Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement

This episode of Psych was very similar in comedy style to many other episodes, complete with sarcasm and irony. Dramatic and clever crime- solving are also featured in this episode and typical of the series. The main thing differentiating this episode would be the abundance of guest stars, all of whom help make this episode very fun to watch. Like many other episodes of Psych, this one shouldn't be missed, it's great!

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.

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

From the start, this show had a unique premise that hooked me, so I stuck with it. As the show found its legs, it broke out from its modest trappings into something much, much more than its hook. This show has always been an almost formulaic procedural with a nice twist, but its heart comes not only from the chemistry between its leads, but from the fact that it was a love letter to pop culture. Oh, sure, the off the cuff references to classic entertainment were present from the start. When the show truly hit its stride is when it became a series of homages to everything from the "Friday the 13th" style slasher horror to the infamous Twin Peaks episode. This episode took that habit and turned it on its ear. Not only is it a send-up of the trope of bad remakes, its an homage to that which Psych fans hold dear; "Psych". This episode is deliciously meta. This episode transcended the old sitcom tradition of the "clip show", and brought a new face to referencing its past. Old guest stars in new roles, classic jokes reworked, and references to events that are yet to come in the timeline that we already know...this episode was amazing. What makes it truly...well..."Psych", is in the way it is done, in that it pokes fun at the modern trend of remaking classic movies and TV shows, while providing a fun and original episode of the show we have loved for 8 years. This show shall remain in one of the upper echelon of shows that passed the 100 episode mark and still went out on top, never sacrificing quality, never "jumping the shark".

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...