 "Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves" is the second episode to solely focus on the mystery of Dean O'Dell's (Ed Begley, Jr.) death, with the previous one being "Show Me the Monkey"; the previous story arc, a serial rape, was solved in "Spit & Eggs".After a lunch with Logan, Veronica notices that the Hearst Lampoon’s offices were egged.Weevil tells her the Dean's office was egged the same night, which Veronica relays to her father.