Drinking the Kool-Aid
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For the expression associated with embracing a cult's beliefs, see Kool-Aid#"Drinking the Kool-Aid".
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| Veronica Mars episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 9 |
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| Written by | Russell Smith (teleplay) Rob Thomas (story) |
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| Directed by | Marcos Siega | ||||||
| Guest stars | Jonathan Bennett (Casey Gant) Amy Laughlin (Holly Mills) Chris William Martin (Josh) Megalyn Echikunwoke (Debbie Meyer) Albie Selznick (Bill Gant) Christopher B. Duncan (Clarence Wiedman) |
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| Production no. | 2T5708 | ||||||
| Original airdate | November 30, 2004 | ||||||
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"Drinking the Kool-Aid" is episode 9 of season 1 of the television show Veronica Mars. The histoic and cultural significance of the phrase is derived from the mass suicide of Jim Jones' followers by their drinking Flavor Aid mixed with cyanide.
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[edit] Plot
Veronica simultaneously investigates Clarence Wiedman, the head of Kane Security, who took pictures of her and sent them to her mother and the Moon Calf Collective, a peace loving cult which '09er Casey joined.
[edit] Arc significance
- Clarence Wiedman, head of Kane Security, took the pictures of her.
- Veronica does a DNA test to find if Keith is actually her biological father, but she shreds the results without looking at them.
[edit] Music
- "Make a Deal with the City" - East River Pipe
- "(You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back" - Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger
- "Have a Nice Day" - Stereophonics
- "Famous Lover" - The Fire Marshals of Bethlehem
[edit] Quotes and trivia
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Veronica: [to Keith] What is your deal? You're jacked up like some hillbilly kid who just stumbled into daddy's meth lab.
- [Veronica muses about going undercover as an Emo girl.]
- Veronica: The attributes and style of crap teen poetry. Must be written in a funky color of ink. Must include dominant themes of alienation, sexual ambivalence, self-loathing, death, et cetera.
- [Veronica gets hugged by the leader of the Moon Calf Collective.]
- Veronica: [voiceover] I knew I should have included a few discreet lesbian overtones in that poem.
- Veronica: [voiceover] Do not roll your eyes, Veronica, you're undercover.
- Josh: You gotta open up, let other people inside.
- Veronica: [voiceover] Let other people inside.... Got anyone in particular in mind?
- [Keith is upset about Veronica disobeying his request that she stay away from the collective.]
- Keith: What the hell were you thinking! That’s got to be the worst decision I’ve ever seen by someone who wasn’t literally brain damaged.
- Wallace: You better recognise.
- Veronica: Thank you for being my own personal Springer audience. Should I check myself before I wreck myself?
- The title Drinking the Kool-Aid is a reference to the idiom Drinking the Kool-Aid an expression closely associated with embracing the beliefs of a cult.
