Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Mac's Daddy...
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.03.2005
Veronica gives two girls dirt on their parents. Man, I'm not sure I approve of what she's doing. Especially since I'm past an age it'll do me any good. ["Hey!" -- Kid CB] Mac enters during the latter conversation and listens in...
...and now she's showing up to see Veronica at Mars Investigations. Veronica invites her in, and coyly notes that Mac's driving a "spiffy new Beetle." Mac admits that the purity test treated her well, but suggests that they go bigger, as she pulls out a Powerbook. So I guess I've been mistaken for years -- I didn't know the expression was "rich little poor girl." Mac shows Veronica a model for a site advertising her Get-Dirt-On-Parents services: "With your sleuth prowess and my programming skills, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that we would rule the entire known universe." And here I was wondering when If These Walls Could Talk 3 was coming out. Veronica says she'll think about it, and she seems sincere. Oh, Veronica. Once you start down the dyke path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Mac makes like she's going to go, but then asks Veronica to check out her parents, and offers to pay. Veronica gives her a freebie out of "professional courtesy." Mm-hmm. Mac says that her parents aren't bad, but that they just don't get her. Uh-huh. Mac: "They're nachos and NASCAR people, and I'm more..." "...Falafels and Fellini?" Veronica finishes. "Exactly," Mac says with satisfaction. I don't usually look to the girls for the subtext, but what else am I supposed to do when Logan isn't in the episode? Mac gives Veronica her parents' information. Veronica enters it, and when the results pop up, she notes that Mac just had a birthday. Mac: "One more year 'til I can leave home." Geez. I guess she really doesn't like nachos. Veronica discovers that Mac's parents won a million-dollar lawsuit against Neptune Memorial Hospital in 1992. Mac is bewildered, since her parents hate lawyers and won't go near hospitals. Veronica offers to look into the matter...
...and that's just what she does, sifting through newspaper headlines on microfilm. She discovers that Mac's parents got the wrong baby, and that they and the other parents in the mix-up were each awarded a million dollars. And what word describes the two sets of parents running into each other at day care? Awkward. I hate to bring this up, but the first line of the story Veronica found reads "After [four or five, I couldn't really tell] years of legal battles..." So first off, the hospital didn't settle? As if. Second, that means that the parents knew about the error in short order after it happened. There was a lot of debate on the forums about whether the parents should have switched the kids back, with a significant number of people under the impression that the error wasn't discovered until the kids were four. Pretty eagle-eyed of me, considering that without contacts, my vision is 20/Holy shit, are you seriously that blind? VMVO worries that this could ruin Mac's life. Or it could open whole new possibilities. Like Sapphism. VMVO: "How do you live a normal life once you find out you were switched at birth?" I don't know, but it sounds like something Lifetime is just dying to tell us. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Dyan Cannon in anything for a while.