Daria (cartoon series)
| Television series | |
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| German title | Daria |
| Original title | Daria |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1997-2002 |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Episodes | 65 |
| genre | Comedy , animation |
| idea | Glenn Eichler, Susie Lewis Lynn |
| music | George Brennan, Janet Wygal |
| First broadcast | September 3, 1997 (USA) on MTV |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 16, 1999 on MTV |
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Daria is an American animated series that was broadcast on MTV television from 1997 to 2002 . The main character is the teenage girl Daria Morgendorffer, who was originally a supporting character in the series Beavis and Butt-Head .
On June 21, 2018 it was announced that a reboot of the series entitled Daria & Jodie was in development. The series is to start exclusively on Hulu .
content
As a series with mostly self-contained episodes, Daria has some continuous storylines. It tells the everyday life of an overly intelligent and cynical teenage girl in an American suburb. The main topics are deviating from the mainstream, superficiality, everyday school and work life, peer pressure, family conflicts and first relationships.
The show follows Daria after moving from Highland to Lawndale through her years of high school , and ends with graduation and acceptance into college . Daria and her best (and only closest) friend, artistically talented Jane, spend most of their time teasing about their classmates and their fixation on reputation and looks, a quality that Daria's younger sister Quinn exemplifies.
The main location of the action is usually Lawndale High School or class excursions. In addition to topics such as unsuccessful fundraising, embarrassing mini-jobs, abused art projects, cosmetic surgeries, modeling careers and the notorious "extracurricular activities" (for the purpose of college application), more complex topics are also dealt with in the background across episodes. For example, a smoldering conflict over leadership in the girls' clique "Fashion Club", a secret first crush on Jane's brother Trent, a teacher frustrated by a divorced marriage, who finds her next big opportunity in the most unmanly teacher of all places, and the traumatic- amusing childhood memories of Darias father's father "Mad Dog", his instructor "Colonel Ellenbogen" at the military school and his ex-boss, "Mini-Mussolini".
From the 4th season, however, more and more significant changes can be observed; Daria was initially in love with Jane's brother Trent, but never confided in him. Their love went unrequited, though it wasn't clear whether Trent might see her as more than a good friend. During Season 4, Jane begins a relationship with Tom Sloane, son of one of the wealthiest families in town. Daria is initially negative towards Tom, but the two get closer in the course of the season until there is a kiss in the last episode of the season. The relationships between Jane, Tom and Daria provide the main subject for the rest of the series.
There are also changes in the relationship between Daria and Quinn: While at the beginning of the series Quinn denies her friends that she is related to Daria or dismisses her as a "distant cousin", the climate between the two slowly improves until Quinn finally stands by her sister in front of her friends.
The first film 'Is It Fall Yet?' , is between the 4th and 5th season. While Daria is forced by her mother to take part in a summer vacation camp for children and gets to know the no less cynical Link, Jane visits an artist colony and its corrupt occupancy - including a pseudo-intellectual art star and a bisexual roommate. Quinn falls in love with her vacation tutor, but is rejected for the first time by a boy.
In the second film, Is It College Yet? , which takes place after the end of the series or the 5th season, Daria, Jane, and most of the classmates leave high school, apply to different colleges and try to find their new way. The relationships of the main and secondary characters are z. T. changed drastically. Daria ends her relationship with Tom again and will go with Jane to two different, but geographically close, colleges. Quinn expands her intellectual and social horizons and Stacey learns to contradict Sandi, which breaks the name of the fashion club. Mr. DeMartino cannot end Mr. O'Neill's relationship with Ms. Barch - their wedding continues. Eternal football player and class clown Kevin remains seated, and his relationship with cheerleader Brittany seems to end uncertainly due to her college admission.
Characters
The Morgendorffers
Daria
Daria Morgendorffer is a highly intelligent, cynical student with brown hair and round glasses. Most of the things that are said by her family or her superficial classmates, she comments with sarcasm , which is misunderstood or ignored by most of the interlocutors. Her voice is firm, monotonous and hardly shows any feelings. Most of the time, she is ruthlessly honest and hardly cares whether what she says is polite or appropriate to the situation. Although Daria shows excellent academic performance and has a high general education , she can never be persuaded to participate in extracurricular activities or to join a club for long periods of time. She reads a lot and also writes herself, mostly short stories. Her room is spartan, darkened, and a large Kafka poster hangs over her computer . She is often with her best friend Jane or watches the fictional television series "Sick Sad World", which shows bold or absurd stories. Like most of the characters in the series, Daria almost always wears the same clothes: an orange shirt, a green jacket with a wide collar, a black skirt, and black boots.
Quinn
Daria's younger sister Quinn is the exact opposite of Daria in almost everything. She's superficial, worried about her popularity, and dates a different boy every weekend. She doesn't get along well with her sister and always claims in public that Daria is her cousin, an exchange student or the housemaid. As Vice President of the "Fashion Club" Quinn is out for Sandi's presidency, but goes to great lengths to never say anything remotely insulting about Sandi's and therefore often lies to her. In the course of the series, however, it becomes clear that she has a certain intellectual lead over the other fashion club members, and sometimes just pretends to be accepted. Quinn has long red hair and mostly wears jeans and a pink t-shirt.
Helen
Daria's mother Helen is a successful lawyer and loves her job. She can always be found in her pink costume and has a business-like teased hairstyle. It is often shown how she only comes home at night or receives calls from her work all the time. However, she is also very concerned about her daughters, especially their relationships, and is usually extremely understanding. She has a better connection with the girls than their father, Jake. In order to persuade Quinn and Daria to do unpleasant tasks, she often makes deals with them that contain money.
Jake
Daria's father, Jake, is usually a bit confused and often panics about everyday little things. He runs a consulting agency, "Jake Morgendorffer Consulting", which is running poorly. Often he accidentally says disturbing or inappropriate things or misunderstands other family members. Running gags are his sayings "Hey, Kiddoh!", "Damn it!" and "Lousy ...", his hysterical screams and his lack of cooking skills.
The lanes
Jane
Jane is Daria's best and only close friend and a passionate artist. You can see them constantly working on paintings or sculptures. The development of her personal style and the difficulties of an artist's life are one of the most common motifs in the series. Jane has a black bob , piercing blue eyes and three piercings in her left ear. In contrast to Daria, she likes to sleep very late and neglect school. She is the youngest child in the Lane family and has a large number of siblings, most of whom no longer live at home and all of them have an alternative lifestyle. The parents have a laissez-faire upbringing and also rarely appear; mostly Jane and Trent can be seen at home alone. Jane shares Daria's humor and cynical demeanor; social contacts, however, cost less to overcome. Jane mostly wears a red jacket and black T-shirt with gray shorts, black tights and knee-high lace-up boots.
Trent
Jane's older brother Trent has already graduated from high school but still lives at home and lounges all day. He is the lead singer in the grunge band "Mystik Spiral" and regularly tries to write profound lyrics, which only ends in bad rhymes and mixed up metaphors. Trent has black, disheveled hair and tattoos. He mostly wears a khaki t-shirt and speaks in a harsh voice. Daria is a bit in love with him for the first two seasons.
student
athlete
Kevin Thompson
Kevin is the quarterback for the school football team . He is very complacent, but extremely unintelligent. It takes a long time to come up with ideas, but is usually wrong. He always wears his shoulder pads and his jersey.
Brittany Taylor
Brittany is Kevin Thompson's boyfriend and she's not that smart either. She is a cheerleader and extremely popular. However, in contrast to Kevin and the "fashion club", she is less arrogant and tries to do what she does. Brittany has blonde hair that she wears in two braids and can almost always be seen in her cheerleading uniform.
Fashion club
Sandi Griffin
Sandi is the president of the "Fashion Club", resentful and does not allow any other member to make decisions. She deliberately takes statements from her friends, especially Quinns, as insults in order to make them submissive through constant apologies. She has brown, wavy hair and speaks in a sonorous voice.
Tiffany Blum-Deckler
Tiffany is a lovely Asian girl who mostly wears a light blue dress. She is portrayed as the stupidest member of the "Fashion Club". She is constantly observing herself in the mirror and her statements cannot be surpassed in terms of lack of content. Sometimes she just repeats the last word she said, speaking in a soft, slow, monotonous voice.
Stacey Rowe
The fourth girl in the "Fashion Club", Stacey Rowe, has a strong inferiority complex and is constantly afraid that she has done something wrong. In contrast to Sandi and Tiffany, she also shows herself to be intelligent and in the end even manages to break out of her forced social life and stand up for herself.
loner
Jodie Landon
Jodie is a very successful student who takes part in almost all volunteer projects that the school has. She is as intelligent as Daria and Jane, but in contrast to these, shows leadership qualities and adapts. She is the best student at Lawndale High, along with Daria, and is often invited to college tours. Her parents' high expectations and the fact that she is one of the few African American people in the school puts her under great pressure. She has rasta braids and mostly wears a pink blouse with a gray mini skirt.
Michael "Mack" Jordan MacKenzie
Mack is Jodie's boyfriend and supports her wherever he can. He's the only player on the football team who's neither snooty nor stupid.
Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer the Third
Upchuck is an unpopular boy who flirts with any girl in an offensive way and is not taken seriously by anyone. He has red hair and a slimy voice.
Teacher
Timothy O'Neill
Mr O'Neill is Daria's English teacher and a typical "softie" who leads the self-awareness course and often starts educational experiments, believing that this would make his students feel better. He also has immense difficulties in remembering names or faces. He is enthusiastic about Daria's writing talent and encourages her several times to publish something that she is never enthusiastic about given the mendacious reasons or purposes. He has a childlike face and mostly wears a pink shirt.
Anthony DeMartino
The history teacher, Mr DeMartino, is annoyed and frustrated by his stupid, uneducated students. He has a very rough, loud voice and yells individual words in every sentence. His right eye is swollen and bulging every time he raises his voice.
Angela Li
If necessary, the headmistress would walk over dead bodies to improve the school's reputation. She always pronounces their name, "Lawndale High", with pride. Her corrupt, reputational way of running the school often brings her into conflict with teachers or students. She has a black bob and always wears a gray suit.
Janet Barch
After a failed marriage, she is angry at all men, which is why she disadvantages male students in her classes. She has a bad opinion of all men except her colleague Timothy O'Neill, with whom she falls in love because of his soft, sensitive nature and whom she often begins to kiss violently and violently.
Claire Defoe
The school's art teacher is one of the teachers Daria and Jane get along best with. She is enthusiastic about Jane's artistic talent and tries to promote it. Miss Defoe has red, wavy hair and dark eyes and is wearing a loose purple dress.
Further
Tom Sloane
Tom is an intelligent, literary boy who comes from a rich and successful family. He doesn't go to Lawndale High, but to a private school where his parents' influence gave him a place. Yet he is always friendly and humble. After his relationship with Jane fails, he becomes Daria's boyfriend; Daria ends the relationship in the last episode.
Amy Barksdale
Amy is Daria's favorite aunt, who had problems similar to Daria in her youth and is very similar to Daria in appearance and choice of words. Daria often asks her for help when she doesn't know what to do.
publication
The series aired on MTV in Europe around the original release date. In the USA it later ran on Noggin, which is also part of the Viacom group . In 2010 the series was released entirely on DVD in English. The two television films and a few individual episodes have also been released in the form of DVD and VHS videos. In all publications on purchase media, the music originally used was replaced by other music, presumably to save license costs for the video publication.
In Germany, the first Daria episodes ran in the original version on MTV Germany in 1998 . The series was also shown sporadically in German on MTV Germany from 2001 onwards. Daria was shown several times on pay TV on the then premiere channel K-Toon . In Switzerland, the series ran several times on SF 2 between 2001 and 2002 . So far only the first 35 episodes have been dubbed.
Web links
- Daria in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Is It Fall Yet? (2000) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Is It College Yet? (2002) in the Internet Movie Database (English)