21 Facts About Shawn Spencer

Shawn Spencer is a fictional character and main protagonist on the American television comedy-drama Psych played by American actor James Roday Rodriguez.

Shawn Spencer was a breech birth, born on March 24 1977, and comes from a family of police officers.

Shawn Spencer's father, Henry, is a decorated sergeant who trained Shawn from childhood to be hyper-observant.

Shawn Spencer's parents separated in 1992, and later divorced; his mother, Madeleine, eventually returned and explained that she left to pursue a job opportunity.

Shawn Spencer's motorcycle is impounded as a result, which was Henry's ultimate goal, as it is later revealed that Shawn Spencer had gotten into a serious accident some time ago.

For years, Shawn Spencer blamed his father for leaving his mother and ending their marriage but in the third season opener, his mother reveals that she was the one who left Henry.

Shawn Spencer thus realizes his father lied to him because he didn't want to ruin the image Shawn Spencer had of his mother and sees Henry in a new light.

Shawn Spencer is shown to be a crack shot, hitting all of Detective Barry's bullet holes in a target with little experience and, at a later episode, disabling a suspect's truck during a chase while he was hanging from the hood of Lassiter's car.

Desperate to avoid jail time, Shawn Spencer lies, explaining that he obtained the information in a psychic vision.

Gus reluctantly allows Shawn Spencer to recruit him, and they open their own psychic detective agency, "Psych".

Roday Rodriguez believes that Shawn Spencer has "evolved a lot" as a partner, moving away from "dragging Gus around by the collar against his will from case to case to case" toward a more equal partnership.

Shawn Spencer's growing maturity is especially notable in Season 3, Episode 16 "An Evening with Mr Yang" the first of what would become a running plot concerning a serial killer who individually targets Shawn Spencer.

Shawn Spencer has trouble coping with the pressure of finding his mother and is unable to make any progress on the case.

Shawn Spencer opens up to Gus and viewers can witness a more mature version of Shawn rising to the situation.

Shawn Spencer tells Gus that he needs his help, showing humility and maturity, and for the rest of the episode Gus, the normally calm one, becomes the crazy one so that Shawn Spencer can focus on the task at hand.

Shawn Spencer has been constantly hitting on Juliet for the past 3 seasons and every time she has refused to return his attentions.

Shawn Spencer had at this point rather given up on Juliet and has moved on to Abigail, his high school sweetheart whom he is currently on a date with.

Shawn Spencer explains the multiple-personality-afflicted Robert Dunn's condition to Gus by referencing The Flying Nun, which starred Sally Field, who played the similarly-affected title character in Sybil.

Shawn Spencer was introduced in the serial killer Mr Yang's book on page 11.

Shawn Spencer is chided by Henry for not knowing all the details of a case beforehand.

Shawn Spencer told Juliet that 'Santa Barbara would be Detroit' if it weren't for him.