Talk:Shawn Spencer

message: Are we absolutely certain that Shawn has a photographic memory? USA Network website does not specifically say so, they just say "extraordinary powers of observation", and many of his Shawnvision moments uncover items that are simply overlooked by the police (or whoever); rather than him recalling something from memory. For example, when he first meets Maggie and stuns her with what he knows about her, that's not a photographic memory at work. Nor when he solves the stolen computer case in a matter of seconds in the third episode. At the end of the pilot episode, Shawn tells Gus that he's already been given another case (one which we don't actually get to see), and he has difficulty remembring the exact name of the drug that was used in committing the crime.
--yes, but in the civil war episode, he recreates the entire battle scene from memory. Even if he had excellent observation, I still doubt that he would be able to memorize the entire miniature battle scene without having a photographic memory.
I think he has "both". His dad trained him to have the power of observation through! the his edietic memory. And I agree with the guy above me. He recreated that whole battle scene from memory. And edietic memory doesn't mean super memory! Just a really good one. I think he should have Power of Observation and Edietic Memory. This is weird. I was actually going to post the exact same thing.
-- in episode 14, his father asks him "Shawn, shouldn't you be writing some of this down?". As the one who actually trained him, shouldn't he know Shawn (supposedly) has eidetic memory and wouldn't need to? And AFA the civil war episode, since Shawn knows pretty much everyone in the town, and he was studying it for minutes (it wasn't just a quick look), I don't see any reason he couldn't, even without an eidetic memory. Eidetic does mean super memory. It's "photographic" (check the eidetic memory entry here on wikipedia). If he only has a really good memory then by definition, it's not eidetic; I can regurgitate a 2 page slab of computer code practically verbatim, but that doesn't mean I have an eidetic memory. So far that's one (possible) eidetic moment vs several to the contrary...
I agree that he at least has a really very strong memory, if not photographic, though it is the powers of observation that help him 99% of the time. I recall in the episode with the chop shop he's able to ramble off serial numbers he only glanced at, when the food critic was poisoned, he was able to remember the symbol and other details about the take out container he hardly paid any attention to, as well as the Civil War reenactment example above, and he's able to remember scenes from his childhood with remarkable detail. I don't see why he couldn't have both.172.191.132.186 (talk) 09:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photographic/Eidetic Memory vs Powers of Observation 

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message: In Sixty-Five Million Years Off (2x02), Shawn noted that he worked somewhere with a T-Rex, and he got fired for taking a picture in the mouth of the T-Rex. I didn't notice any museums listed, any idea where he worked?-- 21:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wyoming Natural History Museum (may be fictional).  See http://www.usanetwork.com/series/psych/games/gusorshawn/quiz.cgi?beginner=2.  It was 7 1/2 minutes into the episode (at least in the iTunes version). —Nricardo (talk) 04:25, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jobs 

message: Isn't his mother dead? They seem to allude to her in the past tense. Does anybody know? Lavender Gooms (talk) 03:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: His mother

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message: It's just been added that Shawn says he was a psychology major, but I can't remember the context of the remarks.  Does anybody know if he was actually being truthful, or if it's possible he was lying (as he so often does)? I was always under the impression he didn't attend college.  Shoemoney2night (talk) 22:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Psychology major?

message: When Shawn and Gus are in sunday school he questions the priest rather vigorously about Noah's ark, should this get a mention on his page??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.145.180 (talk) 13:25, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's all original research. Just the fact that he argued with a priest doesn't make him an atheist. Rather he just likes to argue. JDDJS (talk) 19:13, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious Skeptic 

message: Would it be better to (rather than list in the infobox) have a section on, or make note of the nicknames?  They were previously listed in the infobox, but they were removed recently.  It's something that is mildly important to the show, and would be interesting to some readers. Kevinbrogers (talk) 00:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be mention that they always go by strange names and list a couple as examples, but they are just too many to list them all. JDDJS (talk) 03:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

text: Technically, one-use self-assigned pseudonymns wouldn't be nicknames.  While it's a running comedy prop in the series that he frequently utilizes new pseudonymns in episodes, it's not the same as a nickname and they shouldn't be listed as such in the infobox. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 06:40, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicknames 

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