Every Episode of Psych, Ranked

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Back in 2006, USA Network executives gathered at their conclave and smoked up the network’s blue-skies with their new show selection: Psych, which follows a “psychic detective” and his best friend who help solve an alarmingly high amount of crimes for the Santa Barbara Police Department. Shawn Spencer (James Roday Rodriguez) isn’t actually divining anything from the spirits, of course. Stuck in arrested development with an endless rotation of obscure pop-culture references, he’s the son of a former department detective (Corbin Bernsen) and possesses a prolific amount of observational and investigative skills, giving him the perfect excuse to begin a new career as a “supernatural consultant” for hire. Shawn’s partner in business and in life is Burton “Gus” Guster (Dulé Hill), who slowly warms to the idea that indulging in the case of the week is far more fulfilling than his nine-to-five gig at a pharmaceutical company. The brusque head detective Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson), self-assured junior detective Juliet O’Hara (Maggie Lawson), and indulgent chief Karen Vick (Kirsten Nelson) round out Psych’s core team, along with Gus’s hundreds of nicknames and a sedan called the Blueberry.

The real magic of Psych, though, is how it tells the procedural format to suck it. This show is truly a story about the bromance between two lifelong friends who didn’t hesitate to answer the door when their childhood dreams came knocking. Viewers could see themselves as, or aspire to be, Shawn and Gus — not as a fake psychic and his brother-in-arms but as the platonic ideal of BFFs, who, if given another chance to do it all over again, wouldn’t change a damn thing about the adventures their little beachfront agency brought into the world. They never had any guaranteed money, but they sure had guaranteed fun. What could be more important in life?

Eight seasons and 120 episodes aired before Psych came to an end in 2015, with two bonus films following in the years since. In celebration of Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, which premiered July 15, Vulture decided it was time to revisit the series and give it the episode ranking it so richly deserves.

The recently released Psych 2: Lassie Come Home comes in at No. 40 in this Vulture list.

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25 Best Psych Episodes Ranked

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10 Best Psych Episodes

The best episodes of Psych include pop culture homages and multi-part mysteries.