"Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Theives"
Airdate: January 30th, 2007

[This iTunes TV review covers some vaguely adult themes in the show, and those easily offended may want to pass on it. - Editor]

Ah sweet love. You've got to admit it's nice to see Logan smiling again. He can be soooo broody and awful that the turnaround is extra special. In the first few moments of this episode I wasn't so sure I was going to enjoy the doomed lovebirds together again, what with the silly french fry repartee.

Normally Veronica's witticisms really tickle, but this exchange left me bored and sort of highlighted V's propensity toward becoming overbearing in the relationship. Anyway, the fried potato reverie soon passed and we moved on to one of the more compelling mysteries-of-the-week that we've had in a while.

Sir-Cheats-A-Lot is all adorable geekness what with his Comic-Con adventures and Battlestar Galactica obsessions, so it's completely understandable that he'd be fool enough to get screwed by a hooker, so to speak. But with each step toward feeling sorry for the poor fool, we feel the tug back toward believing in true love. Is she a hooker with a heart of gold or a most clever vixen with the best skin in the business? Hmm, this back and forth seems a little reminiscent of a certain love me-leave me business back at the Neptune Grand.

Logan and Veronica in bed  --  what a romantic tableau. And then she has to ask the questions, she has to investigate, she has to know. Somehow she pulls off telling Logan she wants to become more "intimate" without being snarky or cheesy. And it sizzled like acid in his belly to admit what he'd done with that surf tramp in the truck. Not only because he didn't want to hurt Veronica's feelings, but because the surfer girl was a lowly autograph-seeker who soured Logan's happy ending with thoughts of his pear-pushing father.

But then maybe he wasn't talking about surfer girl after all? Did he really hook up with Madison in Aspen over break? Oh, the roller coaster is about to peak...any...minute...now.

This episode was another Wallace-free event, sadly, though Weevil is weaseling his way into the Dean mystery quite nicely. It looks as though he may be hitting the benzoyl peroxide, which is nice, but pleeez can we get a little bad-boy action back in play? No former gang leader becomes such a happy-go-lucky janitor in the course of a couple years, I'm sorry. He's got no shame.

Anyway, this is the second episode in a row that he's said the Dean was a good guy  --  I'd say he was overplaying his fondness for the guy, but he seems so guileless these days. And then he started telling Veronica about finding something in the Dean's toilet, but it was interrupted by the awful awkwardness of him being able to recall a dragon tattoo on Chelsea/Fiona/Wendy's butt.

Finally, the only real advancement of the Big Mystery is that the Lilith ladies egged the Dean's office the night he was killed and it doesn't look like Nish has an alibi. And thank you Nish for bringing a little reality re: Keith home. Note to Mr. Mars: You can't go undercover in Neptune because you were involved in a nationally televised scandal and everybody recognizes you, okay? (Except for two politically engaged feminists who must have been too busy reading the Valeria Solanas manifesto to pay attention to the news.)

Now that that's settled, hello previews! Veronica preggers? It can't be. If she knows how to work a taser, a GPS tracker, and all sorts of geeky gadgetry, she surely knows how to operate a condom. Ah sweet love...

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"Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Theives"