Veronica Mars Investigations

VMI 1.22 Leave It To Beaver

**A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:**

So! Much! Stuff! Happened!
Secret tapes!
Of Lilly!
And!
Aaron Echolls!
Scary!
Car crash!
Fridge fire!
Save Marses!
Yay, Backup!
Logan! Peril!
Sheriff Lamb’s soul patch!
And!
Also!
Lianne Mars!
Suuuucks!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and special guest Hrishikesh Hirway to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 22: Leave It To Beaver, and try to solve such mysteries as how/why people just keep APPEARING FROM BEHIND THINGS in this episode, how you hire a contractor to fit your sex hut with a hidden camera system, who’s that watching Keith Mars running around on fire, whether Duncan understands what Garfield is about, and what happened to Logan and Weevil’s detention romance.

Season 1, special guest, audioVMI Pod3 February 2020Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, 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, PCHers, Jake Kane, Kyle Secor, Duncan Kane, Teddy Dunn, Celeste Kane, Lisa Thornhill, Don Lamb, Sheriff Lamb, Aaron Echolls, Harry Hamlin, murder, tapes, secrets, secret tapes, sex tapes, fire, arson, fridges, Backup, car crash, fighting, fights, Keith Mars to the rescue, Alicia Fennel, Erica Gimpel, Lianne Mars, Corinne Bohrer, rewards, theft, cheques, checks, Hrishikesh Hirway, Song Exploder, The West Wing Weekly, Steve Rankin, Lloyd Blankenship, Cheyenne, sex workers, Abel Koontz, newspapers, Dick Casablancas, Ryan Hansen, Cassidy Casablancas, Kyle Gallner, Beaver, DNA tests, DNA results, paternity tests, onions, chopping onions, music, food, nice Chianti, parents, family, families, parenting, disguises, servers, cater waiters, Republicans, parties, another grim dinner at the Kane house, alcoholism, Cliff, Cliff McCormack, Daran Norris, voices, Cliff's voice, lawsuits, suing, Kane fortune, print media, props, eavesdropping, eavesdroppers, appearing behind things, CSS, toilet office, breakups, breaking up, Keithlicia, jackets, set dressing, waterproof Santa, Garfield, lighting, Leave It To Beaver, alibis, red herrings, Garbage, Bad Boyfriend, shit, linguistics, gay for Weevil, Leo D'Amato, Barry Randall, soul patch, facial hair, Deputy Sacks, the one phone call, hiding places, Marses in disguise, crab puffs, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnie, doors, traumacoaster, Spice Girls, Wannabe, video, sex hut, curtains, LeBaron, Veronica's car, Joan of Arc, walkie talkies, plastic horse, killing, goofs, stunt doubles, Lil Kim, Blankenship

VMI 1.21 A Trip to the Dentist

**A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:**

Veronica finds a lot of different versions of events when she investigates what happened to her on the night of Shelly Pomroy’s party;
Keith finds Duncan in Cuba;
Duncan finds out that Logan and Veronica are a couple;
We find that a beard does not suit Duncan;
And Veronica finds hidden cameras in Logan’s poolhouse - and for once, it wasn’t even her who put them there!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 21: A Trip to the Dentist, and consider such mysteries as why all the single-episode Bro9ers are reunited in this episode, how Marses are able to appear behind things without anyone noticing, and what the - what IS that on Duncan’s face???

Season 1, audioVMI Pod27 January 2020Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, 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 drugs, rape, alcohol, intoxication, sexual assault, Cassidy Casablancas, Beaver, Kyle Gallner, Dick Casablancas, Ryan Hansen, Aaron Echolls, Harry Hamlin, Sean, Luke, Casey, Jonathan Bennett, Rashomon, spycams, Alicia Fennel, Erica Gimpel, Cheyenne, sex workers, Cuba, Las Vegas, Celeste Kane, Lisa Thornhill, Teddy Dunn, Duncan Kane, Leighton Meester, Carrie Bishop, cameos, spit, drinks, parties, Shelly Pomroy, Shelly Pomroy’s party, GHB, liquid X, beards, facial hair, surfing, surfboards, theme song, Meg Manning, Alona Tal, Madison Sinclair, Amanda Noret, Clarence Wiedman, Christopher B Duncan, reward, Divinyls, I Touch Myself, allergies, Veronica's car, friendship, hotels, Echolls house, Inappropriately Sassy Duncan, Powersave Duncan, punch, Chekhov's thing, sugar, spitting, sets, set dressing, curtains, Aaron Echolls's face all over his house, pool house, air vents, hidden cameras, surveillance, Lianne Mars, Corinne Bohrer, car chalk, cars, drinking, Abel Koontz, wiretapping, Sean Friedrich

VMI 1.20 M.A.D.

A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

A nice student called Carmen tries to break up with her boyfriend.
But he won’t let her - and if she tries, he’ll leak a video of her suggestively sucking a popsicle in a hot tub! Toxic Neptune strikes again!
But Toxic Neptune strikes even worse in Veronica’s plan to get revenge on this guy.
At least things are delightful and cute and beautiful between Keith Mars and Alicia Fennel - but Clarence Wiedman’s about to ruin their bliss.
Things are also hot and heavy between Logan and Veronica…
…until she discovers something shocking about the night of Shelly Pomroy’s fateful party.

Season 1, audioVMI Pod20 January 2020Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, 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, Duncan Kane, Teddy Dunn, Jeff D’Agostino, Beaver, Cassidy Casablancas, Dick Casablancas, Ryan Hansen, Kyle Gallner, Aaron Echolls, Harry Hamlin, Mac, Mac Mackenzie, Tina Majorino, Carmen, Tad, Clarence Wiedman, Christopher B Duncan, Alicia Fennel, Erica Gimpel, boats, awful guys of Neptune, tattoos, humiliation, phones, cellphones, video, revenge, vengeance, sex tape, drugs, Keith's romances, sex, revenge porn, sex shaming, Toxic Neptune, cars, videos, incriminating videos, entrapment, Missing Duncan, passports, eBay, escape plans, prom, homophobia, military, navy, dances, LGBTQ, Boy George, Seth, ecstasy, Troy, hair, guys that suck, Paris Hilton, Star Wars Kid, memes, viral videos, Ghyslain Raza, sleeveless henley, clothes, jackets, fashion, clothing, rotatokissing, Oscars, awards, set dressing, Echolls home, Point Break, Patrick Swayze, Dirty Dancing, surfing, Mexico, cheerleaders, surf and chicks fest, dog names, dogs, A Dog Named Boo, songs, music, LoVe, Loganica, Finding out true love is blind, Louis XIV, lyrics, bad songs, novelty hats, boardwalk, hats, photos, photobooth, photoshop, framing, websites, graphic design, long lens, drug dealing, chicken kiev, Chevy Impala, Tijuana, motels, accents, swingles, Mr Heinrich, costumes, costuming, Catalina Island, sailing, dates, dating, Chinatown, newspaper, paper, serving, lawsuits, divorce, Lianne Mars, Albacore Club, Tuna Club of Avalon, legal proceedings, legal procedure, Loretta Cancun, Ameenah Kaplan, Cliff, Cliff McCormack, dance, tricking a hotel receptionist, props, Felix, Shelly Pomroy's party, nonconsensual drugging, nonconsensual intoxication, GHB, crapface, emotional abuse, coercion, hot tub, lighting, Kane Software, bugs, houseplants, roofies, rohypnol

VMI 1.19 Hot Dogs

**A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:**

Someone called Mandy has lost her dog and wants Veronica to find him.
Even though Veronica’s busy enough trying to find out why Weevil broke into Lilly Kane’s bedroom the other night…
Logan’s sister Trina has a boyfriend who is bad news.
But Mr Bad News himself Aaron Echolls is there to deal some very bad news to Trina’s boyfriend’s face.
Veronica breaks up with Deputy Leo, but they stay friends - so he can carry on doing favours for her, great, lucky him.

Season 1, audioVMI Pod13 January 2020Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, 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, Mandy, dogs, missing animals, pets, animals, pet theft, dognapping, dog theft, Trina Echolls, Alyson Hannigan, Aaron Echolls, Harry Hamlin, awful men of Neptune, violence, knives, Dylan, Leo D'Amato, Max Greenfield, abuse, family abuse, domestic violence, Judy Blume, Forever, canine, dog pound, Jack Russells, Claire Titelman, Duncan Kane, Teddy Dunn, Missing Duncan, the Fonz, Celeste Kane, Kanes, Kane house, spy pen, Wishbone, Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse, Lynn Echolls, wills, inheritance, legacy, Snausage, Backup, Matthew Carey, Hans, Lisa Thornhill, pearls, Alicia Fennel, Keith's romances, 101 Dalmatians, henley, kissing, kisses, Loganica, VeGan, LoVe, Drive Me Crazy, Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Tasers, warrants, NDAs, non-disclosure agreements

VMI 1.13: Lord of the Bling

A LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS:

Neptune’s own gangsta rap record boss, Bone Hamilton, needs Keith to find his daughter Yolanda, who is missing, presumed kidnapped.
A long time ago, Yolanda and Veronica used to be friends - but they haven’t talked lately at all. What went wrong?
What went wrong is LOGAN, but that’s nothing compared to what he’s having to deal with this episode.
And Wallace has a new hairstyle, don’t touch it Veronica, please.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 13: Lord of the Bling, and try to solve such mysteries as why you would dangle someone out of a window to get them to sign a contract when doing so voids a contract; how the Marses choose a bug from their vast collection; whether the world’s biggest blender counts as a blender when it does not contain blades; and why Logan is so well versed in Broadway hits of the 1890s.

Season 1, audioVMI Pod18 November 2019Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, 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, Anthony Anderson, Black-ish, robes, bedwear, loungewear, jewelry, jewellery, Switched at Birth, Yolanda Hamilton, Bone Hamilton, Bryce Hamilton, phones, land lines, blackmail, kidnapping, ransoms, hotels, costumes, Mars acting, Mars disguises, bugs, drains, drainage, water, engineering, marriage, underage marriage, Las Vegas, elopement, stereotypes, Shari Headley, physics, National Velvet, Black Velvet, Alannah Myles, bad backs, music, rappers, rap music, hip hop, missing persons, Sam Bloom, glass bricks, tax evasion, tax, chainsaws, blenders, clubs, flashback hands, Dick Casablancas, Aaron Echolls, Harry Hamlin, Lynn Echolls, funeral, Trina Echolls, telegrams, Columbo, Dime Bag, The Eagles, Sonic Snoop, bugging, infidelity, musicians, art, set design, furniture, decor, decoration, musical notes art, why are you ruining Jenny's life?, George M Cohan, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Duncan Kane, ransom notes, toxic masculinity, toxic Neptune, comms, Skype, video calling, communication, Nevada, song, duping a hotel receptionist, tricking a hotel receptionist

VMI 1.12: Clash of the Tritons

A LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS:

There’s a secret society! Because where there are rich white boys, there are secret societies.
Someone is trying to pin a fake ID racket on Veronica. She didn’t do it!
What she is guilty of is being great at karaoke.
Duncan, however… not so much.
And even though you thought the Echolls family couldn’t get any bleaker, it gets a ton bleaker.

Season 1, audioVMI Pod4 November 2019Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, 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, secret society, secret societies, Triton, Tritons, rich white boy bullshit, wankers, secrets, pledges, hazing, karaoke, myths, Clash of the Titans, Harry Hamlin, Aaron Echolls, Lisa Rinna, Lynn Echolls, suicide, abuse, Miss James, Rebecca James, grief, therapy, staplers, counselling, spy equipment, spy office supplies, spy stationery, Rick, Tim, ID cards, fake ID, felonies, Detective Wallace, Singing Duncan, conch, conch shells, mental health, Burning Man, Sheriff Lamb, Don Lamb, Piers Gaveston, drinking societies, clubs, Oxford, David Cameron, Piggate, Blondie, One Way Or Another, Duncan Kane, Teddy Dunn, Black Mirror, Cliff!, Cliff McCormack, lockers, spycams, bugs, Hokey Cokey, Hokey Pokey, toilets, toilet offices, awful white boys of Neptune

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??

Season 1, audioVMI Pod21 October 2019Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, 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, Christmas, Xmas, parties, pumpkins, pumpkin carving, stabbing, murder, attempted murder, sex, Little Bo Peep, costumes, costume parties, Aaron Echolls, Lynn Echolls, Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, poker, cards, diuretics, tea, Drunken Kane, fake drunkenness, bad acting, oh Duncan, Sean, sports, sport, Logan’s racist remarks, cigars, Padres, Chekhov's Sports Christmas Ornaments, Chekhov’s Mess, Chekhov’s Pumpkin, Chekhov’s Abs, Chekhov’s Teabag, douchebags of Neptune, Sean Friedrich, Connor Larkin, Fabergé, Fabergé eggs, wealth, poolhouse, Logan’s poolhouse, carols, carollers, carol singers, fake snow, tennis, infidelity, lies, silky milkmaid, pumpkin carvers, whatever the French is for pumpkin carvers, enormous underwear, strip poker, butlers, Michael Bublé, scoopers, stabbers, Jake Kane, Celeste Kane, harassment, Duncan Kane, Teddy Dunn, Halloween, Zach McNees, games, card games, FauxNiners, BroNiners, 09ers, Fact Check with Zach's Deck, Zach Facts

VMI 1.07: The Girl Next Door

**A LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS:**

Logan and Weevil are stuck in detention together - and honestly, that’s all we need for this episode.
But there is more - Veronica’s (beautiful) pregnant neighbour Jessica Chastain disappears…
…And her (scraggly) boyfriend doesn’t seem upset about it.
Veronica discovers some shocking information about her mom!
And the school flagpole is back causing trouble.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 7: The Girl Next Door, and probe such mysteries as whether to book ourselves in for a stay at the motel that plays the Mars apartment, how many crimes it is to impale a teacher’s car on a flagpole, and why hot teens might be compelled to wear garments in a shade we can only describe as ‘light liver’.

Season 1, audioVMI Pod30 September 2019Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, 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, San Diego, Jessica Chastain, Abel Koontz, tiny dogs, artists, suspicion, train travel, life modelling, Academy of the Sword, neighbors, neighbours, friendship, detention, KISS KISS KISS, Lianne Mars, Jake Kane, Mr Daniels, flagpole, car, things on the flagpole, Aaron Echolls, boots, footwear, Vice Principal Clemmons, Clemmons, 1970s, 1950s, retro, Evelyn Bugby, yearbook, The Past, secrets, Kane family, paternity, fathers, cars, Weevilians, buy me a pony, Parker Abrams, Adam Kaufman, Harry Hamlin, Busby Berkeley, Buffonica, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Miss Dent, Mallory Dent

VMI 1.06: Return of the Kane

**A Long Time Ago on Veronica Mars:**

We meet Logan’s dad - and swiftly wish we hadn’t.
Duncan’s dad makes him run for class president.
Also running for president: rebellious Wanda! A new friend for Veronica - or is she?
Logan’s got a new hobby: running amateur boxing tournaments.
Veronica finds out something majorly dodgy in Lilly’s murder files.
And: Jane Lynch in alpha mode! Our favourite flavour of Jane Lynch.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 6: Return of the Kane, and consider such mysteries as why legs are not universally known as ‘getaway sticks’, why Neptune High’s pirate points merit system seems relevant only to the sportif and/or the rich, and whether we actually LOVE and ADMIRE Duncan in this episode?!?!?

audio, Season 1VMI Pod23 September 2019Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Keith Mars, Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring, Wallace Fennel, Percy Daggs III, Lilly Kane, Amanda Seyfried, 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, Aaron Echolls, Lynn Echolls, abuse, physical abuse, corporal punishment, violence, Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, elections, polls, class president, electoral fraud, pirate points, Madison Sinclair, Jane Lynch, knotted sweaters, Wanda Varner, privilege, conscience, socialist Duncan, socialism, ice cream for dinner, Teddy Dunn, Rachel Roth, puffy paint, Weevil Navarro, Francis Capra, Dick Casablancas, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Miss Dent, Mallory Dent