M.A.D. (Veronica Mars)

Infobox Television episode


Caption = Seth Rafter arguing with Tad.
Title = M.A.D.
Series = Veronica Mars
Season = 1
Episode = 20
Airdate = April 26, 2005
Production = 2T5719
Writer = Phil Klemmer
John Enbom
Director = John T. Kretchmer
Guests = Daran Norris
(Cliff McCormack)
Tina Majorino
(Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie)
Christopher B. Duncan
(Clarence Wiedman)
Jeff D'Agostino
(Tad Wilson)
Erica Gimpel
(Alicia Fennel)
Natalia Baron
(Carmen Ruiz)
Kyle Gallner
(Cassidy Casablancas)
Robert Clark
(Seth Rafter)
Ryan Hansen
(Dick Casablancas)
Harry Hamlin
{Aaron Echolls)
Episode list = List of Veronica Mars episodes
Prev = Hot Dogs
Next = A Trip to the Dentist

"M.A.D." is episode 20 of season 1 of the television show "Veronica Mars".

Plot

When Carmen is blackmailed by her boyfriend Tad with an obscene video of her eating an icecream naked in the jacuzzi, 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.

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.

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

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.

Quotes and trivia

: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?

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: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?

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:" [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, a 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.

External links

* Soulful Spike Society's [http://www.soulfulspike.com/vmars/VMep20.htm Open Case] .
* Television Without Pity [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a2307/ Recap] .