Highland

Fictional town/city, presumed in fanon to be in Texas, where Beavis and Butt-head was set. It alternated between being a run-down, filthy, violent town to a moderately-sized normal city and all points in between, depending on the episode or comic it was in.

Daria Morgendorffer was a freshman at Highland High School there. There was also a Hope High school for juvenile delinquents, and several businesses including Buddy's Sporting Goods, a Burger World franchise, a mud wrestling bar ("Babes 'R' Us"), a strip club, a mall, and (briefly) a furrier ("Sign Here"); a number of local businessmen, led by Clark Cobb, had formed the Christian Businessmen's Association. President Clinton visited the town during a tour of American schools.

In Daria, the town is referenced only once, in the first episode, "Esteemsters." The bizarre elements of life in that town are attributed by Daria in that episode to the presence of "uranium in the drinking water". "It's a Miserable Life", meanwhile, attributes everything bad in the town - and Daria's misanthropy - to the very existence of Beavis and Butt-head.

In an interview (see below), Beavis and Butt-head creator Mike Judge stated that Highland, to him, lay in West Texas or eastern New Mexico.

Highland frequently shows up or is mentioned in Daria fanfiction - physical appearances are usually in fanfics set before Daria moved away, though sometimes return visits are paid; the odd alternate universe, like "Three" by Richard Lobinske, has Daria not leaving Highland.. Many fanfics also take the "uranium" joke as fact, with various plot-handy consequences as a result ("It's a Sick, Sad, Sad, Sad World" by The Excellent S has the town abandoned and condemned). The general depiction of Highland is run-down and generally crap.