History YMMV / Psych

* Foreshadowing: "Tuesday the 17th" becomes surprisingly darker once you've seen the Yin/Yang episodes. Especially the ending.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the episode "Let's Get Hairy", Shawn activates a revolving bookcase by grabbing a book. Gus is taken to the other side of the bookcase. It spins back around when Shawn puts the book back. Shawn never notices, Gus never says anything, and the incident is never heard of again.

** Shawn: You're in a safe place, surrounded by men who love you. Gus?
** Gus: Lassiter, I love you.

** In "Shawn 2.0", while Shawn is giving his dad silly reasons not to hire Declan, he includes his "impossibly long eyelashes".

** Guest Star {{TimCurry}} in 'American Duos.'I feel like an angel baby swaddled in a cocoon of cloud candy.' Just one example.

* AcceptableTargets: Sean (and possibly the writers) has a vendetta against aloha shirts, and anyone who wears them whether they're a HawaiianShirtedTourist or not. Possibly a FreudianExcuse because Shawn's father ofter wears them. The writers have a field day with it in "And Down the Stretch Comes Murder" :

* Foreshadowing: "Tuesday the 17th" becomes surprisingly darker once you've seen the Yin/Yang episodes. Especially the ending.

* FetishFuel: [[CuteBruiser Juliet]] kicking butt in a brutal contact sport in "Talk Derby To Me."

XMeetsY: "Last Night Gus" is Psych meets TheHangover

* UnfortunateImplications: In addition to the [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top]] racial humor, in spite of all the show's HoYay and MistakenForGay, the only absolutely confirmed gay character (other than an early appearance by George Takei in which the issue never arises) is a PsychoLesbian who had been killing any man who'd gotten too close to her crush. But, to be fair, her orientation was used to provide a surprise twist, not to make a statement on the morality of others who share it.

* EthnicScrappy: Tony and Joon from "High Top Fade Out," of "Blackapella," who gave out "free biscuits and gravy" after each show. The latter is even played by [[HeyItsThatGuy Kenan Thompson.]] And the former is none other than Jaleel White, TheUrkel himself.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the episode "Let's Get Hairy", Shawn activates a revolving bookcase by grabbing a book. Gus is taken to the other side of the bookcase. It spins back around when Shawn puts the book back. Shawn never notices, Gus never says anything, and the incident is never heard of again.* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mary, the Mr. Yang expert from "A Night with Mr. Yang" and "Mr. Yin Presents." His creepy acting and penchant for saying the most disturbing things made many people wish he would become a regular character. [[KilledOffForReal Unfortunately...]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mary, the Mr. Yang expert from "A Night with Mr. Yang" and "Mr. Yin Presents." His creepy acting and penchant for saying the most disturbing things made many people wish he would become a regular character. [[KilledOffForReal Unfortunately...]]

* MissedMomentOfAwesome:
** No Chinese version of the theme song in "Romeo and Juliet and Juliet?"
** Given Shawn's propensity to reference 80's films, many guest appearances by actual 80's stars go without any reference to their respective roles.
*** FerrisBuellersDayOff's Alan Ruck in ''Gus Walks Into a Bank''
*** BetterOffDead & RevengeOfTheNerds Curtis Armstrong in ''The Old and the Restless''

-->'''Shawn:''' Your negativity...is clogging up my psychic signals. Do you mind keeping [the incredibly flirty receptionist Tanya] busy while I attempt to unclog them?\\

** Given Shawn's propensity to reference 80's films, many guest apperances by actual 80's stars go without any reference to their respective roles.

* FetishFuel: [[CuteBruiser Juliet]] kicking butt in a brutal contact sport "Talk Derby To Me."

* UnfortunateImplications: In addition to the [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top]] racial humor, in spite of all the show's HoYay and MistakenForGay, the only absolutely confirmed gay character (other than an early appearance by George Takei in which the issue never arises) is a PsychoLesbian who had been killing any man who'd gotten too close to her crush. But, to be fair, her orientation was used to provide a surprise twist, not to make a statement on the morality of others who share it.
* {{Wallbanger}}: There are occasions where Shawn and Gus learn things when the audience does which can produce odd situations such as the two of them thinking a sheriff just shot someone... despite the reveal a few moments later of there being a tourist audience and the scene a fake. However, since the show is a comedy and doesn't take itself too seriously, these are generally played for chuckles and don't ruin the show in the least.

** Lauren Lassiter (but with Lassiter's face, to Gus): You are a great guy. Are you dating anyone?

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: No Chinese version of the theme song in "Romeo and Juliet and Juliet?"

* TearJerker: The recent season finale, [[spoiler: wherein Jules is subjected to the psychopath's whim, gagged, tied to a chair, and left tethering helplessly above at the edge of a clock tower with no sure proof of whether she'll be saved or not--when Lassiter and Gus do manage to reach and free her, she wears an empty, expressionless face. Near the very end, as parallel scenes between her and Shawn's girlfriend's rescue play in mute, she begins screaming and then breaks down against Lassiter, and he just holds her quietly.]]