Comic Books and Clothes Shopping (Psych, Gus/Juliet, Free Month)
Title: Comic Books and Clothes Shopping
Author: chicafrom3
Fandom: Psych
Pairing: Burton "Gus" Guster/Juliet O'Hara
Spoilers: From "Pilot" to "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead" inclusive.
Disclaimer: Psych belongs to some awesome people over at USA. If they were mine it would be all about Gus and Juliet and their mad love affair Interim Police Chief Karen Vick. Because Karen Vick is just. that. amazing.
Warning: Not dial-up friendly. For free month; more a picspam with some vaguely incoherent rambling than an essay of any sort.
NOTES: Promo pics from The Official Site. Screencaps mainly thanks to rustys_head
This is Burton Guster, better known as Gus for obvious reasons. He is pretty and smart and long-suffering, at the hands of his best friend, Shawn Spencer.
This is Gus and Shawn together:
Shawn is also pretty.
Gus has a respectable, well-paying job with a pharmaceutical company. He is good at it. Shawn is a slacker who apparently can't hold a job for more than a month at a time, but nevertheless holds down a very nice apartment with very nice electronic equipment. Who knows how. Anyway, Shawn was trained by his cop dad to be a great cop, but instead turned his photographic memory and finely-honed deductive skills to helping him slack through life, calling in tips to the cops whenever he needed a monetary boost. A cop named Carlton Lassiter (also pretty):
was working one of the cases Shawn called a tip in on. Lassiter decided that Shawn was an accomplice and wanted to arrest him. Because no one would believe that he was just very observant and very well trained, Shawn faked being a psychic to explain how he got the information.
How is any of this relevant? Well, for one, it set up the premise of the show ("Fake psychic. Real detectives"). For another, Shawn drags his best buddy Gus into helping him pull off this con, and at the end of the first episode, they are setting up their own psychic detective agency, imaginatively named Psych. Or, well, Shawn is setting it up. Gus is complaining that he has a real job and can't just be plunging into one of Shawn's schemes foolhardily. But he does anyway, and that's one of the reasons why we love him.
In the second episode of the series, "Spellingg Bee", we discover that Lassiter's partner Lucinda has been transferred to another department, and been replaced by rookie cop Juliet O'Hara, who is also pretty.
Gus and Shawn are investigating a case. As soon as Lassiter and Juliet show up, Gus demands Shawn tell him who "the blonde" is. Attraction at first sight!
The next episode is "Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Piece".
ETA: (capped by comfy_slippers)
Gus sneaks into a wedding late. Lassiter and Juliet are guarding the door from thieves. Juliet and Gus very blatantly check each other out. Look at how adorably starstruck she is!
Lassiter is not pleased by Gus and Shawn being there at all, much less the sheer rudeness of Gus walking in late. Juliet gives him an STFU look, because she thinks Gus is cute, and therefore he can walk in late if he wants!
SHAWN: "Dude, you're late! Bethany was-"
GUS: "Shawn, forget Bethany! Juliet was totally checking me out!"
…okay, that's a loose paraphrase.
Sadly I do not have an appropriate cap, but "Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Smokers Okay, No Pets" features Gus blatantly flirting with Chick Who Is Not Juliet, and Juliet getting very obviously jealous about it. Truth.
"9 Lives" has no particularly awesome Gus/Juliet. Woe. It is nevertheless an adorable episode and has Gus getting jealous over a little boycat, so watch it anyway.
In "Weekend Warriors", Gus and Juliet make it obvious that they have been clothes shopping together.
See? See? LOOK at how they're looking at each other. LOOK.
Um. Anyway.
Lassiter gets all dolled out in period costume. Gus and Shawn being Gus and Shawn, they cannot just let it stand at that, so they get dolled out, too.
Juliet is bemused, but thinks Gus is hotter in Civil War garb than Shawn.
Then Juliet gets in on the action and dresses up as a Civil War nurse. Gus does up her corset and then has to help her get out of the tent in her huge hoop skirt.
"Who Ya Gonna Call?" again lacks awesome Gus/Julietness. But Gus proves that Real Men Wear Pink, so who cares, really?
"Shawn Vs. The Red Phantom" was the episode that converted Gus/Juliet shippers by the masses. Here is the situation:
Gus is a comic book geek. Shawn is not, and mocks him for it. And then Shawn finds out that Juliet is also a comic book geek.
Juliet and Gus geek out together. Shawn is at a loss, because the adorableness is too much for him.
"Forget Me Not" had no awesome Gus/Julietness. It also had no Karen Vick. It fails. Except for some really awesome "channeling" scenes and Gus and Shawn impersonating famous veterinarians to bad results.
In "From The Earth To The Starbucks" Gus flirted hardcore with an astronomer chick in a thinly-veiled effort to convince us that Gus/Juliet is not the One True Way.
Despite the fact that Astronomer Chick Jessica was kind of awesome and also played by Dulé's real-life wife, the relationship failed at having more chemistry than Gus/Juliet. Or any kind of future, really, given that Gus kind of accused her of murder.
"He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead" tried the same thing, only with Juliet attempting to have chemistry with Shawn.
This was slightly more successful, due in large part to the fact that Shawn has mad chemistry with anything female, male, or inanimate object, that crosses his path. However, it too failed in the end, because we were reminded that the only way for the writers to even attempt to sell Shawn/Juliet was to keep Gus and Juliet from ever sharing a scene.
Well, that, and the fact that the episode was mad slashy with Shawn complimenting Lassiter's eyes and writing him a love note. What more do you want?
And a few last random images:
They're all pretty together! And Gus is totally staring at Juliet!
Shawn, Juliet, and Gus. Shawn is staring at the camera. Juliet and Gus are more subtly checking each other out.
I found this screencap totally at random. I don't know which episode it's from. WHICH EPISODE IS IT FROM and why did I never notice it before? Follow his eyeline, man!
EDIT: According to rustys_head, this is from "Who Ya Gonna Call?" Thanks, rustys_head! :D So much for my claim that there is no awesome Gus/Julietness in "Who Ya Gonna Call?"
If I have convinced you, or if you already loved the pairing and just wanted to check out more people like you, wander over to gus_juliet!
Author: chicafrom3
Fandom: Psych
Pairing: Burton "Gus" Guster/Juliet O'Hara
Spoilers: From "Pilot" to "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead" inclusive.
Disclaimer: Psych belongs to some awesome people over at USA. If they were mine it would be all about Gus and Juliet and their mad love affair Interim Police Chief Karen Vick. Because Karen Vick is just. that. amazing.
Warning: Not dial-up friendly. For free month; more a picspam with some vaguely incoherent rambling than an essay of any sort.
NOTES: Promo pics from The Official Site. Screencaps mainly thanks to rustys_head
This is Burton Guster, better known as Gus for obvious reasons. He is pretty and smart and long-suffering, at the hands of his best friend, Shawn Spencer.
This is Gus and Shawn together:
Shawn is also pretty.
Gus has a respectable, well-paying job with a pharmaceutical company. He is good at it. Shawn is a slacker who apparently can't hold a job for more than a month at a time, but nevertheless holds down a very nice apartment with very nice electronic equipment. Who knows how. Anyway, Shawn was trained by his cop dad to be a great cop, but instead turned his photographic memory and finely-honed deductive skills to helping him slack through life, calling in tips to the cops whenever he needed a monetary boost. A cop named Carlton Lassiter (also pretty):
was working one of the cases Shawn called a tip in on. Lassiter decided that Shawn was an accomplice and wanted to arrest him. Because no one would believe that he was just very observant and very well trained, Shawn faked being a psychic to explain how he got the information.
How is any of this relevant? Well, for one, it set up the premise of the show ("Fake psychic. Real detectives"). For another, Shawn drags his best buddy Gus into helping him pull off this con, and at the end of the first episode, they are setting up their own psychic detective agency, imaginatively named Psych. Or, well, Shawn is setting it up. Gus is complaining that he has a real job and can't just be plunging into one of Shawn's schemes foolhardily. But he does anyway, and that's one of the reasons why we love him.
In the second episode of the series, "Spellingg Bee", we discover that Lassiter's partner Lucinda has been transferred to another department, and been replaced by rookie cop Juliet O'Hara, who is also pretty.
Gus and Shawn are investigating a case. As soon as Lassiter and Juliet show up, Gus demands Shawn tell him who "the blonde" is. Attraction at first sight!
The next episode is "Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Piece".
ETA: (capped by comfy_slippers)
Gus sneaks into a wedding late. Lassiter and Juliet are guarding the door from thieves. Juliet and Gus very blatantly check each other out. Look at how adorably starstruck she is!
Lassiter is not pleased by Gus and Shawn being there at all, much less the sheer rudeness of Gus walking in late. Juliet gives him an STFU look, because she thinks Gus is cute, and therefore he can walk in late if he wants!
SHAWN: "Dude, you're late! Bethany was-"
GUS: "Shawn, forget Bethany! Juliet was totally checking me out!"
…okay, that's a loose paraphrase.
Sadly I do not have an appropriate cap, but "Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Smokers Okay, No Pets" features Gus blatantly flirting with Chick Who Is Not Juliet, and Juliet getting very obviously jealous about it. Truth.
"9 Lives" has no particularly awesome Gus/Juliet. Woe. It is nevertheless an adorable episode and has Gus getting jealous over a little boycat, so watch it anyway.
In "Weekend Warriors", Gus and Juliet make it obvious that they have been clothes shopping together.
See? See? LOOK at how they're looking at each other. LOOK.
Um. Anyway.
Lassiter gets all dolled out in period costume. Gus and Shawn being Gus and Shawn, they cannot just let it stand at that, so they get dolled out, too.
Juliet is bemused, but thinks Gus is hotter in Civil War garb than Shawn.
Then Juliet gets in on the action and dresses up as a Civil War nurse. Gus does up her corset and then has to help her get out of the tent in her huge hoop skirt.
"Who Ya Gonna Call?" again lacks awesome Gus/Julietness. But Gus proves that Real Men Wear Pink, so who cares, really?
"Shawn Vs. The Red Phantom" was the episode that converted Gus/Juliet shippers by the masses. Here is the situation:
Gus is a comic book geek. Shawn is not, and mocks him for it. And then Shawn finds out that Juliet is also a comic book geek.
Juliet and Gus geek out together. Shawn is at a loss, because the adorableness is too much for him.
"Forget Me Not" had no awesome Gus/Julietness. It also had no Karen Vick. It fails. Except for some really awesome "channeling" scenes and Gus and Shawn impersonating famous veterinarians to bad results.
In "From The Earth To The Starbucks" Gus flirted hardcore with an astronomer chick in a thinly-veiled effort to convince us that Gus/Juliet is not the One True Way.
Despite the fact that Astronomer Chick Jessica was kind of awesome and also played by Dulé's real-life wife, the relationship failed at having more chemistry than Gus/Juliet. Or any kind of future, really, given that Gus kind of accused her of murder.
"He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead" tried the same thing, only with Juliet attempting to have chemistry with Shawn.
This was slightly more successful, due in large part to the fact that Shawn has mad chemistry with anything female, male, or inanimate object, that crosses his path. However, it too failed in the end, because we were reminded that the only way for the writers to even attempt to sell Shawn/Juliet was to keep Gus and Juliet from ever sharing a scene.
Well, that, and the fact that the episode was mad slashy with Shawn complimenting Lassiter's eyes and writing him a love note. What more do you want?
And a few last random images:
They're all pretty together! And Gus is totally staring at Juliet!
Shawn, Juliet, and Gus. Shawn is staring at the camera. Juliet and Gus are more subtly checking each other out.
I found this screencap totally at random. I don't know which episode it's from. WHICH EPISODE IS IT FROM and why did I never notice it before? Follow his eyeline, man!
EDIT: According to rustys_head, this is from "Who Ya Gonna Call?" Thanks, rustys_head! :D So much for my claim that there is no awesome Gus/Julietness in "Who Ya Gonna Call?"
If I have convinced you, or if you already loved the pairing and just wanted to check out more people like you, wander over to gus_juliet!