Game Set...Muuurder?

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“Game Set...Muuurder?”
Psych episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 13
Guest stars	Kirsten Nelson Christopher Moynihan Thomas Kopache David Kopp Santo Lombardo Chelah Horsdal Loren Gibson Justine Wong Sonia Mais Patrick Keating Liam James Isaah Brown
Written by	Anupam Nigam
Directed by	James L. Conway
Production no.	1013
Original airdate	16 February 2007
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Game Set...Muuurder? is the 13th episode of Season 1 of the USA network television dramedy Psych.

[edit] Plot Synopsis

After Shawn springs Gus from a corporate retreat he must then investigate the attack of a tennis player and prove the police's suspect is innocent before the true criminal finishes the tennis player off.

[edit] Allusions

The episode title refers to the phrase "game-set-match," which indicates the final victory in a tennis match.
Shawn mentions former World No. 1 tennis player Björn Borg when Deanna Sirtis goes missing.
Shawn claims that spirits can be bashful, grumpy, sleepy, dopey, and sneezy, naming off five of the seven dwarfs.
Shawn owns a Whitesnake t-shirt, and Gus owns an Airwolf windbreaker (which Shawn stole to prevent Gus from wearing it, citing that the only human alive with an Airwolf windbreaker is Jan-Michael Vincent).
Shawn quotes Tommy Lee Jones's famous "hard-target search" speech from the Fugitive, and in classic fashion, mixes in references to the HBO reality series Cathouse, the restaurant chain Waffle House, and the 1983 Pete Walker horror-comedy House of the Long Shadows as well as House which comes on after Psych.
Shawn mentions the 1960's Rod Serling anthology series the Twilight Zone.
Through-out the episode, Gus constantly alludes to 'breaking the fourth wall', jealous of how everyone besides him gets to say snappy remarks.