Some of the funniest parts of this show is Shawn's random shenanigans. We needed more of them. I suck as a writer but I still enjoy writing these!
setting: somewhere late s5
Story 6: Gus Picked Up Shawn's Pizzas
Gus didn't know how he was going to carry all these pizzas to the door. He didn't know why Shawn even ordered all these pizzas. The bonus on their last case was a good contributor on these ten small pizzas of random toppings, mostly containing pineapple in some form. Gus kept telling Shawn these occasional bonuses are for the savings account, not for buying random stuff for fun.
Shawn never listened though. So Gus was carrying ten pizzas into the Psych office.
Inside was Shawn and Juliet hot-gluing a bunch of popsicle sticks together. Gus couldn't figure out what it was. It was some sort of tower, or frame of a tower. it was almost cone shaped, and it was almost as tall as them, counting the table it was standing on.
"Shawn, what is that?" Gus asked.
"The best thing you can think of," Shawn said.
"I don't think I can think of… that." He set the pizzas down next to the tower.
"It's not done yet, that's why. We still have a few more popsicle sticks."
Gus took a look at Juliet. "Don't ask me. I'm just here to make sure he doesn't burn himself," she said.
Shawn smiled. "She's doing a good job too, I only burned myself twice."
Gus was skeptical. "I thought you swore off hot glue guns after you stepped on one in sixth grade."
Shawn shrugged that comment off. He placed the last popsicle stick. "There we go. Now, Jules, we start off with the slices with a lot of toppings. They're heavier so they go on the bottom."
Shawn peeked through the pizza boxes until he found the one with all the toppings that the pizza place let him put on at once. Gus couldn't even see the cheese below the toppings. Shawn placed the slice around the base of the tower. Half of the toppings fell off, and him and Jules snacked on them.
Gus then put it all together. It was something Shawn tried to do a long time ago. He was only stopped by only having one pizza at the time. Gus forgot about it all these years.
"Shawn, is this the leaning tower of pizza?"
"Of course! Why else would I be ordering ten pizzas?"
Gus gave him a look. "You're you. There are many reasons."
Shawn gave it a split second of thought. "Okay, fair. But this is better than our freshman year geography project."
"The one we failed? This won't go well. You know what? I'm going home. Don't trash the office," Gus said with a very obvious tone of disappointment.
"Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it," Juliet said as Gus walked out the door.
Shawn continued to wrap the pizza slices around the tower. "You see, small pizza slices are less floppy. They're more strucurely strong."
Juliet followed his lead and placed a slice. "I don't think structurely is a word," she said amusedly.
"It's not?" Shawn uttered through a mouthful of toppings.
Jules smiled. She grabbed the next pizza and they continued the tower.
Eventually, they finished the tower. They also discovered six pizzas was plenty enough for it.
With four pizzas left, they decided to take the leftovers to the night shift cops at the police station.
They didn't go back to the office that night, instead deciding to go home and watch a movie. Besides, it was the perfect excuse to let Gus clean it up, cause Shawn didn't know what to do with it.
That left Gus to find a giant pizza tower the next morning. He tried to be mad, but really, he was only impressed.
It reached to almost eye level, and seemed to be glued together with nacho cheese. It was as colorful as pizza could get with all those toppings.
Gus didn't want to deal with the cleanup. There was already a fly on it though, so he knew he needed to get rid of it somehow.
His phone buzzed with a text from Shawn to meet up at the police station. It seemed this tower was gonna stand a little longer.