This episode of Daria is typical of the beginneing episodes. It does have an interesting twist of Brittany being jealous of both Daria and Quinn because Kevin is constantly wanting to go over to their house to work on the science project, which is him watching hours of football on the T.V.
While Daria is working on the project Quinn is playing hostess to Kevin in hopes that he\'ll ask her out. This is fun because, as we all know, Quinn is used to having the guys play this role for her but of course Kevin is the Q.B.
This is a fun episode and an example why this is one of my favorite series.moreless
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Ms. Barch, a science teacher who despises men thanks to her bitter divorce, has her class pair up to do a rat-in-a-maze project. Daria is paired with dimwitted jock Kevin, whom she distracts with the Pigskin Channel while she does all the work herself. Kevin's girlfriend Brittany, meanwhile, is paired with the sleazy Upchuck, who makes Brittany his slave by blackmailing her with a picture he took of her and some guy in the backseat of a car. At Daria's house, Quinn hits on Kevin nonstop, and jealous Brittany becomes convinced that both Morgendorffers are trying to steal him from her.moreless
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Jessica Zaino
Stacy Rowe
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Tracy Grandstaff
Daria Morgendorffer
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Wendy Hoopes
Jane Lane, Helen Morgendorffer, Quinn Morgendorffer
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Julian Rebolledo
Jake Morgendorffer
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Marc Thompson
Kevin Thompson, Anthony DeMartino, Timothy O'Neill, Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer, Jamie White
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Janie Mertz
Brittany Taylor
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TRIVIA (3)
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It is revealed that Lawndale High's rival school is Oakwood High School.
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At Pizza King, Jane's hair is parted on the wrong side (exposing her rarely-seen right ear) when she and Daria are first talking to Kevin.
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The peephole on Daria's front door kept disappearing and reappearing; the first time there was no peephole, the next time there was a peephole, then there wasn't a peephole, and then there was. (In "The Big House," there was no peephole.)
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QUOTES (12)
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(Kevin wanders into the garage where Daria has been working on the project) Daria: Kevin, what are you doing here? Did you get lost? Kevin: No. I mean...sorta.
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Brittany: Kevin, the new Whitney Houston movie is out, and I want you to take me. Tonight. Kevin: Can't, babe. Gotta work with Daria. You know: science. Daria: That's all right, Dr. Pasteur. You can take the night off. Kevin: Daria, that's a chick movie! Jane: Psst...Kevin. Brittany's a "chick"!
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Kevin: Hey, Daria? Daria: Yes? Kevin: I'm having a big party Friday, and I want a lot of cool people there. Could you... Daria: Yes? Kevin: Ask Quinn if she could make it?
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Brittany: (to Kevin) But, babe, we've never been separated on a lab project before. What'll we do? Daria: Pass?
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Daria: In conclusion, this mouse, through no fault of my own Brittany, was repeatedly abused by a ten year old boy; as a result the mouse's primary response to everyday stimuli is fear. Similar reactions occur in humans: take the mugging victim beaten with nunchucks in an alleyway, as he or she recalls the attacker's face, his graggly goatee and cheap, dangly earring, she learns to hate and fear all men, regardless of age, race or taste in jewelry. Kevin: Really? Mrs. Barch: Don't interrupt, hateful scum! (Smiling) Excellent job, Daria, you get an A. Kevin: All right! Mrs. Barch: Not you, you man! You get a D! Kevin: All right!
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Ms. Barch: Shut up Mack! (Mack lift's up his head in surprise)
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Daria: This is all very touching. Brittany, a deal. The mouse for Kevin. Brittany: Deal. Both: (thinking) Sucker. Brittany: Let's go, Kevin. Kevin: Daria, I can still come over and watch the Pigskin Channel, right? Both: (thinking) Jerk.
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Kevin: Hey! Is this the mouse we're training? Daria: You don't recognize him after all your hours together? Kevin: Hey, can you make him stand on his head? Daria: Not right now. He's exhausted from jumping rope.
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Helen: Science is fascinating. Tell me all about it, honey. Daria: I can't. I signed a confidentiality paper. The other scientists would be mad. Helen: (groans) Oh, forget it, Daria. Quinn, how was your day? Quinn: It sucked. First my teacher gave my paper on Cleopatra's makeup don'ts an "F" -- like he would know. Then my heel broke. Then, like, the day was almost over and only two guys had asked me out. Luckily, just before... Helen: Daria, please tell me about the project!
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Daria: So, now Kevin's my lab partner. Jane: Next best thing to working alone. Daria: Oh, no. He likes mazes. Jane: Maybe you could get a wind-up toy to distract him. Daria: His wind-up toy is working with Upchuck.
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Kevin: I really like doing mazes. Those ones on the back of cereal boxes are cool. Daria: Well, now I am excited.
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Daria: Hmm... to make a child stop crying, a mother might say, "That's it! I'm sending you to El Paso to live with your real father." Whenever the child gets upset, the mother might wave an airline ticket in her face, or maybe even frame it on the wall by the clown picture. The ticket stops the girl from crying, or showing any emotion... ever. Ms. Barch: Right, that's... Daria: Years later, seeing an airplane or just hearing one fly overhead can unleash a Pandora's Box of repressed anger, shattering the grown child's fragile psyche and triggering a psychotic and possibly deadly episode. Ms. Barch: I like the way you think.
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NOTES (1)
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Music -Splendora - "You're Standing on My Neck" (opening credits) -Ben Lee - "Pop Queen" (Daria & Jane in the cafeteria) -Morphine - "Like Swimming" (Upchuck blackmails Brittany) -Buckshot Le Fongue - "Music Evolution" (Daria & Kevin in garage) -The Spice Girls - "Say You'll Be There" (inside Pizza King) -Veruca Salt - "All Hail Me" (Brittany & her brother) -Dishwalla - "It's Going to Take Some Time" (Brittany, Kevin & Daria in garage)
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ALLUSIONS (4)
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Kevin: Hey, Quinn, what's for dessert? Quinn: (to Brittany) Got to run, bye! Old slang said that "dessert" was guy-code for "girl" after a dinner-date. (For example: "Did you have a good meal?" "It was O.K. but the dessert was wonderful!")
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Louis Pasteur Dr. Pasteur was a chemist (most famous for the invention of Pasteurization for milk products) who had the gall to tell medical doctors they ought to wash their hands before they practiced surgery. His work against various infections (including Anthrax and rabies) managed to get him called a "menace to science".
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Hugh Hefner Upchuck's smoking jacket outfit that he wears while he and Brittany are working on their project is modeled after Playboy creator Hugh Hefner's famous look.
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The Pigskin Channel The fictitious Pigskin Channel is a joke on all those specialty cable TV channels, especially sports-related channels like the Golf Channel, Speedvision, and the myriad ESPN channels. Perhaps the producers were onto something, though, because in 2004, life imitated art with the debut of the NFL Network. Also, Daria's description of it ("Great big guys slamming into other great big guys") is reminiscent of Terry Pratchett's description of the Discworld version of Sumo wrestlers in his book Interworld. "The wrestlers started to move hopefully towards the men, in a slow but deliberate run designed to be halted only by collision with another wrestler or a continent."
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Quinn and Sandi rivalry
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eavis and Butthead
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