6x12 Shawn and the Real Girl
originally posted in April 9, 2015
SHAWN
Wants a peek at the police file
Sees the brake line was cut
Wants to pitch ideas for reality shows: Punk My Mom, The Girl with the Bear, So You Think You Can Think You Can Dance, Don’t Touch That, It’s Infected
Needs full access to get a “reading”
Becomes a bachelor on the show as a cardiac and neurosurgeon without telling Juliet
Has to find a way to lose because Juliet will kill him
Tells Melinda his hair is transplanted from inner thigh and lower back
Searches through the contestants’ belongings
Exposes Mario for already having a girlfriend to keep Danny
Saves Danny as the grill explodes
Confesses to Melinda and matches her with Danny
Runs alongside the plane
Got upset because the ice cream had freezer burn
Trims his nosehairs
GUS
Eats crullers
Becomes a bachelor on the show
Says he’s 35 years old
Big fan of reality TV- studied it all his life and he’s in it to win it
Gets advice from Fox to stop being the safe brother with a boring job
Searches through the contestants’ belongings
Cut in on Shawn and Melinda with champagne
Leaves and cries in the car
Runs alongside the plane
LASSITER
Looks at the police file and calls it an accident
Shows up at the house because Todd’s car was tampered with
Questions Jay about the insurance
Arrests Jay
JULIET
Shows up at the house because Todd’s car was tampered with
Tries to watch Shawn and Melinda on the monitor
Was angry and jealous at first but is now fine
Says Shawn will die if he kisses Melinda
Questions Jay about the insurance
Arrests Jay
HENRY
Tries to play along with Shawn’s cover in a home visit
JAY
Likes Shawn’s idea “America’s Got Crabs”
Says he sold the show to NBC
PINEAPPLE SIGHTING
Candle holder on the dinner date
GUS' NICKNAME
Larenz Tate
SHAWN’S ALIAS
Dr. Shawn Womack
SHAWN’S PILLOW HUGS
Episode: 4
Series: 17
CATCHPHRASES
“You know that’s right.” (episode: 1 series: 20)
ALLUSIONS
The episode itself is a take-off on shows like “The Bachelor/ette”.
Wayne Brady (Hilton Fox) - Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an American actor, singer, voice actor, comedian, and television personality, known for his work as a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He was the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show, the original host of Fox's Don't Forget the Lyrics!, and has hosted Let's Make a Deal since its 2009 revival.
Lindsay Sloane (Melinda) - Lindsay Sloane Leikin (born August 8, 1977) is an American actress who is known for playing Valerie Birkhead on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1997-1999). She has also starred in films such as Bring It On (2000), She's Out of My League (2010), The Other Guys (2010), Horrible Bosses (2011) and its sequel Horrible Bosses 2 (2014). She currently stars in the television series The Odd Couple on CBS.
“Take one white guy, put him in a suit along with the rest of the Backstreet Boys, boom, and you fall in love.” - The Backstreet Boys (often abbreviated as BSB) are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The group consists of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell. The group rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys (1996). In the following year they released their second international album Backstreet's Back (1997), and their U.S. debut album which continued the group's success worldwide. They rose to superstardom with their third studio album Millennium (1999) and its follow-up album, Black & Blue (2000). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gl2QnHNpkA
Lochlyn Munro (Steve) - Richard Laughlain "Lochlyn" Munro (born February 12, 1966) is a Canadian actor. Munro is mostly known for roles in films, notably A Night at the Roxbury, Scary Movie, White Chicks and Freddy vs. Jason. For television, he is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Jack Sheridan in the supernatural drama Charmed.
“This is my partner, Larenz Tate.” - Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as Peter Waters in Crash and as O-Dog in the 1993 drama film, Menace II Society. His other films include Dead Presidents, Love Jones, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, A Man Apart, Waist Deep, Biker Boyz and Ray.
Greg Grunberg (Jay) - Gregory Phillip "Greg" Grunberg (born July 11, 1966) is an American television and film actor. He is best known for starring as Matt Parkman on the NBC television series Heroes (2006-2010). Other notable roles include the characters Sean Blumberg on Felicity (1998-2002), the pilot Seth Norris on Lost and Eric Weiss on Alias (2001-2006), all three created and produced by childhood friend J. J. Abrams, and as exterminator Alex Mathis in Big Ass Spider! He is a recurring cast member in the first 2 seasons of the Showtime American television drama series Masters of Sex.
“NBC, they make classics like Friends and, uh, uh...” - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building (formerly known as the GE Building) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was originally created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network's official emblem in 1979. Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which originally aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show revolves around six friends living in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The original executive producers were Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLisEEwYZvw
“That's so '90s Huxtable.” - The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from 1984 until 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
“Kind of reminds me of Bud from The Cosby Show.” - The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. Kenny, aka "Bud", played by Deon Richmond, was daughter Rudy's longtime friend. He appeared in 33 episodes.
Corey Sevier (Brody) - Corey Daniel Sevier (born July 3, 1984) is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his role on the Fox television series North Shore as Gabriel McKay or as Timmy Cabot on the television series Lassie from the late 1990s.
“Listen up, 15-minuters.” - 15 minutes of fame is short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. The expression is credited to Andy Warhol, who included the words "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" in the program for a 1968 exhibition of his work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. Photographer Nat Finkelstein claims credit for the expression, stating that he was photographing Warhol in 1966 for a proposed book. A crowd gathered trying to get into the pictures and Warhol supposedly remarked that everyone wants to be famous, to which Finkelstein replied, "Yeah, for about fifteen minutes, Andy." The phenomenon is often used in reference to figures in the entertainment industry or other areas of popular culture, such as reality television and YouTube. It is believed that the statement was an adaptation of a theory of Marshall McLuhan, explaining the differences of media, where TV differs much from other media using contestants. An older version of the same concept in English is the expression "nine days' wonder", which dates at least as far back as the Elizabethan era.
“You're like Ryan Gosling when he's singing with the ukulele in Blue Valentine.” - Blue Valentine is a 2010 American romantic drama film named after the Tom Waits album, written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. The film premiered in competition at the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, and Joey Curtis wrote the film, and Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling played the lead roles as well as serving as co-executive producers for the film. The band Grizzly Bear scored the film. The film depicts a married couple, Dean Pereira (Gosling) and Cynthia "Cindy" Heller (Williams), shifting back and forth in time between their courtship and the dissolution of their marriage several years later. Michelle Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oiY7W7nDeE
Lady in Red by Chris DeBurgh - "The Lady in Red" is a song by British-Irish singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh. It was released in June 1986 as the second single from the album Into the Light. The song was responsible for introducing de Burgh's music to a mainstream audience worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2YIpZWBqA
“Yeah, I kind of figured that when you said you graduated from Bob Hoskins Medical School.” - Robert William "Bob" Hoskins (26 October 1942 - 29 April 2014) was an English actor known for playing Cockneys and gangsters. He was known for his lead roles in The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Mermaids (1990), and Super Mario Bros. (1993), and supporting performances in Brazil (1985), Hook (1991), Nixon (1995), Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005), A Christmas Carol (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). Hoskins received the Prix d'interprétation masculine, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mona Lisa. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same role. In 2009, he won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his appearance on the BBC One drama The Street. The Johns Hopkins University (commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named after its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. His $7 million bequest-of which half financed the establishment of The Johns Hopkins Hospital-was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States at the time. Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching and research. Adopting the concept of a graduate school from Germany's ancient Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins University is considered the first research university in the United States.
“First things first, I will be starring in a brand-new Tyler Perry sci-fi epic calledI Ain't Gettin' On No Rocket.” - Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker, television writer, television producer, television director, theatre director, theatre producer, playwright, author, and songwriter, specializing in the gospel genre. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2011, Forbes named him the highest paid man in entertainment; he earned US$130 million between May 2010 and 2011.
CONTINUITY
Gus admits he was married once. (2x11 “There’s Something About Mira”)
Another Bud from “The Cosby Show” reference (1x15 “Scary Sherry: Bianca’s Toast”, 5x02 “Feet Don’t Kill Me Now”, 6x02 “Last Night Gus”)
Return of the Jackal
Return of the lavender oil for Gus’ head (2x15 “Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion”, 5x05 “Shawn and Gus in Drag Racing”)
Corey Sevier (Brody) appeared as a model in 2x15 "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion"
SHAWN
Wants a peek at the police file
Sees the brake line was cut
Wants to pitch ideas for reality shows: Punk My Mom, The Girl with the Bear, So You Think You Can Think You Can Dance, Don’t Touch That, It’s Infected
Needs full access to get a “reading”
Becomes a bachelor on the show as a cardiac and neurosurgeon without telling Juliet
Has to find a way to lose because Juliet will kill him
Tells Melinda his hair is transplanted from inner thigh and lower back
Searches through the contestants’ belongings
Exposes Mario for already having a girlfriend to keep Danny
Saves Danny as the grill explodes
Confesses to Melinda and matches her with Danny
Runs alongside the plane
Got upset because the ice cream had freezer burn
Trims his nosehairs
GUS
Eats crullers
Becomes a bachelor on the show
Says he’s 35 years old
Big fan of reality TV- studied it all his life and he’s in it to win it
Gets advice from Fox to stop being the safe brother with a boring job
Searches through the contestants’ belongings
Cut in on Shawn and Melinda with champagne
Leaves and cries in the car
Runs alongside the plane
LASSITER
Looks at the police file and calls it an accident
Shows up at the house because Todd’s car was tampered with
Questions Jay about the insurance
Arrests Jay
JULIET
Shows up at the house because Todd’s car was tampered with
Tries to watch Shawn and Melinda on the monitor
Was angry and jealous at first but is now fine
Says Shawn will die if he kisses Melinda
Questions Jay about the insurance
Arrests Jay
HENRY
Tries to play along with Shawn’s cover in a home visit
JAY
Likes Shawn’s idea “America’s Got Crabs”
Says he sold the show to NBC
PINEAPPLE SIGHTING
Candle holder on the dinner date
GUS' NICKNAME
Larenz Tate
SHAWN’S ALIAS
Dr. Shawn Womack
SHAWN’S PILLOW HUGS
Episode: 4
Series: 17
CATCHPHRASES
“You know that’s right.” (episode: 1 series: 20)
ALLUSIONS
The episode itself is a take-off on shows like “The Bachelor/ette”.
Wayne Brady (Hilton Fox) - Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an American actor, singer, voice actor, comedian, and television personality, known for his work as a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He was the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show, the original host of Fox's Don't Forget the Lyrics!, and has hosted Let's Make a Deal since its 2009 revival.
Lindsay Sloane (Melinda) - Lindsay Sloane Leikin (born August 8, 1977) is an American actress who is known for playing Valerie Birkhead on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1997-1999). She has also starred in films such as Bring It On (2000), She's Out of My League (2010), The Other Guys (2010), Horrible Bosses (2011) and its sequel Horrible Bosses 2 (2014). She currently stars in the television series The Odd Couple on CBS.
“Take one white guy, put him in a suit along with the rest of the Backstreet Boys, boom, and you fall in love.” - The Backstreet Boys (often abbreviated as BSB) are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The group consists of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell. The group rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys (1996). In the following year they released their second international album Backstreet's Back (1997), and their U.S. debut album which continued the group's success worldwide. They rose to superstardom with their third studio album Millennium (1999) and its follow-up album, Black & Blue (2000). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gl2QnHNpkA
Lochlyn Munro (Steve) - Richard Laughlain "Lochlyn" Munro (born February 12, 1966) is a Canadian actor. Munro is mostly known for roles in films, notably A Night at the Roxbury, Scary Movie, White Chicks and Freddy vs. Jason. For television, he is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Jack Sheridan in the supernatural drama Charmed.
“This is my partner, Larenz Tate.” - Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as Peter Waters in Crash and as O-Dog in the 1993 drama film, Menace II Society. His other films include Dead Presidents, Love Jones, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, A Man Apart, Waist Deep, Biker Boyz and Ray.
Greg Grunberg (Jay) - Gregory Phillip "Greg" Grunberg (born July 11, 1966) is an American television and film actor. He is best known for starring as Matt Parkman on the NBC television series Heroes (2006-2010). Other notable roles include the characters Sean Blumberg on Felicity (1998-2002), the pilot Seth Norris on Lost and Eric Weiss on Alias (2001-2006), all three created and produced by childhood friend J. J. Abrams, and as exterminator Alex Mathis in Big Ass Spider! He is a recurring cast member in the first 2 seasons of the Showtime American television drama series Masters of Sex.
“NBC, they make classics like Friends and, uh, uh...” - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building (formerly known as the GE Building) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was originally created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network's official emblem in 1979. Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which originally aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show revolves around six friends living in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The original executive producers were Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLisEEwYZvw
“That's so '90s Huxtable.” - The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from 1984 until 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
“Kind of reminds me of Bud from The Cosby Show.” - The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. Kenny, aka "Bud", played by Deon Richmond, was daughter Rudy's longtime friend. He appeared in 33 episodes.
Corey Sevier (Brody) - Corey Daniel Sevier (born July 3, 1984) is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his role on the Fox television series North Shore as Gabriel McKay or as Timmy Cabot on the television series Lassie from the late 1990s.
“Listen up, 15-minuters.” - 15 minutes of fame is short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. The expression is credited to Andy Warhol, who included the words "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" in the program for a 1968 exhibition of his work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. Photographer Nat Finkelstein claims credit for the expression, stating that he was photographing Warhol in 1966 for a proposed book. A crowd gathered trying to get into the pictures and Warhol supposedly remarked that everyone wants to be famous, to which Finkelstein replied, "Yeah, for about fifteen minutes, Andy." The phenomenon is often used in reference to figures in the entertainment industry or other areas of popular culture, such as reality television and YouTube. It is believed that the statement was an adaptation of a theory of Marshall McLuhan, explaining the differences of media, where TV differs much from other media using contestants. An older version of the same concept in English is the expression "nine days' wonder", which dates at least as far back as the Elizabethan era.
“You're like Ryan Gosling when he's singing with the ukulele in Blue Valentine.” - Blue Valentine is a 2010 American romantic drama film named after the Tom Waits album, written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. The film premiered in competition at the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, and Joey Curtis wrote the film, and Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling played the lead roles as well as serving as co-executive producers for the film. The band Grizzly Bear scored the film. The film depicts a married couple, Dean Pereira (Gosling) and Cynthia "Cindy" Heller (Williams), shifting back and forth in time between their courtship and the dissolution of their marriage several years later. Michelle Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oiY7W7nDeE
Lady in Red by Chris DeBurgh - "The Lady in Red" is a song by British-Irish singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh. It was released in June 1986 as the second single from the album Into the Light. The song was responsible for introducing de Burgh's music to a mainstream audience worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2YIpZWBqA
“Yeah, I kind of figured that when you said you graduated from Bob Hoskins Medical School.” - Robert William "Bob" Hoskins (26 October 1942 - 29 April 2014) was an English actor known for playing Cockneys and gangsters. He was known for his lead roles in The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Mermaids (1990), and Super Mario Bros. (1993), and supporting performances in Brazil (1985), Hook (1991), Nixon (1995), Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005), A Christmas Carol (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). Hoskins received the Prix d'interprétation masculine, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mona Lisa. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same role. In 2009, he won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his appearance on the BBC One drama The Street. The Johns Hopkins University (commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named after its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. His $7 million bequest-of which half financed the establishment of The Johns Hopkins Hospital-was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States at the time. Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching and research. Adopting the concept of a graduate school from Germany's ancient Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins University is considered the first research university in the United States.
“First things first, I will be starring in a brand-new Tyler Perry sci-fi epic calledI Ain't Gettin' On No Rocket.” - Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker, television writer, television producer, television director, theatre director, theatre producer, playwright, author, and songwriter, specializing in the gospel genre. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2011, Forbes named him the highest paid man in entertainment; he earned US$130 million between May 2010 and 2011.
CONTINUITY
Gus admits he was married once. (2x11 “There’s Something About Mira”)
Another Bud from “The Cosby Show” reference (1x15 “Scary Sherry: Bianca’s Toast”, 5x02 “Feet Don’t Kill Me Now”, 6x02 “Last Night Gus”)
Return of the Jackal
Return of the lavender oil for Gus’ head (2x15 “Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion”, 5x05 “Shawn and Gus in Drag Racing”)
Corey Sevier (Brody) appeared as a model in 2x15 "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion"