As a teen I loved Daria, but as an adult sometimes she makes me mad. I know she is tired of superficial and empty people, but she doesn’t acknowledge how lucky she is. She lives in a secure place with a middle class family in the States. She goes to a good high school and probably will enter a good college. Her mother is good and her biggest problem are boys and her sister being mean. She acts as if her life is terrible and acting like that makes her superior.

I like how Daria is less brutal with Brittany than the others, and likewise Brittany is less judgemental towards Daria than the other classmates, despite them being polar opposites.

"But im not miserable! Im just. Not. Like. Them."

I will say, Jane didn't actually tell Daria what was bothering her until pressed. If she had actively talked to Daria, she could have gotten through sooner, rather than hinting and getting nowhere. And Daria's disdain at suddenly having everyone come to her could very easily be due to nobody listening to her any other time, and only coming to her when they are suddenly uncomfortable.

Daria is not negative. She's just honest. She doesn't like to have to lie and doesn't like having to be forced to smile if she doesn't feel like it. Daria has a sharp sense of humor. And she has demonstrated that a lot throughout the show. And moreover, people were not sad that Tommy Sherman died, they were said that one day that they were going to end up in the dirt. They just wanted to talk to Daria because they perceive her as negative when she's not. If she was more negative than vicious she would have really laid into the fact that Tommy Sherman died, however she didn't. She just acknowledged it while I was sad she didn't really care for the guy because he was a jackass and that's not that messed up to state. But, having a group of people constantly dumped on you for not feeling sad for someone you didn't particularly care for is very frustrating as it is annoying

I don’t think it’s a “you’re better then” perspective. I think that when there is a default mindset you are expected to fall into (which Daria’s peer group tends to expect of her) you kind of have to go out of your way mentally to not give into the peer pressure. We’ve also seen that Daria does actually want to give into the peer pressure but know a that she shouldn’t because it would lead to her doing some objectively less the moral things, and ignoring bigger pictures. She wants to be the same as her peer group, she just wishes her peer group shared the same values as she did and not expect her to change for them. She is also a flawed character and has her problems.

I'm an autistic person who is able to mask very well & did not get a diagnosis until late in life, and Daria really reminds me of some of the difficulties I had growing up. Some of her behaviors make so much sense when viewing her through that autistic lens. And I don't think that was intentional at all, just the writers accidentally writing a character who is very autistic coded. I had someone in my school die one year & I remember being so confused by the behavior of some people. It made me very frustrated bc I didn't understand that people grieve differently & all of the social rules at play, since it was something I had never experienced and I wasn't able to mimic my way through it, and my response to the confusion was frustration & embarrassment. It reminds me a lot of that

I really don't feel like the conclusion of the episode was to coddle Daria's character to believe that she's "better" than others. I think the point was that there is a benefit to Daria having a different perspective of the world that be beneficial in certain circumstances. In this case, having to face a dark and existential situation. And this was Jane telling Daria that maybe there's nothing wrong with people coming to her for advice, because they see a value in her opinion. And yeah, Daria is going to be happy with that, what teen wouldn't be? Speaking of which, I feel like more emphasis should be placed on Daria being a teen here. Imagine being 15, having a negative interaction with an older man who then dies and now your English teacher is sobbing loudly in front of you that HE can't handle what happened. That's a lot, especially for someone who is as sensitive as Daria (who will later admit to Jodie that she is the way she is cuz she knows she is sensitive and is protecting herself). And imo, it's also a bit unfair to say Daria is reeping what she sows just because she is a dark person and now people are trauma dumping on her because of that. And maybe I'm doing my own bit of projecting here, but I was a sad goth kid in my teen years too as a way of just dealing with my emotions. That didn't mean I wanted people to assume I was suicidal or satanic. I just wanted them to accept me the way I was and not be bothered by them. And I feel like Daria's role in this episode, like in many, was to represent that experience that a lot of kids went thru. Regardless, I thought this was a great video. Daria was a big cartoon that people don't discuss enough and I'm glad to have found this channel.

I’m not sure I agree that Daria actually is miserable all the time. Bringing up dark things, being snarky, and making dark jokes, doesn’t mean you’re miserable. For example, the dark clouds joke is one I would absolutely make at a family breakfast, I make jokes like that extremely often, and the less cynical people I know get all “why would you say something that dark and bring the mood down”? I’ve always been so confused when they say that, all I did was make a joke. If thinking about a dark joke like that makes you upset, that’s on you, that doesn’t mean that I’m miserable or trying to make anyone else miserable. Thinking about things like that don’t make me miserable, I have no emotion towards them, and to claim it’s a sign that I (as people do) or Daria are “miserable” seems like projection because it makes you unhappy.

It's interesting seeing people who didn't grow up watching Daria interpret the episodes. Between you, shady doorags' video on this episode, and what toonarific Tariq has alluded to regarding upcoming Daria content, I'm kind of realizing how much the context of the time (what other media, especially on MTV, at the time was like, general culture, etc.) played into what I could take or leave about her character, while the show was airing. Given that I was in HS when this was airing and the fact that media was being written, at that point, by the "cynical" gen-x-ers, it was "cooler" to be more aloof at that time, and it was easier to understand Daria's perspective of, "just because I'm not like you doesn't mean you understand me or can assume how I feel." I'd watch Daria, then listen to emo and numetal and feel seen. Where the more socially-conscious zellenials and zoomers look at Daria and see the gap between her self-image and her presentation and wonder why she doesn't. The thing I think I brought up on shady doorags' video was that, aside from the meta, cultural aspect of it, is that this is season 1 of a 16 year old whose coming of age and defining her identity. She's at the beginning of a journey where she has to figure out the balance between her personal convictions and being part of a world larger than herself. And throughout the series, even tinged in cynicism, she learns something more about this dynamic all the time (even in this episode, though her conflict with Jane). With shady doorags' video, I was surprised, but now I'm kinda realizing that in a vacuum and/or a different time/culture the takeaways and greater discomfort with Daria's character WOULD make sense. Of course time period/culture doesn't excuse the, admittedly, unlikable aspects of the series protagonist, but I think the context also is what made her so beloved and subversive to my generation (or my "elder"portion of my generation).

Daria doesn't know any about the guy, the one interaction left a bad impression. So it's not that she is sad that he died it's just that she doesn't have any attachment to his High School football career or the guy himself.

Daria simply sees Tommy Sherman's death as irrelevant- she neither benefits or is hurt by it - just like driving by a cemetery where a funeral for a stranger is going on.

In the episode ‘the misery chick’ when Daria goes off on Jodie, I think it was cause at that point Daria was tired of everyone coming up to her to trauma dump under the guise of wanting her help. Jodie is like Daria in that she is unaffected by the guys death and doesn’t really care about him. However she has to give a speech on the guy and doesn’t know what to say.

To find a channel to discuss Daria is rare.

when you said daria is intentionally being negative, this might be something you don't understand some people like me actually don't view dark humor as a negative, it is a way to express our dissatisfaction with what we're told our choices and behaviors are supposed to be. so, black clouds swallowing Chernobyl to her isn't negative. It's absurdism.

I get that Daria has flaws, but she was right about a lot of things in this episode. Daria is realistic not depressed, we need more people like Daria to be brutally honest instead of letting things pass and people need to be called out if they are in the wrong. I'm with Daria In this, similar situations like this happen in reality between outcasts and conformists.

daria vid NOT flopping bc i’m watching it fr 🫡😤

I have a bit of an odd relationship to this conversation. I’m autistic and naturally have a muted affect. Growing up I was almost exactly like Daria the good, the bad and the ugly. There were moments in my life where I was genuinely miserable but I’ve found those are really only when I act like everyone else. When I’m like Daria, honest even to bad extent, I’m actually in a better mental state. I still try to keep it to a relatively polite level. That’s the only point in the video I actually don’t agree with, Daria is an asshole but I don’t think she’s genuinely miserable. It hardly effects anything said in the video but I do feel it’s an important distinction.

This was a really good and informative video :) I liked how you dove into the cynical side of Daria and were open about how you felt. I remember back when I was a freshman I loved this show because I really related with Daria but having so much love for a character I had a blind eye on how flawed Daria can be as well, just as any other person. It’s really nice to have been given a new perspective for this character. It feels good. Thank you!

So, this got me thinking ("It really makes you think", thanks Brittany) about melancholy-but-upbeat songs like Yuki No Shingun and how Mary Shelley reputedly lost her virginity on her own mother's gravestone, and I think I have to conclude... Daria's right. She *isn't* a "Misery Chick", because misery, melancholy, and morbidity are not the same things. Yuki No Shingun is about freezing to death, yes, but it's *also* about comradeship, brotherhood, enjoying the little pleasures, remaining stoic about the things you can't change, and even poking fun at the bastards who sent you into this mess. It's melancholic, which in this sense means seeing the misery, acknowledging it, and finding a place for it in a larger picture. Mary Shelley's mother died in childbirth, at the young age of 38. Mary would go on to turn the grave into her own safe haven, lugging her books there to read by herself. She learned how to write her name by tracing the engraving from her mother's headstone. Her installation at her mother’s grave seems to have been an attempt to commune with her mind-to learn from her, as much as possible. Faced with tragedy, Mary chose instead to turn it into a source of comfort. But in both cases, this isn't about loving death for its own sake, they're about dealing with the horror of death by turning it into something else. Jane's being facetious when she describes the motive for talking to Daria about it as "...so, tell me how *you* cope with thinking all the time, Daria, until I can get back to my normal vegetable state", but, though that's may be a tempting conclusion to reach, I think it's only half the answer. Humans possess empathy, whether we like it or not, and we don't get to choose who we do or don't feel empathy towards. You don't have to like a person to feel an emotional kick at their death. In cases of actual depression, becoming over-analytical about it can become the source of a downward spiral, but in the cases I've mentioned, thinking about it is, instead, a means of processing. And, yeah, it's reasonable to want to ask what that process is, if the emotions kick you when you weren't ready for it.

This was one of those episodes where it’s a learning experience for Daria. It’s good to see Daria have to finally learn something after having it pointed out to her, even as bluntly as Jane did. This is why Jane is such a great friend. She knows how to be firm with Daria, but still manages to get the message across with tones of caring and understanding in her own way. It tells Daria that she needs to take a step back at times instead of simply reacting to what she hears. Kids will do that, and being chagrined like that is just another growing pain to deal with. It is tough to deal with Death. My Senior year, I almost lost a classmate who was in a car/train accident. That classmate did lose his younger brother in that tragedy, and it affected the whole school.

Those people around her could not cope with a reminder that their lives will end some day. She seems to be unphased about it all, she just gets that death is a part of life. Everyone's interaction with the dead guy was negative and his impact was nonconstructive anyways so he doesn't and shouldn't really matter in any of their lives. When her peers bug her about his death, they're dumping about themselves. They don't really care about the guy, it's just shallow gossip, maybe it woke them up a bit to be more grateful about their lives? idk. They're usually shallow self-centered folk so no surprise those characters found a way to make some hypeguy's death about themselves, imagine using death as a conversation topic to "network" with her based on how they perceive her, a girl they'd otherwise wouldn't regularly talk to (because she isn't bubbly and wasting her time desperately trying to fit in or impress people.) Daria's not being miserable, she's being real. Misery would be indulging in all of this woe-is-me, and initiating "omg isn't this pitiful?" stuff, to cause, contemplate, and look forward to stirring up drama over someone who means nothing to them purely for attention, like how they specifically behaved different from their usual selves to provoke a "misery-chick response" from Daria. (They're the type to go around asking loaded questions, expecting confirmation biases.) Her peers are self-absorbed and more sheltered than her and they're trauma dumping on her instead of going to a therapist/ school counselor. Someone had to die (;condition) for them (;misery) to want to talk (;drain with bs) to Daria.

The final conclusion just reinforces the point of perceiving a person one way instead of other. Daria's right to vocalize her point--and I quote, "She's not like them" because she isn't confined to regular social norms these principles don't correlate to the notion she is a miserable though for being articulate and non-filtered. Sure, thinking makes everyone miserable. But it's those thinkers whom construct the bridge in seeking out guidance and knowledge when we need it most. It's a paradox. So because Daria thinks people come to HER for guidance in ways to coup with their inevitable demise... because they don't know for sure if they'll end like Tommy Sherman: Killed in some freak accident.

I need more videos of you doing deep dives into Daria episodes-this is perfection.

We all know a tommy Daria served him a plate of justice

I want to say that despite never having seen the show, your reviews and analysis come across very well and it's the reason I decided to sub and watch more of your videos. Keep up the great work !! :3

my uncle died and he was a terrible person. everyone kept saying that you shouldn't insult the dead but would acknowledge his shittiness. I told them you can grieve, but he was an asshole that hurt many people and why are you suddenly so forlorn when he died?

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I love these videos! I long for more! 😆 I, too, have resting sad face and love it 😅

It's what I call the enlightened syndrome. The more you know, the more depressed you get because you know that things only get's worse over time. Good things happen few in between and the world tries to burn itself as we are controlled and led by selfish bunch and in the end death. You try to find a reason for existence and you see people do pointless and meaningless things that won't really matter in the long run. In my opinion, the best way to live is to love one another and to make this world a better place by working together. But since we are gripped in a system of profit making, individualism, our potential as a race is halted. But this system cannot hold for long, as lands and resources are limited and the population is growing and there will be a breaking point. Unless, there would be a nuclear war of a global scale or an airborne virus pandemic with a 80 percent kill rate that would relieve the burden of overpopulation.

I loved your commentary on this episode of Daria. You're going to be a much bigger you tuber one day. I just subscribed so I'm helping lol. I appreciate you very much.

While I’m not sure if his would ever be seen. But I’ve only watched about a minute or so of this video. The title and the subject matter in this episode, reminds me of a fanfiction that to the best of my knowledge is still currently available on the current version of outlook Daria. It’s very in your face, in terms of religion, philosophy and some very real mental health specific issues. It’s a long one, but you would really need a some very good headspace and an iron mental health foundation. As it’s particularly brutal overall.

As an autistic who has always been fascinated with death and dark things like specimens and bones and things like that, I really relate to daria. The black and white thinking, not having the empathy for the death of a person you don't really know, not knowing why everyone cares about a mean person, and just not catching the hints and social ques people are trying to throw at you, all of this being thought about in the very black amd white matter of fact way. And then Daria having to, through these conflicts, p much just figure it out and learn more about neurotypical life and how it works. I really do see Daria as an autistic character and no one can convince me otherwise Edit: and then Jane having to be the person to explain what everyone else is trying to say without actually saying it.

Great work ❤

My teenage years were all about Daria! Loved her! After buying her collection on DVD and watching it over again, I’m not a big fan of hers. What I didn’t realize as a teen that I realized as an adult is that Daria *WANTS* to be liked and popular! She self sabotaged her relationships to being home why people never liked her. She was so aggravating I didn’t even know how Jane remained her friend…

I liked that although Daria and Jane are typically pretty on-the-same page this episode had their responses to Tommy's death diverge. I think that's a big part of why Daria is being so inconsiderate of Jane. She's assuming she's processing things similarly. And when Jane says 'Maybe I should talk to you', although it's obvious to me and probably a lot of the audience that she's being mostly sincere Daria is digesting it as sarcasm because that's a response she could expect from Jane.

I like that darias character isn't always considered likeable it makes her realistic and multifaceted this happens with all the characters quinn isn't always shallow Britney isn't always stupid Jodie isn't always a type a jane isn't always alternative they all have layers and multiple things about them that's what makes them relatable

Hello, I live in Vancouver washington, near Portland Oregon and I really like your Daria videos that I hope that you make more..

I am so suprised by the views I thought it would have a few 10.000s

Jodie did ask for an opinion/Critisism by simply saying ""any ideas?"" I don't know why negative critisism can bring someone to tears.

2:08 as silly as it is i find it kind of annoying that when im zoned out my friend used to say i looked depressed and about to cry 😭 srsly tho my resting face looks like im crumbling

Wow you look amazing !

You don’t realize how relateable Daria is till you get older . Daria was sarcastic but yet real . I feel like Daria is more goth and depressed . Yeah a picture might be worth a thousand words but it shouldn’t be your whole perception . The fact that people are constanly think Daria is negative doesn’t know Daria . Cause she was very real

Daria was really passive aggressive on things she knows she does. Like her mom said, not everyone would her sarcasm as sarcasm because it does come off as dark. I guess she gets a kick out of doing that to ppl that don’t get it, maybe because she was bullied. The only people that do get her is her mom, Jane, her aunt Amy, and Tom (cringe)

I have one for you, Daria is probably her aunt Amy's daughter. Amy was too young to raise a child and Helen raised Daria as her own.

I HAVE RESTING SAD FACE TOO 😭🙏😭🙏

Daria was the type to try and change the environment around her to force it to suit her needs, not knowing or not accepting that if she just adapted to fit the environment she would have a better time navigating through it.

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I haven't watched the full show, i only watched a few episodes but just a few, but i think daria is my favorite character so far, however, i do agree that she isnt a good person and that she always very negative and i think it would be intresting if she has a character development in any of the episodes that i haven't watched yet, so i plan to watch the whole show in order because daria seems to be a very intresting character to me and i wonder if she has changed in the show (but if she hasnt that would suck 💔)

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Daria isn't supposed to a perfect character which makes her a better character than most of the characters in TV Shows and Movies today. Watching Daria as teen I couldn't really appreciate the themes of the show as a whole but where I have Paramount+ I can rewatch it again and now the show's themes have a bit more weight to them which each episode makes you think about them. Also Daria and Jane are queer-coded

12:47 Aren't people like that called "Pick Mes"?

liked Dara especially compared to the show it was spun off from

I DON'T GET IT WHAT'S THE FAMILY GUY REFERENCE

Soooo, I guess you follow shady doo rags.

Honestly if Daria was a teen in this generation she would definitely be lgbt.. lol..