A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

• After 1½ seasons about daddies, we get an episode about mothers!
• Veronica investigates whether her own mom, Lianne, was the high school mean girl.
• She also investigates whether, 25 years ago, mean girl for life Celeste Kane gave birth on prom night and dumped the baby in the school bathroom.
• And all this leads to Trina Echolls, Logan’s adopted sister, discovering who her biological mom is.
• Veronica herself has to practice being a mother, as a school assignment forces her to take care of a robot baby…
• But brewing up a real, actual, non-robot baby is...Meg!??! And she’s waking from her coma???!!!!!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 9: My Mother, the Fiend, and probe such mysteries as whether schools really make students look after robot babies, why Kendall would go for car gears as a Duncan-seduction gambit, what the what is going on with the alternate ending to this episode, and why you’d keep dead fauna in the freezer.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/2-09.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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