Camp Fear

"Camp Fear" was the fourth episode of the fifth season of the television series Daria (episode number 504). It first aired on MTV on March 12, 2001.

"Camp Fear" was written by Jonathan Greenberg.

Summary
Daria and Quinn attend a reunion at Camp Grizzly, a summer camp they attended as pre-teens. Once there, Daria cannot escape the worshipful attentions of Amelia, a fellow former camper who drastically mis-remembers several painful events Daria endured at the camp:

 Amelia: This reminds me of the time you boycotted the End-of-Summer campfire by the lake. That was so cool.

Daria: Actually, I wasn't invited.

Amelia: Oh. (pauses, then laughs) Remember the time you took off on your horse and left us all behind.

Daria: You mean the time the time the horse ran off with me on it and tossed me in the river, and I had to have nine stitches?

Meanwhile, Quinn falls in with her old clique, Tracy, Cindy, and Tatiana, precursors of Sandi, Stacy, and Tiffany respectively.

Daria's Reading Material

 * In a flashback to her time as a young camper at Camp Grizzly, Daria is shown with a copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm. At the camp reunion, she reads Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

"Camp Fear" and Fanfic

 * The Angst Guy wrote a continuation of Amelia's experiences of the day, "Prisoner of Hope."
 * The Angst Guy also used a future Amelia as a major supporting character in his novella Darkness.

Trivia
The title appears to be a play on Cape Fear, a film which has been made twice, about a nerdy lawyer defending his family against a brutal psychopath whose case the lawyer had previously mishandled.

On “Camp Fear” the Episode

 * CINCGREEN's special look at "Camp Fear"