MONDO EXTRAS

Assets: Not everybody could pull off that hair in this day and age, but he totally does.

Liabilities: In most cases, anything "the third" is kind of a letdown. Consider Shrek.

Current approximate level of fame: Jeanne Tripplehorn
Deserved approximate level of fame, post-Veronica: Reese Witherspoon

Name: Chris Lowell
Age: 22
Occupation: Actor; beach attraction
Non-Veronica Experience: 2 movies; a little TV

Assessment: Lowell got the worst assignment Veronica had to offer: playing the guy Veronica moved on with after Logan. This earned him substantial audience enmity, so it's a good thing that he's going from this directly to Private Practice, the Grey's Anatomy spin-off that's already featured him with his shirt off and made it clear that he's not going to be The Other Nerd on that show like he was here. He's good-looking, he's very young, and now that he's cleared the very weird Life As We Know It from most people's memories (remember? Teen erotica?), his immediate future seems bright.

Assets: "Discovered playing beach volleyball" = "probably not ugly."

Liabilities: It also = "probably not originally chosen on the basis of talent."

Current approximate level of fame: Teddy Dunn
Deserved approximate level of fame, post-Veronica: Gabrielle Reece

Name: Ryan Hansen
Age: 25
Occupation: Actor; activist
Non-Veronica Experience: 3 movies; a pop-in on America's Next Top Model

Assessment: We don't know if it's the character or the actor that makes us a little indifferent to the fate of Dick Casablancas. He had his comedy moments, mostly courtesy of the writing staff, but Ryan Hansen's resumé includes not only episodes of That's So Raven, but also The Cutting Edge 2: Going For The Gold, a project that karma seems to demand will doom everyone involved. (Look, Stepfanie Kramer FROM HUNTER took over the Moira Kelly role; need we say more?) We like that he's apparently the guy who got the show interested in the Invisible Children movement, but "Blond Douche" is not exactly the toughest role to fill in the Hollywood firmament, and we're thinking Hansen may have played his hand to the best of his ability with Dick. So to speak.