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Daria

The Story of D

Season 5, Episode 5, Aired Mar 19, 2001

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- Quinn: Muh-om! I'm not J. Edgar Winter!
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- Jane: You're willing to have [your story] published and read by strangers, but you don't want your best friend to see it?
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- Jodie: You know, my mother gets Musings and their fiction is awful. I bet you'll have no trouble getting in. Daria: Gee, thanks.
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- Jake: If it weren't for Ellenbogen I might be a Broadway lyricist. I could write songs for Cats. I could write songs for dogs!
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- Jake: I'd like to thank my family, my friends, and not that damn Corporal Ellenbogen, or Gilbert, or Sullivan!
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- Stacy: What do you think this stuff is that looks like vomit?
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- Jane: He meant well. For a teacher who does nothing well. Daria: I'm reminded of my father. Jane: What? Why? Daria: Because I can't get the phrase "damn idiot teachers with their damn idiot brains" out of my head.
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- Quinn: I know! How about a new mirror to replace that awful one in the girls bathroom that adds at least two pounds. Stacy: I hate that mirror. Tiffany: It haunts me.
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- Daria: I couldn't show it to [Tom]. It's too intimate. Jane: Daria, it's about a flesh eating virus. How is that intimate?
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- Jane: Was I being enthusiastic again? I'm sorry. Daria: You didn't mean anything by it.
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- Daria: Ever have one of those moments that no shower, no matter the duration nor the temperature, can ever erase? Jane: I'm leaning towards trauma-induced amnesia myself. Punch my head, would ya?
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- Daria: Well, we both know why I asked you here. Tom: Not me, no idea. None whatsoever. Daria: Fine. I deserve that. Look, um, sorry, you were being supportive, I was the one acting like, you know... Tom: You can do it. Rhymes with "clerk"? Daria: Shut up.
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- Quinn: Why don't we do what we do best? Sandi: Quinn, no one is going to pay us to eat carrot sticks.
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Notes
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- Music -Save Ferris - "Everything I Want to Be" (closing credits) -Big Pun - "It's Alright" (second Fashion Club meeting) -Pharaohe Monche - "The Light" (Jane avoiding commenting on Daria's story) -Coldplay - "Yellow" (Daria reading her rejection letter) -At The Drive-In - "Invalid Litter Department" (2nd commercial bumper) -Catherine Wheel - "Sparks Are Gonna Fly" (Jake's new showtune) -Gomez - "Bring It On" (Tom at the front door)
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Allusions
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- Daria's reference to the loss of the plays by Greek playwright Aeschylus refers to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in ancient Egypt during the 5th Century. It's generally accepted that this event set back human knowledge and progress for centuries, and helped usher in the Dark Ages.
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- "The tell-tale smooch" : a pun on Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.
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- Title Pun: The Story of D The title of the episode is a pun on the Pauline Reage novel The Story of O.
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