A movie from the early ’70s it seems. Not sure what I or Shawn are talking about? Let me recap: During last Friday’s winter premiere of Psych, resident “psychic” Shawn Spencer came “this close” to living his dream of riding a dolphin at the local aquarium. How close? Close enough that he was in his bathing trunks, up on the dock, ready to jump on the dolphin’s back at a moment’s notice.

But, he hesitated. As the dolphin reared its snout over the water Shawn suddenly exclaimed, “Pa does not love Fa! Pa does not love Fa!” I’m sure some younger viewers were confused by the statement and were probably concerned that Shawn was having some sort of seizure. Fortunately, Mr. Spencer was just fine; he was just doing something that he has been known for since the series began: pulling pop culture references out of his rear end. In this case, “Pa does not love Fa” came from an obscure ’70s movie that I, Near King of all Meaningless Trivia, didn’t even know about.

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(Season 1, Episode 7 – “The Man Who Sold the World”)

Wow, I completely forgot, going into this episode, that it was the last until January. When I saw how the episode ended, I thought “I can’t wait to see what next week’s episode brings!” Now we’ve got to wait months to find out. Drat!

This was probably my favorite episode of the series so far. Sam’s interaction with his father blew away his moments with his mother in a previous episode. That makes sense, though, since he’s been away from his father for 30 years. There was so much to catch up on, so much to figure out.

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(Season 1, Episode 4)

I am so glad that this series continues to push out excellent episodes, as it would be so easy by now to tumble down a hill of suckitude and cause me to hate having to review it every week.

I’m glad I haven’t seen the original version of this show yet. I feel fortunate, actually, that I get to see this show with fresh eyes, not constantly drawing comparisons. From what I’ve heard, this show is following rather closely to the original, so the real test for this series will be in episodes that completely stray from old material.

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