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'''Backgrounder''' is old fandom slang for the background characters in each episode. Some of these, mainly by accident, have names (like through a seating chart in "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]") but they almost all lack a voice - and if they have names, our main cast never refer to them. They rarely, if ever, interact with the main cast but can ''implicitly'' have been people the cast talked to 'off screen', such as the backgrounders filling up the [[Lawndale High Track Team]] with [[Jane]].

'''Backgrounder''' is old fandom slang for the background characters in each episode, after [[TAG]]'s website [[Backgrounders]] which researched them. Some of these, mainly by accident, have names (like through a seating chart in "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]") but they almost all lack a voice - and if they have names, our main cast never refer to them. They rarely, if ever, interact with the main cast but can ''implicitly'' have been people the cast talked to 'off screen', such as the backgrounders filling up the [[Lawndale High Track Team]] with [[Jane]].

Because the backgrounders appeared often enough to be recognisable, [[Guy Moore]] pitched an episode where we'd follow the backgrounders' stories and [[Daria]] and [[Jane]] would be the voiceless background people. [[Karen Disher]] believed they couldn't do it because fans complained whenever Daria & Jane weren't the focus.