Season 3, Episode 2
Murder?... Anyone?... Anyone?... Bueller?
"Shawn. Shawn Spencer. Were you girls able to get some punch?"
Directed by Michael McMurray
Written by Andy Berman
Shawn believes that a murder has taken place at his and Gus's high school reunion...but has a hard time getting anyone to believe him, as he's unable to come up with a suspect, a victim, or a motive.
- Affectionate Parody: Of the films of John Hughes.
- Beyond the Impossible: Shawn has to find out who committed a murder. Before he can do that, he has to find out who was even murdered. Before he can do that, he has to prove that a murder even took place!Gus/Lassiter/Juliet: No body, no crime!
- Bottle Episode: The bulk of the episode takes place in Shawn and Gus's old high school.
- Class Reunion: The entire theme of the episode.
- Contrived Coincidence: That Lasseter is currently dating another woman from Shawn and Gus's class.
- Disney Villain Death: Peter Colter is killed when Eileen and Howie throw him off the roof of the school.
- Extremely Short Time Span: The entire episode takes place over a single night.
- Future Loser:
- A plot relevant example, the victim is one, but only because he covered up a hit and run incident in high school to enable the cool kids to remain cool in adulthood.
- Gus is believed to be this, but Shawn tells their entire class different after they catch the killers.
- He Knows Too Much: The motive: Peter had taken the fall for Howie when he caused a car accident during their high school years so Howie wouldn't lose his scholarship. Once Peter learned Howie was running for office, though, he told his former idol he could no longer remain silent about the truth. With too much to lose, Howie killed him.
- Mistaken for Gay: Abigail initially believes that Shawn and Gus are dating when they argue over whether Shawn really saw a body be thrown off their high school roof.
- Operation: Jealousy: It's obvious that Lassiter's date brought him to the reunion to make her old boyfriend jealous. When that doesn't work, she asks him to seduce the man's wife so she can get him back, angering Lassiter. He takes great pleasure in busting her for fraudulent prescriptions.
- Parody Episode: As implied by the title, of John Hughes' films.
- Persona Non Grata: When Peter was arrested for the car crash, he was pretty much erased from the school records.
- Reunion Revenge: Played with. It isn't actually the motive for murder, but rather preventing this that leads to the murder.
- Running Gag: Shawn is repeatedly told "no body, no crime" by people, even Juliet, when he insists that he saw someone be thrown off the rooftop.
- Ship Tease: Loads between both Shawn/Abigail and Shawn/Juliet.
- "Shut Up" Kiss: Shawn opens up about what happened when he stood Abigail up all those years ago and kind of babbles. She shuts him up with a kiss. Only it doesn't work, he keeps going.
- Ungrateful Bastard: When Peter took the heat for a car accident caused by Howie, he and Eileen casually forgot about Peter because it meant they could continue to be popular and have a great future. They only bother to remember Peter to issue a restraining order since the truth would ruin Howie's candidacy. During the flashback to the murder, Eileen tells a distraught Peter, whose life was completely ruined by that incident, that "it doesn't matter".
- Wrong Genre Savvy: As Shawn lampshades, when he and Gus think they've figured it out, they in fact have the wrong John Hughes movie in mind.
