Happy Go Lucky

Infobox Television episode


Caption = Lucky threatens the students of Neptune High.
Title = Happy Go Lucky
Series = Veronica Mars
Season = 2
Episode = 21
Airdate = May 2, 2006
Production = 2T7221
Writer = Diane Ruggiero
Director = Steve Gomer
Guests = Harry Hamlin
(Aaron Echolls)
Jeffrey Sams
(Terrence Cook)
Michael Muhney
(Don Lamb)
Krysten Ritter
(Gia Goodman)
Tina Majorino
(Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie)
James Jordan
(Tommy "Lucky" Dohanic)
John Prosky
(Ethan Lavoie)
Gil Birmingham
(Leonard Lobo)
Steve Guttenberg
(Woody Goodman)
Episode list = List of Veronica Mars episodes
Prev = Look Who’s Stalking
Next = Not Pictured

"Happy Go Lucky" is episode 21 of season 2 of the television show "Veronica Mars". It had an estimated audience size of 2.33 million US viewers on its first airing.

Plot

After Lucky shoots up the school, Veronica and Keith Mars finally investigate Woody Goodman and find out he's a child molester. Also, Aaron Echolls' trial comes to a close.

Arc significance

* Lucky shows up at Neptune High threatening Gia Goodman and is killed by security.
* Keith thinks that Lucky might have planted bombs in Goodman's house and informs Sheriff Lamb. Lamb finds a bomb under Goodman's car identical to the one that was on the bus.
* Veronica finds an anonymous email entitled "Kill incorporation or else" on Goodman's computer that has a recording of two boys saying that he is a child molester. Veronica figures out that the two boys in the recording were Peter Ferrer and Marcos Oliveres, two boys who died in the bus crash and were also on Goodman's Little League team.
* Lamb goes to arrest Goodman, but he's already gone.
* Aaron Echolls is acquitted at his trial.

Music

* "Lost & Found" - Adrienne Pierce

Production details

* The episode was originally titled "Manning the Ship" and is unknown why the name changed. Though one might guess that the title "Manning the Ship" implies some relation to the Manning family in the story, the Mannings do not appear in this episode.

Quotes and trivia

* At the beginning of the episode, Aaron Echolls claims he was People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 1987. Harry Hamlin, the actor who plays Aaron Echolls held this title.
:Veronica: Do you know how long I've wanted to go to Stanford?:Wallace: Since middle school?:Veronica: Elementary, my dear Wallace. Do you have any idea how long I've waited to say that?

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:Keith: I'm thinking about getting you some sort of...giant hamster ball, so you can roll everywhere in this protective sphere.:Veronica: It'd just draw attention to me. Nobody likes a blonde in a hamster ball.

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:Wallace: Well, I gotta go clean out my locker.:Veronica: You got that salmon I left in there for you, right?:Wallace: You better enjoy this, 'cause this is as nostalgic as I get. I just wanted to say...it was worth getting taped to a pole.

References

Ratings are based on Nielsen Media Research data and are obtained from "Mediaweek". [http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/index.jsp]

External links

* MI.net's [http://www.marsinvestigations.net/episodes/221/happy_go_lucky/roundtable Roundtable Review] .
* Soulful Spike Society's [http://www.soulfulspike.com/vmars/VMep2-21.htm Open Case] .
* Television Without Pity [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a11947/ Recap] .