History Recap / VeronicaMarsS01E10AnEchollsFamilyChristmas

A little later, on the set of an action movie, Connor, dressed as a commando, gets out of a helicopter and pretends to shoot. In a voice over, Veronica gushes again at how [[{{Bishonen}} hot she thinks Connor is]]. Connor asks if Veronica's there because she wants to be an actress, but she clarifies she's just a fan, and asks about the poker game. He tells her he feels bad about Weevil being cheated out of the money, and mentions there was one person who left the house with money...

...which leads to another flashback. Weevil asks Connor what Creator/CatherineZetaJones was like, which leads Sean to snark about what he heard about her on "The Insider". Connor admits he only met her in passing, and Logan snarks about how its not like "you people", and that movie stars don't all know each other. Weevil takes it well enough, but Connor gets offended by the racist comments Logan has been making all night, and Logan snarks about how he should get off his soapbox. Connor then tells the story of how Logan had a crush on Rosie Perez when he was ten, so Aaron arranged for her to come to his birthday party as a surprise - except Perez thought he was a girl named Lauren, and got him a purse. Everyone laughs at that except Logan, of course, and Connor once again goes to the bathroom after his cell phone alarm goes off.

* NobodyPoops: Averted with Connor, though Logan initially thought this was a cover for something else.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Logan accuses Connor of this at one point.

** {{Foreshadowing}}: This proves Logan didn't rape Veronica.

** Logan's throwaway line of "Veronica: V as in Virgin" hints that he's not her rapist.

At Monica's house, she's being fitted for a dress, and she tells Keith how attractive she finds Aaron. She tells Keith he should talk to "Deborah" (another woman Aaron slept with at the party), because she's always flirting with Aaron. Harvey (Paul Ganus), Monica's husband and Aaron's agent, walks in, and Monica tells him why Keith is there; Harvey sighs he wishes Aaron wasn't always the topic of conversation.

...while Duncan, inside Logan's pool house/game room, is drunkenly singing the same song, carrying around a bottle of Jack Daniels, until Logan takes the bottle away from him and tells him to stop singing. The two of them are playing Texas Hold 'Em with Weevil, Sean Friedrich (Kevin Sheridan), another 09er kid, and Connor Larkin (Travis Schuldt), a movie star who works with Aaron Echolls. Logan and Weevil snark at each other as they bet. Duncan notices Sean is drinking cheap beer, and Sean snarks at how it's his new [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy "ghetto" aesthetic]]. Logan turns over one of the cards and when he sees his and Weevil's hands, Logan [[TemptingFate acts as if the second card he turns over will guarantee him a win]]. Except when Logan turns it over, it's not any of the cards he needs, which means Weevil wins the hand. Weevil smugly asks for his five grand, and Logan asks Sean for the money box. Except there's no money inside. Weevil is pissed, and Logan is dumbfounded, as is everyone else. Weevil says he's not leaving without the money, and threatens to turn the others upside down to get it...

Later, at Mars Investigations, Keith tells Aaron about how he knows what happened at the Halloween party. Aaron says he loves Lynn, but doesn't deny what happened. Keith assures Aaron he's not going to tell Lynn because that's not what he was hired to do, but pulls out a list of people at the party and asks Aaron to circle the names of everyone he slept with. As Aaron starts circling several names, Keith clarifies that he meant whom he slept with at the party. Aaron mentions Monica (Emmanuelle Vaugier), the wife of his agent (in a brief flashback, we see the two of them sleeping together and the server (Alexandra Fatovich) walking in on them), but says Monica isn't a stalker. Keith asks if he could point Monica out in a picture.

This episode contains examples of:

* TheMagicPokerEquation: At once subverted and played straight in "An Echolls Family Christmas", a first-season episode. In TheTeaser, a Texas Hold'Em game is down to a climactic final hand. Logan's hand could go well any number of ways with the cards on the table, though he still technically has nothing, with only the river remaining. When it comes time to reveal hands, Weevil's hand...isn't so impressive. As Logan notes, given the number of cards left in the deck, he can win with over thirty of them. And as the river is played, Weevil beats him with a ''pair of twos''.