10 Years Later: A Modern day Appraisal of Daria (Skip Rewatches Daria)

Why? Because fuck y'all this is the form my exam procrastination has taken this semester.

Episode 1: Esteemsters
- Episode opens with Jake driving Daria and Quinn to school and Daria being a sarky cunt, I remember why I liked this show.
- Quinn is awesome and the second she enters the school she makes friends with the popular crowd and gets asked out by some guy. The sisters take a psychological test, Daria continues to be sarcastic.
- Insane teacher is the best teacher ever. Daria is smart, it's because she's cynical.
- Parents reaction to Daria allegedly having low self esteem: "What is WRONG with you!", Quinn is concerned about the impact it will have on her social life, and Daria responds by saying everyone but her is stupid.
- Jane reveals that she's a sociopath.
- "How would you like to have a sister with a... a thing!" - Quinn's a class act.
- Daria subjects her family to a horrible kid restaurant with singing people in costumes of woodland critters, and loves it.
- Sick Sad World is great. Jane says the Royal Family are all ugly.
- Poor Mr. O'Neil.
- Jane is a champion, feigning a mental breakdown when recieving the award for having good stealth esteem.
- Daria attempts to ruin Quinn's social standing, it probably won't work.

Superbuu3 wrote:

Spoiler:

No way, Daria looks far too happy in that picture. That's a pretty good depiction of Jane though.

I never watched Daria.

I didn't think anyone watched Daria.

Kaio wrote:

I never watched Daria.

I honestly don't know if I'd recommend it, I remember it being great but we'll see.


Episode 2: The Invitation
- Episode opens with Daria and Quinn walking to school, and Quinn being a bitch. Severl guys run up and carry Quinn's shit.
- Daria is good at art, it must be because she's deep. Cheerleader, Brittney, worries about being shit at art, asks Daria for help. She actually does help Brittney.
- Kevin talks to his slightly more intelligent footballing friend.
- "When a cheerleader has a party, all the football players are automatically invited."
- Brittney is now nice to Daria, she offers to help her in return, she responds sarcastically. Brittney invites Daria to her party, then accidentally calls her ugly.
- Daria and Jane talk about the party, they both describe what they'd rather be doing than go to the party: swallowing glass and listening to her brother play 'Come as you are' respectively. "When you're popular, all unpopular people look alike anyway."
- Quinn forbids Daria from going to the party, she tells her she's considering it.
- "I asked her to do my homework for me, and she made me pay." - That'll get your parents support, Quinn.
- Daria and her mother banter about the party. I forgot they did that.
- Trent's alright.
- They distract a security guard by giving him Jane's sketchbook which is presumably full of drawn pornography.
- Quinn plays the princess and all the guys try to undermine eachother's positions with her as her prospective girlfriend.
- Chuck the giant geek approaches Jane and Daria and totally propositions a threesome. They follow him and as it turns out he really did just mean a 'tour of the house'. Oh no here we go "This is the make-out room."
- The popular girls bitch about Daria.
- Two guys approach Daria and Jane: "So, where you girls been all our lives?" Daria: "Waiting here for you. We were born in this room, we grew up in this room and we thought we would die here alone. But now you've arrived and our lives can truly begin."
- Daria tries to embarass Quinn further. Quinn bribes her to fuck off.
- Quinn rejects all three guys (Joey, Jeffy and Jaime) at the end of the night, but tells them they're still free to buy her stuff.
- Daria and Quinn end up accepting a lift home from Chuck in order not to "disturb the power balance" with their mum.

Episode 3: College Bored
- So the Morgendorffers go to what I assume is a couple friend who have a tiny child that can't speak properly. They're teaching it about SATs. So I guess this episode is going to be about getting into good colleges.
- Yep. Quinn and Daria are taking a college prep course.
- Kevin has a fantasy about getting with college chicks. Brittney has a similar daydream about being successful and leaving Kevin. Jane dreams about using the money her parents saved for college to buy an appartment and be artsy. Quinn basically has the same dream as Kevin but she's a roommate of three guys who start fighting over her, Daria fantasy is the dean telling her that they shifting her to teach postgrads in Paris so he can use her room to sleep with more attractive girls.
- More sarcasm versus stupidity over the dinner table.
- They need to see a college as part of the class, so Helen and Jake decide to take them to their old college. Jake regresses to his college self and tries to act cool, but ends up shouting death threats at students.
- Quinn, for some reason, decides to let people think she's a 'pledge' to a fraternity and starts cleaning a house, leaving Daria to chill with the tourguide. Daria proceeds to take money from college students to write their essays for them.
- Helen is fishing for compliments from college freshmen to make her feel good about being in her forties.
- The sisters get thrown out for being at a frat party.
- Quinn was accepted to something called 'Manatee College' which turns out to be a hoax, no way.
- It ends with Daria watching Quinn throw a drink into the face of the guy running the college prep course who was having her believe there was a 'make-out scholarship', and her making a borderline optimistic statement.

Episode 4: Café Disaffecto
- We open with a theft at an internet café.
- Kevin calls Shakespeare a "total chick writer."
- Helen threatens to send Daria to 'music camp' if she doesn't get involved in some extra-curricular activities.
- Daria has apparently written an essay on why everyone sucks and compared them to farm animals.
- Crazy teacher is condescending as fuck, it's great. He totally shut down Kevin and Brittney.
- Quinn starts hitting on some guy in order to sell him some phone service. She just about propositions him.
- Some fat woman seemingly has a heart attack while buying chocolates from Daria and Jane, it turns out she's hypoglycemic, she then becomes incredibly offended when they refuse to sell them to her.
- The principle then tells them they done fucked up for not killing the woman, and then forces them to perform in order to get the credit they were after.
- Daria choses to write and read out an article about communism and murder. Edgey.
- The café then closes because the night turned into an anti-communism rally thanks to Daria's "propaganda".
- THe episode ends with something being stolen from the new café.

Well I'll continue this now that I've moved the episodes across to my PC from my laptop.

Episode 5: Malled
- Morgandorffer family are talking about some super mall which Quinn wants to go to and Jake absolutely doesn't see the point of it.
- Wowie, Quinn is vice-president of the fashion club, Jake instantly seeks her opinion on his tie.
- Economics teacher is going to take the class to the new super mall so they can all understand supply and demand. Okay.
- Ha, there goes subtlety. After making a joke about 'organism' sounding like 'orgasm', Brittany and Kevin disappear behind the bus seat, because they're classy like that.
- Chuck is going down the bus asking girls to model bikinis for him. What a champion.
- Economics teacher is having difficulty figuring out the colour coded map, obviously Jane can help with this because she paints.
- Hahaha, Chuck now just asked the teacher if she wanted him to buy her a bikini.
- The have an interview with mall executives, who turn it into a focus group meeting. The students extorn $20 coupons out of them in exchange for the misleading treatment.
- Quinn and the fashion club are also at the mall, they decide to make-over someone. Naturally they select Daria and Quinn doesn't recognise her from behind, for some reason.
- Daria starts blackmailing Quinn, and extoprts a lift home from the guy the fashion club got to drive the out of her.
- Jake and Helen tell the girls they were too hard on them before and offer to take them to the mall. Neither of them are particularly thrilled.

Wasn't this on MTV ten years ago or something?

Hence the title.

Nevermind me. I'm an idiot.