The Easter Eggs, Inside Jokes, and TV Show References in the Veronica Mars Movie

The theme song for the show, The Dandy Warhols' "We Used to Be Friends," gets referenced when Veronica walks past a New York street musician who's performing it.

The sex tape that plays during the movie's high school reunion is the one that's made of Veronica and Piz at the end of the season three.

Jerry O'Connell plays a new character: Neptune's current sheriff, Dan Lamb. He is the brother of Don Lamb, the former sheriff who is killed in the line of duty (and one of Veronica's nemeses throughout the series).

The movie's plot centers around the murder of Logan's pop star girlfriend, Bonnie DeVille, who was a high school classmate then known as Carrie Bishop. The character was originally played by Leighton Meester, but due to scheduling conflicts, she couldn't appear, and Andrea Estella (who really sings DeVille's songs in the film) stepped in. The movie's subplot includes Carrie having covered up the death of Susan Knight, the character who Carrie covers for in an episode on the show.

Veronica clocks Madison Sinclair just after the bully taunts her about her once-omnipresent weapon.

Krysten Ritter's character Gia has a bigger role in the movie than she does on the show, in which she's the daughter of Woody Goodman (Steve Guttenberg), the mayor and one of season two's villains.

The son of a congressman who's engaged to Gia in the movie is seen in season one as a classmate of Veronica's who's selling steroids.

Computer-savvy Mac grows up to work at Kane Software, which we visited during the show, because it's owned by "the most powerful man in Neptune," Jake Kane (also the father of Veronica's ex-boyfriend Duncan and her murdered best friend, Lily).

One of the most shocking moments of the movie is when someone shoots Weevil when he tries to help. That someone is Celeste Kane, the rich ex-wife of Jake and mother of Duncan and Lily.

After Veronica and Logan get back together at the end of the movie, they both say parts of the drunken love speech Logan gives Veronica near the end of season two. Watch the original here.

Veronica introduces the movie with a brief overview of her life and the big players, and at the end, she refers to herself as a "marshmallow" — a wink to the series's fans who call themselves that. That itself is a reference to Wallace calling Veronica a marshmallow in season one.

If you watch until the (bitter) end of the credits, you get to hear Logan delivering an inspirational voicemail. He loved doing these on the show, too.