Like a Virgin (Veronica Mars)

Infobox Television episode


Caption = Meg and Veronica in the locker room.
Title = Like a Virgin
Series = Veronica Mars
Season = 1
Episode = 8
Airdate = November 23, 2004
Production = 2T5707
Writer = Aury Wallington
Director = Guy Norman Bee
Guests = Daran Norris
(Cliff McCormack)
Alona Tal
(Meg Manning)
Tina Majorino
(Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie)
Anastasia Baranova
(Lizzie Manning)
Joel Bissonnette
(Jeremy Masterson)
Erica Gimpel
(Alicia Fennel)
Christian Clemenson
(Abel Koontz)
Daniel Bess
(Cole)
Episode list = List of Veronica Mars episodes
Prev = The Girl Next Door
Next = Drinking the Kool-Aid

"Like a Virgin" is episode 8 of season 1 of the television show "Veronica Mars". The title is a reference to Madonna's "Like a Virgin."

Plot

A purity test is being passed around the '09ers and it negatively impacts both Meg Manning, Veronica's last '09er friend, and Veronica herself. She recruits Mac, a computer genius, to figure out who's making fake purity tests.

Arc significance

* Abel Koontz tells Veronica that Jake Kane is probably her biological father.
* The recurring characters Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie and Meg Manning are introduced.

Music

* "Hands on the Money" - Kid Symphony
* "Don't Let It Get You Down" - Spoon

Quotes

:" [Veronica asks lawyer Cliff about visiting Abel Koontz.] ":Cliff: You crazy kids! The stuff you're into. Hula hoops, cramming into phone booths, visiting death-row inmates… what's it gonna be next month?

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:" [Veronica reads the results of Wallace's "purity" test.] ":Veronica: Wow. You are thirty percent danger-loving, girl-touching rock star!

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:Wallace: Why are you holding your hands like that?:Veronica: So that one day in your memoirs, you'll describe me as "inscrutable".

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:Wallace: I just about murc'd my mom’s crazy no rent-paying tenant this afternoon.

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:Alicia: The fact that you helped me… even though I was awful to you, you’re a very decent man.:Keith: I’d like to think that. But really I just like tossing people out, it's kinda a hobby.:Alicia: I dunno if you’ve heard some of the things they say about you.:Keith: Oh, I know, trust me, they barely let me socialize with myself, I’m a bad influence.

External links

* MI.net's [http://www.marsinvestigations.net/episodes/108/like_a_virgin/roundtable Roundtable Review] .
* Soulful Spike Society's [http://www.soulfulspike.com/vmars/VMep8.htm Open Case] .
* Television Without Pity [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a2293/ Recap] .