The ‘Veronica Mars’ Episode That Got Us Hooked

The Prestige TV Podcast

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.2 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Hooked continues! This time, Jo and Rob take us back to 2005 to make the case for Kristen Bell’s star-making series, ‘Veronica Mars’. 00:00 Intro 05:14 Rob’s elevator pitch 08:45 The Episode: ‘Mars v. Mars’ 17:57 Guest/recurring stars 24:42 Episode MVP 26:20 A scene that embodies the show 37:25 How this episode sets up the series 40:16 The pilot episode 50:43 **SPOILERS** Email us! prestigetv@spotify.com Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of ‘The Prestige TV Podcast’ and so much more! Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney Producers: Kai Grady and Donnie Beacham Jr. Video supervision: Chris Thomas Additional Production Support: Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.6	I'm Joanna Robinson.
0:46.6	I'm Rob Mahoney.
0:47.6	We're here with another installment of Hooked, our end of summer, early fall, little mini series that we have decided to do about
0:56.8	some of our favorite seasons of television. Today we're talking about Veronica Mars. Have you heard of it?
1:03.7	Have you heard of it? Listen, we did some huge massive ringer core shows in Breaking Bad and Mad Men,
1:10.0	and then it was like two for y'all, one for us.
1:13.0	This is a very Joe and Rob coded show.
1:15.5	So that is why we're here to talk about Veronica bars.
1:17.6	Step very carefully, because this is a big show to a certain subset of people,
1:22.1	which includes us, Joe.
1:23.0	Like, this is as big as it gets,
1:25.3	certainly for teenage Rob and really just for Rob in general.
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