'PSYCH'
"SANTA BARBARATOWN"
"SANTA BARBARATOWN"
When former Santa Barbara detective Henry Spencer threatened to deck a
"skel" for what he insinuated about Henry's deceased partner, his son Shawn held
him back with a soothing "Easy, Sipowicz."
Sure, for us in the Trueniverse, this was a reference to Andy Sipowicz, a
NYC detective played by Dennis Franz in the classic crime drama 'NYPD Blue'.
However, I'm going to suggest to avoid a Zonk, that Henry and Shawn actually
knew this coarse cop.
Of course, there is a major O'Bstacle to this theory - How would a cop and
his son from Santa Barbara know a detective in the Big Apple?
That's easy. There must have been a police detective convention held near
to Santa Barbara, which would be the only way Henry could justify bringing his
little son along.
I'm thinking it had to have happened around 1990, give or take a year on
either side. This would set the convention encounter within the parameters of
the flashbacks in 'Psych', but a couple of years before 'NYPD Blue' debuted in
1993.
So as a boy of about ten years of age, Shawn may have been with his father
at this cop convention - where he probably got to see this drunken, racist,
belligerent detective from New York in action.
Afterwards, I wouldn't be surprised if Henry saw this as an opportunity to
impart a life lesson to his son; telling Shawn: "You don't ever want to become
that guy."
So when Henry was about to blow his stack twenty years later, Shawn calmed
him down by whispering "Easy, Sipowicz."
It was their private code for "Don't become that guy."
BCnU!
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