Monster

“Monster” was the sixth episode of the second season of Daria (episode number 206). It first aired on MTV on March 23, 1998.

It was written by Neena Beber.

Summary
Daria and Jane yet again accidentally suggest a class assignment to their "Language Arts" teacher, Timothy O'Neill,  specifically, having his students make movies. Jane first attempts to emulate Andy Warhol's Sleep, a five hour film of the poet John Giorno sleeping, by placing a video camera in a tree to have it capture events around the Lane home from "the tree's totally objective point of view." After some (very brief) reflection, Daria suggests they need a script, and so Daria writes a version of Jean Paul Sartre's play No Exit—for puppets. When this proves unsatisfactory as well, they decide to make a documentary with Quinn as the subject, their intention being to show her depths of shallowness, a phrase used for the title of their film.

Things don't quite work out.

In the meantime, Jodie and Mack film a labor strike at the Food Lord supermarket. When all of a sudden their movie gets to involve a lot more action than intended when Kevin decides to do some shopping in the said supermarket, unwillingly enraging the strikers because he's rendering their strike useless, who are more than ready and willing to take out their anger on him.

On “Monster” the Episode

 * Episode Guide at Outpost Daria
 * Transcript at Outpost Daria