Daria
Format	Animated sitcom
Created by	Glenn Eichler Susie Lewis Lynn
Starring	Tracy Grandstaff Wendy Hoopes Julián Rebolledo Amy Bennett Alvaro J. Gonzalez
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	65 2 TV movies (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 – 23 minutes (episodes), 66 – 75 minutes (TV-movies)
Broadcast
Original channel	MTV
Original run	March 3, 1997 – January 21, 2002
External links
IMDb profile

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History

Daria's first appearances were as an occasional character in Beavis and Butt-head. When this series was in its last season, MTV representatives approached story editor Glenn Eichler, offering a spin-off series for Daria. A short pilot, "Sealed with a Kick", was created under Eichler and Beavis and Butt-head staffer Susie Lewis. MTV gave a greenlight for a full series order of 13 episodes. Eichler and Lewis became executive producers.^[1] A script editor - a position sometimes known as story editor in the 1950s and 60s - is a member of the production team of scripted television programmes, usually dramas and comedies. ... To greenlight a project, in the context of the movie business, is to formally approve production finance, thereby allowing the project to move forward from the development phase to pre-production and, barring disasters, principal photography. ...

The first episode of Daria aired on March 3, 1997 (about nine months before Beavis and Butt-head ended its original run). Titled "Esteemsters", it featured Daria's previously unseen family, the Morgendorffers, settling into their new hometown of Lawndale (having moved from Highland, the setting for Beavis and Butt-head). Now given center stage, Daria's cynical and often abrasive personality became stronger. This article is about the current understanding of the word cynicism. ...

In May 1997, Ted Drozdowski of the Boston Phoenix praised Daria for having "taken up the torch," since Beavis and Butt-head had become "reduced to self-parody of their self-parody."^[2] The Boston Phoenix is an alternative weekly publication in Boston, Massachusetts that emphasizes arts and entertainment coverage, as well as alternative political viewpoints. ...

The series ran for five seasons with 13 episodes each, and two TV movies. The first movie, "Is It Fall Yet?", aired in 2000. MTV requested a sixth season (reports vary as to its length), but at Eichler's request this project was cut down to a second TV movie, "Is It College Yet?", which served as the series finale in January 2002. Is It Fall Yet? is the first of two movie-length installments featured in MTVs animated series Daria. ... The year 2000 in television involved some significant events. ... Daria: Is It College Yet? was the telemovie series finale for the television show, Daria. ... A series finale is the very last installment of a television series, usually a sitcom or drama. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for January, 2002. ...

Plot and setting

As a running television series with mostly self-contained episodes, Daria had very few running plotlines, relying mainly on a familiar established premise to build episode-length stories upon. The basic premise was that of an overtly-cynical teenage girl dealing with day-to-day life in her American suburban town, Lawndale. All that is known about the town's location is that it is somewhere in the continental United States, with California, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, upstate New York, Virginia and Connecticut being popular fan guesses of its exact area. According to show creator Glenn Eichler in an interview with fan Kara Wild, "I thought the Morgendorffers lived in a mid-Atlantic suburb, outside somewhere like Baltimore. They could have lived in Pennsylvania near the Main Line, though." This article is about the U.S state. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 101 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N... This article is about the U.S. state. ... The areas highlighted in YELLOW and GREEN are those which are considered to be a bona fide part of Upstate New York from the perspective of New York City. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Official language(s) none (de facto English) Demonym Connecticuter or Connecticutian[2] Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport[3] Largest metro area Hartford Metro Area[4] Area  Ranked 48th in the US  - Total 5,543[5] sq mi (14,356 km²)  - Width 70 miles (113 km)  - Length 110 miles (177 km... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United... Main Line redirects here. ...

For comedic and illustrative purposes, the show's depiction of suburban American life was a deliberately exaggerated one. Daria's hometown of Lawndale was filled with stereotyped personalities of all kinds, and Daria herself served as the series' observer. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Suburb. ...

The show follows Daria through her high school years, ending with her graduation and acceptance into college. Daria and her best friend Jane Lane share their droll observations about their school's flaws. Though Daria initially has a crush on Jane's brother Trent, her attraction remains unrequited, as she never reveals this to him. Trent, on the other hand, doesn't make it entirely clear whether or not he regards Daria only as a friend. At the end of season 3, they have a conversation that functions as an implicit acknowledgment that it wouldn't work out if they tried dating. Jane Lane (on right) with Daria (on left). ...

The dynamics among the characters change during season 4, when Jane begins a relationship with Tom Sloane, son of one of the town's richest families. Though Daria is hesitant to accept Tom at first, she and Tom find themselves becoming closer, culminating in a kiss in the final episode of season 4. The emotional and comedic turmoil among Jane, Tom, and Daria largely fuels the remainder of the series' stories as well as formed the centerpiece of the movie "Is It Fall Yet?". Is It Fall Yet? is the first of two movie-length installments featured in MTVs animated series Daria. ...

From left to right: Jake, Helen, Quinn, Daria, and Jane.

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Characters

Main article: List of characters in Daria

Daria featured a large ensemble cast. Daria Morgendorffer was the show's eponymous protagonist. Her immediate family and best friend Jane Lane all appear in nearly every episode. The following is an extensive list of the fictional characters featured in MTVs animated series Daria (1997-2002). ... Daria Morgendorffer is a fictional animated character from MTVs animated series Beavis and Butt-Head and Daria. ... The following is an extensive list of the fictional characters featured in MTVs animated series Daria (1997-2002). ...

Music and licensing

Daria's theme song is "You're Standing on My Neck", written and performed by all-female band Splendora.^[3] The band later created original themes for the two Daria TV movies, "Turn the Sun Down" (for "Is It Fall Yet?") and "College Try (Gives Me Blisters)" (for "Is It College Yet?"), along with some background music.

Notably, however, the show itself had no regular score. Though elements from Splendora's theme were used on occasion, Daria's incidental music was taken from pop music songs. Most of these were very recent (lending some credibility to the show's airing on MTV), inserted over exterior shots and some scenes, with rarely any story relevance or awareness from the characters. This article is about the genre of popular music. ...

For example, one episode depicts characters dancing to Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" mere weeks after the song's release, whereas the sequence itself was designed and animated months in advance. “W. S.” redirects here. ... Gettin Jiggy Wit It is a 1998 hit single by rapper Will Smith, taken from his album Big Willie Style. ...

Some story points were built around specific songs, such as in "Legends of the Mall", where Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" became a major plot point for a fantasy sequence. The ending credits also featured a licensed song on all but a few occasions. (These choices often did comment on some aspect of the preceding episode.) Cynthia Ann Stephanie Cyndi Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and MTV VMA-winning video and Emmy Award-winning film, television and Theater actress. ... Girls Just Wanna Have Fun was a top hit in 1984 and is perhaps the most popular song by 1980s icon and singer Cyndi Lauper. ...

Though a spectacle for its time, the use of so many songs by different recording artists has created countless licensing problems in making Daria available for home video much like the problems concerning the classic series WKRP in Cincinnati. As early as its 1998 and 1999 VHS releases, incidental music was replaced by no-name filler, and the end credits rolled over "You're Standing on My Neck". The same strategy was used for the bonus episodes of the program that were featured on the DVD releases of the program's TV movies. WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982) is an American situation comedy that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... This article is about the video format. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ...

Further complications have arisen with the market demand for "complete" editions of TV show seasons. As Daria's run spanned the period immediately before the boom of TV-on-DVD, this problem could not have been foreseen during production, and is a testament to the show's status as pre-iGeneration. A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ... TV redirects here. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... Notice: This article draws support from media-coined terms. ...

Unauthorized bootlegs circulate among collectors and are sold on some websites. For other uses, see Bootleg. ...

Production details

• Many of the voice talents for Daria were recruited from among MTV staff (including Tracy Grandstaff as Daria) and from high schools and colleges in New York City.
• After the show had become popular, rumors circulated stating that actress Janeane Garofalo provided the voice for Daria. Garofalo later stated that she was flattered to be considered "cool enough" to be the voice. She played upon this, and her similarity in appearance to Daria, when she hosted a half-hour "behind the scenes" MTV feature about the production of the show that aired during the fourth season.
• Production of each half-hour episode took ten months to a year, from concept, story, voices, and design (at MTV's New York offices), to generating the animation (at a Korean company), to post-production.
• No other characters from Beavis and Butt-head made an appearance on Daria. Glenn Eichler, in an interview conducted after the series' run, explained:

• The series' only direct reference to the characters of Beavis and Butt-head was made in a promotion spot for the first cablecast episode. Daria states, in voice-over:

• In the TV movie "Is It Fall Yet?", several celebrities provided guest voices. Talk show host Carson Daly played Quinn's summer tutor, female punk rock singer Bif Naked played Jane's art camp companion, and rock musician Dave Grohl played Jane's pretentious art camp host. The band Foo Fighters (for which Grohl is frontman) featured several songs on the series.

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Satirizing popular culture

One of the show's primary objectives was to exaggeratedly portray and subsequently mock general popular culture. This was done by surrounding the character of Daria, who embodied cynicism, an intellectual bent, and anti-social feelings, with extreme stereotypical personalities, reflective of the culture of a teenage generation (see characters Quinn, Kevin, Stacy). Popular culture (or pop culture) is the widespread cultural elements in any given society that are perpetuated through that societys vernacular language or lingua franca. ... Quinn Morgendorffer is a fictional character on the MTV animated series Daria. ... Kevin Thompson was a fictional animated character on the MTV cartoon show Daria. ... The Fashion Club is a fictional clique that is regularly featured in MTVs animated series spin-off, Daria. ...

Specific aspects of pop culture that were satirized include cultural obsessions with self image and fashion, the favoring of sporting achievement over academic or artistic accomplishments, and the general conformist mentality of Daria's peers and even the upper middle class suburban community she lived in. A persons self image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, nature of external genitalia, I.Q. score, is this person double-jointed, etc. ... For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ...

Though the show's satirical nature was omnipresent, Daria would rarely directly reference specific facets of pop culture, such as particular TV shows or bands (apart from the musical underscore, which deliberately consisted of nothing but pop songs).

After each episode, credits would roll on one half of the screen, and the other would display series characters drawn out of character (termed by fans as "alter egos"). They ranged from Tiffany as a Pokémon, to Quinn's constant followers (Joey, Jeffy, and Jamie) as the three main characters from the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?, to Jane as the Statue of Liberty. The official Pokémon logo. ... For the film soundtrack, see O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack). ... For other monuments to freedom, see Monument of Liberty. ...

Nearly all the episode titles are puns, such as on common phrases ("Pinch Sitter"), on famous TV shows or films ("It Happened One Nut"), or, in one case, on a band's name ("Jane's Addition"). In baseball, a pinch hitter is a common term for a substitute batter. ... It Happened One Night is a 1934 Screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her fathers thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). ... Janes Addiction is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. ...

The only TV program Daria is shown to watch regularly is Sick, Sad World, the Daria team's spoof of sensationalist oddity programs. Usually, only a preview or commercial-break bumper for SSW was shown before Daria turned it off or other action ensued. In "Just Add Water", Daria and Jane were shown trying to watch an all-night SSW marathon. Occasionally Daria zaps from one channel to another, which are showing common TV shows. For example, a clip meant to suggest the series Murder, She Wrote is shown in "Murder, She Snored", before a dream sequence begins (which satirizes various famous series). For the Incubus song Sick Sad Little World, see A Crow Left of the Murder. ... Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher Murder, She Wrote was a popular, long-running television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. ...

Airing information

Daria was first shown on MTV in the United States. Reruns were carried from 2002 to 2006 on the teen-oriented cable channel The N. The-N is the nighttime block on Noggin for teens. ...

Many American Daria fans have reported that these reruns were edited for content, often making remaining portions confusing, or removing much of the satirizing, subplots, and subtext. A detailed report is available of the removal of single words to entire scenes from "Is It Fall Yet?". Some episodes were added to The N's rotation in 2005, described as "The Lost Episodes," but several others were never shown. Subtext is content of a book, play, film or television series which is not announced explicitly by the characters (or author) but is implicit or becomes something understood by the reader / viewer as the production unfolds. ...

The rights to show Daria have been bought by many broadcasters outside the U.S. MTV Two and The Music Factory show it in the UK, as does the ABC in Australia (formerly on MTV as well). MTV Two, formally known as MTV2 Europe, is a 24 hour alternative music channel broadcast from London throughout Europe. ... TMF (The Music Factory) is a pop music television channel that operates in the Netherlands (TMF NL), Belgium (TMF Vlaanderen) and the United Kingdom (and Ireland) (TMF UK). ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ... MTV Australia is the Australian version of MTV Music Television, a channel specialising in music and youth culture programming. ...

Videos and DVDs

Seven VHS tapes have been issued, all of them in PAL format, but only the first two of them in NTSC format. The first tape, titled simply Daria, includes the animatic pilot. For other uses, see PAL (disambiguation). ... NTSC is the analog television system in use in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and some other countries (see map). ...

Two DVDs are available, of the Daria TV movies "Is It Fall Yet?" and "Is It College Yet?". Each DVD includes two episodes from the series, but these episodes have all of their music removed except for the opening theme.

The "College" DVD uses a shortened second-showing MTV version (by about seven minutes), not the originally cablecast version. It does, however, include a short clip of a Daria appearance on Beavis and Butt-head as a hidden "Easter egg". A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. ...

These DVDs were ostensibly coded for Region One (North America), but found by purchasers to be region-free. More information is available on this page. Region 1–8 redirects here. ... North American redirects here. ...

A viewer campaign has been made over several years for a DVD release of every episode, uncut. As of February 27, 2008, 4,584 people had voted for Daria at TV Shows on DVD (registration required to view), bringing the show to third in the list of most-wanted unreleased TV-show DVDs. is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Era (or Anno Domini), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...

In July 2004, fan Michelle Klein-Hass reported that MTV was investigating options for a DVD release of more Daria episodes.^[5] She quoted co-creator Glenn Eichler as saying: "[T]here's no distributor and no release date but what there is, is very strong interest from MTV in putting Daria out, and steady activity toward making that a reality."^[5][6] 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: July 2004 in sports Deaths in July • 31 David B. Haight • 29 Francis Crick • 29 Nafisa Joseph • 23 Joe Cahill • 23 Mehmood • 23 Illinois Jacquet • 23 Carlos Paredes • 22 Sacha Distel • 21 Jerry Goldsmith • 21...

Books

• The Daria Database by Peggy Nicoll; MTV 1998 ISBN 0-671-02596-1
• The Daria Diaries by Anne Bernstein; MTV 1998 ISBN 0-671-01709-8

These books, by two of the most prolific writers of Daria episodes, have comedic and satirical material based upon the show as aired, but (apart from character guides in Diaries) are not reference works. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...

Games

• Daria's Sick Sad Life Planner; Pearson Software, 1999
• Daria's Inferno; Pearson Software, 2000, later distributed by Simon & Schuster Interactive

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References

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External links

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Websites

• Official site at MTV, no longer updated or maintained.
• Outpost Daria, the longest-running and largest fan-created site (since 1998), with archives of essays, media coverage, fan fiction, and fan art. (Newest update occurred in April 2008.)
• Lawndale Online, with news and information about the series and its fandom. Visitors can comment on any material posted on the site.
• DariaWiki, the Daria Fandom Wiki, mainly about creations of and personalities among fans.
• Daria at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Daria (1997-2001 TV-series) at the Internet Movie Database
• Is It Fall Yet? (2000 TV-movie) at the Internet Movie Database
• Is It College Yet? (2002 TV-movie) at the Internet Movie Database

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Blogs, forums and news sources

• DVDaria (prospects and actions for a full-series release on DVD)
• Paperpusher Message Board (series and DVD news, discussion forums, fanworks)