History Series / VeronicaMars

** In "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough", Mac and Beaver are ''totally cute'' the entire episode. The season ends with [[spoiler:Beaver being a sociopathic molestee who may or may not have used Mac as TheBeard.]]

* TheBeard: Inverted trope in "Donut Run," in which it is vital to Veronica and Duncan's ploy that the FBI believe they have broken up.

* CanadaEh: The girls are pressured to join a dorm-wide party where everyone decorates their rooms like a different country. They give a TakeThat to the whole thing by picking Canada, with the country spirit consisting of a picture of a moose, saying "Eh," and playing Music/BarenakedLadies songs.

* PoliceAreUseless - That is, unless said police officer is Keith Mars.

* SexualKarma: Pretty much everybody is shown having very enjoyable sex, except [[spoiler:Cassidy with Mac]], where he has [[TheLoinsSleepTonight erectile dysfunction]]. Guess who's the villain of season 2? [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because [[spoiler:Cassidy's inability to have sex with Mac is actually a clue that he was raped as a child, which is how he is connected to the bus crash.]] Averted with Duncan and Veronica, whose sex is "fine" at best

* MassiveMultiplayerScam: In [[Recap/VeronicaMarsS02E12WallaceAndRashardGoToWhiteCastle "Wallace and Rashard Go to White Castle"]], Veronica masterminds a scam like this on a basketball manager who's trying to frame Wallace for a hit-and-run, pulled by Wallace, Jackie, and a cop Veronica knows who moonlights as a security guard.

* CoolLoser:
** The lead character is witty, attractive, fashionable and generally benevolent. Veronica's unpopularity is ostensibly due to her father's insistence that local hero Jake Kane was a murderer. It wasn't until later on, when she becomes more than a little infamous for her ability to figure things out, that she regained some respect -- her TenMinuteRetirement at the beginning of the second season proves that. Once again, ''Buffy''-style, at the end of the second season, she's given a minor ovation from her classmates as she accepts her diploma. In Veronica's case, it's arguably on purpose. She's pissed at them for essentially abandoning her when she needed her friends the most. The ones she eventually forgives are generally the ones who had their own issues regarding Lily's death (Logan and Duncan are pretty much the list). The theme song was well-chosen.
** Wallace Fennel, Veronica's best friend is also an example of this. He's at best marginally popular, despite being the star on the basketball team, very nice, funny and dating the super hot daughter of a baseball legend. In Wallace's case, it's at least partly intentional. As he said, he'd rather hangout with the chick who cut him down when duct-taped to the flag pole than the people who just stood and laughed at him.
** Mac is a brilliant hacker, funny, and charming, but seemed completely friendless before she and Veronica got to know each other.

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''Veronica Mars'' was an hour long TeenDrama that debuted on Creator/{{UPN}} in 2004, that later expanded into a [[Franchise/VeronicaMars franchise]], with the addition of a film and book series of the same name.

''Veronica Mars'' was an hour-long teen drama that ran for three seasons on UPN (later CW). The main character is, appropriately, high school junior Veronica Mars (Creator/KristenBell). She lives in the unincorporated town of Neptune, California, "a town without a middle class": the "09ers," from the prestigious (and fictional) 90909 zip code, are insanely spoiled children of insanely wealthy parents, while everyone else works for the 09ers, mostly as domestics at minimum wage ([[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney if that]]). Veronica, daughter of county sheriff Keith Mars (Creator/EnricoColantoni), was more of an honorary 09er: her best friend was LovableAlphaBitch Lilly Kane (Creator/AmandaSeyfried), her boyfriend was Lilly's equally-popular brother Duncan (Creator/TeddyDunn), and she was also friendly with Lilly's boyfriend and Duncan's best friend, Logan Echolls (Creator/JasonDohring), son of movie star Aaron Echolls. The Kanes are practically royalty in Neptune; Lilly and Duncan's father, Jake Kane, is a software billionaire, and the largest employer in town; when his company went public, their ''secretaries'' became millionaires. It may just be popularity by association, but Veronica's life is pretty good.

''Veronica Mars'' was an hour-long teen drama that ran for three seasons on UPN (later CW). The brainchild of novelist Creator/RobThomas[[note]](who would go on to create ''Series/PartyDown'' and ''Series/{{iZombie}}'')[[/note]] and produced by Creator/JoelSilver (''Franchise/TheMatrix'' producer), the series combined the AmateurSleuth[=/=]KidDetective with a healthy dose of FilmNoir and class warfare.

The main character is, appropriately, high school junior Veronica Mars (Creator/KristenBell). She lives in the unincorporated town of Neptune, California, "a town without a middle class": the "09ers," from the prestigious (and fictional) 90909 zip code, are insanely spoiled children of insanely wealthy parents, while everyone else works for the 09ers, mostly as domestics at minimum wage ([[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney if that]]). Veronica, daughter of county sheriff Keith Mars (Creator/EnricoColantoni), was more of an honorary 09er: her best friend was LovableAlphaBitch Lilly Kane (Creator/AmandaSeyfried), her boyfriend was Lilly's equally-popular brother Duncan (Creator/TeddyDunn), and she was also friendly with Lilly's boyfriend and Duncan's best friend, Logan Echolls (Creator/JasonDohring), son of movie star Aaron Echolls. The Kanes are practically royalty in Neptune; Lilly and Duncan's father, Jake Kane, is a software billionaire, and the largest employer in town; when his company went public, their ''secretaries'' became millionaires. It may just be popularity by association, but Veronica's life is pretty good.

The first two seasons were known for having a season-long StoryArc. The {{Driving Question}}s of Season One have just been covered. Season Two opens with a school bus crash that kills or injures several of Veronica's classmates, with the Marses suspecting foul play and attempting to unravel the complicated motivations behind it; additionally, Logan is implicated in the slaying of a [=PCHer=], Felix Toombs, who was found dead after an altercation which left both Logan and Weevil unconscious. Season Three, where Veronica goes to [[CaliforniaUniversity Hearst College]], deviated from the formula in an attempt to attract new viewers. The big mystery format was abandoned, in favor of two short arcs and a hand-full of stand-alone episodes. The show was canceled at the end of the season, going out on an awesome (and [[TearJerker heart-breaking]], but maddeningly inconclusive) two-part finale.

On March 13, 2013, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-mars-movie-project a Kickstarter project was launched]] to help fund a [[TheMovie concluding movie]]. The Kickstarter broke the record for [[https://twitter.com/kickstarter/status/311918388962287617 fastest to reach a million dollars]], in four hours and 24 minutes, and reached its $2 million funding goal less than 11 hours in. When the Kickstarter ended on April 12, $5,702,153 had been donated, and the [[VideoGame/BrokenAge previous record for most donations]] (87,000 people) was also broken with 91,585 fans sending in donations. As a result, Creator/WarnerBros agreed to distribute and market the film, releasing it to theatres and for download on March 14, 2014 - a year and a day after the Kickstarter launched. Additionally, six months later a WebVideo SpinOff, ''[[http://cwseed.com/shows/play-it-again-dick/ Play It Again, Dick!]]'', launched on [[Creator/TheCW CW Seed]]. It centers around Ryan Hansen's adventures in attempting to greenlight a SpinOff of the show centered around his character Dick Casablancas and involves Hansen, Bell, Dohring, and others engaging in some unabashed AdamWesting.

In August 2018, it was announced that an eight-episode revival of the series had been ordered by Creator/{{Hulu}}, with Kristen Bell and most of the original cast set to return. The long-awaited fourth season finally arrived on Hulu in July 2019, preceded by the addition of the entire series (minus the movie) that same month.

Now has an [[Recap/VeronicaMars episode guide]], a [[Characters/VeronicaMars character index]] and [[Film/VeronicaMars a page for the movie]] and [[Literature/VeronicaMars follow-up novel series]].

* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland:
** V suggests this as a way for Mac to get through prom with her goober of a date.
** Mac is excited/nervous about getting a hotel room after prom; Veronica says this jokingly to calm her down.