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{{quote|''[[Brutal Honesty|I've got to be direct]]
''[[The Cassandra|If I'm wrong,]] [[Sarcasm Mode|please correct]]
''[[Surrounded by Idiots|You're standing on my neck]]
''You're standing on my neck''|'''Splendora'''|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}XwXzO7xiSXk "You're Standing on My Neck"], opening theme}}
''Daria'' is an animated [[High School]] [[Dramedy]] about a waifish, sardonic teen girl with coke-bottle glasses, army boots, and absolutely no patience for the idiocy around her (she used to have ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' for classmates, can you blame her?).
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Approximately eight years after the series ended, the show ''finally'' [http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Daria-The-Complete-Series/13322 got an official DVD release on May 11th, 2010].
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== A-D ==
* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: Mrs. Barch ''is'' this trope, both played straight and subverted. She treats all men like dirt and has made Mr. O'Neill her bitch as of "The Daria Hunter." However, it's made clear that what she's doing is wrong (even though she's never punished for what she's done. See [[Karma Houdini]]) and Mr. O'Neill is actually receptive to her brutal love-making (but that's because he doesn't have to stones to stand up to her {{spoiler|and when he tried to in "Is It College Yet?", it just made her want him even more}}).
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* [[Debate and Switch]]: Glasses or contacts?
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Allison in ''Is It Fall Yet?'' is the second type.
* [[The Ditz]]: Brittany, Kevin, and any number of one-shots that seem to crop up entirely to torment Daria by merely existing. The Fashion Club is a whole group of ditzes, though over time, this is shown to be a bit more complicated - while all four have varying levels of this, Quinn is eventually revealed to possess [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], whereas Sandi is the [[Alpha Bitch]]. Tiffany and Stacy are pure ditzes, with Tiffany approaching [[Cloudcuckoolander]] status and Stacy is more of a toady with no self-esteem
** Stacy actually isn't quite that dumb. If she applied herself, she could easily succeed, but she just has some emotional issues, especially self-esteem related. (Sandi naturally exploits this and dominates her.) Even the tutor said that she was actually ''much'' smarter than Sandi and Tiffany. Brittany is also shown to be more street-smart than book smart.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Janet Barch, unless the man in question happens to be [[Pitbull Dates Puppy|Timothy O'Neill.]]
* [[Nobody Touches the Hair]]
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Daria and Quinn.
* [[Totally Radical]]: Val talks in ''nothing'' but these...in particular, she attaches the word "jiggy" to everything.
* [[Training From Hell]]: ''Arguably the point of the entire series'' -- that going through high school is hell. Lampshaded at the end of "See Jane Run" (where D & J look over what happened and admit that "they really are preparing us for the real world"), and in ''Is It College Yet?'', with Daria's speech at graduation
:Also, Jake's childhood at the hands of his father, Mad Dog Morgandorffer and when Jake was sent to military school. Subverted in that it all arguably made Jake a weaker person.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Jane's life, over the entire course of this series, is made of this trope. [[Casa Lane Parenting|Absentee parents and she has to raise herself?]] That's the beginning - and [[It Got Worse|it doesn't get better]] until Jane manages to get accepted into college - and [[Hope Spot|considering the way things have gone for her so far...]]
* [[Tricksters]]: Daria and Jane, sort of. Daria is an admitted slacker.
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* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Brittany's first episode showed her with a much different vocal delivery than the hyper-perky squeaky voice she's genuinely known for. Jane started out with a softer, more monotonous delivery that also frequently made her sound like she always had a cold. That developed into a clearer, more emotive and snarkier tone.
** On the flipside, Daria's voice lost a lot of its emotion (and yes, that's possible) in season 5.
* [[We Do Not Know Each Other]]: Quinn tells everyone that she and Daria are not related; Daria doesn't care enough to protest (well, except embarrass her). Subverted in the end: when Quinn finally softens enough to tell her friends the truth, they reveal that they knew all along (perhaps due to an address Daria gave at a school assembly on the issue in the first episode), but were just being polite
**Mildly inverted in "Gifted", when Trent insists on referring to Quinn as simply "'Daria's sister.'" Arguably, Trent doing this perfectly exemplifies everything Quinn fears from Daria.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Jake continues to be miserable about how little respect he got from his now-deceased father.
** Helen apparently started working hard at school so that she would get attention from her mother, which has blossomed into full-blown workaholism by adulthood.
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** "Boxing Daria" gives the above episode a run for its money.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Although the creative team ran out of ideas by then, consider this exchange in ''Is It College Yet?'':
{{quote|'''Jane:''' [[Graduate From the Story|To college!]] I can't wait! What do you think we'll find when we get there?
'''Daria:''' Hmm. That the students are shockingly ignorant, the professors self-centered and corrupt, and the entire system geared solely to the pursuit of funding? }}
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Quinn's crusade to protect the ''cute'' animals.
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