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The Worst Episodes of Psych

Every episode of Psych ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Psych!

Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad)....
Genres:ComedyDramaMysteryCrime
Network:USA Network

Worst Episodes Summary

"A Nightmare on State Street" is the worst rated episode of "Psych". It scored 6.2/10 based on 1464 votes. Directed by James Roday Rodriguez and written by James Roday Rodriguez, Carlos Jacott, it aired on 3/19/2014. This episode scored 1.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Smokers Okay, No Pets".

  • A Nightmare on State Street
    6.2/101,464 votes
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    #1 - A Nightmare on State Street

    Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 3/19/2014

    Gus' nightmares start to feel like reality when he and Shawn work to solve an unlikely case for the SBPD.

    Director: James Roday Rodriguez

    Writer: James Roday Rodriguez, Carlos Jacott

  • Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Smokers Okay, No Pets
    7.5/101,450 votes
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    #2 - Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Smokers Okay, No Pets

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/2006

    Shawn and Gus land their first non-SBPD case when a widow hires them to find some cash that her husband stole from a bank. Shawn is asked to talk to a spirit and help the widow of the thief.

    Director: Jeff Melman

    Writer: Steve Franks

  • Think Tank
    7.5/101,031 votes
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    #3 - Think Tank

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/2010

    Shawn and Gus are recruited into a think tank to help prevent the murder of a business tycoon, but once the group has disbanded, they realize that one of the members plans to use the assassination ideas to kill the client instead of save him.

    Director: Stephen Surjik

    Writer: Steve Franks, Andy Berman

  • Game Set... Muuurder?
    7.6/101,196 votes
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    #4 - Game Set... Muuurder?

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/16/2007

    Lonely and bored, Shawn convinces Juliet to give him a shot with a case involving a missing tennis star, but first he has to spring an unwilling Gus from a corporate retreat.

    Director: James L. Conway

    Writer: Anupam Nigam

  • Cirque du Soul
    7.6/10897 votes
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    #5 - Cirque du Soul

    Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 4/3/2013

    After Gus is tasked with taking care of his girlfriend's son Maximus for the day, he jeopardizes their relationship when an innocent trip to the circus turns deadly.

    Director: Jennifer Lynch

    Writer: Saladin K. Patterson

  • Nip and Suck It!
    7.6/10813 votes
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    #6 - Nip and Suck It!

    Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 5/22/2013

    After a woman dies from what appears to be a plastic surgery mishap, Shawn and Gus believe the killer is her doctor, a woman who happens to be an old flame of Henry's.

    Director: Mel Damski

    Writer: Tim Meltreger, Carlos Jacott

  • Who Ya Gonna Call?
    7.7/101,347 votes
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    #7 - Who Ya Gonna Call?

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/18/2006

    Shawn reluctantly settles for a private client who claims a ghost has it in for him after Lassiter kicks Gus and him off the much more interesting case of a murdered psychologist. The two investigations seem to be running parallel and Shawn may still end up solving the police's case.

    Director: Michael Lange

    Writer: Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar

  • Zero to Murder in Sixty Seconds
    7.7/101,177 votes
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    #8 - Zero to Murder in Sixty Seconds

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/3/2007

    Shawn tracks down Lassiter's car with little difficulty after it's stolen. However, Shawn discovers that there's more to the situation than meets the eye and calls Gus back from vacation to help with the investigation.

    Director: Stephen Surjik

    Writer: Saladin K. Patterson

  • And Down the Stretch Comes Murder
    7.7/101,151 votes
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    #9 - And Down the Stretch Comes Murder

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/10/2007

    Gus and Shawn's childhood nemesis, now a horse jockey, asks the duo for help in discovering why his horses never win. But the investigation develops into a murder case after a jockey dies while racing.

    Director: Michael Zinberg

    Writer: Josh Bycel

  • Rob-a-Bye Baby
    7.7/101,152 votes
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    #10 - Rob-a-Bye Baby

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/7/2007

    Shawn and Gus want to be put on Lassiter's burglary case, but a sleep-deprived Chief Vick orders them to find her a nanny instead. Unfortunately, at least from Lassiter's view, the two teams keep crossing paths, and Shawn sees an opportunity to horn in on the more interesting case.

    Director: Paul Lazarus

    Writer: Tami Sagher

  • Dis-Lodged
    7.7/101,074 votes
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    #11 - Dis-Lodged

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/2008

    Henry bails on his weekend outing with Shawn, stating that he's too ill to leave the house. Shawn is nowhere near upset until he and Gus catch Henry driving by, clearly not sick at all. Naturally, they follow him and discover he used to be a member of the Monarch Lodge, a clandestine society. They barge inside looking for an explanation and are surprised to find one of the Lodge members lying dead before them. Shawn suspects murder, and in order to conduct an inside investigation, he becomes a member of the society.

    Director: Mel Damski

    Writer: Tim Meltreger

  • Daredevils!
    7.7/101,182 votes
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    #12 - Daredevils!

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/2008

    Shawn and Gus get hired by the son of daredevil Dutch "The Clutch" Jenkins. They have to figure out what's going on, after "accidents" keep happening to The Clutch.

    Director: John Badham

    Writer: Anupam Nigam

  • There Might Be Blood
    7.7/101,101 votes
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    #13 - There Might Be Blood

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/22/2008

    Shawn and Gus investigate the death of a safety inspector aboard an offshore oil rig. The investigation is complicated by the commander of the coast guard, Barbara Dunlap, Chief Vick's sister.

    Director: John Badham

    Writer: Kell Cahoon

  • Ferry Tale
    7.7/10986 votes
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    #14 - Ferry Tale

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 8/25/2010

    Shawn and Gus help a prison guard locate his escaped inmates while on a ferry boat headed to the Channel Islands.

    Director: Reginald Hudlin

    Writer: Saladin K. Patterson, Kell Cahoon

  • The Polarizing Express
    7.7/101,090 votes
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    #15 - The Polarizing Express

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/2010

    Due to an unlawful entry into a criminals property, Shawn gets suspended from his consultant postition and gets Henry fired from his position at the SBPD at the same time. Shawn has a series of Scrooge type dreams where Tony Cox is his 'spirit guide'.

    Director: James Roday Rodriguez

    Writer: James Roday Rodriguez, Saladin K. Patterson

  • Dead Air
    7.7/10868 votes
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    #16 - Dead Air

    Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 5/15/2013

    After Shawn and Gus' favorite radio DJ is murdered, they go undercover as on-air personalities to find his killer.

    Director: Saladin K. Patterson

    Writer: Saladin K. Patterson, Kell Cahoon

  • Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement
    7.7/101,226 votes
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    #17 - Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement

    Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2014

    A star studded cast of Psych ALL STARS joins our crew as they dive back into 2006 and re-tell the story of Sandra Panitch, a woman wrongfully accused of the murder of local weatherman Jackson Hale.

    Director: Andy Berman

    Writer: Andy Berman, Todd Harthan

  • Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up
    7.7/10859 votes
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    #18 - Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up

    Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 3/5/2014

    Shawn and Gus are bummed to find out the owner of their favorite food truck has been murdered. The two of them go undercover to learn the food truck ropes and find out who the killer is. While working on the case, Marlowe visits them to cure a pregnancy craving and goes into labor at the most inconvenient time.

    Director: David Crabtree

    Writer: Saladin K. Patterson

  • Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece
    7.8/101,612 votes
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    #19 - Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/21/2006

    Shawn and Gus become wedding crashers at a posh ceremony in order to retrieve a stolen antique engagement ring inexplicably taken from an inpenetrable vault under surveillance. The theft turns to murder when things start to come unraveled.

    Director: Michael Engler, Michael Zinberg

    Writer: Steve Franks, Andy Berman

  • He Dead
    7.8/101,057 votes
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    #20 - He Dead

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 8/14/2009

    A billionaire hedge fund manager asks Shawn and Gus to find his murderer – a last request Shawn can't resist. So he and Gus step into a world of privilege that's rivaled only by the depths of betrayal it contains.

    Director: Michael McMurray

    Writer: Saladin K. Patterson

  • Chivalry Is Not Dead... But Someone Is
    7.8/101,001 votes
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    #21 - Chivalry Is Not Dead... But Someone Is

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 8/4/2010

    A wealthy widow's young date is murdered, pitting Shawn and Gus against a dirty rotten scoundrel they are convinced trained the victim to be a con artist.

    Director: Jay Chandrasekhar

    Writer: Andy Berman

  • Dead Man's Curveball
    7.8/101,002 votes
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    #22 - Dead Man's Curveball

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2011

    When the hitting coach of the Santa Barbara Seabirds suddenly dies, the team's manager hires Shawn and Gus to go undercover as the new coach and mascot in order to investigate.

    Director: Mel Damski

    Writer: Bill Callahan

  • Juliet Wears the Pantsuit
    7.8/10855 votes
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    #23 - Juliet Wears the Pantsuit

    Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 4/24/2013

    Shawn bonds with Woody, and Juliet befriends a girl who Shawn believes to be a killer.

    Director: Jennifer Lynch

    Writer: Brittany Hilgers

  • Someone's Got a Woody
    7.8/10873 votes
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    #24 - Someone's Got a Woody

    Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2014

    A man enters the morgue and tells Woody that he was framed for the murder of the person lying dead on the slab. When Woody won’t let him take the body, the man pulls a gun on him and holds Woody hostage in order to get what he wants. Shawn, Gus, Lassiter and Juliet try to resolve the situation calmly and carefully, but Interim Chief Trout has a plan of his own.

    Director: Mel Damski

    Writer: Andy Berman, Saladin K. Patterson

  • 1967: A Psych Odyssey
    7.8/10894 votes
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    #25 - 1967: A Psych Odyssey

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 2/26/2014

    Lassiter is determined to be appointed Chief of Police, so he sets out to prove himself worthy of the job by solving the murder of the Mayor’s beloved uncle, Archie Baxter, who was killed back in the 60s but the case was never solved. Meanwhile, Juliet receives some news that tests her relationship with Shawn.

    Director: Kirsten Nelson

    Writer: James Roday Rodriguez, Tim Meltreger