Scooby-Doo" Hoax to prove to Gus' boss that their business is legitimate, complete with fake ghosts and rigging the lights in Gus' boss' house to flash on cue. When confronted about it, Shawn admits he went to get advice on the lights from Alice Bundy, the murderer from the Season 1 finale whose plan also revolved around a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax (albeit with a lot more murder involved).
• One episode (Earth, Wind and... Wait for It) is about how Shawn used to idolize firemen, which his policeman father tried to pull him away from; after meeting firemen as an adult, he thanks his father for "keeping him off the pole...in more ways than one." Two seasons later, Gus relates a homoerotic dream about a firehouse Shawn described to him.
• Also in "Earth, Wind and... Wait for It", Shawn volunteers to escort Arson Inspector Conrad to the file room. Vick asks how Shawn knows where that is, and Shawn changes the subject quickly. In the previous episode, Shawn and Gus had snuck into the file room to look for evidence.
• "Any Given Friday Night at 10PM, 9PM Central" had a woman keep a framed picture of Chad, the character Shawn played on a Spanish soap opera the season before.
• As part of his plan to distract a vicious dog, Shawn asks Lassiter if he still has the softball gear in the back of his trunk. An earlier episode in the season, "Shawn Gets the Yips", takes place immediately after a police department softball game.
• In the fourth season finale, the serial killer Mr. Yin has "cast" the main characters as characters from Hitchcock films. He informs this of them via a slide show presentation that has a photo of the TV character next to the corresponding movie character. For Henry Spencer, the photo is a still from news footage from the previous episode where Henry had caught a shark.
• "Forget Me Not" features two fliers on the pole where the missing person's picture that keeps coming up is placed (you have to be quick on the remote's pause button to catch them). One of them is a flier looking for a first print copy of The Green Spirit Strikes Again, the comic Gus owned that Shawn ruined for The Reveal in "Shawn Vs. The Red Phantom". The other one is looking for a missing gold pocket watch reading "Don't Lose—Henry", the same one that Henry bought Shawn in "Weekend Warriors". Both are by Shawn (the pocket watch flier even offers a free psychic reading as a reward).
• In "Shawn Takes a Shot in the Dark", Henry pulls a picture of Shawn from his wallet to show who they're looking for. The picture is a newspaper clipping from the article about Shawn that Henry was shown reading three and a half years earlier in "Spellingg Bee".
• Slightly deconstructed in "Shawn Rescues Darth Vader", when Lassiter calls out Shawn on ruining his relationship with the detective from the first episode, providing a reason on why he dislikes Shawn's relationship with Juliet.
• There's a first season episode where Gus and Shawn are trying get a massage from a great spa, only to be told that they only have a couples massage session available. Gus says no, but Shawn doesn't have a problem with that. In the seventh season, Shawn books a massage so they can investigate a case. Gus is annoyed that Shawn booked them as "Mr. and Mr. Nussbaum."
• In "The Adventures of Psych-Man and Tap-Man, Issue 2", Lassiter tells a reporter that he hasn't forgiven their paper for the "Detective Dipstick" incident, referring to the nickname the paper gave him in "The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode".
• Shawn and Gus are still driving the Driver's Ed car from the finale come the time of the movie.
• Gus states that he refuses to enter another abandoned mental hospital in the movie, referencing the Season 1 finale.
• Shawn still has the fish he took from Chief Vick's office, as well.
• In "1967: A Psych Odyssey", Swaggerty reminds Shawn of the time when he accused him of murder in "The Santabarbarian Candidate"

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