"A long time ago... We used to be friends..."~

Frack! I'm only JUST starting to catch up on a half dozen or so episodes of VERONICA MARS that I've let sit on my replayTV since March or so, and in the first 10 minutes of this show, who should appear out of nowhere but - BOTH George Michael Bluth and Maeby Funke!

Y'know that sitcom and cartoon gag when someone tells a friend a joke and then a day or so passes and the friend is somewhere totally different and doing something else and the joke teller isn't even around and something finally clicks and - "Oh, NOW I get it!"

Yeah, that's me. But to be fair, I didn't get to hear all of the punchline until now. =)

See, in the series (*sniffle*) finale of ARRESTED, George Michael suggests to Maeby that they might sit down for some popcorn and a couple of episodes of [title of the show bleeped out, but the caption below read something like] "acclaimed teen drama on a competing network." Something like that, but better phrased. There was enough in the combined clipped audio of George Michael and the caption for me to identify that he was suggesting they watch VERONICA MARS.

(* I went back and watched the finale again. The caption reads: reference to off-network high school private eye drama censored by FOX.)

At the time, I thought maybe there was an IMAGINE entertainment connection... But I'm not sure about that. Then I thought that perhaps it was just an earnest plug on the part of the writers and producers of ARRESTED, giving a tip-o-the-hat on the way out to a damn good show.

WELL! This GMB/Maeby tag-team appearance, from an episode that aired in March, is the other clown shoe dropping. Damnit! I wish I'd watched this before the IFFB so that I could've mentioned my appreciation and awe at his getting to work on two such excellent shows. There's no telling now - I'm just halfway thru this episode - if he's a semi-regular supporting cast member in VERONICA...

VERONICA so rocks. =)


There's a whole lot, too much, really, to the Goodness of the excellent characters, relationships, and plots, to boil down into a fair pitch, but how bout I just tick off some crossover coolness factors...?

The show's created by Rob Thomas. It's got a song by the Dandy Warhols as its excellent opening theme. NAPOLEON's Tina Majorino is Veronica's computer specialist, Mac. Apples figure prominently in all of the computer hackin and hijinks. ANGEL's Charisma struts her stuff as a scheming minx. Harry CLASH OF THE TITANS Hamlin plays box office heavy hitter and father to BUFFY's Alyson Hannigan's Hollywood ingenue. And then, of course, there's Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat stompin around the local Neptune college campus.

VERONICA MARS. Check it out.

Keep on keepin on~