Hot Dogs

Season 1, Episode 19, Aired
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When awkward classmate Mandy asks Veronica to help her find her missing dog, a much larger scheme is exposed as they follow the trail.''''Meanwhile, Logan's sister Trina begs her father to play a role in her new boyfriend's movie, while Logan suspects that something is wrong.
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  • Veronica help a girl locate her missing dog.

    8.8
    "Great"
    By amfarley84, Jun 08, 2011 Report Abuse
    I thought that this episode had a good storyline to it but i wish that they would have gotten a girl who was less annoying to play the girl with the missing dog. My she was annoying I just wanted to hit the TV screen everytime she appeared on it. I liked that Veronica did not believe that the girl's dog was really dead. I was happy that she was able to have the doggy nappers arrested. I was really happy to see Logan's dad defended Trina against her abusive boyfriend. I do not think Trina seen that one coming.moreless

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    By cavanagh15, Mar 10, 2008 Report Abuse
    I thought this episode was really good. The dog case kind of distracted from the larger plot at times, but I really enjoyed almost every minute of this episode. After taking an episode off we are back to the Lily Kane murder case, with a lot of gains being made in this episode. Logan and Veronica share another kiss, which again didn't feel forced at all. Sometimes I think shows put things like that in there just so that they can have something, but these kisses feel important to the overall story somehow. The fact that Veronica says that she still "hates" Logan to Leo really made me turn my head. I thought she might have been warming up to him, interesting that she says that she still hates him after the two moments that they have had together. I thought the Echolls storyline was another interesting one, with the dad having a turnaround to his character when he takes out the boyfriend - much to the liking of Logan. I didnt find the Echolls storyline too interesting the first time around when they had a couple of episodes back to back in the middle of the season, but with Logans character now calmed down toward Veronica - I can better connect with the family which is why I think I'm liking their family scenes more and more whereas before I just couldn't stand them. I think this might be the best episode of the season to this point, I really liked it. Again though - the only think keeping this show away from a perfect 10 is every episode seems to have just 1-2-3 scenes of a case that just makes something feel "not so perfect" about it. Three episodes to go - can't wait.moreless

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  • A girl's dog goes missing and Trina tries to help her boyfriend.

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    By addict666, Feb 09, 2008 Report Abuse
    The parts of this episode with Mandy are stupid, and for that reason this is probably one of my least favorite episodes of the season. The whole dog thing is meaningless, but the character of Mandy is slightly amusing, but grates on my nerves after the first half of the episode. After the drama of last episode this kind of disappoints, but I love the interactions between Logan and Veronica.
    The parts of this episode that I really like are with Trina, Aaron and Logan. They have such an interesting family dynamic and the scene where Aaron beats up Dillon is classic and show off a different side of Aaron.moreless

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    By PabloExobar, Jan 30, 2008 Report Abuse
    There was only one thing that could've been done better... Mandy... and her character. In fact, the actress did a piss poor job too. But the character was really over the top and corny. Luckily she didn't get much attention.

    The case of the episode was surprisingly good. If someone told me before the episode that Veronica's going to search for missing dogs I would've said "okay, that's going to be the worst mystery of the week". But it's not. It's actually really enjoyable because it's relatively short and unpredictable. Also, an episode can never go wrong if it focuses on the Echolls family. Lynn leaves basically her whole fortune to her son, Logan, completetly leaving out Trina and Aaron. Trina is trying to convince Aaron to take part in her boyfriend's movie. I really liked this storyline. It showed how dysfunctional the family is, but at the same that they still care for eachother.
    I think Aaron already found out that Trina's boyfriend is beating her when she was doing her makeup. The scene where Aaron beat up Dylan was so well done... it was really entertaining, I was laughing the whole time. The music was very fitting too. I loved Aaron's "Hey son, how was school?" line. There's still no word on Duncan in this episode. There's also a foggy storyline involving Weevil- he broke into the Kane house to steal a mysterious pen from Lilly's room, but he got caught. However he was let go after Veronica made a deal with Celeste that she'll help locate Duncan if Weevil's set free. Now... what's up with Weevil? What's up with the pen? Hmm...moreless

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  • in this episode some girls dog gets kidnapped and veronica then goes of on the case

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    By iloveangel1860, Mar 11, 2007 Report Abuse
    The main plot of this episode was so-so, geeky girl, lost dog and all that. It was pretty humorous though. The best parts of this episode were between veronica and logan. My absolute favorite part is when Logan and his father beat up Trina's boyfriend. It shows the complete psychoness of Logan's father and it was nice to see the two of them doing something together. And the way he acts so normal after he did it was excellent forboding of his eventual crime. This episode was a nice transition to the last episodes which were all super action packedmoreless

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    • Two of the kidnapped dogs, Shakes and Lola, are Kristen Bell's real-life dogs. Edit
    • In the scene where Mandy's dog goes missing, you can clearly see her reading, Forever by Judy Blume. Edit
    • In the first scene with Aaron, Trina and Logan, you can see that Aaron is reading, "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse. Edit

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    • (after Veronica and Logan just kissed) Veronica: What are we doing? Logan: No idea. (they kiss again before breaking it) Veronica: We need to talk about this. Logan: I know. I kn-- Veronica: Maybe we should just keep it to ourselves for a while and see what happens. Logan: Meet in mop closets? Pass each other secret notes in the hallway? Edit
    • Weevil: How many get-out-of-jail-free cards do you have up your sleeve, anyway? Veronica: Pretty sure that was my last, so you might keep your felonies to a bare minimum. Weevil: I am what I am, V. Leopard's spots, you know what they say. Edit
    • Trina: You've made it clear that you have no interest in my problems, Logan. Don't be wishy-washy. It's so unattractive in a guy. Edit

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    • Weevil: I am what I am, Vee. Leopard, spots, you know what they say. Jeremiah 13:23: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil"? Whilst nobody in this day and age would allege that Ethiopians are evil, nevertheless the adage holds true for leopards and, according to Weevil, to PCH bikers — their innate nature is unchangeable. Edit
    • Logan: Meet in mop closets? Pass each other secret notes in the hallway? The characters played by Adrian Grenier and Ali Larter meet in a mop closet in high school in the 1999 film flop Drive Me Crazy. A film that just happened to be penned by a screenwriter called Rob Thomas. Edit
    • Weevil: Yeah. How many get-out-of-jail-free cards do you have up your sleeve, anyway? Monopoly has a long and storied history as the most popular board game of all time, involving progressing around a board, buying property, and building upon it, but all you really need to know is this — as you make your way around the board, you may occasionally land in jail during which time you languish, unable to make money. It can be something of an effort to get out, thus it is very useful to have a get-out-of-jail-free card. Edit

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