Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 5 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Meeeeooooow! (Ffffft!)
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.29.2005
Weevil's working in a bike shop, alone, when the lights go out. He yells to an ostensible co-worker that he must have tripped the circuit breaker, but there's no reply. When he goes out to fix it, Logan and a bunch of other "teens" jump Weevil as Logan snots, "I heard your lights were out." That's not the best line, but you know I don't think Logan's heart was in this.
Neptune High. Veronica takes her "baby" out of the car seat and jokes about her mom's alcoholism. Oh, Veronica, babies can understand a lot more than you think. Especially ones that were created solely to be tattletales. Veronica catches Ms. Hauser and asks her if she used to be friends with Lianne. Ms. Hauser sniffs at that assertion, so Veronica brings up the joint suspension. Mrs. Hauser somewhat breezily says that the whole story was an embarrassment, and that she's ashamed she even listened to Lianne's gossip, let alone repeated it: "I didn't understand the consequences. A lot of people got hurt because your mother just couldn't keep your mouth shut." She suggests that Veronica learn from Lianne's mistake, and leaves. It's just as well that Lianne left town, because if she'd stayed, Parent-Teacher Night would have brought a whole new level to the Un!Comfortable!. Veronica stares until her baby starts crying, breaking her out of her reverie. She moves on...
...and finds a bunch of students gathered around the flagpole. Weevil is duct-taped to it, looking much the worse for wear. However, you know Logan's new at this, because Weevil doesn't have a misspelled word written across his chest. Veronica takes in the tableau with a small smile and tells her "kid" that Life Lesson #1 is "What goes around comes around." With some of the stuff she's pulled, including having a kid put up on the flagpole herself, she'd better hope that having a television show named after her gets her some kind of dispensation. Credits.
Veronica barrels into Clemmons's office, sets her "baby" on his desk, and notes that he's been working at Neptune High for a long time: "Any idea what my mom did her senior year to get herself suspended?" Clemmons: "More alphabetizing, less Cold Case-ing." That sounds like good advice to me, if only because from what I've seen of Cold Case-ing, I have to conclude that it does some really strange things to your hair. Veronica, frustrated, gets up to go, but Clemmons reconsiders, and tells her that, back then, he was just a young science teacher, so he wouldn't have any idea. He goes on to say that he thought she read the report, but Veronica tells him about the blacked-out parts, and claims she's just trying to find out what kind of person her mom was back then. It's kind of sweet that she's trying to find evidence to rehabilitate her perception of her mom. But just between you and me, I think she'd rather have the fifty grand back. Anyway, Clemmons gives her the list of the people who work there now and were there in 1980: Ms. Hauser was a student, as was someone named "Mary Mooney," and Principal Moorehead was the vice-principal. Given later revelations, I wonder how it was that he got promoted. Veronica asks who Mary Mooney is...