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Who's up for some Piz time? I hope you are, cuz this spam took me forever.
DEBASEMENT TAPES! Debasement Tapes is one of my all-time favourite Veronica Mars episodes. Dude, it's Paul Rudd and Piz is in more scenes than in any other episode! You just have to get through Un-American Graffiti first. All my caps are from Chris Lowell Online and VM-Caps.com, except for two which I made myself. Enjoy!
3.16 'Un-American Graffiti'
AKA Piz Goes All In
In order to make up for not having him in SIX EPISODES IN A ROW (because Rob Thomas is a whore), Piz comes in this week playing with a football in those big old hands of his and wearing a nice white t-shirt that really shows off his shoulder. Veronica comes in search of wingmen for Parker's birthday party
and Wallace says he's in, but he thinks Piz has to...but no, Piz is in, and if it's boring maybe they can come back to the room and they can...aand Veronica's gone. Poor Piz.
Wallace thought Piz had to see Yo Yo Taco (Yo La Tengo in indie rock speak), but apparently this sound like more fun.
Wallace informs Piz that he's like those guys at casinos who stand behind the poker players and pretend they're playing - sometimes you gotta go all in
but Piz doesn't know what that means.
It means they're going out tonight! With theirplot points fake IDs! They see a pretty girl playing pool and Wallace goes to make a move but Piz heads him off
and gets her hooked with possibly the best pickup line ever:
'I got 20 bucks that says you can kick my ass and make me like it.'
She likes a confident man. I decide that if a man ever says that to me I will marry him.
Well, if he looks like Piz, anyway.
Unfortunately, the bar is raided by Neptune's finest, as the legal drinking age in American is astonishingly stupid (you can vote THREE YEARS before you can DRINK? Thank you, prohibition) and Keith Mars is dedicated to the law. Keith talks to Wallace and Piz is just back there hoping nobody recognises him...
but Keith not only recognises him, he is (I believe) the first person other than Wallace and Piz in Piz's first scene to call him Stosh. He asks for theplot points fake IDs
and recognises his pride and joy's advanced handiwork.
He's so impressed, he hangs them on the refrigerator like any proud father.
Later, Keith visits Piz and Wallace at their artfully decorated dorm room door (AWESOME!)
where Piz greets him with trepidation.
When Keith says he wants to go out for a beer with the boys he thinks it's a trick question
but the boys discover that Keith wants to test out a couple of fake IDs for the boys - everybody, I'd like you to meet Jon Bon Jovi and Biggie Smalls.
The boys go out and get their non-alcoholic drink on. Piz is Not Happy.
Keith's man looks right at our Bon Jovi and Smalls and ignores them, so the boys get their tattletale on. At least they're off the hook with Keith, though. That man is scary when he's riled.
PAAARTAY! Veronica gets on the boys' back about ditching on their plans
and discovers the reason when Hottie Pool Player comes over with their drinks. Piz is properly ashamed.
Logan gathers everybody to show off the ridiculously sugary (not literally) cake he had made for Parker
and, just because he loves me that much, Piz holds his cup in his mouth in order to leave his huge hands free to applaud. (I just spent half an hour getting this cap for you guys. I expect to see comments.)
Piz returns to attempting to chat up his date by referring to his mad DJ/interviewer skillz
and gets a little bemused and thoughtful when she wants him to dedicate a segment of his talk show to her
but not quite so bemused as when Veronica come up acting like he's her boyfriend.
OMG!
WTF?
It's to get another guy off her back, of course, so Piz plays along
(which is not in any way so he cancop a feel enjoy the perks of lots of Veronica affection.)
Taking the whole fake-boyfriend thing a bit too far, he looks at her like this and calls her his 'sugar' which, combined with Wallace's 'HURT MY HOMEBOY AND I CUT YOU' speech, tips Veronica off that maybe this wasn't the best idea
so she drags him outside for a private chat, while he wonders what he's done wrong this time.
She starts in on the 'letting him down easy' speech
but he cuts her off with a full-on Veronica Mars swoopy swirly camera kiss *cough*TheCamelot*cough*
which is in no way reminiscent of anything else that's happened on the show ever *cough*onthebalcony*cough*
and then lets her know that he gets it. Just friends.
Right.
He re-enters the party looking like he's won the lottery
and when Wallace asks him what happened, his response? 'I went all in.'
Of course, after a swoopy swirly camera kiss, Veronica couldn't possibly let Piz have his dramatic exit
but he doesn't know how the night could get any better than that.
Veronica does, though.
It wouldn't be Veronica Mars without Logan stumbling across this little hallway spectacle
and we leave our heroes with that deer-in-the-headlights expression that says trouble's on the way.
Debasement Tapes
AKA Piz FanboysPaul Rudd Desmond Fellows
We start the episode with a My Pretty Pony-off
which obviously makes sense to Piz and his Very Expressive Hands and his awesome music knowledge
because he wins his first point
and isn't particularly modest about it.
Then he steals the final point from his opponent
and tells him to talk to the hand, cuz the Piz ain't listening.
Victory is sweet in Piz-land.
He reveals to Veronica Desmond Fellows, lead singer of extremely-popular-in-high-school band My Pretty Pony, is coming to town to save the radio station, and does this completely adorable thing where he's like 'guess who gets to be his guide when he's in town?'
and then mouths 'me' and points to himself just before Veronica goes 'uh, I'm guessing you?' It works better in action, but omg, so cute.
Uh, anyway, He asks her to go to the benefit concert, you know, as friends
but it's apparent that things are awkward between them after the kissing. :(
That's okay, though, because OMG IT'SPAUL RUDD DESMOND FELLOWS!
He lives with himself scrounging a living off his dead ex-partner by drinking heavily and abusing drugs.
Piz disapproves, and so pulls out the Disapproving Mom Stance.
Piz is surprised to see that 'all the amenities' includes a girl in her underwear in Desmond's room
and disturbed to find thatPaul Rudd Desmond Fellows is calling off the show because his bag with the backing tapes has been switched somewhere along the way for one with a blue bathrobe. Mystery is afoot! Who you gonna call?
This has ALL HAPPENED before the credits. I was supposed to be in bed an hour and a half ago. *sigh* Moving on!
Veronica! She's all 'sorry about the awkward post-kiss, but we should be friends, no hard feelings' as soon as he picks up the phone and he's like '...dude. Mystery.'
We get a gorgeous profile shot as the elevator doors open to reveal Piz standing outsidePaul Rudd Desmond Fellows's room
and the second Disapproving Mom Stance of the episode as Desmond wastes no time in hitting on Veronica.
Never one to be swayed from a mystery, Veronica gets straight down to business.Paul Rudd Desmond Fellows thinks he's figured out that it was the girl in his room, who he pretty much dissed
and when he's impressed at Veronica's mad detectivising skillz Piz can't hide his little 'omg my girl is so smart' smirk.
So then we get to the interview part of the show, brought to you by Extra gum
(Desmond: The leftover gum?
Piz: No, the...brand. Extra. Sugar free.)
and it starts out fine, with a girl calling in worshipingPaul Rudd Desmond Fellows
from the cafeteria, where Desmond tells her to take her top off.
Amazingly, it only goes downhill from there, with people calling in to tell Desmond he sucks
and Desmond telling Nazi jokes (you're a Jewish group and your initials are SS?)
(Cancel the show? Nazi gonna happen!)
and then revealing that the show's off and accepting a party invitation.
Piz's boss, The Reaper, is surprised to hear that the show's been cancelled, but Piz is totally in control
...though not so much in control ofPaul Rudd Desmond Fellows. His Disapproving Mom Stance doesn't appear to be working.
He tries it out on a couple of people who might be able to help them find Room Girl, though
and to everyone's surprise, it works like magic and Room Girl appears!
Veronica gets detectivising on her ass
and Piz somehow continues to be surprised at what Veronica will do to catch the bad guy. Poor, sweet Piz.
She still makes him laugh, though
and has the ability to spot clues while wondering down the campus paths. Piz is impressed.
He's far less impressed when he gets back toPaul Rudd Desmond Fellows's room and still doesn't have the tapes.
Desmond makes up a song about finding the tapes on the spot that cheers Piz right up ('We'll find the tapes and get them back, do the show, I'm a ha-a-a-a-ck!)
and Piz encourages Desmond to work on some new material instead of going out to the party.
He's got his guitar in his room, it's really close, he'll be back before you know it.
AllPaul Rudd Desmond Fellows has to do is stay put.
Yeah, right. Unfortunately Desmond sees a clip of My Pretty Pony in their heyday withOMG ROB THOMAS! his partner and their long, smexy hair and flees
leaving Piz to return to an empty room. Poor Piz.
He knows where Desmond's gone, of course, and heads to the party
only to be told that it's SKINNY DIPPING time!
Desmond lets Piz know he's grateful and he loves him by THROWING CLOTHES AT HIM (I kid you not).
Piz is less than thrilled
and then, when the cops show up (how great is this cap?)
less than surprised.
He is pained when he rocks up to the sheriff's office to bail Desmond out and discovers him arguing with Keith over the value of The Beatles when he knows he's just winding Keith up.
He goes clue hunting with Veronica again, this time going after the Jewish SS group and acting as lookout while Veronica weeds out the clues. Veronica comes up empty-handed
but Piz spots a clue all on his own!
Veronica puts the hard word on their suspect
who says some things that make you go hmm, but turns out not to be the guy, because of the robe colour. IDK. I'm tired and should've been asleep two hours ago.
Return to the Neptune Grand, room ofPaul Rudd Desmond Fellows
where Veronica inspects the bag again. Piz assures her he's already checked it out
but just doesn't have Veronica's mad detectivising skillz, and failed to notice a clue.
Veronica and Piz rock up at the home of the Most Random Guest Star Ever, who's very hungover and swaps the bags back
then head back to the benefit together.
Piz (adorably, hiding behind his hand) muses on how it's a good thing that things aren't uncomfortable (he's very uncomfortable, it's just good that he's not MORE uncomfortable)
and discovers that the bag also contains some of Desmond's awesome new stuff. He comes up with a Plan, again all on his own. We're all very proud.
Including Veronica, who makes his face light up while he stands next to an extra with possibly the most unfortunate acne ever
just by holding hands with him. (Cutest thing ever.) 'Piznarski, you're a good guy.'
Piz got the girl, exposed the world to great new music, and madePaul Rudd Desmond Fellows proud enough to remember his name. All is right with the world.
I cannot think of a better way to end this Piz spam than with his review of Säkert! Säkert! No, seriously.
Green Queen
DEBASEMENT TAPES! Debasement Tapes is one of my all-time favourite Veronica Mars episodes. Dude, it's Paul Rudd and Piz is in more scenes than in any other episode! You just have to get through Un-American Graffiti first. All my caps are from Chris Lowell Online and VM-Caps.com, except for two which I made myself. Enjoy!
3.16 'Un-American Graffiti'
AKA Piz Goes All In
In order to make up for not having him in SIX EPISODES IN A ROW (because Rob Thomas is a whore), Piz comes in this week playing with a football in those big old hands of his and wearing a nice white t-shirt that really shows off his shoulder. Veronica comes in search of wingmen for Parker's birthday party
and Wallace says he's in, but he thinks Piz has to...but no, Piz is in, and if it's boring maybe they can come back to the room and they can...aand Veronica's gone. Poor Piz.
Wallace thought Piz had to see Yo Yo Taco (Yo La Tengo in indie rock speak), but apparently this sound like more fun.
Wallace informs Piz that he's like those guys at casinos who stand behind the poker players and pretend they're playing - sometimes you gotta go all in
but Piz doesn't know what that means.
It means they're going out tonight! With their
and gets her hooked with possibly the best pickup line ever:
'I got 20 bucks that says you can kick my ass and make me like it.'
She likes a confident man. I decide that if a man ever says that to me I will marry him.
Well, if he looks like Piz, anyway.
Unfortunately, the bar is raided by Neptune's finest, as the legal drinking age in American is astonishingly stupid (you can vote THREE YEARS before you can DRINK? Thank you, prohibition) and Keith Mars is dedicated to the law. Keith talks to Wallace and Piz is just back there hoping nobody recognises him...
but Keith not only recognises him, he is (I believe) the first person other than Wallace and Piz in Piz's first scene to call him Stosh. He asks for the
and recognises his pride and joy's advanced handiwork.
He's so impressed, he hangs them on the refrigerator like any proud father.
Later, Keith visits Piz and Wallace at their artfully decorated dorm room door (AWESOME!)
where Piz greets him with trepidation.
When Keith says he wants to go out for a beer with the boys he thinks it's a trick question
but the boys discover that Keith wants to test out a couple of fake IDs for the boys - everybody, I'd like you to meet Jon Bon Jovi and Biggie Smalls.
The boys go out and get their non-alcoholic drink on. Piz is Not Happy.
Keith's man looks right at our Bon Jovi and Smalls and ignores them, so the boys get their tattletale on. At least they're off the hook with Keith, though. That man is scary when he's riled.
PAAARTAY! Veronica gets on the boys' back about ditching on their plans
and discovers the reason when Hottie Pool Player comes over with their drinks. Piz is properly ashamed.
Logan gathers everybody to show off the ridiculously sugary (not literally) cake he had made for Parker
and, just because he loves me that much, Piz holds his cup in his mouth in order to leave his huge hands free to applaud. (I just spent half an hour getting this cap for you guys. I expect to see comments.)
Piz returns to attempting to chat up his date by referring to his mad DJ/interviewer skillz
and gets a little bemused and thoughtful when she wants him to dedicate a segment of his talk show to her
but not quite so bemused as when Veronica come up acting like he's her boyfriend.
OMG!
WTF?
It's to get another guy off her back, of course, so Piz plays along
(which is not in any way so he can
Taking the whole fake-boyfriend thing a bit too far, he looks at her like this and calls her his 'sugar' which, combined with Wallace's 'HURT MY HOMEBOY AND I CUT YOU' speech, tips Veronica off that maybe this wasn't the best idea
so she drags him outside for a private chat, while he wonders what he's done wrong this time.
She starts in on the 'letting him down easy' speech
but he cuts her off with a full-on Veronica Mars swoopy swirly camera kiss *cough*TheCamelot*cough*
which is in no way reminiscent of anything else that's happened on the show ever *cough*onthebalcony*cough*
and then lets her know that he gets it. Just friends.
Right.
He re-enters the party looking like he's won the lottery
and when Wallace asks him what happened, his response? 'I went all in.'
Of course, after a swoopy swirly camera kiss, Veronica couldn't possibly let Piz have his dramatic exit
but he doesn't know how the night could get any better than that.
Veronica does, though.
It wouldn't be Veronica Mars without Logan stumbling across this little hallway spectacle
and we leave our heroes with that deer-in-the-headlights expression that says trouble's on the way.
Debasement Tapes
AKA Piz Fanboys
We start the episode with a My Pretty Pony-off
which obviously makes sense to Piz and his Very Expressive Hands and his awesome music knowledge
because he wins his first point
and isn't particularly modest about it.
Then he steals the final point from his opponent
and tells him to talk to the hand, cuz the Piz ain't listening.
Victory is sweet in Piz-land.
He reveals to Veronica Desmond Fellows, lead singer of extremely-popular-in-high-school band My Pretty Pony, is coming to town to save the radio station, and does this completely adorable thing where he's like 'guess who gets to be his guide when he's in town?'
and then mouths 'me' and points to himself just before Veronica goes 'uh, I'm guessing you?' It works better in action, but omg, so cute.
Uh, anyway, He asks her to go to the benefit concert, you know, as friends
but it's apparent that things are awkward between them after the kissing. :(
That's okay, though, because OMG IT'S
He lives with himself scrounging a living off his dead ex-partner by drinking heavily and abusing drugs.
Piz disapproves, and so pulls out the Disapproving Mom Stance.
Piz is surprised to see that 'all the amenities' includes a girl in her underwear in Desmond's room
and disturbed to find that
This has ALL HAPPENED before the credits. I was supposed to be in bed an hour and a half ago. *sigh* Moving on!
Veronica! She's all 'sorry about the awkward post-kiss, but we should be friends, no hard feelings' as soon as he picks up the phone and he's like '...dude. Mystery.'
We get a gorgeous profile shot as the elevator doors open to reveal Piz standing outside
and the second Disapproving Mom Stance of the episode as Desmond wastes no time in hitting on Veronica.
Never one to be swayed from a mystery, Veronica gets straight down to business.
and when he's impressed at Veronica's mad detectivising skillz Piz can't hide his little 'omg my girl is so smart' smirk.
So then we get to the interview part of the show, brought to you by Extra gum
(Desmond: The leftover gum?
Piz: No, the...brand. Extra. Sugar free.)
and it starts out fine, with a girl calling in worshiping
from the cafeteria, where Desmond tells her to take her top off.
Amazingly, it only goes downhill from there, with people calling in to tell Desmond he sucks
and Desmond telling Nazi jokes (you're a Jewish group and your initials are SS?)
(Cancel the show? Nazi gonna happen!)
and then revealing that the show's off and accepting a party invitation.
Piz's boss, The Reaper, is surprised to hear that the show's been cancelled, but Piz is totally in control
...though not so much in control of
He tries it out on a couple of people who might be able to help them find Room Girl, though
and to everyone's surprise, it works like magic and Room Girl appears!
Veronica gets detectivising on her ass
and Piz somehow continues to be surprised at what Veronica will do to catch the bad guy. Poor, sweet Piz.
She still makes him laugh, though
and has the ability to spot clues while wondering down the campus paths. Piz is impressed.
He's far less impressed when he gets back to
Desmond makes up a song about finding the tapes on the spot that cheers Piz right up ('We'll find the tapes and get them back, do the show, I'm a ha-a-a-a-ck!)
and Piz encourages Desmond to work on some new material instead of going out to the party.
He's got his guitar in his room, it's really close, he'll be back before you know it.
All
Yeah, right. Unfortunately Desmond sees a clip of My Pretty Pony in their heyday with
leaving Piz to return to an empty room. Poor Piz.
He knows where Desmond's gone, of course, and heads to the party
only to be told that it's SKINNY DIPPING time!
Desmond lets Piz know he's grateful and he loves him by THROWING CLOTHES AT HIM (I kid you not).
Piz is less than thrilled
and then, when the cops show up (how great is this cap?)
less than surprised.
He is pained when he rocks up to the sheriff's office to bail Desmond out and discovers him arguing with Keith over the value of The Beatles when he knows he's just winding Keith up.
He goes clue hunting with Veronica again, this time going after the Jewish SS group and acting as lookout while Veronica weeds out the clues. Veronica comes up empty-handed
but Piz spots a clue all on his own!
Veronica puts the hard word on their suspect
who says some things that make you go hmm, but turns out not to be the guy, because of the robe colour. IDK. I'm tired and should've been asleep two hours ago.
Return to the Neptune Grand, room of
where Veronica inspects the bag again. Piz assures her he's already checked it out
but just doesn't have Veronica's mad detectivising skillz, and failed to notice a clue.
Veronica and Piz rock up at the home of the Most Random Guest Star Ever, who's very hungover and swaps the bags back
then head back to the benefit together.
Piz (adorably, hiding behind his hand) muses on how it's a good thing that things aren't uncomfortable (he's very uncomfortable, it's just good that he's not MORE uncomfortable)
and discovers that the bag also contains some of Desmond's awesome new stuff. He comes up with a Plan, again all on his own. We're all very proud.
Including Veronica, who makes his face light up while he stands next to an extra with possibly the most unfortunate acne ever
just by holding hands with him. (Cutest thing ever.) 'Piznarski, you're a good guy.'
Piz got the girl, exposed the world to great new music, and made
I cannot think of a better way to end this Piz spam than with his review of Säkert! Säkert! No, seriously.
Green Queen
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Piz + Paul Rudd = GREATNESS! :D
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Also, holding the cup in his mouth while clapping!!! I love, love that cap. And the smile that just kills me every time.
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lol.
Because of your picspam yesterday I used the word "detectivising" today. Thought I'd let you know. And also because of you (Im blaming a lot of stuff on you today...) I was thinking about people holding stuff in their mouth as I walked around with a pen in mine. There is something about it...hmm. Good cap though :D
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its soo cute!!
thanks again for posting this!!
I have enjoyed reading and saving all the pictures :]
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passed outsleeping is AMAZING.You're my favourite.
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YOU HAVE BEEN DISAPPROVING MOM STANCED. WATCH VERONICA MARS!
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And most of the episode with Paul Rudd!!!
So I ought to watch it from the start?!!
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he looks at her like this and calls her his 'sugar' which, combined with Wallace's 'HURT MY HOMEBOY AND I CUT YOU' speech, tips Veronica off that maybe this wasn't the best idea
Hee! I absolutely adore how protective Wallace is of Piz. These picspams are increasingly making the fact that people actually hate Piz more and more of a mystery to me.
And, um, don't ask me how I discovered this, but if 3.16 is still on your computer and you have the opportunity to look at it again, skip to 33:38 minutes and watch/listen to Wallace and Piz very closely. I found it helped that I was wearing earphones when I noticed it. It's so minor and in the background but so so cute! From what I've seen here you might enjoy it too?
Anyway, yeah. Thanks again for sharing, these are so fun :)
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I'm so glad you liked the spam :)
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...and maybe I really need to work on getting a life. Heh.
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(The new spam is up, FYI.)
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I rewatched the Paul Rudd episode just yeserday. One of my favorite S3 episodes by far!!!
Anyways, this was awesome, I loved it! Thanks for doign these!!!
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The Paul Rudd ep is one of my all-time favourite Veronica Mars episodes. But then I don't hate season 3 like everyone else.
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I've enjoyed it, but I also find that once I really fall for a show I can in now way be really objective about it and find fault in it to the point of hating it. It's like I don't want to be disloyal or something ridiculous like that!