Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumni Charisma Carpenter and Alyson Hannigan both have minor roles in Veronica Mars. Notably, you can see them acting opposite each other in the episode, "My Mother, the Fiend." If you've seen them in Buffy, it's a little jarring. Charisma plays Kendall Casablancas... well... pretty much the same way she plays Cordelia in Buffy (though, notably, she grows as a character in her reprised role in Angel), but Alyson's Trina Echolls is like the polar opposite of stage fright ridden Willow.
Bonus points to anyone who noticed Joss Whedon making his own cameo as a rental car service manager in the episode "Rat Saw God."
On an even more coincidental note, Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat of Arrested Development fame also guest star in one episode of Veronica Mars. The same episode, "The Rapes of Graff." They play students at the college Veronica Mars is looking to attend. How strange is that? I suppose it's a tribute to their incredibly youthful looks that they both have the flexibility to play both young teens and young adults. But really, Kristen Bell wins the gold at playing younger characters. She was twenty-four when she started her run on the show as a high-schooler. Go figure.
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I'm trying to think if I've seen an episode of Veronica Mars...
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