The Lost Girls

"The Lost Girls" was the fifth episode of the third season of the Daria TV series (episode number 305). It first aired on MTV on March 24, 1999 and was written by Neena Beber.

Summary
Timothy O'Neill, unknown to Daria, has entered her essay, "My So-Called Angst," into a contest to "Win a Day With Val," the vapid editor of the equally vapid Val Magazine. Things do not go well.

Trivia

 * The episode is ripping the piss out of Jane Pratt and her self-titled magazine Jane Magazine.


 * The title of the episode is a play on the title of the 1987 film The Lost Boys.


 * The title of Daria's essay is a play on the title of the television series My So-Called Life.


 * The song that Jane sings while passing Daria and Val in the school hallway is "New York, New York" from the Broadway musical On The Town, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein.

"The Lost Girls" and Fanfic
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On “The Lost Girls” the Episode

 * “The Lost Girls” summary at Outpost Daria
 * “The Lost Girls” transcript

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