Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang

Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang
Season	Two
Season	Two
	2x3
	2x3
Episode №	3
Episode №	3
Original Broadcast Date	October 12, 2005
Written by	Phil Klemmer & John Enbom
Story by	Rob Thomas
Teleplay by	Rob Thomas
Directed by	John Kretchmer
Chronology
Preceded by	Driver Ed
Preceded by	Driver Ed
Followed by	Green-Eyed Monster
Followed by	Green-Eyed Monster

"Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang" is the third episode of the second season of Veronica Mars.

In this episode, Veronica investigates Kendall Casablancas at the request of her stepson, Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas and eventually finds some important information about Logan. Meanwhile, Veronica tries to help Wallace get a date with Jackie Cook.

Plot

Logan turns up on Veronica's surveillance video.

Beaver suspects that his new stepmom, Kendall, is sleeping around on his dad, so he hires Veronica to find out. What she discovers is that his dad is cheating his company's investors.

Keith and Alicia Fennel go to Chicago, but encounter a surprise.

But the biggest surprise is saved for Veronica when Sheriff Lamb tells her a body was found on the beach with "Veronica Mars" written on his hand.

Arc significance

• In Chicago, a man sees Alicia and calls her "Cher" and "Cheri."
• The body on the beach was David "Curly" Moran. He was a mechanic who had been the stunt coordinator on Aaron Echolls' first big movie, The Long Haul.
• Beaver gets pictures of Logan and Kendall together and shows them to his dad, Dick Casablancas Sr., but his dad isn't concerned with it. Instead, Big Dick tells his employees to shred everything and leaves in a helicopter before the SEC arrive.

Cultural references

A variety of cultural references are made in the episode:

• Veronica uses the phrase "Excellent," referencing the catchphrase used by Mr. Burns in The Simpsons.
• When Sheriff Lamb questions Veronica about her relationship with David "Curly" Moran, she jokingly that they met while he was a roadie for Whitesnake and she was a backup singer for Boyz II Men.
• Veronica references the Infinite monkey theorem.
• Keith woos Alicia by paraphrasing "Fog".
• Veronica mentions Kenny G.
• Veronica compares Kendall to a Barbie doll.
• Veronica jokes that Kendall has broken her Atkins diet.
• Veronica's place of work is called "Java the Hut," a play on the character Jabba the Hutt.
• The episode frequently references Pride and Prejudice.
• The business teacher references Warren Buffett.
• Logan sarcastically refers to Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the film of the same name.
• Logan's inspirational quote of the day is from William Makepeace Thackeray.
• Logan uses a catchphrase from I Love Lucy.

Music

• "I Turn My Camera On" - Spoon
• "Smoke It" - The Dandy Warhols

Quotes

Veronica: So who are we exploiting now?

Duncan: The workers.

Veronica: Exxccellent.

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Wallace: What're you lookin' at?

Veronica: Just... tawdriness.

Wallace: ...What're you lookin' at now?

Veronica: The opposite of tawdriness. Wallace and his pudding cup.

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Mr. Pope: Now, you may invest your money any way you see fit, as long as it's legal.

Dick: Dude, dog racing is totally legal.

Mr. Pope: But hardly lucrative, as I recall from your performance last year.

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Wallace: Wh-- You met Jackie, right?

Veronica: I didn't realize you were lunch buddies.

Wallace: I'm going for lunch buddies with privileges. Help a brother out.

Veronica: Well if you wanna play in her league, you'd better hide your little pudding.

[Wallace grabs the pudding cup and hides it on the bench. He sees that Veronica is sceptical.]

Wallace: Hey, I like her, okay? Retract claws.

[Veronica holds out her hands, spreading her fingers.]

Veronica: Claws, what claws?

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Logan: My very own guardian angel.

Veronica: [frosty] Don't flatter yourself. The only reason I came here is so I won't have to feel responsible.

Logan: Yeah, what, responsible for what?

Veronica: For taking pictures of you and Kendall playing house. Don't take it the wrong way, Logan, it was a job, nothing more.

[Veronica marches to the door]

Logan: Right, and so you storm out in a burst of professionalism.

[Veronica whirls back to face him, backing out of the room]

Veronica: I suggest you start locking your doors.

Trivia

• "Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang" is a reference to the film musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
• Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Lead singer of The Dandy Warhols (who do the opening credits theme song "We Used to Be Friends") has a cameo as the singer of "Love Hurts" at the karaoke bar.
• Despite being credited, Francis Capra (Eli “Weevil” Navarro) does not appear in this episode.
• This episode had an estimated audience size of 3.03 million US viewers on its first airing.

External links

• MI.net's Roundtable Review.
• Soulful Spike Society's Open Case.
• Television Without Pity Recap.