Bye bye. =(

I'm almost out of TV. Do not go away House or Office or 30 Rock! I shall die.

I think we are to understand that all the members of the Fitzpatrick's gang sport that tattoo, not that Keith made a wild assumption.

Have we seen other members of the Fitzpatricks sport that tattoo? I may be forgetting an instance but I don't think so. For me, as an audience member, my thought process went "He was caught with stolen property and has a tattoo of a symbol that has, for Americans, connotations of Irishness. He must work with the Fitzpatricks." That isn't to say that was Keith's thought process but since this show has a history of negative stereotyping towards Irish-Americans, I'm reluctant to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Every Irish-American character shown or mentioned on this show has been an Irish stereotype: the violent louts, the submissive woman, the Catholic priest. They intimidate Irish: Veronica was introduced to them with the threat of having a green clover tattooed onto her face. They murder Irish: Felix was killed because he was having an affair with Molly and was, odiously, seen as polluting the stock. They hang out in a pub decorated with Wexford flags. They all have either stereotypically Irish names or names that evoke some Irish cultural touchstone.

There is very little to them beside being violent criminals and Irish and when they are violent it's mostly in a way that evokes their Irishness.

Many of the characters do have racial/ethnic prejudices (although not the good ones like Veronica and Keith).

In 'Plan B', I think, Veronica made some comment along the lines of "If only we had stricter emigration laws' regarding the Fitzpatricks. And it wasn't a character note that was addressed later, it was just thrown out there and forgotten.

Why the hell is she acting like no one knows about the FBI thing? JUST SAY SOMETHING.

Could she be suggesting that they would like to make 'Veronica at the FBI' as a different program?

I figure this link is appropriate here. Warning: link contains The Big Lebowski references.

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People on TWoP are still wondering if the finale ratings will matter or whether the show will come back from cancellation like Family Guy despite the fact that Rob Thomas himself has said they are "out of hope" and the writers have taken new jobs.

I finally know how Allyson feels.

Oh, if Veronica Mars gets 11 million viewers for the finale it will come back. But good luck finding them for a show they probably won't even bother to advertise as ending.

Well, I'm very much not anticipating the show's annual season-ending cliffhanger even more than usual this time around.

Every Irish-American character shown or mentioned on this show has been an Irish stereotype:

I don't think they have. All the Fitzpatricks have been, but, just thinking about characters with Irish last names, there's been Dean O'Dell, possibly Mac, the English teacher Mrs. Murphy. I think it's more that this particular group of Irish-Americans has chosen to play the Irish aspect up as part of their gang identity.

I also got the sense that that particular tattoo was specifically a symbol of the Fitzpatricks. I'm pretty certain I remember seeing it before on this show. (Although it was placed really weirdly. Who gets a tattoo on the inside of their arm like that?)

Ha, the Irish American Gangsters on this week's csi NY, that's who!

Who gets a tattoo on the inside of their arm like that?

I see it at krav a reasonable amount--enough not to think it's an odd location.

just thinking about characters with Irish last names, there's been Dean O'Dell, possibly Mac, the English teacher Mrs. Murphy.

But neither O'Dell nor Mackenzie are Irish names, they're Scottish. I don't remember who Mrs. Murphy was but cool, it's something.