Psych takes good-natured jab at Mentalist
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For those unfamiliar, both Psych (USA) and The Mentalist (CBS) center around main characters with heightened skills of observation who solve crimes. The premise which Psych took and ran with to create an extremely silly, but nonetheless entertaining, show was tweaked by CBS who last season decided to create their own, less silly and more dramatic (though, to be fair, also entertaining), take on someone with this particular skill set.
And now Psych has tweaked back in this short commercial. Psych, along with Monk, returns with new episodes this Friday on USA.
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