Witchita Linebacker

"Witchita Linebacker"

"Witchita Linebacker" is episode 3 of season 3 of the television show Veronica Mars. It had an estimated audience of 3.12 million viewers.

Plot synopsis

Veronica gets called into the Hearst Dean's office, where he demands that she reveal her source for the article she wrote last episode. Veronica refuses and the Dean threatens to expel her. Weevil returns, working at a car wash as part of his parole. He gets into an altercation with his boss there. Veronica, feeling sorry for Weevil, influences her dad to give him a job with Mars Investigations. Veronica and Logan's relationship gets a little rocky when Veronica finds out that Logan has been gambling instead of spending time with her. One of the quarterbacks at Hearst loses his playbook and hires Veronica to try to find it.

Arc significance

• The campus feminists protest the college's local humor newspaper's mocking of the "Take Back The Night" organization's protests, especially after they publish a photo mocking one of their latest demonstrations with a cut-out of one of a female protesters named Claire. When Piz, who was recently given his own show on the college's radio station, invites both sides to discuss the issue on the airwaves, one of the feminists (Fern) receives a text message that informs her that the girl in the photo had just been raped and blames the magazine writers for it happening.

Production details

• The original title of this episode was "Friday Night Sleights," until Rob Thomas informed Phil Klemmer and John Enbom that colleges do not play football on Fridays.

Feedback and ratings

• "Witchita Linebacker" had a viewership of approximately 3.12 million viewers, according to CalenderLive.com.

Quotes and trivia

• The title is a play on the Jimmy Webb song "Wichita Lineman" first recorded by Glen Campbell.

See also

• List of Veronica Mars episodes

External links

• Soulful Spike Society's Open Case.
• MI.net's Roundtable Review.
• Television Without Pity Recap.