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Lost Summer

"The Lost Summer" is a fandom term for the period between the end of Daria Morgendorffer's sophomore year at Lawndale High and the start of her junior year. Whereas Daria's junior year/senior year summer is shown in full in "Is It Fall Yet?", her first summer in Lawndale is never mentioned on-screen at all.

Some fans have assumed that "Road Worrier" (and possibly "The Teachings of Don Jake") took place then, as "The Daria Diaries" places an Alternapalooza festival in August, but this is never confirmed in the episodes.

## In fanfiction

It is rare to see fanfic set in this period, which is another reason why it is called the "lost" summer. Some exceptions are:

* Richard Lobinske's "First Summer" series

* The Angst Guy's "Forgotten but not Gone"

* Kristen Bealer's "But What About the Baby (Sitter)?!"

* C.E. Forman's "Rain on Your Parade"/"Quinntet"

Forman's "Good-Bye, Diarrhea" would also say Daria was moving town during the Easter break, establishing the first season of *Daria* took place in the last months of her sophomore year.
Quinntet

**Quinntet** is the eighth "episode" of C.E. Forman's Lost Season One (of The Lost Seasons series), written in fall of 1998. It is the second of two parts, following "Rain on Your Parade". Like all of Forman's Lost Season episodes, it is written in quasi-script form with three Acts and commercials.

## Summary

Lawndale is holding its annual "Lawndale Days" festival, which turns the entire downtown into a carnival with a parade, craft booths, and a band competition. Several plot threads are woven throughout the story, which includes nearly everyone in the Seasons One and Two Dariaverse. In the main plot, Daria avoids Trent after the band competition and runs into her Aunt Amy, who urges her to face her fears. Quinn and Sandi get drunker and drunker as a result of their competition. Jake's "fun" turns into a nervous breakdown, forcing Helen to intervene.

## Trivia

Aunt Eleanor is first referenced in this fanfic.
Josh

**Josh** is a Lawndale High student in Daria's year, in the same English/Language Arts classes as her. His name comes from Mr. O'Neill's seating chart in "Cafe Disaffecto". He always wears the same blue zip-up tracksuit jacket, darker blue baggy cargo pants, and white trainers - "Antisocial Climbers" shows he has a winter ensemble with the same colours and bagginess! - and usually has a very cool/bored expression. In "Fair Enough", he can be seen carrying a skateboard.

Josh has avoided the camera's spotlight and shows little of himself, but "The Daria Database" showed him with a grim expression as he attempted a Philosophy exam.

In "The Misery Chick", he's present at Tommy Sherman's most fateful game, alongside classmates Kelly and "Shaggy", but the same age as in the present day - clearly a sign of mistakenly used models time travel.

In the post-film chat for "Is It Fall Yet?, someone asked "Who is that one guy with the eyebrow ring and and the skateboard in the background??" Daria responded: "That's "Skateboard Guy." Aren't you paying attention?"

## Josh in Fanfic

Josh usually appears as a background character without much to say, but he was given a major expansion in the "Ethan Yeager in Lawndale" series by Shiva. "Lawndale Fighting Championship" gave him the surname Carter.

In 2019, he briefly appeared in a scene in YouthofOz's "You Know You've Done Something Wrong", under the name of "Skateboard Guy" as a meta nod.
Diane Bennett

**Diane Bennett** is a fictional teacher from MTV's animated show *Daria*. She is a economics teacher in Lawndale High

## Characterization

Dianne Bennett is a middle-aged woman, slightly pudgy, with light brown hair.

When teaching economics in class, Bennett's byzantine diagrams on the chalkboard resemble football plays, leaving practically all her students in a fog when trying to understand what she's writing.

Bennett also seems to be at least partially in charge of accounting in Lawndale High, as she is seen discussing this topic with Angela Li in "Fizz Ed" and "Fair Enough". Based on "Fair Enough", she shows forward planning with her budgeting - ensuring the library would be able to renovate its roof - but is unaware that Li is pilfering from the funds to buy more security equipment.

She appears to enjoy having Daria Morgendorffer as a student, and was inspired by one of her sarcastic comments to run a field trip in "Malled".

Diane Bennett is married to a man named Herbert and both collect stuffed toys called Fuzzy Wuzzy Wee Bits, which seem to be a parody of Beanie Babies.

## Trivia

* she is known for having an unexplained hatred of pennies and loving the "clicky-clack sound" that chalk makes on a blackboard ("The Daria Diaries").
* her voice actress is Amy Bennett, though it is not known if the character and actor were designed to have the same last name.
Ronnie

**Ronnie** is a boy Quinn Morgendorffer attempts to con into taking over her babysitting job in the episode "Pinch Sitter". He's hesitant at first, and after Quinn attempts to compliment him by saying how "nice" and "sincere" he is, he remarks, "You're never gonna go out with me, are you?" Quinn confirms this before Daria mentions that Skylar Feldman was asking for her. Ronnie then realizes that Quinn was trying to get out of her babysitting to date Skylar, and angrily suggests that she ask her sister, since "She seems like the type who has plenty of Saturday nights free."

Ronnie goes on to appear in background of numerous scenes. He was one of the few people watching Bing and the Spatula Man (during their attempt to get Upchuck a date on the radio) who seemed *unimpressed* with the show ("Jake of Hearts"). He is similarly unimpressed when Kevin cocks up in "The F Word".

MTV's feature "Love is a Way Too Many Splendored Thing", a 'flipbook' of Quinn's admirers, states that Quinn finds him really nice and dependable... and also ignores him as a date. ("Next!")

## Ronnie in Fanfic

Ronnie doesn't often appear in fanfics, except as a cameo relating to his role in "Pinch Sitter". He gota supporting role in Shiva's Sexy Daria (as a love interest for Scarlett) and a starring role in Shiva's Unexpected Hookup. In a Random Pairing Iron Chef challenge, Princess Pasta paired Ronnie with Tori Jericho in To Each Their Own (and also established them as old friends).
Legendeld

Legendeld is a *Daria* fanfic writer who began writing in late 2007. He has already established a reputation for his unique writing style, which is of writing fics in short, multiple parts (usually in three parts).

Legendeld has already been compared, in writing style, speed of producing material, and in the cross-spectrum of writing choices made, to TAG. He has already created what may be a lasting character contribution to *Daria* fandom in the creation of Danielle Todds, who may be the first serious out-of-canon (in terms of characters) romantic female relationship Quinn Morgendorffer has ever been involved with.

After he stopped producing fics, Legendeld gave permission for other writers to use any his original character. "To know that someone, anyone wants to keep them going is praise beyond praise for me. It feels good that they will survive past my poor attempts at writing them."

## Daria Fanworks Awards

5th Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favorite Quinn Story for *Avalon*
* Favorite Post-Is It College Yet? for *Bet*
Good Art Hunting

**Good Art Hunting** is the 9th story in the John Lane series by Richard Lobinske and includes events mentioned in the episodes "Arts 'N Crass" and "The Daria Hunter".

After John and Daria's poster in the "Student Life at the Dawn of a New Millennium" contest is passed over in favor of Brittany's, they find themselves going on a school-sponsored paintball trip. The idea of high-velocity paint starts to give John creative ideas and he stocks up on paintballs.

## External Links

* Good Art Hunting at Outpost Daria

* Good Art Hunting at Lessons from Lawndale
Katherine Goodman

**Katherine Goodman**, sometimes writing as **Ivanova** after her nickname on IRC's #Daria+ IRC chatroom, was a Daria fanfic writer during the show's run and ran alt.lawndale.com, the oldest Daria fan website. When Outpost Daria had a Featured Authors section, she was one of the fans listed.

Until 2001, Goodman accepted other people's fanfics for alt.lawndale.com, most of which went to Outpost Daria after.

Among her work was the explicit Trent/Jesse romance "Ripped Denim" (with Tony Seljuk), the school story "Carpe Diem", and "Untitled 1" (with Kristen Wegner), about a terminally ill Jane; the latter two are no longer online. "Carpe Diem" created a drummer for Mystik Spiral, Reuben Garnet, in the days before Max Tyler had been created and Garnet would also appear in Chris Smith's "More Than Anyone Can Take".

Fanfics from back in the day may refer to Goodman as a beta-reader.
Mary Sue

A **Mary Sue** (sometimes named **Marty Stu** for men) fanfic is in which the primary character is either an analog for the author or what the author wishes they could be/finds uber-cool, their abilities inflated to an abnormal level in a way that outshines all other characters. It is usually considered a pejorative term, and Mary Sue stories have a bad reputation in most fandoms (though in the mid-2010s, people have been arguing against the term as sexist and downplayed Sues as just teenagers having fun).

Often, Mary Sues are the work of young fans and so *Daria* fanfics did have more of them when the show was on the air.

A Mary Sue story in which the author appears as himself/herself, by name, is called a **self-insertion**.

In *Daria* fanworks, several authors have distinguished themselves by writing Mary Sue tales that doubled as metafiction: Angelinhel ("An Angel Named Mary Sue"), Medea42 ("The Slacker Within"), and Scissors MacGillicutty ("Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?").

Compare with Tuckerization.

## Examples of Mary Sue *Daria* Fanfic

These might be good examples, or they might be bad ones. You decide.

* "An Angel Named Mary Sue," by Angelinhel
* "Mary Sue," by Nobody999
* "Triumph of The 'Retart'", by Peter Guerin
* "Self-Insertion," by TAG
* "Small Worlds," by TAG

## External Links

* Mary Sue description on Wikipedia
* Self-insertion description on Wikipedia
* Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
Nicholas Campbell

**Nicholas/Nick Campbell** is the bass guitarist for Mystik Spiral. The script for the Mystik Spiral pilot episode described him as "sweet, insecure, more-talented-than-he-realizes".

## Appearance and Personality

In his first appearances, his hair colour varied from bleach-blonde ("Ill") to red ("Speedtrapped") before finally settling on purple from Season 4 onwards. He regularly gets into animated discussions/arguments with fellow band member Max Tyler.

In "Speedtrapped", Nick is easily chumped by Stan's fibs.

Reburb fills in Nick's history: he joined the band when they saw him "hitchhiking along the side of the road in 1996". An essay by Trent inadvertently lets slip that Nick used to have a drug problem: "Who needs a giant corporation to promote your group, overexpose you when you make it big, and pay for your rehab when you lurch out of control? Nicholas did fine when we locked him in his house for a week and slipped Fruit Roll-Ups under the door."

On the old Mystik Spiral website at MTV, we're told: "Nicholas will DJ in a white tuxedo for a reasonable price. He's got a kid to support. He gives out keychains and other prizes. It's really kind of fun." (It's assumed by fans that Nick is divorced and paying alimony)

It could be assumed that he is the responsible for the electronic equipment of the band, as he is seen testing the sound board in Groped by an Angel.

The "One Band, Napping" flipbook had him refer to having *a* groupie and finally getting some fanmail (from his mum).

In the Spiral pilot script, Nick has a girlfriend called Charlotte. She writes and sings weepy ballads; every time the couple have a fight, she turns it into a song (Nick defends this because it meant he knew what he'd done wrong). The couple complete each other's sentences.

## In Fan Fiction

In the Falling Into College series, his daugher was named Ariel Campbell.

In several fanfic series, he is also Danielle Todds' first cousin.

Nick appears in Blessings of the Moon by Fhujeth, and is is the most important member of Mystik Spiral in the story by aiding various characters and helping destroy the monster possessing Stacy. He is a Vrykolakas. He also appears in Fhujeth's Nick's Funtime Heroin Adventure by Fhujeth, where Nick is a heroin addict who succumbs to a fatal overdose.
Outpost Daria

**Outpost Daria**, run by Martin J. Pollard, was the largest, longest-running fansite in *Daria* fandom history until its scheduled closure on June 2013.

On May 20, 2007, citing personal reasons, Martin announced that the evening's update would be the final one, but that the website would remain up through the rest of the year. The loss of the website's updates was a major part of the Great Daria Fandom Implosion of 2007.

On March 10, 2008, Outpost Daria once again became active, with many new fanfics being added to its archives. Further updates were made until August 2011; in March 2013, it was announced that the website was closing down in June. All material from the site was made available for download.

On June 4, 2013, Outpost Daria went offline for the final time. The site can still be found by use of the Internet Archive 'Wayback Machine'.

On June 20th, 2014, NeonHomer went live with Outpost Daria Reborn. It currently has the last copy of Outpost Daria on the site, but will slowly be updated and redone as time goes along.

## Criticism

It had been noted that while Martin J. Pollard would publicly acknowledge the request of an author or artist to remove their works from his site, those works were never actually removed and, in fact, remained on the site years after the request had been made. While the listings for those works were removed from the story and author indexes on the site, but not from the What's New section of the site, those works could be found via searching with most search engines.
Since Outpost Daria Reborn went online, NeonHomer states that he has received no requests for fanfics to be removed but has made a commitment to do so if asked.

## External Links

* Outpost Daria Main Page
* Explanation for Ending Updates
* Outpost Daria Reborn
Poser Deposed

**Poser Deposed** is a song by Trent Lane, recited in Camp Fear. He comes up with it in the car on the way home from Camp Grizzly. This sudden inspiration is a sign that "the fire is back".

## Lyrics

Your cookies are lame, your chips are the same. You get no respect, 'cause...
(Daria - You're missing the train?
Jane - My soul's waves of grain?)
You're not what you claim.
Poser exposed, hoser dehosed, I should step on your toes, you're deposed.
Smoking Mirror

Novel-length post-canon *Daria* fanfic by The Angst Guy, with strong elements of fantasy and horror. Penny Lane returns from Central America with an artifact of enormous power, which soon changes the lives of everyone who comes into contact with it. The story focuses in particular on Penny, Monique, Jane, Daria, and Tom Sloane.

Winner of "Favorite Melodrama" story and "Favorite Weird Idea" in the 1st Daria Fanworks Awards
Paperpusher

The **Paperpusher**, also known as "rich f," was an early *Daria* fandom community leader and fanfic author. His most notable contribution was the creation of the Paperpusher's Message Board, the longest-running and most active message board in *Daria* fandom history.

He is currently living in Japan.
Halloween

**Halloween** is one of the escaped teen-holidays from Holiday Island in "Depth Takes a Holiday." The character is an attractive, black-haired woman wearing an orange bustier and black skirt. In their band, The Holidays, she's the drummer.

She is one of the coolest kids at Holiday Island. She fled the island, bored to tears of it, but returned rather than let President's Day run the place. If she's not at Holiday Island, the real-world event of Halloween will quickly cease to exist (this didn't bother Daria much).

She's a surly 'bad kid' pastiche, and left to her own devices will organise raids with toilet paper & eggs on the houses of rich people. Creepy cobwebs appear in whatever house she's staying in.

While in Lawndale, she got a job at Coffee Cafe. A spat broke out among the band as she wouldn't share her wages with Christmas and Guy Fawkes Day. ("Get your own job!")

Halloween was voiced by  Danielle Carin, who also voiced Claire Defoe, Mrs. Stoller and The Popular Girl.

## Trivia

In the Mexican dub, she was called Día de Muertos.

## Halloween in fanfics

* Halloween Visit by Legendeld

* All Hallow's Peeved by Kristen Bealer
Out of Character

Also called "OOC," "out of character" refers to any depiction in *Daria* fanfic that shows one or more series characters acting in a manner inconsistent with canon—e.g., showing Daria Morgendorffer as either stupid or obsessively fashion conscious. The "out of character" accusation is usually based on decisions made by a character during a story. The appropriate phrase is "Daria/Quinn/Jane/Jodie would never do *that*!"

The show *itself* has even being argued to be OOC at times, the most glaring example being the moment when Daria kissed Tom Sloane in "Dye! Dye! My Darling".

This is different to alternate universe depictions, where the characterisation will be changed by the different events of that timeline.

Characterisation and certain actions can usually be seen as in-character or OOC - Kevin isn't going to be a fan of Math classes, Daria isn't going to willingly do a school function, etc. Whether some choices made by a character are OOC can be a matter of contention, based on fan's readings of specific characters, possible fanon assumptions, and which episodes they like more than others, and some fans will argue that circumstances and momentary irrationality can affect even the most consistent characters to make decisions one would not normally expect them to make. (This is indeed the show's stance on Daria kissing Tom)

## External Links

* Out of Character at Wikipedia
* "It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream" (see "Author's Notes II" at the end)
Ken Edwards

**Ken Edwards** is an high school English teacher, self-proclaimed author, and utter creep. He is introduced and makes his only appearance in the Season Five episode Lucky Strike.

## Characterization

Ken is a substitute teacher assigned to replace Timothy O'Neill for the duration of the teachers' strike at Lawndale High. He takes an immediate interest in Tiffany Blum-Deckler, flirting with her and, according to Quinn, stroking her hair while talking about his "anguished soul", under the apparent pretext that he's acting out a book he's writing. He tells the class "the only books worth reading are those written in the deep, passionate waters of life", giving the example (when he fixates on Tiffany) of the book he's writing "about a slightly older, sensitive man and the love a budding woman child feels for him when she gets to know him better". Ken tells the confused Tiffany "love can be so simple when the hand of experience nurtures the budding flower to full blossom."

He is dismissed from his duties after Helen Morgendorffer realises what Quinn's talking about and reports his behaviour. He is last seen walking away from the school, carrying a box of his belongings and crying, "Oh, Tiffany...Tiffany...I never got to hear you call me 'Ken.'" (For her part, Tiffany only worries that his dismissal might be because "his anguish [is] acting up" again.)

Angela Li's response to all this is to be irritated that she has to find a new substitute, referring to Helen as putting her in "a fix". Quinn later refers to him as "that creepy guy who wanted to fertilize Tiffany."

Daria calls him a pedophile, which is not technically accurate but the important thing is holy crap what a hideous creep.

## Ken Edwards in Fanfiction

Ken Edwards had often been portrayed as an evil character for obvious reasons. An exception is presented in Dennis' "Calling Calliope", which allowed him to be painted in a more sympathetic light, showing his motives to be a bit more innocent than what is commonly assumed.

The Angst Guy's short story "Just Desserts" features him receiving a rather nasty punishment from Mr. O'Neill, of all people.

In Doggieboy's The House of Cards Ken Edwards has moved on after his dismissal from substitute teaching to practicing massage, counseling and reflexology at Quiet Ivy. He is still shown to have an unhealthy interest in Tiffany, as well as any other woman who has the misfortune to seek treatment from him. Unfortunately, in this story, that includes Scarlett Hawkins.
Little Sister

**Little Sister** is a song by Mystik Spiral. It is heard in the episode Pierce Me.

It is Jane's birthday gift, but Jane seems to be more grateful for Daria's art supplies.

The song is heard complete in the show, but is still only 40 seconds long, after the intro comes a bombastic outro. The lyrics to the intro is about Jane's birthday gift, what the lyrics to the outro has to do with the rest of the song is a matter of conjecture - some have speculated that Trent has heard Daria say this at more than one Mystik Spiral concert.

The song was offered as a download from Reburb: "A birthday tribute to Trent's sister, Jane, director of band graphics until she got fed up with the whole spiral direction controversy and quit. Recorded live at The Iron Horse, formerly Club Cinderblock, formerly Ron's Razor Wire Warehouse."

## Lyrics

little sister, little sister
you came into my life like a twister
what can i get you haven't taken
what can i get you that hasn't been killed by corruption and greed
what can i get you that isn't tie-dyed, or just like you already have, or plastic, or not alive, or so sad

does anybody know
does anybody know why we're here
does anybody know
does anybody know why we're here
does anybody know
does anybody know why we're here?
Kia

An oft-seen African-American girl in Daria's year, this character is most notable for her distinctive orange dress. She

also wears pinkish earrings and leggings; in the opening of "Is It Fall Yet?" she has a green swimsuit.

Kia seems to be one of the popular students; she and The Popular Girl seem particularly close, often talking or walking together, despite being in different grades. She also joined the Fashion Club admiring Brooke's new nose in "Too Cute." In "It Happened One Nut" she can also be seen hanging out in the mall with Bib Overalls and Tank Top. (And Jodie says there are no other black girls in the school.)

She was previously nicknamed "Orange Girl".

#### Appearances in fanfic

In the "Lawndale Fighting Championship" series she is a wrestler named LaToya Jones.

In "Ethan Yeager in Lawndale" her name is Rene Glass. She is the only person Tori Jericho considers a real friend. She rarely speaks, so people tend to pay attention when she does.

In "Freefall", by Princess Pasta, she is named Kia, and is once more Tori Jericho's best friend. Based on the strength of her characterization in the story, the residents of the Lawndale-High Message Board elected to officially christen her as Kia.
Of All The People That Won't Be Missed

**Of All The People That Won't Be Missed** is a crossover between the film *Natural Born Killers* and *Daria* & *Beavis and Butt-head* by LongSnakeMoan. The role of mass-murdering couple Micky and Mallory Knox are taken by Todd Ianuzzi and Jane Lane, around the time of "Is It Fall Yet?".

As Jane and Todd cut a bloody swathe through America and get increasingly closer, they also become the darlings of the country's mass media and youth culture, while Daria waits for the inevitable moment when they come back for her.

After readers began 'replying' to the fic with in-universe character tweets, LongSnakeMoan began to weave them into the fic (making it a shared world): what readers had the characters tweet would become part of the story and Todd and Jane would tweet back, leaving comments, taunts, and threats.

To read at PPMB, you need the "Rosetta Stone" due to unicode issues on the board.

## External Links

* Of All The People That Won't Be Missed at PPMB
Nathan

**Nathan** appears "Life in the Past Lane" as Jane's romantic interest and a man involved in the retro-swing movement. He owned both a zoot suit and Sammy Davis Jr's pants, and collected pre-1960s stationary, clothing, and objects.

He was charming, classically romantic (he asked Jane before kissing her), and dedicated to vintage clothes and lifestyle... compulisvely so. He showed extreme vanity over his appearance (having to restyle his hair when Jane touched it), elitism over the retro-swing movement and people who weren't 'serious' enough, and a nostalgic view for the "standards" of the 1950 in contrast to a hated modern society. He'd eventually declare that retro, in his mind, was "about pride and standards that set up apart from today's mindless, insipid mainstream!" and that you had to be "with us or against us".

Both Daria Morgendorffer and Tom Sloane disliked him, thinking he was a jerk, and Nathan was unwilling to spend time with them.

Jane was enchanted by his style and old-fashioned chivalrous front, and enjoyed getting involved in retro culture. However, Nathan ruined the relationship in one night when he became obsessive over what they were going to wear on a date, and when told he was taking it too seriously went into his "pride and standards" speech. When Jane challenged him that it shouldn't matter to him if she wore sweatpants if he cared about her, Nathan responded with a horrified "you own sweatpants?!".

## Trivia

In an interview Anne D. Bernstein said she was involved in swing dancing and based on the episode on that - possibly Nathan's based on some real douchebags.

## In fanfiction

Nathan is generally seen as, and written as, a dick.

A common take over time is that Nathan is bordering on being abusive (and is certainly controlling and *verbally* abusive), and Jane was lucky to get out when she did. LongSnakeMoan in particularly drove this, with "It Felt Like A Kiss" (use the "Rosetta Stone" to get around unicode issues) depicting what could have happened if Jane had stayed with him.

A sillier take on him in Moan's "Time Travel is Serious Business", depicting a horrific truth behind Nathan's existence. There's also a revisionist take for the Iron Chef "Daria the Unreliable Narrator": in LongSnake's "I would put roses round our door", Nathan is a good man but Daria, a controlling abusive figure, is able to pressure Jane into breaking up with him.
Ow! My Face

**Ow! My Face** is a song by Mystik Spiral. It is heard in the episode Ill, performed at The Zon.

It was offered as a download by Reburb. The download clocks in at 35 seconds, but the complete song heard in the show continues for another 15 seconds, overlaid with  Jane and  Daria's dialogue.

Reburb also offered a French cover version of the song by the group Elastiqué. The recording was taken from the French dub of the show.

## Reburb summary

Original: "An impassioned tale of facial revenge and a tour de force of unmistakable volume. Recorded live at Lawndale's short-lived yet legendary Club Cinderblock. A driving beat coupled with evocative imagery make this one destined to top the charts. If the guys can stop arguing about whether the spiral logo is going in the right direction and ok the CD cover."

Cover: "The only known cover of a Mystik Spiral song, by the French band Elastiqué (CD Single: Cacophonie 1999). A bonus are the extensive liner notes, which analyze the semiotics of the lyrics in term of existential theory and in relation to Pascal's Pensées. Kind of ironic since in translation they totally ignored the crop circle metaphor and turned it into a song about a frying pan, according to Trent's friend Monique's mother."

## Lyrics

i'm glad your happy
watching my pain
burning crop circles
on my soul's waves of grain
we had no love scene
but you cut to the chase
you're choppin' off my nose
to spite my face
ow, my nose
ow, my face
ow, my nose
ow, my face
oooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Pigskin Channel

**The Pigskin Channel** is a 24/7 American football channel of football all day every day watch the football WATCH IT IT MOVED

In "The Lab Brat", Daria got out of needing to work with Kevin by distracting him for the entire time with the channel. Quinn Morgendorffer tried in vain to get his attention but football won out; to secure him (he had been asking if he could still go round Daria's to watch Pigskin), Brittany talked her parents into getting satellite TV so she could get the channel.

The channel primarily shows old games. The MTV websites created a homepage for it in the early 90s ("Your Guide To Sweat On The Net"), which promoted upcoming shows:

* DO THEY RULE OR DO THEY SUCK? Lively debates moderated by fans for fans.

* OFFENSIVE MOVES Sex scandals of the NFL, hosted by [real-life gossip columnist] AJ Benza

* DRAFT PICKS Our experts help you select the perfect beer to complement your football-viewing experience.

* STAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! Overnight call-in show for those with a fondness for numbers and one-upmanship. 99.99 percent fun!
Outvoted

**Outvoted** was written by Kara Wild in September 1999 and is the ninth installment of the Driven Wild Universe. Like most other installments, it is written in quasi-script form with three Acts and commercials.

## Summary

Jane finds herself running for student body president against Sandi, who is determined to win at any cost.

## Trivia

This fanfic was originally going to have an appearance by the "Popular Girl" best known as Tori Jericho from "The Invitation" but as Wild was unaware of the fanon name, she was going to be called Pamela Chandler. Her inclusion as Sandi's henchman made the story too muddled, so Wild ended up writing her out of the story.
Oh, the Obscurity!

**Oh, the Obscurity!** is a now-dead MTV flipbook feature, giving info on minor characters.

Crucially it gave us the names of several Backgrounders.

## Feature

COREY—Quinn found him somewhat amusing in "Esteemsters." But after showing up at her door in "Quinn the Brain" and fetching punch in "Daria Dance Party," he lost favor and was demoted to background character. (First appeared in "Esteemsters")

BOY TEEN 8—The Daria artists like this mellow dude so much that he acquired the nickname "Shaggy." At Brittany's party in "The Invitation," he pops up in two places at once, defying physics. (First appeared in "Esteemsters")

BURNOUT GIRL—Daria supervising director Karen Disher designed this character and based it upon her very own self. "Burnout Girl" appeared in the original Daria pilot and is often seen roaming the halls of Lawndale High, lost in thought, much like Karen. (First appeared in the pilot)

DAWN—Officially known as "Girl Teen 6," this self-contained cutie is said to resemble a former office production assistant who quit to join the police force. Dawn was her name and so... (First appeared in "Esteemsters")

BRIAN TAYLOR—You know how children of divorce often erroneously blame themselves for the breakup? In the case of Brittany's little brother, it's the rest of the family pointing the finger at him. (First appeared in "The Lab Brat")

POPULAR GIRL—She can be seen standing with Tiffany and Stacy at Brittany's party in "The Invitation," holding forth on the nuances of popularity. She dropped out of sight shortly thereafter. (Sandi probably had something to do with it.) Note: She also plays volleyball in the show open. (First appeared in "The Invitation")

BLIND MAN—He originally appeared as a blind man, but a miracle occurred and he later re-appeared as a sighted person in "I Don't." (First appeared in "Esteemsters")

ADULT MALE 48—The rare Daria male brave enough to expose his chest hair, this disreputable character stole Trent's records in "That Was Then, This Is Dumb." (First appeared in "Monster")

TED DEWITT-CLINTON—Daria's photo-happy "like interest" from "The New Kid" had corn in his yard…and rocks in his head, since he let our darling Daria get away. (First appeared in "The New Kid")

GIRL TEEN 35—This frizzy-haired femme fatale was seen enthusiastically rubbing Kevin's chest (his shoulder pads, actually) in "This Year's Model." (First appeared in "This Year's Model")

SAM AND CHRIS GRIFFIN—Sandi's bratty brothers are named after Daria scribes Chris Marcil and Sam Johnson, who went on to Hollywood to write for "real" shows. (First appeared in "Gifted")
Michelle Klein-Hass

**Michelle Klein-Häss** was a noted fanfiction author and webmaster of Lawndale Commons. She began participating in Daria fandom in 1998 after the premiere of the second season. Michelle could often be found in #Daria+ IRC and ran #Lawndale, an alternate Daria IRC room, from late 1998 until approximately summer of 1999.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

Michelle's main fanfic contribution was the Lawndale, CT Continuum, a series of fics detailing the romantic relationship between Daria and Trent many years into the future. These stories were among the most influential early D/T shippers, and were also among the first to give a real-world location for Lawndale (this time in Connecticut). Unfortunately, in 2005, Ms. Klein-Häss requested that all fanfic sites remove her works, as she was disillusioned with her work and its influence.

Michelle was also associate editor of the now-defunct Toon Magazine, and interviewed Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis for the spring 1999 issue. This interview is notable for being the longest and most in-depth article about the show to appear in a print publication.

One of her essays, "ATV: The Edgy World of MTV Animation", is cited in the bibliography for "Misery Chick: Irony, alienation, and animation in MTV's Daria".
RX-87

**RX-87** was a Daria fanfiction writer, writing from 2011 to 2013; he died from complications of diabetes in October 2013. He was known for very weird and twisted ideas, often with black humour and genre mixes.

Fics include:

* "Daria of Kleenex": "Iron Chef: What's behind Alter Egos" contribution

* Daria 40k: Is It The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future, Yet?: a comedy crossover with Warhammer 40,000

* Parts of a (Bung)hole: angst/drama with a twisted pairing of Beavis and Jane

* "Iron Chef: Crazy Pairings" contributions
	+ "Letting Go" Part 1, Part 2, Epilogue: supernatural fic involving Val and Tommy Sherman
	+ Young Love: a brutal Brian Taylor-centred fanfic
	+ untitled Daria-as-dominatrix fic
	+ They Don't Cry: a Dawn/Jeffy angst fic

* The "Homeless Daria" series, an alternate universe where Daria and Jane are both homeless and Lawndale is a depressed ghetto city:
	+ Esteeming Out the Gutter
	+ You Invited This On Yourself
	+ A College Try Gives Me Blisters
	+ Cafe Dispossessedo

* The "Armored Cynic Daria" series (unfinished), a mash-up of Yoshiyuki Tomino style military sci-fi animes and Daria. "The Making Of" features pretend these are scripts from a late 1990s co-production between MTV and anime studio Sunrise.
	+ Esteem Rising
	+ The Eighth Circuit
		- The Making of Armored Cynic Daria (Part 1)
	+ Class in Session
Rick Parker

**Rick Parker** is a writer, letterer and cartoonist, who drew and lettered all 28 issues of the *Beavis and Butt-head* comic. He started in the comic industry in the late 1970s, as a letterer, and was sometimes credited by Marvel as "Ricko the Sicko"

His own personal style of cartooning is quite different to the Beavis and Butt-head house style - grotesque and with sight gags in every panel - and on the comic he would frequently put the two styles together in a panel for comedic effect.

He also, for reasons unknown, kept drawing yams into the background of Beavis and Butt-head.

Other work included the graphic novel Deadboy. .

## External Links

Rick Parker at Wikipedia
Parker's blog (abandoned since 2009
Scarlett (author)

*Daria* fan and author, one of the original members of the Infamous Unserious Five.

Do not confuse with Scarlet (one "t"), another *Daria* fanfic author.

* The Lawndale Tango by The New Kids on the Cell Block (Mahna Mahna, Betting on Delusions, Beth Ann, Guy “Decelaraptor” Payne, Scarlett)

## Daria Fanworks Awards

1st Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favourite Movie Rip Off Work (tie) for *The Lawndale Tango*

## The CRAPPIES Awards

1st CRAPPIES Awards

* Most Out of Character Daria for "The Lawndale Tango,"
Holiday Island

Introduced in the season-three episode "Depth Takes a Holiday," Holiday Island is an alternate reality accessed through a portal in the back of Lawndale's Good Time Chinese Restaurant. The island itself is a tropical island in which all the trees have died, and is marked by its own Good Times outlet and the Holiday Island High School. Vast stone statues representing holidays loom behind Good Times, of which we see the Valentines Day and Halloween ones.

All known holidays (at least those familiar to Western Civilization) have become live teenagers who attend Holiday Island High School. The holiday teens resemble the most common stereotypes or things associated with their namesakes, but with certain twists (e.g., Halloween is an amateur vandal, and Christmas is tired of being cheery all the time). The biggest holidays, Christmas and Halloween, are the most popular students at the school, though Guy Fawkes Day (a British punk in black leather) is also a member of their clique. The high school is largely populated by colorless nondescript students who are, according to Cupid (St. Valentine's Day), "a bunch of saints' days."

If a holiday leaves the island for too long, their holiday will begin to die out in the human world.

The holidays of Holiday Island are required to be happy at all times and to spread good cheer, which leads Christmas, Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day to (temporarily) escape the Holiday Island reality in protest. In their fortnight away, the school's social scene was taken over by President's Day. After they came back, half of President's Day joined their band, The Holidays.

Some time later, so claims an MTV website flipbook (archived via a fansite), Guy Fawkes Day is trying to get back off Holiday Island and settle on Earth permanently via marriage (or sleeping on someone's couch).

## Notable Characters from Holiday Island

* Christmas

* Halloween

* Guy Fawkes Day

* Saint Valentine's Day (a.k.a. Cupid)

* Saint Patrick's Day

* President's Day

* Memorial Day

* Thanksgiving

* Arbor Day

* Veteran's Day

## External Links

* Summary of "Depth Takes a Holiday" on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
Rain on Your Parade

**Rain on Your Parade** is the seventh "episode" of C.E. Forman's Lost Season One (of The Lost Seasons series), written in fall of 1998. It is the first of two parts. Like all of Forman's Lost Season episodes, it is written in quasi-script form with three Acts and commercials.

## Summary

Lawndale is holding its annual "Lawndale Days" festival, which turns the entire downtown into a carnival with a parade, craft booths, and a band competition. Several plot threads are woven throughout the story, which includes nearly everyone in the Seasons One and Two Dariaverse. In the main plot, Daria is reluctant to participate in the festival, until Jodie begs her to play the cymbals in the school band quintet. Daria consents, not realizing what her presence will do to Trent's chances in the band competition. Quinn and Sandi, meanwhile, get competitive in the beer tent, and Jake runs off to have the fun he never had as a kid.

## External Links

Rain on Your Parade at Outpost Daria Reborn
Mecha Ensign Daria

**Mecha Ensign Daria** was a Round Robin Iron Chef in 2018, involving Shiva, Roentgen, WellTemperedClavier, and JPAGC creating episodes, with Vukodlak and 45Ranger contributing mecha ideas.

The premise was that due to an MTV executive getting drunk, *Daria* becomes a parody of the growing anime shows like *Robotech*, *Evangelion* etc; "by the time anyone notices, Mecha Ensign Daria is too far into production to be halted and MTV just hopes it lasts." Thus Daria and Quinn arrive in Lawndale as in "Esteemsters", but the tests they run are to see if they should be part of Lawndale's L.I.O.N. (Lawndale Integrated Offensive Nature) Mecha Force that defend the town from giant monsters. The series merges high school comedy plots with mecha anime tropes and black humour, starting with Daria and her new friend Jane only being reserves for the *popular* kids.

The fanfic has an increasingly elaborate episode guide for Mecha Ensign Daria, complete with not just the plot of each story (which grew from brief synopses to lengthy ones) but a trivia section which broadens the world-within-a-world. "Trivia" talks about the bits that were cut on The N reairings, the impact of the toyline and how it changed the show, animation errors, behind-the-scenes activites, the DVD's changes to the music, and the views of fandom at the time. The latter even leads to mention of alternate universe versions of real-world *Daria* fanfiction!
Outcasts from Beyond

A novel-length alternate-universe fanfic by The Angst Guy that is a multiple crossover with the DC Comics and Marvel Universes, among others. Many of the canon characters of *Daria* are unknowingly the children of famous superheroes, brought here from their home worlds to save them from destruction. Certain extremely powerful characters, however, do not have the best of intentions. A lengthy series of notes at the story's end details the powers and abilities of the main super-characters.

## External Links

* "Outcasts from Beyond"

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Ruth Morgendorffer

**Ruth Morgendorffer** is the Mother of Jake Morgendorffer and widow of "Mad Dog" Morgendorffer, seen only in "Jake of Hearts". Ruth is voiced by Stacy Brass.

"The Daria Diaries" states her birthday is on October 24th.

## Character Overview

Ruth was a traditional housewife who stayed at home and raised her children, hence having a view that a woman's place is at home. This is shown as one of the reasons of her dislike of her daughter in law Helen, who she sees as neglecting her husband because of her work. She also discourages her granddaughter Quinn Morgendorffer of becoming a doctor, saying she should marry one instead.

She has limited interaction with Daria, and once offered her money to change her hairstyle (as apparently did Grandma Barksdale).

Ruth seems to have suffered (and still suffer) as much as Jake from the bullying of her husband "Mad Dog". In the episode Jake of Hearts she first describes him as a decent man but later starts remembering his faults (including never having been given enough money to care for the house and children). She apologizes to Jake for never having stood up for her son against him, admitting that she would do a lot of things differently if given the chance. Daria later reminds her of this comment when she's criticizing Helen and Quinn, and Ruth decides to leave, realizing her visit is causing more harm than good.

Ruth is also mentioned in "The Daria Diaries." Jake's letters home from military school say he forgives his mother for sending him there, since he knows she could never say no to Mad Dog. Jake's diary also reminds him of Ruth's birthday: "leave message on her machine." He doesn't seem to have kept up much contact with her until his heart attack.

## Trivia

* Ruth is noticeably shorter than Daria and possibly the shortest adult seen in the series.
* In a cut scene from an earlier draft of "Esteemsters", Jake says "and of course Mom was far too scared to say a word."
Pepperhill University

A college in which Quinn Morgendorffer is interested in attending. She inquires about its admissions standards at the beginning of *Is it Fall Yet?*. Applicants need a STAT score of at least 1000 and a B-minus average to get in, though Mr. O'Neill says Pepperhill University is "known more for its wide range of social activities than academics". David Sorenson dismisses it as a "party school".

The Fashion Club as a whole intended to apply to Pepperhill University. Once they heard about the admission requirements, Sandi decided they'd all go somewhere else. Quinn still seemed interested in going to Pepperhill at the end of IIFY?.

## Fanfiction Use

Fanfiction authors tend to use Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, as a template for Pepperhill, such as in Richard Lobinske's Falling Into College series. (In that series, the student newspaper is known, appropriately as The Peppermill.)
Jason

**Jason** was a friend of Corey's and one of the first people to meet Quinn Morgendorffer.

In "Esteemsters", he sits in the auditorium with Quinn and Corey, making fun of Jane and Daria and generally bro-ing out to get Quinn's attention. He's left horrified when he finds out that Daria is Quinn's sister: "Are you a brain, too?"

In "Daria Dance Party", he and Corey (both of them together) are Quinn's dates to the dance.

## Notes

* Unnamed in the episode but named in the script.
Romonica DeGregory

**Romonica DeGregory** is a scout for Amazon Modeling Agency and has an accent of unknown origin. Along with Claude, she manipulates everyone by praising their beauty and chances of being a model, even - *especially* - if it's a fib to steer them. It's Romonica who drafts a plump girl as the "decoy". She could shrug off Jane Lane drawing her as a vulture but not Daria explicitly insulting her.

She really wanted Quinn in the modelling class, and phoned Helen (midway through a wax job) to push her to let Quinn be in. In the class, she got them to pose with: "All right, ladies, your worst enemy is at the end of the catwalk. The one who stole your boyfriend. She has fallen and broken her leg. Your job is to tell her, without words, that you've come to watch them cut it off." She and Claude then pushed for the girls to start caressing boys' bare chests, which neither of them seemed to think could cause a problem.

Once Kevin was signed to Amazon, Romonica became verbally abusive of him.
Mystik Slacker

*Daria* fanfic author.

## Bibliography of Major Works

* The True Cynicism Series
* Breaking Strain
* The Butterfly Storm
* In the End, I Can Be Only Numb
* The Journal of Daria Morgendorffer
* Love's Labours Undone
* Melody Powers in "Butcher, Baker, Cancer-stick Maker"
* My Favorite Enemy
* The Omega Cynic
* Strange Bedfellows
* Temple of Gloom
* A Warrior Maid of Lawndale
* Welcome to the Rat Race

## External Links

* Author's works listed on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
Reality Crossover

A **reality crossover** is a *Daria* fanfic in which one or more characters enter the "real world" that we know, possibly meeting real-life fans, fanfiction authors, fan artists, or even the *Daria* show's creators in real person fiction. A reality crossover might also be a story in which the *Daria* characters are revealed to be actors who take part in the TV series. The series was well known for having Daria and Jane appear in off-canon canon situations in which they either appear in the real world or else have knowledge of it and their existence as cartoon characters.

It is possible to consider a reality crossover as the exact opposite of real-person fiction. In the former, Daria or one of her cohorts appears in the real world; in the latter, a real-life celebrity appears in a Dariaverse.

## Examples

Reality crossovers are not often seen. Some notable examples are given below.

* "Canon Fodder," by Roentgen: Characters as actors story.
* "Drawn & Quartered," by TAG: Characters as actors story.
* "MTV Ruins Everything," by Seldavia: Daria writes the show.
* "Selling Sarcasm (Is a Great Way to Deal)," by Shane Greentree: Characters as actors scriptfic.
* "The Slacker Within," by Medea42: Trent comes to the real world.
* "The Trouble with Cast Parties," by Jill Palmer: Characters as actors story.
* "Walls? What Walls?" by smk: Daria, in spirit, visits a fanfic author.
* In "It's All About Respect," Brittany Taylor has a unplanned meeting with Brother Grimace, during which they discuss handguns.
LOTR Dan

LOTRDan (sometimes written LOTR\_Dan), is a student living in Southern California. His fondness for The Lord of the Rings is well known.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

LOTRDan has attempted to write fanfiction, but as of this writing, his only contributions are an appearance in Derek's Celebrity Jeopardy: Daria Edition series and an unfinished "Tom-Stacy Shipper" story tentatively titled "People Who Need People."