I vividly remember watching Monk with my parents as a really young child (4-7 years old?) and there was this one episode where a monkey with a gun was found in an almost barren room with a dead body, with the only other object in there being a random refrigerator. I was beginning to understand patterns, like that the obvious answer is never the right one in mystery shows, and I told my parents “It wasn’t the monkey”. They responded by saying stuff like “but he was holding the gun!” and “there was nothing in there but the fridge”. It’s pretty obvious to me now they were just trying to get me to think through my claim and do critical thinking, but in my little child brain, them saying these things meant they didn’t believe me. I just kept saying “but it wasn’t the monkey. IT WASNT THE MONKEY” with increasing sadness because I didn’t know how to explain my thought process.
Looking back thats probably how Shawn Spencer felt every day before lying about being psychic
