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==Official statements on canon== |
==Official statements on canon== |
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[[Image:Trentshipping.jpg|right|frame|Non-canonical.]] |
[[Image:Trentshipping.jpg|right|frame|Non-canonical, although it does make up a ''substantial'' portion of fanfiction.]] |
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[[MTV]] has never made an official statement on canon for either ''[[Daria (TV series)|Daria]]'' or ''[[Beavis and Butt-head]]'', and neither has Daria producer [[Glenn Eichler]]. In [https://web.archive.org/web/20160323202405/http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glenninterviewsfull.html an interview] with [[Kara Wild]], when talking about avoiding giving real-time dates for a TV series, said "the only purpose it serves is to get people upset about 'violating canon'", giving the impression that an official canon was not a priority for him. |
[[MTV]] has never made an official statement on canon for either ''[[Daria (TV series)|Daria]]'' or ''[[Beavis and Butt-head]]'', and neither has Daria producer [[Glenn Eichler]]. In [https://web.archive.org/web/20160323202405/http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glenninterviewsfull.html an interview] with [[Kara Wild]], when talking about avoiding giving real-time dates for a TV series, said "the only purpose it serves is to get people upset about 'violating canon'", giving the impression that an official canon was not a priority for him. |
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[[Anne D. Bernstein]], however, jokingly referred to canon [https://web.archive.org/web/20160323202405/http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/anneinterviewsfull.html in an interview], when talking about [[The Daria Diaries]] book: "I had to make up a ton of stuff that did not yet exist... and then it all became part of "the Daria Universe" so people had to follow what I established!". And the books written by Bernstein and future story editor Peggy Nicoll do indeed contain material that would later appear on the show itself: the names of Helen's sisters and all the details about Kevin's parents. |
[[Anne D. Bernstein]], however, jokingly referred to canon [https://web.archive.org/web/20160323202405/http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/anneinterviewsfull.html in an interview], when talking about [[The Daria Diaries]] book: "I had to make up a ton of stuff that did not yet exist... and then it all became part of "the Daria Universe" so people had to follow what I established!". And the books written by Bernstein and future story editor Peggy Nicoll do indeed contain material that would later appear on the show itself: the names of Helen's sisters and all the details about Kevin's parents. |
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Something mentioned in an interview with MTV staff years after the show is not going to be canon, but will tell us about how the creators may have seen a character turning out or tidbits that they'd never fully got into the show. A number of these have been taken as 'canon' by many fans as a result, even though technically it isn't. A key example is that in his interview with Kara Wild, Glenn Eichler gave the location of [[Lawndale]] as being roughly in Maryland. The setting of Lawndale was never stated in canon and some parts of the show clash with a Maryland setting (''a desert'' being so close for one), but since it's the nearest we'll get to an answer, Lawndale is taken to be a Maryland suburb in fanfic after fanfic. Daria's old hometown, [[Highland]], was canonically placed in Texas in a 2011 ''Beavis and Butt-head'', but even before then it was commonly assumed to be in Texas because [[Mike Judge]] had said that this was where he envisaged it being. |
Something mentioned in an interview with MTV staff years after the show is not going to be canon, but will tell us about how the creators may have seen a character turning out or tidbits that they'd never fully got into the show. A number of these have been taken as 'canon' by many fans as a result, even though technically it isn't. A key example is that in his interview with Kara Wild, Glenn Eichler gave the location of [[Lawndale]] as being roughly in Maryland. The setting of Lawndale was never stated in canon and some parts of the show clash with a Maryland setting (''a desert'' being so close for one), but since it's the nearest we'll get to an answer, Lawndale is taken to be a Maryland suburb in fanfic after fanfic. Daria's old hometown, [[Highland]], was canonically placed in Texas in a 2011 ''Beavis and Butt-head'', but even before then it was commonly assumed to be in Texas because [[Mike Judge]] had said that this was where he envisaged it being. |
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==Off-canon canon== |
==Off-canon canon== |