Show Me the Monkey

Infobox Television episode


Caption =
Title = Show Me the Monkey
Series = Veronica Mars
Season = 3
Episode = 10
Airdate = January 23, 2007
Production = 3T5810
Writer = John Enbom (teleplay & story)
Robert Hull (teleplay)
Director = Nick Marck
Guests = Patrick Fabian
(Hank Landry)
David Tom
(Chip Diller)
Jaime Ray Newman
(Mindy O'Dell)
Michael Mitchell
(Bronson Pope)
Eric Jungmann
(Gil Pardy)
Linara Washington
(Pauline Elliot)
Jackie Tohn
(Sarah)
Brittany Ishibashi
(Emmy)
Brandon Hillock
(Jerry Sacks)
Episode list = List of Veronica Mars episodes
Prev = Spit & Eggs
Next = Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves"Show Me the Monkey" is episode 10 of season 3 of the television show "Veronica Mars".

Plot

Attempting to keep her mind off Logan, Veronica takes a job helping animal researchers track down a monkey missing from their laboratory. In order to find the missing animal, Veronica and Mac go undercover as members of an on-campus animal rights group, believed to have freed the monkey. Meanwhile, Mindy O'Dell asks Keith to investigate Dean O'Dell's death because she believes he was murdered.

Arc significance

* It is six weeks after "Spit & Eggs" and Dean O'Dell's death has been ruled a suicide. Mindy O'Dell hires Keith because the insurance company won't pay.
* Keith discovers that the scotch Dean O'Dell was waiting for a special occasion to open is still unopened. When he tells Veronica that the Dean was found with a suicide note on his computer that said "Goodbye cruel world," she says that was in her paper on a perfect murder she turned in to Professor Landry.
* Keith has a conversation with Landry where Landry reveals that he knows who Keith is and recommends that he read his book on profiling.
* Logan has a fling with a beach bunny and is clearly unhappy about it after while she is exclaiming "Wow, I can't believe I did that with Aaron's Echolls' son!"
* Veronica and Logan get back together after she talks with Piz about not letting things slip by her.

Music

* "Funiculì, Funiculà" - Luigi Denza
* "Dos Almas Con Un Corazón" - Matt Hirt & Francisco Rodriguez
* "One Week" - Barenaked Ladies
* "Lara's Theme" - Maurice Jarre
* "Fair" - Annuals
* "Long, Long Time" - Linda Ronstadt
* "Greenland" - The Kinsbury Manx

Production

* According to John Embom in the official episode podcast, the full name of the lab worker who stole the monkey is Gil Thomas Pardy or Gil T. Pardy (Guilty Party). [http://veronicamars.podomatic.com/entry/2007-01-23T21_32_27-08_00 Show Me the Monkey Audio Podcast] ]
* The character of Ed Argent was originally supposed to be Ted Nugent. When they couldn't get him, the writers changed the name and added a reference to the '70s band Argent. [http://veronicamars.podomatic.com/entry/2007-01-23T21_32_27-08_00 Show Me the Monkey Audio Podcast] ]
* Oscar/25, the monkey, is played by Katie, the same 'actor' as Marcel in Friends. [http://veronicamars.podomatic.com/entry/2007-01-23T21_32_27-08_00 Show Me the Monkey Audio Podcast] ]

Feedback and ratings

This episode scored an approximate audience of 3.29 million viewers. ["pifeedback.com", 1-24-2007. [http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/40910792] ]

Eric Goldman of "IGN" gave the episode a good review (8.2/10). He was upset that the repercussions of Logan intentionally getting arrested in the last episode were not addressed, and was not excited by the resolution of the episode's mystery, but found the story as a whole entertaining. [cite news | author = Eric Goldman | title = "Veronica Mars: 'Show Me the Monkey' Review" | publisher = IGN | date = 2007-01-24 | url = http://tv.ign.com/articles/758/758232p1.html | accessdate=2007-10-10]

John Ramos, aka Couch Baron, of "Television Without Pity" gave the episode an "A" rating. [cite news | author = Couch Baron | title = "Monkey See, Monkey Die" | publisher = Television Without Pity | date = 2007-01-29 | url = http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=3e48321bde2a2110VgnVCM1000006dc1d240RCRD&ShowName=Veronica+Mars | accessdate=2007-10-10]

Quotes

:Mac: Does this say it's "cruelty-free"?:Parker: It says, "I’ve given up. Don’t look at me."

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:Mac: Wow, this is one trashed lab. All that’s missing is a big hole in the wall shaped like the Hulk.

Cultural References

*The title comes from a memorable quote from the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire: "Show me the money!" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116695/trivia]

*The episode references Wikipedia when Veronica looks up the origins of the color manila.

References

External links

* MI.net's [http://www.marsinvestigations.net/episodes/310/show_me_the_monkey/roundtable Roundtable Review] .
* Soulful Spike Society's [http://www.soulfulspike.com/vmars/VMep3-10.htm Open Case] .
* Television Without Pity [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a12770/ Recap] .