M.A.D. (Veronica Mars)
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| “M.A.D.” | |
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| Veronica Mars episode | |
 Seth Rafter arguing with Tad. |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 20 |
| Guest stars | Daran Norris (Cliff McCormack) Tina Majorino Christopher B. Duncan Jeff D'Agostino Erica Gimpel Natalia Baron Kyle Gallner Robert Clark Ryan Hansen Harry Hamlin |
| Written by | Phil Klemmer John Enbom |
| Directed by | John T. Kretchmer |
| Production no. | 2T5719 |
| Original airdate | April 26, 2005 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "Hot Dogs" | "A Trip to the Dentist" |
| List of Veronica Mars episodes | |
"M.A.D." is episode 20 of season 1 of the television show Veronica Mars.
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[edit] Plot
When Carmen is blackmailed by her boyfriend Tad with an obscene video of her, she goes to Veronica who devises a scheme to solve her problems. Unfortunately, Tad's a little too obsessed and he has a secret that will shock Veronica.
[edit] Arc significance
- Keith discovers the Kanes are offering $50,000 to find Duncan.
- Mac finds out for Veronica and Keith that Duncan bought an Argentinian passport for himself.
- Keith runs a missing persons notice in the paper for Lianne Mars, so that he will be eligible for divorce, which Veronica notices.
- Clarence Weidman shows Alicia the bug Veronica planted in his office and tells her to break-up with Keith or she will be fired.
- Carmen can't remember the night of the party where Tad taped her. It was the same night that Veronica was date-raped.
- Tad, while taped to the flagpole, admits that he used GHB on Carmen and that he got it from Logan.
[edit] Music
- Gold Rush - Kissinger
- Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
- Finding Out True Love Is Blind - Louis XIV
- Tu Abandono - X. Herrera
- Let's Sail Away - Josh Kramon and Jeff D'Agostino
- Love Is Here to Stay - Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
- Crimson and Clover - Tommy James & the Shondells
[edit] Production details
- This episode was originally called "Tit for Tad".
- "M.A.D." stands for Mutually Assured Destruction; a term used by Veronica throughout the episode.
[edit] Quotes and trivia
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Veronica: What? I blockaded the door. I hung an "Out of Order" sign.
- Logan: This is wrong. I mean, a boy in a girls' bathroom. It's just…
- Veronica: So wrong, it's right?
- Veronica: How long does it take you to create a highly incriminating, thoroughly libelous, sexually explicit website?
- Mac: Uh… forty-five minutes, give or take?
- [Cliff examines Loretta Cancun's initial police report.]
- Cliff: "Screw you, pig." Nice. Okay, like a big girl now?
- This episode marks the first appearance of Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas.
- Logan wants to take Veronica out on his father's boat and asks her to meet him at The Albacore Club. This is a subtle reference to the exclusive country club in the 1974 noir film Chinatown.
- Carmen likens her tape problem to Paris Hilton's famous sex tape. Hilton actually guest starred earlier in the season.
