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Jun 1, 2024 · In 2014, Psych became the first TV series to produce a remake of one of its own episodes. Psych followed the adventures of Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez) and Gus (Dulé Hill) as the former pretended to be psychic and dragged the latter onto his jobs as a consulting psychic detective.
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Jul 19, 2022 · Remaking an entire episode of a series was unheard of; in fact, Psych was the very first show to improve on an already-existing episode. Thanks to their creativity and determination to make each...
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"Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement" is the third episode of Season Eight. Shawn and Gus once again try to solve the murder of local weatherman Jackson Hale in this remake of S1E12 "Cloudy... With a Chance of Murder".
We begin the episode with a flashback to 1981. Henry has been summoned by the court to testify in a case he was an officer on. Before he takes the stand, we see him talking to Shawn as a baby, telling him how important the jury is to a case and why.
We then flash forward to the year 2006. Shawn and Gus are still newbies trying to prove to the SBPD that they're worthy of being hired to help solve cases. Shawn's motorcycle was recently impounded so he and Gus arrive at the courthouse to pay the ticket. Shawn spots an attractive woman seated in the hallway. Gus asks her where the parking ticket counter is and she kindly points them in the right direction.
Back at the Psych office, Shawn and Gus catch an episode of "Sun Up Santa Barbara" hosted by husband and wife team Connie (Janet Varney) and Mortimer Camp (Carlos Jacott). Connie and Morty present a story outlining the murder of their own weatherman Jackson Hale (Dana Ashbrook), who was attacked at the station and killed. They show a clip of the prosecutor talking to the press about the accused attacker, a woman named Sandra Panitch (Lindsay Sloane). Sandra was with Hale at the news station at the time of his death. When Sandra's picture is displayed on TV, Shawn and Gus are shocked to see that she's the same nice woman they met in the courthouse earlier that day. In the same clip, they see Sandra's attorney Adam Hornstock (Michael Weston) telling the press that she is a preschool teacher with no priors and that she couldn't possibly have been capable of committing murder. Shawn notices that Hornstock is nervous and discombobulated and perhaps in need of some help. After watching the clip, Shawn believes Sandra is innocent and worries her lawyer may not be capable of proving her innocence. So Shawn and Gus convince Hornstock to hire them on the case as legal consultants.
While in court, Shawn notices that Juror 5 (Allie Bertram), a young lady, doesn't like Hornstock. Shawn thinks it's Hornstock's tie that is putting her off. Knowing how important the jury is on a case, Shawn gives Hornstock Gus's tie to wear, and sure enough, when Hornstock puts it on, Juror 5 appears pleased. Hornstock is impressed with Shawn's insight and lets them stay on the case to help out. After court is adjourned for the day, Shawn and Gus head to the news station to investigate Hale's death. They first meet with Connie and Morty. Shawn finds a clue that tells him Connie and Morty are lying about their relationship; they aren't even together anymore but they appear to be while on camera to keep their viewership alive. Shortly after speaking with Connie and Morty, one of the production assistants, Priscilla Morgenstern (Katharine Isabelle), gives Shawn and Gus a tour of the studio. She shows them where the murder took place: in front of the green screen Hale used when reporting the weather. Apparently, Hale was a womanizer who liked to bring his ladies to the studio to seduce them and tape them while they made love. Priscilla then shows them the office of Ruben Leonard (Alan Ruck), their roving reporter. Ruben has since taken over as temporary weatherman, which leads Shawn to believe Ruben could have murdered Hale because he wanted his job.
Back in the courtroom, Hornstock has Ruben on the stand. Shawn guides Hornstock during questioning, trying to get Ruben to admit that he hated Hale. Hornstock gets Ruben worked up enough that he admits his hatred of Hale. Shawn and Gus are convinced that Ruben is the killer, but they need hard evidence to prove it, so they head back to the news station.
They search Ruben's office, and Shawn finds the murder weapon hiding above the ceiling tiles. He then calls in Lassiter and Juliet to investigate his findings. They immediately go to question Ruben who is currently on-air doing the weather. Ruben says that he didn't kill Hale and neither did Sandra, but that he knows who did. But before he can say the killer's name, he drops dead. Shawn says that it couldn't have been Sandra who poisoned Ruben because she is currently in police custody. But Lassiter reminds Shawn that they still need to do an autopsy to confirm it was murder and not natural causes.
•Psych is the first show in the history of television to remake one of their own episodes.
•Practically every guest character in this episode is played by an actor that has previously guest-starred on Psych. Amongst the more noticeable ones (in alphabetical order by last name of the actor/actress):
•Dana Ashbrook (Jackson Hale) originally appeared in S5E12 "Dual Spires" as Robert Barker, owner of the Sawmill diner and father to Paula Merral.
•Allie Bertram (Juror 5) originally appeared in S7E11 "Office Space" as Helen Blaine, assistant to Gus's boss Dorian Creech.
•Katharine Isabelle (Priscilla Morgenstern) originally appeared in S2E15 "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" as Sigrid, a model at the Ciao! fashion company who was having an affair with the company chairman and founder Gregor Uwe-Steeb.
•Carlos Jacott (Mortimer Camp) originally appeared in S1E5 "9 Lives" as Terrance, boss of the stress hotline, and S6E8 "The Tao of Gus" as Geoffrey, a member of the Box Canyon Commune. Jacott is also a frequent writer of Psych episodes.
Jan 22, 2014 · Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement: Directed by Andy Berman. With James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson. Psych makes television history in a never-been-done remake of the Season One episode "Cloudy... with a Chance of Murder."
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- Psych is the first show to remake one of its own episodes. Nowadays, it's getting harder to think of older series and movies that aren't being subjected to the remake treatment.
- Psych gave two working actors their longest tenured jobs to date. If you've watched any genre series or sitcom since the 1980s, odds are that you've come across either Timothy Omundson or Kurt Fuller in your travels.
- Gus is not Bud from The Cosby Show, but Clair Huxtable is his mom. In the season one finale "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast," multiple guest characters ask Gus if he played Bud, Rudy Huxtable's best friend on The Cosby Show.
- The show produced over two and a half hours of "Psych-Outs" While it's pretty standard for shows to include deleted scenes and blooper reels on their DVD sets, it's considerably less common for shows to air bloopers at the end of the episode.
Jan 23, 2014 · Tonight the guys decide to go back seven years to season 1 and relive the episode “Cloudy with a Chance of Murder.”. The problem is that they take what was an already terrific episode in 2006 ...
I liked Cloudy because it put Shawn in a new environment (as a lawyer) so it makes sense that they'd remake one of the high-ish concepts of the first season, but if they needed to improve any one episode from that first year, I would've gone with the comic convention one.
