Shawn and Gus S1 Appreciation
Taking a brief break to post this, because I said I would. Then I'll go back to what it is I'm supposed to do.
Because others can agree that their love is totally underrated, and because really, really, their friendship is what it's all about....
The Shawn and Gus S1 Picquotespam.
Come see for the pretty, the funny, the love, the recs, and some sweet ass quotes from the actors themselves. It'll make you cry!
You know you want to.
Shawn: "So you're not interested in hearing about doing the thing we've been dreaming of doing since we were eight? I've got us the last job we will ever need."
Gus: "Shawn, you've had 57 jobs since we left high school."
Shawn: "Yes, I have. And they were all fun, but this one takes the cake."
Gus: "Oh yeah? Better than your acupuncture clinic?"
Shawn: "I didn't realize experience was necessary."
Gus: "What about the summer you spent driving the weiner mobile?"
Shawn: "I did that for the hot dogs. Look, Gus, all those jobs I took because I wanted the experience. But then I mastered it and I moved on. But this job has a little bit of everything. Come with me."
Gus: "Uh, no. I'm never doing anything blindly with you again. I learned that at the Mexican border. Twice."
Shawn: "Okay, this is hard to explain, but I'm going to give it a shot. You and I... are opening our own private detective agency."
Gus: "Oh. See? No explanation necessary. Let me get my coat." [goes back to his computer.]
Shawn: "... But you're not getting your coat."
Gus: "No, no Shawn, I'm not."
-----
Shawn: "I need you. I need you to write stuff down. 'Cause you know how I zone out when other people talk."
-----
Gus: "Make no mistake, Shawn. I will kill you."
Shawn: "Ok, I appreciate the fact that you think you can beat me up, but I think our last scupple proves otherwise."
Gus: "Are you talking about the Cinnamon Festival?"
Shawn: "Yes! You do remember!"
Gus: "Okay, first of all, I was six and I had a cast!"
Shawn: "Which many would construe as a clear advantage. It's like having a weapon attached to your arm."
Gus: "Shawn, this misplaced malevolence you have for the spelling bee is getting monotonous. Stop hating on the Bee. I'm sorry, ma'am; I do apologize for his inappropriate virulence."
Shawn: "Why are you using all these big ass words all the sudden?"
Gus: "I'm not doing that. That's preposterous."
Shawn: "Gus, I'm not a mind-reader."
Gus: "No, that's just what you tell everybody."
Oh and they share smoothies, too. ♥
"Dude, you look so peaceful when you're sleeping."
"Act natural."
While under cover as people looking for an apartment...
Wes: "How do you guys know each other?"
Shawn: "We're partners."
Wes: "Gotcha."
Gus: "Oh, no, no, no--"
Wes: "No, it's fine. Really, I'm totally fine."
Gus: "No, we're partners in a private --"
Shawn: "Relationship. Believe it. It's been a while. We finish each other's sentences."
-----
Shawn: "Ooh, Gus, good news... shower for two."
-----
Wes: "So look, are you guys interested in the place or..."
Shawn: "What do you think, honey?"
Gus: "You know, there's something beautiful about the color Fruity Puffs turns the milk."
Shawn: "I think it's the most beautiful thing in the whole world."
[...]
Gus: "So it got me thinking, maybe pharmaceutical sales can be sort of sexy."
Shawn: "There are times when I have to stand a few feet away because you're literally sizzling."
[...]
Gus: [Emptying the box of Fruity Puffs] "Where the hell is my prize? Where's my ring, Shawn?"
Shawn: "Easy now."
Gus: "No, no, I've timed the bowls out perfectly, Shawn. Me, then you, then me, then you, then I get the prize!"
Shawn: "What happened to not sweating the small stuff 'Life's too short', all that?"
Gus: [Gives Shawn 'the look'] "Did you open the bottom of the box?"
Shawn: "Now why would I do something like that?" [Slyly reveals the ring on his finger]
Gus: "That's my ring. You know I would kill for that ring don't you?"
Shawn: "Oh, you're upsetting me. You just changed my mood from an orangey yellow to a muddy brown. You need to say something sweet. Quick."
[Gus fingers Shawn's bowl of cereal and storms off]
Shawn: "Gus! That's so childish.... I'm gonna eat yours!"
Receptionist: "There is a Lieutenant Crunch here to see you."
Gus: "Crunch?"
[Shawn enters, dressed in a Civil War uniform]
Shawn: "Actually, I've been promoted. It's Captain Crunch."
-----
Shawn: "I solved the crime."
Gus: "No, I did."
Shawn: "I said it first."
Gus: "I identified the uniform."
Shawn: "I found the button near the tree. I said it first. Tap, tap, no take-backs!"
Shawn: "No come on, who's in? [Raises hand to bump fists]"
Gus: "..."
Shawn: "Don't fool around. You know I can't hold my hand like this for very long."
Gus: "..."
Shawn: "Gus, I get very poor circulation to the limbing regions."
[Gus walks off]
Shawn: "[Looks at his lonely fist] And now my pinky's going numb."
[Shawn wants to bump fists, Gus denies him once again and runs off]
Shawn: "Gus! Man, that's twice!... [Self fist bump. Sad.]"
Gus: "The voice told me that our house was built on an old Indian burial ground. She said... she said she was sad because she had died many moons ago and was trapped between worlds. And when I asked her her name, Shawn, she said, "My name...”
Shawn: [imitating ghost's voice] "My name is Wilting Flower. I died without knowing love. Will you be my friend?"
Gus: "H-How did you know that? I never told that to anyone before."
Shawn: "*I* was Wilting Flower. Gus! I can't believe that you fell for that! "
Robert: "This pulls out into a bed, but that's all I got."
Shawn: "Oh, no worries. What's a little spooning between old pals, huh, Gus?"
[...]
Gus: "You got the floor."
Shawn: "Oh, we'll make it work. You don't mind if I nude up for the sleepover, right?"
[Shawn notices a lipstick kiss on Gus' forehead]
Gus: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Shawn: "That's all you did? Checked the doors and the windows?"
Gus: "Yeah, why?"
[Shawn takes a tissue and presses it against Gus' forehead]
Gus: "Where did that come from?"
Shawn: "Don't look at me, I'm not wearing lipstick."
INTRODUCING PSYCH-MAN AND MAGIC HEAD.
Gus: "You must have thought your dad dated again."
Shawn: "Honestly Gus, I haven't given it a lot of thought."
Gus: "It's been 15 years."
Shawn: "Yeah, you know what? It's fine. It's great. Good for him.
Gus: "You wanna to talk about it?"
Shawn: "No."
Gus: "Good."
Under cover as Dr. Hans Jorgenson and Dr. McTock
Shawn: [In a Swedish accent] "My colleague only speaks English at a very pre-school level, and he is very forgiving of others. For instance, yesterday I poured a hot cocoa all over his genitals, and I say, 'I'm sorry,' and it's fine."
Gus: "What are we doing here? I'm burning up in this thing."
Shawn: "No you're not."
Gus: "Yes, I am."
Shawn: "You've been wandering lost in the woods for two nights and you're suffering from extreme hypothermia, now SHIVER."
Shawn: "Just trust me."
Gus: "Never mind."
Shawn: "Woah, woah, woah, you do trust me, right? I mean, I know it's a silly thing to say after all these years, but we don't have to do these kinds of exercises, do we?... Battleship rematch?"
Gus: "You know that's right."
*OBLIGATORY FIST BUMP*
Ever the quick witted jokester, Shawn struggles for words at the idea of losing Gus.
Shawn: "I know if anything happened to Gus...I would, uh...I don't know, I've never, uh, I mean, that-"
Little Shawn: "Gus. When we grow up, think I'll ever be as cool as you?"
The Actors
"If you've had a friend that, from childhood... I think that's sort of the context that you have to understand this relationship. [...] The core of the relationship is the love, it's the brotherhood, the camaraderie, it's knowing someone your whole life, and, and... not knowing what it would be like if you woke up one day and that person wasn't there." - James Roday
"We've pretty much been friends since childhood. I mean, we've grown up in the same school system, probably lived right around the corner, played together, you know, we're pretty much like brothers [...] He's more the wilder brother and I'm a little more... reserved. I like to have fun, too, but I like to keep it on this side of the line. And Shawn is pretty much gonna jump the line any time. " - Dule Hill
"Shawn has this, he has this great opportunity to go and do this, you know, it's a dream job for him... and he knows that he can do it. But at the same time, it's just it's not going to be completely fulfilling if Gus isn't with him." - James
"Now that they're working together, Shawn and Gus, I would say they're like ying and yang pretty much, opposites attract, that kind of thing. They both keep each other in a good balance. One without the other would go way off on the deep end, one way or the other." - Dule
Chris Henze and Kelly Kolchak (executive producers), Pilot commentary
"There's some great moments in dailies, of these two guys in the car, when they get stuck in the car together, they always just start singing songs, which is sort of how our Psych-Outs started."
"They would sing about what they did the night before and put it to some Michael Jackson song."
"They'd be in the car with their mics on and we'd be 50 yards away under tarp in the rain and we'd have their headphones on and they probably forgot that we could hear them. They'd be chatting and they'd start... harmonizing with each other. It's very sweet. Romantic. [Laughter]"
And lastly, from Gus' blog entry...
"In setting up the bylaws, we established a number of criteria that were to be met by prospective members, and it didn't take long for Shawn and me to realize that we were the only people in the world qualified to be in our club.
Twenty years later, that's still the case. Just the way we like it."
The Recs
Vids::
Happy Together Shawn and Gus fanvid.
Grade 9 Shawn and Gus fanvid
Shawn and Gus perform "Shout" a clip from the S2 premiere.
General - Best Moments of Psych S1 feat. lots of Shus goodies.
Links::
Gus/Shawn Ship Manifesto by skipmcgee
And if you haven't already done so, JOIN shawn_gus. XD
Because others can agree that their love is totally underrated, and because really, really, their friendship is what it's all about....
The Shawn and Gus S1 Picquotespam.
Come see for the pretty, the funny, the love, the recs, and some sweet ass quotes from the actors themselves. It'll make you cry!
You know you want to.
Shawn: "So you're not interested in hearing about doing the thing we've been dreaming of doing since we were eight? I've got us the last job we will ever need."
Gus: "Shawn, you've had 57 jobs since we left high school."
Shawn: "Yes, I have. And they were all fun, but this one takes the cake."
Gus: "Oh yeah? Better than your acupuncture clinic?"
Shawn: "I didn't realize experience was necessary."
Gus: "What about the summer you spent driving the weiner mobile?"
Shawn: "I did that for the hot dogs. Look, Gus, all those jobs I took because I wanted the experience. But then I mastered it and I moved on. But this job has a little bit of everything. Come with me."
Gus: "Uh, no. I'm never doing anything blindly with you again. I learned that at the Mexican border. Twice."
Shawn: "Okay, this is hard to explain, but I'm going to give it a shot. You and I... are opening our own private detective agency."
Gus: "Oh. See? No explanation necessary. Let me get my coat." [goes back to his computer.]
Shawn: "... But you're not getting your coat."
Gus: "No, no Shawn, I'm not."
-----
Shawn: "I need you. I need you to write stuff down. 'Cause you know how I zone out when other people talk."
-----
Gus: "Make no mistake, Shawn. I will kill you."
Shawn: "Ok, I appreciate the fact that you think you can beat me up, but I think our last scupple proves otherwise."
Gus: "Are you talking about the Cinnamon Festival?"
Shawn: "Yes! You do remember!"
Gus: "Okay, first of all, I was six and I had a cast!"
Shawn: "Which many would construe as a clear advantage. It's like having a weapon attached to your arm."
Gus: "Shawn, this misplaced malevolence you have for the spelling bee is getting monotonous. Stop hating on the Bee. I'm sorry, ma'am; I do apologize for his inappropriate virulence."
Shawn: "Why are you using all these big ass words all the sudden?"
Gus: "I'm not doing that. That's preposterous."
Shawn: "Gus, I'm not a mind-reader."
Gus: "No, that's just what you tell everybody."
Oh and they share smoothies, too. ♥
"Dude, you look so peaceful when you're sleeping."
"Act natural."
While under cover as people looking for an apartment...
Wes: "How do you guys know each other?"
Shawn: "We're partners."
Wes: "Gotcha."
Gus: "Oh, no, no, no--"
Wes: "No, it's fine. Really, I'm totally fine."
Gus: "No, we're partners in a private --"
Shawn: "Relationship. Believe it. It's been a while. We finish each other's sentences."
-----
Shawn: "Ooh, Gus, good news... shower for two."
-----
Wes: "So look, are you guys interested in the place or..."
Shawn: "What do you think, honey?"
Gus: "You know, there's something beautiful about the color Fruity Puffs turns the milk."
Shawn: "I think it's the most beautiful thing in the whole world."
[...]
Gus: "So it got me thinking, maybe pharmaceutical sales can be sort of sexy."
Shawn: "There are times when I have to stand a few feet away because you're literally sizzling."
[...]
Gus: [Emptying the box of Fruity Puffs] "Where the hell is my prize? Where's my ring, Shawn?"
Shawn: "Easy now."
Gus: "No, no, I've timed the bowls out perfectly, Shawn. Me, then you, then me, then you, then I get the prize!"
Shawn: "What happened to not sweating the small stuff 'Life's too short', all that?"
Gus: [Gives Shawn 'the look'] "Did you open the bottom of the box?"
Shawn: "Now why would I do something like that?" [Slyly reveals the ring on his finger]
Gus: "That's my ring. You know I would kill for that ring don't you?"
Shawn: "Oh, you're upsetting me. You just changed my mood from an orangey yellow to a muddy brown. You need to say something sweet. Quick."
[Gus fingers Shawn's bowl of cereal and storms off]
Shawn: "Gus! That's so childish.... I'm gonna eat yours!"
Receptionist: "There is a Lieutenant Crunch here to see you."
Gus: "Crunch?"
[Shawn enters, dressed in a Civil War uniform]
Shawn: "Actually, I've been promoted. It's Captain Crunch."
-----
Shawn: "I solved the crime."
Gus: "No, I did."
Shawn: "I said it first."
Gus: "I identified the uniform."
Shawn: "I found the button near the tree. I said it first. Tap, tap, no take-backs!"
Shawn: "No come on, who's in? [Raises hand to bump fists]"
Gus: "..."
Shawn: "Don't fool around. You know I can't hold my hand like this for very long."
Gus: "..."
Shawn: "Gus, I get very poor circulation to the limbing regions."
[Gus walks off]
Shawn: "[Looks at his lonely fist] And now my pinky's going numb."
[Shawn wants to bump fists, Gus denies him once again and runs off]
Shawn: "Gus! Man, that's twice!... [Self fist bump. Sad.]"
Gus: "The voice told me that our house was built on an old Indian burial ground. She said... she said she was sad because she had died many moons ago and was trapped between worlds. And when I asked her her name, Shawn, she said, "My name...”
Shawn: [imitating ghost's voice] "My name is Wilting Flower. I died without knowing love. Will you be my friend?"
Gus: "H-How did you know that? I never told that to anyone before."
Shawn: "*I* was Wilting Flower. Gus! I can't believe that you fell for that! "
Robert: "This pulls out into a bed, but that's all I got."
Shawn: "Oh, no worries. What's a little spooning between old pals, huh, Gus?"
[...]
Gus: "You got the floor."
Shawn: "Oh, we'll make it work. You don't mind if I nude up for the sleepover, right?"
[Shawn notices a lipstick kiss on Gus' forehead]
Gus: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Shawn: "That's all you did? Checked the doors and the windows?"
Gus: "Yeah, why?"
[Shawn takes a tissue and presses it against Gus' forehead]
Gus: "Where did that come from?"
Shawn: "Don't look at me, I'm not wearing lipstick."
INTRODUCING PSYCH-MAN AND MAGIC HEAD.
Gus: "You must have thought your dad dated again."
Shawn: "Honestly Gus, I haven't given it a lot of thought."
Gus: "It's been 15 years."
Shawn: "Yeah, you know what? It's fine. It's great. Good for him.
Gus: "You wanna to talk about it?"
Shawn: "No."
Gus: "Good."
Under cover as Dr. Hans Jorgenson and Dr. McTock
Shawn: [In a Swedish accent] "My colleague only speaks English at a very pre-school level, and he is very forgiving of others. For instance, yesterday I poured a hot cocoa all over his genitals, and I say, 'I'm sorry,' and it's fine."
Gus: "What are we doing here? I'm burning up in this thing."
Shawn: "No you're not."
Gus: "Yes, I am."
Shawn: "You've been wandering lost in the woods for two nights and you're suffering from extreme hypothermia, now SHIVER."
Shawn: "Just trust me."
Gus: "Never mind."
Shawn: "Woah, woah, woah, you do trust me, right? I mean, I know it's a silly thing to say after all these years, but we don't have to do these kinds of exercises, do we?... Battleship rematch?"
Gus: "You know that's right."
*OBLIGATORY FIST BUMP*
Ever the quick witted jokester, Shawn struggles for words at the idea of losing Gus.
Shawn: "I know if anything happened to Gus...I would, uh...I don't know, I've never, uh, I mean, that-"
Little Shawn: "Gus. When we grow up, think I'll ever be as cool as you?"
The Actors
"If you've had a friend that, from childhood... I think that's sort of the context that you have to understand this relationship. [...] The core of the relationship is the love, it's the brotherhood, the camaraderie, it's knowing someone your whole life, and, and... not knowing what it would be like if you woke up one day and that person wasn't there." - James Roday
"We've pretty much been friends since childhood. I mean, we've grown up in the same school system, probably lived right around the corner, played together, you know, we're pretty much like brothers [...] He's more the wilder brother and I'm a little more... reserved. I like to have fun, too, but I like to keep it on this side of the line. And Shawn is pretty much gonna jump the line any time. " - Dule Hill
"Shawn has this, he has this great opportunity to go and do this, you know, it's a dream job for him... and he knows that he can do it. But at the same time, it's just it's not going to be completely fulfilling if Gus isn't with him." - James
"Now that they're working together, Shawn and Gus, I would say they're like ying and yang pretty much, opposites attract, that kind of thing. They both keep each other in a good balance. One without the other would go way off on the deep end, one way or the other." - Dule
Chris Henze and Kelly Kolchak (executive producers), Pilot commentary
"There's some great moments in dailies, of these two guys in the car, when they get stuck in the car together, they always just start singing songs, which is sort of how our Psych-Outs started."
"They would sing about what they did the night before and put it to some Michael Jackson song."
"They'd be in the car with their mics on and we'd be 50 yards away under tarp in the rain and we'd have their headphones on and they probably forgot that we could hear them. They'd be chatting and they'd start... harmonizing with each other. It's very sweet. Romantic. [Laughter]"
And lastly, from Gus' blog entry...
"In setting up the bylaws, we established a number of criteria that were to be met by prospective members, and it didn't take long for Shawn and me to realize that we were the only people in the world qualified to be in our club.
Twenty years later, that's still the case. Just the way we like it."
The Recs
Vids::
Happy Together Shawn and Gus fanvid.
Grade 9 Shawn and Gus fanvid
Shawn and Gus perform "Shout" a clip from the S2 premiere.
General - Best Moments of Psych S1 feat. lots of Shus goodies.
Links::
Gus/Shawn Ship Manifesto by skipmcgee
And if you haven't already done so, JOIN shawn_gus. XD