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psych---ologically-deranged · 27 days

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psych 2x14 dis-lodged with steve franks & tim meltreger, 2 ppl, easy to understand what is going on in the commentary

"we write theme songs for each episode" I'll take your word for it wdym you are not allowed to sing on these?

I think it would be great if the show, which kind of is generally about shawn, actually has the flashbacks told from gus's journal as a kid, even if they are about shawn. Show me different eyes.

TM: If you listen closely, they are chanting kyrie eleison Me, a devout folk catholic: TM: which was my attempt to get a big 80s reference in there Me: to what? TM: Mr Mister song My deaf ass: Mister Chiffon? (People, usually americans or brits but not canadians as much & idk abt australia have this slur where they say sh instead of st) SF: But as it turns out it's not from just that TM: It's real medieval biblical latin Me, metis folk catholic: YEAH. ???? SF: I thought we had licensed that song. (if they hadn't licensed that song for use, they would get copyright claims) SF: Fortunately, this song existed somewhere else & they weren't singing it in the way it was in mr mr TM: I heard it in the many masses I had to attend as a kid, but I also heard it on the radio when mr mister was singing it Me: *catholic increases*

*henry watching gus chew shawn out for his misplaced prepositions* I could kiss gus & his love of correct grammar.

*fighting over what song henry should have in the truck* Shawn has been back for a year now, two years even, & their relationship is healing, & yet they don't want to go on a man camping trip.

Gus *steals the cup of au jus*

Original idea: Shawn & Gus would speak in handshakes exclusively by the end of the episode Me, deaf: great idea TM: I was unable to make that work on the page As it turns out it was impossible to pull off in reality, but there was a great bit where they were going to have an argument with secret handshakes but maybe later, season 4

Slap it on a biscuit

Josh Bycell on the wall! That's Tim Meltreger on the right! That's Mel Damski! Andy Berman! "Me"! I mean-- Steve Franks! Corbin Bernsen! They all got to have portraits made SF: & I say "me" with finger quotes up because that's a weird pasty strange version of me TM: You after all the blood has been removed from your body

*paintings still in the writer's office*

TM: I was aged in my portrait, now whenever I go get coffee, I come out of the kitchen area face to face with myself 35 years from now SF: It's kind of like a dickens book Or an oscar wilde book

TM: That house is where "Canadians" would "entertain dignitaries" Me, canadian: what was that cadence+diction?

*weird story starting* Me *concerned* No it's just that TM is the one who says 1 2 3 4 in the theme song

"Let me feel your forehead"

Lassie is still on three creams four sugars

Extended part: arguing over koffee klub tracking your information *big brother*

You can't handle the truth!

Gus chatting up the doctors

SF: I told Mel as a sort of way to endear him to tim that tim was a big fan of yellowbeard, just speculating that Tim had probably seen it & probably enjoyed TM: & I spent the whole dinner hoping Mel wouldn't ask me about it

ChairWOMAN meow! I love the way they fight

TIM WROTE THE WEBISODES & INTERNET BLOGS? MY MAN YOU ARE THE ONE WHO WROTE SHAWN'S JOB HISTORY? I LOVE YOU *kisses you on The mouth*

& the cartoons! My man please that stuff is Lost Media (which is true crime for chronically online antisocial nerds)

Juliet concerned for Carlton (I love it when she uses his first name. Everyone else he is Lassiter. or ig booker or binky.)

I love this lassiter story indeed

Gus vulturing all the doctors here I love it

SF: I set you up for a nice long conversation about Lassiter! TM: Oh look Gus! Gus: is pushing his pharmaceutical product. Meanwhile a dead body is five feet away. TM: Holmstrom, named after my seventh grade social studies teacher, who happened to give me detention on the second day of class because I got lost on my way there. That is NOT the reason I murdered him in this episode.

Anupam!

motorcycle be there with bells on

TM: Mr Holmstrom was a decent guy & I learned in my years as a schoolteacher that sometimes ya just got to make an example of somebody SF: To become a writer on the show, Tim quit his job as an elementary school teacher Me: typical writer TM: 13 years!

TM: I made an example of many a student, & in turn they may kill me when they grow up to become writers

"origin" of lassiter's anger sure babe

They just hang out at the psych office at night

SF: I was shocked when ou wrote the line "lassiter I love you" that Dulé actually said it TM: it remains my favourite part of the episode

TM just talking about sneaking into this creepy lodge in his hometown

Big scary lodge filled with powerful people Vancouver: Here's what we got Me: it's santa barbara, of course it's going to be this place

Holstrom the social studies teacher built his own house!?

"Hey what about me?" they ask you as soon as you start adding people in TM: I have no friends tho SF: You seem to have more friends when you start putting their names in a television show

He once removed a boil from his own thigh with nothing more than a paperclip & a warm can of sprite

what

WAIT WAS HE A MATH TEACHER? I... I would not have expected that

TM: The beauty of being a first time writer is you can get away with a lot of crap

Reading lines of the other person during a phone convo has always interested me All of juliet's lines were delivered by [TM] standing about five feet away from [TO] TM: It was a throw for me SF: I was proud of you

Juliet, grinning: You're having lunch with Shawn?

"finds his inner liar" *proud of himself for such a bad lie* *they sit for a while. Nobody says cut.* JRr/SS: This is uncomfortable

Kelly *not understanding the thumb to the nose*

William Zane Gus being charming!!!

"Sales Reptitute" I think it's reputation. Though if it was rap, then it would be rapport

"Billy!?"

*international clocks* *there is one for vancouver* *not santa barbara*

"personal forklift" He drove it for 14 days all the way to vancouver "He needed to gas up every 38 minutes" 'nono, he's green, it runs on banana peels'

South american airline codes SF: Shawn knows all information that is pertinent, but forgets key pieces of information

I feel like Gus, mr countries of the world toilet book, would know the airline codes

Shawn: I lived in an airport for a month Gus: That was Tom Hanks

"To all those who made this scene work despite my writing, I appreciate it"

SF: If you've dusted these DVDs off 25 years in the future Me: Well, maybe 15? Quick what's 2024-2007? Ok so like 17 years bro. I didn't realize Hulu was that old. It is no longer on USA network.com btw. It is on peacock actually. Help me out with the Lost Media. In fact, the shorts & webisodes & stuff should all be given on the DVDs, & there should be a box set of all the movies that I can purchase (PHYSICAL COPY) with bonus features like deleted scenes, bloopers, psych outs, old webisodes, set tours, interviews with background artists, & all that stuff. Come on! Let's keep things physical! I want a DVD that will scratch & I'll never be able to watch again, but I'd rather that than webisodes that get taken down with no backups. Make physical copies of everything!

Workshop it? Workshop it.

*Irving parker can see lassiter through the one way glass* he just hates him that much

did its not did its

*skilled portrait artist* *only gets to do lodge members* "The art department was NOT thrilled about us all getting portraits

Huge success, great skill, interesting life, reduced to apinting heads. Bitter man. SF: That's a lot of backstory for a guy who has two lines TM: I know

Oh oh the music sting & the lights

i THOUGHT IT WAS THE LODGE I didn't know it was arthur holmstrom's home at first

TM: Where is this filmed? Bretleiger? Botulism? SF: British Columbia? TM: No the town!

I have to admit, it's always weird when they mention places I've been

All those pictures are of Corbin's Mother

Yeah, I didn't get the burn joke.

The goal of this scene was to have Gus & Shawn stuffed into an impossibly small space

TM: The Martin 16 safe was named after my wife SF: Her name was 16

He did that thing with the jacket at least 30 times

I love how Gus has skills. Shawn broke into the house with a credit card I mean a screwdriver I mean it was unlocked, but Gus can get them into the safe

Shawn *guesses the gal's measurements perfectly* TM: I didn't think we were going to talk about boobs right now

That's TM's handwriting & that's the school

"We had to cut down the episode so my ear gets a cameo" Good for you mr meltreger

My man was hit by a car in this scene...

Heather, my wife

Shawn's adhd "I want to weigh/height myself-- wait no I shouldn't"

Who's killing henry? Me? Sid?

Tim's Writing Fire alarm!?

VICTORY DANCE

SF: Good shot of Tim getting to turn the car around TM: Not me tim. I was up on that hill getting hit by another car.

The magic head of gus, the wisdom of baum, & ... that stuffed creature

TM: Dr Downs was named after my optometrist, who complains whenever I get into the chair that optometrists are not represented on television in the dark crystal (movie) the dude had glasses so someone had to make him glasses

Beautiful day for them, happy for them. TM: But I'm not going to gush because we're sitting very close in this office right now

Often the villain stands there in shock, I am indeed happy to see Roger fight back

*slaps his butt*

There was an earlier version of this episode where this was happening during lassiter's indoctrination

"The only real membership that mattered was family" *his marriage still fell apart, his wife still left him, his son still hates him, his son ran away to "help [his] mother through her divorce" but who knows what happened or when that was, & he didn't speak to his son much in ten years*

SF: Besides all the intricate mysteries & the comedy, this is a show about family. & pineapples.

They have Shawn's portrait & they stole (stole?) henry's too

you're right there WERE no pineapples that I saw

The Meltones, a band by the camera crew! Richard Coleman had a migraine, poor guy, during this episode, & Tim Meltreger filled in for him on guitar that friday

I love how the camera crew has a band. TM rented a guitar up in vancouver to play with them

SF: We can't speak past this, quick say one last thing! TM, really close to the mic:

Speak to my lawyer

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psych---ologically-deranged · 29 days

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psych 2x12 the old & the restless

anupam nigam & tim meltreger according

Alternate titles: If you lived here you'd be dead by now TM: It was too long. My first one was called If You're So Smart Then Why Are You Dead? AKA Little Man Hate! Other alternates for this one were Age Against The Machine & Old Case

Brian Doyle Murray TM: Anu is a human IMDB

"We had to make him an anti-henry & we see some of where adult Shawn's philosophy comes from in life. You've got to live by the seat of your pants

(their voices sound too similar for me) I was trying to be professional on set but I was like "I'm sorry can I please get a photo"

smash cut right into the case

AN: Do you write the entire pepisode in a room with a single 40 watt lightbulb hanging from the ceiling?

TM: The writer's room is the heart of our job here on psych, it's the nerve centre where we sit around on couches & beat out stories until they make sense

Shawn being a doula again

Psychfact: they have a routine where they hide Gus in a sack & it never fails

TM is the internet guy. Mr Tim, if you are reading this *kisses you*

TM: I wanted to talk about Gus & Shawn's shirt, both wearing purple, very complimentary (they wear matching clothes. Honestly I wouldn't doubt it in canon.) AN: Henry's just dressing a little loud tonight. "Hey there's that pink safari shirt"

*gus sleeping on henry's shoulder* *henry not stopping him*

set design: Glorious Pines Centre for Assisted Living AN: It's a pretty big plot point that it can't be for assisted living

TM: I have another question. Is it cool to do the rest of this commentary pants-off? AN: Do what makes you feel comfortable TM: *microphone sounds* AN: No I can't help you

Describes the guitar is shimmering TM: What's the name of the guitarist? AN: That would be me! TM: Him! Did you have your pants on for that recording? (I think I got the ppl wrong. Their voices sound very similar. & I'm deaf) AN: Absolutely not!

Never calls him grandpa after that. Throw in a good algonquian moshum

"our" grampy. Maybe he's only his grandfather in the eyes of the law, not as in adoption but as in marriage

"When your episode gets shot, the psych people will fly YOU up to watch the episode

*five minute walk to the studio if you're in LA* *airplane if it's in BC*

I call my paternal grandfather grandpapa. he was quebecois. Opa! That's what I SHOULD be calling my maternal grampa but he was the youngest of like 13 & his older siblings went to school during or a bit after wwii so they got beat for speaking german.

gus does a GREAT agitated

Shawn & Henry matching colours

*Gus knowing random facts*

This is like when they sent Shawn to the mental hospital

REAL retirement community. ily kelly kulchak "I get that it's an old folks home, but do they have to look old?"

Henry "I'm going to teach you a lesson, even tho normally I'd storm out of here & leave you in the lurch" I mean they did trick him into coming here

Love a good old naming scheme

Love all the gus medical terms they had to do research/lh for

"I'm pretty sure when Chris Henze emailed me I walked out of my office into the writer's office & yelled I've got booger!"

Henry: Life lesson 20. People lie & they leave without warning. *looking at Shawn* Shawn: *rolls his eyes & shoulders in the biggest natural sigh ever*

idk anything abt marathon running

AN & TM used to run marathon in high school

BG: You can't get Indian Blood by working in a casino Me: That's what fist fights are for Fun fact, JRr is actually half mexican, & a ton of mexican population is mestizo (sort of like the Metis of canada, which I am) so by extension you could say he does have "indian blood" if you really wanted

Yeah, as an fnmi person it does strike me as weird that they'd say indian not native american but like this was 2007 & anupam is India Indian too lol

Some ppl say "asian indian" & "indian" not "Indian" & "american indian" really???? At that point just say native american bro. I guess "native american" implies USA when indian is used to mean anyone from the americas. Fine. (But then a lot of the time ppl also forget greenland still. Greenland is mostly inhabited by the inuit, but is owned by iceland, a european nordic/scandinavian country)

AN: & what's the name of your band, Tim? TM: *Gasp* the friendly indians! It's systemic! AN: & when you say Indians you mean people like me bc we're all very friendly TM: Absolutely. & You are very friendly. .. Although our story does have a very long "why we're called friendly indians" story that has something to do with political correctness. In some ways it's ironic but it doesn't bear talking about here.

yk what I'm happy this is finally mentioned. It's been smth around my head for a while, I just haven't cared to say it.

AN: I thought this was a neat clue!

Jason Enzler? idk. Great shot tho.

I forgot my man wasn't wearing any pants

AN had to stand in for that actress when she got held up in makeup (you need someone of comparable skin tone & height) "If there's something I don't like it's having to read my work aloud in front of other people, so I was standing there shaking, having to read my script"

OFFICE MOUSTACHE COMPETITION? "That's it, I'm putting my pants back on!"

I love henry's bathing suit

"My s-- grandson Shawn & his--... Gus"

"The extra we asked to [fall in the water] was PETRIFIED of the water!"

Yeah how DOES juliet know that if she went to cop school in miami?

yeah I DEF see the difference between seasons 1 & 2

*right after Chelsea puts her leg up on shawn while tango dancing* "She had hip problems"

DH is a skilled dancer & they put him on the dance floor standing STILL

Shawn: Where did my dad learn to tango? Me: where did YOU learn to tango?

... "for anyone listening" like me "what would you the writer do on the set?" I've never been to the set?

HS: I'm your father, do not call me dude Me to my mom: dude

tim *spot pitching jokes to the actors*

Yeah nursing home vs retiring home. I've been to low-care old folks homes, basically an apartment complex where you can cook your own meals & stuff but they still have a dining room (my 103y/o great great uncle lived there), mid-care where you have tons of freedom but it is still a care facility, & high-care dementia homes where people need two lots of care.

*all in one location* *network loves it*

DH& JRr: dancing for several minutes DH, rhythmically: When Is Ensler Going To Say Cut

They were supposed to take JJ the kid to prison for this shit but they couldn't. There was supposed to be lassiter graffiti on the walls

I like it when they say "I wouldn't change a thing"

oh he hurt himself on his mountain bike This may have been the first ep since it healed

"What is the collarbone called?" "The Collar Bone" "You're a medical guy!" "The clavicle!" "Ok now you need to name six bones to redeem yourself!"

Traditional Breakdown

"I dreamt I went to heaven & met god & he sneezed!"

Bang! *watching the stunt man on the styrofoam rock* my man has a reputation for killing people & he has only killed one person in his five episodes

Curtis *tickling her bc he can't find the pills*

"jervis babey" TM: They exit Jason E: they limb over the railing. Henry doesn't get a fist bump. Homage to the shining.

Show me don't tell me I struggle with that so much but you DO need a balance

Ooh Jason E, love this shot.

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