- 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 forLianne 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 andJeff D'Agostino
* "Love Is Here to Stay" -Louis Armstrong andElla 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?
: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, a reference to the exclusive country club in the 1974 noir film Chinatown.
* Carmen likens her tape problem toParis Hilton 's famoussex 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] .
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