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==Summary==
When [[Timothy O'Neill|Mr. O'Neill]] asks for volunteers to help with the upcoming school dance, [[Quinn]] volunteers to head the dance committee -- after a volunteer-phobic [[Sandi]], remember a horrible time she had running a dance at junior high, eggs her on in the hope she'll suffer -- with the [[Fashion Club]] as her advisors. However, Quinn gets stuck with doing the job by herself when she and Sandi disagree on the decorations and the Fashion Club bails out. Not content with ''that'', Sandi "accidentally" schedules a party at her house the same night as the dance.
 
Meanwhile, [[Brittany]] and [[Kevin]] have split up for good (for the time being, at least), and to show their loyalty to their respective leaders, no member of the [[Lawndale High cheerleaders|cheerleading squad]] will accompany Kevin to the dance, and no member of the [[Lawndale Lions|football team]] will accompany Brittany to the dance—except, as [[Jodie]] points out to Brittany, [[Robert]], who has been on vacation with his family while this crisis developed.
Lawndale High's school dance is approaching, and there is still no student in charge of the dance committee. Sandi, motivated by a bad experience as a past volunteer organizer of a dance and present antipathy towards Quinn, suggests that Quinn take the post, and hints—but does not guarantee—that the Fashion Club will assist her. Once Quinn takes the post and calls the Fashion Club together to help her, Sandi takes umbrage at Quinn's comments with a combativeness reminiscent of [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002627/ Tommy DeVito's] ''"I'm a clown, I amuse you?"'' dialogue with [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002625/ Henry Hill] in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/ ''Goodfellas'']:
 
While one teen social crisis has been averted (or has it?) another brews: Sandi, not content with abandoning Quinn to organize the dance herself, schedules a party at her house the same night as the dance. This leaves Quinn overwhelmedOverwhelmed and ''sans'' clue as to how to organize the dance, butQuinn help comes togets heraid from an unexpected source: [[Jane Lane]], who at the beginning of the episode was lamenting the lack of a "medium grand enough to do justice to my inner torment," takes over the logistics and (more important) decorations from Quinn, and turns the gymnasium into a gigantic pastiche of Jackson Pollock-like drip paintings—and a representational (and gory) depiction of the car crash that killed him.
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Sandi's party turns out to be a complete bust, and the bored guys bail out while the Fashion Club is changing into swimsuits for some hot-tubbing. At the school, the dance is in full swing, with [[Upchuck]] as the D.J. (to keep him off the dance floor), and Jane's decorations are a huge hit. Quinn is mortified by the decor, but then takes full credit for it when her two dates start complimenting her on it and she realizes that the night is a success. Daria and Jane sit on the sidelines to watch the proceedings, and soon begin chatting it up with two guys, [[Brett]] and [[Brad]], whose attitudes and outlook on life seem to be very similar to theirs. However, they back off when they find out that the guys are Upchuck's cousins, and thus are "carriers of the dreaded Ruttheimer gene".
<p>Quinn: Gee, Sandi, since you don't like any of my ideas, maybe there's something you'd like to do.</p>
 
Out in the parking lot, Brittany's date Robert gets into a fight with a jealous Kevin, and [[Joey]], [[Jeffy]] and [[Jamie White|Jamie]] start fighting with Quinn's dates. In the end, Kevin and Brittany make up (while Kevin is being hauled away in an ambulance) and Daria and Jane figure that the whole evening was a wash... until it starts to snow, and they notice that the swimsuit-clad Fashion Club has been locked out of the house by Sandi's brothers.
<p>Sandi: I think we should decorate the gym like the inside of the Concorde.</p>
 
<p>Quinn: Um, it's a cute idea and everything, but I'm not sure there would be much room to dance, and...</p>
 
<p>Sandi: Gee, Quinn, if you're not going to listen to ideas from your own dance committee, maybe you should just plan the dance alone.</p>
 
<p>Quinn: Don't be silly...</p>
 
<p>Sandi: So now I'm silly?</p>
 
<p>Quinn: I meant, it would be silly for <i>me</i> to plan the dance <i>alone</i> when I have such a talented committee. I know the four of us can come up with something really fun!</p>
 
<p>Sandi: But I already did come up with something really fun.</p>
 
<p>Quinn: But it's just... well, not practical.</p>
 
<p>Sandi: Maybe I should just have my own party, since you obviously think I'm postal.</p>
 
<p>Quinn: I don't think you're postal!</p>
 
<p>Sandi: <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-style: italic;">(To the other members of the Fashion Club)</span> Come on. I know a really nice insane asylum.</p>
 
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Meanwhile, Brittany and Kevin have split up for good (for the time being, at least), and to show their loyalty to their respective leaders, no member of the cheerleading squad will accompany Kevin to the dance, and no member of the football team will accompany Brittany to the dance—except, as Jodie points out to Brittany, Robert, who has been on vacation with his family while this crisis developed.
 
While one teen social crisis has been averted (or has it?) another brews: Sandi, not content with abandoning Quinn to organize the dance herself, schedules a party at her house the same night as the dance. This leaves Quinn overwhelmed and ''sans'' clue as to how to organize the dance, but help comes to her from an unexpected source: Jane Lane, who at the beginning of the episode was lamenting the lack of a "medium grand enough to do justice to my inner torment," takes over the logistics and (more important) decorations from Quinn, and turns the gymnasium into a gigantic pastiche of Jackson Pollock-like drip paintings&mdash;and a representational (and gory) depiction of the car crash that killed him.
 
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