Halloween completely screwed me up. I thought it was later than it was when we got home, and then someone had Fox on and I realized House was coming back ... and at about 9:45 I realized I had missed VM. Bad viewer. No biscuit.

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Loved Veronica just snatching the necklace back from the snotty little girl and driving away.

Yes, this.

Two funny bits that no one's mentioned yet:

• Cliff's Olive Garden running gag
• Veronica's Pizza Fan Boy

See, at first I thought he'd ratted out the cheating, especially since I figured he was smart enough not to be first to bring a test up under the circumstances if he was cheating. But there was that later bit that I wasn't quite clear on what was happening.

At first I thought he got caught cheating, but how would the prof know so quickly that that was the case? I'm thinking he wrote a confession on the exam.

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The actor who played Wallace's teacher: he was on The West Wing, wasn't he?

Well, he looked very familiar in any case.

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The Wallace plot was definitely ambiguous as to whether he was caught or if he turned narc

i'm not understanding where people are seeing ambiguity. it seemed pretty obvious to me that Wallace had used the "study guide" to cheat, the professor was grading his test and realized it was way too perfect and sent the TA to get him to confront him about it.

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i'm not understanding where people are seeing ambiguity. it seemed pretty obvious to me that Wallace had used the "study guide" to cheat, the professor was grading his test and realized it was way too perfect and sent the TA to get him to confront him about it.

While it seemed pretty obvious to me that Wallace realized that the test was exactly the same as the "study guide," realized he couldn't go through with cheating, and wrote a confession on the exam. The professor read it, then sent the TA to get him to discuss what to do next.

So I guess two "pretty obvious" interpretations = ambiguity.

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I loved the one-fan Veronica Mars fan-club! He was adorkable. Of course geek boys would idolize Veronica. The German accent cracked me up something fierce.

I have never listened to the Olive Garden commercial, believe it or not, and thought Cliff was doing some kind of Godfather impression. (I know, I know.) But he had a fake Italian accent and was talking about family in a sort of menacing way, whilst brandishing a piece of meat! What was I to think?

I am NOT happy with Wallace-the-cheater. I know it does no good to put a character on a pedestal, but I sort of do, with Wallace.

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At first I thought he got caught cheating, but how would the prof know so quickly that that was the case? I'm thinking he wrote a confession on the exam.

I think Wallace's friend (and teammate, right?) set him up, and that's how the prof knew so quickly. A teacher would be suspicious that a struggling student is the first one to turn in an exam, (and possibly get a perfect score???). If someone set up Wallace (and the teammate is a prime suspect, because he's the one who kept dragging Wallace away from his studies in the first place), that someone also would have dropped a dime.

I figure there are three likely scenarios:

1. Wallace was set up to cheat and get caught, and someone dropped a dime on him

2. Wallace wasn't set up, but cheated and got caught

I think there's also an outside chance that...

3. Wallace figured out he was being set up, and dropped a dime on the cheating network on his exam paper, because he figured out he was being set up.

He has been hanging around with V for a while. We saw evidence he's learned from her, in his prison experiment clock switcheroo. I'd love it if Wallace Fennel was smarter than us, too. And the emotions on his face and resignation are still understandable, because Wallace would feel badly that a teammate set him up and that he had to turn in the teammate.

He could have confessed, but why? Why not just rip up the paper, instead?

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I couldn't figure out what was going on with Wallace and the test either--if he'd been caught for cheating or confessed. I just loved the whole bit about him having always wanting to be a mechanical engineer and now he was failing his first mechanical engineering class and how sad he was about that. It seemed very real to me and un-TV like.

What were Logan & Veronica supposed to be dressed up as?

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i'm not understanding where people are seeing ambiguity.

Because we got no confirmation of what happened. We don't know if Wallace just cheated, or if Wallace was set up, or if Wallace confessed.

(Or my spec-crack theory that Wallace decided to sting the people who were setting him up).

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Apparently Logan and Veronica were the White Stripes.

I like the idea that Wallace just wrote about what happened on the exam.

(Don't most colleges have legitimate tutoring offices that Wallace could have discovered?)

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