Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 885 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Melrose Law
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2004.11.02
In Veronica's room, which is now GREEN! Instead of RED!, Lilly appears to her and says, like in horror movies, she's doomed to walk the earth until justice has been served. Veronica: "Really?" Lilly: "Yeah, that, and, as kind of a side project, I dispense fashion advice." Hee. Veronica asks if Koontz killed her. Lilly says she can't say, and Veronica wonders why he'd have wanted to kill her. Lilly: "Honestly! I was awesome, right?" Hee, again. And yes, it seems in fact you were. Veronica tearily says she misses Lilly. Lilly beams....
And the GREEN! of Lilly is replaced by the normal RED! as Veronica wakes up. Hmm. I wonder what color the room is when she dreams about Weevil.
School. Some girl is babbling school news on the local network. Miss Dent comes over to Veronica and asks if she'd be interested in covering the election. Veronica cracks a joke, but agrees. On the TV, the girl announces that Wanda is running for student body president. Wanda tells the school that student government doesn't do jack, but she's promising real change as The Electric Guitar Of Credibility strums jauntily in the background. Wanda pledged to abolish Pirate Points. Everyone cheers, and I'm not surprised. Who would support a system that sounds like a promotional campaign for Long John Silver's? Wanda signs off with a salute and a "God Bless America" that are supposed to be ironic, but she's too much of a poser to pull it off. Nevertheless, just about everyone cheers, including Veronica and Duncan. The one dissenter is Logan, who's worried about his precious point system. I can't imagine that Logan has participated in many school activities, but perhaps "King of the Assholes" is a vaunted school position. In fact, thinking back on my high-school experience, I'd be surprised if it weren't. Logan thinks Duncan should run. Duncan, not so much.
Okay, I need to take a break here. Remember those commercials from the '70s with the Native American shedding a single tear at the destruction of the land? I was like that just now. Then I started thinking about the economy, and the deficit, and our foreign policy, and the rights of women and minorities, and the Supreme Court, and the single tear found a lot of company. George W. Bush, you owe me a new keyboard.
A long time ago, there used to be a theme song.
Some geek (Corny, I think) unveils a colorful "Give Me Wanda" poster. Eh. Veronica sits with Wanda and interviews her. Wanda babbles about class warfare and haves and have-nots. I'd be fine if I could not have the outfit she's wearing. Red fishnets with a twee red belt and yellow-and-black-checked skirt? Wars have been fought over less. She spews forth rhetoric about how the Pirate Points are just another way the rich kids keep them down: "It's time to take action!" Veronica's impressed. Well, we're all vulnerable some days. Like today, for instance.