My Night at Daria's

"My Night at Daria's" was the twelfth episode of the fifth season of Daria (episode number 512). It first aired on MTV on June 18, 2001.

"My Night at Daria's" was written by Peggy Nicoll.

Summary
An unfortunate misunderstanding leads to the impression, first with Daria's parents and then with the entire population of Lawndale High, that Daria and Tom Sloane have had sex in her room. This leads to Tom's and Daria's actually contemplating having sex.

In the B plot, Jake and Helen have dinner at Tokyo Toby's, a potential marketing client. As a result of eating bad sushi, Jake get an infestation of parasites. He also develops a taste for sake.

Music
In the original airing, "Crash and Burn" by Savage Garden was played when Tom & Daria reacted to Quinn's radio; this is a generic song with faint lyrics the DVD copy. Unfortunately, Tom and Daria are clearly responding to a song with loud, high pitched lyrics (Daria questions if Garden are "a traveling band of eunuchs").

The replacement music uses "Oolala" by Extreme Music, a recurring Quinn track in the DVDs, for Daria confronting Quinn instead of the original "Survivor" by Destiny's Child.

Trivia
It is in this episode that we learn more-or-less definitively, or perhaps more accurately we are given a too-undeniable reminder, that Brittany Taylor and Kevin Thompson are sexually active. (Upon "learning" about Daria and Tom, Brittany tells Daria, "Now we can have womanly talks!")

It is also in this episode that it is implied that Jodie Landon and Mack Mackenzie are also having sex ("I promise: soon as my parents are dead, I'll tell you all about it" she tells Daria).

One of Tom's classes at Fielding is covering Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, requiring him to study it.

"My Night at Daria's" and Fanfic
In Wouter Jaegers' Dariarotica comic Big Sister's Great Adventure Jodie remarks that she once gave Daria hints about her and Mack being sexually active, recalling the scene in "My night at Daria's"

On “My Night at Daria's” the Episode
Transcript at Outpost Daria