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'''[[mh:besttvshows:Daria|Daria]]''' is an animated TV series aboutthat aran youngon [[MTV]] from March 3, 1997 to January 21, 2002. It included five seasons, 65 episodes, and two movies. The show details the life of an intelligent and cynical high school girl named [[Daria Morgendorffer]], who was initially a supporting character on the MTV animated series ''[[Beavis and Butt-head (TV series)|Beavis and Butt-head]]''. It was producedcreated by [[MTVGlenn Eichler]] withand [[GlennSusie EichlerLewis]], both of whom had previously worked on ''Beavis and Butt-Head''. ''Daria'' was chiefly produced by MTV with Eichler, who served as its executive producer and principal writer for the entire run of the series. Susie Lewis was a producer for the first three seasons of the show. Major writers for the series included Eichler, [[Peggy Nicoll]], and [[Anne D. Bernstein]] also served as major writers; thethose three writers, listedcombined, wrote close to one half50% of the episodes of theentire series. ''Daria''[[Karen wouldDisher]] eventuallyserved beas broadcastthe inchief atcharacter leastdesigner thirty countries outside of theand Unitedsupervising Statesdirector.
 
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A sequel/reboot, ''[[Jodie (TV series)|Jodie]]'', is making its way through development.
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[https://decider.com/2015/03/10/daria-is-a-jerk/ A 2015 Decider column by Tyler Coates] wrote that "as someone who felt like an outsider and whose only retaliation was to hope that high school would wrap up swiftly — while also holding contempt for the athletic, popular kids who made this nerd’s adolescence a living hell — Daria was a role model". When rewatching the show as an adult, he wrote that it "holds up as a hilarious, thoughtful sitcom" but he was struck that Daria "is a real asshole". This caused him to wonder if he himself had been "just as much of a jerk to the kids I went to school with as they were to me", and if Daria also rethinks her high school years as an adult and tries to be more "more amiable and patient with people not like her" as he's tried to be.
 
The characters are still known well enough that [[Crossover#Drawn Together|''Drawn Together'', ''Robot Chicken'', and ''Family Guy'' could cameo Daria]] at different times in the 2010s (albeit not nicely in two cases), and that ''Jezebel'' magazine could run an [http://jezebel.com/5550875/an-open-letter-to-heidi-montag-from-quinn-morgendorffer?skyline=true&s=i open letter from "Quinn"] as an article in May 2010. Following the DVD release, Watsky & The GetBand would go on to use Daria as the setpiece for [[A Love Story]]'s music video, complete with some commentary from Daria; internet reviewer The Nostalgia Chick would compare ''Daria'' to the 90s film ''She's All That'' in [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/team-nchick/nostalgia-chick/32202-shes-all-that a review of the latter], with ''Daria'' episode "[[Through A Lens Darkly]]" held up as better.
Talking to ''Vice'' for an oral history, Eichler opined that "The minute Daria showed any vulnerability, some people declared that she jumped the shark", and referenced a lot of fans disliking her having a boyfriend. "Daria was echoing a place a lot of the viewers were in emotionally, but some of them just didn't keep going with her."
 
Finally, Raphael Bob-Waksburg [https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/bojack-horseman-netflix-raphael-bob-waksberg-718290/ told ''Rolling Stone'' ] that the show was a big influence on his black comedy, ''Bojack Horseman'': "As a teen, I really related to that character: the smartest person in the room who has disdain for everybody. But she was really well-developed, and that was cool. It did a good job of showing that smart people aren’t always right and stupid people aren’t always bad. I want to give my characters nuance. You think you have these archetypes, but then when you start exploring the character, you go into their nooks and crannies." The character of Diane, a smart outcast with glasses and a green jacket, is also clearly modelled on Daria, to the extent of Sarah-Lynn flagging it up by asking if she's "Asian Daria".
 
==2010 and onwards==
[[Image:Daria DVD set insert.JPG|thumb|200px|right|DVD insert explaining the rightscopyright issues.issue with licensed music used in the show]]
 
2010 saw the release of the DVD ''[[Daria: The Complete Animated Series]]'' in the US and Canada. A Region 4 release, primarily for [[Australian fandom|Australia]], would follow in 2011. For legal reasons, almost the entirety of the music cues had to be taken out and replaced with generic royalty-free replacements.
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