Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Melrose Law
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.01.2004
Veronica, Wallace, and Wanda (should she be there? And should they be doing this alone? I DON'T THINK SO) are running the ballots through the ScanTron machine. They come up with the same results as the first time. Veronica notes that Wallace voted for some loser girl, prompting Wallace to wonder why she's got his student ID number memorized. Well, I can't think of a good reason, but I'd be happy to help you start eliminating choices, starting with "She likes you that way." Miss Donaldson breezes through on a zephyr of snark. Which will be the name of TWoP's official band, once we give up recapping and take the show on the road. Veronica notices that some idiot who wrote "WANDA RULEZ" on its ballot voted for Duncan. Wallace does some checking and finds that the dude in question has art first period.
Cut to Veronica snooping around the art classroom. She pulls up the chart that's covering the blackboard to find the voting list -- only the order of Wanda's and Duncan's names are reversed from how they were in Miss Dent's classroom. I know some people say all politicians are the same, but this is taking it a little far. Also, those people are morons.
Clemens's office. Veronica explains that there were two sets of ballot instructions -- classes with lots of 09er kids got the right list, while other classes, such as band, autoshop, and art -- got a fake list with Wanda's and Duncan's names reversed. Maybe it's my own experience, but I find it hard to believe that the kids would have such autonomy over their schedules for the different cliques to be in classes together. I mean, if that were true, would Veronica have so many classes with Logan? Miss Donaldson says Clemens can't really believe this. Miss Dent suggests they ask the kids from first-period art, throwing open the door to reveal the entire class waiting at the door. And not to put too fine a point on it, but it's a little ironic that an entire art class could have been so uniformly painted with the ugly brush. Clemens asks Veronica who she thinks tampered with the ballot, and Veronica points out that it shouldn't be hard to figure: just check whose code was entered into the copier that made the ballot instructions. Miss Donaldson pipes up that her student aide made them...
..who, we see in a flashback, just happens to be Makeup, Makeup, Makeup! Oh, honey, you can run, but you can't hide. Not even behind three pounds of foundation.
Cut to the hallway, where Clemens's voice announces that there will be a runoff between Duncan and Wanda. It seems like maybe they should redo the entire election from scratch, but maybe no one else got any votes to speak of. Veronica indulges in some gloating to M,M,M!, telling her that now that all her privileges from her "contributing" gigs have been revoked, she might want to go with Sloppy Joes on Fridays. Veronica smiles off, and M,M,M! is aghast that anyone would suggest that she consume more than fifty calories at one sitting.