Daria is an animated television show created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn and was a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-head. Each shows were by MTV's now-defunct animation department. Daria has been bought by broadcasters inside supplementary than twenty countries - view [http://www.sylvesternet.freeserve.co.uk/irony-maiden/international.htm Daria International].

Daria's first incarnation was as an occasional character inside Beavis and Butt-head, where she formed an intelligent foil to the deuce lunkhead. Within her eponymous series, Daria became more angsty; to some, she's a poster child for 'teen misfit.' Sonant by Tracy Grandstaff, Daria is a monocled, plainly, extremely intelligent, unfashionably dressed, & ostensibly misanthropical teen girl world health organization is portrayed as an icon of saneness inside an mad house, by having her vacuous, fashion-obsessed sister Quinn & career-obsessed parents Helen & Jake. When very much of the indicate occurs as vehicle for Daria's droll deadpan monotone one-liners, a revenant plot element within early seasons is Daria standing as much as lost authority, leading a bit of fans to conclude that her apparent cynicism is only skin deep.

Other major characters
Helen Morgendorffer - (First Appearance: "Esteemsters") Daria's workaholic mother & a personal's main earner. She feels shamed just about non existence the cappella to spend additional instance using her personal, however when an lawyer (apparently, a defense lawyer), is unable to spend as much period by owning or even attention towards her personal as she'500 prefer. Jake Morgendorffer - (First Appearance: "Esteemsters") Daria's father. He got the nonindulgent military father, "Mad Dog" world health organizatiin is late revealed to develop passed in, & tends to develop mood swings & last off on rants all about his childhood. His efforts to do the consulting business from either house are non blessed successfully. He is in essence clueless. Jake au fond blames everyone for his problems however himself, & normally becomes extraordinarily angry above minor life blow. Such as Mr. O'Neill, he is caught inside his have personalized "black hole," perfectly unable to watch a world beyond the self imposed terms of his perpetual victimhood, ignorance & anxiety. Jane Lane - (First Appearance: "Esteemsters") Daria's artistic right friend & fellow castaway. Trent Lane - (First Appearance: "The Invitation") Jane's brmore & a sole other Lane however for good living in the Lane family. The placed-mellow shirker, he plays lead guitar in the band Mystik Spiral and, perhaps non amazingly, bears the heavy resemblance to Jakob Dylan of the Wallflowers. Besides Daria's romanticist interest for very much of the series although he seemed unaware of it. His catchword is "Be all that you can be. Or at least try and get up before noon" Tom Sloane - (Number one Appearance: "Jane's Addition") Foremost appeared when Jane's fellow & late became Daria's swain. He belongs to one of Lawndale's richest families, however this international relations and security network't apparent from either his appearance. Tom & Daria ended their relationship in a series finale (& the 2nd Daria pic) Would it be College However? Andrea - (Foremost Appearance: "Esteemsters") A Lawndale High Goth. Andrea's worldview can put Daria's to shame. Brittany Taylor - (First Appearance: "Esteemsters") Lawndale High's head cheerleader. The bubble-brained blonde, she is popular however is typically seen by owning Daria & Jane. Kevin Thompson - (First Appearance: "Esteemsters") Lawndale High's football team's quarterback. Fellow to Brittany. To call for him when dumb as a brick would exist as insulting--to the brick. Jodie Landon - (First Appearance: "The Invitation") One of couple melanize students at Lawndale High, Jodie is the quintessential overachiever, pushed by her challenging parents. Michael "Mack" MacKenzie - (1st Appearance: "The Invitation") Jodie's fellow & besides an additional of the pack blacken students at Lawndale High. He is roughly of corresponding intelligence to Jodie & is the Lawndale High's eleven's captain. Kevin calls him "Mack Daddy", which he hates to a higher degree anything. Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer III - (Number 1 Appearance: "The Invitation") Is the globe's least worthy male, by owning the world's worst taste within & big arsenal of came-ons. The Fashion Club: Sandi Griffin - (Number one Appearance: "Esteemsters") A club president, or even peradventure its monarch. She system a fashion club sustaining an iron fist. Sandi occurs as control freak world health organization is intensely jealous of Quinn's popularity & ability for what she wants. Quinn Morgendorffer - (First Appearance: "Esteemsters") Daria's sister, the fashion victim? Non whenever she could serve it! She's a club Vice-president & her independent concerns come fabric, boys, & popularity. When she is intelligent, Quinn's mind is ordinarily in the shallow end of the pool. Stacy Rowe - (Foremost Appearance: "Esteemsters") Pigtailed Stacy is the secretary of the club & appears to stand there are no personality of her have. She is flighty, highly unsafe, & the innate follower. She has developed the right as a consequence among Daria fans. Tiffany Blum-Deckler - (Number one Appearance: "The Invitation") A "yes man" of the club. She'll universally side by using either Sandi or even Quinn based in world health organization's winning. She is typically presented when a least intelligent of the class action. An Asian girl, she speaks veeery sloooowly sustaining the valley girl quality to her voice. She is too super self-egocentric (possibly extra then than a more fashion club members.) Lawndale High Teachers: Ms. Janet Barch - (1st Appearance: "The Lab Brat") Science teacher. She is psychotically aggressive towards 100% males due to the like mussy & bitterly divorcement, pertinent of a single-linearity. She & Mr. O'Neil will have many "flings" together across out a series. Mrs. Diane Bennett - (1st Appearance: "Malled") Economic science Teacher. For a select few obscure cause she is known primarily for her hate of pennies. Her chalkboard diagrams resemble football plays. She is normally seen executing the project to undertake a few mistily, or even barely, training "field trip" sequentially to refrain from actually getting to teach her students anything. Ms. Claire Defoe - (1st Appearance: "The Invitation") Art Teacher. Virtually all down-to-earthy of the faculty & patient too. Likely hipster past. Mr. Anthony DeMartino - (Number 1 Appearance: "Esteemsters") History Teacher. DeMartino is stressed pertinent of existence put within the straitjacket. He has a habit of shouting each fifth word or even therefore inducing one of his eyes to pop. Nitwit rather Kevin & Brittany really upset him. He seems to exist as an amalgam of Christopher Walken (appearance) and Kirk Douglas (speech pattern). He is chronically piercingly all over his moo earnings & disgust at a incompetence of many of his students, particularly Brittany & Kevinside, world health organization seem to exist as making absolutely there are no effort to succeed in his class, &, in case their schoolroom performance is any indication of their abilities, can be educationally incompetent pertinent of functional illiteracy and therefore thoroughly unteachable around the conventional classroom setting. Ms. Angela Li - (Number 1 Appearance: "Esteemsters") Primary of Lawndale High. She is obsessed by using fund raising & a school's image. Numerous fans accept that a interest inside fund raising is because she utilizes a regular budget in security system for the school, like drug dogs & closed circuit cameras. She might clean anything to bring fame to Lawndale High. She has the cold-shoulder inferiority complex, and typically refuses to part any total of control above the situation. It appears that like than a school itself, she is primarily interested around projecting her have image & receiving attention; she inside all likelihood has aspirations in business or even politics that last beyond existence principal of Lawndale High. A obsession across security reflects her want to control a school. Her self-self-aggrandisement often will bring her into conflict by owning Daria & Jane, world health organization seldom view eye to eye by using either her goals, or even methods of achieving the children. Mr. Timothy O'Neil - (1st Appearance: "Esteemsters") English Teacher. Sensitive "new age guy" universally talking just about feelings however doesn't have a an expert grip in his have emotions. Cries easy. Acidic Ms. Barch & this creampuff seem an odd match. He as well tends to have a condition remembering students' list, or even faces. To a higher degree any more aspect of his personality, Mr. O'Neill is apparently trapped within his have private "black hole," unable to relate to anyone at a school, or even within his home life. He reflects all about he lives across his have twisted lens of spinelessness & on top-compensation for his want to keep away from possibly a appearence of conflict in the least costs. This normally leads to his existence either perfectly misunderstood, profits told to incumbency, or even just ignored. Mrs. Margaret Manson - (Number 1 Appearance: "Esteemsters") School psychologist. She just has of these speaking role, within episode 101 "Esteemsters", where she declares Daria has self-esteem issues. She seems underqualified for her job, & she spews psychological jargon & cant that couple of may decipher. Rita - (First Appearance: "I Don't") Helen's sister. Rita & Helen keep around an on-going fight from either childhood, & never become along. Amy - (Foremost Appearance: "I Don't") Helen's more sister. Daria understands her when a "cool one." She stays away from Helen & Rita's fights, mostly. She is seen by several fans as a prefiguration of what Daria might develop as much as exist as. A physical resemblance between the babies (especially whenever Amy dons eyeglasses) is noteworthy.

Trivia
After a indicate began around 1997, Daria & her personal upright moved from either Upland to the loaded town of Lawndale. A lone tv show Daria is shown to observe is Sick, Sad World (however, merely a preview or even commercial break of a indicate is shown prior to Daria turns it hit within virtually all legal actions) , the Daria team's spoof of ballyhoo artist oddity computer program. (Excepting a clip from either Charlie's Angels shown in "Murder, She Snored" before the dream sequence begins.) Production of both half-30 minutes episode took ten months to a year, from either construct to post-production. European fansite [http://www.sylvesternet.freeserve.co.uk/irony-maiden/ The Irony Maiden] ran a competition to call for the Easter egg on [http://www.sylvesternet.freeserve.co.uk/members/books/daria/iicymorv.htm the DVD release of Is It College Yet?] (a Beavis & Butthead short accessible via a yellow line in Daria's graduation gown in the independent menu). The fan calling himself John T won. Tom Sloane's personal name is even the information to denote his family's old money status by alluding to their British counterparts, dubbed Sloane Rangers.

Episodes
Season 1