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101 - Esteemsters	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
102 - The Invitation	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
103 - College Bored	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
104 - Cafe Disaffecto	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
105 - Malled	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
106 - This Year's Model	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
107 - The Lab Brat	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
108 - Pinch Sitter	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
109 - Too Cute	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
110 - The Big House	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
111 - Road Worrier	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
112 - The Teachings of Don Jake	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
113 - The Misery Chick	Although I still tried to watch Daria when I could during Season One, this is the one episode that I never got to see until long after Season Four had ended. Since I only started to watch Daria more frequently after the tumultuous events of DDMD, this episode seemed almost quaint in a way. Jane and Daria not getting along? Jane avoiding Daria because she thinks she’s a heartless slug, who jokes about people dying? Jane also feeling guilty about being a heartless slug who makes jokes about people dying? Most of the school in mourning because some jerk jock gets killed by “the very goal posts that were to be named in his honor”. Daria becomes the most popular girl in school because everyone feels she is some combat-booted, Byronette, that faces the void on a daily basis? This episode seemed almost harmless compared to the purely, poisonous, antics by Jane and Daria during the “triangle” in Season 4 and IIFY, which also carried over into Season 5. I’ll admit this episode had it’s funny moments, but there was a somber undercurrent, that ran throughout the entire show. Did you also notice that even the music clips in this episode were almost muted or seemed not to be there at all? I’m pretty sure that this occurred in other episodes but it seemed that the silences between scenes, and even the pauses between the characters as they spoke, were a lot more pronounced than in any other episode. I also finally got to see a Daria character that was more repulsive, vile, and loathsome than Val or Ms Li (Pre-Fizz Ed): Tommy Sherman! What a gaping, stinking sphincter of a human being he was! This is a good episode, by Season One standards, but not the greatest one out there. If I had saw this episode first, I might have even revised my opinion on the when “everything changed” theory I had about “Write Where it Hurts.” The Standout: Brittany: It really makes you think! Brittany Taylor with that oh-so-serious look on her face was classic! In the immortal words of the host of The Daily Show “And now, your moment of Zen”
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202 - The Daria Hunter	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
203 - Quinn the Brain	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
204 - I Don't	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
205 - That was Then, This is Dumb	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
206 - Monster	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
207 - The New Kid	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
208 - Gifted	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
209 - Ill	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
210 - Fair Enough	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
211 - See Jane Run	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
212 - Pierce Me	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
213 - Write Where It Hurts	Although the first 19 minutes of this show was mediocre at best, it was the last vignette written by Daria that not only saved this episode from being “another filler episode” but also actually changed the direction of the entire show. I’ll admit that “The Misery Chick” and “See Jane Run” were a precursor of the character development that would eventually appear in later episodes, but this is the episode where you can say, at least in hindsight, when everything changed. We’re talking the BT (Before Tom) era here folks! The Standout: A mothers tears of joy, as a child says, in a round about way, “Mother I love you and one day we’ll become the best of friends” Anything that can make Helen Morgendorffer cry (besides alcohol and heated, sibling shouting matches) has just got to be good stuff!
301 - Through A Lens Darkly	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
302 - The Old And The Beautiful	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
303 - Depth Takes A Holiday	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
304 - Daria Dance Party	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
305 - The Lost Girls	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
306 - It Happened One Nut	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
307 - Daria!	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
308 - Lane Miserables	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
309 - Jake of Hearts	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
310 - Speedtrapped	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
311 - The Lawndale File	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
312 - Just Add Water	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
313 - Jane's Addition	Another one of the “ugly episodes” (see “Partners Complaint”, “Prize Fighters”, “See Jane Run”, “The Lost Girls”) I didn’t like this episode at all. I watched it once, and have had no desire to EVER see it again. I can’t even give a decent review of it because I don’t WANT to remember it. This is the episode that most Daria pundits describe as one of the pivotal Daria episodes, which it is because it introduced Tom Sloane to the world. However, “See Jane Run” is another pivotal episode; and I can’t bear to watch that one either. “Dye, Dye, My Darling is a pivotal episode, and there are people out there who absolutely HATE that show. C’est la vie, I say, and to the cellar with this one. Nuff said.
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402 - Antisocial Climbers	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
403 - A Tree Grows In Lawndale	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
404 - Murder, She Snored	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
405 - The 'F' Word	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
406 - I Loathe A Parade	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
407 - Of Human Bonding	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
408 - Psycho Therapy	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
409 - Mart Of Darkness	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
410 - Legends Of The Mall	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
411 - Groped By An Angel	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
412 - Fire!	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
413 - Dye! Dye! My Darling	Baaack. You brought be back… Merlin Excalibur After taking a well-deserved vacation in the summer of 2000, I was flipping through the stations one day and saw Daria was on (for once). It was DDMD, and it had just started with Jane starting down the tiger at the Lawndale Zoo. I decided to watch it since I hadn’t seen a Daria episode in over a year and a half. Fast-forward to about twenty-seven minutes later, and the credits are scrolling down the screen with Cake’s “Friend Is A Four Letter Word” playing in the background. At this point my mind was completely blown away! This is the episode that pulled me into the Daria universe and turned me into the obsessive fan I am today. After calming down, I started asking some hard questions: What happened to Daria and Jane’s relationship? Who the HELL is this Tom guy? Why is he busting up one of the best friendships on television? Of course I had not seen “See Jane Run, “Jane’s Addition”, “Partners Complaint”, “Fire”, or even “The Misery Chick” yet so what did I know? At this point, my view of Daria and Jane’s relationship was still the Season One version: The cynically cool outsiders, fighting the good fight, in world of self-serving, phony idiots that have run things since Time began. Naïve huh? As the show so brutally presented to us, so were these two. The real world came crashing down on both of them, and nearly crushed their relationship in the process, by using their own desires and weaknesses against them. After watching the episode for the first time, I was in a total state of shock! Then I got mad! Daria?! How could you! Over a GUY??!! Oh Poor Jane! For the record: I had nothing but sympathy for Jane no matter HOW BAD she acted! Believe me I totally sympathized with her and the situation she was in. As for Mr. Sloane’s behavior during this episode…you DON’T go after your future ex-girlfriend’s best friend and expect me to think well of you. That does not make a very good first impression. <For all of you Thomas Sloane zealots out there, I’m not going to here it from you! That’s how I feel, you can’t change my mind, don’t even TRY IT> This episode was almost too horrible to watch…but I couldn’t turn away. I vowed to tape the episode the next time it came on, and I did. And then I watched it again, and again, and again. I don’t think I’ve watched a television show in the past 5 years that was this powerful. This was truly a classic episode. It should have been nominated for an Emmy… The Standout: It’s a tie folks: The Kiss and The Confession firah> After watching the episode for the first time, I was in a total state of shock! Then I got mad! > firah> Daria?! How could you! Over a GUY??!! Oh Poor Jane! shoebleu> I know exactly how you feel! My best friend was 100 miles away, watching the same episode the first time it aired, and she called me during the commercial break so we could spend 3 minutes just going "oooooh s---, what the hell was that?!"
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501 - Fizz Ed	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
502 - Sappy Anniversary	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
503 - Fat Like Me	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
504 - Camp Fear	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
505 - The Story of D	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
506 - Lucky Strike
507 - Art Burn	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
508 - One J at a Time	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
509 - Life in the Past Lane	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
510 - Aunt Nauseam	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
511 - Prize Fighters	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
512 - My Night at Daria's	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx
513 - Boxing Daria	We got to see more of what makes the Morgendorffer's tick. In the earlier season of Daria everyone ASSUMED that Daria was this brilliant, neglected outcast, while her career driven, oblivious parents doted on the younger daughter and left Daria to fend for herself. With the revelations in "Boxing Daria" we see that a lot of Daria's outcast status was of her choosing, as well as her own fault. Ol'Jakey is not as clueless as he pretends to be. He had Daria pegged back when she was 6 years old. When Helen and Jake are arguing about having to go to another teachers conference regarding Daria, he pretty much assesed the situation in his replies to Helen: Helen - Jake, this isn't about you. It's about her, having a little trouble fitting in. Jake - She doesn't want to fit in, damn it! Why can't you admit that?! Helen - Jake, she's a child, she doesn't know any better! Jake - That's what she wants you to believe! Oh yeah. Jake understood his little girl better than Helen did. Either that or Helen had a bad case of denial. Or maybe she was just plain scared that she was raising a stranger that she would never be able to comprehend. <I personally thought it was strange, with the introduction of the Aunt Amy character, that Helen wouldn't recognize the traits in her own daughter that seemed to mirror the ones in her own sister. But in "Aunt Nauseam" we found out that Amy and Helen never really spent that much time together --- with Amy hiding in her room and all. > We also see why Jake and Helen never bothered to interact with any of Daria's high school teachers. Originally it was believed by most Daria fans that the parents were uncaring of Daria and had put all of their concerns into their careers and/or Quinn. The reason was/is pretty simple. Whenever Mr O'Neill, or anyone else called them regarding Daria, Jake and Helen assumed that it was the same old saw again. So they never bothered to respond or tried to avoid it. They had been doing this for so long it had become old hat. I know that's not a very good excuse but by this time they understood where Daria was coming from. Take the converstation between Helen and Mr O'Neill from the episode "Arts and Crass" for example: Assistant - Helen? It's your daughter's teacher. Helen - Tell them I'll make sure Quinn turns in the assignment on Monday, oh and, try to find out what the assignment is and if you could get started making notes on it. Assistant - It's your other daughter, I think. Helen - Daria? Well then, tell them I'll talk to her about her attitude and try to find out who she insulted and what she said. Or Mr. O'Neill - Hello, Mrs. Morgenfoffer, oh, Morgendorffer. This is Timothy O'Neill at Lawndale High, I'm your daughter Daria's English teacher. Helen - Yes, is this about her essay on banning capital punishment and bringing back torture instead? Because that was obviously a joke. Whenever Jake and Helen got another one of these phone calls from school they just put it down to ANOTHER teacher who didn't understand what Daria is really all about. Even Mr. O'Neill finally got a clue...well enough of one to stop the parent teacher conference calls. We also see that Quinn is not the spoiled younger sister, as she's been portrayed in countless fan fics, but is suffering from the dreaded "second child" syndrome. No matter what she does to try and get her parents to acknowledge her, they won't. They give her whatever she wants and then promptly ignores her. Need the platinum card? Sure kiddo! Then Jake goes back to the paper and Helen goes back to her career.. This issue has also been shown in a lot of episodes from Season One on up. Usually her brain dead prattling at the dinner table is Quinn screaming for some type, any type of attention. Quinn is still looking for that approval, even if she is going about it the wrong way. She is definitely her mother's child in that way too. The focus is, as always, on the first-born. No matter how indifferent the first-born seems to act towards the parents’ attentions, or anyone else’s. I mean come on, the 3 year old Quinn bouncing in the backseat, telling her parents that she has friends, and they like her, and she is such a good little girl, but the parents still focus on Daria no matter how bad, or mean, or cynical she acts. Even Daria finally realized this, and finally apologized, or as close as an apology as she was going to give, to her parents about the way she has treated everyone since was little I could go on and on about all of the insights this episode revealed about Clan Morgendorffer but those are only the tidbits. The Standout: The great big hug Daria gives Jane, and the look on Jane’s face when she receives it! Firah><I personally thought it was strange, with the introduction of the Aunt Amy character, that Helen wouldn't recognize the traits in her own daughter that seemed to mirror the ones in her own sister. > Kara Wild> But in "Aunt Nauseam" we found out that Amy and Helen never really spent that much time together --- with Amy hiding in her room and all. Kara Wild> I guess if they were far enough apart in years, Helen wouldn't have been around long enough to observe Amy's behavior. Kara Wild> As for the rest of your analysis of "Boxing Daria": WORD. Wonderfully thought out. wyvern> that'd be your Evil Twin who's been posting to alt.tv.daria & such?;) I guess you read my post on my views regarding some of the flaws of "Boxing Daria". That response was provoked. But it didn't make it any less true. Besides that main subject of that rant had extended from "Janes Addition" all the way to the last episode, so I was right to a certain extent. Besides, I'm on USENET, you must have thick-skin, a sharp tongue, and pack a very BIG flamethrower...or be destoyed! Kind of like talk radio... wyvern> the provoacation would, I guess, have been the previous poster's assertion that Daria's comment to Jane about both her grandmothers having offered her a hundred dollars if she'd change her look (or was it just her hairstyle?) likely being just a "cynical exaggeration". wyvern> So I guess you DO "...build a show around a character that is an intelligent outsider who makes fun of the stupidities that other people refuse to recognize and then have her say 'oh, wait, I'm just a jerk!'" (Wraith, of course, the remainder of that particular post of yours being basically an extended riff on the full quote)? wyvern> Or maybe the "wait, she's just a jerk!" is the fans' responsibility. wyvern> whatever. um> Superheroes are prefect. Real people are jerks. wyvern> well, okey, not just a jerk -- I mean, singlehandedly responsible for virtually all her family's problems...whew! SUPERJERK! ;> br> wyvern> "sorry", but some things might be subject to more than one interpretation (as when a certain someone was jerk enough to point out that the actual available evidence could support either of two birth orders for the Barksdale sisters...:) wyvern> here's another one of those silly ideas I have once in awhile: we know Quinn's smart (I mean, they've got the same generic makeup & stuff)...might there've been some formative influence on how little sis relates to her peers from watching big sis (even if only figuratively) catching it in the teeth from hers for being a "brain"? um> I'm sure Daria would not approve of donning tights, a cape, a cowl and a utility belt stocked with White Out and a copy of "The Elements of Style" just to please the teeming millions. wyvern> oh, come on: we know she fights crime in a stretchy stretchy outfit (it's always the quiet ones with the glasses, dontcha know)...
MOVIE - Is it College Yet?	12345678912xxxxxxxxxxxx

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