The Lost Girls

Season 3, Episode 6, Aired

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Val, the editor of a self-titled teen magazine (along the lines of "Seventeen"), comes to Lawndale High to hang out with Daria, after reading Daria's paper that Mr. O'Neill submitted. Val turns out to be an egomaniacal thirty-something airhead who's trying way too hard to look and act like a teenager. How long before Daria tells her off?moreless

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    • TRIVIA (4)

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      • This episode is essentially a giant slam of the MTV culture.

      • Val, mostly, makes many references to various young people in the entertainment industry, including Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio ("Leo"), Drew Barrymore, Fiona Apple, Neve Campbell, Gwyneth Paltrow ("Gwynnie"), Winona Ryder ("Noni"), and Skeet Ulrich.

      • By the end of this episode, the name "Val" has been used 63 times (64 if you count when Brittany spells it out in a cheer) and has been personally said by Val herself 21 times.

      • Running Gags: People overusing the word "Val", including Val herself, and Val misusing youth-oriented phrases like "Whack" and "That is so jiggy!"

    • QUOTES (16)

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      • (Val is talking about herself) Val: Pretty good, for a twenty-eight-year-old! Daria: (surprised) Twenty-eight? Val: I know, I know, people still think I'm, like, 16! When Drew and I go out clubbing, I'm always the one who gets carded. Daria: These clubs? Are they very, very dark?

      • Quinn: Spotlight - Lawndale Fashion Club, a VAL Magazine special photo spread. What do you think? Daria: I think the world's gone mad. Mad I tell you.

      • Daria: It's my own fault for getting lured into conversation.

      • Val: Dar, why is everyone wearing the same thing? Daria: School color day. Val: You should have told me. I want to fit in while I'm here. Daria: Therein lies the difference between us.

      • Ms. Li: It's going very well, wouldn't you say? Daria: We haven't actually come to blows yet.

      • Brittany: Give me a "V", give me an "A", give me an "L"! Gosh, that's short.

      • Daria: "School color day"? Are you trying to give the public eyeball conjunctivitis?

      • Mr. O'Neill: Sorry, Jane, but I'm sworn to secrecy! (drags Daria off) Jane: I'm sorry...your name again?

      • Val: Waterproof eye makeup is so important, Dar. And glitter--I'm really into glitter these days. It makes everyone feel like a star. Are you getting this, Dar? Why don't you read me back your notes? Daria: Okay. "What am I doing here? How am I going to get through this? Dear God, help me." Val: Wow, you are so existential. But, didn't you write down anything I said?

      • Quinn: Um, was she a little old for that outfit? Daria: She's a little old for that brain.

      • Daria: Welcome to Lawndale, where style meets substance and says, "see ya!"

      • Quinn: Before that...that "grunge," Seattle was just another city in our nation's capital. Daria: Wrong Washington. Quinn: Yes, grunge was wrong, but you can't blame the whole state.

      • Mr. O' Neil: WE WON! WE WON! (hugs Daria) Daria: (disgusted) Lawsuit.

      • Val: Exactly, whack! Daria: Is there a duck in here?

      • Daria: I'm not being negative, I'm being "edgy"!

      • Daria: As far as I can make out "edgy" occurs when middlebrow, middle-aged profiteers are looking to suck the energy--not to mention the spending money--out of the "youth culture." So they come up with this fake concept of "seeming to be dangerous when every move they make is the result of market research and a corporate master plan".

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      • A "Fuzzy Navel" is an alcoholic drink made with equal parts peach schnapps and orange juice.

      • Music: -Annie Lennox - "Keep Young And Beautiful" (closing credits) -INXS - "Faith In Each Other" (Val & Daria ariving at school) -Cake - "Sheep Go to Heaven" (Daria & Jane reading "Val" magazine) -Sonic Youth - "Youth Against Fascism" (Daria & Mr. O'Neill in office) -LL Cool J - "Jingling Baby" (Daria & Val leaving Mr. O'Neill's class) -Juvenile - "Ha" (Daria & Val in principal's office)

      • The Noggin version edits Val's conversation to remove the line "A pitcher full of fuzzy navels and sunset on your freakin' deck in Malibu. The same way it happened with me!"

    • ALLUSIONS (7)

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      • Lord of the Rings Ms. Li's "giant eye" is a reference to the Eye of Sauron, the villain from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. This reference was more esoteric at the time, because this was many years before the Lord of the Rings films would be made and become part of pop culture.

      • My So-Called Life The title of Daria's story that won the "Val" contest was "My So-Called Angst", which is a pun of the title of My So-Called Life, a short-lived, yet popular, teen drama that aired on ABC from '94-95. It starred future celebrities Claire Danes and Jared Leto, and was one of the first TV shows that showed teenagers dealing with real-life issues, including guns, suicide, teen sex/pregnancy, sexual orientation, and drug use.

      • Daria: That's why they took away my psychic hotline. At the time this episode was made in the late-'90s, there was hardly a commercial break that didn't have at least one advertisement for a psychic hotline. The most famous one at the time was for Miss Cleo, a Jamaican woman whose commercials would always end with, "Call me now!" in her thick accent. Miss Cleo was sued several times and sent to jail for fraud by the end of the '90s, and a lot of the competing psychic hotlines disappeared due to simillar legal troubles.

      • Gidget Gidget was one of the roles that actress Sandra Dee was known for in the late '50s/early '60s. Gidget was a blonde cutie in a bikini that spent her days on the beach and chasing cute boys, so it's easy to see how Quinn would get compared to the character.

      • Character: Val The character of Val is a parody of Jane Pratt, editor of "Jane" magazine.

      • Title Pun: The Lost Girls The title of the episode "The Lost Girls" is a play on the title of the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys that starred Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim.

      • Daria: I'm jiggy with it. "I'm Jiggy with it" is a take on the Will Smith song "Getting Jiggy with it", which was topping the hip hop charts at the time.

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