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VMI
by Jenny Owen Youngs & Helen Zaltzman
Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman have investigated every episode of Veronica Mars. Find @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook; the show’s official home is VMIpod.com. FYI: there were spoilers for the episode being discussed, but not for events that happen later in the series.
Episodes
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VMI x Hot and Bothered: Pride and Prejudice (2005)
A LONG TIME AGO, IN THE 2005 MOVIE ADAPTATION OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: You’ve got no sons to inherit your estate, only five daughters, so what the hell are you going to do to ensure your family’s housing and security? Why, you send Jane, the oldest and prettiest to catch a cold in the rain so rich...
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VMI: Village Mostly Invisible, an investigation of Brigadoon
A LONG TIME AGO IN THE 1954 MGM MUSICAL BRIGADOON: New York City gents Gene Kelly and Van Johnson are lost in the Scottish Highlands! They want to shoot some birds, but instead stumble upon a village that’s not on the map… Brigadoon! Everyone’s dancing around the town and preparing for a wedding...
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VMI: Vanquishing Malevolent Invaders, the crimes of Home Alone
A LONG TIME AGO IN HOME ALONE: In an enormous house in Chicago, the enormous McAllister family is preparing to leave for a Christmas trip to Paris. But, when designated naughty child Kevin causes a ruckus at dinner, he is sent to sleep in the attic as punishment. Then in the chaos of being such…
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VMI: Voluptuous Male Idiot (Play It Again Dick recap)
A LONG TIME AGO ON THE VERONICA MARS SPIN-OFF WEB SERIES PLAY IT AGAIN DICK: Ryan Hansen persuades the CW suits to let him make a pilot for a Dick Casablancas spin-off show. So then he has to persuade the Veronica Mars actors to come back to reprise their roles... And then they all film Private...
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VMI 1.01 Pilot: the RErecap
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • We meet Veronica Mars! High school detective with tiny jackets and flowbee hair, plus a heartbreak, an absent mother, a murdered best friend and a rape to deal with. • We meet Logan Echolls, a rich boy with a rage problem. • We meet Duncan Kane, a human...
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Q&A and LoDown Special
Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and our resident legal expert Lo Dodds to answer your questions, and find out all about why you shouldn't represent yourself in court, what you have to do to get a jury trial or a marriage license, whether Veronica has sadness-clothes, and whether…
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VMI second birthday celebrations!
Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and our resident legal expert Lo Dodds to celebrate the completion of the second year of Veronica Mars Investigations, with a parade of outtakes - about what happens to police dogs when they retire, how old is too old to join the FBI, gambling with pasta…
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Veronica Mars Investigations Investigations season 4
Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman are joined again by Special Agent LaToya Ferguson to investigate Veronica Mars season 4 and try to solve its many remaining mysteries, including (but not limited to): who is the fifth lady of Veronica Mars? Will we ever get more Veronica Mars, and in which...
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VMI 4.08 Years, Continents, Bloodshed
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: A thing happens that turned the Marshmallows into Burnt Marshmallows, turned Veronica into a widow, and turned our twitter mentions into a shitshow whenever we said anything even slightly critical of Logan. But before that: this season wraps up some plots! Dodie...
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VMI 4.07 Gods of War
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Well after last episode where people told each other the plot, things are actually happening! Penn is, at last, the suspect for three of the bombings. Hot on his trail, the Marses interrupt his sexy minibreak with Carol to grab him and get that $250,000 reward -...
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VMI 4.06 Entering a World of Pain
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: OK, here’s what we know about the bombings now: Big Dick did the Sea Sprite one. Clyde did the Perry Walsh one. The rest are still unaccounted for - but there might be something in the FBI’s theory that a serial killer has been operating in Neptune for years, so...
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VMI 4.05 Losing Streak
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • Nicole and Veronica get high together, shoot guns together, and tell each other their secrets - except one, which is that Nicole sold Comrade Quack’s to a buyer who is Richard Casablancas wearing a plastic nose and false moustache, stacked on top of two other...
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VMI 4.04 Heads You Lose
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • The themes of the season, bombs and beheadings, combine, as a spring breaker who’s been spiking women’s drinks gets a bomb strapped around his neck. • The Marses, Matty and the murderheads are still shuffling around their various theories about who the bomber…
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VMI 4.03 Keep Calm and Party On
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • Daniel Maloof’s having a shit one. He is being blackmailed because he was videoed masturbating to a cam girl. He’s still being accused of murder by Penn all over the TV. He is kidnapped, strung up, stoned and dickpunched by the Carrs. Then he is rescued by…
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VMI 4.02 Chino and the Man
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • Pizza delivery Penn is making the most of his post-bombing notoriety - he’s on TV accusing Congressman Daniel Maloof of murdering his brother’s girlfriend Tawny! • Matty from the motel is doing her own detectiving - maybe whoever refilled the vending machine…
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VMI 4.01 Spring Break Forever
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • SPRING BREAK!! Neptune is full of douchey boys and drunk girls, what could possibly go wrong?? • What goes wrong? A bomb goes off at the party motel, that’s what’s wrong! Killing four people, one of whom is the nephew of El Despiadado, a MEXICAN CRIME LORD oh…
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VMI: Mr Kiss and Tell
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Mr Kiss and Tell, an original mystery by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham: A young woman has been raped and beaten, and, once again, the Neptune Grand hires Veronica to investigate - only so they don’t get sued for hiring the undocumented worker who has been…
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VMI: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, an original mystery by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham: Two months have passed since the movie, and it’s SPRING BREAK! Neptune’s popping off! Until two young women disappear, first Hayley and then Aurora, presumed kidnapped. The…
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VMI the movie, part 2
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica has choices to make! NYC or Neptune? Lawyering or detectiving? Piz or Logan? Try to guess, go on, guess. Armed with her favourite tools, a bug, a long lens and a taser, Veronica closes in on Carrie’s murderer... ...And it’s not any of the candidates you...
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VMI the movie, part 1
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: 91,585 fans missed the show so much that they kickstarted a movie! The third-highest funded Kickstarter project at that time! So off we all go back to Neptune to see some old pals, like Wallace! Principal Clemmons! Gia Goodman! Sweaty Luke! Corny! Aaaand Logan...
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VMI season 4 pitches
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Rob Thomas wrote a mini-pilot for a season 4 that involved Veronica becoming an FBI agent, and guess what! It’s full of awful white guys who don’t seem to do anything and leave all the work to Veronica and her new colleague Nish-In-A-Wig - we mean Callie. Callie!...
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Veronica Mars Investigations Investigations season 3
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS SEASON 3: Murders! Rapes! Frats! The Dreaded Feminists! Jenny's beautiful wife Mindy! Eggs! Wigs! Bland white boys! Obnoxious white boys! Bland obnoxious white boys! Loganica together! Loganica asunder! Aaaaand... Weevil’s big red toolbox! Join Jenny Owen Youngs,...
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VMI 3.20 The Bitch Is Back
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: As we know, sex people never prosper in this show, and Piz is bruised from Logan’s attack and Veronica is humiliated - and ready for revenge. Veronica’s search for the sex tape culprit takes her from Piz to Logan to Dick to Chip to some other asshole Dominick to...
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VMI 3.171819 I Know Weevil's Wobble Tapes
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Rock star Paul Rudd is here to play a show at Hearst College, to fundraise for Piz’s awful radio station - but oh no! His backing tapes are missing! Presumed stolen! They’re not. A crime-free mystery! New campus celebrity Apollo has written a hit memoir about…
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VMI 3.141516 Papa's Un-American Mars Bars
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica’s in jail for helping Josh escape jail - though later she seems to get away with helping Josh get away with kidnapping, obtaining his inheritance early, and fleeing the country. Even though Josh didn’t actually kill his dad - turns out his dad killed his...
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VMI 3.111213 There’s Gotta Be a Poughkeepsie Mortem
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Remember Max, that guy who you can pay to cheat on tests? Well he’s fallen in love with a sex worker and wants Veronica to track her down! But it’ll cost him, financially and emotionally. Remember Bonnie, the sexperson who had been dealing with Dick and other…
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VMI 3.080910 Lord of the Spit Monkeys
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Real life Patty Hearst plays a fake Hearst; and real life kidnapped person Patty Hearst plays a fake kidnapped person. It’s all something to do with share prices and a rich-people divorce settlement and she AND her husband have both been having affairs with the…
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VMI 3.050607 President Infidelity of Vice and Men
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: The Dean’s wife’s son is dying and they need Keith to track down her ex-husband and extract his bone marrow, by force if need be. The college casino is robbed! Veronica thinks it was Weevil… Turns out, Claire faked her rape. But the rapist is still real, still…
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VMI 3.020304 My Big Fat Wichita Linebacker Don't Surf
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica infiltrates a sorority to investigate Parker’s rape, and instead finds a secret medical marijuana farm. The ongoing campus rapist plot boils down to frats versus feminists. The two genders! Wallace and Logan participate in some recreation of the Stanford...
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VMI 3.01 Welcome Wagon
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: College! Veronica’s outsmarting her professors, driving a new car, and getting drunk. Conveniently, Logan, Wallace, Mac and Dick are also all at Hearst College. Along with new roommates/friends: bland white boy Piz, who hires Veronica to find all his worldly...
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Veronica Mars Investigations Investigations season 2
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Bus crash! People being accused of murders they didn’t do! People being exonerated from murders they did do! Jackie retcons! Secret babies! Sexpeopling! Break-ups! And not enough sightings of Backup! Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and special guest...
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VMI 2.22 Not Pictured
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Everyone graduates high school! Except for Weevil, who is arrested for Thumper’s murder. Keith tracks down Woody to a hunting lodge and gets him arrested for child abuse! While he’s doing that, Veronica identifies Woody’s third victim: Cassidy Casablancas. Who,...
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VMI 2.21 Happy Go Lucky
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: There have been some rough episodes of Veronica Mars, but this has to be one of the roughest. Aaron fucking Echolls is found innocent on all charges! And it’s somehow something to do with Veronica getting chlamydia? Fvck! Off!! Woody Goodman is revealed to be a...
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VMI 2.20 Look Who's Stalking
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Helen’s hatred of the incorporation plot turns out to be JUSTIFIED as Woody Goodman uses it as an excuse to fuck over Keith! He can’t take his own unconscious young woman to the hospital, so a reluctant Keith has to do it. But then Woody tells the papers that she...
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VMI 2.19 Nevermind The Buttocks
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: We meet another misfit Neptune boy with a hobby for weapons: Harry, who has a bedroom full of arrows, a wall full of stag heads, and a dog that was killed by a driver of a green Barracuda car… ...which belongs to an old lady who doesn’t drive it, but guess who...
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VMI 2.18 I Am God
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: All that bus crash investigating and trying to win the Kane scholarship has left Veronica a very tired teen; she’s falling asleep in class! And having vivid dreams about the bus crash kids - now what’s worse, hearing all about someone else’s dreams, or that the...
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VMI first birthday celebrations!
Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to celebrate the first year of Veronica Mars Investigations, with a parade of outtakes and outdated technologies. Hear about Chuck E Cheese and his arch rival in kids’ pizza joints, the Showbiz Pizza undead bear; Xena, Warrior Princess’s horse; why Jenny...
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VMI 2.17 Plan B
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Logan wins Woody Goodman’s essay contest! And the prize is a really boring-looking job at the mayor’s office, spotting Woody in the gym and sorting the mail. ...but then he finds creepy secret video taken from within Woody’s house! He also gets to plunge the...
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VMI 2.16 The Rapes of Graff
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: It’s the return of two of our season 1 least faves: sex crimes, and TROY. Veronica’s not pleased to see him either, but does agree to help him when he’s accused of raping a Hearst College student and shaving her head. This entails infiltrating a frat house, which...
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VMI 2.15 The Quick and the Wed
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Like all Wallace’s special ladyfriends, Jane requires Veronica’s services: her sister Heidi went missing after her own bachelorette party! And the wedding’s in three days! Heidi’s got a rich fiance and a past, and these things are incompatible in the Marsverse....
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VMI 2.14 Versatile Toppings
A LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: After a year and a half of being a one-line character, Corny finally gets his own plotline! One that involves him getting tased by a serial mugger of pizza deliverers. Is the mugger also targeting Neptune High students who are gay and will pay blackmail money…
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VMI 2.13 Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough
A LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: • It’s Neptune High’s winter carnival, to raise money for the school trip - but someone has stolen all the cash! • Who could it be? Weevil?? While he’s taking his adorable niece around the funfair? • Jackie?? In the very brief moment when she’s not being plunged...
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VMI 2.12 Rashard and Wallace Go To White Castle
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: That hit and run that sent Wallace back to Neptune is being pinned on our favourite pure-hearted boy! And he has just five days to clear his name! Veronica is on the case, and it involves a limo kidnapping scheme, infiltrating a frat party, and phone theft. Oh…
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VMI 2.11 Donut Run
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Clue in, donut! Duncan kidnaps his own baby so the evil Manning grandparents can’t add her to their collection of emotionally abused children. Sheriff Lamb is on the case, and so is the FBI - Agent LUCY LAWLESS has come to town for this case! But mainly to neg...
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VMI 2.10 One Angry Veronica
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: OMG, Meg gives birth to Duncan’s baby and then DIES. And Wallace comes back from Chicago! But that’s all in just the last couple of minutes of the show! Before that, we’ve got Veronica doing jury duty and ruining everyone else’s holidays in her pursuit of The...
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VMI 2.09 My Mother, The Fiend
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: After 1½ seasons about daddies, we get an episode about mothers! Veronica investigates whether her own mom, Lianne, was the high school mean girl. She also investigates whether, 25 years ago, mean girl for life Celeste Kane gave birth on prom night and dumped the...
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VMI 2.08 Ahoy, Mateys!
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Get ready for some violence: Veronica follows the trail of the murder witness right to the crime family the Fighting Fitzpatricks, and nearly gets an unwanted face tattoo for her trouble. Plus: Logan is clonked on the head, bundled into a van and masked...
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VMI 2.07 Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: We have a new Duncan: Detective Duncan! Meg had written about a kid she babysat being psychologically abused, and he and Veronica set out to find who it is. Veronica takes on all of Meg’s babysitting gigs, and let’s just say the toxic masculinity of Neptune is...
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2.06 Rat Saw God
A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Logan gets arrested for Felix’s murder, is put in a jail cell with his dad, and his house is burned down. Oof! Abel Koontz turns up - he needs Veronica to find his daughter Amelia DeLongpre, so he can see her before he dies. Amelia took her $3m of Kane fake...
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Special Investigation: Pride and Prejudice
A LONG TIME AGO ON THE BBC 1995 MINISERIES OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Bonnets! Balls! Wet shirt!!!! Cousin-marriage?! Rude rich boy is into sassy girl with tiny jacket! Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to recap the BBC 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice, which Jenny had never seen, nor...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman have investigated every episode of Veronica Mars. Find @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook; the show’s official home is VMIpod.com. FYI: there were spoilers for the episode being discussed, but not for events that happen later in the series.
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Jenny Owen Youngs & Helen Zaltzman
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Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman have investigated every episode of Veronica Mars. Find @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook; the show’s official home is VMIpod.com. FYI: there were spoilers for the episode being discussed, but not for events that happen later in the series.
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