LOVED this episode. Was feeling kinda down on this season (all "man, the second season is never any good, what HAPPENED?") until last week and this week were both pretty good. I love the continuity! And the recurring characters! So much! Logan was so creepy, just spot-on, and the Veronica/Weevil bit at the end made me a tiny bit of a 'shipper. And Mac/Beav!! So adorable!

My only issue was as smonster said--the teacher was a little over the top. We GET it, she's MEAN. Calling Jackie trash to her face is bad enough, but doing it in front of a crowd of people crosses the line to "Um, did you take your CRAZY PILLS today, lady?"

Finally got a chance to watch my recording. Chiming in with the love of the episode. And it's two episodes in a row where I actually liked Jackie, which I thought was impossible. Poor Keith. The man's going to have nothing left to believe in. The Logan storyline also had me wondering what he was up to until the end.

Great to see Mac again though I wish we saw more of her. Still not thrilled with the Beaver-relationship angle, though this episode made me much more receptive. Have no idea what the Sally thing he was talking about was, though. Maybe another time Dick managed to embarass himself. I loved that Logan was simply amused by the whole thing.

Mac and Beaver together are both cute and kind of scary. They're like the cuddley, slightly less evil version of Vamp!Willow&Xander. I wouldn't be scared to meet them in a dark alley, but I *would* most certainly fear getting on their bad side.

When I was watching the Logan thing, I wasn't even thinking about what he was up to. I just figured it for some shallow attempt to replace Veronica with a Veronica-surrogate. Given that he was so blatantly hitting on her at the beginning.

But at the end, totally a new level of what was going on. And I didn't even recognize the guy at first. Just a "Oh crap, that GUY!"

Right.

I had the same thoughts and I totally didn't recognize the guy but could tell that I was SUPPOSED TO.

The reaction to Logan bits in the episode in the LJ land has been interesting to read. I was surprised that there were a lot of people who thought he was being genuinely charming and adorable toward Hannah, because Logan with Hannah felt *incredibly* off and to me right from the start, superficially charming but with the undercurrent of "arrrrghh! creepy!". So much so that when we got the reveal, it was a mixture of a surprise and a bit of relief, because his weird behavior finally made sense *and* was in character.

My absolute favorite moment in the Mac/Beaver plot was the lighter-waving when Dick stumbled out of the car. They are deathly adorable and yeah--agree with Plei that you wouldn't want to cross them.

Logan was so entirely calculated, I never bought that it was serious.

I figured Logan was up to something (just watched my tape this morning), but since I had no clue whatsoever who jailbait's Dad was, I remained befuddled until I read this thread.

I have nothing but huge love for Beav/Mac.

WTF with Dick, and the trannie, and Beaver's "Sally" comment? I don't get it. Is Dick just being....well, a dick to Beaver b/c he's hiding his gayness? That's a little obvious of a route (putting on the ultra machismo routine to cover up his Brokeback ways), but I can't figure out what the hell else is going on.

Also, am I right in assuming that Weevil planted the money in evil!Teacher's classroom's ceiling? Or no?

Oh, wait! Evil!teacher was *lying* about there being $12,000 in the cashbox, right? Duh. I'm a little dense sometimes. I mean, clearly she skimmed off the top before giving the box to Veronica, so it only had the $3,000 in it that was in Thumper's locker....right?

I love Keith, with great fangirly love, but his "say it ain't so, Joe" innocence-shattered scene was a bit much. Or maybe it seemed so to me b/c (1) in the face of discussing a bus full of kids that was deliberately sabotaged to crash and kill them, throwing a baseball game just doesn't seem like that heinous of a dealio anymore; and (2) I *am* from Cincinnati, after all, and we're pretty jaded when it comes to ballplayers and gambling....

I adored Wallace whipping the dunking booth balls way the hell over the back of the booth.

I have a hard time believing that any school principal would have let Veronica drag Triton!guy out into the hall to pull her "I have photos" routine. But whatever.

And I'm really impressed with how much better the actress who plays Jackie has gotten. No more of that annoying, breathy, Marilyn Monroe/Melanie Griffith voice, for one.

I have a hard time believing that any school principal

This is the school principal who when he was vice-principal deliberately left Veronica in the filing room with his mother's previous file so that she could track down the scandal the principal was in.

Uh, yeah. I can see him allowing Veronica to solve his problem.

Like the episode, but.

Evil teacher was too over the top in accusing Jackie.

Once the money was found in Thumper’s locker, my sister and I had thought that Logan and Weevil had been in on it together. We thought that Logan had given Veronica a large bill with writing on it so she’s remember the bill and help tie Thumper to the theft. We figured Logan and Weevil would still be working together since Logan has not been cleared in the murder yet and Weevil wants to start messing with Thumper. Also there would be the bonus for them in playing Veronica – they set her up to help them frame Thumper.

Loved Wallace being decent to Jackie. Liked Jackie not backing down despite the abuse.