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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.
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=="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 Devan (though his more famous nickname tends to be used instead), which before the DVD release had been misread as "Dewey"
* 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.
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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
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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.
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...
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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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