It Happened One Nut

Season 3, Episode 7, Aired

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Daria and Quinn get jobs at the mall, neither of which goes over well for them. Daria works at a nut stand, where she gets salary deducted because she doesn't smile; what's worse, her co-worker, Kevin, is completely incompetent. Quinn works at the pet store, where she finds she has to work with "un-cute" animals as well as cute ones, and ends up causing havoc.moreless
  • This is one of those great episodes that are fun to watch time and time again!

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    "It Happened One Nut" is one of those episodes that capitalizes on the great character development that has been in the works for the best three years and takes it a step further by putting three of those characters in their first after-school jobs. And who doesn't remember their first job: how awful it was, how humiliating you felt working there, and how you realized for the first time that the "real world" was going to be a lot more like high school than you thought. Daria and Kevin end up working in a mall nutstand wearing ridiculous uniforms and working for a manager that is never actually at the store. Kevin once again proves him ineptitude at all things in life by not even being able to figure out which nuts are which despite the fact that all of the bins are clearly labeled. Daria, of course, ends up doing most of the work to compensate for him, but her lack of smiling don't make the manager happy. By the time Jane figures out a way to get Daria out of the job by involving Daria's mother, Daria has already been seen by most of the school in her uniform (including her crush, Trent) and has had to bail Kevin out of more dumb situations than she'd care to count. Through all of this there is the great "B" story of Quinn at her first job at the mall's pet store, where she manages to lose a canary and a boa constrictor within her first few days. Of course, she has her trio of boy-toys roped into finding the boa, but she still won't be able to pay for the modeling photos she get the job for in the first place with all of the pets she has to pay for.

    "It Happened One Nut" is a great episode to watch for some laughs with your favorite characters, but in true TV fashion, everything goes back to the status quo in the end. I would have liked to see Daria in some other part-time jobs throughout the seasons, but I guess the writers said all they felt they had to say on the subject.moreless
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    • The "flute thing" that Jeffy mentions to call a snake is a reference to snake charming, which involves playing an oboe, which is in the woodwind family of instruments along with the flute.

    • Running Gag: My soul's waves of grain. When Trent needs a lyric, someone suggests this same lyric.

  • QUOTES (18)

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    • Daria: Welcome to It's a Nutty, Nutty, Nutty World, we're just nuts about nuts. Kevin: (trying to keep up) Welcome to... Crunch Munch nuts... World of... nuts. Manager: You almost had it, try again after me: Welcome to It's a Nutty, Nutty, Nutty World. Kevin: Uh, like, welcome to Nuts World. Manager: Nutty, Nutty, Nutty World! Kevin: Uh, Nuts World, Nutty Nutty, um, uh, lunch. Manager:No! Kevin: Hey, don't worry, I'll get it right for the customers.

    • Helen: Jane, do you need an attorney? I don't do criminal work but I'll get you someone. Don't say anything to anyone until we get over there.

    • Daria: Now you're making me smile. Figuratively speaking.

    • Kevin: Wow! That's your third sale. I thought you brains only knew about school stuff, but, like, you know how to sell nuts, too. Amazing. Daria: Yes, Kevin. You'd be surprised how handy a command of basic literacy skills can be.

    • Jane: Misery loves company. Daria: You don't have to tell me that. It's the basis of our whole friendship.

    • Daria: You're going to counsel me? Of course. It's some kind of cosmic payback for being too ironic. Tiffany: (reading) You...too...can learn to...make... Daria: ...Yes? Tiffany: ...friends. Making friends is... Daria: Fun? Interesting? Impossible? Tiffany: ...important. Friends can be very... Daria: Useful? Supportive? Purple?! What?! Tiffany: You made me lose my place!

    • Helen: (looking at Daria's career aptitude test) A MORTICIAN? Daria: Hey, it's not my fault. Neck model was already taken. Helen: (reading) "Your lack of interest in personal interaction makes you an ideal candidate for working with the dead"? Daria, have you given any thought to your career plans? Daria: I guess I'll just wait around for people to kick the bucket. Helen: I can't believe you're not more ambitious! Daria: You want me to kill people to drum up business?

    • Quinn: A-hem, does anyone notice anything special about me? Daria: Yes, from just the right angle, I really can see through your head. Quinn: My neck! I got my career aptitude test results at school today, and they said I have a future as a neck model for jewelry catalogues. Daria: So your head would serve as sort of an accent piece?

    • Helen: Daria, did you take a career aptitude test? Daria: I don't remember. Helen: So, I have to call the school to get your results. Daria: If you so choose. Helen: (with an evil grin) Or maybe I'll just drop by in person to give you a surprise snack for your lunch box, pop into class and give it to you myself. Daria: All right, all right! (handing over the crumpled test) That's check and mate.

    • Boss: Congratulations, Daria. You're our salesperson of the day. Daria: I always dreamed of the day my picture would hang in a nut house.

    • Jane: I can't believe it. Finally, someone I know is attacked by animals, and I and my video camera are nowhere to be found. Daria: I'm not sure if cute little furballs milling around your feet really constitutes an attack. Jane: Hey, you don't know what they were thinking.

    • Mr. DeMartino: My congratulations, Miss Lane. You've done it again. Jane: Perfect record. I've gotten the same thing three years in a row. Daria: (reading) "Accountant"? Jane: That's what happens when you fill in the letter "C" for every answer. Gets the whole test over within five minutes.

    • (Jesse and Trent are trying to write a song) Jesse: My soul's waves of grain? Trent: I heard that somewhere before...

    • Jane: Monster trucks and naked models! Naked, naked, naked!

    • Daria & Kevin: Welcome to "It's a Nutty Nutty Nutty World." We're just nuts about nuts.

    • Boy: I want this puppy! Quinn: Oh, no! Thats Fifi. She's my favorite. Boy: (loudly) But I want that one! Woman: What is going on over here? Quinn: OH NO!! Where's Joanne? Woman: Who's Joanne? Quinn: Mr. Matthews said not to let the puppies' little paws touch the rough floor, so I put them on the lid from Joanne's cage. Woman: (urgently) Who's Joanne? Quinn: How did she get over the side of the cage?! Don't boa constrictors have gravity? (woman screams and runs out with kid)

    • Kevin: Uh, where are the almonds? Daria: Right here. Where the sign that says "almonds". That is the same barrel with the picture of the almond on it. Kevin: Oh, thanks! (turns around) Where'd you point again?

    • Kevin: Hey, Daria! Where are the peanuts? Daria: Try the peanut bin, you idiot!

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    • Music -The Ramones - "That Job Ate My Brain" (closing credits) -Fatboy Slim - "The Rockafeller Skank" (after Daria finishes her first day of her new job) -Skunk Anansie - "Hedonism (Just Because it Feels Good)" (Helen, Quinn & Daria at table) -Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Magical Colors" (Daria at counseling) -Camper Van Beethoven - "Eve of Fatima" (Jane & Daria at the mall) -Eve's Plum - "I Want it All" (Daria's first day of work) -Veruca Salt - "Shutterbug" (Jane, Trent & Jesse arriving at nut stand)

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    • Character: Mr. Matthews Mr. Matthews resembles a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series named Hodgesaargh. Hodgesaargh is the falcon keeper for Lancre Castle. He's very concerned about his animals, but little else, and he's usually sporting many bandages, especially on his ear.

    • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World The name of the nut stand that Daria and Kevin work at (It's a Nutty, Nutty, Nutty, Nutty World) is a pun of the title of the 1965 classic comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The film starred just about every living comedic actor at the time, and involved a crazy cross-country race to find buried treasure. It was remade in 2000 as Rat Race.

    • Title Pun: It Happened One Nut The episode's title alludes to the famous 1934 romantic comedy It Happened One Night, directed by Frank Capra, and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.

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