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VMI 2.05 Blast from the Past

A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

  • Veronica and Jackie sort of become friends when Jackie asks Veronica to find out who stole her credit card and bought a load of vanilla-scented candles.

  • But they are promptly enemies again when Jackie humiliates Veronica during a televised psychic reading, AND slow-dances with Logan.

  • That’s not even the worst thing our blessed Wallace is dealing with this episode, as he reels from the information that for the past 18 years, his mother covered up who his father is.

  • The contest is heating up between Sheriff Lamb vs past and maybe future Sheriff Mars, and Lamb has found a way to pin the bus crash on Keith.

  • And it’s time for the Homecoming dance - no emotionally cathartic skinnydipping this time, just emotionally painful fallout.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 5: Blast From The Past, and consider such mysteries as why it’s kinda pleasing to have Lamb back even though he’s pure awful; what it means to be not the brightest bulb on the bush; and whether it is prudent to google ‘Celebrity Boners and Gaffes’, spoiler no it is not.

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VMI 2.04 Green-Eyed Monster

A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

  • Veronica’s latest client, Julie, is rich pretending to be not rich and hires Veronica to investigate her boyfriend, who she fears is not-rich pretending to be rich - keep up!

  • Keith is reluctantly investigating Alicia, who’s lying about a man from her past.

  • And Weevil’s earrings are more than very shiny: they’re important to the plot.

  • Meg is still in a coma, but nonetheless coming between Veronica and Duncan, who has been visiting her every day.

  • But before Veronica can get into that, she needs to get into Meg’s secret laptop before her controlling parents get wind of it.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 4: Green-Eyed Monster, and delve into such mysteries as how, if you’re on potential engagement/converting to Judaism terms with your beloved, would you not know whose home they live in; why ‘dim sum and then some’ is so very unappetising despite dim sum being on offer; how the hauntedness of a haunted house is measured; how to make an American Girl Doll’s cardigan fit an adult human; and why magical time-travelling shit is always happening in Scotland.

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Season 2, audioVMI PodVeronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Neptune, California, Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman, VMI, television, TV, recap, review, drama, teen, teenage, school, high school, mystery, detective, PI, private detectives, Mars Investigations, Marshmallows, cases, crime, law, season 2, bus crash, Tessa Thompson, Jackie Cook, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, Curly Moran, Meg Manning, Alona Tal, Manning parents, Mannings, Lizzie Manning, Anastasia Baranova, Mac, Mac Mackenzie, Tina Majorino, Alicia Fennel, Erica Gimpel, Nathan Woods, Cress Williams, Laura Bell Bundy, Sheriff Lamb, Don Lamb, Michael Muhney, Geoff Manning, Julie Bloch, Colin Nevin, Michael E Rodgers, Scottish, Scotland, grifting, honeytrapping, entrapment, Nicolas Cage, Nic Cage, Lisa Marie Presley, Java the Hut, Neptune Onlyplace, trust, lies, relationships, romance, converting to Judaism, Judaism, engagement, surveillance, jealousy, secrets, wealth, accents, Veronica’s disguises, earrings, tiny cardigans, cardigans, clothes, costumes, what the fuck is that garment, money, castles, time travel, Outlander, handkerchiefs, cars, scotch, Kato Kaelin, sandwiches, donuts, doughnuts, dim sum, dim sum and then some, Miss James, The Big Lebowski, clamps, boots, getting booted, getting clamped, trunk, bonnet, hood, boot, Cherie Parker Saunders, Cherie, Vin Diesel, Grace Manning, ICU, Planet Zowie, computers, laptops, Chesty Duncan, Martha Stewart, Judge Wapner, Cervando, Fitzpatricks, Fighting Fitzpatricks, trespass, police
VMI 1.18 Weapons of Class Destruction

A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

  • Something’s afoot at Neptune High - the bomb squad is sniffing around.

  • And there are two suspicious students: the one with a bedroom full of weapons…

  • …and the one who’s basically Christian Slater in Heathers, plus a car full of fertilizer and guns.

  • Also we meet another new Duncan: Disappearing Duncan. Where’s Duncan gone??

  • Meanwhile, there’s romance in the air: Keith and Wallace’s mom are dating!

  • Aaaand: there’s also the kiss that launched a thousand ’ships.

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Season 1, audio, special guestVMI PodVeronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Neptune, California, Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman, VMI, television, TV, recap, review, drama, teen, teenage, school, high school, mystery, detective, PI, private detectives, Marshmallows, cases, crime, law, season 1, Neptune High, Joanna Robinson, special guest, Leo D’Amato, Deputy Leo, Max Greenfield, Veronica’s boyfriends, Veronica’s romances, Corny, Miss Dent, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Joey Lauren Adams, Chasing Amy, Michael McMillian, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Home Improvement, wigs, hair, drugs, bombs, bomb dogs, bomb squad, Theo Rossi, Sons of Anarchy, Norris, Ben, throwing stars, Kurosawa, weapons, swords, web, websites, internet, wifi, Mac, Alicia Fennel, Erica Gimpel, Keith's romances, dating, romance, kissing, kisses, kiss, popcorn, Van Clemmons, Vice Principal Clemmons, Duane Daniels, undercover agents, Miss Roush, Veronica's voices, journalism, papers, newspapers, media, Tiger Beat, punching, punches, violence, face punching, fertilizer, lies, Heathers, Jason Dean, Christian Slater, mullets, Storm Warning, Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, The Crucible, dogs, sniffer dogs, fonts, Papyrus, web design, Meg Manning, Duncan Kane, Alona Tal, Teddy Dunn, passports, disappearing Duncan, Mannequin, problematic faves, cars, Nissan Xterra, Camelot motel, Logan's clothes, LoVe, Braveheart, Taut Blondes, ATF, ATF agents, 21 Jump Street, Miss Stafford, pep, Switched At Birth, expired passports, escape, absconding, guest stars, Tina Majorino
VMI 1.10: An Echolls Family Christmas

A LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS:

  • It’s the most wonderful time of the year - you know, when you get stabbed at your own Christmas party.

  • It’s also poker night at Logan’s - but where is all the money?

  • We meet a new BroNiner, we think - but is everything as it seems?

  • And someone AT LAST calls out Logan’s racist jokes. Merry Christmas everyone.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 10: An Echolls Family Christmas, and get stuck into such mysteries as: what the heck is happening in this poker game? How much is a Fabergé egg these days? And how/why are Duncan and Logan wearing matching festive underwear??

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