Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement
- Episode aired Jan 22, 2014
- TV-PG
- 42m
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7.7/10
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Psych makes television history in a never-been-done remake of the Season One episode "Cloudy... with a Chance of Murder."Psych makes television history in a never-been-done remake of the Season One episode "Cloudy... with a Chance of Murder."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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- Shawn Spencer
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10eighmii
I definitely feel like the negative reviews are from casual 'psych' viewers.
True Psych-Os will LOVE this. I am obsessed with Psych and have seen EVERY SINGLE episode at least 50 times and I am no way exaggerating. So obsessed I feel as though Shawn is my best friend. And I make jokes in real life that no one understands, but Shawn would understand.
My point is not to prove that I am the worlds biggest Psych fan, but this is an amazing gift to Psych-Os. THE GUEST STARS were the best part .. Every guest star was in an old episode and it was so fun to sit there and figure out what original episode everyone was from.
The entire Psych cast and staff really cares about their true fans, and this episode, like most of Season 8, was created for the people who are going to have a major void in their life once it was all over. They said many times before it all aired, that the short season 8 was tier last chance to do the things they really wanted to while pleasing the Psych-Os, and not going out on a bad note ..
And after re-reading all I just wrote, I think I may need professional help.
True Psych-Os will LOVE this. I am obsessed with Psych and have seen EVERY SINGLE episode at least 50 times and I am no way exaggerating. So obsessed I feel as though Shawn is my best friend. And I make jokes in real life that no one understands, but Shawn would understand.
My point is not to prove that I am the worlds biggest Psych fan, but this is an amazing gift to Psych-Os. THE GUEST STARS were the best part .. Every guest star was in an old episode and it was so fun to sit there and figure out what original episode everyone was from.
The entire Psych cast and staff really cares about their true fans, and this episode, like most of Season 8, was created for the people who are going to have a major void in their life once it was all over. They said many times before it all aired, that the short season 8 was tier last chance to do the things they really wanted to while pleasing the Psych-Os, and not going out on a bad note ..
And after re-reading all I just wrote, I think I may need professional help.
For me, the most frustrating part of this episode (and this is just based on my memory from 1.5 years ago, I haven't gone back and watched it since) was how they removed so much of Henry's development. The original was the episode where it was made clear for the first time how much Henry cared for his son. This version does nothing and treats Henry like crap
The witty, sometimes a little smug Shawn Spencer is portrayed as an asinine fool. I mean, the part where he was "hitting" on Juliet made me cringe so bad that I had to close the show. He has NEVER been so desperate, and Juliet wasn't that harsh. Some of the beautiful conversation that happened in the original is removed, for god knows what reason, making it seem a lot less fluid.
In the past few episodes they stress some jokes too much and they become so unfunny. E.G. here they CONTINUOUSLY stressed that it was 2006.
I hope the Psych creators get their game up because I used to watch psych until 4am, now I couldn't even watch it all the way through...
Huge disappointment...
In the past few episodes they stress some jokes too much and they become so unfunny. E.G. here they CONTINUOUSLY stressed that it was 2006.
I hope the Psych creators get their game up because I used to watch psych until 4am, now I couldn't even watch it all the way through...
Huge disappointment...
Clearly running out of ideas. A remake of an old episode? Might as well of made a clips episode.
This was one of the worse episodes of a show that I love so much. It is called "Cloudy with a Chance of Improvement" but is worse than the original. If it ain't broke don't fix it. The whole thing felt very rushed because of the way they stuck in lines from the original without the same development of the dialog. I felt like a lot of the actors, aside from the regular cast, did a poor job of saying the poorly written dialog. The worst offender was the actor that portrayed Ruben Leonard. I seriously thought during the courtroom scene that he was reading his lines off of a teleprompter. Adam Hornstock was awesome in the original but in this latest version I hardly laughed because of him. I'm not saying that this is a new low for Psych but it certainly isn't better than the original.
Did you know
- TriviaShawn and Gus make a reference to the The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) remake and how the new plot with the race car driver was very dumb. James Roday, who plays Shawn, also played the race car driver.
- GoofsShawn was born in 1977. The scene in the courtroom took place in 1981. There is no way the infant/toddler (Shawn) in the car seat is 4-years old.
- ConnectionsReferences Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
- SoundtracksUr the Bomb
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