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'''"Boxing Daria"''' was the thirteenth and final TV episode of the fifth season of the ''Daria'' TV series. It first aired on MTV on June 25, 2001. The episode was written by [[Glenn Eichler]].
 
==Summary==
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Early the next day, Helen notices the box and angrily orders a confused Quinn again to trash it, which she does, fuming. Daria, however, again goes to retrieve it before the trash collectors take it away. Later that day, at school, O’Neill observes the poor result of Kevin and Brittany’s guided tours and again tries to convince Daria to do them, with the teenager still refusing, taking offense at O’Neill’s observations and berating him with unusual harshness. Daria’s bad mood continues during the afternoon: she talks back to her mother about the still un-trashed paperboard box; and even later when she phones Tom and picks a fight with him, who pleads for Daria to talk to him and again invites her over to the Cove, which she again refuses.
 
Later that afternoon or the next day, Daria has Jane come over and shows her the box. While talking she unexpectedly crawls inside it and sits down, being able to finally recall the childhood events that had been stirred: when she had been four orwas fivesix, her parents had had a big fight, with [[Jake Morgendorffer|her father]] storming off during the night. The young Daria had only found consolation by crawling inside a similar box in her room and starting to read. The flashback is confirmed by an excited Quinn, who joins her sister and friend and tells them about their father storming off, adding they had been fighting about Daria. This trickstriggers another memory: before the fight, Daria had been talking to a psychologist about school, revealing she did not interact with other children and preferred to read, in contrast to her already very sociable sister. This despite her parents pleadings to try to be more sociable. Daria’s lack of enthusiasm had triggered her parent’sparents’ fight.
 
Later that day, when Jake arrives from the conference he had been attending, he and Helen try to make sense of why Daria remains in the box, until Quinn tells them about the past fight. Helen and Jake are able to convince Daria out of the box and the three go inside the house to talk. After some hesitation, Helen and Jake admit the fight happened. They explain that they had been under a lot of stress and that the calls from Daria’s school regarding her anti-social behavior had been the last straw, resulting in the fight she remembered. But they assure her that she was just the topic of the argument but didn't cause it and although Jake did storm out and spend the night in a motel, he returned the next day, the couple made up and the incident was forgotten until now. Upon hearing this, Daria suddenly walks out of the house and picks up the car without explanation.
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* In 2015, [https://decider.com/2015/06/25/today-in-tv-history-mtv-cancelled-daria/ Decider would write about this episode for their Today In TV History column]. "Daria actually reflected on her own sullen nature and how it affects the world around her. It wasn’t about Daria realizing she was wrong to view the world at an arm’s length and with a suspicious eye; just the kind of self-aware character development that animated series only really allow at rare intervals. Like, for example, when they’re ending their run."
 
*The title of the episode is a play on ''Boxing Helena,''. However, the film and the episode bear no resemblance whatsoever other than borrowing the title.
 
*The inkblot test given to Daria as a child is the precursor to Daria's comments on the test in "[[Esteemsters]]."
 
*Mom's Diner, the diner where Jane meets Daria after the accident, previously appeared in "[[Road Worrier]]."
 
*Daria says she wrote violent revenge fantasies at age 15 to "get a reaction", and her parents were called into school. We don't see this happening at Lawndale, so she must be talking about [[Highland High]]. We ''did'' see one such fantasy, the first [[Melody Powers]], early in to her arrival at Lawndale ("[[Cafe Disaffecto]]") to get a reaction from O'Neill, but her parents never hear about it. Daria has also twice at 15 or soon after told violent stories outside of school to get a reaction: "[[Beavis and Butt-head issue 10|Tales from the Dim]]" and "[[The Teachings of Don Jake]]". ("[[U. S. History]]", where she does a history report on the Kennedy assassination conspiracies, may have been a failed attempt at getting a reaction)
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[[Smileyfax]] created a highly amusing [[fantasy]] tale of time travel involving this episode ("[[Box to the Future]]").
 
[[MMan]] wrote the story [[Boxing Quinn]], a retelling of this episode as seen by [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn's]] eyes.
 
==External Links==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130708212620/http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/ep513_boxing_daria.html Novelization] by [[Adam Spradlin]]
* [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2008/06/daria-in-box.html "Daria in a Box,"] on the [[Daria Fandom Blog II]]
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/4279596842795953 Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
 
====Fanfiction Based on This Episode====
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