DARIA

sandi lol

Yeah I'm torn between Jane and a fashion club member like Sandi or Tiffany.

Also worried I will one day end up as Jake.

Or even worse, as Mr. O'Neill.

brain fever

It's between Tiffany and Jake Morgendorffer for me.

really love Quinn, but Jake was a figure of great pathos, it's true

Oh but then there is Britney! Brain fever, the splits, the episode where she dyes her hair and goes to see Mystic Spiralz!

I haven't seen an episode of this in YEARS. I do not feel comfortable voting, though I really really want to.

Loved this show. Impossible choices -- it's between Jane, DeMartino and O'Neill.

Jane!

You mean ilxor "Daria" hasn't posted on this thread.

In the last couple seasons when they decided to do big character-growth arcs (basically from the point that Tom showed up), my favorite character ended up being Quinn.

In the early seasons where everyone was more static, that is kind of an impossible question.

are drug-crazed rodents raiding your medicine cabinet??? rats on ritalin NEXT on SICK, SAD WORLD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lQtBb_MOa0&NR

jane. sigh.

lol "babes in thailand"

my fav daria episode is still the jane pratt one.

http://jezebel.com/5014124/daria-takes-aim-at-jane-magazine

Love that episode. But really, I love them all.

when aliens eat out, where do they relieve themselves? extra-terrestial resturant restrooms TONIGHT on SICK SAD WORLD!

Jane - You just made ten bucks off of that poor girl's suffering.
Daria - Yeah. That was wrong.
Jane - Really. Next time...
Daria - Twenty.

Cha cha cha.

The voice acting for Britney was amazing, that little squeak that she'd do at seemingly random points in each sentence has me lolling hard.

I agree that Quinn's development was handled the best. At some points in the last season, I actually liked her more than Daria, which would have been totally inconceivable to me when the series began.

"Britney" is actually spelled Brittany, by the way!

tom was my least favorite character, i coulda done without the love triangle in the last season tbh

Well yeah it maybe could have been handled better but I also think it would have been wrong to not have either Jane or Daria have a boyfriend in school. They weren't absolute freaks, no matter what Brittany (thank you Duane) or Kevin may have accidentally said.

Tom was an okay character, but he suffered in having no distinctive personality traits of his own. He had some of Daria's sarcasm, some of Jane's detached coolness, but he wasn't as good at either. Unless one considers "being rich" to be a personality trait.

can eating too many CARROTS make your HEAD grow LEAVES? Eurgh, what's that doc? On in an hour on SICK SAD WORLD.

i just realized how badly i want this show on DVD

its being released/may have already been released in america!

i am currently going through bad downloads since viacom took most of it off youtube.

ugh remember the marathons on mtv

the best

http://www.amazon.com/Daria-Complete-Animated-Tracy-Grandstaff/dp/B0019N8P2W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1283459343&sr=8-1

Such a shame I don't have an all region dvd player, viacom gonna have to wait for my ££££. Did notice My So-Called Life for £8 on amazon though - worth it?

um, SO worth it

such good news that they have it

Some full episodes available at MTV.

http://www.mtv.com/shows/daria/video.jhtml

Except in any country that isn't USA.

Bummer, sorry dude.

A vision of Christ in a candy bar? Talk about my Sweet Lord! The Immaculate Confection next on SICK SAD WORLD!

Yahoo! Well if that's not inspiring then I wasn't named fourth runner up for principal of the year by the tri-county chapter of the Asian-American women in education caucus.

Aww I miss this show!

sandi lol

― janice (surm), Wednesday, September 1, 2010 4:24 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

her voice was my favorite

really loved the episode where jake morgendorffer is addicted to milk.

I find it really hard to decide on the best Daria episode. For me it's a three-way tie between "Arts N'Crass" (Daria and Jane enter an art competition and have their painting censored), "Through a Lens Darkly" (contact lens episode) and "The Misery Chick" (jerk football hero visits Lawndale, dies).

just bought this dvd set, is great, new music is off-putting tho

some girl at a party once saw me and said "oh my god are you trent from daria"

that said, jane

rewatching this i am thinking of voting trent. the episode where he plays brittany's party, his reaction in seeing brittany in jane's room, the discussion about being below sub zero, 'every dog has its day', he's such a great character.

some girl at a party once saw me and said "oh my god are you trent from daria"

― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Sunday, September 5, 2010 4:28 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i'm guessing this girl found u v v pretty btw

I voted for Stacy, out of fondness and pity

Trent is really the only cartoon character I've ever had a crush on, so I had to vote him.

When I was younger, not now. That would be sad.

Still have a crush on Jane tbh.

When Stacy does the magic trick with Upchuck is poss the best episode, def top 5.

ramzi i am loving my so-called life btw, thank you for making me buy it. kinda wish there was less family and more of the friends tho

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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poor upchuck.

I thought the crazy teachers would have bagged at least one vote between them.

Jane is the bro 4 lyfe, but this show would have been lacking without Quinn and the ladies of The Fashion Club.

Why didn't you get the same dress as the rest of us?

just askin: what do you guys picture the voice actors to look like compared to their countoonparts?

Once you find out that Bart Simpson is a lady, it all becomes pointless.

the voices on the simpsons seem more well-integrated with the cartoons but every voice on Daria feels like MTV isn't paying them enough to give full lease of their spirit to the cartoon. Even caffeine dad.

p true considering how many vox actors they went through with some characters

but then daria was always about that lol indie spirit of doing as much as you can while mtv was spending all its money on i dunno the osbornes

Daria's making bank now!

http://www.nywift.org/photogallery/md/1154_TracyGrandstaffPhoto.jpg
Tracy is Vice President, On Air Creative at Comedy Central. She oversees the promotion of new show launches (Important Things With Demetri Martin, Krod Mandoon, Chappelle's Show)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1MQkhRdZo

omg fucking lost it at "Peekaboo ICU"

oh daria... are we that desperate that we need to resort to the truth?

Britshers: this is now being shown on VIVA at dinner time on weekdays.

Uh...so guess who decided to dress as Jane for Halloween:

http://twitpic.com/b99r5u

props

Just out of curiosity here, was Daria actually "big" in the US in general pop-culture terms? I suspect it was be more of a cult-following-only thing than a popular juggernaut like B&B (Daria wasn't really shown much in my home country). If somebody dressed up as Daria and Jane at a Halloween party like Perry and her friend there, would many people actually get the reference?

Daria was part of the B&B, for one thing.

-the

welp

Haha that was a mispost

Sorry for huge wall of wiki text:

HideReception and legacy

By 1998, Daria was one of MTV's highest rated shows, with the network's manager Van Toffler viewing her as "a good spokesperson for MTV, intelligent but subversive".

During her popular run on MTV, Daria was part of the Cool Crap Auction in 1999, giving an overview of the goods for auction and talking "live" to the winner of one prize.[18] Daria and Jane also hosted MTV's Top Ten Animated Videos Countdown, poking fun at MTV's cheap animation. At the end of the series run, she had an "interview" on the CBS Early Show with Jane Clayson.[19]

Daria received positive reviews during its run. John J. O'Connor of The New York Times wrote of the series' premiere, "With this new series, Daria triumphantly gets the last laugh" and "As far as MTV and Beavis and Butt-head are concerned, Daria is an indispensable blast of fresh air. I think I'm in love."[20]Daria received a ratings share between 1 and 2 percent, about 1 to 2 million viewers.

G.J. Donnelly of TV Guide, writing about the series' finale, lamented, "I already miss that monotone. I already miss those boots. ... Even at its most far-fetched, this animated film approaches the teenage experience much more realistically than shows like Dawson's Creek."[21] On the same occasion, Emily Nussbaum wrote at Slate.com that "the show is biting the dust without ever getting the credit it deserved: for social satire, witty writing, and most of all, for a truly original main character". She particularly singled out for praise that all the characters were heading "to very different paths in life, based on their economic prospects", giving the show an ambiguous end; "[the finale is] a bit of a classic: a sharply funny exploration of social class most teen films would render, well, cartoonish."[22]

Internet reviewer Doug Walker listed this as his favorite TV show in his list of his 20 favorite TV shows, stating that the show "WAS high school" and that out of all 66 episodes, he only found three he didn't like.[23]AOL TV ranked Daria the fourteenth Best School Show of All Time, describing it as "a witty parody of the teenage experience".[24] In 2002, TV Guide ranked Daria number 41 on it's "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list.[25]

I was totally going to go as Daria to a halloween party tomorrow. I'm kind of glad I didnt now because that bitch has outdone any attempt I would have made, and its gone viral all over my FB :(

(so I'm going as a Sim instead lol)

Props where props are due. That is a great Jane costume.

Her hair is on point.

I want to love those costumes more but tbh it's not that difficult to put together an amazing costume when you have a gigantic pile of money

that said, I completely applaud the idea AND that she went as Jane instead of Daria

wld have liked it best if she went as Upchuck tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4CYMKhuuag

yikes

im dumb enough to see that

god this show is so good

hell yeah

Haven’t watched this in a long time but what i have recently started watching again is ren and stimpy

Only into episode 5 of the first season

Cool go to that thread

My favourite episode of Daria has to be the one about the poster she and Jane create for the school competition. That episode is just perfect. The jerk football player episode is amazing too.

Xp

It’s not aged so well

Will try watching daria today tho

I haven't watched this in forever but I often think about "the wind chill drops below sub-zero"

the episode in the last season where Jane gets a new boyfriend and he's got a retrofetish and Daria actively calls him out on being nostalgic for a period of racism and misogyny is something I think about a lot in these days of "make America great again"

I wish the places where I watch this online would feature the episodes with the original soundtrack music, I think now I would be embarassed but at the time I remember loving hearing songs pop up by bands I was just discovering as a teenager

I have never heard the OST :( only the library music versions. silby-come-lately that I am

xp "I wish the PC Police WERE here, I bet they'd give me a ride"

I think they did an OK job with the substitute music, but there are some scenes I'll always associate with the original ST (eg Monaco's "What Do You Want from Me?" in the scene where Daria dresses up as Quinn). Party scenes in particular have been weakened by the OST absence.

It's kinda amazing how difficult it seems to be to find the original run anywhere

the scene were Daria is in the car and realises her feelings for Tom are developing, originally soundtracked by Saint Etienne's "Sylvie", was a highlight

There's a pretty decent rip of the entire show w/the original music out there in the dark.net.

There's a new 2024 version of the Daria Restoration Project (new rips with the original music and edits) that's making the rounds out there. I found d/l links on Reddit pretty quickly.