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==Summary==
[[Kevin]] enters a "rebel" phase when he first gets a leather motorcycle jacket, then an actual motorcycle (well, a moped, anyway) when [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Jane]] point out what the jacket is for. Some of the guys at school goad him into attempting to pop a wheelie, and true to Daria and Jane's prediction, disaster strikes when he plows into the [[Tommy Sherman]] Memorial Tree and sprains his knee. Convinced that his football career is over, Kevin gives up his pads, his sports drinks, and his girlfriend, throwing both himself and [[Brittany]] into a pit of depression. (Later, Daria and Jane's voices drift down from the school roof into the girl's toilets, causing the [[Lawndale High School cheerleaders|cheerleaders]] to believe Tommy Sherman's angry ghost is haunting the room)
Kevin's absence from the team begins to make its presence felt, as the [[Lawndale Lions]] enter a major losing streak (through no fault of [[Mack]], who tries his best but just isn't quarterback material). In response, the rest of [[Lawndale|the town]] reacts in strange ways, such as the [[Fashion Club]] being shunned at [[Cashman's]] for coming from a "loser school", the ''[[Lawndale Shopper]]'' claiming property values are dropping like a rock, and ''[[Artie]]'' of all people taunting [[Lawndale High]] students as losers. This leads to desperate measures all around, from [[Angela Li|Ms. Li]] bringing in a psychotic thug as a 'ringer' quarterback, to Quinn and Jake contemplating moving to another town entirely. Helen is openly telling everyone to calm down and be sensible, but Daria spots her "trying to smudge her return address labels".
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" "Safety's cool," says Kevin Thompson, the ex-quarterback who quit the [[Lawndale Lions]] after scraping his knee. The once-respected jock keeps busy these days spreading his message to grade school kids too young to grasp the principles of cowardliness and self-pity. Meanwhile the Lions continue their downward spiral as the one person who could save them spends his days encouraging kids to stay inside and fear their own"
==Trivia==▼
The title of this episode is a play on the novel ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(novel) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]'' by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Smith Betty Smith].▼
The team aren't just losing without Kevin, they're being ''hammered'': he's explicitly the only reason they win games. This both explains why he keeps getting byes (see "[[See Jane Run]]", "[[Mart of Darkness]]") from Principal Li, it implies the other players are mediocre at best. This isn't implied in any other episode, webpage, or book, and "[[The Daria Database]]" has Mack saying Kevin takes credit for what the other players do.▼
▲==Trivia==
Behind Upchuck in the booth is a calender, marked Spring/Fall Schedule.▼
▲The title of this episode is a play on the novel ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(novel) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]'' by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Smith Betty Smith]. That last shot of the flower is a spoof of the last shot of the film version.
▲The team aren't just losing without Kevin, they're being ''hammered'': he's explicitly the only reason they win games. This both explains why he keeps getting byes (see "[[See Jane Run]]", "[[Mart of Darkness]]") from Principal Li
Brittany is genuinely upset that she won't be dating Kevin. In contrast, in "[[Is It College Yet?]]" she's the one going to break up with ''him'' as he'll be getting held back a year while she moves on from school.▼
▲Brittany is genuinely upset that she won't be dating Kevin. In contrast, in "[[Is It College Yet?]]" she's the one going to break up with ''him'' as he'll be getting held back a year while she moves on from school. Keep an eye on Mrs. Li who probably was happy Kevin would stay another year in High School.
We see a local elementary school, [[Lincoln Elementary]].
▲Behind Upchuck in the booth is a calender, marked Spring/Fall Schedule.
=="A Tree Grows in Lawndale" and Fanfic==
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===On “A Tree Grows in Lawndale” the Episode===
* [https://sites.google.com/site/dariatranscripts/403-a-tree-grows-in-lawndale “A Tree Grows in Lawndale” transcript] at [[Daria Transcripts]]
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/41550713 Episode Analysis] of "A Tree Grows in Lawndale" and [[Murder She Snored]] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
===Alternate-Universe Versions of “A Tree Grows in Lawndale”===
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