# Psych - The Musical!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psych-the-musical/676408>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 15, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psych-the-musical/676408 "2013-12-15T20:44:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psych-the-musical/676408/21 "2013-12-18T15:27:12Z")

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Finally finished watching it last night (wife fell asleep Sunday night, so we had to stop). Overall I give it a B. The good stuff: “I’ve Heard It Both Ways” tango with Shawn/Lassiter was good, Woody’s song was excellent, the rest were merely OK. It was good to see an actual serious theatre person (Anthony Rapp) cast as the writer, and having Barry Bostwick was also solid. Ally Sheedy was great again.

Overall, though, I was disappointed. There were a few laugh out loud jokes, but not as many as usual and certainly not enough for two hours. The songs were not memorable enough - even the “big” numbers felt mediocre. The whole thing left me feeling “meh.”

I’m glad they gave it a shot, though. It’s the right show for this kind of thing, and hey, nobody’s perfect.

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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psych-the-musical/676408/22 "2013-12-19T17:17:16Z")

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One reference I noticed: When they were first tracking the writer after his escape and arguing which way he went, Shawn says “I think he went straight…_into the woods._” I wonder if there were other musical titles worked into the script that I didn’t notice?

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**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psych-the-musical/676408/23 "2013-12-29T04:25:25Z")

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Sorry to bump a thread just as it’s getting to sleep, but I finally watched the episode.  
Decent. I liked the plot, and would have enjoyed it as a standard episode. I zoned out on a few of the songs, but don’t think I really missed anything.

> [@Tangent](#):
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> Well, darn. They just played the normal theme after the opening musical number. I guess I’m 1 for 3.

I think they missed a great opportunity to do a spoken word version of the opening sequence. It could have been classic.

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**Author:** ![kaltkalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@kaltkalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaltkalt)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psych-the-musical/676408/24 "2013-12-30T03:26:35Z")

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i tried to watch it, but couldn’t take more than about 8 minutes.

Please cancel this show already.

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psych-the-musical/676408/25 "2013-12-30T23:24:55Z")

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> [@kaltkalt](#):
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> i tried to watch it, but couldn’t take more than about 8 minutes.
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> Please cancel this show already.

Dear Psych,

please disregard kaltkalt’s request. KTHXBYE

TBG

P.S. what is gus really like?

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