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khaosworksI've discovered Psych.
Basic premise: Shawn Spencer was trained by his policeman father to have amazing powers of observation to go with his eidetic memory, but spends his adult slacker life drifting from job to job, occasionally calling in tips to the police, solving crimes from television news reports. At least, until one such tip lands him in trouble as the prime suspect, and when the hard-nosed cops don't believe he's an observational savant, he cooks up a story... that he's psychic. So Shawn and his straight-laced best friend Gus set up a psychic detective agency and help the police out on crimes, all the while trying to conceal the fact that Shawn isn't really psychic. Wackiness and crime-solving ensue.
Some critics have dubbed "Son of Monk", and yeah, it kind of is: substitute Monk's OCD for Shawn's ADD, and add the wackiness of "psychic episodes". The two shows are also being shown back-to-back on the USA Network. The pilot wasn't too promising, but the first couple of episodes start to grow on you, and while James Roday as Shawn Spencer channels Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey a bit too much, there's the potential for character development as the series goes on.
What I want to know is, of course, when the first Monk/Psych crossover fanfics will happen (the two have already interacted in promos). They're probably out there already.
Basic premise: Shawn Spencer was trained by his policeman father to have amazing powers of observation to go with his eidetic memory, but spends his adult slacker life drifting from job to job, occasionally calling in tips to the police, solving crimes from television news reports. At least, until one such tip lands him in trouble as the prime suspect, and when the hard-nosed cops don't believe he's an observational savant, he cooks up a story... that he's psychic. So Shawn and his straight-laced best friend Gus set up a psychic detective agency and help the police out on crimes, all the while trying to conceal the fact that Shawn isn't really psychic. Wackiness and crime-solving ensue.
Some critics have dubbed "Son of Monk", and yeah, it kind of is: substitute Monk's OCD for Shawn's ADD, and add the wackiness of "psychic episodes". The two shows are also being shown back-to-back on the USA Network. The pilot wasn't too promising, but the first couple of episodes start to grow on you, and while James Roday as Shawn Spencer channels Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey a bit too much, there's the potential for character development as the series goes on.
What I want to know is, of course, when the first Monk/Psych crossover fanfics will happen (the two have already interacted in promos). They're probably out there already.
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Date: 2006-07-24 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-24 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-24 03:16 am (UTC)Not that I didn't like Dule Hill before, but I'm all about dorky guys. And I mean really, a spelling bee fan? Class-A nerd right there.
Have you seen this one?
Date: 2006-07-24 03:29 am (UTC)My favorite promo is the one where Shawn and Johnny (from Dead Zone) are sitting in a diner and Shawn says it's entirely unfair that Johnny really is psychic... then they pan over to Monk counting 100 corn kernels.
Re: Have you seen this one?
Date: 2006-07-24 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-24 04:14 am (UTC)Crossover fics are probably already happening, since USA Network is helping us along with their crossover commercials :)
Psych vs. Monk: Numbers
Psych vs. Monk: Cheetos