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Daria: Created by Glenn Eichler, Susie Lewis. With Tracy Grandstaff, Wendy Hoopes, Julian Rebolledo, John Lynn. A smart and cynical girl goes through teenage life as a proud outsider in a world of mainly idiotic adolescents and condescending adults.
Daria Morgendorffer, our bland anti-heroine, is not your average teenage girl. Smart, sarcastic, opinionated but highly unmotivated, her life revolves around observing the actions of others with her best friend Jane Lane, a misfit artist from a family of unconventional thinkers.
In 1997 the animated sitcom DARIA -- created by Glenn Eichler -- debuted, showcasing Daria's intelligent-but-antisocial personality as she offers her dark point of view about the trials and tribulations of life in the suburb of Lawndale.
- Melissa Camacho
Brainy, sardonic Daria Morgendorffer tries to fly under the radar at Lawndale High School, and she's doing a pretty good job of it: Her self-esteem teacher can't even remember her name.
- Karen Disher
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collider.com · greatest-episodes-of-daria-rankedThe 10 Greatest Episodes of Daria, Ranked - Collider
- Season 2, Episode 3 - "Quinn The Brain"
- Season 4, Episode 10 - "Legends of The Mall"
- Season 2, Episode 8 - "Gifted"
- Season 2, Episode 11 - "See Jane Run"
- Season 1, Episode 9 - "Too Cute"
- Season 5, Episode 13 - "Boxing Daria"
- Season 2, Episode 9 - "Ill"
- Season 4, Episode 13 - "Dye! Dye! My Darling"
- Season 1, Episode 13 - "Misery Chick"
- Season 5, Episode 6 - "Lucky Strike"
“Condition people to expect nothing, and the least little something gets them all excited.” What happens when the identity you have cultivated for years is appropriated by someone else? This is the crucial conflict in “Quinn the Brain.” Quinn fails another English essay, and without an A in her next, Mr. O’Neill says she’ll fail the entire class. A...
Daria had a pretty lousy track record for episodes that broke formula. The holiday special “Depth Takes a Holiday,” the musical “Daria!” and the murder-mystery dream episode “Murder She Snored” are among the worst of the series. “Legends of the Mall” broke this tradition. Essentially, Daria’s spin onThe Simpsons“Treehouse of Horror,” “Legends of th...
When Daria, and fellow honor student Jodie, are chosen as candidates for the fancy, selective school Grove Hill, they drive down for an open day to check it out. At first, the girls are captivated by Grove Hill and the intelligent, snarky kids that inhabit it. Throughout a few enlightening conversations, Daria and Jodie become disenchanted with the...
When Jane tries out for the track team because of a boy she likes, Daria feels threatened that her best friend may be lost to the world of jocks and cool kids. Despite Jane showing no signs of ditching her, Daria’s insecurities about their friendship keep digging at her psyche. Related: How 'Female Friendship' Films Helped Me Embrace My Queerness E...
“Too Cute” is one of the funniest episodes of the series. Like other great episodes such as “Arts in Crass” (season 2, episode 1), “Too Cute” examines the cultural obsession with beauty. It focuses on how manipulative marketing and profit-driven grifters prey on our insecurities. A semi-popular girl at Lawndale gets a new nose, getting Sandy’s atte...
The Morgendorffers get a new fridge, but the cardboard box it arrives in awakens dormant, uncomfortable emotions for Daria, though she can’t figure out why. She slowly pieces together that her anti-social behavior was the catalyst for a massive fight between her parents when she was a young girl. The box symbolizes the safe space she would create t...
A perfectly paired episode to “Pierce Me” (season 2, episode 12), “Ill” encapsulates the frustrations of being anangsty teen stuck in a hormonal body. Daria begins breaking out in rashes that have her and the local medical community stumped. They suspect it has to do with anxiety, but no one can pinpoint the cause or cure. While Daria is in the hos...
We are used to seeing Jane and Daria walled off, stoically hiding their emotions with sardonic humor and carefree attitudes. In "Dye! Dye! My Darling", the tension building between our two favorite misfit friendsfor the entirety of season 4 finally comes to a head. Jane is acting a bit weird; she keeps throwing passive-aggressive jabs at Daria whil...
“It really makes you think…” A former star quarterback, Tommy Sherman, returns to the Lawndale High to celebrate the newest football post being named in his honor. Despite his hero status, he treats everybody he interacts with like trash, especially the girls. While Daria and Jane lament that Sherman will be worshipped for the rest of his promising...
"Lucky Strike" has the best hook in any episode of Daria;What if all the teachers went on strike and Daria had to sub in to teach Quinn’s class? It’s a high concept ripe with so much potential, and the creative team takes every advantage of this premise. In possibly the most satisfying moment of the series, Quinn speaks highly of Daria in front of ...
[24] Daria continued to receive positive reviews during the course of its run and was one of MTV's highest rated shows, with the network's manager Van Toffler viewing the character as "a good spokesperson for MTV, intelligent but subversive".
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Reluctantly persuaded to try wearing contact lenses, Daria finds them physically, socially, and philosophically uncomfortable.
