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Other students are also involved in fund-raising: Kevin and [[Brittany Taylor|Brittany]] try to sell wrapping paper, magazine subscriptions, CD's/cassettes, and flower seeds to [[Anthony DeMartino]], who refuses to buy anything on the general principle that he does not want to underwrite further student indolence. Quinn uses her feminine wiles to convince/ manipulate a guy named [[Danny]] into buying long-distance phone cards.
Daria and Jane sell chocolate bars door-to-door. Their first client is [[Mrs.
Unfortunately, Daria still has no credit for the coffee house opening, so she agrees to read at opening night. After considering and passing over several of her old stories, she decides to write a brand new one.
[[Image:Cafe Lawndale.png|frame|right|]]
The opening night comes, and the coffee house (called Café Lawndale) has several performers: a male rock musician sings some lines before destroying his own guitar on stage; Brittany and Kevin attempt to do Romeo and Juliet's balcony scene; [[Andrea]] reads some lines of her [[poetry]]. Finally, Daria reads her new story, a spy thriller presenting the female secret agent [[Melody Powers]]. The originally disinterested audience slowly warms up to Daria's story and bursts in applause and cheers at its concluding.
The following day, at breakfast, Jake reads in the newspaper the side effect to the success of Daria's story: some [[Lawndale Lions]] had formed an anti-communist rally and had attempted to stone the Russian embassy (despite the lack of one in Lawndale), forcing the closing of the Café Lawndale. Daria calmly notes that she's already got her extra-curricular credit and they can't take it away - now she just needs to keep an eye out for the ''next'' time her parents try to make her do one...
The episode concludes with the robbery of Café Lawndale that night.
=="Cafe Disaffecto" and background character names==
This episode had a major effect on fanfiction when it was discovered that a seating chart for [[Mr. O'Neill]]'s class, shown in closeup, revealed the first names of every student in the class, including nameless "
* "[[Shaggy]]" is really called
* There are ''three'' Jennifers in the same class. They are "[[Burnout Girl]]" (her nickname is also still commonly used), a [[Jennifer (black girl)|bun-headed black girl]] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718060756/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/022.html a caucasian brunette]
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718060220/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/034.html recurring blonde] with a three-button shirt is called [[Tania]]
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718061933/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/029.html bespeckled, frizzy-haired brunette] is called [[Jenna]] (previously misread as "Jessica")
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718061943/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/037.html tall black guy with a button-up jacket] is called [[Adam]]
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718060954/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/024.html spiked-blue haired punk] with the nose piercing is called [[Bob]]
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718061938/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/030.html cropped-haired Asian lad] is called [[Rob]]▼
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718060225/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/036.html ginger-haired girl with a distinctive hat] is called [[Kelly]]▼
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718060235/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/045.html short-brown-haired guy] is called [[Les]]. ▼
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718060746/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/015.html short, spike-fronted blond guy] is called [[Josh]]▼
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718060806/http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/027.html wavy-haired blond guy] is called [[Zack (student)|Zack]]▼
Also, O'Neill has called [[Andrea]] ''Hayley'' and misspelt Brittany's name. ▼
▲* The [http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/030.html cropped-haired Asian lad] is called Rob
▲* The [http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/036.html ginger-haired girl with a distinctive hat] is called Kelly
▲* The [http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/045.html short-brown-haired guy] is called [[Les]].
▲* The [http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/015.html short, spike-fronted blond guy] is called Josh
▲* The [http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/027.html wavy-haired blond guy] is called Zack
[[Image:SeatingChart_thirdperiod.jpg|thumb|300px|The freshmen seating chart]]
▲Also, O'Neill has called [[Andrea]] ''Hayley''.
Kelly and Tania are seen sitting together later in the same episode. Les and the black Jennifer later resurface as part of the [[Lawndale High Track Team]].
The seating chart for a freshman class is also shown. As well as the [[Three Js]], [[Tiffany]], and [[Skyler Feldman|Skyler]], we learn there's:
* Two other Tiffany's ([[The Invitation|one won't be Tiffany Duke]])
* Three Marks
* Anna
* Glen
* Paul
* [[Cindy (backgrounder)|Cindy]]
* [[Shane]]
* Ruby
* Micky
* Charles
* Emma
* Roger (under O'Neill's thumb in at one point)
The class must have changed at some point, as we later see Quinn, Stacy, Sandi, and [[Corey]] are in the same class as Tiffany and the Js. Shane and Cindy are named after ''Daria'' staff that they've been modelled on; Ruby may be the background character "[http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/062.html Sour Red]" (cos she's a redhead innit).
==“Cafe Disaffecto” and Fanfic==
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In "[[It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream]]", ''Quinn'' is delivering chocolate and sells a large amount to Mrs Johansen. As a result, the woman dies.
In [[Quinn's Code]], There is a discussion/debate at the Coffee House between Sandi and Quinn about whether geeks should be accepted as popular people, which Quinn wins. (Daria presents the Melody Powers story as a Metal song.) The Coffee House remains open.
==Daria's writing==
As well as the [[Melody Powers]] story "Where the Future Takes Us", Daria has written:
* The Bleakness That Lies Ahead
* No Life, No Hope, No Future
* Mommy's Little Hypocrite
Whether they're short stories or essays are unknown.
==Medical notes==
* <strike>The writers</strike> Daria seems to have confuse hypoglycaemia with ''hyper''glycaeia (high blood sugar). However, Daria still made a correct medical decision anyway: while it is [http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Hypoglycaemia/Pages/Introduction.aspx medically advisable] to use sugary snacks for hypoclycemia, [https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/treating_low_blood_sugar/ candy bars and chocolate contain too much fat] and would ''slow'' the release the glucose.
* Doctor and YouTuber Doctor ER covered this episode in "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a44LlF4qKHU ER Doctor REACTS to Funniest Daria Medical Scenes]". Among other things, he points out Daria & Jane should definitely be doing something when Johannsen's on the ground and it's unlikely you'd "miraculously wake up" after passing out from hypoglycaemia. He diagnosed her collapse, under assumption she was a diabetic, as due to not eating when insulin was in her system or taking too much of her medication.
==Trivia==
[[Image:Coffee VS coffee.png|thumb|300px|alt.lawndale and alt.coffee logos, as first noticed by [http://itreallymakesyouthink.libsyn.com/ It Really Makes You Think] podcast.]]
This is the first canon appearance of [[Melody Powers]]. This fictional-character-within-the-series would get a strong backing and response by the fandom.▼
▲This is the first canon appearance of
The logo for alt.lawndale.com is modelled after then-hip-now-dead New York cafe alt.coffee.
The episode was not part of the first half of the [[Daria Day]] marathon to open Season 2. [[Off-canon canon|Jane said]] it was not airing for "complex technical reasons" - "They lost the tape," said Daria - but it later aired after everything else and another "College Bored" rerun.
In 2000, MTV created a [[Virtual Lawndale]] website feature - which said the cafe has been closed down ever since this episode!
O'Neill states he identifies with Daria's essay about being a "misfit whom everyone hates"; in "[[The Daria Diaries]]", he would say Daria reminds him of himself as a child...
Jane asks Daria is she knows CPR and Daria implies she doesn't. In "[[Water Safety]]" she ''was'' shown how to perform CPR, which is either because Glenn Eichler wasn't taking that ''Beavis and Butt-head'' episode as canon (real world answer) or because Daria panicked or was otherwise afraid/reluctant to try it on Mrs Johanssen (in-universe answer).
The original name of the student coffee house, '''alt.lawndale.com''', was later used as the name of [http://www.cws.gamerspage.com/alc/main.html a ''Daria'' fandom website] that claimed to be the third unofficial ''Daria'' site created. The site is no longer maintained or updated.▼
The provider of the coffeehouse equipment is shown to be [[AAAA Restaurant Rentals]], as their name is shown on the coffee machine stolen at the end of the episode.
In "[[Boxing Daria]]", she states she started writing violent revenge fantasies at age 15 "just to get a reaction": her Melody Powers story is not an isolated incident, but something she's been doing since [[Highland High]] (though her parents don't seem to find out about ''this'' one).
This was part of the [[Sarcastathon 3000]] marathon, and Jane got in a mean dig about the show being "buried... under the maggot-ridden piles of ''[[Road Rules]]'' reruns", one of several [[off-canon canon]] digs at ''Daria'''s [[MTV]] sister shows.
▲The original name of the student coffee house, '''alt.lawndale.com''', was later used as the name of [[Katherine Goodman]]'s [http://www.cws.gamerspage.com/alc/main.html
==Transcript==
[[Cafe Disaffecto/transcript|Transcript]] originally from [[Outpost Daria]]
==External Links==
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* [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-look-at-mr-oneills-seating.html O'Neill's Seating Chart] at [[Daria Fandom Blog II]]
* [http://dariaphans.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html The Daria Fandom Blog, March 2007 archive]. The [[Daria Fandom Blog|DFG]] was maintained by [[CINCGREEN]] and [[Greybird]]. The entry for Saturday, March 24, 2007, is “When Usenet Ruled the Earth: A Review of ‘Café Disaffecto’.”
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/41550320 Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
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