#what an absolute banger of an episode

[ash-tree-eyes]

On this week’s episode of the magnus protocol: Rich Grandma With Shotgun Makes People Hunt Each Other For Sport!

[iizuumi]

me next please

[asterjennifer]

I'm not gay I have a boyfriend I'm not gay I have a boyfriend I'm not gay I have a boyfriend I'm not gay I hav—

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

most nights kinda suck. but sometimes youre relaxing in a nice motel and one of the tv channels is playing 9-1-1 episodes <3 and everything feels like it'll be okay for a few hours <3

[soupdreamer]

and all if we have is tonight i have a bag of coke in my jacket and i've got poppers in mine

[dennisboobs]

do you guys ever sit and remember that dennis takes a mental health day is an episode that exists

[octopus-defence-squad]

someone save me

[lumiilys]

Continuing my ofmd rewatch and I’m on red flags now and I keep wanting to pause every 5 seconds and take screenshots!!! OUGH RED FLAGS MY BELOVED!!!!

[ziracona]

“How could you do this to me?”

“Me? You did this to yourself.”

“It was just business!”

“Wow. You call sleeping with me ‘business’? …I hate to think what that makes you.”

*8,000 airhorns*

[performing-personhood]

Like yeah okay well all fairy tales are sort of cringe, kind of an integral part of the magic, are you new here babes cuz it seems like this your first time in the greater sci-fi genre

"that musical segment in the 2023 Doctor Who christmas special was cringe" news flash asshole, all of Doctor Who is cringe, shut up and enjoy the stupid fuckin gay cartoon

[luxicorde]

Guess who finally finished castlevania anime

[botslayer9000]

imagine if the us army commissioned linked horizon to write a propaganda song for them. wouldn’t that be fucked up

[gffa]

I will say that I loved the Qimir reveal, that it didn't need to be a big surprise twist, it just needed to have momentum built up to it and for it to be a banger moment, and Manny Jacinto absolutely achieved that. The way he switched between affectations, that chirpy little 'hello!' when Mae stumbled into the clearing, the way his face and eyes and voice would go almost dreamy when he wasn't hiding what he was anymore, the goofy little head tilts at a contrast with the genuinely menacing aura coming off him, the real danger he posed, all of it was exactly as satisfying as I could have asked for. It was in that moment of, "You really didn't know it was me? Not even deep down?" that said everything. It was never meant to be a huge twist surprise, the audience was supposed to know it, that maybe you might doubt it because your suspicions were also elsewhere, but you at least were supposed to suspect it. That reveal wasn't meant to be shocking because it was a surprise. That reveal was meant to be shocking because Manny Jacinto acted his ass off to portray the switching between affected personalities of his character and to be menacing once you saw his real face, to have absolutely incredible arms, to prowl around that jungle set like a panther who has no conscience, no human vulnerability, no heart to reach out to. It was meant to be shocking because it was an awesome lightsaber fight. The reveal of Qimir as the Sith was the best part of the episode because I was genuinely excited for what I knew was coming, I was on the edge of my seat to see his actual face, even though I already knew, I wanted that actual moment, I wanted to see how it would play out, and this show is at its best when it gives its actors the platform to actually do their job, and Manny Jacinto knocked it out of the park for me.

[flannelepicurean]

Okay, so... I ran the dollar amounts through an inflation calculator, and...Now I am picturing an American farmer, played by Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, just...appearing in some eatery in the fanciest track suit he could buy and being like, "Gimme seven hundred bucks' worth of ham and eggs, and make it snappy."

And them being like, "...wut."

And he's like, "I HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY, OKAY? I GOT SHIT TO DO. My old man gave me thirty-five grand and I'm the master of my own fuckin' dentistry, so get me seven hundred bucks' worth of ham and eggs and then fuck off."

And the manager is like, "Sir, this is a Denny's," and then catches a ketchup bottle upside the dome while our farmer hollers, "WELL, GO GET FUCKIN' DENNY, THEN, AND TELL HIM TO GET ME MY GODDAMN HAM AND EGGS!"

Later, at the station, it's all, "Yeah, David Terry, 50 years old, Woodbury. Yeah. Bury a lotta wood up there, I can tell ya that...The fuck's an occupation? Oh, a JOB? Uh, trailer park supervisor...Just send the bill to my cousin Randy, he's good for it. He'll be mad as fuck when he gets here, though, that fat fuck's gonna be hungry when he gets off the wagon in this one-horse town, and Denny can't run a restaurant for shit. You guys gotta get your act together."

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1904

[wolfstarlights]

I’ll say it. The musical episode on psych (2006) is a fucking masterpiece. I hate it. I love it. It’s terrible and sucks ass. It’s perfect in every single way. It doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s entirely logical. It’s unironically my favourite episode of the show.

Special shoutout to “I’ve heard it both ways” for being both an absolute banger and having some real killer lyrics. “I’ve heard it both ways, the right way and then yours” — thousands are dead, no survivors. “I’m not sure which of them is cracked”-“the nuts?”-“YOU’RE cracked”-“YOU’RE nuts!” Fucking perfection man idk what to tell you.

[marlenacantswim]

forgive me while i analyze a sitcom that ended like ten years ago, but i don't think psych degraded in quality at all as it went on. it seems rather like what quality they had got funneled into specific episodes, so instead of a consistent aura of general Sauce like in the first half of the show, in the second half you get absolute banger episodes that leave you barely able to breathe whether through comedy or emotional devastation sprinkled between episodes that feel more unmemorable by comparison.

similarly, while the series is always running on goofy scenarios, they tend to be goofy case scenarios (death during civil war reenactment; a dinosaur did it; a sea lion was murdered) in the first half and then start trending towards goofy character scenarios (gus and shawn accidentally yet totally preventably get their dna all over a crime scene; lassiter becomes a pathetic slobbering mess in the field; Last Night Gus) in the second half.

i think these reasons — combined with 00's nostalgia — are why a lot of fans prefer the vibes of the first four seasons even though a fair portion of highest rated episodes (including the consistently highest ranked one) and honestly most of my favorite episodes come from the latter four seasons.