Smith, whose guest appearances on "Degrassi" are airing this month on cable's The N, has taken a guest role on UPN's "Veronica Mars." He'll appear in the show's second episode this season, which is currently filming and is scheduled to air Wednesday, Oct. 5.

The "Clerks" writer-director will be playing, appropriately enough, a convenience-store clerk named Duane Anders. He meets Veronica (Kristen Bell) when she comes to question him in the course of an investigation -- into what, UPN and producer Warner Bros. TV aren't saying.