History Recap / PsychS05E012DualSpires

* ScaryLibrarian: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Maudette Hornsby. When Gus and Shawn first enter the local library, she tells them to shush - frightening both - and then goes to tell a story about books not being just printed works but each one of them having a life, with her wanting to hear the noises wach one made. But then she immediately tells them she was just kidding.

** Randy reveals that the town gathers every week to watch Everwood.

-> Written by Bill Callahan and Creator/JamesRoday

** The equal rings Robert Barker, Dr. Goodman and Sheriff Jackson - and no one else - wear. They simbolize their wearers as leaders of the founding families.

-> Written by Bill Callahan and James Roday

* RacialFaceBlindness: The minute Shawn and Gus arrive, the latter is asked by a little girl if he was UsefulNotes/FrederickDouglass.

* AffectionateParody: The episode as a whole is one to ''Series/TwinPeaks''.

* ChekhovsGun: The equal rings Robert Barker, Dr. Goodman and Sheriff Jackson - and no one else - wear. They simbolize their wearers as leaders of the founding families, and are key to Shawn discovering the latter two murder Paula Merral.

* {{Homage}}: There's '''numerous''' shots and references to ''Twin Peaks'' throughout the episode including several actors from the original series playing different parts in this episode.

** Then, after they solve the case, Shawn and Jules wanted to be there in order to continue their secret romance. But, not only did Gus[[note]]who became acquainted with the romance the previous episode, although Julie didn't know he knew[[/note]], Father Wesley and Lassie remain there, someone orders three cinnamon pies both sounding and pointing creepily, there were people monotonously dancing to a creepy song ("Kool Kat Walk") a now one-eyed and blindfolded Jack put playing on the diner's jukebox, and also Randy was barking at a dog outside (who responded to him) almost to the rhythm of the song. When Jules tells Shawn she found the town creepy and to give a good look and he does exactly the latter, both decide to leave.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Adult Maudette Hornsby was sleeping with 17-year-old Randy Jackson. To make it even worse, she was a [[ParentalSubstitute substitute mother]] for him. [[AvertedTrope Unlike most examples]], everyone except (of all people) Gus - justifying himself with him being 17 and both being hot - condemns their affair. Still, given the comedic bent of ''Psych'', it's treated in a jokey way: there's ''no way'' a reverse example would appear.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Maudette Hornsby was sleeping with Randy Jackson. To make it even worse, she was a [[ParentalSubstitute substitute mother]] for him. [[AvertedTrope Unlike most examples]], everyone except (of all people) Gus - justifying himself with him being 17 and both being hot - condemns their affair. Still, given the comedic bent of ''Psych'', it's treated in a jokey way: there's ''no way'' a reverse example would appear.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Maudette Hornsby was sleeping with Randy Jackson. To make it even worse, she was a [[ParentalSubstitute substitute mother]] for him. Unlike most examples, everyone except (of all people) Gus - justifying himself with him being 17 and both being hot - condemns their affair. Still, given the comedic bent of ''Psych'', there's ''no way'' a reverse example would appear.

** Then, after they solve the case, Shawn and Jules wanted to be there in order to continue their secret romance. But, not only did Gus[[note]]who became acquainted with the romance the previous episode, although Julie didn't know he knew[[/note]], Father Wesley and Lassie remain there, someone orders three cinnamon pies both sounding and pointing creepily, there were people monotonously dancing to a creepy song ("Kool Kat Walk") a now one-eyed and blindfolded Jack put playing on the diner's jukebox and also Randy was barking at a dog outside (who responded to him) almost to the rhythm of the song. When Jules tells Shawn she found the town creepy and to give a good look and he does exactly the latter, both decide to leave.

** First, Dual Spires is a very small town (288 people at first, 287 later) so isolated they appear between parenthesis on the map, and their only connections to the outside world are a recently-installed landline (only for phones, no Internet), [[CellPhonesAreUseless a very weak cell phone reception which they only get in a very tight spot around the lake Paula's corpse was found]][[note]]at the time the episode was produced, [[TechnologyMarchesOn there was no mobile Internet as we know it today]], only the relatively little used [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)]]. The modern-day, HTML-based, mobile Internet only came to be widely used by the very late-2000s, early-2010s[[/note]]. The modern, a dirt road where no car can drive[[note]]Gus and Shawn first, and then Jules and Lassie, have to leave their respective cars in the nearest town, which is still far away[[/note]] and Robert Barker's jeep.

** First, Dual Spires is a very small town (288 people at first, 287 later) so isolated they appear between parenthesis on the map, and their only connections to the outside world are a recently-installed landline (only for phones, no Internet), a very weak cell phone reception which they only get in a very tight spot around the lake Paula was found[[note]]at the time the episode was produced, [[TechnologyMarchesOn there was no mobile Internet as we know it today]], only the relatively little used [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)]]. The modern-day, HTML-based, mobile Internet only came to be widely used by the very late-2000s, early-2010s[[/note]]. The modern, a dirt road where no car can drive[[note]]Gus and Shawn first, and then Jules and Lassie, have to leave their respective cars in the nearest town, which is still far away[[/note]] and Robert Barker's jeep.

** First, Dual Spires is a very small town (288 people at first, 287 later) so isolated they appear between parenthesis on the map, and their only connections to the outside world are a recently-installed landline (only for phones, no Internet), a very weak cell phone reception which they only get in a very tight spot around the lake Paula was found, a dirt road where no car can drive[[note]]Gus and Shawn first, and then Jules and Lassie, have to leave their respective cars in the nearest town, which is still far away[[/note]] and Robert Barker's jeep.