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. as Josh Barry. as Coach Tom Barry. as Mrs. Kathleen Barry.

as Mason. as Professor Hank Landry. as Mindy O'Dell.

as Vinnie Van Lowe. Michael Mitchell as Bronson Pope.

as Cliff McCormack. as Steve BotandoEpisode chronology← Previous'Next →' Mars, Bars' is the fourteenth episode of the of the American television series, and the fifty-eighth episode overall.

Directed by, with a story by, John Enbom, and Joe Voci and a teleplay by Klemmer and Enbom, the episode premiered on on February 20, 2007. The series depicts the adventures of as she deals with life as a college student while moonlighting as a.The episode is the second of two to deal directly with the death of Hearst's basketball coach, Tom Barry. In this installment, Veronica and search for Tom's missing son Josh while investigating a variety of alternate suspects.

In addition, they continue to question Mindy O'Dell and Hank Landry with regards to the death of Dean Cyrus O'Dell. Meanwhile, Logan , , , and Bronson (Michael Mitchell) attend a for.' Mars, Bars' marks the final appearance of series, the actor of Sheriff Lamb, after the death of his character.

Muhney was not informed of his character's death until the filming of the episode; he was surprised and saddened at the decision. Spoilers about the scene were not leaked prior to the episode, something about which Muhney was happy. In addition, Mac was initially scheduled to be taken advantage of by a professor in this episode, but a romantic relationship with Bronson was chosen instead. The episode garnered 2.27 million viewers and positive reviews from television critics, with many praising Muhney's performance and viewing it as a return to form for the show, while some were more critical of Logan's subplot. Contents.Plot synopsis At the end of the previous episode, Veronica is arrested by on the suspicion that she helped the now-missing Josh Barry to escape from prison.

This episode opens with Lamb questioning her and learning little, as she had nothing to do with his disappearance.Keith, Veronica's father and owner of Mars Investigations, their detective firm, visits Veronica in jail. Cliff McCormack , a local, also arrives, and tells Veronica that she has been all but cleared, but Sheriff Lamb will keep her in custody for as long as he can because he still believes she was involved in Josh's disappearance. Keith returns to Mars Investigations, where Hank Landry arrives and says that he found a bugging device in his phone. Landry had been implicated in the ongoing investigation into the death of Cyrus O’Dell, dean of Hearst College where Veronica is a student. Keith denies that he or Veronica placed the device in his phone, but Hank becomes angry, telling him to stop investigating him.Keith brings his findings on the death of Cyrus to Sheriff Lamb and provides an alternate explanation; that the Dean had discovered his wife was having an affair. Lamb agrees with him that it was a murder.

Lamb calls Mindy O'Dell, the dean's wife and a main suspect, to his office. Logan, Veronica's on-again, off-again boyfriend, visits Veronica in her cell and they are civil to each other.

After being released from jail, Veronica is stopped on the street by Josh, who has Mason in the trunk of his car, frantically telling Veronica that Mason is the culprit. When Veronica disproves this claim, she tells Josh to call her using a disposable phone within 24 hours. Veronica releases Mason from the trunk.Logan takes a wireless card to Mac as a favor, and she, Parker, and Bronson invite him on a night out. Logan, Mac, Bronson, and Parker take part in a Valentine's Day scavenger hunt. The quartet find their last clue at a beach.

Mac and Bronson kiss, while Parker and Logan bond while swimming. The scavenger hunt ends, and they come in third place. Logan and Parker leave, and Mac and Bronson have sex for the first time.While reviewing the O'Dell case, Veronica notices that the TV station the dean was watching the night he was murdered had moved its programming back an hour, meaning their estimated time of death was wrong. The forensic results about the prints in O'Dell’s room come back, and they are the fingerprints of Steve Botando. Steve Botando is investigated by Sheriff Lamb.Keith investigates the Coach Barry case more, finding that the Coach had.

His wife took out a life insurance policy several days before his death with a clause. Keith talks to Coach Barry's wife, who pulls out a gun on him. It is a Colt.45, the gun that was used to kill Coach Barry.

However, she claims that she was not intending to shoot Keith and that it is a relic of the Coach's army days. Sheriff Lamb receives a call about a robbery at the O'Dell house. It is Steve Botando, who bludgeons Lamb until he is mortally wounded.Veronica gives Josh a new ID, and he successfully unlocks his safe-deposit box at a bank.

Inside is a DVD of Coach Barry telling Josh about his condition and that he was planning to have a friend kill him to avoid futile medical expenses and give his family the insurance money. Josh flees the country until he is old enough to receive the money his father left aside.

Veronica shows Keith the DVD. Keith calls the Sheriff's office and finds that Sheriff Lamb has just died from his wounds. Veronica sees Logan and Parker talking.Keith, now acting Sheriff, questions Mindy with new evidence, claiming that Mindy is protecting Hank or Hank is protecting Mindy. The story continues in the next episode,.Production Writing and filming 'Mars, Bars' features a story by, John Enbom, and Joe Voci and a teleplay by Klemmer and Enbom, marking Klemmer's fourteenth installment of the series, Enbom's fifteenth episode for the show, and Voci's second and final writing credit (after '). It was directed by, marking his fifth and final directing credit for, after ', ', ', and '. The scene on the beach was the work of Winer, whom Thomas referred to as a 'visual stylist'.

He enjoyed the scene for showing Neptune as a beach town while distinguishing itself due to the cold weather, a visual characteristic that he felt was not portrayed often enough.' Mars, Bars' features the reappearance of the character of Bronson, who had previously appeared in '. Mac loses her virginity to Bronson in the episode.

However, the writers had initially planned a storyline in which Mac would be taken advantage of by a professor due to her fragile emotional state following her romance with. However, the storyline was removed, partially due to the fact that Thomas and the crew wanted Mac to have something positive happen to her. Prior to the filming of this episode, Thomas counseled and, who play Logan and Parker, respectively, on the two characters' in the episode.

Specifically, he did not want them to make their obvious, but rather give 'a whiff of connection'. Retrieved December 5, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015.

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' A Mars a dayhelps you work, rest and play'The Mars bar is one of the more successful and enduring s in the. Manufactured by (owned by ), it acts as the flag-bearer for the corporation in Britain in the same way that do in the.Frank and invented a process for solidifying chocolate in. They filled it with soft whipped and called it a. It was a success, as one of the first affordable chocolate products on the market.When Forrest went to Britain in to experiment with his own company, he continued. He took a Milky Way and made it bigger, the nougat a little heavier (though still soft) and added a layer of between the chocolate shell and the filling, at the top. He modestly called his new creation the 'Mars bar'. This is pretty similar to what Americans know as a nowadays.The Mars bar seems to have been an instant hit.

It sold in Britain and America throughout the 1930s, and was still popular in the 50s, in time for the beginning of. In those immoral days, you could say. Against a background of post-war poverty, Mars realised that they could market the Mars bar as a cheap and healthy alternative to eating real, aiming especially at parents for their children.According to, an of Mars uttered the famous phrase in as a suggestion for a new slogan which summed up everything the Mars bar was supposed to represent. The employee?, later a famous.

' A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play'. This slogan reinforced the idea of a Mars bar as part of a diet, as well as its use as a source of energy.It's worth pointing out here that the Mars bars in the USA were quite different from the UK version; they had almonds in them, and were sold in a yellow packet rather than the rest of the world's familiar red-and-gold-on-black. The Mars bar never made quite the same impact in the States, which is probably the reason that Mars wound up the brand there and replaced it with ' Almond'; same product, different label.Anyway, the slogan hung around for more than 40 years, and the Mars bar become a part of British culture. A well known tells of a involving. Mars sponsored the 1992 and the 1994. They became a symbol of Capitalism like; as a, I remember being told that in the, a Mars bar was ten pounds.

I always wanted to go to Russia with a briefcase full of them.Mars has always been able to spot a from a distance. In the nineties, they began extending the Mars bar brand, first to, then to chocolate milk. A number of promotional bars were introduced for short periods like, with and white filling. They also had a ludicrous range of sizes of bar at one point, from smallest to biggest:.

the mini Mars (still in ) - about the size of a. The Mars bar - about 1/4 of a normal bar, ideal for. The snack size Mars bar - sort of between a fun size and a normal bar. The Mars bar - normal, at 65g weight. the Mars bar - 100g, longer and chunkier. the mega Mars bar - Only a promotional item, these whoppers were 125g and almost too big to eat in one go.In 2002, Mars decided it was time for a change.

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The industry was going through what had happened to the industry a few years earlier; taking a kids' product and rebranding it for the growing market of women looking for treats. The Mars bar was seen as associated with, energy. Mars changed the packaging, dropping the square, heavy in favour of a thinner, script while keeping the colour-scheme.

They changed the recipe, making the nougat filling a little bit lighter. They changed name of the 'king sized Mars bar' to 'Mars: The big one' and reduced its from 100g to 85g.Most significantly, and the thing that really got the headlines, was that Mars changed its famous slogan to ' Pleasure you can't measure'.The first Mars bar was made in, and it is there that Mars UK now makes some 3 million bars a day. Mainland Mars bars taste a little different; the absence of in their chocolate removes, in my opinion, some of the richness from the flavour. But the Mars bar, in whatever form, remains a confectionary favourite in Britain and the rest of the world, the USA excepted.www.mars.comhttp://www.todayinsci.com/cgi-bin/indexpage.pl?http://www.todayinsci.com/7/701.htmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,42,00.html.