Veronica Mars
M.A.D.
TV Flash files “M.A.D.” as hour 20 of 72 in the TV Flash guide — Veronica Mars (2004–2007) on UPN/CW, season 1, episode 20, aired 2005-04-26, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E20: listed hour 20 of 72 in the Veronica Mars guide, hour 20 of 22 in season 1. It aired 2005-04-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Hot Dogs” (S01E19). Next is “A Trip to the Dentist” (S01E21).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When a classmate's boyfriend threatens to post a humiliating video of the girl online if she dumps him, Veronica helps her concoct a scheme to ensure "mutually assured destruction" if he doesn't allow the relationship to end peacefully.
Viewer FAQ
Where does M.A.D. sit in the Veronica Mars guide?
S01E20 is listed hour 20 of 72 — hour 20 of 22 in season 1, season 1 episode 20.
When did Veronica Mars S01E20 air?
M.A.D. aired 2005-04-26 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is season one of Veronica Mars the whole show?
Season one's central mystery is a high-water mark and the conversion. Two more UPN/CW seasons continue Neptune; a Kickstarter film and Hulu revival are afterlife with receipts.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Kristen Bell's teenage P.I. narrates a class war in sunny Neptune with hard-boiled snap. Veronica Mars is father-daughter detective shop as the real romance, a season-one mystery that still holds, and cancellation-to-Kickstarter lore with actual receipts.
Sunny Neptune is a lighting trick. Kristen Bell's teenage P.I. walks through California glare in a narration that cuts like a black dress at noon: hard-boiled snap, class war as the silhouette, a father-daughter detective shop as the real romance. Rob Thomas's Veronica Mars (2004–2007) ran UPN then The CW — Enrico Colantoni as Keith Mars, Jason Dohring, Percy Daggs III, Francis Capra, Tina Majorino — and proved young-adult television could look sharp, funny, and hard-boiled without borrowing a grown-up's trench.…
Filed against
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- Enrico Colantoni as Keith Mars
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- Jason Dohring as Logan Echolls
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