The Twentieth One

Or how Slylock Fox trumps Psych.

Once upon a time, when I was a little girl, I would read all about Slylock Fox and the mysteries that he solved with his little mouse friend, Max. Slylock and Max taught me many things.

Now that I am older, I get my mystery fix in other ways: books, movies, television. Television like: Psych. Psych is a wonderful show, one of the best out there. I love it dearly. But as I was watching it this past week there was an unfortunate, glaring mistake. [SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD]

At one point Gus and Sean were searching for a bullet in the woods. The bullet was shot many years ago and they just assumed it hit one of the trees. Gus proceeded to lecture Sean that he was looking too low and not accounting for tree growth.

Well, immediately I was aghast, for Slylock had taught me years ago that trees do not grow like that. They grow upward from the tips of their branches, downward from the tips of their roots, and outward from the outside of their... bark. Meaning any mark you make on a tree now will be at the same height years from now. It's how Slylock and Max knew Count Weirdly was lying about... something.

Having the information that I had, I instantly googled (Googled?) "How trees grow" to see who was correct. Turns out, Slylock was right all along and Sean and Gus were completely and utterly wrong.

I still love Psych, Sean, Gus and the whole gang. But apparently the writers did not do their research well enough, nor did they read the Slylock Fox section of their Sunday newspapers as thoroughly as they should have. They should have paid better attention to that wiley fox detective.

That said, my brother and I successfully dominated at Trivial Pursuit on the Wii last night, coming back from behind during normal play to WIN IT ALL and awesoming it up during the movie version to win by, oh I don't know, THREE WEDGES. Thank you, thank you very much. And a special thanks to imdb for making that last one possible.

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