Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Meeeeooooow! (Ffffft!)
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.29.2005
Beaver enters the computer room and calls to Mac, who takes a moment to realize that he's talking to her, being in a full iPod/computer screen trance. (She's also got red streaks in her hair where the blue used to be.) Beaver asks to retain Mac's services: he's starting a company, "Phoenix Land Trust." I don't know what game Beaver's playing yet, but I do have to point out that I don't think public trust in the Casablancas family's handling of land is going to be rising from the ashes any time soon. Beaver says that he'll match Mac's going rate, and that he'll need her to register the domain and design an online identity and logo for the company, which he needs to be "Fortune 500 caliber." Mac says she'll help him: "But basically, you're hiring me to do your homework for you, right?" Beaver goofily agrees. Aw. I think I'd like these two to get together based on the fact that, basically, neither of them has ever annoyed me. Which is a real trick, especially given that Beaver is a Casablancas, and Mac is a vegan.
Veronica sits in the administrative office as Principal Moorehead announces open auditions for Hamlet, and informs everyone that the "special celebrity director" will be Trina Echolls. VMVO is amused, since this means Trina was "the first one booted off The Surreal Life this season." I hope she's joking, because Trina may not be everyone's favorite, but she certainly deserves to outlast Omarosa. Of course, pretty much everyone does, except maybe Andy Dick. Clemmons appears and says he has a task for Veronica...
...and they're in a filing room, where Clemmons is telling Veronica that the janitor "had a dolly accident moving the permanent records," so Veronica has to re-alphabetize all of them and file them away. Veronica: "I can't use magic, right?" Heh. There was discussion on the boards about this line, but I think it pretty clearly refers to a minor plot point in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Not that I'm currently rereading that book or anything. There's a quick montage of Veronica slaving away...
...and then, seemingly much later, Veronica comes across her mom's record. Lianne's middle name is "Susan," by the way, in case that should ever be important. (You have to admit that the chances are a little higher than normal with this show.) VMVO says that her mom never talked about her high-school days much, which adds up, considering that Veronica had to find out from an old yearbook that her mom and Jake Kane were sweethearts back then. VMVO adds that she always thought she would have gotten along with Lianne the teenager. Veronica then finds a report from September 1979 saying that her mom was suspended for three days for spreading false and malicious rumors. If they'd had that policy at my high school, we would have had the smallest class sizes of any public school in the country. The juiciest parts of the report are blacked out. Isn't that always the way. It does mention, however, that Lianne appeared at a disciplinary hearing alongside a "Deborah Philipina Drummond," whom Veronica speculates might be connected to a "Deborah Philipina Hauser." Clemmons appears and admonishes Veronica for nosing around in school property, which seems a bit unfair. Giving Veronica access to all this juicy information and expecting her to mind her own business is like...well, it's like doing anything and expecting Veronica to mind her own business. Proving my point, when Clemmons leaves, Veronica goes straight back to the file.